Chapter 482 – Bie Yanghongs Position (1/2)
Chapter 482 - Bie Yanghong's Position
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
After a moment of silence, Tang Thirty-Six asked, ”And Bie Yanghong is your…?”
Su Moyu replied, ”My uncle.”
(TN: 舅舅 = Mother's brother.)
Tang Thirty-Six took a deep breath, then asked, ”Wuqiong Bi?”
Su Moyu wondered to himself, you still need to ask?
”Naturally, she's my aunt.”
There was a rather awkward silence.
Tang Thirty-Six looked at him and said, ”In the future, can you mention this a little sooner?”
Su Moyu replied, ”No one has ever asked me, and I can't just meet someone and tell them, 'My uncle is Bie Yanghong'.”
Chen Changsheng nodded. ”That's reasonable.”
Tang Thirty-Six glanced at him and said, ”I still haven't talked about how you hid that engagement of yours with Xu Yourong from us. Don't be in such a rush to form an alliance.”
He then turned back to Su Moyu and said, ”Continue.”
“When my aunt studied at the Li Palace Academy, she and Archbishop Siyuan were like sister and brother, so she would naturally stand on his side. In addition…she tends to cover for the mistakes of others.” As he was speaking of his elders, Su Moyu had a rather unnatural expression. ”If Cousin really did fight with you, no matter who won or lost, I'm afraid it wouldn’t be that easy to end the matter. It might result in my aunt coming to the capital.”
Chen Changsheng and Tang Thirty-Six looked each other in the eyes, then said with one voice, ”It's not necessary! Quickly write to your uncle saying that everything here is all right.”
Su Moyu replied, ”No need, my uncle already wrote me a letter.”
”What?”
”What other reason would I have come out of the Mausoleum of Books for?”
When Su Moyu thought of the contents of that letter, he felt rather helpless. Uncle, even if you're a henpecked husband, does that mean that I'm not afraid of Auntie?
”Uncle wanted me to enter the Orthodox Academy.”
”So here I am,” he finished.
It was only now that Chen Changsheng and Tang Thirty-Six finally understood the entire situation.
Bie Yanghong knew that his own wife supported the Orthodoxy's new faction. At the moment, Bie Tianxin was representing the Li Palace Academy in challenging the Orthodox Academy. If he won, then the Bie family would naturally have offended the Pope, the Wenshui clan, and even Su Li and those two Saints in White Emperor City. But if he lost, that wife of his who loved to cover for the mistakes of others might come to the capital to stir up a storm.
He didn't want such a thing to occur. Perhaps it was because he supported the Orthodoxy's conservative faction, or perhaps it was for the very simple reason that he didn't want to participate in this storm. Consequently, he wrote a letter to Su Moyu in the Mausoleum of Books, asking his most favored nephew to leave the Mausoleum of Books ahead of time, enter the Orthodox Academy, and do his utmost to make this entire matter disappear!
It must be said that Bie Yanghong's way of doing things was very intelligent. When his wife was standing with the new faction of the Orthodoxy, he had Su Moyu represent him in displaying his goodwill, or at least his desire to calm the situation, to the other side. In this way, and with the status and power the two held as a couple, the Bie family would probably be able to avoid any consequences from this storm. This was what was meant by the saying, 'Only by not getting involved can one proudly stride upon the earth'. However, this way of doing things made one fact very obvious: in this matter, Wuqiong Bi had clearly not solicited the opinion of her husband or had not followed his advice.
The loving couple of the Eight Storms, the legendary companions that truly seemed like immortals, also turned out to have their own disagreements.
Thinking of this, Chen Changsheng couldn't help but sigh.