LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 85 Marriage between the Yuan and Li families
Yuan Zhongming watched Yuan Wenyuan arrange for all these outstanding members of the clan to be taken away, and he couldn't help but feel disappointed. Thinking back then, he was also an outstanding student in the Yuan family school. If his family was not poor, he would not have come to the Yuan family as a wife and became the son-in-law of Yuan Wenjing's younger brother Yuan Wenzheng.
Yuan Wenzheng only had one daughter, Yuan Hongxia. Before his marriage, the Yuan family had promised him to support him in continuing his studies and taking exams. But after they got married, they only supported him for two years. When they saw that he failed the examination twice, they stopped supporting him and asked him to return to the clan to help out.
Over the years, especially after Yuan Wenzheng's death, no one has supported their second wife. He has been ordered around by the men in the clan, and he is no different from a servant!
He and Yuan Hongxia only had three girls, the eldest was eighteen and the youngest was fourteen.
Because I was thinking about finding a son-in-law for the eldest son, I have been looking at each other over the years, and I have never found a good one. Over the past few years, I have delayed my eldest daughter. He thought that if they arrived in the capital, they would not know if there would be a place for them as a family.
Yuan Zhongming's house is a small courtyard with a brick building. Although it is not big, it is neat. Yuan Hongxia was feeding silkworms with her three daughters at home. When she saw Yuan Zhongming coming back dejected, they couldn't help but stop and look at him.
"Yuan Zhongming, what are you doing with your head down? What happened?" Yuan Hongxia asked.
Yuan Zhongming glanced at Yuan Hongxia and felt even more unhappy! This woman was quite pretty back then, otherwise he wouldn't have become his son-in-law, but he didn't expect that this woman had such a bad temper, like a tigress.
But now he was not in the mood to be angry with her, so he told the four of them that the clan wanted to sell their land and go to the capital.
"It's great to go to the capital. I heard that the capital is very lively!" the youngest daughter Yuan Shishi said happily.
"What's so good about being lively? If you go, I won't go!" said the eldest daughter Yuan Shiyu.
She is already eighteen years old, but she has not yet gotten married. She has become the old girl in Yuanjiawan and everyone's laughing stock, which makes her feel very inferior. He felt that even if he arrived in the capital, no one would be willing to marry him and become the son-in-law of their Yuan family.
"Leave me a few acres of land, and I'll live here by myself!" Yuan Shiyu said, getting up and going back to the house.
Yuan Zhongming looked at the boss's back and was stunned. He didn't know what to do for a moment. He looked at Yuan Hongxia and said, "Then shall we go or not?"
Yuan Hongxia snorted coldly, "Humph! You don't understand what Third Uncle is doing. He said he sold all the fields and took all the clan members away with him. In the end, you see, at most, he only took his family with him, and the others People, they will take care of it! If they say they want to sell the land, you must not agree, at least the land in our name cannot be sold by them!"
Yuan Zhongming looked at Yuan Hongxia. She had the final say in family matters. Sometimes he could only argue with her, but in the end he still had to listen to her.
"If you say you won't sell it, you won't sell it!"
"I heard that the prefect is asking everyone to dig wells to find water. Why don't we hear anyone doing this in our village?"
"Who cares about that right now!"
"Go to the village and see who is digging. Let's dig together with them."
Yuan Hongxia also felt that there might not be a place for them in the capital, so they might as well stay. At least their family still had a few acres of farmland here. As long as they survived the drought, their lives could still go on.
Ten days later, early in the morning.
Yuan Chuyi was checking the situation in the Cuntou Inn. She found that there were slightly fewer merchants going to and from the border in the past few days. The news of the spring drought here must have spread. The merchants knew that there was a disaster here and did not dare to go here anymore for fear of unrest. Their goods and money will not be safe.
Now that the water in the river has stopped flowing and the water in the well has dropped slightly, the first day of the Yuan Dynasty also limited the supply of tea in the store to the merchants.
She was talking about Yun Duo when she suddenly heard the sound of gongs and drums coming from outside.
"It should be the Yuan family who came to the Li family to welcome the bride!" Yun Duo said.
On the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, I didn't expect that the Yuan family was in such a hurry to hold a wedding. They proposed the marriage only at the beginning of the month, and today they are getting married when they are only twenty! She felt regretful when she thought of the eldest girl from the Li family marrying into the Yuan family.
She had seen the eldest daughter of the Li family twice from afar. She was quite beautiful, but she never expected that she would marry a crippled man!
She thought that the day she said that there was a slutty person in the Yuan family, the Li family would go find out. Unexpectedly, they were indifferent and married off their daughter without checking who Yuan Mochen was.
"What a pity, Miss Li!"
"That's her fate too. Who allowed her to have parents like that!"
Li Dazhu's family.
Li Dazhu and Wang Shuying were full of joy today. They were filled with joy when they thought that their eldest daughter, Ma'er, was going to marry into the Yuan family and become the daughter-in-law of the family, and they would enjoy happiness in the future.
"Xiaoman, your eldest sister got married today, are you happy or not?" The guests who came to the wedding banquet saw the youngest son of the Li family sitting blankly aside, so someone came up to tease him.
Li Xiaoman used to be a very clever child, but now he always ignores people who talk to him, doesn't talk much anymore, and always hangs his head and drools! If anyone said anything more to him, he would start yelling incomprehensibly.
When Wang Shuying saw someone talking to her son, she was afraid that he would do something drastic and make her family lose face, so she hurried over to take him away, but Li Xiaoman refused to comply and started yelling, even in a vague voice. What, people can't help but stay away from it.
"What's wrong with this kid? Why is he acting like a fool!"
"I think you're either stupid or crazy!"
the guests whispered.
Others looked at the Yuan family welcoming the bride and whispered:
"This person from the Yuan family came to welcome the bride. I heard that he is not the groom's official. He seems to be a cousin in the family!"
"I heard that the groom couldn't come, so I asked my cousin to come instead!"
"Why can't you come?"
"I don't know about that, and the Yuan family won't let me tell you."
Wang Shuying, who was about to take her son away, had obviously heard these words. She was also very puzzled just now. Matchmaker Wang clearly said that the groom was a very talented person, but why didn't he come to welcome the bride himself and let someone from his family come instead?
She hurriedly went to find Matchmaker Wang, who was chatting happily with others.
"Aunt, why didn't the groom come to welcome the bride himself? From the time we got engaged to now, I haven't even seen my son-in-law in person!" Now she finally realized that something was wrong!
But who is Matchmaker Wang? The matchmaker he has protected has already come to pick up the bride. How can he let it go bad?
"Didn't I tell you that the young master of the Yuan family fell off his horse a few days ago and injured his leg. He still needs to rest in bed at home. They say that it takes a hundred days to break the muscles and bones, and he will recover for another ten and a half days. Just a few months!"