Peasant Girl Bookseller

Chapter 31 The reason
Ye Tiezhu felt dejected after hearing Wan Chengyao's words. Although he had long felt that the status of the two families was very different, he thought that the other party would agree to the marriage based on their previous affection, but he was still too naive.

"Forget it, girl, give him something. We Da Ya didn't have this blessing." Ye Tiezhu was disheartened, and the years of brotherhood still couldn't make up for the secular gap.

"Big girl? Is that the girl at the door just now?" Wan Chengyao confirmed again.

"No, why? You saved his life back then. Although the two families didn't exchange Geng Tie, they still gave tokens. That's good. Our granddaughter didn't make any mistakes. If she says no, she won't. After this got out, how did my family Mai Xiang find her in-laws?" Liu's eyes turned red as she spoke.

When Mrs. Liu got angry, she made her voice louder, and the wheat grains and wheat seeds playing in the yard heard her words. After all, the wheat seeds were bigger. After hearing this, she lifted the curtain and ran in to shave her little face. Said to Mai Xiang: "Oh, oh, the elder sister is ashamed, she was divorced, and she can't find her husband's family, oh oh."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Mai Xiang didn't take it seriously at first.

"Who is talking nonsense? Mammy is angry and crying." Mai Zhong raised her neck and said.

It was only then that Mai Xiang knew that the other party had come to withdraw the marriage, and the protagonist was actually herself?
This is unbelievable, Mai Xiang stared at Zhao Shi and asked: "Mother, have you arranged a marriage for me?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? When did we make an appointment for you? Can you believe what a child says? Mai Zhong, come here, and make up your eldest sister so that I won't spank your ass?" Zhao rolled up her sleeves.

Mai Xiang quickly held her down, Zhao Shi really wanted to move Mai Zhong's finger, and Qian Shi didn't know how to make a fuss when he came back.

Mai Xiang was still waiting to ask, at this time, Liu's voice came from outside, "Mai Xiang, Mai Xiang."

Mrs. Liu called out Mai Xiang and told the whole story in the kitchen.

It turned out that before Ye Tiezhu's mother passed away, he knew that his life was not long. Ye Tiezhu was only ten years old. There was only this single seedling in the Ye family, and he had no relatives or friends, so he entrusted Ye Tiezhu to a good sister of hers to take care of him. .

At that time, Ye Tiezhu also had a certain amount of silver rice in January, so it was no problem to support himself, so the good sister took Ye Tiezhu back to support her family, that is, Wan's family.

At that time, the Wan family had a son named Wan Baocai, who was five or six years older than Ye Tiezhu. The two grew up together, and later entered the barracks together. Wanjia's nurturing love.

Wan Baocai swore at the time that there was no way to repay this life-saving grace, it would be better to have children and relatives. At that time, he already had a wife and children, and Ye Tiezhu was not yet married. Facing Cloisonne's mandarin duck dagger, he gave Ye Tiezhu one.

Wan Baocai has only one son, Wan Chengyao, who knows that when Wan Chengyao grew up and should get married, Ye Tiezhu didn't give birth to a daughter, so the two families had to agree that this agreement should be passed on to the next generation.

The Wan family registered as a flag in the fourth year of Qianlong, and the business grew bigger and bigger. Wan Chengyao later won the election. A few years ago, he donated a seven-rank county magistrate. Because of his research on water conservancy, he is now the prefecture of Zhili Prefecture. same.Last year, many losses were found because of the repair of the embankment. The Holy One was furious, and all relevant personnel were dismissed and sent to prison, and Wan Chengyao was no exception.

This is why the old lady of the Wan family begged Mai Xiang to make a wish, hoping that the Bodhisattva would bless the Wan family through this catastrophe.

It was a coincidence that on the third day after the old lady went back, Wan Chengyao came out of the prison, and the Holy Spirit ordered him to go to Huai'an to control the water and make meritorious deeds.

Of course, Mrs. Liu didn't know what happened later, and she called Mai Xiang here for other reasons.

It turned out that Wan Chengyao saw that Mrs. Liu refused to let go, so he said that he had met Mai Xiang just now, how could such a vulgar woman be worthy of his son, so he made a suggestion, if not, let Mai Xiang go to be the concubine.

Although Ye Tiezhu and Liu Shi are not very willing about this, it is rare for Mai Xiang to be able to enter Wanjia as a concubine. At the very least, she will not worry about food and drink for a lifetime, and maybe she can even pull the Ye family a little bit.

Thinking of Mai Xiang's recent performance, Mrs. Liu was a little uncertain about Mai Xiang. In order to avoid being blamed by Ye Dafu in the future, she wanted Mai Xiang to make up her own mind.

"Son, I should have told your mother about this matter, but your mother, regardless of her age, has nothing to do with it. There is no certainty about what to say or not to say. I'm afraid to yell about it , it won’t do you any good at that time. Mammy thinks you have an idea, if you think you are willing, this Wanjia will not treat you badly, if you are not willing, we will call off this marriage. "

"I don't want to, Mammy, hurry up and leave."

Are you kidding me, the wife Mai Xiang has to think about whether to go or not, a poor little wife wants to send Mai Xiang away?What does he think his family is?
Upon hearing that Mai Xiang's attitude was so firm, Mrs. Liu sighed, and asked again: "You should think about it, don't blame us then, after entering Wanjia, you will have no worries about food and clothing in this life."

"No, I won't go even if I'm killed." Mai Xiang said firmly.

Wan Chengyao didn't expect things to go so smoothly, he was relieved, got back the dagger of Wan's family, didn't dare to delay, and hurried home with two servants.

"Father, how is it? How is it?" As soon as Wan Chengyao entered the gate of Wan's house, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy rushed up impatiently.

This young man was exactly the young man that Mai Xiang met at the Temple of the Reclining Buddha that day. He was the eldest son of the Wan family.

It took the boy next to him two days to find out clearly that the lady's father was named Kang, a member of the Ministry of Industry, and had a long history with Wan Chengyao.

Ms. Kang was only thirteen years old, but women in the Qing Dynasty were accustomed to early marriage because of their Manchu relationship, so Wan Zhigao was afraid that Ms. Kang would marry someone else early, so he forced his parents to propose marriage.

Of course Wan Chengyao would like his son to marry a lady from an official family. When discussing with Mr. Wan and Mrs. Wan, Mr. Wan refused.

Mr. Wan remembered that Wan Zhigao had a marriage contract, but his grandson insisted on refusing to marry a country girl, and Wan Chengyao didn't want an illiterate village girl to enter the gate of Wan's family. As a daughter-in-law, Wan Zhigao is going to take the imperial examination.

Under Wan Baocai's balance, he had to send Wan Chengyao to Ye's house to take a look at Mai Xiang, bring some money, and change it at random, and must not forcefully retreat, which will hurt the harmony of the two families. If it is not possible, let Mai Xiang give Wan Chengyao The same is true for the concubine's daughter-in-law.

"Retired, retired, don't worry, let your mother take care of the rest. From now on, you can study with peace of mind. If you don't get selected as a scholar this year, I'll take care of you when I come back."

"Understood, Daddy, don't worry, Daddy." Wan Zhigao listened to his wishes, lost his mind, grabbed his father's sleeve and jumped up.

Wan Chengyao asked Wan Zhigao a few words, and then entered the upper room, Wan Baocai was still waiting for his reply.

"That child can't do it?" Wan Baocai knew the result by returning the dagger to his son as soon as he entered the door.

Wan Chengyao shook his head and said: "The life of the second uncle's family is becoming more and more difficult. Even the basic food and clothing are hard to sustain. What kind of good girls can such a family teach? Let's not talk about vision and knowledge, just talk about looks And the skin color is not outstanding, a ten-year-old child, thin and weak, looks like he can't eat enough all the year round; moreover, the girl's first name is Mai Xiang, which is vulgar enough, and her nickname is 'Da Ya'. ', such a girl has entered our Wan family's door. In the future, people from her mother's family will have a mouthful of 'big girls'. What's the matter if the servants hear it? It's not bad for this girl to enter our Wan family as a maid, and she must not be a daughter-in-law, Zhiyuan Neither can my daughter-in-law."

After listening to Wan Chengyao's description of Ye Jia and Mai Xiang, Wan Baocai looked at Mrs. Wan.

The old lady Wan lowered her head and pondered for a while, then said, "Just retire. No matter how bad Zhiyuan is, he is also the official grandson of our Wan family. If such a girl enters the door, others will laugh at our Wan family. Fortunately, this It was still a secret back then, it was a verbal agreement, and it didn't have much impact on the two families. Yaoer's official position is going to become bigger and bigger, and our Wan family's in-laws can't be like that. How will we move around in the future? ?”

After hearing this, Wan Chengyao hurriedly said: "Mother thinks the same as I did. Originally, I thought that I would let her in to be a concubine for fear of embarrassing my father. Who knows that they don't know how to flatter us, so we will save trouble."

"Confused, if you resign, you will resign. What concubine do you want? How do you ask your father to see your second uncle in the future?" Wan Baocai sighed as he stumbled.

"Father hasn't seen the second uncle all these years? We have done our best to them all these years." Wan Chengyao disapproved.

"Forget it, the matter is over, Yao'er should hurry up and pack his luggage and go out early." Seeing that the old man was unhappy, Old Madam Wan spoke.

After Wan Chengyao left, Mrs. Wan said to Wan Baocai: "Actually, I have long wanted to quit this marriage. To be honest, the status and status of the two families are very different. Zhigao's wife is going to be the head of the house." , you let him marry a village girl, how will the family live in the future?"

"Isn't there still Zhiyuan?" Wan Baocai's voice was not high.

"Although Zhiyuan's child is a concubine, he is still a descendant of our Wan family, and his biological mother took care of me once again. Anyway, I also want to find him a decent family, and I don't want to wrong him too much. "

Hearing this, Wan Baocai lowered his head and thought for a while, then said: "Forget it, when you have time, you go to Ye's house and explain to them carefully."

(End of this chapter)