The Prestigious Family's Young lady and the Farmer

10

Chapter 10 part 1
Edited by: Sunshine

In the courtyard, Yang shi was still guiding her nephew systematically-

"...Our Daxi Dynasty's ancient ritual of marriage encompasses three matchmakers, six betrothal gifts, sedan chairs at the door of the bride's family, and a big wedding banquet. You say, if a woman is casually taken to the home, what respect would she get from her family and outsiders?" Yang shi explained to her nephew one by one, "As the old saying goes, marrying a woman makes her wife, while eloping without permission makes her a concubine. Women who are married without going through the regular protocol, are not even protected by the law in our Daxi Dynasty, so how can one expect others to respect her?" Although Aunt Yang was illiterate, as a woman, she can understand this point.

"Then, Aunt, what should I do?" Yang Tiezhu looked at Yang shi for help.

Regarding these matters, he was truly clueless, his elder brother married long back, at that he was still young, when his third younger brother got married, he was on the battlefield, and his fourth brother hadn't married yet. Usually, he paid very little attention to the marriages and what not happening in the village; if someone asked him for help, he would go out and use his strength to finish it, that was it.

"This, it depends on what you want to do?" Yang shi looked at her nephew, meaningfully.

"I want..." Yang Tiezhu stuttered as he spoke, "I don't want anything else, I just want to... just want to treat her well, love her, so that she won't suffer anymore..."

Lin Qingwan leaned her back against the kitchen door and burst into tears; the cotton cloth in her hand fell on the floor.

Yang shi nodded her head. Sure enough, it was just as she expected, then it's good. "In that case, you can spend money to find a matchmaker and let her drop by to propose marriage, a simple betrothal gift, and following our village tradition would suffice, however, nothing should be lacking." Aunt Yang stood up and patted the dust on her body.

"For marriages in our village, the rich families would invite a bridal sedan chair, and find a musical troupe to play and liven things up, if the family is not well off, they find cattle carts and tie a big red flower. Regardless of what, this can still be considered as official marriage officiated by a matchmaker."

Actually, Yang shi's reminder was not entirely for the sake of Lin Qingyuan, but more for Yang Tie Zhu's. She didn't want her nephew just casually to take a woman home and get married. Even if Lin Qingwan was married in such a manner, she would be jabbed and laughed at her back here for being incapable.

Yang Tiezhu felt reasonable after hearing Yang's words and quickly nodded his head.

"Okay, all right."

He also felt that it was better for his wife to marry into the family as his aunt had said, officially marrying her was better, a woman such as her, he really couldn't bear the mere thought of people pointing fingers behind her back. He originally felt that to marry him, she was being wronged.

"Will your mother agree?" Speaking of this, Yang shi frowned.

She doesn't want to talk about her sister-in-law, He shi. All-day long, she does nothing good; her thoughts are always prejudiced. He was such a good child and was already in his twenties, yet she was not worried about his marriage. All-day long, she squeezed this child Tie Zhu to work hard for them. The money he earned was given to the eldest son, who was all happy to partake but not prepared to do any work[i], or it was for the fourth child to take the exam to be a xucai[ii]. After taking the exam for several years, there was not even a shadow of xucai, but the money spent on his was not any less.