Chapter 246 - A Mistake that All Men in the World Would Make (1/2)
For the first time, Mo Shujun asked to see Mo Junhao and requested that the place should be secret.
He almost instantly guessed her purpose and contacted a country house. Then he took Mo Shujun there secretly.
After seeing Mo Junhao, Mo Shujun showed her concern about him as a convention first, and he answered her.
They talked happily.
“Junhao, you told me that you wanted to marry a lady from my family in the past. What do you think now?” Mo Shujun kept her countenance and sounded him out.
Mo Junhao replied respectfully, “I don’t dare to keep it from you, Great-aunt. I want to marry a girl from Duke Shi’s mansion indeed. It would be helpful to me and Duke Shi’s mansion currently. Please make my wish come true.”
He just considered the interests and didn’t talk about his feelings, but it was easier to move Mo Shujun.
Mo Shujun nodded in secret and appreciated Mo Junhao as he judged the hour and sized up the situation.
She pondered for a while and then asked, “You want to marry a girl from the Shi family, and I have no objection, but there are many unmarried ladies in the family. Do you want to just be related to the Shi family by marriage or marry a certain lady?”
Mo Junhao didn’t expect that Mo Shujun would ask such a sharp question, so he was in a daze for a moment.
In his opinion, Duke Shi’s mansion could assure the prosperity now, which owed to Shi Junhe alone. The ladies from the second master’s and third master’s families were the legitimate daughters from the Shi family in name, but they couldn’t compare with Shi Qingxue.
Mo Shujun must be clear about this point, but she still pretended that she didn’t know anything and regarded them as being in the same category.
She perhaps wanted to sound him out.
At the thought that the outsiders gossiped that this Princess Royal didn’t love her eldest son but favored her youngest son, Mo Junhao felt nervous involuntarily. It appeared that Mo Shujun came to propose marriage for the third master’s family.
Mo Junhao hesitated for a moment. Although he was tempted by Mo Shujun’s support, he didn’t know what was stuck in his heart.
He expressed beyond his control, “Great-aunt, please observe clearly. I grew up with Qingxue since childhood and we love each other deeply. I hope that I can marry her. Please support us.”
After he said that, Mo Junhao realized whom he loved.
As expected, he still wanted to marry Shi Qingxue most.
Mo Shujun looked at Mo Junhao in silence, which made him feel restless and lower his head quietly. Then she suddenly asked, “Why did I hear that you gave Baoyou your jade pendant that you always brought with you?”
Mo Junhao was shocked once more.
It just happened one or two days ago, and he even repeatedly told Shi Baoyou not to tell anybody else or show the pendant to anybody, but she still told others unexpectedly.
As expected, all women were unreliable.
Mo Shujun waited for a moment but Mo Junhao didn’t answer, so she continued to question, “Did I slander you?”
Mo Junhao hurriedly softened and avoided Mo Shujun’s sharp eyes, mumbling, “No! I did give the jade pendant to Baoyou.”
Mo Shujun’s old face darkened instantly and she queried aggressively, “Since you want to marry Qingxue, why did you flirt with Baoyou? Do you think that the girls in my family are your concubines and you can be with anybody if you want?”
“I don’t dare to.” Mo Junhao lowered his head to apologize in a hurry, avoiding Mo Shujun’s gaze.
But Mo Shujun refused to let Mo Junhao go easily and sneered. “Why don’t you dare to? You are bold enough!
“I heard the servants in my mansion say that you came in a carriage to pick up Baoyou at the gate of my mansion almost every day recently. Do you think that nobody knows that if you and Baoyou don’t say?”
Mo Junhao was unable to reply.
He finally realized that Mo Shujun had known everything earlier and first intentionally lured him to speak out his true feelings. Then she talked about Shi Baoyou and forced him to be speechless.
At the moment, Mo Junhao regretted it a lot. Why did he get soft-hearted and give Shi Baoyou the jade pendant?
If she didn’t get that jade pendant, perhaps he had a chance to argue, but now…
The evidence was in the hands of the other party, so what could he say?
It was not a wise choice to irritate Mo Shujun at this critical moment.
Mo Junhao instantly gave up struggling and bowed to Mo Shujun, saying with a smile, “Great-aunt, you observed carefully. I don’t dare to tell a lie anymore. I like Baoyou indeed, but I love Qingxue, too…”
He changed the subject and smiled shyly and vaguely. “You are experienced and should know that men can’t resist the temptation in love relationship. I just made a mistake that all men in the world would make.”
“Humph!” Mo Shujun snorted and didn’t say anything.
Mo Junhao explained and flattered her in a low voice at once. “What’s more, all the ladies you have raised are excellent. Even if I don’t want to be attracted, I can’t control myself!”
Mo Shujun’s lips curled up coldly, and there was no smile in her eyes. She just satirized indifferently, “You are honey-mouthed!”
Mo Junhao immediately said that he dared not.
But his attitude was shown. He wanted to marry Shi Qingxue and also be with Shi Baoyou.
Although it was too much to marry two sisters, there was precedent in the past.
In the history, Monarch Yao married his two daughters, Ehuang and Nüying, to a man, which was a story passed down with approval.
Moreover, Shi Qingxue and Shi Baoyou were just cousins, not as close as Ehuang and Nüying.
“You have a good plan!”
Although Mo Shujun understood that any man wanted to marry more than one woman, when it happened to her, and especially she was the two girls’ grandmother, she still felt unhappy after hearing Mo Junhao’s words.
After a moment of silence, Mo Shujun asked, “Since you like the two girls, do you plan to marry both of them?”