In the ninth month of autumn, it was supposed to be a good harvest season. However, Marquis Jing Ting hid in his study room and smashed a few pieces of porcelain. His mouth was constantly cursing. He did not look like a Marquis, but more like a street hoodlum.
"In the capital, if anyone dares to offend me, Ban Huai, I will kill him!"
"Father, don't be angry. Your son will go out and find someone to beat him up."
"You get someone to beat him up. I will find the Emperor to take care of him!"
"Are you done messing around?" Lord Yin kicked open the door of the study room. Looking at the father and son who were rubbing their fists and palms together, he sternly scolded, "Do you think that the rumors outside are not bad enough?"
Marquis Jing Ting and his son kept quiet. Marquis Jing Ting withdrew his legs from the chair. Marquis Jing Ting's son, Ban Heng, rolled down his rolled up sleeves.
On a September day, Lord Yin had to fan herself to barely calm the anger in her heart. She did not even look at the broken porcelain pieces on the ground. She walked straight to the chair and sat down. The maids and senior servants who came in behind her began to tidy up in a flurry.
The sound of the porcelain pieces hitting each other made her even angrier. She fiercely glared at the father and son. With a slap of her hand, the teacup on the table jumped.
"He is just a thing from the countryside. After passing the imperial examination, he said that he wanted to break off the engagement. He even put on an attitude that he had no choice but to obey because I forced him to marry. What the hell is this?!"
"M-mother." Ban Heng moved closer to Lord Yin and said with a smile, "Don't be angry. It is not easy to find a three-legged toad in the world, but there are two-legged men everywhere. If we want to deal with him, it is just a matter of moving our mouths. Don't make your body hurt from anger."
"I don't want to be angry, but look at what this is all about."
No mother would be happy to have her daughter, who had her marriage annulled three times.
She only had one son and one daughter. Although the Marquis was absurd and lazy, he was not a lustful person. Therefore, there were no concubines in the house. However, this was the only advantage he had.
When her daughter was born, she was betrothed to a close friend. Who knew that the child would die of smallpox when she was three years old.
When her daughter was thirteen years old, she was betrothed to Xie Qilin, the second di son of Count Zhongping's Fu. Who knew that Xie Qilin would suddenly find his "true love" and elope with his "true love"? It caused rumors to spread outside that her daughter was an idiot who could not even compare to a maidservant. Otherwise, why would the young master of the Count's Fu rather elope with a woman who could not be seen in public and not marry her?
Later, although Xie Qilin was found and brought back, the marriage between the two families fell through. From then on, the two families no longer interacted with each other. They almost became enemies.
This time, the matter was even more absurd. This Shen Yu was from a branch of the Shen family in Dongzhou. He could barely be regarded as a prominent local family. After he came to the capital, he fell in love with their daughter at first sight. He cried and begged her to marry him seven or eight times. In the end, when their family had just agreed, he went back on his word.
When they broke off the engagement, on the surface, they said that she was not worthy of their family. But on the inside, they said that their daughter had beauty but no brains. She was extravagant and lazy. She was not a good match.
Why didn't you say that when you didn't pass the Tanhua exam? Now, you said that your daughter was extravagant. Their Marquis Jing Ting's Fu was rich. So what if they were willing to let their daughter be extravagant?!
The three members of the Ban family were so angry that they could not eat. On the other side, the person whose engagement was broken off was still sleeping soundly.
Ban Ju was dreaming. This dream was very long. It was so long that when she woke up, she could not tell if this was reality or a dream. When she sat up and saw the pearl curtain hanging outside, she suddenly realized that she had just been dreaming.
That's right, what did she dream about?
It seemed that her engagement was broken off again. Who became the Emperor? Her father offended the new Emperor and was stripped of his title. After that, their whole family lived a miserable life.
Heavens, how terrible were the days when she could not compare jewelry and clothes with others?
She could not see those people scolding her behind her back, but on the surface, they had to respect her. How boring was this life?
This dream was really too unlucky. It was better for her to forget it as soon as possible.
"Xiang Jun." The servant girl wiped her tears and walked in, sobbing, "Shen Tanhua actually came to break off the engagement."
Ban Ju's soft waist suddenly straightened up, "Break off the engagement?"
Oh no, the nightmare had come true!
Her father was not Marquis Jing Ting, then her brother was not a shizi. She was also no longer the Xiang Jun that the current Emperor had personally appointed. How was she going to eat, drink, play, ride horses, walk dogs, and admire flowers in the future?
Life was bitter and short. Did she only have a few short years of enjoyment?
She did not remember much about that dream, but she clearly remembered how miserable she would be if she was not Xiang Jun. Thinking of this, she suddenly felt sad. She put on her shoes and clothes and ran towards the main courtyard.
"Xiang Jun, your hair!"
Fortunately, the servants of Marquis Jing Ting fu were tight-lipped. Otherwise, by tomorrow, the hot topic in the capital would become "Marquis Jing Ting's di daughter went crazy because of breaking off the engagement, ran around the house in disarray."
In fact, this was also the first thought that came to Marquis Jing Ting's mind when he saw his daughter.
"My good daughter," Marquis Jing Ting saw his daughter appear in the study room with disheveled hair and disheveled clothes, and immediately burst into tears, "Good daughter, let's not get married. Tomorrow, Father will go buy a dozen gigolos for me. They are good in both literature and martial arts. You can choose whichever one you like."
All the men in the world were not good things, causing his daughter to become like this.
At this time, Marquis Jing Ting had already thrown himself out of the range of men.
Ban Heng glanced at his sister enviously. He didn't even have a servant girl, and he didn't see anyone taking care of one for him. In the dead of night, adding fragrance to the red sleeves was also an elegant thing.
"Don't even think about it," Madam Yin squinted her eyes and glared at her son, "You stay at home and study."
"I, I didn't think about anything," Ban Heng felt very wronged. He clearly didn't do anything, but why was he being nagged by his mother?
"You were born from my stomach. I know what you want to do when you roll your eyes," Madam Yin saw her daughter's appearance, and her heart had already softened by half. She couldn't wait to tear that Shen Yu apart. However, she was worried that her emotions would affect her daughter, so she could only persuade her with kind words.
"Your father's words just now were muddled, but …" Madam Yin patted her daughter's back lightly. Noticing that she couldn't stop trembling, she gently said, "There are many good men in the world. It doesn't matter even if you can't find one. You have a share of the family's shops, manors, and fields. You have money and status, so what are you afraid of?"
Ban Heng rubbed against Madam Yin's body and whispered, "I'm not sad because that person broke off the engagement. It's because I had a very strange dream that made me a little scared."
"What did you dream about?" Seeing that her daughter didn't care about breaking off the engagement, Madam Yin secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"The new emperor ascended the throne, and he stripped father of his title …"
"Stripped father of his title?!" Ban Heng's whole body bounced up, "Who is the new emperor? Let's kill him first."
"I can't remember clearly." Ban Heng seriously pondered for a while, "But he should be a very powerful man."
"You don't even remember who he is. How can you remember how powerful he is?" Ban Heng snorted, "That's too unreliable."
"How can you treat a dream as real? How can you be an emperor if you're not powerful?" Madam Yin knocked on Ban Heng's back to stop his follower Ban Heng from talking back, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. Dreams are all fake. Isn't our family fine?"
"Your grandmother is the Great Elder Princess. Who dares to touch us?" Madam Yin brought up their family's biggest backer, the Great Elder Princess Dening, to calm her daughter down, "Aren't you afraid of being scolded by the ancestors?"
"But the new emperor isn't a member of the Jiang Family." Ban Ren blinked. Her beautiful eyes were covered in a layer of mist. She looked exceptionally delicate and pitiful. "The person who ascended the throne is a court official with ulterior motives."
"Hiss." Madam Yin sucked in a breath of cold air. She glanced outside the door. The maids had already left. Now, only the four of them were left in the room. "You can't say this out loud."
Ban Ren knew that her mother wouldn't believe this dream of hers. In fact, even she herself was skeptical of this dream. "In my dream, someone broke off my engagement. In the end, when I woke up just now, that Shen guy really broke off the engagement. So … what if it's true? "
"Then, then what should we do?" Ban Huai, who had been a playboy since he was young, looked at Madam Yin nervously. "Madam, why don't we secretly find a place to hide some gold, silver, and jewelry?"
"Father, how can you believe my sister's words? Her engagement has been broken off several times. It's too funny to believe that her dream is real just because of this." Ban Heng waved his hand. "Sister, think about it again. Did anything big happen in the dream?"
"You're asking for it!" Ban Ren stretched out a finger and poked Ban Heng's forehead. The priceless blood jade bracelet on her arm almost dazzled Ban Heng's eyes.
"Let me think." Ban Heng pulled back his hand and pulled on her messy hair. "Let me think again."
Ban Huai looked at his daughter nervously. He really hoped that this dream was fake.
"Oh right, I remember that something else happened in the dream. Not long after my engagement was broken off, Xie Qilin fell off the horse and damaged one of his eyes." In view of the fact that Xie Qilin had eloped with someone and made him lose face, Ban Ren remembered this very clearly.
It was to vent his anger.
"You are indeed my daughter. Don't let anyone who offends you have an easy time in the dream." Ban Huai touched the beard on his chin contentedly. "That Xie Qilin is not a good person!"
"Yes!" Ban Heng echoed from the side. "Every time I see him, I make trouble for him."
Madam Yin sneered. "But you are the one who suffers every time."
"That Xie Qilin has read a lot and is full of bad ideas. Every time he talks, he can turn black into white. How can I win against him?" Ban Heng said angrily. "But I'm not at a disadvantage. No matter how good his mouth is, I don't feel any pain or itch. If I punch him, he still feels pain."
In Ban Heng's logical world, being scolded by others was not considered a loss. Being beaten up by others was a loss. Things like reputation were like floating clouds in the sky to Little Marquis Ban.
"Good girl, when did Xie Qilin injure his eye in your dream?" Ban Huai was the same as Ban Heng. He did not care about reputation at all. Anyway, he had never heard anyone praise him since he was young.
"It was the second day after Shen Yu came to break off the engagement."
"So it was tomorrow?"
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