Crossing the Passenger Sacrifice

Three miles outside the Xiaonan Gate of Kyoto, there is a Suyun Bridge. Near the bridge lives a resident of the prefecture of Li Lian, the special inspector.

Li Lian's youngest daughter, Li Huoyue, was now skillfully calculating the profit surplus of the outer village last month on a calculator.

"Did he just say that he has a lover?" Li Huoyue took the time to glance at the servant who came to report. After observing the other's expression, he said, "He should have said something else. Hurry up and tell me. I'm busy."

The servant at the side was trembling with fear. The Madam had not been at home recently, and all matters, big and small, were left to the Young Lady to take care of. Otherwise, he could have reported this matter to the Madam.

My future son-in-law is really something! We are going to get married in a month, but he chooses to say these things at this time. It's really disgusting.

"Lord Sang also said..."

The servant thought that he would never open the door for Lord Sang again. He gritted his teeth and conveyed the words that Sang Fuqing had left for Li Huoyue:

"I just want to be with his sweetheart for the rest of his life."

Li Huoyue paused pressing on the calculator. A couple for a lifetime?

As if the key words were triggered, Li Huoyue smiled speechlessly. He hadn't heard this sentence for a long time.

"Please, the daughter of the Li family, stop having high hopes for the love of Mr. Sang!"

"He won't have the slightest sympathy for our young lady."

"I hope the daughter of the Li family can know herself!"

"Don't use those women's tricks on him or his sweetheart. Know your limits!"

Since the Sang family was a poor family that had fallen on hard times, they were able to settle in Kyoto a few years ago thanks to Sang Fuqing's success in winning the imperial examination. Even the house they lived in was rented, so the family naturally could not spare much money to prepare for a grand wedding.

The Li family only has this one daughter. After discussion, the Li family was afraid of wronging their daughter, so since last year when they calculated a good day, the whole family has been busy making arrangements, leaving the Sang family with almost nothing to worry about.

Seeing that all preparations were about to come to an end, everything from the dowry, wedding dress and the route for the bride-receiving personnel to the restaurant banquet and arrangements for the neighbors around the Sang Mansion had been arranged one by one.

Even distant relatives and friends have sent out gold-stamped invitations. Is this the time to say you want to be with someone for the rest of your life?

"He is sick, right? Who should have the self-awareness?" Li Huoyue continued to settle the accounts, complained a few words, and then sent away the servant who was so nervous that he was having difficulty breathing.

Li Huoyue calculated the account book in his hand, and also calculated how to kick out this disrupted marriage with the least loss.

The Sang Mansion is useless and can no longer be kept.

Fortunately, the two have never met each other and have no feelings for each other.

At most, she just glanced a few more times when Sang Fuqing, who won the third place in the imperial examination that year and proudly rode a horse to parade through the streets on behalf of the top scorer, took over the throne.

Sang Fuqing was indeed good-looking at that time. He was a proud and humble young man with a vigorous and energetic look in his eyes. He was so dazzling that people could not take their eyes away.

Li Huoyue rubbed his eyes. It was raining heavily under the gloomy sky outside.

In such heavy rain, unless you have an umbrella, you will get soaked no matter how beautiful you look.

Sang Fuqing, who left "grand words" to Li Huoyue, had an umbrella, but the umbrella was printed with the mark of the Li family.

He held up the newly made oil-paper umbrella from the Li Mansion, hid under the umbrella in a blue shirt, and walked back to the Sang Mansion angrily.

The Sang family had no spare money to buy a horse, and even if they did, there was no place to keep it, so he could only walk home.

Thinking back to what happened to me at the Li Mansion, I had only felt nervous and guilty when I went there today, but now I was only filled with anger.

When he thought that in a month he would have to marry the unruly daughter of the Li family from that mansion, he became even angrier.

Originally, their marriage was just like that of other people, they followed their parents' orders and the matchmaker's words and lived an ordinary life.

But now his heart is shaken by another girl and he can no longer endure such an ordinary marriage.

The girl's name was Xu Jiaoer, the most special girl he had ever met.

Before he met Xu Jiaoer, he had never thought that a woman could pass the imperial examination with multiple levels of selection and win the first prize in one fell swoop.

What a smart woman! He studied so hard and forgot to eat and sleep, but in the end he could only get a third place in the imperial examination.

This woman is not only talented, but also courageous.

How many women in this world can immediately admit their female identity when the emperor notices it?

She also said that she just wanted to stand up for women all over the world and had no intention of challenging the imperial power. The reason she could meet the emperor today was entirely because of his good governance, which allowed a woman like her to have the opportunity to come here. Even if the emperor killed her immediately, she would feel that she had no regrets in her life.

The emperor was very pleased after hearing this. After thinking for a moment, he not only did not punish Xu Jiaoer, but also allowed her the title of top scholar.

From then on, his beloved daughter became the first female number one scholar in the Southern Kingdom!

Jiao'er was so excited that she could hardly hide her inner joy, and she actually composed more than ten poems on the spot to present to the emperor. Although some of them were memorized from those of her predecessors, many of them sounded very fresh and showed her talent.

"When the great roc soars with the wind, it soars up to ninety thousand miles!"

"Happiness and suffering are mutually dependent."

"The mountains are dark blue in the distance, the moon is long, and the evening clouds and autumn shadows are reflected in Xiaoxiang."

"The lonely smoke is straight in the desert, and the sun is setting in the long river!"

How can one not be moved by such a well-read and open-minded woman? !

But Jiao'er said that she was wholeheartedly in love with Lord Sang Fuqing, and prayed that she could be with him for the rest of her life.

In this case, Sang Fuqing should indeed give Jiao'er a satisfactory answer.

So he came to Li's house, rejected the love of Li's daughter, and stopped this wrong marriage that was about to happen!

But this fierce woman actually avoided me!

It was difficult for him to wait in Li's house for a long time, and he had to consider his words over and over again.

He knew that Li Lian had only one daughter, who had five outstanding older brothers. The key point was that Li Lian was a notoriously henpecked husband, and his wife loved this youngest daughter the most.

Sang Fuqing had never seen this daughter, but according to his experience, growing up in such an environment, this girl must have been spoiled and become domineering and unreasonable. She would probably bully her father and brothers at home, but would start to act like a spoiled child when she walked outside.

So what would he say to convince this woman? What would he say if she started crying and making a scene and was unreasonable?

He thought while waiting, and came up with several ways to respond, but the other party didn't show up at all! !

He asked the servants to urge them again, but the servants all looked embarrassed and said that their mistress was very busy, and their words implied that Sang Fuqing should leave first.

But what else can a woman living in a secluded house have to do except feeding fishes and embroidering flowers?

It's clearly an excuse made out of fear.

Sang Fuqing felt that since he was loved by a special woman like Xu Jiaoer, he should be even more attractive to the daughter of the Li family who was about to marry him.

But he waited and waited in vain. He guessed that the daughter of the Li family was being petty and making trouble. He hated the way the noble ladies in Kyoto acted the most. They were not as frank as Jiao'er at all.