Chapter 408: Satisfying Revenge (4)_1
Old Scholar Fang came over again, smiling as he greeted, "Song Ming! What’s the matter?"
"I’m angry with Pei Qin!" Shen Songming said irritably.
Old Scholar Fang paused hesitantly, "Qinqin she..."
"All day long, other than hitting me, she just knows how to make me angry!" Shen Songming huffed in frustration.
Old Scholar Fang’s lips twitched, and he couldn’t help feeling embarrassed.
Shuang Xi, standing not far to the side, also lowered his head in shame. It’s all over for the young master!
"What are you doing?" Shen Songming looked unwillingly at Pei Qin once more before turning his head to ask Old Scholar Fang.
Old Scholar Fang chuckled awkwardly, "I just came to see if the construction of the Pai Building had started." He dared not mention the couple’s issues any longer. Now that the Emperor’s reward has arrived and the Pai Building is being constructed, everything seems splendid. But their social standing is still too far beneath that of the Shen family. For Song Ming to marry Qinqin, it’s not going to be easy!
Shen Songming came over to see the imperial reward but also primarily to pressurize Pei Qin into agreeing to the marriage. He actually had to thank Zhao Junchao for alerting him to the importance of the marriage contract. If he could establish a marriage contract with Pei Qin and fulfill the marriage terms, he could marry her. However, he needed to deal with his family’s opposition and find a legitimate reason. Maybe he could claim that Pei Qin was a calamity fated for him, and he must marry her to resolve it!? But then he’d need a high monk or someone to speak on his behalf!
Or perhaps Pei Qin saved his life, and then he promised himself to her in marriage. The Shen family, priding itself on being an aristocratic family of poets and scholars for a hundred years, values etiquette highly. They definitely have to repay the life-saving grace and wouldn’t oppose it, or else they would be slapping their own faces!