Chapter 789 Compromise (2)_1
The medicine ball, smoothly sent down with the Spirit Spring Water, showed signs of stabilizing Tie Tou’s pulse after a Moment had passed. Mo Yan then checked Tie Tou’s pulse again and found it steadier. He let out a quiet sigh of relief, wiped the cold sweat from his brow, and asked, "Aunt Wu, how did Brother Tie Tou end up like this?"
Upon hearing this, Wu’s face was stricken with deep sorrow, and the tears she had just stopped flowed down once more. "It’s my fault, all my fault. I shouldn’t have hit him so hard, I shouldn’t have forced him to break it off with that girl... It’s all on me, all my fault..."
Through Aunt Wu’s broken words, Mo Yan came to understand why Tie Tou had ended up in such a state. He was extremely frustrated with himself for not intervening earlier to resolve the conflict between mother and son, thinking that perhaps then today’s events might have been avoided.
It turned out that ever since Wu learned her son had fallen for a Kiln girl who had turned to a respectable life and refused to turn back, she had not had a good night’s sleep. Every day, besides setting up her stall, she was busy with matchmakers trying to find a suitable girl.
There were plenty of suitable girls given the Wu family’s circumstances, but Tie Tou was not at all interested. Just a few days ago, Wu found a girl from a neighboring village to her liking and decided to settle the marriage without telling Tie Tou. She spent twenty taels of silver on a pair of gold bracelets as a betrothal gift and sent them to the girl’s family, waiting for an auspicious Moment to make the engagement official.
However, Tie Tou somehow found out about this and ran to the girl’s house in the middle of the night. He just said he had someone he liked already and didn’t want to wrong the girl, asking her to look for another suitor. This infuriated the girl, who hurled the betrothal gift at Tie Tou, the wooden box’s sharp corner drawing blood from his forehead.
The girl’s family, feeling outraged at being insulted by the Wu family, approached the matchmaker the next day demanding an explanation. Wu only found out about Tie Tou’s actions after returning from her stall.