Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 10

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When Li Yan, Ruan Xiaoqi, Wu Song, Wu Dalang and five scouts carrying gifts came to Zhang Dahu's house, it happened that Zhang Dahu was not at home.

Seeing that Li Yan and the others brought a lot of gifts, Zhang Dahu's wife, Zhang Ganniang, made an exception to meet their group.

One of Zhang Ganniang's maids caught Li Yan's attention, but see:
Eyebrows are like willow leaves in early spring, often containing rain and hatred; face is like peach blossoms in March, hiding the moonlight.The slender waist is graceful, and the restrained swallows are lazy;The jade appearance is enchanting, and the flowers explain the language, and the fragrance is graceful and graceful.

Li Yan secretly said: "Is this Pan Jinlian? If so, it's no wonder she can attract bees and butterflies everywhere!"

Zhang Ganniang asked: "I don't know where the high officials make their living?"

Li Yandao: "My surname is Li, I'm from Jeju Prefecture, and I'm in the business of medicinal materials."

Li Yan's aura of seeing the world cannot be concealed, and Zhang Ganniang, who came from a wealthy family, knew it at a glance.

Therefore, Ganniang Zhang said politely: "So it's Mr. Li... I don't know why Mr. Li came to my Zhang family this time?"

Li Yandao: "I came here this time, one is to thank the master for taking care of my elder brother Wu Zhi these years, and the other is... I want to become a relative with my godmother."

"relative?"

Everyone is at a loss!
There was no need for others to ask, so Li Yan pointed to Zhang Ganniang's maid, and then asked Wu Song: "Brother, how about the godmother's daughter being assigned to you as a wife?"

Li Yan's sudden and abrupt words made everyone look stunned!
Wu Song took a peek at Zhang Ganniang's maid, and then said vaguely: "This...my brother is not married yet..."

Seeing Wu Song looking at her, Zhang Ganniang's maid hurriedly lowered her head in shame!

Seeing the performance of Wu Song and Zhang Ganniang's maid, Li Yan knew that this was Lang Youqing's concubine's intention, and then he laughed and said: "What's the difficulty? Go back and give more money to the matchmaker so that the matchmaker can find a suitable one." A woman is matched with an elder brother, and when the two of you and your brother get married together, wouldn't it be a pleasure?"

Wu Dalang, with the appearance of three-inch dingu bark, a poor family background, and his younger brother who is an idler, so that he has never married in his 30s. Although Wu Song doesn't say it, it is actually a big thing in Wu Song's heart. A piece of heart disease!
Now it is hoped that this heart disease will be cured.

Besides, Zhang Ganniang's maid is really beautiful, with bright eyes and white teeth, and graceful, how could a strong guy at 23 or [-] not like such a woman?

In the end, Wu Song turned his hot face aside, clasped his fists at the same time, and said, "This is all up to my brother!"

Seeing that Wu Song was shy, Li Yan laughed, and then said: "Okay, then I will take care of this matter more and more!"

At this moment, a very unhappy voice sounded: "This is not right!"

Li Yan settled the marriage between Wu Song and Zhang Ganniang's maid in a few words, which made one of them very unhappy!
Who is this person?

Who else, of course, is Ganniang Zhang!
Let me ask, would you be happy if someone married off your maid in a few words and insisted that she was your daughter?
Li Yan stretched out his hand to Zhang Ganniang, and said: "Ganniang, please take a step to talk."

Ganniang Zhang hesitated for a moment!
However, thinking that this is her home, there are dozens of farmers outside, she has nothing to fear, Ganniang Zhang got up and walked to the side, and then said: "What does Mr. Li want to tell the old man?"

Li Yan came to Zhang Ganniang and whispered: "Ganniang, your maid is full of charms. I feel pity for her. She is a beauty in the world. Unless Zhang Yuanwai has a heart of stone, how can he not be tempted by her? I assert that Ganniang will If she stays at home, she will become a disaster... Let me say one more heart-wrenching remark, hasn't the godmother heard of it, that the new ones laugh but the old ones cry?"

Ganniang Zhang's heart skipped a beat!
How could she not know that since her maid Pan Jinlian grew up, Zhang Dahu has been pestering Pan Jinlian in every possible way?
If it wasn't for Pan Jinlian's refusal to obey and Zhang Dahu's fear of her natal family's influence, he might have accepted Pan Jinlian as a concubine or concubine long ago!
She is now in her fifties, old and fading!
And Pan Jinlian is only [-] years old, beautiful, beautiful, and smart!

If Pan Jinlian is allowed in, there is a real possibility that she will cry and Pan Jinlian will laugh in the future!
Seeing Zhang Ganniang's gloomy and uncertain face, Li Yan smiled inwardly, and then hit the iron while the iron was hot: "Ganniang, you maidservant and my brother are a talented girl and a perfect match, why don't you be merciful and accept your maidservant as a daughter, and then To fulfill them, I will prepare another thousand strings as a dowry here, and our two families will be in-laws, wouldn’t it be hello, hello, hello, everyone?”

Zhang Ganniang can force Zhang Dahu, who likes Pan Jinlian, to never get Pan Jinlian, and finally marry Pan Jinlian to Wu Dalang under resentment, one can imagine her sophistication.

After pondering for a while, Zhang Ganniang raised her eyes, and then said: "I don't want your money, but because Wu Erlang and Jinlian are a good match, I agreed to their marriage."

Hearing that this woman is really Pan Jinlian, Li Yan secretly sighed: "This is God's will, and God also asked me to give Pan Jinlian, a hateful and deplorable woman, a chance!"

As for regret or regret, Li Yan has none at all.

Although Pan Jinlian had her reasons for colluding with Ximen Qing to kill Wu Dalang, but she did take the initiative to seduce Wu Song and then conspired with Ximen Qing to commit adultery and finally poisoned Wu Dalang herself. It is impossible to be regarded as a good woman.

It's true that Li Yan likes beautiful women, but she doesn't want a woman who has the guts to poison her husband to be by her side. If she is too busy and doesn't have time to accompany her, she can't help but hook up with others, and then give herself a pack of arsenic , then I would be too useless to die, why not use her to win over Wu Song, a general!

Furthermore, why should a man not have wives and concubines in groups?

Li Yan gave a salute and said, "Mother, be merciful."

Zhang Ganniang said: "It's just one thing, you have to accept it in your old age."

Li Yan asked: "What's the matter?"

Zhang Ganniang said: "Let the matchmaker come to the door today."

After thinking about it for a while, Li Yan understood that Zhang Ganniang wanted to kill this matter before Zhang Dahu knew about it, so as not to give Zhang Dahu a chance to get in the way!

Li Yan said: "What's the difficulty? I'll send a matchmaker over in a while, and let them get married within ten days!"

Seeing that Li Yan understood what she meant, Zhang Ganniang nodded secretly, and said in her heart: "I don't know why the ancestral grave of the brothers of the Wu family is full of smoke, and I actually met such a person!"

Zhang Ganniang beckoned to Pan Jinlian and called Pan Jinlian to her side.

Pan Jinlian, who had already realized what was going to happen, called out shyly: "Madam!" After a moment of hesitation, Pan Jinlian saluted Li Yan again!
Li Yan nodded with a smile on his face, then turned his head in the direction of Wu Song and the others, and stopped looking at Pan Jinlian again—the gift has already been delivered, so it would be bad to cause misunderstandings.

Zhang Qianniang looked at Pan Jinlian and said: "You entered my Zhang family at the age of seven, and it has been fourteen years. You and I are called master and servant, but we are actually mother and daughter. Today I simply recognize you as a daughter..."

Pan Jinlian was very clever, immediately knelt down and kowtowed, and then sweetly called: "Mother!"

Seeing that Pan Jinlian was so shrewd, Li Yan gave Wu Song a hand, "I don't know if Wu Song, who can beat tigers, can subdue this bold woman?"

Zhang Ganniang signaled Pan Jinlian to get up, and then said: "Wu Erlang is a rare heroic man in our Qinghe County. Marrying you to him will make me feel relieved, and it can be regarded as fulfilling the mother-daughter relationship we have had for more than ten years."

Pan Jinlian cried: "Jinlian can't bear to part with mother!"

Zhang Ganniang put on a straight face, and said: "What are you talking about? A male college should get married, and a female college should get married. You are twenty-one this year. Do you want to stay here and be an old lady forever?"

With the steps, Pan Jinlian, who was satisfied with Wu Song in every possible way, stopped talking.

Zhang Ganniang intended to befriend Li Yan, who looked at the extraordinary, and said: "Our family has a house in Xicheng, so I will marry you as a dowry, and it will not be in vain for our mother and daughter."

"mother!"

In this era, there is a big difference in status between a maid and a daughter, and there is a big difference between having a dowry and not having a dowry, even if it is just a small house that is not worth a few dozen pennies.

Pan Jinlian, who is lonely and helpless, can marry Wu Song as Zhang Ganniang's goddaughter, and also have a small house as compensation, which is already very good.

Therefore, this "mother", Pan Jinlian called it quite sincerely.

Li Yan admired Zhang Ganniang's methods, but this has nothing to do with Li Yan.

Asking Wu Song to come over to meet his mother-in-law, Li Yan left with Wu Song and others.

As soon as he returned to Wu Song's home, Li Yan asked Wu Dalang to find the most famous matchmaker in the county, and then gave the matchmaker 100 taels of silver to ask the matchmaker to take Wu Dalang and others to buy the things needed for the job, and then let the matchmaker lead the matchmaker. People waited to bring 100 taels of garlic gold to Zhang Dahu's house to hire.

Zhang Dahu is not at home, so everything goes well.

The next day, Li Yan wrapped a red envelope of 50 taels of silver for the matchmaker and asked her to find a suitable girl for Wu Dalang.

This matchmaker really lived up to her reputation. It took only three days to find a suitable girl for Wu Dalang.

The girl is a bit older, in her twenties, her appearance is average, her family background is even more average, and her feet are a little short, but she has a good name.

Unable to see Pan Jinlian's exquisite pie, Wu Dalang happily picked up this pie.

Seven days later, Wu Song and Wu Dalang got married at the same time.

Li Yan attended the wedding as the officiant.

On the third day after Wu Song's marriage, Li Yan bid farewell to Wu Song.

What Li Yan didn't expect was that when he was on the road the next morning, Wu Song had already asked Pan Jinlian to pack his luggage——Wu Song wanted to escort Li Yan to the north!
Ruan Xiaoqi's kung fu in water is great, but his kung fu on land is not as good as Li Yan's.

As for Li Yan, his boxing skills are good, but his weapons are not good, and he can't be regarded as a top master.

Besides, you can't do it yourself whenever you have something to do, that would be a drop in price.

Five sentries running errands, fetching things, and doing some odd jobs are okay. As bodyguards, five of them may not be able to beat one.

Therefore, Li Yan did not have a decent bodyguard around him.

And there are indeed many tigers and leopards on this road,

Therefore, after a symbolic refusal, Li Yan agreed with Wu Song to go on the road together.

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(End of this chapter)