Repudiating a Good Wife Is Out of the Question

25. Mo is My Wife

Translator: Sissy That Walk

Cao Mo felt for Xiao Qian, he couldn’t imagine how heartbreaking this was for Xiao Qian.

“Why are you so late?”asked Liu Heng.

Cao Mo moped, “I didn’t even know Dowager Xiao was coming back today, I would have been busy with transcribing those damn characters if not for Moqi.”

Liu Heng smiled, “Haha, I know Moqi would be of great help to you. Plus his mother also works in the mansion, his mother works in the kitchen… …”

Cao Mo also smiled, “Moqi is a good page.”

Cao Mo felt more grateful to Liu Heng for he appreciated Liu Heng’s good intentions, Moqi would definitely be more resourceful than any other page or maid in the family with his mother’s help.

Liu Heng replied, “He had been serving me since I married into this family, you need to treat him well, just for me.”

Cao Mo was loud in his thanks, he would have been punished this day if not for Moqi.

Auntie Lu chimed in when Cao Mo and Liu Heng were chatting, “Mo, I’m vaguely seeing someone is hiding behind the tree, and he is looking at you.”

Cao Mo and Liu Heng both looked at the tree, and they saw nothing.

When they arrived at Cunxi Hall, Cao Mo slowed down deliberately, it was Moqi who was coming to remind him to not eat anything suspicious in the hall.

Cao Mo asked, “Where is the Young Master?”

Moqi replied, “He went back to our house only to find there were burglars, Young Master also found there was a hidden underpath in our house.”

Cao Mo was confused.

But he soon joined others and walked to the hall. Dowager Xiao was sitting in the seat of honor, others took their seat accordingly.

Cao Mo was now standing behind Lady Lu, moping. Xiao Yi now walked in as well, he kowtowed to Dowager Xiao, “Greetings, grandmother. Also I brought a thing that Lady Lu must be interested to see.”

Dowager Xiao soon asked people to support Xiao Yi to rise, “Rise! My grandson! You don’t need to kowtow to me, your heath is the most important thing to me!”

Xiao Yi produced the marriage contract from his sleeve, “I heard people have been saying Mo is my concubine, so I want to show everyone our marriage contract, Mo is my wife, my only wife.”

Cao Mo’s heart was melting, he walked towards Xiao Yi and caught hold of his hand.

“Mo, don’t worry, you are wife and I will love you for the rest of my life.”

Cao Mo almost welled up, ‘What is going on? Are we going to exchange vows in front of this old lady? Another round?’

Lady Lu cleared her thought when the two were exuding tenderness and love through eyes.

She opened the marriage contract and was taken aback, it was Cao Mo’s name on it! Cao Le tampered it for fear that the Xiaos would come back and look for him.

Dowager Xiao nodded in satisfaction, “Is this recorded in our pedigree?”

Lady Lu suddenly beamed, no, they had not recorded Cao Mo’s name on the pedigree yet. It was all delayed by the smallpox breakout in Concubine Wu’s house.

Cao Mo was choked, he didn’t expect this would be so eventful. Xiao Yi patted Cao Mo’s hand as a comfort, “Don’t worry, leave it to me. As long as we are married, you are the Young Madam in this family, no one can change that!”

… …

Xiao Yugui held a family feast to celebrate Dowager Xiao’s coming back, all the in laws were invited too.

The Lus, the Lius and also the Caos all showed up. Cao Mo had seen all the Xiaos except Xiao Yuqi who was garrisoning the frontiers.

Cao Mo loathed his brother Cao Le, especially when Cao Le stared at Xiao Yi like he was trying to seduce Xiao Yi. Cao Mo didn’t even look at Magistrate Cao when he arrived, Magistrate Cao was unhappy about that so he pulled Cao Mo aside and lectured him. Xiao Yi came to toast to Magistrate Cao knowingly and ‘rescued’ his wife.

When Xiao Yi toasted to Cao Le, Cao Le was wild with joy, Cao Mo saw Cao Le touched Xiao Yi’s hand when Xiao Yi stood by him.

Xiao Yi pushed Cao Le away, Cao Le lowered his head and gave Xiao Yi a coy smile, “I know you are blaming me, but… … never mind, I know you don’t care about me… …”

All that didn’t escape Cao Mo, he said with disgust, “Brother I’m sure you can find a perfect match for yourself, just don’t covet mine, I won’t budge.”

With that Cao Mo grabbed Xiao Yi’s hand and together they turned around and left.

Seeing that, Magistrate Cao stamped his foot in frustration, he was in the middle of a conversation with his son-in-low, Magistrate Cao was asking Xiao Yi whether Xiao Yi could help him to get a promotion. But before they actually talked about it, Xiao Yi was pulled away and left.

Cao Le sat right next to Magistrate Cao and he said indignantly, “Father, as I’ve said earlier, once Mo becomes rich and successful, he will surely forget about us. Let’s just say tonight, what a wonderful opportunity to introduce you to Marquis Valour, but he did not. If I were him, I would have done that first thing after I married into this family.”

Magistrate Cao also was mad, “You are right, look at that rascal, the only reason he is so respected is because you gave him the opportunity to marry into such a noble family! Don’t worry, Le, I heard Marquis Valour has two sons, and the other son was born by the Lady of the family, do you want to… …”

“Father! Do you really want both your sons marry men?” retorted Cao Le.

“Why not? Not just any man, the young master of such a big family, why not?” Magistrate Cao said that in his cups.

Cao Le turned around and watched Cao Mo and Xiao Yi’s retiring figures, ‘All this wealth should be mine! Mine!’

Xiao Yi needed to toast to the Lus for they were his so-called mother’s maiden family. But Dowager Xiao stopped him, “Yi, you are still in poor health, you might as well ask your wife to do it for you.”