Early spring in the world [farming]

On the eve of Lixia, the fields that used to be filled with insects and birds were replaced by the sound of frogs after the first rainstorm.

The sound of frogs seems to be hidden in the night, and it is as clear as the corner outside the house, one after another, like an interlude at the turn of spring and summer.The occasional pause is like a subtle pause in the transition of the movement, just right.

The open window is slightly propped up, and the evening wind blows in along the window.

Tan Ruyi was sitting on a chair by the window, propping her chin with one hand, as if immersed in the music played by the sound of frogs.However, if you listen carefully, you can hear the small quarrels coming from the house not far away. It is mixed with the frogs, so abrupt and discordant.

"There are still two days before the wedding. He, Sunancheng, was not honest enough to go home to prepare for the wedding. He left a letter from his family saying that he was going to patrol the post road. The date of return has not yet been set, and he hopes to change the wedding date. Is it plausible?"

Tan Ruyi listened quietly and knew that it was her mother who was talking, and she could hear her mother's complaints hidden in her suppressed anger.

After a while, her father said slowly: "After all, it's a public matter. If the wedding delays the official business, and Shangfeng blames it, I'm afraid it will affect the future."

This reason obviously couldn't convince her mother, but it seemed to add fuel to the fire. Her mother's voice became louder: "The Huang Daoji has been finalized long ago, and the two families have also discussed it. He should ask Shangfeng for instructions anyway." The wedding was organized for three days on vacation, and he can go wherever he likes after that. It was a matter that was settled long ago, and he was so short-sighted at the meeting. At this juncture, let him go to patrol the post road? Besides, he is a Such a diligent person?"

"Keep your voice down so that Dad can hear you, this matter won't end well!"

Seeming to be apprehensive, her mother lowered her voice again: "I think he is probably dissatisfied with this marriage, and deliberately escaped from the marriage!"

Tan Ruyi didn't hear her father's voice, but after thinking about it, she knew that her father must be frowning and feeling heavy at the moment.

As the day of her daughter's wedding approached, the future son-in-law ran away from the marriage on the grounds of going on business. When such a thing happened, no one could let go of the heavy shackles in his heart.

Taking advantage of the opportunity for the couple to be alone, her mother wantonly vented her dissatisfaction in her heart: "The Su family is really wolf-hearted, mean and ungrateful. Back then Su Deng was killed by thieves, and those relatives were eyeing the Su family's property. How could their orphans and widows Can you keep the family business? Didn’t you rely on our help to survive! As a result, the days are better now, and you start to take Joe again. You think we are making coffins and are not worthy of their Su family. When it comes to crossing rivers and demolishing bridges, their Su family is really useless People can reach it!"

After the sound of frogs stopped at the corner outside the house for a moment, Tan Ruyi heard her father's cold snort.The sound of frogs sounded again, and Tan Ruyi thought her father's snort was just her illusion.

Her father said in a deep voice: "Let's keep this matter a secret from father first, if he finds out, he might be very angry again."

Her mother's tone was full of melancholy: "If you can hide this matter for a day or two, how can you hide it on the wedding day?"

Her father was habitually silent again, before saying after a while: "Tomorrow, I will go to the Su family to urge them, and ask the Su family to come up with a solution."

Under the shadows where the candlelight could not reach, Tan Ruyi couldn't discern her expression.She got up and put away the wooden pole supporting the window, and immediately walked to the dressing table, and let go of her bun.

The letter unfolded on the dressing table was accidentally swept off by her sleeve. She bent down and lowered her head to pick it up. Her eyes fell on the lines of words that smelled of cheap ink. look.

Since he, Su Nancheng, dared to run away from marriage, he should bear the consequences of running away from marriage.

Outside, there was another drizzle in the night sky. The night wind blew gently, and it fell silently on the eaves of Su's house two miles away.

The drizzle knocked on the window lattice without a sound, and on the couch facing the window sill, the pale girl opened her eyes, staring at the window sill with eyes as bright as the starry sky on a summer night, the rain seemed to soften.

The sound of wandering footsteps outside the door disturbed the silence of the night.

The girl with the kerchief on her head turned her head slightly and asked, "Is your mother outside?"

There was a pause in the footsteps, and after a while, a gentle and delicate voice sounded: "It's me, I saw that the light was still on in your place, and I thought you hadn't rested yet, so I came to take a look."

The girl stood up, and her large and elegant cyan robe swayed in the wind, outlining her bony shoulder blades and clavicle.

Opening the door, she saw a middle-aged woman standing outside, and the girl turned sideways slightly.

The woman came in, took a look at the empty room, and finally landed on the bed, said: "It's already the beginning of summer, who would have thought that it would rain for two consecutive days, and the sky would get cold again... Do you need an extra bedding?"

There was a trace of alienation in the girl's words: "Mother, don't worry, the room is very warm, not cold."

The woman experienced it carefully, and found that the room was really not cold, like a greenhouse with charcoal fires in winter, neither cold nor hot, just right.

The woman couldn't find a suitable topic for a while and remained silent.

The girl didn't speak either.

Finally, the woman couldn't stand the awkward and stalemate atmosphere, and said awkwardly: "Gu'er, your brother is away on business, but there are two days left before he welcomes his relatives, and I don't know if he can make it back. How do you say this is good?"

Young girl, Su Bei looked at her blood-related mother, Lu Shi, and seemed a little confused. As an adult, and also the oldest elder in this family, how could he ask her, a junior, for advice on such a serious issue?

Forgive Su Bei for not knowing who her biological mother is, because she was sent to a Taoist temple to become a monk when she was very young, and she seldom went back to Su's house in these years, and she seldom got along with her relatives.If her family hadn't sent her a letter not long ago asking her to come back to attend her brother Su Nancheng's wedding, she probably wouldn't have set foot in Su's house.

It's just that she just came back, and before meeting her brother face to face, she learned that her brother had left home on the grounds that Shangfeng suddenly appointed him to patrol the post road.

Patrol post road is not an official job that can be completed overnight, and there are only two days left before the wedding, anyone with a discerning eye can see that he is trying to escape the marriage.

At the juncture when his brother's escaped marriage caught the two families who were preparing for the wedding by surprise, Su Beigu thought inappropriately: If the wedding can't be done, can I go back to the Taoist temple?

Of course, in the face of her mother who came to ask her for advice, she would not give such a cold and heartless answer.

After pondering for a moment, Su Beigu opened his mouth: "The best way is naturally that brother can come back in time, so that the wedding can go on smoothly."

Lu choked.

Of course she knew that it was the best way for her son to come back in time to marry Tan Ruyi. The key was that her son made it clear that he did not intend to marry Tan Ruyi obediently!

Thinking of this, she told Su Beigu about the difficulties at home with a sad face.

Su Beigu listened quietly.

In fact, she had heard these things a long time ago. After all, during the years she lived in the Taoist temple, only Mrs. Lu would visit her every one or two months.Once he heard other people's gossip, Lu was worried that she would think too much, so he explained to her why her father and brother didn't come to see her, saying that they were busy or other unavoidable difficulties, and hoped that she would not blame them.

Su Beigu didn't blame them, or in other words, she never put her feelings and thoughts on them.

Because I don't care, I don't blame it.

The topic is off topic.Su Beigu learned from Lu Shi's mouth that her father's name is Su Deng, and he is a [patrolling horse delivery officer] in Tanzhou.

The so-called "Madipu" is the yamen responsible for conveying the official documents of the imperial court, and the [Xunju Madipu officer] is the official responsible for the affairs of the state's post points and post roads.This official position predestined her father to go out on inspections every now and then, so in her mother's view, he was very busy.

And frequent inspections are destined to greatly increase his chances of encountering danger, especially in troubled times.

No, four years ago, he met a rebel on his way to inspect the post road. The rebel killed him because he was afraid that he would pass on the news.

The first time Su Beigu went back to Su's house was for the funeral.

Su Deng is the pillar of the Su family. After his death, the good days of the Su family are gone forever:

First, the relatives coveted the Su family's property under the pretense of handling the funeral for the Su family; later, the Lu brothers, who registered part of the family's land under Lu's name because of the convenience of the Su family's official household status in the early years, came to ask for it. Returning to the property; in the end, arranging the funeral requires a lot of expenses, which is enough to empty the Su family's family fortune.

At this moment, the Tan family, who sold coffins in the same hometown, allowed the Su family to buy a good coffin on credit, so that Su Deng could be buried in the ground as soon as possible.

Mrs. Lu is very grateful to the Qin family.

After Su Deng's funeral was over, the Su family's mother and son had kept mourning for him for three years, and Tan Ruyi had also reached the age of marriage.But because many people thought that the Tan family who dealt with coffins was very unlucky, and they were afraid that marrying Tan Ruyi would bring bad luck back home, so Tan Ruyi couldn't find a good marriage for a long time.

At the same time, because Su Deng was killed by the rebels, the imperial court allowed Su Deng's son, Sunan City, to act as his father's official position, but he needed to pay a large sum of money, that is, to obtain it through "Nasu donating officials". official position.

Sunan Chengkong had the opportunity but could not afford the money, while Tan Ruyi had a generous dowry but could not find a good family.

After Tan Ruyi's grandfather heard the news, he proposed that if Su Nancheng was willing to marry Tan Ruyi, then the Tan family would be willing to pay the money for Sunancheng.

The Su family agreed to the marriage.

After Su Nancheng got the money, he took over his father Su Deng's official position as he wished, and then played the role of the future good wife and son-in-law of the Tan family under the eyes of the Tan family.

It wasn't until the wedding was approaching that he showed his fox tail. Like many people, he didn't want to marry Tan Ruyi, thinking that her background was very unlucky and would affect his official career.But he was able to have what he is today, thanks to the help of the Qin family back then.

He couldn't refuse this marriage, so he simply dealt with it with a negative attitude, which made the Qin family quit.

Lu Shi also knew that her son was dissatisfied with this marriage, but it was impossible for her to reveal it to her daughter so bluntly.

But no matter how much she beautifies Su Nancheng, she can't blind Su Bei Gu's eyes.

Promising to get married but trying to delay the marriage is dishonest; agreeing to the Tan family's deal and getting an official position but looking down on the Tan family is ungrateful; finally, regardless of the impact that escaping marriage will have on Tan Ruyi and the Su Qin family, she insists on escaping marriage , is for selfish gain.

This is proper scum!

If it weren't for the many entanglements between the Su family and the Tan family, she, the daughter of the Su family in name, would not be easy to interfere, and she would definitely persuade Tan Ruyi to happily stay away from scum and scum's family.

The author has something to say:

Su Beigu: Sisters, run away, stay away from scumbags and scumbag families, and live a happy life.

Instant Noodles: Be sober, you are also part of the scumbag's family.

Su Beigu: Oh.

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[Guardian horse delivery shop officer]: In layman's terms, it is the director of a certain city post office.