Chapter 164: Candidates for Wife and Concubine
"Dad, what's wrong with you? Such a big fire early in the morning? ”
Lin Yu's voice came out of the hall, making Boss Lin's face soften, but it was still ugly. However, he is most proud of this little son, especially the youngest son said that he will definitely be able to take a show in this year's college exam, which makes him feel that the day of his family's emergence is coming.
It's just that the current situation makes him unhappy no matter what.
Lin Yu saw that he had been worried, so he asked, "Dad, have you encountered something difficult?" ”
Boss Lin sighed: "It's not the black-hearted third uncle!" Before, he clearly promised to help our family plant wheat well, who knew that he would take advantage of our family's inconvenience to delay the sowing day again and again, if it weren't for me and your second uncle to notice that something was wrong, and rush to the field to see, I'm afraid that our family won't be able to plant wheat this year. ”
"Alas, although we have rushed to plant wheat at the back of our house, it is a pity that it is still too late, I just went to the field to see, our family and your second uncle's wheat is sparse, not even half of the seedlings of previous years. In the coming year, our family will not even have enough to pay taxes and grain, let alone eat it at home. ”
When Lin Yu heard this, he laughed, and his smile was full of calmness and confidence. "Dad, look at you like this, what kind of big deal should I be. Don't worry, we don't have to worry about the tax grain for the coming year, and we don't have to worry about it in the future, this Xiucai, your son and I have passed the test! ”
Seeing that he was so sure of what he said, Boss Lin suddenly had more hope: "Is this true?" ”
Lin Yu nodded confidently: "It's really true!" Dad, you just wait for your son to bring back the fame of this talent to you! In the future, when the people in the village hang their fields in our house, we will sit at home and collect grain, so won't you make up for the little grain you owe? ”
The Great Zhou Dynasty's harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes were very heavy, and the villagers had to pay nearly half of the annual taxes and grains for farming, so if any village produced Xiucai, the villagers would record their own fields in the name of Xiucai, so as to avoid the high taxes and grains every year. Of course, in return, the villagers had to give some food to Xiucai. After all, the little food given to Xiucai is much cheaper than the tax grain.
Although the villagers give less, they can't stand the number of people, this truth of gathering sand into a tower, can the talents not understand?
Boss Lin and the Zhao family listened to Lin Yu's words, and they were so excited that they couldn't close their mouths, and the worried look on Boss Lin's face before suddenly dispersed, and even shook their heads proudly: "It's still my son's future!" ”
Lin Yu saw that they were in a good mood, so he said again: "Dad, mother, this matter of testing Xiucai has been taken nine times out of ten, you don't have to worry, after half a month, my son will come down and get that fame back." However, there is one thing that my son needs to discuss with you right now. ”
The husband and wife looked at him with a smile: "If there is anything, you can just say it." ”
Lin Yu coughed twice: "What my son wants to say is my life's event." ”
As soon as Zhao heard this, he immediately felt a little embarrassed: "Little Si, the girl you said, I asked several matchmakers to inquire, but after inquiring around this circle, there was no news at all." Yulin County said that it was not big, but it was not small, so I wanted to ask about such a girl. Besides, maybe that girl is not from our neighborhood at all. ”
She also really wanted her son to marry the girl, and heard her son say that the girl was dressed decently and rode a horse, and the foundation of the family must be not thin. When the time comes, he will hold his daughter-in-law's dowry in his hand, not only can he hold the new daughter-in-law, but he can also rely on this money to find a good family for the third child.
But this abacus is loud, but it is difficult to find people who can't stand it, and in the past nearly a month, they have entrusted all the people they can support, and they haven't heard any news.
Lin Yu was about to speak, but he heard Boss Lin say slowly: "If you want me to say, Xiaosi, instead of you bent on marrying a woman who doesn't know the root and has no trace, you should think about the person in front of you." ”
Lin Yu was confused: "Eyes in front of you? Who is it? ”
Boss Lin hooked the corners of his mouth and smiled: "Lin Ruan! ”
Lin Yu's eyes widened: "Dad, what nonsense are you talking about!" That Lin Ruan is Lin Han's child daughter-in-law, and I am her brother! ”
Zhao also resolutely objected: "This can't be done!" Lin Ruan's cheap girl, where is she worthy of my little four, my little four will be a big official in the future, that cheap girl is not worthy of carrying shoes and pouring night incense buckets for Xiao Si! ”
Boss Lin waved his hand: "Don't be so excited, listen to what I say." Fourth, Lin Ruan's girl is no longer Akan's child daughter-in-law, you haven't come back these days, and you don't know that she has nothing to do with the third family, and she has set up her own business. As for whether she is worthy of this, you also think too much, her identity, it is impossible to be a wife, and it is okay to be a cheap concubine. ”
Cheap concubines, that is a kind of existence that has no status than child daughters-in-law, at least child daughter-in-law still occupies the position of a wife, but cheap concubines are even pinched by people in their hands for life and death.
Boss Lin smacked his lips and crackled his wishful thinking: "Lin Ruan's cheap girl now has a lot of silver in her hand, and now she basically goes into Shenwu Mountain every day to hunt, although I don't know what she hunted, just by her current style, I can also know that her income is not low." What is most lacking in our family right now? Naturally, it is silver. ”
"Let's not talk about anything else, let's take the girl that the fourth child wants to marry him, there is no silver, even if people are willing to marry the girl to our family, but this must not be shorter than others? This reputation of relying on my father-in-law to make a fortune is not good, and I have to carry it for a lifetime, and I am reluctant to let my son suffer that grievance. Listen to me, first bring Lin Ruan in, pinch her deed of sale in your hand, and in the future, our family will live in her new house, and the fourth child will have a place to marry a wife, and there will be silver, so isn't it good to marry the main wife back in a beautiful way? ”
When Lin Yu and Zhao heard him say this, they immediately felt that there was some truth.
It's just that Lin Yu is still a little reluctant: "Dad, this wife will take a concubine before she marries, I'm afraid that when I come to the matchmaker in the future, people will be unwilling." ”
Zhao also nodded: "Besides, Lin Ruan's dead girl is so powerful, she won't bully our fourth child anymore, right?" ”
Boss Lin laughed disdainfully: "With the deed of sale in her hand, what other flowers can she turn out?" If you really can't hold her down, you sell her, occupy her house, and get her money, so we don't have to lose anything. As for the matter of taking a concubine first, it is not a big deal. The fourth child has fame and silver, isn't that girl not marrying? At that time, there are girls from good families begging to marry our family. ”