Chapter 292

Xia Tingzhen didn't leave her daughter too much room for speculation. She said straight to the point: "I've found a marriage for my father."

... marriage?

Xia Xi was stunned for a moment.

Before she died, she asked subconsciously, "which family does my father like?"

"Cao Lang, the No. 1 scholar in the new science."

Xia Xi almost thought she had heard wrong.

New top student?

"The father wants to marry his daughter to the No. 1 scholar in the new science?"

Xia Tingzhen looked at her.

The girl's face was full of shock, and obviously there was no half joy under the shock.

But Xia Tingzhen didn't care about her daughter's mood, and she didn't say the same thing again.

Xia Xi reluctantly regained her consciousness and said in a hurry, "but my daughter doesn't want to marry him! My daughter didn't recognize him at all before. How can I say to marry?"

This sentence is actually an excuse to throw it out in a hurry.

In fact, she also went to see the No. 1 scholar on the day when he crossed the horse to swim the street. The so-called Cao Lang, who was young and won the No. 1 examination in one fell swoop, looked very ordinary. He was just over 20, but he had a very old look, and his look was as calm as the Tanhua Lang behind him!

At that time, even the young ladies of other families who followed her didn't look at it, let alone her?

Yes, the future of a man is the most important, but his birth is destined to pay more efforts than the children of Xun GUI in the capital. According to her birth conditions, she can directly marry a better family. Why bother to stay with him?!

Her father is the head of the dynasty!

"If you don't want to marry him, who do you want to marry?" Xia Tingzhen looked coldly at her daughter.

"Daughter... My daughter doesn't want to marry anyone... However, among the people my mother found for her daughter before, it's better to marry anyone... Than to marry this Cao Lang!" Xia Xi looked at her mother sitting there and asked for help.

But Xue just sat there, looking indifferent.

Xia Tingzhen said coldly, "when will you be picky about marriage? If you want to marry someone or not, it's a pity that your daughter's family has the face to say it!"

This daughter is always capricious. He has told his wife many times that he must be better disciplined - is this the result of his wife's discipline?

"...." Xia Xi was scolded, her face flushed and her eyes turned red immediately.

When she said anything about her own marriage, she ignored her daughter's face?

What about Xu Mingyi—— The Duke of the town almost robbed the king Shisun of Dingnan and congratulated Xu Mingyi! Isn't that more shameless? She even secretly heard that Xu Mingyi's marriage has always been decided by herself in the town government. It is said that she will decide whether to marry or not!

At that time, she still laughed at the town government's lack of decency, and it was all a laughing stock.

But now she was suddenly arranged such an unpleasant marriage by her father. Her father didn't even allow her to express what she thought - she just felt that she couldn't laugh anymore.

At this moment, grievances even overshadowed the fear of his father's dignity.

"The daughter dared to ask her father why she had to marry her daughter to this man?"

The parents of such a poor person must be vulgar. Didn't her father consider what demons and ghosts she would have to face if she married?

"You have your own considerations when you do things for your father. Don't you need to explain it to you?" Xia Tingzhen said in a deep tone, and there was little patience left.

Xia Xi grasped the finger in her sleeve.

Own considerations?

"Father is trying to win over CaO Lang?" she tried to make her tone sound good enough to be wronged, not to refute. "But father is the chief assistant now. If you want to attract him, just give some hints. Can he refuse such good things? Why does father have to marry his daughter to him?"

Xia Tingzhen heard a sneer.

An ignorant little girl wants to talk about the court with him?

Now Jixiu is more and more unwilling to settle down, and even secretly wants to split and provoke his officials. In this case, he naturally wants to attract the new top student. No, far from it, he wants to cultivate and promote this person - a helpless young man from a poor family, who is often the most popular.

But he doesn't have the leisure to promote a real outsider - he needs a relatively strong relationship to ensure that he doesn't get out of his control too much.

The marriage of the youngest daughter really has no better value at present, and it is not a waste here.

"My father came here today, not to discuss with you, but to tell you about it -" Xia Tingzhen didn't intend to waste any more words, stood up and looked at Xue: "what should be prepared should be prepared in time. If you can't even do this, it should be arranged by others."

Then he brushed his sleeve and left here.

Looking at the back of her husband's departure, Xue's eyes were filled with sarcastic laughter without saying a word from beginning to end.

"Mother, I don't want to marry... Would you please help me persuade my father?" Xia Xi came up and grabbed her mother's arm, full of eager pleadings.

"Persuade?" Xue Shi seemed to hear a joke: "can I persuade him?"

"But my daughter really doesn't want to marry Cao Lang..." Xia Xi cried and rushed into her mother's arms, like trying to hold the last glimmer of hope.

Xue gently patted his daughter on the back, his eyes slightly lax and said, "who gave you your surname Xia? Think about how your second brother died... You may be able to really see your situation..."

Hearing this, Xia Xi immediately cried louder. She just felt that the mother didn't have to hold her. She got up and ran away crying.

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At the same moment, the town government just sent Wen's mother and daughter away.

Xu Mingyi returned to Xiyuan, went to his study and told ah Kui, "come and grind ink for me."

Ah Kui should come down immediately - is the girl going to write to Wu Shisun again? But did you get any inspiration when the letter was written so suddenly?

But she soon found that the girl didn't want to write a letter, but to paint.

To be exact, the girl drew a portrait of a man.

The man in the painting is about thirty or forty years old. He looks ordinary, has a short beard, and his cheeks are slightly sunken

Who is this?

Ah Kui thought for a while, but he couldn't recognize it.

Is it because the girl's painting skills are not exquisite and vivid—— This must not be.

So it must be someone she's never met.

"Take this picture to Uncle Zhu and ask him to take people inside and outside the capital to pay attention to people with similar looks - if so, catch them first." after the ink dried, Xu Mingyi quickly rolled up the paper and handed it to ah Kui.

A Kui answered "yes" and couldn't help asking, "girl, who is this?"

Xu Mingyi got up after the book case and said casually, "maybe it's the flower picker."

Ah Kui was stunned and subconsciously looked at the picture rolled up in his hand.

The flower picker must be caught. She knows the truth, but——

"How did the girl know that the flower picker looked like this?"