Delicate Flower Chapter 25: rumors

The concerns of Chen and Wang are not unreasonable.

Soon, there was a rumor that "the Yu family's daughter relied on her own beauty to find a scholar as her son-in-law." When this rumor reached the ears of Chen and Yu Tang, Lin'an City It has been widely spread, and few people don't know about it.

Ms. Chen was so angry that she was trembling and couldn't speak for a long time.

Yu Tang was afraid that something might happen to her, so she quickly asked A Tiao to call a doctor.

Ms. Chen grabbed Yu Tang's hand, her eyes suddenly became moist, and said: "A Tang, go and invite your aunt over. I have something to tell her."

After hearing this, Yu Tang pondered it in his heart.

If she keeps pretending to be a little girl, I'm afraid she won't discuss any major issues at home. However, she knows the results of many things, and if she wants her parents to believe her, she has to use some means to make them feel She is capable and knowledgeable and can help the family solve its difficulties.

"Mom!" Yu Tang made up his mind. Not only did he not invite his eldest aunt, he also sat on Chen's bedside and said bluntly, "Are you doing it because of the rumors outside?"

Ms. Chen didn't want to upset her daughter, so she said, "Don't worry about adults' affairs. Just go and invite your aunt. Just be obedient!"

Yu Tang smiled and said: "Mom, I have grown up. You can try to talk to me about some things. If what I say is wrong, it is not too late for you to find your eldest aunt."

Ms. Chen was stunned.

Yu Tang said: "If you are looking for aunt for other matters, I will ask aunt for it. If it is for the rumors about my marriage, I have an idea. You might as well listen to it."

Seeing her daughter's confident look, Mrs. Chen couldn't help but feel a little hesitant.

Yu Tang smiled and said: "Actually, this is not difficult. You just need to invite an official mediator to your home, give her a sum of money, and tell her what kind of son-in-law our family wants to recruit. !"

Ms. Chen hurriedly said: "How can this be done? Official media are usually unreliable."

Yu Tang smiled and said: "We don't really want the official media to protect the media. What does it matter whether it is reliable or not?"

Ms. Chen sat up straight in shock and hurriedly asked: "What do you mean?"

Yu Tang told his mother in detail: "Think about it, I don't know where the rumors outside come from. Even if we want to check, we can't find anything. Even if it happens, We have found out that if someone just says something casually, we can do nothing to them. The best way to deal with this kind of thing is for us to spread the word. Are those people saying that I don’t know the heights of the world and want to recruit people? Wouldn't a scholar be a son-in-law? Let's just announce the conditions for recruiting a son-in-law and let those rumors go away. Wouldn't this matter be solved?"

Mrs. Chen was still a little unable to turn around, and said: "Can't we just recruit a son-in-law? There is a difference between those who have studied and those who have not studied. A person who is practical can know etiquette, and one who has enough food and clothing knows honor and disgrace. The family is too thin. , even if he doesn’t have enough to eat, how can he be so particular about it? Even when he comes to our house, he will be jealous of this today and plot that tomorrow, and he will cause trouble. If the child is influenced by his father in the future... What good life do you have left?"

"How is it possible to find just one?" Yu Tang smiled and said, "You are overthinking."

Ms. Chen frowned.

Yu Tang said slowly: "Being a scholar does not mean you have fame!"

Ms. Chen suddenly understood, and held her daughter's hand tightly with her backhand, saying repeatedly: "Why am I so confused? Why am I so confused!"

Yu Tang pursed his lips and smiled.

Ms. Chen said excitedly: "Those who have a good reputation are naturally not willing to marry into the family, and even if they do, it will be troublesome in the future. We should find a decent family, who has studied for several years, is kind, can write and calculate, and can I will help take care of the general affairs, and if I have grandchildren in the future, my father’s bloodline is not bad, and he will definitely not be stupid. If I leave it to your father to teach me carefully for a few more years, maybe our family will be able to produce a scholar or a Jinshi? " The more she talked about it, the more she thought it was feasible, "In such a family, the parents are definitely not the ones who can't move their feet when they see things. They will have contact with us in the future. When there are many relatives walking around, if something happens to you, We can also help them there. We can also promise them that the three generations will return to the family clan, and when the time comes, the one living in the same room will still have their family name."

After saying this, Chen's depression disappeared and she couldn't sit still.

She called Mrs. Chen in, grabbed a handful of copper coins and gave them to Mrs. Chen, asking Mrs. Chen to invite the official media to come to her home, and said: "Invite a few more. Anyway, we want to publicize this matter. The more people there are, the better." OK."

When Mrs. Chen saw that Yu Tang had a solution, she felt happy and left happily.

Ms. Chen chuckled, turned around, took her daughter's hand and looked up and down.

Yu Tang thought that she was different from before, and she felt a little weak. She said uncomfortably: "Mom, what's wrong with you?"

"I'm watching our A'Tang really grow into a big girl." Mrs. Chen's eyes and brows were filled with joy, "In the past, it was my mother and your father who were at fault. I always thought you were fooling around. But you see Although the things you have done these days are very bold, they are also very sharp and the ideas are very right." As she said that, she sighed long and said happily, "We didn't have to keep you at home before. , I’m just afraid that you won’t be able to support this family. Now it seems that your mother and father are confused if they care about you. I don’t know that our family’s Ah Tang is a good girl who is independent and responsible!”

You didn’t make a mistake!

It was God who gave me another chance, so that I could take on the responsibility of this family.

The corners of Yu Tang's eyes were reddish, and she hugged her mother tightly, murmuring with guilt and sadness: "Mom, don't say that, it's me, it's my fault..."

"Look, you are talking nonsense again." Mrs. Chen could not guess what Yu Tang was thinking. She thought her daughter didn't know what to say. She pushed Yu Tang away with a smile and saw Yu Tang's face full of tears. , asked curiously, "What's wrong with you?"

My mother didn’t know anything, but she made Yu Tang feel at ease and stable.

She wiped her tears and said with a smile: "I, I'm fine, it's just that I haven't been praised like this by my mother for a long time!"

"You kid!" Ms. Chen said with a dumbfounded expression, "Have you finished embroidering the shoe uppers I asked you to make? If I really find a suitable person, I will do it for you soon. It’s the wedding. Don’t even go to the store to buy shoes then.”

It is a custom in Jiangnan that when the bride recognizes her bride the next day, she must give her father-in-law, mother-in-law and other relatives hand-made shoes and socks.

Yu Tang has been active rather than quiet since she was a child, and her parents pampered her, so the female beauty is naturally very average. Later, when she married into the Li family, she saw that the Lin family did not treat her well, and she was even more unwilling to do needlework for anyone. I can't even embroider flowers and leaves well. Mrs. Chen held on to her, but she didn't dare to say anything and ran away in a flash.

Ms. Chen looked at her daughter's back, laughing so hard that she couldn't stand up straight, but was bumped into by Yu Wen who was rushing back from Changxing Street.

He breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "What are you so happy about? I just met A Tiao and said that you have a bad health and need to call a doctor..."

Ms. Chen smiled and told Yu Wen what had just happened, and said, "With Ah Tang's idea, my illness will not be cured immediately."

"Is there such a thing?!" Yu Wen exclaimed, "We have been apart for three days, so we should look at each other with admiration. I really didn't expect it."

"No!"

The couple sighed for a long time.

Yu Wen called Yu Tang to the study room to praise her, and also gave her a green bean paste and green mud inkstone passed down from the Yu family.

Yu Tang took the inkstone and complained to his mother: "If I use such an expensive inkstone, my father will definitely scream. What kind of reward is this? It's just a change of place for me to keep it." ”

Ms. Chen smiled and tapped Yu Tang’s forehead and said, “Isn’t it decent enough to be the bottom of the box for you?”

Yu Tang giggled.

Ms. Chen loved her daughter very much and didn't want her to be disappointed. She went to the Silver House to order a pearl headband and a pair of pearl headbands for Yu Tang. She said, "When your sister Ma came out of the palace, you happened to wear it to the wedding banquet."

Yu Tang said in surprise: "Sister Ma's wedding date has been set?"

Ms. Chen nodded with a smile and said: "It's set for the sixth day of September. Have you prepared the extra boxes? If not, go to the store and order them quickly. I'll pay for it for you."

She has no hope of her daughter being a popular girl.

Yu Tang wants to give more things to Ma Xiuniang. Of course, the more money, the better.

Coquettishly, she asked for an extra five taels of silver from Mrs. Chen, and went to the silver shop to order a pair of silver bracelets for Ma Xiuniang, including an emerald bracelet.

Soon, the official media publicized the Yu family's conditions for recruiting a son-in-law, and explained: "It's not that the young masters from those families are not good, it's that they don't meet the Yu family's conditions, and there's nothing we can do about it. ”

Everyone thought it was reasonable, and the rumors about Yu Tang being "arrogant and arrogant and wanting to recruit a scholar as his son-in-law" slowly dissipated.

However, Yu Tang's marriage is also on the minds of many people. ~IndoMTL.com~ On this day, Yu Wen went to deliver a Mid-Autumn Festival gift to Shopkeeper Tong and came back. He was very happy and drunkenly said to Chen: "Businesskeeper Tong said he would be a matchmaker for our Ah Tang!"

While Mrs. Chen served Yu Wen the hangover soup, she said happily: "Meet the matchmaker. Shopkeeper Tong is such a good person, so the marriage he said must be reliable. Sit down and tell me carefully."

Yu Wen drank the sobering soup in his hand, and said to Mrs. Chen under the lamp: "Shopkeeper Tong said that he has a good friend named Wei, and both of them are refreshing people. There is an oil shop at home, with more than two hundred dollars. There are more than 300 sweet-scented osmanthus trees planted on the land and a hilltop. The five sons in the family are all enlightened and he has watched them grow up. The eldest son will definitely stay at home and inherit the family business, and the other sons will He should be able to marry into his wife. If I think it is possible, he will go and have a look and call people out to show our family. If it works, let our family A Tang make a pair of shoes for him. If it doesn’t work, just treat it as my acceptance. My nephew."

"Five sons?" Ms. Chen said with a smile, "That's good. If this marriage is successful, we will also have a relative to help. You see, you are a scholar and you have to personally take care of the affairs of the shop. If If you have more children at home, you and your uncle won’t have to work so hard."

Yu Wen was happy because of Yu Tang's marriage. He joked: "After all, it's all the fault of the Pei family. If the Pei family hadn't sponsored so many students every year, how could Lin'an Prefecture produce so many talented people? . Look at other places, scholars are so valuable. Look at us in Lin'an, it's so irritating that people are so much more valuable than people!"

"Okay, okay, stop saying a few words." Ms. Chen said with a smile, "You talk nonsense after drinking. The Pei family does good things, but it still hinders you? I think we The less valuable the talents of Lin'an Mansion are, the better. How nice it would be to go out! Those who do business outside, others don't dare to bully them at will."