Chapter 186: Objections

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Liu Lin himself didn’t realise how explosively his family would take his plan to get married. Especially his mother’s reaction.

When He shi heard that Liu Lin wanted to get married, she nearly jumped out of her skin! She couldn’t believe her ears! And that was understandable – Liu Lin had never shown any hint of liking anyone. Furthermore, no one in the family knew who the girl in question was!

He shi looked at him with utter shock and asked, “You want to get married? You found a girl you liked? Can you just… Just say these things so casually? That girl… was just picked by you so easily?”

Liu Changgeng was extremely clear about He shi’s concerns. He quickly pulled the agitated He shi to the side, and asked Liu Lin, “Who caught your eye?”

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Liu Lin had no plans to keep this from her. In fact, Liu Lin secretly felt that the one who would be most supportive of his plans, would likely be her. 

Liu Xu’er came over and calmly listened to him speak. After listening for a while, she finally understood. It seemed…. That her erge had someone he liked?

But as she listened, it seemed that something wasn’t right. Erge and that lady – why did it seem… As though her erge was just doing this to help her? Song Yao couldn’t stay at home any longer. It seemed that her dasao wanted to chase her out?

When Liu Lin was finally done talking. He naturally didn’t say anything about how Song Yao had approached him to ask him to marry her. That point definitely needed to be kept from his family. He needed to maintain some privacy for himself and Song Yao. 

Liu Xu’er didn’t say anything. In fact no one said anything, because the situation seemed too fantastical. In their ordinary lives, they would never interact with such families. And of course, He shi was the first to vehemently object to the match. 

“Definitely not! That is a prestigious household’s Young Miss! No matter the difficulties the family is facing, it’s not for our family to help. They have big businesses and large holdings – how can it be that they’re at the brink of starvation? And if that Young Miss is having such difficulties with her dasao, that can only mean…. That something is not right with the Young Miss! Why would her dasao chase her out of the house like that for no reason? Aren’t they all a family?! How can her parents not care?! It must be because that Young Miss did something wrong! This kind of person….”

“Mum!” It wasn’t just Liu Lin, even Liu Shu and Liu Xu’er had quickly moved to stop her.

He shi huffily kept quiet.

Liu Lin explained, “It’s because she is born of a concubine. Her birth mother has already passed away.”

He shi was stunned. She again opened her mouth, before turning to look at Liu Changgeng in a huff, “Their father! Say something. What kind of situation is this? This kind of person… How can she marry into our family? Our family cannot afford this kind of precious person!” Then in a fit of pique, she waved at Liu Lin vehemently, “Enough! Let’s not speak of this matter. Your father and I don’t agree! Our household cannot afford someone like this! You should quickly get rid of these thoughts! Get out!”

Liu Lin was stunned into standing. Helplessly, he said, “Mum….”

Frustrated, He shi shouted impatiently, “Get out, get out! All of you out! Let me calm down!”

Liu Changgeng saw that He shi had well and truly lost her calm. He could only secretly wave his children away, expressing that he would try to calm her down first. 

The three of them could only leave. Liu Lin was stunned – he didn’t know what to do. Liu Shu grabbed hold of him and started to drag him to the side rooms. Liu Xu’er knew that her brother planned to closely question Liu Lin of the situation, so she naturally followed. 

When they got to Liu Lins room, Liu Shu sat down. He asked, “From what I can tell, it seems that the girl herself has also agreed? The two of you… Have already discussed the situation?”

Liu Lin paused for a moment before nodding his head, “That’s right.”

“But, is her agreement enough? Would their family agree? Even if the family is on the decline, they still wouldn’t agree to their girls marrying down! Especially if they are on the brink of ruin, they should be looking for a good match for their daughter, so that they can have some support in their difficulty.”

Liu Lin shook his head, “Even if they were to look, would they be able to find a household like that? Why would a good family be willing to match their sons to a girl from a declining family? Didn’t she already have a fiance in Songjiang prefecture? But when they heard the difficulty the family was going through, didn’t he reject the marriage?”

“But even so, a family like that would still have their own plans. Her parents are still around… Even if she’s concubine born, the Madam should still be in charge of looking for a match for her. Why should they agree to marry her to you? Why should they allow the girl to make this decision for herself?”

Liu Lin could only say, “Her father is extremely ill – currently her marriage matters are being managed entirely by her mother and her sister-in-law…. I didn’t manage to ask it clearly, but since her dasao clearly isn’t able to tolerate her and wasn’t successful in chasing her out, I worry that she would take direct action on her person…. There’s a possibility she might even sell Song Yao.”

“Surely not?” Liu Shu was stunned when he heard. 

Liu Xu’er was listening to the entire exchange. Finally, she asked, “Erge, have you ever considered that there is a reason people say to marry someone of similar station? It’s because then there aren’t too many differences in terms of living standards, in terms of etiquette. It becomes easier to get along… Which is why, most wealthy families wouldn’t match their sons to daughters of small families. Otherwise, it would be difficult for them to get along – wouldn’t that just be an uncomfortable situation? Similarly, if the Young Miss really were to get married into a family like ours, wouldn’t she be uncomfortable, or be unable to get used to the differences? She might feel that we don’t know our etiquette and lack… Basically, wouldn’t it throw our family into disarray?”

When Liu Lin heard, he very definitely shook his head. “It won’t. Song Yao isn’t that kind of person! You didn’t get to hear what I said at the very start. When I was tidying up the store, I was about to sit my examinations. Song Yao herself is very knowledgeable. She really helped me a lot with it. From that, I can tell that she isn’t someone to stir trouble. She’s not petty.”

Liu Xu’er paused for a moment before saying, “Are you sure?”

Liu Lin nodded heavily, “Very sure!”

Liu Xu’er started to have some confidence. She didn’t have confidence in Song Yao, but in her erge’s feelings. When she was hearing him talk earlier, she couldn’t hear any affection for Song Yao. It felt like he was only marrying her to help her. 

But, seeing how her erge protected Song Yao… Although it wasn’t obvious, Liu Xu’er’s female intuition was telling her something! She felt that the situation between her erge and Song Yao wasn’t that simple. 

Although at the beginning, she too had concerns – chiefly that her erge might not actually like Song Yao, and vice versa. It seemed that the marriage proposal was just out of desperation…..

That was different from her dage and Shao Rong’s situation. Although her dage also helped out Shao Rong’s family, he had only discovered he liked her after the worst of the situation had been dealt with…. The two families were also of fairly similar standing, so there was no need to object. But Song Yao seemed to be forced by her circumstances to marry. Liu Xu’er definitely didn’t want her gege’s marriage to be under a cloud like that. What if he married her out of a sense of duty, and then met someone else he genuinely liked?!

As such, initially Liu Xu’er didn’t agree to the match. Of course, she wasn’t as agitated as her mother about it either.

But now, seeing her brother’s attitude…. In any case, Liu Xu’er felt that it didn’t seem as though her erge had no feelings for her. It could be that he did really like her, but because of the big gap in their stations, he had felt it was impossible, and so controlled himself. But since Song Yao was being pushed to the brink, he took the chance….

In matters of love, Liu Xu’er was probably the most experienced in the family. Others might not have understood it; perhaps Liu Lin himself hadn’t yet realised it! But she thought that he had probably fallen head over heels. 

If erge liked Song Yao, then they needed to approach the situation differently. Firstly, she needed to investigate if Song Yao had any feelings toward her erge. Perhaps she didn’t, or perhaps she had a little. No matter, she would send her brother forward to help her out, run errands for her etc. Perhaps that would move Song Yao’s heart, and get her to fall in love with her erge! Wasn’t that the best case scenario?!

Liu Xu’er was just thinking over her plans, while Liu Lin and Liu Shu continued on debating Liu Xu’er’s point about “similar station.”