The Pastoral Empress Merchant

Chapter 790 Extra Seven: Fight for Your Own Happiness

Ling Muhua originally planned to leave. If Xu Morou wasn't there, he might have said a few more words to Mu Jinxi, but because Xu Morou was here, he didn't want her to think too much, so he left in a hurry after saying a few words , as if there is something important to do.Seeing his leaving back, Xu Morou couldn't look back for a long time, and felt a little disappointed.

I don't know when the next time I will see Brother Ling again.

Seeing her like this, Mu Jinxi couldn't help but tease her: "If you look at her again, your eyeballs will fall out. I know Brother Mu is pretty, but you can't look at her like that."

Her teasing words made Xu Morou immediately blushed, stomped her feet lightly, and said coquettishly and annoyed: "Xiaoxi, you are talking nonsense again, do you want people to hear my reputation?"

"What's the matter, what's the matter. Everyone has a love for beauty. Brother Mu is so good-looking, so what's the matter if you look at it, who dares to say you. I'm already married, why don't I just stare at him? It's nothing, you don't need to feel pressure in your heart. I understand." Mu Jinxi stretched out her hand and patted her shoulder comfortingly.

Xu Morou bit her lips, looked at her enviously and said, "Xiao Xi, if only I were like you." Then she would have the courage to pursue her own happiness.

Mu Jinxi smiled grinningly, "Those who are close to vermilion are red and those who are close to ink are black, you are my friend, and you will not be far behind. And you are also very good now, you take care of the yoga studio very well Not bad. Those wives spoke very well of you, and they wanted you to teach the ladies in their houses to practice alone. I didn't expect that you would take care of the yoga studio so well that I didn't have to fuck at all. "

Xu Morou blushed from her praise, but she was very happy because her efforts were recognized.

If she hadn't met Xiaoxi, she wouldn't know that a woman could be like Xiaoxi, maybe she would be like an ordinary lady, follow the teacher's teachings, and treat women's virtues and women's merits as her lifelong faith treat.But now she knows that women don't necessarily want to be like this, so many rules and regulations imposed on women are just some kind of oppression by those men.

They want women to be attached to them, which will make them look powerful and capable.But the fact is that many women are no worse than men, or even better than men, like Xiao Xi, why do women have to be attached to men, and live their lives based on the looks of men?
Now she can no longer imagine that one day she will marry and become a woman but must stay in the small world in the backyard, take care of her husband and children, never come out to meet her friends, and listen to Xiaoxi's interesting things.He also has to compete with countless women in the backyard to be jealous, and he has to use all means to become a hateful person for his own status.

But she also knows that it is not so easy to change her destiny.She comes from a big family, her father is an official of the court, and she is a concubine, so she can't be too willful.Now it's just mother doting on her, and she is not too young now, she has heard her father and mother mention her marriage during this time...

Thinking of this, Xu Morou's face, which had just turned red from shyness, turned pale in no time, and there was a hint of sadness between her brows.

Mu Jinxi noticed the change in her expression, but she didn't point it out on the spot, but said with a smile: "Let's go in first, let me tell you, the second and third children have grown up very fast recently, especially the third child. She's dead. Jue Lin didn't want to let go when he came back and hugged her."

Xu Morou's attention was immediately diverted, and her eyes lit up, "Really?" While speaking, she slightly raised her skirt and walked up the steps, and she couldn't wait to see Xiaoxi's lovely daughter Yes, there is also a youngest son who is less than two years old, and that is also a child carved in powder and jade.Xiaoxi is really lucky. The three children she gave birth to are all extremely cute. There is no child in the capital who is more lovable than her three children.

"You'll know it after reading it, but the second child doesn't like to talk. He keeps his mouth shut all day without making a sound, which makes me wonder if he's dumb." Mu Jinxi complained dissatisfied.

Xu Morou looked at her dumbfounded, "Xiao Xi, how can anyone talk about their son like you?"

Mu Jinxi shrugged, "What I'm saying is the truth. I've never seen him like this. The older he gets, the quieter he becomes. I don't know who he is like."

She is not such a quiet person, neither is Jue Lin, let alone his uncle.Hey, she is also very distressed, is it not good for a child to be so quiet?But Xiaobao didn't seem to be very naughty when he was a child... Could it really be a family inheritance?

Mu Jinxi rubbed her chin thoughtfully.

After entering the palace, Mu Jinxi took Xu Morou to the courtyard of the old princess. Xu Morou was a polite person, so when she arrived at the palace, she naturally wanted to visit her elders.For these few friends of Mu Jinxi, the old princess also likes them very much.As the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together, people are divided into groups, and you will be with the kind of people you like.Xiaoxi is a good person, and her friends are naturally not bad.

After talking for a while in the old concubine's courtyard, the two returned to Jinglanyuan.

After returning to Jinglanyuan, Xu Morou couldn't wait to urge Mu Jinxi to let the servants bring the two children over.

The second child is less than two years old, has just learned to walk, is still waddling, and wants to be followed by others, and one of them will fall at any time if he is not paying attention. It is also hard to hear.

Now that the weather is getting hotter, the two children have changed out of their winter clothes and put on cooler clothes.

The hair on the big one's head was tied into a small sky braid, wrapped with a red rope, and a small jade pendant was hung from the tail of the red rope. His forehead was round and bright.Under the two short eyebrows are a pair of big black grape-like eyes, as if they were printed out of the same mold as Mu Jinxi's eyes.Occasionally, he babbled once or twice in his mouth, revealing his pink gums, and when the maid had no time to wipe it, he even drooled once or twice, coupled with his little old man-like expression, it really made people laugh and cry.

When Xu Morou saw these two children, her heart softened. The older one didn't want to be hugged and wanted to learn to walk, so she could only hug the little princess to enjoy herself.

"Xiaoxi, the little princess will definitely be a great beauty when she grows up. Look at her eyelashes, how long they are, and her eyes, they are so pretty!" Xu Morou looked at the cute little girl in her arms gently, and she really liked it in her heart. Incredible.

Mu Jinxi glanced at her daughter, "Oh, is that so? If she looks like her father, it shouldn't be bad, but if she looks like me, then I'm not sure. After all, I'm not a big beauty, the possibility of genetic mutation Very low sex."

Xu Morou couldn't understand what she said later, but she still understood what she said earlier.

She glared at her angrily, "That's how you talk, it makes people angry. You don't look bad, and the appearance of the little prince Jue Lin is also very outstanding. How can your child not look good? You In the future, don’t say these things in front of your children, I’ve heard people from the older generation say that children can understand them, and if you listen too much, you’ll really understand them.”

Mu Jinxi giggled and didn't care at all, "It's okay, just be whatever you want to be, don't worry about it."

Xu Morou looked at the doll in her arms that looked like a piece of high-quality jade, and couldn't help sighing: "If I can... in the future, that would be great."

Sighing and sighing, she suddenly had uncontrollable fantasies in her mind.I imagined that I would give birth to a child soon, and it was also very cute and beautiful, with a pair of eyes like hers, and a high nose bridge, like—ah!

Xu Morou was taken aback by the figure that suddenly appeared in her mind, and then her fair face quickly turned red.Afraid that Xiaoxi would notice it, she quickly lowered her head, her face was burning hot.

Oh my god, what was she thinking, how could she think such a thing, she was so shameless, if people knew about it, they would definitely laugh at her... She thought of Big Brother Ling, she was so ashamed.

Xu Morou didn't want Mu Jinxi to notice her strangeness, but Mu Jinxi did.

"Yo, what are you thinking, your face is so red. Could it be that you are thinking about something embarrassing?" Mu Jinxi teased deliberately.

"What nonsense are you talking about? I'm the one who wouldn't do such a thing!" Xu Morou retorted, but her eyes dodged and her face blushed, not convincing at all.

"Hey, I think you are probably yearning for spring!" Mu Jinxi sighed and said.

"Xiaoxi!" Xu Morou almost jumped up when she heard the word Sichun, and called out in a shrill voice.

When she called her like that, the little guy in her words was a little frightened, and she flattened her mouth as if about to cry. Xu Morou was so frightened that she couldn't care less about being shy, and started coaxing a little strangely.

Seeing this, Mu Jinxi called Shi Hua and asked her to take the child back to sleep, after all, she and Mo'er still had something to talk about.

Xu Morou seemed to have noticed something, and the smile on her face slowly fell.

"Okay, what's the matter with you, the people in the yoga studio said that you don't seem to be in a good mood recently, and you are in a trance. Did you encounter any troubles?" Mu Jinxi asked with concern.

Xu Morou smiled wryly, "Xiaoxi, I... people in my family have started talking about marriage to me again, I'm afraid I can't hide this time."

Last time, because she had just reached Ji, her parents really loved her again. She made a fuss and said that she didn't want to get married so early, but after thinking about it, her parents let her go.But now, she is not young, and if she drags on, she will become an old girl.Her sister-in-law is also treating her more and more with a nose that is not a nose, a face that is not a face, and talking behind her back is getting worse and worse.She was really upset.

Mu Jinxi also put away the smile on her face and frowned slightly.

If it's other things, she can still help out, but for marriage, what she can do is extremely limited.She and Mo'er are just friends, and there is absolutely no reason to interfere in her marriage. At most, she can only give her some advice or explain her away.

She sighed softly, "Mo'er, you are not young now, and it is reasonable for your parents to worry about you. It is time for you to consider your own marriage. If you have any ideas, you can openly and honestly tell me Talk to your parents. Marriage is a major event in life, and it is related to the rest of your life. You must take it seriously. You can’t just listen to what your parents say."

Arranged marriages are not to say that everything is wrong, but there are many disadvantages.

Xu Morou had a bitter expression on her face, "Xiao Xi, I understand what you said, but my parents may not listen to me. My elder brother, he... my sister-in-law meant to bring me to her cousin's house, she has My cousin is not married yet, and he is also an official in the court, that is, he is a bit older."

"A little older? How old?" Mu Jinxi frowned even tighter.What sister-in-law's cousins ​​knew it was not a good thing as soon as they heard it, and they were officials. If it was normal, how could they not get married?
Xu Morou felt it was difficult to speak, but the other party was Xiaoxi, besides she could talk to her, she really didn't know who else to talk to.

"The other party is twenty and seven."

Mu Jinxi was startled, and blurted out: "What? Twenty and seven, a full ten years older than you! Is this a bit older? What does your sister-in-law mean? She wants to push you into the fire pit?"

27 years old is really not old in modern times, but here is ancient times, when women reach the hairpin and men reach the crown, they start to get married. This person is 27 but has not been married yet. Obviously there is a problem!
When she yelled like this, Xu Morou's complexion became even more ugly, and she almost cried.

"I also think the other party is a bit older, but, but my sister-in-law said that older people will hurt people, and I am not young anymore, so I can no longer pick and choose, saying that someone like her cousin is very suitable for me, She said that if I married, I would be happy. But I..." She didn't want to marry at all!

She met the elder sister-in-law's cousin once. He was very serious, and I heard that he was very old-fashioned. The reason why he didn't get married for a long time was that the requirements were too high, the conditions were very harsh, and he wanted a young lady who had no flaws at all.I was not satisfied with picking and picking, so I have been procrastinating until now.

"What do your parents say?"

Xu Morou felt even more sad when asked about this, "My parents seem to have the same idea..."

She was really sad and sad.She didn't understand, why did her parents think like her sister-in-law? Could it be that they also thought she was not young, and they were afraid that she wouldn't be able to get married?So I feel very happy if someone is willing to marry her, and I am very lucky, so even if the other party is so old, it doesn't matter if his temper is not the best, right?She is their daughter!

Xu Morou felt very shocked.

And there was one more thing she didn't tell Xiaoxi.The sister-in-law kept telling her not to go to the yoga studio by her parents, but to stay in the mansion well, and prepare to get married when the marriage was settled, so as not to have any objections from her husband's family in the future.But the father and mother were really persuaded. These days, the mother has been trying to persuade her not to deal with the yoga studio anymore, and let her tell Xiaoxi to find someone else to manage the yoga studio.

She was really going to be dizzy.

She has been taking care of the yoga studio from the beginning, how much effort she has spent to get to where she is today, she can't do it if she just gives up like this!If getting married requires her to give up these things, and she can only stay obediently in the backyard in the future, then she would rather not get married!
She didn't understand, why Xiaoxi's parents supported her so much while she was also a parent, but her own parents wanted to stop her?She didn't do anything to embarrass them, did she?Now the yoga studio is already the most sought after place by the ladies in the capital. Didn't even the sister-in-law herself go to the yoga studio to learn yoga through the back door?But now she tells her parents not to go to the yoga studio!
Xu Morou felt that her future was completely dark, and no one was standing by her side, thinking of her from her perspective.For the first time, she was so confused, at a loss, and didn't know how to take the next road.

Mu Jinxi felt that Xu Morou's parents were probably brainwashed by her sister-in-law.

Hey, thinking about it, I'm really lucky. She married early, and her sister-in-law is a good friend of hers. Even at home, she probably wouldn't treat herself as a thorn in the side.The relationship between sister-in-law and mother-in-law is as difficult to solve as the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. No wonder Mo'er is troubled.

"Xiaoxi, what do you think I should do?" Xu Morou grabbed her hand and asked eagerly, staring at her expectantly.

Mu Jinxi frowned and said honestly: "Mo'er, although I say I am your friend, in the final analysis I am not your blood relative. From the standpoint of your marriage, I am just an outsider, and I have never surpassed your parents. The reason to interfere. Unless you plan to fall out with your family, otherwise, I can only give you some advice from the perspective of a friend."

Xu Morou was startled, then smiled wryly, her expression full of helplessness, "I understand this truth, but now I don't think anyone else can understand me except you. I met my sister-in-law's cousin once, is it He is a very serious and old-fashioned person. It is because he is too demanding that he has not married. His mother is even more so. I heard that he has a younger brother who married early, but his sister-in-law However, he was tightly controlled by his mother, and he couldn't even leave the house. I can't imagine that if I am like this in the future, I..."

When she said this, Mu Jinxi became even more disgusted.If this is the case, then Mo'er is really unmarried, such a mother-in-law is the most powerful, and Mo'er has a soft temper, so if she marries, she will definitely be crushed for a lifetime.

"How about this, Mo'er, after you go back, if your parents bring up this matter again, you should push it away as much as possible, analyze it carefully with your parents, your parents love you, if you really don't want to , maybe I will force you to marry. I will ask someone to investigate the situation over there to see how the situation is. Don't worry, if the other party is really not a person worth entrusting for life, I will not just sit by. I watched you jump into the fire pit." Mu Jinxi promised.

Xu Morou nodded movedly, knowing in her heart that Xiaoxi was willing to do this because they were friends.She is the little concubine of Prince Mu's mansion, if she intervenes rashly in her marriage, the Prince Mu's mansion will be ridiculed.She understands.

In fact, she just wanted to find someone to talk to, to vent her uneasiness and panic, so that she could at least feel at ease, knowing that someone was on her side, knowing that someone understood her, at least she would feel more comfortable.

"Xiaoxi, thank you for understanding my feelings." She was really afraid that Xiaoxi would persuade her to listen to her parents after she said it. If so, she really didn't know what to do.

Mu Jinxi patted her hand, "We are friends, you can tell me anything, I may not be able to help you solve it, but at least I can give you some advice. Don't hide everything in your heart, it will be boring It’s not good for your body either.”

"Ah."

It is her greatest luck to know Xiao Xi.

After being quiet for a while, Mu Jinxi couldn't help but asked tentatively: "Mo'er, tell me honestly, do you...do you have someone you like?"

Xu Morou first widened her eyes in panic, then blushed uncontrollably, and said nah, "Xiao, Xiaoxi, you, what are you talking about, what are you talking about, I, I don't have it, I just, just ..."

Seeing her like this, what did she not understand? She didn't go around in circles with her anymore, and asked directly: "Do you like Brother Mu?"

Startled, Xu Morou was about to shake her head reflexively, but stopped because of her words.

"Mo'er, you don't need to lie to cover up in front of me. You have grown up for a long time, it is normal to like someone, there is nothing to be ashamed of. You just need to tell me the truth." Mu Jinxi stared into her eyes Said, don't give her a chance to escape.

If she really likes Brother Mu, maybe she can work harder.

Although she joked with Brother Mu last time, and Brother Mu rejected her, but now Brother Mu doesn't have anyone he likes, and Mo'er is not a person with problematic character, so maybe he can't stand side by side with Brother Mu in the mall. But at least it's okay to be a good wife.If they could be together, it would be the best thing. It would be better than Mo'er marrying a man with straight male cancer and being oppressed by an evil mother-in-law.

Xu Morou blushed with shame, she was really not used to revealing her feelings to others, even if the person in front of her was her good friend.

She nervously twisted the handkerchief in her hand, blushed so much that she could bleed, opened her mouth again and again, and finally responded in a voice like a mosquito: "Well, I, I like Brother Ling, he is very good."

Mu Jinxi's heart relaxed at first, then tightened again, thinking of Brother Mu's attitude, she couldn't figure out what Brother Mu meant, was it because he didn't mean anything to Mo'er, or was it because of something else?Mo'er is pretty good, with outstanding appearance, gentle and tough temperament, and she advances and retreats well.She is an excellent lady, but she is a little more special than ordinary ladies.

But considering Brother Mu's temper, it is not impossible if he really doesn't like Mo'er.

For Mo'er's future happiness, she had no choice but to find a chance to have a serious chat with Brother Mu.I hope the situation won't be too pessimistic, otherwise, I'm afraid she has nothing to do.She can't advocate that Mo'er and Xu Fu should turn against each other, wouldn't that hurt her?
Thoughts turned in my heart for a few times, but nothing showed on my face. Instead, I smiled and said: "Your vision is good, Brother Mu is indeed good. It's just that the relationship between a man and a woman is about mutual affection, not I know that Brother Mu—”

"Xiaoxi, don't tell Big Brother Ling!" Xu Morou hurriedly said.

"Don't tell me? How would he know if you don't tell me? If you don't tell me, you will never have a chance. Don't you want to try? If Brother Mu also likes you, then I can make the decision. I believe your parents will be happy to betroth you to Mu Brother, isn't this much better than marrying your sister-in-law's cousin?" Mu Jinxi said softly.

Xu Morou was stunned for a moment, "But..."

Mu Jinxi pressed her hand, "No but. As I said, this is not something to be ashamed of. The relationship between a man and a woman is also a kind of human relationship. You have to work hard for your own happiness. If you don't fight for it, you will still be happy." Who do you expect to fight for you? If you trust me, leave this matter to me, and I won't let you lose face."

Xu Morou stared at her blankly, a strange light flashed in her eyes for a while, and her expression gradually became firm, "Okay, I believe you!"

Xiaoxi was right, no matter what she had to work hard, even if the result was not what she wanted, at least she had worked hard and she would not regret it in the future.

It's nothing more than ruining her reputation at worst, if that's the case, then she'll twist her hair and become a sister-in-law!Or learn to do business with Xiao Xi like Qiu Ju, there will always be a different world!She doesn't believe she can't do what others can do!

Seeing her like this, Mu Jinxi breathed a sigh of relief, but she was worried that Mo'er would get stuck in a dead end and couldn't get out.

After being explained by Mu Jinxi, Xu Morou's mood improved a lot, and she seemed to have figured out something.Seeing that it was almost time, she got up to take her leave and left the Mu Palace. At this moment, she was full of hope in her heart.

But Mu Jinxi didn't know that the handsome face of the little prince Juelin in the study had been dark all afternoon.

(End of this chapter)