The four words "you are very cute" were like a huge cannon blasting down the door of Xia Xue's heart. Sun Houpu barged into her heart like a robber, making Xia Xue confused and blushing like autumn fruits. As if she was drunk, she stumbled out of the Forbidden City. These four words kept ringing in her ears, and she could not hear any other sounds!
She has heard various comments about Xia Xue, including that her family is unfortunate and degrading to the family tradition. Some people even had a blind date with Xia Xue, and a lot of rumors started behind them, cursing Xia Xue for being unfeminine and not a lady. And so on, in short, she has endured no matter how vicious the words were.
Only no one has ever said these four words to her - you are cute.
What women need is praise, and such direct words of love are the most disgusting compliments. Xia Xue is like eating a bowl of sour plum soup in summer, and drinking a jar of mellow wine in winter, so completely drunk!
Sun Houpu learned this move from Liang Chuan.
His aesthetic is also unique.
Before he met Liang Chuan, he liked Zheng Ruoying, a girl who didn't like red makeup and liked armed weapons. It was a pity that Zheng Ruoying had long been devoted to Liang Chuan, and he was just thinking about it. Because of this, he and Liang Chuan not only did not fall out, but Became brotherly friends.
Although he didn't know Xia Xue's identity when he saw her, her free and easy style and heroic spirit deeply attracted him. He didn't like the kind of girl who only knew how to do red makeup and embroidery. He was a businessman, and he preferred This frank little sunshine beauty.
Having more contact with Liang Chuan, his style has also changed slightly. He won't be like the scholars of this era, who pretend to be aloof when they like someone and let women pursue him. If he likes him, he will confess directly. What he wants is the directness of such a domineering president. Can he achieve a sentence? Are you willing? Just nodded, such a direct method is also the method that a girl like Xia Xue has the least immunity to, she will be attacked as soon as she comes, and it will be fatal as soon as she strikes!
He missed Zheng Ruoying. He had been waiting for several years, and finally he met a girl who made his heart beat again. He couldn't wait to find Liang Chuan and asked him where this girl was from.
Liang Chuan looked at Sun Houpu's cheerful expression and teased: "Did something good happen to you?"
The sun shone in through the paper window, making his face even brighter. He scratched his head in embarrassment and said, "Third brother, who was that girl in the shop across the street from you that day?"
Liang Chuan was startled, and a bad feeling arose in his heart. He said in a deep voice, "Which girl?"
There are only two girls following him these days, one is Shen Yuzhen, whom Sun Houpu knows, and would not ask such idiotic questions, and the other is Xia Xue, could it be him. .
"That's the girl who disguised herself as a man and followed Guan Qiu!"
It’s over, this guy’s eyes are really poisonous. He is a businessman who shopped around to choose the best food to start with. He couldn’t choose any girl, but he chose the precious daughter of Xia Song’s family!
Liang Chuan sighed, not knowing how to mention this to Sun Houpu.
Sun Houpu felt a chill in his back when he heard his sigh. Was it another girl who liked him? No, why would I pick someone else's girl to attack? The third brother is not my biological brother, but in the past few years, he is closer than his biological brother. I can't do it because of a woman. . ?
"Since the famous flower has its owner, I can't force it..." Sun Houpu's tone revealed infinite sadness, and he turned around to leave.
As soon as Liang Chuan heard this, he knew that this kid was thinking wrongly, so he pulled him back and said, "What kind of famous flower owner is so messed up?"
"Isn't it?" Sun Houpu said with a bitter smile.
Liang Chuan took him into the house. When he saw no one around, he said slowly, "He is Xia Song's daughter."
Hearing this, Sun Houpu's face turned pale, as if he had been struck by lightning.
The status of literati in the Song Dynasty was the highest. People in society were divided into four levels: scholars, farmers, industry and merchants, and scholars who studied were ranked first. Their children would naturally follow the chickens and dogs to heaven. If a boy could rely on the fame of his father's generation to become a shadow, if he was A daughter is a tool for marriage, which can bring the family's power to a higher level.
The ones with the worst status were merchants. Even though the industrial and commercial world of the Song Dynasty was the most developed, the status of these merchants was simply miserable. They were not qualified to enjoy some goods, and their means of transportation when going out were also restricted. In order to change this situation, they came up with the idea Find a good son-in-law to give yourself money.
The term "catching a son-in-law under the ranking" comes from the Song Dynasty. Outstanding students became the sons-in-law of these high-ranking officials, and some of them almost became the targets of these big businessmen.
But no matter how things change, there is no official son marrying a businessman's daughter, and a businessman's son marrying a high-ranking official's daughter. Once you violate it, you are willing to be humble!
This is an insurmountable class gap!
No matter how much money they make, scholars rarely marry their daughters to businessmen, even if they eat pickles and drink porridge!
Ordinary people are like this, let alone the daughter of Xia Song, the deputy prime minister of the dynasty. If Sun Houpu had mistakenly thought that Xia Xue liked Liang Chuan just now, it made him feel chilled. Now that he knew Xia Xue's identity, it would break his heart. Why would God do this? Make things difficult for him!
Sun Houpu stood up in despair without saying a word. Shen Yuzhen wanted to comfort him, but Liang Chuan stopped her.
"Let him calm down. It's useless no matter how much you say. The same goes for Brother Pu... Is Xia Song an ordinary person? If he is willing to look like this, then I will..."
"What do you mean?" Shen Yuzhen asked curiously.
"I'll do it for you!" Liang Chuan pounced on Shen Yuzhen.
. . .
Xia Xue returned to Xia Mansion in a daze after being domineeringly flirted with by Sun Houpu. Seeing her, Qiu Fu thought she was still worried about her injury and kept comforting the silly girl.
How can one tell that a person has tasted love without someone he loves!
Xia Xue was sitting in her boudoir. There was no boudoir in the room, and there was no smell of gouache. There were some swords and pieces of men's clothing. At this time, Xia Xue felt why she wasn't more feminine. Why was she not more feminine? Not as dignified and gentle as other girls!
She put away the sword and threw it out, and asked the maid to get a basin of water to wash herself off. She unskillfully found gouache and applied it to her face, but she was not satisfied with her makeup. .
She put the gouache on the table in frustration and sat helplessly in front of the bronze mirror, feeling sorry for herself.
Qiu Fu walked into her room and saw a messy table, then asked: "Xia Yatou, what's wrong with you?"
No matter how stupid you are, you should have guessed that once a girl who doesn't care about her own image starts to care about her own image, she has serious intentions!
"Which family's talent caused our Xia Yatou to be in such chaos?"
Xia Xue lowered her head shyly.
"Tell Uncle Qiu, whose boy is so lucky? I'll tell you if it's suitable. It's time to find a suitable family!"
Xia Xue looked delicate and whispered: "Uncle Qiu... have you heard of the Forbidden City?"
Upon hearing this, Qiu Fu waved his hands and said, "Of course I've heard of it before, but you can't go to that place!"
Qiu Fu seemed to smell something amiss, his face changed and he asked: "Could it be the young master from the Forbidden City?"
Sun Houpu of the Forbidden City was extremely wealthy, handsome and young. Many people in the official circles were inquiring about his origins, but he was a businessman and had no fame at all. What a pity! Qiu Fu has naturally heard of this. Could it be that the girl he brought fell in love with that Sun Houpu?
Xia Xue's face turned redder! His head was lowered like a quail, almost buried in his trouser legs.
Qiu Fu slapped his big hand on the table, stood up suddenly, and earnestly advised Xia Xue: "Girl Xia, you are confused. Do you know who she is and who you are? You two are not going to be successful!"
Xia Xue was frightened by Qiu Fu's excitement. She didn't think so much at all. In so many years, Sun Houpu was the first person who made her feel excited. It's easy to get rich money but hard to find a good man. It's so difficult to meet one. Why was Uncle Qiu the first to object?
"Uncle Qiu...?" Xia Xue looked at Qiu Fu aggrievedly and asked as if he was begging for mercy.
"Xia Yatou, then Sun Houpu is a businessman. You are the daughter of a rich and scholarly family in the Xia Mansion and a long-standing official family. Which official would marry his daughter to a businessman? Even if Mr. Xia disagrees, even I can't agree! "
The more Xia Xue listened, the more frightened she became. In the past, whenever she wanted something from the rich, she would always obey him. She would do it immediately if she could do it, and she would do her best if she couldn't do it. Only this time. .
"Your father will be mad if he knows what you are thinking! This is pouring manure on the ancestral graves of your old Xia family. How dare he, a businessman, have such an evil thought? A toad wants to eat swan meat!"
At this moment, Xia Xue thought of her own life experience, of her mother whom she had never met before, how she had no maternal love since she was a child, and of the shocking "A Chinese Ghost Story" she saw in the Forbidden City today, and she felt infinite pain in her heart. She deeply understood Nie Xiaoqian's pain of falling in love with Ning Caichen but finding him in a different way!
"The sky is covered with frost over ten miles of flat lake, and every inch of blue hair is worried about the past. Looking at the moon to protect each other, I only envy the mandarin ducks but not the immortals." She ran to the bed and hid under the quilt, repeating this poem over and over again, with tears streaming down her face. It flowed down happily.
"Xia Yatou, it didn't matter to me that I accompanied you and got beaten up in the past. It didn't matter anyway, but it's different now. It's a matter of your life. I will definitely stand with Mr. Xia. From today on, I can't Let you go out as you like!"
Qiu Fu knew that Xia Xue under the quilt could hear what he said, so he didn't repeat it again, and directly ordered the maidservant: "If you dare to help the young lady, be careful, I will sell you to a brothel!"
Xia Xuebei came from this. Although they had just met each other, and although they had only spoken a few words, the feeling was so unforgettable. She seemed to understand why her father had not renewed their relationship in the past few decades after her mother's death. It was because of the world. There is no such person anymore. .
