Chapter 429

“Didn’t Jingpeng say something else?”

After comforting his mom, Ling Jingxuan turned to Ling Jinghan with a faint smile. If it was only a letter for safety check, this letter was supposed to be sent to their dad, right? Now he specially asked them to deliver it to Jinghan, they should be something else, and that should be the key part of this letter.

“Haehe…nothing can be hidden from you. Jinghan has someone he likes. But the other side turned him down, so he wants to ask some advice from me, he wants me to write a few poems about love and send them back. Like I’m a relationship saint.”

Speaking of which, Ling Jinghan handed the last page to him, the smile on his face looked so helpless. His good younger brother seemed to have forgotten that they were of the same year and he even had never had any contacts with some other girls, all right? Letting him to write love poems for him, he really thought too highly of him.

“Hum! He even tries to cheat when pursuing a girl?”

After reading the letter, Ling Jingxuan also couldn’t help laughing hard. The small bun who was closest to him secretly pulled the letter away from his hand. Taking advantage that no one noticed, after exchanging an eye contact, the two little brother slipped off the stools, and seeing he only laughed there and didn’t explain it, Ling Chenglong and his wife in the main seats asked anxiously, “Does he really have someone in his heart? From which family? How is her personality? Do her parents easy to get along? When are we going to propose?”

Getting married at the age of fifteen was a very common thing here. Kids who were at thirteen or fourteen already started to have blind dates. Before, they were poor, so few people would lay their eyes on them. But now, even fewer people dare come propose. They were lying if they said they were not anxious. Ling Chenglong and his wife only wished that his two sons could get married as soon as possible and the next year they could have their grandsons to take care of.

“Mom, you are too anxious. Nothing tangible is yet in sight. Now, the situation is your son has feelings for the other side, but the other side may still have no feelings for him.”

Though he could feel their eagerness, Ling Jingxuan still felt a bit speechless. Isn’t it too early to get married at the age of fifteen? Boys were fine. Girls even hadn’t fully developed their body. No wonder so many women died of difficult labor or metrorrhagia in ancient times. Maybe it was all because of early marriages! If he had a daughter in the future, he’d let her get married at least after she was eighteen. Someone who couldn’t wait was not the right one for his daughter!

“Yeah, you are right. What does her family do? Matched with us?”

Lady Wang found it right and hurriedly asked again. Of course, the reason she asked if they were matched was not looking down on her, but only afraid that the other side might be beyond their reach. If their kid missed a good marriage because the background problem, she’d feel sad. If possible, who wouldn’t want to be born into a big and rich family?

Ling Jingxuan threw Ling Jinghan a look, indicating that he should take it over. Ling Jinghan also felt helpless. What could he do? The other side’s family was really beyond their reach. After quite a while, Ling JInghan said thoughtfully, “That girl is surnamed Ye. Her father is a general under Duke Zeng. Her mother died when she was little. And her father has never remarried since her father still couldn’t forget about her. And wherever he goes, he’d take Miss Ye with him. And so, Miss Ye is a captain under Duke Zeng, two years older than Jingpeng and me, seventeen years old. Jingpeng said she has strong-headed, but also very kind.”

Even if given their big brother’s identity as the crown princess, given their current background, a general’s daughter is still beyond their reach. Unless Jinghan could get listed as the zhuangyuan, and their family business could go across the whole Qing Kingdom and they became the imperial businessmen with an official title.

“A general’s daughter?”

Ling Chenglong and his wife got stupefied there. They had never expected that their son would fall for a general’s daughter. Farmers like them, even with wings, they were never good enough for people like that. What is Jingpeng thinking?

He knew it! Ling Jingxuan helplessly shook his head, then walked over, sat by his mom’s side and grabbed her hand, “Even if she is a general’s daughter, so what? Since Jingpeng wrote us a letter asking for help, it is enough to prove that General Ye and his daughter are not that kind of pedantic people. Besides, just a general’s daughter. After our Jinghan secures a high-rank official in the court, aren’t we also an official family? As long as Jingpeng likes, nothing is impossible.”

The worst scenario was he let his man to ask for an imperial decree from the old emperor to grant their marriage. Of course, on the premise that the girl also likes Jingpeng. Nothing forcibly done is going to be agreeable. If the other side had no feelings for him, he wouldn’t force her to be with his younger brother. Both his younger brothers were outstanding. They deserved better ones and worth of owning a happy and sweet life.

“But…isn’t the gap too huge?”

Lady Wang still couldn’t accept it. Besides, that girl surnamed Ye was a captain herself. She had no idea what kind of title that was, anyhow, it was a title, while they were only a farmer household who had some money.

“If the gap is too huge, we can try to shorten it. Mom, let Jingpeng make the decision on his own. Marriage is a whole life thing. Whether he marries a general’s daughter or an orphan, it’d be fine as long as he likes. We shouldn’t care so much. When it’s time to propose, Jingpeng will inform us. And by then, we’ll hold the wedding for them. You just wait to be the mother-in-law.”

About his two younger brothers’ marriage thing, he had long wanted to find a chance to talk to his parents. People of this era all abided to their parents and the matchmaker on their marriage. And to both the groom and bride, it was like a blind marriage. Both sides even had never met each other before getting married. He personally quite objected to it. So he hoped that his younger brothers could choose their own wives, but not arranged by their parents. And his kids, he would also respect their choices, and give some appropriate opinions when needed at most, he would never step in their marriages.

“I know, but…Jingxuan, tell mom, do you approve of this marriage?”

In the middle of her sentence, Lady Wang seemed to think of something, and looked at his son without even blinking. Ling Jingxuan did not mean to avoid it. He nodded and said in a slightly serious tone, “No, I just respect Jingpeng’s choice. Mom, whether it’s Jingpeng or Jinghan, let them choose their future wives themselves. They live with their wives, so only they themselves are clear what kind of people are most suitable for them.”