Chapter 220 Successful withdrawal of engagement
The marriage between Xia Zihan and Song Huai was finally called off, and the engagement tokens were returned. The next step was for the Shi family and the Song family to discuss the marriage. They felt uncomfortable in Zeng's presence, so Zeng made an excuse. Take the first step.
Mrs. Zhuo hurriedly said, "Godmother, I will go back with you."
As soon as the two left, Xiao Zeng also left without interest, leaving Song Huai's marriage to Pei to decide one by one. Dou, Li, sister-in-law and Pei discussed the marriage between Shi Wenting and Song Huai. .
Since Shi Wenting had interfered with Xia Zihan and Song Huai's marriage, Mr. Pei didn't have a good attitude towards Mr. Dou. During the discussion, they alluded to Xia Zihan's generous dowry.
The Chu family has no heirs, and all the property of the Chu family belongs to Xia Zihan. Her dowry is certainly generous, but Shi Wenting is not an only daughter. She has an elder brother and a younger brother. How can she be compared with Xia Zihan?
Mrs. Dou couldn't care less about her son's life and death and move the entire Shi family to dowry for her daughter, right?
Although it was his daughter who was forced to marry into the Song family, in the final analysis, Song Huai had to bear half of the responsibility for all this.
Now that they are engaged, she shouldn't provoke her Wen Ting. If something goes wrong now, she can't blame her Wen Ting alone.
But thinking about it this way, in order for her daughter to enter the door of the Song family, Mrs. Dou could only swallow her full of resentment and endure everything as a lowly person. In order to prevent the Song family from looking down on Shi Wenting, she decided to put herself All the sixty-six dowries were given to Shi Wenting, and she gritted her teeth and added another twenty dowry.
This is already the most dowry the Shi family can afford. If it were more, the Shi family would have to borrow money to get their daughter married.
But the dowry of eighty-six is still far short of the one hundred and twenty that the Chu family and the Song family had originally agreed upon, and the Chu family also has dozens of Zhuangzi shops worth fifty or sixty thousand silver. He was succeeded by Xia Zihan.
Although these are not included in the dowry and are Xia Zihan's private treasury, if Xia Zihan can marry into the Song family, she will not be a descendant of the Song family in the future.
Pei's tooth ached at the thought of losing a mountain of gold and silver, and she even looked down on the eighty-six dowry carried by the Shi family.
Xia Zihan didn't know how the Song family and the Shi family reached an agreement in the end. When she learned that Zeng had canceled the marriage and got back the token and her horoscope, she kept standing in front of the window blankly. , looking out the window with a complicated expression.
Everything is different.
Ever since she was reborn, everything she had experienced in her previous life was different and had changed one by one.
The Chu family of three survived, and Zhuo even recognized her grandmother as her godmother, giving her a backer.
The Song family did not rise, and Song Baiqing did not gain the emperor's trust and was suppressed.
And Song Baiqing, who had always been loyal to the Pei family, secretly sold all the little Zeng family's dowry for a prostitute in this life and kept it outside.
Song Huai, who had always had smooth sailing in his previous life until he got married, was in a lot of troubles in this life. He was only fourteen years old and already had several peach blossom debts exposed.
Her father, Xia Shiming, had been serving as chief envoy in Mingchang County in his previous life. It was not until a few years later that he was transferred to the capital on the recommendation of Song Boqing.
But in this life, her father was transferred to the capital in advance and entered the Hanlin Academy. Even Xu and Xia Ziying had to come to the capital in advance.
Now, even the marriage between Xia Ziying and Song Huai, which she had always wanted to use as revenge, was rejected by her grandmother.
It was only today that she realized belatedly that everything had changed.
Everything is different from the previous life.
The moment she heard that the marriage was called off, she felt that a heavy burden on her heart was suddenly gone.
My heart actually felt relaxed.
However, without her marriage to Song Huai, Xia Ziying and Song Huai would no longer have the relationship of brother-in-law and sister-in-law. Then how could Xia Ziying... Song Huai... get together?
Xia Zihan closed her eyes, and her mind was filled with the proud and ferocious smiles of the two of them. All the things in her past life... She was cheated, tortured, beaten, and...
Full of hatred burst out, and Xia Zihan's face gradually became distorted.
Regardless of whether this life will follow the path of her previous life, she will not make it easy for Song Huai and Xia Ziying, nor will she make it easy for those who owe her.
The peaceful days of the Song family have come to an end.
Xia Zihan's eyes were stern, and with a wave of his hand, the pot of Eighteen Bachelors placed on the window sill fell to the ground.
The huge noise alerted Chu Xiaochuyi who was guarding the door. The two of them ran in in panic. They saw a pile of broken porcelain pieces on the ground. The precious eighteenth bachelor was lying on the ground pitifully, and two flowers fell off. Duo.
Xia Zihan wiped her hands with a handkerchief and told them calmly, "Clean this place."
Then he went out.
"Grandma." As soon as Xia Zihan entered the door, she ran over and hugged Mrs. Zeng with a smile on her face, "Grandma, thank you for your trouble."
"Silly girl, if I hadn't been unaware for a moment, I wouldn't have betrothed you to Brother Huai. It's all my fault that my grandma's eyes were covered with dust at that time, she saw the wrong person, and mistook a fish pearl for a pearl."
This matter was her fault, and she should take some care. As long as Yu Niang could escape from the fire pit of the Song family, she would be relieved.
"In the future, grandma will definitely keep her eyes open and carefully choose a marriage for Yu Niang." She rubbed her palms and said.
"Grandma, I don't want to join a distinguished family, nor marry a prince or general. I just want to find a husband with good character and trustworthiness, and live an ordinary life."
"If you don't become an official, don't be an official, and don't engage in business, you can simply live in a small house with two entrances, raise a few servants, have two children, raise flowers all day long, play chess, read vocabulary books, and teach Teach your children good manners, no need to worry about career, no need to worry about money, just be peaceful and happy. ”
The most important thing is to live a life where you don’t have to look at your mother-in-law’s face. In her previous life, she was bullied miserably by Mrs. Cao, and she had had enough of seeing her face. In this life, even if she could not get married as an old aunt, she would never marry a man who needed to live by her mother-in-law's face.
"Grandma, do you agree?" Xia Zihan rested her head on Zeng's shoulder, already re-planning her future in her heart.
After taking revenge, he would marry a poor boy with no father, mother or brothers and sisters, and then move away from the capital, a place of right and wrong, and find a paradise with beautiful mountains and rivers to settle down.
The family lives a life where they only envy mandarin ducks but not immortals.
But first, the person's character must be good.
Read books, know Chinese characters, be honest and loyal, have good facial features and good conduct...
Phew, it seems really hard to find.
In the afternoon, the news of Xia Zihan and Song Huai's breakup spread throughout the capital, as if someone was deliberately exaggerating it, as if they were afraid that others would not know about it.
Then, news of the marriage between the Song family and the Shi family came. In less than a day, Chu Yu's engagement was broken off, and everyone knew that Shi Wenting had stolen Chu Yu's fiancé.
The next day, Xia Zihan had just finished dinner when she received a greeting card from the three sisters of the Dou family.
Xia Zihan asked people to sit in the flower hall.
As soon as they sat down, before the maid could serve tea, a little maid hurriedly came with Liao Fangyi's greeting card.
Staring at the pink greeting card in her hand, Xia Zihan joked, "This little girl has finally grown up. She knows that when you come to visit, you must send a greeting card first."
In the past, Liao Fangyi had always regarded the Chu family as her home. She could come and leave whenever she wanted, but it was very casual.
"Go and bring this person over." Xia Zihan ordered the little maid.
The little maid Fuli resigned.
Xia Zihan smiled at the three sisters of the Dou family and said, "It just so happens that you all arrived together today. I will treat you to a good meal at Juxianglou at noon." This was to celebrate her escape from Song Huai. That scumbag with a human face and an animal heart.
"Chu Yu, are you okay?" Dou Er asked with trembling heart.
"I'm fine. What can happen to me?" Xia Zihan said with a smile.
She could guess some of the reasons why the Dou sisters came, but she was really fine. Although the matter of breaking off the engagement with Song Huai was different from her previous plan, it finally lifted a huge boulder that had been weighing on her heart. dropped.
She was very happy that something was settled, and wanted to set off firecrackers to celebrate.
"Don't hide it from us. The news about you and Crown Prince Song's breakup has spread all over the streets. My mother and my aunt went to the Song family, Chu family, Song family and Shi family yesterday. We I found out last night," Dou Si said anxiously.
She was impatient and spoke bluntly, thinking that the smile on Xia Zihan's face was all fake.
Also, anyone whose engagement is broken off and whose fiancé is robbed will be so sad that they will cry bitterly and be heartbroken.
But Xia Zihan's face was full of smiles, and there was no trace of sadness at all. Dou Si thought she was forcing a smile, but in fact she couldn't tell how sad she was.
You know, Song Huai was very kind to her and doted on her. They all saw it with their own eyes that day at the gate of the Dou family.
Song Huai was obedient and doting on her.
It's all Shi Wenting's fault. She got involved and made a life-and-death fuss. After all, she messed up the couple's marriage.
They all felt ashamed to see Chu Yu.
"Chu Yu." Dou Si suddenly grabbed Xia Zihan's hand, his eyes were red, "I'm sorry that we couldn't help you about Shi Wenting and Song Shizi, but you must not put us and her To confuse it, she is her, we are us, we disagree with the things she did, and we are on your side.”
It stands to reason that Shi Wenting is her cousin and has a blood relationship. Compared with Chu Yu, her relationship with Shi Wenting is closer.
But Chu Yu is her good friend, and the fault of this matter is Shi Wenting's. She is helping the matter rather than helping the relatives.
What's more, Chu Yu was her great benefactor.
When she was in trouble in Zhuangzi, Chu Yu was able to save her regardless of his own danger. She cherished this deep friendship. She didn't want Chu Yu to alienate them because of Shi Wenting.
"Yeah, I know." Otherwise, she wouldn't see them.
Dou Si laughed and said hehely, "Chu Yu, there are no three-legged roosters in the world, but there are two-legged men all over the streets. Without this one, there will be the next one. Maybe you can still do it in the future." Book a better one than Prince Song.”
For example, her cousin Aqi.
(End of chapter)