Chapter Forty-Six: The Spring in the Garden and Who Will It Go (3)
She can't talk to others about this kind of thing, but she can't think of a way to solve it, and so many people have seen it. If she doesn't care about anything, it will definitely not work. But she can't think of any way to save it, so she can only do it by herself.
The room was silently distressed.
"Zhiqing, you went out to eat, why didn't you even have dinner?"
Just when she was distressed, she suddenly heard Xiahou Muqing's knocking on the door and concerned voice.
"Mom." She tried her best to suppress the panic in her heart and pretended to be calm and said to Xiahou Muqing: "I'm not hungry today and I don't want to eat. You don't have to worry about me. I'm fine."
But although she was suppressing it with all her strength, her voice was still trembling uncontrollably. When Xiahou Muqing heard her voice, he knew something was wrong.
That being the case, she couldn't ignore her daughter anymore, so she knocked on the door again and asked: "My lord, are you worried about anything? If something happens to you, please tell your mother.
Lock yourself in a room by yourself!"
Du Zhiqing said again: "It's really okay, mother, you don't have to worry about me."
But the tremor in her voice became even deeper.
Hearing her panicked voice, Xiahou Muqing became even more suspicious and asked solemnly toward the door: "No, there is definitely something wrong with you. What happened to you? What happened to you and your mother?"
Say, don’t hide it from mother, open the door quickly!”
Seeing that this matter could not be hidden from his shrewd and wise mother, Du Zhiqing had no choice but to stand up and open the door wide. At this moment, her eyes were already red, her eyes were helpless, and she said to Xiahou Muqing in a shuddering voice: "Mom, I
I really don’t know what to do…”
"What happened to you kid?" Seeing her expression, Xiahou Muqing couldn't help but worry. He hurriedly pulled her to the seat and sat down, and asked her with concern: "Don't worry,
If you have anything to tell me, I will help you find a solution."
"Mother." Du Zhiqing took Xiahou Muqing's hand, lowered his head, and said in a trembling voice: "My reputation has been ruined, and I'm afraid it will also affect your reputation, your father's, and even the reputation of the entire Luanxiang Pavilion.
, what should I do, I can’t become this sinner..."
"What are you talking about?" Xiahou Muqing didn't understand what she was talking about. He looked at her and frowned: "What happened to ruin the reputation of the festival? You told me carefully from the beginning to the end.
When the truth comes, don't be vague."
Du Zhiqing hesitated for a moment. Although he was afraid that his mother and father would be worried and distracted by this matter of his, he knew that he could not hide it, so he had no choice but to tell Xiahou Muqing the details of the cause of the whole matter.
"That's it." After telling Xiahou Muqing the whole thing from beginning to end, she pressed her temples at a loss and said in panic: "He doesn't know the rules of robbing thorn flowers. Wan and I
Dai tried to stop him, but he didn't listen."
"When he handed me the thorn flower, I was so panicked that I couldn't even refuse, so I took it and everyone saw it."
"They all think that he and I have already entered into a marriage contract. If he and I are not married, I am afraid that my reputation will be drowned in the gossip of the neighbors. What should I do, mother..."
However, when Xia Hou Muqing looked at his worried look, not only was he not worried, but he breathed a sigh of relief, smiled softly, and said: "What big thing happened to me at that time? It turns out that this is what you did.
Very worried."
Hearing this, Du Zhiqing couldn't help but be surprised: "Mom, isn't this a big deal? My daughter's reputation is about to be ruined!"
Xiahou Muqing just smiled peacefully, poked his daughter's forehead, shook his head, and said softly: "You are a silly girl, but you really are. The rules of robbing thorn flowers are just a legend in the world. You
It’s serious.”
"According to the traditional rules, when a girl gets married, she does not need to have three rules and six etiquettes. There is no saying that she has to get married just because she lost a game."
"The competition to grab the thorn flower is an explanation. Where did you hear that you lost to him, so you insisted on entering into a marriage contract with him."
"What?" Du Zhiqing said in surprise: "Mom, you mean that the rules of grabbing wattle flowers are just a legend in the world and don't need to be taken seriously at all, right?"
"But..." She was still puzzled and secretly said: "That doesn't make sense. Even if it's just a legend, why have men and women never competed together to grab thorn flowers in Muzhou City? Isn't it because of this?
The reason?"
"And after he finished fighting for the thorn flowers with me, other people looked at us very strangely, and I also heard what they were talking about. If it was really possible to pretend that nothing happened, they wouldn't use it.
Look at us like that!"
Xiahou Muqing just shook his head gently, patted Du Zhiqing's shoulder, and smiled peacefully: "Don't worry, it will definitely not cause any big damage to your reputation. The most they can do is talk about it.
That’s all, there won’t be any slander.”
"In our Muzhou City, the legend of grabbing thorn flowers has become quite popular recently, but the legend is just a legend, and there is no need to really follow this rule."
"Even if you don't marry the person who wins you, it's not a big deal and it won't have any bad impact on you at all."
"Furthermore, this rule only applies to outside men. Only when an outside man proposes marriage to a woman from the inner city, will the woman propose to compete with the man to grab the thorn flower. This rule does not apply to people from the same sect."
"Jian Chen is not an outsider. Although he has come back from other places, he can still be considered a disciple of Luanxiang Pavilion. Although the two of you are competing to grab Jinghua, it is not in accordance with the original rules, but if you treat it as brothers and sisters from the same sect, you can compete with each other.
, it’s understandable, so don’t worry.”
"However, in Muzhou City, it is very rare for a man who is not a relative to compete with a woman to compete for Jian Chen. When others see you competing with Jian Chen, they will naturally comment on the relationship between you, but the discussion is just discussion.
, will not pass on any message that damages your reputation."
"If you don't make any moves after the incident, the discussion will stop here. At most, they will just treat you and Jian Chen as discussing and discussing together, and they won't have any other ideas."
"As time goes by, this matter will pass away and no one will mention it again. It's just a small matter. Once it passes, it will be fine. You don't have to worry about it."
"Is this... is it true? So, if this matter is over and we don't do anything, it will naturally go away and it won't cause any bad effects, right?"
After listening to Xiahou Muqing's explanation, Du Zhiqing's anxious heart finally relaxed a little.
"That's right." Xiahou Muqing nodded and said, "It's just a trivial matter in the first place. How can you talk about marriage just because of a competition? It's nothing at all. It's you, a silly girl, who thought about it.
Too complicated."
"Oh, that's good, that's good!" This time, she finally felt relieved, patted her chest, breathed a long sigh of relief, and said with relief: "It really scared me to death, I still
I thought something big would happen, but it turned out to be just a legend. I thought my reputation would be ruined by this incident, and my parents and Luanxiang Pavilion would be implicated by me."
"Hey, that's not right." She suddenly thought of something again, and quickly gathered her thoughts, raised her head, and asked Xiahou Muqing: "Even if it does not damage my reputation, all this is still being done by those common people.
After seeing it, they started talking about it."
"And our identities and names are relatively prominent in Muzhou City. Even if our reputations are not damaged, there will still be some rumors about the two of us. In the end, there will still be people meeting
Discuss?"
Xiahou Muqing didn't show any worry, and just said softly: "It doesn't matter, they are just talking at most, and they can't hurt you at all. And after the incident, if you don't make any move, this incident will also happen."
It ends here. You don’t have to worry about it, just do whatever you have to do. “
"Sigh." Du Zhiqing sighed, blinked in distress, and whispered: "Even if it doesn't cause much damage, there will still be some rumors about the relationship between the two of us."
"It's all his fault for being so impatient and rash. He refuses to listen to anything I say. It's all his fault for this. I really thought he would change his behavior for me, but it turns out it's still the same. I really don't want to do that in the future.
Ignore him!"
Seeing her like this, Xiahou Muqing couldn't help but shook his head and said with a smile: "You were clamoring to play with him a few days ago, why don't you want to pay attention to him now?"
Du Zhiqing shook his arm and pouted and said: "I like to play with him, but I didn't expect that he would still be so stubborn. If it weren't for his recklessness, how could these things happen?"
Xiahou Muqing just said softly: "What he did today was indeed wrong, but you don't have to completely deny him just because of his mistake."
"With his temperament, if he knew the truth about this matter, he would definitely do something and he would never remain indifferent. You can do whatever you want with him, and there is no need to worry about this matter."
"Okay." Xiahou Muqing stopped talking about this topic. He stood up and said to Du Zhiqing: "You can resolve this matter between you juniors by yourselves. Mother will not interfere."
"There is a meal prepared in the kitchen. You haven't eaten anything this night. I will ask someone to bring you some later. You can eat some."
"Well, okay." Du Zhiqing just nodded and said nothing more.
"Well, since there's nothing wrong, I'll go back first." After saying that, Xiahou Muqing left Du Zhiqing's room.