Jade engagement

From folk stories, we can know the cultural background and humanistic feelings at that time.

The following is the jade engagement I recommend for you:

Zhang, who runs a rice shop, and Li, who runs a silk shop, are good friends who talk about everything. They often drink tea and play games together in their spare time. This year, the two families have added a baby one after another. When they are busy with the full moon wedding banquet, they finally have time to talk together.

Li added another daughter, named. Knowing that Zhang had added a boy, he said to Zhang, "Brother Zhang, you and I are brothers, and we are both businessmen. It is appropriate to get married. How about getting married? " Zhang shopkeeper was overjoyed and quickly said, "Great!"

Boss Li wanted to write down the engagement in paper and ink, but Zhang stopped him and said, "Wait a minute, I have a piece of jade from the field. Why not ask Lao Cheng to carve the engagement on jade? " Li shopkeeper even said it was a good idea to carve an engagement on jade, which was really the first time. No one has done it or heard of it. This kind of jade engagement is not easy to break, but it can last forever and become a beautiful talk.

Zhang shopkeeper immediately went home to get jade, and went to Cheng Lao's blind jade carving shop with Li shopkeeper. Cheng Lao was blind all his life and carved things on jade. His eyes are half blind, so he can't recognize who it is before him. But when carving jade, his small eyes can shine brightly, and no one can but admire the exquisiteness of the work.

Cheng Lao blindly took the jade and looked at it. It is as big as a mirror and has a good color. He immediately cut the jade from the middle, split it in two, and then polished and carved it into two engagements. The next day, when the shopkeepers Zhang and Li Lai picked up the goods, Cheng Lao said half jokingly, "My thin gold character is unique now. I just need to look at it and know it's from me. I'm an indelible witness. This witness didn't come for nothing. You have to treat me to a wedding banquet. "

Zhang and Li are engaged, and both of them are very satisfied. They immediately took the old blind man Cheng to the best pub and had a nice drink.

In this way, ten years passed. This year, Zhang shopkeeper had a distant relative who was an official in the court and was promoted to be a big official in charge of grain transportation. His task is to transport agricultural grain. The public grain transported to Beijing is mainly the grain collected by the local government. As for the insufficient part, the merchants are entrusted to buy from the private sector. Zhang's relatives gave him the job of supplementing farmland in Jiangnan area. This is a heavy job. A few years later, Zhang shopkeeper made a fortune, moved out of the old street and set up a big manor in the suburbs. Because of busy business and living far away, except on holidays, Zhang shopkeeper rarely walks with Li shopkeeper.

Zhang's son, Zhang Xuejia, is a handsome man. In my father's company, he is also a good businessman. When Zhang saw that his son had reached marriageable age, he sent a message to Li, intending to get married another day, and asked his in-laws what they thought. I didn't expect the shopkeeper Li to reply to a letter immediately, and let people bring it to the shopkeeper Zhang. Zhang shopkeeper read the letter, in which he tactfully proposed to break off an engagement. This worried the shopkeeper, and immediately ordered to prepare a sedan chair and go straight to the Li family.

When I arrived at the Li family, the shopkeeper Zhang couldn't wait to ask, "Brother Li, I hope you will forgive me for not doing well, but my child's marriage is no joke." Boss Li said solemnly, "Brother Zhang, I'm not kidding. However, it's not your fault, it's not that you didn't do well, it's that I didn't do well. When we got engaged, you and I were both small businessmen, so we were very suitable. It's different now. You are a red top businessman, and I am a poor family. I'm afraid it will insult the dignity of your big family. I'd better divorce as soon as possible. "

Zhang shopkeeper in distress situation, his man didn't mean to look down on women, but now women dislike this man. However, after so many years of communication, Zhang shopkeeper knows the nature of Li shopkeeper very well. He recognized the implication of Li's boss, that is, the Zhang family didn't help the Li family get rich together. Where on earth does this in-laws want to break off their marriage? In my heart, the shopkeeper Zhang immediately said, "Brother Li, if luck comes, you will make a fortune soon. Don't jump to conclusions. Anyway, the child is still young, and it is not too late to wait for another two years. "

At home, Zhang shopkeeper thought about how to help the Li family do business, reasoning, really let him think of a way.

Not long ago, Zhang shopkeeper visited relatives and friends and met Suzhou Weaving Cao at the banquet. The two had a good talk. Zhang shopkeeper thought, why don't you introduce Li shopkeeper to Lord Cao? Boss Li used to run a silk shop, and asked Mr. Cao to help him find some business.

Manager Li is very clever. After knowing Lord Cao, I tried my best to curry favor with him. Lord Cao entrusted Li's shopkeeper to buy silks and satins. Those silks and satins are all fine silk products, and the quantity purchased every year is redundant in case of emergency. After the year-end settlement, the surplus silks and satins will be resold to the owner Li's silk shop at a low price. In addition to getting a high commission, the owner Li Can also took this opportunity to make a fortune. In less than two years, the shopkeeper Li has also developed.

Li, a wealthy businessman, also moved his family away from the old street and built a big manor by the river, which is more magnificent than Zhang's big manor.

Zhang shopkeeper thought, now that she is getting married, Li shopkeeper should have no excuse, right? Sure enough, the shopkeeper Li readily agreed, chose the auspicious day of the ecliptic three months later, and then was busy preparing a dowry for her daughter.

It's really a surprise. In less than two months, something happened to the Zhang family. North Korean gangs clashed, and senior officials in charge of transporting grain were caught by opponents to take bribes and participate in publishing books. Senior officials were kicked out of their homes and won the blame. Because the shopkeeper Zhang made friends with the high officials, he was implicated in prison. The Zhang family intercedes everywhere. After half a year, Zhang, the shopkeeper, was released, and the huge property was almost hollowed out, and the shop was confiscated, leaving a big manor with an empty shell. Unexpectedly, after half a lifetime of hard work, the accumulated huge wealth vanished in an instant, and the shopkeeper Zhang was sad and angry and could not afford to get sick.

With such a big change in the family, Zhang's shopkeeper was ill, so Mrs. Zhang thought of an idea to let her son get married and celebrate. But what I didn't expect was that the owner Li refused. He said to Zhang Xuegu, "My dear nephew, I got engaged because my family was right, and later I was going to get married because my family was right. But, you see, the gap between our two families is too big now. I'm afraid this pro can't get married. "

Zhang Xuegu saluted: "Grandfather, on the day of the engagement, the birthright of you and my brother-in-law has been decided, and this condition was not stated in the engagement. Now, although there has been a sudden change in my family, I will make a comeback. I will never let Colette suffer with me. " Boss Li waved and said impatiently, "Don't call me grandpa yet. I tell you, I am such a child, and I will never let her suffer with you. " Tell you what, I'll give you a year. If you are still so poor, I will give my daughter another kiss. "

The shopkeeper Li has gone back on his word, and the Zhang family is helpless. Now the Zhang family is down and out, and there is no chance to go to the yamen. Go home and tell my father that Zhang shopkeeper didn't expect Li shopkeeper to be such a person, so he swallowed and died.

After the funeral, Zhang Xuegu sold the manor at a low price, set up a facade and opened a small rice shop. Although he is flexible, hardworking and practical, and his business is booming, it is still an unreachable dream to catch up with the glory of the Zhang family.

Li, the shopkeeper, guessed that the Zhang family would not improve much and quietly asked someone to be a matchmaker. One day, the matchmaker came to the door and wanted to tell Li Tianxiang to three boys outside the Zizhulin King outside the city. When she knew this, she held a jade engagement and cried, "I was born in a Zhang family, but I died a ghost." If the father wants to break off his marriage and the daughter is unfilial, he can only jump into the river in front of the door and make his life clear. " Li, the shopkeeper, pointed at his daughter angrily and complained, "I'm doing it for your own good." I don't want you to suffer. How can you be so unreasonable! "

Li Furen helped her daughter to speak: "Sir, Zhang Xuegu is a handsome man and a good businessman. Where can he find such a good son-in-law? Although his family is poor now, our family is not poor. Our family has only one daughter, and the Zhang family has only one son. When the two families get together after marriage, we can help our children get rich. Besides, the big business of our family is not going to be handed over to our daughter in the end. "

Boss Li scolded: "I have never seen such a black sheep with an elbow turned outward!" " "

There was a quarrel at home when suddenly an official came, saying that Mr. Cao had sent a message to take back the job of purchasing silk. Cao's adult was looking at the relationship between senior officials of grain transportation and Zhang shopkeeper, and asked Li shopkeeper to board the palace to buy this boat. Now that both of them are gone, we will take them back and transfer them to others.

Shopkeeper Li suddenly lost his official position. Fortunately, the money he earned in recent years is still there, but without the prestige of the red top businessman, there are still some big deals, which are affordable.

On this day, shopkeeper Li went to the south of the city to meet his friends. Suddenly, he saw the smoke billowing in the west of the city and guessed that it seemed to be his manor. He hurried home and saw the manor submerged in the raging fire. People nearby are holding buckets to put out the fire, but where can they be saved? Li Furen didn't have time to take out anything, and her daughter Li Tianxiang didn't take anything except the decree in her arms.

Li, the shopkeeper, is always a cautious person. He only keeps stock in the shop and puts a little change in the accounting room. Except for the money for turnover, he kept it at home, and all the others were changed into silver tickets, which were hidden in the secret room with jewelry and antiques. Now, the praise of the whole China is reduced to ashes, and the efforts of this life will be in vain. Thought of here, the shopkeeper Li was sad and angry, and fell to the ground at once.

Hurriedly pinched the shopkeeper Li, and when Li woke up, the people had already dispersed, leaving only their family of three, and there was an occasional "crack" in the ash pile next to him. When shopkeeper Li saw his daughter holding the imperial seal in her arms, she was furious and scolded, "You bastard, you don't rob property." Considering that he only has some goods left in the store now, even the Zhang family is inferior, he can't help crying again.

At this time, the Zhang family came with people. He went out of town to collect the accounts today, and when he heard that there was a fire in the Li family, he hurried back. He took shopkeeper Li and his family to stay at his house first, and then take a long-term view. Li shopkeeper suddenly became a down and out person, with nowhere to live, so he had to take his wife and daughter to live in the Zhang family temporarily.

Li, the shopkeeper, is disheartened and too lazy to take care of business. In ancient times, things in shops were under the care of Zhang Xuezhao, who smoked his pipe and basked in the sun gloomily every day. On this day, he came to Cheng Lao's blind jade carving shop and said, "Brother, do me a favor and tell Mrs. Zhang that you can choose a day to marry your child. I'm ashamed to bring it up. The Zhang family probably saw me sitting there, and it was difficult to talk. You are a witness to the engagement, so I can only entrust you to go. "

Cheng Lao quickly agreed, and then complained, "Boss Li, speaking of blaming you, a good marriage has to be like this, which really answers the old saying that' good things grind more'."

Li shopkeeper waved his hand and said, "You're welcome. My daughter just wants to marry the Zhang family. When she took chestnuts from the fire, she only produced a decree. Think more prestigious than my greedy father. She wanted to marry the Zhang family so much that she got it. "

After Zhang Xuegu and Li Tianxiang got married, the two families came together in an appropriate way. Fortunately, Zhang Xuejia is a filial son-in-law who is considerate to the shopkeeper and his wife Li. Soon, a son was added to the family, and the shopkeeper Li coaxed his grandson all day, in a good mood. Zhang Xuegu's business is getting bigger and bigger. In less than ten years, it surpassed Zhang and Li.

Unexpectedly, Li, the shopkeeper, stopped worrying about business and business got better and better until he was 80 years old. Li Furen, a doddering old man, cried on his deathbed and said, "Old man, I'm really sorry. When you leave, I can't hide it from you. About the original fire, in fact, our NianLia has quietly hidden the property at home, just to promote the marriage of her daughter and daughter-in-law, deliberately keeping it from you ... "

Li shopkeeper smiled and said, "in fact, I have guessed. My uncle's business has been doing well in recent years Without your secret support, how could it be so easy? One day, I coaxed my little grandson and looked at him naked, but very cheerful. Suddenly I had an epiphany and looked down on everything. No matter how much money you earn, you will lose if you say no, as long as you are nice. It is because I have figured this out that the rest of my life has been so stable. "

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