"This is strange, she is a weak little woman, what is she going to force you to kill a big man?" Ji Cha asked, "Come and listen, why are you forced to have no choice but to commit suicide?"

Hong Chen was also puzzled and said, "Yes, I see that Miss Hu also speaks softly, not like she will be aggressive." ”

Su Liangjing was silent for a while before he slowly spoke: "That's right, the tea picking hero and the bamboo cutting hero are not ordinary people, and it doesn't hurt if I tell you." Even if I die, I will tell others about her ugly face before I die. ”

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I am now in my thirties, and people of my age, but who have not yet started a family, are called singles, and they are always laughed at by the neighbors, so they are always urged by my father and mother to get married. I also wanted to find a good-looking and gentle woman to spend the rest of my life with, but I didn't have much to deal with girls when I was young, and when I became older, I devoted myself to my career, thinking that as long as I became successful, famous, and had a lot of money, there would be very good women coming to me. Unexpectedly, I didn't wait for the bride to come, just for a vicious snake and scorpion.

My father used to be a small businessman, and he once told me that when the business was successful and the status went up, I would not worry about not having a wife to marry, and he also used my mother's example to teach me that he just married a wife too early, and then met many gentler and more beautiful girls but did not have the opportunity.

So I worked hard, devoted myself to the casting blade, I didn't know that I used up tens of thousands of catties, hundreds of thousands of catties of iron, and finally had a small fame in the circle of casters in Tianjing, made friends with many dignitaries who I had never seen before, and also earned some silver taels, and bought a big house in the western suburbs, just waiting for a new house to marry his wife in the future.

At this time, there are also many matchmakers who want to introduce girls to me, but they either have poor family conditions, or they are ugly, or they are old, or they think my family is poor, they think I am ugly, they think I am old, or they have already married someone whose husband has died and now they have to remarry. It's too far from the pure wife who is as white as snow and jade in my mind.

I spent a lot of money on matchmakers to introduce me to better women. That's how Hu Yinyin was introduced to me. When I first met her, I thought that although she was not as amazing as those singers and dancers, she was generous and beautiful enough, and she was very good at marrying her family and walking in front of her relatives and friends in the neighborhood. When I talked to her, she was very attentive and considerate, asking me what I liked to eat, what I liked to do, and talking to me about many things when I was a child.

I found that we were very talkative, and she listened very carefully to what I said, unlike other girls, who interrupted me when I said two words. And when I went to her house, her parents were also very considerate and close people, obviously they were scholars, but they didn't dislike my family as a small businessman. When she came to my house, she was also very respectful to my father and mother, and took the initiative to cook and work, which made my parents like it.

At that time, I felt that she was the person I was destined for, and it was a blessing to meet her in eight lifetimes. If I don't take this opportunity, I'll regret it for the rest of my life. So I asked her if she would like to marry me, and if she did, I would go to her house at once to propose marriage. I thought she would readily agree, but she hesitated and said, "We've known each other for too little, we have to get to know you better." ”

I think she was right, I didn't show her enough. I took her to the big house I bought in the western suburbs, which had a garden, a pond, and dozens of houses, although it was a little more remote than the city, but it was very generous, and it was surrounded by manor houses that rich and noble families bought to enjoy. She said that she liked to ride horses, so I immediately sent someone to repair the stable in the house, and asked someone to go to Xiliang to buy good horses.

But she also said: "After all, you have to pay attention to the right family, although my parents and I don't care much about your background, but after all, there are many relatives and friends, if I marry you directly, there will always be gossip." I said, "I'm not very good at studying, and I don't know any martial arts, so I can only forge weapons to make some money, and I can't be an official." She said: "You can make money enough, but you are not rich enough, I have an uncle, when his family married his daughter, his in-laws directly gave a dowry of 880,000 taels of silver! I don't want you so much, just 180,000 taels!"

I said, "I have 180,000 taels, but I will have to wait two or three years to earn it again, after all, all the money I saved in the past was used to buy a house." She said, "That won't work, in two or three years, I'll be an old girl!" She said, "That's not good, then you haven't seen me for the past two or three years?" But we have been in contact since we didn't get married, and people always have to spread some rumors behind our backs. I said, "Then I sold this house for silver as a dowry?" She got angry again: "If you sell the house, then do we still have a new house? Will you let me go to the church in the mountains? Your house is so small that it can't fit my relatives and friends!"

I really couldn't do anything, but she made a suggestion to me at this time: "I heard that there are many martial arts people in Tianjing who have bought high-quality weapons with a lot of money during this time, and you can build them for them." I refused, saying, "These martial arts people who have recently appeared in Tianjing are different from those in the sect gangs outside, they are all rebels who are not approved by the imperial court, and it is against the regulations of Da Yu to sell them weapons. She said, "Isn't it okay for you to make a transaction secretly and not let others know?" I said, "How can this be? If you trade privately, you will not be able to pay taxes, which is equivalent to evading the taxes of the imperial court, and you will be guilty of one more crime!"

She suddenly became cold, and said: "You are also afraid of that, and you are afraid of that, and you can't get any money, so I have no choice but to marry someone else! This year, many people have come to my house to propose marriage!" I panicked, I finally met a woman who was willing to stay with her for life, where was she willing to give up on her? So I promised her: "Okay, I will definitely raise 180,000 taels." ”

In the days that followed, I forged weapons for those martial arts people who used to be kicked out by me, and they paid them well. Hu Yinyin also often came to my place, counting the new silver arrivals with me every day. In order to earn the 180,000 taels of silver as soon as possible, I worked day and night, and I was about to wear my body out, but as I saw that the number of 180,000 was getting closer and closer, I became more and more excited - as long as I earned 180,000 taels of silver, I would be able to marry a wife that everyone would envy, and I would have a relationship with the family that had been studying for generations, and the fate of future generations would be changed by it.

Not long ago, I finally raised enough 200,000 taels of silver, not only 180,000 taels of silver for the dowry, but also 20,000 taels of surplus for marriage and post-marriage expenses. But at this moment, Hu Yinyin finally revealed her true colors - she took an account book, which recorded in detail every transaction I made with those martial arts people, and said to me with a sneer: "You toad who wants to eat swan meat, if you don't want to be beheaded by the government, send me the house in the western suburbs, and give me another 300,000 taels of silver, otherwise I will show this account book to the government." ”

At first, I thought she was joking with me, but I didn't expect her to be serious: "You are such a stupid and coarse stinky blacksmith who deals with charcoal fire and iron lumps all day long, but you only have two stinky money, do you really think that there will be a well-read official lady who likes you? Either give me the house and give me money, or the whole family will fall to the ground, you can choose one!" I can't believe that someone who is usually so gentle and kind can be so vicious and cold!

But now that I've stepped into her trap, I don't have anything to say, the money can be earned again, and when my life is gone, there is nothing. So he told her, "I can also give you a house, but I only have 200,000 yuan." My body was about to collapse, and I couldn't forge my weapons like before, and I couldn't scrape together another hundred thousand taels of silver in a short time. But she said, "300,000 yuan, not a tael of silver! If you can't get a weapon, then sell your house in the city! Although that place is small, it is in a very good location in Tianjing, and it is always worth 80,000 or 90,000 taels." ”

I was furious: "The house in the city is where my father and mother live, and after we sell it, will our family live on the streets?" She only laughed: "What does it matter to me that you live on the streets? If you don't have a house to live in, you can go to the north to live with the displaced people, and the shanty houses there can live for seven or eight days for a few dozen yuan! Oh yes, if you run into the government to clean up the homeless people, you may be driven to the mountains of the northeast, I heard that the winter is very cold there, you will have to add a few more clothes at that time!"

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