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There is a folk custom in Daqi. If someone is seriously ill, or if his parents or elders are seriously ill, he can use the method of hasty marriage to dilute the "bad luck".In the eyes of Daqi people, illness is the same as bad luck. It is bad luck, so it needs celebration to neutralize it.

But although it is good for the patients, it is not good for the bride who is hedging the wedding. The reputation is not good, and after entering the door, she will be looked down upon by neighbors, relatives and friends.Therefore, generally only poor families who can't live on will sell their daughters for joy.In any case, Chongxi is also the wife of Ming Media, so it is better than being a concubine or even selling it to Jiaofang.

It's just that people like the Du family, how could they agree to make Du Hengshuang happy?

Even Xiao Shiji felt very uncomfortable.Subconsciously, he didn't want Du Hengshuang to face such a situation, and he didn't even want to tell her...

"Chongxi?" Xiao Shiji was stunned, "Is it that serious? No, I have to go to King Yi County to ask him to help accommodate me, and ask an imperial doctor to come over and take a look."

Zhu Susu was very dissatisfied, stretched out her hand to stroke the hair on her forehead, and said angrily: "Brother Xiao can't trust my medical skills?"

Xiao Shiji said solemnly: "Human life is at stake. This is not a question of whether to believe it or not. If my mother is serious enough to be happy, it is better to ask a few more doctors to take a look."

Zhu Susu bit her lower lip, and a row of white braided teeth made a few slender tooth marks on her lower lip, and she smiled and shook her head after a long time, "Brother Xiao is really smart, I can't hide anything from you. "

"What do you mean?" Xiao Shiji narrowed his falcon-like sharp eyes, staring at Zhu Susu somewhat unkindly.

"Brother Xiao. Do you really not know or fake? Auntie has a heart disease, which needs heart medicine." Zhu Susu sighed, looking helpless.

"What's wrong? I'm going to marry a wife, mother should be happy?" Xiao Shiji frowned, not understanding what Zhu Susu meant.

Zhu Susu looked around, hesitated to speak.

"Speak up if you have something to say. This is my study, no one else will come in." Xiao Shiji said lightly.

"Then I'll just say it straight. In order to marry a wife, Brother Xiao, you broke the wall and broke ground at home, and renovated the new house to be better than Xihe Courtyard. Have you ever thought about how your aunt feels? ——she is worried about you marrying a daughter-in-law Forget about mother!" Zhu Susu looked like he hated iron but not steel.

Xiao Shi and Mo Ran.Long Xiangye did have this meaning, but is it really that serious?

Xiao Shiji moved on the mahogany official chair a little uncomfortably, "If it's just a mental illness, it's easy to handle."

Zhu Susu sighed, "At first it was a heart disease, but now it is no longer a heart disease. You don't know that if a person is depressed for too long, his body will collapse and he will have the idea of ​​committing suicide?"

Xiao Shiji would not understand the "depression" in modern medicine.Zhu Susu just kept shaking her head and sighing, lamenting that a mother-in-law wants to torment her daughter-in-law, it's the same in ancient and modern times.

Fortunately, I didn't have any ideas about Xiao Shiji again, otherwise I would get Long Xiangye, the mother-in-law, if I bought one and got one free.She is really short-lived for several years.Although she is snobbish, she is also practical.I cherish my life even more, and I don't want to make myself unhappy.

As for Du Hengshuang, Zhu Susu found that he felt more sympathy for her than jealousy.After all, there is such a white lotus-like Bodhisattva waiting for her to worship at home, no matter how good the relationship is, it will be wiped out...

Xiao Shiji didn't say anything more, after sending Zhu Susu away, he also invited several imperial doctors into the mansion one after another, and found that Long Xiangye was indeed seriously ill.The whole person was so thin that only a handful of bones remained.

At this point, Xiao Shiji has no choice but to believe it.

"Mother, you are so sick, why don't you wish me a happy birthday?" Xiao Shiji said these words in front of Long Xiangye's hospital bed with great difficulty.

Long Xiangye stared at Xiao Shihe's increasingly razor-like profile, sighed slightly, shook his head and said: "No need. I'm not going to make it. You have to be careful and take good care of your younger brothers and sisters. In the future, remember to put I will be buried with your father. In my whole life, after much deliberation, the most comfortable days I have lived are the days by your father's side..."

Xiao Shiji couldn't bear it anymore, he knelt down in front of Long Xiangye with a plop, lowered his head, clenched his fists tightly, and his broad shoulders seemed to be crushed a bit.

"Mother, don't worry, I won't... I won't... marry a wife and forget my mother. These years, I have neglected my mother and younger siblings, but I... I... I am also for this family."

Long Xiangye stroked Xiao Shiji's cheek with a smile, "I know, I know. You don't have to feel guilty, and you don't have to be happy. Shuang'er was born in a great family. Let her be happy. It's really wronged her. It's a pimple. It's really not worth it to hurt our mother-child relationship. Shuang'er is a good girl, you have to live a good life with her, have children and grow old together. —— Don't be too happy. I am an old woman It’s enough to live up to now.”

Xiao Shiji felt even more uncomfortable, and lowered his head even lower.Mother is not yet 40 years old, but she said such depressing words, isn't it because she neglects her family too much on weekdays?

Xiao Taiji heard it outside the door, rushed in, knelt on the head of Long Xiangye's bed, and said loudly: "Mother! Let Yunlian rejoice! I don't care about the reputation, as long as the mother can recover, let Yunlian and I Do anything!"

Xiao Shiji turned his head to look at Xiao Taiji, and said coldly: "What are you messing with?"

Xiao Taiji turned sideways to Xiao Shiji, and said sincerely: "Brother, I'm telling the truth. My sister-in-law's family and our family are friends, and now she is the eldest lady of Jing Zhaoyin's mansion. Let her be happy, even if she wants, Her mother will never be willing, why do you make it difficult for sister-in-law? Yunlian is different. I went to their house today, and they all agreed, but they said it was too hasty and the dowry was not ready for a while. I will Make up your own mind and say that you don’t need a dowry, our Xiao family is rich, and we don’t need their dowry of a few hundred taels of silver.”

Xiao Taiji had just turned 15 years old, yet he had already done this job quietly.

Xiao Shiji suddenly felt that he had neglected his family for too long.Before he knew it, even his younger brother, who used to be carried on his back, had his own ideas and would stand alone.

"Let the siblings rejoice. Does her family really not care?" The county magistrate is also a ninth-rank official, and mosquitoes are meat even though they are small.Didn't he sell his daughter because he was so poor that he was about to starve to death?

"Of course her mother is a little reluctant, but her aunt and cousin strongly agree, saying that saving a life is better than building a seven-pole pagoda. Help if you can, and say that our Xiao family is a kind person, and we will definitely not Don't treat Yunlian badly." Xiao Taiji had done something for the first time, and there was already some anticipation in his words.

He doesn't like reading.I don't want to go to school, let alone be an official.When he was young, Long Xiangye also sent him to school. He fished for three days and sunbathed for two days. After he knew a few words.I never want to go again.My favorite since I was a child is counting money, abacus and reading books.Of course, he secretly drilled into Xiao's shop and learned these skills from the shopkeepers. Not only Xiao Shiji didn't know, but even Long Xiangye didn't know too well.Just because he is the youngest son.I had no father since I was a child, and I couldn't even eat enough.Long Xiangye felt that he had been treated badly, so she doted on him very much, even if he didn't go to school, she still couldn't bear to say a word about him.

"Later, Guanxian Cheng came out and made a final decision. He said that he could marry immediately, as long as his mother's health can recover." Xiao Taiji grabbed Long Xiangye's hand.A look of admiration.

No matter how you say it, the second child is much more considerate than the boss.

Long Xiangye sighed. "Thank you in-laws. Brother Tai, you have a good Yue's family. After Yunlian comes in, you can't treat her badly. I will be the first to disobey anyone who dares to despise her in our family." The matter of Chongxi is settled.

Xiao Shiji opened his mouth and swallowed the words again.Indeed, Xiao Taiji was right.Even if Du Hengshuang is willing to celebrate the joy, Fang Wuniang will definitely not agree.And even if Fang Wuniang is willing, Xiao Shi and himself are not willing.He didn't know why, but when he thought of wronging Shuang'er, who was the most beloved in his heart, it was like ten thousand claws scratching his heart, and he wished he could replace it with his own body.

In his heart, the marriage with Du Hengshuang was something he had been looking forward to for 14 years, and no mistakes or regrets were allowed to remain.

He wants to give Shuang'er the best thing in the world.

That being the case, let the younger brother marry first.

Xiao Shiji felt infinitely guilty, stood up and said: "The brothers and sisters' families are so reasonable, of course we can't treat them badly. -Come here, get me a silver ticket of 1 taels and send it to the Guan family, and say, we are the ones who gave it to the brothers and sisters." A subsidized dowry." The Xiao family's dowry has already been sent over, 1000 taels worth 120 taels of silver, of course it is not as good as the 2 taels of dowry for Du Hengshuang, worth [-] taels of silver.

But Du Hengshuang was married as the eldest son, and later became the clan's wife, so the sisters-in-law below couldn't compare to her.

Long Xiangye felt that her heart was much smoother, she struggled to sit up, and ordered: "Bring me my jewelry box, and my set of gold inlaid jade sea blue pearl head and face, and give it to Yun Lian. .”

The Xiao family has a lot of money, and they can do things quickly and quickly.Three days later, the Xiao family held a happy event, and Chuichuidada married Guan Yunlian in.

Since Xiao Shiji felt guilty, he wanted to make up for his mother and younger brother even more, and gave up the yard of the new house he had carefully prepared to his younger brother to get married.

It just so happened that the day of their marriage was the day of Du Hengshuang and Ji.

Xiao Shiji hurriedly looked at Du Hengshuang's hairpin, and rushed home to attend his younger brother's wedding.

Daqi's wedding followed the ancient system and was held at dusk, so Xiao Shiji had enough time to go back.

Du Hengshuang looked at the back of Xiao Shiji who was leaving in a hurry, a little doubt arose in his heart, and he stood silently under the corridor, lost in thought.

Zhu Susu stayed at Xu's house all day today, seeing Du Hengshuang's uncontrollable joy, she shook her head secretly, couldn't help but go a step late, and stayed to talk to her a few words.

The guests had all dispersed, and Du Hengshuang ran into Zhu Susu at the Chaoshou corridor back to his yard.

Looking at Du Hengshuang's bright red dress with black rims, Zhu Susu was half envious, half jokingly said: "Ms. Du is always in good spirits, looking at her today, she looks even more beautiful than yesterday."

Seeing Zhu Susu's nondescript words, Du Hengshuang glanced at her calmly, and said indifferently: "Of course Jiji is a happy event. I'm in better spirits. Is there anything wrong?"

"Yes, of course you are right. However, I always thought you were a smart person, but you just have a smart face, but you are actually a muddled heart. I really think highly of you." She said while shaking her head, The look on his face didn't seem fake.

Du Hengshuang immediately remembered Xiao Shiji's fidgeting today, and his eyes sank.He said to Zhu Susu: "Girls, wise people don't speak secretly. If you have anything to say, please speak up."

Seeing the sky getting darker, Zhu Susu didn't want to stay outside for a long time, so she said concisely: "Why don't you want to go to Chongxi? Do you know that although Chongxi has a bad reputation, it can get benefits. I usually don't care about it." It's nosy, but it's because Brother Xiao has always treated me kindly. This is the first time I offered to help you, but you can still refuse, it's really unexpected."

Du Hengshuang was surprised, "What's so happy? What are you talking about?" Then he immediately realized, "Is it my aunt's illness?"Busy to call the servant girl over, and follow her to Xiao's house to have a look.

Zhu Susu was also taken aback, "You don't know? You don't know about this?"

Du Hengshuang didn't have the time to play charades with her anymore, so he said angrily, "You don't need to talk about it, I'll find out when I go and see for myself." He was about to go out.

Zhu Susu hastily stretched out her hand to grab her, and said in a low voice, "It's already too late. The evening ceremony has already been held tonight."

Du Hengshuang turned around abruptly.Glaring at Zhu Susu, "Who are you talking about holding the evening ceremony?" His heart was pounding.I'm afraid it's Xiao Shiji.

Zhu Susu understood Du Hengshuang's fear, nodded with a smile and said, "Do you still know that you are afraid? ——It's Xiao Taiji, Brother Xiao's younger brother is happy to marry a wife." After speaking, Zhu Susu also understood.Xiao Shiji never told Du Hengshuang about this at all!

"Oh, Brother Xiao really has nothing to say to you, I hope you will be worthy of Brother Xiao's painstaking efforts in the future." Zhu Susu shook his head, turned around and left.

This time, it was Du Hengshuang who grabbed Zhu Susu's sleeve, and said in a deep voice, "You speak clearly before leaving. What's going on?"

Zhu Susu looked back at Du Hengshuang, and saw that her cheeks, which were still pink and flushed just now, had turned pale.Even his lips turned pale, and he felt a bit of sympathy for her, and said slowly: "Miss Du, I have always been a person who is not afraid of the height of the stage when watching a theater, but this time, even I can't stand it anymore." As he said, So I talked about Long Xiangye's "disease" again, and then said: "I originally thought that I would use an excuse of 'rejoicing' to let your mother-in-law vent her anger. Although you don't look good, Brother Xiao will inevitably feel that I feel guilty for you, and I will remember this benefit of you for the rest of my life. And on your mother-in-law's side, she will always think that you have no face when you enter the door, and she will feel happier in her heart, and will not have any other grievances against you. Unfortunately, It’s a great opportunity, you handed it over to others for nothing.”

Showing weakness is a science, and showing weakness appropriately at the best moment is actually a very advantageous thing.

Du Hengshuang lost this opportunity, but Guan Yunlian seized it.

Zhu Susu originally thought that Xiao Shiji would definitely bring this matter up to Du Hengshuang, but in the end it was not Du Hengshuang who was overjoyed, but Du Hengshuang himself must have been unwilling.

Who would have thought that Xiao Shiji never mentioned it to Du Hengshuang.

"When was this settled?" Du Hengshuang took a deep breath and began to think about the way to rescue it.

"I mentioned it three days ago, and the Guan family immediately agreed. Today, the bridal sedan chair enters the door, and they should have already married in the hall of worship."—Miss Du, I should say that I have already said, I am going to the Xiao family now It's time for a wedding. Farewell!" Saying this, he bowed his hands to Du Hengshuang and left Jing Zhaoyin's mansion with a maid.

"Hurry up, it's going to be late soon." Seeing the sky darken, Zhu Susu regretted talking too much to Du Hengshuang just now.

The coachman who drove the carriage did not dare to disobey, and with a sound of "drive", he whipped the horse.The horse ran quickly.

On the street at dusk, pedestrians are in a hurry, all rushing home.

In order to save time, Zhu Susu ordered the coachman to take a shortcut to Xiao's house.

But just as the carriage turned a corner, a person walked over crookedly and fell to the ground with a slap. It was unknown whether he was hit by the carriage or fell down by himself.

"Huh!" The coachman pulled the reins abruptly, forcing the horse to stop.

Zhu Susu was knocked to one side in the car, she was so angry that she opened the curtain and asked, "What's the matter? Did you hit a passenger?!"

The driver looked sad, pointed to a person lying not far under the car, and said, "Miss, it seems...it seems that I hit someone."

Zhu Susu was depressed for a while, got out of the car to check, and muttered, "Sure enough, a good person can't do it, and a good person will bully you every day..." While talking, she still squatted down to check with the person carefully.

After checking her pulse for a while, Zhu Susu breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, it wasn't hit by our car. This man is hungry." Saying that, she dropped the man's hand.He got into the car and said to the driver, "Let's go, it has nothing to do with us."

The coachman looked at the unconscious man lying on the ground, and a few stray dogs poking his head not far away, hesitantly said: "Miss, let's save him..."

Zhu Susu knocked on the car window anxiously and said, "What are you saving? It wasn't our car that hit it! I really can't be a good person! What a disadvantage!" while urging the coachman to leave.

The coachman had no choice but to drive the car forward slowly.

After walking a few steps, Zhu Susu shouted irritably, "Go back! Go back!"

The coachman grinned and hurriedly turned the car around.Coming to the fainted person, it was just in time to drive away the wild dogs with green eyes.

The coachman and the servant girl lifted the man from the ground into the cart, and put him on the couch in the cart.

"Hmph, he's quite tall, a big man with arms and legs. How could he starve himself like this?" Zhu Susu said disdainfully, but still urged the coachman to drive the car home quickly, and let the chef Mother cooked porridge and meat soup for him to drink.

You Qianniang saw that Zhu Susu brought back a comatose man from outside, she came over to look curiously, nodded and said, "You never bring patients home, why did you make an exception today? You brought them back A beggar?"

Zhu Susu pouted.He didn't answer, and wondered why he suddenly became kind.You must know that after so many years of fighting and experience.Except for her desire to marry a rich man, her other wishes have disappeared.

When reading novels before, those beggars picked up by the time-traveling girl were actually princes, generals, or even princes and grandchildren, but when it was her turn, she was sure that the beggars she picked up were beggars, and there would be no other consequences. —Here for so many years.She has given up a lot of dreams of time-traveling women, and has become more and more pragmatic...

"Chongxi from the Xiao family. Aren't you going?" You Qianniang knew that Zhu Susu was going to two events today, one was the Jiji ceremony of the Xu family's Du Hengshuang, and the other was the Hun ceremony of the Xiao family's Xiao Taiji.

Zhu Susu yawned, "I'm not going, I'll take a shower and go to bed. I have to go to Xiao's house tomorrow to see how my aunt's illness is doing and whether it's improving..."

As expected by Zhu Susu, on the second day of Xiao Taiji's marriage, Long Xiangye recovered from his illness and came out of the room energetically without anyone's support, and sat in the middle hall to accept Xiao Taiji and Guan Yunlian's kneeling serve tea.

"Good boy, my mother's body is thanks to you. Don't worry, you have suffered such a big loss, and my mother will definitely make it up to you. You have just married now, so you shouldn't be made to work so hard, but I have just recovered from a serious illness and my head is still in good spirits." If you can't take care of it for a while, you can do more work, first help me take care of the housekeeper." After speaking, she took out the pair of cards from the Xiao family's inner courtyard and handed it to Guan Yunlian.

Guan Yunlian is a newlywed, and last night she was shocked by the extravagance of the yard of the new house, so she didn't sleep well all night. Knowing that she was married to a high-ranking woman, she was always anxious, afraid that she would not be liked by Long Xiangye.Now seeing that Long Xiangye cared more about her, he hurriedly looked at Xiao Shiji, who was sitting in the first seat at the bottom, and saw that the uncle of the sixth-rank official also had a kind face, he was both surprised and happy, and hurriedly declined Said: "Mother, I just got married, my eyes are darkened, and I don't understand anything. Mother entrusts this family to me, and I'm afraid it will make a mess."

Long Xiangye smiled and said: "We don't have many people in our family, so it's easy to take care of. I'll give you my mother Zhao, who has been in charge of the family all her life, so it's okay to help you by the side."

"Since that's the case, it's better for a daughter-in-law to be respectful than obedient. ——Mother Zhao, please give me more advice in the future." Guan Yunlian gave another bow to Mother Zhao.

Zhao's mother hurriedly stepped aside, and said with a smile: "Second Madam is too well-known, I'm just helping Second Madam."

Xiao Taiji had no fame in the first place, so Guan Yunlian couldn't be called "Madam".

However, Xiao Shiji felt very sorry, so he gave Xiao Taiji a way to get the official status of a ninth-rank official, and Guan Yunlian could be called "Madame".

Long Xiangye did not continue to stop.It doesn't matter if you are an idle official, just don't really be an official like Xiao Shiji.Long Xiangye is well aware of the truth that all eggs should not be put in the same basket.

There are only these two brothers in their Xiao family, but now that Daqi has been settled for the first time, the officialdom is turbulent, one day they will be appointed as prime ministers, and tomorrow their homes will be confiscated and imprisoned.

Long Xiangye knew that with their family backgrounds, it was enough for Xiao Shiji to support him as an official outside, and it was best for Xiao Taiji to stay at home and inherit the family business.

"Second..." Long Xiangye was about to speak when she heard Fang Wu's voice before she arrived, "I brought the imperial doctor here to see our in-laws. ——If you are sick, you need to be treated, but medicine can't help you." Stop, what's the use of being happy?"

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