The whole family traveled through ancient times to start a new business

One day, a table was placed in the Su family's yard. Su Yuanyuan sat at the table drawing, and old lady Su watched her granddaughter drawing.

The women of the Su family gathered together doing needlework. Zhao Yun was teaching her sister-in-law and niece how to sew. Li Hongmei and Zhou Huilan were watching and sewing beside them. The scene was very harmonious.

Su Yuanyuan was drawing a coat made of rabbit fur. It was actually an ancient cape. There was no such thing as a coat here, but Su Yuanyuan thought they were all the same. Su Yuanyuan thought it would be nice to make a winter coat or cape with pure white or pure gray fur. She drew the pattern and asked her aunt to make it.

This scene was broken by a sudden noise. The Su family was used to keeping the door tightly closed, but at this moment, there were not only knocks on the door, but also people talking.

Zhou Huilan got up to open the door. As soon as the door opened a crack, someone pushed it open from the outside.

There were many people standing outside the door. Before Zhou Huilan could speak, the leading few people walked into the yard without being invited, and the people behind them also carried things into the Su family's yard.

Zhou Huilan looked at this group of people and frowned unconsciously. She returned to Old Lady Su and whispered, "Mom, these people are not kind. I'll ask the children to call Anton and the others back."

Old Mrs. Su nodded in agreement.

Zhou Huilan winked at her daughter, and Su Yuanyuan slipped out to call her father and uncles.

Old Mrs. Su looked at the Zhang family members walking out of the crowd and had already guessed the purpose of their visit.

Father Zhang walked up to Old Lady Su with a smile on his face and said, "Mother-in-law, we are here to propose marriage."

Old Madam Su sneered and said, "Our two families have already called off the engagement, and now we have no relationship. Hasn't your family already found a better wife? Please leave, you are not welcome in my family."

The smile on Zhang's father's face froze for a moment, then he laughed again: "What are you talking about, mother-in-law? It's just that the couple had a quarrel. Now they have reconciled, and they have agreed that we will come to propose marriage today. Why didn't Yitong tell you?"

What Zhang's father meant was that Su Yitong had secretly communicated with his son.

When Su Yitong, who was blocked behind her by her sisters-in-law, heard this, she was so angry that her blood rushed to her head and was about to step forward to argue, but was pulled back by Zhou Huilan who was quick-eyed and quick-handed.

Zhou Huilan exerted all her strength to pull Su Yitong back into the house.

Su Yitong wanted to break free from her sister-in-law and rush out the door, but was pulled back by Zhou Huilan.

Zhou Huilan pressed Su Yitong on the stool and said, "Calm down. You are a girl. If you start arguing with them, we will be defeated. You have to trust me. I can handle it."

Su Yitong looked at her sister-in-law with red eyes. She felt very aggrieved, but she sat down obediently and did not move.

Old Mrs. Su, who was outside, saw Zhou Huilan dragging Su Yitong back into the house from the corner of her eye, and she felt relieved.

Old Madam Su looked at Zhang's father with contempt and said, "You and I are not relatives, so don't call me that. You are lying without blinking an eye. My daughter and your son have never fought head-on."

It was indeed as Mrs. Su said, the two had never met formally, and even if they had met, they had only glanced at each other from a distance.

Zhang's father continued shamelessly: "Mother-in-law, how can you say that? The two children are in love with each other, how can you bear to separate them?"

Old Madam Su looked at him with disgust and said, "Don't call me mother-in-law. Who is your mother-in-law? Your family is really shameless! Your Zhang Dengke is also a scholar, aren't you afraid of spreading a bad reputation? What, you were abandoned by the high branch you climbed up, and seeing that my third son passed the examination and became a scholar, you think my family is good again! Don't you remember your face when you came to my house to cancel the engagement? Don't think that I will marry my daughter to your family just because you make up such a story. I tell you, it's impossible."

The Zhang family didn't expect the Su family to be so tough. As a daughter, the Zhang family's actions have ruined Su Yitong's reputation. No matter how the Su family denies it, Su Yitong's reputation cannot be restored. The Zhang family thought that by doing this, they would force the Su family to marry their daughter to their Zhang family.

Zhang Dengke saw that the situation was not good, so he stepped forward and bowed to Old Lady Su, saying, "Mother-in-law, please help me and Yitong get married. Where is Yitong? Let him come out and talk to me."

Old Lady Su: "Shut up! My daughter has never said a word to you. You are a scholar, please have some dignity! How can a man come and see a girl? How can you be so shameless? Besides, marriage is decided by parents and matchmakers. I have never heard of a marriage being decided by a young person."

Li Hongmei on the side also said: "My sister-in-law stays at home all day, never goes out of the front door or the back door, you are really lying with open eyes. Aren't you said that you scholars are very honest? You are not honest at all! You are so shameless, you come up and want to see the girl. You scholars still have rules! You really don't have any rules, you are still a scholar! You have read books into a dog's stomach!"

Someone who was watching the excitement outside the door and was on good terms with the Su family spoke up, "Yeah! We don't see the girl from the Su family go out all day, and we haven't seen the boy from the Zhang family come to the village!"

The Su family is now popular in the village. Although there are many jealous people, they don't want to offend the Su family openly. After all, they still want to work for the Su family and earn some wages. So there is no voice to help the Zhang family.

At this time, Zhou Lizheng, who heard the news, rushed over. He had heard what happened on the way.

Zhou Lizheng walked into the yard, looked at the boxes on the ground, and said unkindly: "Are you Zhang family going to force me to marry you?"

Zhou Lizheng escalated the matter with just one sentence.

The Zhang family retorted: "Zhou Lizheng's words are too serious. We are only here to propose marriage to the Su family."

Zhou Lizheng said with a serious face: "Paying betrothal gifts! Who would pay betrothal gifts without consulting the girl's family? Do you think we will accept your actions if you damage the reputation of our girls like this? You are trying to ruin the reputation of our Nanxi Village girls!"

The Zhang family originally thought that as long as they offered the betrothal gift, the Su family would definitely marry the girl into the Zhang family. But now it seems that this hard approach is not going to work, so they said in a roundabout way: "How does the head of the village know that we haven't discussed it before! Dengke of our family has already made an agreement with Su Yitong. Otherwise, we wouldn't have offered the betrothal gift like this. You see, Dengke of our family and Su Yitong are a perfect match, a talented man and a beautiful woman. This is a great marriage."

The implication is that now that things have come to this, Su Yitong's reputation is already like this, and only by marrying into our Zhang family can we have the best of both worlds. Our Zhang family is also worthy of the Su family, so the marriage is settled.

Before Zhou Lizheng could speak, Su An Dong, who had rushed home, said, "My sister will never marry in this life. I will support her for the rest of her life, but she will never marry a shameless person like you."