Chapter 21: This Seat Tells You a Story III

Yao Qianjin is a hothead, and when she returned, she did not want to eat or drink, so she pestered her father to find out about Chen Bohuan. Although Chen Bohuan had already married, it was behind closed doors, and no one in the town knew about the marriage between the Luo and Chen families.

Yao Qianjin then learns that the gentleman is "not yet married".

The magistrate, after a few inspections, found Little Chen to be capable and gentle, and her family not too bad, so he sent someone to talk to the Chen family about the marriage.

The two old men were so upset that they politely told the magistrate's men that they would have to think about it first, and when they closed the door, the two old men argued.

If you hadn't let them get married first, it would still be too late for our son to regret it.

Mrs. Chen was also anxious: "Blame me for the fact that you weren't the one who wanted to set up the child marriage? Now it's a good thing that the magistrate's daughter is the one who can compare to that Luo Xianxian."

The two Mr. Wang VIII argued behind closed doors, and at the end of the argument they were out of breath, panting across the table.

Officer Chen asked, "What should we do. Why don't we take the magistrate back?"

Mrs. Chen said, "I can't go back. Our Chen family is counting on Yao Qianjin to make a fortune."

The Yao family's daughter can be a concubine, can she? There's already one in our son's house, how else can we stuff it in?

""Mrs. Chen didn't say anything, but after a long time, her eyes suddenly glowed with light and she murmured, " Mr. Chen, I think, Luo Xianxian and our son, no one knows about it except our family."

There was a few moments of silence, and Chen was stumped for a moment, when he understood his old companion's intentions.

He was shaking a little, half in fear and half in excitement.

"You, you mean."

"If no one knows, it's not considered a marriage." Mrs. Chen said, "Let's find a way to get rid of her. If we can't do it softly, let's do it hard. Everyone in the country knows that our son is not yet married. Do you remember the incident when she stole oranges as a child? If we all bite the bullet, she will have 17 or 18 mouths to feed."

The two men, who had just been fighting like chickens, were now nestled together again, whispering and discussing.

Chen said, "I'm afraid I can't do this method of yours."

"What's wrong?"

"Our son won't agree. He has loved Luo Xianxian since he was a child, and if you ask him to turn against them, how will he agree?"

After thinking for a while, Mrs. Chen patted her partner's hand and said, "Don't worry, I'll take care of it."

After a while, Mrs. Chen suddenly fell seriously ill, and her illness was so strange that the doctor could not find out the reason.

He asked a Taoist priest to come and tell him that something was coming towards Mrs. Chen and if he didn't fix it, she wouldn't survive the New Year.

Chen Bohuan, the most dutiful of all, was in a hurry and asked, "What washed up my mother?"

The Daoist priest made a fanciful detour, saying that it was a "beautiful girl who could not see the light".

The room was stunned, and the sons of the Chen family turned to look at Luo Xianxian, who was standing on the side.

Luo Xianxian was also stunned.

She had actually been told many times since she was a child that she had a hard life, that she was a natural disaster, that she had killed her mother at birth, then her brother, and later her father.

Right now, she's being pointed at again, saying she's going to grind her mother-in-law to death.

The Chen family became desperate and several brothers took turns to tell her to leave the Chen family, as no one outside knew she was married and had a clean name, and they would give her money and silver to find another good family.

Luo Xianxian was so anxious and scared that he was really worried that he had killed Mrs. Chen, and he spent his days in tears.

Chen Bohuan was distraught, and seeing his mother getting more and more emaciated, he was in a dilemma, as he did not want Fian to leave, but he could not bear to see her suffer. He quickly lost a lot of weight.

One day, while the boss was away, they found their sister-in-law. Luo Xianxian was in the warming room, mixing the powdered scent of Ba Die, when they rushed up to her and knocked over her utensils, leaving the powdered scent all over her body.

But Luo Xianxian, a very resilient, timid but stubborn person, cried out that she did not want to leave. She cried and said she didn't want to leave, and begged them to think of another way.

Chen family, the second oldest, got angry and gave her a slap on the face, telling her, "Our mother is going to be killed by you, you're a godsend, if there was a way, would your father have died?

As soon as he hit him, several other men rushed up and surrounded Luo Xianxian, punching and kicking him, shouting "Get out of here", "vermin" and "death knell".

The sons, who were all in agreement with their mother, had in fact already known of her mother's idea and, in the absence of the eldest, joined forces to expel Luo Xianxian from the family home and threatened to beat her every day if she dared to return.

It was a very snowy night. Luo Xianxian was thrown out into the snow covered in bruises, with her embroidered shoes on her feet, one of which had fallen off.

She crawled slowly forward, a muffled choking sob escaping her lips, like the low howl of a dying cub.

It was late at night, not many people would go out on such a snowy day, and she crawled through the vast expanse, not knowing where she was going, not knowing where else she could go.

Chen family The brothers are right.

She had no mother's family, no father, no brother, no one to stand up for her, no one to take her in.

There is no place to stay in this white, vast red earth.

Her body was not strong enough, and when she was thrown out she was dressed thinly, so she froze and soon her legs and feet became numb and unconscious.

She crawled all the way to the outskirts of the city to the earthen temple dedicated to a ghostly priest. She huddled in the temple to hide from the snow, her lips frozen blue and her heart even sadder.

Tears rolled down my face as I looked up at the red and lustrous clay statue of the god. I remembered the rule at Lower Fairy World that the couple should be married with a celebrant.

At that time, she was just pinning a red flower on her temples, smiling, and kowtowing to Chen Bohuan.

Is this marriage behind closed doors a big dream or not? Is the red face in the dim bronze mirror that day a picture of her drunken dream or not?

She knelt before the ghostly master of ceremonies, dragging her increasingly heavy and cold body, bowing three times, crying and laughing.

"Married to each other, love is not in doubt. And the pleasure is on this night"

She gradually felt dizzy and her vision became increasingly blurred.

A thin layer of moonlight seemed to sprinkle before her eyes, and in the small courtyard of yesteryear, she cried, "I didn't steal it, I didn't steal it, I didn't steal the oranges."

But three men make a tiger, and no one will believe her word.

To this day, she knows that even if she were to go crying to someone and tell them that she was really Chen Bohuan's wife, no one would believe her, and she would still be the little girl at the earthen wall with no way to redress her grievances.

Nothing has changed.

But there was still one person who, over the wall, carried a steaming white steamed bun and shoved it into his palm, saying to himself, "You're hungry, eat a steamed bun to cushion your hunger."

And where is that person now?

Would he be anxious when he came back and couldn't find himself, or would he be secretly relieved that his mother would finally not be grasped by her again

Luo Xianxian curled up in the earthen temple, dripping tears that were drying up, and whispered, "Madam Master of Ceremonies, I want to be with him. I am his hairy wife and when we pay our respects there is not a celebrant next to us, you are a ghost celebrant and have no control over the living, but I also I have only to talk to you and you"

She whimpered brokenly, the last sound coming from her throat, "I didn't lie."

I'm not lying.

The snow is silent and the long night is still.

The next day, the townspeople passing by the earthen temple on the outskirts of the city found Luo Xianxian's already cold body.