With that said.
His servant immediately stepped forward to help him leave.
Jiang Li's acting was rather clumsy, but everyone present knew where to draw the line. They let him go without exposing him.
Jiang He was clearly better at handling people than Jiang Li, and soon mingled easily with the assembled officials.
Lin Xiangyin secretly watched her second son move through the crowd like a fish in water and couldn't help gritting her teeth. "Rong'er, back when I said... how long did I give your Second Brother to find a wife before I'd throw him out?"
"I think it was... a year?"
Jiang Wanrong ventured.
Lin Xiangyin frowned slightly. "Why do I remember saying the end of the year?"
Excellent.
Jiang Wanrong immediately understood what her mother was thinking.
She obediently corrected herself. "Then I must have remembered wrong. What you said was probably that if Second Brother came home at the end of the year without a girl who'd caught his eye, you'd throw him out."
"I thought so~" Lin Xiangyin nodded unhurriedly. "Nanny... did the second young master return to the residence alone today?"
"Yes."
The nanny beside Lin Xiangyin nodded.
Lin Xiangyin looked again at Jiang He, who was smiling brightly amid the crowd. A gleam flickered in her eyes, and her smile grew even brighter.
Meanwhile, Jiang He, who was drinking, inexplicably felt a faint chill down his back.
So he hurriedly had someone fetch him a cloak to drape over his shoulders.
The weather at the end of the year was cold, after all.
Lying on the roof, Chu Youning felt her hands growing cold, so she got herself a pair of gloves and stuck a few more Heat Patches onto her body while she was at it.
Inside the bridal chamber.
Lin