"Mr. Su, Mrs. Su, I would like to congratulate you first. Today is the ninth day of the first lunar month. It is a really good day. The Yu family invited me, Mrs. Qian, to come to our house and intend to marry your daughter. The betrothal gift is sixteen thousand dollars. My money My mother-in-law has been a matchmaker for so many years, and this is the first time she has met such a generous family. Just look at the items on the list. One of them can blind me. Don’t say so much. If your daughter If you marry into the Yu family, you will really fall into a bad situation."
After Mrs. Qian finished talking, she saw that the expressions of the Su family and his wife were indifferent and they didn't even glance at the gift list. She knew that things might not go well today, so she immediately looked at Yu Zheng.
Yu Zheng stepped forward and bowed his hands.
"Uncle Su, Aunt Su, we were supposed to come to the door two days ago, but I couldn't come empty-handed. I have been preparing the betrothal gift for the past two days. Don't blame me for delaying two days to invite uncle and aunt. I sincerely want to betrothal." The sister of the Su family is my wife."
It's really not sincere. Su Laoer and his wife knew very well that his daughter was so good, why was she disliked like this? The more they looked at Yu Zheng, the more they looked at him. The more they looked at him, the more they wanted to kick him out. But now that their daughter hadn't given him any permission, it was hard for them to do anything.
"Sit down first, I'll make tea."
Mrs. Lian said she was going to make tea, and she left for a while, but no one came back.
"Yu'er, what are you thinking? Today, that boy from the Yu family comes to visit. You have to give your mother permission so that your father and I can know what to do next. There must be a regulation."
"Mom, call that boy from the Yu family over. I want to have a few words with him alone."
Mrs. Lian knew it was inappropriate, but there was nothing she could do.
"Okay, just wait, I'll ask your elder brother to bring him over later."
Su Sheng was supposed to go to clan school this morning, but Yu Zheng came to the door with someone before he left the house. He simply stopped going and asked someone to ask for leave.
Su Sheng was also in the main room at this time, and was called aside by Mrs. Lian. After hearing what his mother said, Su Sheng frowned.
"Mom, this is not etiquette."
Mrs. Lian also felt that her head was very big.
"Your sister has a right idea. If you don't follow her, there will be no end in sight."
"I understand. I'll take people there later."
In the main room, Granny Qian was spitting what she said, but Su Laoer and his wife had no reaction. Mrs. Qian's mouth was dry as she spoke. She picked up the cup and drank tea. When she saw that there was no tea in the cup, she put the cup down.
"Master Yu, I have a subtitle there, and I would like you to help me look at it."
Su Sheng's excuse was so crude that Yu Zheng knew without guessing that it was Su Yu who wanted to see him.
"Um."
Seeing that the person agreed, the two went to the backyard together. Su Yu was waiting at the door of the duck house.
This was the first time Yu Zheng visited the Su family's house. He only heard that the Su family's house had been built. But when he came to visit today, he discovered that it was different from those built by other houses in the village. But when he got closer, he smelled of duck shit, which made Yu Zheng couldn't help but frown. Su Yu felt relieved when she saw Yu Zheng's look. She did it on purpose.
"Brother, go and wait aside. I have something to say to Mr. Yu alone."
Su Sheng responded and stepped away. Standing here, he could see the two people but couldn't hear what they said.
"Ugly girl, you are looking for me."
Listen to this tone, it doesn't sound like what a fiancé is saying to his fiancée.
"You really want to marry me?"
Yu Zheng didn't answer the question.
"Do you think I'm sincere?"
Su Yu breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, because she was afraid that Yu Zheng was the kind of person with a rather old-fashioned way of thinking, and felt that if she ruined her reputation, she would be responsible to her to the end. Obviously the person in front of her was not, so that would be easier to handle.
"That's good. Since you don't want to marry me and I don't want to marry, how about we make a deal? Let's get engaged now, and when this matter is over, in two or three years, I will find a reason to break off the engagement."
"You don't want to marry me?"
Yu Zheng was surprised. It was one thing that he didn't want to marry, but Su Yu didn't want to marry him, which surprised him. He knows his own business. If it weren't for the scruples of the villagers, most of the families in the village would want to marry their daughters to him.
"Yes, I don't want to."
Su Yu thought to himself, only a fool would be willing to marry a troublemaker.
"Sure, I agree."
"There is no evidence for what you say. Let's establish written evidence as evidence. You can put your fingerprint on it."
As he spoke, Su Yu took out two pieces of paper from his arms and spread them out in front of Yu Zheng along with an inkstone placed next to him. He was obviously prepared.
Yu Zheng looked at the content above, and it was nothing more than the fact that the two had canceled their engagement two years later. Without thinking, I pressed my fingerprint on it. There is a small fingerprint next to it, and it goes without saying that it belongs to the ugly girl in front of me.
"You have nothing to do here, you can go back."
Yu Zheng felt angry and waved his sleeves to leave. Su Sheng saw him and came over.
"Sister, what did you say just now?"
"I'll tell you later. You go tell your parents first and tell them that I agree to this matter and let them decide what to do."
Su Sheng glanced at the paper in Su Yu's hand and didn't say much, but he knew that his sister agreed that there must be something fishy in it. In his opinion, his sister is not someone who gives in casually. Although the boy from the Yu family is good-looking, he is far from good enough for his own sister. The little sister is capable of everything, so she has to find someone who can do it better than her. He had never heard of what that boy from the Yu family could do as a husband-in-law.
Su Sheng came back and whispered in the couple's ears. The couple didn't say anything. As long as it was their daughter's decision, they would definitely support it no matter what they thought in their hearts.
Mrs. Qian was still frothing at the mouth.
"You may not know that Young Master Yu's father is a high-ranking official in Kyoto, and Young Master Yu is a serious official's son."
This matter is not a secret in the village, but the Su family only found out that day after listening to the village chief. They didn't know what was going on inside, but now the daughter agreed.
"We agree to the marriage. Keep the bride price and you can go back."
Taking advantage of Granny Qian's break, Mrs. Lian quickly spoke, and she didn't know how long it would take for Granny Qian to continue speaking.
Mrs. Qian just felt baffled. She thought it was mysterious at first, but she didn't expect that she would agree to it the next second. It's really strange for the Su family to drive people away as soon as they agree and not let them have a meal at home.
"Thank you uncle and aunt for making it possible. I will go back first and visit you another day."
Yu Zheng went to the Su family's door and finally got engaged to Su Yu. In the eyes of the villagers, it was a sure thing, and they never thought that the Su family would disagree. Although the Su family has two dollars now, they are far different from the Yu family. If something like that hadn't happened, the daughter of the Su family wouldn't have had her turn.
When the girls in the village heard that Yu Zheng was engaged, they cried so much that they wet their handkerchiefs at home. In their opinion, Yu Zheng was good in everything, had a good family background, and was a good-looking person, but he happened to end up with someone like that. stepmother. They have complicated feelings towards Yu Zheng. They like him, but they dare not get close.
When Yu Zheng first returned to the village at the age of six, the people in the village expressed their greatest kindness to him, not for anything else but for Yu Zheng's mother. Although Mrs. Mei was born as a merchant, she was raised as a lady in her family. Ever since she married Yu Zheng's father, she has followed the principle of marrying and obeying her husband. During the years she lived in the village, she was very kind to the villagers. She would help any family who asked for anything. At that time, the ethnic school in the village was in dilapidated condition, but the Mei family donated money to rebuild it.
But such a good person was short-lived. He died of illness within two years of following Yu Zheng's father to Beijing. When Yu Zheng returned to the village at the age of six, the people in the village pitied Yu Zheng and treated him heartily. It was just what happened later that made the villagers avoid Yu Zheng. It wasn't that they didn't want to repay Mei's kindness to the village in the past few years, but they just didn't dare.
(End of chapter)
