novelden Chapter 886: The Young Marquis's Broken Engagement Wife (8)
Chapter 886: The Young Marquis's Broken Engagement Wife (8)
Shangguan Xiong laughed out loud after hearing this. "Marquis Yongning, wasn't I careful enough with my words? If I had revealed your identity to my two nephews just now, you would have been bruised and battered by now."
Huo Qingyang certainly understood that Shangguan Xiong was telling the truth, but he had come with an imperial decree after all. He said, "There were some misunderstandings between the Huo and Shangguan families before. I can explain it."
As if to prove his sincerity, Huo Qingyang swore directly in front of Shangguan Xiong: "General Shangguan, I can swear on the honor of my family that I, Huo Qingyang, am sincere to Xiao Jin, and I have always reserved the position of legal wife for her!
As long as she agrees, I will immediately send a sedan chair with eight bearers and a red wedding dress to welcome her into my mansion."
"Tsk, you're giving something no one wants!" Shangguan Xiong said disdainfully, "What rank is your wife, the Marquis of Yongning,? Others appreciate it, but my Ah Man doesn't."
Huo Qingyang never thought that the things he had always wanted to keep for Shangguan Ruojin were so insignificant in the eyes of the Shangguan family.
"Alright, I won't waste my time talking to you anymore. After delivering the gifts this time, you can return to the capital! Youcheng doesn't welcome you!" Shangguan Xiong ordered him to leave. "If you don't want to return in disgrace, stay out of the way when you see my two nephews!"
After saying that, he waved his hand and let Huo Qingyang leave the military camp.
After the others left, the person who had been accompanying Shangguan Xiong began to persuade him, "General, there's no need to suppress yourself like this. Although we can't take his life, we can still put him in a sack.
I heard that people in Beijing all like green. How about I ask someone to prepare it? If once isn't enough, we can do it twice. It's not a big deal!"
"You really are just hoping for chaos!" Shangguan Xiong pinched his brows and said, "They sent him here with two plans. Either I cripple or kill him, and they take the opportunity to use my Shangguan family's military achievements to offset their sins.
There's another possibility. Although Xiao Jin's last news pointed to her being in Jiangnan, the higher-ups didn't believe it and sent this bastard over to try to trick my Xiao Jin back to the capital."
"That shouldn't be the case! I see that in recent years, the young lady has been only interested in studying medicine so that she can better cure diseases and save lives. When it comes to matters between men and women..." The deputy general felt that it was unlikely that Shangguan Ruojin was deceived.
"Without them meeting, there's no way to say anything!" Shangguan Xiong was a little worried. "After all, they were engaged and had been together as childhood sweethearts for several years."
The deputy general slapped his thigh and returned to the previous topic: "How about we put them in sacks? Green, scarlet, yellow, one by one!"
"Go away, stop giving me advice." Shangguan Xiong quickly interrupted the deputy general, "I don't intend to use the little military merit we have accumulated through life and death over the years.
Even a leg or a hand, or even his life, of a powerless Marquis Lao Shazi is worthless to me."
"But we have to teach that guy a lesson!" The deputy general was also very close to Shangguan Xiong. "Whenever I think of this bastard who let down our little Jin, I want to tear him apart!"
"No rush. As long as he returns safe and sound this time, the Yongning Marquisate will have a rough time from now on." Shangguan Xiong's smile was calculating. "He failed to consume my Shangguan family's military merits, and he was able to bring Xiao Jin back. Such a person won't be able to stay in front of that person for long."
Shangguan Xiong glanced at the deputy general who didn't seem to understand what he meant, and felt that there was no need to explain too much. He just gave the order: "In short, don't let those two brats know Huo Qingyang's identity. If you really can't hide it, try to stop them and don't use too much force.
As for Xiao Jin, you should also send more people to prevent them from meeting before Huo Qingyang leaves Youcheng."
The deputy general nodded and left the tent.
On the other side, Huo Qingyang and Huo Xu came out of the military camp. The guards who had delivered the rewards with them were already waiting for them at the door.
"Let's go!" Huo Qingyang got on the carriage, and Huo Xu sat at the shaft and drove the carriage.
On the way, Huo Qingyang didn't say anything at first, but thinking about what happened just now, he felt really depressed, and now the person driving the car was Huo Xu, who had been with him the longest, so he couldn't help it.
"Huo Xu, every man in the capital has three wives and four concubines, why can't Shangguan Rujin accept it?" Huo Qingyang complained, "If she objects, she can just raise it. When I took Yunniang into the mansion, I didn't say anything.
She waited until the matter was already done before sending people to the Marquis' Mansion to cancel the engagement. I think she did it on purpose."
Huo Xu had personally experienced the sweetest moments of this pair of "lovers" and had also seen his master's subsequent indecision.
There are some things that he really doesn't know how to say.
Huo Xu was a family boy, and the lives of his entire family depended on Huo Qingyang's thoughts, so in the end he could only say: "Master, you are right!"
Afterwards, it had been a long time since he had such a good opportunity. Along the way, Huo Qingyang kept talking about how good he was to Shangguan Ruojin!
However, after Shangguan Ruojin broke off the engagement with me, he left the capital and has not written me a single letter in all these years.
Huo Qingyang: "Back then, she was in poor health. If I hadn't often visited her at the General's Mansion, she would have been so lonely!"
Huo Xu said: "Yeah!"
Huo Xu thought to himself: Master, you are such a forgetful person! Back then, wasn't it because you and the young lady liked the snacks at the General's Mansion that you always went to the Shangguan family? After all, the chef was once the imperial chef, and was awarded to the Shangguan family by the emperor!
I don't know what Huo Shi really thinks.
Huo Qingyang continued to complain: "She is weak and can't ride a horse! I even specially taught her riding skills!"
Huo Xu said, "Yes, yes, yes!"
Huo Xu thought to himself: Stop joking, young master. Your riding skills were taught by the Shangguan family's retainers. Miss Shangguan just started learning a few days later than you, and later she rode better than you. You were angry for a while because of this.
There are countless examples like this!
The beautified memories made Huo Qingyang unable to see through himself and also unable to understand Shangguan Ruojin.
Because from the very beginning, in Huo Qingyang's heart, Shangguan Ruojin's excellence was overlooked because of her identity as a woman.
The carriage soon entered the ghost city.
"Young Master, shall we go back to the post station directly?" Huo Xu felt that it would be better to keep a low profile in the Shangguan family's territory.
"I'm hungry, let's find a restaurant to eat!" Huo Qingyang thought for a moment and said, "Take me to the restaurant first, then go to the post station to pick up my wife and daughter."