Chapter 599 - 597: Excitement
Wang Laozhu patted Wang Yongan’s shoulder, "Dad knows you have this filial piety, and that’s enough! You are now working away from home, and your mother and I are getting older, it’s quite nice to stay in our old home."
"Dad, what’s so difficult about this? You, mom, and sister, you all follow me to the county town! I’ll buy a small courtyard just for the two of you, hire a couple of people to take care of you, live peacefully like respected elders. As for my little sister, dad, it’s not just me talking. With her current looks and bearing, plus my status as a Scholar, getting her married into an official’s family and becoming an Official’s Madam in the county town is a piece of cake."
"My little sister has suffered so much for our family, how can I, as her brother, bear to let her marry some country bumpkin for the rest of her life? For a woman, marriage is like being reborn, surely you don’t want my sister to spend her life in this countryside?"
Wang Laozhu listened in silence.
Wang Yongan added fuel to the fire, "If you’re afraid Song Chongjin won’t agree to call off the engagement, leave it to me! I’ll make sure he retreats obediently, without a word to say! Once we’re in the county town, I guarantee I’ll find a match from an official family for my sister. Then as an official lady, she will wear gold and silver, waited on by maids and servants."
Wang Laozhu couldn’t say he wasn’t tempted; to marry his daughter into an official’s family and become an Official’s Madam was second only to having a son become an official.
Yet no matter how tempted he was, one shouldn’t lose their conscience in their dealings.
Song Chongjin, that kid, might have had various shortcomings before, but ever since he got engaged to his daughter, there really was nothing to criticize.
He always treated the Wang Family as his own, whatever good things he had, he would honor his parents-in-law first.
Where could he find such a son-in-law?
Not to mention, now the Song Family had only him, if they called off the engagement, wouldn’t everyone say the Wangs were bullying others because of their power?