Chapter 3: Marrying an Old Man?
Shu Xin learned from the memory of the deity that the world she wore was called the Apocalypse Continent, which was ruled by three countries, showing the posture of three kingdoms, with comparable national strength, and the three kingdoms coexisted peacefully.
What I comfortably wear is a country called the Shuiyao Dynasty, where the people of the Shuiyao Kingdom are peaceful and prosperous, and the people live and work in peace and contentment.
Of course, these are just the things that Yuan Shuxin, who is not out of the door of the mansion, and what he learned from the mouths of others, how the truth is that a girl who has lived in the boudoir for a long time can't understand, and it's not what she should know as an ordinary boudoir woman.
The Shu family is a small family in the Shuiyao Kingdom, located in the first county east of Kyoto in the Shuiyao Dynasty, and it is also the largest county directly under the jurisdiction of Kyoto - Feng County.
In Feng County, although there are not many small families like the Shu family, there are not many of them, and the family background of the Shu family is also below the middle in Feng County, and the Shu family has withered over the years, and all of them are mediocre generations, and the family strength has declined significantly, and the family background is not as good as a year.
Therefore, how to strengthen the strength of the family has become the urgent responsibility of the head of the Shu family, and it is also the obligation of every Shu family.
Marriage is undoubtedly one of the best ways to strengthen a family.
Now the Shu family has a total of three rooms, the old lady of the Shu family only married one wife and one concubine, the old lady of the Shu family Lu is the main wife, gave birth to the eldest son Shu Qifeng and the second son Shu Qiming, and the concubine Liu gave birth to the third daughter and the fourth son.
Five years ago, Mrs. Shu and the Liu family passed away one after another, and the Shu family was officially in charge of the big house, but the big house has no son-in-law, and the second room gave birth to the first son-in-law of the Shu family.
Especially in the past two years, the second room sister-in-law Shu Wugongzi is fifteen years old this year, and he will need to start a family in two years.
Back then, Mrs. Shu passed the position of head of the family to Shu Qifeng, first, he was the eldest son, and secondly, he was stronger than Shu Qiming, so Shu Qiming was not convinced.
In the face of Shu Qiming's contempt and questioning when passing on the throne, Shu Qifeng proudly said that if the strength of the Shu family could not be quadrupled within five years, he would automatically send the position of head of the family to Shu Qiming.
Now five years have passed, and the Shu family is still the Shu family five years ago, not only has it not grown, but it has also shown a significant downward trend.
The second room looked at it with pride on the side, and recently Miss Shu Er, who came out of the second room, also talked about a very good family matter.
In order to protect the position of the head of the family, it is even more urgent to expand the Shu family in the Shu family's big house.
The Shu family is a small family, if you want to climb up, you have to tie up a stronger family than them, in this imperial feudal era that pays attention to the right family and status, stammering means sacrifice.
Sacrificing something in exchange for something, such as sacrificing the happiness of the Shu family's daughter in exchange for the prosperity and wealth of the Shu family.
As the head of the house, Gu Peipei naturally will not sacrifice her daughter's happiness, and she is not in charge of the marriage of the daughter of the second and third rooms, but the most important thing in the Shu family's big house is her daughter.
First of all, Gu Peipei's three daughters are the eldest daughter, the fourth daughter and the ninth daughter, the eldest daughter Shu You was eighteen years old and married the year before last, the fourth daughter Shu Pan was fifteen years old and has not yet married, and the ninth daughter Shu Qing is thirteen years old.
Shu Xin is the third daughter, also fifteen years old, one month older than Shu Pan.
The sixth daughter and the seventh daughter are twins, Shu Yue and Shu Huan are also concubines, the daughter of Su Yanyan, fourteen years old.
In such a large family, what is basically paid attention to is the words of the parents' matchmaker, and the main person responsible for the marriage of the children is the housewife.
As a result, among the daughters of the Shu family, whether in terms of age or emotion, the first person to be used and sacrificed by Gu Peipei was Shu Xin.
A few days ago, when Gu Peipei went to attend a gathering of noble ladies, he heard the news that Wang Ju, the head of the Wang family, one of the top business families in Fengzhen, intended to marry a young woman as a concubine in the family.
In this world's wealthy families, from respect to humility is for the royal family, official family, family, business, although the social status of merchants is not particularly low, but in terms of respect and inferiority level is much lower than the family, unless the business has achieved a height that people absolutely look up to.
Although the Wang family is quite wealthy, and everyone usually treats each other with courtesy, but those families are a little contemptuous of the Wang family in their hearts.
The family is not only in business, but the most important thing is that people who have achieved a certain degree in their careers have made certain contributions to the imperial court, both in the past and now.
Therefore, the family will be more or less arrogant in their bones, as if they are inexplicably arrogant.
The marriage of a pure merchant to a family is the best way to improve the reputation of the status.
Wang Ju, the head of the Wang family, is now over sixty years old, vainly trying to marry a young girl from the family, and many family members are secretly shameless, but after all, the Wang family has strong financial resources, and there are many small and medium-sized families in Fengxian County who want to tie up.
When Gu Peipei heard the news, he was naturally moved, and tried his best to make Wang Ju look comfortable, and privately set a marriage contract, when Yuan Shuxin learned about it, Gu Peipei had already received a huge bride price from the Wang family.
This is like a bolt from the blue for Yuan Shuxin, she has always been cowardly and dare not resist for the first time she tried to resist for herself, she was unwilling to marry a man who could be her grandfather, not to mention that she also had a sweetheart, but unfortunately in addition to her, the Shu family was happy to see it.
Comfortable heart like ashes, so depressed in the heart, seeing the wedding date is getting closer and closer, comfortable sad and anxious but helpless, three days ago in the back garden of the house when the heart was relaxed, due to a trance accidentally fell into the lake, a sickness.
The names of these countries and places learned from the memory of Yuan Shuxin made Shu Xin have a sense of immediacy of the names of online novels, and the memories of the two people in her head were confused so that Shu Xin was dizzy, and she couldn't think more clearly for a while, and the reality at this time didn't allow her to think about that more.
"Knock Knock Knock ......"
"Miss, Miss, open the door! Miss! ”
The knocks and calls outside became more and more urgent, and there were noisy footsteps outside the courtyard, and Qiu'er's calls and knocks immediately stopped abruptly, thinking that the eldest lady had arrived with someone.
Shu Xin rubbed his forehead and thought about how to deal with it at this moment, according to the original Shu Xin's memory, two days will be the day of Shu Xin's marriage.
Marrying an old man in his sixties as a concubine, Yuan Shuxin, a native here, is unwilling, let alone comfortable from the soul of modern society.
There are only two days left, if the Shu family climbs to the Wang family, then the Shu family's business will be taken care of by the Wang family, and the benefits will not be half a star, for the Shu family, it will be a matter of great benefits, and for Shu Qifeng, let the Shu family get such a thing that is conducive to the growth of the Shu family, as the head of the Shu family, he will naturally not let it go.
What's more, now there is a younger brother Shu Qiming who is waiting and looking forward to his next position, even if there is no Shu Qiming, he will not let go of such a good opportunity to help the Shu family grow.
Shu Xin's current situation in the Shu family can be described as isolated and embattled, how can this situation be reversed?