Chapter 418: Spring Greeting (31)
Xuemei and Laneige were classmates, and at the age of sixteen or seventeen, they were both influenced by new ideas. I dreamed of going to college in the future and being a useful person to society, but after graduating from middle school, I encountered forced marriage at the same time.
Xuemei likes a male teacher at school, and the two have a very close relationship. But Xuemei's family disagreed, thinking that the male teacher was poor and sour.
The article written by the male teacher in the newspaper that Xuemei took out told how talented her lover was, and she would definitely give her a better life and make her family proud of him. But the family still disagreed.
Her parents found her a well-connected son of an official eunuch, and after she got married, she could be an official wife, and she would eat and drink without worrying about happiness and peace for a lifetime.
But Xuemei doesn't like the children of the official eunuchs, and thinks that the person is frivolous, and there are two concubines at home. If she gets married, she will be confined to the back house for the rest of her life, let alone go to college, and she has to report before acting when she goes shopping, and she has to endure endless struggles in the house for a lifetime.
Xuemei's mother is the head lady of the family, but she also suffers from the house fight, and the concubines give birth to a son, often giving her mother a look. He and the children of the family did not have a common language, and she felt that they had no brotherly and sisterly affection at all, and quarreled over spending a piece of change on a head.
Xuemei doesn't like this kind of life.
Her fantasy life should be to find a job after going to college and fly with her teachers. There are no third parties to bother, no family constraints, they are immersed in the world of literature, talking about poetry and distant places all day long.
So after looking for a day, she eloped with the male teacher.
Laneige also has a favorite young man, who is a college student. Handsome and elegant, he is talented and inspiring in his speech. Laneige fell in a flash.
In order to chase this male classmate, she approached college students in the name of going to the university to listen to lectures, and she was still hanging around in the library where college students often stayed, and seized the opportunity to join the drama club and have close contact with college students.
After going back and forth, the two attracted each other and became lovers.
Laneige was forced to marry by his family, and the object was the eldest son of a wealthy businessman.
Laneige met the man and caused a sensation by courting a girl at their school, and the two had confirmed their relationship a long time ago.
Laneige doesn't want to be a third party, not to mention that she still has someone she likes.
Hearing that Xuemei eloped with the person she liked, she also had an idea, since her family did not approve of her being with a college student. They can also elope and pursue their own happiness.
She told the college students about this decision, and the college students disagreed.
Laneige is upset, and the sisters in the family gossip, thinking that the college student boyfriend is greedy for their family's wealth.
Laneige had a big fight with her sisters and made a move. The father was angry and locked Laneige and his sisters in confinement.
Unable to contact her boyfriend, Laneige is worried that her boyfriend will think she has changed her mind and is anxious.
After a week, Laneige was finally able to go back to school, and met a college student waiting for her at the school gate with a bouquet of flowers.
The college students took the clan elders to Laneige's house to explain their conditions and future.
The college student has been admitted to the government-funded international student, and the whole family is proud of it and will pool the money to let him study abroad. His schoolwork was often first in the department, and he was confident that he would earn his PhD in four years.
The school teachers liked him very much, and after four years, he could become a university teacher at worst, and preferably a government official. And in both professions, the social status is very high.
The college students also posed the moral problems of their betrothed partners, identified the fatal shortcomings of their business, and proposed solutions. It is proposed that if the Laneige family divorces, they will help them solve their business problems in exchange. The other party will not disagree.
Laneige listened to the college student's well-founded words, and his heart was full of him, and he couldn't tolerate a second person.
The college student is handsome and dashing, young and promising, and Laneige's mother has a loose attitude.
In addition, the dowry brought by the clan elders to propose marriage, all of them are ancient gifts.
The college student duly proposed that he and Laneige would be a couple for the rest of their lives, and that no more women would destroy their families.
Laneige's mother looked at the college student with great satisfaction.
Laneige's father was also moved by the college student's honesty and asked Laneige to marry a wealthy businessman, on the one hand, so that Laneige would not have to worry about money in the future. On the other hand, I also want the two families to join forces.
But no matter how strong the alliance is, it is just a businessman, if his son-in-law becomes an official, it is a hundred times stronger than a businessman. Besides, if Laneige's betrothed family's family is doomed to bankruptcy, then the marriage is meaningless.
Laneige's father only said that he would discuss it again.
College students know that there is hope and are in a good mood. I came a few more times, each time with a gift, very formal, although the gift is not very expensive, but considering the preferences of the members of the Laneige family, it can be regarded as very thoughtful.
Laneige saw that his lover worked so hard for the marriage of the two, and he also wanted to do something. She studied harder than ever to be admitted to university and be a person worthy of her lover.
Laneige's family finally agreed to Laneige to dissolve the marriage contract and marry a college student.
College students want to study abroad, and Laneige's family wants Laneige to take a leave of absence to accompany them. Laneige is unwilling, she also wants to go to university abroad, and the two of them progress together.
Four years later, Laneige and her husband returned from abroad, her husband became an official of the Ministry of Education, and Laneige became a middle school teacher.
Laneige lives happily, so I think of Xuemei, four years have passed, and I don't know where Xuemei is.
When I went to Xuemei's house, I found out that Xuemei eloped at the beginning, and Xuemei's father was furious. asked the concubine to replace Xuemei to marry the children of the official family, and married a large dowry, and Xuemei's mother's dowry was also taken away.
Xuemei's mother was affected, and when she heard that Xuemei's family was going to cut off relations with Xuemei, she was shocked and angry, lingering on the sickbed, and died in the second year after Xuemei left.
Xuemei's father wanted to maintain the marriage relationship with the children of the official family, and helped the concubine mother who married on behalf of him into the main room.
Speaking of Xuemei, the whole family felt ashamed.
Many maids and servants also complained that Xuemei didn't love herself, and shamelessly eloped with someone, which ruined the reputation of the entire family.
said that the young lady they served, because of Xuemei's fault, the marriage partner they didn't look down on in the past turned down on them now.
It's a shame.
Xuemei's father made a lot of efforts to calm down everyone's bad impression that there was an elopement woman in Xuemei's family.
The servants said that the master had explained that if anyone mentioned Xuemei again now, there would be no such person in the family.
Not only is there no Xuemei, but even the person mentioned will be expelled from the house.
Laneige couldn't help but be terrified.
Through Xuemei's experience, she seems to see herself, if she didn't care about eloping with her husband, would she have ended up like Xuemei, if she left, what should her mother do?
Laneige couldn't help but be grateful to her husband, if her husband had listened to her and eloped with her, then how could they have their current life, it can be said that their lives were completely ruined.