Chapter 35: Refusal

This teahouse has been open for a few years.

The storyteller also has two brushes, and when he tells the ordinary love story, it also becomes lingering and compassionate, shocking and crying ghosts and gods.

Zhao Wanning used to like to read books, but recently I found this story quite interesting. Maybe the story is not as exciting as the book, but it's easier to read. The people who listen to the book don't have to use their brains, they sit there, drink tea, eat melon seeds, and watch the people on the stage perform.

Today, the storyteller is telling the story of a farmer and a snake.

The scholar in that story entered the heroine's house and became the son-in-law of the heroine's house. The heroine's family did their best to assist the scholars, provide him with studies, let him take the imperial examination, pave the way for him, and help him rise to the top in the officialdom. originally thought that the scholar would be grateful to the heroine's family, but he didn't want to, the scholar liked someone else. He regarded the heroine as a stand-in for his sweetheart, and climbed all the way up with the power of the heroine's family. After gaining power, the heroine's family was destroyed, and he and his sweetheart were accompanied to old age.

The heroine was unwilling to be killed after becoming a stepping stone for the scholar, and prayed to God to let her be reborn, and she began to take revenge when she returned from rebirth.

Zhao Wanning swallowed melon seeds and listened with relish.

Zhao Wangjin went straight in and said directly: "Do you know Pei Yue?" ”

"He asked me to propose to you."

Zhao Wanning was drinking tea, and when she heard Zhao Wangjin's words, she choked on the tea, and coughed for a long time before calming down.

"What do you think?" Zhao Wangjin waited for Zhao Wanning to calm down before continuing to ask.

"Me?" Zhao Wanning pointed to herself: "What I think is very simple, I don't want to." ”

"Why?" Zhao Wangjin originally thought that Pei Yue was so anxious because he had a heart-to-heart relationship with Zhao Wanning, at least Zhao Wanning should not reject him. But I didn't think about it, Zhao Wanning refused without thinking about it.

"The Pei family has indeed declined, but Mrs. Pei is still there. Now Pei Yue is also in the middle of the three yuan. Zhao Wangjin raised his eyes and looked at Zhao Wanning, and saw that she continued to lower her head and swallow melon seeds, looking indifferent.

"You don't know yet, do you? The father has granted Pei Yue the position of Si Zheng of Dali Temple. Tomorrow he will take office, and he will be the official position of the sixth grade. He has not yet reached the weak crown to achieve such an achievement, and he will certainly have a bright future. ”

Zhao Wanning didn't raise her eyes and continued to stare in the direction of the storyteller.

The storyteller has already talked about how the heroine took revenge on the scholar when she returned from rebirth. Reliving this life, the scholar still enters the heroine's house for the future. But the heroine has the memory of her previous life, and she will definitely not let him get her wish.

The heroine was poisoned in the inkstone he often used. The poison slowly invaded his body every time he picked up a pen and wrote. Later, when the scholars were preparing for the imperial examination, he went crazy and made trouble, which consumed the scholar's energy, so that he could not prepare for the imperial examination wholeheartedly.

At the same time, the heroine also found the scholar's beloved, and used some vicious means to send the scholar's beloved into the fireworks willow alley.

The story has become clichΓ©d again. Zhao Wanning was not interested.

"Cousin Wanning, Pei Yue has a deep affection for you. He is a kind person, rich in learning, and now he has also entered the court as an official, and his future is limitless. What else are you not satisfied with? ”

Zhao Wanning turned his head, looked at Zhao Wangjin expressionlessly, and said, "Pei Gongzi is very good, but I am not worthy of him." ”

Zhao Wangjin thought that she felt inferior because of her divorce from Qi Chuan, so she comforted: "Why are you not worthy of him?" You are the county lord of Qinghe in my Great Zhou. It is more than enough to match him as a six-grade petty official. ”

Zhao Wanning naturally didn't really think that she was not worthy of Pei Yue. It's just that with the lessons of the previous life, she really doesn't want to think about these children's feelings anymore.

She didn't want to be like the woman in this story, who lived an unhappy life in her previous life and was victimized by adulterers. Finally seek a chance to be reborn and trap yourself in the matter of revenge. Even if in this life, she really succeeded in taking revenge on that scholar, and it would be her own life.

Why do we always have to dwell on the past? Why can't we get rid of the past?

It's hard to be reborn, and that's a new beginning.

Knowing that the scholar was using her, he stayed away from the scholar and made it impossible for him to do so. Isn't this also a form of revenge and revenge? Why do you have to marry him again and repeat the tragedy of the previous life.

But Zhao Wanning would never say these words to Zhao Wangjin. The only reason she could put forward for refusing to marry was to say that she was not worthy of Pei Yue.

"Wanning, I am persuading you this time, not because Pei Yue and I are brothers. It's because I think he's a good place to be. ”

"Pei Yue's parents died, you also know about General Pei, there is only one elder in the Pei family. If you marry, you will be the mistress of Pei's mansion. ”

"There are no in-laws, no concubines, you are the only hostess."

"Moreover, the Pei family is elegant and upright, and men are not allowed to take concubines, and Taifu Pei and General Pei Changzhou have only one wife. If you get married, you don't have to be jealous of other women. ”

Zhao Wanning suddenly laughed.

Zhao Wangjin thought that he had moved her, so he continued to persuade: "I grew up with Pei Yue since childhood, and I also know Pei Yue's temperament. Since he wants to marry you, he will treat you with all his heart. ”

"Besides, there's my brother here. If he treats you badly, you don't need to say it, my brother will beat him first. ”

Zhao Wanning lowered her head and wrapped her fingers. She didn't understand why since she broke off the marriage contract with Qi Chuan, the people around her urged her to get married quickly.

The eldest princess is like this, she can understand, after all, in the eyes of the eldest princess, she is an old girl who can't marry and will only embarrass the eldest princess's mansion.

It's just that I don't know why even His Royal Highness the Crown Prince began to meddle in her life's affairs.

Zhao Wanning thought for a while and said, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, you said that Pei Yue has a deep affection for me. But Pei Yue and I are only a few faces, and he doesn't know what my character is, how to have a deep affection for me? ”

Zhao Wangjin was stunned when asked, and then said: "At the Qionglin banquet, as soon as he saw me, he asked me to propose marriage to you on his behalf, saying that he was pleased with you, and you would not marry." ”

"I've known him for more than ten years, and this is the first time he's asked me to do something."

Zhao Wanning's fingers unconsciously fiddled with the melon seeds on the table: "He likes me, do I want to marry him?" ”

"When marriage is a major event, you should follow the words of your parents. It doesn't have to know your character to marry you, there is no perfect thing in the world. You see, there are many husbands and wives in this world, who have never seen each other, but they are united by the order of their parents. Aren't they also living in harmony and beauty? ”

Zhao Wanning didn't want to explain more, so she said carefully: "Brother, since you came to ask me, then I won't hide it." Since her divorce from Qi Zhen, Wan Ning has been really heartbroken by her love. For the time being, I don't want to talk about my children's personal affairs. ”

Zhao Wanning's lips straightened, and he said seriously: "I hope my brother will help me thank Pei Gongzi for his kindness." ”

Zhao Wanning's meaning was very resolute, and Zhao Wangjin was not good at continuing to insist.

But Zhao Wanning said that he didn't talk about his children's personal affairs, and he still didn't believe it. After all, Zhao Wanning is in her twenty-eighth year, and this is the time when the spring heart sprouts. How can you not want to marry just because you divorce once?

Besides, men should get married, and women should get married. A woman of Zhao Wanning's age in the capital has long since become her own son. If she waits any longer, I'm afraid she will really miss the good age to get married.

But Zhao Wanning made it clear that she refused to tell him the real reason for refusing to marry, and it seems that there may be a misunderstanding between her and Pei Yue.

To solve people and solve the bell, it is necessary to tie the bell, especially this kind of emotional problem, Zhao Wangjin is not easy to continue to mix. Now, I'm afraid I can only go back to Pei Yue to tell Zhao Wanning's attitude first, as for the follow-up, it depends on how Pei Yue solves it.

After all, this is Pei Yue who wants to marry, how can he be an outsider and have been busy all the time.

Zhao Wangjin was no longer entangled, he had to go back to inform Pei Yue, so he got up and left.

The storyteller on the stage is still continuing, and the plot behind it is too clichΓ©, and the scholar doesn't know if it's a conscience discovery, or if he has changed his mind in this life, and he really fell in love with the heroine who took revenge on him. The two fell in love and killed each other like this.

Zhao Wanning raised his hand and drank the tea, then got up and prepared to leave.

As soon as she walked out of the door, there was a little girl in ragged clothes holding a broken bowl and raising her hand to her: "Kind-hearted beautiful sister, give me a few copper plates, I haven't eaten for two days." ”

Without waiting for the silver candle to stop the little girl, Zhao Wanning squatted down: "Little girl, where is your family?" ”

"They're all dead." The little girl said with a somewhat numb expression. She stretched out the bowl in front of Zhao Wanning again: "Beautiful sister, save me, I'm so hungry." ”

The silver candle whispered in Zhao Wanning's ear: "County Lord, you may not know in the wing room just now, this little girl has already asked for silver money in the teahouse, she may be a liar, don't be deceived by her." ”

Zhao Wanning pondered for a moment and hooked his lips. "Little sister, sister, please invite you to dinner."

If she's really hungry, she won't refuse. If she had been a liar, she would have only needed money.

The little girl looked happy and said excitedly: "Thank you beautiful sister, thank you beautiful sister!" ”

Zhao Wanning took the little girl to the restaurant together.

She asked for a side room, and asked the shopkeeper to bring hot water to clean the little girl.

When the little girl went upstairs, she kept staring at the food on the tables of the diners around her and swallowed her saliva, and it did look like she hadn't eaten for a long time.

Zhao Wanning said in his heart, it seems that he is thinking too much about the silver candle. In case this little girl really lost her parents and had no one to rely on, she was reduced to the point of begging for food.

I entered the wing room and ordered the food. Zhao Wanning and the silver candle cleaned the little girl together.

The little girl's ragged clothes were full of scars, old and new wounds stacked on top of each other. There were several scars that looked new and were bleeding.

Silver Candle was also taken aback. When she stood guard outside the wing, she watched the little girl pretend to be pitiful, and begged for money from the tea customers who came and went. Silver Candle was soft-hearted and even gave her two copper plates. Unexpectedly, as soon as she turned her head, she saw the little girl handing over the silver money on her body to a man.

She thought that this little girl was a liar who deliberately disguised herself as a beggar to beg for money.

I didn't expect the little girl to be covered in scars.

It seems that there is something else hidden in this matter.