The lady escaped marriage and became addicted

Chapter 175
Seeing his father frowning and thinking, He Zhiyan thought that there was a way to get rid of the marriage, so he hurriedly said: "Father, you heard it too, how can such a vulgar and rude village girl be worthy of her son? She is really going to marry her, and she not only laughs at her son, Didn't he also make fun of you and our entire He family?"

He Minglang's eyes widened, and his face sank: "You always think that you are the most intelligent in the world, but what is the use of reciting poems all day long against romantic people? If you want to compare great wisdom, I don't think you may be as good as that. Five points for the girl. You are lucky to marry her!"

"Just that village girl? How wise is she? Dad, even if you want to coax me into marrying that village girl, you don't have to make up such nonsense. Don't you just refuse to admit that you misjudged someone? But you want to make your son suffer for a lifetime? "He Zhiyan didn't believe his father's words at all.Said he was five points less intelligent than that girl?This is simply the biggest joke in the world!

Wu was worried that her husband would be angry, but this time He Minglang was not angry. Instead, he said: "You will know when you marry him back. You are not young anymore, you should be serious and do some learning, don't spend all your time It’s useless to go to the stage with those people and hold literary and poetry meetings.” Then, he turned his head and said to Wu, “Our two families are far away, and it’s inconvenient to go back and forth once. This marriage has to be done early Zhang Luo can only do it. This year, my sister and son will be thirteen, or they will marry back next year!"

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Wu hurriedly dissuaded her: "Master, is this too urgent? I'm 14 years old, and I'm not ready yet! I'm afraid the younger siblings of the Zhao family will also be reluctant. Why don't we arrange Brother Qian's marriage first this year? Next year, we will prepare for brother Yan's marriage. When the girl reaches Jiji the year after next, it won't be too late to marry back."

He Minglang felt that his wife was right.Since that girl is smart, I'm afraid that she will marry after Qi Ge'erxiang has passed the test, so that her identity will be more pleasant, so she nodded and said: "You know what you know. Don't neglect her in the future, and send her over People must choose those who are respectful and polite, and those slaves who are waiting to bully the master will be sold to me!"

Time flies, and it is the 18th year of Qifeng in a blink of an eye.

This year, An Ran was 14 years old and An Qi was 17 years old. He, his cousin Gu Shaolin, his cousin-in-law Wang Moqian, and his future brother-in-law He Zhiyan in Yongchang Mansion were all going to take part in this year's rural examination.

At the beginning of last year, Qian Pengyang, the magistrate of Huzhou, was transferred to the capital and is now working in the household department.In April last year, my cousin Annan took his family to the capital, and it is said that he is now studying in the Imperial College.

In the past two years, An Ran's family basically never went back to their hometown except Qingming Festival.Every time I go back, I only send some gifts to the third uncle and third aunt, and Gu Wanniang doesn't even want to go to the door there.It's the little aunt's place, they have to visit every time they go back, to thank the Wei family for their care and help to their family over the years.

In the past two years, people from the He family have visited from time to time, and the contacts are closer than in the past few years. Since the second half of last year, the two families have started to discuss An Ran's marriage.

Considering that both Anqi and He Zhiyan will take part in this year's provincial examination, the two sides negotiated and set their marriage in March next year.In February next year, An Ran and Ji will be married in March.An Ran quietly sent a message to the mother-in-law of the He family, saying that the bridegroom must greet the bride personally, otherwise she would refuse to get married.

Personal welcome is one of the six rituals, but when the two families are far away, the groom often prepares a house or inn for the woman to rest temporarily, and then goes to the temporary residence to greet her on the wedding day.The old woman was also able to help Wu's, and immediately agreed to tell his wife, but she didn't agree to a word.

Gu Wanniang was very happy that the He family kept their promise, but when she prepared the dowry for An Ran, she was embarrassed again.For a big family like the He family, if the daughter's dowry is less, people will laugh at her and make people look down on her, but she can't afford to buy valuable things.

An Ran's money for selling paintings was kept from her mother, so Gu Wanniang didn't know that her daughter was actually a little rich woman.Seeing her mother's anxious look, she had no choice but to comfort her: "Mother, who in the He family doesn't know what's going on with our family? No matter how well we arrange the dowry, we are definitely not as good as others! In this case, Why don’t we just buy something appropriate according to our family’s situation.” An Ran wasn’t worried about what would happen if she lost her dowry, but she was worried that she would get married and the family would have no money, so it seemed that she needed to save some more money. to brother.

Although Gu Wanniang felt that her daughter was right, she still wanted to give her the best dowry.An Ran was helpless, seeing that she was even hesitant to go back to the family to borrow money, worried that she would really do something like lending money to her dowry, so she had to take 1000 taels of silver to her.

Gu Wanniang looked at Yinzi in front of her and was so shocked that she could hardly speak.

"You, you, where did this money come from? Hasn't your uncle's family not given dividends for several years? Besides, you haven't designed jewelry for them in these years!"

"Mother, this is the money for my daughter's painting." An Ran explained in a low voice, "I asked Master Qin to help me send it to the capital for consignment." Because of the dowry expenses, An Ran had to paint two more paintings and sent them to Master Qin There entrusted him to sell it on consignment, which made Master Qin, the art dealer and the celebrities in the capital very happy.

Now that Master Yunmeng's paintings have been fired at sky-high prices, there is still a price but no market. After finally seeing that Master Yunmeng has a new work, how can people not be excited?
Master Qin is delighted that his disciple is promising, and there are faint signs of a school of masters; secondly, he can also get a commission, and the commission is so high that it is comparable to his salary of decades of studying in the county. positive.

I sold two paintings to make up for the shortfall in my dowry, leaving more than 1000 taels.An Ran simply bought another three-entry house in the county town for her brother to use as a new house.When my brother gets married, he might be a Juren, and he can't live in a bad place, right?What's more, the house they live in now is from Dian, and the master's family can't tell when they will come back and want to go back?
An Ran bought a house, redecorated it, refurbished it, bought a few servants, and waited to pack it up and move in.Gu Wanniang is really impressed with her daughter now.She didn't expect that An Ran could earn money like this. She only painted two paintings and sold them for more than 2000 taels of silver.Isn't this painting too expensive?Someone actually bought it...

(End of this chapter)