Chapter 24: Wife-snatching
Who is not young and frivolous, and which girl is not pregnant?
On the way to Lu's house, Liu Jun basically figured out the old love between Liu Jun and the Lu girl from his memory. In the final analysis, Liu Jun, who was still young and frivolous, happened to meet Miss Lu, who was pregnant with a young girl, and the two fell in love at first sight and sparked.
Liu Jun originally had a dumbfounded nickname, and he was not a serious and honest person at first glance. Long before he left home, he was supposed to read, but unfortunately he couldn't read at all, but he liked to play with guns and sticks and make friends. After a long time, he also became a famous rogue boy in Macheng.
He was brave and able to fight, powerful punches and feet, coupled with generosity and righteousness, so he was the leader of that gang of scoundrel boys at that time. Once, Liu Jun and a group of brothers went out hunting and returned, and happened to meet Miss Lu, who was out of business, and was molested by a few pranky words.
Especially at that time, Liu Jun was an eighteen-year-old young man, and Miss Lu was also a twenty-eight beauty, both with a youthful heart. Since then, it has been natural for the two to have a relationship. Although the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty was very strict, it couldn't stop these two young boys and girls who loved each other.
However, this relationship is all secret, and then one day, Miss Lu's father suddenly accepted the bride price of the town's Zhou Xiucai's family and agreed to the other party's courtship.
At this time, Miss Lu was dumbfounded.
She told Liu Jun about it, and then Liu Jun went to find Zhou Xiucai's son, beat him up, and then asked him to get the bride price back. Zhou Xiucai's son agreed at that time, and he told his father when he turned around, and then Zhou Xiucai went to find Father Lu. This is where the matter is revealed.
Father Lu will never agree to the matter between his daughter and Liu Jun, in the Ming Dynasty, the marriage of children must be decided by their parents, which is stipulated by law. Private life is not only unruly, but also illegal, and is completely invalid in law.
That Zhou Xiucai's son also likes Miss Lu very much, although he knows that Miss Lu and Liu Jun have made a private agreement for life, he does not dislike it, and still insists on refusing to take back the bride price.
According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, the private agreement between Liu Jun and Miss Lu is invalid, and the Zhou family gave a bride price to propose marriage, but it has already been counted as a dowry and is protected by law. According to the Da Ming Law, even if Liu Jun and Miss Lu have a child, the law will also sentence Miss Lu to break up from Liu Jun and marry into the Zhou family, which has many precedents.
In the Ming Dynasty, this kind of case was always called a wife-snatching case.
Liu Jun was called Er Dumb at that time, so he was very stunned. He took his brother to find the surnamed Zhou again, and then he made a heavier move, breaking his leg. The Zhou family reported the case, and Liu Jun had to run away.
Before running away, Liu Jun went to find Miss Lu and said that they would elope together.
Then Liu Jun waited for Miss Lu at the dock of the Jushui River for a day and a night, and the last one who came was not Miss Lu, but Lu's father and the officials to arrest quickly. Liu Jun had to run away alone, and finally ran to Fucheng, and then after a while, he knew that Miss Lu was shaken when she left, and finally told her mother about the elopement, and then Lu's father led the arrest to come quickly.
In the end, Father Liu lost a sum of money to the Lu family, and then spent money to deal with the yamen, and the matter was eliminated.
After that, Liu Jun was admitted to the Huangzhou Weiwu School and became a martial arts student, staying for two years until he came back a few days ago. Then as soon as he returned, he replaced him.
Two years have passed, and Miss Lu is already eighteen years old, but she has not yet married.
After that incident, Zhou Xiucai was finally dissatisfied with Miss Lu, and finally asked for the bride price. However, Zhou Xiucai's son has always been obsessed with Miss Lu, especially after one of his legs was broken by Liu Jun, leaving some sequelae, walking a little lame, being called Zhou Cripple, and it is difficult to find a suitable woman.
In the end, Zhou Xiucai couldn't resist his son, and he repented, and he proposed to the Lu family again to marry Miss Lu as his daughter-in-law. But Miss Lu resolutely disagreed, and Father Lu was a little hesitant.
has dragged on for more than two years, and Zhou Xiucai's son is right or wrong, and Miss Lu will not marry, but Miss Lu will resolutely not marry.
It was a stalemate.
In the end, the Zhou family decided to rob their relatives.
In fact, his snatching of relatives should also have the acquiescence of Lu's father.
Robbing relatives is actually not a robbery like a thief, but mostly involves some disputes such as fixing relatives. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a custom of robbing relatives, and most of them robbed relatives because of one woman and two promises, and finally relied on robbery. There are also some issues such as dowry gifts, which cannot be discussed to some extent, and in the end, they also rely on hard grabbing.
In most cases, if you rob it, you will rob it, and you will not say that you will come back if you rob it. But there are also some who end up in a lawsuit with the county government, and in the end, the children are all born, and they will also be awarded to another family, but that is a minority after all.
The Zhou family's robbery this time is actually not exactly a robbery.
But Liu Jun refused to sit idly by.
Damn, no matter what, Miss Lu turned out to be Liu Jun's old friend, no matter whether there was a relationship between them or not, but since she was unwilling, he couldn't let the Zhou family rob him.
The Lu family in Sai Wan.
Old Man Lu sat in the hall drinking tea, and his wife Xu sighed on the side.
"Master, isn't it bad for us to treat Qi'er like this." Xu Shidao, marrying a daughter in such a way is sad to think about.
"Let's do this for her good, otherwise if this continues, she will have to be an old sister-in-law at home in the future. In the past two years, there have been many people who have come to propose marriage, but she has not agreed to any of them. Those people are really not very good, and I don't want to say yes. But at the beginning, the matter had been spread everywhere, and I didn't know anyone, only Zhou Xiucai's family was willing to propose marriage again. ”
"I didn't blame you for that."
"Then how can you blame me, how did I know that this dead girl would secretly be like the Liu family boy, she really lost her face. If I knew, I wouldn't have agreed to the Zhou family's proposal. But since I have already agreed, of course I can't let her be with the Liu family boy anymore, where did I do wrong, it was the girl who was wrong. Father Lu said depressedly.
If he hadn't broken up the matter between the girl and the Liu family, and he really made trouble in the Yamen, they wouldn't have been able to win the lawsuit. At that time, he thought that the Zhou family boy did not dislike his daughter's private relationship with the Liu family, which was a great thing. As long as the daughter is the same as the Liu family, wouldn't it be very good to marry again.
Who would have expected that in the end, the division was divided, but as a result, the daughter refused to marry, and the Zhou family later withdrew.
If more than two years have passed, fortunately, the Zhou family is willing to marry again, then what is there to disagree.
"I can't let that girl mess around this time, even if it is robbed, let the Zhou family snatch people back." Father Lu said in a deep voice. If it doesn't work out this time, the daughter can really only become an old sister-in-law for a lifetime.