Chapter IV
Hearing what the young man said, the older girl blushed a little shyly. Stretched out his hand and took a rain-colored silk flower into his hand, stroked it very rarely, and thanked him inaudibly: "Thank you, Brother Zhang Hua." ”
When Zhang Hua heard this, he waved his hand with a smile and said, "Between you and me, why bother. ”
When the girl heard this, she looked at Zhang Hua for a while, and then pursed her lips and smiled. Fu lowered his eyebrows and said worriedly: "I don't know what the situation is inside." ”
Seeing this, Zhang Hua unconsciously persuaded: "Don't worry." Aunt loves you two the most on weekdays, and she will never wronged you. What's more, there is me and my father, don't be afraid. ”
After a pause, he said: "I have now entered school, Mr. said that my foundation is quite solid, and I will go to the scientific examination in two years, if I can get lucky enough to be a talented student, no one will dare to bully you." ”
Although the young man is still young, he has been studying since he was a child, and he knows what is the word of his parents. is also the eldest sister of the Zhao family with a gentle temperament and a peugeot appearance, which is more beautiful than any female family he has ever seen. Therefore, although Zhang Hua is ignorant, he is also gentle and caring for the eldest sister of the Zhao family. A pair of childhood sweethearts get along and play like a family, and the elders are also happy to see it.
When the eldest sister of the Zhao family heard this, she nodded ignorantly, with pure trust on her face. Seeing this, Zhang Hua touched his head even more embarrassedly, and he really didn't guess.
The second sister of the Zhao family, who looked like a pink ball, stood under the tree and watched it with relish, and only felt that this pair of childhood sweethearts were learning to be an adult before the moon and whispering.
That Zhang Hua stood under the window, and slowly said a few words to the eldest sister of the Zhao family, but seeing that the little sister of the Zhao family, who was smart and lively on weekdays, lowered her eyebrows and muttered silently, she mistakenly thought that this little baby was frightened by a big fuss just now. Then he smiled, reached out and touched the top of the little girl's hair, and persuaded him: "Don't worry, the adults will solve it." ”
The second sister of the Zhao family came back to her senses and smiled at Zhang Hua, but her expression was still a little absent-minded.
Zhang Hua sighed lightly, squatted on the ground and pulled a handful of grass, braided his fingers flexibly for a while, and instantly knitted a green and lifelike grasshopper in his hand, shook it to the little baby, and coaxed: "This is for you to be stubborn." ”
He also promised: "I beg my mother another day to invite you to my house, and we will go to Zhuangzi for a day." Now it's late spring, and the flowers on the mountain are blooming all over the mountain, you must like it. ”
The second sister of the Zhao family took the grasshopper a little speechlessly, and was about to say thank you, only to hear another noise in the house. Chen's sharp voice, Mrs. Zhao's high-pitched scolding, mixed with everyone's weak persuasion, made Zhang Hua secretly speak, took the two girls of the Zhao family a few steps away, and said, "Why don't we go to the side hall to find my mother." ”
The two daughters of the Zhao family shook their heads gloomily and stood aside with a sad expression. Seeing this, Zhang Hua no longer persuaded him, so he sat down on a big mountain stone with the two of them, and quietly listened to the noise in the house.
No one expected that this trouble would last for more than two months.
Chen's cardamom married into the Zhao family in his prime, to say that the husband and wife were also concubines back then, and the honey flowed with oil. How could the old lady Zhao not be good, and just half a year after getting married, she stuffed two bewitching maids into the big room under the pretext that Chen's knees had no children. After that, it didn't stop for a year or two, and asked the Chen family to set rules and serve people. The Chen family is a pampered aunt and grandmother at home, and she is naturally unwilling to let her mother-in-law suffer.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law saw the fight of the heavens, and Mrs. Zhao could ask the Chen family to stand up and set rules in front of her when she was pregnant with her eldest sister; Chen deliberately smashed the plate and bowl when the soup was ready, and even "accidentally" spilled the hot soup and rice on Mrs. Zhao's body. Later, when the little Sun in the second room entered the door, he not only changed the fetal pill to abortion pill when the Chen family was pregnant with the second sister, but also instigated Zhao Lin to hook the boss of the Zhao family to visit the Qinglou Chu Pavilion. Hooked Zhao Chen ten times worse than in the past.
In the end, not only did the husband and wife break off, but the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law also turned against each other like black-eyed chickens. is under the same roof every day, but I can't wait to eat each other's flesh and bones, where is there family affection at all.
So as soon as the eldest of the Zhao family died, the first thing the Chen family thought of was not the relationship between husband and wife, but to take this opportunity to break away from the Zhao family. Because of the sharp edge in the conversation, not only did he remarry, but he also had to take away a pair of daughters, and his attitude was resolute, and there was no sign of retreating gently.
Although Mrs. Zhao was disgusted with the Chen family and the two daughters born to the Chen family, she cared very much about the reputation and face of the Zhao family. And in her opinion, it is already difficult for the Zhao family to let the Chen family go home and remarry under the coercion of the Chen family, where is the reason for the Chen family to take away the Zhao bloodline?
What's more, the two daughters born by the Chen family are delicate and naturally beautiful. Although Mrs. Zhao looked down on the mother of the two girls, she also planned to leave the two girls in the Zhao family, so that they would have two good family affairs in the future, and they could also help the Zhao family's thoughts.
Thinking of this, Mrs. Zhao was full of filial piety and etiquette, forcing Chen to not let go. Zhao Lin and Xiao Sun in the second room of the Zhao family were a little open-eyed, and secretly pouted Mrs. Zhao a few words, but they were scolded back by Mrs. Zhao.
"Is the Chen family's dowry important, or is the face of our Zhao family important? You are also a person who wants to be an official in the imperial examination, why can't you tell the priorities of things? Do you want others to point to your backbone and scold you for seeing money, inadequacy and conspiracy, so that you know the severity? ”
Zhao Lin and Xiao Sun were scolded by Mrs. Zhao, and were instilled with a lot of words that "if you want your daughter to marry two good in-laws, you can also help Shuo'er and Zhu'er in the future", so they reluctantly threw away their hands and didn't mention it.
It's just that Mrs. Zhao is unwilling to let go, and the Chen family is even more left-minded. The two of them pointed to Mai Mang, and they were incompatible. This stalemate lasted for more than two months, until the funeral broke and the burial was completed, and the two were still inseparable.
It made Chen's father and mother impatient.
To say that this Chen's maiden family was originally the home of the local gentry and eunuchs, and there was a son who was an official in the court, because of the reputation of etiquette and education, Chen's father and Chen's mother did not seriously agree to their daughter's remarriage. It's just that I've been spoiling my daughter since I was a child, and I can't bear to refute her intentions. I also pity my daughter's young age, beautiful and moon-like, and if she gets rid of this sea of suffering, she may not be able to find a good one in the future.
However, agreeing with her daughter to go home and remarry does not mean that she agrees with her daughter to bring the two oil bottles of the Zhao family back to the Chen family.
Even if the world is declining, it is common for widows to remarry, but I have never heard of a widow from any family who can find a good marriage with a pair of oil bottles.
After all, the world is difficult, and women are always harsh.
Chen's father and Chen's mother's painstaking persuasion listened to Chen's ears, and it was like a breeze in the ears, and it didn't reach the ears. She has been married to the Zhao family for so many years, only such a pair of daughters are intimate and sensible, and now she wants to get rid of the sea of suffering, how can she bear to leave a pair of daughters in the Zhao family, facing tigers, leopards and jackals, and going through hardships?
Chen is an innocent and extremely willful person. made up his mind, and refused to listen to his parents' words, but seriously lobbied about his parents. Coincidentally, the reason for what was said was also what Mrs. Zhao said about persuading the second room of the Zhao family-
It's nothing more than how beautiful the two daughters are, and they can use this to say two good family affairs in the future and help their uncle's family.
Hundreds of mouths of gold, Chen said a lot in his ear, and Chen's father and Chen's mother also listened. Seeing that in the past two months, my daughter has been going toe-to-toe with her mother-in-law and brother-in-law, and how difficult it is to live in her mother-in-law's house-
Although his daughter is so strong, she is really a little suspicious of grasping the sharp ability. But the mother-in-law of the Zhao family is unkind, and the concubine is too disrespectful. is so aggressive, if his daughter is so soft, I am afraid that there will be no bones.
In other words, if the daughter really left a pair of daughters ruthlessly for her own comfort, the situation of the eldest sister and the second sister in the Zhao family will definitely be like a sheep, and it will be rare to be good.
Thinking of the two granddaughters' well-behaved, considerate and obedient, Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Chen also stopped thinking about throwing the eldest sister and the second sister in the Zhao family.
Mrs. Chen even said that she moved her eldest son Chen Qi, who was on an errand in the Yamen, to return home and discuss with the Zhao family about releasing his wife and daughter.
When the Zhao family saw the uncle of the Chen family on duty in the imperial court, they knew that this matter could not be reversed. It's just that he was hopeful, but he still bit his mouth, and only said that he would let the Chen family leave, but the blood of the Zhao family could not be taken away.
After a lot of upside down, the Zhao family relented and agreed to allow the Chen family to leave with the second sister, the eldest sister was pointed out to the Zhang family, the head of the imperial grain village since childhood, and the Zhao family wanted to take advantage of this in-law to continue to cling to the Zhang family, and thought that the eldest sister was gentle and obedient, not more tricky and eccentric than the second sister, and did not want the eldest girl to leave.
The abacus was very fine, but Chen did not cooperate. The ownership of the two factors has been deadlocked for a long time. In the end, he annoyed Chen's eldest brother Chen Qi, and simply used the cause of death of the eldest of the Zhao family and the safety of the Zhao family as a bargaining chip, and forced the Zhao family to write a deed and let Chen and his two daughters leave.
Not only that, but he also asked for half of the dowry for his sister.
In the ancestral ancestral hall, Mrs. Zhao looked embarrassed as the patriarch of the Zhao clan wrote off the names of the daughter-in-law and the two girls on the family tree. The Chen family shook the two dowry lists in his hand proudly, and said to the patriarch of the Zhao clan: "In front of so many elders of the Zhao family, the patriarch chooses one to stay, which can be regarded as my money to buy my daughter." In the future, the marriage of these two girls will have nothing to do with the Zhao family. ”
The patriarch of the Zhao clan sighed with a pale face, and said to Old Lady Zhao: "Since it is the person in your room, it is up to you to choose." ”
Mrs. Zhao snorted coldly, pinched the two dowry lists and compared them for a long time, and chose one of them hesitantly. Chen quickly pulled out the other one and stuffed it into his sleeve, pulled his two daughters out of the Zhao family with his parents and brothers, accompanied by his parents and brothers.
Three or five days later, the story of Zhao's daughter-in-law returning home less than three months after her husband's death spread throughout the neighborhood.