Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 6

[Chapter 6: Marriage]

Mrs. Ding did not think about tea and dinner these days, her brows were not displayed, Xiao Qiao was by her side from morning to night, relieved, at this time she had just come out of Mrs. Ding’s place, and her own nursing mother Chunniang was walking, and the two were walking and talking.

The owner of the Qiao family is lenient to the people and is very popular in the local area. In the past two days, the people in the city have constantly come to thank you and thank you, and one by one they are all jubilant. Although Xiao Qiao did not go out, but also knew about this matter, ChunNiang went to inquire about it, and then heard that the people of the whole city knew about the marriage between Qiao Wei and the two families, a military disaster was eliminated, the people were grateful, so they came to thank him, and they were muttering in their hearts, and suddenly saw his father pacing around at the door of the courtyard where he lived, with a heavy mind, so he quickly stepped forward and shouted, Xiao Qiao saw that he wanted to talk and stopped, knew that he should have something to say, entered the house, first could not help but ask the news he had just heard.

Qiao Ping frowned, stared at Xiao Qiao, and said slowly: “Brutal, there is indeed something wrong.” I’m really sorry for you for the father…”

The beloved daughter clearly has a desired marriage and does not want to become unpredictable, and she will be married to Wei Shao at this time. Thinking of the delicate daughter who was like trapped in the mouth of a tiger, isolated and helpless, her heart was sour, and the words could not be said.

Little Joe felt something was wrong at first, and when her father said this for half a sentence, she looked at her words and her heart skipped a beat.

Big Joe didn’t hear from him, but everywhere in the city was already talking about the marriage, and it was only in these two days that it began. The father was in such a tone again, was it to marry into the Wei family instead of Big Qiao himself?

But I already have a marriage contract…

“Father, but you want me to replace Sister A?”

She hesitated, but finally asked.

Although his father was delayed, Xiao Qiao’s heart was already bright.

Because it was too unexpected, she also froze, her heart suddenly beat, and some people could not react.

The reason why she instigated Big Joe to elope at first was that she couldn’t bear to watch Big Joe fall into the mouth of the Wolf in Zhongshan, but also saved her father’s hope that he could say that Uncle Big Uncle would let go, and she was a person with a marriage contract – although this marriage contract, she also thought about how to think of a way to quit after all this period of things had passed, so no matter what, she would not think that the two families of Qiao Wei would still be married, and moreover, they wanted to marry instead of Big Joe!

“Brutal, the Wei family has already sent a message and agreed to the marriage, the emissary will arrive soon, your cousin is gone at this time, your uncle knelt down and pleaded with me, for the father is really…”

Qiao Ping explained two sentences and stopped again.

Little Qiao gradually returned to God, but his mood was still extremely disordered, standing there, for a moment he didn’t know what to say.

“Liu Shizi’s marriage can only be pushed away for you.” Brute, sorry for the Father…

Qiao Ping’s eyes were slightly damp.

Little Joe was silent for a moment.

“Father, I see. I’m a little confused, will you let me stay alone for a while? Finally

she raised her eyes to look at Qiao Ping, and the corners of her mouth barely pulled out a smile and said.

Qiao Ping saw that his daughter’s face was clear and bad, but he did not cry and laughed, and his heart was even more guilty, and he sighed a long sigh.

……

The father went out, across the door, Xiao Qiao heard him and his own wet mother Chunniang whispering, should be telling her to take good care of herself, after a moment, the footsteps faded away, and the surrounding quiet.

That night, Qiao Ci learned the news.

Later, Xiao Qiao heard Chunniang say that he was so violent that he rushed straight to his uncle and loudly objected.

The uncle has no children, and has always regarded his nephew as his own, and he usually values it very much. But at that time, Qiao Ci was also beaten out by his uncle and locked up in the forbidden room.

Little Joe didn’t close his eyes this night.

Her father had always loved herself, and she knew in her heart that if she hadn’t been helpless, he would never have agreed to marry himself. Now the news of the marriage between the two families has spread. As the father of the county sheriff, it was like being put on the back of a tiger, carrying the expectations of 200,000 Yanzhou soldiers and civilians, and he really had no other way to retreat except to agree.

Earlier, she had told Big Qiao that she wanted to marry Wei Shao and ask her to fulfill herself. At that time, it was only that she knew Big Joe, and if she didn’t say so, she would never let go of her responsibility as Joe’s parent daughter and elope with Bi Yan.

When she painstakingly wanted to help Big Joe reverse the trajectory of her past life, she was actually secretly determined that she would never follow the path of her past life.

The ideal is very beautiful, but the reality really slapped her with a brick, and the seven meats and eight vegetables she photographed were a bit unable to find the north.

Little Joe couldn’t help but smile bitterly.

The road has indeed changed, but it has changed to another dead end.

She couldn’t have gone away like Big Joe. Besides, even if she wanted to run, it was impossible. The uncle learned a lesson. No wonder that these two days, no matter where I go, there will always be three or four healthy women from the other side of the big room.

After a night of entanglement, at dawn, she finally persuaded herself that she could only try to accept such a yin and yang result.

……

The next day, a marriage envoy sent by the Wei family arrived, named Cai Xun, who was Yuyang Cao Shi. Qiao Yue led Qiao Ping and a cadre of courtiers to greet each other in formal clothes, solemnly entertained guests in the front hall, went to the bed, drank three rounds, and then said helplessly that the eldest daughter who had originally planned to negotiate marriage was unfortunately infected with a vicious disease, and the doctor asserted that it was not suitable for marriage, fortunately, there was another daughter in the brother’s family, who looked better than the eldest daughter, hoping to change the marriage to the second daughter and marry the two surnames.

Although Zhang Pu had repeatedly assured him that the Wei family would accept it, Qiao Yue still had some worries in his heart, lest the other party think that he was disrespectful. Unexpectedly, Cai Xun was not half displeased, talking and laughing, saying that he would send a letter as soon as possible to know the lord, and wait for the lord to reply. Qiao Yue was only slightly relieved. After the feast was dispersed, he personally sent Cai Xun into the stagecoach court, ordered the eunuch to treat him with the courtesy of the guests, and when he returned, he waited for ten days, and there came an echo.

Sure enough, as Zhang Pu said, the Wei family agreed.

Joe was overjoyed.

……

When marriage customs are the six rites of the ancients. The marriage of a family magnate like Qiao Wei, from the time of Na Cai to the final marriage, normally takes at least half a year. But this time, the two families invariably have only one purpose, that is, to complete the marriage as soon as possible. Within two days, the Wei family’s dowry was delivered. The dowry is as thick as ten thousand gold, BMW twelve, which is only one level lower than the tianzi marriage system. On the same day, the dowry entered from the north gate of Puyang City, and was sent all the way to the Ambassador’s Palace, and the people along the way watched from the road, sighing and admiring, and the excitement was incomparable.

Then, the Eighth Wei family was set to greet their relatives at the beginning of the next month. It is advisable to marry, it is advisable to travel, and it is auspicious to have a good day.

It’s mid-November, with few days left. The whole Joe family was busy with the wedding.

When advocating marriage and extravagance, he was proud of luxury. Big and small Joe’s dowry has long been prepared, it is rich, and now that Big Joe is gone, Qiao’s family is in the eminent court, disdainful of saving this share of the goods, two plus a piece for Little Joe, when he was sent out of the city that day, it stretched for miles and was spectacular. As for Little Joe’s body money, he is even richer. Qiao Ping felt guilty about her daughter, thinking that when she arrived at the Wei family in the future, she had money on hand, and it was much more convenient to act, almost pouring out her bags, and adding a lot of big rooms. In terms of the money he has now, Little Joe has really become a rich woman.

In the blink of an eye, the auspicious period is here. Wei Shao himself did not come. The Tiger Ben Zhonglang general Wei Liang, who greeted him on his behalf, was a member of the Wei family clan, nine feet tall, with a beard, a full body muscle knot, and a long sword weighing thirty-six pounds, and was one of the ten generals under Wei Shao’s tent, and was known for his bravery and good fighting. This Wei Liang is not like thisThe previous marriage proposal made Cai Xun so kind and close,Some eyes were nobody, and the way qiao family loved and ignored it, the more unhappy Qiao was in his heart, but now he took the initiative to be kind to the other party, and he did not dare to show his sadness, and his face was flattering and thoughtful.

The next day, it was the day that Little Joe got married and left home. The gate of the Qiao family was open, and the people inside and outside were colorful, and the people of the four directions also put on their new clothes and gathered together to send the daughter of the ambassador.

Little Qiao came out of the bath in the morning, standing naked, Fang was not more than fourteen years old, although his body was not as mature as a woman, but his chest and hips were round, his waist was clenched, exquisitely pink, with a soft and flawless skin, dazzling snow, and the beauty of several people could not look directly.

She was surrounded by servants and maids, who in turn wore a red dark coat, a dark coat on the outside, a large belt, a knee covering, a jade jue, a sock coat with a wooden foot, and finally a green silk bun coiled on her head, fixed with a bun, and wore beaded flowers and a step shake on the bun. After the makeup is finished, but see the flower Rong Yuanna, jade Tingting, delicate and graceful, beautiful and indispensable, servants and women watching, all praised.

Lady Ding held Xiao Qiao Roujing, carefully instructed her a lot of commands, and finally looked at Xiao Qiao for a moment, and her eyes slowly turned red: “Brutal, my aunt also knows in her heart that Ah Fan’s cruel heart abandoned her grandmother, which is not necessarily a bad thing for her, but it is bitter for you, to marry into the Wei family on her behalf, my aunt will thank you on your behalf.” Your sisters are dear, and if you know her whereabouts in the future, I hope you can also tell your aunt, so that I have a bottom in my heart, and my aunt will never let your uncle know.

Little Joe smiled and agreed to come down one by one. When the auspicious time came, the bridesmaids were surrounded by the front hall.

Uncle Qiao Yue and father Qiao Ping were waiting there. The younger brother Qiao Ci was dissatisfied with the marriage and still did not want to show his face at this moment. Qiao Ping was reluctant to overflow with words, and even his uncle seemed to have an emotional expression on his face, and he went forward to say a few words to her, but he told her to serve her uncle and so on in the future. Little Joe said goodbye to his father briefly, tried his best to hold back the tears that were about to fall in his eyes, and bowed to his father.

When she was helped up by Qiao Ping, she was outside in unison, urging the bride to go out, but Qiao Ping did not give up her daughter, still did not let go of her arm, and Zhang Pu, the counselor who had been standing behind, came over and laughed and advised: “Wei Hou Haojie is handsome, everyone in the world knows, yu Jun’s daughter is a match made in heaven, why should the public not give up?” In

full view of everyone, Qiao Ping finally squeezed his daughter’s hand tightly, and Fang slowly released it.

Xiao Qiao glanced at Zhang Pu. Knowing that he had succeeded in promoting this marriage, his uncle rewarded him with two hundred gold and two concubines, and he relied more and more on him, and these days it was a very spring breeze.

Although he was also out of the lord of the matter, and the marriage did temporarily solve the current difficulties in Yanzhou, I couldn’t blame him for this idea, but the calculated breath in his heart was still unable to swallow. When Little Joe turned around, he casually leaned closer to him, covered by the heavy skirt under him, lifted a foot in clogs, and saw that it was crushed on his toes.

The bottom of the clogs is as hard as stone, and Little Joe is doing his best, and this foot is really not light. Zhang Pu suddenly felt severe pain in his toes, and he was defenseless, and he cried out in pain of “ah”, looked up to see Xiao Qiao smiling and groaning at himself, and suddenly understood. Seeing that everyone in the hall looked over one after another, as if to accuse him of being disrespectful in front of people, he smiled bitterly and endured the pain in his toes, and Nono made two noises, and bowed back in a nonchalant manner. Afterwards, when no one took off their shoes and socks to inspect, they saw that the entire toe had been bruised and swollen, and the pain took three or two days to disappear.

Xiao Qiao saw Zhang Pu grinning and not daring to cry out in pain, only to feel that his heart seemed to be slightly comfortable, and finally looked at his father, remembering the scene when he and his brother said goodbye in private this morning, sighed in his heart, turned and walked out.

On both sides of the qiao mansion gate road, there were already people standing in new clothes, and when they saw Xiao Qiao finally appear, beautiful as a heavenly immortal, he knelt down and shouted in unison, and the call was almost earth-shaking.

It turned out that according to the current marriage system, the kissing must be personally presented by the groom of the man, and only then did he show respect, and did not want Wei Shao to not show his face, but only sent Wei Liang to greet him, which inevitably disappointed the people of Dong County. The Qiao family was already deeply popular in the local area, and the people were grateful to Xiao Qiao for marrying, so that a war was eliminated, and they did not want the Wei family to despise the daughter of the ambassador, and so on to this day, all of them were full of energy, after Xiao Qiao stepped on the wedding car, all the way up, there were people constantly throwing melon fruits into the car, so that before they left the city, the melon fruits were in full of cars, and more than ten miles out of the city gate, there were still people kneeling behind and singing loudly to congratulate each other, and even Wei Liang, who had always been proud, seemed to have a sideways look later.

People are not grass and trees, this scene, so that xiao Qiao, who was not willing to marry originally, was also moved, and suddenly seemed to have some experience of the mentality of why Big Joe was unwilling to leave before. After leaving the city, he held an apple handed to him by a three-year-old child in his hand and silently fell into contemplation.

……

“Stop—”

Xiao Qiao’s wedding car traveled more than thirty miles, and when only the wilderness was left on both sides, he suddenly caught up with a fast horse behind him, and someone shouted to stop.

Wei Liang immediately ordered his entourage to draw a knife to guard against it, Xiao Qiao recognized that it was the voice of his younger brother Qiao Ci, and hurriedly leaned out to explain, Wei Liang looked back and recognized that it was indeed the Son of the Qiao family, and then ordered the knife to stop.

Little Joe came down. Qiao Ci rolled over from the horse, ran to the front, grabbed her hand and said, “Sister! I have one more word, I forgot to say it to you. I hate myself for being useless, and today I can only watch you get married like this. But Sister Ah rest assured, brother today to swear to the emperor, in the future will be self-reliant, into your dependence, if that Wei Shao slowly treat you, brother will take you back, never let you be bullied by outsiders!

This fourteen-year-old stubborn teenager was still in the period of voice change, and a faint circle of fur had just sprouted on his lips, but the words spoken at this moment were loud.

His words were sonorous, word by word, and sent into Wei Liang’s ear with the wind, and Wei Liang did not speak, only a sneering smile.

Xiao Qiao did not expect that his brother chased out so far, just to say such a sentence to himself, remembering that in his past life, he was to let himself and Liu Yan get away, sacrificed himself to death, endured the tears in the morning and could not control it, and finally flowed down.

“Adi! Sister Ah knew. Sister A will live a good life, and remember to act as a filial piety father in the future!

Qiao Ci nodded.

Seeing that the two brothers and sisters were clinging to each other, Wei Liang was finally impatient and urged.

Little Joe let go of Qiao Ci’s hand, urged him to go back, and re-boarded the car on the road himself.

Qiao Ci’s figure stood on the side of the road, gradually turning into a black dot, and finally completely disappeared from sight.

When Little Joe turned his head, he saw that in the distance, at the end of the gray winter sky, a lone goose that had fallen alone was flying south.

[End of This Chapter]