Traveling through the world

Liuyin Village is lined with willow trees, hence the name of the village.At the end of spring, Liuyin Village is green, lush and extremely beautiful.

The stream in the east of the village flows between the mountains and rocks, and the sound is melodious.

"Yulan, you and I met Zhao Wu by the river in the eighth year. We only shared our first and last names in 11 years. I taught you how to read poetry and prose in 12 years. I don't know when you and I washed clothes?" A young man dressed as a scholar sat with a book in his hand. On the stone rock in the river, he laughed and said.

The woman called Yulan's cheeks flushed slightly when she heard the words, she put her clothes into the stream and scolded softly, "Scholar!"

The scholar Zhang raised her head and smiled and said, "Don't worry Yulan, you are one of the best girls in Liuyin Village, I'm really afraid that someone will marry you first."

Su Yulan was startled when she heard the words, and chirped in her heart.She has been pregnant for two years and is about to die, and her parents are probably already thinking about finding a good home for her.

Zhang Xiucai saw Su Yulan lowered her head and frowned, and said, "Yulan, I told the high court the day before yesterday, but my father said that I can only marry a wife if I win the Juren in the next year. Although you and I have only been in love for one year, we have known each other for a long time." It's been nearly ten years, you have to wait for me!"

Su Yulan's cheeks were flushed, and she was silent while rubbing her clothes in her hands.

"Magnolia?"

Su Yulan bit her lips lightly when she heard the words and said with shame: "You and I are in love with each other, and I am naturally willing to wait for you in my heart, but, it is really hard for a girl from Caimen to stay for a long time, I am afraid that it is hard to disobey the orders of her parents. "

Zhang Xiucai fell silent when he heard this. He also heard that the eldest son of the Su family was rejected in his marriage proposal, and he presumably wanted to marry Su Yulan to get some dowry money.

"Yulan, I'm going home and begging my father to settle the marriage first, and come to the door tomorrow, you wait for me." After finishing speaking, Zhang Xiucai put away the book, stepped on the rocks, came to the stream and squatted beside Su Yulan.

Su Yulan's hands trembled slightly when she heard the words. After all, it was a daughter's family, and she immediately blushed when she talked about the marriage, as rosy as a peach blossom.

"Scholar!" Su Yulan opened her red lips lightly, "You must have known about my family, if you don't give up, I'll ask a matchmaker." After saying that, she picked up the wooden basin and ran away along the small dirt road in embarrassment.

Seeing this, Zhang Ze and Zhang Xiucai were overjoyed, and they pulled off their clothes and ran towards home. He and Su Yulan had known each other since they were young, how could they be willing to let someone else marry them away.

"Yulan, you're back!" Mother Su took the tub from her daughter and put it on the ground, picked up the washed clothes and hung them on the rope beside her.

"Mom, you're tired today too. Let me take a break!" Su Yulan said as she began to dry her clothes.

Su's mother looked at her daughter lovingly, and finally turned into a few sighs.

Since ancient times, it has been difficult for a daughter, who has pity for her life?

"Sister, let me help you." Su Yulan's younger sister, Su Yumei, ran out of the house wearing an apron, bent down and picked up the clothes in the basin to dry on the hemp rope in the yard.

"Yulan, your father has arranged a marriage for you. He is a farmer. He is said to be honest and hardworking." Mother Su said to her daughter after hesitating for a long time.

boom!

Like a thunderbolt!

Su Yumei pulled Su's mother anxiously when she heard the words: "Mother, go and persuade father, sister and Zhang Xiucai are childhood sweethearts, don't let sister marry someone else!"

Su Yulan's eyebrows were tightly furrowed. She knew that she would stay at home for a short time, but she never thought that the marriage would come so soon. Faced with such a sudden news of the marriage, Su Yulan was obviously panic-stricken.

"Mother, my daughter doesn't want to marry."

"Mother doesn't want you to marry so hard, but mother can't do anything about the decision made by your father. That man is the son of your father's old friend, and your father agreed immediately after hearing the matchmaker. That family is also willing to give 20 taels as a dowry , No one in these ten miles and eight villages is willing to spend 20 taels to marry a wife! Come to think of it, you will be treated well when you marry." Mother Su comforted her daughter, looking at her.

Su Yulan heard the words in her ears and was anxious in her heart. She lowered her head for a moment and shyly abandoned her daughter's family: "Mother, my daughter has never seen that man, how can I marry him?"

"Why not?" Father Su came out of the house, smoked a cigarette, and said, "Nine of the ten marriages were ordered by the parents, and how many of them were met before they got married? Yulan, the father of that family knew each other. They are also willing to pay 20 taels of silver, and you will definitely not treat you wrong when you marry."

"What money is not money, in my daughter's heart..." Su Yulan blushed, looked up at her parents and said, "My daughter already has someone in her heart."

"You, you still have the face to say that before you just learned a few words from that scholar and I turned a blind eye to your mother, but now you have no shame to talk about marriage with him!" Su Lao The father pointed at his daughter's hand trembling angrily.

"Her father!" Seeing this, Su's mother hurriedly stepped forward and pulled her, persuading her: "My daughter is still young, you..."

"Small? What's so small, it's too old." Father Su said, staring at his daughter and said, "You know what they said about your father when I met that master Zhang the day before yesterday? They said that my raised daughter was shameless and seduced him. Son, say you, the sparrow wants to fly up the branch! Don't you think it's not enough to be ashamed?"

Su Yulan staggered a few steps back when she heard the words, it seemed that next year's middle school election was an excuse for Mr. Zhang, and she didn't want a scholar to marry her at all.

"Father, don't force Elder Sister." Su Yumei hurriedly supported Elder Sister who was staggering.

"What are you talking about, go serve the meal!!! I'm going to deliver the marriage certificate to the matchmaker. Three days later, you will have to marry if you marry, or you will have to marry if you don't!" Father Su shook his sleeves and left after speaking.

"Mother, save me, I won't marry! I won't marry!" Su Yulan cried while lying on her mother's shoulder.

"Sister!" Su Yumei felt uncomfortable seeing her crying like this, "Mom, please help sister!"

"Who can stop what your father is going to do!" Mother Su sighed while holding her daughter.

This late spring season, the weather is getting hotter and hotter.However, the people on the mountain are still working, hoping that the weather will be smooth and there will be a bumper harvest in autumn.

This is a small village surrounded by mountains. There is a small road winding around the mountain leading to the bottom of the mountain. On weekdays, people must be very careful when driving ox carts to the county seat. It is the people in the mountains who are cautious, and a sad thing has happened in decades.

Going down the mountain along the small road around the mountain, passing through Pingjia Village is the county seat. People in the village will come to sell some grain and vegetables to subsidize their families. After a year, those who can pull a few feet of cloth and cut a few catties of meat during the Chinese New Year are already considered Great family.

At this moment on the mountain, a boy wearing a straw hat was waving a hoe, tirelessly turning the land, occasionally standing up straight and picking up a white sweat towel hanging around his neck to wipe the sweat off his face.Wearing a thin light gray blouse, she looked a little thin.

"Brother Yu! Madam is calling you to go home quickly!" A disheveled boy ran up the mountain panting.

Hearing the words, the young man stopped his movements and looked at the person who was passing by. He took a few steps back with the hoe and asked, "Little Six, what is the urgent matter at my family?"

"It's a matter of urgency, but it's also a good thing. The matchmaker in Liuyin Village is now talking to the aunt. Brother Yu, you are going to be the groom's official." The little six said excitedly, pulling the boy.

"What, be the bridegroom's official?" The young man looked a little shocked and a little dull when he heard the words, and after realizing it, he picked up the hoe and ran down the mountain.

"Brother Yu, slow down, what's the hurry, the bride can't run away." Xiao Liuzi followed after speaking, the pair of straw sandals on his feet were worn out, and his running movements seemed very clumsy.

"Brother Yu should get married, Aunt Qian is also in a hurry!" A young man said to his wife beside him while hoeing the ground.

"No, it's almost twenty-one this year. At this age, I should have become a father. If it wasn't for the incident of the separation of the Qian family back then, Brother Yu and his mother wouldn't have had such a hard life." The wife echoed. .

"Hey, what a crime, this is obviously bullying the orphans and widows, the patriarch of the Qian family doesn't say anything fair." The young man lamented repeatedly.

"If you want me to say that it's Brother Yu's grandma's fault, there are two grandsons and a granddaughter in the eldest room, she wished that all the belongings of the second room would be given to the eldest room. God also took care of it, this time Brother Yu was carried back, I can't see it, there are bloodstains all over my face, who knows that after three days, there will be no sickness at all, and I can go up the mountain, not to mention the person, and I will be much handsomer."

"Brother Yu went to work with others, didn't he walk for four or five years, maybe the water outside is good to support people. Don't talk about it, quickly dig the ground, finish it before noon and plant seeds tomorrow."

The young man named Qian Yu hurriedly ran down the mountain, stepping on a few stones in the river like the wind and ran towards home.

"Huh, huh!" Qian Yu ran to a fenced yard and stopped, leaning over and gasping for breath. Such a speed was too much for a person who is not good at sports.

"This is Brother Yu, right?" the doll-dressed matchmaker asked with a smile, pointing at Qian Yu outside the door.

"It's my son!" Mother Qian smiled slightly, beckoning to her son outside the door, "A Yu, come in quickly."

Hearing this, Qian Yu patted the dirt on his body, picked up the chaimen and walked in, thinking how to refuse.

"Son, this is Yuan Matchmaker from Liuyin Village, come and meet me soon."

Hearing this, Qian Yu put down his hoe, bowed to the matchmaker, and said, "I've seen Matchmaker Yuan."

"Oh, Aunt Qian, your son is really polite, you are so lucky." Matchmaker Yuan laughed.

Mother Qian nodded when she heard the words. It was indeed her good fortune. Her son went there on the day he was brought back. She cried until the night and was so heartbroken that she wanted to go out to hold a funeral for her son. At the door of her house, under the moonlight, the man was dressed very strangely. He said that the rope was not like a rope, and the hair was tied. The white clothes on his body were also very short, and there were not even half of the sleeves. Going to have a look, she found that he was roughly similar to her son, except that he was more handsome and had a bookish look that her son didn't have. She was stunned for a long time before going forward to talk to him.

"Brother Yu, your mother and I have already made an agreement. You and Yulan from our village are very friendly. You can be the groom in three days!" Matchmaker Yuan smiled happily.

Mother Qian came back to her senses after Yuan Matchmaker's words, took a deep breath and looked at the mothfly who had the same name and surname as her dead son.

But what was supposed to be joyful sounded like a bolt from the blue to Qian Yu's ears. Three days, three days was too short, how could she think of a way?

"Thank you, Matchmaker Yuan, but, dare to ask Matchmaker Yuan, how is that girl's character?" Qian Yu lowered his head and pondered for a while, then raised his head and asked with a smile.

"Brother Yu, don't worry about that. I watched that girl grow up. She is definitely one of the best girls in the world! Not to mention that she can do everything from sewing, mending, and washing, she is also pretty."

"So, let's let this marriage go!" Qian Yu said immediately.

boom!Matchmaker Yuan felt her brain thump, and stared at the boy in front of her with wide eyes. She really didn't understand that there are still people who would not marry such a good girl?

"Ah Yu! Mother has already agreed to this marriage." Mother Qian stepped forward and tugged at her son's sleeve.

"Mother, the current situation of our family is really not suitable for marriage. The girl the matchmaker says is so good, how can I bear to marry and go home and suffer?" Qian Yu persuaded.

"Hey, Brother Yu, Yulan people are hardworking and can endure hardships. You young couples work hard to live a good life, and you will still have it. You are not young anymore, so you can't stop marrying a wife just because of this!" Yuan Matchmaker was very anxious.

"Yeah, Ayu, life is starting to get a little bit harder, and it will get better in the future. Mother knows that you are worried about the dowry money, so don't worry about it. The 20 taels of silver have already been gathered for the matchmaker Yuan to send to the Su family." Seeing her son's reluctance on the face, Qian's mother only thought that he was worried that the family would have no money.

Qian Yu opened his mouth when he heard the words, 20 taels was really a lot of money for their family.

"The girl has an older brother who is waiting for money to marry him!" Mother Qian explained when she saw that her son was silent. She hesitated at the beginning, 20 taels was indeed too expensive, but her son was almost [-]. For one thing, it is not easy to marry a fast and hardworking girl.Money spent can always be earned back in the future.

"Brother Yu, your mother is also doing it for your own good. The marriage certificate between you and Yulan has been sent to the county government office." Matchmaker Yuan persuaded earnestly.

Qian Yu's eyes widened in disbelief, and he panicked for a while. He is a real girl, how can he explain that he married someone else's girl?Thinking of this, Qian Yu shook his head decisively and said, "Dare to ask the matchmaker, can the marriage certificate be taken back?"

"Scary! Brother Yu, don't scare me. If you want to get the marriage certificate back, won't it mean that we, Yulan, will not be able to get married in this life?" Nonsense, just doesn't make sense.

"Son, this matter is up to mother, this marriage is settled like this, don't talk about getting back the marriage certificate in the future." Qian's mother only said that she is a foreigner here and doesn't understand the rules of the village.

Qian Yu clenched her fist when she heard the words, she didn't like this very much, and she talked about marriage without seeing someone?How can strangers become husband and wife, the most important thing is that I, as a daughter, really married will make that girl unable to marry in this life.

"Matchmaker Yuan, but I don't know if that girl was willing? Does she really know about my family's situation?" Qian Yu was making her final plans. She really didn't want to expose her identity as a woman when she just wore it. Master the destiny.When she thinks about marrying and having a child, she feels despair.

"I have already communicated with the Su family, and her parents have agreed, otherwise your marriage certificate will not be delivered to the county government." Yuan Matchmaker grinned and continued: "It's getting late, I should go back, Qian Ma'am, hurry up and get ready!"

"That's natural." Mother Qian smiled and sent the matchmaker out of the courtyard.

"Son, don't be dumb. If you get married, you will have more people to work together. The 20 taels will be earned back in a few years. Don't feel bad. Forcibly taking back the marriage certificate is also against the law, so don't think about it. "Qian's mother closed the courtyard door and said in relief.

Hearing this, Qian Yu remained silent. The feeling of fear that had just passed through here surged into his heart again, and it did not dissipate for a long time.

The author has something to say: Do you have any comments?I have tried my best to modify the unreasonable parts forward, please give more comments!

Qian family

Qian Jianhui (grandfather, late)——Zhao Shi (grandmother)

[-]. Qian Aizhu (aunt)——Zhang Gu (aunt).have a son

Zhang Minxue (big cousin) - Liu Mei (big cousin) has a son Zhang Hao (5 years old)

[-]. Qian Dongcheng (eldest uncle) - Zhou (eldest aunt), has two sons and one daughter.

Qian Xu (eldest brother) - Liu Min (sister-in-law), has a daughter Qian Shuiling (4 years old)

Qian Hao (third brother)-Wang Qin (sibling) has a son Qian Junji (3 years old).

[-]. Qian Dongqi (Qian Yu's father passed away) - Li Shi (Qian's mother).Qian Yu (second child)

[-]. Qian Airou (sister-in-law) - Li Dewen (sister-in-law, Qian's mother's cousin.) gave birth to a daughter and a son

Li Shuxian (cousin) unmarried

Li Hongzhe (cousin) is not married.

Su family

[-]. Su Peiyuan (Su Lao’s father-in-law)——Liu’s (Su’s mother, mother-in-law) had two sons and two daughters

Su Xiyin (eldest brother)——Zhang Fang (A Fang)

Su Yulan - Qian Yu

Su Xitian (wife brother)

Su Yumei (wife and sister)

[-]. Su Peiqiang (second uncle) - Ding (second aunt)

Su Xiyuan (wife and cousin)

Su Yuhe (wife and cousin)

Li's family (Mother Qian's family)

[-]. Li Zhenghao (grandfather) - Tian (grandmother) gave birth to two daughters.

1 Li Ruoqiu (Mom of Qian)——Qian Dongqi.Sheng Qian Yu

2Li Ruoxiang (second aunt)——Feng Wei (second aunt) gave birth to a son

Feng Xuan (cousin) - Zhu Qiao (cousin) has no children

[-]. Li Zhengtao (Second grandfather, deceased.) - Tang

Li Dewen (little aunt, Qian’s mother’s cousin.)——Qian Airou (little aunt)

Li Shuxian (cousin) - Gu Bo (cousin-in-law, scholar) has no children

Li Hongzhe (cousin) is not married.