Chen and Wang's concerns are not unreasonable.
Soon, there were rumors that "the daughter of the Yu family doesn't know the heights of the sky and the earth because of her beauty, and she wants to recruit a scholar to be her son-in-law". There is a lot of buzz, and few people don't know.
Chen Shi was so angry that she couldn't speak for a long time.
Yu Tang was afraid that something might happen to her, so he asked Ah Shao to call for a doctor.
Mrs. Chen grabbed Yu Tang's hand, her eyes immediately became moist, and said, "A Tang, I went to invite your aunt over here, I have something to say to her."
After hearing this, Yu Tang thought about it in his heart.
If she pretends to be a little girl again, she probably won't discuss with her any important matters in the family. However, she knows the results of many things, and if she wants her parents to believe her, she has to use means to make them feel that she is capable. , Knowledgeable, can help the family solve the predicament.
"Mommy!" Yu Tang made up his mind, not only didn't invite his aunt, but also sat on Chen's bedside, and said bluntly, "Are you doing it because of the rumors outside?"
Chen didn't want to disturb her daughter, and said: "Don't worry about the adult's affairs, if you are told to invite your eldest aunt, you can go and invite her. Be obedient!"
Yu Tang smiled and said, "Mom, I've grown up. You can try to talk to me about some things. If I'm wrong, it's not too late for you to find your aunt."
Chen was stunned.
Yu Tang said: "If you are looking for your aunt for other things, I will go and ask your aunt right away. If it is because of the rumors about my marriage outside, I have an idea. You might as well listen to it."
Seeing her daughter's confident look, Chen couldn't help but hesitate.
Yu Tang smiled and said, "Actually, this matter is not difficult. You just need to invite an official media to come to your house, give her a sum of money, and tell her what kind of son-in-law our family wants to recruit!"
Chen hurriedly said: "How can this work? Official media are usually unreliable."
Yu Tang smiled and said: "We don't really want the official media to protect the media, what does it matter if it is reliable or not?"
Chen Shi sat up straight in shock, and hurriedly said, "What do you mean?"
Yu Tang carefully explained to his mother: "Think about it, I don't know where the rumors outside come from. Even if we want to check, we can't find anything. Even if we find out , if someone says 'it's just a casual talk', we can do nothing about others. The best way to deal with this kind of thing is that we also spread the word. Those people didn't say that I don't know the heights of the sky and the earth, and they need to hire a scholar to do it A son-in-law? Let’s just announce the conditions for recruiting a son-in-law, so that those rumors will be self-defeating, won’t this matter be resolved?”
Mrs. Chen still couldn't turn the corner, and said: "Could it be that we can't recruit a son-in-law casually? Those who have studied are different from those who have not. The warehouse knows the etiquette, and the food and clothing know the honor and disgrace. The family is too poor. If you don’t have enough to eat, how can you be so particular about it? Even if he comes to our house, he will be jealous of one thing today and plan that one tomorrow, and he will cause trouble if he has nothing to do. If the child is influenced by his father in the future... what else do you have? Have a good time?"
"How could it be possible to find one at random?" Yu Tang smiled, "You're thinking too much."
Chen frowned.
Yu Tang said slowly: "Students don't mean they have fame!"
Chen suddenly realized, and clenched her daughter's hand behind her back, saying repeatedly: "Why am I so confused, why am I so confused!"
Yu Tang pursed his lips and smiled.
Mrs. Chen said excitedly: "People who have fame and fame are naturally unwilling to marry, and even if they marry, it will be troublesome in the future. We should find a comparable family, who has studied for a few years, is kind, can write and calculate, and can help write papers. Take care of common affairs, and when you have a grandson in the future, your father's blood is not bad, so he will definitely not be stupid. Let your father teach you a few years, maybe our family can produce a Juren or Jinshi?" She said more and more The more I think it is feasible, "For such a family, the parents are definitely not the ones who can't move their feet when they see things. In the future, they will come and go with us. When multiple relatives walk around, if something happens to you, you will still be there. We can help you. We can also promise them that three generations will return to the clan, and when the time comes, the yaofang will still follow their family name."
Having said that, Chen's depression was swept away and he couldn't sit still.
She called Mrs. Chen in, grabbed a handful of copper coins and gave them to Mrs. Chen, and asked Mrs. Chen to invite the official media to her home, and said: "Invite a few more. Anyway, I want to publicize this matter. The more people, the better."
When Mrs. Chen saw that there was a solution to Yu Tang's matter, she was also happy and left happily.
Chen shi laughed, turned around and took her daughter's hand to look up and down.
Yu Tang thought that he was different from before, so he felt a little guilty, and said uncomfortably: "Mum, what's wrong with you?"
"I'm just looking at our family's A-Tang who has really grown into a big girl." The corners of Chen's eyes and brows are full of joy, "In the past, it was the mother who was at odds with your father, and I always felt that you were messing around. But look at you these days Although what you do is very bold, it is also sharp and sharp, and your ideas are very correct." She said with a long sigh, and said with relief, "We didn't have to keep you at home before, just because we were afraid You can't support this family. Looking at it now, Muma and your father care about it, but they don't know that our family, Atang, is a good girl who has her own ideas and responsibility!"
You didn't miss it!
It is God who gave me another chance, so that I can take on this burden when I should take up the responsibility of this family.
The corners of Yu Tang's eyes were slightly red, he hugged his mother tightly, and murmured guiltily and sadly: "Mom, don't say that, it's me, it's my fault..."
"Look at you, you're talking nonsense again." Chen couldn't guess what was on Yu Tang's mind, thinking that her daughter didn't know what to say, she pushed Yu Tang away with a smile, and said in surprise when she saw Yu Tang's face full of tears. , "What's wrong with you?"
Mother didn't know anything, but Yu Tang felt at ease and secure.
She wiped her tears and said with a smile: "I, I'm fine, it's just that I haven't been praised by my mother like this for a long time!"
"You child!" Chen said with a dumbfounding expression, "Have you embroidered all the shoe uppers I asked you to make? If you really find a suitable family, you will be married soon. You don't even have to go to the store to buy shoes at that time."
There is a custom in the south of the Yangtze River. When the bride recognizes her relatives the next day, she will give her parents-in-law, mother-in-law and other relatives their own shoes and socks.
Since she was a child, Yu Tang liked to be active but not quiet, and was pampered by her parents. Naturally, female celebrities were very ordinary. Later, she married into the Li family. Seeing that Mrs. Lin treated her poorly, she was even more reluctant to do needlework for anyone, and embroider a flower. The leaves are not well embroidered. Mrs. Chen grabbed her tightly, she didn't dare to say anything, and ran away in a hurry.
Looking at her daughter's back, Chen couldn't straighten up laughing, but was bumped into by Yu Wen who was rushing back from Changxing Street.
He heaved a sigh of relief, and said with a smile, "Why are you so happy? I just met A Shao and said that you are not in good health, so I need to call a doctor..."
Mrs. Chen told Yu Wen what happened just now with a smile, and said: "With Ah Tang's idea, I will recover from this illness immediately."
"There is such a thing?!" Yu Wen exclaimed, "After three days away, you should look at it with admiration. I really didn't expect it."
"No!"
The couple sighed for a long time.
Yu Wen called Yu Tang to the study room and gave her a good compliment, and also gave her an inkstone with bean paste and green clay from the Yu family's ancestors.
Yu Tang took the inkstone and complained to his mother: "If I use such a precious inkstone, my father will definitely scream. What kind of reward is this? It's just a different place for me to help keep it."
Chen smiled and nodded Yu Tang's forehead, and said, "Isn't it decent enough to make the bottom of the box for you?"
Yu Tang giggled.
Chen loved her daughter very much and didn't want her to be disappointed, so she went to Yinlou to order a pearl headband and a pair of pearl headbands for Yu Tang, saying: "When your elder sister Ma came out of the court, you happened to wear it to the wedding."
Yu Tang said pleasantly, "Sister Ma's wedding date has been fixed?"
Mrs. Chen nodded with a smile, and said, "It's scheduled for the sixth day of September. Are you ready to add the box? If not, then go to the shop to order it. I'll pay you."
She doesn't count on her daughter's popularity.
Yu Tang wanted to send more things to Ma Xiuniang, of course the more money the better.
Acting coquettishly, she asked for another five taels of silver from Mrs. Chen, and went to the silver building to order a pair of silver bracelets for Ma Xiuniang, and a jade-encrusted bracelet.
Soon, the official media publicized the Yu family's conditions for recruiting a son-in-law, and explained: "It's not that the sons of those families are not good, but that they don't meet the conditions of the Yu family. There is no way to do this."
Everyone thought it was reasonable, and the rumors about Yu Tang's "arrogance and arrogance to recruit a scholar as his son-in-law" gradually dissipated.
However, Yu Tang's marriage is also on the hearts of many people.
On this day, Yu Wen was very happy when he came back after delivering Mid-Autumn Festival presents to shopkeeper Tong, and said to Chen shi in a slightly drunken way: "Treasurer Tong said he would be a matchmaker for our family, Ah Tang!"
While bringing hangover soup to Yu Wen, Mrs. Chen happily said, "Measure the media. Shopkeeper Tong is such a nice person, and the marriage he said must be reliable. Sit down and tell me carefully."
Yu Wen drank the hangover soup in his hand, and said to Mrs. Chen under the lamp: "The shopkeeper Tong said that he has a good friend, surnamed Wei, and the couple are from Shuangli. There is an oil workshop at home, with more than two hundred acres of land. There is also a mountain top, where more than 300 sweet-scented osmanthus trees are planted. The five sons in the family are all enlightened, and he watched them grow up. The eldest son must stay at home to inherit the family business, and the other sons should be able to marry If I think it's okay, he will go to check his mouth and call someone out to show our family. All right, let our family A Tang make a pair of shoes for him to wear. No, just treat it as I recognized a nephew .”
"Five sons?" Mrs. Chen said with a smile, "That's good. If this marriage is completed, we will have a relative to help. You see, you are a scholar, and you have to manage the affairs of the shop yourself. If there are more people in the family A child, you and uncle don’t have to work so hard.”
Yu Wen was happy because of Yu Tang's marriage. He joked, "After all, I blame the Pei family. If the Pei family didn't support so many students every year, how could Lin'an Prefecture produce so many scholars. You see Looking at other places, scholars are worth a lot. Looking at our Lin'an, people are more popular than people!"
"Okay, okay, don't say a few words." Chen said with a smile, "you talk nonsense after drinking. The Pei family does good deeds, but it's still hindering you? I think, our Lin'an mansion The less valuable a scholar is, the better. How nice it sounds to go out! Those who do business outside, others dare not bully at will."