Chapter 25
He was actually waiting for her.
Shen Ti held up her hands as a gift: "Cousin, please take a step to speak."
This is deep inside the monastery, and ordinary pilgrims from outside cannot enter. There were only three of them in the corridor. Yin Shi turned around and saw some monks in the distance.
Yin Shi said to Kui'er: "Wait here."
She stretched out her hand and pointed outside: "Let's go there and talk."
Shen Ti raised her hand to make a "please" gesture, and the two of them walked down the corridor and stood in the open space outside.
The sky is blue and the sun is shining brightly above our heads.
The maid in the corridor looked at them curiously, and they could also be seen by the monks coming and going in the distance.
Speaking in this place is fair and honest. Even if others see it, they will only think that they are talking, and will not suspect that "they have selfish interests."
Shen Ti remembered that her mother's evaluation of this cousin included the comment "safe".
Shen Ti also nodded secretly in her heart.
Yin Shi stood still: "If you have anything to do, just tell me."
Facing her handsome cousin, she was not shy at all, even very serious.
Because she felt that she and Shen Ti had no intersection at all, she now had a very bad guess - she suspected that Shen Ti had fallen in love with a younger cousin of the Yin family and wanted to get her, the older cousin. Help deliver private messages and so on.
no! Absolutely not!
Bullshit love comes first, leave your love brain aside! You two live in a feudal era! If you want to fall in love, report it to your parents, get support, and then ask a matchmaker to come to propose marriage!
The program must be correct!
Yin Shi has thought about it. If cousin Shen dares to make an unethical request, she will scold him bloody.
For this kind of thing, if the man pulls up his trousers and says "coquettish", pats his butt and leaves, he will still get promoted and make a fortune. A girl's life is ruined.
Cousins and cousins, cousins and cousins, cousins of course. As a big sister, of course she has to protect her little sisters.
Yin Shi has spread her wings and is ready to protect her cubs.
Who knew, Shen Ti said casually: "Cousin, do you know that my mother is here to arrange a marriage between my cousin and me?"
Shen Ti stared at Yin Shi, observing her expression. .
Yin Shi blinked, confused for a moment: "To whom?"
"You and me."
"What are you doing?"
"Betrothal, betrothal."
Yin Shi pointed at Shen Ti with one finger, and then at himself : "...?"
Shen Ti nodded.
Yin Shi pointed at Shen Ti, then at herself, then at Shen Ti, then at herself, and finally pointed at herself fiercely: "?!"
"Cousin, there is no need to doubt." Shen Ti confirmed calmly , "It's you and me."
"This is impossible." Yin Shi's first reaction was to deny it, "You know Qi Dafei——"
Her voice suddenly stopped end.
Shen Ti watched helplessly as her eyes on him changed from surprise and uncertainty to pity and sympathy.
Shen Ti: "..."
Although she didn't know what she was thinking, she always had a bad feeling.
"Cousin." Yin Shi tried to make his voice sound calm. Pity cannot be too explicit, especially in this aspect of men, their self-esteem is very fragile, "Actually, there are some things It's not as important as you think. There are still many more important things in life, such as your talent and knowledge. That's why the imperial court only admits 300 Jinshi every three years. They are called Shilin Huacai, the elite of the world."
"It must be the dream of many women to live with a person as knowledgeable and promising as you for a lifetime."
This. In that era, some brides even took off their hijab to know what their husbands looked like, and those who gave birth to children died early, so love, or even sexual life, were not that important. In this society with low productivity and low medical standards, living well is the most important thing.
If you don't live without X, you won't die. There are other ways to solve it. If it doesn't work, there is Mr. Jiao.
“So, you really don’t have to worry too much. Children and other things can actually be adopted. The clan is so big and there are so many relatives, but the blood relationship is not that far apart. Everyone has the same surname, the same.”< br>
It is better not to have children, adopt one from the clan, suppress him with etiquette and support you in your old age, become a mother painlessly, and not worry about dystocia and heavy bleeding.
Yin Shi herself was afraid that she would be more likely to die if she gave birth to a child at a young age, so she dragged the first great monk to help her concoct such a big lie to delay her marriage.
“So, the right way is to find someone who is the right match for you.”
When she finished speaking, an eerie silence fell on the clearing.
Shen Ti was silent for a long time.
Really long time.
Anyway, Yin Shi clearly saw how his fair neck turned red little by little.
It’s great, my face is still fair and fair, only my neck is red. If I wear a high collar, no one will notice it at all. I’m envious.
Although Tanhualang was only seventeen years old, he was extremely knowledgeable and talented, so he could certainly understand what his cousin was talking about.
His Qi-nurturing Kung Fu, which he had practiced for seventeen years but was not yet sufficient, actually made a leap forward at this moment due to external stimulation!
Shen Ti used her lifelong skills to control her emotions, and told Yin Shi very calmly, calmly and peacefully: "Cousin, don't make wild guesses. I'm in very good health. What ( Hidden disease) None! No! "
Your neck is bleeding.
Yin Shi did not dare to stimulate the young boy's proud and fragile self-esteem, and said quickly: "Okay, okay, yes, yes, no, no, no!"
【Clean one's mind, and the mind will be pure, naturally the six desires will no longer arise, and the three poisons will be eliminated. Therefore, those who cannot do it are because their hearts are not clear and their desires have not been released. Those who are able to control them look inside their hearts, but they have no intention...】
Shen Ti took a deep breath and read Taoism in her heart quickly and silently. The Taishang Calming Mantra made the burning sensation on my neck subside and returned to normal. "Cousin. My cousin's guess can't be said to be completely wrong. There is indeed a reason why my mother came to Huaixi to find a match for me." He calmly told the other person involved in the matter the truth of the matter, "Actually... I I already have someone I love. She cannot be my legal wife, so I don’t want to marry her.”
“Huh?”
Is Tan Hwa Lang a lover? Yin Shi couldn't believe it.
Because the imperial examination in this era cannot be equated with the college entrance examination in another time and space. The college entrance examination is more about memory and understanding. Occasionally, if you have some thoughts of your own, you can express them in your composition. But to be on the safe side, everyone writes routine articles based on the topic.
At this time, the Jinshi examination does not ask you to fill in the blanks with the contents of the Four Books and Five Classics. Instead, it extracts the contents of the Four Books and Five Classics and allows you to express how you solve the problems based on the problems that arise in the current society. , opinions on how to rectify politics and how to govern the country.
Of course, there will still be many people who write the questions in advance and may even win the Jinshi.
But among the three hundred people, the top pick, the second pick, and the top pick can never be achieved by writing formulas.
They are definitely people with real political opinions and overall perspective.
As for the overall view, it naturally conflicts with the love brain.
People who have an overall view will first consider the interests and logic of the overall situation. The love brain believes that "giving up the whole world for me is true love."
So these two things are naturally in conflict. It’s really hard for someone who has a big picture perspective to become a love brain.
Yin Shi still believed in this very mature imperial examination assessment system. So Shen Ti...how could he be a love brain?
"Let me understand..." Putting aside this confusion, Yin Shi began to sort out the information and immediately remembered something, "The beloved you are talking about is not your previous fiancée, is it?"< br>
As Mrs. Shen said, Shen Ti had been engaged before, but the woman's family fell into ruin, and all the female family members were deprived of official status and became lowly.
Official slaves cannot redeem themselves unless they are rehabilitated or granted amnesty. Otherwise, you will always be a humble person.
The law stipulates that good people and bad people should not marry. The unmarried couple mentioned here refers to being husband and wife, and does not include concubines, intercourse, etc. Therefore, the former fiancée could only be Shen Ti's concubine because she did not have a lowly status.
"She is of a lowly status and can only be a concubine. You are afraid that she will be beaten by your real wife, so you don't marry to protect her, right?"
"But neither are my aunts or uncles. You may not be allowed to marry a son who has a bright future, so they proposed I came up with a compromise method and went to the small place of Huaixi to marry you a wife who knows your roots but is not well-matched and whose natal family is weak, so that your wife will not dare to overly bully your beloved, thus reaching a compromise between the two of you. Right? ”
Yin Shi stared at Shen Ti with bright eyes.
Shen Ti felt that his mother's evaluation of this cousin might not be entirely correct. Of course his own impression of her in the past was also wrong.
He was born and raised in the capital city, which is a city full of humanities and elites, chatting and laughing with scholars. He took it for granted that the daughters of small squire families in Huaixi, a small place like Huaixi, could at most know a few words and not be blind. They might not be stupid, but their thoughts and opinions must be shallow and narrow.
But he looked at Yin Shi's bright eyes and listened to her clarifying the ins and outs of the matter in a very short period of time, with quick reactions and clear logic - it seemed that he was being narrow-minded. .
Shen Ti admitted frankly: "Yes, everything is just as my cousin thought."
He was even a little happy that this cousin was a smart and sober person. It was a hundred times easier to communicate with such a person than with those paranoid and stupid people.
Sure enough, Yin Shi asked him: "Although you arranged for me to be involved without authorization, I knew nothing about the whole thing before just now, so cousin, what do you want to do when you come to block me? What? "
Shen Ti stared at her.
"My cousin is smarter than my mother's praise." He said, "I came here just to tell my sister the truth. As for our marriage, I went to tell my mother myself and don't delay my cousin."
Yin Shi looked at him straightly, and after a moment, he let out a soft laugh, with obvious disdain.
Shen Ti was stunned.
"If you want to resist, just go and make trouble with your family. If you make enough trouble and resist with enough persistence, the marriage will naturally be ruined." Yin Shi stated calmly, "Then you Why are you coming to me? I don’t have to do anything, just wait for you to mess up the marriage. Why are you coming to me to tell me this?”
“It’s nothing more than that. ...You can't resist on your own. If you could resist, you wouldn't have been dragged to Huaixi by your parents in the first place."
"Because the marriage is the order of the parents. Disobedience and unfilial piety are a serious sin that cannot be forgiven by laws and etiquette. "
"You can't resist, so you expect me to resist and make trouble."
"As for me, if an old girl like me who can't be married yet is accused of being unfilial and has a reputation that even the prostitute looks down on, what will I do in the future? Will she be locked up in a nunnery or in prison? Whether you are sent to marry a poor old widower from afar in the woodshed, or whether you die quietly in a dilapidated courtyard at home, you don’t care, don’t think about it, right?”
Her voice was calm but logical.
It was as if a layer of beautiful and clean skin had been scratched, directly exposing the blood underneath.
Shen Ti's sleeves fluttered softly and elegantly in the wind, but his body was stiff.
One of the beautiful shells was broken.
He was smashed into pieces mercilessly by his cousin Yin Shiniang.
Before that, he was not even aware of its existence and acted entirely on instinct.
"But, it doesn't matter."
My cousin's voice was gentle, and she looked at him with tolerance.
"It doesn't matter, I can forgive you for not thinking of this or not wanting to think of this."
As my mother said, Madam Yin is a gentle and kind person.
"I can forgive you." She seemed to have reconciled with her sharp emotions in a very short period of time, and said softly, "You won the lottery and gained status. Everyone felt that You are an adult, and you may even think so. "
"But you are actually...still a child."
(End of this chapter)
The author said: Note: In the article, "Clear your heart and your mind will be clear." ...] The content in parentheses is quoted from the Taoist "Tai Shang Lao Jun Meditation Mantra".
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