Inside the Chapter House.
Zhang Yao has made a mountain of noise, seeking death, and is now holding a pair of scissors to her neck, “I’m going to marry Song Si, and if you don’t agree, I won’t live.”
Master Zhang and Mrs. Zhang wanted to go forward but did not dare to do so.
“Yao’er, listen to mother, put the scissors down first, let’s talk it over.”
“I won’t listen, I won’t listen!”
As Zhang Yao shook her head, the tip of the scissors shook along with her, Mrs. Zhang watched with trepidation, “Okay, okay, okay, mother promises you, let you marry Song Si.”
“Your promise doesn’t count, it has to be Father’s.”
Zhang Yao obeyed Mrs. Zhang’s words and obediently went back to her courtyard to wait for news, but she waited and waited and waited, but she could not wait any longer, so she ran to Zhang Huai’s courtyard to look for someone, but she did not find them, so she ran to the main courtyard again, and just when she reached the entrance of the flower hall, she heard Master Zhang’s words of opposition, she ran in and yelled at Master Zhang, and ran back to her courtyard crying and seeking death.
“Master, you must say yes.”
The tip of the scissors had touched Zhang Yao’s skin, and Mrs. Zhang’s legs went weak as she urged with a trembling voice.
Master Zhang saw it too and was busy lifting up, stopping her from hurting herself further, “Okay, okay, okay, I promise, promise.”
“Father’s word is good?”
“A promise, a promise!”
Zhang Yao sent the scissors forward again, “Then you should send someone to the Song family now to say something and ask them to come to the door to propose marriage.”
Master Zhang immediately called the housekeeper in and sent him to deliver the message to the Song family personally, “You tell Song Si that it is because of the fact that he and the eldest young master went to school together that we are phasing him to marry Yao’er, no one else will have this good fortune.”
The butler also knew about the frame-up of Song Si, and as soon as Master Zhang’s words fell, he understood the meaning of the words, and hurriedly answered, turned and quickly walked out of the house.
“Yao’er, you, you can put the scissors down now, right?”
Snap!
Zhang Yao threw the scissors on the ground, and Master Zhang took a big step over and kicked it far away, while Madam Zhang held Zhang Yao in her arms and ordered in a panic, “Go get the doctor!”
The doctor from Ji Shi Tang was quickly brought in, carrying the medicine box and hurriedly followed into the house, where she saw Zhang Yao sitting at the table, munching on a chicken leg, with a worried Mrs. Zhang and a helpless Master Zhang sitting next to her.
The doctor was stunned.
“Take a quick look at Yao’er, will the wound on her neck leave a scar.”
A wound?
The doctor looked at Zhang Yao’s neck with Madam Zhang’s words, it was smooth, where was there any wound?
“You are quicker, aren’t you?”
Seeing that he was standing still, Madam Zhang urged anxiously.
The doctor walked up to Zhang Yao, “Miss Zhang, please also let me take a look at your wound.”
“Here ……”
Zhang Yao lifted her neck and swallowed the chicken in her mouth, “Handle it carefully, I’m afraid of pain.”
The doctor only saw a slight red mark. ……
“Hurry up, don’t delay me from eating the meat.”
Zhang Yao urged.
“Actually, Miss Zhang’s wound doesn’t need to be treated, it will heal itself soon.”
“That won’t work, I’m the one who’s going to be betrothed, there can’t be a single blemish on my appearance.”
The doctor looked to Master Zhang.
Master Zhang said helplessly, “I’ll trouble the doctor.”
The doctor silently opened the medicine chest, took out a porcelain bottle from it and handed it to the maid at the side, “This is the best medicine for external injuries, it will heal quickly after applying it and will not leave scars.”
The maid took it carefully.
Zhang Yao immediately put her neck over, “Hurry up and apply it to me!”
The doctor silently covered the medicine box and arched towards Master Zhang and Madam Zhang.
“Thank you so much, doctor.”
Madam Zhang thanked sincerely.
The doctor, however, had a shameful look on his face.
Master Zhang took the opportunity to get up, “I’ll see you out!”
The doctor at Jishi Tang was highly skilled in medicine and would not be neglected no matter whose family invited him there.
However, it was not necessary for Master Zhang to see them off personally. He came out to see them off because he really did not want to face his wife and daughter again. Not to mention the fact that their family had made such a big feud with the Song family, and based on Zhang Yao’s stupidity alone, there was no way Song Si would marry him.
“Please, Doctor.”
The doctor was flattered.
The housekeeper had gotten a hint from Master Zhang and had been waiting at the courtyard entrance after hurriedly leaving this side of the courtyard, and when he saw Master Zhang sending the doctor out, he immediately greeted him, “Master.”
Master Zhang gestured for him to send the doctor out, “Come and see me in the study later.”
The housekeeper answered, and after respectfully sending the doctor out, he hurriedly went to the study.
Master Zhang sat down in his chair with a headache.
For the time being, Zhang Yao had been coaxed down, but if the Song family did not come to propose marriage tomorrow, she would inevitably make trouble again.
Master Zhang wanted to lock her up for a few days to make her think about it, but she was a brainless girl. If there is any more trouble because of this, Madam will fight him to the death.
“Master, in fact, this matter is not without room for manoeuvre.”
“What do you mean?”
“The Song family is just a poor countryside people, relying on the ground to pay for Song Si’s studies, hoping that he would be able to achieve success in the imperial examinations and glorify our ancestors. If Song Si agrees to marry Miss, not only will the Zhang family give him a generous dowry, but we can also go to the dean and help him clarify that the jade pendant was a misunderstanding and that Miss gave it to him privately, and he is afraid of ruining it.
^0^ One second to remember [ ]
Miss’s reputation, did not dare to say so.”
Master Zhang mused.
The steward continued, “If Song Si really marries Miss, it will be a great benefit to us as well. With his ability, he will definitely be able to achieve a high ranking, and when the time comes, our Zhang family will follow suit, and perhaps even the county magistrate will respect us, and the business of the house will go smoothly. It’s a situation that will be beneficial to both the Zhang and Song families.”
Master Zhang was moved, “You let me think about it.”
……
Zhang Zhuan hurried back to the house and went to the courtyard of the two boys, and once inside, he saw several underlings cleaning up.
“What are you doing?”
When he heard his question, the adult who was cleaning replied, although he did not care, “The housekeeper said that the two of them had died and it was bad luck, so he asked us to clean this house.”
Zhang Zhuan rushed inside and the house was all disposed of, not even a single strand of hair was left.
He looked in the direction of the kangaroo hole.
The bricks that had blocked the hole had been taken down and the inside had been cleaned out. Zhang Zhuan’s face changed dramatically and he quickly went over and squatted down, stretching out to dig in.
“Where is the stuff in this house?”
Zhang Zhuan rushed out of the house and asked furiously.
The few people cleaning the house were startled by him, and one of them replied, “All, all of it was thrown away.”
“Where did you throw them?”
“In the street.”
Zhang Zhuan ran wildly outside.
