Chapter 105: Wife Beating
The Bai family was thundered now, oh my God, the head of Deqing Mansion, from the official of the seventh grade, married his daughter, and actually prepared a dowry according to the standard of ten taels of silver, which is also outrageous.
The Bai family was speechless by thunder here, and Wu Dashan was in the house of Wu Dashan in Deqing City over there, and Wu Dashan was furious. Wu Dashan is now living a very good life, becoming the head of the capital, this is from the seventh grade of the official, the brothers are arranged in the yamen, so everyone is very united, even a few old officials, not his opponent, so his work is very good, whether it is the resettlement of disaster victims, or daily patrols, the management of public security are handy, and he is deeply valued by the prefect Chen Yuanheng.
Of course, he no longer has time to teach the two sons martial arts, so he recommended another junior brother to teach, and this junior brother is very grateful to him, after all, this job of teaching the son is a good job, there are many pavilions, good benefits, and there is no danger. His sister taught the daughter of the prefect's family in the prefect's house, and she lived very well, with a rich bundle every year, good welfare, and the prefect's family was good to her sister, and every time her sister came home, she carried a large bag of things.
Because he became the head of the capital, he had a lot of money, plus the yamen shared profits, the lower ones were filial, and some people begged to do things for themselves, Wu Dashan now has a lot of resources. Of course, Wu Dashan is very principled, at least he won't do anything harmful, and he generally helps the rest as long as he can help, of course, people thank him afterwards, and he will also accept the money and gifts he sends. Therefore, now there is a lot of food, drink, silk and other things at home, and the life is very moist.
Actually, such a life. Wu Dashan is already very satisfied, he has replaced the small courtyard at home with a big house, and the family has also bought a lot of people, mother, wife and children don't have to work hard, and the fields outside the city have also been bought, originally only a few dozen acres, now they are more than 300 acres. Even if he doesn't rely on the income of the yamen, he will have land rent in the future, and he will be a rich man.
Now that the children have grown up, he has set his eldest daughter the son of his senior brother Ancheng, this child has grown up with strong martial arts and good character. It's that the senior brother's family is ordinary, and the two families used to have this meaning, because the daughter is still young, and the senior brother's son is practicing martial arts, so he hasn't made up his mind, but his wife is still very satisfied.
Now, my daughter is older. He officially set the marriage for his daughter, who knows, his wife was dissatisfied, and said that now the two families are not a good match, their Jian family is a martial arts family, it is too common, where can it be worthy of the daughter of the seventh official. Wu Dashan heard the fire and yelled at his wife, this person is rich and noble, but he can't forget his roots. I have long said something good to my senior brother, how can I regret it? Besides, how good the other party's child is, if he repents of marriage because he is poor and loves the rich, and he is not laughed at by the people in the martial arts, where will he put his face.
Fortunately, after Yan was yelled at by himself, he was honest and obediently prepared a dowry for his daughter. In ten days, it will be the day of her daughter's marriage, and she is usually busy with official business. I couldn't ask about my daughter, but I happened to be free on this day, so I went to chat with my daughter, thinking that my daughter was going to get married. It's hard to give up in my heart.
When I arrived in my daughter's room, I found that my daughter was worried, and I thought that my daughter was as poor as his wife Yan, so I reprimanded the girl with a straight face, but who knew that the girl's tears fell down aggrievedly and said the depression in her heart. It turned out that he was wrong to blame his daughter, and her daughter was very willing to marry into the Jian family, but Yan was unwilling to love the poor and rich, and under his own pressure, although Yan agreed, the dowry prepared for his daughter was still according to the previous preparation.
In fact, the Yan family is still very good at running the family, and when her daughter was only ten years old, Yan saved a dowry for her daughter. In this era, it is generally good for a country girl to marry a daughter with a dowry of three or five taels of silver. There are more girls in the city, but they are only eight taels to ten taels. Before, Yan felt sorry for his daughter and prepared a dowry of fifteen taels of silver. At that time, I still admired the dowry that my wife prepared for her daughter.
But can it be the same now? At that time, her daughter was only ten years old, and she was just a dart master, and now her family is already an official family from the seventh grade, and it takes fifteen taels to marry a daughter, and she doesn't laugh at all the people in Deqing City? Thinking of this, Wu Dashan refused to believe it, after all, the Yan family still loves face very much, and she can't do this for the sake of face? But seeing his daughter's tearful eyes, Wu Dashan beat a drum in his heart, and still went to find Yan, and after asking, Yan really prepared like this, Wu Dashan was angry and lost his temper.
Yan's maid saw that something was wrong and invited the old lady to come. Wu's mother saw her son and daughter-in-law quarreling, and hurriedly asked the reason, but as soon as Wu Dashan told the matter, Wu's mother was also angry.
Mother Wu looked at Yan sternly and said, "Daughter-in-law, are you going to laugh at our family when the big girl goes out?" ”
Yan was a little afraid of her mother-in-law, but at this time she still said stubbornly: "Most of the daughters in Deqing City are married to ten taels of silver, and I gave fifteen taels of silver, which is already rich." “
Mother Wu said hatefully: "Yes, fifteen taels of silver is rich when the eldest girl is ten years old, but now? Now our family is the head of the mountain, and it is the official of the seventh grade, have you ever seen the daughter of the official family marry a dowry of fifteen taels of silver? Even if the maid with a head and face in the family marries, the master also has to be rewarded with ten taels or eighty taels, right? Do you think our big girl is not even as good as a maid? ”
Yan pouted and said, "At this time, I remember that we are the family of the seven-rank official, why didn't we remember when we married the eldest girl?" ”
At this moment, Wu Dashan understood, and said: "Okay, Yan's family, I understand, you are angry that I promised the girl to the Jian family at the beginning, but have you thought about it, our marriage with the Jian family was decided a long time ago, and you agreed to it at the beginning, and now that our family is rich, how can we change it?" Who have we become? I think, you can't take care of this family, you don't deserve to be the mother of the big girl, think about it, you slapped me in the face by doing this, and you also slapped the big girl in the face, do you want the big girl to marry and be angry in the future? Isn't the big girl the meat that fell off your body? ”
Yan was still angry, and he didn't mean to change his ways, and said: "It's because of the meat that fell from my body that I feel sorry for her, and I want to marry her to a wealthy person's family. It's good now, marry a poor martial artist, I think about her, she still doesn't appreciate it, and she still teases me, hmph, I don't care about her. Seeing that she suffered when she came to Jane's house later, I knew that I was thinking about her. “
Wu Dashan heard that Yan was so unreasonable and didn't bother to pay attention, so he said to his mother: "Mother, I think, you should take care of this family first." After a few years, I will marry a daughter-in-law to Da Lang and hand it over to my daughter-in-law, you look at it and try to make things good for Da Niu, you can't let Yan do this, this will harm the child. ”
Yan was angry and shouted, "Why don't you let me take care of the house?" This is my home, I am the main mother, you went to the dart game when you were young, you can't go home once a year, I work hard to pull so many children alone, is it easy for me? Now that you are rich, you forget your book, you dislike your wife, and you won't let me take care of the house, why? ”
Wu Dashan was too lazy to talk to Yan, and said directly: "You'd better shut up for me, or I'll use my fists to let you know why." ”
Yan looked at Wu Dashan and was also afraid of being beaten, but thinking that since he got married, Wu Dashan had never beaten her, so he became bold and jumped harder: "Wu Dashan, others are afraid of you, but I am not afraid of you, what's the matter, I have learned to beat my wife, you can beat it?" ”
Wu Dashan didn't reply, and with a punch, Yan flew out directly, falling to the ground like a parabola, and didn't say anything for a long time. The maid hurriedly went to help, Yan reluctantly stood up, opened his mouth, and a mouthful of blood spurted out. When Yan Shi saw the blood, his eyes rolled and he fainted in fright.
Mother Wu looked at her and said in fear: "Oh no, Dashan, you beat your wife to death." ”
Wu Dashan glanced at her coldly and said, "Mother, don't be afraid, I made a measured move, just let her know that she was powerful, and I didn't hurt her, she was scared." It'll be fine in a while. I'll help you to your upper room, and we'll talk about it. ”
Wu's mother was still not at ease, and went over to see that Yan had woken up under the toss of the maid's mother-in-law, and was crying and shouting.
Yan cried for a while to see that no one paid attention to her, and then looked at the blood stains on the ground, afraid that Wu Dashan would do it again, so he was afraid, so he simply let the maid help him back to the house, and began to recuperate on the bed.
Here, Wu Dashan and Wu's mother are discussing how to give the girl a dowry.
Wu Dashan said: "Alas, there is still money in my mother's house, and the Yan family is quite good, I just looked at the silver deposited in the bank and there are more than 3,000 taels, and it is enough to buy a dowry for the eldest girl, in addition to the silver, there are many silk and satin in the treasury of the house." ”
Mother Wu frowned and said, "But our time is too tight, and there are less than twenty days left, where can we catch up?" Generally speaking, I see that those rich families marry daughters, and the dowry includes land, shops, furniture, clothes for the four seasons, jewelry, and silk, food, play, and maids to dowry, and some to marry housekeepers, but our dowry only has silk and silver, and we can't carry silver to swagger when the time comes. ”
Wu Dashan thought about it and said, "Alas, it's all Yan's mistake, fortunately I found it early, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable." ”