Marrying Gold and Jade

"Humph!"

The furious father obviously didn't want to see her and strode past her.

"Daddy!"

It was not until he walked several feet away that Lin Yu came back to his senses and suddenly called him.

Lin Jianchang stopped but refused to turn around.

His anger was already difficult to contain, not to mention that in his opinion, Lin Yu and Ruan were "in the same group".

There were subtle footsteps behind me; it was Lin Yu approaching.

"I went to Qianyun Temple to ask for a peace amulet. This is for Daddy."

The slender white hand reached to his side. The man's anger paused, but then he felt it was ridiculous.

At this point, do you still want to act out the father-daughter relationship with me?

Snapped--

Lin Yu felt a pain in his wrist and the object in his palm fell to the ground.

The man in front of him glanced sideways, and his usually kind face revealed endless resentment.

"I dare not use what you begged me to use."

The tone is sarcastic and ironic.

Lin Yu didn't care about the red marks on his wrist, or even the amulet that was knocked off.

Even though she had worked as a maid in her previous life and knew that those people's bullying was instigated by her father, she had never faced such malice directly.

Especially, from my most beloved father.

As soon as Lin Jianchang left, Qingdai hurried forward, picked up the amulet, wiped it clean, and hurried to support Lin Yu.

"Don't take it personally, young lady. The master was arguing with his mistress and he was just taking his anger out on you because he was not thinking straight."

"Let's take this amulet back. When the master's anger subsides, he will regret it!"

Lin Yu shook his head blankly.

It's not a matter of taking my anger out on others, I really hate myself.

She hated him so much that she wanted to adopt a fake girl as her daughter, and she hated him so much that even if she had to do menial work as a maid, she would still allow everyone to bully her.

Qingdai was still comforting her. Lin Yu was about to say "It's okay", but no sound came out and instead she shed two lines of tears.

"Girl..." This time even Qingdai choked up.

"Let's go back."

She has thought it through and decided to follow the clues from her father.

So we just had to wait until the next day for someone from my grandfather's family to come to visit.

That night, Lin Yu hardly closed his eyes the entire night.

Qingdai may have told other people in the courtyard about the plum garden. After putting on her makeup early in the morning, even Mingyuan came to the courtyard holding a pot of jasmine.

The delicate scent of jasmine did relieve her depression.

"Thank you, I'm feeling better now."

Mingyuan knew that there was no such thing.

The Ruan family arrived in the afternoon of that day, and Mingyuan accompanied her to the flower hall.

But this time the guards were very strict and only Lin Yu was allowed in.

The visitor was her uncle Ruan Shu, her mother's half-brother and the current head of the Ruan family.

As soon as he saw Lin Yu coming in, he immediately said, "Our business has nothing to do with the children."

Lin Yu said, "Uncle, I have reached the age of marriage, and I am no longer a child."

Her mother arrived after her. When she saw her brother coming as expected, she was as puzzled as Lin Yu.

Since Lin Jianchang didn't say anything, Ruan Shu had to speak.

"At the time, the third son hadn't passed the imperial examination yet, so the family was indeed a little tight. But I thought that you two had been married for more than 20 years, so you should have been honest with each other..."

Lin Yu listened with her mother. Her uncle was also a scholar and spoke very tactfully.

In short, my father fell in love with my mother at first sight, and when the Ruan family asked their daughter what she thought, they agreed.

However, because the family had a good reputation and the man was a wealthy businessman, they were afraid of being branded as a "selling daughter", so the two families reached an agreement.

The betrothal gift does not need to be generous, just slightly higher than the dowry.

But starting from the year of their marriage, the Lin family had to secretly send 10,000 taels of silver to the Ruan family every year.

This sending lasted for twenty-three years.

Even though the Ruan family later produced a scholar, their financial situation continued to improve.

The Ruan family initially kept the secret from their daughter, thinking that the couple would open up to each other after marriage.

Lin Jianchang didn't say a word, thinking that her parents would naturally tell her.

But Ruan just said, "I didn't marry you for your money."

She even worried for a while, fearing that her family would value a good reputation and would not want her to marry into a wealthy merchant family.

So she begged her mother, her father, and even her brothers to say a few good words for her lover.

Finally, her family relented, and she got married in style and everything went smoothly for her.

Until this year, Lin Jianchang suddenly brought Wan Ying back home, which made her doubt the happiness of the previous twenty years.

"You are a family, so you are naturally teaming up to deceive me."

"what do you mean?"

Ruan's voice became louder, and Lin Yu's uncle naturally couldn't just sit there and watch.

He also stood up and said, "Brother-in-law, why do you have to humiliate us? We were not decent enough to mention this money for aid. But Ying'er really didn't know anything about it, and you yourself never mentioned it, right?"

If Lin Jianchang had not been away from home for several days, Ruan would never have gotten involved in the Lin family's business and would never have thought of checking the accounts.

"The situation today has become so serious. We are sorry to Ying'er. How about this? From now on, we will stop paying her this money."

Lin Yu looked at his father again.

Her intuition told her that her father was not reluctant to part with the 10,000 taels per year, but that something unexpected happened between him and her mother.

Maybe, and myself.

As expected, his uncle's concession did not move him. He stood up and said, "Just keep pretending!"

Then he slammed the door and left.

Fortunately, there were no outsiders present and the servants were driven away.

Lin Yu was in a daze when he went out, and as he didn't get enough rest last night, his steps were a little unsteady.

So when she passed by, Lin Ji helped her before Ming Yuan.

"Are you ok?"

Maybe he always helps me at critical moments. Lin Yu suddenly asked, "Do you know anything?"

Lin Ji has someone in his hands, and he has been watching for so long, he should know something.

The haggard look on the girl's face caught his eyes, and even though the time was not yet ripe, Lin Ji was reluctant to soften his heart.

"I can only tell you one person."

After several years, Lin Yu stepped into Qihe Hall again.

The furnishings here are exactly the same as when I was a child, simple and a little empty, just like Lin Ji himself, a deserted person.

"Drink some water first."

He took the tea set out of the cabinet. Lin Yu took a closer look and found that it was the same set he used when he was a child.

In fact, when she ran in as a child, she seldom saw Lin Ji in the study.

Most of them were coaxed here by the old women who took care of their daily lives, to eat and drink something, and then ran away when they felt bored.

“Do you still eat this now?”

At the end of the slender knuckles was a small dish of fried peaches.

He actually has fried peaches here?

Lin Ji read the surprise in her eyes, and explained: "I don't know when you will come, so I prepare it regularly."

All this was very different from her impression.

Clearly in his memory, Lin Ji liked quietness, hated being disturbed by others while studying, and had never come out to entertain him.

But today, he can actually make his favorite peach pancake.

Lin Yu was a little confused. There were more important things at hand, so he shook his head slightly.

"Tell me what you know."