Li Pingyuan's words broke the happy atmosphere of Zhuang Xun and the others, and suddenly made the atmosphere tense.
"Pingyuan, now that things have come to this, you can't possibly prevent that girl Ru Si from marrying the censor." Since the old man was sure that Zhuang Xun understood what he was implying, the other party also regarded the Li family as his wife's family. It means that he wants to speak to his own people.
In fact, Zhuang Xun didn't understand. It was just that Li Chengzhi showed up. He already knew the purpose of the old people's coming. He knew what they meant even if he didn't understand what the old people meant when they mentioned Mrs. Jiang.
"What are you doing here today?" Li Pingyuan asked Zhuang Xun the purpose of coming today. He asked knowingly so that he could attack later.
"I've come to ask you to marry Ru Si as my equal wife. I hope Uncle Li will grant her permission." Zhuang Xun stood up from the seat where he was kneeling, walked out of the seat, faced Li Pingyuan face to face, knelt down and held his hands in his hands to request.
"My daughter will not be a concubine for others!" Li Pingyuan slapped the table and said firmly, anger rising in his words.
"Not a concubine, but a common wife." Zhuang Xun would not be intimidated, even if this person was Li Pingyuan, who commanded the victory in the battle of Xishui.
"What's the difference between this and being a concubine?" Li Pingyuan's eyes were like an eagle, scanning Zhuang Xun. Zhuang Xun had the illusion that he was being targeted by a tiger. If he couldn't say a word, the tiger would get up and bite him.
"Nature is equal to my wife, and the child is my legitimate son, but when facing my wife, I must call her sister, with my wife as the first." This was the bottom line condition that Zhuang Xun and Si Qinmi discussed, pushed and pulled, and finally reached.
Si Qin Mi generously said that even if it was exactly the same, it would be fine, but Zhuang Xun disagreed, and in the end Si Qin Mi gave in to him with a smile.
Li Pingyuan spoke angrily, but Zhuang Xun answered seriously. Li Pingyuan suddenly didn't know how to answer the question.
He felt the sincerity of Zhuang Xun's attitude, and he spoke with a clear voice. Some people's words are so convincing, not to mention Zhuang Xun who had been taught by Si Qin Mi every day. These words came from the heart, and Li Pingyuan couldn't find fault even if he wanted to. Don't know where to start.
He probably couldn't find anything to say, because Zhuang Xun had put his bottom line here, so Li Pingyuan could only say dryly: "Is it so difficult to marry Ru Si and become his wife?"
"Uncle Li, marriage is a major event in life. If your wife is virtuous but has not lost her virtue, why should you divorce her? If you divorce your wife unreasonably today and cling to the power of the Li family, will you give up Ru Si tomorrow to cling to stronger power?" With Li Chengzhi as his support, Zhuang Xun's tone seemed firm and unaffected by others.
This made Li Pingyuan choke. He wanted to get angry, but he didn't know where the anger came from.
Seeing the awkward situation between the future husband-in-law, a clan elder stepped forward to smooth things over.
"The Censor is a gentleman who is well-known in Jizhou. When a gentleman acts, he is naturally a bit stubborn. Pingyuan, you have to understand. Don't ruin the reputation of the Censor."
With the help of the clan elders, the tense atmosphere was eased.
"A gentleman spends the night in the boudoir of the bride-to-be?" Li Pingyuan finally found his way down the steps and snorted coldly. He looked very aggressive, but in fact he was out of breath.
He was very angry about this matter, and finally had no choice but to agree. He didn't really want to ruin the marriage his daughter was looking for, but he just happily married his daughter off. How did others see him? Look at the Li family.
"This is Xun's fault. Isn't Xun going to ask Uncle Li to make up for it?" Zhuang Xun bravely admitted his mistake and said that there was nothing to shirk. It was his own fault for not paying attention to the defense between men and women.
"How to make up for it? Now that my daughter's reputation has been ruined, how can you make up for it!" Li Pingyuan raised his voice and stood up, holding on to the table.
"Dad, please calm down. Things have already happened. In order to preserve the reputation of the second sister, I'd better agree to this matter." Li Chengzhi hurriedly came out and stopped Li Pingyuan who was pretending to be angry.
"You guys, alas..." Even ten Li Chengzhi wasn't enough to fight Li Pingyuan, but Li Chengzhi still stopped Li Pingyuan.
"Uncle Li, I will definitely treat Ru Si well. Please help us." Seeing the situation, Zhuang Wen quickly took advantage of Li Pingyuan's softened attitude and said.
You play your part and I play mine, as long as everyone is happy watching it.
"How can I help you? You want me to marry the daughter of my Li family to you as an equal wife? How dare you be called a gentleman and do such a despicable thing!" Li Chengzhi broke away and got angry for the last time. Enough advice.
Now he was waiting for someone to persuade him that Li Pingyuan had done enough tricks, so that it would not appear that the Li family was in a hurry to marry off their daughter, but he walked very slowly, and still no one came forward.
Looking at Zhuang Xun kneeling on the ground, Li Pingyuan felt a little embarrassed. He found out the whole story. It was his daughter who took the initiative to set a trap for him. Zhuang Xun was the prey in the trap, which was quite pitiful.
Looking at Zhuang Xun's demeanor today, it's not a bad match for his daughter. After all, he knows his daughter's inherent flaws. If you really want to match a prince, you can match him in terms of status, but personally, it's not necessarily the case. , even he himself was influenced by the customs of Chengguo. Women must be sick and weak to make him like and pity her.
So why didn't anyone stop him? He glanced at Li Chengzhi from the corner of his eye. Li Chengzhi was standing there with no intention of pulling him forward. As for those old men, there was no need to think about it.
When he walked up to Zhuang Xun, Li Pingyuan was thinking about what he could say to make Zhuang Xun attack him, and then he passed out.
The rescuer appeared, but it was not the one he wanted.
"Daddy!" Standing in front of Li Pingyuan was Li Rusi. Today she was wearing a goose-yellow skirt, as light as a flying butterfly.
"Why are you here if you don't stay in the room?" Li Pingyuan breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, although Li Rusi came out in a bad way.
"Dad, do you want to hit Mr. Zhuang?" Li Rusi helped Zhuang Xun up. The height difference between the two made Li Pingyuan frown for the first time.
I didn't pay much attention to this issue just now. Zhuang Xun and the tall Li Rusi stood together. The sense of dissonance was obvious at a glance. There is no such thing as a strong woman and a weak man.
"Isn't he worthy of a beating? He came to ask for marriage and asked you to be his equal wife!" He was somewhat angry. His beloved daughter wanted to be his equal wife. Isn't it a better term for concubine?
"My daughter is willing. When she finds her husband, she just wants to be his concubine." Li Rusi said stubbornly.
"What are you talking about? You are the daughter of my Li family." What Li Pingyuan was worried about happened. This is why he didn't want to see Li Rusi.
In some respects, this daughter's stubbornness can be said to have been inherited from his old friend, his best friend during his travels in the world. Li Pingyuan felt that something big was going to happen today.
As expected, Li Rusi's face darkened and she said resolutely: "So even if it is embarrassing, even if it is to be a concubine, my daughter will marry Zhuang Lang as a concubine. Even the daughter of the Li family, no one is willing to marry their daughter. "
"How come there is no one to marry? Dad has made such a great contribution, and there are so many people who want to get married, and you are still worried about getting married?" Li Pingyuan said heartbroken.
"But it's rare to have a lover. My daughter likes Zhuang Lang. Even if her daughter sets a trap and slanders her reputation, she still wants to be with Zhuang Lang. Please let her father do it." Just as he stood up, Zhuang Xun was pulled to his knees by Li Rusi. .
"You, you, I don't agree..." Li Ping looked far away at his daughter who blew herself up. This is what you can say, setting a trap to tarnish your reputation and rushing to be someone else's concubine.
"If daddy tries to stop her, my daughter will hit this wall pillar and die." Li Rusi made a gesture and hit her head on the pillar. Before Li Pingyuan could react, Zhuang Xun subconsciously hugged her.
"Why are you crazy!" Zhuang Xun was a little frightened by Li Rusi's movements and hugged her tightly. This was the first time he hugged Li Rusi. She looked slim on the outside, but she was still soft and fleshy on the inside.
Then looking up at Li Pingyuan's strange eyes, Zhuang Xun suddenly realized that he seemed to have overreacted. Li Rusi was probably just acting, why did he take it seriously.
"Pingyuan, it's like this, don't be a bad person." The leading clan elder looked at this farce and stood up, tapping his cane on the ground.
"Get up quickly, everyone is watching, how unbecoming you are!" The leading clan elder motioned to the elders behind him, and they stopped Li Pingyuan.
Zhuang Xun let go of Li Rusi. Li Rusi's delicate dimple was as red as a peach, and the juice was about to squeeze out when he pinched it.
"Unworthy girl, unworthy girl..." Li Pingyuan's expression changed quickly and he immediately started to become annoyed, but he didn't know how much he was really annoyed.
"Okay, stop talking. Now we have no reason. Pingyuan, please take a step back. This matter is like this. You go down first. Don't be angry with your father." Mediate a few people, He Xini, let Li Ru Go down.
"Ru Si understands." Li Rusi grabbed Zhuang Xun's hand and pulled him out of the lobby.
"Si'er, isn't it good for you to be like this?" Zhuang Xun was pulled by Li Rusi, like a sister holding a younger brother.
"Huh? Si'er knows, on purpose." Li Rusi held Zhuang Xun's hand with a smile on her face.
"Why?" Zhuang Xun couldn't understand.
"Come to Si'er's boudoir, Si'er will tell you slowly." Li Rusi looked around and felt that this was not the place to talk.
"Boudoir?" Zhuang Xun couldn't help but tremble, feeling guilty.
"Don't worry, I won't set a condom on you this time." Seeing Zhuang Xun's frightened look, Li Rusi chuckled.
"No, it's not good for me to enter your boudoir as a male family member." Zhuang Xun was a little scared.
"You are about to become Si'er's husband. Why are you so shy? If you don't look at me this time, you won't be able to see her when you go to our house in the future." Li Rusi took Zhuang Xun's hand and pulled him to her room.
After passing through the rockeries, courtyards and pavilions, Li Rusi's room was not much different from what Zhuang Xun expected. After all, he had slept there in Yu State, so the style was similar.
There is some scholarly atmosphere, some calligraphy and paintings are hung, there are some books, and there are also some silks and needlework. At a glance, it is not as exquisite as Si Qin Mixiu. It is a normal room, but there are two more pretty maids.
"Yunyin, Zhihua, come and meet your future master." Li Rusi greeted the two maids.
"Miss, this..." The two of them looked hesitant at the same time.
"Master." But the response was not slow and they all said in unison.
"Don't call it that..." Zhuang Xun shook his head quickly.
"That's what I call you. You have to accompany me to marry me. It's better to get used to it in advance." Li Rusi saw Zhuang Xun again and took Zhuang Xun home, feeling happy.
"This is the picture of the riverbank at the beginning of spring. It's everyone..."
"This is the gold inlaid with jade from Jing Kingdom..."
"The tears in the East China Sea are said to be the tears of the sharks..."
Zhuang Xun felt more and more depressed as he listened to her introduction.
"What's wrong, Mr. Zhuang, you two go out, and Mr. Zhuang and I will have a few words." Seeing that Zhuang Xun's expression was not right, Li Rusi backed away from the two maids.
"Well, I may not have that much money." Zhuang Xun said with a slight embarrassment. The future wife showed off how arrogant her family was.
"You know that the place I want to govern will cost a lot of money. I know that at this point, it is inevitable for you to marry me. I may not be able to buy you any of these things. I'm sorry." Zhuang Xun was ashamed. To put it bluntly, I never imagined that these objects in a seemingly simple room could be so unusual and worth thousands of dollars.
He is not a miser and does not dare to buy things for his wife, but now it is better to keep the gold and silver in the territory for development. He knows where the money should be spent.
The place he governed was prosperous, and Zhuang Xun didn't mind enjoying life, but the place he governed was obviously very poor, and he really was in no mood to spend money on enjoyment, and he felt quite guilty.
"Mr. Zhuang...it's really interesting. Do you think Si'er is showing off to you how luxurious Si'er's home is, so that you can buy these things for Si'er?" Li Rusi grabbed Zhuang Xun's wrist.
"Si'er, you may not mean this. You just want to share your treasure with me. I thought too much." Zhuang Xun took the initiative to admit his mistake and said that he thought too much and was too sensitive.
"That's true. I want Mr. Zhuang to see the treasures that Si'er has saved. Some of them were rewarded by the emperor, my sister, my father, and others." Li Rusi agreed with Zhuang Xun's words. The superficial shame becomes even more apparent.
"These are all in the past tense, because Si'er is going to marry into Zhuang Lang's family, so these can be sold for money to support Zhuang Lang in your development of Jiannan." Li Rusi changed the topic and expressed her plan.
"Ah? There's no need... there's no need for this!" Zhuang Xun then realized that he couldn't break free from Li Rusi's wrist, just like she couldn't break free from her own palm before.
"My sister once made clothes for Mr. Zhuang for half a month to make you look good, and wore rags to save money. Now Ru Si sells these to support Mr. Zhuang's development of Jiannan, why not?" Li Ru Si said. Si Qinmi gave an example.
"It's different, it wasn't brought by her family..."
"Similarly, since I want to marry you, Mr. Zhuang, there is no distinction between your family and mine. These things all belong to our family. Let you take stock. Could it be that Lang Jun still can't accept Ru Si now?" Li Ru Si interrupted Zhuang Xun and questioned.
"Of course not. We already treat Si'er as a family." It would be too hurtful to say that this kind of atmosphere is not a family.
"That's good. I know why Si'er acted in the lobby today and even blew herself up. She no longer cares about her own reputation." Li Rusi brought back the question Zhuang Xun asked when she brought him to the boudoir.
"I don't know." Zhuang Xun was puzzled.
"There are two reasons. First, Si'er has no so-called reputation, but Si'er wants to keep dad's reputation. As long as my reputation is damaged, dad and Lang Jun's reputation will not be damaged. After all, Si'er is the one who uses means. , Daddy and husband should not have any grudges, Si'er has thought of this a long time ago, and used it today." Li Rusi looked at Zhuang Xun, eyes filled with colorful clouds.
The way Zhuang Xun put the responsibility on herself was the same as when she was separated. How could she bear to let Zhuang take over such a reputation, not to mention that she had no intention of letting Li Pingyuan be considered such an aggrieved person. image.
"Secondly, Si'er has actually been watching outside for a long time. My uncle actually tried to use Si'er's marriage to harm the interests of our family. How can this be allowed! You don't want to pay a price to get an official position?" Li Rusi arrested Touching the back of Zhuang Xun's hand, he said with a sneer.
(End of chapter)
