"After a night of drunkenness, I returned home, but there was no one in the courtyard, hahaha, so desolate......"

As soon as Dong Ce heard this poem, his forehead instantly permeated with sweat, and his ears ached faintly, but it was definitely not because the poem was changed, but because the voice was too familiar!

Dong Ce's eyes quickly swept over everyone in the Cao family, and suddenly saw that everyone in the Cao family had a gloomy face, especially the old lady Cao, whose face was like being smeared with pot ash, and it was difficult to see the extreme!

And Cao An, this guy secretly gave a few domestic servants a look, and suddenly, two men and one woman slowly retreated, and when they left the hall, they immediately turned around and ran, and after a while, the woman's voice that had just chanted poetry and laughed sounded again.

"Eh, what are you doing? Why are you pulling me? I'm going in, don't stop me, be careful that I bite you! You don't know about me, uh, awesome...... It's been yesterday and yesterday...... Eh...... You ......"

The voice was from near to far, and it was completely inaudible after a while, but Dong Ce already understood it all!

"...... just now," Dong Ce was about to speak.

Cao An immediately grabbed Dong Ce's hand and shook it excitedly: "Oh, virtuous nephew, come on, sit on the table, the kitchen has been well drunk, we ......"

Dong Ce's footsteps sank, like a wooden stake nailed to the spot, resisting Cao An's pull.

"Nephew, why are you doing this?" Cao An pretended to be puzzled.

"Uncle Cao, I think there are some things I have to say!" Dong Ce opened his mouth and said.

"Let's talk about it after we've eaten something." After Cao An finished speaking, Mrs. Cao and Mrs. Cao also stepped forward and persuaded one after another: "Yes, the wine and food are ready, and it will be cold if you want to talk about it." ”

"No, no, no!" Dong Ce flatly refused: "I'm afraid that if it continues like this, I won't be able to speak!" ”

After that, Dong Ce broke free of Cao An's hand, took a step back, and saluted everyone in the Cao family before saying, "Don't hide it, my Dong family is finished!" ”

"Huh?" Everyone in the Cao family was stunned, and they didn't understand what this meant for a while?

Dong Ce said: "All the merchant ships of my Dong family were robbed in Huating Mansion, and now there are still hundreds of shipwrights, shipstewards and shopkeepers who are still missing, dozens of traders in Jinling Mansion have asked my Dong family for compensation, and I don't know how many shipwrights' families have asked my Dong family for people. ”

Dong Ce said, sighed for a long time, shook his head and said: "Now that my Dong family can compensate for everything, there is nothing left, so my father and I have decided not to drag down Uncle Cao, and say goodbye!" ”

After saying that, Dong Ce resolutely turned around and left.

Everyone in the Cao family gathered face to face, and they didn't seem to fully understand Dong Ce's words.

How can the Jinling Dong family be finished after speaking? Is this a casual fabrication by their Dong family after learning about their daughter's situation, or is it true?

"Dong Xian's nephew!" Cao An didn't think deeply, in his opinion, the Dong family's haunting and accidents were really out of the way! The top priority is to get his daughter away, otherwise what will their Cao family do?

In the past two years, Cao An's mood is complicated, on the one hand, he was appreciated by King Xian and became the teacher of King Xian's sixth son, and on the other hand, he was a smart daughter, his personality suddenly changed, not only drunk and gambling, but also often drunk on the street, making a lot of jokes, and Cao An could only sit in the impermeable carriage when he went out, for fear of being seen and laughing at him.

Cao An rushed to Dong Ce in a few arrow steps, and without waiting for him to speak, Dong Ce preemptively said: "Uncle Cao, I have made everything clear, if you don't believe it, you can send someone to Jinling to ask, it's really not that I want to live up to Ling Qianjin, it's really my Dong family's middle of the road, and now I still owe more than 100,000 yuan of foreign debts, if you marry your daughter at this time, wouldn't it hurt her for a lifetime!" ”

Dong Ce is sincere and has no false intentions, so he can't believe Cao An, but because of this, Mr. Cao grabbed the handle!

"In this way, you don't want to let down my daughter!"

"I ...... Uncle Cao, you may not understand...... Dong Ce heard this, and secretly said badly, but before he could finish refuting it, the shrewd Cao An suddenly said with joy: "Oh, it's safe, isn't it just a loss in business, which one hasn't had big ups and downs, and my Guanxian nephew has suffered this catastrophe, but he can still face it calmly without any sorrow, it seems that he must have swept away the haze early and is ready to show his strength!" ”

"Human, you!" Dong Ce scolded secretly and hurriedly said: "Having said that, my nephew has been abandoned for too much time, and everything has to be learned all over again, I don't know how far he can go, it is possible to revive the Dong family, but it is more likely to starve to death on the streets!" Do you understand, Uncle Cao! ”

As soon as he heard Dong Ce's remarks, Cao An was not worried but happy, took Dong Ce's hand and patted the back of his hand and said: "Cough, it is indeed unfortunate that the Dong family has fallen here, but you can be relieved, and have a self-motivated heart, and you can also put aside your face and visit my Cao family in person to explain it, instead of relying on the marriage contract, you insist on dragging my Cao family down after marrying my daughter, it can be seen that the benevolence and righteousness of your heart are definitely a person who can be trusted!" ”

Speaking of this, Cao An's expression was upright, and he was quite dissatisfied: "But it is difficult for you to get your uncle's forgiveness. ”

"If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense, let me go!" Dong Ce was even more depressed in his heart, what happened to your Cao family? I wish I could push my daughter into the fire pit?

Cao An stared at Dong Ce with a sad face, and said cautiously: "If the virtuous nephew insists, it will undoubtedly push my Cao An and my Cao family into the fire pit of forgetting righteousness?" ”

"This girl can definitely read minds!" Dong Ce sighed secretly, what was he just thinking in his heart, Cao An immediately cracked it, and beat him to the ground with a few words, master!

"Virtuous nephew, don't say much, no matter what happens to your Dong family, my Cao family will definitely share the safety and security with your Dong family!"

"I see!" Dong Ce suddenly smiled.

"If only you understood!" Cao An said with a smile.

Dong Ce shook his head, and his tone was less respectful, and said, "Just now, the person who chanted poetry in this front yard must be Ling Qianjin!" ”

"Ahh No, no, no, how is it possible, the little girl has always known the rules and is sensible, and the number of times she has been out of the boudoir in the past few years is less than a slap, that is the granddaughter of the old man Liu, who often drinks too much and goes to the wrong door, and comes to my house to make a fuss, a crazy woman, you don't need to pay attention to it. Cao An was stunned for a moment, and then immediately smiled and made it up.

Dong Ce raised his eyebrows, he wanted to point to the blood mark on his ear to expose Cao An, but in this way, it would be too bad to give his Cao family face, no matter how he said it, he was a world friend, if he tore his face in person, he might be happy for a while, but the Cao family, how to gain a foothold in this alley in the future?

After all, the movement just now seems to be quite big, and there are already crowds outside the door at this time, which shows that this habit of onlookers has been around since ancient times! It has become one of the major customs of my Greater China!

"That's good, my nephew really wants to meet Ling Qianjin, and I want to hear her opinion, if even she agrees to go back with her nephew to endure hardships, then why not do it, I just hope that Uncle Cao doesn't use worldly rules and regulations to force her, I really don't want her to marry a man she doesn't like, and I don't want that man to be me!"

Dong Ce's words of emotion and reasoning made Cao An feel that at the same time, he was also depressed and home!

"What a stone to shoot yourself in the foot!" Cao An said with grief in her heart, and said with a smile on her face: "You can rest assured that this virtuous nephew is not a day or two, the little girl has admired the virtuous nephew for a day or two, if it wasn't for my obstruction, she would have gone to Jinling to see you!" ”

"I'm not afraid that the cowhide will blow up." Dong Ce wants to open it, as long as they meet, see how his Cao family still quibbles!

When Dong Ce returned to the hall again, he didn't see Mrs. Cao and Mrs. Cao, and even the little son of the Cao family was gone, so he naturally knew it in his heart, but he was not afraid.

At Cao An's invitation, Dong Ce took off his shoes, knelt on a mat, and watched the servants of the Cao family put refreshments on the table in front of him.

There are no tables and no chairs in Cao's house, all of them are seats and foot-high desks, which look similar to Japanese style, but everyone knows that small Japanese culture is mostly influenced by the Tang Dynasty, and now the Ning Dynasty has a joint food style before the Tang Dynasty, that is, eating around a table, but it has not yet been popularized, at present, only some teahouses, wine shops and brothels in the Qinglou brothel are seen, they are one to save space, and the other is to facilitate the kiln sister to sit with the guests, but because of this, it is still unpleasant to the eyes of many literati and scholars, not to mention those nostrils of the scholars.

"Virtuous nephew, what is going on with your family, and what about your father? Let's talk about it quickly. Cao An said cautiously.

Dong Ce took a good time to rectify, and slowly explained the reason why the Dong family was down.

At this moment, in the backyard of the Cao family, Mrs. Cao's hands were heavily propped up on the crutches, her face was sinking like a piece of black charcoal, staring coldly at Cao Luorong, who was lying on the ground, humming weakly.

"Fetch some buckets of water and douse her for me!" Old Madam Cao said coldly.

"Yes!" The three servants, two men and one woman, immediately took the order and turned to retreat, and after a while, the three of them each came back with a bucket, and the first one poured it hard at Cao Luorong from head to toe.

"Bang la la"

"Ahem, ahem...... Bah...... Phew. Cao Luorong was choked by a few mouthfuls of water and turned over and coughed, and Mrs. Cao, who was on the side, couldn't help but turn her face in distress, and couldn't bear to look at it again.

"Pour it again!" Old Madam Cao said ruthlessly.

The other servant didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly poured another bucket of water on Cao Luorong's head.

"Oh, why don't you let people sleep." Cao Luorong waved her hands and complained.

"It's all at this time, you still want to sleep, pour it on me!" With Mrs. Cao's order, the last bucket of water fell on Cao Luorong's head, drenching her whole body.

The well water in this autumn morning was very cold, and it was poured from the head by three buckets in a row, so she Cao Luorong couldn't wake up.

"Don't, don't pour, it's soaking wet, what are you doing? Why do you get people wet? Cao Luorong stood up aggrieved, and was blown by the morning breeze, and couldn't help but tremble all over, holding her arms with her hands and her lips trembling: "Alas, I'm cold, I'm going back to the room." ”

Cao Luorong just wanted to leave, but Old Madam Cao suddenly stepped in front of her, blocking her way.

"Oh, good wife, why are you blocking your granddaughter?" Cao Luorong said and wanted to get around, but the old man just stopped her again with a crutch.

Cao Luorong frowned, noticing that something was wrong.

"Luo Rong, the Dong family is here!" Mrs. Cao couldn't help but speak cautiously.

As soon as she heard this, Cao Luorong's frowning brows immediately relaxed, and she said calmly: "Oh, it's here, then when are I going to cross the door?" ”

Seeing Cao Luorong's indifferent attitude, Mrs. Cao stomped on her crutches again and again with hatred, and said angrily: "People are here to withdraw from the marriage!" ”

"Huh!" Cao Luorong was stunned and said in surprise: "Then what should I do?" ”

"What should I do, hurry up and wash me, bathe, dress up, and then go to see Ce'er, no matter what, you have to keep others, otherwise you will get out of the Cao family for me, and you will not be allowed to be called the daughter of the Cao family for the rest of your life!" After Mrs. Cao finished speaking viciously, she grabbed Cao Luorong's little hand and walked towards her boudoir.

Cao Luorong didn't struggle at all, let Grandmother Cao pull, there was no sadness or joy on her crystal little face, as if she had expected this kind of ending, and Mrs. Cao, who followed closely, shook her head and said nothing.

She knew that her daughter was very dissatisfied with this marriage, which may be the culprit that caused her to become this ghost, but what could she do? This marriage was set by their elders, and now although the father-in-law has died, there is still a mother-in-law, and the old man has been looking forward to one day for a long time, but no one expected to wait for this result, how can the old man swallow this breath!