Sir, can you marry me?

Chapter 37

The Xu family is in a small courtyard house in the northern residential area of ​​Yongan, the capital city. Xu's father is a martial artist who retired several years ago. Xu's mother is in charge of cooking and washing at home, and occasionally does some needlework.Xu's eldest son became demented because of a high fever when he was young, so the second son, Xu Qian, is now the pillar of the family.His parents are aging, his elder brother is demented, and he has a son and a daughter under his knees, so although Xu Qian earns six taels of silver a month as a guard of the censor, his wife also works as a helper in the kitchen of the censor's mansion, earning two taels a month. Four coins of silver support the whole family.

Chunxi was very disturbed after learning about the current situation of Xu's family, because the family was not rich, and spent a month and a half of the couple's monthly money on her.

"Old madam, madam, let me help." Chunxi struggled out of the wing room and came to the courtyard to help the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law squatting by the well.

"Chunxi, your knees are so swollen that you can't move around, so stop walking and lie down on the bed to rest." Mrs. Xu put the freshly washed dishes aside, and pushed Chunxi with her wet hands.After she came back, she checked Chunxi, took out the medicinal wine for reducing swelling and blood stasis from her room, and wiped the red and swollen palm marks on Chunxi's face and the purple bruises on her knees.

"Ma'am, I'm a servant girl, I can't watch you guys do things and rest on your own," Chun Xi said.

"Don't call me madam, you should call me Mrs. Xu." Mrs. Xu said with a smile, "Who said my brother Qian bought you just to make you a maid? You should go in and rest, and wait for him to come back and give you good news." With that said, she forcibly helped Chunxi into the west wing, and told her to lie down and rest.

"Sister-in-law Xu, what good news will Master Xu give me?" Chunxi asked eagerly after hearing this.Xu Shiwei specifically asked her about her real name before, could it be that he wanted to cancel her slave status and let her return to her good status?If that's the case, the Xu family and his wife are really her benefactors.

"I'll tell you when he comes back." Mrs. Xu said mysteriously, then turned and left.

What good news?Is it to let her return to her good status?

Chun Xi anxiously wanted to know.

Xu's married daughter was a little far away from the capital, and it was not until the afternoon that she brought her husband, two sons and one daughter, and two younger uncles who were visiting the capital, back to her natal home.Since Chunxi was still an outsider, and was forced to cultivate by Mrs. Xu, she did not go out to serve Xu's family as a maid.

Does it take a long time to go to the government to revise a document?

Chunxi waited anxiously.

In the afternoon, Xu Qian came back with two middle-aged and elderly women in their 50s and [-]s.

"Chunxi, no, Miss Wenqing." Mrs. Xu led the two middle-aged and elderly women into Chunxi's room formerly known as Xiao Wenqing.

Xiao Wenqing kept listening to the sounds outside, and when he heard someone approaching, he had already changed from reclining on the bed to sitting on the edge of the bed, and when he walked to the door, he immediately got up and greeted him.

"Wenqing, your contract documents have been corrected." Mrs. Xu said happily, shaking a piece of paper in Xiao Wenqing's hand.Two middle-aged and elderly women came in and looked at Xiao Wenqing. One of them couldn't stop nodding, and even showed an excited and joyful smile.

"Sister-in-law Xu, can I have a look?" Xiao Wenqing asked eagerly, her heart beating like a drum with nervousness.The two women had kind faces, and it seemed that they hadn't been sold out again.

"You know how to read?" Aunt Xu was suddenly surprised.She thought that Xiao Wenqing was illiterate like the vast majority of women, and at most could embroider a few words according to the gourd painting.

Xiao Wenqing nodded, and said: "My parents taught me to read and write when I was young, and I haven't forgotten it all these years."

"Then just take a look." The illiterate Mrs. Xu handed over a new document to Xiao Wenqing.

Xiao Wenqing calmly took over the contract document that still smelled like ink, and when he saw it, he couldn't believe it, "Sister-in-law Xu, why...how did this happen?
The first vertical line on the far left of the new document reads the marriage letter, and the second vertical line reads Zhao Mingtang, born at Sishi on September 34, Bingyin Year, a man from Yong'an in the capital city, a royal guard, great-grandfather Zhao Jia, grandfather Zhao Erlang, Father Zhao Zhiyuan... Then another line reads Xiao Wenqing, born on May 28, Shenshi, the year of Wuyin, a native of Yong'an in the capital, an orphan girl...June [-], [-] years of Kangqing.Zhao Mingtang's mother, Zhao Linshi, matchmaker Qian Liushi, witnesses Xu Qian and Li Wencai.

Xiao Wenqing asked tremblingly: "Sister-in-law Xu, you, you married me?" Without her knowing at all, Guard Xu married her to Guard Zhao Mingtang, and even obtained a formal and legal marriage certificate from the government.

"Yes, Miss Wenqing, you are lonely and helpless, even if you become a commoner, you still need to find someone to rely on, don't you? Since you have a relationship with Zhao Shiwei in Yushifu, and you are both unmarried and unmarried, isn't it a good idea to get married?"

Aunt Xu smiled and said, "Come here, come to see your mother-in-law." She said to the 45-year-old woman who was so excited that she blushed when she looked at Xiao Wenqing, "Ms. Zhao, this is Miss Xiao Wenqing, your daughter-in-law."

Holding the marriage letter in both hands, Xiao Wenqing's face turned red and then pale, and his eyes slowly turned to Aunt Zhao, and then...

"Daughter-in-law..." She held the marriage certificate and greeted each other like a puppet on a string, "Daughter-in-law pays respects to mother-in-law, good luck to mother-in-law." The marriage certificate has been issued, and whether she wants to or not, she is already the daughter-in-law of the Zhao family.

"Wenqing, get up quickly." Zhao's mother immediately stretched out her hands to help Xiao Wenqing up, and said happily, "My good boy, you have suffered."

This morning, Xu Qian, her son's friend, suddenly came to her and told her the rumors about her son and Miss Chunxi, and then praised how beautiful Miss Chunxi was, how smart she was, how brave she was, and how she was not greedy for wealth. It's better to marry her son, anyway, the two of them are destined.

(End of this chapter)