Xi Yunzhi sat by the door of the firewood room, she looked haggard after two days of not getting a drop of water, and the original ruddy spring color was now pale and dry, but her eyes were still clear and she never gave up. She pressed her ear close to the window, just hoping that Cuiya would sneak back again and tell her what was going on.

But she also knew that it was almost impossible, and since the first day, there had been a few more guards patrolling outside the firewood house.

The fifth aunt is determined to let her stay in the Xi family, she believes that even if she obediently follows Yunzheng to the capital, she will be disposed of in a short time, and when the time comes, she will have no relatives in the capital, even if she dies, she is just a young lady's dowry girl, and no one will investigate her death.

Suddenly, there was a sound of footsteps outside, Xi Yunzhi thought she had heard it wrong, and hurriedly stood up against the wall, and through the window she saw Mrs. Xi walking towards the firewood room with a few grandmothers on crutches.

The old lady asked the nursing home to open the door, and a grandmother moved in a Taishi chair, Mrs. Xi saw Xi Yunzhi leaning against the wall, and first swept the scarred Xi Yunzhi up and down with cold eyes, and then beckoned to her with a smile and said:

"Yunzhi, come here."

Although Xi Yunzhi saw through her face, he also knew that he had to be patient, walked up to Mrs. Xi with his head down, and saluted her like usual:

"Yunzhi, please the old lady."

"Hmm. Good job. The old lady beckoned to Xi Yunzhi again: "Come, come closer, come to the old lady." ”

Xi Yunzhi didn't know what the old woman was beating her again, so she walked over quietly, only to see Mrs. Xi gently take her hand and say:

"Originally, I was just trying you, you wouldn't really think that the old woman would just leave you alone, but you are also my own granddaughter." A few taps on the back of her hand were comforting.

Mrs. Xi gave a look, and the grandmother standing aside handed over a piece of red paper, and after Mrs. Xi took it, she handed it to Xi Yunzhi again, and said while she was looking through it:

"There is an imperial mausoleum in the northern suburbs, although it is not an imperial mausoleum, but it must be a local noble family who can guard it, no matter what, it is a good family. At the very least, people are willing to marry the media, even if the son of the family is inconvenient to walk and has a strange temperament, but this kind of foreign visitor will propose to marry you as a main room without knowing your reputation, and now, this family has sent a dowry, a total of two lifts, the day you pass the door, these two dowry, the old lady will not move to give you a dowry, what do you think? ”

Xi Yunzhi looked down at the red paper in his hand, the handwriting on it was not like the Juanxiu font written by an ordinary physiognomy on a good day, but the pen was energetic, vigorous and powerful, like a military background, listening to the old lady's words, this family should have just come to Luoyang, and she didn't know her reputation before she came to ask for marriage, and the old lady said that the family was a local family, and the son of the family was also inconvenient to walk, so he thought that the family must be a declining family, otherwise he would not have been relegated to the northern suburbs to guard the mausoleum, but if that family did not decline, The old lady would not have been able to ask her to marry.

Thinking of her reputation, Xi Yunzhi was quite worried in her heart, no matter who she married in the future, even if she could abide by Women's Day after marriage, she couldn't help but spread false rumors, and when her husband's family became suspicious, her life would not be easy.

With a lot of worries in his heart, he looked at Mrs. Xi as if she was an old god, and her old and exquisite eyes were full of calculations, as if she knew that Xi Yunzhi would not give up the opportunity in front of her, and she didn't urge or ask, just looked at her like that.

Xi Yunzhi put the red paper in her chest and put her heart sideways, no matter what tricks this old woman has, now there is an opportunity to go to the capital with Yunzheng to be a roommate, and she will not give up.

As for the rumors about her in the future, if the rumors about her reach the ears of her husband's family, how she will stand is completely a matter of later story.

"Okay, I'll marry."

Mrs. Xi nodded with satisfaction, and instructed the two grandmothers who were waiting: "Take the eldest lady to freshen up, change into clean clothes, and go out tomorrow." ”

Going out tomorrow? This is not even giving her time to make a wedding dress, Xi Yunzhi held back her trembling shoulders with anger, and bent down on Mrs. Xi's face with a pale face:

"Yunzhi Xie old lady is fully cared for."

Mrs. Xi stood up, waved her hand at Xi Yunzhi, and said casually, "Go." ”

Xi Yunzhi was taken down by the two grandmothers to freshen up, and left the firewood room, Mrs. Xi tidied up her cuffs in a good time, and the close-fitting grandmother Guixi helped her to walk out, while walking, Guixi Mama asked puzzledly:

"Old lady, if you marry the eldest lady in such a hurry, will it not please both ends?"

Mrs. Xi smiled at the corner of her mouth, her eyes were cold and piercing, she glanced at Mama Guixi, and Shi Shiran said, "What is their identity, do you need me to please them?" ”

Only then did Mama Guixi realize that she had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly explained: "The slave said the wrong thing, with your identity as the old lady, no one dares to object to what you say, it's just ...... You promised the fifth grandmother before to take the eldest lady to the capital for Yunzheng girl, and now the fifth grandmother is afraid that she will disturb your purity again. ”

Mrs. Xi snorted coldly: "Hmph, what is Shang Su'e, does she think that if I let her take care of the house, she can really cover the sky with one hand?" The more she wants to get rid of Yunzhi, the more I won't let her succeed, but I want to see what medicine she sells in her gourd. ”

"It turns out that the old lady didn't plan to let the eldest lady go to the capital with her in the first place." Mama Guixi suddenly realized, and then worried about the others: "Then why don't the old lady be nice to the eldest lady, I can't say that I will really fall out with the fifth grandmother in the future, but there is a foil who is really towards you." ”

After hearing these words, Mrs. Xi suddenly laughed, deliberately stopped and said to Mama Guixi:

"Really? What do I want her heart to do? A woman who has lost her reputation, and married such a family that is destined to be ruined, haven't you seen what those dowry gifts have become, and what else can she help me in the future? If I am good to her now, is it not for nothing, and if it is for nothing, why should I be good to her? ”

Mama Guixi was followed by another flattering remark, and Mrs. Xi was lifted to the sky.

There was only one night, Xi Yunzhi didn't have time to prepare anything for herself, so she had to rummage through her mother's wedding dress, change the size slightly, and put it on, the old lady's words were very clear, the dowry was the dowry of her future husband's family, Xi Yunzhi quietly looked at it twice, it was some ordinary fabrics, fish, and steamed beecakes or something, fortunately it was March, and the weather was not hot, otherwise these dowries would have been broken if no one cared about them overnight.

Xi Yunzhi knew that the life of the family she was going to marry must be embarrassing, and it was no wonder that the old lady would look down on her, if she wasn't there, it would be impossible for such a dowry to marry a daughter-in-law in the Xi family.

But Xi Yunzhi felt that it was nothing for her husband's family to be poor, after all, she was there to live, as long as she was willing to work, it would not be too difficult to live in the future, and now she only hopes to meet a family with a clear sense of affairs.

Just improving the wedding dress was busy until late at night, Xi Yunzhi didn't have a maid, so she had to clean up everything by herself, fortunately, she had a light life over the years, and she didn't have too much baggage, she took out a wooden box hidden at the head of the bed, and there were a few small silver tickets in it, adding up to more than two hundred taels, which she had secretly saved when she was helping the house do business all these years.

With these two hundred taels of silver, even if she didn't get a decent dowry for herself, she shouldn't be completely unconfident in her husband's family, at least where she should spend it, it was enough for her to get her hands on it.

The simple four burdens are all Xi Yunzhi's belongings, neatly placed on the two boxes of dowry boxes at her husband's house, and she sat down in front of the dresser, looking at the corner of her mouth in the mirror with bruises, her usual appearance, Xi Yunzhi's appearance is medium, and her facial features are quite delicate, but the sparse eyebrow color makes her look a little bland, perhaps because of her perennial worries, her hair color is yellowish and soft, and she looks like she is unlucky.

Smiling at herself in the mirror, Xi Yunzhi's eyes swept over the dresser, there was only a box of leftover rouge that her mother had used, she usually didn't say that she used it, and she was reluctant to even open it, because it was a long time, the fragrance of rouge was as faint as a year a year, and she was afraid that the more times she opened it, the faster the fragrance would disperse.

But tomorrow is the day she gets married, and there must always be a little joy on her face. She put down the rouge box, went outside to get a basin of warm water into the room, washed her face and hands clean, changed into a wedding dress that was a little old, but still brightly colored, and then sat back in front of the dresser, sat upright, and opened the rouge box with a pious posture, and the fragrance made her feel as if she had returned to her childhood.

Xi Yunzhi sighed repeatedly, it would be nice if her appearance was half as beautiful as her mother's, but unfortunately, her mother's beauty was ruined in the end, and even her younger brother who inherited her beauty could not be spared, but she survived because her appearance was ordinary and not as gorgeous as her mother......

The next day's movement was as cold as Xi Yunzhi expected, and the old lady sent a face-to-face grandmother to take care of her early in the morning, but this grandmother didn't help clean up, and she didn't help with makeup, so she stood outside Xi Yunzhi's door like that.

Xi Yunzhi felt desolate, but she didn't say anything, she covered her head and sat on the edge of the bed, her two hands were clasped together, and she didn't wait for a while, she heard a sound outside, she secretly lifted the corner of the hijab and looked at it, only to see two men, one old and one young, both wearing ordinary people's blue cloth shorts, and their straight backs made people feel energetic when they looked at them, and they saluted and asked with their grandmothers outside the door.

Mama said what the old lady meant, Xi Yunzhi then knew that the old lady didn't want her to marry from the main gate of Xi's mansion, so at this moment she asked her husband's family to carry the sedan chair to the side door to welcome her, the young man raised his eyebrows after hearing this, and it seemed that he was about to step forward to reason with Mama, but was stopped by the elders, and the good words and discussions were fruitless, Mama always refused to go to the old lady to ask for instructions, and the two relatives of the husband's family had to give up when they saw this, and pushed the two boxes of dowry gifts and Xi Yunzhi's several bags out, and it didn't take long for a while, The gatekeeper went in and helped Xi Yunzhi out of the door, Xi Yunzhi looked at the green bricks on the ground and knew that this was a path in the direction of the side door, and the old lady didn't care about the slightest love for her ancestors and grandchildren in the end, so she got married from the side door.