"This..." My mother-in-law was just starting to speak...
"I don't want to!" Xiao Cha suddenly screamed in the arms of old Madam Ye, "I don't want to marry!"
Old master Ye got angry and gave her another hard slap across the face, "You still haven't brought enough shame?"
Xiao Cha was still crying, with both sides of her face red and swollen, "I am not your daughter! I don't want to marry! I don't want to marry someone I don't know just to save your face."
"You ... you..." Madam Ye was so angry that she passed out.
I saw that Xiao Cha was crying so much that I quickly went to wipe her face, stopping the servants who were coming to pull her up and curiously asked her: "Xiao Cha, who are you going to marry?"
Xiao Cha still sitting on the ground, clutched my sleeve and desperately pleaded: "Miao Miao jiejie save me. They betrothed me to a man who I don't even know. The man spends his time with ghosts every day. I heard that he is fiendish, ugly, bloodthirsty and very terrifying, I'm so afraid."
**("Jiejie" means older sister)**
"Is there such a man?" I suddenly became angry, "Xiao Cha don't be afraid, I will help you kill him! Let's see if he dares to come to marry you!"
When I finished speaking, I glanced around and some servants sensing my ferocity shrunk back, while some stupid ones dared to come forward, but were stopped by the man I saw yesterday. Xiang Qing gently coughed and walked over and whispered, "Miao Miao...even if you don't kill me, I still wouldn't dare to go marry her."
Ah? I was confused.
Xiao Cha also looked at Xiang Qing and said, "My engagement is...is with you?
Xiang Qing said, a little embarrassed, "If you are a person from the Ye family, the Ye family's second daughter, then your betrothed should be me..."
"That's great!" Xiao Cha jumped up from the ground, grabbed Xiang Qing's hand, "Let's tell them quickly. You don't marry me, okay?" After a little while, she remembered her words and apologized, "You are not an ugly fiendish man, I was talking nonsense, Don't let it bother you."
Old Master Ye waved his cane, separating the two of her and indignantly demanded, "Who told you, that the husband you will be marrying is such a person?"
"It is the third brother!" Xiao Cha turned and pointed her finger at a young young master in the crowd.
The young master was sneaking away, but was noticed by everyone, he blushed and confessed, "I saw that meimei was very ill. So I tried a scare tactic... but it didn't work. I didn't expect her to take it seriously..."
**("meimei" means younger sister)**
"Is this...isn't this absurd?" Old Master Ye seems to love to use his cane to hit people. He raised his rod and hit the young master, and continued to beat him until he was satisfied.
The other two men, who may also be his sons, hurried forward, pulling the old man. Master Ye persuaded, "Father, don't be angry, being angry is not good for your body."
I looked at the tearful beaten young master and looked at the old man who was seemed to be busting with energy, I really could not tell who's body was not good here...
Old Madam Ye came forward and pulled Xiao Cha to persuade her, "Silly girl, you have stayed at home for so long, if you still don't marry him, will there be anyone in the future who will want you?"
"I will be a spinster for a lifetime and will not marry!" Xiao Cha announced.
"Do you think if you don't want to marry then you won't marry?" The second master stepped forward and shook his head at her, "You must know that the emperor has passed an edict. That for men, the age of 20 and for women, 15, they must marry. Otherwise, they will be matched by the government. If you don't marry Xiang Qing, will you marry a villager who you don't even know anything about his character?"
"Then I will go to the temple to be a nun!" Xizo Cha continued to cry,
"Xiang dage likes Miss Miao Miao and does not want to marry me. I don't like Xiang dage, why do you want to destroy other people's relationship? Rather than breaking the relationship between a loving couple, I would rather be a nun!"
**("dage" means "big brother")**
"You this child, speaking such nonsesnse..." Madam Ye was so anxious and angry that she could barely speak.
"Why are you so upset?" Suddenly a clear voice of anger stunned the room. A young man dressed in white, slowly walked into the hall with an elegant demeanor that attracted all eyes of the onlookers. He did not seem humble but he bowed to everyone, his movements were gentle, but there was a firmness that could not be ignored that showed in his eyebrows, it makes it hard for people to ignore his presence.
Oh, that's Yin Zi without the fake makeup....everyone is about to get deceived.
"You're here ..." Xiao Cha stopped crying and looked at him fearfully, but expectantly.
Yin Zi went to Old master Ye's front and bowed again and said with a firm tone, "Please betrothed Xiao Cha to me."
This statement shocked the room.
First, my mother-in-law with difficulty spoke, "Yin Zi...you...are you not a girl? You're Miao Miao's sister."
Yin Zu smiled and said, "That is my younger sister, Jin Zi who likes to use my name to play pranks on people, I hope the grandmother Xiang will forgive me."
"But she clearly said that the only two people in the family were she and Miao Miao..."
Yin Zi came prepared to explain away any discrepancies and without batting an eye said, "When I was young, I was given to a cousin who had no children, so I am not counted under the Hua family, Miao Miao also knows this."
I...I don't know, but I don't know if I want to know it at this moment.
Mrs. Ye opened her mouth again, "We don't even know your origin, how can we betroth our daughter to you?"
"Betroth me! I want to marry him!" Xiao Cha eagerly voiced out and rushed to Yin Zi's side, "You really want to marry me? Really? Don't regret it!"
"Really" Yin Zi's voice carried a rare gentleness. He also thoughtfully brushed Xiao Cha's face and said, "It's all red and swollen, I will give you some Tianshan snow cream later to reduce the swelling."
"I... I don't give refunds!" Xiao Cha still couldn't believe it.
"I don't request refunds." Yin Zi smiled and nodded.
The two were so close to each other, flirting intimately, that even a fool can see that it is embarrassing. Old master Ye suddenly got angry again and made some inquiries.
Xiao Cha immediately jumped up and said that she already had a good relationship with Yin Zi, and that if they don't let them get married, she would just go ahead and live with him and not look back. Madam Ye was so angry, that she almost fainted again.
Old master Ye angrily said: "If you marry him, this family will not give you a penny for your dowry!"
Xiao Cha quickly looked at Yin Zi, nodding to him asking for help, "I am sincere to your daughter and do not need a dowry and plan to marry her properly, I will give eight big carts to dowry to get her started."
Looking at this situation, Xiang Qing and I have become spectators on the side watching the show. I saw that Old master Ye could not help but calm down to finally ask about Yin Zi's background. Yin Zi already had all answers prepared, even taking the old couple's pulse and applying needles on the spot and giving out two excellent prescriptions copying Molin's skills, this immediately won them over into believing that he is a good person with an outstanding character, honest and diligent, a man of integrity and one who practices medicine and all were relieved.
Hah, I let out a long sigh...it's so easy for humans to be fooled by illusions or to be more accurate a demon's deceit.
In the end, people from the Ye house rejoiced that Xiao Cha was going to be a bride, and were eager to go begin the preparations to hurry for the wedding so that he does not come to regret it and turn around and change his mind. When Yin Zi saw that the people were not paying him any attention, he pulled Xiao Cha and revealed his true nature, "After we marry, you have to listen to me. If I say east, you are not permitted to go west, do you agree?"
"Good!" Xiaocha answered It's okay.
After thinking about for a bit, Yin Zi continued: "I will be in charge of all the financials in the family, do you agree?
"Good." Xiao Cha is so giddy that she's signing up for all kinds of unfair conditions.
Yin Zi knows to strike while the iron is hot: "Housework is for you to do and for me to enjoy, do you agree?"
"Good." Xiao Cha has no brains.
Yin Zi looked to the side and continued: "I won't give you a meal in the future unless you do 12 hours of work, do you agree?"
"Good!" After a while, Xiao Cha regained her senses and shook her head and said, "This is not good."
"Just joking, go back and humbly wait for me to send the sedan carriage and gifts for you." Yin Zi took out a box of ointment from his sleeves and gave it to her, "remember to put this on your face for the swelling."
"Okay." Xiaocha took the ointment and then left after her family.
After I saw that she had gone far, I went up to Yin Zi and asked confused, "I thought you hated her, why did you want to marry a mortal?"
Yin Zi sighed and said: "It's already at this point, if I don't marry her, do you see her getting married in this lifetime? I am also a man who knows to be responsible."
"So that's how it is."
"And..." Yin Zi suddenly said, "the way she looked at me... that kind of foolish expression... reminds me of that person..."
"Who?" I asked quickly.
However, no matter how much I asked, Yin Zi refused to tell.
MiraiSaesang Notes: Hello everyone! I will be picking up this translation going forward. It's been abandoned for a long while...There are about 60 more chapters to go to complete this...
....The planned schedule, for now, will be 2 chapters a week; Saturday and Tuesday...frequency may be increased once I'm done with the semester!
Enjoy! 🤗🤗