Chapter 307: Paving the Way for the Eldest Grandson’s Exam (8)_1
"Then let’s go home and discuss it with Dad!" Lady Yu nodded, she was really a bit worried. Feng Bo would be fifteen in five days, yet he had not spoken of marriage. If her second sister really had this in mind... The more she thought about it, the more possible it seemed. Chang Yonglin had found Feng Bo a promising job in the town’s shop, but he refused, insisting on staying in the noodle shop. This was not good! Though the two families were related by marriage, adding another relation seemed agreeable. But Feng Bo and Pei Qin... were really not well matched.
Their conversation made the carriage driver Fang Li incredibly anxious. Seeing Lady Yu act so foolishly, pushing away a daughter-in-law like Pei Qin, he couldn’t help but become angry and blurted out, "If Qinqin truly marries above her station, she might end up having a hard time! Besides, she doesn’t seem like the type to climb the social ladder! She teaches martial arts to Dalang every day, maybe the two have developed affection for each other!"
These words surprised both Lady Yu and Grandma Fang, but Lady Yu immediately shook her head, "Qinqin has always treated Dalang like a younger brother, just like she does with Yuanyuan and the others! It’s impossible!"
"What’s so impossible! Is our Dalang bad-looking, or can’t he study!? You’re so kind to those siblings, and in the future, you’ll surely be even closer to her than to your own daughters! If Dalang were to pass the exams and become an official, then she’d be Madam Official! What’s so impossible about that!?" Fang Li couldn’t help but ask twice, as he had long favored this match, "Qinqin lost her mother, and with her father being the way he is, if she were to marry into a family with a mean mother-in-law, how would she live!? If she came to our family, where we are all close kin, wouldn’t she live comfortably and happily!?"
After hearing him speak so earnestly, Grandma Fang also felt somewhat persuaded. If her eldest grandson were to pass the exams and potentially become an official in the future, Pei Qin wouldn’t suffer if she married into their family! There wouldn’t be any manipulations, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law squabbles. Although their family was just a rural household, they indeed lived a comfortable life.
Lady Yu frowned, "I still think it won’t work! Pei Qin has no such intentions at all! She’s running a shop now, managing a workshop, and growing sweet potatoes. There’s a reward pending above. If we forcefully arrange a marriage, people will accuse us of coveting our niece’s wealth! Instead of succeeding in a match, we might end up not being close anymore!" It wasn’t that she thought her son wasn’t good enough, but it was clear to any observer that it wasn’t possible. Feng Bo wasn’t suitable, and it wasn’t certain that her Dalang would have the ability either.