Huairou, Huairou...
She should have been full of tenderness, but she was forced to become a person full of thorns.
She cried so hard that her heart was broken, as if she was crying the sky down.
"Ah!"
Xia Shang frowned and rubbed the corners of his eyes gently, and stepped back to let the woman in front of him vent.
Anyone could feel that this woman had been scarred for a long time. No one dared to disturb her crying, only the pouring rain accompanied her.
The rain was getting lighter, and the crying gradually became lighter.
Xia Shang stepped forward again and patted Qin Huairou on the shoulder: "I don't know if I should say something?"
"Say it."
Qin Huairou closed her eyes and tried to take away the annoying hand, but failed.
"My words are not very nice, I don't know if you can listen to them if I say them?"
Qin Huairou did not answer.
"First of all, the relationship between father and daughter cannot be severed with just one sentence. Being a parent is a lifelong thing. Whether you recognize it or not, it is a fact. What you said just now about severing the relationship between father and daughter is just self-deception."
Xia Shang paused, looked at the woman in front of him with a serious brow, and continued to speak.
"Besides, when you said before that loyalty and filial piety cannot be achieved at the same time, I dare not agree with you. Parents are a lifelong bond, you have no choice. Husband and wife are a temporary combination, if one is not good, you can replace it with a second one. If you lose a husband, you can find another one in the future. If you lose your parents, where can you find a second one in the future?
Do you really think that people who sacrifice themselves for justice, kill relatives for justice, and sacrifice their families for the country are heroes? Everyone is an independent individual in the world. You should put yourself first, then your family, and then your country. Be worthy of yourself first, and then your family. If you can do both, you will have no regrets in your life. If you wrong yourself everywhere like you, you can only get sympathy from others, but never your own happiness."
"Nonsense, only selfish people like you would have such thoughts!"
Qin Huairou didn't believe it, but the previous sentimentality was much less.
"It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not, but now I have something for you to do."
"What is it?"
"Go home with your father."
"You...you still want to drive me away?"
"I just don't want to see you cut off a lifetime of love in a moment of impulse."
"I'm not impulsive."
"You must go back!"
"No!"
"You said before that you should always put your husband first, but now it doesn't count? Or do you not regard me as your husband?"
"..." Qin Huairou was speechless. It's really not easy to find someone who can argue with Xia Shang these days.
Xia Shang did not give Qin Huairou a chance to refute, and turned to Qin Feng and clasped his fists: "Today's events are all caused by my son-in-law, so I will settle it. Madam's previous words were all angry words, and father-in-law should not worry about it. I have already made an agreement with Madam to let her return to the Qin Mansion first, and I will take her home in a grand manner one day."
While speaking, Xia Shang was elegant, and although he was soaked in the rain, he did not look embarrassed at all. He smiled lightly, and the Confucian style was natural. His conversation seemed to be more like an ancient person than the ancients present.
But Qin Feng did not buy it. His hatred for Xia Shang was beyond description.
The father and daughter quarreled like this, all thanks to this man, and now he wants to be a peacemaker?
No way!
"What right do you have to come here and point fingers? Look at yourself. Do you think you are worthy of my Qin family's daughter? You don't even take a piss to look at me, but you still call me Madam. I tell you, as long as you persuade my daughter to come back with me this time, I will accept your kindness. Don't dream that the Qin family and the Xia family still have any relationship in the future. What right do you have to take Huairou away? Look at the reality clearly. You have nothing now! Maybe one day when you are desperate, my Qin family will give you a bite of food."
Qin Huairou pursed her lips and glanced at Xia Shang, and found that the other party did not show any dissatisfaction.
Xia Shang smiled and still held his hands in a self-restrained manner: "You are my father-in-law, you can scold me and insult me, I won't bother with you. But what is the basis for me to pick up my wife? Of course, I rely on the strategy in my heart and the wisdom in my head. Although the Xia family has nothing today, my Xia family will surely be prosperous in the future. If you are desperate one day, my Xia family will leave a door for you and support you for the rest of your life."
"Oh! What a big tone! What can you do with an uneducated guy like you?"
"I was born to be useful, and I will return all my money!"
"I will return all my money..." Qin Feng was slightly surprised, "Is this what he can say?"
"Father-in-law, do you dare Make a bet with me?"
"What do you want to bet on?"
"You used 10,000 gold to marry your daughter to me in the past. Today, we will bet 10,000 gold. I will let my wife go back with you first. Within three days, I will earn 10,000 gold. Then you will return my wife to me in style."
"Within three days? 10,000 gold?"
"That's right!"
"Okay!" Qin Feng shouted, "If you can't earn 10,000 gold within three days, write a divorce letter and come to my house. From now on, there will be no connection between our two families."
Xia Shang was about to speak, and Qin Huairou said anxiously: "You can't wait for me to leave, right?"
Qin Huairou stood in the rain, looking at Xia Shang eagerly, her thin body was like duckweed in the wind, extremely pitiful. Black hair scattered on her cheeks, and the rain kept sliding down.
Xia Shang stepped forward, gently and softly tidied the hair beside her ears, stroked her cold face, and whispered softly: "I, Xia Shang, have never fallen in love with a woman in my life, but today you, a girl, disturbed my peace of mind. You, a fool, are willing to break off the father-daughter relationship to show your loyalty to me. How can I show you my feelings if I don't let you go home in glory? Believe me, within three days, I will definitely invite you home with a sedan chair carried by eight people."
"But, earning ten thousand taels of gold in three days..."
"Believe me!" Xia Shang said again solemnly.
The man's firm words and affirmative eyes almost pierced the girl's heart. Qin Huairou didn't know what happened to her. She was scared like a rabbit by these simple words. She didn't even dare to look at Xia Shang again. The rain on her body was not so cold anymore, and she felt that the roots of her ears were burning.
"Yeah."
She responded softly and looked aside a little shyly.
"I will trust you once, but if...if you betray me, I will die in front of you!"
...
The rain stopped, the crowd quieted down, and everyone who should leave had left.
Li Zhong set up a fire under the eaves and waved to Xia Shang: "Master, come and warm yourself by the fire."
Xia Shang and Yazhi both came to the fire.
All of them were soaked by the rain before, and they found that their bodies were already cold when they stood by the fire.
The firewood was crackling, and the three of them were still thinking about what happened before, each with their own thoughts, and no one spoke.
After a long time, Li Zhong couldn't help but sighed: "Master! Why did you send the young lady away? The Xia family can't live without the young lady!"
Xia Shang didn't care: "It's just for now."
"Master, you don't really want to make ten thousand taels of gold in three days? This... Even if you steal or rob, you can't get that much gold!"
Yazhi's eyes moved: "Yesterday, Master said that someone would send money today. Did the Master have a plan?"
As soon as the voice fell, a carriage stopped at the gate of the courtyard, and a woman came in with a maid.
Li Zhong was shocked: "If it's not the young lady, who else could it be?"