<h4>Chapter 344 Marriage</h4>


    While Qiu Jinn was preparing to prevent the Jiang Family from meddling with his marriage, Jiang Yashuang was reminding his wife, “Our two uncles may bring up the thing again that your brother refused at the beginning of this year!”


    Qiu Yn frowned, “I don’t know what they’re thinking. Even if those two girls are dead set on working for them, how can they be so sure that my brother will be bewitched by them?” Qiu Jinn would live in vain if he couldn’t handle those two girls. Besides, those two girls had been convinced by Qiu Yn and decided to have it both ways. They wouldn’t let the first and the third branch manipte them!


    “Not just our two uncles, Jinn wrote in his recent letter that Han Jishan invited him to dinnerst month. The dinner was served in the garden on purpose. Han Jishan left During the dinner, Han Jishan excused himself. But his niece ‘identally’ went to the garden and saw your brother.” Jiang Yashuang said tly, “And Prime Minister Xue’s granddaughter, Xue Nongying’s younger sister, is still unmarried. Your brother keeps stalling. But I’m afraid he can’t stall for time anymore!”


    “...” Qiu Yn was silent for a while, “What’s your advice? Xing?” Ou Qinn was devoted to Qiu Jinn. She tried serval times to go to Shazhou in those days. But the Ou Family stopped her. Qiu Yn knew it because the Ou Family had revealed it to her on purpose. They wanted to sound Qiu Jinn out about his attitude via her.


    After all, Qiu Jinn’s appearance, ability, origin, status, and power were all impable. His only w as a son-inw was his association with those prostitutes such as Hua Shenshen. However, a capable man was inevitably a bit romantic before getting married. Especially, Qiu Jinn didn’t have a senior to discipline him. He might change after getting married.


    The Ou Family had no objection to Ou Qinn marrying Qiu Jinn. Although they had no objection, they needed to consider their family’s reputation. They could hide the truth that Ou Qinn was hell-bent on marrying Qiu Jinn. How could they protect their reputation if they let Ou Qinn go to Shazhou? So, they told Qiu Yn about it tactfully when they stopped Ou Qinn from going there.


    Ou Qinn’s brother, Ou Bicheng, was Jiang Yashuang’s best friend and confidant. So, Qiu Yn thought that Jiang Yashuang intended to set Ou Qinn up with Qiu Jinn.


    To her surprise, Jiang Yashuang shook his head, “Xing marrying Jinn is thest thing I approve of!”


    “Why?” Qiu Yn was confused, “I heard that you and she were childhood friends. How couldn’t you grant her wish?”


    “That’s why I don’t want to screw her!” Jiang Yashuang said, “Let me be honest with you. Don’t be mad. Although your brother is young, he has been with many women. It’s hard for him to fall in love with someone! Besides, judging by the current situation in the Western Army, even if he should get married, he may need to join in the fun on asion or even ept a few beautiful women to enrich his harem. He won’t care about those things. But Xing has a strong temper. She can’t change her nature and be obedient even though she loves your brother so much! We’ll only make her suffer if we grand her wish now!”


    Speaking of which, he frowned and whispered, “Just like Qizheng and Qiu Feng. So, never give her what you shouldn’t give!”


    Hearing that, Qiu Yn sighed, “It worries me too! Honestly, I grow fond of Xing after spending time with her these years. Although she has a temper, she truly loves my brother!”


    She pondered for a while, “Who should my brother choose if we rule out Xing?”


    “Han Jishan has a head start. But it is the worst choice. Your brother won’t choose them!” Jiang Yashuang said after thinking for a while, “Because they represent the old-timers of the Western Army. With the Empress Dowager Gu’s party’s eclipse and Prime Minister Xue’spliance, our family is the most powerful one in the country! If Han and Zhao want to disobey us by relying on their influences over the Western Army, they’lle to no good end.”


    “If your brother marries one of their girls, it will mean that he chooses their side. It’s unnecessary and unworthy. So, I don’t think your brother will choose girls on their side!”


    “As for those two goddaughters of our uncles, if your brother had been willing to ept them, he wouldn’t have used the excuse that he finally avenged my mother-inw and father-inw and needed time to mourn. I think Miss Xue is the most possible choice. However, I heard that she was kind and generous, but not scheming?”


    Qiu Yn said with frustration, “Yes! I’ve considered Xue Nongqing a long time ago. She’s all good but too generous. I don’t think my brother will like her for her generosity.”


    “It is not the key point that your brother won’t like her.” Jiang Yashuang clearly knew that if Qiu Jinn were going to get married, at least for now, he would only care about his future wife’s ability, rather than personal feelings. So, it didn’t matter if Qiu Jinn liked Xue Nongqing’s personality or not. What mattered was that, “I’m afraid that your brother’s marriage with her has two sides. The upside is that it will make him closer to Prime Minister Xue. The downside is that he will have to protect her from the intrigues in the harem!”


    That wasn’t a good deal. Because judging by how much Xue Chang valued Qiu Jinn, even if they weren’t inws, he would still try his best to help him.


    After all, Qiu Jinn was qualified to form an alliance of interests with Xue Chang now. Although this kind of alliance was unstable, it was effective!


    As the marriage had little value, Xue Nongqing’s ability was the key to this marriage.


    But ording to Xue Nongqing’s personality and mindset, she clearly couldn’t help Qiu Jinn take over the Western Army.


    “In that case, no one is suitable for my brother, right?” said Qiu Yn, frowning. “Or he chooses neither of them? He has to get married eventually, doesn’t he?”


    “That’s just my opinion. We need to ask your brother’s opinion.” Jiang Yashuang exined, “The situation in Shazhou has been rtively stabletely. So, I’ll tell him more about his personal matters when I write to him this time. For example, Qiu Feng’s whereabouts, his marriage... Do you have anything else to tell him?”


    Qiu Yn thought for a while, “Let’s tell him that Ciyi is pregnant. It will make him happy!” Ruan Ciyi was found pregnantst month. Li Qianzhi was so happy that he borrowed a few careful old maidservants from his aunt to take care of her. He truly cherished her. Qiu Jinn was right to select him as his brother-inw.


    Hearing that, Jiang Yashuang sighed inwardly and thought, “Your brother will be happier if you’re pregnant. However, he may worry about your parturition. Never mind, what we have now is fine!” He believed Qiu Yn’s words which she had forgotten. She said that she survived in the avnche on Mount Dizi. But she was harmed by the coldness. So, she couldn’t have a baby.


    So, he never talked about pregnancy in front of Qiu Yn to avoid upsetting her.


    Qiu Yn mentioned it at this moment. But he avoided the topic and just said, “Our doorman said that Spring House and Jinpa Pavilion both sent stuff here and they wanted us to give them to your brother. We should mention it as well!”


    “I forgot about them if you didn’t mention it!” Qiu Yn was distracted and then said, “I remembered Hua Shenshen from the Spring House was with Prince of Zhou, right? Since he was dead and the Empress Dowager lost her power, how could she be fine?”


    Jiang Yashuang said with frustration, “Prince of Zhou wasn’t the only one who was infatuated with her.”


    “I see,” It looked like that the Jiang Family’s offspring took her under their wings. It wasn’t known if Jiang Yadan was involved.


    When she thought of Jiang Yadan, she thought of Madame Tao Junior and An. Qiu Yn became gloomy, “An has been crying at nighttely. I wonder if he knows that he has lost his mother.”


    “Shall we send for a doctor?” Jiang Yashuang had never been a father. He became anxious after hearing that, “Is he sick?”


    “Nonsense!” Qiu Yn yelled in exasperation, “There’s no child who doesn’t cry! How can you instantly assume that your nephew is sick?”


    Jiang Yashuang said awkwardly, “I was just guessing... We need to consult with our old maidservants.”


    “I know you were guessing. But can you say something nice?” Qiu Yn pinched his arm and said sulkily, “I’ll punch you if you say anything like that again!” She knew that babies only ate, slept, and cried all day although she hadn’t been a mother! How could anyone assume that a baby was sick because he cried at night?


    “I still think it’s better to send for a doctor.” Jiang Yashuang said seriously, “He’s too delicate. What if he gets hurt from crying?”


    Qiu Yn couldn’t win the argument with him. So, she had to send for a doctor. As expected, he was all fine.


    “I told you not to overthink it or make crazy assumptions!” Qiu Yn held her nephew and tried tofort him in an immature way. She gave her husband an earful whileforting the baby, “Such a healthy baby may be cursed by you!”


    Jiang Yashuang poked the baby in his pick cheeks and said with a smile, “We can’t be too careful. The doctor did all the work anyway!” He paid so much attention to An. It wasn’t entirely because he cared about him, but he also thought that since he couldn’t have kids and Qiu Yn wasn’t willing to adopt, raising An made up for their inability to have kids. So, he treated An as his own kid.


    “An could arrange for our funerals and other things when Lan and I grow old. Hopefully, An would have kids by then. He could choose one for us to adopt.” Jiang Yashuang thought, “In that case, I can leave our estate to his offspring.” He had a lot of nephews and there would be more. But he valued An the most as Madame Tao Junior took care of him when he was young.


    He thought he would never have kids. Naturally, he would like An’s offspring to inherit his bequest.


    Qiu Yn didn’t know what was on his husband’s mind. She had long forgotten the reason she used to refuse to get married back then. Watching An grow up every day made Qiu Yn want a kid of her own, “Mrs. Zhou urged me to take the medicine which was good for conception yesterday. I wonder if it works or not. However, I just have begun to take care of An. I may neglect him if I’m pregnant.”


    They had their own thoughts as they yed with An. Suddenly, Su He walked in with a weird look, “Young master, Madame, something happened in the first branch.”


    “What happened?” Jiang Yashuang and Qiu Yn asked in a hurry.


    “Miss Huizhi bumped into His Majesty in the imperial garden. A lot of people saw them.” Su He coughed, “Madame Dou is weeping out her grief to the Old Master.”


    “...”