Last summer, Sun Jiarou was invited to spend the summer in her aunt's village. There was a large lake in the village, full of lotus flowers, and the girls would gather in the octagonal pavilion next to it to write poems and laugh.
I don’t know who started it that day. They chatted with a cousin who had just got engaged and talked about her fiancé’s family background. As they talked, they teased the cousin a few words. Girls are thin-skinned and will be shy even after saying a few words.
Their faces turned red and they shouted that they were going to tear their mouths apart. The sisters took advantage of the situation and started to fight.
During the chase, Sun Jiarou's foot slipped and she accidentally fell into the lotus pond.
There was a lot of silt in the pool, and Sun Jiarou didn't know the nature of water. She started flopping around in panic. Unexpectedly, she moved more and more and sank. The sisters were so frightened that they shouted for help and tried to think of ways to save her.
Someone happened to be passing by and heard the cry for help. Without thinking, the person jumped into the lotus pond, rescued her, and sent her back to Sun Jiarou's residence.
When Sun's aunt heard about the cause and effect, she was horrified, so she called all her cousins who were traveling with her and reprimanded them. They made those who kneeled down, those who copied books, and those who copied books, and those who were grounded. After that, the whole family looked down upon Sun Jiarou.
As a key protected object, we no longer dare to let her go out and walk around at will.
The days spent cooped up in the house to recuperate become even more boring.
One day, the personal maid Caixia suddenly told Sun Jiarou that a young man who claimed to be her savior asked to see him, and asked her if he wanted to see him or not.
After Sun Jiarou woke up, she heard from her aunt's cousins that the person who rescued her from the lotus pond was a scholar who lived in Zhuangzi. He sent her to her residence that day and left without asking for any credit.
She was rewarded, which showed that her character was very pure. She thought that she owed him a favor after all, so she met him.
The scholar's name was Yu Xiuyuan, and he was a guest of the Sun family's aunt's house. He was tall and tall, had good looks, a gentle and upright personality, and had some literary talents. Therefore, he was appreciated by his master's family at a young age, and he worked closely with the house.
I will study together with my classmates and have a bright future.
Sun Jiarou had been living in her boudoir for a long time and rarely had contact with foreign men. When she accidentally met such a young man with dignified character and extraordinary temperament, who also had the kindness to save his life, she couldn't help but feel excited.
When Yu Xiuyuan rescued people, he was too panicked and did not remember Sun Jiarou's appearance. He only remembered that she was a weak woman. He carried her from the lotus pond to her boudoir without feeling tired. He was recovering from illness when he saw her that day.
Sun Jiarou, he only felt that there was a bit of coquettishness and naivety in her weakness, and he felt affection for her and wished he could protect her under his arms at all times.
After that, Yu Xiuyuan often came to visit with excuses, either giving her a pen or a book, or just pretending to be passing by and dropping in to take a look.
Unknowingly, the two fell in love with each other and plunged headlong into this destined to be sad love.
Sun Jiarou was only fourteen years old at the time, which was a good age for people to be more beautiful than flowers. The Sun family was not in a hurry to marry her off, but secretly selected a son-in-law, who was a Gongsheng student with a good family background.
Yu Xiuyuan was full of blood and had lofty ambitions. In his letter, he asked Sun Jiarou to give him three years. By then, he would definitely be on the gold medal list and earn an official position to marry her.
As the saying goes, priceless treasures are easy to find, but lovers are hard to find. Sun Jiarou was in love for the first time, and it was rare to find a lover. Hearing such an oath of eternal love, his heart was naturally as happy as a deer. He only hoped that these three years would pass soon, and Yu Xiuyuan would be named on the list.
A tall horse carried eight sedans and beat gongs and drums to marry her.
The two promised each other for life, conveying their love for each other through affectionate letters. They were filled with plans and expectations for the future. They had no idea that their elders had already noticed the secret relationship between them.
The Sun family has strict ethics, and it was a critical period for Sun Liwen's promotion. Even if they knew about Sun Jiarou's shameless behavior, they did not dare to make it public.
Sun Liwen did not believe that his usually docile, well-behaved and considerate daughter would do something that would harm the family's reputation and his own official reputation. He was sure that Yu Xiuyuan was behind the instigation and abducted a girl from an official family. So he sent someone to find out the details of Yu Xiuyuan.
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The spies came back soon to report. The ancestors of the Yu family were born as hunters, and later switched to the medicinal materials business to have a meager family background. Yu Xiuyuan attended school for several years, and with his own efforts, he became a scholar and was recommended by the supervisory history.
He just became a retainer in the house of his aunt Sun, and he was not a wealthy person. Even if one day Yu Xiuyuan worked hard and was favored and recommended by his master's family, and he was given an official position, which changed his humble background, and his family was still very poor.
Although the Sun family is not a royal family member, they have been officials for generations and can be considered a scholarly family. They are a well-known and respectable family in the capital.
It was inappropriate for her to be from such a mismatched family, so Sun Liwen naturally disagreed with her daughter's continued association with Yu Xiuyuan.
Sun Jiarou was young and did not know how to be sophisticated. She was determined to marry Yu Xiuyuan. Seeing that her family was pressing hard, she asked her maid Caixia to help deliver letters and secretly made an appointment with Yu Xiuyuan to elope together.
Unexpectedly, their little trick had long been noticed by Sun Liwen, who had seen countless people, and they were both caught before they even left the capital.
Later, Caixia was beaten to death by the Sun family because her master eloped, and the entire family was sold. Although Sun Jiarou did not suffer any physical pain, she was locked in the house for several months, cut off from all contact with the outside world.
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During the period of confinement, Sun Jiarou lived a miserable life every day. She went on a hunger strike, pretended to be ill and ran away, and even threatened death, making herself a human being and a ghost. In the end, she was rescued in time.
In the end, what kept her alive was probably her lover's promise.
After her repeated death threats, Sun Liwen finally lost his patience. He warned Sun Jiarou that if she continued to make trouble, he would just pretend that he had never given birth to such a daughter, and immediately go to the government to sue Yu Xiuyuan for abducting an official girl.
Not only could Yu Xiuyuan's current fame be lost, he might also be sent to the frontier as a slave, and they would never be able to see each other again.
Sun Jiarou received the initiation in a daze, and gradually realized that even if she no longer seeks life and death, she and Yu Xiuyuan will never be destined for each other in this life. She is still the daughter of the Sun family, and Sun Liwen will not be cruel to her even if he is merciless. But Yu Xiuyuan
It's different. He was born in a humble background and it took a lot of effort to achieve what he is today. If his father really ruined Yu Xiuyuan's future, then she had completely harmed him.
After understanding this truth, Sun Jiarou gradually became at peace, neither crying nor fussing, but she was depressed all day long, and her health became worse every day.
Mrs. Liu looks enthusiastic and lively, but she is still a conservative and face-conscious person at heart. Although she is ashamed of Sun Jiarou's various extraordinary behaviors, after all, she is still a piece of flesh that has fallen off her body. Seeing her daughter lose weight day by day, she feels heartbroken.
That's why I brought Sun Jiarou to this Buddhist pure land to stay for a while, hoping that she could repent soon and start over.
Memories are a small city that trapped Sun Jiarou and the person in her dream. She couldn't get out, forget, or get better, so she could only watch over the broken dream at the ferry of lovesickness, and let the oath remain.
The mind is obsessed with it, and is colored with sadness, covering the girl's young face.
After listening to Sun Jiarou's narration, Xia Houshu was shocked and regretful. She had not experienced love yet, so she could not empathize with her, and she did not know how to comfort Sun Jiarou. However, in the dramas she had heard before, such feelings were not recognized by her elders.
, there are probably two endings, either going through hardships and helping each other; or compromising with each other and forgetting each other in the world.
In order to appear more sincere, Xia Houshu had no choice but to assume that one day she would face the same predicament as Sun Jiarou, and what would she do? After all, there were two vivid examples in front of her, Zhong Lufu before her, and Sun Jiarou after her.
I know whether I can make my own decisions about marriage in the future.
In fact, Xia Houshu didn't have much expectations for getting married. Being a wife and mother had never been in her plan. She even thought it would be better if she could choose not to marry for the rest of her life, so that she could
She concentrated on doing her own thing. I thought that even if Xia Houyi got married, she would not treat her sister badly.
However, judging from how her mother had brought her to offer incense in the past two days and forced her to ask for a marriage sign, she felt that within a year, her father and mother would arrange a marriage for her. Since it was her father and mother's favorite
person, then the family background and character will not be much different, and it doesn't matter whether you marry or not. It is best if the other person's family background is not as good as yours, so that even if she gets married, the other party will not dare to interfere too much with her.
You can still free up a lot of time to do your own things.
Of course, everything is not so absolute. Xia Houshu also understands that the reason why she can analyze so rationally is because she has not yet met someone she truly likes. What if one day she is lucky enough to find someone to love and change her mind?
But her parents blocked her or insisted on marrying her to someone else. Like Sun Jiarou, she would probably resist, accuse, run away, or even force her to die.
As long as this is a two-way love, she will do her best to protect it.
Xia Houshu thought silently. Thinking of this, she realized that she had only listened to Sun Jiarou talking, but what about Yu Xiuyuan?
Did he long ago accept his fate and succumb to an unmatched family for that handsome young man whom Sun Jiarou yearned for so much that he even risked his life for it? Or did he miss him as much as Sun Jiarou did, watch and help each other, and make up his mind to fight to the end?
If Yu Xiuyuan succumbs, everything Sun Jiarou does is a one-man show, and in the end she will only be able to move herself, which is not worth it. But if Yu Xiuyuan still holds on, then she will support Sun Jiarou to give herself another try.
If you don’t fight, who knows whether you will win or lose in the end?
Xia Houshu asked: "What about him? Does he know your current situation and thoughts?"
Sun Jiarou was stunned for a moment, as if she had thought of something, a bright light flashed in her eyes, and then she nodded bitterly and said, "He said he would never marry anyone but me in this life."