Chen Wanqing understood how they felt. She agreed she should marry before Jing sat for his examination, so she could help care for his mother and sister.
Unfortunately, a wedding in the seventh month was out of the question—the weather would be too hot for wedding attire. The second day of the second lunar month, the Dragon Head-Raising Festival, was an auspicious day suitable for the groom's procession, but its good omens also made it the day the Child Examination began.
That left, by careful calculation, only one remaining date: the twentieth of the twelfth lunar month.
Xu Su Ying's brow was furrowed with worry, and she twisted the handkerchief in her hands into a knot.
She had been the one eager to marry her daughter off, but now that it was actually time for her to leave home, she was also the one who most wanted to call it off.
"Can't we postpone the wedding until the year after next?"
"Why the year after next? Can't we do it in the latter half of next year?"
