Chapter 313 — In Person
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Song Yan sighed with feeling. "If only my aunt had none of those prejudices about family standing! When a scholar's family takes a live-in son-in-law, the change of surname inevitably invites the charge of forgetting one's ancestors; even if he could sit the spring examination, no one would be willing to take him as a protégé. But it is different with the noble houses—they advance by hereditary privilege to begin with, so they care nothing for such things; on the contrary, the wife's family line can carry on..."
Otherwise, he would never have gone looking for a husband for Zhao Zhangru among the personal guard.
Dou Yan took his arm and teased, "My thanks for your hard work, heir!"
"Good that you know it!" Song Yan said outright. "I'm worn out today!"
Suxin and the other maids who had come out with Dou Yan to meet him all lowered their heads and smiled.
After the evening meal, they washed and changed, and the two lay in bed whispering.
"What made you think of testing Song Qianli on the examination essays?"
"I botched it the first time—I couldn't very well botch it a second, could I?" said Song Yan. "Isn't my aunt looking for a young man from a scholarly family? What if she quizzes him on his learning the moment they meet?"
Dou Yan pursed her lips and smiled. "The examinations test poetry and prose too—why didn't you go on and test him on poetry as well?"
Seeing her smile so sweetly, Song Yan could not help pinching her nose. "I'd have liked to—but looking at that dull, wooden look of his, how could any poem he wrote compare with the romance and allure of one I'd write for my wife?"
Dou Yan began to tease and spar with him.
"Romance and allure, is it?" She nibbled at his ear. "Compose one and let me hear it!"
Song Yan truly loved this side of Dou Yan.
He turned and pinned her beneath him, murmuring suggestively at her ear, "You really want me to?"
"I really do!" Dou Yan eyed him sidelong.
Song Yan gave a soft laugh and murmured, "The lush branches are quick to scatter and fall"...Her garments slipped away...his hand made sport in the hidden valley..."tender buds confer, opening little by little"...
Dou Yan's face was like the glow of dawn...
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