I Am This Type of Woman

Chapter 36

"Ban family loves their delicate girl, I believe you all know" Madam Zhou avoided Yan Zhen's burning eyes, "They didn't expressly refuse, they wanted to see what the two juniors think."

She said the two juniors but the one Yan Zhen wanted to marry was Ban Hua, so this was basically saying it was all Ban Hua's decision. Madam Zhou words were not very cutting to save Yan family's face, but everyone there was smart enough to understand.

Hearing that Ban family had no intention to become relatives with them, Yan-furen's feeling was very conflicted. While she was happy her son wouldn't marry that woman, at the same time she felt Ban family was despicable. How many in the Capital wanted to build relationship with their Yan family, even royal family members had to be polite to her, these Bans were really rude.

"Zhou-furen," Yan Zhen looked at Madam Zhou, "Are you saying that if Fule Junzhu is willing to marry me, then the Marquis and the Marchioness would agree to our marriage?"

Madam Zhou laughed, "Yan-gongzi, you have been focusing on your studies, you don't know how important Ban family think their daughter is. For most parents, their children's lifelong happiness is most important. If you could be on Junzhu's good graces, why worry about not being able to marry the fair lady?"

"They can say that, but according to the rule of the ancestors, marriage is by the parents' orders and the matchmaker's words," Yan-furen frowned, thinking Ban family was too offhand with their children. "Even if they want to pamper their daughter, there should still be rules."

Madam Zhou smiled and said nothing. In her heart she thought if you were concerned with observing parents' order and matchmaker words, then just give up and look for another girls instead of anxiously begging Ban family. Your family was begging their family, not their family wanted to marry their daughter into yours.

Had it not because her husband had many years relationship with Left Minister Yan, Madam Zhou wouldn't be willing to do this, she couldn't be said close to Yan-furen. Yan-furen this person was an orthodox, she wasn't only strict to the subordinates but also to her own family, her whole person was too rigid to the point of lifelessness.

"Shi family is having a banquet at Biezhuang in two days' time, I heard Fule Junzhu would be there." Madam Zhou stood up, "I've passed the message, so I'll take my leave."

Yan-furen repeatedly asked Madam Zhou to stay for a meal, but Madam Zhou kept excusing herself and in the end insisted on leaving.

After getting out of Yan family's gate, Madam Zhou shook her head. With such a mother, Yan family's young gentleman wouldn't be able to achieve his heart's wishes. Sitting in the horse carriage, the more Zhou-furen thought, the more difficult it looked. She shook her head and sighed.

Lifting the carriage curtain, she saw a pair of man and woman were riding horses at the front. They were separated by a distance and with the guards behind they didn't look like a couple having sweet talks, but they were still somewhat more intimate than the regular interaction between men and women. Or probably it was the the gentle and warm smile on the man's face that made her felt so.

So Count Cheng'an and Fule Junzhu were familiar with each other?

Madam Zhou hadn't heard of this yet. After a short moment of thoughts, she ordered the servant outside the carriage, "Take a diferent route."

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"That's not right, how could the old lady dislike the daughter-in-law?" Ban Hua pursued the point she didn't understand in the story Rong Xia was telling her, "Didn't they propose for her?"

"Perhaps in her heart, the daughter-in-law had robbed her off her son," Thinking for a while, Rong Xia apologised, "I am sorry, I don't know the answer."