Farmhouse Green Plum

Chapter 526 Asking for Name

On August 20th, the sky was clear and the clouds were broad, and the round sun was high in the sky, a big sun.

The rice in Xinghua Village has basically entered the final round of drying.

At noon, Li and Yang had just spread the rice evenly, wiped the sweat off their face, and went back into the house to drink water.

Suddenly, I heard Mrs. Zhou from next door shouting, "Aunt Li, Aunt Yang, come out quickly, someone is looking for you."

Yang hurried out and found that it was the matchmaker Jin from the city. She immediately understood and shouted, "Mother, it's the matchmaker Jin."

"Sister Li, I'm here to congratulate you!"

Li was happy in her heart, but her face remained tense. She asked suspiciously, "What's the good news?"

"Old sister, you have raised a good granddaughter. Everyone praises her medical skills. And your future grandson-in-law is a scholar. You will enjoy a happy life in the future." As she said this, she handed over the brown sugar and tea leaves.

Zhou, who lived next door, was surprised when she heard this and asked, "Matchmaker Jin, which family are you talking to Song Ying about? Why does it sound like the two families have already agreed to this?"

Matchmaker Jin smiled so hard her teeth showed, "It's the Yuan family from Wutong Village. Both families have expressed interest and just wanted me to run some errands for them."

"Yuan family?" Another voice sounded outside the courtyard gate. Li and Yang looked up and found that many people had gathered outside their courtyard gate. They were all curious about what they saw from the matchmaker Jin and came to watch. The one who spoke was Aunt Meihua, who was always straightforward.

"The Yuan family has high standards, and they are determined to marry... How could this happen?"

The most surprised people were probably the hunter couple Tian. When their daughter Tian Fang reached the age of trial marriage, they specially asked someone to find out about the Yuan family's intentions. At that time, it was Tao who said in person that she would wait until Yuan Qing passed the imperial examination and then marry him to a young lady from an official family who could write poems and couplets with him.

After being surprised, everyone congratulated Li and Yang. They learned that Tao had given two bags of sugar when she first tried to find out, and they also said that the Yuan family valued Song Ying.

Everyone knew about the situation of the Yuan family. They would break a copper coin into two or four halves to spend, but they were very generous to Song Ying.

Li smiled happily and accepted it after refusing several times. She took the engagement letter written on red paper and handed it to the matchmaker Jin.

With the departure of matchmaker Jin, the news of Song Ying and Yuan Qing's marriage spread like wildfire throughout the village.

Xiaoxiang was tilling the soil with her parents. She was very happy to hear the news.

The Yuan family knows everything about her, so there is no need to worry about being deceived. Song Ying had learned to read from Yuan Qing before, and the two of them have been together before, so they will not get along after marriage. She is also a scholar's wife, which is great.

His mother Zhang was stunned. As Song Ying and Luo Yanxing settled down in the city, one became a famous doctor and the other opened a shop, making a lot of money. It would be a lie to say that she didn't regret it.

If she had not let her daughter cut off contact with the two of them, even if Xiaoxiang could not study under a famous teacher and become a doctor like Song Ying, it would be very likely that she could open a shop and make money like Luo Yanxing.

Or maybe, now the pancreas shop is not just a partnership of three of them, but four.

But even the emperor in this world cannot regret his actions, so she could only comfort herself that those two women were always in the spotlight, and at most they would marry a merchant, not a refined scholarly family.

Unexpectedly, the Yuan family actually wanted to ask Song Ying to marry their grandson who had just passed the imperial examination. Song Ying was a 15-year-old scholar, and even a blind person could see that he had a bright future.

People from several nearby villages were all looking on with envy, but they didn't even have the courage to go and ask for it.

A scholar with such a bright future actually took a fancy to Song Ying!

Compared to this, Xiaoxiang's marriage is totally unbearable. Although he is the son of a juren, he is in his twenties and still has not passed the imperial examination. He is also lame and a second wife. This is a huge disadvantage.

What you fear will come true. Just as she thought of this, Aunt Liu from the field next to her said, "Song Ying, Yan Xing, and Xiao Xiang are all born in the same year. Song Ying is engaged to the scholar of the Yuan family, and Xiao Xiang is engaged to the son of the juren. The only one missing is Yan Xing.

Sister Wang, what kind of family do you plan to marry your daughter Yan Xing to? The three of them have been close since they were young, and now the two sisters are getting married, each one better than the other. Yan Xing can't marry too badly, otherwise I won't be able to continue to associate with them in the future."

Wang was so angry. She was worried that Liu Daju had no tact at all and kept bringing up things that were irrelevant to the topic.

Song Ying's marriage was so good that all the families with unmarried girls in the village were envious, especially her family and the Zhao family. This fool insisted on asking them both to agree.

She held her breath and said, "Is this something we can decide just because we want it? It's because Song Ying is capable. I wouldn't be surprised if she married a young man from an official family.

That damned girl in my family is very opinionated. I can't control her. Let her figure out what kind of family she wants to marry. "

"What are you talking about? Marriage is always decided by parents and matchmakers. How can you be a mother like that? You should learn from Mrs. Zhang, who planned everything for Xiaoxiang long ago!"

Wang was so angry that she started to tear her hair out on the spot: "As a mother, no matter how bad I am, I am still better than you. Who is like you? You can even sell your own daughter to a brothel. Even stepmothers are not as cruel as you."

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Zhang quickly interrupted, "Hey, you two, you are in your forties, not children anymore. How come you are arguing?"

But Aunt Liu refused to go down the steps and threw down her hoe, saying, "What's wrong with me being a mother? The county magistrate said that I taught my daughter well. If you don't agree, go and argue with the county magistrate!"

What do you mean you are a better mother than me? The daughter I raised received a reward from the county magistrate. Did you get one? "

Wang was furious and blurted out, "Who wants the reward from that foolish county magistrate?"

"Sisters-in-law, please stop arguing. Who are we to discuss the County Magistrate? If people find out, it will be bad for us. Stop arguing!"

Hurry up and turn the land over and plant the wheat. If you delay, will you be left with nothing next year?

Upon hearing this, Aunt Liu and Wang fell silent, glared at each other, and then buried their heads in digging the ground.

Because the two families were separated by a mountain, after Jin the matchmaker got Song Ying's engagement letter, she delivered it to the Yuan family within a quarter of an hour.

On the same day, the Yuan family took the couple's engagement letters to Taoist Master Yuanrong to have their horoscopes matched. The result was auspicious, with the two virtues of heaven and moon in the same column, and the family would prosper. It was a match made in heaven.

Li and others were not very grateful. After all, this Jiaxing was not the Song family's house. However, the Yuan family was overjoyed.

There was no problem with the horoscope, so the marriage was settled. The next step was to wait until Song Ying reached the age of marriage before proceeding with the subsequent steps of marrying the bride and the marriage proposal.

On August 23, Yuan Shan arrived in the city early and waited at the gate of the county government office.

Today is the day when new scholars go to the county school to enroll, and my brother will definitely come.

She wanted to see if there was a chance to go to the inner residence of the county government office and find a way to get Chen Jiahe to go to Qingfeng Temple.