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Volume 1 Xiao Yuanba Chapter 7 Goro Discusses Retiring the Engagement(1/2)

The next morning, Ma Jiu drove a mule cart to the matchmaker's house. He pulled her into the car without saying a word and sent her straight into the second room of Li's mansion to speak.

When I heard that I was going to break off the engagement with the Chen family, the matchmaker's face kept shaking and her eyes blinked even harder.

"Gao, Madam Gao forgives the crime. The old woman has been a matchmaker in her life. Yes, but this is a matter of breaking the engagement... This, this, this, this has never been done. Otherwise, you can find another matchmaker to talk about it?"

It is a taboo for matchmakers to demolish a temple than to destroy a marriage.

If the marriage becomes a matchmaker, it is because you have accumulated virtue and work. Especially the Li and Chen families are both officials, and they are even more glamorous to the matchmaker.

But if you want to break off the engagement, if you feel unlucky in the future, who is willing to take care of your business?

Furthermore, if you say that marriage is a good match, you will offend one of them.

If the Chen family is pardoned and released in the future, the worst thing is that they will be a local gentry. Offending a family is equivalent to offending ten households. Isn’t this a loss-making business!

So the matchmaker is troubled and is unhappy to make the case.

"Sister-in-law Lao's family, look, they are all women, I don't know what you think?" Gao's silk fan slowly swelled.

The man who was a former tenant from the Gao family was later appreciated by Gao's father and transferred him to the shop in the city to work as a rice shop manager, so Gao called her "sister-in-law".

"I understand if you don't want to go, but... you won't want me to run this for you, right?" Gao said, and glanced at her.

"This..." The matchmaker's forehead was filled with sweat beads. She wiped it with a veil and said softly: "Then, the aunt gave me a reminder. There must be a reason to break the engagement, right?

Although her man was convicted, but this...it cannot...."

Gao's sneer: "This is not easy to deal with? During the national mourning period, the students of Yingtianfu School were making trouble, so Chen Shi'an had to take responsibility for the purpose of promoting the school.

How can such a vicious family marry me, Li? Isn’t this a ready-made excuse?"

"Oh, oh, then... I'll try it?" The matchmaker couldn't say it, grinning or laughing.

"Second grandma, it's not good!" A maid suddenly ran in and shouted.

"What's the matter? It's scary!" Gao shouted: "What's the point of being so panicked?"

"It's Goro," the maid panicked and found that there was someone else in the room, so she hurriedly made up for her gift.

He lowered his voice and said, "Wuron was angry when he heard that his grandmother sent the eldest sister of the Chen family back. Now he closed the door and no one allowed him to go in. He held a sword in the room and smashed the ground. Grandma, go and take a look!"

"This, this is uneasy!" Gao heard that his son was in the house and even took a sword, his soul flew away.

She didn't care about the matchmaker, so she hurriedly picked up her skirt and ran out. Several maids had to chase after her.

The matchmaker sneered in his heart, thinking about it, he didn't dare to leave before he finished speaking, so he simply followed him to see the fun.

From the second house to the small courtyard where Li Shuo lives is only a few dozen steps away. The courtyard is not big or narrow.

The small building where Li Shuo lives is on the upper end, and there are four wing rooms beside the west wall. When the Baoping Door comes in, there is a vine rack. From here, along the east wall to the hem of his study window, there are all kinds of flowers and plants.

This is Li Shuo's daily hobby. The flowers and plants are only one meter wide and narrow between the west wing. Now there are many maids and servants standing there, and they are all clamoring to Gao.

Someone called out, "Second grandma is here!" Everyone immediately said nothing, bowing their heads and making way for a passage.

"Son, what are you doing?" Gao stood on the steps anxiously and paused.

"Mother, didn't I say I didn't agree to break the engagement? Why did you send Huier back? What did Lady Lao do when she came?" Li Shuo said in the house with a crying voice.

"Hey, it's not for your own good!" Gao said and walked in.

But Li Shuo appeared at the door with a short sword fiercely and shouted: "How do you do this? I might as well die, so as not to be shivered by others!"

After saying that, he put the sword horizontally on his neck.

Gao was so scared that he sat on the ground, "Son", "My Heaven" burst into tears, and the yard was suddenly in chaos.

Some went to the Gao family, some wanted to rush up and seize the weapons in Li Shuo's hand, and some "smart" servants turned their heads and ran out to find the eldest master and the third master reported the news.

"What's wrong here?"

The person who was leading the way out suddenly was grabbed by someone's collar. When he looked back, he realized that it was Li Dan. He hurriedly told him: "Sanlang, go quickly, the fifth brother put a sword on his neck and was about to commit suicide!"

"Nothing!" Li Dan threw away the man and walked in step by step. He pushed away the man who was blocking the road and came to the front. Li Shuo was about to retreat back into the house.

"Fifth brother, what are you doing?"

When Li Shuo heard Li Dan's voice, he was stunned and was about to speak when he suddenly saw two young men walking into the door.

The one walking in front was wearing a Confucian shirt, while the one behind was dressed in short brown, and she was holding a soft bow in her hand.

"Xiao Wu, what are you doing with a sword? Put it down quickly!" The young man in Confucian shirt stepped forward with his hands behind his back, and ordered directly without looking at Li Dan.

Li Dan heard the voice behind him and sneered, "Oh, the second brother is here so soon?" He looked back and looked: "Hey, there is still the fourth brother?"

"Well, I was shooting an arrow. When I saw my family running around, I said something happened here, so I came and take a look." The fourth brother Li Qin was an honest man, and he was still holding an unspreaded feather arrow in his hand.

He is solid and the shortest among his brothers, so he stood on tiptoe and wanted to see the situation ahead clearly.

"Oh!" Li Dan turned to Li Jin: "Second brother is also here to watch the fun, so why don't you read it?"

Li Jin rolled his eyes: "Uncle, the third uncle has gone out, and the eldest brother is not at home. Naturally, I should come over and see what happened."

"Okay, then please come forward, I will listen carefully." Li Dan turned sideways and made an invitation.

Just after taking half a step, Li Jin took it back.

He looked at Li Dan suspiciously, shook his head with his back and said, "I think the third brother will handle this kind of thing better if he is the one who is the one who is the one who is behind the scenes."

"Oh, two brothers, when is it time for you to stand here and be polite? No matter who it is, you should talk to Goro quickly and let him put down the sword first, okay?" Gao said in a furious manner, slapped the hem of the skirt.

Li Shuo, who was looking at his brothers in a daze, heard it and remembered that he wanted to "destroy himself". He quickly changed the sword to hold it in one hand and put it on the other shoulder to carry it.

Li Jin looked around and suddenly lost interest: "Oh, okay, we don't care about this anymore. Sanlang, I'll leave it here for you, it's more important for me to go back to study!" He said that and turned around and left.

When Li Qin saw this, he hurriedly shouted: "Second brother, wait for me!"

"My fourth brother is leaving, please help me take away everyone in the yard!"

Li Dan grinned and watched Li Qin rush out the yard, turning around and bowing: "Mother, please go back first, I will settle my fifth brother here, please rest assured."

Gao knew that Li Shuo had always heard of his third brother, and he felt half assured when he saw him.

He hurriedly called the maids to help him walk out slowly, and turned to the underneath the vine shelf and stared at Li Shuo with resentment before leaving.

Li Dan asked the servants of our hospital to go back to the house, then walked up the steps and held the door frame. He looked at Li Shuo who was retreating into the house and smiled: "I said yesterday that they would do their own things. You know it would be the result. What's the point of making a fuss?"

"It's not a big fuss. I want to teach my mother a lesson so that she can't treat me as a child in the future!" Li Shuo said angrily.

"Okay, okay." Li Dan nodded, and suddenly moved his feet to his side, stretched out his hand and waved it quickly.

Li Shuo felt that the third brother had somehow arrived in front of him, and was stunned that the sword in his hand was gone.

"Remember in the future, if you really want to scare your mother, you will find a sword that will open the sword. This kind of thing hanging on the wall to appreciate is of little use!" Li Dan said with a smile, throwing the short sword to the coffee table not far away.

Li Shuo was stunned. He used the weapon to scare his mother, but Li Dan took it away like a toy.

"Brother Third, my sword is an antique from the previous dynasty!" He pointed to the coffee table helplessly and said.

"Bad!" Li Dan sneered disdainfully: "This kind of thing looks good and vulnerable on the battlefield. Can this be called a weapon? It can only be used to scare your mother!"

When Li Shuo heard that he defamed his beloved thing as worthless, he curled his lips and stood there with his hands in his arms without saying a word.

"What are you doing while standing?" Li Dan sat in the front chair carelessly and asked Li Shuo to find a chair to sit on.

Seeing the cherry fruits that had been knocked over the table, he reached out and grabbed one, chose one and threw it into his mouth.

"Sister Hui has been sent back, there is nothing we can do about it." He spit out the seeds and said, "I asked you to meet her yesterday, but did you see it? What did she say?"

Li Shuo blushed and hesitated for a long time before saying, "I went to her door last night, but she refused to open the door and just said a few words through the window.

"He grabbed the corner of his clothes in his hand, lowered his head and wiped his eyes: "She said that since ancient times, parents' orders were destined to marry, she had to obey her orders since her mother decided to break off the engagement.

He also said that luck is like this, and if you encounter it, you will not be destined to be with me. Let me rest assured, don’t blame others, etc.”

Li Dan glanced at him and understood that this kid was actually feeling depressed by the marriage after hearing Chen Hui's words, but today's fuss was nothing more than to express his position and refuse to do so.

Having said that, if he didn't make such a fuss, he would be really shameless to see people among the scholars. The spit of those Confucian scholars would also be very harmful!

Originally, a teenager was just graduating from elementary school in his previous life. What kind of love does he know? He loves it? He is so good at playing with the temper of a young master.

"You can figure it out the best. Mother does this for your future. Don't make trouble again to make her sad or worried."

Li Dan paused after saying that: "This incident made the Chen family worse. With the reputation of being resigned, it would be difficult for Sister Hui to marry a good family, unless she was pardoned or the emperor rehabilitated Uncle Chen."

"Ah?" Li Shuo stood up again when he heard this: "Then, brother, let's go ahead together and ask my mother to take it back!"

"It's too late!" Li Dan shook his head: "Sister Hui was sent back, which means that her mother might have talked to her, or that Sister Hui had gone to her mother to express her willingness to break off the engagement."

"How is this possible? How could Sister Hui agree to break the engagement herself?"

"How is it impossible?" Li Dan asked back: "You think it's best for Sister Hui to marry you, but you never thought about how she would choose?

If it is up to me to choose, it is the right thing to actively agree to break off the engagement at this time. It can not only protect you, but also prevent the future husband's family from being affected at all.

Silly boy, do you think Sister Hui will only think about escaping to the Li family to avoid this unpredictable disaster? Then you underestimate her!

There might be a sense of panic and avoidance at first, but after calming down, she should have agreed to go back.

This is what the daughter of the Chen family did. It is a woman who is unvirtuous and is not worthy of the family education of our Li family!"

"Third brother said this..., aren't we too sorry to the Chen family?" Li Shuo's eyes turned red and he lowered his head again.

"What do you think?" Li Dan asked coldly.
To be continued...
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