Chapter 194 Asking for Marriage
"General, you'd better rest for a while."
Liu Jie looked at his general's tired look and whispered advice.
"Have you asked anything yet?" Shen Wenchen put down the pen in his hand and looked up at Liu Jie.
"Not yet. Two of them want to commit suicide by swallowing medicine and have already removed their jaws. The mouths of the other three are quite hard, but they shouldn't last long."
Thinking of the miserable state of the five people in the dungeon, Liu Jie said respectfully.
"Okay, you go down first. Be more vigilant these days. The gathering is coming, and those fox tails should be exposed."
"yes."
Liu Jie bent down and bowed and left. When he saw him leaving the door, Shen Wenchen rubbed his swollen temples.
Although he followed Song Lian in his last life, he didn't know many things about Yancheng. The power of the former city lord of Yancheng was deeply intertwined, and he didn't know how many bugs were hidden underneath. General Zhang who was stationed here in his previous life also used it. It took a year and a half to clean up all the cancer in Yancheng.
Just as he was thinking about something, he heard a sparrow chirping. Looking at the window again, Ah-Dai was also looking at Shen Wenchen with his head tilted.
"Dumb, come here."
Shen Wenchen sat on a chair and waved to the window, signaling Dumb to come over.
The little sparrow is now fatter than it was two years ago. When she saw her master waving to her, she tilted her little head and looked at him. Then she opened her red beak and pecked her feathers to make sure that she was good enough. It was so beautiful that it fluttered and flew into Shen Wenchen's hand.
Seeing its ugly appearance, Shen Wenchen was a little amused. He just touched its head with his index finger and then took off the note from its paw.
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After telling stories to the three little children, Nanzhi lay on the bed in a daze after washing.
What should she do?
What will she do?
She doesn't know how to embroider, so she can't make money from it, and she's not a great chef. She can't open a restaurant, let alone cook some novel dishes. If she's doing some small business, A Niang and the others can't do it. The street where the stalls are set up already has no fewer than ten stalls.
As he thought about it, Nanzhi felt like his head was filled with mush.
Everything is difficult at the beginning, but at least she can make a start, what about her?
I can't even figure out the beginning.
The more I think about it, the more I can't sleep.
When Shen Wenchen came to Lin's house the next day, he saw two black groups under Nanzhi's eyes, as if he hadn't slept for three days and three nights.
"What are you doing here?" Nanzhi rubbed his sore eyes with a confused look on his face.
"Tell your father-in-law and mother-in-law about our important events." Shen Wenchen looked surprised. He remembered that he had told Nan Nan that he would come to the door today.
"ah?"
Nanzhi's head was empty. Did Shen Wenchen say that?
Simply because Shen Wenchen arrived early, Mother Lin and her two daughters-in-law hadn't even gone out yet, and the father and son who had just gone out were also chased back.
A family of ten were sitting in the main room, and they all looked at Shen Wenchen who was sitting in the middle of the main room.
"Wen Chen, what brings you here today?" Father Lin was thinking about going back to the shop to work, but he was a little curious when he saw his son-in-law and daughter, so he spoke as the head of the family.
"Father-in-law, my son-in-law is here to ask to marry Nan Nan."
Shen Wenchen didn't feel uncomfortable being stared at by them, but Nanzhi blushed at being stared at by his two sisters-in-law.
"What do you mean by this?" Lin's father was confused, asking to marry Fat Ya?
But weren’t they already married?
"Nannan has changed her body now..."
The Lin family already understood the rest without Shen Wenchen saying it.
Even if they knew she was Fat Ya, to others, she was just a girl who looked similar to Fat Ya.
If Fat Ya doesn't get a new household registration, it's hard to tell which acquaintances she will meet in the future.
"Then, what should we do?" Mother Lin was a little worried.
After all, if you want to live in Yancheng for a long time, you have to settle here, otherwise you will be cleared out of Yancheng after three years.
"My son-in-law can handle the household registration, but Nannan still needs to have an identity."
Shen Wenchen said directly that the household registration can be settled, but one must first communicate with the father-in-law and mother-in-law's family to avoid mistakes in the future.
"Aniang couldn't sleep all night because of the pain of losing her daughter. Later, she met Fat Ya who was in trouble outside the city. Because Fat Ya looked like her sister, she recognized her as her godmother and took her back to Yancheng."
After Lin Ercheng finished speaking, the eyes of everyone in the hall lit up.
"A few days ago, my mother-in-law happened to be driving a donkey cart to the Mother-in-law Temple outside the city. She said she met her on the roadside."
Lin Yicheng clapped his hands and said quickly.
"When I picked it up, Fatty forgot about it and was wearing a blue cloth."
Chen Qiulan thought for a while before speaking.
"After resting at home for three days, three children got separated, so we went out in a panic to look for them!"
Each person gradually completed the lie one by one, and the whole family heaved a sigh of relief.
Lin's father waved his hands and was about to get up, but when he saw his family members looking at Shen Wenchen, he couldn't help but be startled.
Isn’t this all said and done?
Why don't you go out?
Business stopped?
"Wen Chen, you want to marry Fat Ya, but are you serious?"
Mother Lin had a smile on her face, but there was a bit of sadness in her eyes.
Even though she knew that her son-in-law was sincere to her daughter, after all, now that he had become a general, why was there any need to be tied to her daughter?
There are countless wealthy businessmen in the city who want to marry their daughters to him.
Like Osmanthus fragrans, she was afraid that her daughter would suffer hardship if she got married. Apart from anything else, her family couldn't get along just because they were well-matched.
"Mother-in-law, my son-in-law is serious." Shen Wenchen looked sincere.
"Then why don't you ask a matchmaker to come to your door?"
"Now that the situation is forcing me, I don't dare to be too showy." As Shen Wenchen spoke, he handed the box wrapped in red cloth in his hand to his father-in-law and mother-in-law.
Looking at the box that was handed to them, Father Lin and Mother Lin looked at each other, took it and opened it.
There was a neat stack of banknotes in the box, as well as several land deeds.
Looking at the pattern on the banknote, Lin's father was stunned for a moment before looking at Shen Wenchen, who looked sincere.
"Father-in-law and mother-in-law, those are my son-in-law's betrothal gifts. I hope my parents-in-law will agree to this marriage."
Father and Mother Lin were silent for a while, then closed the lid and put the box aside.
"Then when are you going to marry my fat girl?"
"June at the latest." Shen Wenchen paused and said again.
"My son-in-law is currently busy with official duties. I hope my parents-in-law will forgive me."
"What do you mean?"
Mother Lin frowned.
Since it won't be until June, why send something now?
Nanzhi already understood what he meant.
This dog man wants to set himself up!
But there was no order from his parents and no words from the matchmaker, so how could it count if he just brought the betrothal gift alone?
If he said this, he would definitely be laughed at.
Even if you want to take a concubine, you still have to go to the Yamen to settle down, right?
"My son-in-law wanted to wait for Nannan's household registration to be completed, so he went with her to get the marriage certificate."
When Shen Wenchen said this, he was looking at Nanzhi.
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