Farmhouse Green Plum

Chapter 443 Intention

Song Ying understood what he saw on his face. This time, the spring clothes were mainly made for him. He was a scholar now, and the one who had studied the longest in the village except Zhao Ziliang. He was not like other boys who just learned a few words.

His family wanted him to continue his studies and try to take the imperial examination in the future, so naturally he had to dress more decently and not wear the patched and tattered clothes he wore before.

In addition, as Song Ying's life in the city became better and better, the worst clothes he wore were made of fine cotton. Later, Song Tian came to the city and became a hanger-on in the yamen. Although he wandered around everywhere every day, his clothes were no longer patched.

With their examples in mind, Song Yuan was no longer willing to wear patched clothes, and in the past few years he kept asking his family to make him a few good sets of clothes.

"I won't go. I'll just buy your clothes." Song Ying refused. In the past, she would inevitably have a quarrel with Li and the others. It was not worth wasting time arguing over an ugly piece of coarse cloth. She might as well use this time to write medical records and spend all her free time in the evening reading books.

"Sister, just go ahead," Song Yuan advised, "It's rare for grandma to be generous. Next time, we have to wait until the Chinese New Year before she is willing to make clothes for us."

"No, your sister has plenty of clothes to wear now."

Song Yuan looked at the clothes she was wearing. It was a pea green thin jacket and skirt, which was neither new nor old. It was obvious that she had worn it for a long time. However, it was the first time he saw her wearing it. Thinking back to the clothes she wore every time she came home, they were often different.

She did have a lot of clothes, and even if she made a set of coarse cloth, she probably wouldn't wear it.

Song Yuan had no choice but to act coquettishly, "Sister, go ahead. If you don't want to buy anything, help me choose. The cloth you choose is beautiful. Grandma and the others are waiting for you to bargain with Shopkeeper Xu."

"I bought all my clothes at Yunxiu Tower. I'm not familiar with Shopkeeper Xu at the cloth shop, so I can't help you bargain. If you think the cloth there is not good-looking, go to Yunxiu Tower and let Second Aunt pick out a set of ready-made clothes for you. I'll go and settle the bill later."

Song Yuan's eyes lit up, and he was about to nod, but then he remembered his mission and said hurriedly, "Sister, go ahead."

"I said I won't go, so I won't go." As Song Ying saw Lin Wenxuan appear at the door with a lunch box, he hurriedly came out from behind the medicine cabinet to clean the table, "You haven't eaten yet, let's eat together. By the way, when you go back later, tell grandma and the others to find a restaurant to eat before going back. Put it on my bill and I'll pay it later."

"Hey, Xiao Yuan is here! What a coincidence! We have braised pork and steamed fish for dinner today!" Lin Wenxuan put down the lunch box with a smile, "I'll go call Master over, Junior Sister, you set the table."

When he heard about braised pork, Song Yuan swallowed unconsciously. When he saw Song Ying taking out the food and filling up half the table, his mouth was watering. In addition to the braised pork and steamed fish, there were also stir-fried meat, sauerkraut soup, and stir-fried fresh vegetables.

He didn’t like vegetables before and only liked meat. Later, when he went to a restaurant, he found that the vegetables fried in the restaurant were also very delicious.

He immediately decided to talk about it after dinner.

Although my sister asked grandma and her friends to put the meal on her bill, grandma and her friends were very stingy. Even if they didn't have to pay, they would at most order a small stir-fried meat. They would never order two main dishes like my sister and her friends did!

After dinner, Song Yuan forced Song Ying to go to the cloth shop again. Song Ying finally realized something was wrong. She stared into his eyes and said in a deep voice, "Tell me the truth, why did you ask me to go to the cloth shop?"

"Buy, buy cloth to make clothes." Song Yuan felt a little guilty.

Song Ying chuckled, "Do I look like a fool?"

Song Yuan laughed dryly twice, but could not hold out for more than two breaths under her sharp gaze. He confessed honestly, "My grandmother brought my third uncle's cousin to the city to sell game, and grandma asked you to go over to meet him."

Song Ying's face darkened. "I refused this matter last time. I won't go."

She felt frightened. Last time, Li was clearly persuaded by Second Aunt Song's words, but just a few days later, she suddenly changed her mind.

The one who persuaded her to change her mind was naturally Yang, and possibly also Uncle Song.

The problem is, she married into the city, she was treated well, and her family was prosperous; but the nephew who was betrothed to her, Yang, would be gossiped about no matter what kind of man he was, and the good reputation they had for raising her would be completely ruined over the years.

After all, the remote mountainous areas and the poverty-stricken families are completely incomparable to those in the city.

Why did Li marry her to Yang's nephew even at the cost of her reputation? How did Yang and Uncle Song convince her?

Song Ying felt horrified. According to her idea, even if she had not studied medicine and was still an orphan who depended on her family for a living, Li should not have agreed to this marriage.

Even the land under Yang Chao's name was divided up by other branches of the Yang family. He could only rely on hunting to support himself. His life was very unstable. In the words of the villagers, he was a rootless family who could become refugees at any time. No one would be willing to marry their daughter to such a family.

Yang did this purely to help her family. After all, if her nephew could not find a wife, her family's reputation would become worse and worse.

But Li shouldn't agree. The reputation of Yang's family has nothing to do with her. On the contrary, if she agrees to marry her granddaughter to them, it will bring trouble to the Song family's reputation.

Why did Li agree to meet him even though she could obviously find a better family?

Song Ying was very glad that she had stopped believing their words early on and had stepped out of the family. She didn't dare to think that if she were still the orphan living under someone else's roof, she wouldn't even be able to say no.

"Sister, go and have a look. My cousin is really good. When we were little, he taught us to shoot birds with a slingshot, and he always hit the target.

Do you remember that one year I brought you a roasted sparrow that he had shot? Now he can not only shoot birds, but also pheasants, rabbits, and even wild boars. "

Song Yuan persuaded, he had admired his cousin since he was a child, and later admired his sister, he really felt that the two of them were a perfect match!

"I said I won't go!" Song Ying felt uncomfortable and her tone was very bad. No matter what reason Yang used to persuade Li, it could not be for her good.

Since childhood, Song Ying rarely spoke harshly to him. Song Yuan was a little frightened and felt aggrieved: "I really think my cousin is a good match for you. You will know when you meet him. He is handsome and very impressive. No one will dare to bully you after you marry him.

It’s just that our family has no land and is a little poor, but you two are both very capable and will surely make your life prosperous soon.”