This was the critical moment.
This time, the Lin Family was involved. The young miss of the Lin Family definitely was alredy destroyed. Would the Lin Family, unable to bear the grievance, come to cause trouble with their Ning Family?
Although the Ning Family was not afraid of the Lin Family, the matter between children implicated Ning Yunzhao and was denounced by the person himself.
Her son should be flawless. It was unlucky that one Jun Zhenzhen was entangled with him. Being associated with Lin Jin’er was really impossible to bear.
And he was angry.
Previously he had not cared about Jun Zhenzhen but now he was mad. If his seniors bestowed him with marriage he would not be mad, but right now Yanyan had used the position of a concubine as bait to show off. This he could not stand.
No one would be happy treated this way, even if it was his blood sister.
If it happened once, it would happen again. To stop this behavior, it required punishment and warning.
If Ning Yunzhao’s sister received punishment and restrictions for doing this kind of thing, outsiders would carefully consider the consequences of doing such things themselves.
Eldest Madam Ning looked at him at a loss.
One one side was her son. The other side, her daughter. Both the back and front of the palm are made of flesh [1]. How could she choose?
"Although Yanyan is young, but Mother you already had some ideas about who she would be marrying. This isn’t some sudden thing," he said. "Once her marriage is fixed, she can peacefully await her marriage at home and learn to manage the household as well as how she should pass her days, from mother,."
And she wouldn’t be with those girls, wantonly living her youth.
Her present days were too carefree; Miss Jun’s appearance to her was something she hated. Just wait till she married and became a wife, a daughter-in-law, a mother. Then she would know that this period of her youth was nothing.
Eldest Madam Ning looked at the resolution on her son’s face and sighed inside.
Daughters, in the end, belonged to other families. Sooner or later, they would marry out. The sooner she did, the sooner she would learn. This was for her own good.
"I do have plans for Yanyan’s marriage. I was thinking of finalizing them in December. Next year, your sister would turn fifteen and we would let her marry. Since you won’t be returning for the next year, it would be better to settle it down, so you won’t miss it," she said with a gentle smile.
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Ning Yunyan was not aware that her marriage was being decided. She still wanted to charge in, but Cuizhu had the guts to lay a hand on her.
"Seventeenth Miss, you are already big. Do not act like a child who doesn’t understand the rules," she even said.
Ning Yunyan wanted to shake off this girl and slap her twice, but the head servant and the other servants were rushing over having caught wind of the news.
Responsible for teaching her etiquette, they urged her to stop.
Ning Yunyan hadn’t been this annoyed since she’d grown big.
"Fine, I won’t go in." Her face was flushed. "Cuizhu, you wait, wait for when mother asks me why I didn’t come pay my respects. Then you can’t blame me for being impolite."
She stormed off in a huff.
The servants hurried to follow.
Cuizhu’s face was impassive. Other servant girls were also there.
"Cuizhu, was this necessary? Wouldn’t it be better to let Young Miss wait in the side room," they asked uneasily.
"Madam instructed me to not let anyone in," she replied.
"Are you stupid, is Young Miss anyone? What did you do that for?" they said.
"Is Young Miss not a person?" Cuizhu retorted.
The servants were rendered speechless.
"Never mind, just do what you want."
Everyone dispersed. Cuizhu remained on guard in front of the entrance.
Not long after, footsteps came from inside of the courtyards, as well as the servant girl’s greetings.
"Tenth Noble Son."
Cuizhu turned around and moved out of the way and lowered her head in respect.
"Young Miss still hasn’t come?"
He stopped just before crossing the entrance.
Young Miss was not some sort of a mannerless person. Everyday she would ask after Eldest Madam’s health, but this time she was chased off by a servant.
The other servants looked at Cuizhu with schadenfreude.
"Young Miss came already," Cuizhu answered directly.
Ning Yunzhao smiled and nodded, then left. He didn’t ask why he hadn’t seen her.
The surrounding servants stared blankly. When Ning Yunzhao was far away, Eldest Madam Ning emerged. She didn't ask anything, much less rebuke Cuizhu for stopping Young Miss.
When they saw that Madam was really occupied with something and couldn’t meet with Young Miss, the servant girls could only guess what it was.
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