The lady escaped marriage and became addicted

Chapter 17
Gu Shengwen immediately found Zhao Shihua and told his son's words as a joke to his brother-in-law, which was also a kind of temptation.After all, Zhao Shihua was born in a scholarly family. Although it is now in decline, there is no reason to give the children to the Yue family to raise them. He directly said that he was afraid of his brother-in-law.

Zhao Shihua was very grateful for his brother-in-law's kindness, but he resolutely refused.

"Thank you, big brother, for your loving heart, but Wanniang can't live without these two children. And..." Zhao Shihua paused before saying, "After all, An Ran is a girl, she is only four years old now, and it doesn't matter if she studies hard for a year or two at night. .” The implication is that I am very confident in taking part in the scientific examination.

Since Zhao Shihua declined, Gu Shengwen couldn't say much, but he couldn't help but sigh when he rested with Yang Shi at night.

Only then did Yang tell him what she had said to Wanniang yesterday.Originally, she planned to wait for Zhao Shihua to be admitted as a scholar before telling her husband.

Knowing that his wife betrothed his daughter to Zhao Anqi, Gu Shengwen was not unhappy. Instead, he nodded and said, "I think Anqi is a good child, and he must be promising in the future. It's just a pity for An Ran. About the marriage, tell An Ran to Brother Lin, maybe Wan Niang will agree."

"That's right. But Brother Lin's marriage is also good. Zhou's family is only the daughter of the first son and the eldest daughter. In the future, Brother Lin will inherit the family business, and the Zhou family can also help." Yang also sighed. In a word, although in her opinion, the second son, Brother Yun, is also very good, but after all, the second son is not as good as the eldest son in being able to inherit the family business in the future.Until now, because of Gu Wanniang's refusal to promise An Ran to her second son, the breath that was blocked in her chest was really smooth.

The next day, Gu Shengwen took the initiative to mention the marriage between his daughter and An Qi to Zhao Shihua. Zhao Shihua had heard his wife mention it a long time ago, and he accepted it with a smile. Even if he wrote down the marriage promise document and exchanged tokens, the marriage was considered official. down.

An Ran stayed with her parents in Gu's house for another day.Dad was accompanied by his grandfather and uncle, and talked about the people's livelihood and economics and their experiences in business, etc.; mother and aunt served grandmother together, made needlework along the way, and talked about the shortcomings of the family; brothers and sisters An Ran and An Qi together The five children of Gu Shaolin, Gu Shaoyun and Gu Tingfang were taken by their uncle Gu Shengwu to go shopping in the town and bought a lot of gadgets.

Leaving aside other things for the time being, because he knew that Anran had no paper to practice calligraphy, Gu Shengwu specially bought two knives of raw-edged paper for Anqi, Anran, brother and sister, and bought Anran a stack of high-quality rice paper for drawing.I also bought paints for painting. Although the colors are not as good as An Ran's previous life, they are still better than nothing.In addition, I also bought several brushes, inkstones and ink sticks of different sizes.The brushes and ink ingots are ordinary pens and inks, not the famous Hu brush and Hui ink that An Ran used in her previous life, but An Ran still likes them very much and keeps grinning.

I stayed at my grandfather's house for two nights, and on the third day, my uncle drove An Ran's family back to Zhaojia Village.

After resting at home for two days, Zhao Shihua read a new article to a couple of children, arranged homework for this period of time, and asked his parents to take care of the house on his behalf, so he set off for the state capital with a boy named Du in the town Tried it.

Because the news that Zhao Shihua passed the No. 1 county examination got out, the attitudes of the neighbors towards An Ran's family were a little different, and there was a little more awe in their eyes. Many aunts and aunts would always compliment Gu Wanniang when they met Gu Wanniang. An Qi's two children also praised her a lot, and even the two elders, Rong Shi and Zhao Maosheng, came more frequently than usual.However, An Ran's family treated their neighbors as usual, never showing any arrogance, on the contrary they became even more respectful.Dad just passed a county test, so how can he be proud?An Ran thought to herself, even if her father really passed the examination of scholar, he would have nothing to be proud of.In the impression of An Ran's previous life, scholar has always been associated with poverty.However, even if Dad is poor, he is definitely not sour or corrupt.

On the third day after Zhao Shihua left, the eldest aunt came back to her mother's house with the child.Gu Wanniang came back from the field, tidied up, packed the eggs she just laid this morning, and was about to go to her in-laws when she saw the elder sister bringing her two daughters over.

Zhao Shihua's eldest sister, Zhao Yuhe, is 28 years old this year. She has two sons and three daughters. The eldest daughter died young. Now there are two sons and two daughters.The eldest son, Zhang Yiping, is 11 years old. The second son, Zhang Yishun, is nine years old. Neither of them came this time. The second daughter, Zhang Guixiang, is only five years old, and the youngest daughter, Zhang Guilan, is only two years old.

An Ran saw that her cousin Gui Xiang was still dressed cleanly, but the stiff red scars on her face that had been cracked by the winter frost hadn't faded away, and she didn't know if the red spots on her cheeks still hurt.In fact, most children in the countryside are like this, but An Ran and his elder brother are not.When the weather was cold in winter, Mother would smear clam oil on their faces. Although the smell was not very pleasant, no matter how cold the winter was, the faces of their brothers and sisters had never been frostbitten.In fact, clam oil is not precious, but for country people, it is a dispensable thing, and most people are reluctant to part with the money.Thinking of this, An Ran once again sighed in her heart, her parents are so kind to her!

My cousin, Zhang Guilan, is actually less than two years old. She has just learned to walk, and her hair is yellow and thin. She barely combed two small pulls, but it still looks a bit messy.Rural children, especially girls, rarely have enough to eat, and it would be nice to grow up without starving to death. Naturally, they are yellow and thin, and naturally they are "yellow-haired girls".When An Ran first came here, she was actually not much better than her cousin, but for more than half a year, her parents and brother have favored her, and they always give her the best food. She can eat enough every day, and her hair is so beautiful. With some improvement, the little face became white and tender.Because of this, even though she already has the thinking of an adult, she still quickly accepted her parents and elder brother in this body.

It has long been heard that the eldest aunt's family has more brothers and more children, and life is very difficult. Now under the strong contrast, An Ran feels more and more pitiful for her cousins.She remembered that the candied fruit her uncle had bought hadn't been finished yet, so she went back to the room with short legs and turned it out, spread her short fingers, grabbed two handfuls and ran out, giving a handful to each of her cousins.

Zhang Guixiang and Zhang Guilan took the candied fruit with both hands, grinned at An Ran, and began to eat sweetly.

(End of this chapter)