"Dad, you haven't turned a page in the book for a long time, but there are some words you don't recognize?" Yan Tian's charming voice immediately smoothed the old father's frown.
Yan Wenkuan unconsciously put a smile on his face. He raised his head and saw his daughter's stretched and cheerful eyebrows under the shadow of the lamp. There was a bit of mischief and teasing hidden in the flowery smile. Before he knew it, most of the depression in his heart had gone away.
"Have you eaten enough for dinner?" Yan Wenkuan waved to his daughter, "I asked Aunt Hu to heat the milk and let Xiaozhu bring it later."
"I know, Aunt Hu just told me. A serious father should have a drink. After all, he drank wine at night. I have asked Aunt Hu to cook another bowl."
As he spoke, Yan Tian came forward, leaned over the desk with his hands on his cheeks, and looked at his father with a smile, "Daddy, is... something bothering you? Let me guess, is it someone from that room in Beijing who told you again? What unpleasant words did they say? You still listen to them? In the words of an old farmer, you don’t plant crops even if you listen to the cries of crickets?"
"Vulgar!" Yan Wenkuan tapped Yan Tian's forehead with his finger, and the smile on his face couldn't help but grow thicker. But then he sighed again, "This time your second cousin came to see dad, and what he said made sense..."
"Yo?" Yan Tian was happy, "This time, dad actually thinks that the people in that room are reasonable? Could it be that they are here to persuade dad to marry again? From this point of view, this time it should not be with Princess Kang. That 200-pound niece?"
"Nonsense!" Yan Wenkuan glared at Yan Tian, but it was not a deterrent. "That's your great-grandmother! And what about this room and that room? The girl's family speaks so unruly! No wonder..."
"No wonder the family in the capital came to trouble dad again after my grandma passed away?" Yan Tian raised his eyebrows and suddenly became serious.
"It can't be said that I'm here to cause trouble..."
"But you are definitely not here to do good deeds?" Yan Tian sneered and sat down opposite his father, "Dad, don't blame your daughter for not having a good impression of the family in Beijing. In fact, as long as the daughter can remember, in addition to her grandfather who often sends people to inquire about her, her aunt's branch It is true that there is no communication.
"If it continues like this, we will be in peace with each other. But they have some evil intentions, which is really annoying.
“When my daughter was ten years old, her aunt’s grandmother sent someone to persuade her father to remarry, under the guise of ‘the daughter is old and needs guidance.’ But in fact, she wanted to force her unmarried niece to her father.
"The legitimate daughter of my grandmother's sister, Princess Zhuang Xiang, sounds really thunderous and flattering. But she is actually a useless person who is four feet tall and weighs more than 200 kilograms. She can only lie in bed because she has been too fat for more than 20 years!
"When my daughter was thirteen, my aunt sent someone to say that she would take her to Beijing to be educated. But what happened? She actually had the intention of sending her to the palace!
"Thanks to my father's insight and grandfather's kindness, none of these schemes came true. But my daughter no longer trusts the people in the same family in Beijing.
"My daughter was joking just now because she wanted to make dad happy. But if you want to talk about why my second cousin Ba'er Baer came to Luozhou now... Oh, my daughter naturally knows it!"
Yan Tian looked at his father as he spoke, raising the corners of his mouth with a face full of sarcasm, "My great-grandmother is dead and my grandfather is still alive, so the people in that house would not dare to manipulate my father anymore. But as a junior of Ding'an Marquis, my daughter My son, although he is far away in Luozhou, his reputation is well-known.
"I must have ruined one of their futures or blocked someone's way out, so they sent someone here, trying to show off to us for violating the ancestral teachings. Either to give a lecture. Or to use some excuse. Arranging his daughter's marriage.
"My daughter can't just follow their wishes! This world is so big, I, Yan Tian, don't believe that a woman can only get married!
"If it doesn't work out, what about the Taoist nunnery? At worst, I'll cut my hair and become a sister-in-law..."
"Nonsense!" Before Yan Tian finished speaking, Yan Wenkuan, who usually loved his daughter as much as she loved her, suddenly changed his expression. He suddenly stood up, shook his hands, pointed at Yan Tian, and after a while he managed to suppress his anger and shouted in a low voice, "Yan Tian! Kneel down!"
Yan Tian was shocked. My father was always kind, but he rarely spoke so harshly. Knowing that what he just said really offended his father and made him angry, he quickly took up his skirt and knelt down.
"My old father is still here, how dare you say this about leaving a monk and entering the Tao? You need to know that a monk cuts off the seven emotions, purifies the six roots, and abandons kindness before entering inaction. "Sengji" says: 'A monk is not allowed to call his mother, father, brothers, etc. by their names. , or even aunts, etc., can only be called Upasaka Upasika.'
"If you become a monk and become a Buddhist monk, you must abandon the kindness of your parents and become a layman. My father has raised you for sixteen years, and you have not even experienced your filial piety for a day. You have to cut off your relationship with your father? You... little White-eyed wolf!”
"My daughter knows she made a mistake." Yan Tian saw his father was so excited and knew he had made a mistake. He hurriedly knelt forward and said, "Dad, don't be angry. Why don't you hit your daughter twice? But don't get angry."
When Yan Tian did this, it actually wiped away eight points of the anger in Yan Wenkuan's heart. He sighed, stretched out his hand to help his daughter up: "Don't talk nonsense like this again. My father still wants you to take care of yourself until you die."
"Dad will naturally live a long life!" Yan Tian stood up and sat next to his father with a smile. He stretched out his hand and brought the tea bowl in front of him, "Dad, drink the hot tea quickly to moisten your throat."
Seeing her like this, Yan Wenkuan lost his temper even more, sighed again, and had to calm down and slowly reason with Yan Tian.
"My father is asking you, are the words you just said about our family in Beijing really true to your thoughts?" Seeing Yan Tian nod, Yan Wenkuan shook his head and sighed, "If it hadn't been for your second cousin's visit today, my father wouldn't have known that you were like this. So full of resentment!
"It would not be entirely correct to say that you are narrow-minded and unforgivable. After all, my son is smart, and you have your own judgment in your heart about right and wrong.
"What I want to say as a father today is not about right and wrong. Because these can only be used to resolve cases, but cannot be used to deal with family affairs.
"You have been very talented in making judgments since you were a child, but because of this, although you know right from wrong, you hate evil as much as hatred and are not good at being tolerant. You are too stubborn to know what is right or wrong, but you have forgotten what the word 'family' is?
"Home is the worst place to talk about right and wrong! The ancients said: Family members have made mistakes. It is not appropriate to get angry or abandon them lightly. Instead of completely denying your family after taking one mistake like you do. You can't use it to vent your anger and make you angry. If you don't use it, you will abandon your entire family..."
"You treat them as family, but they don't necessarily." Yan Tian couldn't help but mutter in a low voice.
"You kid!" Yan Wenkuan glared, but finally continued patiently: "What will you do in the future with your lonely temperament? What do you think you can do as a father without the protection of the big tree of Ding'an Houfu? You have been an official for more than ten years, but you are stable and promoted step by step? How can you be so showy that all the county and county officials give you face?"
"My father has been promoted step by step because of his superior ability and outstanding political achievements. I can show off as much as I want, because of my father's love and full protection."
"Idiot!" Yan Wenkuan shook his head repeatedly, "There are many officials with extraordinary abilities and outstanding political achievements, but how many of them only stick to a seventh-grade county magistrate throughout their lives. And you think that just because your father is a fourth-grade magistrate? If you indulge, those high-ranking officials below will obey the orders of a yellow-haired girl like you?
"Just like this time, you secretly went to inspect the public situation in various counties for your father years ago. The officials in those counties were all on tenterhooks and fearful. They were afraid that something would go wrong within the county's jurisdiction, and they were even more afraid that you, Miss Yan, would be in their jurisdiction. Something went wrong.
Just because you are a girl from Ding'an Hou Mansion. If you are wrong in the slightest, there is no way your grandfather could go to the Golden Palace and go straight to Heaven!
"In the final analysis, all the conveniences and privileges that you and my daughter enjoy are because we were born in Ding'an Marquis Mansion. There are people in the court who are related to the clan, and we have our backs against the big trees to enjoy the shade.
"Furthermore, your great-grandmother did have some small thoughts during her lifetime, but she never hindered her future as a father. Even when your great-grandmother was alive, she would ignore it at most, but she would have to pay the monthly expenses. He never buckled down harshly and never treated us mother and son harshly.
"Whether it is the pride of her clan daughter or the magnanimity of the mistress of the Hou Mansion, her father must remember her kindness.
"Even the two stories you told me, when I said no, your aunt just put her hands down and there was no more entanglement. It's hard to judge the grudges of the previous generation as a father, but your aunt was also a Poor man.
"Therefore, what you said about 'showing prestige' and 'blocking people's future' really makes no sense. And your anger towards the main family in Beijing is even more exaggerated. Do you want to know that there are intact eggs under the cover of the nest?
"You are a girl from the Ding'an Marquis' Mansion, and you will suffer both prosperity and loss. If anything bad happens to you, it will naturally affect the Marquis' Mansion. And if there is anything bad in the Marquis' Mansion, it will block your future and even your life.
"So what your second cousin said when he came to look for my father this time is not completely unreasonable. And my father has indeed been too indulgent to you in these years."
"What did the second cousin say to father?" Yan Tian became wary.
Yan Wenkuan looked at Yan Tian and did not answer. After a long while, he said: "Although my son is a woman, her talents are not inferior to those of men, and her ambition is not inferior to that of her husband. But the world is harsh and unfair to women, so that if a woman makes one mistake, her reputation will be ruined." . Even those extraordinary women who served the country and the people in the history books have received mixed praise and praise...
"As a father, I have no hope that your daughter will become a phoenix. I only hope that you will be free from illness and disaster, live a happy life, and that your husband and wife will be harmonious in the future and that your family will be full of children and grandchildren."
"Daddy..."
"You will be sixteen after the Chinese New Year, but you haven't made an engagement yet. This is indeed your father's fault. My son, do you still remember your cousin Tian Shuangquan from the Tian family? He is the younger brother of your grandmother Tian's family, and your uncle Grandson of the Duke.
"Your biological grandmother had one brother and one brother. That brother was your grandfather. I married his daughter, my cousin, who is your mother.
"As for that younger brother, because he was young, in order to avoid following your maternal ancestors and being sent to the north, he was adopted into the Chiharada family. And because everyone in that branch married early, even though he was the youngest son, his descendants Two years older than you.
"Some time ago, I sent someone to Chiyuan to visit your maternal grandparents' graves, and I happened to find him. According to the person who was sent, this child was born with handsome features, and now he has a reputation as a scholar. Unfortunately, he had a hard life. In the past two years, This child's parents and your uncle and aunt have all passed away one after another. Now he has no relatives around him. He only works and studies alone in Chiyuan's hometown. But he is a very motivated and honest person.
"I have written to him several times before. He is indeed a decent boy with an open mind. He actually told his father that we wanted to live together and that the second child you gave birth to would be named Yan.
“Of course, the father doesn’t care about this, he just wants to say that this child has a heart.
"My father doesn't want you to marry into a wealthy family. With your temper, you will definitely suffer when you marry into such a family. It's better to find a young man with a simple family and a gentle and progressive temperament. In the future, even if your father will take care of you, you won't be able to bear it. What a grievance.
"Therefore, I have sent someone to Chiyuan to pick up your Tian family cousin. I think he will be able to reach Luozhou before he comes."
What? What! Yan Tian was immediately struck by thunder, and was so shocked by the "good news" thrown out by her father that she could not recover for a long time.
Why did this style of painting take a sudden turn for the worse? Wasn't it just "a loving father nurturing his daughter"? I was about to burst into tears, regretting my mistake, and once again expressed my determination to respect my elders from now on. Why did the style of painting suddenly change and become "resenting father for forcing marriage"?
ah! ah! ah! She doesn’t want to get married! She doesn't want her husband and children to be trapped in the back house!
It was unreasonable to become a monk and become a Taoist, and to travel around the world through cultivation, but that was indeed what she had always wanted!
Yan Tian, who forced a smile on the surface, had already chopped her second cousin into pieces in her heart.
Yan Yu! You bastard! What on earth did you say to my father? ! !
