Chapter III: Dowry
It's just that as soon as he walked to the door of the Zhu family's courtyard, he didn't want to bump into Xue Lin coming out of it, Mo Li stood and looked at her with an expressionless face.
Xue Lin quietly withdrew from it, she always habitually wanted to inquire about all the big and small things of the Mo family, but she didn't want to run into Mo Li at the gate of the courtyard at this time. Xue Lin was stunned, and then took two steps forward and said with a worried face: "My cousin's body is very good, I just want to go over to see you." ”
Mo Li looked at her quietly, her eyes were heavy, Xue Lin suddenly met such a look, she was a little stunned for a while, and her heart was faintly empty.
After a long time, Mo Li asked: "I heard that Grandma Lin is here, will this still be in the wife's house?" "Grandma Lin is Yang Ming's aunt.
"...... here" Xue Lin nodded hesitantly, and was about to open her mouth, but it happened that a plump woman, about twenty-eight or nine, walked out of it, it was the widowed Grandma Lin.
Grandma Lin didn't think about it as soon as she came out, she looked at Mo Li standing here in a good manner, she was stunned for a moment, and then snorted in her heart, that sick ghost really has a heart, so she hurriedly asked someone to let her daughter come over, but unfortunately everything she said now is false. Grandma Lin smiled at Mo Li as she thought about it, and at the same time glanced at Mo Li up and down.
I saw that the girl had a long figure, a willow waist, a goose egg face, and all her facial features were not bad, but the nose was slightly higher, and the lines on her face were much deeper than those of ordinary women.
Even the discerning Grandma Lin couldn't help but sigh in her heart, when she was a child, she saw that this girl must be a beauty embryo when she grows up, and she is really getting better and better year by year. It's just a pity that the wrong baby was cast, no matter how beautiful this face is, it is useless, but it also blocks the way of others.
"The eldest niece is already in good health? I've heard that I've been lying down for days. After Grandma Lin finished looking, she said lukewarmly.
"You're here." Mo Li bowed to her, "It's all right, thank you Grandma Lin for your concern." ”
Grandma Lin smiled: "It's okay, it's just that I'm still a lot thinner, so I have to raise it quickly, so that the matchmaker can't find anything wrong when he comes to the door." ”
Hongdou on the side was so shocked by these words that he opened his mouth, wondering if he had heard it wrong, while Xue Lin on the other side had a flash in his eyes, and then bit his lip slightly, still silent.
Mo Li smiled faintly: "Grandma Lin said that she laughed, one daughter is not allowed to have two families, I have a marriage contract with the son of the Yang family, how can there be a matchmaker to come to the door." ”
"Well, it's going to be soon." Grandma Lin raised the corners of her mouth, and deliberately smiled mysteriously, "Okay, I won't talk to you more, I still have something at home, I'll come back another day to take a good look at you, no need to send it, let's go in." ”
After watching Grandma Lin walk away, Hongdou came back to her senses, and opened her mouth in disbelief: "Girl, she, what did she mean by what she said just now!" ”
"Cousin." Xue Lin also opened her mouth angrily, "I just heard it outside, the Yang family seems to want to quit their family." ”
"What!" Hongdou's eyes widened in shock, but Mo Li said calmly, "I'll go in and see my mother." As she spoke, she glanced at Xue Lin again, paused, her eyelashes drooped down, blocking the look in her eyes, and then silently walked into the Zhu family's courtyard. Hongdou was busy following behind, and Xue Lin stood there frowning a little puzzled, for some reason, he always felt that his cousin looked a little different. I just heard the news, and I didn't react at all, could it be that my brain was burned?
Zhu's room has been filled with a smell of medicine for many years, Mo Li is the first time she walked into this place after waking up, and the smell that was so far away in her memory suddenly rushed to her face, she stood up suddenly, tears in her eyes. In the eyes of others, she just didn't come to the Zhu family for three or four days, but in Mo Li's heart, it was a full seven years. Zhu left in the third year after she got married, and she never thought that she would be able to see her mother again and smell this smell!
In the previous three days, Zhu also went to her room to guard her, but she was groggy all the time, and she couldn't tell whether she was alive or in the underworld......
"Girl." Hongdou called Mo Li a little worriedly, and comforted him in a low voice, "Don't be sad first, girl, what the cousin said may be true or false." ”
Mo Li was pulled back to his senses, lowered his eyes and restrained his excited thoughts, and then said softly: "It's okay, you wait outside first." ”
As soon as the words fell, Hongyu, the maid beside the Zhu family, came out to take a look when she heard the sound, looked at Mo Li, and said, "Why did the eldest girl come over now, isn't her body still good!" ”
"It's all right." Mo Li took a deep breath, then stepped over the red jade, lifted the curtain and entered the back room.
"Girl, this is ......" Hongyu saw that Mo Li's face was wrong, so she looked at Hongdou. Hongdou pulled her aside and asked in a low voice: "The girl and I just met Grandma Lin outside, I heard, I heard that the Yang family is going to quit the family, is it true!?" ”
Hongyu was stunned, hurriedly glanced inside, and then pulled the red bean out the door.
When Mo Li entered, Zhu happened to get up from the couch, and after she was slightly stunned, she hurriedly walked over to support Zhu and said, "What does my mother want?" I'll get it for you. ”
"Why are you here, after hearing that you can get out of bed in the morning, I was about to see you, I don't want Grandma Lin to come." Zhu Shi took her hand and let her sit beside her, looked at her carefully, and touched her forehead before continuing, "It's really a bodhisattva blessing, it's okay, it's okay, it's good, but it's bad to make my mother worry!" ”
Mo Li looked at her mother who had been absent for many years in a daze, thinking of her ignorance when she was young, the sad thoughts after her mother's death, and the resentment and unwillingness before her death.
"What's the matter, what's uncomfortable!?" Zhu Shi was startled, and hurriedly raised his hand to wipe her tears, but he immediately came to his senses, and was stunned for a while before he whispered, "Did you meet Grandma Lin when you just came over?" ”
Reluctantly restraining her thoughts, and after taking out a handkerchief to wipe away her tears, she exhaled slightly before nodding and saying, "Well, my daughter has heard about it." ”
Zhu patted her hand soothingly: "Don't worry, she just came over and mentioned it casually, and her mother didn't promise her, so she just did it, and besides, how can such a thing be said to be retreated." ”
Mo Li looked at Zhu's deeply locked brows and reddish eyes, and felt a pain in his heart, so he raised his hand to cover Zhu's skinny hand and said: "Mother doesn't need to lie to me, it's not a matter of one or two days that the Yang family thinks that our family is not in the right place with them, and since I can bring it up openly today, it won't be a joke." Mo Li said, paused, thought about it for a while, and continued before the Zhu family spoke, "Did the Yang family propose to let my mother give our mulberry garden to his family as a dowry, so that this family affair will continue as usual?" ”
Zhu was stunned: "Then the Yang family even told you this!" ”
Mo Li gritted her teeth, if this was the case, it was not the Yang family who took a fancy to that mulberry garden, but her own family, or Han Sidao herself. The Yang family was like this back then, at first the lion opened her mouth to ask for a dowry, and then secretly made a lot of trouble that damaged her reputation. In the end, the family affair was still yellow, and then his father had an accident, and the clan took the opportunity to get involved, and then Han Sidao officially stood up, and after several twists and turns, the mulberry garden was completely in his hands, and this was just the first step for him to please the third uncle and climb up.
Zhu was silent for a while before slowly speaking: "When your grandfather left these things back then, he had to sign and press his handprint in the family rules set by the third uncle. Mo Li, your father is old now, and your mother's health is not good, and Aunt Xue has not heard from her since she gave birth the year before last. Now that some people in the clan are starting to get hot eyes, I discussed with your father a few days ago that it is better to plan as soon as possible. Now those people still don't dare to open their mouths openly, first, your father is still there, and second, we are married to the Yang family, so your father and I mean to set aside sixty percent of the mulberry garden for you as a dowry. If Aunt Xue can give you a younger brother in the future, the rest, including the shop outside our house, will be left to your brother, if not, then give this shop to Mo Xue. And the remaining forty percent of the mulberry garden, if the clan wants to take it, let them go, if they don't take advantage of it, they will not stop. So although the Yang family is a bit of a bully, it also coincides with us, and it is also something for you anyway, so you don't need to worry about it so much. ”