Reborn as a Merchant Girl, the General's Beloved

Anan sat beside her mother, listening to everyone's gossip. She looked at Xiaofu, pondered for a while, then whispered in her mother's ear, "Mom, drink less. I have something to discuss with you after dinner."

The family dinner lasted a long time. The men went to the front room to have tea, while the women went to sit in Liu's courtyard and discussed going to Anan's mountain garden to appreciate the plum blossoms early the next morning. Since Anan had told her about it early, Yuan Ruolan said that she couldn't drink much and took Anan back to her own courtyard.

Seeing that no one was outside, Anan whispered, "Xiao Fu already has someone in her heart."

Yuan Ruolan ordered someone to bring a bowl of barley tea to her daughter and said with a smile, "That man doesn't like her, what can we do?"

"Mom, how did you know?" Anan was a little surprised.

"I guessed it." Yuan Ruolan smiled and gently fiddled with the ashes in the hand stove. Without even looking up, she said, "Xiao Fu is a girl who dares to think and act. If I didn't dislike her, I'm afraid she would have blown the roof off our house long ago!"

This is the truth. Given Xiaofu's personality, if Jinyun also likes her, I'm afraid she would drop everything and elope.

"Since she doesn't like Song He, why force it?" Anan approached Yuan Ruolan, leaned on her shoulder, and sighed, "I'm afraid our family's business doesn't need to rely on Xiao Fu's marriage to maintain it, right? If uncle and aunt really like the Teng family, it wouldn't be bad to have a godson."

"Have you asked Xiaofu what she thinks?" Yuan Ruolan turned around and poked Anan's forehead with her finger.

Anan shook his head, but was a little confused: "Mom, will Xiaofu really marry someone she doesn't like?"

Yuan Ruolan looked at her and smiled: "What you said is nothing more than telling me that the person she wants to marry doesn't like her, and she doesn't like the person who wants to marry her."

"Yeah." Anan felt that his mother's summary was very accurate.

"You want me to persuade my uncle to cancel her engagement with Songhe?" Yuan Ruolan asked again.

"Yeah." That's exactly what she meant. After all, isn't it that Xiao Fu doesn't dare to speak for herself now?

"Then what?" Yuan Ruolan asked her again.

Anan was stunned for a moment.

"Are you going to use your relationship as brother-in-law to force Xiaofu's lover to marry her?" Yuan Ruolan's tone was very relaxed, even a little joking, but her expression was extremely serious.

She really didn't think so.

"I know you love Xiaofu, and you two sisters have always had a deep affection for each other, but Anan, you have to understand that everyone has their own path to take." Yuan Ruolan looked into the distance with a melancholy look, and said solemnly, "Do you know what the saddest thing is for a woman?"

Anan responded: "Marry someone you don't love."

"You can't choose your own life." Yuan Ruolan looked at her, gently stroked the fluffy hair on her forehead, and smiled, "You are still too young. Maybe you will understand in the future."

Anan fell silent.

Seeing that she seemed to be in deep sorrow, Yuan Ruolan could not help but said, "Go ask Xiaofu. If she really doesn't want to marry Songhe, I will go to your uncle and aunt on her behalf and will definitely help her to reject the marriage. Although your uncle and aunt hope that she can get married soon, they also hope that she can live a good life in the future, so they won't force her."

"If she really wanted to, she wouldn't have caused so much trouble." Thinking of the night when she went to Xinyun Manor to look for someone, she still felt a little scared.

Yuan Ruolan just smiled and said nothing.