Chapter 504: Proposing to the Dong Family (Middle)
Mother Dong glanced at Liu Rus, and then said unhurriedly, "Is it a good thing, let's not talk about it for the time being, since Jimin came to propose marriage, then the cause and effect of the matter must always be told to me!" Jimin, you are a person with a sense of justice and love, and your care for our mother and daughter during this period of time is also remembered in your eyes. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info The old body has reached this age, and there are still some eyes for looking at people. This has always been, and your love for Xiao Wan is at most just brother and sister, not to the extent of the love between men and women. What was it that made you suddenly change your mind, tell me the truth! ”
"Uh" Liu Fan glanced at Dong's mother quietly, and found that she was also looking at him, and couldn't help but shake his head a little embarrassed and said, "Auntie, you may have misunderstood." I really just came to the door to propose marriage because I liked Xiao Wan. Brother and sister love, although there are some, but it is not the most important. Xiao Wan is gentle and virtuous, well-behaved and lovely, she has always been a girl I like very much, and being able to marry her into the door is something I have always dreamed of! ”
"Brother Jimin~" Dong Xiaowan let out a low breath, holding Liu Fan's little hand tighter, and her heart was full of confusion and confusion at this moment. Facing her majestic mother, Dong Xiaowan was almost suffocated with nervousness.
Mother Dong looked at her "unlucky" daughter, shook her head helplessly, and said, "Okay, the old body knows that Jimin is a responsible man, since you have said so, then the specific reason is that the old body will not go to the bottom of it." Bai'er is my daughter, and no one knows her temperament better than her old body. So I don't care what emotional entanglements you have, now the old body just wants to ask Bai'er, are you really willing to marry Jimin? Even if you can only be a concubine without a name, are you willing? ”
Dong Xiaowan's eyes were red, and she bit her red lips and said, "Mother, I... I don't know, Bai'er only knows that it's good to be able to stay with Brother Jimin in this life, and Bai'er doesn't want to think about other things, and he doesn't dare to think about it! It's up to the mother to decide! ”
Dong's mother glared at Dong Xiaowan with "disappointment", shook her head and said to Liu Fan, "What do you mean, Jimin?" ”
Liu Fan also guessed something about Dong's mother's thoughts, but he really couldn't make any guarantees now, so he had to say in a deep voice, "Auntie, although I can't give Xiao Wan the title of a wife, I can guarantee that I will never let Xiao Wan be wronged at all." Now Xiaowan is still too young, when she grows up, I can promise to welcome Xiaowan through the door as a wife! I promise to treat her equally in the future! ”
"Alas..."Dong's mother sighed, she also understood that her "extravagant hope" was indeed difficult to achieve. Now hearing Liu Fan's assurance, Dong's mother herself can't say much, after all, Liu Fan's identity is different from ordinary people. One of his wives was married by His Majesty, and she was the sister of the concubine. One is the daughter of the commanding officer, and the tiger girl of the gate can be regarded as a household pair with Liu Fanmen. And although they are from a scholarly family, they are in the middle of the family after all. The promise of being able to get the gift of Liu Fan's wife is already a blessing in misfortune.
Thinking of this, Dong's mother suddenly became interested and said, "Since this is the case, then this old family member will be in charge of my daughter." But Jimin, although the etiquette of proposing marriage can be simple, but the other three books and six rites are indispensable. Otherwise, the old body will not marry your daughter to you! ”
"That's nature!" Liu Fan nodded firmly and said, "In a few days, I will personally go to ask the old man Xu of Wei Guogong to protect the media, and there will be no shortage of Nacai, Mingming, Naji, Nazheng, and the invitation date." I said that I wouldn't let Xiao Wan suffer the slightest grievance, and I would definitely do it! ”
"Hmm!" Mother Dong nodded with satisfaction, being able to have Wei Guogong personally as a guarantee is also a rare honor for the Dong family, although Mother Dong still has some complaints in her heart about Dong Xiaowan's identity as just a "concubine", but she also knows that this is not something she can change. If Dong Xiaowan's father was still alive, maybe they could fight for it, but now, this is obviously the best result.
The family matter was decided, and there was not much disagreement between the two parties. Seeing this, Liu Ru and Dong Xiaowan finally quietly breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts. Maybe she was more satisfied with Liu Fan's answer, or maybe Dong's mother didn't want to make the relationship between the two parties too stiff, and Dong's mother's attitude towards Liu Fan was obviously much more enthusiastic in the next period of time.
Dong's mother not only instructed Dong Xiaowan and Liu Ru to prepare a meal, but also left Liu Fan to entertain her. She herself even pulled Liu Fan to chatter, and with Dong's mother's side knocks, her understanding of Liu Fan became more comprehensive. Liu Fan naturally understood what Dong's mother meant, and he had nothing to hide. So I briefly told Dong's mother about the experience of the past few years. From the rise of Jiaozhou to the south of the Yangtze River, the big and small things in the middle can be said to satisfy Dong's mother's "curiosity" as much as possible! After learning about Liu Fan's "talent", Dong's mother became more and more satisfied with Liu Fan, the "prospective son-in-law". The words are also closer, and there is a kind of mother-in-law looking at her son-in-law.
As the topic deepened, Liu Fan also had some accurate understanding of the situation of the Dong family. Dong Xiaowan was born in Suzhou City "Dongjia Embroidery Village", "Dongjia Embroidery Village" is a well-known Suzhou embroidery village in Suzhou, because of the fine work, so the business has been prosperous. The Dong family is a family of Suzhou embroidery, to this generation has a history of more than 200 years, don't look at the embroidery belongs to the craft manufacturing industry, but it is very close to the art of painting, so the Dong family is also quite a bit of a scholarly atmosphere, plus Dong's mother Bai is also a scholarly family, so it is barely a scholarly family, and the family is also quite rich.
This was a happy family, but unexpectedly, when Dong Xiaowan was thirteen years old, his father suffered from dysentery in the summer, and the medicine did not work, and he died soon after. This sudden change hit the Dong mother and daughter haggard, after taking care of her husband's funeral, Bai did not want to continue to live in the old house in the city, saw things and thought about people, felt sad so he spent a sum of money, built a secluded room on the bank of the Bantang River, took his daughter to live in seclusion, and lived a quiet life separated from the world, and the affairs of the embroidery village were all entrusted to the man.
Who knew that the embroidery village guys were greedy, secretly troublemakers, two years not only the embroidery village property embezzled, but made a false account that said that the embroidery village owed thousands of taels of silver, which is clearly to see the orphans and widows are easy to bully. But the Bai family is a weak woman after all, and the Dong family is also secretly involved, and after several efforts, the Bai family still can't get back the property that belongs to them. Angry and anxious, he finally fell ill in bed. Her mother fell, Xiuzhuang went bankrupt, her debts weighed down, and the burden of life fell on fifteen-year-old Dong Bai, who seemed to have fallen from the clouds into an ice cellar, unable to open her eyes for a while.
The huge debt can be delayed, but the mother's medical expenses are imminent. Dong Bai, who has lived in seclusion with his mother since he was a child, has developed a lonely and arrogant character, where he is willing to borrow from others. In a hurry, he made a decision, agreed to the recommendation of others, and came to the painting boat on the bank of the Qinhuai River in Nanjing to perform and change his name to Xiaowan.