"Oh God, what kind of sin have I created, I have provoked a group of bandit leaders, how can we orphans and widows live?"

In the main hall of Yanfu, a woman is full of beads and emerald rings, wearing a plain yellow chest-length skirt, covered with a collarless neck and wide sleeves, auspicious clouds and dark brocade materials, the placket and cuffs are embroidered with thumb-sized patterns for decoration, and the warm orange belt hangs down to the corners of the clothes, and the action is still swaying with the wind, which is really luxurious and dignified and gorgeous.

Well, at least a quarter of an hour ago, it was.

But now, a quarter of an hour later, because he only knelt on the ground and wept and wiped his tears, not to mention that his long dress was stained with dust on the ground, and the stains stained with black mud were wet with tears, and he was crumpled and curled up, but not even a dirty rag.

The white jade plum hairpin, the golden phoenix with beads swaying, the beads on the head vibrated with the woman's sobbing and shaking, and from time to time I saw a few loose strands of black hair slipping down, occasionally sticking to the cheeks, mixed with the fat powder of the crying flowers on the face, the white powder was dirty and black, it was really 'colorful'!

"What are you crying about? I'm not dead yet! The head of the Yan family walked back and forth in the hall irritably, and when he turned around, he saw his wife Zhu, who had been crying since he just came in, was even more unkempt at this time, just hugging his son and howling, without the slightest bearing of being a housewife, and his face was also covered with tears and dirt at this time, which made him faintly nauseated.

"Don't cry!" The words roared, and the woman shuddered, and finally closed her mouth, only dared to cover her eyes with a silk handkerchief, and quietly wept. "It's a woman who only knows how to cry all day long! Is it possible that as long as you cry, you can come up with a way to save it? ”

"That's right, mother, did you suddenly call me back to accompany you here and listen to your crying?" Impatiently plucked out his ears that were a little itchy, and Hang Erlang rolled his eyes, "Really, I finally touched a ** to win back all the losses, but the result is all because of you, mother, I have already lost a hundred taels of silver!" ”

Zhu also knew that his son was very addicted to cards, but this time he lost half of the cards and ran back because of his own reasons, only to feel that he didn't hurt this son in vain, wiped the tears on his face and patiently coaxed: "Be good, if you lose, you will lose, and you will go to the account room to get a few hundred taels of silver later?" ”

She didn't know that she had lost all the money at all, and she made an IOU of a few hundred taels, and those people were afraid that he would play a white note, so they encouraged him to come back, and only after taking enough money to fight for hundreds of rounds!

Therefore, since he had already taken the silver, he snorted lightly, and wanted to get up and leave.

Zhu grabbed his hand and said hurriedly: "Don't go first!" ”

"Huh? Mother, what else is going on? "Yan Yan is a little impatient.

"Calling you back today is a lifelong event for you! What's the good thing about you not being there? ”

"Mother, are you mistaken?" Yan Yan's originally raised leg immediately stepped back, "I only passed the weak crown ceremony last year, didn't I say that when I meet the girl I really like, I will sue you, and then it's not too late to get married?" Why are you now backsliding on your word and suddenly having a family affair for no apparent reason? ”

It's no wonder that he is so excited, Yan Yan has always relied on his family's wealth and wealth, and he claims to be a romantic character, often wandering and walking birds on the street with a group of sons, doing nothing all day long, and teasing those good family girls who pass by with some obscene poetry and glamorous words.

In Yanyan's view, the woman is just used to warm the bed and give birth, his family has a big business, and the person is extremely handsome, as long as he beckons, whether it is the top card of Wanhualou or the pretty widow in the alley, which one is not scrambling to get into his bed?

Besides, it is enough to have one person in this bed, marrying or something is too cumbersome, and it is annoying enough to have parents at home, so why should he find himself uncomfortable?

So he relied on his parents' love for him, forcing them to make that vow, just to want a few more years of freedom, mother? He may marry, but I don't know when, or maybe his father and mother are old and he has been free all his life.

But

"Mother, what the hell is going on, you have to explain it to me!" Yan Yan saw that his father's and mother's expressions were strict, and he didn't seem to be fake, and he was a little angry.

"What are you yelling at me for?" Zhu lowered her head aggrievedly, she stopped crying at this time, and knew that she couldn't solve the matter like this, she was just trying to force her words to express an attitude, and now she was carefully sorting out her clothes and hair accessories, and then glanced at her son, and pointed to the words on the side, "You go and ask your father!" ”

"Daddy?"

Yanyi looked at him and sighed suddenly, "Speaking of which, it's all a bad fate."

It turns out that the Yan family has been in business for generations, and they have been running around from south to north.

As the only son in the family when he was young, he carried the economic burden of the whole family early, so even though the outside world was turbulent and there were wars everywhere, in order for his family to survive, Yanyi had to continue to transport rice to the south and cotton to the north to earn some war money.

It was the middle of winter that year and the New Year was approaching, so Yanyi finished a deal and rushed home. Unexpectedly, I met bandits and robbed me on the way!

In desperation, Yanyi, who hid under the carriage, was fortunate to escape, and was not killed by those refugees, but he was finally found and found out.

At that time, the words of the persecuted kneeling on the ground only glanced around, white snow, red people, and stumps everywhere, and couldn't tell who was who, but he also knew that there must be no one alive.

If you're one step too late, then yourself

"So what happened later?" Yan Yan listened to his father tell about the past, and couldn't help frowning, "What does this have to do with my family?" ”

"Needless to say? When the old man was able to come back safely, it must have been because the bandit leader took the opportunity to threaten a lot of benefits! Zhu said the fastest.

The words were a little unhappy, but I thought that no matter what I said, I even promised to give all the family wealth to the bandits, when I heard that he already had a wife and a son at home, his eyes immediately lit up and waved his hand to let him go, and I couldn't help but feel a little guilty, "I was really forced by people to answer the bandit, and I forgot about it after so many years, but I didn't think that they suddenly came to the door a few days ago to mention this."

Yan Yan suddenly realized, it turned out that Yan Yi agreed to the conditions of the bandit leader in order to survive, one of which was that his son must marry his daughter in the future, that is to say, he Yan Yan must marry a bandit as a lady!

"How can this be!!"

Think about what a bandit's daughter looks like? - It must be a person of etiquette from time to time, if you add that your face is ugly and hindering your admiration, you will be forced to marry her home and let her live in the backyard without being upset, and the most afraid is that he will marry a big Buddha and go home, not to mention worshipping day and night, and he will have to secretly swallow this stuffy loss, isn't this going to suffocate him to death?!

But if they don't marry, how can those bandits be willing to give up?

For a while, everyone was helpless, and only Zhu's low sobs were heard in the hall, and they were even more gloomy and depressed.

"Huh? Isn't that right? Suddenly, Yan Yan was puzzled: "Daddy just said that the bandit had the idea of getting married after hearing you talk about having a son in the family, but at that time, I was not born yet!" ”