sjar Chapter 377 The Gao Family
Chapter 377 The Gao Family
She glanced at her own son and saw that Jiang Tongmu's eyes were wide open.
Zhu Yingqiu's mouth was about to break from smiling.
It seems my son fell in love with her at first sight, so it’s settled now. I guess we’ll have the wedding by the end of the year.
Not only was she smiling happily.
The same was true for Yin Suxin standing beside her.
The two men drove their children out of the house.
Give them alone time.
Then they discussed when to get engaged and married.
Things were going smoothly here, but things were not going well with Kong Mingxue.
Arrived at the girl’s house.
The servants following behind the mother and son were carrying large and small bags.
All gifts.
Wan Xian bought all the most expensive ones.
Normally speaking, any family with a little bit of sense of etiquette would be embarrassed to accept such an expensive gift and would at least be polite. However, the girl's family did not even have the intention of refusing and accepted it as a matter of course.
Although Kong Mingxue is a bit old, only eighteen years old this year, he is still a student.
In some remote and poor places, even students could open private schools and enroll students.
At least their status is higher than that of merchants.
The girl's family was the same as his.
Doing business in Baishui Town.
There are several girls in the family, but only one younger brother.
The girl who learned physiognomy from Kong Ming ranked third.
Everyone in the mansion calls her the Third Miss.
"Mingxue, go play outside with your sister Rou. You can't listen to what we adults say."
So, Kong Mingxue was driven out by his mother.
He and Gao Rou walked into the yard one after the other.
"Brother Mingxue, do you hate me?" Gao Rou's fingertips were wrapped around the handkerchief. She bit her lower lip and asked cautiously with misty eyes.
"I don't hate it, why are you asking?" Kong Mingxue was most afraid of women crying.
He answered quickly.
"Then why don't you even smile at me? Do you look down on me? That's right, Brother Mingxue is a student, and I'm just the daughter of a merchant." Gao Rou lowered her head slightly.
The tears in my eyes just fell.
It's so heartbreaking to watch.
How could Kong Mingxue dare to keep a straight face anymore?
"No, I just don't like to laugh. Don't think too much. My family is also a merchant family. How could I look down on you? You think too much. Look, I'm smiling now. Don't cry. I hate to see women cry." Kong Mingxue then grinned.
Forced a smile.
But the smile is really ugly.
"Puchi~" Gao Rou laughed out loud after just one look.
She wiped away her tears with a handkerchief and said, "That's good. I thought you hated me, Brother Mingxue. Brother Mingxue, what do you like to do on weekdays? I like to eat delicious food the most. There is a woman in the alley opposite my house who sells delicious glutinous rice cakes.
Well, the red bean filling inside the glutinous rice cake is finely ground, and the glutinous rice outside is sticky and soft. It tastes sweet but not greasy. Next time I will bring Brother Mingxue to eat it, okay?"
His mother had asked about it, so Gao Rou knew his preferences very well.
In addition, Kong Mingxue was a bit fat, and anyone with a discerning eye could tell that he loved to eat.
Therefore, Gao Rou used delicious food to lure Kong Ming to learn.
"Okay, if there is a chance in the future, when you and I are free, I will definitely go and try it." Kong Mingxue agreed to Gao Rou.
People who love to eat rarely eat bad things. At least he has always believed so.
At this point, Kong Mingxue had already given up his previous thoughts.
Anyway, he didn't have any woman he liked. Although the woman in front of him was a little tearful, she was not annoying.
She looks pretty good, too.
You can marry her anyway, they have common topics anyway.
The main reason is that his mother took a fancy to him.
It would be nice to marry her and please my mother.
It just so happens that he is not often at home, and his future wife can still accompany his mother.
Hearing what Kong Mingxue said, Gao Rou's eyes flashed slightly, but returned to normal in just a second.
"Well, since Brother Mingxue has promised me, you can't go back on your word. I've kept it in mind. We must go there to eat in the future. Let's go. We've been chatting for a long time. We should go back, otherwise mother will be angry." The voice fell.
Gao Rou's mother also came to call her.
The two entered the house.
Everyone stared at them.
Kong Mingxue smiled, and Gao Rou lowered her head shyly.
Seeing this, Wan Xian nodded with satisfaction.
The marriage is settled!
It was quarter of an hour later when the mother and son left Gao's house.
After getting on the carriage, Wan Xian was just about to ask the driver to set off when Kong Mingxue quickly jumped off the carriage.
"What happened? Did his soul end up in Gao's mansion?" Wan Xian teased her son.
"Mom, what nonsense are you talking about? I lost my jade pendant. I think I left it in the yard. I'm going to get it back. This is a birthday gift from Fubao. It's more important than anything else." Kong Mingxue hurried back to Gao's house.
The servants saw him walking very fast, and Kong Mingxue had just come out.
I think it’s okay not to report it.
So just stand there and wait.
Kong Mingxue walked all the way to the garden and saw his jade pendant lying quietly under the stone table from ten meters away.
He hurried over to pick it up, blew away the dust, and turned it over to see if it was broken.
There was not a single crack on the jade pendant, and Kong Mingxue finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He tied the jade pendant around his waist again.
Without waiting for him to turn around and leave.
A sharp curse was heard from the main room.
"You damned girl, did you peek at my future husband just now? Bitch, you are just a maid, how dare you look at him! Mother, I won't let her be my dowry maid, can you scratch her face? If she marries with me, she will definitely hook up with Brother Mingxue behind my back. What a vixen, what a slut, she looks so slutty."
This voice is extremely familiar.
It was Gao Rou.
"Okay, okay, you have the worst temper among all the sisters. When you get married, you must never be like this again, understand? The boy from the Kong family is a student. I asked someone and found out that he is a playmate of our county magistrate's biological son!
If my family was not unworthy of the magistrate's son, my mother would never have conspired to hook up with that Wan. But a kid from the Kong family is also good. If he passes the imperial examination in the future, my family can also benefit from it. Okay, take this girl back and deal with her. Just don't kill her. She was bought with two taels of silver. She has to work for a few more years before she dies..."
Kong Mingxue couldn't bear to listen to the following words.
He paused.
If I go in to help that maid, I'm afraid she will be in an even worse situation, maybe even lose her life.
Even if you pay to buy him, I guess the Gao family won't let him go.
After thinking about it, he decided to just leave.
Back to the carriage.
The driver whipped the rickshaw.
The carriage drove away from the Gao family’s gate.
After leaving the city, Kong Mingxue asked his mother quietly, "Mother, how did you get to know this Gao family?"
"Why do you ask this? It was fate. When I went to burn incense at the temple in Lin County, I was entangled by two weird old women halfway up the mountain. They refused to let me go. I happened to bring a maid with me when I went up the mountain, and I couldn't get away. I was delayed for a long time. Rou'er's mother passed by and asked the servants to drive them away, which saved me."