Chapter 315 Mother, don't worry, I will never let my elder sister suffer!
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Li Xiatian was so frightened by Li Qiutian's series of words that she burst into tears!
Li Shiyue couldn't bear to see her mother cry, especially since this was her older sister who ate and slept with her day and night.
Seeing Li Qiutian still looking angry and Zheng Meiniang looking worried, Li Shiyue got up and shook her head at Li's mother who was looking over. She walked over and pulled Li's mother aside to sit down next to Li Xiatian.
Li Shiyue took out her own handkerchief and handed it to Li Xiatian.
"Sister, cry, cry, but you can't cry anymore after you've cried enough."
Don't try to comfort her!
Let her cry!
I think she's obsessed with a man with a different surname all day long; she probably doesn't even know what her own surname is anymore!
Let her cry!
I want to see how long she can cry!
"Sister..."
Li Shiyue looked at Li Qiutian with some helplessness. After pleading with Li Qiutian, she turned around and took Li Xiatian's hand, who was crying.
"Hmph! They cry loudly, but their brains aren't very big!"
Li Qiutian made such sarcastic remarks, and Li Shiyue quickly gave her mother a meaningful look.
Li's mother called out to Shi Tou and pulled Li Qiutian out of the house, leaving only Li Xiatian, Li Shiyue, and Zheng Meiniang inside.
After a while, Li Xiatian stopped crying and gradually calmed down.
"October, then... what do we do now?"
I have already agreed that my second son will take Mr. Chiang's surname. If I were to go back on my word, wouldn't that be breaking my promise?
"That's not important."
Sister, the important thing now is whether you want to marry Jiang Huai or have him marry into your family.
Of course, sister, if Jiang Huai marries into the family, then the agreement you made with him that the second son would take his surname Jiang can no longer be kept.
If he marries into the Li family, then all your children, regardless of gender, will only bear the surname Li!
So, sister, you really need to think carefully about what you want to do.
"If I get married in October, then what you said before about the village women not marrying out of the village, wouldn't that mean..."
Li Shiyue suddenly realized at this moment: "Sister, you wouldn't be insisting on Jiang Huai marrying into the family just because of what I said, would you?"
Seeing the certainty in Li Xiatian's eyes, Li Shiyue couldn't help but smile bitterly.
“Sister, my dear sister, that’s what I said, and that’s what I really think, but that’s how it is in the eyes of the villagers. You are my sister, how can I be like them?”
You and I are close sisters; they are just relatives.
Besides, will their daughter be able to find a husband with the title of Xiucai (a scholar who passed the imperial examinations) in the future?
When I said I wouldn't allow the women in the village to marry outside, the first reason was that I needed men. If the women didn't marry out, they could bring men back to the village to marry into the family. If they had children, the children would take the mother's surname, and then they would all be my clansmen, my own people.
We feel more at ease using our own people to run the industries in our village.
Besides, I've worked so hard to build this family fortune, am I supposed to let some man surnamed Li take it away?
Of course, it would be best to get the woman surnamed Li in the village to stand up and stand with me.
And you, my elder sister, are my elder sister!
I, Li Shiyue, only have you two older sisters. How can you be treated the same as those other clansmen?
You naturally don't need to follow those rules.
Li Shiyue looked at Zheng Meiniang beside her and said, "Besides, I have already told my aunt that even if you and Qiutian get married, it doesn't matter. I have no intention of getting married. In the future, I only want to adopt a few children."
It's the same for me to take care of my aunt.
I thought that Jiang Huai had achieved official rank and was a fairly upright person. Moreover, he came from the prominent Jiang family and was related to the general's wife, Jiang Huijun.
And even after you marry him, you will still have to live in Lijiatun.
So, that's enough for him to marry you. Why do you insist on him marrying into our family?
Sister, rules are rules, but people are flexible!
If every girl in the village can find a scholar with a degree to marry, what does it matter if they marry out of the village?
I am confident that as long as I am strong enough to continuously bring benefits to everyone, their daughters will stay close to their maternal families even after they get married!
In fact, people would fight over becoming sons-in-law in my Li Family Village!
Li Shiyue raised her hand and handed the teacup on the table to Li Xiatian. After watching her drink more than half of the cup, she smiled and said to Li Xiatian, "Sister, there are only the three of us sisters who are of marriageable age in the village. Xiaolizi, Xiaoyanqiu, and Yueniang will not be of marriageable age for at least eight or nine years."
At that time, I believed that I would lead the villagers to a better life!
"At that time, I doubt I need to tell them; they themselves will be reluctant to marry their daughters off."
"Ah...is that so...then, then what about me?"
October... what am I supposed to do now?
Li Shiyue left the house, leaving Zheng Meiniang and Li Xiatian inside to talk.
Hearing the door open, Li's mother came out of the kitchen and asked Li Shiyue, "How is she? Xia Tian, she..."
"Aunt, why ask her? She's a fool!"
Li Qiutian, who was sitting by the stove adding firewood, shouted out this sentence.
Li Shiyue shook her head at her mother. She went into the kitchen and saw Shitou sitting by the window picking beans. She went over, grabbed a handful of beans from the table, divided them into two different bowls, and said to her mother, "I've said everything I should and could say."
My aunt asked me to come out first, as she had something to say to my older sister alone.
Mother, elder sister, you don't know, I was wondering why Sister Xia insisted on Mr. Jiang marrying into our family.
Can you guess what happened?
"Alright, hurry up and tell me. What time is it? You still have the leisure to play tricks on people?"
Li's mother glared at Li Shiyue reproachfully, feeling that Li Shiyue was really teasing people by saying such things at a time like this.
"Haha, Mother, Sister, Sister Xia Tian took to heart what I said when I was setting rules with everyone in the ancestral hall. I said that the village women cannot marry outside the village and can only marry into the family. Sister Xia Tian really took that to heart."
That's why they insisted on having Jiang Huai marry into our family.
Haha, this is all my fault. If only I had told Xia Tian what I had said to my aunt earlier.
How could I have imagined that Sister Xia would be so disciplined?
Next, Li Shiyue repeated what she had said to Li Xiatian and Zheng Meiniang in the house to Li's mother and Li Qiutian, with Shi Tou listening in as well.
"Then... what did she say in the summer?"
Li Shiyue shook her head again, "My sister didn't reply to me, I think she probably hasn't thought it through either."
It's alright, it's not like we're engaged yet, we just exchanged a few words.
There were no formal letters or formal gifts, and we wouldn't agree to what my elder sister herself said.
Li Shiyue looked up and glanced through the window towards the main hall. "Let's talk about it after my aunt and sister have finished discussing it."
Turning her head, Li Shiyue smiled and said to her mother, "Mother, don't worry, I will never let my sister suffer!"
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