Chapter 236
The marriage system of the Dali Dynasty had strict legal regulations.In other words, the marriage contract is protected by law.

There are express provisions in the law that if a marriage contract has been made or a time has been agreed in private, if one repents, the one who repents will be punished with sixty rods.

If the two parties to the marriage have a marriage certificate expressly reported to each other, there is evidence to prove that a private contract has been signed, or the woman has accepted the bride price, in the above three cases, the law determines that the marriage contract between the man and the woman has been established.If you want to repent, in addition to liquidating money transactions and compensation, the party that repents will be punished by the government.

There are six ceremonies for people in the Dali Dynasty to conclude a marriage, which are the six steps to form a marriage: adoption, asking for a name, accepting auspiciousness, accepting a levy, asking for a date, and welcoming in person.Among them, accepting a gift means that the man will hire the woman's family.

Xiao Fu's family went to the stage of accepting the levy quietly without telling everyone.Say they have no ghosts in their hearts, who will believe it?
Xiao Qilang brought Xiao Lu, Xiao Shou, several cousins, and Wu Cunzheng to Xiao Fu's house. The family wanted to deny that the big boxes of betrothal gifts in the house had not had time to hide.

Under the pressure of everyone, the truth of the matter was finally found out—just as Tian Qiao guessed, the betrothal gift was given to Shishi who was completely unaware!

……

When Shisi heard about this, he and Yin Zhu were leading new recruits to train in the martial arts training ground of the Huangliang Escort Bureau.

It just rained last night, Xiao Qilang came all the way, both shoes were covered with mud.After succinctly explaining the ins and outs of the matter, he looked at Fourteen's reaction.

Seeing that Shisi didn't respond, he was silent for a moment after listening, and then asked calmly, "Who is giving the dowry?"

"Didn't ask." Xiao Qilang said, "Cunzheng asked personally, and didn't ask."

Fourteen frowned slightly when he heard this, turned to Yin Zhu and said, "You lead them to practice in the follow-up training, and I will deal with it."

"Yes, please don't worry, lady."

"Cousin, let's go."

"Where is Ah Yan?" Xiao Qilang was worried about Xiao Yan.

"He's in class, don't bother him." Fourteen said, "It's just a small matter, and it will be dealt with soon."

Seeing that he was fully confident, Xiao Qilang also slowly relaxed.

Xiao Qilang came driving a donkey cart, and the distance of a donkey and a horse is completely incomparable.He told Fourteen to go first, so he didn't have to wait for him.

Fourteen said he was not in a hurry, and walked slowly along with his speed while sitting on the horseback.

Walking all the way from Huangliang County to Dawei Village, Xiao Qilang really let go of his thoughts.

"Fourteen, do you already have a solution?" He asked curiously, "You don't seem to be in a hurry at all."

"It doesn't have much to do with me, why am I so anxious?" Fourteen asked Yoyo, holding the rein of the horse.

"They accepted the betrothal gift for you, why has nothing to do with you?" Xiao Qilang said, "And I saw it when I passed by your sister-in-law. How to do?"

Law is law, and power is power.Although he, Xiao Qilang, was just an ordinary commoner who was struggling to make ends meet, he also knew that the law sometimes didn't work in front of those wealthy and powerful families.

The only people who are truly and fully bound by the law are the powerless common people.

"Cousin." Fourteen said slowly, "I'm not a member of the Xiao family anymore."

"You're not from the Xiao family? Why not? Although you..." Xiao Qilang was overjoyed instantly, "Ah! Yes, you are not from the Xiao family now, forget it!"

"Hahahahahahaha, Fourteen, you insisted on setting up a female household at that time, was it just to guard against today's incident? You see, I was so anxious that I actually forgot about it. Or should I take you to find it in person? Muramasa, the housekeeper for you!"

"Now you are the head of the household on your household registration booklet. There are only you and Ah Yan in your family. Of course you are not part of the Xiao family! Hahahaha, okay, this is great!"

Xiao Qilang's excitement was beyond words.

"Then how do you deal with this?" He asked after the excitement.

"It has nothing to do with me, why should we deal with it?"

The reason why she came here was just to know who gave the dowry.

It was already mid-noon when we arrived at Dawei Village, and half of the people in the village gathered around the gate of Xiao Fu's house, forming a half circle automatically, surrounding the gate of Xiao Fu's house and the carriage parked in front of their house.

"The Fourteenth Mother is here!"

Someone in the crowd yelled, and the head of the hundred and ten people immediately turned to Fourteen and Xiao Qilang.

"Fourteen Niangs, I heard that it was your husband's family that I told you about. I came here today to ask about the date." Some of them just wanted to watch the fun, and asked gossipingly, "You didn't say anything when you were getting married. Please wait until we hear about it."

"I'm just kidding, it's nothing." Xiao Qilang tied up the donkey cart, and immediately ran up to deny it, "I didn't even know that Shisi was getting married."

"Not you? Who is that?"

"Aren't those people who got off the carriage just now the same as Xiao Shishiniang?"

"Yeah, I heard that too."

Amidst the discussion among the crowd, Shisi and Xiao Qilang stepped into the gate of Xiao Fu's house.There was a group of people standing or sitting in the main room, all the Xiao family members could come.There are four new faces in total, a man in his 50s, a woman dressed as a matchmaker, and two young servants.

"The Fourteenth Mother is back!" When Lin saw Fourteenth, she was startled at first, and then immediately forced a smile on her face, "Come here quickly, let Mother see."

"This is the fourteenth lady!" The matchmaker on the opposite side recognized the fourteenth at this time, "a lady of a good sign."

"Old Zhang, you are blessed!"

The old Zhang she congratulated was the 50-[-]-year-old man sitting next to her.Wearing a satin dress, with gray hair, and because she is too thin, there are obviously more wrinkles on her face than those of her peers.Since Sisi came in, he began to look at her.

His eyes were not too small, so the dim yellow eyeballs covered with red bloodshot eyes were inlaid under a pair of eyebrows that were so pale that they were almost invisible, they were particularly conspicuous.

"Who are you?" Fourteen walked up to this man and asked him.

"Fourteenth lady, this is your future husband-in-law." The matchmaker answered, "Old Zhang's family is rich and honest, and he looks like he knows how to love others. You will be blessed in the future!"

Fourteen: "Who told you to come here?"

"of course……"

"To shut up."

The matchmaker was about to speak again, but was passed over by Fourteen's eyes, and she subconsciously stopped talking.

"Fourteenth Mother, what's your attitude?" Xiao Fu, who was sitting across from him, began to put on airs of his own father, "That's your future husband-in-law!"

Fourteen glanced back at him.

Xiao Fu immediately remembered the scene when she stabbed the table with a dagger last time.

(End of this chapter)

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