Chapter 271 Statement
"When I went out, I happened to meet Butler Lu. Butler Lu said that the eldest girl was making trouble at home."
"Master, it turns out that Min Juren has no father or mother since he was a child, and was raised by his aunt. Seeing that she couldn't get along with the Chu family, the aunt invited a matchmaker to go to the Xia family to propose marriage. The master also intended to betroth the eldest girl to Min Juren. , but the eldest girl disliked Min Ju’s poor family and did not agree to the marriage. ”
After meeting someone like Ao Tianchen and going to a place like the Second Prince's Mansion, it's strange that Xia Ziqing would be willing to marry a child from a poor family.
So, the unruly sister of Min Juren whom she met before was his cousin, not his biological sister?
"If the eldest sister doesn't agree, dad can't force this marriage."
Xia Zihan said, opened the bag, took out the medicinal materials, mixed some antiemetics, gave them to Chu Kuang, and ordered her to boil the medicine, "Boil three bowls of water into one bowl of water, and serve it to the second aunt's grandma while it's hot." ”
"Yes." Chu Kui took the medicine package and remembered something again, "The master said that he would use dried plums to make porridge for the second aunt's grandma to eat at night. When I went to get the dried plums, I found that the dried plums were gone."
"Ask He Donglin to send someone to buy it. Just get the money from Cui's mother."
Chu Kuang said "Hello", blessed his body and retreated.
Xia Zihan picked out a few more herbs for making medicinal meals, and ordered Chu Cong to put the rest away.
Xia Zihan took the medicinal materials, went to the kitchen, and made a blood-tonifying and fetal-preserving yam and black-bone chicken soup with her own hands.
After the soup was ready, Xia Zihan used a spoon to remove the golden layer of fat on the surface, and filled a large bowl of clear chicken soup with a few mushrooms, a few red dates, and a few wolfberries floating on it.
"Master, this slave is here to serve you."
Seeing that Xia Zihan's soup was ready, Chu Xiao stepped forward and put the soup on the tray, picked it up and followed Xia Zihan.
Chu Kui had just boiled the decoction and was coaxing Mrs. Zhuo to drink it.
Mrs. Zhuo frowned, pinched her nose and took a sip, then stopped drinking, "The taste is too weird, I can't drink it."
"Good medicine tastes bitter, and my aunt doesn't want to feel uncomfortable vomiting."
As soon as she walked in the door, Xia Zihan heard Zhuo's words and stepped forward to persuade her with a smile.
"Auntie, you can't eat. You've only lost a few kilograms of meat, but you still have a little one in your belly that you want to eat. That soup can stop vomiting and allow you to eat. Even if you find it extremely difficult to eat, you still have to do it. The child in the belly drinks it”
It was really difficult for this child to come. It was the child Zhuo had been waiting for for eight or nine years, and she cherished it dearly.
Zhuo held her nose and planned to eat in small bites.
Xia Zihan joked, "Auntie has always been quick and resolute in doing things. Why is it that when it comes to drinking decoction, she becomes so timid?"
"The slower you drink, the longer the bitter taste will stay in your mouth."
"It's a knife to extend your head, and it's a knife to shrink your head. Auntie, just drink it in one gulp. I guarantee you'll suffer less than if you drink it slowly."
Mrs. Zhuo frowned and looked at Yue Jin pitifully, "Go get a jujube."
"Madam, you've eaten a lot of wild jujubes. When you wake up tomorrow morning, you'll have toothache again." Yue Jin felt sorry for her wife's suffering, but if she didn't eat wild jujubes, she would definitely not be able to drink the bowl of medicine.
Madam, everything is fine, except that she has trouble taking medicine.
Zhuo held the jujube in one hand and the bowl in the other, and drank it all in one gulp with the courage of a strong man breaking his wrist.
As soon as the bowl left my mouth, the jujube was thrown into my mouth.
After swallowing the jujube, Mrs. Zhuo said pitifully, "Ayu, can you put some sugar cubes in the soup?"
"Of course not. Sugar cubes will reduce the effect of the medicine, so you can't just leave it there."
As she said that, she brought chicken soup and placed it in front of Zhuo, "Aunt, this is blood-enhancing and fetal-replenishing yam black-bone chicken soup. Eating it is good for children, and it is also good for adults. Drink it while it's hot."
The soup was clear and grease-free, and there were still red dates in it. It looked quite delicious.
Mrs. Zhuo picked up the bowl and felt nauseated when she smelled the aroma of chicken. Xia Zihan quickly pricked her back with a silver needle, and her nauseating feeling disappeared.
After drinking the soup, Xia Zihan sat for two minutes before pulling out the silver needle.
"Ayu, fortunately you are here, I feel much better now." Zhuo said gratefully.
The two went to the kang to talk.
Ms. Zhuo leaned on the big pillow and stroked Pingping's belly with her hand, recalling the past, "When I was pregnant with Aqi, I also suffered from severe morning sickness. I felt nauseous when I saw anything. I felt dizzy every day and my body felt weak. She can't even walk, and her mother-in-law wants me to help her wake up in the morning and in the morning, and wait for her to go to bed every day."
"One time, I couldn't help vomiting in her room, which made her so angry that she wanted to punish me by kneeling in the ancestral hall. Your uncle happened to come back and saw it, so he took the matter to his father-in-law. The father-in-law was furious and accused my mother-in-law of being evil. Black Lung, you want to deliberately upset the child in my belly.”
"Later, my father-in-law gave me an order not to leave my yard, and asked me to open a small stove in the yard and cook other meals."
"My father-in-law is guarding against my mother-in-law."
"My mother-in-law was very angry, so she secretly bribed the maid in my yard to pour oil on the ground."
"My mother-in-law knows that I have to walk around the yard several times every day, so that when I give birth, the baby will come out easily."
"It happened to be a cold day. Yuekui wanted to go back to the house to get my cloak, but she stepped on the oil and fell."
"That time, my father-in-law restrained my mother-in-law until I gave birth to Aqi."
Speaking of this, Mrs. Zhuo looked at Xia Zihan, who was making clothes for her child, and said, "Think about it, as women, if we don't have a good mother-in-law after we get married, we will really have to eat a lot." Bitter.”
"At that time, I was thinking, if my son marries a daughter-in-law in the future, I will treat my daughter-in-law well no matter what, and I will love my daughter-in-law as my own daughter."
"Ayu, do you believe Auntie?" Unexpectedly, Mrs. Zhuo said a lot of words just for the purpose of asking this question, which shocked her, and the needle in her hand almost pierced her flesh.
She blushed instantly and responded casually, "I...how do I know."
He didn't dare to look at Zhuo.
Mrs. Zhuo was very serious, "Why don't you know who my aunt is? How can she still treat you harshly?"
"I will treat you so harshly in the future that my godmother will eat me alive." Mrs. Zhuo said.
This is already obvious.
Xia Zihan's heart was beating wildly, and even the roots of his ears turned red.
In the past, she escaped and deliberately avoided Chu Jingqi. Half of the reason was that the Chu family was too chaotic, Mrs. Chu and Chu Haoyu's family were too troublesome, and she didn't want to live too tired and live in other people's schemes and plots all day long.
The other half of the reason was that she was worried that her aunt and uncle would oppose the marriage.
After all, she is two years older than Aqi, and she has also had a divorce, so she has a bad reputation.
Another point is that since ancient times, wealthy families have had five things that they will not marry: the daughter of a rebellious family, the daughter of a promiscuous family, a criminal who has been convicted of a crime, a serious illness, and the eldest daughter who has lost her mother.
And she committed Article 5.
She was the eldest daughter of a widowed woman. Generally, the head matron of a distinguished family would not allow her eldest son to marry her, unless that person had other intentions.
Just like the Song family, they are looking for the Chu family's industry.
Without this piece of property as a dowry, little Zeng would not have easily agreed to the marriage simply because she wanted to repay a favor to Zeng.
After all, Song Huai is the only heir of the Song family.
But now, her aunt has made it clear that she sincerely wants to accept her as her daughter-in-law, and she doesn't want to do anything.
She was touched and grateful.
At the same time, I felt ashamed of what I had done before.
It seemed that her aunt had already seen Aqi's thoughts about her and had agreed to it early. Otherwise, her aunt would not have let Aqi get close to her, nor would she have let Aqi go to the Chu family.
In the past, she thought too much and underestimated her aunt's tolerance.
Although this marriage in the Chu family was not what she wanted, if she could have a good mother-in-law like her aunt, what else could she be dissatisfied with?
Will she continue to escape?
Aqi was very affectionate and loyal to her. When he left, he told her with red eyes that she must wait for him to come back. Could she really live up to such deep affection and such strong feelings?
Can she really leave him behind?
If the condition of marrying Aqi is that she belongs to the Chu family, then... is she willing to face a lot of troubles from the Chu family for Aqi?
After much thought, Xia Zihan felt that marrying Aqi was not a bad idea. It was better than marrying a strange man.
Even a man without a father or mother will have troubles with relatives in his family, just like Min Juren.
He is a very good, conscientious and kind-hearted man, but he happened to fall in love with a snobbish relative of his aunt's family.
He was raised by his aunt, who supported him in his studies, and he won the imperial examination. Later, when he became successful, the word "filial piety" overcame him and he couldn't breathe.
If you stay far away from your aunt, people will say you are a white-eyed wolf. If you become successful, your aunt will not even recognize you. Everyone can drown you with just a spit of spit.
But it's close. What does it mean to be close?
Serving you like a slave every day is called closeness and filial piety, right?
Doesn't it mean being ungrateful if you don't rely on someone, even if you don't serve them well even a little bit?
Even if the couple is to be slaves to their aunt's family for the rest of their lives, they probably won't be able to repay such a huge upbringing.
That's a huge problem.
Thinking about it this way, Xia Zihan felt that he had figured it out.
Meeting Zhuo's burning eyes, her cheeks flushed, "I will also be filial to my aunt from now on."
This is considered a verbal agreement.
Zhuo is so happy.
I wish I could write to Muzi's son right away, telling him that Ayu finally agreed, so that he could go to war with peace of mind, and she would protect his wife well so that no one would snatch her away.
"Your grandma will come over some other day, and we two will have a nice drink." This was what he wanted to formally mention to Mrs. Zeng.
Although the signature stated that Xia Zihan could not get engaged before he was nineteen years old, it didn't matter if it was just a verbal agreement without ceremony or exchange of gifts.
When Zhuo was excited, she forgot that she couldn't drink while pregnant.
Xia Zihan reminded her with a blushing face.
She smiled and said, "Drink fruit juice. As long as you are with me, aunt will be happy to drink water."
Xia Zihan's cheeks were as red as fireworks.
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(End of chapter)