Being a Lady of an Influential Family - Chapter 5-2
“Let Fu Yucheng marry her!” Fu Fengcheng replied coldly, “Tell the old man that if the Fu family doesn’t want to lose their reputation, they have to let Miss Leng marry into the family. As for the Zheng family… He can do whatever he wants.”
“Fourth Young Master is threatening to kill himself if that happens.” The young man smiled bitterly. If the Fourth Young Master agrees, would these things happen? Does the Fu family need the Zheng family as in-laws?
“Then let him die.” Fu Fengcheng said faintly, his tone was too cold towards his own brother. A moment later, he suddenly sneered, “I forgot that he is now precious isn’t he, and the old man can’t do anything to him.”
The young man said in his heart, “Isn’t it? If no accident hadn’t happened, how could the Fourth Young Master dare to challenge the Lord? Second, Third, and Fifth Young Master are all sons of his concubines. Moreover, the Second and Third young master had long been abandoned. The Fifth young Master is still young and is still wild and eccentric. Madam would never allow a concubine’s son to be in an important position. Now, only the Fourth Master is left for the Fu family.”
“Young Master, the Third Miss of the Leng family has already agreed. If you… refuse, I’m afraid it will be bad… ”
Fu Fengcheng was silent for a moment and just sneered, “So that’s how it is,huh? Why is the old man asking you to ask me?”
“Does this mean you agree?”
Fu Fengcheng did not answer any more, and the figure in the wheelchair lowered his head again as if he had fallen asleep. The young man standing at the door heaved a sigh of relief, not wanting to say anything more, he opened the study room door, and cautiously walked out, closing the door behind him.
In the gloomy study room, a pair of cold eyes suddenly opened.
Those eyes were vicious but fierce, like a bright knife light, which looked like they could split the endless darkness in front of him in an instant.
For a long time, a low laugh full of ridicule came from the gloomy study room.
On the 26th year of Anxia Chengping, an earth shaking event took place in Yong city, the capital of Nanliu province.
As the soon to be daughter-in-law of the Fu family of Nanliu province, Zheng Ying, the eldest daughter of the Zheng family, had a premarital pregnancy. If it was just the case, it wouldn’t be a big problem, but It as just that this child belonged to the Fourth Young Master of the Fu family. Despite the pressure of the Fu family, the press in Yong city did not dare to report this matter at will, but the news still flew to the whole Yong city and even further away in a short time like it had grown wings.
Presumably in a few days, the news about the Fu family would spread all over the country.
Not to mention… As a matter of fact, the Fu family might not be able to control the press completely in the Nanliu province. After all, it was not the same as when they were in their prime. Even being a Lord, they couldn’t really hide the truth from the masses.
Those small presses did not have the guts to go overboard, but innuendo was not a problem. Not to mention that reporters were the best at implicating it, so they didn’t have to worry about having nothing to write if they wanted to write.
Two days later, there was news from the Fu family that the fourth young master of the Fu family married the Zheng family’s daughter, and the original Fu family’s future Fourth Young Madam married the First Young Master of the Fu family.
As soon as the news came out, the entire Yong city exploded.
Gossip is common for ordinary people. While gossiping about the illicit love of the Fourth Young Master of the Fu family and Miss Zheng, the literati sympathized with the innocent Third Miss of the Leng family. As for those highly respected old scholars and moral gentlemen, they all put the blame at the Fu family. Having given birth to such a son, they should have disciplined him up from the start. Now, he not only brought shame to the woman with whom he had an indecent relationship, he even forced the young lady from the Leng family to marry the disabled eldest son?
What? You’re saying it wasn’t forced?
Is it the young lady from the Leng family who had a bad brain and wanted to marry a disabled, or the eldest son of the Fu family who was crazy and wanted to marry a woman his brother didn’t want? But no matter what, it was still the fault of the Fu family. Lord Fu’s family was not strict with their education and his son was no good. Otherwise, how could this happen?
In short, it’s a curse!
All of a sudden, all kinds of the younger brothers and future eldest sister-in-law’s romantic novels spread everywhere in Yong city. The Fu family was put into shame with rumors that were created by the literati who were already idle. Lord Fu was so furious that he lost more than half of his hair at home. He was really angry that he whipped the Fourth son again.
On the contrary, it was true that the Eldest Young Master married the original future Fourth Young Madam. Due to the Eldest Young Master’s good reputation in the past, with the current tragedy and the innocence of the Third Miss of the Leng family, it was mainly because the Fu family didn’t know etiquette and ethics. However, the two parties concerned were almost not disturbed by this storm.
So, after playing with the pen shaft all his life, old master Leng still had two points. Even though the Fu family knew it clearly, they had to bite their teeth to admit their wrongdoing. Otherwise, if the Eldest Young Master of the Fu family and the Leng family start to quarrel again, maybe the people in the capital and those who didn’t cope with the Fu family will have to get involved, the matter would be difficult to end.
