The separation of the Zheng family was too sudden. If someone hadn't seen the clan leader and the clan elders all went to the Zheng family, Zheng Shanqing and Zheng Shuiqing were moving out in big and small bags, and then fighting in the house of Zheng Wu's uncle's house, the people in the village would have to wait until the next day to know.

It is logical that parents and parents generally do not separate their families unless they are seriously incompatible with each other, and they are frustrated all day long, and the elderly are forced to helplessly propose to separate their families. The relationship between the three brothers of the Zheng family is not good, but no one has ever heard of the fact that the family will suddenly become divided. Those who are flirting will have gossips.

The best gossip targets are naturally Zheng Shanqing and Zheng Shuiqing who were separated.

Perhaps they wanted to disgust Zheng Lin, or perhaps they were jealous of failing to get benefits from Zheng Lin. When the villagers asked about the reason for the separation, the two answered very vaguely, but they thought they were smart and pointed the finger directly at Zheng Lin, implying that Zheng Lin had made a lot of money outside and could not tolerate their brothers, and drove them out in the cold winter.

For a moment, words that were very unfavorable to Zheng Lin were circulated in the village. The people who passed these words were not necessarily stupid. They easily believed the nonsense that Zheng Shanqing and Zheng Shuiqing said, but they could not control the jealousy deep in their hearts, making them ignore the true voice in their hearts and selectively determine that Zheng Lin was a cold-hearted and cold-hearted person without brothers and sisters.

Only in this way can they refute with confidence when others praise Zheng Lin for being capable and capable, “What if you have the ability? Isn’t it a rude brother’s heartless thing?”

Zheng Lin ignored the rumors in the village, or had no time to pay attention to them, and only focused on the auspicious day of going to the Sang family to propose marriage.

On that day, Meng came back from outside with a cold look and said to Zheng Lin: "The matchmaker who went to the Sang family to propose marriage has been found, and she will come tomorrow morning."

Zheng Lin's face showed a hint of joy. Seeing Meng's face being frozen purple, she said, "I'm here to go. Come back to your room to rest. I'll cook lunch for lunch."

Meng quickly waved his hand: "It's okay, it's okay, my mother is not cold, there is something I have to remind you."

When Zheng Lin heard this, he wondered: "What's the matter?"

Meng did not completely let go of Zheng Lin's son. She hesitated for a while before she carefully said: "Originally, I went to Sang's house to propose marriage tomorrow. You can't wait to do the engagement together. This was nothing, but it would be a bad idea to let people outside know about it in the future."

There is still a big difference between proposing marriage and formal engagement. Generally, if the woman does not refuse after the matchmaker comes to propose marriage, she will inquire about the man’s situation in the next period of time. If she thinks that the man’s conditions are good, she will respond to the matchmaker and then the two families will discuss engagement.

Zheng Lin and Sang Ye met each other privately, and they could save the proposal of marriage and go straight to the engagement. However, it would not be nice to spread. Others would think that the two of them had a private lesson first, which would inevitably lead to gossip.

Zheng Lin was a man after all, and he had no experience in this area. With Meng's reminder, he finally understood what was wrong.

But he didn't want to wait for another auspicious day to decide the marriage. He thought about it seriously and said, "Can you ask your cousin to be a matchmaker? In the future, someone will say that it was matched by cousin?"

Meng's eyes lit up: "I can, this method is excellent." If there is a matchmaker in the middle, you are not afraid of someone talking.

Zheng Lin's brows stretched out and said with a smile: "I will tell my cousin grandfather tomorrow, and I think there will be no problem."

Meng wanted to inquire about his future wife's character from his old relatives, so he took the initiative to say, "Mom, let's talk. Your cousin has suffered such a great crime, and she has never visited her. This time she will take a look together."

"Well, then I'll be fine." Zheng Lin nodded and nodded.

Meng returned to the room and sat down at the head of the bed, intending to rest for a while before cooking. Not knowing what she thought of, she stood up and walked towards the big wooden box in the corner.

The large wooden box maintains the original color of the wood, and the edges have been ground, and a piece is even missing in some places. It looks very worn and emits a faint musty smell of rotten wood.

It was just such a wooden box, with a big lock with a palm hanging on it. Meng took out a shiny key from his neck and inserted it into the big lock.

The keyhole opened the big lock with a light farewell and took out a small decorative box from the bottom of the box.

On the decorative box, there is a delicate small lock hanging.

Old Man Zheng, who came back from a walk, walked into the room and saw his wife standing by the wooden box, touching the small box that he had accidentally seen once, and asked, "What exactly does this box contain? Is it for you to be treasured for so many years?"

Meng came to her senses. She looked at Old Man Zheng without saying anything. She just held the box and came to the bedside, then took out another small key from her neck and carefully inserted the key into the small lock on the box.

With a "ding" sound, the small lock opened, attracting all the attention of Old Man Zheng and making him look forward to it inexplicably.

Meng gently opened the lid of the box, and a piece of delicate red silk appeared in his field of vision.

Seeing this, Old Man Zheng said with a hilarious cry: "It's been a piece of cloth for a long time! Even a piece of cloth can't be made of a child's bellyband. It's a pity that you've been hiding for so many years as if you were so cute."

When Meng heard this, she didn't know what to say. She helped to lift the red silk folded into pieces, slowly uncovered it layer by layer, revealing a warm and beautiful jade bracelet: "This is the heirloom of my mother's family. It was the day when I married you, and my mother handed it to me, and only passed on to the eldest daughter in the family."

Before he got married, Meng was the eldest daughter of the family, with two brothers and several younger brothers and sisters at the bottom. At that time, the Meng family lived a very hard life. Meng was almost half married and half sold to the Zheng family, so the betrothal gift given to the Zheng family could allow the eldest son of the Meng family to take back a foolish girl from the next village as his wife.

Perhaps because of this guilt, and the ancestral teachings of "passing on the son but not the daughter", Meng's mother, who originally wanted to use the jade bracelet to exchange for money, secretly stuffed the jade bracelet to her daughter on the day her eldest daughter got married.

Although Meng did not know why there were such valuable treasures in her impoverished family, she knew that the existence of the bracelet was revealed by other people in her parents' family or her in-laws, which would inevitably lead to consequences that she did not want to see.

Therefore, after marrying into the Meng family, she kept silent about the existence of the bracelet. No one knew that she had such a treasure in her hand. Even Old Man Zheng, who had been sleeping with her bed for decades, had only accidentally seen the box once, and he didn't know what it contained.

At this time, seeing the jade bracelet held in the palm of his wife's hand, Old Man Zheng grew up in surprise and did not come back to his senses for a long time. After he reacted, he couldn't help asking: "As you said, shouldn't this bracelet be passed to Chunxiang? What are you taking it out now?"

"This bracelet should be passed on to Chunxiang, but this child is as good as me and has no intention of being at all. He is married to such a cannibalistic family. I am worried that she will not give it to her if she can't keep it." Meng frowned and said his own difficulties, staring at the jade bracelet and continued, "Even if Chunxiang can keep it, she dares not wear it. It would be better to leave it to A Lin's wife, as it is our family's engagement."

It was either she said she pleased her future daughter-in-law or she used a bracelet to compensate her guilt for her eldest son. This jade bracelet could not be hidden in the box like this and never seen the light of day.

I gave A Lin’s wife, perhaps for the sake of this bracelet, it is worth it to support Chunxiang even when Chunxiang is being sophisticated by her in-laws.

Old Man Zheng didn't know what his wife was thinking. When she heard her say this, she thought of her daughter in a difficult situation. She sighed long: "Just give it, it's not in the hands of outsiders."

"I think so too. If A Lin's wife can give birth to a granddaughter for us in the future, then pass it on to her granddaughter." Meng rubbed the jade bracelet through the red silk, her eyes full of hope.

Speaking of granddaughter, Old Man Zheng's eyes lit up: "If this is true, I will have no regrets if I close my eyes immediately."

Meng's face changed, and he quickly spitted on the ground a few times, and said angrily: "What are you saying about these things on a great day? Where can you go to your in-laws tomorrow? You have to control your mouth and stop saying unpleasant words."

Old Man Zheng smiled and waved his hand, "I know, I know, you are just talking too much."

Meng shook her head, not wanting to pay attention to the old man anymore. She wrapped the jade bracelet back and put it in the decorative box. This time she just put a small lock on the head of the bed and did not put it back in the large wooden box.

Zheng Lin didn't know that his mother had not done anything for him

The wife who came prepared a token of marriage. After lunch, she returned to the room and took out the box for storing important items, placed the items inside on the table one by one, thinking about which one to give tomorrow.

He has been in the army for many years and has won many treasures. In addition to the rewards he received every time he won the enemy, there is also a part of the intercepted one from the opponent after defeating the enemy.

However, he was not the only one who rushed forward every time he fought, and most of the good things he got were given to his comrades who had been with him through life and death.

Before he retired from the army, he exchanged most of his treasures for silver, and gave them all to soldiers who were seriously disabled and had to retire but could not stand on their own. Therefore, until now, there are not many good things in his hands, and there are only a dozen pieces in total.

What is rare is that these ten pieces are all treasures, and it is enough for a householder who spends less than five taels of silver every year to spend more than ten or twenty years. If they are all exchanged for silver, it will be as large as hundreds or even thousands of taels.

Zheng Lin is not short of silver, so he never thought of changing these treasures he exchanged for silver with sweat and blood, and preparing to keep them for a thought. He took them out this time, and wanted to pick out the best one as the token of tomorrow's confidant.

After turning and choosing for a long time, Zheng Lin's hand finally landed on a dagger with a simple appearance. He pulled it gently, and the dagger came out. The mirror-like blade air conditioning reflected a firm side face. A little cold light condensed in the middle of the high burning blade on the blade, as if it was constantly flowing, as if even the air was a little cold.

This dagger was extraordinary and was taught by Zheng Lin's master when he was six years old. It was not only small and exquisite, but also cut iron like mud. When ordinary weapons were met, they could only be cut off.

This dagger has accompanied Zheng Lin for a full twenty years, and there is no shortage of blood during this period. It can be said that Zheng Lin’s most advantageous weapon and his closest companion.

Rubbing the back of the dagger, Zheng Lin's tone was filled with indescribable pleasure: "In the future, you will protect her for me when I am by her side!"

However, Zheng Lin did not expect that he could not give his most precious dagger to the most important woman in his life on tomorrow's happy day. When the window was knocked by the familiar "tuk tuk" sound again, a bad premonition surged in his heart.

"What, are you leaving now?" Meng looked at her son who had packed her bags and asked in disbelief: "What day will you forget tomorrow? Why are you leaving now? You won't get this marriage?"

Old Man Zheng also echoed: "What urgent matter is there to be done tomorrow, can't you do it? Why are you so anxious?"

If Zheng Lin could not leave? But the matter was too sudden and he could not help him. Even if he thought about the future, he could not disobey the order at this time. He had to say, "Dad, mother, the matter cannot be delayed urgently. If you pass by Lijia Village later, I will go to the Sang family to apologize. The engagement will continue, and I will work hard tomorrow."

When Meng heard this, she knew that her son could not be kept, and her face couldn't help but feel sad: "Don't worry about the engagement, your mother and your father will do it for you properly! Forget this time, if you get married in the future, you should avoid your daughter-in-law complaining in the future."

"I know, mom!" Zheng Lin nodded slowly, with a firm light flashing in his eyes: "If this trip goes smoothly, he will not run out for at most one or two years."

After hearing this, Meng was somewhat relieved, but she couldn't stop crying: "It's great that you can think like this, and I don't ask you to be more promising. As long as you are safe, I have no other hope."

Seeing this, Old Man Zheng, who was standing by, immediately interrupted: "Okay, okay, the child is going to go far. You are not crying well, so you can't make your child feel uneasy before leaving the house."

Meng was so afraid of this when she was old. Hearing this, he quickly wiped his tears with his sleeves and refused to cry again: "A Lin, I will take good care of this family for you. Don't worry about it outside. Don't betray yourself. Eat and drink. You must come back early, ah?"

"I know my mother, I will take good care of myself. I will come back at the latest at the end of the month to have the New Year's Eve dinner with my mother and father." Zheng Lin's heart was rarely filled with sadness after being reminded by her mother.

After the thousands of instructions from Old Man Zheng and Meng, Zheng Lin finally left with a bag. Not long after he left, he stopped and looked back for the first time.

, I saw the two elders keeping the posture he left, standing at the door and staring at him quietly.

Somehow, he had already been looking forward to coming back before he left. This was the first time he had left home. He had such a feeling, and it seemed not bad!

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I won't tell you if Xiao Linzi leaves again. A very important plot is missing in the middle, which is the one who was teased by a hooligan and chopped people with a knife. In order to make up for this plot, I had to get Xiao Linzi away first, otherwise I can't follow it.

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