NFBE Chapter 213: The Merchant's Daughter Wants to Marry the General 10
Chapter 213: The Merchant's Daughter Wants to Marry the General 10
"Thanks to Miss Shen's rescue, I was lucky enough to save my life. I should have brought a large gift to visit you to express my gratitude, but unfortunately, even the clothes I wear were given by the Shen family."
"It is our honor to save the general. It can be considered as our destiny. Hehe----"
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After a round of pleasantries, Shen Guli finally heard what she wanted to hear.
"When I return home, I will send someone to deliver a thank-you gift. But these still cannot express my gratitude to the Shen family, so I, Xie, make a promise again. If there is anything I can do for the Shen family, I will do my best to help them!" Xie Rong bowed.
A promise from a third-rank general.
Lin was stunned. She didn't know if she was frightened by Xie Rong's aura or what, but she gripped the armrest of the chair so hard that her knuckles turned white.
After waiting for a long time without any response from Lin, Xie Rong coughed and looked at Shen Guli. He saw Miss Shen smiling at him calmly, unperturbed by praise or criticism.
She has adapted well to her identity.
"It seems that I am being rude. I will leave here tomorrow and return to the capital to report. Madam Shen can notify me if she thinks of anything else."
Until Xie Rong said goodbye and returned to the front yard, Lin was still sitting there in a trance.
This damn feudal class, just a third-rank military general scared Madam Shen so much that she couldn't recover for a long time?
Shen Guli gently massaged Lin's shoulders, allowing her to slowly relax her body.
"Mother, what's wrong with you? He's just a third-rank general. We are his saviors. There's no need to be so reserved."
Feeling the warmth coming from her shoulder, Lin's eyes turned red, but she quickly hid the expression in her eyes. She smiled and pulled her daughter's hand sideways, holding it, "Mother, are you thinking about how to use this life-saving grace to bring the greatest benefit to our Shen family!"
Shen Guli: -----
Excuse me. She was worrying too much!
Lin fully demonstrated his businessman character.
"Has mother thought about it?"
Lin was silent for a long time. She looked at her daughter's pretty and innocent face with sad eyes, and suddenly she smiled.
No matter how well you take care of your skin, fine wrinkles will appear at the corners of your eyes.
"Well, I've made up my mind. My dear daughter is so pretty, and it's time for her to get engaged and married!"
Shen Guli: -----
Why does it seem like there is an unstoppable feeling that it is going to rain and my mother is going to get married?
"What do you think of General Xie, Xiao Li'er?"
Shen Guli: "He should be a good general."
"What if you let him be your husband?"
Sure enough, Lin finally made such a request to Xie Rong. But this time it was not Gu Li who took the initiative to make the request, but Lin.
It turns out that the mother and daughter are of the same mind, both want to keep Xie Rong, the rich son-in-law.
Shen Guli shook her head, "I don't know about that."
"If General Xie can marry you as his principal wife, then the children you give birth to in the future, Xiao Li'er, will no longer be of merchant status, but will directly be of noble status."
"Would he, a third-rank official in Beijing, be willing to marry a merchant girl as his principal wife?"
"Aniang will try her best to help you. Besides, General Xie doesn't seem like a man who doesn't keep his word."
He would indeed fulfill his promise, but Shen Guli shook her head again without even thinking, "Mother, marriage requires a good match. I don't want to put myself in the quagmire of rumors for the sake of an illusory child."
"Marry a wife of low status and a daughter of high status."
"But marriages across classes don't always have a happy ending. Mother, do you still remember Sister Yashu who lived next door to us when we were little?"
Xiao Yashu, the Xiao family was also a wealthy family in Yonghe Prefecture, but Mr. Xiao had few children, only one son and one daughter. In order to let his daughter marry up, he asked a distant relative in Beijing to act as a matchmaker, and married his only daughter to a poor mansion in Beijing, whose name was not even heard by many people.
She married one of the uncle's illegitimate sons as his legal wife.
It is said that she became pregnant a few months after her marriage, but her pregnancy was not going well. Madam Xiao took several carriages of precious medicinal herbs to the Bo's house to visit her daughter, and she cried bitterly when she came back.
It turned out that Xiao Yashu's illegitimate husband was not well-liked by the mistress. He was married at the age of 20 but still had no proper job. He was somewhat resentful. He spent a lot of energy on playing with women. Not to mention that he had two children with his concubine before Xiao Yashu entered the house. After Xiao Yashu entered the house, she not only promoted the concubine to a concubine, but also bought two concubines from outside.
In order to secure their daughter's position in the Earl's Mansion, the Xiao family came up with an idea: Xiao Yashu would pay some money to help her husband find a job in Beijing.
Money makes things easier, and it was done soon.
Who knew that the lady of the baron had interfered and turned the concubine's unemployed job into a hard job outside the capital.
The bastard was angry but could do nothing about it.
Even if he is appointed, he can't change anything.
Perhaps Xiao Yashu also resented him. If the Xiao family hadn't helped him come up with this bad idea, he wouldn't have torn his face with his mistress and couldn't even stay in the capital. Xiao Yashu's husband left without saying anything and took his two concubines with him.
The pregnant Xiao Yashu was left in the Bo's Mansion to deal with the daily harassment from her mistress.
One can imagine how miserable the little rabbit felt when he strayed into a group of foxes.
In the previous life, the original body's situation was almost the same as Xiao Yashu's, but Xiao Yashu was even more miserable than her. She died in an avalanche during childbirth, leaving behind a sick child who had to learn to drink medicine before drinking milk.
Whenever Mrs. Xiao talked to Mrs. Lin about her poor little grandson, tears flowed in strings.
Every year, the Xiao family sends at least eight carts of medicinal supplements to the Bo Mansion, just for the only bloodline left by their daughter.
The Bo's Mansion has been using precious medicinal herbs to keep the sickly child alive. As long as the child is alive, Xiao Yashu's huge dowry will remain in the Bo's Mansion and be used by the Bo's Mansion.
When Lin heard her daughter mention the Xiao family, most of the energy she had gathered disappeared in an instant. "You will eventually get married. Giving birth is a hurdle that every woman must go through."
Shen Guli did not refute Lin, but she did not think so in her heart. If she was unable to provide a safe and warm environment for her child to grow up in, she would rather not have a child.
Didn’t Shen Guli not give birth in the previous life?
Oh, that’s because Xie Rong is away from home all year round and she can’t have a child by herself.
It also saved Shen Guli from the pain of childbirth.
"Mother, I still don't want to."
Shen Guli's resolute words made Lin completely deflated, "This is the best candidate our family can get, are you sure?"
"Yeah, I'm sure."
Lin sighed, "Before he even reached the age of twenty, he was already a third-rank general of Anyuan. He doesn't even have a concubine, and he doesn't have any concubines at home-----"