Fair Lady

Here Tang arranged for other female guests, and took Zhen Kemin to the "Mei Pavilion" where Shuyao and the others rested.

Zhen Dagui, the second master of Zhen's family, runs an embroidery workshop "Longyuefang" in the capital. The embroidery workshop is not big, but because of its exquisite embroidery skills and integrity, the business is good.

Back then, Zhen Dagui's family was also forced out.Zhen Dagui is honest, Tang is kind and weak, meeting the selfish Zhen Dafu and the shrewd Lin, plus the old lady Zhen who is partial to the eldest son and two grandchildren, the second room is simply a burden in Zhen's house.

However, after the birth of their daughter Zhen Kemin, the Tang family has been doing nothing, which makes the old lady Zhen dislike her even more.Even though Zhen Dagui accepted an aunt under pressure and gave birth to his son Zhen Keyu to be raised under the name of the Tang family, the Tang family was still not treated well in the Zhen family, and Zhen Kemin and Zhen Keyu were always bullied by the brothers Zhen Kebao.

Although Zhen Dagui is filial, he loves his wife and children very much. After Mrs. Zhen died of illness, he resolutely proposed to separate the family.It happened that a cousin of the Tang family wanted to make a move in the embroidery workshop in Beijing. Zhen Dagui was good at management, and the Tang family was good at embroidery. Together, the two decided to sell the embroidery workshop and the family moved to Beijing to live.

At that time, the business of Weimeilou was booming, and Zhen Dafu and Mrs. Lin were eager for the second wife to leave, so they helped persuade the old lady and actively facilitated it.Following the official family division rule of "emphasizing the elders and the heirs", he gave the second house a sum of money and asked them to split up to find another way of life.

Zhen Dagui and his wife are also the ones who treat Zhen Zirou the best in Zhen's mansion and really treat Zhen Zirou as their relatives, but unfortunately they can't talk.Zhen Dagui's most "brave" time was when Zhen Ziruan left, disregarding the attitude of his parents and elder brother in Zhen's house.She ran to the Murong Mansion to pick up Zhen Zirou, and was called back to Daming Mansion for this, and was given a few crutches by Mrs. Zhen.These are what Shu Yao saw from Zhen Zirou's diary.

However, in her previous life, Shuyao had no contact with Zhen Dagui's family. She rarely went out in Murong Mansion until she was married at the age of 14. Murong Mansion did not want her to have contact with the outside world, and always followed the so-called "everyone's lady" rules and regulations. Detain her.As far as she knew later, she didn't know that her eldest brother Shujie came to visit her many times, and she didn't get the slightest news.

Later, when Xue Minglang was in high school, she went to Beijing again.Zhen Dagui's family has long been cheated by the son-in-law who recruited him, and "Longyuefang" has changed hands. In order to avenge his sister and his family, Zhen Keyu killed the son-in-law and was sentenced to beheading.

About Zhen Dagui's family, Shuyao heard about it occasionally in bits and pieces.I don't know the specific situation very well, but I only know that the source of the tragedy of the second wife of the Zhen family was Zhen Kemin's first engagement.Zhen Kemin and Ji's previous fiancé died of illness. Zhen Dagui and his wife refused to let Zhen Kemin marry him and be a widow for the rest of his life. As a result, the family maliciously spread rumors that Zhen Kemin beat his fiancé to death, ruining Zhen Kemin's reputation...

I heard that the family later bought a girl from a poor family to be the wife of their dead son.

Later, when Shuyao lived in the Marquis of Weiyuan.Once I overheard several wives talking about the marriage of the youngest son of the family, and an insider broke the news.The eldest son of that family was born sick, and the doctor had long asserted that he would not live to be sixteen or seventeen.

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When Zhen Kemin was 20 or [-] years old, Zhen Dagui recruited an "honest and reliable" man to be her son-in-law, but within a few years his evil deeds were exposed...

Shuyao looked at the soft-spoken Tang family and the smiling Zhen Kemin in front of her, and sighed in her heart: Poor people too!

A few people were talking, and Mrs. Lin rushed over to find Mrs. Tang with a smile on her face: "Sisters and sisters, hurry up. Mrs. You's family is here, and she wants to see sister Min again. Let's go there quickly. Mr. You has been promoted by his uncle, I'm going to be a Beijing official in the Ministry of Rites in the capital, and it's a sixth rank. Our sister Min married and will be the young wife of a high official family in the future. Hurry up, it took me a lot of effort to make Mrs. You value Miss Min, In the future, when your family develops, you can't forget Enha."

Tang hesitated for a moment: "Sister-in-law, I always feel that something is wrong. The You family has a scholarly family, and now he is going to be an official in the capital. How could he fall in love with a small merchant like us?"

"Isn't that what I said?" Mrs. Lin curled her lips impatiently, "Besides, although your second wife is not good, our first wife is a well-known and famous family in this famous city, okay? Isn't it for the face of our elder brother? I said, brother and sister, you take advantage of all the good things, so don't be hypocritical?"

You family?Shu Yao, who was sitting on the grass with her head lowered and "concentrating" on weaving grass nets, was startled. Isn't she the fiancé who died early?It turned out that Zhen Kemin hadn't gotten engaged at the moment, if it was still too late to stop her, would she care about it?How can it be stopped?

Although Shuyao has not had much contact with this second uncle's family in her past and present lives, she herself has suffered the pain caused by her marriage being cheated, and she really can't bear to see her cousin who is smiling sweetly and talking to her softly in front of her. Tragic fate.

Tang and Zhen Kemin were dragged away, Shuyao stared at their backs in a daze.

"Sister, what's the matter with you?" Mother Liu's finger waved in front of Shuyao's eyes, this child is rarely so dazed.

"Oh, hehe," Shuyao came back to her senses and gave Mama Liu a bright smile, "I think the big aunt's smile is terrible, just like Huohuo's smile every time she teases Xiaoguai."

Shuwen, who was playing chess with Shujie in the Meiting not far away, heard it, laughed, turned his head and winked mischievously at Shuyao.

"You, you are a villain!" Liu's mother smiled, and pampered Shuyao's forehead, the child is really sensitive to kindness and malice.

Although Ms. Liu didn't know the specifics, based on the conversation between Lin and Tang just now, she already smelled a conspiracy.

In fact, it is no wonder that Tang was puzzled. Although the status of businessmen in Dazhou was not as low as before, they could not be compared with officials and scholarly families after all, except for a very few backgrounds and powerful imperial merchants or the richest man.When talking about marriage, the first thing to consider is the right family, unless there are other special reasons, for example, Yen Zirou entered the Murong Mansion "for joy".

Mother Liu put a few plum blossoms on Shuyao's straw woven net, and it immediately became a beautiful hanging ornament.

Shuyao and Erniu were happily talking about hanging the lanyard on the carriage.It was also named Meihualuo, and a small purple figure suddenly rushed over to snatch the Luozi from Er Niu's hand, and it was Zhen Keling.

Er Niu instinctively withdrew her hand and turned sideways to avoid it. Zhen Keling lost her strength at once, and was hooked to her feet by the felt blanket spread on the grass, and fell straight forward, crying loudly, Shu Yao turned He rolled his eyes, this is on the grass.There is such a thick felt blanket, does it hurt that much?

Zhen Keling cried like a broken arm and leg, Erniu's face was flushed, and she looked at Shuyao with some fear.

Shuyao said to the two servant girls who followed Zhen Keling: "You girls fell, why don't you go and ask for a doctor? Could it be that you broke your leg and became crippled? How ugly!"

Zhen Keling jumped up: "You are lame! You are ugly! Who said I broke my leg? You broke my leg."

Shuyao sneered secretly, Zhen Keling has been like this since she was a child.I am most afraid of the word "ugly"!

"You didn't break your leg, why are you crying like that? You cried so much that your eyes, nose and mouth are all together, and you still say it's not ugly?" Shuwen who rushed over to protect Shuyao sneered mercilessly.

"You..." Zhen Ke was very energetic, but he didn't know how to refute. He pointed at Shuyao and shouted: "Bring me that plum blossom! And the cloak on your body, and more. I want the one on the neck too."

As if Shuyao didn't hear it, she took Liu's mother's hand and said, "Mom, Erniu, let's go over there and have a look, Wen'er, have you finished playing chess with elder brother? You are about to lose and run away, right?"

"What?" Shuwen yelled aggrievedly, "I ran here because I was afraid that you would be bullied."

"It's true," Shujie's gentle voice sounded, "but...he is indeed about to lose."

"Hahahaha" Shuyao pointed at the book and laughed.With a proud expression of "I knew it", Mother Liu and Erniu also looked at the three brothers and sisters happily.

"Big brother---" Shuwen mumbled embarrassingly while pulling Shujie's arm.He almost hid under Shujie's arm.

Seeing that Shuyao and the others ignored her, Zhen Keling walked away on her own, not to mention taking off the cloak and collar for her, and yelled angrily: "Little bitch, I let my grandmother and I Mother peeled your skin."

Although Zhen Keling was small, his voice was very loud. The nearby guests all looked over and shook their heads one by one.One wife even said it directly with disdain: "The Zhen family's upbringing is really..., who would dare to marry such a girl in the future?"

It just so happened that Mrs. Lin, Mrs. Tang and others came to invite everyone to a table. When they heard this unceremonious words, their faces were as red as a piece of red cloth.

Zhen Keling didn't feel bad at all. When she saw her mother coming, she became excited instead: "Mom, take off that little bitch's cloak and give it to me, as well as her collar. It's so pretty, I want it too."

Lin beckoned to Shuyao: "Yao'er, my sister is still young, you are my elder sister, let her order, wouldn't it make people laugh when my sisters fight around."

Shuyao opened her eyes "innocently" and said, "Auntie, I am far away from my cousin. I am talking to my eldest brother and Wen'er, how can I fight with her?" Her daughter made a fool of herself and wanted to drag her, dream!

"..." Lin cursed in embarrassment, this sharp-toothed dead girl!What a shame! "You are older than her, so you can give her the cloak if she wants it, and then the aunt will get you a new one." That cloak is worth a lot at first glance, Ling'er has a real eye for it!

Mother Liu snorted: "Mrs. Zhen, our girl's cloak was a gift from the Empress Dowager."

"So what?" Mrs. Lin asked back, she didn't like it even if it wasn't expensive, the Empress Dowager rewarded it!Her family, Ling'er, has a lot of face when she wears it out.

The lady who had just come back from Beijing a few years ago who had endured it for a long time curled her lips and said, "How can others just take things that are rewarded from the palace? They might be beheaded."

"Kill...decapitate?" Mrs. Lin opened her mouth wide, it's just a cloak, should it be so serious?That, that's still not necessary.

……

Shuyao didn't know how Lin's deal with the coquettish and playful Zhen Keling, and she didn't care.

But at the dinner table, she still pulled out her ears, because Mrs. Lin was still lobbying Mrs. Tang vigorously for the marriage. Mrs. Tang seemed to have doubts and didn't nod: "Look at Mr. You, looking at Mrs. They still looked weak, their complexion was not good, and they seemed to be fainting just now, they were so scared that they didn't even eat, so they went back in a hurry."

Lin stared and said: "He is a scholar from a scholarly family, not a Lianjiazi from a military general's family, nor a wild boy, how can he grow so strong? And Mrs. You also said that Young Master You has suffered a lot recently. The wind is cold, and your complexion is not very good. It is because you insisted on seeing yourself. Out of politeness, you gritted your teeth and brought the child out. Now that you are suffering from the cold and feel uncomfortable, it’s not your fault.”

The old lady Zhen also put up her mother-in-law airs: "A small family is narrow-minded, a young master from an official family is not good enough for you, a daughter of a small embroidery workshop? If it weren't for the face of your elder brother and sister-in-law, how could such a good marriage be possible?" It fell on the head of your sister Min? This matter is settled like this, and the letter will be formally exchanged after ten days."

As soon as the mother-in-law was finalized, Mrs. Lin glanced at Mrs. Tang proudly. Mrs. You's natal family is in the shipping business, and the goods shipped from Fanbang are very popular. As long as they exchange Geng Tie tokens, they will be able to get the goods at a preferential price in the future .Hmph, what does it matter what kind of disease Young Master You is?It was not her daughter who married.

Tang was anxious: "Mother, I just think it's not right to be in the right family, and the You family is in a hurry to get engaged, this..."

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Shuyao looked at Lin Yu, who was sitting next to her and had been pestering her, asking her how to make Xia's tofu, and suddenly had an idea.

Lin Yu is the daughter of Lin's elder brother, she is loved by Lin's very much. Shuyao just heard them say that Lin Yu is three months older than Zhen Kemin.

"Sister Lin Yu, are you engaged?" Shu Yao asked suddenly.

Lin Yu was taken aback, and said shyly, "No, you little boy, what kind of engagement do you know?"

Shuyao curled her lips: "The eldest aunt doesn't love you at all, so I gave the good marriage to sister Min, you are older than sister Min."

Tang was taken aback, and quickly realized, yes, Lin is the best at teasing her natal family, it's such a good marriage, why didn't she try to find a way for her niece, but kept lobbying her?I heard that Lin Yu's father, Lin Xiucai, had just donated the post of county magistrate, so he was an official after all.

Zhen Keling was holding back her anger at Shuyao, and immediately glared at him: "You idiot, my mother said that the man is sick and won't live long, so my cousin Yu'er doesn't want it."

Zhen Keling spoke quickly and loudly, like setting off firecrackers, it was too late for Mrs. Lin to cover her mouth with her hand, she finished speaking, and attracted suspicious looks from other guests at the table.

Tang's face turned pale...

Shuyao secretly smiled, yes, Zhen Keling cooperated really well!There was no need for her to bother to say anything. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)