Chapter 33: Rejection
Zhang Yuqing's heart was turbulent, and she said incoherently: "This, this, this is too sudden......"
"You are a little girl, it is said that this marriage event should not be mentioned to you, but your parents are not there, and your grandmother doesn't care about you, so she can only tell you directly!" Mrs. Luo smiled, patted Zhang Yuqing's hand, and the more she looked at this girl, the more she liked it, "I'm not a princess selling melons, selling and boasting, your cousin is a little stupid, but he can be down-to-earth and kind, and he has a good temper!" Now that you are already a person, you will study for a few more years, and when you pass the Jinshi examination and are awarded the official, you will be a serious official wife! ”
Zhang Yuqing was silent and said in a low voice: "Cousin, I am just an orphan girl whose parents have died, and I am not worthy of my cousin." ”
"You're a good girl, that's enough!" Mrs. Luo patted Zhang Yuqing's shoulder distressedly.
The thing came too suddenly, and Zhang Yuqing didn't know how to answer for a while.
"We have already written a letter to your cousin-in-law, and when I receive your cousin-in-law's letter, I will be able to ask someone to go to Zhang's house to propose marriage. Let me tell you first, so that you have a bottom in your heart, I am afraid that you will be afraid that Mrs. Zhang will let you go to others at will, and you will be afraid day and night. Mrs. Luo said softly.
Zhang Yuqing's eyes flashed, and tears wet the black crow's eyelashes, and it was really difficult to suppress the gratitude in her heart.
In order to solve the problem of her belonging, Mrs. Luo has dedicated her own son!
"Auntie, there is no way to ......repay the great kindness," Zhang Yuqing choked up.
Mrs. Luo took out a handkerchief and wiped Zhang Yuqing's tears, "Buddhism is pure, you can't cry." Your cousin is very willing......"
"No, no!" Zhang Yuqing took a deep breath, calmed down, and shook her head, "Cousin, thank you and my cousin for your love, I, I'm really not worthy of my cousin, a good person like my cousin, deserves a better wife." ”
Her identity is a thunderbolt, if someone finds out one day, she was beheaded by the imperial court, but she was raised by a wanted criminal who escaped, which is tantamount to a catastrophe for the Luo family.
If you want to pit the Zhang family, she has no psychological burden to pit it, but her cousin's family is a good person, and she can't pit the Luo family.
"You don't like Cousin Danyan?" Mrs. Luo asked.
Zhang Yuqing hurriedly shook his head and said sincerely: "My cousin is good-looking, talented, gentle and motivated, he is an excellent candidate for a husband, but I ...... it."
Mrs. Luo covered her mouth and laughed, she said, her son is so good, there is no reason why the little girl doesn't like it!
"Don't think about what you don't have!" Mrs. Luo only thought that Zhang Yuqing's background was not good, so she felt inferior, "As long as your uncle's letter arrives, I will ask someone to go to Zhang's house to propose marriage!" ”
Mrs. Luo patted Zhang Yuqing's hand and said, "There is no reason for the Zhang family not to agree to propose, and when the time comes, I will be able to help you get your mother's dowry back in the name of your mother-in-law and put it in your hands!" ”
Wu County is rich, the Luo family has taken root in Wu County for many years, Luo Shijun is in charge of the salt tax, although the Zhuangzi in the suburbs of Beijing is valuable, but for Mrs. Luo, it is not a necessary thing, but it is not necessary to steam steamed buns, it is just that it should be given to Zhang Yuqing, and it can't be cheapened by the Zhang family!
When Zhang Yuqing heard this, he seemed to have cleared the dark clouds to reveal tomorrow, and suddenly became enlightened, and the problem that had plagued him for a few days was solved in this way.
She is the daughter of the Zhang family, if she goes to Mrs. Zhang to ask for Zhuangzi now, Mrs. Zhang has a way to push back and block, and even if she doesn't give it, the old lady won't help her, even if she tears her face, she can't get Zhuangzi, after all, she is soft-spoken.
Wealth touches people's hearts, people die for money, and birds die for food.
But if she asks for her mother's dowry as someone else's daughter-in-law, what reason does the Zhang family have not to give it? If the Zhang family doesn't give it, the Luo family will never give up.
In the end, the Zhang family's face was lost, and no matter how resentful Mrs. Zhang was, she could only return Zhuangzi to her.
With the money, she can go to Qingzhou......
If she marries Luo Danyang, she will have to go to Wu County. The Luo family is unguarded against her, and she can leave secretly halfway.
In this way, it will not affect the Luo family, and you can leave the capital.
Mrs. Luo saw that she was silent, and smiled in her ear: "Good boy, you can wait with peace of mind." ”
At this moment, Zhang Yuqing saw Mrs. Zhang and Zhang Yuying coming late from a distance.
"Auntie, I'm over." Zhang Yuqing said.
Mrs. Luo smiled and nodded, and left first.
Seeing that Zhang Yuqing and Zhang Yushu were waiting near the main hall with interest, not running around, Mrs. Zhang's face looked a little better, and she ordered everyone to go home.
When he arrived at the gate of the temple and got on the ox cart, Zhang Yuqing saw the ox cart of Luofu parked in the distance.
Rodin Yang stood tall and wore a moon-white brocade robe, and was lifting the curtain of the ox cart to help his mother and sister into the car.
Probably sensing that someone was looking at him, Luo Danyang turned his head and met Zhang Yuqing's gaze.
After seeing clearly that it was Zhang Yuqing, Luo Danyang's eyes lit up, and a big smile of surprise bloomed on his gentle and handsome face.
Zhang Yuqing reluctantly smiled at him, and quickly lowered his head and got into the ox cart.
"Who is that son?" Zhang Yushu lifted the curtain of the car and secretly looked at Luo Danyang, and asked with squeezing his eyebrows.
Zhang Yuqing removed the silver earrings from her ears, put them on the handkerchief, and gave them back to Zhang Yushu, explaining: "It's a relative from my mother's side." ”
After returning to Zhang's house, Zhang Yuqing told Wang Chunniang that Mrs. Luo wanted to hire her as her daughter-in-law.
Wang Chunniang was so excited and happy, she took Zhang Yuqing's hand and didn't know what to say, and said over and over again: "Great, great!" ”
"I don't plan to marry Wu Jun." Zhang Yuqing said calmly, "If the marriage is decided, I will be able to bring back the two Zhuangzi that my mother married and convert them into money." When we went to Wujun to get married, and when the boat was halfway through, I left some of the money and secretly ran to Qingzhou, and left the rest to my aunt, which was my apology. ”
Wang Chunniang looked at her with wide eyes, "Girl, are you crazy?" ”
Zhang Yuqing was silent.
Wang Chunniang hurriedly walked back and forth in the house, "If Mrs. Zhang forces you to marry the old man who is about to enter the coffin, you can go to Qingzhou to find him, but now that you have a stable home, why do you want to go to that fateful place again?" What if you can't find him and your life is lost in Qingzhou! Have you forgotten how many bandits we encountered on the way to the capital? If it weren't for Lu Gongzi and their strong martial arts, where would we have gone to the capital! There is still such chaos on the official road, let alone Qingzhou! ”
Without waiting for Zhang Yuqing to answer, Wang Chunniang stomped her feet again and said, "What's wrong with Master Luo?" His mother, Mrs. Luo, likes you and will not embarrass you in the future! You can't find such a good mother-in-law's house with a lantern! ”
"It's because they're good that I can't bother them, I'm ......," Zhang Yuqing stood up and said.
Wang Chunniang glared at Zhang Yuqing, "It's all an excuse!" I don't say it, you don't say it, who knows where you grew up? If you are worried that my father will talk nonsense and he dares to say a superfluous word, I will come out to testify and tell him all the evil deeds he committed back then! He is just a gambler full of nonsense, inhumane, with a few lives on his hands, and the government will not believe him! Good girl, don't be stupid, others will laugh when they meet such a good mother-in-law and husband! ”
Zhang Yuqing's eyes were moist, and he shook his head and said: "He was called a human demon in Qingzhou, I feel sad when I hear this name, he shouldn't have lived such a life, if he knows that I am still alive, maybe ......."
"Girl! Be quiet! Wang Chunniang anxiously interrupted Zhang Yuqing's words.
Zhang Yuqing sat down dejectedly, covered her face with her hands, and tears flowed down her fingers.
has been dependent on each other for more than ten years, and in the past ten years, the feelings have accumulated bit by bit like flowing water, converging into a vast lake and sea, which has become a part of her life.
How could she bear to watch a good person fall into bandits and robbers, and be feared as "human demons"?
"Think about it again, even if you go to Qingzhou and find him, what can you do?" Wang Chunniang whispered in Zhang Yuqing's ear, "He killed so many officials, even if he stops, can the government let him go?" How are you going to live with him? Back then, your adoptive father took you to hide in the mountains, but they were all found by the enemy! ”
Zhang Yuqing wiped away her tears and said, "We can go to sea and leave here." ”
She laughed, her watery eyes glistening, "You don't know, do you? The world is big, and there are many countries and people on the other side of the sea. This country can't accommodate him and me, so let's go somewhere else, and there will always be a place that can accept us. ”
Zhang Yuqing was sad again, it was not difficult to leave, but was Sheng Guixin really willing to go?
It's herself, think about the enemy's good life, and she wants to go to sea and flee like a lost dog, how can she be willing? If the revenge is not avenged, how can you survive in secret!
Wang Chunniang looked at her like she was looking at a person who had been driven crazy by suffering and was suffering from hysteria.
"Good sister, if you call me second sister, you will listen to me! Marry Luo Gongzi with peace of mind, that is your best destination! In the future, you will have a few children, husband and children, and live a stable life, and after a long time, you will be able to forget all the people and hatred in the past! Wang Chunniang hugged Zhang Yuqing and said, "It's the prince who knows about it, he will never say anything about you, he must also hope that you can live well!" ”
Zhang Yuqing sighed and said, "Don't think about it first, let's wait and talk!" There is nothing to do with the eight characters! ”
Wang Chunniang said happily: "Why don't you have a word? Mrs. Luo and Mr. Luo are willing, sooner or later! Girl, as long as you want to open it, you will be bitter! ”
Zhang Yuqing smiled but did not speak.
My cousin took pity on her for being an orphan girl and wanted to pull her up and give her a good future, but my cousin's marriage had to be nodded by my cousin-in-law, and my cousin-in-law probably wouldn't agree.
A person who has been up and down in officialdom for 20 years, facing fame and fortune, power and power every day, how can he easily agree to let an orphan girl be his daughter-in-law?
If the Luo family's uncle-in-law did not agree to her marriage to her cousin, she begged Mrs. Luo to tell her about her family affairs in Jiangnan, and she would leave the Zhang family no matter what.
There's always a way......
Zhang Yuqing looked up at the clouds in the sky and said silently in her heart.