A knife in love

Chapter 284

Mrs. Sha nodded slightly, holding a cup of fragrant tea in her hand, looking at the green tea in the cup, and said slowly: "When I was young, I remember living in a big house. That house was built in the south of Wuyi Mountain, Fujian Province. There are more than a hundred families of the same clan..."

When she said this, Murong Danyan's eyes widened, and he said to Mrs. Sha: "Ah, so my sister is also from Fujian, and she still lives in Wuyi Mountain. Doesn't that mean she is a neighbor with Xiao Laowu?"

She spoke and interrupted Mrs. Sha, which was quite impolite.It's just that Mrs. Sha knew that although Murong Danyan slipped out of the house to wander the rivers and lakes, after all, she was just a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, she was not angry, and said: "The Xiao family is a big family in Wuyi Mountain, our Fang family is just a foreigner. There is absolutely no comparison to a dilapidated household.”

Although Xiao Zhanpeng was always proud, he didn't dare to take it calmly at this time, he waved his hands hastily and said: "Madam is serious, Xiao will never dare to think about it."

Mrs. Sha smiled slightly, and said: "This is the truth, how can we talk about delusions or not? There are poems in the past that say it well. In the old days, the swallows in front of Wang Xietang flew into the homes of ordinary people. Since Pangu opened the world, all dynasties and dynasties have There are ups and downs, and a big family can only be rich for three generations. Although our Sha family is big, it has gone through several generations of decline, but it is not unusual."

When Li Qiufeng heard that Mrs. Sha had such insights, he was secretly amazed.

I only heard Mrs. Sha say: "At that time, the patriarch of the Fang family was an old man with a white beard, three generations older than me, and we all called him the old man. Ding wants to go to the ancestral hall to pay homage to the ancestors. Women in the family are not allowed to step into the ancestral hall, so I am very interested in what kind of people are enshrined in the ancestral hall. If it is not afraid of Wooden stick, I have already slipped in to have a look.

"My mother passed away after giving birth to me. There are two older brothers and one older sister in the family. My father only likes two older brothers. He treats me and my older sister a bit so-so. But I don't care whether he treats me and my older sister well or not." Not good, I play with my sister every day, and my life is quite happy.

"When I was six years old, I went to the family's private school to study. Girls like us only need to learn a few words. My husband also taught superficial books such as "San Zi Jing" and "Hundred Family Surnames". Only brothers and sisters of the same clan will learn the Four Books and Five Classics from their masters. And after the girls have studied for three years, they will stop going to private schools and concentrate on spinning and weaving to support the whole family.

"When I was nine years old, my elder sister was already 14 years old. In that year, a few people came to my family suddenly, and they were dressed very gorgeously. Several aunts from the same family came to my house to wash and dress up my elder sister. Only then did I know that it was a year Previously, the patriarch had already made an appointment with a family named Ma in the capital to marry his sister to the son of the Ma family. This time, the people from the Ma family came to pick up his sister.

"Girls of the same clan will marry into the Fang family when they are thirteen or fourteen years old. I am used to such things. Because when those sisters get married, we children can always get some sweets and snacks, so every day By this time, I was very happy. But my sister hugged me and cried bitterly, and told me that I can no longer take care of me in the future, and I have to be careful. At that time, I was ignorant, how could I know what my sister said? Deep meaning? I just saw my sister crying, so I shed tears too. Dad was surprisingly kind that day. Seeing my sister and I crying together, he didn't get angry, but just waited on the sidelines.

"I remember that my sister wiped away her tears and said to my father: 'I know that marrying into the Ma family is a marriage made by the patriarch. Working as an errand in the capital, marrying a child of his family can protect the safety of our Fang family. But daddy, you know that it is a fire pit, but you still push your daughter into the fire pit, why?'

"Daddy listened to what my sister said, and didn't speak for a long time. Finally, he burst into tears and sobbed, and said, "Baby, Daddy doesn't want you to go either. But your third uncle's two daughters died of illness one after another after they got married, and they didn't stay. Son. We have been on good terms with the Ma family for generations, thanks to someone from his family working in Jinyiwei, our Fang family has been safe and sound all these years without any incidents. Now the patriarch has appointed you to renew the son of the Ma family. You, you, for your father, for the two Brother, for the sake of your sister, and the whole family of hundreds of people, just, just go...'

"My elder sister didn't answer what my father said, but just kept crying silently. After a long time, my elder sister said to my father: 'Daddy, my mother died early, and only my sister and I are left in our family. Two elder brothers I have always been taken care of by the clan members, so I don't worry about it. But I don't worry about my sister, I'm afraid that she will marry into those shady places like me and other sisters in the clan and suffer. Dad, I went to Ma's house and I will protect myself The Fang family tried their best, and only asked daddy to find a good family for her younger sister, and stop letting her marry some dude like me and other older sisters, and suffer endless pain and torture, okay?"

"But my father didn't speak, just kept silent. My sister held me in her arms again, and whispered in my ear: 'Sister, when you reach my age, if they want you to marry, you must ask clearly What kind of person did you marry? If the other party is a son of a rich family or an official family, you should run away as far away as possible, you know?"

"I nodded in a daze, and then watched a few aunts help my sister in new clothes out. Since that day, I have never seen her again. When I asked my father, he always said that my sister married to the capital, Living a life of rich clothes and fine food, don't let me worry about my sister.

"Everyone in our Fang family knows martial arts. When I was six years old, I also started to practice martial arts with my clan members. It's just that the elders in the clan who taught us girls martial arts didn't pay attention. But my sister once told me that if you learn martial arts well, you will be able to Protect myself from being bullied by others. I know that in this life, only my sister treats me the best, and I must listen to her words. So I practice martial arts most seriously, and the more I practice my kung fu, the better I get. Many men of the same clan are not my opponents.

"It's just that as I get older, I gradually realize that there are some mysterious things about the Fang family. For example, there are girls who marry out every year, but I have never seen them come back. Every year, the men in the family also get married. But they are all ordinary women who are illiterate.

"I was 13 years old that year, and I remember it was late autumn. My aunts and sisters and I went to the mountain to pick tea, and when we came back, we put the picked tea in the big house in the west courtyard. When we came back early that day, after packing up the tea, It was not too late, and several aunts and younger sisters were going to wash clothes in the pond outside the house. I had already washed the clothes of my father and two brothers the day before, and there was nothing to do in my hands. The aunt and sister left the house, but instead of going to the pond with them, they slipped away halfway to see the flowers in the flower garden at the east end of the old house.

"It was late autumn at that time, and there were no flowers in the flower garden. Although I wanted to look at the flowers, I knew it myself, but I just didn't want to stay in the house. Because it was too quiet there, it was scary. In the flower garden Although it is also very quiet, it is very satisfying for me to be able to hear the birds and insects.

"I sat on a stone in the flower garden, looked at the withered scene in front of me, and thought of my sister. When I was young, she often took me to play in this flower garden. I was very happy at that time, and my sister was like an umbrella. I shelter from the wind and rain. Now that I have grown up, the little sisters of the same clan treat me just like I did to my elder sister back then. Only then did I deeply understand how good my elder sister was to me back then!

"I was thinking about it, and I didn't know when, I actually shed tears. Later, I wiped away the tears and was about to walk back when I suddenly found two men in gray walking around the flowerbed, looking around, and looking at the Fang family. The old house walked over. I saw that the two men were sneaky and not like good people, and their steps were light. They obviously had martial arts, so I immediately paid attention. So I followed them quietly to see what the two were thinking.

"The two of them walked all the way to the Fang family's old house and discussed in a low voice, but they didn't go to the main entrance, but went around to the back of the old house. I saw that these two people left the gate and didn't leave, and went around to the back of the house I feel that the whereabouts of these two people are strange, and they must have plots against our Fang family. Naturally, we need to investigate clearly, so we have been following closely. When the two arrived at the back of the house, there was no one around, so they performed lightness kung fu. Jumped up the fence, then jumped into the yard.

"I followed the two of them, and saw one person hiding behind a big tree in the backyard, while the other hurriedly walked towards the main room in the backyard. I was shocked because the main room in the backyard was the residence of the old patriarch, and this person wanted to The main room is going, do you want to harm the patriarch old man?"

When Mrs. Sha said this, she paused for a while, and then said to Li Qiufeng, Murong Danyan, and Xiao Zhanpeng: "I will not hide it from you, I have never had a good impression of the old patriarch of the Fang family. This man has a dignified appearance. He is strict and fair, but he is only good to the men of the clan. He treats us women as nothing, but wants to use us to gain benefits for the clan. At that time, I saw that person rushing to the residence of the clan leader, but I was not worried He is not good for the patriarch, but he is worried that he can't beat the patriarch. How many of you won't laugh at my little selfishness?"

(End of this chapter)