Chapter 254: Marriage is difficult

Shi'er's face flushed slightly. muttered, "Isn't that him?" Who knew he was crazy? Suddenly, someone from our family came to me and said that they wanted to propose marriage to me, and my fifth aunt ran to say it. ”

Chun Ying stared at her a few times and raised her eyebrows: "Oh? I also seem to be a little moved by the tone of your voice? ”

Shi'er's face turned even redder, and he spat her in shame: "What nonsense?!" I've just met him once, and I'm moving?! If I really want to, I'll just say yes! ”

Chunying smiled: "But if you don't mean that, just refuse directly, and you still want to meet?" ”

Shi'er bit her lip, walked to the kang and sat down a little lonely, and said with a wry smile: "I'm also uneasy, I just met, can I say a few words?" He suddenly came to propose, did he make up his mind? Originally...... I think he's pretty good, but when I think about it, I think something is wrong. I heard from the fifth aunt that he is now the shopkeeper of the silk shop, and he has a bright future, but you and I know that he made such a big fuss last time. Although it was not him who came forward, there are many people, who knows if there is a leak? Maybe he has been targeted by the master's family for a long time! Now he seems to be proud, but in fact he is all false, your father has been the shopkeeper for a few years, doesn't it mean that the revolution is revolutionary?! Besides, this time he offended his wife, how could the third young master not be annoyed? In the future, when the third young master inherits the family business, will he still have a way to live? Our Wang family is now regarded as the third young master's person, who knows if he intends to marry our family, so as to make up for it, and at worst, he can also earn a lot of relatives. ”

Chunying frowned and slowly sat down on the side of the kang: "You think so...... It also makes sense...... It's just that you asked him to meet, did you intend to ask him face to face? Can he tell the truth? ”

"Even if he lies, I can tell a little bit from his face." Shi'er smiled faintly, "I've grown so big, and I've experienced a lot of things, no matter how clever and sleek he is, he is only two or three years older than me, and it's not so easy to deceive people in front of me!" ”

Chunying chuckled in her heart, lowered her head and ate tea slowly, but she was hesitating in her heart: it doesn't seem to be very kind to use Shi'er's mouth to pass the word, anyway, there is a fifth aunt from the capital in the hall outside, it is better to find her, but the matter is probably still to be told to Shi'er. So Chunying said slowly: "Today...... The third young master called me to go. Told me something. Hou Ye plans to marry Miss Huijun in the sixth room to Brother Xiaofei, so the third young master wants me to be a dowry girl, saying that he will ...... Brother Xiaofei took me as a concubine, so he asked me to help the Hou Mansion say good things. ”

Shi'er was stunned: "?!" Hou Ye is confused?! You and Mr. Hu are about to talk about getting married, why are you making trouble with a young lady again?! Do you want to change from a wife to a concubine?! The more she thought about it, the more wrong it became: "It doesn't make sense!" If the sixth wife takes a fancy to Hu Gongzi and wants to marry this family, it is okay, his family has no man to support the door, and it is not surprising that he wants to find a capable son-in-law, but it is strange that Hou Ye personally intervenes in this kind of thing! This is not a decent family matter, can he do it?! The third young master also came to tell you about this in person?! She sneered: "It's not that I said, the third young master is getting more and more out of tune now!" ”

"Isn't it?" Chun Ying smiled bitterly, "The third young master also said that this marriage is nine out of ten, and if I refuse, he will get angry, saying that I don't know what to do, and that if I don't listen to him, he has a way to torment our family!" I'm dying of rage! ”

Shi'er hurriedly asked, "What did Hu Gongzi say?" I just heard that he's here again today. He wouldn't say yes, would he? No mistakes, no less words! ”

"How could he say yes? also had a big temper tantrum. Chunying raised her eyes to look at Shi'er, "You know it too." He can't compare to us, he was also born in a rich family since he was a child, and he has always had a bit of a bullish temper. If the third young master is really pressed, he would rather die and break the net than be coerced. He may not be here recently, and my family is sad...... I don't know what to do......"

Shi'er opened his mouth, sighed, and comforted: "I see that he is not a ruthless person, you have all been fine for so long, he will come back when he is angry." It's just that the third young master is really too much, although we don't wait for him anymore, he is still an old servant, doesn't he miss the old feelings at all?! ”

"Why doesn't the third young master miss the old love?!" Aunt Wang lifted the curtain and walked in, "He's good at our family, you don't have to say a word, your fifth aunt is still outside!" Your second aunt is talking to her, so how can they hear? ”

Shi'er pouted: "She won't sue!" If she speaks ill of me, will she have a light on her face? ”

Aunt Wang glared at her, and then smiled at Chunying: "Good boy, I'm telling you a joke, Shi'er is making trouble today!" Her sister Jiu'er is about to return to Beijing, because Jiu'er has promised her fifth aunt's maiden nephew since she was a child, and the children of the two families are not young, and his family plans to ask for the grace of the master as soon as the people come back, and do happy events for the children. Shi'er was not happy because of this. ”

Shi'er sneered: "That Hei Xiaoji is not a good thing, the Chengri family is hanging out and refuses to work." still eats wine and gambles, my sister married him, is there still hope in this life?! Didn't you say last year that he was lazy and planned to get out of the marriage? If it weren't for the fifth aunt desperately stopping it, there would have been no such incident at this time, and now I see that my uncle has become the big housekeeper, and I am in a hurry again? ! ”

"How do you speak?!" Aunt Wang was uncomfortable when she heard this, and glanced at Chunying with some embarrassment, Chunying only pretended to bury her head in eating melon seeds, as if she didn't hear it at all, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and scolded her daughter again: "Where is your little brother Ji so bad?!" It's just that because he can't get the master's appreciation and doesn't find a good errand, he will wander around. He has now got a serious errand, in charge of the purchase of clothes for the servants and the second and third class servants in the house, with a little savings on hand, and he is nearly twenty years old, and he has been in the south for so many years for the second room, delaying the marriage, and not seeing him entangled with other women, when we are in the capital, he often comes to ask about your sister, which shows that he is a heart. I prefer you to talk so much! ”

Shi'er sneered. I also grabbed a handful of melon seeds and swallowed them. Chunying was beside her, but she paid attention to one thing mentioned in their words: "Didn't Sister Jiu'er hear that she was waiting in front of the fourth lady in the second room?" Could it be that the second master's family is coming back? I thought it would be at least next fall. ”

Aunt Wang smiled: "Originally, this was the case, but the north has not been peaceful recently, and it is said that the army of the Qing Kingdom has moved a little, and I can't say clearly." The second master was a civil official in the border city for many years, and people said that he had a high prestige there, and governed the place in peace and stability, and the emperor specially transferred him to a rich place in the south of the Yangtze River in order to reward him. Now that the border city is in chaos again, the emperor has no choice but to transfer the second master back to the north, and he will be in office in a few months, so it doesn't matter. ”

Chunying blinked. Xindao This second master should be wary of the emperor, right? There are many words that have served as officials in the frontier for a longer time, which is not counted, but it is very problematic if the prestige is too high, plus he was born in the Hou Mansion, so he must be able to say a few words in the army. She remembered that the second master was in office, and this kind of frontier guard, isn't it common sense to keep his family members in Beijing as hostages?

Now this emperor, just from the analysis of what she heard from others, should be a very suspicious person, like the Qingguo Marquis Mansion, who is a family of generations of lords, and a national relative, and he is still bent on following him, and he does not hesitate to tear his face with the Liang Taishi faction, but when Liang Taishi's power is suppressed and has not been completely eradicated, he has already begun to beware of the Hou Mansion. How could such an emperor be assured that a minister would be stationed in the frontier region for a long time and enjoy a good reputation?

After thinking about it, Chun Ying asked Aunt Wang tentatively: "Since the second master is going to be transferred back to the northern border city, then the ladies and ladies should also follow, right?" There are a lot of mistakes, how can Sister Jiu'er get married? Is there too much time? ”

Aunt Wang smiled: "How can it be too late? The second master went directly to the north, and the second old lady, the second lady and the young master and the young lady all went back to Beijing to live, and when the second master sent a letter back to Beijing a few days ago, he had already instructed Mr. Xu to clean the house. I think that the fourth young master is not young, and it is time to go to school, and the fourth young lady will be twelve next year, so she should learn to be a director, and then look at the right person, and it will be convenient to go back to Beijing. I heard her fifth aunt say that the Hou Ye plans to wait for the second master's errand in the border city to be completed, so he begged the emperor to let the second master stay in the capital as an official! ”

It seems that this second master has already come to his senses, it shouldn't be too late, if he makes a meritorious service this time, he will have face in front of the emperor in the future. Chun Ying suddenly thought that in the past, the people of the Hou Mansion relied on their titles and said nothing in the clan, and everyone else had to look at their faces. Now that there is a second big man in the clan, or an official with real power and fame, I wonder what the Hou Ye and the Third Young Master will feel?

Chunying secretly sneered, but after thinking about it, she felt that although her original plan for leaving the country was good, there were always accidents in the world, so it was better to prepare a second plan just in case.

The family of the second master of the East Mansion is the owner of this grange, and their slaves are not under the control of the Hou Mansion. Can you find a way to let your family change jobs to Dongfu? Anyway, now her whole family lives in the second-room Zhuangzi, and there is no errand on her, so it's not impossible, right? No mistakes in many words

Thinking of this, she asked Aunt Wang with a smile: "Auntie, when the second master's family comes back, there should be more people, right?" There are many words without mistakes, and their family is an official in a foreign country, so it is not as convenient as at home, and the number of people called must not be as many as at home. If Sister Nine comes back and says that they need manpower, why don't you send a letter to our family, maybe my father can try his luck, it's better than doing nothing now. ”

Aunt Wang smiled: "Both horizontal and vertical are in this village, can you do it?" But you're not idle, doesn't your dad still have that errand? After a pause, he suddenly looked at his daughter, "Remind me!" The master of Dongfu is back, and the two of them are much more stiff when they speak, Mu Chen is their own grandson, and our relationship with Dongfu will be closer in the future. That's a great thing! You girl, you shouldn't have said that you want to meet first, in case you annoy people when you meet, won't this good family affair be blown up?! ”

Shi'er sneered: "I said, you really have such an idea!" He didn't inquire about it, so he instigated me to nod. No way! ”

Aunt Wang stomped her feet and said, "Could it be that my mother will harm you?!" Your fifth aunt also said that he saw you when he came that time, and thought that you spoke well, but your mind was careful, and you were a good girl, so he came to propose marriage. Why do you always think of people as bad as this?! ”

Shi'er pouted: "Chun'er was also there at that time, why did he just take a fancy to me?!" ”

Chun Ying hurriedly said: "He is familiar with my father, and he has met me a long time ago, so he doesn't think he has that thought." ”

Aunt Wang also said: "Chun'er said so, you are still grinding?!" Even if we have the mind to cling, he also has the mind to use, so what? As long as you have a good life in the future! After that, he sighed again, "You also know the situation of our family...... Mu Chen was not afraid that the third young master would be annoyed with him, because he still had the back road of Manager Xu. Our family...... Now besides the third young master, who else can he rely on? It's always good to have multiple ways, if you marry into the Mu family, you don't have to worry about the future, it's better than being indiscriminately assigned by the stewards, even if the third young master is willing to think about you and find a good place for you, you may not like it! ”

When this came to Chunying's heart, she also persuaded: "Shi'er, you think about it, don't give the third young master a chance to get an idea, otherwise it will ......" She took out a handkerchief and covered her face, "Like me, it's too miserable......"

Aunt Wang was taken aback: "Okay, what's wrong?" Shi'er knew the truth and hurriedly persuaded her: "Things will always take a turn for the better, don't be sad." He complained about the third young master again: "It's all his nosy!" ”

Chunying shook her head, secretly pinched her thigh with her left hand, tears immediately flashed in her eyes, and she said: "I seem to be a little dizzy, maybe I just suffered from the wind, I will leave first, and I will come to see my aunt tomorrow." After saying that, he bowed his head and lifted the curtain to go out, walked through the hall, met the two daughters-in-law of the Wang family, and deliberately pinched his thighs, and said goodbye to them with tears in his eyes, and then rushed all the way home.

With Aunt Wang's gossip temperament, she must definitely inquire about her tears, and Shi'er, who is unhappy for herself, may also complain a few words in front of that Fifth Aunt Wang, and the news will soon be transmitted back to the capital, right? No mistakes in many words

Just when she hid on the kang in her room and covered her head and slept soundly, deliberately only drank gruel water every day, and applied unscented rice noodles to her face, pretending to be a haggard and white patient, weak hands and feet, and weak speech, and a Mongolian doctor came to diagnose the fifth day, everyone in the village already knew that she was seriously ill and was about to die. At this time, the third young master finally sent someone.

(I found that I miscalculated the Yajun preface in the second room, she should actually be the fourth lady...... ）