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Yang Liu saw that there was no one outside the door, so he came in and lowered his voice, "Tao'er, this can only be kept in your heart, don't show it in front of people, even your father won't allow that Chengcai to give our family twenty taels of silver in the past?" That Qian Niang has been useless, and she is ready to press the bottom of the box for you in the future. Since he also hired our family before getting married, and he didn't return the money, it can actually be regarded as a marriage contract for you. It's just that your father didn't fight at the time, and my mother thought about it indecently, and she was afraid of affecting your family affairs, so she never mentioned it. But if we really start a lawsuit over this matter, our family can still go to the Zhao family to ask for an explanation, and with this hired money, we are not afraid that he Zhao Chengcai will not admit it, alas, but you haven't gone in a long time ago, if you go in now, you will always lower the head of the surname Zhang, and you can't be considered a match.

Your father also knows this in his heart, but Chengcai was forced by her mother to marry the pig-killing girl, if he fights, he looks bad, and he thinks how much you want to marry Chengcai. You know your father's temper, just to gamble on this breath, so he won't pay attention to it. But now, I see that your father also regrets it in his heart, but he can't pull this face to say. Why is he still running around when he's old now? Isn't it to get you a good family? It's just that these ten miles and eight towns, who have really read books and match your age, how can it be so easy to find? Even if there are some of them, they are also big families, how can they afford our small family? ”

Yang Liu looked at his daughter's eyes with more pity, "Girl, it's not that your father and mother don't do their best for you, I'm afraid that you can't ask so much for this marriage." At most, find a good family, and let's live the day steadily, okay? ”

Yang Xiaotao's face changed, but she calmed down in an instant, and her face was full of emotion, "Mother, why do you say your daughter's life is so bitter?" ”

Yang Liu's heart was also sour for his daughter, wiping the corners of his eyes, "This is all fate, let's be women, we can only accept fate"

"I don't ask for anything else, I just want to be like Brother Tiger, reasonable, and literate, is this very demanding?"

As soon as Yang Liu heard this, he knew that his daughter still remembered Zhao Chengcai in her heart. Of course, the mother thinks that her daughter is the best, and now she is so high and low, she is indeed wronged. Thinking about it, her mind is also a little lively, "Chengcai is indeed a good child, since he became a family, he has never been empty-handed every time he comes to the door, and the rituals are the most decent." It's just - can we really wronged you to be his concubine? Unless he can really win the middle lift, it won't be a grievance, I didn't listen to the storyteller in the play before, even if it is the concubine of a big official, if you do a good job, you also have a fate, if you take it seriously, you are much better than the pig girl, but your father is there......"

She didn't dare to pack the ticket, although Yang Xiucai was pedantic, but he had the final say at home, Yang Liu was distressed about her daughter, but if Yang Xiucai didn't agree, she couldn't be the master.

Yang Xiaotao knew in her heart that her father's life was a good face, but if Zhao Chengcai could really be promoted to become an official, even if he married him as a concubine, his father might not necessarily agree. It's just that unless Zhao Chengcai asks for it himself, it is impossible for her father to pull down his face and talk to Zhao Chengcai. But Zhao Chengcai came back to show that he really regarded Zhang Qingting as a wife. Yang Xiaotao has known him for so many years, and she also knows his temper, once she determines something, it is difficult to change it.

But if she can't go through this, can't she go else? A flash of inspiration flashed in her mind, and Zhao Wang's family, she has a lot of dissatisfaction with that daughter-in-law, if she can get through her and get her permission, then even if Zhao Chengcai himself is not happy, he can't stand the order of his parents, filial piety is the most basic way to be a man, forgive him Zhao Chengcai does not dare to resist.

There is another layer, Yang Xiaotao is not blind, her mother just mentioned it, she has also seen it, the Zhao family is really different now. As for the clothes she brought from the capital last time, she brought them to the tailor shop to make new clothes a few years ago, such good materials, the price is not cheap, a foot costs two cents of silver, and their horse farm, how many people are red now? Yang Xiaotao secretly made up her mind that if her father couldn't give her a better family affair than the Zhao family, she would rather use the dowry of twenty taels of silver to make a scene, even if it was better to be a concubine for Zhao Chengcai than to marry an ordinary man

Of course, if she really got married, she would never listen to Yang Xiaotao, who was at the mercy of the pig-killing girl, thought that she was a few years younger than Zhang Qingting, and her appearance was much better, Zhao Chengcai was because she wanted to be a polite gentleman, so she ignored herself after becoming a parent, but what if she really entered his house?

Yang Xiaotao thought, the roots of her ears were a little feverish, but she sneered in her heart, which man doesn't like to be young and beautiful? Just like that Zhao Chengdong, even she has heard that a widow is fascinated, isn't it just a little beautiful? But it's useless to just think so, the key is to move your parents to reconnect with the Zhao family.

The many unhappiness of family affairs forced Yang Xiaotao to mature quickly, and as she grew older, the gossip of her neighbors also made her really hold back a resentment in her heart. She has long had ambitions, and if she doesn't marry, she must marry the best way to slap those long-tongued women, so that they can all see that she is not an old girl who can't get married

"Mother" Yang Xiaotao has already decided, but there is no trace on her face, she is still so aggrieved, and she opened her mouth with red eyes, "Don't mention the matter between me and Brother Hu, but Brother Tiger is so promising now, it's not a matter for Dad to be so awkward with him, you can persuade him more, don't wipe out so many years of teacher-student relationship for the sake of a momentary anger, even if it's not for the sake of the side, you have to think about your younger brother."

I think the academy is really good, after all, with the support of the yamen, it is much stronger than ordinary private schools. No matter how good my father is, he can't teach the six arts alone. This is what I mean seriously, it is better to send my younger brother to the academy, with our friendship with Brother Tiger, we will treat each other with green eyes. This is not only to let my younger brother ask for a long time there, but also to recognize more husbands and the same year. Yucheng will be able to take the children's exam in less than two years, and he will also go to visit him then, but the good teachers on our side are all teaching in the academy. ”

Yang's heart was pounding when he heard it, his daughter was right, Zhalan Academy is now flourishing, and the children of ten miles and eight towns, as long as the family can free up their hands, there is no one who does not go there to study. My own son has been greedy for a long time, and every time I hear the neighbor's children talk about this and that in class, it is much better than Yang Xiucai who only knows how to teach some chapters, "It's just your father's ......"

"Mother, don't you know? Dad usually values Yucheng's fame the most, so you persuade him from this, if Yucheng has a big future in the future, what is it for us to be wronged now? Of course, I won't let my father personally send Yucheng to the academy, and if he wants to go, it will be our mother and son. This is the New Year, it is a good time for Brother Hu to send a gift, we should also go to Zhao's house to pay New Year's greetings, Aunt Zhao is usually good to us, as long as she puts down the words and lets her transfer it to Brother Hu, with his nature, he will come to our house. At that time, the master and apprentice met and drank two glasses of wine, what is there to say? ”

Yang Xiaotao remembered something again, "Mother, do you remember when the academy was opened, and my father and those husbands went to the yamen to talk about things?" Lord Lou said at the time that his father and they had suffered losses in order to run the academy. So now, my father took the lead in sending his children to the academy, mother, think about it, is this considered to support Brother Hu to run the academy? Can he not be grateful to the callers? While Brother Tiger has not yet been lifted, let's get closer to him first. In case one of them is at home, let's go again, and we will end up talking."

The more Yang listened, the more reasonable he felt, "It's still Tao'er, you are sensible, okay, when your father comes back tonight, I'll tell him about it."

Yang Xiaotao was proud in her heart, and there was still a layer of thought that she couldn't say, if her younger brother went to the academy to study, then she would be able to meet Zhao Chengcai every day, and when he saw his younger brother, would he think of this sister? She didn't believe it, just with their childhood sweethearts' feelings, they would not be as good as the pig killer Zhao Chengcai, who had been killed for a few days, you can marry her as your wife, but you must not have me in your heart, I will not marry you, and I will have to make you worry about it for a lifetime

Zhao Chengcai didn't see Yang Xiucai, so he went home early. Because the fifth female dependents could not go out to visit, and the needlework was taboo in the boudoir of the first month, Zhang Qingting was idle, so he got a deputy horse crane and was teaching his sisters to play at home. As soon as he entered the door, he heard laughter in the hall, and his mother was killing all sides there.

Zhao Chengcai stepped forward happily, "You too, knowing that she has only lost one game in the entire Zaranburg, and prefers to play with her, isn't that a clear gift of money to her?" ”

Zhang Xiaodie raised her face and replied, "Where, the eldest sister didn't come with us for money, and the bet was 10,000 yuan for work."

"Correct a little more" Zhang Qingting played the card and did not forget to clarify, "I deliberately lost that card, I really haven't met an opponent in Zaranburg, alas, since ancient times, heroes have been lonely, eight cylinders"

Everyone was so happy, Zhang Roche laughed on the side, "Son-in-law, this is a good bet, Fluttershy has already lost two days of washing dishes."

"Mother-in-law, why don't you play?"

"I'm so old, but I can't keep up with their young people, even your father-in-law still doesn't understand it after watching it for a long time, and he lost today's lunch and is cooking it in the kitchen."

Zhao Chengcai quipped, "Isn't this a generation of new people beating the old?" ”

Everyone laughed.