Xianggong, Please Divorce Me!

Ch.2: Unwilling to Marry Cold Noodles

Chapter 2: Unwilling to Marry Cold Noodles [1]

"What? Someone wants to act as a matchmaker!" Su Tang stopped and moved (aside) the abacus. Finding it hard to believe, she looked towards Xi Que the servant girl.

Xi Que was a 14-15-year-old young housemaid who had been with Su Tang for three years now, and knew the latter's unhappy peach flower history inside and out. She therefore watched Su Tang's stunned appearance and didn't find it strange. What's more, Xi Que felt this matter was excessively odd too, but didn't reveal it. "Yes, in the house right now discussing the matter."

Su Tang still felt this was absurd. She was already 20 years old, a downright old maid. Those annoying matter of hers had early on given rise to much discussion. Her situation was well known to the people in every household, spread around to become ridiculed. Furthermore, the last year after that persons unexpected death before the prenuptials, her legend again grew to having a reputation of being fated to mourn for her husband. Early on those respectable families didn't dare to marry her. The gongzi's of those families with limited means and without connections, whom lacked sympathy and perspective, also alienated her. Now to ones' surprise there is still someone dropping in to propose a marriage alliance.... they will not invite her to marry a widower or be a concubine [2], right?

Thinking about this, Su Tang raised her pretty eyebrows and asked, "Which family is this?"

Xi Que replied, "Nubi [3] on the side just heard probably, seems it's a gongzi [4] from the capital...oh, that's right, it's elderly father Zhangs' arrangement".

"Elderly father Zhang?" Thinking about that good friend of her fathers, Su Tang was filled with anger. "That elderly father retired due to old age and returned his native place, unhealthily idle. Whole hearted wanting to be a matchmaker, impossible?! The first introduction to his grandson had the outcome that the person had long ago privately pledged himself to forever be with a girl. The second introduction he made for me, the result was that the marriage was backed off for the sake of an entertainer that the fellow ran off with! He still wants to introduce me to someone for a third time?! What sort of husband?!"

Xi Que saw that she was furious and hurriedly said "Miss, calm down. Elderly father Zhang means well, perhaps this reply..."

"Perhaps this reply my ass!" Su Tang slapped the table once. The writing brush on top of the ink-stone tumbled and made a sweeping black half circle mark on the table. Seeing this Su Tang was increasingly agitated, grabbed a cleaning rag and carelessly rubbed. After rubbing for a while she threw it aside. "This won't do. I have to go back! I won't marry in this lifetime. They want to as early as possible get me to admit failure, avoid each and every wave of pressing business! They're not obliged to be inconvenienced, but I am!"

Speaking to the point, Su Tang again and again urged the store clerks to keep an eye on the shop. After that she locked the cabinet, took the key and left her pastry store records.

All the seats in the Su household great hall was packed with people. Other than elderly father Zhang, everyone else was a Su family member.

Su Tang looked at them. Each and every one were all smiles. Her tightly knitted brows knitted more tightly. Perhaps again these helpers would be persuaded, just looking forward to her marrying out. With no way out she could only hold her head high with chest out as she strode into the door threshold, an attitude of unflinchingly facing death.

The second aunt Zhou Shi [5] looked at Su Tang returning. Her laughing eyes narrowed, "Speak of the devil and the devil appears [6]. Come, number three, elderly father Zhang will talk to you about a good marriage!"

Su Tang is the daughter of the first wife, merely born relatively late so that her birth ranking was third. Older are two daughters from father's concubine, younger are a brother and sister from another of father's concubines. Also the younger sister was married at the start of this year. The younger brother was 13 this year and still studying at school.