Chapter 17: The Second Sister-in-law Who Has Not Crossed the Threshold

  Zhang Shan returned home when it was almost evening.

  As soon as I entered the door, I saw Xiaoyao pacing back and forth in the front yard. When he saw me, he hastily came forward to greet me.

  "What's going on at home?"

  Seeing her as if waiting for his return, Zhang Shan asked out loud.

  "Third Master, something's wrong! Miss Wu has run away from home and escaped to our house," Yu Xiao said in a low voice.

  "What's wrong with Miss Wu?"

  Zhang Shan's mind was momentarily unable to turn around.

  Yu Mian reminded him: "Didn't Second Young Master have a marriage arrangement with Miss Wu before his death? It's that Miss Wu."

  When he heard her words, Zhang Shan suddenly remembered.

  Zhang Shan's second brother Zhang Feng was engaged to Miss Wu Xueyue from the Wu family three years ago when he was 19 years old.

  Just a year later, Zhang Feng failed to break through the Lingwu boundary and suddenly died at the age of twenty. The engagement also became a mere formality.

  Since Zhang Feng's death, the Zhang and Wu families have had little contact. Now that Wu Xueyue has run away from home and escaped to her own family, what is going on?

  "Where is Miss Wu now? You said she ran away from home?" Zhang Shan asked with a puzzled mind.

  "Yes, I heard her say that it seems like her family is forcing her to get married or something. Now she's in the mistress' room. The mistress told me to wait here and as soon as the young master returns, I'll be asked to go over."

  "You go back and report to the lady first, I'll take a bath and change my clothes, then I'll come over."

  Zhang Shan looked at his own clothes which were torn and tattered from the competition.

  Hurriedly returning to his room to take a bath and change into clean clothes, Zhang Shan then arrived at his mother's room.

  Two sisters were standing at the door waiting, seeing him coming, they quickly lifted the curtain and invited him in.

  In the room, Mother Xiao Suixin was accompanying a young woman in a low voice conversation, Zhang Shan knew she should be Wu Xueyue.

  Although she doesn't have a stunning beauty, she looks exceptionally delicate and elegant, exuding a subtle and refined temperament that gives people a warm and gentle feeling.

  "Shaner, you've finally arrived, come quickly, there's something I want to ask for your opinion."

  Xiao Su Xin saw Zhang Shan come in and beckoned him over.

  Zhang Shan walked over and sat down beside his mother, smiling as he nodded at the woman who had almost become his second sister-in-law.

  Miss Wu lowered her head in a bit of disarray after exchanging glances with him, and a faint blush appeared on her face.

  He turned his head and asked his mother: "I don't know what you want to ask, Mother?"

  "It's like this..."

  Xiao Su Xin looked at Wu Xue Yue for a moment, then recounted the events from start to finish.

  After Zhang Shan's second brother passed away, his family sent someone to return the marriage certificate so as not to hinder Wu Xueyue's happiness for the rest of her life.

  After the Wu family received the marriage certificate, their attitude at that time was ambiguous, neither agreeing nor refusing. Since the Zhang family had done what they should have done, the Wu family thought it was up to them to decide what to do next, and after that, there wasn't much contact between them anymore.

  Later, the Wu family wanted to marry Wu Xueyue off to a young master of a large family as a concubine. Wu Xueyue initially refused to comply, but when she was forced into a desperate situation, she thought of fleeing to the Zhang family for refuge.

  "That's what happened, Shan, what do you think we should do about it?"

  Xiao Su Xin finished speaking and then asked Zhang Shan.

  Zhang Shan hesitated for a moment and said: "But since our family has already called off the wedding, it's not reasonable to take in Miss Wu."

  Xiao Su Xin picked up a scroll-like thing from the side table and said, "Xue Yue brought back the marriage certificate that we returned at that time. At that time, after getting the marriage certificate, she didn't destroy it."

  "After learning of the bad news, I was very sad and wanted to keep it as a memento, so I've been keeping it all along."

  Wu Xueyue also spoke softly at this time.

  Xiao Su's eyes lovingly gazed at her for a moment, then turned to Zhang Shan and said:

  "Xue Yue just told her mother that she plans to complete the wedding with your second brother, so she will be a member of the Zhang family and cannot marry anyone else."

  "Could it be that Second Brother is no longer around, and Miss Wu has married into our family like this? Isn't this just a case of 'guarding the empty nest'?" Zhang Shan said in a daze.

  Wu Xueyue raised her head at this time and said firmly:

  "Even so, it's better than marrying that man as a concubine. That man's concubines are either abused to death or given away to others. Rather than that, I'd rather die."

  She stood up with a smile and knelt down in front of Xiao Su: "I hope you will fulfill your promise."

  Xiao Su quickly pulled her up: "Get up, what are you doing, child?"

  Zhang Shan said indignantly at this time: "If it's such a loser, how would your family agree to it."

  Wu Xueyue smiled wistfully, biting her lip and falling silent, with a glimmer of tears in the corner of her eyes.

  Xiao Su's heart was light, and she hummed a sound, saying: "It's just falling into the eyes of money, for the sake of some yellow and white things, they pushed their daughter into the fire pit, it's amazing that they can do it."

  Zhang Shan said resolutely: "Since that's the case, mother, let's have Miss Wu stay for now. With a marriage certificate in hand, I'd like to see what the Wu family can do about it."

  Xue Yue wiped her eyes and said in a low voice: "Thank you, madam and Third Young Master."

  Xiao Suoxin held her hand and smiled: "What are you thanking me for? If it weren't for Feng'er's early passing, you would have been my daughter-in-law anyway. In any case, just rest assured for now, we'll talk about everything later."

  Seeing that it was getting late, Xiao Su told the servants to clean up Wu Xueyue's room and then took her to have dinner together.

  Wu Xueyue settled down in Zhang's house like this.

  The next day, Zhangshan did not go to school and instead practiced in his backyard for a whole morning.

  Just before noon, butler Zhang Cheng came to report that the Wu family had come to visit.

  "It's really quick, huh? Let's go take a look. Who did they send from their family? Have you seen the lady?"

  Zhang Shan followed Zhang Cheng forward and asked.

  "It's Miss Xueyue's older brother, Wu Qiming, who has brought two people with him and is currently waiting in the front hall. The madam said she doesn't want to see him for now and also asked me to bring over the marriage certificate, telling Young Master to take care of it."

  Zhang Shan nodded: "You hold on to it first, let's see what that Wu Qiming wants to say before we make a decision."

  As they spoke, the two had already arrived at the front hall, and Zhang Shan entered with his head held high.

  In the hall, there was a white-faced, slightly fat man in his thirties sitting and drinking tea. Behind him stood two martial artists who looked like bodyguards, both of whom seemed to be at the fifth level of Qi Wu.

  Zhang Shan smiled and stepped forward, greeting him with a wave of his hand: "What wind has blown Brother Wu here?"

  Wu Qiming hastily stood up, his round face smiling like a flower: "It's Third Master, long time no see!"

  Zhang Shan walked to the middle chair and sat down: "Brother Wu, please sit down. It seems like it's been more than three years since I last saw you, Brother Wu. You've gained weight, I suppose your wealth has increased recently?"

  "It's nothing, just doing some small business, can't compare with Third Master's family having a mine, guaranteed to make money whether it's dry or wet."

  Wu Qiming still smiled all over his face and said.

  The two men each had their own thoughts, and after a lot of back-and-forth discussion, Wu Qiming finally couldn't bear it anymore.

  "He coughed and said: 'Third Master, Wu has come today to take his sister back. What do you think?'"

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