Chapter 493 - 491: Leftover Meal
If Ah Yan were truly taken in marriage by a son from one of the Aristocratic Clans...
Jiang Yifan remembered the woman who, in the winter days, wrapped in a silver fox fur cloak, sang freely in the wilderness. Would such a woman, if she married into a great clan, have all her beauty extinguished, reduced to nothing more than a tool for the family’s wealth generation?
Thinking this way, Jiang Yifan’s heart couldn’t help but ache.
"Doesn’t the wife of the heir of Duke An consider what Ah Yan wants? The families in the capital asking about Ah Yan, do they genuinely like her, or do they want her merely to serve the family’s interests? If that’s the case, wouldn’t Ah Yan be worse off than a steward? At least the steward only worries about a single business and can make silver to save up and live their own life. Ah Yan, on the other hand, must devote all her efforts to profiting the family, and the bigger the family, the more she must give. Ask yourself, will the money she earns be at her own disposal? Will the family grant her a corresponding status?"
Jiang Yifan looked up at Madam Yin and continued, "Moreover, those men who marry Ah Yan for the benefit of their families, will they truly be kind to her, truly like her? Like a wife who spends her days out and about? Most families, most men prefer a quiet and gentle woman who can be content in the inner house, serving the in-laws and the husband. Is it not so?"
"..." Madam Yin then remembered why she had left Jiang Yifan behind to talk in the first place.
She was afraid that those seeking to marry her daughter were not sincerely fond of her but were merely covetous of the status of Duke An’s Mansion and Marquis Zhongyong’s Mansion. She feared that her daughter, because of her remarried status, would be despised by her husband’s family.
And the incident at Duke An’s birthday feast that had left a stain on her daughter could not be erased, and certainly not by someone who did not truly like her, would inevitably have reservations... This was no trivial matter, but a major one concerning her daughter’s entire life.