After breaking off the marriage, the Zhuangyuan Lang who was picked up was dressed weakly every day

Chapter 13 A Marriage Letter

After Cai Yu left, Shen Yanhan chatted with Cai Xizhu.

"Did you really break up with your fiancé?" Cai Xizhu asked Shen Yanhan.

Recalling the high-spirited and handsome man she saw yesterday, she felt pity for Shen Yanhan: "I think he looks handsome and treats you well."

"There is no possibility for me to be with him anymore." Shen Yanhan was extremely determined on this matter. "You heard it yesterday. It was his family who took the initiative to withdraw from the marriage. If I were to be soft-hearted and enter his family again, wouldn't it be too spineless? You said Yes or no?"

"Jiaojiao, you're right, a good horse never turns back." Cai Xizhu agreed.

When she mentioned her marriage, she shared her latest news with Shen Yanhan: "My father said that Mr. Li Silang from Dongdu Lane in Qingshan County was a very good man. His family opened a cloth workshop and the business was very good. Every day he made a fortune. gold……"

Shen Yanhan guessed what Cai Yu meant almost immediately. She asked Cai Xizhu in surprise: "Are you going to marry a businessman in the county?"

Cai Xizhu looked at Shen Yanhan with her big pure eyes, "Isn't it good to marry a businessman? In the future, I will have money to spend, and I can go around with my husband."

Cai Xizhu has been strictly controlled by Cai Yu since she was a child. She even has strict rules on when she can go out. God knows how tempting it is for her to be able to walk around.

But Shen Yanhan didn't agree with this.

Although commerce was booming during the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the status of merchants was higher than in the previous dynasty. Sometimes even the officials had to treat the local gentry with courtesy, but Shen Yanhan's maternal ancestors were merchants. When she was in Chengzhou, Spending time with them day and night, I learned a lot about their lives and thoughts.

Businessmen have long been interested in profit and pursuing money. Some scholars despise the smell of copper and think that businessmen only have money, are ignorant of economics, and are vulgar. To a certain extent, this is not unreasonable.

Businessmen naturally understood this. In order not to appear "vulgar", they deliberately imitated and pursued the interests and tastes of scholar-bureaucrats. At the same time, they created all conditions for their children to study, hoping that their descendants would pass the imperial examination and become scholar-officials and transcend their class.

There is a very popular saying among businessmen: "A son should study, and a woman should marry a scholar."

To put it simply, doing business is a means of making a living, and one still has to rely on becoming an official to achieve great success.

Shen Yanhan knew this well and asked Cai Xizhu: "You may be talented and have poetry and books in your belly. Don't you want to marry a learned man who can discuss spring and autumn with you? He can enjoy flowers with you in spring, make tea with you in summer, Climbing high in autumn, appreciating the snow in winter, reciting poems, composing poems, dotting ink, adding incense..."

Would you not want to?

People who have read books admire most a handsome young man who is well-educated and wealthy.

Just imagining the scene mentioned by Shen Yanhan, Cai Xizhu's eyes brightened a lot, but soon they dimmed again.

"How could such a person appear in our village? It is a great blessing for me to meet people like you and Aunt Qi in Qingshui Village. It may not be too fanciful to expect another one to be my husband. "

Shen Yanhan clenched his chin to think of a solution for her.

After a moment, his eyes suddenly widened, "Catch your son-in-law under the ranking list! Do you know how many families under the ranking list are waiting with sedan chairs when the scientific examination results are released every year? Once those sons-in-law are caught by someone, They were brought back to the palace to worship and get married. You can follow suit!"

"Don't they resist?"

"There must be some who resist, but not necessarily. Most people are quite willing."

"why?"

Shen Yanhan used to frequent the Imperial College and was quite aware of this matter.

"If you think about it, most of these candidates come from ordinary families and are outsiders. Even if they become officials after high school, they will not be high officials at first. What's more, they are in Lin'an Prefecture, the capital city. It is considered a new arrival, and the power is still weak. Those who dare to capture the son-in-law are not ordinary people. They must be rich or noble. If both parties can get married, one party will bet on the future if he gets a man; if the other party gets wealth, it will be a bet on. Everything is done. Get what each other needs.”

Cai Xizhu was full of fantasies about Shen Yanhan's methods, but at the same time she was not confident in herself.

She said angrily: "You said those people are either rich or noble, but my family doesn't count."

Shen Yanhan had the same blood flowing in her bones as Qi Yun. She never gave up and never felt ashamed. She said loudly: "It doesn't count now, but there's no guarantee it won't happen in the future!"

Thinking of her plan in the small pavilion last night, she said to Cai Xizhu: "I have a way to make money, do you want to do it with me? If you do well, you will become 'rich' first, and then come back with your son-in-law." , when you become the wife of an official, you will also become 'noble'."

Cai Xizhu's heart was aroused by Shen Yanhan's words, and she swallowed nervously, "What to do?"

Shen Yanhan then told Cai Xizhu his plans one by one.

The more Cai Xizhu listened, the more excited she became, nodding her head repeatedly, as if she would be rich tomorrow.

At the end, Cai Xizhu said longingly: "When the time comes, we will prepare two sedan chairs under the list. I will catch one and you will catch one too."

Shen Yanhan didn't care about this.

Now she was thinking of ways to make money, just to support herself. After all, she had completely broken up with Shen Guyi, and she had no one to rely on, so she had to rely on her own efforts.

She told Cai Xizhu the truth: "I'd better make money first and then talk about it. I don't want to get married in a hurry."

Cai Xizhu looked at her like a monster, "Why aren't you in a hurry? It's time for you to get married as a college girl. Do you have to wait until you are in your seventh or eighth decade to get married? You won't be able to get married by then!"

Shen Yanhan was a little dumbfounded, "I said that I don't want to, but I don't mean that I have to wait until I am [-] or [-] years old to get married."

Cai Xizhu felt that Shen Yanhan's thoughts were dangerous, "You have to think about it now! You are older than me, you are already sixteen, how can you not be anxious?"

Cai Xizhu's idea is not bad. The world is like this, and older women who are not yet married will be criticized just like bachelors who cannot marry.Therefore, the sooner a girl can marry into a good family, the more prosperous her family will be.

In this environment, there are many people who get married early. Even today's empress married Jinshang at the age of 13.

Shen Yanhan naturally knew his situation.

She had delayed the marriage negotiation for three years because of Qi Yun's filial piety, and now the agreed marriage was cancelled. Being urged by Cai Xizhu, she couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

At this time, Cai Xizhu poured oil on her ignited fire: "Think about it, you were divorced from the engagement, and you should marry yourself as soon as possible. If your ex-fiancé got married earlier than you, Aren’t others going to laugh at you?”

These words immediately stepped on Shen Yanhan's sore spot.

Thinking of Mrs. Liang saying that Liang Yifei was already discussing marriage, Shen Yanhan said unconvinced: "How can I let them see a joke? I will sum it up now!"*
After a while, after sending Cai Xizhu away, Shen Yanhan pushed open Qin Yuehuai's door.

Seeing Lang Jun who was lying on the bed with a pale face but had finally woken up, Shen Yanhan, with determination to win him over, smiled and said, "Are you awake?"

Qin Yuehuai looked at her with an indiscernible expression, seeing an indescribable longing in her eyes, and seeing the cut on her upper lip that had been made by his teeth when she fell last night, his heart beat rapidly.

Qin Yuehuai turned away his face and made a perfunctory hum in his nose.

Shen Yanhan sat down on the edge of Qin Yuehuai's bed, bent down a little closer to Qin Yuehuai who was lying there, and familiarly turned her face away from him and came back to face her. She couldn't wait to get straight to the point and asked: "Are you going to marry me?" Has your wife given birth to a child?”

Qin Yuehuai's forehead jumped suddenly.

He had clearly answered this question last night, but now this person asked him again.

Is it because she doesn't remember, or is she confirming because she wants to betray others?
Looking into Shen Yanhan's sparkling eyes, Qin Yuehuai took some time to say, "Not yet. Why does Madam Shen ask that?"

Shen Yanhan didn't answer and asked, "How old are you?"

"Nineteen" rolled on the tip of his tongue, and Qin Yuehuai said: "Sixteen. The crowning ceremony has not been held yet."

Both sentences are lies.

According to the "Evolution of the Crowning Ceremony" compiled by his grandfather himself, all men in the Zhou Dynasty can perform the Crowning Ceremony from 15 to [-] years old, but most people perform the Crowning Ceremony at the age of [-].When he said this, he meant to tell Shen Yanhan that he was not yet an adult and was not yet an adult. If he really wanted to be the male prostitute she planned, he would be too immature to please his customers.

Shen Yanhan really frowned.

She thought this man was about the same age as Liang Yifei, but he was the same age as her.

She glanced up and down Qin Yuehuai's body, then muttered for a moment: "Looking at your appearance, you look a little older."

Qin Yuehuai's lips curved slightly, "Really?"

"Yes." Shen Yanhan nodded and finally remembered to ask the most important question: "What about your name?"

"Qin Yuehuai."

Because the word "Qin" happened to overlap with the sudden barking of a dog outside the door, Shen Yanhan missed it. She said excitedly: "Your surname is Yue? Who are you, General Yue?"

Everyone in Zhou Dynasty knows that "General Yue" refers to Yue Fei.

Dajin invaded the Dazhou border several times. Thanks to General Yue who led the Yue family army to resist the enemy tenaciously in the north, the enemy army did not continue to move south, and Lin'an Prefecture was able to be stable and prosperous.

Shen Yanhan had heard many folk stories told by Qi Yun about Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun and other generals, and admired people like them. When he heard that the person in front of him was named Yue, his excitement was palpable.

As a descendant of the Qin family who survived a near-death experience and survived through the desperate efforts of many people, Qin Yuehuai never changed his surname. He solemnly said: "My surname is not Yue, but Qin."

Shen Yanhan asked again: "Then you are a member of Prime Minister Qin's clan? Who are you to him?"

There are currently only two prime ministers in the Zhou Dynasty, Zhang Jun and Qin Hui.The "Prime Minister of Qin" in Shen Yanhan's mouth could not be anyone else, but Qin Hui.

How could he have anything to do with that kind of person?A deep sarcasm flashed through Qin Yuehuai's heart, and he said coldly: "I am not one of his."

Shen Yanhan asked the last question: "Are your parents close to Lin'an Mansion?" Marriage is inseparable from the parents' orders. If this person's parents are nearby, he will have to discuss it with them.

Qin Yuehuai's expression became increasingly complicated.

It seems that she didn't listen to his answer last night?So...she doesn't remember what happened next?
Thinking of being kissed directly by her suddenly and directly despite his wishes, Qin Yuehuai's already cold tone became even colder: "My parents died early."

He was cold and cold, but Shen Yanhan's heart was warm and warm.

Her parents died young, which meant that the situation was the same as hers. The marriage was entirely up to her. As long as he agreed to her later, the matter would count!
The right time, the right location, the right people, all taken care of!

Shen Yanhan increasingly felt that this person was the best candidate.

Qin Yuehuai looked at the obvious joy on Shen Yanhan's face and asked her calmly: "Ms. Shen, why are you doing this?"

"I'll tell you later."

After saying that, Shen Yanhan turned around and walked out the door like a gust of wind.

After a while, she turned back like the wind, sat back on the edge of the bed, took out the paper from behind and handed it to Qin Yuehuai's eyes.

"Take a look. If you agree, write your name and fingerprint."

Qin Yuehuai sneered in his heart, he really wanted him to write an IOU.

However, when he looked at the words on the paper with sarcastic eyes, his face suddenly stiffened.

On the paper, looking up, there were two conspicuous words - "Marriage Certificate".

Qin Yuehuai looked at Shen Yanhan with a pair of bright black eyes behind the marriage certificate in disbelief. How unconventional must this person be to treat life-long events so carelessly?

The atmosphere was slightly stagnant, and the surroundings were silent.

Only the crowing of cocks and the barking of dogs in Qiuwang Garden prove that time has not stopped.

Qin Yuehuai looked at the young lady who was leaning over his face and had designs on him, and after a while he asked, "Are you serious?"

Shen Yanhan said without hesitation: "Of course!"

(End of this chapter)