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Chapter 673: 657 Aunt Wan with No Ambition to Progress
Chapter 673: Chapter 657 Aunt Wan with No Ambition to Progress
The world hustles and bustles, all for the sake of profit; the world bustles and hustles, also for the sake of profit.
Qin Liuxi understood this principle well, even among family members within a clan, they will openly and covertly compete for personal gain, let alone for the sake of the entire family.
However, Mrs. Wang disregarded such interests, only insisting that Qin Liuxi comply with her wishes. It must be said, she was quite intelligent, intelligent yet measured.
Qin Liuxi was content with such measured intelligence in a person.
Mrs. Wang carried herself with such modesty that Qin Liuxi did not disgrace her. Looking at Wang Yuqian, she said: “It’s just seeking medical help. As long as the patient isn’t an utterly reprehensible person, and if I am capable of treating his illness, and they are able to offer compensation, then they must seek help formally. There’s just one thing, when I diagnose, I look at the person before the disease.”
Wang Yuqian uttered an “Ah”, what did this mean?
Qin Liuxi did not elaborate further. After all, if the other party wanted to seek medical help, then they had to follow her rules.
If it is a person who should not be saved, no matter if he claims to be Laozi himself, let him be damned.
Wang Yuqian became somewhat restless, also feeling a suppressed sense of shame, as if he was sitting on pins and needles.
Qin Liuxi, tactfully, stood up and said she would go see Aunt Wan.
As soon as she left, Wang Yuqian glanced towards the door, then turned to Mrs. Wang and hurriedly said: “Aunt, has she always been like this?”
This was more than just assertiveness, this aura was simply crushing, as majestic and domineering as his family’s patriarch.
Mrs. Wang said with a stern face: “Indeed, she has always been this way. Although I do not know how the Quan family was convinced by your grandmother to come here, if the Quan family sincerely seeks medical help, they must lower their stance, and not display their haughtiness. Your cousin has the right idea; by offending her, the Quan family will only make a wasted trip.”
Wang Yuqian frowned and said, “Aunt, that’s the Northwest Quan Family. If she really can cure them, then even if my uncle’s family cannot return, under the protection of the Quan family, no one would dare to bully us. You may not miss my uncle, but have you thought about my cousin Ming Yan?”
Mrs. Wang laughed and said, “Your cousin Ming Yan will eventually return; I’m just waiting for that.”
Wang Yuqian was stunned. Had his aunt lost her mind?
“Don’t meddle in the affairs of the Quan family; just deliver the message, and it’s up to them whether they listen or not. If they want to suppress us with their power, they will surely regret it,” Mrs. Wang said. “Let’s not talk about this anymore. What’s going on with you? Why are you messing around with Qin Mingyue? Even if she brings you running around the mansion it’s one thing, but also taking you to your cousin’s courtyard, has her brain gone soggy, or are you just as foolish?”
Here it comes, that ‘wonderful cousin’ of his had indeed tattled.
“Aunt, I…”
“Don’t tell me you can’t see through Qin Mingyue’s intentions, a man not yet betrothed and an unmarried girl seen together, what, do you intend to marry such a girl?” Mrs. Wang said in a stern voice: “It’s not that I look down on these nieces, it’s that the Qin family is now down on their luck, and your elder sister-in-law would surely not fancy them. I also don’t want to be stuck in the middle, making things difficult, because I will always be a woman of the Qin family, and I must think of the younger members of our family as well.”
“Aunt, it’s not like I’m only alone with her; there’s also that Ming Xin,” Wang Yuqian explained.
Mrs. Wang scoffed coldly: “That’s your excuse for casually visiting your cousin’s courtyard? Is this the kind of upbringing our esteemed Langya Wang Family possesses? Or do you think that because the Qin family has fallen on hard times, their daughters are something you can belittle, that you can go to their courtyards as you please, without regard for any proper separation between men and women?”
By the end of her words, the tone had turned quite sharp.
Wang Yuqian’s face turned slightly pale, and he said: “Your nephew wouldn’t dare.”
He usually behaves in a rather spontaneous manner, and at his hometown, the strict social norms for separating men and women are not as severe as in places like Shengjing, so when Qin Mingyue took him to find Qin Liuxi, he didn’t think too much and just went along. Who would have thought he would be reprimanded so harshly?
But what Mrs. Wang said was also reasonable; barging into a lady’s chamber is indeed a breach of manners for a man.
“Aunt, I was wrong, I just lost my mind then, I was confused. I’ll apologize to my cousin properly later,” Wang Yuqian is an easygoing person, and he admitted his mistake right away.
Mrs. Wang sighed and said, “An apology is certainly needed. You’re not young anymore, especially when traveling outside, you need to be more thoughtful and can’t act on your whims like you do at home, otherwise you won’t even realize when you’ve offended someone.”
Wang Yuqian sheepishly acknowledged her point.
While Mrs. Wang was scolding her nephew, Qin Liuxi was locked in a glaring contest with Aunt Wan, or more accurately, was on the receiving end of a ‘death stare.’
Aunt Wan, who had been defeated, struggled to squeeze out a sentence: “I… I was never cut out for studying, you forced me.”
Qin Liuxi sneered, held up the sheet filled with large characters, and said, “I forced you, pushed you to completely let yourself go. A good ‘foot’ character was written as a person running. Why didn’t you add a face to that figure as well?”
Aunt Wan glanced at the sheet; it was practice for the character ‘foot’. The first row looked decent, but from the second row onwards, the style changed, and by the end, the ‘foot’ character was drawn as a little person.
Even a child who had just begun to learn could write better than her.
Aunt Wan looked at the first ‘foot’ character that her son had written, then compared it to her own, and couldn’t help but feel a bit guilty and short of breath: “I’m hopeless.”
Qin Liuxi almost laughed out of exasperation.
Indeed, she was hopeless.
Writing ‘foot’ as a person, ‘knife’ as a ‘hole’, and that ‘fly’ character—she must have broken its wings since they were all flattened; it couldn’t fly at all.
She didn’t speak for a long while, and Aunt Wan’s guilt turned to irritation, and finally, she gave up and said, “Anyway, I don’t have the talent. I just can’t do it well. If you want to scold, then scold. I don’t rely on reading or writing to make a living.”
“Hm, you rely on men,” Qin Liuxi sneered, “Everyone says the ‘Demon Concubine’ ruins the nation. Since you’re destined to be a demon concubine, why don’t you master the skills of one? You can’t even write characters, let alone painting or music. How are you going to keep a man’s heart?”
“How can you say I have no skills? I have beauty. Look at me, I have the bust, and I have got hips.” She stood up, flirtatiously caressed her temples, and cast a coquettish look at Qin Liuxi, saying, “Beauty is my weapon, what else do I need to discuss? Do you think men of this world have so much depth? Even if an ugly monster appeared, he could still cheerfully talk about how to write a character? I’m telling you, faced with an ugly woman, even a man of great talent would have a blank mind, and you expect him to write brilliant prose? Nonsense.”
Qin Liuxi: “…”
This is quite a worldview; I’m at a loss for words.
“Beauty also has its expiration date, have you not considered what happens when you’re old and faded? Even now, if a younger, fresher girl comes around, do you think he’ll still care about you?”
Aunt Wan puffed up her chest, “I’m not worried. I have the Lady backing me. Those coquettish sluts outside can’t compare to me.” In her heart, she added that she also had her children.
When she’s old and no one can rely on men, surely her children won’t let her starve to death… right?
Qin Liuxi: “!”
I’ve never seen such a lack of ambition in a concubine.