The Daily Life Of Mei Furen Doting On Her Husband - Chapter 21

Wu Zhen stopped laughing. She couldn’t laugh; she even frowned unconsciously. In fact, she didn’t think about it for long before agreeing to this marriage, which meant she didn’t care much. If this marriage was successful, then go ahead. If it was not successful, then break up—it was not a big deal. As for how the two of them would get along in the future, she had never thought about it and didn’t care too much. There were always people who said that they would not be able to last in the future and that they were not suitable. Wu Zhen never responded, but she had such thoughts in her heart.

She was not familiar with Mei Zhuyu. She had only met him a few times. Her understanding of him was only superficial. She also knew that he might have had some affection for her for a long time and that she felt comfortable with him, but she didn’t know anything else.

She thought that Mei Zhuyu should be the kind of stubborn and self-centered man, a bit like Liu Yushi, with a bit of aloofness in his bones. Such a man was unlikely to change his ideas and practices for others. Based on her first impression of Mei Zhuyu, he was unlikely to like the wine, beauties, music, and dance banquets that she liked. But the young man said seriously that he would get used to it and accept it.

If a person tried to accept something he didn’t like for another person, it meant that he was sincere. Wu Zhen had always been unable to deal with serious people, not to mention that the serious person was sincere to her. She suddenly felt that maybe the young man liked her more than she thought.

That kind of cautiousness made her feel a little uncomfortable, and she always felt that she was too disrespectful of the other person’s feelings. She was older than the young man, and after the marriage was settled, she thought that she would just have a younger brother in the future. At that moment, she realized that he could not be like a younger brother, and the young man wanted to accompany her for a longer time, perhaps for a lifetime.

Wu Zhen didn’t even dare to think about it. It was too vague and made her feel unsure.

Wu Zhen’s silence made Mei Zhuyu misunderstand something. His eyes dimmed and he stopped talking. Wu Zhen noticed it sharply, coughed, and said, “The wine you just drank is called Amber Light, which is easy to get drunk. Next time I will give you some sweet rice wine and sweeter frozen spring wine. You still have to drink wine, after all…”

Wu Zhen looked at him and smiled openly. “At our wedding banquet in two months, you will have to drink a lot of wine. It would be better to get used to it in advance.”

Mei Zhuyu was stunned for a moment, then his eyes slowly brightened up.

Wu Zhen breathed a sigh of relief as she continued to swing her horse whip and said slowly, “Actually, you don’t have to play with Mei Si and the others. They are all my brothers, and you are not. Aren’t you my husband? Just accompany me to play in the future. I know a lot of fun places. If you want to go, I will take you there alone in the future.”

“It doesn’t make sense for a couple to go out together with a bunch of troublemakers following them, don’t you think?”

Wu Zhen didn’t know how she could say these words of comfort, but after she said them, she didn’t regret it at all, and she was actually looking forward to it. Maybe it was because the young man was too sad, and he showed it too obviously. She was a little afraid that the man who was cold and firm in front of others would be so uneasy just because of a few words from her.

After she finished speaking, she waited for Mei Zhuyu to say “yes”, but after waiting for a long time, she only got a confused “ah” from him, but in a questioning tone.

Mei Zhuyu suddenly asked her softly, “Have you agreed to this marriage?”

Wu Zhen: “If I hadn’t agreed, how would our marriage have been arranged?”

Wu Zhen: “Mr. Mei, you should know that the person who can force me has not yet been born. I agreed to our marriage. I thought that giving you those wild geese had already shown my attitude.”

Mei Zhuyu took a deep breath and looked like he was trying his best to endure it, but Wu Zhen, who had been looking at him, still saw the smile on his face.

Wu Zhen didn’t expect that the ordinary-looking young man could be so eye-catching when he smiled. The joy from the bottom of his heart broke through the reserved coldness on his face, as if such a grown man had suddenly blossomed.

But unfortunately, the smile was too short-lived. The young man realized that she was staring at him, and he immediately restrained himself, looking mature and calm again.

The two had already reached Mei Zhuyu’s house. Seeing that the young master had calmed down, Wu Zhen suddenly said, “There is one thing I have always forgotten to say.”

Mei Zhuyu: “What?”

Wu Zhen smiled, leaned close to his chest, raised her head, and whispered, “Young Master, your name is very nice. I like it very much.”

The old servant serving in Mei Zhuyu’s house discovered that he was copying that scripture again. This time he even lit incense to calm his mind.

“Ah Lang, it’s so late, why don’t you rest?”

Mei Zhuyu responded, put down his pen, and stared at the word “Zhen” written by some strange coincidence next to the Pure and Tranquil Sutra. He understood why his martial nephews in the temple said that one should not get close to women, because if one got close to them, one’s mind would not be at peace, so what was the point of practicing Taoism?

At that moment, he thought of the woman who came over, with a smile in her voice, and looked straight at him. His heart was still beating wildly, and he almost forgot all the Pure and Tranquil Sutra that he had read since he was a child. He kept repeating the word “pure and quiet” in his mind, but he couldn’t find peace at all. He couldn’t remember what the first sentence of the Pure and Tranquil Sutra was. He could only see the happy light in those eyes.

When she smiled like that, she was so beautiful that he couldn’t take his eyes off her, just like when he first saw her.

…

 Zhao Songyan returned home with a look of deep resentment and hatred. Seeing that he was in a bad mood, his parents worriedly asked him what had happened. Zhao Songyan said a few perfunctory words, did not eat much for dinner, and went back to his room to lie down.

He had invited that oldest son of the Wei family to the music hall and lost his temper. He said a few unpleasant things, which made the scene awkward. Others blamed him, but then Sister Zhen came back, called him aside, and told him to go to him to apologize.

Zhao Songyan was very impressed by Sister Zhen, but he was not happy to be asked to apologize. He didn’t like the eldest son of the Mei family in the first place. When he saw how Sister Zhen was protecting him, he disliked the man even more. Sister Zhen, who had always been with them, might really be snatched away by a man, and the feeling was very bad.

Unlike Mei Si and Cui Jiu, he grew up with Wu Zhen. He lived with his parents in Xunzhou when he was young. He returned to Chang’an and met Wu Zhen when he was thirteen. Because he was weak and sickly since childhood, he had a particularly bad temper. When he came to Chang’an, he suffered a lot at first and was bullied many times.

Later, he met Wu Zhen. Although she was a girl, she was not as shy and submissive as most of the girls Zhao Songyan had seen before. Wu Zhen would do whatever she wanted and never cared about other people’s opinions. Zhao Songyan envied her freedom and casualness.

After that, Wu Zhen took him out to play, taught him how to ride horses and hunt, taught him how to play ball, and took a group of kids up mountains and down rivers. Somehow, his illness gradually got better.