The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law-Chapter 480 - 490 Shattered Dream

"Who is it?" Lin Qianqing looked at Jin Wei, suddenly feeling a strange sensation, so her tone was unpleasant.

She felt that today’s cousin didn’t seem as dashing and compelling as usual, which always made her heart flutter like a little deer.

In his eyes, she saw something disdainful.

Although Lin Qianqing’s mother was the legitimate daughter of the Jin Family, a proper lady of high society, her father came from a grassroots background, and so did her grandmother. Influenced by them, she also felt a sense of being of grassroots origin.

She couldn’t stand those who looked down on ordinary people and seemed to think they were above everyone else. Before today, she had thought her cousin shared her sentiments.

Xiao Jinyan watched Lin Qianqing, silently giving a sneer and then went back to drinking tea by the window.

From this angle, looking out the window, one could see a vast beautiful vista of Beijing.

Jin Wei seemed not to have noticed Lin Qianqing’s odd behavior and continued, "The same one we were talking about earlier, the daughter of the sister my uncle left in the village, the peasant girl."

Seeing the look in Jin Wei’s eyes, Lin Qianqing felt even more uneasy. She blinked, then slightly lowered her eyes and said, "Of course, it’s her. My father has only one sister, my aunt has only one daughter, so naturally, I only have that one cousin."

Jin Wei found it strange and pressed on, "But I heard that your aunt married a rural man. How did her daughter become the Princely Heir’s senior sister?"

"How would I know that?" Lin Qianqing’s response was genuine. She paused, then added, "However, I’ve heard that last year, His Majesty bestowed a plaque of ’Divine Doctor’ and had it delivered to Lingnan to commend the doctor who cured the epidemic at the Lingnan Barracks. The recipient of that plaque is indeed my cousin."

"What? Her?" Jin Wei was stunned and couldn’t speak for a moment, his mouth agape.

Although he didn’t hold an official post in the royal court, he was quite aware of the epidemic at the Lingnan Barracks. The medicines were in short supply, and the Emperor issued an edict for Prefecture Governments to work with Lingnan’s physicians in dispensing medicines. The portion from Beijing was managed by his father, and he himself had lent a great deal of help.

It was said that the ’Divine Doctor’ was a woman, which surprised everyone in court; they never imagined that this woman would turn out to be Gu Youyou, whom his cousin Lin Qianqing had always spoken highly of to him.

The very same woman from just before.

Meanwhile, Xiao Jinyan, with an enigmatic smile, sipped his tea.

Naturally, he knew who Gu Youyou was. But so what? Therefore, if one were to observe him closely, they would notice the hint of disdain he concealed.

Jin Wei managed a stiff twitch of his mouth, smiling in a way that looked more painful than crying, "No... it can’t be, how could it be her? She’s just a village girl and seems so young..."

If it really was her, then he had unwittingly offended a ’Divine Doctor’—one conferred by the Emperor himself.

Lin Qianqing had been watching every move Jin Wei made, and seeing the changes in his expression from before until now, her heart turned cold.

How could her elder cousin be such a person? When talking about her cousin as a village girl, that look of contempt was unmistakable. When it came to her being a ’Divine Doctor’ conferred by the Emperor, his incredulity was obvious.

Couldn’t he know that the Lin Family started from a rural background?

The Ducal Residence’s title was hereditary and unchangeable, so they were born with high status. That’s why Lin Qianqing disliked the other cousins from the Jin Family, as they always referred to the Lin Family as bumpkins, and in her childhood, they had even insultingly called her a bumpkin.

But this elder cousin of hers had always stepped up to protect her whenever he heard such talk. He never criticized the Lin Residence’s vegetable gardens, so she had thought he was different.