Yu took her hand holding the rice bowl and said enthusiastically, "Yes, your father has found you a good family. It's the home of a wealthy man. His courtyard has two entrances! If you marry into it, you can be a concubine and live a good life."
Shen Xu frowned slightly, "Auntie, is it a concubine?"
Seeing Shen Xu frown, Shen Lanhan quickly explained: "Well, Mr. Pang's family is different. You just need to serve Mr. Pang and his three sons well. Once that old man dies, all the wealth and glory will be yours."
"Master Pang, you have a son?" Shen Xu put down his chopsticks and asked suspiciously, "Since the old man has a son, can the concubine still get a share of the family wealth?"
"Ahem, um." Yu blinked a few times at Shen Lanhan. Although this girl didn't seem to be very smart, she still had some common sense when listening to her language logic.
"Xiu'er, don't worry about this. Dad and Mom will always take care of your marriage and won't harm you."
"Oh." Shen Xu nodded, then questioned, "Since the master is already an old man, his son must be of marriageable age. Since the parents want to find a good marriage for their daughter, why don't they find a matchmaker for their son?"
"This..." The lazy couple looked at each other and thought to themselves that since this girl was so pretty, it seemed possible to marry her to the official's son.
"Also, since my parents have received the betrothal gift, they should prepare some dowry for their daughter, but our family assets..."
Shen Xu blinked his clear eyes and said bluntly: "It seems that I can't prepare any dowry. If my daughter marries into the family of a wealthy man, I'm afraid she will be looked down upon."
"Besides, since you finally found your daughter, why didn't you keep me home to reminisce about the past? Why are you in such a hurry to marry me off? Are you really willing to give away a daughter you haven't even seen a few times?"
The couple looked at each other in bewilderment after hearing her talk.
"You sharp-tongued girl, don't respect--" Chen Lanhan's tone suddenly turned cold, but Yu whimpered, interrupting his outburst, and raised her hand to wipe away her tears.
She said aggrievedly, "Xiu'er, it's not that your parents don't want to prepare a dowry for you. It's really that after you were kidnapped, your parents have been busy looking for you in the past few years and have spent all their money. They married you off because they didn't want you to suffer!"
"Oh, why do you think I am enjoying a good life by marrying an old man as a concubine?"
Shen Lanhan was obviously impatient when he heard this. Just eating his three big bowls of rice had already made him very annoyed. He didn't expect that this girl who looked not very smart had so many crooked ideas.
"Since ancient times, marriage has been decided by parents and matchmakers. You should marry whoever your parents want you to marry. Why are you being so nagging?"
"Yes, Xiu'er, just listen to your father. Your parents are doing this for your own good."
"Are you going to marry me to an old man just for my own good?" Chen Xu wiped his mouth, tilted his head, and said coquettishly, "Oh, I. Will. Not. Marry."
"You!" Shen Lanhan slammed the table and stood up.
The slam of the table was so powerful that the cockroaches hiding in the cracks of the table thought the sky had fallen and they all crawled out in panic. Cockroaches of all sizes scurried around the room, and the bigger ones even flew up.
Shen Xu had never seen so many cockroaches before. She was so scared that her scalp went numb and she screamed. She stomped her feet, picked up the only hatchet in the room, and started swinging it around to hit them.
"Stop, stop..." The lazy couple Shen were both ordinary people who had no martial arts skills. They were also well-known lazy men in the village. They couldn't carry anything on their shoulders or lift anything with their hands, so how could they stop her from dodging and slashing flexibly?
All I could do was watch her swinging the hatchet and chopping at each piece of furniture.
"God damn it, my chest of drawers... Oh my god, the old man's square stool... They are all my treasures!" Yu was so anxious that she jumped up and down, crouching to avoid the out-of-control hatchet, and yelled: "Stop, stop it!"
After all the cockroaches in the house were driven into the dark corners, Shen Xu finally stopped, threw away the hatchet in his hand with a bang, and shrank to Yu's side in fear, grabbing her arm in panic, "Mom, I'm so scared!"
At this moment, the house was in a mess. The pots, pans, benches and wardrobes were all destroyed.
Yu looked at the messy room in shock, then looked at the pitiful Shen Xu huddled behind her, and didn't know what to say for a moment.
"Old woman, what kind of thing did you bring back? You're such a grown-up, but you're afraid of a cockroach! This spendthrift woman is going to destroy our family!" Lazy Shen stomped his feet in anger, picked up a hatchet and raised his hand to chop her.
"I've never seen so many horrible bugs. Besides, the furniture wasn't strong to begin with. I just touched it lightly and it fell apart."
Shen Xu grabbed Yu's shoulders with both hands and dodged nimbly, her expression filled with fear: "Dad, please don't be angry. Now that your daughter is reunited with you, I will stay home and be filial to you two!"
"You, you, you still want to stay at home? You spendthrift, you still want to stay at home!" Shen Lazy Man was so angry that his chest heaved up and down, and he pointed at Shen Xu who was hiding behind Yu with a trembling finger. He was so angry that he didn't know what to curse. His eyes rolled back and he fainted.
"Ouch! Old Shen, Old Shen, don't scare me!" Seeing the lazy Shen fall straight to the ground, Yu was so scared that she rushed over, but saw that the lazy Shen fainted with foam at the mouth and twitching.
She and Shen Lanhan were lazy people in the village. They had nothing to do all day and extorted money from others. When they heard that the government wanted the villagers to go to the charity cemetery to identify the body, they went to watch the fun.
The couple saw Shen Xu in the crowd, tugged at the villager's clothes, and asked who she was and if anyone knew her.
He immediately concluded that she must be a foolish girl with no relatives and some mental disorder. So he had the perverse idea of pretending to recognize her as his relative and then using her as a gift.
If such a pretty girl is sold to Mr. Pang in the county as a concubine, she can earn at least five taels of silver!
Look, my daughter is already here, it would be a waste not to pick her up.
But in less than an hour, this girl ate three bowls of rice from his house, smashed things in the house, and even made her old man faint from anger.
What a sin!
Shen Xu wanted to get a bucket of water from the water tank to wake up Shen Lanhan. But the couple were both lazy and no one added water to the water tank. In desperation, he had to get a pot of vinegar from the kitchen and splash it on Shen Lanhan's face.
I have to say, it’s quite effective.
"Emma, what is so sour, ugh!" The lazy man Shen was startled by the splash, and he stood up straight and started coughing violently.
"Dad, you're finally awake. You didn't know you almost died just now." Shen Xu threw away the vinegar pot and rushed forward, his expression aggrieved. "If you died, what would mother and I do?"
With a clang, the vinegar pot broke and the vinegar inside spilled all over the floor. This was the only small amount of property left in the family.
It’s gone now.
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