Chapter 7: The Lin Family
Shuanghe Town is an ordinary town, and the people living in Osmanthus Alley are also ordinary people.
Lin Junren, the head of the Lin family, originally came from other places, because of his dignified appearance and a child's fame, so he was recommended by his husband to come to Shuanghe Town, a few hundred miles away from home, and became a clerk in charge of clerical work.
Although he has been on an errand in the yamen for more than ten years, he has no serious official grade because his foundation is too shallow.
His wife, Fang, is handsome, and she is a local whose father came to settle here.
Since the couple got married, they rented two empty rooms in Osmanthus Alley, not far from the yamen.
Later, because the owner of the house moved his family to other provinces, seeing that it was not easy for him to be a young couple, he kindly sold this small courtyard and gave it to them. With the Lin family, which has an industry, it can be regarded as having a foothold here.
Now the Lin family has a son and a daughter, the eldest son Lin Peng, who is fifteen this year. The twelfth daughter is a beautiful girl.
This child is likable when he is young, not because he is good-looking, but because he has a really well-behaved personality. On weekdays, I never mess around with other children, either helping the family or doing needlework quietly.
There were more than one neighbors who were good to her, so when they knew that the child was swept away by the flood, many aunts and aunts shed tears.
Now that the Lin family wants to match this little daughter who doesn't know life and death with a yin relative, although many neighbors feel unreasonable, they are not incomprehensible.
Such an unmarried child who died before marriage was found, and he could not enter the ancestral grave, so he had to be a lonely ghost.
If you can match a yin parent, you can be regarded as a serious family. In the next life, there will be an incense offering.
So even if many people muttered in their hearts that this family affair was too hasty, thinking about the neighbors for many years, especially thinking about the benefits of the beautiful girl in the past, they still went back to the house and counted some money, planning to go to the Lin family to give a gift.
This is the case with the Lin family's neighbor, the Ye family.
She has a rough temperament, and she can't say a word with the Lin family husband and wife. Partial to her daughter Ye Rong, she is very good with the beautiful girl, and she has also learned to play with her.
Just looking at this affection, although the Ye family didn't like this matter of marrying a yin family, he still went back to the house and counted more than a dozen dollars, thinking about it, adding more than a dozen, and wrapped them up and planned to send them to the Lin family.
In front of the Lin family, the small welcoming team had already entered the house, because there was no bride's body, the Taoist priest was wielding a peachwood sword and shaking a bell to summon spirits.
Aunt Zhou, who lives in the west, stepped on the threshold of the Lin family and talked to people with spittle.
"Where can I find this one who fell into the flood?"
"That Master Liu of Mengjiazhuang has a big family, and he only chose to take a good daughter-in-law to his little brother who died early because he promised his father and mother, so he picked and chose to take a fancy to a beautiful girl."
"If you want to say that a family like ours, twenty taels of silver is enough to marry a daughter-in-law. But in order to end this family business, people have come out to sixty taels, sixty taels! It's such a good family affair, but it's hard to find it with a lantern! ”
Ye Shi frowned when he heard this.
Although she didn't read, she still understood her heart.
With such a high price, and looking for so many years, don't be the Liu family, what's the accident?
And Aunt Zhou Su Ri is a unprofitable person who can't afford to be early, and even if her own daughter is sick and gets back, she can be ruthlessly driven out, I'm afraid it's to coax the Lin family, right?
Thinking of this, the Ye clan hurriedly pulled Lin Fang's aside and whispered his worries.
But Lin Fang wiped his tears and said, "What's the way?" A flood has ruined the family's wealth. And Xianggong was also sick in the flood, and the doctor said that he had hurt his vitality and wanted to eat ginseng and those good things to make up for it. But how can people like us afford to eat? And Da Lang's body bones are not strong. If they have something, how can I live? ”
When others heard this, they were very sympathetic, but Ye was a little suspicious in his heart.
She is close to the Lin family, and the courtyard wall is not high, and she looked at the Lin family's father and son before, and ate two big bowls in one meal, which patient has such a good appetite?
In the past few days, the Lin family has been decocting medicine every day, and the fragrance of the medicine can be smelled from afar. So she didn't know what to say, she just took the money, and planned to give it to Lin Fang's and leave.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, he suddenly recklessly broke into a young man and almost knocked her down.
The Ye family was displeased, but the young man shouted excitedly, "Aunt Lin, don't cry!" Look, who's back? ”
Ye Shi raised his head suddenly, and almost fell to the ground in fright!
"Beauty, beautiful girl?"
Seeing that the little beautiful lady who had been missing for many days walked in unscathed. The onlookers were not surprised, but frightened!
This, could it be that the mage who was invited to do so was too high and summoned the Yin Spirit?
"You, you get out of here! Dao Chief, get her out of here! ”
Seeing Lin Fang's family, this mother-in-law was so frightened that her soul was not possessed, but the Ye family was bold.
Looking at the afterglow of the sunset, the figure of the little girl was clearly reflected, and she clapped her hands at the moment, and happily stepped forward to pull people, "Don't scare yourself, it's alive." Look, it's still hot! ”
The young man who sent the beautiful lady back, the Huang family who opened a restaurant in the town, touched his head and smiled, "It's obviously a living person, but you scared me, I..."
He just wanted to say that he had just met a beautiful girl on the street and came back in a good carriage, so he came to report the news. Suddenly, I saw the beautiful girl and her father, Lin Junren, who had been claiming to be "recuperating", with a cloth belt tied on his forehead, and rushed out of the backyard with a meteor.
It can be seen that his daughter who has come back from the dead, he is not half happy, but he first took a suspicious gaze, from his slim and new-dressed daughter, to the Huang family man who was full of joy and wanted to speak.
Then his face was full of anger, he gritted his teeth, and slapped the beauty with a heavy face.
"Little beast! Why don't you die out there and come back? ”
He is narrow-minded, and he is not thinking about it at the moment, his daughter has not returned for dozens of days, and he has to be taken care of by the Huang family like this, but he is afraid that he will not be innocent for a long time.
What use do you need from such a girl?
This slap stunned everyone.
Or the chivalrous Ye family, standing in front of the beautiful girl, said angrily, "What are you doing?" The child finally came back, what did you do with her? ”
"This is our family's business, you don't care!" Lin Junren decided in his heart that his daughter had already lost her virginity. Rather than marrying the Huang family, who can't give a few dowries, it is better to still give it to the Liu family.
So while others didn't speak, he quickly said to the Liu family, "The horizontal and vertical Geng posts have been changed, and this family matter is completed." Now that my daughter has returned, take her. ”
The neighbors gasped in unison.
I've seen a cold one, but I've never seen such a cool one.
The daughter escaped death before she entered the house, and she was going to marry her without asking a word?
Or marry a little daughter like a flower to a dead ghost as a wife. This, what kind of dad is this!
At this time, the beautiful girl finally moved.