P.6: "Because we have exposed each other's shortcomings." She stabbed a needle in the mandarin duck's eyes: "The third girl said that I was in a hurry to get married, but I was not wrong." He was thirteen years old when we got married, I was only five years old, and he was a full eight years older than me. Now I am sixteen years old, he is twenty-four, and my father and mother want me to stay at home for another half a year, and then let me marry in the fall. I also want to stay longer, but his family can't wait, and his family asks people to say that if they don't marry again, they must first take a concubine for him to inherit the lineage. Father and mother both said that if you take a concubine, you will take a concubine, which person with a head and face will not accept a concubine? But I don't want to ......" Xuanliu's beautiful eyes were full of tears, and his usual spirit flew and disappeared.

"What man with a head and face doesn't take a concubine?" This sentence made Xia Ruixi's heart feel like a boulder, making her breathless. Xuanliu grabbed the scissors and went to disassemble the embroidery thread: "Look, my mind is messed up, and the embroidered patterns are also messy." Her hands trembled, and she clumsily held the scissors and didn't know where to start.

Xia Ruixi couldn't stand it, and pressed her hand: "Let's tear it down later?" What a pity if it is not cut? ”

Xuanliu stubbornly broke her hand, "I can do it." Whenever I'm in a bad mood, I come here and sit and embroider it, no matter how annoying my heart is, and I never miss a stitch. But now there are always mistakes, and I don't know what the problem is? As soon as she cut it, the embroidery thread was cut and the quilt surface was cut into a small opening.

"Yikes!" Xianglian exclaimed, hurriedly took the scissors in Xuan Liu's hand, looked at the quilt in a panic, trembled her lips, and couldn't speak. The embroidery work done by the ladies is extremely fine, but the efficiency is extremely low, such a semi-finished product, to say the least, it took six or four months of hard work. Spending more effort is secondary, and the key is unlucky.

Xia Ruixi hurriedly said: "Don't get in the way, just split and weave with the same color silk thread and embroider the flowers here, you can't see it." ”

Xuanliu stood up lazily: "Yes, what are you afraid of?" Anyway, it's not the first time he's spent candles in a cave. "The look of not caring is the same as just now. Seeing Xia Ruixi's puzzled look, she said lightly: "Do you know? Our side has already set the wedding date, and he still took the girl in his room first, maybe I will be a mother just after I passed. ”

In the past, I was upset but didn't make a mistake because my heart was full of hope for this family business, but now I always embroider wrong because my heart is full of despair. Xia Ruixi held Xuan Liu's hand sympathetically, wanting to comfort her, but found that her vocabulary was so poor that she couldn't say anything.

"Do you want to take a nap?" Xuan Liu drove the girls out, pulled Xia Ruixi to lie side by side on the bed, and whispered: "When I was a child, whenever I saw my mother crying silently, I felt very uncomfortable, and I vowed to be a person like my aunt, no matter whether I gave birth to a son or not, my husband was also like my uncle, who did not accept concubines, held me in the palm of his hand, and cared for me like a jewel." ”

"When I was eight years old, he was already a sixteen-year-old boy. He came with his parents to visit my father at my house, and I got rid of the nagging and stalking of my wet nurse and met him in the little pavilion in the Hanlian Garden. The scent of lotus flowers filled the air, and he called one after another, and he sat there reading a book in an elegant and delicate duck egg green robe. At the time, I didn't know he was him, and I asked him who he was and how he came to my house to study. He looked at me gently, smiled, and read poems to me. He was so good-looking, so gentle, I quickly liked him, until the nurse caught up and pulled me away, and he still stood there looking at me and smiled. ”

Xuan Liu buried his head in the pillow: "Heh, I didn't know that it was him later." After all these years, he has always been like that in my heart. Now I realize that he is actually no different from other men, and that the blessing of his aunt is not something that anyone can have. ”

Xia Ruixi said: "You just said that you and Beibei expose each other's shortcomings? When I came here just now, I saw her sitting under the porch in a daze, and she didn't go into the house to make a fire in such a cold weather. Her ......? As a woman, Xia Ruixi also has a gossip side, and she is very interested in what kind of person Xia Ruibei's fiancé is.

Xuan Liu sighed: "I feel uncomfortable, so I don't want her to feel good." She hadn't heard of any concubines or anything like that, but she was a sick ghost. The fifth brother once met him, and he didn't look very well, his face was very white, and his body was very thin. Uncle and aunt may have really looked away this time. ”

Only then did Xia Ruixi understand why Xia Ruibei was so out of shape. As a national hand of medicine, Master Xia actually chose a sick ghost as his son-in-law? There must be something in this that the Xia family doesn't know. Xia Ruixi pondered whether she should tell Mrs. Xia about the situation, she had enough reason to believe that if Xia Ruibei did not marry well, the Xia family would have a bad life. But even if Mrs. Xia and Master Xia knew, was there a way? Can I regret my marriage? This is a key question.

Xuan Liu said faintly: "Just half a day ago, I was still envious of you. ”

"Envy me?" Xia Ruixi smiled dumbly, "What do I have to envy?" Others don't give me face thoroughly, and you want to come to this set? "The difficulty of the second lady of the Xia family to marry has long been an open secret in Xijing City.

Xuan Liu grabbed her shoulder and said solemnly, "Hee-hee, I'm not joking with you. Let me ask you a question, if someone is willing to marry you, he will be good to you for the rest of his life, and he will not take a concubine no matter what, are you willing? ”

Xia Ruixi had already guessed who it was in her heart, but she didn't want to marry this person. He smiled dryly: "You're also here to make fun of me?" This is the order of my parents, the words of the matchmaker, where is the place for me to speak? ”

Xuan Liu looked at her fixedly for a while, and said disappointedly: "I don't believe you don't understand what I mean, it seems that you are unwilling?" What's wrong with my fifth brother? Why didn't my aunt agree, and you didn't look down on him? ”

Hearing that Mrs. Xia rejected Xuanfu's proposal, Xia Ruixi was secretly happy, but on the surface she was very confused: "What does this have to do with the fifth brother?" ”

Xuanliu sighed: "Xixi, when did you have so many eyes?" And I also pretended to be confused. In the past, we didn't talk about anything. Do you remember last spring, in this bed, you and I were lying like this, you said that you must marry the person you like in the future, I really envied you at that time, so free, you can ride a horse all over the street, unlike me, locked up at home all day. Her face suddenly bloomed with eager longing: "Xixi, the person I just talked about is the fifth brother." I know him best, he can do what he says, and he will be good to you. You will be my fifth sister-in-law, right? ”

Xuan Liu has already said it so clearly, Xia Ruixi will be too hypocritical and hypocritical if he continues to pretend. She smiled bitterly: "I can't, Sixth Sister." ”

"Why?" Xuan Liu's eyes widened, "You also got along well with Fifth Brother when you were a child, didn't you?" Don't be afraid that he will bully you, my father and mother will definitely make decisions for you. Could it be that you would rather marry someone you have never met than marry the fifth brother? Our two families have the same family background, they know each other, they are close to each other, you ......" She still hasn't said a word, that is, would Xia Ruixi rather not marry than marry Xuan Wu?

Xia Ruixi sighed lightly: "I'm not the daughter-in-law in my uncle's mind. Just be his niece, if you really enter your door...... I don't say you understand. "She has learned to speak now, half hiding half and half hiding, and she no longer dares to go straight. Uncle Xuan didn't like her, she could see and feel it early on. If she really married Xuan Wu, let's not talk about the next generation after her cousins got married, even Uncle Xuan's daily pickiness about her would not allow her to live a comfortable life, and she didn't have the heart to perfunctory Xuan Wu's concubines.

Uncle Xuan has always been quite strict with Xia Ruixi, and Xuan Liu also knows it. She also thought that Xia Ruixi was afraid of Uncle Xuan so she refused to marry Xuan Wu, so she comforted: "Don't be afraid of my father, he is actually very good." ”

Xia Ruixi sneered: "Because he is your father, of course you think he is good." But he said: "Yes, my uncle is a very good person, but my character is not suitable for your family, and my mother is probably afraid that I will lose her face, so she will not agree." ”

Her words made Xuan Liu see hope, and Xuan Liu's eyes lit up: "As long as you go and tell your aunt, she will definitely change her mind." ”

Xia Ruixi was taken aback, no! That's fine, she doesn't want Mrs. Xia to change her mind at all. Looking at Xuan Liu's expectant eyes, as well as the Xuan Wu behind her who was bent on pleasing herself, Xia Ruixi had a headache thinking about what kind of high-sounding reason she was looking for, not only not to hurt others, but also to completely dispel Xuan Wu's thoughts, so as to reject this family business.

After thinking about it, Xia Ruixi never found this reason, so he had to push everything on Mrs. Xia. She took a deep breath and began to play the role of an extremely filial child: "My mother's temper, you know very well, once she decides something, she will not change her mind, even my father can't say anything about her." And I don't want to upset her. You know, the last time I fell off my horse, it made her very sad. ”

Xuan Liu was silent for a while, and shook his head sadly: "You have changed so much now. But what about the fifth brother? He begged my father and mother for so long, but now my aunt ......" She began to describe Xuan Wu's true feelings for Xia Ruixi, those actions that seemed to Xuan Liu to be extremely affectionate were some normal actions that adolescent men and women would do in Xia Ruixi's eyes, and Xia Ruixi was drowsy when she heard it.