Marrying into a poor family

Qin Shao said before leaving: "Be careful about our aunt, she is much more ruthless than our father."

Qin Xi replied calmly: "My father is bad, and that woman is poisonous, that's about the same. There is one more thing you need to understand. I have not joined the Qin family, so she is not my aunt."

"If you don't enter the Qin family's door, then what are you doing in Dancheng?" Qin Shao Zhuangruo asked unintentionally.

"I'm timid and fearful. I don't dare to disobey orders. I came when my father asked me to come. As for what I can do, haha, who knows?"

Qin Shao looked at Qin Xiang with unclear meaning, her eyes were very complicated, and then her eyes became clearer. She nodded slightly towards Qin Xiang, smiled and said: "I didn't get anything from seeing you today, thank you!"

"What are you thanking me for? Thank you for the delicious tea?" Qin Xiang didn't answer and just kept mumbling.

Qin Shao did not intend to stay any longer: "Although it was difficult for me to join the Qin family, it may not be easier for you than me. If you encounter trouble outside, no one will help you. Please take care of yourself. I will leave first. "

After saying that, she stood up and left. In the yard outside, she saw Su from a distance. Qin Shao paused slightly and asked the little maid who sent her out. Who was that?
The little maid said: "She is our old lady."

"Old lady?" Qin Shao repeated, quite confused.

The little maid was only eleven or twelve years old. She was very innocent. She smiled and explained: "Our wife's mother, we call her the old lady, even though she looks very young."

Su did look very young and beautiful, probably because she was very simple and didn't even have the aura of secular fireworks on her body, so Qin Shao couldn't help but stop and ask curiously.

After getting on the carriage, Qin Shao closed her eyes and rested, but her mind was filled with overwhelming thoughts.

Her mother had told her since she was a child that she must go back to the Qin family to be an upright young lady of the Qin family, and her younger brother could be an upright and upright young master of the Qin family, and her mother could only have a place to live after she entered the Qin family.

Therefore, even though I knew that I was going to marry an old man, I still felt a little lucky. After all, my childhood wish came true.

However, her life became increasingly difficult. The old nanny hired by her wife tortured her every day and even pretended to teach her rules.

My mother has to wait on my wife every day. She can no longer wear the colorful clothes she used to love, and she can no longer wear colorful headbands. Now she is getting more and more haggard. Her younger brother was also sent to live in an outer courtyard, and Qin Shao and her mother could not see each other at all. , I don’t know what’s going on now?

But why can Qin Xiang and her daughter live such a free and unrestrained life?

If you think about it carefully, Qin Shao and the other three lived a relatively free life before they joined the Qin family.

When they arrived at Qin's house, the carriage stopped at the corner gate on the west side. The maid shook Qin Shao from her closed eyes. Qin Shao opened her eyes, and her eyes were clear.

Qin Shao stood in front of the corner door, looking up at the eaves of the Qin family, and suddenly felt the urge to escape.

But she knew she couldn't escape, so she had no choice but to cross the threshold and go to see Mrs. Qin Si first.

Mrs. Qin Si was in the room looking at the newly made skirt for Qin Yao in the embroidery workshop. Qin Yao was eating cakes with her chin resting on the side. She was now very uninterested in everything.

"Look, what do you think of this pomegranate skirt?" Mrs. Qin Si saw that her daughter was worried, so she picked up a pomegranate skirt with a circle of peonies and branches embroidered on the hem, hoping to make her daughter happy.

But Qin Yao just glanced at her casually, nodded and said okay, and said nothing more. She only made Mrs. Qin Si very angry, but she was patient enough with this precious daughter and would not scold her at all.He put the skirt back and waved his servant to go out first.

Then he looked at Qin Yao and said, "I gave you a post at the Lu family's flower viewing party, are you going to go?"

While speaking, Mrs. Qin Si stared at Qin Yao's eyes. Her careless eyes suddenly lit up, and Mrs. Qin Si's heart sank.

Qin Yao raised her beautiful eyes, tried her best to hold back her joy, and asked, "Why did the Lu family suddenly hold a flower viewing party? But what's the point?"

"Of course it's because of her incompetent son, who is already in his twenties and still talks about everything, even the marriage has not been settled, which makes people laugh when he talks about it. This Mrs. Lu is also confused, that's all It is simply unreasonable to allow one's own son to continue to be ridiculous."

As Mrs. Qin Si spoke, she kept observing her daughter's expression. Seeing her eyes constantly changing and flickering, she became even more convinced of her daughter's thoughts.

I used to think that my daughter just had some girlish feelings, but now it seems that the libertine has fallen deeply into Yao'er's heart.

It was better in the past. Ever since the Lu family started proposing marriage to Lu Jiu, Qin Yao began to forget about food and drink. In just over a month, she had already lost a lot of weight, which made Mrs. Qin Si confused.

"Your aunt wrote a letter and said that her husband's nephew is young and promising. He is a candidate for civil examination at just 22 years old. Because he is so focused on studying for the imperial examinations, he has never gotten married. I think he is a good match."

Qin Yao listened impatiently and replied impatiently: "Mom, my daughter doesn't want to go to the capital, so far away from home. If she is bullied, who else can stand up for her?"

"With your aunt here, how can she not protect you? Besides, it only takes us three days to go to the capital by boat. How far can it be?"

Mrs. Qinsi is obsessed with marrying her daughter into an official family. Although her brother-in-law is a sixth-rank official and her sister relies on Mrs. Qinsi's money for subsidies, she still has more reputation than Mrs. Qinsi.

One is a business woman and the other is an official wife. Even though Mrs. Qin Si brings a lot of expensive gifts to her family every time, Mrs. Qin Si always feels inferior to her younger sister.

"Mother, if you ask me what I mean, it means I don't want to. If you decide on your own decision to get married, your daughter will get married without any complaints; her mother will make the decision about her daughter's marriage."

"You..." Mrs. Qinsi's many tricks and scheming have no place in front of her daughter. She can only poke her daughter's forehead with her fingertips and sigh: "I am working so hard not for you three sisters." Do you think it is so easy to live with your brother in the Qin family?"

Qin Yao's eyes were slightly red, she turned her head and said softly: "Mother, if you think it is good for your daughter to go to the capital, just listen to your mother. My daughter has something else to do, so go back first."

After saying that, he stood up, bowed politely, turned around and went out.

Mrs. Qinsi was so angry that she fell down, but she could only watch her daughter leave.

Just at this time, the maid came to report: "Madam, Miss Eleven is back. She is in the yard asking to see Madam."

Mrs. Qinsi immediately suppressed the anger on her face and said quietly: "Let her come in!"

The maid bowed and went out. She looked at Qin Shao with some sympathy. She opened the curtain and asked Qin Shao to come in. When Qin Shao and she were next to each other, she put a silver hairpin into the maid's hand and whispered: "Go out and see you today." I thought this hairpin was suitable for my sister, so I bought it. I hope my sister won’t dislike it.”

The maid stuffed the hairpin into her sleeves smoothly and whispered back: "Madam is not in a good mood, Miss Eleven, be careful."