My younger sister insisted on marrying me and made me the Marquis' wife.

Chapter 4 This good thing was brought to you by Qin Wan

On the day of the wedding, relatives and friends came to give Qin Yuan generous gifts and said a lot of flattering words.

In their previous lives, they gave gifts to Qin Yuan without much thought, they just did it to avoid embarrassing themselves.

Qin Yuan asked Hongye and Cuiming to make a list and register them.

She registered all the modest gifts from her past life, and later returned the generous gifts.

Naturally, you will do better in this life.

Sure enough, those relatives and friends left happily, and all praised her for being a blessed person, magnanimous, considerate and generous.

Qin Wan felt a little embarrassed.

Hongye said that Qin Wan broke a lot of porcelain and scolded them for being short-sighted.

Qin Yuan just treated it as a joke.

Two days later, the Dingbei Marquis's Mansion sent the betrothal gifts, which were placed in Qin Yuan's yard, filling it up.

Friends and relatives gathered around to watch and praised it to each other.

Even Qin Yuan, who was used to seeing good things, felt that the Dingbei Marquis Mansion had spent a huge amount of money. He just didn't know whether Qin Wan had also gotten so much in her previous life.

Hongye and Cuiming were so excited that they couldn't sleep, but Qin Yuan was calm and composed.

Hongye said, "Miss, the Marquis's Mansion is truly extremely wealthy. The gold ingots, the emeralds, the white jade, ah, I really am willing to spend them."

Cui Ming was also amazed, "It's worth it to have seen such a thing in my life."

Qin Yuan smiled and said, "That's just the beginning. The betrothal gift from the Marquis' Mansion is just a drop in the bucket for the Marquis' Mansion. How can they spend all their belongings to marry a daughter-in-law?"

Hongye giggled non-stop.

Cui Ming asked, "What's wrong?"

Hongye said, "When I think that such a good life belongs to our young lady, I feel happy. The second young lady always steps on the young lady's head in everything, but she didn't expect to fail in marriage."

Cuiming was also in a good mood: "We must go to the temple to pray and add incense to the Buddha."

Qin Yuan said nothing.

Both she and Qin Wan knew that it was not surprising that this marriage fell on her.

When Lord Gu was young, he was engaged to his childhood sweetheart, but the girl died of illness before the wedding.

Later, something happened to old Marquis Gu, and Marquis Gu took over his father's position. He fought in the northern frontier for many years and had no time to get married.

When the army returned to the capital, Lord Gu was nearly thirty years old, and he brought back a woman and two children aged seven or eight from the battlefield. Outsiders were saying that they were Lord Gu's concubine and children, and families of equal status were unwilling to marry their daughters into the mansion.

Old Madam Gu was anxious to find a wife for Marquis Gu, and she also wanted to marry the daughter of a scholarly family to change her social status. After much calculation, the daughter of the Qin family was just the right choice.

In her previous life, Qin Wan was in a mess because of that woman and the two children, and she became a stranger to Lord Gu.

Qin Yuan doesn't care about these at all.

She has lived a lifetime and has long since become indifferent to love between men and women.

In her previous life, she accompanied Lin Ziqi through hard times and worked hard for him. Once he became a little rich, Lin Ziqi had many wives and concubines.

When she was young, Lin Ziqi had promised that he would never let her down, but after Lin Ziqi ascended to a high position, he became jealous of her talent, and had to rely on her to manage household chores and give him advice, and he also had to flatter his concubines and mistresses to suppress her and make her obey him.

All the means of checks and balances were used on his wife who had been with him all the way, which was really heartbreaking.

In front of outsiders, she was the noble and dignified wife of Prime Minister Lin, but inwardly she lived a life of depression and misery, and her hair turned gray before she was forty.

All she wants in her life is to live a good life, open her mind, eat, drink and have fun, manage her own business, and do what she wants to do.

For her, the Marquis' Mansion was the best choice. She no longer had to be dragged down by the Lin family, nor did she have to do her best to promote Lin Ziqi to a high position because of their relationship.

Since Lord Gu gave her, the Marquis' wife, respect, she turned a blind eye to his affairs.

With the identity of Madam Hou, she can do so many things. She doesn't have to climb up slowly from a humble beginning like in her previous life.

This is indeed a good marriage, and it was Qin Wan who forced it upon him.

It's just... subtle.

The Lin family's betrothal gifts were not only few in number, but also not in very good condition. Many of the items were just made up of bedding and other household items.

Hongye and Cuiming went to see it and then came back to study for a long time.

Qin Yuan listened. After all, she had received a lot of betrothal gifts in her previous life. It seemed that Lin Ziqi had spent all his family fortune on the betrothal gifts.

After all, Qin Wan is the legitimate daughter.

Unexpectedly, she did not go to see Qin Wan's betrothal gift, but Qin Wan came to see her betrothal gift. After seeing it, her face was as gloomy as ink that could not be dissolved, and her eyes were filled with jealousy that could not be hidden.

Qin Yuan couldn't help but feel better.

She was worried that the Marquis' Mansion would reduce the betrothal gift because of the marriage exchange. It seems that the Dingbei Marquis' Mansion is not a petty-minded family.

The wedding date of the two was set on the same day.

At the beginning, Cui whispered that Lin Ziqi's family was poor and Qin Yuan was a concubine's daughter, so it would be better to hold the wedding banquet on the same day. This way, the Lin family would not be embarrassed because of having few relatives and a meager dowry.

Qin Jijiu agreed.

Cui's original intention was to use Qin Yuan as a foil for Qin Wan's marriage to a high position, but unexpectedly, it has now become a face-saving measure for Qin Yuan.

Cui was so angry that she couldn't sleep the whole night.

Seeing Cui tossing and turning on the bed, Qin Jijiu said, "Wan'er is spoiled and used to being spoiled by us. She is considered up-and-coming by marrying into the Dingbei Marquis's residence. She will definitely not tolerate any bullying. After all, Lin Ziqi is my student. He has been in the residence for so many years. He has a good character and appearance. I know him well. He won't dare to bully Wan'er and will only cherish her."

On the one hand, Cui hated Qin Yuan for getting such a good marriage, and on the other hand, she hated Qin Wan for marrying a poor man like Lin Ziqi. These days, when she looked at Qin Yuan's betrothal gift and then at Qin Wan's betrothal gift, she almost vomited blood several times.

After hearing this, I felt better.

"Your Excellency, when you say this, it seems like this is still a good marriage?"

"Lin Ziqi has the talent to become a Jinshi, and he is also my student. He has been learning from me for many years. With my connections to support him in his career, how bad can he be? The Imperial College's chief academic officer is at least of the fifth rank. My legitimate daughter is more than enough for him, a commoner. If he is smart, he will hold Wan'er in high esteem."

When Cui heard this, she felt more relieved. She told her husband what Qin Wan had said to her.

"Wan'er said that Lin Ziqi will surely rise to great heights in the future. Hey, is this kid crazy?"

Qin Jijiu frowned. Although he didn't understand why Lu Wan praised Lin Ziqi so much, in order to make Cui feel better, he said, "Although Lin Ziqi's family is poor, he has studied hard and has a strong character. He will definitely achieve something in the future."

But I don’t know whether he can rise to a high position and become a high-ranking official.

After all, it is not enough to just study hard and have a strong character.

Qin Jijiu once had ambitions to conquer the world, but after recognizing the reality, he relied on his wife's family's reputation and tried his best, but he could only become Jijiu. Not as good as the best, but better than the worst. He knew many first-class scholars, but most of them rose and fell in the officialdom, and everything was up to fate. Some of them were not as good as him.

Cui turned over and fell into a deep sleep.

In the dark night, Qin Jijiu breathed a sigh of relief.

He was afraid that Cui and Qin Wan would become unhappy and offend Lin Ziqi and Qin Yuan.

Don't make any more complications when something has already been decided.

As long as the Dingbei Marquis Mansion is his in-laws, wouldn’t anyone who marries into the family be his daughter?
(End of this chapter)