Chapter 516: Forced Marriage
"You disobedient dead girl, you still have the face to come back!" Shen E found a rattan from nowhere, and chased Liu Xiang'er to fight.
There was a middle-aged man with a mustache sitting in the high hall, and next to him stood a young man of twenty-three or four, who were Liu Yong, the head of the Liu family, and Liu Chen, Liu Xiang'er's elder brother.
Both were indifferent. For large families, it is indeed not a trivial matter for a daughter who has not left the cabinet to run away from home.
"Do you have stiff wings? You still dare to hide, stand for me! ”
"If I don't run, will I be beaten by you in vain!" Liu Xiang'er was pulling back and forth with Shen E in the hall, after all, he was young and his body was good, and the rattan couldn't hit at all.
Seeing that she couldn't catch up, Shen E threw the rattan, sat down on the ground, and cried: "Why did I give birth to such an unfilial daughter as you, my life is so bitter......" The uncle sitting in the hall, as well as the cousin on the side, seemed to be surprised by the troubles of the mother and daughter, in addition to helplessness.
Song Chemu was on the side, not to mention how embarrassing it was. But out of filial piety to his elders, he still reprimanded: "Xiang'er, don't be rude to your mother......" Liu Xiang'er crossed her waist and didn't give a forgiving attitude: "Where am I rude, I didn't treat her much, she beat me, can't I run away?" Brother-in-law, you have also seen it, today's Shi Erlang is a person with interests in his heart, if he wants me to marry him, it is better to die! ”
"Nonsense!" Liu Yong couldn't help but said: "Girl's family, opening your mouth and closing your mouth is life and death, Shi Ergongzi is a famous child in Chang'an, and it is also for your good to marry you to the Shi family!" ”
"That's weird! What's good for me, it's clearly for him! Liu Xiang'er pointed at Liu Chen and said: "Aren't you just trying to get in touch with Jingzhao Mansion through the Shi family so that your son can become an official!" ”
"Sister, how can you say that? Isn't it all for our family? Liu Chen complained: "Our Liu family hasn't had an official for a long time? Now that the new dynasty has granted amnesty, businessmen can also enter the office, which is a good opportunity for our family to enter the official career, who is called...... Who called our Liu family, I am a man. ”
"You're an official?" Liu Xiang'er seemed to have heard a joke,
"You don't pee and take care of yourself, you can't even run the pawnshop business well, you still want to mix in the officialdom, it's a good thing not to cause trouble for our family one day! Besides, if you really want to be an official, go to the imperial examination, and you will play these dirty methods through the back door, shame-"
"Smack!" Father Liu was furious, and the teacup trembled. Liu Xiang'er was frightened, and hurriedly hid behind Song Che.
"Our Liu family's business has been tepid, just because there is no backer in the officialdom, even if your brother is incompetent, he is still a man! He went to join the official competition, you marry someone and marry, this is your life! Father Liu shouted: "Come, take the young lady back to the room, the doors and windows are locked, and she will never be allowed to leave half a step without my order!" ”
"Brother-in-law save me, brother-in-law save me......" Liu Xiang'er pulled the corner of Song Che's clothes, starlight's big eyes full of tears.
Song Che shook his head and sighed, and said to Father Liu: "Uncle, listen to me-it is not long to enter the career by relationship." Even if Xiang'er marries to the Shi family, it is also a relative of the outside family, even if he can compete for a half-official position, he is also a small official with a little bit of sesame mung bean, and it can't bring much benefit to the Liu family, so why sacrifice Xiang'er to marry? Although the parents' orders and matchmakers' words are big, shouldn't the daughter's happiness be more precious? Today's little nephew also has a confrontation with Na Shi Erlang, he is indeed a profit-heavy man, and it is difficult to match Xiang'er with his frank and honest personality; The Liu family is small, the Shi family is big, and if you are a little unsatisfactory, you have to keep your head down. Of course, you can get the benefits of your career, but your dignity will naturally be lower, isn't it? Father Liu sighed lightly, heard that it was reasonable, and sat back down.
Liu Chen on the side said: "Brother-in-law, you are a full man and you don't know that a hungry man is hungry, we all know that you are in Jiangnan smoothly, but this is Chang'an, a different territory, in our place, if there is no government to rely on, it is difficult to protect the family business." ”
"Chen'er, how did you talk to your cousin?" Father Liu scolded softly: "If our family's cloth industry hadn't had your brother-in-law's help, it would have collapsed a long time ago." ”
"Yes, father, mother, you see, now we can't harvest the cloth in Bashu, we can only rely on the support of the goods coming in Suzhou, if there is no brother-in-law's family affection, our family would have drunk the northwest wind, which proves the importance of the relationship even more," Liu Chen said: "Didn't my mother discuss it with the old lady of the Shi family, if we become in-laws, we will definitely be able to send me to Jingzhao Mansion, even if it is an official with sesame mung beans, it is stronger than the identity of a businessman, besides, Xiang'er She has reached the age of marriage, she should have married, marry Zhang San, It is better to marry Li Si than to marry Shi Er. ”
"Liu Chen, are you still worthy of being a brother!" Liu Xiang'er said with tears in her eyes: "Could it be that my father and mother gave birth to me for the purpose of being an official for you?" What qualifications do you have to say brother-in-law, he has always relied on himself from a door-to-door son-in-law to become the richest man in Jiangnan today, and you, let you sell cloth badly, let you do business with your father and you are afraid of hardship, and now your father and mother have opened a pawnshop for you, you always can't make ends meet, okay, now you want to be an official again, there is no way to start making up your mind on me again, you are just a person, and the road is uneven, if you have a little brother-in-law's intelligence, you will not let us become like this! ”
"You! You! Liu Chen's cheeks flushed, most likely because he was poked in the center. Liu Xiang'er wiped her tears and stubbornly glared at her parents: "From childhood to adulthood, you will only favor and dot on this straw bag, but you will never take into account my feelings, all because I am a daughter who will marry sooner or later!" Then I will tell you here today, I will not marry, I will not marry, I will not marry, if you force me to marry that Shi Erlang, I will go on a hunger strike to death! She roared and ran out of the hall with her face covered.
Another woman who dares to fight against the feudal world!
"Xiang'er!" Shen E saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly chased after him. Liu's father sighed heavily, like them, the families living in the cracks, eager to become celebrities at the top, unwilling to be poor at the bottom, often live the hardest life.
Song Che never thought that there would be such a book at her sister-in-law's house
"Difficult scriptures", before he could say a word, he was arguing to death.
"Why should my uncle sigh? You might as well broaden your horizons, the world is big, and it is not just Jingzhao Mansion to find the 'relationship' you want to rely on. ”
"Brother-in-law, you're talking cool again, the entire Great Northwest, if you don't climb the relationship of Jingzhao Mansion, who can you cling to?" Liu Chen muttered and complained.
Ah, this guy is really a self-defeating, but short-sighted straw bag!