During the Ming Dynasty, there was a woman named Lin Qiao'er in Tongxiang County, Jiaxing Province, who was born in a wealthy family, and her friends of the same age liked to play with her. When she was eight years old, the family fell into despair, and those who used to be around her all left her, and only Grandma Li, who cooked at home, did not abandon her, often playing with her and making her happy.
The Lin family used to be a salt merchant, in Tongxiang County is a high-gate household, when Li Grandma was desperate and begging on the street, it just so happened that Lin Qiao'er passed by and handed her a steamed bun.
In order to repay the favor, Aunt Li came to the Lin family to be a cook, and Mr. Lin asked her to try to cook a dish, but she did not expect that the taste was unexpected, and the Lin family loved to eat, so he let her stay.
When Lin Qiao'er was a child, her parents disciplined her very strictly, although she was a girl, she had to learn everything. Every time she did not do well and was hit by her father, she would run to Grandma Li and cry for a while.
Grandma Li was a mute, could not speak to comfort her, so she made some exquisite snacks and handed them to her, making her very happy every time, and all the sorrows were forgotten.
If it were not for the creation of people, Lin Qiao'er's childhood would have been carefree. However, when she was eight years old, a group of officials ran to her home and suddenly arrested Mr. Lin, saying that he was selling illegal salt to cure a felony.
Mr. Lin was imprisoned in prison for more than half a year, and finally found out that he was framed. However, after this disaster, all the salt shop channels of the Lin family were robbed by their peers, and the business was in a slump.
There is an old saying that goes, "The tree falls and scatters."
After the fall of the Lin family, friends who were close to each other in the past avoided it, and even some of the people in the family secretly ran away.
Old Master Lin suffered a lot of guilt in the big prison, and after being released, he died within three months.
At this time, Lin Qiao'er's uncle Lin Hai came to the door, he said that he had come to inherit the family property left by his brother, so he tried everything to drive the widow and niece out of the ancestral house.
Although outsiders look down on Lin Hai's practice of taking advantage of people's danger, there is no way to do anything, after all, the law is written there, and a woman who marries has no right to inherit the family property.
Therefore, Lin Qiao'er only has two choices, one is to give up the competition for family property, and share some valuables as a dowry when she gets married. The other is to recruit a son-in-law who comes to the door, so that it is logical to inherit the ancestral house.
"Men should marry, and women should marry." This sentence is easy to say, but how difficult it is to find a person of choice to accompany you for life!
Lin Qiao'er is kind-hearted, knowledgeable, and white-skinned, beautiful, and beautiful, and is indeed a rare good girl. But those who come to the door to mention their relatives are some stupid children, they only value the beauty of Lin Qiao'er, where is the sincere appreciation?
Lin Hai saw that his niece chose left and right, and none of them liked it, so he sneered at the side: "Do you still think that you are the former Miss Lin Family Qianjin?" This doesn't work, that doesn't work, I think these people are pretty good. The second son of the Wang family and the nephew of Liu Yuan, you can choose one at random, choose a date and marry it. ”
"Second uncle, marriage is a big deal, how can it be a joke?" Rong Qiao'er thought about it again, when the time comes, the house left by the old man will belong to you, and Qiao Er will not recruit a son-in-law. Lin Qiao'er's mother, Sun Shi, said from the side.
If it were not for Sun's promise to Lin Hai, saying that his daughter would not recruit a son-in-law to compete for the family property, the life of the mother and daughter might have been even more difficult in these years.
After a few days, Lin Hai found that Lin Qiao'er had close contact with a Xiucai named Zhu Yulin outside, so he locked his niece at home in a fit of anger and did not let her go out.
"Bang bang bang..." Lin Qiao'er slammed the door, crying and shouting: "Second uncle, you let me out, he and I are truly in love."
Lin Hai angrily rebuked, "A poor and sour talent, what good life can you live by marrying him, and you are not allowed to see him again in the future."
The reason why Lin Hai didn't let Lin Qiao'er and Zhu Xiucai be together was because he knew that Zhu Xiucai couldn't come up with many dowry gifts, and he was still counting on marrying Lin Qiao'er to make a lot of money!
Before leaving, he said to the other people in the house: "No one should bring her food to eat, starve her for a few days, let her know that she is wrong, we are elders, and this is also for her good."
After Lin Hai left, Sun Shi went outside the door and persuaded: "Child, your second uncle is right in this matter, marry that Xiucai, and you will have a hard life in the future."
Lin Qiao'er said, "Mother, I am not afraid of hard days, I will be with him."
Sun Shi persuaded his daughter not to move, shook his head and walked away. At this time, Li's mother-in-law went to the window and took out two steamed buns from her arms and stuffed them into the house.
"Grandma Li, is that you?" Lin Qiao'er shouted in surprise, feeling that he had grasped a life-saving straw.
Aunt Li could not speak, she could only knock on the door to respond, she knew the grievances in the child's heart.
"Grandma Li, is it okay for you to let me go, I want to leave this house, I want to be with Zhu Lang." Lin Qiao'er said loudly, but Aunt Li did not help her open the door.
It turned out that Grandma Li had inquired, that Zhu Xiu was a nerd, who only knew how to read all day long, and could not even do the work at home, and the source of livelihood depended on more than ten acres of land left by her parents, and then rented to the farmers to collect some rent to live.
After all, Lin Qiao'er is a miss of Qianjin, although she can bear hardships and stand hard work, but she has never farmed, if she really marries Zhu Xiucai, it will be a problem to eat enough to eat in the future.
In the past, Lin Qiao'er often received help from each other, and this Zhu Xiucai was still sensible and knew how to write love poems to show his gratitude, but in these years, the Lin family had declined, and Zhu Xiucai always used the name of merit as a reason to ignore Lin Qiao'er's love.
Lin Qiao'er is still a girl who is not deeply involved in the world, where she understands the truth that people know the face and does not know the heart, and fell into love and completely lost her way.
On this day, Grandma Li secretly sent steamed buns to Lin Qiao'er, but was thrown out by the other party. She didn't know what was happening, watched the bun fall to the ground, and wanted to go over and pick it up, but found that there were already several hard buns on the ground.
Grandma Li immediately panicked when she saw this scene, it seems that Lin Qiao'er is on hunger strike! So she quickly took out the key and opened the door, and as soon as the door was opened, Lin Qiao'er sneaked out without her noticing.
Lin Hai learned that Lin Qiao'er had been let go by Aunt Li, and he was so angry that he drove Grandma Li out of the Lin Mansion. In addition, he released harsh words: "Lin Qiao'er is so rebellious and does such a thing that insults the Lin family's door style, from now on, she will not be allowed to step into the Lin family for half a step."
Clear-eyed people know that Lin Hai is taking advantage of the opportunity of his niece and man to elope with a man to completely drive Lin Qiao'er out of the Lin Mansion. In this way, he can truly take over the Lin family's ancestral home, and others will not be able to say anything more.
After Aunt Li was expelled from the Lin family, she was ready to use the little money she had saved to find a place to build a house, and then find a livelihood where she could eat.
On this day, Grandma Li was walking on the road and saw that a woman walking in front of her was Lin Qiao'er. I saw that the other party's eyes were red and swollen from crying, and he hadn't seen him for a few days, and his body had lost a lot of weight.
After Lin Qiao'er saw Grandma Li, she immediately threw herself into the arms of the other party and cried loudly: "Grandma, I was deceived by him..."
It turned out that Lin Qiao'er was desperate to find Zhu Xiucai, and she opened her heart and said: "Zhu Lang, as long as I am with you, I will not go back to the Lin family, are you willing to marry me?"
Zhu Xiucai, with a cold face, pulled the other person's hand away and said, "Miss Lin, you don't want this, men and women can't be kissed, let people see it, I can't say it clearly."
"Zhu Lang, what are you talking about?" I don't even want my own reputation, just to elope with you, don't you want me? Lin Qiao'er said, and tears rolled down from her eyes.
Zhu Xiucai said coldly, "It's really insulting to Sven, I'm a reader, how can I be friends with someone like you who doesn't know etiquette, we still don't want to see each other again in the future."
After Lin Qiao'er left from Zhu Xiucai, she learned that the other party had already raised a person in high school, and Zhang Xianling had given her daughter Xu to the other party.
Knowing this truth, Lin Qiao'er broke down in her heart, she thought that her love was as solid as a rock, but she did not expect to be so vulnerable.
Grandma Li held the other person in her arms, patted the other person's back, and silently comforted in her heart: "Child, you are a good girl, and in the future you will definitely meet a man who is sincere to you, and Zhu Xiucai will not marry you, that is his loss, and he will regret it in the future."
Lin Qiao'er cried for a while, and her mood really calmed down a lot, she finally knew why Grandma Li refused to let herself out before, it turned out that the other party was for herself, and she misunderstood Grandma Li's kindness.
The two returned to the Lin family, but were ruthlessly driven out by Lin Hai. Sun Shi hid aside and did not dare to squeak, she was worried that if she spoke again, she would be driven out of the Lin family.
Grandma Li dragged Lin Qiao'er to the grass house she built, although this place was no higher than the Lin family's high-rise compound, but at this time, in Lin Qiao'er's heart, it seemed very warm.
In order to feed the two people, Aunt Li found a job in the town to pour night incense, and every time she was paid, she had to save a little, and then left the money to buy food, let Lin Qiao'er fill her stomach, and half a full meal was enough.
Once Lin Qiao'er was curious and asked Li Apo whether the money saved was used for the elderly, and as a result, Li Apo shook her head and said that the money she saved was for Lin Qiao'er to make a dowry in the future.
After knowing the true thoughts in Grandma Li's heart, Lin Qiao'er was moved to tears, and it turned out that the other party always cared for her as her own child, but she always misunderstood the other party's kindness.
On this day, Grandma Li went out to work, and Sun Shi suddenly found here. She opened her mouth and said to her daughter, "Child, do you remember your Uncle Cao?"
Lin Qiao'er nodded, Cao Bo was his father's former business partner, and when he was young, the other party still hugged her, so he still had some impressions.
It's just that Sun Shi suddenly mentioned this person what does it mean?
Next, Sun Shi said that Cao Bo had a son named Cao Wenyi and wanted to marry Lin Qiao'er as a concubine. As long as Lin Qiao'er marries, the other party will help the Lin family's salt shop to be re-established, and then Lin Qiao'er can also be a thousand gold misses back to the Lin family.
Lin Qiao'er saw her mother come over and persuade her to make a concubine for the Cao family, and she immediately refused. She had heard that Cao Wenyi was a young master who did not learn any skills, and if she married the past, wouldn't she ruin her lifelong happiness?
Sun Shi said, "All you think about is your own happiness, but have you ever thought about your mother, even if you don't care about my situation, can you bear to watch Grandma Li suffer those hardships?"
When Lin Qiao'er saw sun mention Grandma Li, she shouted angrily: "You don't deserve to say Grandma Li, you go, I won't promise you, the Lin family I won't go back."
After Sun Shi left, Lin Qiao'er cried a lot in the room. She thought about many things in the past, her parents spoiled her as a pearl in the palm of their hands, and now that her father was gone, her uncle had thrown her out of the house, and her mother wanted to marry her to a clumsy boy.
After a while, there was a hint of movement outside, and Lin Qiao'er knew that It was Grandma Li who had returned, and she quickly dried her tears. She walked to the door and watched Grandma Li hunched over and pushing the wooden cart, and her heart couldn't help but feel a pang of pain.
Like mother Sun Shi said, is she too selfish? She only thought about herself eating and dressing warmly, finding someone she loved to marry, but she didn't think about other people's feelings.
At this moment, Lin Qiao'er had already made up her mind in her heart, just to repay Li Apo's kindness to her, she also wanted to marry that Cao Wenyi.
Grandma Li saw that Lin Qiao'er's eyes were red, guessed that the other party had just cried, so she walked over and pulled the other party, although she could not speak, but her every move made Lin Qiao'er feel very warm.
Lin Qiao'er broke into a smile under the comfort of Grandma Li, and she looked at the other party and said, "Grandma, I'm going to get married."
Grandma Li looked at each other anxiously, and kept comparing, meaning as if to say: "Child, don't worry about me, find a man who likes you and hurts you is the most important, and your marital happiness must be decided by yourself."
Lin Qiao'er shook her head and cried, "I don't want to make my own choice..."
When Grandma Li learned that the person Lin Qiao'er was going to marry was Cao Wenyi, she nodded her head with joy and seemed to be very satisfied with the stupid boy.
"Grandma, since you think it's okay too, I've really decided to marry him." Lin Qiao'er said.
Lin Qiao'er agreed to marry into the Cao family, and Lin Hai finally agreed to let her go home. As soon as the dowry of the Cao family arrived, the two parents sat together to discuss the matter of becoming a parent, and finally picked a good birthday and auspicious day seven days later.
On the new day of marriage, Lin Qiao'er sat in the room and asked the lady next to her, "Did you see Grandma Li?" Is she coming? ”
She shook her head and said she hadn't seen Grandma Li. At this time, Sun Shi walked in, and Lin Qiao'er hurriedly asked, "Mother-in-law, why hasn't Grandma come yet?"
Sun Shi smiled and said, "Oh, today is your big wedding day, let her pour night incense to do what?"
Lin Qiao'er heard this and guessed that they did not send the invitation to Grandma Li. She shouted angrily, "If it weren't for Grandma Li pouring the night incense, I wouldn't have lived to get married."
After Lin Qiao'er finished speaking, he threw away the hairpin on his head, lifted his dress and ran to the grass hut where Grandma Li lived.
She saw Grandma Li drawing water from a distance, so she shouted loudly, "Grandma, today is the day I get married, if you don't send me, I won't get married."
Grandma Li heard the voice and looked back at each other, her eyes instantly wet. Then he quickly ran home and deliberately changed the clothes he was most reluctant to wear.
After Lin Qiao'er received Grandma Li, she agreed to continue to put on makeup, and then waited for the groom to come and welcome her to the flower car.
However, when it came to the agreed hour, the procession to receive relatives did not come for a long time, and everyone in the Lin family stood at the door and looked left and right. Everyone was talking about it: "This Cao family will not be repentant."
Lin Qiao'er heard the house maid gossiping behind her back, and she rushed to the door of Lin's house and sat by the palanquin and waited.
Soon, it was dark, the people invited to visit were dispersed, even Lin Hai and Sun Shi had lost patience, and Lin Qiao'er was still sitting on the edge of the palanquin and waiting bitterly.
At this time, only Grandma Li quietly walked over and stood aside to accompany each other.
Lin Qiao'er threw herself into the other person's arms and cried: "Grandma, I am not married, I will never marry again..."
Aunt Li patted the other party's back to comfort, but looked up but saw that there was a light on the east side, followed by the noisy beating of gongs and drums, she knew that this was the team that received the kiss, so she excitedly patted Lin Qiao'er, signaling the other party to look quickly.
The Lin family heard the sound and rushed out, only to see the groom official riding a high-headed horse in front, stopping in front of the palanquin, and stepping off the horse.
Since the moment the groom appeared, Lin Qiao'er was worried that the other party had disappeared again, so his eyes had been fixed on the other party. Seeing the groom official get off the horse, her brow frowned, and she always felt that there was something wrong with the groom official in front of her.
Under everyone's gaze, the groom official approached the bride step by step, and seeing that the groom official was about to meet the bride, Grandma Li suddenly rushed out to stop in front of the other party.
"Child, get in the palanquin and don't come out!" Grandma Li said a word to Lin Qiao'er, and then looked at the groom and angrily rebuked: "You robber, in broad daylight, dare to rob people!"
"This grandmother, what's wrong with you? Today is my big day, because of the delay on the road, so I came a little late. The groom's officer explained.
Everyone looked at Grandma Li with a surprised face, and they didn't expect that a dumb person actually spoke in ordinary days, and the words spoken made people feel inexplicable.
Seeing this, Lin Hai ran over and grabbed Grandma Li and scolded, "Grandma Li, what are you doing, today is a big day for Qiao Er."
Aunt Li hurriedly explained, "He is not Cao Gongzi, he is a bandit on the mountain."
When everyone heard Grandma Li's words, they all thought that she was crazy, the Cao family was rich, and the Cao Gongzi in front of her had a table of talents, how could she become a bandit with good manners?
"If you don't believe him, you can look at his legs, and if there is a plaster cast tied to them, it proves that what I said is true." Grandma Li said to the crowd.
At this time, everyone's eyes were on the opposite groom's official, as long as the other party lifted the pant legs, they could prove that what Grandma Li said was true or false.
However, the groom's official's face changed, if he really lifted his pants, then his identity would be exposed here, and then the people in the government would be in trouble.
"Hmm, since your Lin family is rebellious and refuses to marry Miss Lin over, why do you have to make these excuses?" This family affair is over, let's go! ”
The groom official said that he was going to leave with the people, but before he could take a few steps, he saw Cao Yuanwai leading the officials to arrest the greeting procession disguised as these robbers.
Just when everyone thought that this farce was coming to an end, Cheng Yutou of the county court walked up to Lin Hai with two people and said in a cold voice, "Old Master Lin, follow me to the county court."
Hearing these words, Lin Hai's face turned pale, he knew that his collusion with the bandits had been exposed, and he was afraid that there would be a prison sentence next.
Everyone looked at Grandma Li with a curious face, how did the other party recognize that the groom official just now was not Cao Gongzi, but a bandit in the mountains?
When Grandma Li finished explaining to everyone, everyone suddenly realized.
It turned out that Grandma Li used to be the wife of a large family in a neighboring county, and on the way to a family trip, they encountered bandits in the mountains, and in the end, except for her lucky survival, the whole family was killed by the robbers.
Grandma Li witnessed her relatives dying in front of her, so she was frightened and lost her speech. She couldn't speak, it was very difficult to beg on the street, but fortunately she met The kind-hearted Lin Jo'er.
When Aunt Li saw Lin Qiao'er, she remembered her daughter, so she took the initiative to go to the Lin family to be a kitchen lady, and later lived there for a long time.
Aunt Li and Lin Qiao'er got along, not a biological mother and daughter but better than a biological mother and daughter, she has long loved each other as her own daughter.
Although the appearance of the group of robbers had long been blurred in Grandma Li's impression more than ten years after this incident, she clearly remembered that the leader of the robbers who killed her entire family was a cripple.
Before the Cao family's kissing team did not come for a long time, Grandma had doubts in her heart. In the evening, the receiving team suddenly came again, and Aunt Li also saw that when the groom official dismounted, his legs and feet looked very stiff, just like the bandit who killed her whole family.
Lin Qiao'er was like Grandma Li's daughter, and Of course Grandma Li would not watch Lin Qiao'er fall into the fire pit of the bandits.
After the official government found out the truth, it turned out that all this was a trap set by Lin Hai behind his back.
At first, Lin Hai was jealous that his brother had inherited the family business, so he secretly framed his brother for selling illegal salt, and he waited for his brother to fall, and then he could take over all of his brother's family property.
However, when he took over the Lin family, he found that the Lin family's property had been sold at a loss, and finally only an ancestral house was left. Even so, Lin Qiao'er still became a thorn in his eye, wanting to get rid of it quickly.
After he drove Lin Qiao'er out of the house, the Cao family sent someone to propose to him, and at this time, another vicious plan grew in his heart.
On the one hand, he promised the Cao family to propose relatives, and after receiving the Dowry of the Cao family, he sold his niece to those robbers, so that he could accept double money, and did not have to worry about Lin Qiao'er marrying the Cao family and then retaliating against himself.
These robbers did not dare to openly rob the relatives, so they kidnapped Cao Wenyi halfway through, and then dressed up as a team to receive the relatives, planning to take advantage of the darkness to directly take the bride.
It's just that all their calculations were recognized by Grandma Li, who bravely stood up at the critical moment and spared Lin Qiao'er.
Lin Hai and the robbers were all punished after being caught by the government, and under their confessions, Cao Wenyi was also rescued.
The Lin family still decided to abide by the marriage contract, so that Lin Qiao'er and Cao Wenyi became relatives. After becoming a parent, Lin Qiao'er found that Cao Wenyi was not as unlearned and unskilled as those outside said, but a clumsy disciple.
On the contrary, because the Cao family and the Lin family are family friends, they have met since they were very young, and Cao Wenyi has also liked Lin Qiao'er since he was a child.
It was only after the fall of the Lin family that Cao Yuanwai did not agree to his son marrying Lin Qiao'er again, so he arranged a family affair for Cao Wenyi.
Until the death of Cao Wenyi's wife later, he saw Lin Qiao'er on the street, who was originally a green plum bamboo horse, and after learning of the other party's situation, he once again proposed to his father to propose to the Lin family. In this way, it will help Lin Qiao'er return to the Lin family.
The reason why Cao Wenyi was misrepresented by the outside world that he was a stupid boy was because these surfaces were deliberately pretended by him, and only by doing so would those big ladies who were right at the door dispel the idea of marrying him, so that he would have the opportunity to marry Lin Qiao'er.
After marriage, Lin Qiao'er lived a very happy life, and the next year she gave birth to a big fat boy to the Cao family. With the help of the Cao family, the Lin family also slowly restored its former glory.
A few years later, Lin Qiao'er was playing with her children at home when there was suddenly some movement on the street outside.
She asked Grandma Li next to her, "Grandma, what's going on outside?"
"Nothing, a corrupt official is showing the crowd in the streets!" Aunt Li did not tell the other party that this corrupt official was Zhu Xiucai, who abandoned Lin Qiao'er.
It turned out that after Zhu Xiucai climbed the high branch, his desire was even more inflated, and he not only formed a party for personal gain, but also embezzled the silver of the imperial court for disaster relief, and was eventually dismissed by the emperor and investigated.
Lin Qiao'er looked at his son, who had just learned to walk, and said in a serious and long-term education: "Son, when you grow up, you can't be like him, you must be innocent and innocent, and you must have no shame."
The child saw his mother calling him, and accidentally fell down when he ran over, but he quickly got up again, looked at Lin Qiao'er and innocently responded: "Mother, I know!"