[Quick Transmigration] Where is the Morality Chapter 2
Qiangtou Spring Chapter 2 Original translation is from tenderflower's blog.
Xia Ruyan carefully observed this face in front of the mirror. She had a slightly sharpened oval face, her skin was like sheep-fat, her eyebrows were like willow leaves, her eyes were black and white, the corners were slightly raised, and a tear mole was dotted on the left side. Her black hair was dark and shiny. She was a very beautiful little girl. This body had a well-developed chest. A pair of breasts bulging, a slim waist that was not full of a grip was tightly tied by a belt, and her round hips were wrapped in a robe. It swayed while walking. She was only sixteen years old but there was a hint of flattery.
“The original is quite beautiful, but it looks a little restless.” Xia Ruyan tilted her head to admire the beauty.
“Probably the standard configuration of the villain is like this.” The system was seriously discussed with her.
Familiar with the appearance of this body, Xia Ruyan began to wonder how she would act next.
“System, how far am I on the plot now?”
“Newcomer, today is the day in the plot when the original learned Xia Zhiyuan betrothed her to Duke of Zhen.”
Xia Ruyan was taken aback. The time she came was really dangerous. If it was a step too late waiting for her was Xia Zhiyuan’s anger and the foot banning.
“It’s so risky...”
Xia Ruyan just breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the maid report outside the door: “Miss, the master invites you to the study.”
“I know. You go and tell my father I’ll be there later.” Next, Xia Ruyan secretly cheered up. She almost knew nothing about this world. She must be careful not to expose her feet later.
When she arrived at the study, she heard the news that Xia Zhiyuan had already betrothed her to the Duke of Zhen. Xia Ruyan made an unexpected expression on her face and then pretended to be pleased. She lowered her head and said shyly: “D-daughter listen to her father...”
Xia Zhiyuan saw that the eldest daughter didn’t talk back this time and felt very comfortable. In the future, she would be the wife of the Duke of Zhen. He had to be kind to her, so he said kindly: “It’s good that you are sensible. Father won’t harm you. Duke of Zhen is strong and handsome. The duke’s residence has no elders, and there are few people. You will be the mistress of the house. No one is pressing you. Isn’t it comfortable?”
Xia Ruyan lowered her head and pinched the corners of her clothes. Her voice was joyful, “Daughter thanked her father.” Then she quickly added, “You can add more dowry to your daughter. You can’t let your daughter lose face on the day of marriage.”
Xia Zhiyuan was choked by this sentence for a long time and couldn’t speak. The corners of his mouth twitched a few times before he said: “Father has his own opinion on this matter and won’t wrong you. You can embroider your wedding dress these days and don’t worry about it.”
When Xia Ruyan heard she was about to embroider the wedding dress, she immediately said with a bitter face: “Father, you don’t know my embroidery work? Wouldn’t the embroidered clothes lose our family’s face if I dressed for the wedding?”
Xia Zhiyuan also heard it too. This girl never moved her four limbs and couldn’t distinguish between grains. Unlike every lady, she only knew to pinch the tip all day long, so he said in a good manner: “Then let the embroidering mother embroider. You add a few stitches at the end. How is it?”
Xia Ruyan smiled happily, then with the excuse that she was going to be married and needed to take good care of herself, she asked Xia Zhiyuan for two hundred taels of silver banknotes. She was really happy seeing this scum father was disturbed by her beyond endurance. Although the original was not good, it had something to do with her family’s education. When his wife died, he didn’t teach his child well, and he was partial. It’s strange the original didn’t grow crooked!
“Okay, your father still has something to do. You go back, don’t go out casually these days, and be ready to get married at home.” Xia Zhiyuan waved her away.
Xia Ruyan’s face was broken. Why was she still treated like being banned? How can you find a way to solve this marriage if you don’t go out?
Xia Ruyan walked to her small courtyard unhappily with the silver banknotes from the scum father. As soon as she walked into the garden, she saw a 13- or 14-year-old girl approaching her. She looked pretty and lovely. She was somewhat similar to the original, but she looked much more naive and simple.
However, she was not naive when she opened her mouth: “Oh, isn’t this my good older sister who is about to be the wife of Duke of Zhen? Congratulations.”
Xia Ruyan stopped and looked at her with her nostrils: “Humph, the news is very fast and abundant.”
No wonder Xia Ruyan treated her with this attitude because the person here was Xia Rujin, the old enemy before the original marriage. This Xia Rujin was Luo-shi’s daughter. She was spoiled and loved since she was a child. The original’s own mother was gone, and her father didn’t love her, so don’t say she wasn’t jealous of her. However, Xia Rujin saw her older sister always being utterly rude to her mother when she was a child and hated her. They were incompatible with each other, and conflicts arise when they meet each other every day. Luo-shi sometimes scolded her daughter for the sake of face and made the original even more proud.
She became more and more sullen in front of Xia Rujin. Sometimes she went overboard. Xia Rujin went to Xia Zhiyuan quickly to complain, so the original was punished by Xia Zhiyuan. Such things were happening in an endless circle, and Xia Zhiyuan was also less and less happy about this eldest daughter. The original blamed Xia Rujin’s complaint, so she intensified trouble for her. The vicious circle is endless, so the original’s unmarried life was just spent to pinch each other with Xia Rujin.
In Xia Ruyan’s eyes, this was just a little girl who was spoiled for a little waywardness. At first, she aimed at the original just because she was unjust to her mother. She couldn’t find anything wrong. So Xia Ruyan was actually unwilling to be in conflict with her. However, she couldn’t just change her temper to make them suspicious, so she replied indifferently and intended to give up.
Xia Rujin saw that Xia Ruyan’s face was not so good. She was proud. She covered her mouth and smiled: “Didn’t my older sister say that father doesn’t love her anymore? When you get married, you will have a father who will love you everyday.”
Xia Ruyan wanted to take back her thoughts just now. This girl’s mouth was really cheap. She took all the love of the scum father and said such stabbing words. No wonder the original saw her as an enemy.
Xia Ruyan made a shy expression: “Hate you, this dead girl. Knowing that your older sister likes the older type and still makes fun of her like this. Humph, I won’t play with you. Your older sister will return to her room to embroider her wedding dress.”
With that said, she beat Xia Rujin’s chest, stomped her feet, and ran away. Xia Rujin almost had a facial distortion when she was beaten by her. It was just when she was developing, her chest would be swollen and painful, and the pain caused her tears to come out.
The maid looked at her young lady standing in place, grimacing, and anxiously asked her if there was anything wrong. Xia Rujin gritted her teeth after a while and said: “It’s okay. Let’s go. Now we won’t care about this shameless and skinless person.”
Xia Ruyan returned to the room, shut the maid outside the door, and talked to the system about Xia Zhiyuan and Xia Rujin, and then began to worry about how to get rid of the fate of marrying the old widower. But she hadn’t unlocked the plot yet, knew nothing about this world, and hadn’t come up with a charter even after eating dinner.
She had to say that Luo-shi still treated the original well. The food was very rich. Xia Ruyan’s belly was rounded after eating. She leaned her belly on the beauty couch, watching her personal maidservants Chun Mei and Xia He busying themselves. She didn’t know what they were up to, and when she was bored, she said, “You two tell me about the most interesting thing recently.”
Chun Mei and Xia He glanced at each other and hesitated for a moment. Xia He stepped forward and said: “Return to Miss, speaking of something recently, I don’t know if it’s interesting. The hot spring in Zhuangzi of a wealthy family in the east of the city dug up a few boxes of gold in the first two months, but it was secretly stolen by their second branch at that time. It was just exposed recently. It made a lot of noise and went to court...”
Xia Ruyan wasn’t interested. Speaking of which, she hadn’t taken a hot spring bath for a long time. She yawned and asked casually, “Do we also have a hot spring in Zhuangzi?”
“Yes, Miss, you forgot? You went there when you were ten years old, but you had a fight with the second girl. The second girl was so angry and ran out of Zhuangzi. The people in Zhuangzi found her in the evening. When you returned home, you were severely punished by the master. After you came back, you said you would never go to Zhuangzi again...” Xia He reacted as soon as she finished speaking, and quickly covered her mouth. She was stabbed by the second girl a few words, and now she brought up the past again, she really had no memory.
“Oh, so that’s how it is... I forgot...”
Xia Ruyan squinted at the pattern on the sleeve, seemingly inadvertently inquiring where Zhuangzi was. Xia He thought the young lady had really forgotten, so she told her everything she knew. It turned out that Zhuangzi was on the outskirts of the city. It went by carriage for less than an hour and a half. Xia Ruyan was thoughtful. She was idle in this family now. Why not try asking the scum father to let her go to the hot springs? Anyway, it was his own family. Maybe the scum father would agree. She just waited and see if there was a chance to escape after leaving the residence. She just did as she thought. She jumped down and ran towards the main house, ignoring Chun Mei and Xia He who was calling her behind. She slipped to the main courtyard.
Xia Zhiyuan had just had dinner at this time. He and Luo-shi were being sweet to each other and when he heard the eldest daughter was here, his face sank: “What is she doing here at this late?”
Luo-shi said softly: “Perhaps she just learned about the marriage and was reluctant. She wants to be closer to my lord so she can be more at ease.”
“Humph, how could she be reluctant? She dared mention the dowry with me in the afternoon. She didn’t learn your gentleness, generosity, and understanding. All she knew is cause me trouble.”
Luo-shi persuaded him a few more words before he let the maid call Xia Ruyan in.
“Father! Daughter has something to ask of you!” Xia Ruyan babbled as soon as she entered, which made Xia Zhiyuan frown.
“What’s wrong? Didn’t I give you two hundred taels in the afternoon?”
“Oh, father, why are you thinking about money?”
Xia Zhiyuan almost choked with a mouthful of tea. It was her who asked him for money and the one said to give her dowry. How could he not think about money now?
“Then what do you want?” Xia Zhiyuan said angrily, not wanting to look at her.
“Father, look at your daughter. Her face has wrinkled! Do you see it?”
Xia Ruyan leaned forward to show Xia Zhiyuan her face. Xia Zhiyuan was so angry and patted the table: “Naughty! Look at you at your age and still so unruly! What is it like!”
Xia Ruyan pouted her lips and continued to say on her own: “Anyway, your daughter’s face has been particularly bad recently. I will be married next month. How can I see anyone if I am ugly?”
How could Xia Zhiyuan understand this and said impatiently: “Then what do you want?”
Luo-shi interrupted at this time: “Yan'er can apply some ointment on her dry skin. I’ll have Hu-mama send some over...”
Xia Ruyan didn’t refuse, and nodded in response, “Okay, don’t forget.” Then she turned her head and said to Xia Zhiyuan, “Daughter remembered that our family seemed to have a hot spring in Zhuangzi? Hot spring water is good for my skin and body. Your daughter wants to go there to have a good rest before she gets married and make herself beautiful.”
After finishing speaking, she lowered her head shyly: “After all, your daughter will be the wife of the duke from now on. If you don’t dress yourself up a little bit, you will lose the face of our family and the duke’s.”
Xia Zhiyuan wanted to scold her for making a lot of trouble and heard her saying this, he swallowed the words back into his stomach again. Seeing that she was very caring about the marriage and didn’t suspect him. He thought this girl was having trouble with Jin'er all day at home, so it’s better to go to Zhuangzi to be quiet. He could send more guards to look at her and then he nodded: “Well, you can go stay for a few days. You must come back one month before you get married at the latest. Change your impetuous temperament so as not to annoy Duke of Zhen when you marry.”
“Yes, daughter listens to her father. She must read the book and cultivate her character everyday when she is there.” Success, Xia Ruyan smiled in her heart.
I hope her father suffers later he’s so biased it’s disgusting
ReplyDeleteLikewise, its annoying
DeleteSame same, he irks me a lot, lol
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