Sweet Beauty Chapter 39: Sorrow

Because the old man only hinted that the second master Bai hadn't thought much about what his father mentioned. In his understanding, it was just like accepting a righteous daughter, giving him an identity and letting the Duke of Linguo accept this favor. what a big deal.

But the next day, after seeing his mother, Mr. Bai's face was not as ugly as usual.

Because Mrs. Bai said that the woman was an orphan from the previous dynasty and her identity was sensitive, he made him recognize her as an illegitimate daughter, but she said to the outside world that she was Sister Shu's twin sister. It can't be said clearly, and it can't be involved in Ling Guogong's mansion in the slightest.

In other words, in front of outsiders, he said they were twins, but in front of his wife, he could only recognize that woman as his illegitimate daughter!

I also want to say that Mrs. Tong made her recognize that she was born as a twin, and helped him sort out everything in the middle of Shu.

Mr. Bai Er thinks that his wife is about to give birth in more than a month, and it's like a fight. This, he has always been in love with his wife, how can he do such a thing, or when she is giving birth! And her health is not good, in case she gets angry...

Master Bai Er was in a cold sweat.

So he thought that no matter what, he should press on the matter first, so as to avoid the long journey, and it was inconvenient for him to explain, if something happened to the lady because of this, it would be too much to regret it.

Anyway, Duke Ling's mansion has adopted the woman for more than ten years, and it is not less than a few months.

So after the incident, Mrs. Bai mentioned it again, and the second Mr. Bai just delayed it again and again. He said that this matter should be slowed down a bit.

In addition, Mr. Bai Er was also very unhappy when he thought of the four nieces' false accusations and accusations against his youngest daughter that day, as well as the help of the third siblings on the side.

In my memory, the nieces were mostly well-behaved and elegant children in front of me. In the past, my mother also praised them a lot in her letters, and asked myself to pay more attention to their marriage and everything, and said that they treated their daughters. How friendly, so over the years, he has also been very good to his nephews and nieces. Please read Mr., when they get married, he will help them find people with good character and good character, and he also asks his wife to be devoted to them. When it was sent to Beijing, the wedding gifts of various nephews and nieces were extremely rich, but...

Thinking that today they open their eyes and talk nonsense and frame their own daughter, it's really like what her father said, and her upbringing is extremely poor.

The mother misunderstood her daughter, and none of the nieces and nieces on one side spoke for her daughter, and the third siblings were obviously not good to her daughter...

Thinking of the hint from the eldest daughter a few days ago, the second master Bai was even more suspicious and angry.

The younger daughter grew up beside him, and was well-behaved, filial, and pure. He naturally believed in her, and there was evidence from his daughter-in-law and eldest daughter that the daughter was indeed living a pure and cultivating life in Zhuangzi. Grandmother prays.

I hate that my daughters are like this. These people are still framing and provoking in front of their mothers. It's no wonder that mothers don't like their wives and little daughters. It turns out that there are these reasons...

The trouble with family affairs made Mr. Bai feel a little depressed. These are things that he has never had in the more than ten years in the middle of Shu, because at that time, his own wife took care of him, and he didn't need a little bit of it. Heart...

Master Bai Er was worried about the many things in the mansion, and then another news came from outside, which made him unable to bear the cold sweat again. It even ruined the reputation of the Bai family for a hundred years.

But it was the Wen family that caused the trouble.

The cousin of Wen Xiyuan, Zhou Lanyue, ran to the government before getting married, suing the current "fiance" Zhong Youcai and his former fiancé, Xinke Jinshi Wen Xiyuan, for conspiring to defraud the marriage.

It is said that the Wen family first forced her to deny her marriage with Wen Xi Yuan when she was young, and then collected Zhong Youcai's money to coax her into marrying him, but in fact they sold her to Zhong Youcai, who already had a wife at home, as a concubine.

This kind of bitter gossip has always spread the fastest, not to mention that Wen Xiyuan is still a young second-class scholar in the new division, and many people think that he is a quick son-in-law.

The fire almost burned to the Bai family, because Wen Xiyuan had told many people that he was in love with the fifth young lady of his ex-fiancee Bai Langzhong Bai's family.

Master Bai Er was really embarrassed and angry. Fortunately, he had listened to his daughter's words earlier. In front of his colleagues, he rejected Wen Xiyuan's intention to renew the marriage contract, saying, "I didn't know he had a marriage contract when he was young. , Only then did we recklessly set up the marriage, and later learned that Wen Jinshi had a marriage contract early in the morning, whether it was verbal or formal, my Bai family could not pretend that they did not know, since the marriage contract has been dissolved, there is no longer any connection.”

Because of these people's testimony, this matter did not burn on the Bai family's head, so that the second master Bai had the reputation of "bullying people and stealing people's son-in-law" for no reason.

Up to this point, Mr. Bai cherished and convinced his youngest daughter even more afterward. He only felt that she was young, but she was talented and virtuous, with a pure mind and a righteous mind.

Let's talk about the Wen family case.

The matter of the Wen family was originally a confused account. Everyone has their own opinions, but the government is not good at judging the Wen family, because the Wen family has neighbors and matchmakers to prove it. Zhou Lanyue was married to that Zhong surnamed Juzi as his wife, so it was appropriate that the Zhong surnamed Juzi's family had a wife and cheated on the marriage.

Zhou Lanyue sued the official, although the Wen family hates them so much that they only think they have raised a poisonous snake, but they can only deal with it in secret. Mrs. Wen even coaxed Zhou Lanyue to say that they really didn't know if the surnamed Zhong was actually there. Wife, this is because she was confused and did bad things with good intentions (to be honest, she really didn't know that Zhong Youcai's family had a wife), she only thought that Zhong's family was also a big family in Fujian, and Zhou Lanyue married him It's not a grievance, and seeing his sincere attitude, he agreed to Zhong Juren's marriage request, asking her to forgive her aunt and go home. In the future, her aunt will help her find a good husband and so on.

In this way, the marriage contract that "the elders joked about" was rejected. The Wen family is also considered a bitter master, but it is "unreasonable and unclear", and it tarnishes the reputation of innocence for no reason.

There are also vague rumors in the market that the Wen family kindly took in and raised an orphan girl, but the orphan girl must rely on her cousin to be admitted to the jinshi.

After all, Zhou Lanyue is a helpless orphan girl, and the Wen family is her last relative. Even if she is unwilling, she will soften a little after hearing Mrs. Wen's words.

In this way, just when the government was going to use Zhong Youcai to cheat the marriage and the Wen family came to close the case innocently, things turned around again.

Zhong Youcai reversed his previous silence and insisted that the Wen family knew that he had a wife, but in order to get rid of Zhou Lanyue, who had been engaged when he was a child, so as to cling to the powerful, he took his own money and sold Zhou Lanyue To make myself a concubine, the so-called matchmaker had agreed to marry her for the sake of the Wen family's face.

As for Zhou Lanyue, he had only met her a few times. Seeing that she was good-looking and had a gentle personality, he thought that she was also aware and tacit, so he agreed to this matter.

As for the proof of the matchmaker and the neighbors that he asked for a wife, those are just word of mouth, there is no letter of appointment or anything. In Fujian and many other places, if you marry a second room, you will also hire a matchmaker to look good. into the cave. These Wen families are well aware of this.

He also said that their Zhong family is also a big family in Fujian, and some beautiful women are willing to take concubines.

There was another uproar among the officials in the capital.

Mrs. Wen was so anxious that her head almost turned white overnight, and she hurried to find Mrs. Tian, ​​the second daughter-in-law of the Ministry of Industry Minister who secretly advised her.

The case has already been dealt with, so how could such a reversal occur, and it was spread?

But Mrs. Tian actually changed her previous enthusiasm this time. Mrs. Wen refused to see her several times. Later, she was probably afraid that she would get involved with her own family and ruin her daughter's already bad reputation, so she reluctantly met. , only persuaded: "I'm afraid that your family has provoked someone who can't be provoked. Our grandfather has already ordered himself, and we are not allowed to intervene in this matter. I think Madam, you still coaxed that Zhou Lanyue well, and only pushed the matter to that point. The surname is Zhong. Hmph, when things have gotten to this point, I think it's better for you to let Young Master Wen take that Zhou Lanyue as your concubine, and you won't have to talk about everything by then."

"If this happened, Young Master Wen in the capital will definitely not be able to stay. I think it is better to let our master help him and find a distant release for Young Master Wen. After two years, this matter will be gone. People remember."

Mrs. Wen was horrified when she heard that she might "prove someone who can't be provoked", but after listening to Mrs. Tian's persuasion, she also found the backbone. Although she was unwilling, she still settled down and replied The family did as Mrs. Tian said.

However, Zhou Lanyue listened to Zhong Juren's remarks, and her heart that had softened towards the Wen family began to hate the Wen family. She knew that if she returned to the Wen family with her aunt's temperament, it would be a dead end. She just said that the matter had come to an end, she knew that the Wen family despised her status as an orphan, so she just kept the marriage contract as they wished, and after the case was over, she would stay in the women's sanctuary to teach and so on.

But it was Zhou Lanyue who went to the women's shantang for help when she sued the official, got help from the women's shantang, and passed the entrance exam for shantang teaching.

In the end, this case invalidated the marriage contract between the Wen family and Zhou Lanyue, the Wen family compensated Zhou Lanyue for a certain amount of money, and the two had nothing to do with each other in the future. The Wen family was not allowed to interfere in all of Zhou Lanyue's affairs. No longer allowed to participate in the imperial examinations, the case was closed.

Because the marriage contract between Wen Xiyuan and Zhou Lanyue has no documents, it is impossible to make it. Zhou Lanyue is an orphan. According to common sense, her uncle's Wen family has the right to lead her marriage, so Wen Even if the family really sold her as a concubine, they would be spit on by some people at most, but the Wen family could not be convicted of the crime.

In addition to Zhong Youcai's one-sided remarks, there is no evidence that the Wen family wanted to sell Zhou Lanyue to Zhong Youcai as a concubine. Instead, there are witnesses to prove that they were serious about marrying her to Zhong Youcai as his wife.

This case has ended up in Zhou Lanyue's favor.

However, the Wen family doesn't seem to have been severely punished, but in the end, Wen Xiyuan's reputation has been ruined a lot, and he is still despised by scholars, but this stain cannot be washed away.

The Wen family.

Mrs. Wen looked at her son's silent and gloomy appearance. She no longer had any of the high-spiritedness and arrogance of the past. The words she wanted to blame him were stuck in her throat and could not be said.

In her opinion, 80% of today's calamity is caused by her son's refusal to accept the marriage of the Tian family, and he has to go to the Bai family. This stirred up the marriage contract that not many people knew about, until it got into the current ups and downs.

Thinking of what Mrs. Tian said about "offending people who shouldn't be offended", apart from the fact that they didn't know each other and didn't answer the Tian family's marriage, what other powerful people could they offend?

The Bai family is now only a fifth-rank official of the second master Bai. She doesn't think there is anything in the Bai family that the Tian family needs to avoid, and the lawsuit that has almost been settled has been stirred up again.

Mrs. Wen felt that this was also a plan by the Tian family to force marriage. She looked at Mrs. Na Tian's meaning, but she would still plan for her son's future, and she clearly still had the heart to marry her daughter.

She knew what her son meant, didn't she just dislike that Miss Tian was not good enough? But marrying a daughter-in-law and virtue is not a concubine!

Mrs. Wen hated her heart so much, she thought that Bai Jingshu was so charming, it must have been that demon girl who had hooked her son's heart, so that he would do such a disproportionate and self-destructive thing.

I heard that the demon girl arrived in Beijing, but she couldn't live in the Bai Mansion. The reason was that her destiny was in conflict with the old lady of the Bai family. She was indeed a monster, and even the Bai family could not tolerate her!

She slowly exhaled and said to her son: "A Yuan, the daughter of the Bai family is the star of the disaster, and her appearance is not the face of the family, this disaster is all caused by her, you can't do it in the future. Think about her again. If you like the colorful one, when your future is stable, you can take a concubine to serve you."

"For now, let's take it easy. I see Mrs. Tian's intentions, and still have the intention of marrying a daughter. You should go to the Tian family more, and when you leave the house, you will get married with the Tian family."

After a pause, she said, "Although Miss Tian's appearance is average, she is dignified. When you marry a wife, you should marry a virtuous person. You have read books for many years, and you should know this truth."

"Mother, you really don't know that Zhong Yucai has a wife at home?"

Wen Xiyuan interrupted his mother's words and asked suddenly.

Mrs. Wen's face changed, and she said, "A Yuan, what do you mean? You should know that although I don't like your cousin or her family's disaster, I just want to marry you out of nothing, but she is you after all. Cousin, how could I entrap her as a concubine? If she is a concubine, my face, your face can be good-looking? I only hate that Zhong Ju is so slick, and his mother was deceived by him! Who knew that Tangtang would do such a thing. Shameful behavior!"

Wen Xiyuan looked at his mother for a long time, and finally sighed in his heart, closed his eyes, and said a little tiredly: "I see, mother. You are also tired these days, so rest for now. , my son has his own measure in this matter."

Perhaps he once thought that "the book has its own golden house, and the book has its own Yan Ruyu", maybe he once thought that he was a second-class jinshi in high school, and Mr. Bai Er would look up to him even more, and then marry his beloved daughter, maybe Perhaps, he was a high-end scholar in the past, thinking that if he can read and read, he can get what he wants...

But reality hit him hard, hard, hard.

Even if he is a second-class jinshi in high school and ranks among the top, he is still someone else's favorite.

A few days ago, he was a second-class jinshi with great popularity. In the eyes of many people, he was a quick son-in-law. There was a lot of traffic in front of the door. There were countless invitations on the table. Everyone congratulated him. People pointed and pointed, and the "friends" of Tongke had already avoided him like poison. No accident, he had to rely on the "favor" of the Tian family to leave Beijing and go to a remote and uncivilized mountainous area to be a small county magistrate... …

He closed his eyes, thinking of those eyes that couldn't be erased from the midnight dream, so beautiful and so bright, but he also remembered that those eyes looked at him as if they were blind.

She used to be his fiancée, but she did everything possible to get rid of their engagement.

Why? He clenched his fists.

He will come back, he thought, even if he leaves in a hurry today, he will come back one day, to make her regret it.

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Time flies fast. In late May, Mrs. Bai's birthday will come in a blink of an eye.

At this time, Mr. Bai really followed his father's words and took Jing Shu back to live in the mansion, but he still lived in the yard where Bai Jingyan and Bai Jingrou had been arranged earlier.

Bai Jingrou doesn't matter, Bai Jingyan sees Jing Shu, it's really called an enemy meeting, and she is very jealous.

It was okay to be abused by her in Zhuangzi, but when I came back, I just felt wronged. I cried a few words in front of my grandmother, but I was scolded by my grandfather and said in front of the whole family. She was uneducated, she lost the face of the Bai family, and let her mother discipline her strictly!

Even my grandmother has been a lot colder to her these days, and she didn't punish Jingshu in the slightest, but let her go back to the White House!

When did Bai Jingyan suffer such a loss among the sisters and even cousins ​​in each room!

She just hates how Jing Shu doesn't rot on that rotten house!

But what makes Bai Jingyan extremely angry but helpless is that she does not know why she is vaguely afraid of Jing Shu. Now that Jing Shu has returned to live in the yard, she does not dare to directly provoke her. , and even do some tricks in secret, she is afraid to dare! This is really evil!

On the grandfather's birthday today, what Jingshu gave to the old grandfather was not the painting with the original name of the previous dynasty, but a string of hand-carved beads, each with a "Buddha" carved on it. word, or a Buddha statue.

Each piece is different, and there is no pattern. Even many of them are carved with some flaws. It should not be said that most of them can be found flawed, and they cannot be carefully examined.

Actually, it was Jingshu in this world who didn't bother to prepare any birthday gifts for Mrs. Bai. She felt that it was a waste to send a random ancient painting from the warehouse, so she casually strung up the carved Buddha beads that she had practiced on weekdays. That's it.

And what she chose was not the one that she engraved, she chose those that she practiced at the beginning, the engraving was crooked, and carefully looked at those who lacked arms and legs...

But the irony is that Mrs. Bai did not show indifference or even sarcasm towards the birthday gift she gave her like in her previous life.

Jing Shu thanked Mrs. Bai for her compliments on the face, but she was not happy at all. Instead, she was more vigilant. Usually, grandfathers and grandmothers love them "with a different eye." Useful", or that the Duke of Ling's government implied that nothing was certain.