Chapter 5: Escape from Chang'an
Xu Xiaolan had also received the news and rushed to the Yang Mansion, she pulled Li Zhonghua aside and told the cause and effect of the incident.
It turned out that this person's name was Zheng San, and he was Zheng Quan's nephew, and Zheng Quan was a waiter in the palace, to put it bluntly, he was a eunuch.
It's just because Zheng Quan is very good at things and knows how to please his master, and he is very favored by the crown prince Li Chengqian.
Zheng San is Zheng Quan's only nephew, and Zheng Quan is a eunuch who can't have his own son, so he treats Zheng San as his own.
Zheng San relied on his uncle to be the crown prince, and he has always been used to being domineering. After meeting Yang Xue on the street, he was amazed.
Afterwards, he sent someone to inquire, and he learned about the situation of the Yang family, and he was so happy in his heart that he couldn't hold it anymore.
Although the Yang family has a little money, in the end it is just a businessman's family, Shinong Industry and Commerce, Shang is at the end, and he is the person with the least social status, Zheng San saw this, so he wanted to come and get both wealth and wealth.
As for what Yang Xue said about not marrying, Zheng San didn't take it to heart at all, a small businessman, didn't he pinch it as much as he wanted?
The Tang Dynasty governs the country with benevolence and filial piety, although Zheng San was impatient, but he did not dare to marry Yang Xue during the period of filial piety, so he only waited for Yang Xue to marry as soon as he was full of filial piety.
After all, Chang'an is the imperial capital, although Zheng San is domineering, he also knows that he can't act too publicly, so he bribed the official media, which is why Yang Xue has not yet been filial piety, and the official media came to urge him to marry.
"Then what are your young lady's plans now?" After listening, Li Zhonghua frowned and asked.
"Isn't it fortunate that I'm betrothed to you? I believe that no matter how domineering that Zheng San is, he can't be strong, right? ”
When she said this, in fact, Xu Xiaolan didn't have any confidence in her heart? If that Zheng San was a reasonable person, he wouldn't have sent someone to forcibly come to the door today to give a dowry.
As early as a few days ago, when an official media came to urge marriage, Yang Xue had already explained the situation, saying that she already had a marriage contract, and also made it clear that after the expiration of the filial piety period, she would immediately visit the church and get married.
It is impossible for Zheng San not to know about this matter, but he still sent someone to give a dowry today, and I am afraid that there is no way to give up this matter.
With the current situation of the Yang family, if you want to confront the Zheng family, it is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, and you will definitely end up with a tragic ending of a broken family.
As for the marriage contract with Li Zhonghua, Zheng San will not care, Li Zhonghua is not a person with any status, at most he is a scholar who went to Beijing from other places, if Li Zhonghua is really a person with a background, it is impossible to come to the door to be someone's son-in-law, such a person really has nothing to worry about.
"Li Gongzi, our young lady has something to discuss with you." Yang Xue's personal maid Huanqin'er walked over and said.
"Aunt Lan, Miss asked you to go over with you."
Sooner or later, we have to come to the table, and what needs to be discussed now is how to solve this matter.
The two went to the backyard with Qin'er, where Yang Xue and her two aunts, and two younger sisters lived, and Li Zhonghua was the first man to enter the backyard since Yang Xue's father died.
"Aunt Lan should tell you everything, although we haven't married yet, we have already had a marriage contract, and we can be regarded as entering the door of the Yang family, and we are the only man in the Yang family, I want to know what thoughts and plans you have in your heart."
After the three of them sat down, Yang Xue looked at Li Zhonghua and said.
"I'm just a son-in-law, you are the head of the Yang family, how to solve this matter, I want to hear your thoughts first." Li Zhonghua didn't know what Yang Xue had planned, so he didn't have much to say.
"You are innocent of being involved in this matter, and if you are afraid, I can break the marriage contract with you." Yang Xue stared at Li Zhonghua and said.
Although she doesn't have any feelings for Li Zhonghua, and she doesn't even have much affection, compared to that gentleman Zheng San, she would rather live with Li Zhonghua, not to mention that Li Zhonghua married her as a wealthy person.
And through the contact in the past few days, eating together every day, and having a marriage contract again, and Li Zhonghua and his two sisters and two aunts get along well, Yang Xue's heart has actually begun to accept Li Zhonghua, and gradually has a little good feeling.
Now it depends on Li Zhonghua's performance at this critical time, if Li Zhonghua is very resolute and willing to face it with the Yang family and never give up, Yang Xue will dare to make up her mind and never succumb to Zheng San's obscenity.
"I have nothing to be afraid of, it's just that I'm worried about you, whether you have the courage to face everything, you have to think clearly, if the boat is broken, the Yang family is in danger of being ruined."
Li Zhonghua said very cautiously.
"Do you think that if you compromise, the Yang family can still exist? Zheng San's evil deeds are well known, and the result of compromise is the same, rather than stealing a living, it is better to give it a go. ”
At this time, Yang Xue showed an unusual momentum, and she couldn't tell that she was a weak woman at all.
Since her father died, she has grown rapidly from a weak 13-year-old girl to become the head of the Yang family, shouldering the burden of a family with her weak shoulders.
Although Xu Xiaolan helped her a lot, and the two aunts also made some efforts, the burden on her shoulders was still very heavy.
"Since ancient times, the people do not fight with the officials, the poor do not fight with the rich, and the current Yang family, if there is a head-on confrontation with the Zheng family, it is a very unwise thing." Li Zhonghua said thoughtfully.
After Yang Xue listened to Li Zhonghua's words, she only felt very disappointed in her heart, although what Li Zhonghua said was the truth.
"Then have you decided to marry and leave our Yang family?"
"I didn't think about leaving the Yang family, let alone ruining the marriage." Li Zhonghua shook his head and said.
"The Yang family is about to be occupied by the Zheng family, and your fiancée is about to be forcibly accepted as a concubine by Zheng San, you said that you don't want to leave the Yang family and don't want to ruin the marriage, so what do you want?" Yang Xue said coldly.
"A gentleman's revenge, ten years is not too late, as long as we temporarily avoid Zheng San's entanglement, one day, I will definitely take this evil breath for you and send Zheng San into the abyss of no return."
"How to avoid Zheng San's entanglement?" Yang Xue's heart moved, and she hurriedly asked.
"The only way to do this now is to leave Chang'an temporarily and find a place to settle down first."
After thinking about it, Yang Xue also felt that if she didn't really want to be a concubine for Zheng San, this was the only way.
Zhenguan ten years, the world has just been pacified, the population has not yet recovered, a large amount of land is idle, leaving the vicinity of Chang'an, you can buy a large piece of land at a very low price.
The rebellion of the Sui and Tang dynasties caused a large amount of population loss, and a large amount of land became terra nullius, and the imperial court also controlled a large amount of land resources.
At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the land was nationalized, and the common people were given a system of equal land, and each newborn child could be divided into different amounts of land, and the land allocated to individuals was divided into two types, one was called Yongye Field, which was the land that could be passed on to future generations. The other is the land leased to you by the imperial court, and you need to pay a certain amount of taxes to the imperial court every year, and when you die, this part of the land needs to be returned to the imperial court.
State-owned land can be sold to individuals, and the price is not expensive.
Although the price is very low, there are not many people who are willing to pay for land, because the purchased land cannot be wasted, otherwise it will be levied heavy taxes by the imperial court, which is also a punishment formulated by the imperial court to prevent large families from endlessly enclosing land and causing the evil consequences of land annexation.
Early the next morning, Li Zhonghua went to hire a team of people, pulled more than a dozen boxes, and left Chang'an City.
Zheng San had already sent someone to monitor the Yang Mansion's every move, and Li Zhonghua took more than a dozen large boxes from the Yang family's pawnshop, of course, he couldn't hide it from the other party's eyes and ears.
However, Li Zhonghua had already thought of a way to deal with it, and it was deliberately rumored that Li Zhonghua and Yang Xue had a marriage contract, and because they were afraid of the Zheng family, they had canceled the marriage contract, and left Chang'an with the money they had obtained from selling the family heirloom.
After Zheng San heard the news, he was very happy, and he was even more convinced that Yang Xue couldn't escape from the palm of his hand, and only thought that after a month, he would be able to hold the beauty and make a windfall.
Hearing that Yang Xue also has two younger sisters, although they are still young, they are also a beauty, Zheng San couldn't help but think again.
Three days later, Yang Xue's family, including Xu Xiaolan, also escaped from Chang'an City smoothly, met Li Zhonghua in a small town sixty miles away from Chang'an City, and went all the way south into the territory of Jiannan Road.