The Chen family has a daughter to marry

Chapter 12:

Camel Town is named "Camel", and the strange creature known as "Sail of the Desert" with two lumps on its back is a famous product here.

The price of camels here was not expensive at first, but the "miasma" of the "Evil King Sect" that rose at an unknown time spread to Camel Town on the edge of the desert. The cult robbed thousands of camels and caused a shortage of camels in the town. Naturally, it doubled and became a luxury business worth ten gold.

How could ordinary people in Luotuo Town afford to raise camels? Even if they did, they would have already been forced to use their hands as sacrifices to the "Evil King Cult".

After being looted by the evil king sect, Luotuo Town suddenly fell into the hardships of people's livelihood. Now there are only three big families in the town who are still doing the camel business, namely the Wang family in the town, the Lu family in the south of the town and the Lin family in the north of the town. The reserves are the most abundant, and the family background is also the most solid.

Some people say that the three major families of Xie Wangjiao pay the most for camels, but for the three families with strong family backgrounds, it is more like helping them become rich people in Camel Town. Now travelers and merchants going to the north rent or buy camels There is no need to deal with these three families, the profit of the camel has turned over and over again, and all the brilliant gold has flowed into the pockets of Wang, Lu and Lin.

Apart from the upheaval after the catastrophe in Luotuo Town, there is another major event in the town that is also talked about, that is, among the three major families, the Lin family has a girl who has just grown up, and after a few years, she is waiting to choose a Ruyi. Mr. Lang is the son-in-law of the Lin family.

Hearing this news, many men were overjoyed. It was rumored that there were three or four cases where they divorced their wives. It was not known whether it was because of the beauty of the Lin family lady or the solid family background of the Lin family. Lin Maogong's father, Lin Maogong, strictly controlled the gates and set many tests for the eager candidates.

This was the last day of selection. There was a long line at the gate of Lin's family chattering with each other. A maid with a mediocre appearance but sharp eyes walked slowly past these men, just waiting for her to come. Keeping silent and pretending to be deep, he deliberately recited poems with his companions to be arty, or winked and chatted enthusiastically with the maid.

However, that servant girl had a cold face, like a heartless sculpture, unable to hear anyone's voice, she just looked at the hundreds of men one by one with her eyes, and everyone knew that this servant girl was Miss Lin's personal servant girl. This is the first round of face-to-face selection. If she looks down upon her because of her ugly appearance, she will lose the chance to run for the next election.

Therefore, when the girl's disdainful gaze passes by a person but does not pull that person out of the queue, there will be more long and short sighs in the crowd, or cursing and pointing at the girl and swearing aloud, or sighing and lamenting that even though I have a talent, I can't use it.

When the girl's eyes passed a certain petite young master, she frowned suddenly and stopped, and saw that young man's handsome face like a woman's, with red lips and white teeth grinning softly, winking his eyebrows pretending to be frivolous, and looking at the cold face The girl said coquettishly: "My sister chooses me. If I choose me, I will not treat my sister badly."

The brows of the cold-faced girl suddenly stretched, and she, who has always been reticent, actually spoke: "How can I thank you?"

I can't tell that the girl's appearance is not very outstanding, but her voice is as sweet as an oriole, and there seems to be a natural prestige in her brows, which makes people dare not underestimate her.

The young master's eyes lit up, pretending to be shy and shy, and said cautiously: "I have no money in my lower body, and only this pair of skins is worth some silver taels. It seems that I can only accept it with my body."

The cold-faced girl couldn't laugh or cry, she slapped the young master on the forehead unceremoniously, and said angrily: "You are a candidate to marry my young lady, how can you be so indifferent to your words?"

After saying that, he wanted to walk past the young master, took half a step and finally turned around to pull the young master out of the queue.

All the men behind the little boy cast envious glances, while the men in front of him looked jealous, and they all scolded privately, "The world is getting worse, and women like this kind of overly sinister little boy with a creamy face, but they don't know how men should be." Be manly."

The little boy glanced at the envious and jealous face, and he heard the people whispering and pointing at him, but instead of showing humility, he looked up to the sky and laughed, with his hands behind his back and strode forward Humming a vulgar tune that would only be sung by the gangsters in Luotuo Town, he swaggered into the door of the Lin family's house, attracting constant scolding from the crowd behind him.

The young master who stepped into the Lin Mansion was naturally Chen Xiaobaa. Under the leadership of the servant girls in the mansion, Chen Xiaobaa came to the courtyard prepared for her, or for the prospective son-in-law. Two of the rooms already have owners, and the remaining one is her residence.

I heard from the maid who led the way that if there are ten such residences, a total of at least [-] young masters will be selected to participate in the next trial. If the audition before is just a piece of cake, the personal maid of the young lady of the Lin family will take The fair-looking young man pulled out of the queue, only looking at his appearance, if he couldn't even get past the gift of meeting, then he wouldn't be able to get in the eyes of Miss Lin's family.

The terrain of Luotuo Town is almost deserted, and the women here are no more graceful than those in the southern capital of Sioux City. This is the case with the 14-year-old girl who leads the way. She looks Chen Xiaobaa up and down with a pair of wonderful eyes, and she grins lightly and speaks freely. Said: "Young master is really dangerous. If sister Li Yu didn't turn around and pull you out of the queue just now, you will lose the election."

Chen Xiaobaa puffed up her chest and said with a smile, "She wouldn't dare ignore my peerless handsome face."

The little maid couldn't help laughing, and at the same time, two people walked out of the front room of the courtyard and clapped their hands and praised: "Okay! Brother, even if you are thick-skinned, if you can talk like that, you won't be that rotten hypocrite , I like it!"

I saw two men walking towards each other quickly, one with black hair, vertical sword eyebrows flying slantingly, with a heroic face with sharp edges and corners, his rough and tall figure came to Chen Xiaobai's side, and he was a head and a neck taller than her.

The other was wearing a Confucian robe, gently shaking a folding fan, with a slanted hair bun, turning the originally modest and gentlemanly attire into a wild and weird one, with a handsome and white face with a wicked smile, it was not a good thing to look at.

Chen Xiaobaa was really thick-skinned, and the burly man's rude words were like "hitting a stone with an egg", hitting Chen Xiaobaa's face without pain or itching, and after bowing to the two young masters with a smile, Chen Xiaobaa Turning to the maid beside her, she asked, "These two are..."——but before the maid could speak, Chen Xiaobaa suddenly looked dazed, and giggled, "Could it be that Wang Peng, the young master of the Wang family, and Lu Lu, the young master of the Lu family?" For what?"

The two sons were not too surprised to be identified by Chen Xiaobaa, and it was not surprising to be recognized by others due to their family's fame. You and Brother Wang are both the eldest son in the family, why is he the eldest son and I am the youngest son?"

Chen Xiaobaa laughed and said: "My surname is Chen, and I can only be a 'little son' in front of the two brothers. What do you have to care about as a 'little son'?"

Lu Weizhi was stunned before he realized that what Chen Xiaobaa said was based on body size rather than seniority. He couldn't help laughing and said, "You're a little bit interesting. The few young masters who tried to live in earlier were all taken away by you." Brother Wang and I played tricks on one head and two big heads, and we moved to another courtyard, but you were the only one who started to play tricks on me."

Chen Xiaobaa laughed loudly and said "Don't dare", but she couldn't hear a hint of "Don't dare". After speaking, she turned to the little maid beside her and said, "There are two companions who came with me. Now that I live here, can I bring them in with me?"

The little maid only thought that what Chen Xiaobaa said must be her loyal servant, she nodded repeatedly and said "it's okay".

Chen Xiaobaa clapped her hands and said with a smile: "That's really great, I have to trouble my sister to go to the door and bring my two big and small wives in together."

The little maid's expression changed rapidly, she couldn't tell whether what Chen Xiaobaa said was true or not, her expression was extremely complicated.

Wang Peng and Lu Weizhi were stunned for a while and then burst out laughing. They moved to stand on the left and right sides of Chen Xiaobaa, and put their arms on Chen Xiaobaa's shoulders. , even if you can’t marry Miss Lin, and you can’t let Lin Jiayu be your concubine, you can still come to my Lu’s, and I’ll make sure you don’t have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of your life.”

Chen Xiaobaa thanked her with a smile, while Wang Peng urged the little girl to go quickly and invite the two "sister-in-laws to come in and show them", and ordered the family to prepare food and wine for the three of them to drink together.

The courtyard is not too big, and there is a round stone table in the middle, perhaps because Wang and Lu's family, whose wealth is no less than that of the Lin family, also came to run for election, and the Lin family specially prepared beautiful maids to serve tea for this courtyard. Delivering water, and listening to what the family said, these girls who have been selected from thousands of people are not only good at singing and dancing, but also dedicate their bodies for the two young masters to spend their leisure time. It can be said that they have fulfilled the friendship of the landlord.

At this moment, all the wine and dishes were prepared, and the pipe music was playing. Five or six maidservants surrounded the stone table and danced like flowers of various colors swaying in the wind. At the end, Wang Peng gave Chen Xiaobaa a thumbs up and praised again: "At first, I, Wang Peng, thought that having a second wife in Xiongtai's family must be a lustful person, but I never thought that Xiongtai looked at those maidservants and watched dancing, but he was really watching dancing. I, Wang Peng, will definitely not be able to do it without chaos! Come, I respect you!"

Chen Xiaobaa knew that Wang Peng, who seemed careless, was a shrewd person with a careful heart, and his words clearly did not believe that Chen Xiaobaa would be so stupid as to bring two beautiful wives to marry Miss Lin. He was persuading him to drink, and he was trying his best to test him out, but he wanted to make himself lose the election if he had never run for the election.

Since it was persuading him to drink, there was no reason to allow others to drink. Immediately, Chen Xiaobaa reached out and pressed Wang Peng's wrist, stopped Wang Peng's drinking and said with a smile: "Wait a minute, brother Wang, I have something to say."

Wang Peng chuckled, "Speak quickly," Chen Xiaobaa said, "The three of us are not ordinary people, how can we imitate other people's boring drinking? Drinking is not as good as gambling, why don't we come and play some fun games?"

The two of them, Lu Weizhi, are quite frank in temperament. Judging from their clothes, they like the unique rebellious temperament. Hearing this, he immediately became interested, and raised his eyebrows and asked, "What game?"

Chen Xiaobaa laughed and said, "Any kind of game is fine, let's start with Brother Lu and each of us will come up with a question, and the last one among the three will be punished with a pot of wine."

Wang Peng laughed loudly, squinted at Chen Xiaobaa's small body and said, "A jug of fine wine? What a big tone, you Chen Xiaobaa can drink half of it?"

Chen Xiaobaa, who originally intended to pretend to be drunk, looked embarrassed: "I can't drink it, why did Brother Wang slap me in the face like this?"

Wang Peng shook his head and said: "No, in the end it's still drinking and not boring, how about this, if one of the three of us ends up last, he has to do something for the winner, as long as it is within his ability, he needs to do it. Brother, do you think this is good?"

Chen Xiaobaa smiled and nodded, Lu Weizhi drank a glass of wine, raised his thumb and praised: "It's fun! It's only Wang Peng who can think of such a bad game. If you win, the loser will not be allowed to marry Miss Lin's family." You can do it yourself! You kid has sinister intentions, but I like it!"

Wang Peng laughed loudly, pointing at Lu Weizhi and said: "I like you! You and I have different thoughts! If I get it in the end, I'm afraid the end will not be much better, and the problems you raise will not be as bad as mine?"

Lu Weizhi had a smirk on his face: "Brother Chen said just now that I will come up with the questions first, so I will do my part - let's guess lantern riddles with each other, hehe, I am the best at this, every year during the Lantern Festival I will be Lu Weizhi." to win the championship."

The other two had no choice but to follow suit, but the result was unexpected. Chen Xiaobaa won the first place by answering two questions, Wang Peng answered one question, and Lu Weizhi, who was most proficient in guessing lantern riddles, couldn't even guess one question, and couldn't help being embarrassed. Said to himself: "It's strange, how come I haven't guessed the question you asked?"

Wang Peng smiled and said nothing. Others don't know him, but the Wang family knows that most of the lantern riddles on the Lantern Festival night are simple questions that Lu Weizhi can guess. The young master won the first prize every year, so the lantern riddle guessing in Luotuo Town was funded and organized by his Lu family, in order to make the young master of the Lu family smile.

Chen Xiaobaa originally thought that Lu Weizhi must be good at this skill, but she just wanted not to be in the last place, but she didn't expect that the bookish Mr. Lu was actually a fool who dug his own grave, so she got the first place in a daze. One, after thinking about it, he said to Lu Weizhi: "I don't have any requirements, but I see that brother Lu and Wang know Miss Lin very well, and I want to ask Brother Lu about Miss Lin's character, please tell me frankly. .”

Lu Weizhi was nervous at first, but when he heard that Chen Xiaobaa just made this trivial request, he couldn't help but be overjoyed and talk about it.

According to Lu Weizhi's complaint, Miss Lin's name is Lin Jiayu, she is the jewel in the palm of Master Lin, she is truly loved by thousands of people, and her appearance and beauty are considered to be first-class. While the fat boss was chatting, Chen Xiaobaa had already made a lot of inquiries.

But other than that, the Lu family who have a good relationship with the Lin family still know some secrets that others don't know. For example, Lin Jiayu liked poetry and poetry when she was a child. The reason for marrying her daughter was because Lin Jiayu fell in love with a poor scholar with a lot of literary talents. This kind of thing that only happens in love novels, the master of the Lin family pretended to be a villain and strongly opposed it, but it is said that he could not bear it. After Miss Lin's crying, the master of the Lin family finally took a step back and allowed the poor scholar to participate in the competition. As for whether the lover can get married in the end, it depends on whether the poor scholar has this fate.

Chen Xiaobaa was stunned when she learned about it, she nodded lightly, picked up the wine glass, and looked at the reflection in the glass thoughtfully.