Chapter 1: Youthful frivolity

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"I've never seen a girl like you, look at the daughter of Wang Xiucai's family on the street, you can't enter the door without going out, and she learns embroidery at home every day, which is not good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting? Look at you, how can there be a lady like you!" Luo Ying stood at the door with a red face, and was so frightened by her father's reprimand that she shrunk her neck, like a frostbitten goose. www.biquge.info"Eighteen or nineteen years old, it is a good age to be married, every day dresses as if to ask for food, and comes back with a disgraced face, others say that it is my daughter, I am ashamed!" "Where is eighteen or nineteen, I will only turn eighteen in a few days?" Luo Ying muttered in a muffled voice, wishing that her father would end it soon, she was really tired of this kind of life, what was wrong with going out to play, there would be problems with holding back people at home all day long!" "You still dare to talk back!" Old man Bai's ears were very sharp, and when he heard his daughter talking back to him, he was immediately angry, and he was about to slap him, and the anxious lady standing on the side grabbed him and persuaded: "The head of the house, I can't help it! The child has fine skin and tender meat, how can he withstand such a heavy slap from you!" Luo Ying hugged the pillar on the door frame, and her nails were embedded in it, although she was hanging, she looked like she was not afraid of heaven and earth, and she could see her father's angry eyebrows, and when her eyes were as big as the mouth of the bowl, her heart was still up and down, and she immediately said softly: " Dad, I was wrong, I won't sneak out again!" Mrs. persuaded him in fright: "The child knows that it is wrong, don't be angry, no matter how wild the girl's family is, just say a few words to her." Madame kept patting his chest, I was really afraid that he would be too angry, after all, the white shopkeeper was also more than fifty people, and it was better to be less angry than to take a year's supplements! Master Bai broke away from Madame's hand, sat on the mahogany chair with a bang, sighed, and pointed to the cowering girl outside the door and said: "You hurry back to the house, don't let me see you, you are not allowed to eat for three days, and copy the 'Book of Filial Piety' for me a hundred times!" When Madame heard this, she immediately took Luo Ying away from the master's sight.

It is not easy to say that this white shopkeeper is not easy, at such an age, it is the time when children and grandchildren are around their knees and take care of their days. It's just three sons, and none of them are by his side. The eldest prince Bai Xiangwen was good at dancing and writing when he was young, and he was favored by the high-ranking and powerful Wu Tai Lao when he first appeared in the palace examination, but unfortunately the situation of Wu Tai Lao has plummeted in recent years, and Bai Xiangwen has inevitably been framed by political enemies, and has been exiled to the border so far, whether he is alive or dead is not known; the second son Bai Shuren insists on doing business abroad, and has not seen any eyebrows for many years, no matter how much the Bai master tries to please, he just wants to go all the way to the black, claiming that he will not come back in this life if he does not mix up a famous hall; there is also a little young master who does not learn and has no skills, and is forced by the Bai master to prepare for the imperial examination all day long, this is the third time, and he has not even been in Xiucai, although he likes to study everything in the world in his heart, but there is no qualitative way to do things, it seems that it is destined to be a stupid bird that is difficult to fly. It's not that the white master has no way to teach his son, it's only that the three children have the same temperament as him, and the father is still strict in discipline, but he is young and has no mother, and his personality is too independent and naturally achieves wildness. Just now, not to mention this, no one in the Baifu knows it, and their hearts are wild to the clouds.

As the night fell, the maid walked in softly to light the lamp, and then gently withdrew, and the dim light made his face even more gloomy and lonely. Master Bai had a satisfactory wife earlier, but unfortunately he died of tuberculosis, leaving him with three sons. Now this lady is called Su Weixue, she is much younger and more handsome, and the two have been in love for 20 years, but the most headache for him is this girl, people say that the daughter is the father's personal little padded jacket, but this child is not beaten, scolded, and stubborn like a cow, it is really a monster who has been born in the wrong place!

Angry is angry, but it will be Luoying's eighteenth birthday in a few days, and he has been thinking about it in his heart! Master Bai is in the winery business, and his contacts are naturally very wide. He has a close friendship with Governor Li in the capital, although he knows that he can't climb high, but Governor Li's second son has a soft spot for his youngest daughter Luoying. Master Bai repeatedly shirked, Li Ergongzi didn't pay attention, ran to Baifu twice in three days, and also 'bribed' him everywhere, this time to celebrate his birthday, he had to invite Governor Li and Ergongzi together.

Mrs. Bai carefully made the bed for her in her daughter's room, and Luo Ying lay on the dresser and sighed: "Mother, why did you give birth to me as a girl's family? No matter how I think I don't look like an ancient beauty! You look at those two Qiao, Bao Xi, they are all delicate, gentle and slender, where is I as rough as me, even compared with my mother's mother, I am 108,000 miles behind!" Luo Ying held her face, like a clown who was a showman, squeezing her eyebrows in the mirror, and her pouting look was funny. "You still complain about your mother! How does your mother know that you are a girl's family, this is all fate, so you just accept your fate! Aren't all the girls in the book sentimental and frail and sickly? That's what the author likes to write, the audience likes to watch, my mother doesn't like it, my mother likes you to be healthy and lively!" Luo Ying snorted lightly, and only her mother was willing to listen to her being coquettish, none of the three brothers were useful, and they all went their separate ways with iron hearts, regardless of whether their families lived or died. Then, she lowered her voice and choked up: "I don't complain about anyone, I complain about myself, and I complain about my father and mother who will be struck by lightning!" Mrs. Bai walked to her side, picked up the willow grate for her, and said seriously: "Mother knows, you have been different from other children since you were a child, you like to run around, you like no one to care about you, you like to be a big hero like a man, but it's a pity that my mother's ability is so big, I can't give you a man." When my mother was young, she was just like you, she was also indomitable, dreaming of living an unrestrained life, but now she is still defeated by reality? This deep family compound is my whole world!" Madame Bai picked up the eyebrow pencil and drew it between her immature eyebrows. Luo Ying lowered her gaze, she didn't want to see herself in the mirror, is her appearance so important? Is marriage so important? I don't want this, what I want is maybe even my mother doesn't understand it so well! Madame's slender palm touched her shoulder and continued: "When you grow up, you will know that stability is a woman's ultimate destination. "Mother, I know, the girl's family should keep to herself, keep in mind the three obedience and four virtues, this is the right way in the world, I will put on the new clothes you made tomorrow, dress up well, I have to let my father see, Bai Luoying is not worthless!" Luoying didn't want to respond to her mother's teachings against her will, but she couldn't always let her parents worry about herself. After all, the Book of Filial Piety is not copied in vain, she turned her mind and decided to learn to compromise from now on, what kind of father and mother like, I will obey them for the time being!

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