Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 125 Thinking of each other
As a modern woman, Du Jinning disagrees with Chen's point of view.There is no such thing as divorce among women in ancient times. If you marry the wrong person, you can only suffer for the rest of your life.Although there are also reconciliations, you can know what kind of life the women of reconciliation live.

She tried her best to persuade Mrs. Chen: "Mother, our family will gradually get better. You see, I have been working hard to write the storybook every day, and now I am opening a teahouse with Master Guan and the others. From now on, my monthly income will definitely be huge." There will be fewer; and you are also working hard. In addition to farming and vegetable farming, you also raise sheep and chickens. Look, in less than a year, our family will definitely live better than many other families. With a generous dowry, why don’t you worry about not being able to find your husband’s family?”

"Furthermore, after I've been busy for a while and finished writing this storybook, I will take time to teach my sisters to read and write, and you will also take time to teach them how to do embroidery. The sisters are all good-looking, and when the time comes It is enough to be matched with a scholar. Why rush to marry the eldest sister without any choice? The eldest sister has suffered with us for more than ten years. After a few days of good times, she went to be someone else's daughter-in-law Serve your parents-in-law and your husband-in-law. If you marry a bad husband and meet a wicked mother-in-law, you will suffer for the rest of your life."

The last sentence touched Chen shi thoroughly.

Isn't it?In this family, she owes every child.Everything else is fine, and there is still a chance for compensation; but once Du Fangfei gets married, it doesn't matter much to her whether the family's life is going well or not.

"Okay, then it's up to you, your eldest sister's marriage is not in a hurry, and it will be fine in the first half of the year." She finally let go.

With a dowry and literacy, even if you are older, you don't have to worry about getting married.

Du Jinning also knew about Chen's anxiety, so he said a few words to reassure her: "When I celebrate the new year, I will also take a look in the academy and pay close attention, and if there is something suitable, I will tell you. Xu Chengyuan, let's watch too. In fact, maybe they are engaged, but our mother and I are arguing endlessly over a matter that has no shadow."

Mrs. Chen was taken aback, and couldn't help laughing: "I was too anxious." He said again, "Okay, I will do as you said."

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Let’s talk about Xu’s house, when Xu Chengyuan returned home, he seemed to have lost his soul, sitting at the table and pulling out the rice grains in the bowl, staring blankly at a certain place, moving for a long time, thanking his mother. Shi was terrified.

Thinking about his son returning home after dark, Mrs. Xie thought he had bumped into a guest, so he put down his rice bowl, went to get the rice and incense and paper money with trembling hands, went to the door and burned the paper money and incense, and then sprinkled them muttering Mi, I prayed a few times.

But when she returned to the house, she saw that her son was still the same as before, with his eyes staring blankly. She was so anxious that she almost shed tears, and asked, "Brother Yuan, what's wrong with you?"

"Ah? What?" Xu Chengyuan came back to his senses and looked at his mother puzzled.

"You were just like that..." She imitated Xu Chengyuan's dazed look, her eyes were straightened, and Xu Chengyuan made a "puchi" and laughed: "Mother, you are so funny."

"Are you still laughing?" Seeing that his son seemed to have returned to normal, Xie's heart relaxed a little, he gave him a blank look, and said angrily, "You scared my mother to death just now."

"Mom, I'm fine, I was thinking about something just now." Xu Chengyuan said.

"What's the matter? It's about writing the storybook?"

Xu Chengyuan hesitated for a moment, and wanted to nod, but after thinking about it, he shook his head and said softly: "No."

"What's that?" Mrs. Xie looked at him suspiciously, still worried about her son's condition.

"Mother." Xu Chengyuan lowered his eyelids, put a mouthful of rice into his mouth, chewed slowly, and asked, "The marriage at the other end of Cao's house is over, right?"

Speaking of this, Xie's face darkened: "Why mention them? A bunch of white-eyed wolves."

The family background of the Xu family was not bad before, and there were dozens of acres of land outside the city, and the Xie family was able to do embroidery work. Although they were not rich, they could live on.It is precisely in this way that Xu Chengyuan can be sent to study so far.But later Xu Chengyuan's father fell ill, and the family was in a hurry to spend money, so they sold the land and paid off the debts; but when he passed away, Mrs. Xie cried hard, lost her eyesight and couldn't do embroidery work. down.

Xu Chengyuan is a scholar, he is good-looking, and his family background is not bad. The most important thing is that the population of the family is simple, and Mrs. Xie is a kind person, so there is no need to worry about marriage. The eldest aunt Cao next door told Xu Chengyuan about her niece .But what the mother and son didn't expect was that once their family was in decline, the face of the Cao family changed immediately. Not only did the Cao family come to the door repeatedly to collect debts, but they also helped their niece Cao Fang to divorce her marriage.

Speaking of this, Mrs. Xie was furious.

Xu Chengyuan was extremely happy in his heart.He didn't like Cao Fang, but he couldn't stand his mother being repeatedly teased by his aunt to help him arrange a marriage with Cao's family.When his mother didn't know that Cao's family came to withdraw the engagement, he was really relieved.

"Mom, I've taken a fancy to a girl today." He decided to tell his mother what he was thinking, lest she make another decision on her own to help him arrange another marriage.

"Ah?" Mrs. Xie was very surprised, "What are you... Which family's girl are you from?"

"The Du family." Xu Chengyuan said, "It's the Du family that sells dried tofu today, and the one whose elder brother can write story books."

"Is it the new disciple of your mountain chief?"

"Yes." Xu Chengyuan nodded.

Because his mother was worried about debts, Xu Chengyuan told his mother that he wanted to write a script, and today he was going to ask his classmate Du Jinning for advice.So Mrs. Xie knew about the Du family and Du Jinning.

Xie was stunned.No wonder Xu Chengyuan came back from the Du's family with a distraught mind. It turned out that he fell in love with the Du family's sister.

Thinking of the two little girls who were selling dried tofu together today, she couldn't help worrying: "Is it too young? I think the elder sister of Young Master Du is only twelve or thirteen years old, right?" Although her eyebrows and eyes are pretty. , but the body is thin and thin, like a bamboo pole, it doesn't look very fertile.

"No, it must be at the age of fifteen or sixteen." Xu Chengyuan said in surprise.

Although he went to the market today, it was chaotic at that time. He got angry with his aunt because he patronized him, so how could he pay attention to others?I could see Du Jinning, but my eyes met by chance.As for Du Jinning's sister, he has no impression at all.

"How many sisters does he have?"

Xu Chengyuan thought for a while and said, "It seems like three."

When he went to Du's house today, Du Fangling and Du Fanghui were making dried tofu at home, he had seen it before; later, he met Du Fangfei again when he went out.Isn't that three?

"Oh, then we are not seeing the same person." Xie understood, and felt relieved.

(End of this chapter)