Surprise at three quarters

Later, Bai Pu, one of the four masters of Yuan Zaju, perfunctorily made the story of "Silver Vase at the Bottom of the Well" into a Yuan Zaju: "Pei Shaojun on the Wall".

The protagonist of the story, Li Qianjin, is a new human being with avant-garde thinking. Although he was educated as a lady since childhood, he was born with a heart yearning for love.So when he saw Pei Shaojun riding a white horse on the wall, it was love at first sight, and he couldn't even wait for his parents' orders and the matchmaker's words to elope with him.

When Pei Shaojun brought Li Qianjin home, he naturally didn't dare to let his parents know about it, so he hid him in the back garden where he was studying every day. For seven full years, he raised a pair of children, but his parents didn't realize it.

It wasn't until Pei Shangshu accidentally bumped into two children in the garden that this major event was revealed.

The ancients had a saying that "the one who hires is a wife, and the one who rushes is a concubine". Naturally, Pei Shangshu would not recognize this daughter-in-law who had not been engaged by three matchmakers and six hires, and even ridiculed her that "a man travels to nine counties, and a woman marries three husbands".

Under Li Qianjin's pleading, Pei Shangshu first took out the jade hairpin and asked her to grind it into a needle on a stone, and then asked someone to bring a silver bottle, and asked her to tie it with a gossamer to draw water from the well.This was naturally impossible, so Pei Shangshu forced Pei Shaojun to write a letter of divorce, and then ordered Li Qianjin to be sent away.

It should be the scene now.

She was pondering over here, when she heard Zhang Qian who was standing beside Pei Shaojun say with a bitter face, "Lady, you go now! The old man just let me answer."

Li Qianjin hugged the two children fiercely for a while, and then straightened up, without looking at Pei Shaojun, while wiping away tears, he said, "Since the bottle pendant and the hairpin are broken, from now on, we will cut off all ties!"

After that, he lifted his skirt and walked out of the garden.

Pei Shaojun immediately became anxious, and said with a stamp of his feet, "Father is so cruel, he wants to separate us, husband and wife, mother and child. Forget it, wait for me to go to the court to get my consent, and then plan for future generations." After saying that, he hurriedly chased after him and held him Li Qianjin's sleeve, "Miss, don't worry, wait until I get someone to set up a carriage and drive you home."

Li Qianjin stopped walking when he heard the sound, but pulled back his sleeves forcefully, sobbing to himself.

Pei Shaojun paid a lot of attention, and managed to get her to hold back her tears, and then he said, "I'll go up to the court to get my approval, and when I get my name on the gold list, my father won't have much to say at that time, so I'll pick you up again." Come on, that's the time for our family reunion."

"I don't expect this anymore, I just pity my two children, who are separated from each other, so don't kill me!" Li Qianjin said, covering his heart, "They are the branches and leaves of your Pei family, but I also have a mother-child relationship!"

In this matter, Pei Shaojun was at fault after all, so he didn't dare to speak, and accompanied Li Qianjin out embarrassingly.

Yuan Xiao hurriedly followed, thinking as he walked.

Compared with other scumbags, this man Pei Shaojun doesn't seem so scumbag.

He is not like Li Jia who forced Du Shiniang to have nowhere to stay and can only sink himself, he is not like Xue Pinggui's wife who has been lost for eighteen years, he is not like Li Yi who broke his promise, and he is not like Li Longji who made Yang Yuhuan's decision with one word life and death.

He is handsome, gentle, and considerate, and he also has love in his heart.For seven years, he guarded Li Qianjin day and night, never changing, completely fulfilling all her girlish fantasies.

words.

But in Yuan Xiao's view, this "not talking" is the most intriguing feature in itself, and it can be said to be the three flavors of the phrase "do more and make more mistakes, do less and make less mistakes, and don't do well".

His father drove him away, and he was forced to write the divorce letter. Everything was "unavoidable", so he seemed to be able to forgive him.

But this kind of "ordinary badness" is actually the most deadly, because people will tolerate everything about him.Mistakes are others', but he has become the most innocent one, even he himself does not feel that he is at fault.

But the evil of "inaction" is sometimes worse than making mistakes.

I don't know if it's because Pei Shangshu didn't plan to show off because it was a family scandal after all, so he dismissed the servants, or it was the result of the opera world itself based on logic - at the beginning, Pei Shaojun and Li Qianjin fell in love at first sight, just across the garden The short wall, and later the two had a private meeting, and he also climbed over the wall to get in.It can be seen that the gate control is not so strict for the high-ranking families in this world.

In short, Pei Shaojun accompanied Li Qianjin to lead the way, but he didn't meet anyone along the way.

Yuan Xiao followed behind the two, and also went out of the garden smoothly, and came to the alley behind.

Zhang Qian had already tied up the carriage and was waiting here, but Li Qianjin was about to get into the carriage without looking back, Yuan Xiao hurriedly stepped forward and shouted, "Miss!"

With this shout, all three of them looked towards her.Li Qianjin's eye circles were still red, seeing her staring at him, he asked hesitantly, "The girl is calling me?"

"It's just to find Miss." Yuan Xiao said.

"But I have never seen you come." Li Qianjin said doubtfully.

"Miss has never met me, but I know you." Yuan Xiao said, "I came to find Miss today because I have a very important matter to report to Miss!"

"What's the big deal?" Pei Shaojun asked with concern from the side.

Yuan Xiao didn't even look at him, but only stared at Li Qianjin, "The matter is very important, may the lady move?"

She is also just a girl, although Li Qianjin was puzzled in her heart, she did not doubt what evil she was going to do, so she nodded slightly and said, "Naturally."

Then he moved his lotus steps lightly and followed Yuan Xiao to the side.Yuan Xiao glanced at the distance, making sure that the distance was too far for Pei Shaojun and others to hear, then took a deep breath, and said solemnly, "Miss has been hiding in the Shangshu Mansion for many years, and it was hard to find me! Do you know that you have been here for seven years?" Time, the master and wife of the family have been tormenting day and night because of your affairs, it's gone!"

"What?!" Li Qianjin was already in the grief of parting from his children, but when he heard the news, his face immediately turned pale, and his whole body was on the verge of collapse.

She grabbed Yuan Xiao's hand, as if she wanted to ask, but she couldn't speak. After a long while, she rolled down two lines of hot tears in a daze.

It was precisely because she had just been separated from her children that she was more able to understand the feelings of her parents when they were worried about her. When she heard that they had passed away, she couldn't help but feel great grief. She trembled her lips and screamed after a while, " Father, mother!"

Yuan Xiao hadn't finished speaking, "Miss is so cruel, she actually went away and never returned home for seven years. Think about it in the heart of Mrs. Master, how can you get by? If you have sons and daughters, they will do the same thing. , what about Miss?"

These words were like a slap in the face, and Li Qianjin, who was only immersed in his children's affair, suddenly woke up, broke down in tears, hugged Yuan Xiao and cried, "I was wrong... I was wrong!"

The reason why Li Qianjin left her parents and family and followed Pei Shaojun was because in her heart, "You know that your parents are old, where is there a girl who will stay with you forever? The girl is your 15-year-old sojourner. .”

Sooner or later she has to get married, and she has to choose someone she likes, so she can't care about anything else.

But today when I first woke up from the dream, I realized that marrying and elopement are different.

If you are married seriously, how can there be relatives who don't move around?At four o'clock and eighth day, Pei Shaojun, the son-in-law, had to come to the house to help, and the family was harmonious and beautiful, so they could naturally enjoy their family relationship in peace.But if she just left and never came back, her parents could only worry about it day and night, how could they have a day of peace?

"It's my fault... In the past seven years, not only have I wronged myself, but I have also wronged my parents, Gao Tang!" She cried heartbrokenly, "Li Qianjin is not filial or fraternal, what face do I have to go home now?"

As he said that, he pushed Yuan Xiao away and wanted to bump into the courtyard wall next to him.

Yuan Xiao didn't expect that the ancients committed suicide when they said suicide, and they used such a tragic way, so he rushed forward and hugged him.

Of course Pei Shaojun and Zhang Qian had heard such a big commotion, and seeing that Li Qianjin was about to seek death, they hurriedly followed him and stopped him, trying to persuade him.

How could one have expected that something happened here, and the Li family didn't stop there?

After persuasion for a long time, Li Qianjin calmed down slowly and stopped the thought of seeking death, but she was disheartened, but she refused to even look at Pei Shaojun.Even the Pei family's carriage, she refused to sit in, so she let Yuan Xiao support her, leave here first, and then make plans.

This was originally Yuan Xiao's goal, so he agreed immediately, and warned Pei Shaojun and others not to follow, otherwise she would report to the authorities.

Fortunately, Li Qianjin had money on him, so the two found an inn to stay, and ordered Xiaoer to fetch water. After cleansing his face, Li Qianjin gradually calmed down, took Yuan Xiao's hand, and wanted to ask her family Things.

At this time, Yuan Xiao will naturally not continue to lie to her, "Miss Li, to tell you the truth, I am not actually your family member, but I just found out about your family and found out that you live in Pei's house, so I plan to send a The news is for you, but it has nothing to do with your family."

Li Qianjin was stunned at first, but after her emotional outburst, she didn't react too much to anything, and quickly accepted Yuan Xiao's statement, "Thank you for your enthusiasm, even if this is the case, I don't dare to delay the matter of the girl anymore , please do as you please. Today’s favor will be repaid by Li Qianjin in the future.”

"I'm not here for your return." Yuan Xiao said, "Actually, I'm here to help you."

"help me?"

"Now that Pei Shaojun has written a divorce letter to you, you have nothing to do with the Pei family anymore. But of course you were at fault in this matter, so is Pei Shaojun not at fault? Now that you have been kicked out empty-handed, seven years will be empty." That's all for throwing, don't you miss your sons and daughters?" Yuan Xiao said.

Li Qianjin was immediately moved by her, "You mean...?"

"If Ms. Li is willing, I would like to take you to a place. When you get there, you will find many things that are contrary to your current thoughts: Marriage does not have to be ordered by your parents, it can also be done because of love. Free union; a man can remarry, and a woman can naturally remarry, and there is no need to stay the same; if the parents disagree and separate, the child can freely choose to be with the father or the mother, and it is not a matter of course to stay in the father's house... Except for these , and many more. It is a new world where women can advocate for themselves, in various senses. Maybe there, you can find the answers you want and know what to do."

"Is there such a place?" Li Qianjin couldn't help being surprised even though his mood was depressed.

Yuan Xiao said, "Naturally, that's where I came from." She held Li Qianjin's hand, "Are you willing to go with me?"