After dinner.
"Ruxin, do you have anything you want to take with you? Pack it up later."
"No, leave those at home. Mom can give them to Zhaodi some other day." She didn't know what kind of junky stuff they were. She didn't want anything except the new clothes she bought yesterday.
"Come on, take a break first. I'll go out and buy some food for you to eat at noon. I'll talk to you later."
Well, Zhao Dawen was satisfied. It was right to ask for leave today. The man at home was a considerate person. Their family is no longer the same as it used to be, and they really can't eat such rough food anymore.
In the evening, Zhao Ruxin, who had just finished her meal and was waiting anxiously in the house, finally saw the Qian family's small sedan chair.
It was a small pink one, and no one else was there except the two bearers, and there was not even a red flower on the sedan.
Wang's eyes were filled with tears. The Qian family didn't care about Ruxin at all as the head of the family said. They treated her so badly before she even got married. Once Ruxin got married, she would have to make a living under the eldest lady. How could she be good?
Wang knew that it would be wishful thinking to have her daughter take care of her in the future, unless Zhao Dawen passed the imperial examination and became a juren.
Although there is only one step between Juren and Xiucai, this step can bring about earth-shaking changes in a person.
A juren can become an official and has some power. It is not an unspoken saying that a poor scholar is more likely to become a rich juren. As long as one passes the juren exam, their family's status in the county will rise by several levels. Even if they are county magistrates, we should be polite to them. Rich families in nearby counties and towns would line up to give them gifts and money.
Why did those people get along well with her before? Besides the fact that their lives were not bad, the most important reason was that they thought Zhao Dawen could pass the imperial examination and become a juren.
After I didn’t take the exam last year, everyone became much more indifferent. When they ran out of money, they simply cut off all contact with us.
They thought that there was no hope for their family and that Zhao Dawen would never be able to pass the exam in his lifetime.
In fact, it is true.
"mother!"
Zhao Ruxin felt so aggrieved that she wanted to cry. Zhao Dawen also didn't expect that the Qian family would be so disrespectful to him and be so cruel.
But what can I do? He accepted the money from the Qian family.
"Ruxin, maybe all of this was arranged by Madam, and the old man doesn't know. You must be careful after you enter the door, and you must not go against Madam, understand?"
Wang didn't know that after she said this, Zhao Ruxin would bear a grudge against Mrs. Qian. She thought that she was deliberately suppressing her, humiliating her, and deliberately not letting her have a good time. She thought that Mr. Qian cared about her, and she felt in danger.
You damn old woman, I'm not done with you!
"Are you going to get on the sedan chair or not?" The people carrying the sedan chair were getting a little impatient. There was only one concubine, who was even worse than them. I wonder what she was arguing about?
"Ruxin, hurry up and get on the sedan chair. It would be bad if you miss the auspicious time."
Zhao Ruxin knew that now was not the time to lose her temper, so she got into the sedan unhappily and sold herself in such a simple way.
The neighbors on both sides also looked around curiously. Even if they hadn’t eaten pork in these days, had they seen a pig run? As soon as they saw the sedan chair, they knew that a wealthy family had taken a concubine, but they could not imagine that it was the daughter of a scholar who became a concubine.
Zhao Dawen is the only scholar in this alley. He is good at pretending and everyone respects him. But today, the fact that his daughter became a concubine was really hard for the neighbors to accept.
Why on earth would they sell their daughter? It’s not like he can’t earn money, right?
When Zhao Ruxin was carried out of the door, Wang chased her out of the courtyard, "Ruxin, my daughter!"
The neighbors sighed when they saw this. If they were reluctant to let her get married, why did they let her get married? Maybe there is some difficulty. Everyone is just watching the fun and no one said a single sarcastic word. Why rub salt into others' faults? I feel sad even without seeing it.
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