bookrandom Chapter 216 Marriage, Chapter, Discovery
Chapter 216 Marriage, Chapter, Discovery
Biyang County.
Master Sun held the letter and looked at Scholar Zhu excitedly.
"Look at this, he agreed to the thing I told you last time!"
Zhu Xiucai took the letter and looked at it carefully.
Master Sun continued, "Although she is a concubine's daughter, Master Xie has only three daughters, and she is the only one who has grown up. With your talent, if you marry her, Master Xie will definitely teach you everything he knows and help you pass the imperial examination as soon as possible."
As soon as Zhu Xiucai heard it, he knew that Master Sun was still unaware of the changes in the capital.
He put down the letter he had finished reading and sighed softly, "It seems you don't know yet, sir. Scholar Xie has been dismissed from office, and his wife has been sentenced to death by slicing."
"What!" Master Sun's face turned pale with shock and he suddenly knocked over the teacup beside him.
The teacup rolled to the ground and exploded with a loud bang. He ignored the mess and looked at Zhu Xiucai with a panicked expression and asked, "Where did you get this information? Xie Xueshi's wife is the Empress's sister. How could she be sentenced to death by slicing?"
Zhu Xiucai then revealed the story of Chen Fang murdering Xie Yun's original wife, hiring assassins to kill his original wife's family, and colluding with mountain bandits to kill Xie Xiu, and finally being beaten by the Luo clan leader to protest his injustice.
Master Sun's expression changed constantly as he listened, and he finally said dejectedly, "I never expected it to be like this! It's a good thing you got the news, otherwise if you had agreed, I would have put you in great trouble!"
Unexpectedly, Zhu Xiucai said, "Sir, don't feel guilty. I am willing to marry that lady Xie."
"This..." Master Sun frowned and looked at him in surprise, "The Xie family has suffered such a disaster, and the legitimate wife has even been living abroad, and you are still willing to marry the Xie family's concubine?"
Zhu Xiucai said, "The legitimate wife of the Xie family is living abroad. What does that have to do with the illegitimate wife? She shouldn't be blamed for the mistakes made by the legitimate mother."
Master Sun thought for a moment, then said, "Xie Yun's wife has committed a serious crime, and her two sons will inevitably be implicated and unable to continue taking the imperial examinations.
If you marry the Xie family's concubine at this time, Xie Yun will definitely look at you differently. If the news spreads that you already have an engagement, then your willingness to get married after the incident at the Xie family will become a good story.
Zhu Xiucai said nothing, but just raised his lips slightly.
Xie Yun's wife was sentenced to death by slicing, but he himself was only dismissed from office, which can be considered as a safe escape.
It was obvious that this person was extremely cunning, and Emperor Taihe had no intention of killing him.
In this way, not only will this marriage not be an obstacle for him, but he will also get the help of Xie Yun.
After all, Biyang County is too small, and although he is confident of passing the imperial examination this time, the possibility of passing the imperial examination to become a Jinshi is not great.
With his family background, it was not difficult for him to find a suitable marriage. But marrying the daughter of an official was not so easy.
Xie Yun's concubine's daughter is his best choice now.
If he marries her, and with Xie Yun's full support, he will surely be able to pass the imperial examination in the spring three years later!
Zhu Xiucai stood up and bowed deeply to Master Sun. "Please write a letter of recommendation for me, and I will go to the capital to propose marriage immediately!"
Master Sun thought about it carefully and felt that Xie Yun's concubine's daughter was a good choice, so he agreed: "Okay, I will write a letter immediately and return quickly!"
Zhu Xiucai ground the ink for him personally.
Master Sun quickly wrote a letter of recommendation, in which he praised Zhu Xiucai highly.
After receiving the letter, Zhu Xiucai said goodbye and went home. After discussing with his family, he and his uncle hurried to the capital with their guards.
At this time, there were less than two months left before the provincial examination. Zhu Xiucai did not dare to delay too long on the road, so he traveled light and rode at full speed, and arrived in the capital in just five days.
It was daytime when they arrived. Zhu Xiucai and his uncle had no time to rest. After taking a bath and changing clothes, they took the visiting card and Master Sun's letter of recommendation and went to the Xie family with their guards.
When Xie Yun learned that they had come in person, he immediately asked the butler to invite them to the front hall and meet them in person.
Seeing that Zhu Xiucai was handsome and gentle, with a generous demeanor and clear eyes, she immediately took a liking to him.
After a conversation, Xie Yun began to appreciate Zhu Xiucai's talent and became more and more satisfied with him.
So the three of them quickly agreed on the marriage and set a date.
Xie Yun took into consideration that Xie Jia was pregnant and had to get married as soon as possible, and as the elder sister, Xie Yi had to get married even earlier.
However, the marriage was too hasty, and if it got out, it would inevitably be looked down upon. So the two sides agreed to tell the public that the two had already been engaged, and now the elders of the Zhu family had a dream in which the immortal officials blessed them and allowed them to get married early.
After the two parties reached an agreement, the Zhu family immediately began to prepare the betrothal gifts and asked the matchmaker to come and propose marriage.
Afterwards, Pei Rong also asked a matchmaker to go to the Xie family to propose marriage as agreed.
The fact that the two proposed marriage one after another caused quite a stir in the capital.
Xie Xiu took advantage of this momentum and had the second volume of "Mandarin Ducks' Strange Dreams" sold.
The previous "Mandarin Duck Dream" only had the first volume, and the story ended abruptly when the man was nailed into the coffin in the outer room and died tragically when his corpse turned into a corpse.
The second volume released this time is the story of revenge after the mistress turns into a zombie.
In the story, after the mistress turned into a corpse, she continued to be trapped in the coffin and could only secretly accumulate strength and wait for revenge.
On the other hand, the unfaithful man was poisoned by his step-wife in revenge, and his tendons in his hands and feet were cut, making him a disabled man. He could only lie paralyzed in bed and watch his step-wife fooling around with others in front of him.
Unfortunately, the stepmother's triumph did not last long. The concubine who was nailed in the coffin broke out of the coffin on a full-moon night and broke into the scumbag's house. In front of the scumbag, she caught the stepmother having an affair with someone, ripped her open, peeled off her skin, and scared the scumbag and the stepmother's adulterer to death.
After their death, the concubine was unwilling to give in, and killed the scumbag and the stepmother's children, and killed everyone in the house, leaving no one alive.
Only the stepmother's daughter eloped and escaped the disaster.
After the mistress took revenge, she disappeared. When the stepmother's daughter heard the bad news, she returned home with her lover, buried the bodies of her family members, inherited all the family property, and married her lover out of pity.
On their wedding night, the two smiled at each other in a strange and eerie way.
The story ends here, leaving people with a lot to think about.
Due to the popularity of the first volume and the liveliness of the Xie family, the second volume sold out quickly after it was released, which once again caused a lot of discussion among the public.
Xie Ying didn't have the heart to pay attention to these rumors at this time.
She sat in front of Situ Yuan, with an exquisite wooden box between them, containing a can of pills and a pipe.
Both of them looked ugly.
Situ Yuan's face was tense, and he clenched his fists tightly, his whole body filled with murderous intent: "I never thought that I would see something like this here."
Xie Ying couldn't speak yet, so she pursed her lips and said nothing, but the murderous aura on her body became more and more fierce.