"The family I am talking about, Brother Zhuzi must be happy when he hears it, it is the lotus of my third sister's family. You have also seen Lian'er's female doll, not to mention the appearance or anything, what is rare is that this doll is not only sensible and filial, but also diligent in her hands and feet, and can get started in and out of the house......"

Aunt Seventeen stood at the table, talking and gesturing, and praised the daughter of the third sister's family in a big way, but Liu Laozhu didn't say anything, but he just had a black face with a stalk on his neck, and he was slumped on his back that was already slightly hunched, his eyebrows were drooping, and his eyes were nailed to the ground. With his heavy, silent breathing, his chest also slumped. He gritted his teeth so that he didn't let himself do anything rude, and sat quietly on the stool waiting for Huo Seventeen's mother-in-law to finish speaking. In order to control his shame, in the end, his hands that were calming his thighs could not help but spasm and tremble.

He barely listened to a word of Huo Seventeen's words. In the face of the Huo family's refusal, he only felt indescribably ashamed now. Earlier, he thought that Shang Cheng was a good offspring, the eldest girl was a good girl, and the two were good in one, which was a good thing that was difficult to find with a lantern, so he volunteered to say this medium for Shang Cheng; And he thought that Huo Qiqi would also agree with this family matter, so he said a lot of things in front of his juniors just now. The result? As soon as he drew the words out, he was beaten on the head and dizzy!

Not only was he ashamed and guilty, he was also humiliated by the Huo family and humiliated by his seventeenth brothers! The Huo family didn't even let him finish saying no, and the person who stood up and refused was still the mother-in-law of his seventeenth brother! When a man talks about things, where is the turn of the mother-in-law and aunts to talk to them?!

He sat on the stool in pain as if he was sitting on the edge of a knife, expecting Huo Qiqi to stand up and teach the woman who didn't understand the rules in his torment.

But Huo Seventeen just sat there and didn't speak!

“…… Lian'er's daughter was thinking about the little monk in her heart. Last time I went back to my parents' house, she also pulled me to ask about the little monk for a long time. Her mother and her brother and sister-in-law also like the little monk. I heard from her mother that she also gave her personal purse to the little monk, and the little monk also accepted it. …… As long as the third brother nods his head in this matter, the eight achievements will be completed, and the little monk will go and say that the little monk is a blessed person, and he can marry such a girl, I don't know how many future generations in the former village and the village will envy him to death. You said no? Brother Pillar? ”

Liu Laozhu stood up and arched his hand at Huo Shiqi indiscriminately, his lips twitched a few times, a slurred word came out of his throat, and he fled away from the Huo family......

There was deathly silence in the hall. Erya, who was watching the excitement from the crack in the door just now, had already taken her two younger sisters back to her house. The big girl's hands were still waving as if they were holding a teapot, and the tears fell one by one. Huo Shiqi has not moved in the chair since the mother-in-law came in to speak, and now his face still has the smile on his face when Liu Laozhu "greeted", but his face has been frighteningly blue. The corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, but the corners of his mouth were tense and drooping, and one cheek was sunken because of the hard clenching of his teeth; The two long, thin eyes, which were not big, were now narrowed into a slit, and they didn't know what they were looking at when they squinted their eyes.

Aunt Seventeen sent Liu Laozhu out of the door, turned back, and saw that the eldest girl was still standing behind Huo Shiqi, so she said to her: "You go out, I have something to say to your father." ”

She said it twice in a row, and the big girl just stood there crying as if she hadn't heard her.

"Get out!"

The seventeenth aunt, who supported her daughter, also became angry, and her voice couldn't help but get louder, and her emphasis became stern. The eldest girl didn't dare to collide with her mother, so she ran out crying all the way.

This sound also woke Huo Shiqi up. He was like a person who had just returned to his soul, chasing the back of the eldest girl with confused eyes, until his daughter staggered into his house, he turned his eyes and glanced at his mother-in-law, pursed the corners of his mouth and sneered: "You shout again?!" Aunt Seventeen was silent. Huo Shiqi slapped abruptly on the table, and the tea bowls and teapots on the table and two fine porcelain plates containing fresh fruits and roasted goods jumped up and fell back on the table in unison, with a bang, and the tea soup splashed all over the table.

"I'll tell you to shout again!"

Aunt Seventeen was so frightened by the hideousness on his face that she took two steps back, lowered her head and didn't dare to speak. After a while, she peeked and saw that Huo Shiqi was just sitting in a chair panting, and her heart was a little calmer; I saw a table of tea soup flowing along the side of the desk, dyeing his clothes and pants yellow-brown, and quickly took the rag to clean it up, and squatted down to pick up all the pieces of the tea bowl that had been broken into several petals...... Huo Shiqi had already kicked her in the shoulder.

"Get out!"

Seventeen was immediately kicked and prostrate on the ground. She rubbed her shoulders with one hand and the other, and reached for the bowl fragments.

Huo Shiqi kicked over again. She was kicked to her knees again. But she still had to reach out and pick up the broken porcelain pieces of the tea bowls.

She was not annoyed or troubled, and Huo Shiqi couldn't do anything about her, so he had to watch her clean up coldly. He scolded and scolded, and he beat and beaten, and the anger in his heart naturally faded a little, and people came to their senses. Alas, what else? The mother-in-law can't do anything anymore, but she is her own mother-in-law after all...... The most important thing is that she is doing things without saying a word, which is completely different from her usually reckless temper, and she can't help but teach him to be suspicious.

When the mother-in-law cleaned up and came over, he didn't look at her, and asked directly, "Say, what's the matter?" Why didn't you agree to Brother Zhuzi's proposal? Do you know who he is proposing for? ”

Aunt Seventeen didn't answer him in a hurry, but first poured a bowl of still warm tea soup, pushed it in front of him, and said with his stern and deep eyes: "I know that Brother Zhuzi is here to propose marriage for the little monk." ”

"Now that I know you're still ......"

"It's because I know that we can't agree to this family!" Aunt Seventeen interrupted him and said, "I know, you want to say that he has the ability and ability, but I want to say that this person has the ability and ability, but he came from the wrong way and his identity is unknown!" Regardless of whether he was a monk before or not, or whether he had hurt people in his hometown, he was always a person who took the case! ”

As soon as these words came out, Huo Shiqiden was a little speechless. Shang Cheng's origin has always been a piece of his heart. Shang Cheng is definitely not a monk, there is no doubt about this, because in addition to knowing some of the history and origin of Buddhism, Shang Cheng has almost no knowledge of Buddhism, and he knows nothing about Buddhist classics, how can such a person be a monk? What is incomprehensible is that this person who is not a monk has shaved his hair like a monk...... He also said that he was from Jiazhou, and he had to flee outside to avoid crime when he was injured in his hometown. This reason is very sufficient, but the details should not be scrutinized, he can't say which county and town his family is in Jiazhou, and he is vague about what other close relatives in the family, even the big family that was injured by him is also full of loopholes, today's surname is Zhang tomorrow's surname is Wang, and when he asks again, he either asks left and right or laughs without saying anything...... All of this is suspicious. For a while, he even wondered if he was doing a favor to a spinner. Fortunately, Shang Cheng didn't look like a spy. He is brave and brave, but this ability depends on his height, strength, and quick reaction, if it is only about martial arts, he may not even be able to compare with himself; He has a handicraft, he knows how to work as a blacksmith, a stonemason, and a mason, and he can see the way of life in the field, but he is not proficient in it; And looking at his conversation and demeanor, it seems that he has been reading for a few days, but once he deliberately copied an article to test it, he held the paper and looked at it with anxious eyes for a long time, before he even guessed a dozen words...... So all this confuses itself. He couldn't help but think, could it be that this person came to Yixian for some other reason?

He was turning his thoughts in his heart, and Aunt Seventeen had already continued: "...... Let's help him set up a household registration, and we have already helped him a lot in Brother Zhuzi's affection. This is our kindness to him. We don't want him to repay his kindness, just to thank him for saving Brother Zhuzi's life. But he's good, he puts his nose on his face, and now he wants to marry our daughter! What is the identity of our family? And what is his identity? Why did he marry a big girl? ”

Three questions in a row made Huo Shiqi speechless.

He passed the township examination 14 years ago, and he is a talent in the county school, a talent who is exempt from taxes and forced labor, and can not worship officials. What is Shang Cheng's identity? If you say it is good, you are a good family, if you say it is bad, you are a landless wanderer, and if you say it is even more ugly, you are a fugitive. The identities on both sides are a cut apart from the boss, and this relationship is indeed not easy to knot; is really married, but I am afraid that he Huo Shiqi will become a joke of Shilin from now on. Even if you want to marry this family, you have to put it forward first, which is called "modesty" and "virtuousness", which is the virtue of a scholar; But Shang Cheng put it forward, it is "greed", it is "hypothetical", and it is virtue......

But he couldn't agree with his mother-in-law's point of view, so he looked at her and sneered: "...... Then you still told him about your third sister's daughter? ”

"It was the third sister who repeatedly asked me for this matter, so I reluctantly agreed. I just promised her, and I didn't say that I would definitely be able to help. The woman said with a hard mouth. She really didn't do it right, so she didn't have much confidence in her words. It was a long time before she picked up her words. "I haven't mentioned this to Uncle Zhuzi, I just don't want to lose the third sister and teach Lian'er to suffer a loss. …… I also didn't want to embarrass Brother Zhuzi too much, so I had to push Lian'er out to resist it......"

Huo Shiqi stroked his chin and thought for a while, and asked, "Lian'er is seventeen this year, right?" ”

"What seventeen, the virtual age is eighteen, if it weren't for Lian'er's grandfather Mr. Fan's good reputation in the Zhuangzi before and after, she would have been pointed out by the officials one by one, and the official Ya Po has been to the third sister's house several times this year. The third sister was so anxious about this matter, she asked someone to tell her daughter to be a matchmaker everywhere, but her daughter Mai Shu met the little monk when she came to our house, and she didn't know it, so she looked at the little monk......" Aunt Seventeen frowned and thought about it, and said to herself, "The little monk didn't come to our house at that time, I don't know how they met, why did they even give away their personal purse?" ”

"How did you send it?" Huo Shiqi snorted. "Didn't your good girl also give a purse to the little monk?"

"What?" Aunt Seventeen's eyes widened in surprise. It was the first time she had heard of it. "Is there such a thing?"

Huo Shiqi nodded and said, "Erya told me as a joke." Now it seems that this "joke" was also specially told to him by the eldest girl and the second sister, just to test her father's mind. It's a pity that he was busy with official business at the time, and secondly, he glanced at Shang Chenggao, but he didn't think about this matter clearly......

"Where's the purse?" Aunt Seventeen looked flustered and asked, "No, this thing has to be taken back!" How can you give away the things of your daughter's house casually? Do you want to spread the face of our Huo family? ”

"What do you ask? Can you get your purse back if you ask? Are you going to ask for it or am I going to ask for it? Don't want to be embarrassed? ”

Aunt Seventeen's legs were weak and she barely sat on the ground, Huo Shiqi quickly helped her to the chair next to her and sat down, comforting her, "Don't worry." I don't think Shang Cheng is a traitor and delusional, he invited Brother Zhu to come to the door to propose marriage, maybe because he didn't know the truth of this. I think that even if he has a big girl's purse in his hand, he will definitely not do anything out of the ordinary. As he spoke, he suddenly stopped, and after a while, he sighed and said, "If it weren't for his unknown origin and no identity, otherwise I would really want to marry the eldest girl to him, this person is calm and humble......

"No way!" Aunt Seventeen shouted anxiously, "The eldest girl can't give him anything!" ”

"Why not? Give the eldest girl to him, he looks at the love between you and me, and for the sake of Brother Zhuzi's love, he must not let his daughter suffer. Besides, you didn't see the power of this man, what was the condition of him when he first came? What is the situation now? How could the eldest girl follow him...... "The more he spoke, the lower his voice became, and he gradually lost his voice, and the two thin eyebrows were already tightly grouped together, and he suddenly asked for a long time, "Did you hide something from me?" ”

“……”

"Did you take the big girl to someone's family?"

“……”

"To whom?"

Huo Shiqi's voice was higher than the other, his mother-in-law rubbed for a long time, and after all, she still didn't dare to disobey the man's wishes, and lowered her head and said, "Not yet." …… But it's almost the same as promised. Seeing that Huo Shiqi had already gritted his molars and was full of black anger, he hurriedly said, "Last month, the sixth sister-in-law brought a letter, saying that she missed our mother and daughter, and invited us to live in the city for two days. So I took the big girl with me. I didn't know until the beginning of this month that I went to tell the eldest girl about my personal ......."

"Who? To whom? ”

"It's the Gu Lu ...... of the Signing Department of the Pastoral Guard's Mansion"

"Gu Shaomiao?"

"That's right! That's him! That's what the sixth brother called him. So you know him? ”

"How could I possibly know him?" Huo Shiqi laughed self-deprecatingly. , how could he, a non-existent secretary in the Yamen Barracks of Yixian County, know the signing department of the Weimu Mansion from Qipin? "I've only heard of him, and he's a fellow villager with our county magistrate. The county magistrate moved back to Duanzhou Prefecture, and he made a lot of effort in it, and the "63 Post" was transferred to Lord Wei Mu by his hand. And it is said that this person is upright and famous, and even Lord Wei Mucao respects him...... Is it promised to his family? ”

“…… It is promised to Lord Gu. Gu-sama's wife died the year before last......"

"Continuation?" This time it was Huo Shiqi's turn to widen his eyes in surprise. "You mean, take our big girl...... Big girl...... Go and ...... Gu Shaomiao" He opened his mouth and didn't spit out a whole sentence for a long time, and suddenly roared, "You're crazy!" That Gu Shaomiao is in her fifties, how old is our eldest girl? Do you dare to do this kind of thing? How dare you do such a thing behind my back?! What else can you be if you're not a pit girl?! ”

Now that the matter has been clarified, Aunt Seventeen is not afraid of her thunderous husband, she wiped off the spit that Huo Shiqi sprayed on her face, and said: "The sixth sister-in-law said that she and the sixth brother are willing to be this iceman; Lord Gu has also seen our eldest girl, he likes it very much, and said that after completing this official trip back to Yanzhou, he will come to the door to propose ......his relatives when he comes back," she looked at the man whose face was swollen and red like pig's liver, and added, "The sixth brother has already inquired, and the Wei Mu Mansion has already handed over an official document to the imperial court, recommending Lord Gu as the new county order of our Yi County." ”

This last sentence was like a sledgehammer, slamming into Huo Shiqi's chest.

and the county order climbed into the in-laws, and the county order is still his son-in-law, what does this mean to him?

What does that mean?

He sat down in his chair, caressing his cheek for a long time without speaking.