Chapter 25: Marriage Proposal
Drunkard Jiang was stunned, just after listening to Muramasa's words, it seemed that he wanted to "avenge his grievances", but he didn't expect a big turn to suddenly come and blame him for all the mistakes.
The drunkard Jiang shouted: "Lord Muramasa, I don't accept it, she deliberately hurt me!" ”
Mura Zheng shouted: "Don't make a noise, the evidence is in front of you, if you mess around again, you will deal with it according to the village law!" ”
The villagers applauded and shouted in unison: "The wicked should be punished, the village is wise!" ”
The drunkard Jiang was so frightened that he didn't dare to say anything, holding his stomach and hooking his head.
The village was waving its hand, and the villagers dispersed one after another.
"Eldest niece, Aunt Zhao left first, if you have something, just call me." Zhao Sanpo patted Jiang Cheng'er's arm and said.
"Auntie, I have taken your righteous help to heart." Jiang Cheng'er smiled gratefully.
"It's polite." Zhao Sanpo left with a smile.
Jiang Cheng'er looked at Sun Tingting's back, and thought to herself, Sun Tingting whispered to Mura Zheng, she must have said bad things about herself, otherwise Mura Zheng's attitude would not change abruptly.
This woman can't see the good of others, and it seems that the lesson she learned last time was far from enough.
Jiang Cheng'er has something unclear, after seeing the arrow, Mura's attitude changed again, and he turned to excuse himself, I don't know why? What's so weird about that arrow?
Jiang Cheng'er picked up the arrow from the ground and looked at it repeatedly, but there was no special mark on it.
Sun Tingting whispered to Murazheng as she walked: "Dad, my daughter told you, Jiang Dani is scheming, why did you let her go easily." You'd rather believe her than your own daughter's words, right?
In case she really kills the drunkard Jiang in the future and commits a felony of disobedience, she will also cause you trouble. ”
"I'm afraid of getting into trouble right now, so I'll let her go." Muramasa said meaningfully, "Dad can't tell you clearly, anyway, Dad does it for a reason." ”
"Dad, you are the head of a village, and you are still afraid of Jiang Dani's yellow-haired girl." Sun Tingting pursed her lips, and then muttered in a low voice, "You obviously took the opportunity to clean up the Jiang drunkard, who ...... for that?"
Mura Zheng interrupted his daughter's words in annoyance: "Tingting, don't talk nonsense, don't listen to your mother's nonsense in the future, your father is not clear about your mother, how to this family." ”
Sun Tingting's belly, the matter of her father and the widow Yan, everyone in the whole Peach Blossom Village knows about it, and usually the mother turns a blind eye. But yesterday, the widow came directly to the door of the house, pulled and pulled her father, and asked her father to avenge her, saying that the Jiang drunkard had snatched her gold ring.
The more the widow said that she was getting closer to her father, her mother slapped her, and the slut threw herself directly into her father's arms and pretended to cry, which almost made her angry to death.
There is no reliable man in the world, my father is still attentive when he is old, and today my father taught Jiang a drunkard, most of them because he was angry with the widow.
The drunkard Jiang stared at Jiang Cheng'er viciously, eager to eat her alive.
Jiang Cheng'er hooked her lips and smiled, giving him a contemptuous sneer in return.
The drunkard Jiang jumped high in anger, his wound was torn, and he fainted in pain.
Boss Jiang and Jiang Laosan, who came here later, teamed up, and when they lifted the drunkard Jiang, they had to go to the neighboring village to find a doctor.
Since the mysterious old doctor Banxia's grandfather left, there is no one in Peach Blossom Village who knows medical skills.
Jiang Cheng'er raised her eyes, and there was a faint strange feeling, as if there was a figure on the dense tree in front of her, and she didn't find anything when she looked closely. I don't know if it's because of the reflection of the light, but she didn't care.
Jiang Cheng'er took the arrow and walked home with the basket on her shoulder.
On the way, she met Lu Cheng who ran over to find her in a hurry.
Approaching, Lu Cheng looked Jiang Cheng'er up and down, and when he saw that she was doing well, he relieved himself.
"Cousin Orange, you are frightened, I am too late again, and I didn't protect you well." Lu Cheng felt guilty, why was he half a beat slow every time he appeared.
Jiang Cheng'er smiled: "Cousin Cheng, I'm not fine." ”
"I heard on the way here, the second uncle beat you again, this time you are dead, you are more dangerous now, I really don't feel at ease."
Lu Cheng felt sorry for Jiang Cheng'er, pulled his hair in pain, and gritted his teeth.
"Cousin Orange, I'm going to beg my grandmother and ask her to persuade my second uncle. When I go home, I will beg my father and mother again, even if I smash the pot and sell iron, and scrape together enough money for the bride price, I will marry you home as soon as possible, so that you will not be hurt. ”
Jiang Cheng'er was stunned: "Cousin Cheng, I already told you last time, I thought you were ......"
"By the way, look at my confusion, I forgot to ask you." Lu Cheng interrupted her words in a hurry, and mustered up the courage to call out her name, "Yue...... Orange, will you marry me? ”
As soon as such a cordial salutation came out, he blushed first.
Will she say yes?
Lu Cheng's eyes blinked nervously, his thick eyelashes trembled slightly, and fine beads of sweat oozed from the tip of his nose.
My cousin proposes to my cousin!
Jiang Cheng'er smiled bitterly, she rejected Lu Cheng last time, saying that she just regarded him as an elder brother, and there was no love between men and women.
She made it clear enough, why did he still propose to her?
Looking at the look of this innocent young man in anticipation, Jiang Cheng'er really couldn't bear to hurt him. But she must categorically refuse, otherwise it will hurt him even more if she drags it out.
"I'm sorry, I can't marry you. Emotionally, I don't like you; Second, we are cousins and cannot marry close relatives. ”
Jiang Cheng'er's refusal was so direct and clear, Lu Cheng didn't hear it wrong.
Like a basin of cold water poured down, the smile on the corner of his lips instantly condensed, and he felt extremely cold in the warm weather at the end of February.
These two sentences kept echoing in Lu Cheng's mind: she couldn't marry him. Don't like him!
No! He didn't believe it, the two had tactfully expressed their admiration for each other before, and Cousin Orange obviously liked him.
He raised his head and asked timidly, "Cousin Orange, do you have something unspeakable?" ”
"No, I didn't hide it, I didn't lie to you. In addition to the identity of cousins, I don't like you either, and my feeling for you is that my sister is so kind to my brother, not as attractive as a woman to a man. ”
Jiang Cheng'er's still watery gaze fell on Lu Cheng's face, with a gentle reassurance, and the words he said were full of rational hardness and coldness.
Lu Cheng's last hope was shattered, his eyes dimmed into a thick night, and his heart ached so much that he could barely breathe.
"I'm sorry, cousin. Don't be sad, there will be better girls waiting for you......"
Jiang Cheng'er couldn't bear it, and said with her eyes down, all the comfort was pale at this time.
Lu Cheng stood dejectedly, and he didn't know if he had listened to it.
Jiang Cheng'er is also worried about another thing, Jiang Manman has always been running to Lu Cheng's house in recent days, looking at Lu Cheng's mother's attitude, she wants to promote the marriage between the two.
The day before yesterday, Jiang Manman also alluded to the fact that he had already had a relationship with Lu Cheng, and Jiang Cheng'er didn't believe it, but it was hard to guarantee that nothing would happen to the two of them after a long time.
Jiang Cheng'er felt that it was necessary to explain to Lu Cheng the dangers of marriage between close relatives. It not only greatly increases the incidence of recessive genetic diseases in offspring, but also increases the incidence of polygenic genetic diseases and congenital malformations. The jargon is hard to understand, so let's be blunt.
"Cousin Cheng, please listen to me. You and I are cousins, and we belong to relatives who are relatively close in blood within three generations, referred to as close relatives.
Children born of consanguineous marriages are likely to be unhealthy, such as mentally handicapped, disabled, epilepsy, heart disease, etc., so we cannot marry in this regard. ”
Lu Cheng's eyes widened and he asked puzzledly, "Cousin Orange, where did you hear this, why don't I know." But there are many close relatives in the village who are married, and the children born are not quite healthy, aren't they? ”
"Children born of consanguineous marriages are more likely to get sick, not necessarily sick. Since there is such a big risk, it should be avoided, and it should not be left to chance, affecting the offspring and the whole family.
You see, in our village, the family that died seven children in a row is called a dead family, that is, a cousin and sister are married. And the freak kid known as the two-headed snake, how scary to look at, his parents are also cousins. Jiang Cheng'er sighed.
"Is this why you refuse to marry me?" Lu Cheng's eyes lit up, and he asked without giving up.
Jiang Cheng'er lowered her eyebrows: "Brother...... I think I've made it very clear. ”
This "brother" full of family affection completely made Lu Cheng understand that the girl he loved really only regarded him as an elder brother.
The blow was huge, making his face pale as paper.
"With all due respect, Jiang Manman is your uncle's cousin, and you can't get married. And your aunt's family, those cousins of your aunt's family are all your close relatives, and they can't do it. Lu Cheng, you are a good man, you will definitely find happiness that truly belongs to you. Jiang Cheng'er could only bite the bullet and finish speaking.
No matter how much he says, it is useless, Lu Cheng needs a period of time to adjust his mood, slowly accept this matter by himself, and slowly come out of his injuries.
Jiang Cheng'er left first, and Lu Cheng sat on the ridge like a force, covering his face with his hands, and let out a low and suppressed cry.
Not far away, the green wheat seedlings lined with a water-red figure, Jiang Manman had been standing there for a long time, and she ran after Lu Cheng.
She didn't hear what Jiang Cheng'er and Lu Cheng said, but when she saw Lu Cheng covering her face in pain, her heart was about to break.
She felt sorry for Lu Cheng again, and she was glad that her opportunity had finally come.
As soon as Jiang Cheng'er entered the house, she first heard one cry after another in pain: "Oops...... Oh, I'm here, I'm dying of pain......"
There was a man in the room with his head bowed, cleaning the wounds of the wounded with soju, frowning and enduring the deafening screams of the wounded.
The scumbag Jiang drunkard was lucky, and he happened to meet a wandering Fang Langzhong who came to Peach Blossom Village on the way, so he didn't have to go to another village for medical treatment, and directly invited Langzhong home.
The drunkard snorted hard, swallowed his saliva, called out in his mouth, and glanced at the bowl in Lang Zhong's hand.
Seeing that there was only half a bowl of wine left, he couldn't hold it anymore, so he suddenly sat up, stretched out his hand and snatched the bowl away, and raised his head to take a sip of the wine inside.
He also greedily licked the few drops of wine that had been spilled on his hands and licked them clean with his tongue, like a vampire.