In the Wu Mansion, the vermilion gate is embedded with a round ring of pepper map beast face, highlighting the extraordinaryness of this mansion.

Although the Minister of Rites does not have too much power, unlike the Ministry of Revenue who is in charge of money, nor is it like the Ministry of Personnel who is in charge of promotion of officials, nor is it like the Ministry of Works who is in charge of so much oil and water, its status is transcendent.

The Minister of Rites must be from a Hanlin family, and is often only one step away from entering the cabinet.

After Fang Dun was replaced by Jia Yingchun, only Wu Shan was left with the six ministers of the Ministry of Justice, and no one was able to compete with Wu Shan, so the Minister of Rites was infinitely close to entering the cabinet.

Ni Huangjiang, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice, was very optimistic about Wu Shan and attached great importance to this marriage.

After learning that the Wu family was willing to betroth their youngest daughter to his son, he was also ecstatic. After many contacts, he rushed to send a matchmaker to the door with gifts.

This lottery is the first of the six rituals. When the man likes the woman, he asked the matchmaker to bring thirty gifts symbolizing auspicious meanings to the woman's home to express his intention to propose marriage.

If the woman also likes her, she will perform a "name-question" campaign. That is, after receiving the man's gift, she will give her daughter's Nian Geng eight characters to the matchmaker, and then the man will ask the fortune teller to divine.

When it is confirmed that the man and woman are not in conflict, the man will ask the matchmaker to bring the gift to the woman's home, indicating that the man will continue to hiring.

These processes usually take several days, but the Ni family completed them in just two days, and they had already come with a generous betrothal gift they had prepared.

"I don't want to marry! I don't want to marry!"

In a room, a girl with delicate facial features was wet with tears, her thin figure tightly curled up into a ball, making a choked cry, and gently repeating the sentence.

At this moment, she was holding a handkerchief in her hand, embroidered with a bright red peony, and a poem embroidered on it, but she was tightly held and couldn't see clearly.

At the end of the 19th century, scientists from Cornell University in the United States threw the frog directly into hot water. The frog could not bear the high temperature and jumped out. However, they placed the frog in cold water. As the water temperature slowly rose, the frog was boiled to death without realizing it.

It's right.

Wu Qiuyu naturally didn't know the "boiling frog effect in warm water", but she had the same experience.

When she heard her parents talk about her marriage, although she realized the crisis, she did not resist fiercely. However, as time passed, her marriage partner was selected and then the ceremony was held, and the engagement was about to be finalized.

It was very quiet outside the window and the sun was bright.

But no one knew that there was a girl whose heart was cramped, her eyes were covered by tears, and her body was huddled in the corner, looking at the table and chair in front, but there was no focus.

Her heart hurts, but more of it is helpless.

During these days, she wanted to speak out countless times and wanted to show off with her mother.

She doesn't want to get married, she doesn't want to marry the son of Mr. Ni's minister of justice. Or she can get married, she wants to marry Hu Niu's brother, the man who broke into her heart.

Every time it takes half a day to muster up the courage to showdown, but if she really stands in front of her mother, she will always expel that courage.

Sometimes it is my mother's meticulous care, sometimes it is my mother's dancing excitement, sometimes it is just my mother holding her hand and saying, "Mom teaches you something."

When she thought of those shameful words, she really wanted to find a crack in the ground, and the courage she mustered would naturally be vented.

She thought that she would have enough courage to have a showdown with her mother if she could solve this problem.

But she still overestimated herself. After repeated failures, she also fell into a desperate situation and stood on the edge of the cliff. The marriage will form a contract today.

In this era, once a marriage is formed, it is impossible to repent easily. Especially her father is the Minister of Rites, and it is even more impossible to allow such a situation, even if his father actually pampers her very much.

But despite this urgency, she just chose to hide in the room and cry, without the courage to run to her mother and make a big fuss, saying that she didn't want to marry the son of the minister.

At this moment, she felt really helpless and aggrieved.

Maybe she wouldn't be like this now if she was a little tougher, or maybe she wouldn't be like this now, and she wouldn't have to hide and cry secretly.

On Mu Mu's day, she remembered that it was raining heavily that day. Hu Niu said she would show her off with her mother, but she stopped her.

Sometimes, she really doesn't understand herself. Not only is she weak-hearted, but she is also so stupid. How great would it be if Hu Niu asked her to tell her mother that she hadn't had a relative with the Ni family at that time!

At the beginning, she took the initiative to find an opportunity to contact Hu Niu, thinking that she would become a scheming woman.

As a result, she was stupid and could not become a smart woman no matter how she could do anything. She even dared not tell Hu Niu that she liked the truth about her brother.

"If I had 10% of the courage to be with Hu Niu, I probably wouldn't be like this!"

During the time she spent with Hu Niu, she truly realized what courage means, and in Hu Niu's dictionary, there seemed to be no word "fear".

She saw Hu Niu swing the swing very high, saw Hu Niu climbing up the high roof, saw that she often went shopping and play, and also watched her have an argument with the guards at the palace gate, and even saw her.

When she practiced the knife, it was a real knife.

There are many things, Hu Niu is really amazing, and he even heard from his father that on the day the Ministry of Rites was besieged by the clan, Hu Niu climbed on the wall and smashed stones. Daddy also said that Hu Niu helped him

A huge busy life.

Compared with her, Hu Niu, she is really inferior. Hu Niu thought of becoming a heroine who robs the rich and helps the poor in the future, but she didn't even have the courage to express her opinions.

Maybe I'm stupid and stupid, maybe that's it!

She shook her head bitterly, but she had already made a decision in her heart.

She took out a white silk from under the bedding, then brought a black round stool from the table, then placed it under the roof beam, and then threw the white silk upwards.

But she didn't know whether to cry or laugh, but she succeeded in one go.

Her heart was actually a little scared, but when she thought of the engagement, she suddenly felt a sense of courage. She stood on the round stool and found it was a little taller, but then she thought, is this the roof of Hu Niu's house high?

After tying the knot, she slowly pulled the knot upwards and pulled it up to the roof beam.
Chapter completed!