northernbook Chapter 613: Tong Da Jiao's Style
Chapter 613: Tong Da Jiao's Style
"Hey, Matchmaker Wang, you were looking at our Xiaoxue just now. Do you want to propose marriage to Xiaoxue?"
Gu Taohua stopped Matchmaker Wang's carriage and questioned her. The frightened horse raised its hooves, scaring Matchmaker Wang.
Matchmaker Wang was just about to instigate a few words when she saw Gu Taohua holding Gu Xiaoxue's hand. It didn't look like the bad relationship between the first and second wives was as the rumors said.
Gu Taohua brought up Tong Huaqiong and said, "Matchmaker Wang may not know, but in our Gu family, all girls who want to marry have to go through my mother's approval. Which family did you introduce to Xiaoxue? Tell me so that my mother can understand."
When matchmaker Wang heard this, she felt bitter. No wonder she had been going to Qinghewan so often in the past two years. The Gu family rarely asked her to arrange marriages. It turned out that it was all Tong Dajiao's instigation. She denied it again and again: "Miss Taohua, what are you talking about? When I talked to your second aunt about Ruinian's marriage, I didn't mention Xiaoxue."
This vicious woman, because her own daughter hasn't gotten married yet, she is controlling the marriages of the girls in the clan.
Gu Taohua said with a half-smile: "It would be better this way."
Matchmaker Wang slapped her chest in fear. No wonder Gu Taohua was still not wanted by a man at such a age. With her temper, who would dare to propose marriage to her?
"Oh my God, I dare not lie to anyone but Miss Taohua. Since it comes to your cousin's marriage, I'll tell you the truth. Miss Taohua is capable, has a business, a shop, and my mother's support. No one dares to fart if she doesn't get married. But other girls are different. Other girls are not accepted by their families if they don't get married, and they can only shave their heads and become nuns. Miss Taohua, you should always think about your cousin. Your cousin is beautiful and capable. If I were to arrange a marriage for her, I would definitely choose a rich family in Pingchuan. Since you said that your mother has to approve the marriage of your clan's girls, I won't bother with that."
After Matchmaker Wang finished speaking, she looked at Gu Xiaoxue meaningfully.
Matchmaker Wang's words were clearly provocative.
Instigate Gu Xiaoxue to complain about Tong Huaqiong, you see, you can obviously marry into a wealthy family and become a lady, but your auntie just stopped you.
Gu Xiaoxue smiled and said to Matchmaker Wang: "Don't worry about my marriage. If I can't get married and my family doesn't accept me, I can just poison them to death with a bowl of pesticide."
Matchmaker Wang's pupils shrank.
This madman has a lot of style similar to Tong Da Jiao.
Matchmaker Wang was bullied by Gu Taohua and Gu Xiaoxue, and was so scared that she asked the driver to drive away from Qinghe Bay as if to escape.
Forget it. She didn't even openly participate in the second young master's marriage. Anyway, she had conveyed the message to Jia. She just hoped that Jia would be more supportive so that her words would not be in vain.
"What are you two doing?" Tong Huaqiong asked as she came out of the weaving workshop.
Gu Taohua said to Tong Huaqiong, "Mother, I just saw Matchmaker Wang talking to Second Aunt for a long time. I suspect she is trying to find a wife for a young man from a wealthy family who is not presentable enough, and she has set her sights on Xiaoxue."
Tong Huaqiong felt that Matchmaker Wang was capable of such a thing, so she turned to look at Gu Xiaoxue and said, "You should use the same words as your mother."
Gu Xiaoxue nodded.
"...The Xu family is hanging us, I think the Xu family's marriage should be annulled."
Two days later, the Xu family was still keeping the Gu family hanging. Jia couldn't help but persuade Gu Youtian and Old Man Gu to give up the marriage at the dinner table.
Gu Youtian was hesitant, and Mr. Gu said he would wait for two more days.
Jia said, "A few days ago, matchmaker Wang said that Mr. Lian San from the city was looking for a marriage partner and wanted to find a good-looking and capable girl in the countryside. Matchmaker Wang liked Xiaoxue. If we are willing, we can meet each other..."
Jia couldn't help but tell Wang the matchmaker that she wanted to marry Xiaoxue to Mr. Lian San.
When Gu Ruinian heard the word Lian family, he felt like he was struck by lightning.
The Third Young Master Lian has a crush on Gu Xiaoxue?
What a joke.
"Which Lian family?" Gu Ruinian asked.
Jia then told the whole situation of the Lian family.
Gu Ruinian knew it was the Lian family of Lian Hengruo as soon as he heard it. Old Man Gu and others were not familiar with the Lian family and raised the same question as Jia had at that time.
Since Mr. Lian San is so good, why does he want to find a country girl? Wouldn't a marriage between people of equal social status be better?
Jia repeated what Wang the matchmaker said like a parrot.
"If Xiaoxue can really marry into the Lian family, she will be the young mistress as soon as she enters. We will have such a strong backer, and Ruinian won't have to go to the Xu family to suffer. I think this marriage is good, what do you think, his father?" Jia looked at Gu Youtian.
Gu Youtian was stunned by the news.
He even had a bold guess that when he was doing business with Wu Ren in Pingchuan County, it must have been that the Third Master Lian had taken a fancy to Gu Xiaoxue and asked someone to propose marriage to her.
The son of a wealthy family is a romantic man. The emperor can take a commoner woman as his queen. It is not normal for his Xiaoxue to be the mistress of a wealthy family.
Gu Youtian slammed the table and said, "I will personally reply to Matchmaker Wang tomorrow. If this marriage is true, what are we waiting for?"
He had had enough of the Xu family's anger. Even after he had sacrificed his son for the crime, the Xu family still wanted to keep him hanging.
What do you think?
He wanted to let the Xu family see that he had a daughter to help him turn the tables.
Old Lady Gu hesitated: "I heard that matchmaker Wang has made up a lot of bad marriages. She can even marry a dead person and tell him about a good marriage where he doesn't have to wait on the man. I always feel that the matter of the third son of the Lian family is not very reliable."
Old Mrs. Gu has experienced this.
Some time ago, matchmaker Wang was trying to arrange a marriage for Gu Honglian. She said the man was a rich man with grandchildren all over the place. She said that in the future she would not have to go through the pain of childbirth and would have many children and grandchildren. This made old lady Gu so angry that she kicked her out.
Gu Youtian said, "I can just go and find out if it's true. Mother, don't think too badly of matchmaker Wang. Dahan and his wife were also introduced by matchmaker Wang, and they are doing fine now. As for the third son of Lian... I suspect that he fell in love with Xiaoxue first when we were in Pingchuan last year. Our Xiaoxue is so beautiful. Let alone a son of a wealthy family, she can become a princess in Shengjing."
"In the south, isn't there also an official lady who wants to take Xiaoxue as her daughter-in-law?"
When I think of the fields in this valley, I can't help but want to kick Gu Ruinian.
The reason why he rejected those sons of officials was because Gu Ruinian said that marrying into a family of a minor official would not make much difference, and Xiaoxue's marriage should maximize its value, and when he passed the exam, he would take Gu Xiaoxue to arrange marriage for a high-ranking official.
The whole family was fooled by him. He failed the exam, and Gu Xiaoxue's marriage was delayed.
Now that she has been favored by the son of a wealthy family, the whole family cannot believe that this is a good fortune.
It was almost intercepted by Liu Qingsong.
When Mr. Gu and Mrs. Gu heard what Gu Youtian said, they agreed that if it was true, they would fully support Gu Xiaoxue to marry him.
Gu Xiaoxue will get married eventually, right?
Being a lady in the Lian family is better than working in a weaving workshop.
Now, she will never complain about her family mistreating her again.
"Let's find out about this quietly first, and then tell Xiaoxue after things are settled. I'm afraid that given her current temper, Zuo might think we want to harm her." Jia said.
She was afraid that Gu Xiaoxue would just refuse to meet her, so she wanted to hide it from Gu Xiaoxue first.
Another thing is that Jia wanted to emulate Jia from the Lian family. Even if her daughter became a widow, it would be better than marrying an ordinary person.
Old Master Gu nodded and said, "You are right. Keep the details secret from Xiaoxue and tell her when everything is settled."
After saying this, he looked sternly at everyone at the table.