The rumors about Yan Lizhou have been covered by the rumors about King Han, and there are also some rumors coming out from the Sui'an Palace, so everyone's attention is no longer on Yan Lizhou.
The person that everyone wanted to eat the most was Sui'an Prince's Mansion. After all, this house and the Zhou family were really lively. They had obviously had a good relationship before, but now they have fallen out with each other.
The Zhou family wanted to marry Zhou Ziqing far away quickly, as long as she did not marry to Chang'an or a nearby place, but to a place farther away to avoid Sui'an Prince's Palace.
Zhou family.
"Why should you marry me far away?" Zhou Ziqing asked angrily after hearing about her family's plan.
"The engagement was terminated because of me. Isn't it because of the Sui'an Palace? Isn't it because of my family? Why should I bear the consequences?"
"And I'm married far away. What should I do if I get bullied in the future? Will my family help me?" Zhou Ziqing asked.
"Qingqing, now is not the time to be willful." Zhou Ziqing's mother looked at her daughter and said, "You must also think about the other girls in the Zhou family."
"Besides, my family has no intention of marrying you far away, as long as you leave Chang'an."
Zhou Ziqing bit her lip and said, "It's not far away? You plan to marry me to Tianfu. Where is Tianfu? That's the middle of Shu!"
"Sichuan is so far away from Chang'an, and the road is not easy to walk. If I marry, I will never be able to return to Chang'an in my life." Zhou Ziqing said.
"But Qingqing, your uncles are taking care of you over there in Tianfu."
"Then why can't I marry to Qinghe? Isn't Qinghe the ancestral home of our Zhou family? Can't I marry to Qinghe?"
Zhou Ziqing grabbed her mother's hand and said, "Auntie, I don't want to marry in Tianfu. Tianfu is really too far away."
Zhou Ziqing's mother felt distressed when she saw her daughter. She looked at her husband, hoping that he would be soft-hearted and not let her daughter marry so far away.
Even though Tianfu is her natal family's ancestral home, her family has moved to Chang'an for a long time, and she is also a native of Chang'an. She is reluctant to marry her daughter so far away.
Even if her brother returns to Tianfu, that is where the direct branch is after all, and her brother does not have much power in Tianfu to protect her daughter.
If her daughter marries to Tianfu, her brother will not be able to protect her from being bullied.
"Husband..." Zhou Ziqing's mother called out hesitantly.
"There's nothing to say." Zhou Ziqing's father said gloomily, "Your reputation in Chang'an is half ruined. If you marry in a place as far away as Tianfu, no one will know what happened in Chang'an."
"Zi Qing, you have to understand that you are not the only girl in the entire Zhou family. We cannot sacrifice all the girls to fulfill your wish."
Zhou Ziqing's face turned pale. Even when she was completely rejected by Yan Lingfeng, she never thought she would be so desperate now.
She thought that because she was a direct descendant of the Zhou family, even without Yan Lingfeng, she could still marry a good family and an outstanding husband with a prominent family background.
But the Zhou family actually wanted her to marry a branch of the Tianfu Yan family, a man in his early twenties who had just passed the scholar examination.
But being a scholar is not a powerful status for Zhou Ziqing, and apart from his reputation as a scholar, his family background is really much worse than hers.
The family only has 100 acres of fertile land and only one or two shops. In addition, there are a lot of people in the family. In other words, the more than 20 people in the family rely on 100 acres of fertile land and two shops to support themselves.
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She, Zhou Ziqing, grew up in fine clothes and fine food, and her future dowry would be two or three times more than that family's entire property. Why should she marry such a person?
"Qingqing, don't be willful." Zhou Ziqing's mother held her daughter's hand and said, "Your uncle has found out about that family. He is a good person."
"Auntie!" Zhou Ziqing said unable to accept it, "The engagement between Yan Lingfeng and I has just been terminated, right? Why did you find out about the young husband far away in Tianfu?"
She just couldn't understand why her father and mother had already found a husband far away in Tianfu so quickly for her, even though she had just broken off her engagement with Yan Lingfeng.
Zhou Ziqing's mother's face stiffened when she heard this, and her father sighed, "Originally, this candidate was chosen for your concubine."
Zhou Ziqing's face turned even more ugly. What do you mean? Is she passively stealing her concubine's marriage?
"Qingqing, listen to my mother-in-law's words. Although this young man comes from a poor family, he is very knowledgeable and will definitely be able to get ahead."
Zhou Ziqing frowned, "I, the legitimate daughter of the Zhou family, are robbing... robbing my concubine's husband? What kind of thing is this?"
Zhou Ziqing's mother frowned and said, "What kind of robbery is this? This young husband is your uncle's favorite, and I haven't told your concubine yet."
Zhou Ziqing shook her head and said, "I don't want it, I don't want to marry him!"
"Since this marriage is for my sister's sake, let her get married. I won't marry to Tianfu." Zhou Ziqing shook her head.
"Since you don't want to marry in Tianfu, then marry in Guangzhou." Zhou Ziqing's father said with a dark face.
"Guangzhou?" Zhou Ziqing, mother and daughter, exclaimed after hearing this.
Guangzhou is not a very prosperous city in later generations. In the Yong Dynasty, Guangzhou and Fuzhou, Zhangzhou, Yazhou, Linzhou, etc. were all in Lingnan and were areas of exile.
Although Guangzhou is not that desolate now, it is really far away from Chang'an. Going there is farther than going to Tianfu, and the journey is more difficult.
"Dad, do you really hate your daughter so much? You want to marry your daughter to a place like that?" Zhou Ziqing couldn't help but cry.
She is the beloved daughter of her parents and her mother's only legitimate daughter. It can be said that she has been the child that her parents loved since she was a child. She is really sad right now.
Her father actually wants to marry her to Guangzhou? It's such a far away place. Will she really not be able to come back after marrying there?
Because she and Yan Lingfeng broke off their engagement, has she been abandoned by her father and mother? Are she going to let go of her, the only legitimate daughter?
"Master." Zhou Ziqing's mother was very reluctant. She only had one daughter. How could she be willing to let her daughter marry so far away?
"Master, it's natural. Why don't we let Qingqing marry back to Qinghe..." Zhou Ziqing's mother looked at her husband's face and her voice became weaker and weaker.
"Do you think people in Qinghe don't know her reputation? What kind of good marriage can a woman whose engagement has been broken off say?"
"Do you think Qinghe is the ancestral home of our Zhou family, and her marriage there will really be as smooth as elsewhere?"
"However, after marrying into Qinghe, she can still have her clan protect her when she is bullied." Zhou Ziqing's mother said.
"If Qingqing marries somewhere else, she will have no one to support her if she is bullied. Our parents are in Chang'an, and our clan is in Qinghe, so how can we be Qingqing's backer?"
"Husband... I will only have a daughter like this in my life. I don't want her to be wronged..." Zhou Ziqing's mother begged bitterly.