On the Difficulties of Escape in Ancient Times

Chapter 248 Marriage
Xiao Xiao shook his head repeatedly with a look of horror on his face: "How can you hit someone? It's wrong to hit someone."

He held out three fingers and said with a sincere face: "I'll shoot four. I just want to scare them with a bow and arrow. I will never kill them."

In order not to laugh, Old Mrs. Jiang picked up the tea cup and thought about her son who had not heard from her yet and didn't know if he would be able to come back for the New Year, so she didn't laugh.

If she had never seen this little girl Xiao Xiao holding a sword and stabbing people without changing her expression, she might have mistakenly thought that she was a well-behaved, sensible, even a little introverted girl.

Mrs. Jiang's eyes wandered between the three girls of the Xiao family.

Xiao Xiu still had a calm temperament. It seemed that he was not meeting enemies, but chatting with people he knew.

Xiao Lian became more involved and nodded in agreement: "That's right, we are all weak girls, how can we really shout and kill?"

Mrs. Jiang's mouth twitched. She didn't know whether the three girls from the Xiao family were fat or thin in the past.

But now, the three girls of the Xiao family are not weak. Xiao Xiu has an oval face, almond eyes and peach cheeks, and well-proportioned bones. If you gain a point, you will be fatter, and if you lose a point, you will be thinner.

But it's definitely not thin.

Xiao Lian has eyebrows and phoenix eyes, is handsome, has the most aggressive temperament among the sisters, and her oval face is rounder than Xiao Xiu's.

Xiao Xiao is rounder than her two sisters, and her almond-shaped eyes are also particularly round and large. She looks very energetic when looking at people. She looks innocent and cute, making people relax their vigilance.

Tangyuan appeared in Mrs. Jiang's mind. Xiao Xiao was like a glutinous rice dumpling. It looked white, tender and round, making people want to take a bite. But when she bit it open, she discovered that there was black sesame filling inside.

This made her a little regretful. It would be great if she had more sons. It would be very interesting to marry all three Xiao sisters and watch them talk every day.

Besides, they are all sisters, so even if they get into a fight, they don't have to worry about getting killed.

Anyway, it must be lively every day.

It's a pity that I only have one son. Fortunately, Xiao Lian looks like a man, and she is not like those girls from the big family who get tired after walking a few steps. She is strong and healthy, so maybe the third generation of the Jiang family will be the fourth. This generation is full of children and grandchildren.

Of course Inspector Zhao and the others did not expect that Mrs. Jiang looked at her daughter-in-law and thought of her grandson-in-law.

After hearing Xiao Xiao's promise, he looked at the Xiao family, deeply afraid of being deceived, and spoke again: "You little girls, go scare Matchmaker Wang, of course we won't care."

"But if your father comes forward and scares people, then we can't ignore it, and we can't protect you too much."

He really didn't pay attention to the three girls of the Xiao family. He was afraid that Boss Xiao would show up. Looking at him, he knew they were not easy to mess with.

Boss Xiao said with a straight face: "Don't worry, Mr. Zhao, I will never come forward. If you see me at Matchmaker Wang's house, take me away and lock me up immediately. I will never say anything."

To be honest, if he faced his three daughters now, there was no way he would win.

So there’s no need to show up on your own, right?
Only then did Inspector Zhao feel relieved to help his wife and leave with the He family.

After walking out of the door, Inspector Zhao asked worriedly: "Brother-in-law, eldest sister, have the girls from the Xiao family ever practiced martial arts?"

"Absolutely not," Mrs. He rushed to say: "In the past, they lived in the countryside, and the boss of the Xiao family was a gangster in the casino, so the people in the village were polite to them, but they were spoiled to the point of being ignorant."

He An also agreed firmly: "Their village is small, and the girls have not seen much of the world."

"Now we have climbed up to the Jiang family again. I heard that even the county magistrate's wife also looks at the Xiao family in a different light. She must have thought that there would be no obstruction in this county."

Inspector Zhao was relieved and sneered: "Listen to them, if the Jiang family dares to help privately, I will deal with them."

This time, he successfully defended the city and should have been commended by the Lord and loved by hundreds of people. But the Jiang family, thanks to Huichun Hall, is almost praised by the common people and soldiers.

He must feel uncomfortable, and he hopes that the Jiang family will take action, just to give him a chance to deal with them.

The three sisters of the Xiao family, plus Erlang Sanlang, and the Lin family sisters, gathered together and muttered for a while, then they all took some scattered money, put on men's clothes and went out.

Boss Xiao was also assigned a task and drove a carriage to the countryside.

Now the streets have returned to their former liveliness.

It should be said that it coincides with the Chinese New Year and the streets are even more lively.

Therefore, there are many idlers gathering in twos and threes, and there are also beggars begging for food in the corner with bowls in their hands.

The Xiao sisters first found a few idle men and beggars who looked pleasing to their eyes, gave each of them a penny, and asked them to go to the hall to do everything at the matchmaker's house.

He also promised that as long as the information they found out was useful, he would give another two taels of silver, or at most one tael of silver, or even two taels of silver.

Nowadays, carpenters and masonry workers only earn fifty or sixty cents a day, and waiters only earn about thirty or forty cents a day.

One penny from Xiao Xiao and the others was quite a lot, and they could buy more than five kilograms of meat.

Therefore, the idle men and beggars who got the money, no longer looked lazy, wished they could become scuds, fearing that they would arrive late and be preempted by others.

Inspection Zhao also kept people staring at them, and after hearing this, he felt that he had made a mistake.

Unexpectedly, they were deceived by Xiao Xiao. They were not prepared to come forward themselves at all, but were prepared to pay someone to do the trouble.

But there are many idlers and beggars. If I catch them all, the cell won't be able to accommodate them.

But it doesn't matter, you have Zhang Liang's plan, and I have the wall ladder. He decided to ruthlessly deal with a few idlers and beggars and suppress them with bloody methods.

On the other hand, when Li Yan returned to Li's Mansion, he felt happy when he saw that there were no lights and decorations in the mansion, and it didn't look like a wedding event at all.

Even if he married a concubine from his aunt's mother's family, her aunt would not be harsh on him in such a matter.

Since his biological father was not at home, he had no choice but to visit his aunt-in-law.

Li Yan bowed politely and said hello: "Greetings to my mother, I came back late. It's hard for my mother to worry about me."

When Mrs. Li saw that the thorn in her side was back, she felt panicked. When she thought about her niece's frail body, she became even more depressed.

"Aji, you are finally back." She sighed: "When Wanrou heard the news about your accident earlier, she was frightened and worried and fell ill again."

"Poor child, can't you get up from your bed now?"

"I'm afraid this marriage should be postponed again."

"Hey, it's really hard work."

In fact, Chen Wanrou was already suffering from tuberculosis, which is currently incurable. Fortunately, she kept it secret and only said that she was weak.

Fortunately, this time the news of the concubine's eldest son's accident came, and Chen Wanrou could still have an excuse for her illness.

But even so, her husband has already complained about it. He feels that Chen Wanrou is too weak and is afraid that it will be harmful to the heirs.