Old Man Ning of Dayang Village was old and coarse in appearance, yet he raised a pair of daughters as beautiful as flowers and jade.
Since childhood, they had been betrothed to two families in the neighboring village.
When the time for marriage arrived, the eldest daughter’s fiancé had answered the call to join the army and had been gone for many years, with his life or death unknown.
The second daughter’s fiancé had passed the county-level imperial examination and was a popular candidate to become a provincial graduate this year.
Seeing that if the eldest daughter married over, she would very likely become a widow, while if the second daughter married over, she would become the wife of a provincial graduate.
The eldest daughter refused. She cried, made a scene, and even threatened to hang herself, forcing Old Man Ning to agree that she would become the wife of the provincial graduate.
Ning Yuchan was that unlucky second daughter. She could only hold a big rooster and, under the witness of the elders, bow in the wedding ceremony.
Thus, she became a newly married “little widow.”
Everyone said that her husband was already dead and that not even his bones remained.
Yet unexpectedly, several years later, the man who was said to have died in battle suddenly returned, and he had even been granted the title of Marquis of Pingbei.
The summer was scorching. The man had just finished bathing, and his abdominal muscles were burning hot.
Ning Yuchan stared straight at him. Then she suddenly remembered that he had originally been her elder sister’s fiancé, so she hurriedly packed her things and tried to run away.
However, she was caught red-handed.
Ning Yuchan accidentally glanced at his abdominal muscles. Her throat tightened. “Brother-in-law, please don’t be angry. I will switch back with my sister right away.”
The man stared fixedly at the woman’s slender waist, so slim that it could be encircled with one hand. His throat moved as he swallowed, and he directly carried her into the room. “Whoever bowed with me in the wedding ceremony is my wife.”
Mini Scene:
Huo Jingye had liked the Ning family’s younger daughter since childhood. However, his mother had not understood the situation clearly. She had thrown away her pride, sending chickens and ducks as betrothal gifts, and arranged the engagement with Old Man Ning’s eldest daughter.
He had grievances but could not speak them.
After serving in the army for five years, he secretly returned home once and heard that his fiancée had entered the household holding a big rooster to perform the wedding ceremony.
He did not dare enter the house.
After completing his mission, he returned home in glory, yet he had no choice but to face the young wife who had bowed in the ceremony holding a big rooster.
She had kept widowhood for him for three years. Even if he did not like her, he would accept it.
Affection could be cultivated slowly. Besides, the Ning family’s eldest daughter was not considered ugly.
Yet when he entered the house, the one he saw was the younger sister he had longed for day and night.
Mother Huo could not bear to see his foolish expression and pushed him. “What are you standing there stunned for? Back then, the elder sister did not want to keep widowhood, so she did not marry. The one who entered the household was the younger sister.”
Huo Jingye: “…”
The ancestral graves are emitting green smoke.
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