diskusbooks Chapter 351 The Marriage Is Set 2
Chapter 351 The Marriage Is Set 2
Jia Yuelan's eyes turned red, "But I want to stay with you two forever."
It was Father and Mother Jia who saved her life, raised her to this age, and gave her all the good things to eat and use. She couldn't be that conscienceless and ungrateful person.
Grandmother Jia caressed her granddaughter's black hair lovingly. "I didn't say I couldn't let you accompany me. Your grandfather and I have moved to Baijia Village now. Even if you get married, you can still come back home anytime you want."
Jia Yuelan was persuaded by her elders and finally gave up the idea of marrying a son-in-law.
Grandmother Jia was afraid that she would go back on her word, so as soon as Jia Yuelan nodded, the old lady immediately went to find Jia Guizhi and Li.
Bai Jingshan's mother and grandmother had previously asked Li to act as a matchmaker. When Li heard the news, she immediately went to Bai Jingshan's house in person.
Bai Jingshan is also very popular now. Not only do many women in the village want to marry their nieces, grandnieces, and great-nieces to him, but even many gentry and merchants in the town and county want to marry into Bai Jingshan's family.
Bai Jingshan already had someone in his heart, and his mother and grandmother knew it too. Of course, they would not talk about other marriages for Bai Jingshan before the Jia family clearly rejected the marriage.
After Bai Jingshan passed the imperial examination, his grandmother went to Gu's house in person.
She told Li about her family background, and then told Li that although Bai Jingshan could not marry into the family, he was willing to follow the example of Gu Wenxuan's parents and support Jia's father and mother together with Jia Yuelan until the end of their lives.
The old lady didn't praise Bai Jingshan for anything. Li, who had watched him grow up, knew exactly what her child was like.
In addition to being willing to support Father and Mother Jia, the old lady also told Li how much dowry her family planned to pay, and that her grandson would never take concubines or go out to have affairs with other women.
Children will unconsciously learn from the people they live with. Bai Jingshan's family members were all honest and upright. Bai Jingzhou, who had a great influence on him, hated their classmates who were lustful and promiscuous.
Not to mention learning from those people, he was not even willing to have a close relationship with them. He only maintained a shallow, distant and superficial friendly relationship with them.
Deeply influenced by their words and deeds, Bai Jingshan himself also hated those lustful guys. Naturally, he would not become the so-called romantic talent who had three wives and four concubines and was a womanizer.
Bai Jingshan himself was outstanding enough and his family members were easy to get along with. In this marriage, his mother and grandmother also showed the greatest sincerity their family could give.
In addition, Bai Jingshan and Jia Yuelan were in love with each other, and Jia's father and mother, as well as Jia Guizhi, were also happy for them to get married, so Li agreed to help match them up without much hesitation.
When she told Jia Guizhi about this, Jia Guizhi immediately went back to her parents' home to discuss the marriage with her parents.
Compared with Jia's father and mother, Jia Guizhi hopes that Jia Yuelan can marry Bai Jingshan.
Firstly, this is indeed a rare good marriage. Secondly, if Jia Yuelan marries into Baijia Village, their family will be able to take care of her in the future. Thirdly, in order to make her change her mind and give up marrying into the family, Jia's mother will most likely agree to move to Baijia Village to retire.
This is a great thing that can kill three birds with one stone, so Jia Guizhi certainly wants to make it happen as soon as possible.
Thanks to her unremitting efforts, Bai Jingshan finally got his wish and got married to the girl he had admired for a long time.
Not long after him, Ning Qirui also got engaged to the daughter of the owner of the grain store diagonally opposite the cloth shop he ran.
The grain store owner's business is much bigger than Ning Qirui's. He also has some fertile fields and several mansions, but who made Ning Qirui pass the imperial examination this year?
Although he did not like studying and had no plans to continue taking imperial examinations, the fact that he had the title of scholar made him twice as valuable as before.
The owner of the grain store who chose him as his son-in-law was wealthy, but no one in his family could read.
He, his brother, his son, nephew, and even his nephew, all went to private schools for many years, but they were unable to learn anything.
Not to mention taking the examination to become a scholar, his youngest son was the only one in his family who passed the examination to become a student.
He didn't expect Ning Qirui to pass the imperial examination and become a juren. In a small place like Qingshan County, having a son-in-law who was a scholar was enough to bring him honor, not to mention that Ning Qirui had a cousin who was a juren.
Although he had some utilitarian motives in marrying into Ning Qirui's family, Ning Qirui was of similar age and appearance to his daughter, and the young man was very capable. He himself was not stingy in giving his daughter more dowry, so it could not be said that he was selling his daughter for fame and fortune.
After Ning Qirui's parents inquired about their family, especially his daughter's situation, they also felt that this was a pretty good marriage.
The two first asked Bai Jingzhou to help investigate the family, in case there was any deep pit that they had not found out about.
After getting Bai Jingzhou's affirmative reply, confirming that the family's family style and character were indeed quite good, that there were no problems with the family's financial situation, and that the girl herself was well-behaved and had a good personality, the two of them arranged for Ning Qirui and the girl to meet each other.
The two of them fell in love with each other, so the marriage was naturally settled.
At the same time, Bai Jingzhou also received a long letter from Mu Jingzhi.
He told Bai Jingzhou that after he passed the imperial examination, his brothers and sisters arranged a marriage for him. The girl was the eldest daughter of his brother-in-law's colleague, who was fifteen years old.
What he didn't tell Bai Jingzhou was that, in fact, this girl was not the marriage partner chosen by his sister for him, but he was the one who fell in love with the girl first, and then shamelessly asked his sister for help.
The girl was three years younger than him, with an average appearance and was inconspicuous in the crowd, but when she smiled her face became particularly lively and vivid.
Mu Jingzhi was mesmerized by the satisfied smile on her face when she ate the delicious food, so he took the initiative to inquire about the girl's name and background for the first time.
In the past, he didn't care about the choice of his wife, always thinking that his brothers and sisters would definitely help him to make a good selection. But after meeting the girl of his choice, Mu Jingzhi suddenly changed his attitude and started to take his marriage seriously.
His sister had originally selected marriage partners for him with the intention of finding him help in the officialdom, so the several candidates she had on hand were all girls from civil servant families.
The Mu family came from a merchant family, and Mu Hanzhi did not enter the officialdom through the imperial examination. Most of the civil servants in the court were unwilling to be contaminated by their family's "stench of money", which was why his brothers and sisters let him rely on his own ability to gain fame and fortune first.
Only if he becomes a juren or even a jinshi by his own ability, will those powerful civil servants with their eyes on the top of their heads recognize him and may agree to marry their daughters, nieces and nephews to him.