As soon as these words came out, Cheng Qiniang did not have the reaction she expected. The three sisters looked at her in confusion.
Is this a nickname Cheng Qiniang gives to someone he doesn’t like?
Are they the sisters in the clan or the ladies they are dating?
"Which fool?" Cheng Wuniang asked.
"Who else can there be?" Cheng Qiniang shouted unhappily, "Isn't there just one fool in the family?"
Pouting.
"Are you all fools too? You don't even understand this..."
The three of them suddenly realized.
"Oh, um, your eldest sister!" Cheng Liu Niang nodded and said.
Cheng Qiniang jumped up immediately.
"That, that's your sister!" She pouted and shouted, "Auntie said she was raising her! She is also the closest to you!"
You are really a kid, is this the time to get entangled in Hua Tou?
Cheng Liu Niang snorted and ignored it.
"How could she get married?" she said. "How could a fool get married?"
Cheng Qiniang sat down.
"Really, I just heard what my father and mother said." She said, tilting her head and recalling, "Since the Zhou family is making a fuss about asking Geng Tie to marry a fool, then let's find someone to marry her to.
yes."
Zhou family.
Hearing this sentence, Cheng Liuniang and others all understood.
People from the Zhou family have been coming to the house for several days. They wanted to find out why it was inconvenient for their daughter's family to find out in person. However, the house was only so big and no news could be hidden. The news was soon conveyed by their respective maids.
The Zhou family came to ask for that fool's Geng Tie and take away his mother's dowry.
How could the Cheng family agree to such a thing? They refused without hesitation. The two parties had been quarreling for several days. Mr. Cheng who was away also took leave and was called back to argue.
"The Zhou family didn't want that fool to marry, they just wanted to steal the dowry." Cheng Liu Niang said with some understanding, "There are no good people in the Zhou family."
There are no good people in the Zhou family, otherwise a fool would not be born. This is the unanimous decision of the Cheng family, just like the Zhou family believes that there are no good people in the Cheng family, so they let their daughter give birth to a fool.
This concept has been ingrained in the minds of children since they were young, and they are convinced of it.
"That is to say, who would marry a fool?" Cheng Qiniang nodded and said with a look of fear and disgust.
"A fool too?" Cheng Wuniang answered.
Cheng Qiniang chuckled.
"Wu Niang, don't make me laugh." She said with a smile, grabbing the two gold pendants on her temples and shaking them.
Cheng Wuniang covered her mouth with a fan and smiled with her eyes narrowed.
"Really, what fool is getting married? I think the Zhou family doesn't want to raise that fool anymore, so they are looking for excuses to cause trouble." Cheng Liu Niang said, looking at Cheng Qiniang, "Second uncle is the same, just follow what they say.
?You see, as soon as the second uncle said that he would find someone for that fool, the Zhou family would definitely send him there immediately. The second aunt also looked at the money and didn’t even think about what we would do when the fool came back.
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Cheng Siniang and Cheng Wuniang looked embarrassed. Mrs. Cheng Er was their legitimate mother, but Mrs. Cheng was the housewife of the family. As common children, they really didn't know what to say, so they had to lower their heads and pretend not to hear.
Although Cheng Qiniang was young, she still understood the words and sat upright after hearing the words.
"That's not the case with my mother. It's the eldest aunt who only cares about money and only takes money from herself to make us frugal," she said crisply.
"You don't know how expensive firewood and rice are when you're not a family member!" Cheng Liu Niang also sat up straight and raised her eyebrows and said, "If you didn't only have money in your eyes, how could you be so short-sighted?"
Cheng Qiniang, who was a few years younger, couldn't speak well and was so angry that she cried.
"A crybaby will only cry when you are unreasonable." Cheng Liuniang said, "You are spoiled by your crying parents and grandmothers at home, but your husband and parents-in-law will not spoil you when you get married in the future!"
The girls and servants from outside all rushed in, coaxing and pulling.
"We won't play with her if we don't play with her." Cheng Qiniang cried and asked the maids and servants to pull Cheng Siniang and Cheng Wuniang away.
The room was in a mess.
The maid who was walking by not far away couldn't help but look over.
"Okay, why are the girls making trouble again?"
"It's not because people from the Zhou family are here."
"What does this have to do with that?"
"Speaking of that fool."
"Oh, yes, nothing good will happen if you get involved with this fool."
There was a guest sitting in the hall of Mrs. Cheng Er. She was a woman about thirty years old, with a fair face. She smiled humbly in front of Mrs. Cheng Er and watched Mrs. Cheng Er comfort Cheng Qiniang. This woman
People also responded with a few words of comfort.
"Come on, Qiniang, don't cry." She said, "Aunt Eight will give you this to play with."
As she spoke, she took off a gold ring from her hand and handed it to Cheng Qiniang.
This ring had been worn for some years. It was thin and there was nothing special about it. Cheng Qiniang couldn't see anything, so she didn't say anything. She deliberately touched her face with her hands and showed off the red gold twisted gold bracelet she was wearing.
Then he raised his feet and ran away.
The woman took back the ring and sat down halfway on the cushion.
"Seventh Lady is so obedient. She stopped crying after being persuaded." She said to save herself.
Mrs. Cheng Er was a little impatient.
"If you have any questions, just tell me." She said, reaching out to press her brow, "Look at my house, it's not clean every day."
The woman's expression became even more sullen as she was urged.
"The second brother was originally studying with his uncle. Unexpectedly, he fell ill a year ago, his father had no livelihood, and the fields were not good at farming. He finally survived the spring and wanted to raise the fish pond in the east of the city...
"As she spoke, she stuttered more and more, lowered her head and her voice became smaller and smaller.
"To say that this life is difficult, it is difficult for everyone. I think it is easy for me, but in fact it is not easy. If I don't live at home, I will just be cold and hungry." Mrs. Cheng Er didn't wait for her to say anything else, and took over the words.
The woman responded with a shy smile.
"... Qiniang and Ge'er are still young, but they have to prepare for them. There are two daughters in the family who are also old, and the older one in front is about to get married. I am a stepmother and can't let him.
If you look down upon me, you should grit your teeth and deal with it..." Mrs. Cheng Er continued.
"The big one?" The woman couldn't help answering, with a bit of surprise, "You want to kiss me too?"
When the eldest daughter of the family, the nineteen-year-old lady, got married to someone else, she had a stupid boy in front of her, which was well known to the whole family.
"If we don't talk about marriage, how can we stay at home for the rest of our lives?" Mrs. Cheng Er said angrily, getting angry when she talked about this, and she was not in the mood to deal with this woman who came to her mother's family to fight in the autumn wind.
Let’s entertain, there are still guests at home.”
After being ordered to evict guests, the woman had no choice but to go out. Because it didn't matter, the woman who saw her off was also lazy and absent-minded.
When we walked to the outer courtyard, we could faintly hear the noise of men, and the two women looked at each other and smiled.
"...The eldest master and the second master started to quarrel with the Zhou family again... They have been arguing for so many days and they are not over yet."
"...The idiot has so much dowry, how can he just say it all? If they are all taken away by the Zhou family, our Cheng family will be emptied in half. How can the master and his wife agree to it? It would be stupid not to argue."
The woman who had been listening to the conversation between the two women suddenly became alert.
Dowry? Half of the Cheng family?
"Which Zhou family are the two mothers talking about?" she couldn't help but ask.
The two women looked at her disdainfully, knowing that she was a poor relative from the second wife's natal family who came to fight the autumn breeze.
"They are the natal family of our second wife and the in-laws of our second wife." They said in a deliberately emphasized tone.
Even if the legitimate wife is dead, even if the Peng family is alive and the Peng family is more important, logically speaking, the orthodox in-laws of the second wife of the Cheng family will always be the Zhou family.
The woman didn't care about this. Whoever the Cheng family valued was not her. Her heart was pounding as she repeated the words "dowry" and "half of the Cheng family".
"That fool is the eldest lady, right? Why does the Zhou family want to take away her dowry?" she asked with a smile.
"When the eldest lady wants to get married, she will naturally take away the dowry." The mother-in-law curled her lips and said, "Our eldest lady's dowry is..."
The woman next to me coughed and interrupted her words.
"It's getting late, please go away, we have to be busy." The woman said, pulling the other one and walking away.
The woman watched the two people walk away with some regret, and stood blankly at the door for a moment.
That fool at the head, really has that much dowry?
On the other side of the house, Cheng Silang put down his books in the study.
The girl Chunlan, who was standing quietly at the side, hurriedly went over to ask.
"Are they arguing again?" Cheng Silang listened attentively.
"Have you disturbed the young master while he was reading?" Chunlan asked with concern.
Cheng Silang smiled and shook his head.
"Read with your heart, and don't be disturbed by external things." He said, "I'm tired from reading, so I need to take a rest."
Chunlan breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.
"Then I'll serve the tea." She said happily, "I finally bought the plain tea snacks from Xuanmiao Temple. Let me try it, sir."
Cheng Silang stood up and walked to the desks on the other side, looking at the paper covered with gauze on the table.
"The dim sum at Xuanmiao Temple is really popular." He sighed casually.
"No matter how popular it is, you can still buy it. It's just a coincidence that every time our family goes to buy something, it's always gone." Chunlan said, carrying a tray over and watching Cheng Silang look at several cases, "Sir, do you want to paint?
?”
"There are still a few strokes left to finish the painting." Cheng Silang said, taking away a somewhat pleased smile.
"Young master, I've been working on this painting for a long time. It's finally finished. May I have a look, please?" Chunlan asked with a smile, walking a few steps over.
"No, you can't tell anything when you look at half of the painting. It will be more interesting after you finish looking through it." Cheng Silang said with a smile.
While the master and servant were talking, a girl came in to salute.
"Fourth Young Master, Madam, please come over," she said.
Cheng Silang had just gone out, and Chunlan was putting away the refreshments when someone lifted the curtain and came in.
"Huh? Shiro isn't here?"
Chunlan turned around and saw a young man in a blue robe with wide sleeves and a straight hem. He was about the same age as Cheng Silang. He was quite handsome, but his eyebrows were raised and his cheeks and ears were flaring, making him look a bit frivolous.
Seeing him come in, Chunlan couldn't help but hide back subconsciously, but the young man still hit her face with a fan.
"Why is the little beauty alone in the room?" he said with a smile.
Chunlan blushed with a bit of embarrassment.
"Seventeenth Young Master." She avoided him by giving him a courtesy, "Young Master has just gone to the eldest lady's place."
This is Mrs. Cheng's natal nephew. He has been studying at the Cheng family recently to study. He says he is borrowing money to study, but in fact he is just trying to avoid trouble at home.
"Oh, then I'll wait for him to come back." The Seventeenth Young Master said, walking in and looking at Chunlan with raised eyebrows, "Chunlan, bring me a bowl of tea."
When spring came, his face was filled with worries, but he had no choice but to pour tea. From the corner of his eye, he saw the Seventeenth Young Master rummaging around in the room.
"Seventeenth Young Master, please," she said.
The Seventeenth Young Master took it with one hand. Although Chunlan hid quickly, she was pinched hard. Chunlan was so angry that she had tears in her eyes.
The Seventeenth Young Master was still walking around the room with tea in hand, and suddenly stopped in front of several covered tables.
"What is this?" he asked, holding out his hand.
"Seventeenth Young Master, please don't move. My Young Master's painting has not been finished yet, so he is not allowed to move." Chunlan shouted hurriedly, without fear of being frivolously stepped forward to stop her.
But it was still a step too late. The Seventeenth Young Master reached out and opened the cover.
"What good things are you still refusing to move?" he sneered.
The cover was lifted, and a painting on the table appeared before our eyes.
The Seventeenth Young Master and Chunlan, who was so anxious to stand up, were startled when they saw a beautiful woman suddenly appeared in front of them, lifting the curtain from a car and looking over.
Smokey eyebrows enter the temples, black hair hangs down behind, and the face is as bright and bright, unmoved and dull, but it is breathtaking.
"What a beauty..." Young Master Seventeen muttered blankly, "Who is this?"
Chunlan stretched out her hand to hold her collar, not even noticing that she was standing so close to the annoying Seventeenth Young Master. Looking at the painting in front of her, a person she had seen before merged with it.
In the small Taoist temple in the mountains, the door in the hall was half open, and a woman looked over with a scroll in her hand.
It turns out that she is so beautiful under the soap gauze.
"That stupid wife from the second master's house..." She also murmured in reply.
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An update today.
Recommendation: Lihuabai's "Splendid Garden"
A time-traveling girl who has no setbacks is not a good heroine, but she doesn’t have to be so hard-working, right?
My engagement was broken off, I was kicked out by my biological father, and I was locked out by my uncle. I was angry. If you have any other suggestions, just say hello. I still have a golden finger. It is not impossible to build a beautiful garden from scratch! (To be continued)
