Chapter 452 Joy comes from sorrow
The marriage failed, and the guests outside could not ignore it. The second wife Qian was even more unhappy... Her husband was vague and had no news. Now that her son was about to get married, he was actually teased. Now Shen Yongrui is twenty years old. If this happens, how can he ask for a wife in the future?
Qian was crying at this moment, and his tone seemed to be complaining: "Mom, how good should you ask Sanlang to study?"
Li was furious and slapped the table: "Is it because of my mother's preference? If the family had some ability at the beginning, how could they not allow their children to study? Isn't this not affording so many children to enter school? It would be fine if the Liu family didn't marry their daughter, but we don't care... This marriage is a big deal!"
In the Shen family, Li's most biased house is a big house. The big house raises two scholars. In other houses, they think that the old lady is biased, but it is just a problem of more but less.
Originally, the main players in the family made money were the fourth and the first houses, but the second and third houses were also working in farming. In order to compensate the other four houses, Li used a democratic vote to allow the fourth house Liulang Shen Yuan to study. However, he offended the first house, which made Shen Mingjun and his wife stayed out and separated.
Fortunately, the young house is successful and through his own efforts to support his son in school, he finally cultivated a juren!
The second and third rooms have never paid any rewards. Even if the fourth room has a son studying, the couple is not very grateful to the old lady in the countryside for many years. Even Shen Mingwen and his wife, who are the most favored by the old lady, are not grateful to each other. The Li family is the least pleased.
Shen Mingxin asked, "Mom, the guests outside are here, and I'm just waiting for the banquet to start, but the bride doesn't come and can't continue. Why don't we take the banquet?"
Wang said angrily: "The fourth brother's words sound unpleasant. If the bride doesn't come, she won't hold a banquet. She just fools her. If there is any happy event in our family in the future, will they hold a banquet? Will they give gifts? If they give gifts, they won't come? Mom, do you think?"
The old lady's face was pitch black.
This banquet should not be continued, but if it is removed, it is even more ridiculous. The ingredients on both sides were bought, and many steamed dishes were cooked thoroughly, as well as pickled meat and tofu sliced and put them on a plate. If you don’t eat it, you will be wasted. At that moment, Li gritted his teeth: "Celebration, even if people don’t come, we will continue. The Liu family does not understand etiquette, and our Shen family is not a family that ignores the face!"
Just when the family meeting was held in the Shenjiazhengtang, the guests in the yard were also whispering.
At this time, Shen Sanlang was in his twenties and married. He was already a "late marriage" these days. If he couldn't get married this time, he might be a bachelor for the rest of his life.
Although powerful people can have three wives and four concubines these days, there are many people who cannot marry a wife. No one will feel sorry for Shen Sanlang. It just feels that the Shen family has come to know Yuan Gong and has ended up in such a land.
"The Shen family's wedding banquet will probably not start. The old lady will come out later. We will like to please her and see what she will do!"
There were no gifts to be given by the crowd during the meal. After their instigation, the neighbors who had received the gifts were inspired.
Nowadays, no one family can easily find it. Although the gifts they receive are just eggs, cloth, and other low-priced items, since they have been given away, it is really unreasonable not to eat the banquet. Moreover, this time the Shen family lost face. There is nothing to eat. I don’t know when I want to make up for it later.
Originally, they always had a congratulations at the banquet, but with someone taking the lead, they were a little restless with the guests. The relatives of the Shen family were jealous of the prosperity of the lineage hosted by Li, and they all watched coldly for a while, so it would be better for Li to lose face. In the future, the Shen family's branches were half a pound, and no one said they were better than anyone else.
"The old lady is out."
Someone shouted and saw Li and the Shen family come out of the house. Li smiled very well and waved his hand: "Let's get started."
The words made the people present quite puzzled. Someone asked quickly: "Old Madam, can your granddaughter-in-law marry, and you still have to start the meal?"
Li smiled with a forced smile: "Who said that the marriage could not be done? My Shen family is now prosperous and prosperous. The daughter of the Liu family is unwilling to marry. The only one who regrets the Liu family... My Shen family will have people who want to get married in the future."
"Well said."
I heard that a banquet was open for free, so I flattered it and slapped it out... As long as the old lady was happy, she might even get some rewards when she left.
However, some neighbors also whispered: "Someone wanted to marry the Shen family before, but if this happened today, wouldn't it be a joke to marry her daughter to the Shen family?"
At this time, Li was completely forcing her to come out to meet the guests. After the banquet started, she returned to the backyard with the excuse of being unwell. As a result, she felt weak as soon as she stepped into the threshold of the main hall. Fortunately, the grandson-in-law, Lu, next to her, held her up with a quick eye and hand, and said, "Grandma, are you okay?"
"mother……"
The son and daughter-in-law suddenly realized and came over to help.
"For my mother, I'll help me to rest. Today's banquet... I don't care how much I spend, I have to keep my face... But this time I spent so much money, I'm afraid the banquet will not be possible when the third brother gets married."
Li felt a little sorry for Yinzi, and sighed when he said this, which was very uncomfortable.
Wang said: "Look at what my mother said, now that the marriage has been ruined, we have extra banquets. When we get married later, we don't hold a banquet. This is unreasonable."
Shen Mingxin said angrily: "Sister-in-law, just say a few less words!"
Wang sneered, "All things happen, so I won't be allowed to say it. If it's not for him to pass the imperial examination, others would think that our Shen family is so glorious, and the Liu family could agree but change their minds temporarily? Humph, he is happy alone in the capital, and he will spend money from our Shen family?"
"I want me to tell you, call him back quickly. It's best to be a minor official. This way, you can make some money for your family without spending money!"
Just when Li was heartbroken, Wang did not take the initiative to relieve it, but instead spread salt on the old lady's wound. Li shouted angrily: "Enough! Are you going to piss me to death? The fourth brother, help my mother in..."
Lu said: "Grandma, I'll do it."
Wang was proud: "The same granddaughter-in-law, look at my eldest son's wife..."
No one refuted her words, but the Shen family present looked a little unfair.
It was said that the Shen family was rejected from the Lu family.
At the beginning, the Lu family also disliked the Shen family Dalang for only passing the county examination and delayed it for a full year before marrying his daughter. However, the Lu family's virtuous and kindness were really not chosen. After marrying into the family, they were harmonious with Shen Yongzhuo and took good care of their family members... Although she, as a junior, had no say at all.
The family was about to help Li to rest in the room, but someone shouted in the yard: "Good news! Good news! Good news!"
He kept making three consecutive sounds, and his voice was high, and he could hear it clearly even from a street.
The loud voice frightened Li, and he almost fell head-on after not standing firmly. Wang cursed: "Who is fine to cause trouble? The fourth brother, why don't you drive people away?"
Shen Mingxin frowned, but he still went as he said. Before the person came back, he heard the second round of "good news" outside. This time, Li suddenly felt energetic. He grabbed Feng's hand and asked, "Is it possible that Liulang has tried the mansion?"
Wang sneered disdainfully: "Mom, the mansion examination is just beginning. Even if I pass the mansion examination, I will not be out of the ranking so soon." As he said that, he glared at Feng fiercely, as if he was provoking. Your son also wants to pass the mansion examination like my Dalang, so he can study for a few more years!
Li thought carefully that this year's Tingzhou Prefecture's prefecture examination was held on April 13. Calculate the time and it really took time to get the final release of the results, so I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.
However, since there was a noise in the main courtyard, the head of her family could not hide from the guests. She immediately ordered: "Help me out and take a look."
When Li came to the front yard, three groups of people who reported the good news came, wearing red and green, carrying firecrackers at the door and waiting for the good news to set off. Behind, there were people working in the yamen coming, and there were sounds of gongs and drums beating far and near.
When Li saw this scene, he was a little confused. Even when his grandson was in Jie Yuan, it was not so lively!
"Who is the old lady?"
When the county government newspaper saw the Shen family coming out, he looked at Li at first sight and asked him knowingly.
"Old...I am the old man."
When Li saw the red seal on the newspaper's hand, his legs couldn't stand straight. She pointed at the newspaper, but no one could answer what was going on.
The newspaper smiled and said, "The villain dared not report such a great happy event, and he waited for the magistrate to come in person and asked the magistrate to announce the good news to the old lady."
"Wow."
After the banquet inside and outside the yard, the guests who were about to let go of their stomachs and have a big meal were in an uproar!
The magistrate came in person because the Shen family got married?
But the Shen family’s marriage today has clearly failed!
Could it be that the magistrate went to talk about peace and saved the marriage?
"Good news...good news..."
Unlike the three rounds of good news for the students, the people who came to report the good news for this time could no longer tell which wave was, but most of them were from the county government office. After all, the government officials and the government office reported the good news for the government office went to the Fucheng medicine shop Shen Xi to report the good news for the county government office. The county government office could only make up the numbers. In short, the reports were one after another, and the Shen family could not tell who was who was.
He acted as a temporary servant in the newspaper office and kept saying congratulations, but he didn't say what it was. He had to wait for the county magistrate to come and explain it personally. However, someone was familiar with the people in the county government and learned about the situation through inquiries, which seemed to be "Shen Family Qi's high school."
Shen Mingwen, who had been studying in the backyard but had not come out, came out and asked impatiently: "Mom, why are you so noisy? What's wrong?"
Li didn't pay attention to his son coming out at all, but just looked at the gate. Instead, Wang pulled her husband, meaning that she would not go up and make things unpleasant.
"Bang!Bang!Bang..."
As the sound of the gong approached, it was the county magistrate's sedan chair.
The Shen family quickly went out to welcome him, but saw the official sedan chair parked at the entrance of the alley. The county magistrate had already gotten off the sedan chair and walked towards the Shen family gate with a steady step.
"Please pay tribute to the magistrate."
There were many guests coming to the Shen family today. When they saw that the real county magistrate came, they all quickly saluted and fell to their knees along the way.
The county magistrate was a middle-aged man in his forties. He looked around in the crowd but didn't recognize who was. He quickly asked, "Who is the old lady of the Shen family?"
"Old body...is old body."
Li wanted to look up and reply, but immediately realized that he was a commoner and could not face the county magistrate. Only Shen Mingwen, who was standing next to him, looked at the county magistrate in surprise... He was a scholar or a student in the imperial examination. He didn't have to kneel down when he saw the magistrate, but he still had to bow and salute.
"Please get up quickly, please get up quickly. How can I afford to be the old lady's worship?" The county magistrate hurriedly helped Li up.
Li's wife had previously experienced her grandson's wife's escape from marriage and felt her face was dull. At this moment, a county magistrate suddenly came to the door. She was dizzy. The county magistrate said again, "Why don't you bring the good news of Chen Zhuangsheng?"
One word made the originally noisy Shen family yard silent!
The county magistrate took the good news in his hand, stood up straight, and officially read it: "Mr. Chen Qi, the governor of Fujian Siting Prefecture, was selected as the first place in Nangong in the Ministry of Rites, and the first place in the first place in the first place in the Golden Palace High School in the Yellow List, and the third place in the third place, here is the good news."
"Crackling..."
As the county magistrate reported the good news, firecrackers were ringing and gongs and drums were roaring.
Mrs. Li didn't hear those words clearly just now, so she quickly pulled the people around her and asked, "What are you saying? What are you saying?"
The sound of firecrackers, gongs and drums, accompanied by the crowds of people, can hear a whole sentence inside and outside the yard.
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