AWB Chapter 246 Brother, do you feel something is wrong?
Chapter 246 Brother, do you feel something is wrong?
Chapter 246 Brother, do you feel something is wrong?
Hearing her say that, Ye Feiyu had no choice but to take it, but he only took one of them and returned the other to her. "Give it to Qingmei yourself later, I won't help you get it. Don't say please or no, we are siblings, we don't talk about that, just tell me what to do, I will do my best. As for the capital to marry a wife... Yan'er, don't mention this matter anymore."
Ye Wenyan was stunned, "What do you mean? Why didn't you mention it? Isn't my eldest brother engaged?"
Ye Feiyu sighed, "Yes, we are engaged. I have dealt with the other party's family several times before. The parents were always polite and courteous. But I don't know why, after the earth dragon turned over, I went to their house twice, but they didn't even let me in. Their attitude was cold and indifferent, like a stranger." After thinking about it, he added, "They are worse than strangers. I just avoid them."
"Why?" She was puzzled. "What did my brother do at her house?"
"I just want to see if the family is okay and if anyone is injured." Ye Feiyu said, "After the earth dragon turned over, the families in the capital who are close to each other will visit each other. This is human nature, but I don't know why her family has such an attitude, so I think there must be some other explanation for this marriage."
Ye Wenyan pondered for a while, then asked Ye Feiyu: "Which family is your brother engaged to? What's his name? What's his official rank?"
Ye Feiyu was stunned, "You don't know?"
She was a little embarrassed, "I...maybe I forgot." After thinking about it again, she shook her head, "It's not that I forgot, I can remember everything that happened before, I just really don't know, my parents didn't tell me about it, and my family didn't make a big fuss about it."
Ye Feiyu sighed again, "Maybe Daddy and Mommy thought you were still young at that time, so they didn't tell you about this." She felt a little embarrassed, "Maybe it's not because I'm young, maybe they just think I'm not very stable, I don't care about family matters, and I only care about Prince Su's Mansion. So it doesn't matter whether they tell me or not, don't blame me, brother."
Ye Feiyu reached out and rubbed her head. "Don't blame me. Our Yan'er was very good in the past and is still very good now. I am very relieved to see you sitting here and talking. My marriage was arranged by my father three years ago. It was arranged with the daughter of the Yu family in Lin'an City. She is two years younger than me and her name is Yu Xuanji."
"The Yu family?" Ye Wenyan thought for a while, then shook his head. "I've never heard of them, but I remember when we were discussing this marriage, although my parents didn't mention the other party's family in front of me, it seemed that my mother was not very satisfied. She was a little disgusted with their low-ranking family and even argued with my father about it. So how did they get it settled later? What rank is their family?"
"Sixth rank." Ye Feiyu said, "Her father Yu Changwen is the head of the Ministry of Justice, and he is working under Minister Jiang. Yu Xuanji is the legitimate daughter of the Yu family, and she has three concubine sisters." "Head of the Ministry of Justice? Sixth rank?" Ye Wenyan frowned. Although she was not very sensitive about official positions, she did not think that it was difficult for people from small official households to marry into high-ranking families. But she had such an idea because she came from the later generations, and class status was no longer clearly divided, but in this era people still valued it very much.
The eldest son of a first-rank general's mansion betrothed to the daughter of a sixth-rank official. Normally, a sixth-rank official could not afford to marry into a family like the general's mansion, and their children rarely played together. Ministry of Justice, could it be that Minister Jiang arranged this marriage? Did he simply think that the Yu family was a decent family and their daughter was virtuous? If so, she would really look up to the father she had never met.
But her intuition told her that this matter might not be as beautiful as she thought.
Ye Feiyu continued to talk to her: "Mother is indeed not happy, but it's not that she thinks that the family background is inappropriate. She just thinks that father is too cautious and wronged his child. He doesn't let me take the palace exam, and he doesn't let me marry a girl of the same social status. How long will he be so cautious? But father also has his reasons. At the beginning, the Ye family held military power and was feared by the court for a long time. He often said that if the Ye family continued to prosper, the court would definitely think it was a great threat. So father didn't let me take the palace exam, let alone practice martial arts, and he didn't even want me to be a civil servant. In the future, at most I can be granted a title of official, and it would be best if I live a mediocre life. So he likes the Yu family, because the Yu family has a small official position and it is an idle position. The daughter of the Yu family is said to be quiet and virtuous. Father met her once and felt very satisfied."
Ye Wenyan was a little angry after hearing this. "You only met her once? How can you tell she's good? If you meet her once, even if you are willing, you can pretend to be gentle and virtuous, not to mention that it's just hearsay. That means he didn't even tell her whether she was gentle and virtuous that one time he met her. It's even possible that he didn't even talk to her. He just glanced at her from a distance and could at most tell whether she looked decent. As for her personality, he has no idea at all."
She waved her hand when she said this, "I'm not targeting that young lady from the Yu family. I don't know her, so I don't want to make any comments about her. I'm just targeting our father." Ye Wenyan tried hard to recall that father. She could recall many things, but she didn't have a very deep impression.
Because my father was away all year round, and especially in the last few years when my grandfather was old and in poor health, many military affairs were handed over to him. He became increasingly busier and had few holidays to return to Beijing.
Whenever he had time to go back to Beijing, he would either accompany Mu or live in the camp outside Beijing, and he would also set aside time to catch up with old friends in Beijing. These children had too little contact with their father.
"Brother, how many times a year can you see father?"
Ye Feiyu didn't understand why she asked that, but still answered, "Three times at most. Once during the Chinese New Year, once during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and once in the summer one year, but no more than that. And every time he came back, he would only stay at home for three to five days at most, and then he would move to the camp outside Beijing. It is said that I saw him more often when I was a child. My mother often said that my father liked to hold me in his arms, and he would even hold me in his lap when eating. Unfortunately, I was too young at the time and have no memory of it at all."
"So, we actually don't know much about that father, right?"
Ye Feiyu frowned, "Yan'er, what do you mean by that?"
She shook her head, "No, it's just that there are some things that I didn't think much of before, but now I think that many of them don't stand up to scrutiny." She gave Ye Feiyu a few examples - "For example, the old lady wanted to take Ye Lianmian away. Would he let her take her away? She's his daughter, and your mother didn't agree at the time. Moreover, you were not allowed to take the palace examination. You passed the provincial examination and the imperial examination. You are obviously a good candidate. Why didn't you take the palace examination? Is it because the court was afraid of the Ye family? If the court was really afraid, then they would not give you fame and honor, and just not let you pass the palace examination. As for him suppressing your future like this?"
The more she spoke, the more excited she became. "Father was afraid many times, but grandfather was able to ask for a marriage for me with the Sixth Prince, and he was only thinking about fulfilling my wish. And the most crucial point, a question I have always wanted to ask, who told him that if we want to keep the Ye family peaceful, we can't stand out too much? It definitely wasn't grandfather, right?" Ye Feiyu was also stunned. His sister asked one question after another, and he began to doubt his life at the end.
Yes, who told my father to suppress them, the children? Although my grandfather knew that the Ye family could not have too many outstanding children, he also remembered what my grandfather said, children have their own blessings, and if they want to have a bright future, they can take the imperial examinations. Even if they really have the ability to lead troops in battle, it is not impossible for them to study the art of war and wield swords and guns.
What the court thinks is its business. If they really don't want to use the Ye family anymore, they will naturally remove the Ye family's children's papers and will naturally not be interested in the Ye family's children's abilities. But these eliminations should be done by the court. The Ye family doesn't have to do all these things themselves and ruin the future of their children and grandchildren.
Why did their father suppress them so severely?
Seeing that Ye Feiyu didn't say anything, Ye Wenyan raised another key point: "Brother, these ideas were instilled into father by the old lady, right? Then I boldly guess that the eldest sister's marriage is not that good? What rank is the family she promised to marry?" Ye Feiyu told her: "Fifth rank."
She almost laughed out of anger, "But this is really marrying down. Men can marry lower, but women generally have to marry higher. Even if they don't marry too high, at least they have to marry someone who is not too different from their own family. Of course, if my elder sister and the son of that fifth-rank official are really in love, or if that young man is a decent person with a bright future, it is indeed worth considering. Just ignore what I said before. But brother, tell me, when my father arranged this marriage for my elder sister, did he consider these things?"
Ye Feiyu shook his head in embarrassment. "No, this marriage was not even chosen by my father, but by the old lady. I heard them talking at the time. The old lady said that if Qingmei married too high, the Ye family would be in danger, so she must marry low, the lower the better, so that it can be regarded as an attitude to the court and prove to the court that the Ye family has no ambitions. The old lady also said that it is easier to control a low-class family. After Qingmei marries, she will have the final say in the family and no one will give her a hard time."
As he spoke, he recalled the past events, and then added, "In fact, it was not only Qingmei's marriage, my marriage was also arranged by the old lady, and she used almost the same words, but my father just listened to her."
"Brother, do you feel something is wrong?"
Ye Feiyu sighed bitterly, "I know what you mean, and I understand it in my heart. Father listens too much to the old lady and never cares about any request. As long as the old lady mentions it, he will nod his head, including our marriage. But mother said that there is a reason why father is like this..."