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Chapter 29 Arranged Marriages

Speaking of which, Li Hai was not very tall. Perhaps it was due to the lack of nutrition in ancient society. He was less than 1.6 meters tall, and he had to stand on tiptoe after being choked by Ling Xiao, who was about 1.85 meters tall.

Toes.

Ling Xiao looked at this relatively small man and felt that he was too short, but he quickly put this thought aside and dragged him in front of him.

Looking at Li Hai, whose face was a little purple, whose neck was almost broken, and whose feet were still kicking, the man at this moment felt the fear of death, so he felt that he was about to die and began to roll his eyes. If he hadn't just gone to the convenience store,

I'm afraid I'll pee in fear.

Ling Xiao naturally saw that Li Hai had reached the limit of endurance. At this moment, the chief and the others were so frightened that they almost knelt down. This Taoist priest was really not easy to mess with. Was he planning to kill Li Hai? He wanted to ask for mercy, but he felt that his teeth were against each other.

Impact, because the Taoist priest is too scary, will he be strangled even if he pleads for mercy? In this situation, they can't speak.

It's understandable that these people don't dare to plead for mercy, but as Li Hai's family, it's too much to dare not speak. Co-authoring only bullies the weak, and only dares to tremble by the side when encountering powerful people. But it's understandable.

Life is very difficult for Mr. and Mrs. Song. This kind of bully is disgusting.

Thinking of this, she threw Li Hai away. After falling to the ground, he finally felt that he could breathe. He didn't care about other problems and breathed in the fresh air with tears streaming down his face.

Ling Xiao looked at Li Shitou's family huddled together and took a step forward. The person opposite was simply frightened and hurriedly backed away. She said lightly: "What? You thought Pindao was the good-tempered person like Song Xiucai, and wanted to p

Eat! Pindao likes to punish those who have no shame."

As she spoke, she looked at Li Shitou's current wife, Mrs. Wang. Mrs. Wang felt deeply bad at the moment. She never thought that someone would come forward to support her eldest daughter-in-law, who was no longer able to stand up.

If she had known earlier, she would not have betrayed the Song family, but would have directly killed the mother and son. In this way, no one would know the truth of the matter. Unfortunately, she had no idea what was going on, and it was too late to tell her.

While she was thinking about this, Ling Xiao's eyes were trained on her, making her want to hide behind Li Shitou. She felt sorry for her little son, but she loved herself even more, so she didn't even think about seeing how her little son was doing.

Li Hai finally felt that it was great to be able to breathe. At this moment, he was bursting into tears. He never thought that an old Taoist priest could be so powerful. He looked at Ling Xiao with extremely fear in his eyes. This was the first time that he felt deep in his heart.

The incomparable fear spread everywhere, and I felt like I turned my eyes away, not wanting to look at the Taoist priest.

Ling Xiao had no intention of focusing on Li Hai at this moment. She was looking at a pair of fateful mandarin ducks: Wang and her husband Li Shitou. From a closer look, it became clearer that they were really unfair!

After a few calculations with her fingers, she said: "No wonder you and your wife told Li Han to study hard, but in the blink of an eye you thought of ways to ruin their reputation and prevent Li Han from succeeding in the imperial examination.

Have you always hated Mr. Zhang?"

Li Shitou and his wife were shocked because the other party involved had long since died and no one else knew the details. After all, some things were done in private and naturally they could not be known to others. They were always doing things.

Sneaky.

Many years have passed, and even the traces of the Zhang family have been gradually erased. They thought that no one would know this secret anymore, but they never expected that Ling Xiao would find out about it now.

No wonder someone said not to offend monks easily. Li Shitou and Wang's lips were trembling. If they hadn't just seen Ling Xiao's brutal behavior, they would probably beg Ling Xiao to let them go.

Because they were a little afraid that the matter would be exposed, and if it was found out, they would be afraid that the Li family's reputation would be ruined. However, they moved their mouths a few times and did not say anything, knowing that the other party would not agree to their request at all.

Others who were listening were very surprised. What was going on? Who was Mr. Zhang? Why did Li Shitou and his wife look frightened and didn't dare to do anything they wanted to do.

On the other hand, the head of the village suddenly looked at Li Shitou with wide eyes. Speaking of which, he was a little older than Li Shitou. The reason for this was that Li Shitou actually had several older brothers. However, they died young due to family ties, which led to Li Shitou's death.

Father Shitou had a falling out with the clan, and Li Shitou was the kind of old man who was younger than Li Shitou.

It is for this reason that the head of the village still remembers some things about Zhang. Zhang is the daughter-in-law favored by Li Shitou's father. She belongs to a farming family. The family still has some money to study. She is not bad in appearance, but of course not.

What kind of beauty is she, but she is not as good looking as Mrs. Wang.

But because she belongs to the kind of woman who comes from a well-educated family, she is well-educated and very smart and capable. The old man of the Li family once said that he wanted to find a well-educated woman as his daughter-in-law. It was for this reason that Zhang was chosen.

When she got married, the Zhang family didn't give her much money because someone in the Zhang family wanted to take the imperial examination and didn't have much money. However, she brought back all the betrothal gifts and two boxes of books, which made her father-in-law very satisfied.

Zhang became pregnant not long after she got married, and the old man seemed very happy. However, Zhang was unlucky, and she suddenly gave birth prematurely when she was in the late stages of her pregnancy.

At that time, the work in the fields was quite busy, and the due date was not yet due. All her family members went to work in the fields, so no one was left. No one knew that she had given birth to a baby. When the others came back, she could no longer save her, leaving only a newborn.

Son.

It is difficult for children to live without their mother to take care of them. It is not very convenient for men to take care of children. Li Shitou said that it was for the sake of his children that he did not keep filial piety to his wife and married Mrs. Wang as his stepmother early. As time went by, everyone gradually forgot about Mrs. Zhang.

.That is to say, the village head's father still remembers that Li Han had another biological mother, but most of the village has forgotten about Zhang.

After all, Mrs. Zhang died too early. She started getting pregnant before she could make friends with the women in the village. Later, she mainly raised babies and did housework, so she had no chance to make friends with other women. Naturally, no one returned her.

Remember that little wife.

Only now did the head of the village realize that Li Shitou didn't like Ms. Zhang at all, which was a bit excessive. In his opinion, Ms. Zhang had done nothing wrong, so why would she be resented by the couple? No way!

The head of the village remembered that there were no memorials in front of Zhang's grave, no paper was burned during the holidays, and no offerings were made properly. He looked at Li Shitou with a bit of doubt in his eyes. What was going on? Why is this so?

Prefer one over the other?

Ling Xiao looked at Li Shitou. At this moment, he was pulling Wang. The couple knelt down with a bang, cold sweat on their foreheads, and a bit of pleading in their eyes. They wanted to prevent Ling Xiao from saying it, but they couldn't.

Knowing that this was impossible, this Taoist priest was their enemy.

Ling Xiao snorted lightly and said lightly: "You still want Pindao to keep it a secret for you? Delusion! You two adulterers have lived happily for so many years. On the contrary, Mrs. Zhang was so angry by you that she gave birth prematurely. She has not been pregnant all these years.

What kind of retribution? You wantonly suppress Zhang’s son’s family, do you think God won’t give you retribution?”

The people eating melon on the side were almost shocked, what? These two people are still hooking up? A young person glanced at Wang and saw that she was an old woman with dark skin and a mean face. How could she hook up with Li Shitou?

?

I don’t know what kind of eyes Li Shitou has, but he actually fell in love with her. Is he blind? Someone murmured. Ling Xiao almost died laughing when she heard this. In her eyes, she didn’t comment on how Wang looked, because time was

A butcher's knife makes people grow old. Many good-looking beauties are not beautiful when they grow old.

However, the only thing Ling Xiao felt was that Wang was very short. No wonder her biological sons were all shorter. The head still remembered that Wang was very pretty when she was young. She was a very petite and delicate woman, like a small fan pendant.

If we just talk about beauty, Wang did surpass Zhang when she was young, but now that she is older, and there is no cash cow, Song, she has a lot less money, which makes her look more miserable.

Li Shitou and his wife looked at Ling Xiao in horror. It has been a long time since this incident, and they have been deliberately erasing the traces of the Zhang family. Even Li Han didn't know that he had a biological mother. This was the fate of them.

The reason for not letting him have a future is that they don't want outsiders to know about Zhang's situation. It's best to be forgotten forever.

In addition to being frightened, Wang was also a little angry because she heard someone in the village saying she was ugly. This discovery made her unable to accept it. You must know that Li Shitou was truly in love with her and had always been good to her, but as a person who was once very smart,

A beautiful woman never wants to be called ugly.

Ling Xiao looked at the two people clinging to each other and marveled, "Zhang and the old man will be very angry if they know about it underground. Li Shitou doesn't know if you go underground, will you go to the eighteenth level of hell?"

"

Li Shitou trembled when he heard this, because he was more afraid of his own father. When the old man was alive, he only dared to attack in secret, and did not dare to confront him openly. After the old man passed away, he began to let himself go. He has never dared to think about anything.

What should I do if I die and go to the underworld?

After hearing Ling Xiao's words, Li Shitou's body trembled intensified. After seeing this scene, Ling Xiao turned his eyes to Wang, "Before, I was wondering why Li Hai reported false accounts at such a young age. It turns out that it is due to his family background.

.

Mrs. Wang, you yourself know the value of the Song family's embroidery, and you deliberately want your younger son Li Hai to take advantage of it, right? After getting the money in exchange for the Song family's embroidery, you still say that the Song family is lazy and can't do any work.

I will do it." After saying this, Ling Xiao looked at Wang.

I don't know why Ling Xiao's plain voice made Wang very angry, and she felt extremely wronged. A series of shouts came out in her heart: Why did she become a step-in-law? She obviously knew Li Shitou earlier.

Finally, she couldn't bear it and broke out, "So what? When I think of Li Han being Zhang's son, I am very angry. We have been together for a long time, but Shitou's father refuses to let Zhang in.

What?"

Ling Xiao wanted to laugh when he heard this. At another time, this would definitely have won applause. Wang's words would have been welcomed by many people. After all, marriage is free! If you want to get married, you need the consent of both parties. Arranged marriages are illegal.

Maybe in the eyes of a certain type of people in later generations, Wang's behavior was not bad, and she could be molded into a woman who opposed the feudal patriarchal system, and Li Shitou and Wang were the anti-feudal model.

Looking at Wang who was chattering a little, Ling Xiao listened quietly. Watching Wang continue to act, Ling Xiao didn't know what to say. Why didn't Ling Xiao say anything about ethics when he co-authored that he and Li Shitou were in true love?

When facing Li Han and his wife, he repeatedly used feudal etiquette to restrain others.

Judging from her behavior, she still feels that she did nothing wrong. She probably thinks that she and Li Shitou belong to the kind of true love, and the first wife Zhang, who obeys her parents' orders to be a matchmaker, is the third party.

Bar?

If this is the case, she should be the kind of person who opposes feudal ethics, so Ling Xiao is confused: why does she use the privileges of her elders to suppress Li Han and his wife in daily life? What a fighter against feudal ethics! In short, just for

It's good for yourself, and you don't care about the life or death of others.

Co-author waited until the feudal etiquette became useful to her, then her attitude changed and she began to use the feudal etiquette liberally. She was still able to speak plausibly when faced with accusations from others. She then jumped left and right between opposing feudal etiquette and supporting feudal etiquette.

Ling Xiao couldn't agree with this behavior. If she wanted to oppose feudal ethics, she would always oppose feudal ethics. If Wang could really do this, she would get Ling Xiao's heartfelt approval, because she had always been against feudal ethics.

In fact, Mrs. Wang has not always insisted on her own ideas, so she is simply a double standard gou. The theory of true love she keeps saying is a bit treacherous in this era where filial piety is the most important thing.

People like Wang have only one thought in their remarks: there is always a feeling in her words and deeds: I am the most reasonable person in the world! This person should not be named Wang, but should be named Li. Everything she said is

You don't need to care about what others say.

Thinking of this, a sneer appeared at the corner of Ling Xiao's mouth, and turned to ask the village chief: "Liang Zhang, I have something I don't know whether to ask or not. Now the marriages in your village are all decided by themselves like the Wang family? Men marry women.

Is marriage a matter of self-seeking, or is it not the order of parents or the words of a matchmaker?"

The village chief who had been listening was a little confused at the moment. He did not expect that Wang would say such words. After hearing Ling Xiao's words, he turned around and said: "Taoist priest, these days, of course it is the parents who order the matchmaker.

Then anyone who has sex without a matchmaker is not a good thing."

The director didn't look at Mrs. Wang at all, because he felt that the other party looked dirty, which came from the depths of his heart. He might have hooked up with her a long time ago. As a woman, Zhang was looking for someone to bully her when she was about to give birth.

She was born prematurely and almost killed two people. These two people are really cruel.


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