Chapter 708 - 707: Straight to the Heart
"Don’t think that just because you came up with some dyeing techniques with a peasant girl, you can make your own decisions."
"Not to mention this Shopkeeper Wu, who always praises this peasant girl in front of his own father, to the point where his father himself is tempted, and actually wants me to take her as a concubine!"
"It almost made me the laughingstock among my brothers!"
"Me, the Ninth Young Master of the Lee Family, to take a peasant girl as a concubine? Forget the other brothers, even our own stewards have married servant girls who attended to our parents, each looking fresh and delicate. How come I am to take a peasant girl, an ’old green onion,’ as a concubine?"
"Fortunately, Shopkeeper Wu had the sense to refuse, otherwise, I would never have forgiven him."
"So the reason I followed Shopkeeper Wu to meet Wang Yongzhu this time was to see for myself what this peasant girl, who almost became my concubine, looked like."
"When Wang Yongzhu entered, I both wanted and feared to look."
"I wanted to look but feared it would be an embarrassment, and feared that if Wang Yongzhu was ugly and unattractive, it would shock me and maybe even haunt my dreams later on."
""Torn inside, I had no choice but to pretend to drink from my wine cup."
"Unexpectedly, the person who came in knew to keep her distance and sat far from me, which slightly eased my mind."
"So when Shopkeeper Wu acted humble, I gave him face by staying silent and letting him do the talking."