Chapter 111 — The Restaurant (Bonus Update for 1,050 Pink Votes)
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For no reason he could name, Ji Yong felt a stab of discomfort. "Of course she'll marry Wei Fan! Who else would she marry?"
"Good!" He Yu said loudly. "I accept this!" He was brisk and decisive, and there was a manly spirit in it.
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By this time Chen Yanzhou had returned to Zhending. Standing in Dou Yan's flower house, he gazed at a peony in bud before him and said with some worry, "If the Wei family comes to seek a match, will the young miss truly consent to this marriage?"
Dou Yan rinsed the long, slender leaves of the cymbidium with a watering can and answered obliquely, "The medicinal herbs I had you send to the Marquis of Jining—did they accept them?"
"They did," Chen Yanzhou said. "But from the look of the Marquis of Jining... it seemed quite ordinary..."
Before leaving, Dou Yan had had him take two thirty-year-old ginseng roots to the Marquis of Jining. He had thought the roots carried deep meaning, yet the Marquis had merely smiled, thanked him, and had them put away. He had assumed the Marquis had not grasped Dou Zhiwei's intent and had pointed it out a few times, which only made the Marquis look rather disdainful.
"As long as they were delivered, that's enough," Dou Yan said carelessly, setting down the watering can. "Whether they're of use is their affair."
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As for the rule that a three-foot child may not enter the inner chambers, you may think of those parks where few people go: when the caretakers are lax, it is easy enough to slip through the cracks. As for whether Ji Yong's conduct conforms to the standards of a heir's son, you will know in due course.
o(n_n)o~
ps: Begging for pink votes...
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