"I hope Master and Brother Yangong won't bring this up and put me in a difficult position."
Wei Tu shook his head and buried this concern deep in his heart.
After Martial Graduate Dan passed away.
Whether he married off his daughter or arranged her betrothal, he would look after the Dan family's descendants and offer them assistance.
—He did not want his daughter's lifelong marriage to be decided for her, leaving her unable to resist, simply because he needed to repay a debt of gratitude.
"That is easy enough." Xinghua walked over to the cradle, pinched Yanyan's soft little cheek, and smiled. "Put up a notice outside your door saying that you dote on your daughter and will not promise her hand in marriage before Yanyan comes of age."
"Once the Dan family sees that notice, they will also fear angering you and will not lightly bring it up."
"Besides, Xiao Fang has only come to test the waters for now. It has not yet reached the point where Master, Madam, or Brother Yangong would speak up."
"That is indeed a solution." Wei Tu nodded at this.
He was an eighth-rank official. There would surely be many people seeking ties with him through marriage, so putting up such a notice was only reasonable.
It would not make the Dan family feel they had been singled out.
After they had finished discussing serious matters.
Xinghua's cheeks flushed slightly. She blew out the candle and pulled Wei Tu onto the bed. "Wei, some days ago, I went to the apothecary for medicine to help conceive. This year, we will definitely have another child..."
After giving birth to Wei Yan, she had spent a year recuperating before becoming pregnant again. Unfortunately, that child had miscarried.
It was not until this April that