jdhmnovel Chapter 350 The Marriage Is Set 1
Chapter 350 The Marriage Is Set 1
Mr. Yuan recommended Gu Wenhai for three reasons:
Although her father, Master Yuan, only had the title of Juren, one of her brothers and one of her cousins were officials in the court, so she could barely be considered to be from a family of officials.
1. He has a good personality, good character, great intelligence, and is diligent and studious. He has passed the imperial examination at a young age and has a promising future.
Second, although he came from a humble background, his family was well-off, and his sister and brother-in-law were both very capable. If he encountered any difficulties in the future, at least he would have help.
Third, his family does not allow his descendants to have affairs with other women or take concubines. This alone is enough to make many families who love their daughters, such as theirs, want to marry their daughters into his family.
Mr. Yuan's words reminded his father, Master Yuan. As one of Gu Wenhai's teachers, Master Yuan was also very optimistic about Gu Wenhai.
To be on the safe side, Mr. Yuan and his wife sent people to investigate the Gu family carefully and thoroughly.
They were quite satisfied with the result, so they asked their precious daughter to go to the academy to secretly take a look at Gu Wenhai.
Gu Wenhai knew nothing about this, but Bai Jingzhou did notice that someone was spying on him. But before he could find out what was going on, Master Yuan had already asked the dean of the academy to help hint at it.
The president of the academy chose Bai Jingzhou as the messenger. Firstly, he was a student of the academy whom the president admired and trusted. Secondly, he was Gu Wenhai's brother-in-law, so it was most appropriate for him to be the one to pass the message.
Bai Jingzhou didn't know Master Yuan's daughter, but he knew Master Yuan and Master Yuan. After receiving the dean's subtle hint, Bai Jingzhou immediately asked Gu Wenxuan to pass the message to the Gu family.
At the same time, he did not forget to secretly investigate other family members of Master Yuan.
After confirming that there was no problem with the family tradition and character of Master Yuan's family, and that Miss Yuan's appearance and personality were indeed very good as the headmaster had said, Bai Jingzhou found an opportunity to let Gu Wenhai secretly take a look at Miss Yuan.
Now that Gu Wenhai has chosen it, the rest will be easy.
The two families discussed and proceeded with the subsequent procedures step by step. During this period, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou, Gu Wenhai's sister and brother-in-law, also helped a lot.
After the marriage was settled, the girl asked to keep her daughter for another year and asked the Gu family if they could arrange the wedding for the two children the year after. Gu Yongming and Jia Guizhi thought about their ages and agreed readily.
After Gu Wenhai, Jia Yuelan and Bai Jingshan also got engaged.
Jia Yuelan originally wanted to stay at home and marry a son-in-law to take care of her grandparents in their old age, but how could Jia's father and mother be willing to delay her?
In order to make her change her mind, Father and Mother Jia adopted the suggestion made earlier by Gu Yongming and Jia Guizhi that Father and Mother Jia should go to Baijia Village to live with them.
After the Gu family's life became better, the old couple asked Gu Yongming and Jia Guizhi to bring Jia's father, Jia's mother, and Jia Yuelan to Baijia Village to live with their family.
At that time, Father and Mother Jia refused. Firstly, they were reluctant to leave Jia Village, and secondly, they didn't want others to stab their precious daughter in the back.
Now, for Jia Yuelan, they decided to move to Baijia Village, but they did not plan to move to the yard that the Gu family had prepared for them a long time ago. Instead, they planned to buy another house in Baijia Village and live separately as a couple.
Jia Guizhi and Gu Yongming were unable to persuade the old couple, so they could only follow their wishes and prepare a separate residence for them.
The old couple were both very particular people. When they proposed to buy the house, the money was handed over to Jia Guizhi at the same time.
Of course Jia Guizhi would not accept it, and Gu Yongming also thought that they should not accept the money. The couple tried to persuade her in every possible way, and Jia Guizhi even dropped two drops of gold beans in anger. Only then did Jia's father and mother give up and no longer insist on forcing the money into their hands.
Jia Guizhi and Gu Yongming did not buy them another house. The Gu family still had some wasteland and two empty houses that Gu Wenxuan had bought earlier. They chose the one closest to their home, and Gu Yongming asked someone to help Jia's father and mother build a magnificent blue brick and tile house.
The area of the house is similar to that of other farmhouses in Baijia Village. Within the high walls made of blue bricks, in addition to three main rooms, east and west wing rooms, a warehouse, a kitchen, a firewood room, etc., there is also a well, several fruit trees, two vegetable plots in the front and back, and a chicken coop, pigpen, and animal shed against the back wall.
Whether the old couple grows vegetables or raises poultry and livestock is one thing, but Gu Yongming and Jia Guizhi have to reserve space and prepare the venue for them in advance.
After the house was built, Jia's father and mother, with the help of Gu's family and the villagers of Jia Village, moved most of their belongings to the new house in Bai Village.
Jia Guizhi bought them brand new furniture, pots, pans, and other daily necessities, so they left the old ones in the old house in Jiajia Village.
The house was left by Jia's mother and father, and the old people were reluctant to sell it to the villagers.
Besides, Jia Guizhi and Gu Yongming might go there to hunt in the future. If they keep the house, they will have a place to stay when they go there.
After the pot-warming banquet, the family of three moved into their new house. Jia's father and mother, who had originally disapproved of Jia Yuelan's decision to marry into their family, had a deep talk with Jia Yuelan in a gentle voice, and suggested for the Nth time that she learn from her aunt Jia Guizhi.
Grandmother Jia held her granddaughter's hand and said to her lovingly, "Filial piety and marriage are not contradictory. Look at your aunt. She neither delayed honoring me and your grandfather, nor wronged herself in marriage by just choosing a man to marry into her family."
Father Jia also said, "Yes, Yuelan, don't be so obsessed with finding a son-in-law. Those who are willing to marry into the family may not be the ones you like."
Jia Yuelan looked left and right, "Grandpa, aren't you also a son-in-law?"
Father Jia laughed, "Do you think all the men in the world who are willing to marry into a woman's family have a conscience like your grandfather? You can't look at the minority, you have to look at the majority."
He is an orphan who was picked up and raised by his father-in-law, but this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that he has a conscience. Even though his father-in-law and mother-in-law are no longer around, he has never done anything to let his wife down.
There are many orphans in the world nowadays. He can also pick one up and bring him home to raise, and let Jia Yuelan be his son-in-law in the future. But can he be sure that the orphan he picks up is not a Zhongshan wolf? He can't.
He and Lady Jia are both old. When they die one day, leaving behind Jia Yuelan, how sad would they feel in the underworld if Jia Yuelan doesn't live a good life?
Father Jia patted his granddaughter's hand and said, "There are many ups and downs in life. If there is someone who is neither reliable nor pleasing to the eye by your side, what is the meaning of living like this?"
Grandmother Jia also said: "Yes, it's rare that you also like Jingshan's child. You must firmly grasp this marriage."