Chapter 43: Longxi, Li Family
"Come with me to Longxi..." After coming out of Feng's house, Wang Jingzhe said to Ding Wu: "Since you have already avenged your grievances, there is nothing else to do. Come with me to Longxi."
Ding Wu twisted his head and asked, "You go to propose marriage, why should I follow you?"
Wang Jingzhe said weakly: "Be brave!"
Ding Wu was stunned for a moment, and after a long pause he said, "You are not afraid of demons and monsters, so why are you afraid of proposing marriage?"
"In this world, there is a kind of creature that is actually more terrifying than demons and monsters. They are collectively called mother-in-law." Wang Jingzhe looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle, feeling a little worried. He had some aspirations but also some worries about this daughter-in-law who had not yet married.
After all, he dared to slap away demons and monsters with just one slap, but if his mother-in-law glared at him, would Wang Jingzhe try to slap her too?
Lin Xianyu, who was walking in front, listened to the conversation between the two people behind with her ears perked up. The fire of gossip suddenly burned fiercely. After getting into the car on the side of the road and starting it, she couldn't help but turn around and ask, "Wang Jingzhe, are you going on a blind date?"
"Propose marriage," Wang Jingzhe repeated the word while biting his tongue.
"Oh, oh, proposing marriage." Lin Xianyu nodded his head and looked at Wang Jingzhe casually. The meaning of that expression could be easily interpreted.
"You are like this, and you still want to propose marriage?"
Indeed, not to mention that Wang Jingzhe was wearing an old robe and carrying a tattered bag, the key point is that there was nothing special about his appearance. His facial features were noteworthy when taken individually, but when taken together, he seemed particularly bland. In this age where dating is either based on appearance or wealth, his conditions were really not that good.
"What's that look in your eyes?" Wang Jingzhe couldn't help but ask.
"How funny! You go to propose marriage? Will you be chased out and beaten?" Lin Xianyu covered her mouth and laughed exaggeratedly.
Wang Jingzhe gritted his teeth and said, "Why should I be beaten?"
"You don't have what you want, you're not handsome and you don't have money. Are you going to tell them that I can catch ghosts and tell fortunes when you propose?" Lin Xianyu said, pointing at Wang Jingzhe, "You would say that you are talented, right? Yes, talent..."
Wang Jingzhe twitched his lips, and after a long while he sighed, and said sadly: "Who will wake up first from the big dream? I know in my life that talent cannot exchange for a decent and extravagant life, sometimes it is just a pile of shit."
Ding Wu rubbed his face and said, "Then I can't go with you. I'm afraid your mother-in-law will beat me up. "
"Can you two still have a pleasant chat?" Wang Jingzhe said dejectedly.
Ding Wu and Lin Xianyu were silent. Wang Jingzhe's pitiful expression was quite heartbreaking.
"Do you think there is a process for proposing a marriage?" Wang Jingzhe asked with a dull and melancholy look in his eyes.
"Putting aside your own conditions..." Seeing his murderous look, Lin Xianyu quickly got to the point and said, "You can't just go empty-handed, right? Even if you can't propose marriage, you still have to show the proper etiquette, right?"
"Dowry?"
"Yes, the price in the countryside is generally 88,000 or 66,000, including the three golds and so on. This does not include the house and the car. If you are a wealthy family or someone with status and position, you may not need these vulgar things, but you must have something to show for it, right?"
Wang Jingzhe touched his bag and thought that any one of the kitchen knives in it would be useful, but unfortunately he couldn't give it to him.
"By the way, who is the family you are proposing to marry?" Lin Xianyu asked curiously.
"I'm from Longxi, my surname is Li," said Wang Jingzhe.
"I'm asking you what kind of family you are, what you do, what you do, are you a wealthy family or a small family, are you a government official or a business tycoon," Lin Xianyu said dissatisfiedly.
"I said, the Longxi Li family," Wang Jingzhe spread his hands and explained seriously.
Lin Xianyu: “…”
"Well, you may not have any idea about this word, so I really can't explain it to you. When you have nothing to do, read the Historical Records of the Tang and Song Dynasties, the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, etc., and you may understand it better."
" Haha, aristocratic family, Li Yuan, Li Shimin and so on, I have heard of them, why don't you say that this girl is a descendant of the Tang Emperor?"
Lin Xianyu suddenly found it very funny, but as she laughed, she realized that Wang Jingzhe's expression was very serious, and this seriousness didn't seem like nonsense or fake.
Lin Xianyu laughed for a long time and then suddenly stopped. He blinked his confused eyes and asked, "She, Guan Li Shimin, um, what should I call her?"
"The generations are a bit far apart, I can't find out," Wang Jingzhe said dimly.
Lin Xianyu was dumbfounded!
The earliest history of the Longxi Li family can be traced back to a Li family in Longxi County, probably around the Qin and Han Dynasties. Among the early celebrities who emerged from this family were the Flying General Li Guang, the Qin general Li Xin and others. The famous Li family in the Wei and Jin Dynasties was the King of Xiliang Li Hao. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Longxi Li family was prominent. Their family was so noble that they were known as the five noble families in the Central Plains together with the Qinghe Cui family, the Boling Cui family, the Fanyang Lu family, the Xingyang Zheng family, and the Taiyuan Wang family. Li Yuan of the Longxi Li family destroyed the Sui Dynasty and established the Tang Dynasty. The Li family became the royal family. At this time, the Li family's monument reached its highest point.
So, when Lin Xianyu asked Wang Jingzhe what his mother's family did, he didn't know how to explain it. In the end, he could only summarize it with one sentence: Longxi Li Family. If you have heard of it, there is no need for me to explain it. If you haven't heard of it, there is no point in me telling you this.
Wang Jingzhe's wife, whom he had never married into the family and whom he had never met, was basically an arranged She was a descendant of the Longxi Li family and her name might be Li XX or something like that.
This marriage was arranged by Wang's father more than 20 years ago. Before his travels, Wang Jingzhe's father told him to go to the Li family in Longxi before this calendar year, get engaged to a girl from the Li family, and then choose a date to hold the wedding.
Since it was his parents' order and the matchmaker's words, Wang Jingzhe had to go to Longxi to propose marriage.
"What kind of betrothal gifts should I prepare?" Wang Jingzhe pondered for a long time with a headache, but he couldn't come up with a result. Ding Wu felt helpless when he heard it, and said to him directly: "I want to go home to see my mother, you can't stop me from being filial, right?"
Wang Jingzhe said dissatisfiedly: "What about the everlasting friendship we promised?"
"Hehe..." Ding Wu looked out the window.
Wang Jingzhe poked Lin Xianyu with his finger and asked, "You are experienced, tell me what to send?"
Lin Xianyu immediately got angry: "I am still a virgin and I have never been married, how would I know what to give as a gift? You asked the wrong person."
Ding Wu pushed Wang Jingzhe and said, "You are asking the wrong question... Xiaoyu'er, let me ask you, if I go to your house to propose marriage, what should I bring ?"
Lin Xianyu smoothed her hair and said in a charming manner, "It's enough if you can take me out for dinner. After all, my family is not short of money..."
