Shaking the empty white jade wine bottle, Xiao Linyu sighed, and simply fell on the edge of the rockery and looked at the bright silver moon, remembering what the ancestor said to him yesterday.
"Linyu, you are the next head of the Xiao family. Many things are not just what you want. Doing whatever you want will only harm yourself and the Xiao family." The ancestor of the Xiao family, Song, married The Xiao family has been around for more than 40 years. Since the old grandfather of the Xiao family passed away a few years ago, the old ancestor has become more secluded. However, everything from the Xiao family is hidden from her. Naturally, she knows that her eldest grandson has changed over the past year. Many, more and more alienated from themselves, more and more, disobedient.
Xiao Linyu got tired of hearing words like "You are the next head of the Xiao family", "You have to be steady", "You have to be obedient" and so on since he was a child. Even though Su Kang was also the son of the Su family, neither Young Jin nor Aunt Su had ever held him back. He had lived in the Su family for more than a month, and he had never heard anything like that. He smiled bitterly: "Grandmother, is it possible that my life can only be like this?" No matter what you say or do, it's all for the Xiao family, so what about himself? What about his life? What about his joys and sorrows
"I shouldn't have let you leave Beijing for so long. After being outside for a long time, my heart has become wild!" The marriage with the Bai family was indeed dull on Lin Yu's face. That's why the Song family let him go As soon as his temperament left Beijing, he didn't think about it, but it was the cause of disaster. Seeing the sullen expression on the eldest grandson's face, Song Shi sighed and said, "The Bai family has not been doing well for the past two months. Your second uncle visited the Bai family several times, and the Bai family also ate a lot in front of the saint. You are wronged in this matter, but you still have to take care of the Xiao family, right?"
She closed her eyes and stopped looking at that round of lonely moon, Xiao Linyu, who was already a little drunk, muttered to herself: "After all, I'm just a pawn of the Xiao family! What family owner? What wealth and glory? It's just a cage... . . . .." But for a moment, he leaned against the rockery and fell asleep.
In his sleep, Xiao Linyu dreamed that the night before he left Luohe Prefecture, a girl dressed in a radiant sky slowly walked towards him, and his heart pounded in an instant.
It's a pity that sweet dreams are too short, and good nights are rare. When Xiao Linyu wanted to reach out to hug the girl in front of her, she was awakened by a sound. It turned out that it was the servant who saw that he was drunk and fell to the ground, and didn't dare to move him without authorization, so he went to invite Mistress Xiao to come over.
"It's just a mud leg from a backcountry, so it's worth your memory?" Yu looked at his eldest son who was so drunk and indifferent, and couldn't help but feel a little distressed: "Lin Yu, you really have been taught badly. If I had known this, I shouldn't have let you out of Beijing!" Yu remembered that the name of the little fox had been muttered in the mouth of his son who had just fallen to the ground, so he was not angry. Asshole! The eldest son, whom she is most proud of, has also been hooked to the point of losing his soul!
Xiao Linyu, who had been disturbed by her sweet dreams, opened her eyes and heard that her mother had already ignored the rules of the ladies and scolded the Su family far away in Luohe Prefecture through gritted teeth. She could not help frowning, and moved her position without a trace. Mrs. Yu moved away, the drunkenness on her brows had disappeared, and she returned to her face with a cold look: "What's the matter with my mother coming here at night?"
Seeing his alienated appearance, Mrs. Yu wanted to open her mouth to say something, but she didn't know where to start, so she finally gave up and said, "The servant came to report that you were drunk in the yard. I didn't know you were so out of touch!"
Xiao Linyu heard her mother's remarks, stood up with the rockery, and staggered: "The son is wrong. If the mother has nothing to do, the son will retire first."
Seeing that his cheeks were flushed and his feet were frivolous, Yu sighed and waved his hand to the servants in Jinyan Court to help him: "Forget it, it's getting late, you can go back and rest."
Xiao Linyu nodded slightly, and staggered back to his room without anyone's help. With only a sad face left, Mrs. Yu and the overwhelmed servants in the courtyard looked at each other, not knowing what to do.
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No one knows why the marriage between the Xiao family and the Bai family was annulled, but after the Xiao family came to the house to withdraw from the marriage, Bai Yaer, a beautiful and talented girl from the Bai family, hurriedly married the son of the Xu family. This marriage is bizarre, and I don't know how many good people gossip: "The Bai family is a noble family, and there are so many unmarried daughters in the family, this Bai Ya'er got married like this. I'm afraid that the marriages of the girls of the Bai clan will have an impact in the future!"
"Isn't it? I heard that after returning to the house three times after marriage, Bai Ya'er and the concubine of the Xu family were kicked out without even entering the gate of the Bai family! The old man also said that there will be no Bai Ya'er in the Bai family in the future. This person! I'm afraid I'm not going to cut off the relationship!"...
All kinds of rumors spread all over the capital, the Bai family was also held by the Xiao family in the courtroom, and even many of the family's industries were targeted by the Xiao family, and they lost a lot of money.
"Master, we have only one daughter, Ya'er, who is a spoiled child. How can she suffer like this? Go and beg your father again!" The mistress of the Bai family asked Lord Bai how many times for her daughter's affairs. When it first happened, he was hit hard and fell ill several times. Now that it is autumn, his body is getting worse and worse, but he still thinks about his daughter who has been cut off: "She only has a few servants to follow, so Xu Zhitong is still a concubine. , If we don't help one or two, how can we live this day?"
"Help her? How can I help her? She did that kind of thing without her own shame. If I didn't kill her, I would have taken care of the relationship between the father and the daughter!" Master Bai was so annoyed that he thought about all the troubles. It's because of my own daughter who is disrespectful and shameless, and I'm even more angry: "Is it possible that you want me to put the whole Bai family in to help her, right?"
Although the Bai family is a noble literati, Master Bai also despises the Xiao family, but no matter how bad the Xiao family is, it is better than the concubine of an eighth-rank low-ranking official in the Xu family, right? In addition, the second child of the Xiao family has a lot of weight in the court. Today, the sage is also very good at him, not to mention the other side, as long as the second child of Xiao alone catches the handle, their entire Bai family will have to pay for it! "I told you early in the morning to discipline her well, but you disciplined me like this, and you dared to ask me to help her! You've lost your mind, if she still dared to come, I'd have to ask someone to punish her. Can't get out!"
Thinking that the Bai family was in a mess because of Bai Ya'er's scandal, Master Bai's face flushed with anger: "When she dared to do such a thing, she should have thought about the result today! "Thinking of what the dignified eldest son of the Xiao family said when he came to the house to quit his marriage, Master Bai is still so angry that his beard straightened: "As a daughter's family, I don't know why it is self-respect and self-love, and let my fiancé My son-in-law grabs the bag, what do I want her for this kind of daughter?"
The more Master Bai talked, the more angry he became, and finally he got up from the bed and called someone to light the lamp to go to sleep in his aunt's room, leaving only the tearful Mistress of the Bai family sobbing silently.
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After being disturbed by the sweet dream last night, Xiao Linyu never dreamed of people and things in Luohe Prefecture again, and never dreamed of dawn.
Hearing the movement in the room, the little servant quickly came in: "Young Master, you are up, Master has sent a message, I want to see you after breakfast."
Sitting on the bed, the brocade quilt was still covering the body, and the collar of the middle shirt woven from satin was slightly open, like black silk scattered around the back, people who are always neatly dressed on weekdays are so decadent when they get up in the morning. nice. Xiao Linyu stretched out his hand and pressed his slightly aching head, and said, "Understood, arrange for someone to pass the meal."
After washing up, wearing a moon-white shirt with a blue jade hairpin, he regained his jade-like appearance. While drinking the fragrant and delicious bird's nest, Xiao Linyu regretted drinking too much last night, and secretly thought about going It can't be like this anymore.
"I heard from your mother that you were drunk in the yard last night?" The head of the Xiao family is nearly forty this year, and he looks five points similar to Xiao Linyu, but a little more vicissitudes and stability through the years: "You are getting more and more stable now. The land is unstable. Now that the matter of the Bai family has passed, your marriage should also be put on the agenda. I will tell your mother, you can stay in the capital with peace of mind, and the Luohezhou side will let the people below It's okay." Xiao Hairu naturally knew what happened last night and what happened to his son in Luohe Prefecture, so he naturally wanted to be alert.
Xiao Linyu laughed at himself: "Now that our Xiao family has become the laughing stock of the entire capital, what kind of marriage is there?"
"The Bai family has done such shameless things. It's the face of the Bai family that has been lost. What does it have to do with you?" Xiao Hairu put down the wolf in his hand and looked at the eldest son who was standing in the court with eyes that looked exactly like his son. , sighed, and said: "I know your thoughts for my father, no matter how good that little girl is, she will eventually come out of someone who can't stand on the table. If she can be a side room, the main housewife of our Xiao family must be a famous family. The daughter of a noble family."
Xiao Linyu stayed in Luohe Prefecture for nearly two months. Naturally, the elders of the Xiao family couldn't really let him ignore him in Luohe Prefecture. They had already checked out the details of the Su family in private, but they were just a senior. A girl from a rural family who can't stand on the table is actually worth her son's long journey away from Beijing! None of the Xiao family believed that their son really fell in love with a country girl. They only thought that he was dizzy for a while, and he could forget that girl after a while.
Xiao Hairu thinks that if his son really likes it, as long as he can let his son accept his heart and inherit the family business, it doesn't matter if he is brought in to be a concubine. But Yu didn't think so. She had already determined that it was the little fox spirit of the Su family who took away her son's soul, and she would not let the people of the Su family enter the gate of Xiao's family anyway.
"Father, Su Youjin and I are not what you think. I only treat her as a girl." It is undeniable that Xiao Linyu was moved when he heard that his father agreed to let him welcome Youjin, but he thought of the incident before leaving. That night, Xiao Linyu knew from what You Jin said to herself that she would never enter the house and be a child.
Thinking of the aunts in the family, they can only stay in the backyard all day, eagerly looking forward to the arrival of their father, but also being beaten by the mistress and making rules, Xiao Linyu dare not think that if the bright and flying woman becomes like this, How much you will hate yourself! I don't want to wrong her, why don't I let her go!