Miss Cousin Wants to Become a Monk

Chapter 58 Know the enemy

With Cui Muli joining in, the plan moved forward at an unusually smooth pace.

Sun Shenyuan participated in the Jixia Academy debate. Although he did not come out on top, he attracted everyone's attention with his wonderful and unique arguments and his witty eloquence. It happened that Cui Muli accompanied Cui Taifu to attend the meeting that day. Seeing that Cui Taifu admired him very much, he introduced this disciple of Chief Minister Luo to Cui Taifu.

Cui Taifu was the Emperor's teacher. When he was young, he was also a scholar full of energy, criticising Fang Qiu. When he saw that Sun Shenyuan was knowledgeable and talented, and had a good temperament, and was a new disciple of the upright Chief Minister Luo, he couldn't help but cherish his talent. He specially invited him to come to Cui Mansion as a guest one day to write down his teachings and hone his skills together. (t/n: the scholar is full of energy, criticising Fang Qiu is a sentence from Mao Zedong's poem referring to the energy and enthusiasm of young people.)

Cui Mansion has gone through several dynasties and ups and downs for several years, but it can still maintain an undefeated posture, which is inseparable from the characters of "being open-minded, recognizing talents and respecting the virtuous". Lian Po is old and his younger generation will take over. What Cui Taifu can do for Cui Muli is to help him become enlightened and make more friends with like-minded people.

In the realm of fame and fortune, if you want to stick to your true intentions, you should be strict with yourself and be responsible for everything. The road is long, wouldn't it be nice to have friends traveling along the way?

Let's not mention Sun Shenyuan here, let's talk about Cui Xining.

She was ordered by her parents to meet with Third Young Master Gu. Although Third Young Master Gu San is disabled, he is good-looking, but his personality is too indifferent. When they got together, they are both awkwardly silent, which was very embarrassing.

Apart from the embarrassment, Cui Xining felt a little happy: I guess this Third Young Master Gu doesn't like me.

She guessed wrong.

Third Young Master Gu San knew better than Cui Xining that his marriage was a transaction and he didn't care who he married. After meeting Cui Xining, the young girl's beauty and elegance made people unconsciously feel good about her, and they secretly thought that maybe getting married to her wouldn't be too bad.

However, he is sensitive by nature, and when he noticed Cui Xining's reluctance, he felt faintly disappointed and laughed at himself and thought: It is reasonable for her to look down on a cripple like him.

Therefore, he is indifferent and self-possessed, and does not want to lose face.

When the couple returned home, they each stated that they had no intention of getting married. Seeing their conflicting attitudes and trying to persuade them to no avail, Madam Right Prime Minister and Madam Li could only prepare for the next meeting, hoping that the two of them would develop some good feelings and achieve a happy event.

One doesn't want to marry and the other doesn't want to marry. No matter how much the matchmaker talks about it, two people who completely have no intentions can't be forced to live together.

Cultivate feelings first, cultivate feelings!

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The abacus between Madam Right Prime Minister and Madam Li was noisy, but it was no match for Cui Muli's calm push to add fuel to the flames.

When Sun Shenyuan was visiting Old Master Cui, he "accidentally" ran into Cui Xining, the second daughter of the Cui family, in the garden and helped her drive away the stinging wasps. When Cui Xining paid her respects to her grandfather, she bumped into Old Master Cui and Sun Shenyuan playing chess together. She couldn't help but call attention to the game and helped him win half a piece. Sun Shenyuan came to Old Master Cui with a new painting to ask for advice. Cui Xining was serving tea and commented: Although the writing is exquisite, it has no soul. What a pity! For this reason, the two had another discussion in front of Old Master Cui.