0p0 Chapter 156 A Happy Marriage
Chapter 156 A Happy Marriage
Chapter 156 A Happy Marriage
"Crack, crack..." Li Hechen brandished the whip in his hand and lashed it at Sheng Liang.
Sheng Liang remained defiant, declaring with righteous indignation, "Kill me! Even if it means going through fire and water, nothing can stop my love for Li Yajing!"
Li Yajing stood to the side, wiping away tears of grievance.
Wang Wenzhou comforted her, "Ya Jing, don't cry. I just realized that Xiao Liang might be mentally ill! Don't worry, I'll definitely beat him to death this time."
Wang Wenzhou gave Sheng Lan a wink.
"Sigh..." Sheng Lan sighed resentfully. Her nephew was a good-for-nothing, a complete scoundrel. She didn't want Li Yajing to marry Sheng Liang and jump into a fire pit. But Wang Wenzhou kept trying to match them up, and she didn't dare go against his wishes, so she could only go over and speak up for Sheng Liang.
"We can't kill her!" Sheng Lan said seriously, "What if Ya Jing gets pregnant and the child is born without a father? That would be a tragedy!"
Wang Wenzhou secretly patted Sheng Lan's butt, and thought, "Lazy Lan's words are brilliant."
Sheng Lan glanced at Wang Wenzhou with a resentful look. She had a feeling that Wang Wenzhou was probably behind Sheng Liang's actions. If Sheng Liang really liked Li Yajing, he could have told her, and she would have tried her best to bring them together. Why did he have to create this mess?
"Waaah..." Li Yajing's mind was in complete turmoil. All she could do was cry, as if she had lost her mind and had no idea what to do.
Wang Wenzhou said with a smile, "Ya Jing, although Xiao Liang has some mental issues, he truly loves you. Look, this isn't the first time he's been whipped. One lash and his skin is torn open. I think if he didn't love you, he wouldn't have done that."
"Brother-in-law... but..." Li Yajing's face immediately turned red. Even if it's love, you can't force someone to sleep with you.
“Xiao Liang is a kind and smart person. He had never been to school before, but he started learning to read after coming with me. It hasn’t been long, and he can already read on his own,” Wang Wenzhou continued, adding his encouragement.
Li Yajing felt both embarrassed and aggrieved, and was too ashamed to stay. She said, "Brother-in-law, I'm going back to my room."
"Haha..." Wang Wenzhou smiled slightly and said loudly, "Keep fighting! Fight harder!"
Li Hechen nodded, raised his whip, and was about to strike.
Wang Wenzhou grabbed his hand, pointed to the cabinet next to Sheng Liang, and whispered, "Pull it out of the cabinet."
Li Hechen almost burst out laughing; the adult was really too unserious.
Sheng Liang looked at Wang Wenzhou gratefully. "Brother, you've been so good to me! You're a true brother."
"Hmph!" Sheng Lan was really angry and turned back to her room.
Wang Wenzhou whispered, "You guys keep performing. Xiao Liang, be more professional and scream even more pitifully. If Li Yajing can't hear you, this whole show will be for nothing. I have to go comfort Lan Lan."
Wang Wenzhou entered Sheng Lan's room and saw Sheng Lan pouting, sitting on the edge of the bed, sulking.
"Lazy Lan, Lazy Lan, what's wrong?" Wang Wenzhou quickly went over and hugged Sheng Lan, asking.
"Wang Wenzhou, stop making trouble! You're just hurting Ya Jing! You know Ya Jing has been with me since she was little, we're like sisters," Sheng Lan said aggrievedly.
"Haha..." Wang Wenzhou laughed loudly, "Xiao Liang really likes Li Yajing and really wants to marry her. Besides, Xiao Liang isn't a heartless scumbag who sleeps with someone and then leaves."
Sheng Lan was angry because arranging a marriage for Sheng Liang would be a very simple matter. Marriage is a major life event, decided by parents and arranged by matchmakers. As long as Wang Wenzhou agreed to the marriage, even his father, Sheng Lei, wouldn't dare to object.
As for Li Yajing, it's even simpler. Li Yajing is an orphan, so Sheng Lan can make decisions for her.
But Wang Wenzhou deliberately tricked Sheng Liang into doing something shameful, which would be disgraceful if word got out.
"Can't you be a little more serious, sir?" Sheng Lan cried in anger.
"Lazy Blue, don't be angry, listen to me first." Wang Wenzhou tenderly wiped away the goddess's tears. He found it strange, but whenever the goddess shed tears, his heart ached as if it had been stabbed.
"The reason I tricked Xiao Liang into doing this was so that they would fall in love with each other," Wang Wenzhou explained.
"Wang Wenzhou!" Sheng Lan complained, "You are the head of a county, do not treat this lightly! If you wanted to arrange their marriage, you only needed to say the word, and I would have done it for them. Why are you acting so recklessly?"
“This is no child’s play!” Wang Wenzhou explained, “Marriage requires two people to love each other. A marriage without love will not be happy.”
“Since ancient times, marriage has always been decided by parents!” Sheng Lan said.
"Haha!" Wang Wenzhou laughed, "If I had listened to my mother, how could you have married me!"
Sheng Lan blushed all the way to her neck, and tears of grievance fell from her eyes.
Wang Wenzhou brought his mouth close to Sheng Lan's face, licking away her tears, and said with a smile, "In my dream, I went to a very strange world. In that world, marriages were not arranged by parents. Moreover, it was monogamous, and men could not take concubines."
"Huh?" Sheng Lan said in surprise, "How could this be?"
“Yes!” Wang Wenzhou said with a smile, “In that bizarre world, although on the surface marriage is free, parents still interfere with their children’s marriages. If children are older and don’t get married, they will be pressured by their mothers, fathers, relatives and friends.”
"That's why the divorce rate in that world is so unusually high. Most couples forced into marriage don't love each other. Marriage is more like a transaction. Unlike the Ming Dynasty, although marriage in the Ming Dynasty was more transactional, there was still a spirit of contract. But in that world, many people lie every day. There are liars everywhere, cheating people out of money, sex, and feelings." Wang Wenzhou was too embarrassed to admit that he was a liar who had traveled from that world.
Sheng Lan said softly, "When two people spend a lot of time together, feelings will develop. When I was young, I saw my parents supporting each other through thick and thin. But when they got married, it was because they listened to their grandparents."
Wang Wenzhou laughed and said, "It's like feelings growing over time! It's not love, but something like familial affection. Women are more likely to accept this kind of affection, both physiologically and psychologically. Men, on the other hand, find it harder to accept. That's why men take concubines and go to brothels."
"What is love?" Sheng Lan asked softly.
Damn it! Wang Wenzhou didn't know what love was either. He always thought that love was just being a masochist.
Wang Wenzhou said with a smile, "Take Xiao Liang and Li Yajing for example. If one day, Xiao Liang forces himself on Li Yajing again, and Li Yajing is no longer sad, then it is very likely that Li Yajing has fallen in love with Xiao Liang. Similarly, the price Xiao Liang pays for sleeping with Li Yajing is to endure painful whipping. This can only be explained by love."
Sheng Lan pouted, seemingly understanding but not quite.
Actually, Wang Wenzhou wasn't quite sure either; everyone's love is different. As a chauvinistic man, Wang Wenzhou couldn't understand why a girl might not like you at first, but gradually fall in love with you if you pursue her for a long time. This is a question that even the girl herself probably couldn't understand.
As for men, they will like a girl as long as she is pretty enough. If they spend a lot of time together and their values align, they may fall in love with her.