Picking Up a General to Plow the Fields

Chapter 265: Speaking of marriage

What?

The smile on Lian Fang Zhou’s face froze.
She forced herself to take a deep breath until her throat opened again.

“Auntie’s words…” Lian Fang Zhou had no idea how reluctant her tone was.

“It’s alright!” Aunt Liu’s spirits were high and she said with a smile: “My family has a niece who is sixteen years old this year.
She looks like a flower and has a gentle temper.
Not only is she kind to others, but she is also very good at housework and has excellent needlework! On our side, we beggers never break the threshold but my elder brother and sister-in-law have just such a daughter! Haha, let me tell you, they discussed it some time ago and wanted to find a son-in-law and I feel that Ah Jian is quite suitable!”

Lian Fang Zhou’s expression remained the same but her lips were pinched.
Aunt Liu seemed to be aware of it and hurriedly said: “Don’t worry! Ah Jian would never be wronged when he entered the house*.
Except for the eldest child, the next ones will have his family name.
My brother and sister-in-law are good people with dozens of acres of fertile land and a large blue-brick house.
Where could you find such good conditions? In the future, after a generation, wouldn’t this all belong to Ah Jian?”

Lian Fang Zhou was both annoyed and aggrieved.

In fact, she had always know that since Ah Jian had first killed the tiger and wolves, his fame had spread to make people and there were several families that had come to inquire about a marriage.
However, those people had all gone to Third Aunt and never spoke to her about it.

After all, she was just an unmarried girl without a fiancé, she it was really not good to ask her about it!

Third Aunt didn’t know what Ah Jian’s thoughts were, so when asked, she just said that Ah Jian had a match already.
The interested families had all left, thinking that it was a pity.

Lian Fang Zhou also did not know Ah Jian’s thoughts, he had always closed his eyes to pretend that he didn’t know what Third Aunt was doing.

However, who knew what kind of scheme Aunt Liu had to ask her personally!

Asking like this, it was actually treating Ah Jian superfluously.

Lian Fang Zhou was very angry, this was simply outrageous!

In this age, where the matter of inheritance was so important, if it were not for extreme complications, who would agree to let their son marry into another family? Which man would be willing to live with his in-laws!?

For a man like Ah Jian, who had numerous better prospects, Aunt Liu offering this was actually an insult to Ah Jian!

Finally finding a voice for her anger, Lian Fang Zhou was particularly annoyed and her expression was bad.

“If it is such a good marriage, why didn’t Auntie come speak to him personally? It doesn’t seem like your brother has even spoken to his wife about it!” Lian Fang Zhou said cold.
She was so annoyed she didn’t hold back her words.

Aunt Liu’s face changed as soon as she said this.
The older woman’s voice rose as she said: “What are you talking about!”

Seeing her expression, Lian Fang Zhou smiled in irritation and said: “What are these words? It turns out that Aunt Liu also thinks these words are bad too! Since you think these words are bad, why did you tell them to me?”

She ignored Aunt Liu’s dumbfounded look and said coldly: “My cousin won’t be willing to marry in.
If there is anything else, Aunt Liu, please go back!”

Aunt Liu was furious: “You haven’t even asked him, how do you know he is unwilling? Hmph, I’ve never seen this before, the cousin the master of her cousin!”

Lian Fang Zhou gave her a big smile: “Then you go ask him!”

Lian Fang Zhou felt irrationally annoyed.
Although she knew that Ah Jian would never agree to it, she couldn’t help but feel that if he heard about the girl’s water and flower looks and gentle temperament, he might be excited about the family!

If his heart was moved…

If your heart beats, your heart beats! If his heart was moved, could she do anything about it? He wasn’t originally from her family.

Lian Fang Zhou bit her lip, turned her head, and let out a heavy breath.

“I’ll go ask him!” Aunt Liu was so embarrassed, she didn’t dare step inside the yard.
She blurted out her words and stomped over to Ah Jian.

Ah Jian, who was loading the cart with the workers, was surprised to see Aunt Liu coming towards him.

Lian Fang Zhou quietly turned her head and watched them.
She didn’t hear what Aunt Liu said but she could see the woman smile at Ah Jian before the two went to the side to talk.

Lian Fang Zhou felt like her breath was blocked in her chest.
She grit her teeth and went back to directing the workers, turning her back to them so she couldn’t see it.

After a while, Aunt Liu left with an unhappy expression and Ah Jian went back to loading the cotton seeds.

However, he looked at Lian Fang Zhou a few times, his expression unreadable.

Knowing that he had returned, Lian Fang Zhou wanted to turn and see his expression but was too embarrassed to be open about it.
She pretended to relax and tilt her head naturally to subtly glance over.

Also acting natural, Ah Jian looked at her at this moment and their eyes met.
Feeling as they she had been caught doing something bad, her heart jumped and her face became hot.

She was so embarrassed that she couldn’t remember to pretend it was an accident.
Ah Jian smiled at her.

This smile made her feel even more embarrassed.

Angry, she opened her mouth to say something when Ah Jian walked over a few steps and whispered: Aunt Liu asked me to marry her niece but I refused.”

He said this so bluntly without any excessive words, what was this!

Frozen, her face suddenly burning so much it felt scorched, Lian Fang Zhou panicked under his deep, dark eyes.

She hurriedly moved her eyes away.
Feeling at a loss, she stammered: “You, telling me this, what are you doing?!”

She thought guiltily: What does this have to do with me?

Ah Jian was stunned for a moment: Yes, why did he need to tell her this? What did it matter to her?

He had just blurted it out without thinking.

Suddenly, he also felt a bit embarrassed.
He smirked and stubbornly said: “Well, that, after all, I live in your house—”

“What!?” Lian Ze overheard their conversation and nearly jumped over the cart, shouting: “Aunt Liu wanted to talk to Ah Jian about marrying in?! How could this be done!”

Lian Ze was shouting so loudly that he startled the workers, who all looked over at them.

Annoyed, Lian Fang Zhou glared at Lian Ze and scolded: “Ah Ze, shut up! What nonsense are you shouting?”

Startled, Lian Ze realized that his words were not good and a bit unreasonable.
Easing his tone, he whispered: “That’s not good at all, Ah Jian is a hero! How could he marry a woman casually like that?”

Say this, he turned to the three workers and said: “Do you agree?”

TN: I don’t know how much you guys know about marriage in ancient China but from other novels I’ve read, there’s marrying into a family (usually the woman) and bringing someone to marry into your family (usually the man).
The one who marries in lives with their in-laws and the children will take that family’s surname.
From what I understand, if a man marries into his wife’s family, its usually because he has no family, has a bad relationship with his own family, and/or there is some benefit that he will get.
In this case, Aunt Liu’s brother only has a daughter, and they want at least one grandkid with their family’s surname, since only your same-name grandkids get listed in the family registry.
I guess they felt that Ah Jian, being a distant relative living in a family with no major adults, would be easy pickings.
Even if Ah Jian wasn’t a secret general, I don’t believe he would marry into Lian Fang Zhou’s family because she has two brothers who can carrying on the family name.