Exile with Storage Space: Family Fortunes in the Barren Lands-Chapter 482 - 457: The Young Man Who Volunteered to Help (1)

After lunch, Pei Shenyan went to the village market with his young servant.

The wedding date was uncertain, but it wouldn’t be delayed for long.

He hurried back to tidy up the new house.

Even though he didn’t have to personally clean up like Mu Yuanxiu, he didn’t trust the aesthetic sense of his young servant Pei Fusheng and old servant Pei Ji.

What could a little kid and an old man do to decorate a new house?

He had to supervise personally.

Second Young Master Li Xingsheng wanted to take the Second Princess to the market to find a suitable husband for her.

As they were about to get on the carriage, the Princess Consort Luling called them, "Wait a moment, I need to talk to Yu En about something important."

"What is it, Mother?" The Second Princess followed Princess Consort Luling into the North Courtyard Main House.

Second Young Master Li Xingsheng also followed, but Princess Consort Luling waved him away, "Go play outside, we’re going to talk about things related to women, not suitable for your ears."

Li Xingsheng pointed at the Second Princess, "Second Sister, listen carefully, don’t let it go in one ear and out the other, don’t waste the words you’ve heard."

The Second Princess objected, "Second Brother, I’m facing east right now, I only have a north ear and a south ear, there are no east or west ears."

Second Young Master Li had a dark expression, "It would be better if you used that sly mouth of yours to get along with men instead of arguing with me."

What a troublesome silly girl. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Li Xingsheng angrily swung his sleeves and left.

The Second Princess made a face at him, then walked into the Princess Consort Luling’s bedroom.

"Mother, what did you want to tell me?" The Second Princess walked over to Princess Consort Luling with a smile.

The Princess Consort sat by the table, propping her head with one hand, rubbing her temple with the other, and pointed to the space in front of her.

"Stand properly."

"Oh." The Second Princess clasped her hands in front of her, standing ladylike.

"Do you know what it means when a man likes a woman?" Princess Consort Luling asked her second daughter.

Of all her daughters, her marriage was still unsettled, yet she was still smiling? No wonder she’d grown plump, without a care in the world.

The headache wasn’t the only pain the Princess Consort felt, her heart hurt too.

With anger and worry.

The Second Princess was stumped by the question, finding it rather complicated. She blinked and thought for a moment, "Mother, holding hands and kissing, that means liking, doesn’t it?"

She had seen such descriptions of interactions between men and women in her elder sister’s secret book collection.

The Princess Consort clutched her aching heart, "To hold hands and kiss before having seen each other a few times or meeting each other’s parents is... is the behavior of a deceiver, only interested in your body, not in you as a person! Such men have extremely poor character and should be avoided."

"Then... smiling at each other? Giving gifts to each other?" The Second Princess asked again, as that’s how Liu Da Niu and his wife interacted.

"Why smile at each other? Smiling at a stranger woman is also ill-intentioned, secretly giving gifts is also not acceptable," Princess Consort Luling corrected.

The Second Princess was at a loss for how to respond, "Then... then what is liking?"

Princess Consort Luling rubbed her forehead, "When a man likes a woman, it’s not about what he says, but what he does; he should not be leering at a woman, nor making unreasonable demands."

"..."

"Even when alone together, they will keep a three-foot distance. A man who likes a woman doesn’t just think about getting her body and wealth but thinks about making her happy, always considering her well-being, this is for newly acquainted couples."

"..."

"After becoming familiar, you can smile politely at each other; after obtaining the parents’ consent and getting engaged, you can exchange gifts; when you’re officially married as husband and wife, you can hold hands and kiss, understand?"

The elder daughter had been clever since she was little, understanding matters of romance as if she were an expert, never suffering any losses in matters of interaction between men and women.

The younger daughter directly refused to see any unfamiliar men at all. In the mountain village, she only got along well with Mu Yuanxiu, who was stable and knew that the younger daughter was still young; they interacted respectfully.

But the second daughter, why is she so clueless?

Well, it’s because all her thoughts are consumed with food, forgetting everything else.

The Second Princess thought for a while and then remembered Mu Yuanxiu and Li Yuzhu.

"Mother, but Third Sister and Yuanxiu have been playing together for a long time, they’ve always been laughing and talking."

Princess Consort Luling, "..." Why nitpick? "Who else can compare with Yuanxiu? He has been with us for almost a year, a person we see daily, and we know his character. Besides, I have long tacitly endorsed their interactions."

The Second Princess nodded, "Oh, I understand now."

"Really understand?" Princess Consort Luling asked again.