Wu Mansion, the vermilion gate is embedded with a Jiaotu beast-faced ring, highlighting the extraordinaryness of this mansion.

Although the Ministry of Rites does not have excessive power, unlike the Ministry of Households, which is in charge of money, nor like the Ministry of Officials, who is in charge of the promotion of officials, and who does not have so much oil and water like the Ministry of Industry, its status is transcendent.

The book of the Ministry of Rites must be from Hanlin, and it is often only one step away from entering the cabinet.

After Fang Yu was replaced by Jia Yingchun, now only Wu Shan is the only one of the six Shangshu who is from Hanlin, and no one has the ability to compete with Wu Shan, so this Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites is already infinitely close to entering the cabinet.

Ni Huangjiang, the right attendant of the Criminal Department, is extremely optimistic about Wu Shan and attaches great importance to this family business.

After learning that the Wu Mansion was willing to marry their youngest daughter to his son, they were also surprised, and after many contacts, they impatiently sent a matchmaker to the door with gifts.

When the man is interested in the woman, he will let the matchmaker bring 30 kinds of auspicious gifts to the woman's home to express the intention of courting.

If the woman also agrees, she will carry out the "name asking" ceremony. That is, after accepting the man's gift, he gave his daughter's Nian Geng Bazi to the matchmaker, and then the man asked the fortune teller to divinate him.

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

These processes usually take several days, but the Ni family completed them in only two days, and they have already come with a rich dowry that has been prepared.

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

In a certain room, a girl with delicate facial features was wet with tears, her thin figure tightly curled into a ball, let out a choked cry, and softly repeated the sentence.

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

At the end of the 19th century, scientists at Cornell University in the United States threw frogs directly into hot water, and the frogs could not stand the heat and jumped out. But the frog was put in cold water, and as the water temperature slowly rose, the frog was unknowingly boiled to death.

Wu Qiuyu naturally didn't know about the "warm boiled frog effect", but she had the same experience.

When she heard her father and mother talk about her marriage, although she sensed the crisis, she did not resist fiercely. It's just that as time goes on, her marriage partner is chosen, and then the ceremony takes place, and the marriage contract is about to be finalized.

It was quiet outside the window and the sun was shining.

It's just that no one knows that there is a young girl whose heart is aching, her eyes are covered with tears, and her body is cowering in the corner, looking at the table and chair in front of her, but there is no focus.

Her heart hurts, but more often than not, she is helpless.

In these days, she wanted to open her mouth countless times, wanted to have a showdown with her mother.

She didn't want to get married, she didn't want to marry the son of Ni Shilang of the Criminal Department. Or marry, she wants to marry Tiger Girl's brother, the man who broke into her heart.

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

Sometimes it's the mother's meticulous care, sometimes it's the excitement of the mother's eyebrows, and sometimes it's just the mother's holding her hand and saying, "Mother taught you something."

As soon as she thought of those embarrassing words, she really wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into, and the courage she mustered would naturally be discharged.

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

But she still overestimated herself far and again, and after failing again and again, she also fell into a catastrophe, allowing herself to stand on the edge of the cliff, and the marriage will form a contract today.

In this day and age, once a marriage is formed, it is impossible to go back on it easily. Especially since her father is a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, it is impossible to allow this situation to exist, even if her father actually dotes on her very much.

But despite all the urgency, she just chose to hide in her room and cry, and did not have the courage to run in front of her mother and make a noise, saying that she did not want to marry the squire's son.

At this moment, she was really helpless and wronged.

Maybe if she was a little tougher, it wouldn't be the way she is now, maybe it wouldn't be the way it is now, and she wouldn't have to hide and cry secretly.

On Mu Mu's day, she remembered that there was a heavy rain that day, and Hu Niu said that she would help her have a showdown with her mother, but she stopped her.

Sometimes, she really doesn't understand herself, not only is she very weak, but she is also so stupid. If Hu Niu was asked to tell her mother at that time, she hadn't talked to the Ni family at that time, how good it would be!

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

As a result, she is stupid, she can't become a smart woman, she can't do anything, and she doesn't even dare to tell Hu Niu the truth that she likes her brother.

"If I had the courage to be in Tiger Girl, I probably wouldn't be like this!"

During the time she spent with Tiger Girl, she really saw what it means to be brave, and in Tiger Girl's dictionary, she didn't seem to be afraid of these two words.

She saw Tiger Girl swing very high, saw Tiger Girl climb up the high roof, saw her often go shopping and played, watched her argue with the guards at the palace gate, and even saw her practice the knife, which was a real knife.

A lot of bits and pieces, the tiger girl is really powerful, and I even heard my father say that on the day when the Ministry of Rites was besieged by the Zongren, the tiger girl also climbed on the wall and smashed stones. Daddy also said that Tiger Niu did him a great favor.

Compared with her tiger girl, she is too inferior, and the tiger girl thinks that she will become a heroine who robs the rich and helps the poor in the future, but she doesn't even have the courage to express her opinion.

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

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

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

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

Her heart was actually a little afraid, but when she thought of the marriage contract, a surge of courage suddenly surged in her body. She stood on the round bench and found that it was a little high, but after thinking about it, is this as high as the roof of the tiger girl's house?

After tying the knot, she slowly pulled the knot upwards until it reached the roof beams.

However, she did not act immediately, but waited. Until a familiar voice came from outside, she suddenly gritted her teeth, put her neck on it, and kicked the stool off.