The Love of Passerby A

Chapter 781 The best friend of the reborn daughter of the Duke's Mansion (52)

Zhou Tianyu looked at Madam Su and said seriously, "Madam Su, I have never been engaged."

As soon as these words were spoken, the three people present, Mrs. Su, Su Xiangran, and Qing'e, all looked at Zhou Tianyu in surprise.

"I don't even know where the two so-called fiancées came from?" Zhou Tianyu said with a wry smile, "I grew up with my grandfather, he was a good man, he believed everything others said.

When I was still young, someone came to my house with a "handwritten letter" from my parents, saying that my parents were engaged to his family.

When my grandfather saw that it was my father's handwriting, he agreed without giving it much thought, and didn't even send anyone to check the authenticity of the information.

After that, the son of that family lived in the capital for several years, ate and lodged in my house, and took the imperial examination, but failed. He wanted to take it again.

Perhaps Zhou Tianyu felt a little embarrassed, and it took him a long time to continue explaining.

It turned out that the family had no daughter at all, only this one son.

Although the marriage certificate was real, when Zhou Tianyu's father wrote it, the hostess of the family had just become pregnant. Zhou's father's original intention was: they would get married after they had a daughter, so he wrote this marriage certificate.

Later, the other party's family fell into poverty and left the capital.

His son had no money to go to Beijing for the imperial examination, so they set up this plan. In fact, they had already thought about it. When the Zhou family asked, they would find a girl to marry Zhou Tianyu.

Anyway, he succeeded in climbing up the social ladder, but he didn't expect that the food in the Zhou family was not very good. In addition, Zhou Wenyu's grandfather studied "fertilizer" at home every day. Later, he found out that although the Zhou family was an official in Beijing, they were just in charge of farming.

So the idea of ​​getting married was abandoned.

The main reason is that the food in Zhou family is poor.

When the man left Zhou's house, he said: "He is a Beijing official! He can't even afford a piece of meat. He is obviously just digging for food in the fields."

After such an embarrassing incident, Zhou Wenyu's grandfather couldn't say much, but the matter of the "grandson's wife" had already spread out, so he could only swallow his anger and say that Zhou Tianyu's fiancée had died of illness.

I didn't talk about breaking off the engagement because I was afraid that others would ask questions about the matter. By then, marrying a man would not be much better than having my fiancée die.

"What about the family that cheated you?" Su Xiangran suddenly wanted to know what happened next. "Are you guys just letting it go?"

"Oh! It's just a scam of some money, we don't care about that, let it go!" Zhou Tianyu said that, but then he remembered that the family seemed to have been deceived by his cousin to go out to sea to do business, and the whole family worked on the ship for free for several months.

"What about the other one?" Although Mrs. Su believed this explanation, she still had some doubts. "It can't be that both of them were deceived!"

"The emperor ordered me to manage the imperial farm for him, and later the eldest prince followed suit. He planted whatever I told the emperor to plant." Zhou Tianyu sighed softly, "After the prince knew about this, he didn't say anything, but he began to pay close attention to that matter."

After that, the eldest prince wanted to matchmake for Zhou Tianyu, but the other party proposed two candidates and both got married the next day.

At first Zhou Tianyu thought it was a coincidence, but when the eldest prince proposed a third person, that person "died of illness" not long after. Only half a month later, a person with a similar figure and appearance appeared in the eldest prince's mansion.

It is said that this happened when the eldest prince got drunk one day, so he could only take her into the palace as a concubine.

Not long after, rumors began to spread that Zhou Tianyu was unlucky in marriage.

In fact, the eldest prince still felt very guilty about the subsequent development of this matter. After all, it was he who accidentally fell into the trap of "certain people"!

However, in order to prevent such things from happening again, Zhou Tianyu simply reported the eldest prince to the emperor, accusing him of neglecting farm work, so that the two of them actually had a falling out.

After hearing these words, Madam Su suddenly asked, "So she is your eldest prince's man?"

"No, I'm the emperor's man." Zhou Tianyu didn't hesitate and stated his position directly, "I am only loyal to the emperor. Now that he is in his prime, it's too early to say anything."

"But after hearing what you said, I dare not marry my woman to you." Madam Su sighed, "Although our Su family has also established itself in the capital, you should also know that we don't have any background.

Otherwise, Xiaoran’s brother wouldn’t be just a minor official of the sixth rank, and he got there through his own efforts in passing the exams.

But from what you just said, it seems that marrying into your family is a bit too risky."

The higher the risk, the greater the reward.

However, Su Xiangran couldn't tell this to her mother. After all, in this era, taking a wrong step could lead to eternal damnation.

Zhou Tianyu was silent for a moment before he said, "I can't guarantee whether I will take sides in the future, but I will never put Xiao Ran in danger. Please give me a chance, Madam Su. I will do my best to be good to Xiao Ran."

"I usually just treat this kind of 'I will be good to so and so in the future' as a joke." Mrs. Su's expression began to become serious, "Any woman who marries for this usually ends up in a miserable situation.

After all, fireworks fade easily and people’s hearts change easily! You should think of something else useful to convince me! "