My Lady Always Lacks Ambition-Chapter 922 - 903: The Day I Got My Fortune Told Through Bone Reading

Chapter 922: Chapter 903: The Day I Got My Fortune Told Through Bone Reading

After Qin Liuxi left the Lin Family, Lin Xiang pursed his lips and went to the main room. Mrs. Lin was just about to take a nap when she saw his displeased expression, and her heart skipped a beat. She quickly came forward to greet him.

The maidservant brought in some refreshments. Mrs. Lin gave a look, and the confidant nanny led the attendants out, staying by the door herself.

"Your expression, is it because the Junior Temple Master said mother’s illness is not well?" Mrs. Lin asked anxiously and worriedly.

Lin Xiang picked up the tea and put it down again, saying, "As early as last year, there were signs of mother’s illness, just waiting for..."

Mrs. Lin’s heart choked. As the housekeeper, if the Old Lady truly didn’t have much time left, many things needed to be prepared in advance, including her children’s marriages. So, Lin Xiang didn’t hide anything from her, dealing with what needed to be done to avoid everything being delayed when the Old Lady passed.

Lin Xiang’s heart was full of bitterness. He picked up the tea and took a sip, saying, "It’s not about mother, it’s about Tang’er."

Mrs. Lin was startled: "Tang’er? What’s wrong with Tang’er?"

Lin Xiang said with a darkened face, "Her marriage might have a change."

"What?" Mrs. Lin’s voice was sharp.

Lin Qingtang was to be married in August, less than six months from now, only three or four months away. And now they were saying her marriage might change?

"How could this happen? The wedding is in August, and now..." Mrs. Lin anxiously paced back and forth in the room.

"Don’t worry." Lin Xiang pulled her to sit down on the Arhat bed and recounted what Qin Liuxi had said.

Mrs. Lin was dumbfounded.

She didn’t doubt Qin Liuxi’s face reading at all. Although Qin Liuxi was young, her skills were top-notch. Today, she immediately pointed out that the daughter-in-law was pregnant. Later, the house doctor checked the pulse and confirmed it, though it was still early. But Qin Liuxi noticed it with just one look, which made Mrs. Lin more convinced.

What shocked her was that Zeng Ruison might change his mind? Who would dare steal the Prime Minister Mansion’s golden son-in-law?

"Prime Minister, what should we do? Should we move the wedding date forward?" Mrs. Lin’s mind was like a tangled mess.

Lin Xiang shook his head and said gravely, "If he can be taken away, then he doesn’t deserve to be my son-in-law. Besides, moving the wedding date forward, what would others think of Tang’er? Even if we move it forward, would these incidents not still happen?"

The wedding date was fixed. If it was suddenly moved forward, others would inevitably speculate wildly. They might even think the two had been intimate, forcing them to move the wedding forward.

Most importantly, Qin Liuxi said it was fine to marry two years later. This indirectly meant that Zeng Ruison wasn’t their daughter’s destined one?

"But what if the engagement is broken before the wedding? What will Tang’er do?" Mrs. Lin felt annoyed just thinking about that scenario.

"The Prime Minister Mansion’s daughter, and it wasn’t her fault, are we worried about not finding a golden son-in-law?" Lin Xiang said, "She is also too gentle. If this happens, it’s a good lesson, better than marrying and not living well."

Mrs. Lin retorted, "Song isn’t that kind of person, right? After thousands of choices, we picked this one, and you personally vetted him."

Lin Xiang smiled bitterly, "Madam, people’s hearts change easily, even if I vetted him, there’s a day when the sparrow pecks the eye."

"So, we just do nothing and watch?"

"Of course not. I will have someone summon him to ask about politics back and knock him a little. If he’s smart, he’ll know to avoid suspicion with outsiders. If..."

Before he could finish, the nanny rushed in, exclaiming, "Prime Minister, Madame, something happened. Housekeeper Jiang is here to deliver a message."

The couple’s hearts both skipped a beat as they glanced at each other.

"Come in and report."

The nanny lifted the curtain. Newly returned Manager Jiang, who had just seen off Qin Liuxi, entered with a sweat-drenched forehead and knelt down to salute.

Lin Xiang asked gravely, "What alarming matter is this? Stand up and speak."

Housekeeper Jiang stood up, his voice trembling, "Today, the third son of Mr. Qian of the Minister of the Ministry of Rites’ house celebrated his birthday. Mr. Zeng went for a banquet and was found in the same room with the Lord Shuping, disheveled..."

Mr. Qian is nothing to fear, but his wife is Princess Hehui, not very favored, yet still an Imperial Princess. Her daughter was granted the title of county lord, and now she was entangled with the Lin family’s future son-in-law.

Mrs. Lin gasped, clutching her chest as she fell onto the Arhat bed.

Lin Xiang: Whoever took my Hundred Blessings Golden Gourd, come back, let’s discuss this again!

They said to watch closely, but my eyes haven’t even had a chance to see, and now I’m blind. What kind of affair is this?

Qin Liuxi, walking down the street, sneezed twice, rubbed her nose, and holding the golden gourd, looked at it under the sunlight with satisfaction. The hollow body of the gourd, in the sunlight, could refract a faint "blessing" character, truly ingenious. No wonder Lin Xiang placed it on the curio shelf.

Just then, a vendor on the street was selling miscellaneous goods. Qin Liuxi picked a red rope, tied the gourd with it, and hung it on her waist. Seeing the vendor’s green eyes full of envy, she smugly patted her waist, "Look good?"

The vendor nodded, a golden gourd, of course, looks good. Hanging it on the waist, aren’t you afraid of being robbed?

He reminded, "There are quite a few thieves around here, you better watch out." Unsure of which young master he was, so nonchalantly hanging such a big golden gourd on his waist for looks, only to cry if it’s snatched.

Qin Liuxi chuckled, "Who dares to rob me? Seeing you’re kind enough to remind me, I’ll return the favor. Set up your stall outside the city gates; there’s a windfall awaiting, believe it or not."

"Huh?"

Qin Liuxi was already walking away. The vendor squatted for a while, licked his lips, packed up his stall, and headed outside the city.

"Oh."

Someone collided with Qin Liuxi in front of her, a blind man in tattered clothes, with his blind cane falling at her feet.

Qin Liuxi bent down and picked it up, helped him up, and handed the cane back to him, saying, "Be careful."

"Thank you, thank you." The blind man groped, grabbed her hand, and said, "Miss, let me read your fortune. I trained under the Ghost Valley sect, and I’m skilled in bone reading."

"No need." Qin Liuxi smiled, not expecting she would ever have her fortune told.

The blind man, however, was persistent, holding onto her hand and exploring, his blind eyes squinting, "I’m quite accurate. Ah, ’A child wants to care for you, but you parents do not wait,’ Miss, you must cherish the present."

Qin Liuxi frowned, about to speak, when she saw in front of a tea house, an elder in plain clothes being deliberately pushed down by several young men, who mocked him wantonly.

Her face darkened. She took out a piece of broken silver from her waist, stuffed it into his hand, and said to the blind man, "Take this for food, I’m on my way."

The blind man gasped, turned to listen to her leaving direction, his brow furrowed, muttering, "Born with phoenix bones for nobility, she can call the wind and rain with divine power, this person is... cough."

The blind man’s chest hurt, a trace of dark red on the corner of his mouth, watching towards the direction Qin Liuxi had gone, palm clenching the broken silver she gave, worry written on his face.