Raising a wife? The mistress of the Hou family divorced and remarried her younger uncle

Chapter 55 Marriage
Su Qingwan was furious when she heard this. "Mr. Zhang is engaged to you and is going to get married next year, but before the marriage he has a mistress and they have children. Do you want to cancel the engagement?"

Lu Yunshu nodded and gritted her teeth and said, "I originally wanted to wait until my elder brother married Li Xueying before discussing this matter. My family is busy preparing for my elder brother's marriage. If I talk about this matter, it will definitely be unlucky, and I don't want to cause trouble. Who knew that my sister-in-law came back. Sister-in-law, I am very happy that you are alive. But in recent days, the family affairs have caused a lot of trouble in the city. When my elder sister went home to visit my aunt that day, she said that the whole city was discussing the jokes about our family. She asked me to be careful in what I said and did, stay at home, and wait until next year for the wedding. I can't bring up the matter of breaking off the engagement again."

Su Qingwan looked at Lu Yunshu, who had a charming face, was steady and intelligent, and thought of her sister. She liked Lu Yunshu, in part because Lu Yunshu resembled her sister.

She is dignified, tolerant, gentle and sensible.

This is a world where men are respected. It is very difficult for women to survive. Even a female general who is famous on the battlefield will be trapped in the inner chamber one day, let alone a lady raised by a powerful family.

Marriage is the most important thing in a woman's life. If she marries the wrong person, her whole life will be wasted. In the best case, she will be depressed, and in the worst case, she may lose her life.

Her sister is a living example.

"You want to ask me to help you break off the engagement?" Su Qingwan asked.

Lu Yunshu shook her head and said hurriedly, "This is my life, how dare I push it to my sister-in-law, I just... want to hear your opinion, I will make the judgment on what to do."

"Why didn't you tell the older girl about this?"

"Sister has been married to the Chen family for many years and finally has a child. Now is the critical moment, you should just focus on the pregnancy." Lu Yunshu smiled bitterly. Her aunt was only good at talking about romance and reciting poems, and she didn't know who to talk to.

"If it were my temper, this marriage would have to be cancelled." Su Qingwan didn't want to perfunctorily answer her. "Your sister is the daughter-in-law of General Chen. Everyone in the capital praises her and she is a living signboard. The second son passed the imperial examination and has a good future. The third son is also in a high position and has great power. They are all your support. If you don't want to marry Mr. Zhang, this marriage will be cancelled."

Lu Yunshu smiled bitterly and said, "I want to cancel the engagement, but I'm afraid that I'll be criticized and have a hard time getting married in the future. It's normal for a man to have three wives and four concubines, and my mother taught me to be tolerant since I was a child. I don't dare to expect that my husband will have only me in the backyard. The Zhang family's backyard is quiet, and I might be able to get by if I marry there. But I feel uncomfortable, weighing the pros and cons, and I can't sleep at night."

Su Qingwan felt a little distressed. In fact, Lu Yunshu's words were not clear enough and she did not accurately express the troubles in her heart. However, Su Qingwan could understand her unwillingness.

As the saying goes, bow your head to marry a wife and raise your head to marry a daughter. Lu Yunshu's marriage to Zhang Langjun is a humble one, but Lu Yunshu is not unforgiving. If Zhang Langjun wants to take a concubine in the future, she can accept it.

Young girls always have dreams about marriage and love, and so does Lu Yunshu. She had also imagined that she would live in harmony with her husband after marrying into the Zhang family, but she didn't expect that Mr. Zhang would have a mistress before marriage, and she had illegitimate sons and daughters before she even married into the family. This completely shattered Lu Yunshu's dreams.

If the engagement was cancelled, she was a concubine's daughter and did not have Lu Yunxiu's confidence. She was also not sure whether Lin could fight for her, so she did not dare to speak out.

"You are in a dilemma now, right?"

Lu Yunshu nodded, "I want to cancel the engagement, but I also think that if I endure it, maybe I can get through it. All girls have gone through this. It's not easy to find a satisfactory marriage." "Second sister, I want to ask you something." Su Qingwan asked with a smile, "First, your husband is ambitious and capable, and he will bring honor to the family in the future and earn you a royal title. Second, your husband changes his mind, loves you, protects you, and lives a happy life with you without fame and fortune. You can only choose one of the two, what do you choose?"

Lu Yunshu thought for a long time, her handkerchief crumpled into a ball. When she looked up at Su Qingwan, she did not hide her ambition, "I'll choose one. I don't want to be trapped in the inner house like my aunt, waiting for my husband's mercy every day. I want my husband to be ambitious and win an imperial decree for me so that I can have a place in the inner house. Even if he doesn't like me, as long as he can respect me and give me enough respect, that's enough."

"Then you shouldn't have chosen Mr. Zhang!" Su Qingwan had actually seen through Lu Yunshu's inner ambition a long time ago. She was like her sister, but also not like her. Her sister was more like the kind of woman who only sought the love of her husband, not power.

"I am willing to listen to my sister-in-law's teachings."

Su Qingwan chuckled, "Mr. Zhang's family background is far inferior to the Lu family, and none of his brothers have great prospects. After he got engaged to you, if he had ambitions and wanted to climb up, he should have studied hard and made friends with your brother. But he indulged in love, hanging out with prostitutes, and keeping a mistress outside. It can be seen that he is obsessed with women and has no ambition to make progress. Unless he is a prodigy who makes a big splash, those who want to stand out in the palace examination would drill a hole in the wall to steal light and study hard. The imperial examination is imminent, but Mr. Zhang redeems the prostitute. I don't think he is a strong-willed person. His wife has not married yet, and he has a child with his concubine. He must know that if the truth is revealed, he will offend the Lu family. He is in a low position, but he has no self-awareness. He is willing to offend his wife's powerful family for women. It can be seen that he is short-sighted and extremely confused. Even if he wins the imperial examination, if others catch him hanging out with prostitutes, the censors will drown him with spit. He ruins his future for women and is not worth using. Such a man is hard to trust."

Lu Yunshu's eyes were red. Every word Su Qingwan said touched her sore spot. All those confusing, resentful, and unwilling emotions surged up at once, and she couldn't help crying.

"Second sister..." Su Qingwan was a little at a loss. She didn't expect to make someone cry. Su Qingwan was a very masculine girl. She couldn't stand seeing a girl being weak and pitiful in front of her, which would arouse her endless desire to protect her. "You... don't cry."

Lu Yunshu lowered her head and shed tears.

Su Qingwan took the fruit that Luzhu prepared for her and said, "Second sister, would you like some fruit?"

"Please forgive me, sister-in-law. I was impolite." Lu Yunshu took the fruit and wrapped it in a handkerchief.

Su Qingwan said, "Just don't cry."

Lu Yunshu wiped her tears and couldn't help laughing. Su Qingwan was relieved to see that she was not so sad.

"What should I do if I want to cancel the engagement?" Lu Yunshu asked.

"You want to cancel the engagement without damaging your reputation. First, you have to expose what Mr. Zhang did. This will be very risky. You don't know whether your family is determined for you to marry. If they are determined for you to marry, and you expose Mr. Zhang, he will definitely hate you, and you will suffer after marriage. Second, you have to ask Mr. Zhang to cancel the engagement on his own initiative. This will damage your reputation. It's not good to cancel the engagement, and it will be difficult for you to get married in the future."

Lu Yunshu thought for a moment, "If that brothel girl comes to make trouble, this matter has nothing to do with me, right?"

Su Qingwan, "...That's right!"

(End of this chapter)