Chapter 257: Parting
"Pu Jia is my daughter, General Bu Lao asked, you hurry up and call her out for me!"
The daughter eloped, if this kind of thing spreads, the face of the Zhang family will be lost, and Zhang Jingxian was full of anger along the way, and when he saw Ren Siqi, he couldn't help but explode. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Zhang Pujia and Que'er were hiding in the inner room, and when they heard their father and Ren Siqi arguing, they subconsciously wanted to come out to persuade them, but they were grabbed by Que'er's arm.
When Ren Siqi mentioned Yang Fan, Zhang Pujia stopped suddenly, stood dumbfounded, and tears flowed uncontrollably from the corners of her eyes.
Yang Fan is the third son of the Yang family and a well-known son of a gentleman in Ningbo. Looking for flowers and asking willows is no less than Ren Siqi in the past, he has not even been admitted to the show at the age of thirty. And he also married a wife, and then his wife died inexplicably, and his father actually wanted to let him fill the house, how happy was Zhang Pujia?
But at home from her father, the order of her parents, the words of the matchmaker, and the three from the four virtues are the education that Zhang Pujia has received since she was a child, what can she do if she is not happy?
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In the front hall, Ren Siqi and Zhang Jingxian were still arguing.
"Uncle, are you here for Sister Pujia, or do you have something else important?" Ren Siqi shifted the conversation to the side.
Zhang Jingxian came to Dinghai again so soon, of course, he was entrusted by the Yang family, the Tu family and other gentry to come to negotiate. But finding his daughter home is Zhang Jingxian's main purpose.
However, since Ren Siqi asked, Zhang Jingxian decided to put his daughter's affairs aside first, talk about business first, and then theorize about his daughter's affairs.
"The heads of the Yang family's butcher family said that as long as you agree to return the sea boats, they promised to give two thousand taels of silver to each ship according to the conditions you said." Zhang Jingxian calmed down and told Ren Siqi what the gentry wanted.
"A group of greedy and shameless people, things are still dreaming to this day!" Ren Siqi sneered.
"If they had promised me this condition at the beginning of the matter, but now that the two sides have started a war, and Wang Zhiren, whom they support, has been defeated by me, I will be able to attack the city of Ningbo and smash their lair immediately. They still want to have such sweet dreams! ”
"I'm just in charge of passing the word, whether I promise to do it or not!" Zhang Jingxian now has no intention of lobbying for the gentry, and he is full of thoughts on how to get his daughter back from Ren Siqi and bring her back to Ningbo.
"Uncle, you can go back and tell those people that the sea ships don't even think about it, they have all been confiscated, and they will be used as the military expenses of my Daishan army this time. And let them send me silver at the rate of two thousand taels per ship, as a fine for them to go to sea without permission. In the end, the pricing power of canned fish in eastern Zhejiang in the future is completely determined by my Daishan, and they are not allowed to interfere with it. ”
"After agreeing to these three conditions, I can call off the army and return to Shidaishan, otherwise I will come to the city of Ningbo, and the new and old accounts will be settled with them!"
"Virtuous nephew, why do you have to do things!" Although he didn't plan to ask more about it, Zhang Jingxian was still stunned by Ren Siqi's harsh conditions.
"Those people are deeply rooted in the middle of the court, their energy is not what you can imagine, and besides, you are simply an enemy of all the gentry under such conditions!" Zhang Jingxian persuaded bitterly.
This is tantamount to Chiguoguo's knocking on the bamboo pole, and then slapping the face after knocking the bamboo pole, how can there be such a thing? It's not the rhythm of doing big things. This strengthened Zhang Jingxian's idea of taking his daughter back from Ren Siqi.
"Uncle, you just have to bring the conditions back, it's their business to agree or not!" Ren Siqi said lightly. Either don't do it, or do it, after this incident, those gentry will never dare to do against themselves again!
As for being enemies with the gentry, it was a matter of time before Ren Siqi had never had a good impression of these bloodsuckers that were attached to Da Ming and hundreds of people.
"Okay, I'll bring your conditions to them." Zhang Jingxian reluctantly agreed.
"Now you call me out right away!"
"Of course you can, but before you call the girl out again, there is one thing you have to be mentally prepared for, uncle!" Ren Siqi's eyes rolled, and he suddenly said a little embarrassed.
"What?" Zhang Jingxian's eyes widened in alarm.
"This, well, uncle, you also know, I and Sister Pujia have been childhood sweethearts since childhood, and we are reunited after a long absence, that, that can't help it, and crossed the Lei Chi ......" Seeing Zhang Jingxian's eyes widening wider and wider, his anger was almost erupting, and Ren Siqi's voice became smaller and smaller.
In the inner room, Zhang Pujia's eyes widened and her mouth opened. What the hell, how can this bastard talk such nonsense!
"You, you, you're mad at me!" Zhang Jingxian finally broke out, "You are also a scholar, and you have done such a shameless thing, shameless, shameless!" ”
"How dare you discredit my daughter, and tarnish her innocence! I, I, I fought with you! Zhang Jingxian trembled angrily, looked around, pulled down the katana on the knife rack on the table, pulled out the scabbard, and slashed at Ren Siqi.
"Father-in-law, listen to me!" Ren Siqi ran out of the house, shouting as he ran.
"Explain your size, I'll hack you bastard!" Zhang Jingxian scolded angrily, chasing behind him with a very fast footstep. On the city, the Daishan sergeant looked at this situation dumbfounded, and Ren Siqi's guards were just about to step forward to stop Zhang Jingxian, but Ren Siqi glared at him with his eyes, and one by one he retreated with a smile.
Zhang Pujia walked out of the inner room and looked at the two who were chasing with a complicated face. The little maid followed her with a strange expression.
"Miss, what my uncle just said is true?" Finally, the finch couldn't help but ask.
"Shut up!"
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From Guancheng to the foot of the mountain, and then to the halfway foot of Zhaobao Mountain, Zhang Jingxian was finally exhausted from chasing, and sat on a mountain rock with a knife.
"Father-in-law, why don't you use a knife to slash and kill without asking!" Two feet in front of Zhang Jingxian, Ren Siqi stood there calmly.
"You bastard, I, I'm going to kill you!"
"Hey, father-in-law, it's not right for you to do this. I've got to finish my sentence. I mean, I can't help it, I can't help but kiss the pujia girl, I won't let you chase you so far! Ren Siqi said aggrievedly.
"You mean, just kiss her!" Zhang Jingxian's eyes widened again.
"Yes, I kissed her, but you chased me for most of the day, and everyone here saw it, how can this be explained!" Ren Siqi spread his hands and said helplessly.
"You, you bastard, you're mad at me!" Zhang Jingxian threw away the sword, and lay on the stone panting.
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"Father-in-law!"
"Don't call me father-in-law! I didn't promise to give you my daughter again. ”
"Well, uncle. I heard Que'er say, you plan to give Pujia to Yang Fan, the third son of the Yang family, is this true? ”
"It's true, the two families have changed, and it's almost decided."
"Does my father-in-law think that Yang Fan is better than me Ren Siqi, or do you just fall in love with the Yang family's family background?"
"The Yang family has been an official eunuch for generations, a family of ten scholars, a family of three scholars, and of course the family background is impeccable. And Yang Fan is also a young talent, and his character is much better than that of you, a shameless man! ”
"Hehe, father-in-law, don't look at me with prejudice. Yang Fan is much older than Pujia Girl, in his thirties, he didn't even get into the Xiucai, where can he compare to me, I was admitted to the Xiucai at the age of sixteen, and now I have become a guerrilla general at the age of twenty, holding tens of thousands of male soldiers, how can Yang Fan compare with me? Ren Siqi said proudly.
"If you continue to take the imperial examination, raise people in the examination, and then take the Jinshi examination, I will gladly marry my daughter to you again, but why do you want to be a military general?" Zhang Jingxian looked at Ren Siqi with a complicated expression.
Even if he is full of prejudice against Ren Siqi, he has to admit that Ren Siqi is very good. But if such a person can take the road of the imperial examination, how good it is to pass the Jinshi examination, then he will gladly marry his daughter to him. can be a low-status military general in the middle of nowhere, his Zhang family is also a scholarly family, and his ancestors have also been officials, how can he marry a martial artist?
Looking at the old stubborn in front of him, Ren Siqi felt powerless.
"Father-in-law, your vision can no longer keep up with the form. When is it now, you still hold the idea of being noble and martial. When today's Emperor Hongguang is set up by military generals, in troubled times, only by mastering force can he control his own destiny! ”
"You, you are a big rebel, the Son of Heaven is set up by the Shi Pavilion Department and Ma Cifu, how did it get involved with the general?" Zhang Jingxian was shocked.
"No wonder, Ningbo is nearly a thousand miles away from Nanjing, and your father-in-law's news is really closed. Without the four towns of Jiangbei, how could King Fu be the emperor? This is already known to everyone in the DPRK and China. ”
Zhang Jingxian closed his eyes, he knew that he was just an opposition gentry, and he was not qualified to hear about the major affairs of the DPRK and China, and all he knew was hearsay. Maybe things are really as Ren Siqi said.
But, can this Ming Dynasty's naivety change? The people in Jiangnan have never felt the chaos in the north, and Zhang Jingxian subconsciously thinks that everything is not a big deal, and the war is still far, far away from him.
Ignore the others for now, but Zhang Jingxian knows that after this trouble, it will definitely spread out. There were also gentry and people sent by the government in his entourage, who wanted to take his daughter home quietly, but who knew that he didn't hold the fire all of a sudden, and actually did something to chase and cut Ren Siqi in public.
Now it must be known to everyone, even if he brings his daughter back to Ningbo, how can he marry her to the Yang family again?
And the Yang family will never accept a woman who runs away without permission and violates morals!
What a shame to be swept away!
"Just let her stay here, just because I don't have this daughter! Hopefully, I hope you can be kind to her. Zhang Jingxian's voice trembled, barely leaving words.
stood up, ignored Ren Siqi's greeting, walked out without saying a word, went directly to the river, got on the boat when he came, turned around and headed towards Ningbo.
"Daddy!" Zhang Pujia stood in Guancheng, looking at her father's back, and her tears couldn't stop flowing.
She knows that this farewell, I don't know when we will meet again! (To be continued.) )