The weather was still hot in early August. Although it rained in the early morning, the heat did not decrease. In the backyard of Yifu, the fourth lady Yi Huan sat in the pavilion by the pond reading a book. The little maid ran over in a hurry, "Miss Four! Miss Four!"

Yi Huan picked up the bookmark on the stone table, put it in the book, closed the book, turned his head to look at her, "What's the matter?"

"Miss Four." The little maid took a big breath, "The Wu family is here."

Yi Huan frowned slightly and said lightly: "I'll come when I'm here." Her marriage was decided by her grandmother when she was ten years old, and the eldest son of the Wu family, Wu Liming.

"Miss Four, are you unhappy?" asked the little maid.

"No." Yi Huan lowered his eyelids.

The little maid tried to comfort her girl and said, "Miss Four, although Master Wu did not come, he invited a matchmaker to come. It should be for the marriage date."

After hearing this, Yi Huan felt even more upset, "Okay, don't say this, go ahead and don't disturb me reading." This marriage was not what she wanted, and she didn't want to get married at the age of fifteen or sixteen. She always wanted to wait for Wu Liming to return to China and find a way to meet him and persuade him to break off the engagement. Unexpectedly, he was so anxious that he sent someone to settle his life after only half a month of returning to China. Is he just wanting to marry a woman he had never met before?

The little maid blinked her eyes and stepped out.

Yi Huan opened the book, but found that she could not read it anymore. She angrily closed the book again and went back to her room.

In the front hall, Yi’s father and mother were not happy to have a chat with the matchmaker invited by the Wu family, because the matchmaker came not for the marriage date, but for the divorce. "This marriage was decided by the elders, and no one asked about the wishes of Mr. Wu. Mr. Wu has been studying abroad in recent years. He came back last month and wanted to marry a woman with progressive ideas, not a petite lady raised in the old-fashioned family."

Yi's mother's face turned gloomy. Although she had been dissatisfied with her mother-in-law's engagement with Yi Huan without permission without her and her father's consent, she always wanted to find an opportunity to get rid of the marriage without destroying Yi Huan's reputation, but now the Wu family breaks off the engagement under the pretext of dislike Yi Huan, which made her unacceptable. If you want to dislike it, the Yi family should dislike the Wu family. It's the Wu family's turn to dislike the Yi family.

Yi's father frowned, "That's the same thing about Mrs. Wu?" Mrs. Wu passed away in an emergency four years ago. Wu Liming was far away from abroad. Mrs. Wu was afraid of delaying his son's studies, so she did not notify him. At that time, the Yi family sent someone to help manage his funeral for the sake of in-laws, and paid and worked hard.

"Mrs. Wu listened to Mrs. Wu." The matchmaker smiled.

After a long silence, Yi's father narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Since that's the case, it's better not to get this marriage. Madam, go find the jade pendant and return it to the Wu family." The Yi family has the arrogance of the Yi family. It doesn't need it, and it won't force a marriage, but he will return the humiliation from the Wu family to the Yi family a hundred times.

"If we leave the marriage, we will not be the in-laws. When will the Wu family return the property we have sponsored over the years?" Yi's mother asked coldly. Since we don't get married, we should be considered clear and innocent. The Yi family's property did not fall from the sky and cannot be given to outsiders for nothing.

The matchmaker was speechless, and the Wu family did not say that they would return the property.

Yi's father waved his hand and said, "Forget it, after all, we will think that our Yi family will help the poor with the cold."

"The ungrateful wolf." Yi's mother cursed angrily, got up and took the token of confidence given by the Wu family back then, a jade bat-shaped jade pendant. After a while, Yi's mother returned to the main hall with the jade pendant, took back the marriage letter and the token of confidence handed over by the Yi family, and handed the jade pendant back to the matchmaker.

The matchmaker said goodbye with a jade pendant, and the marriage between the Yi and Wu families was abandoned. Yi's father said to Yi's mother: "Tell Xiao Si about this and advise Xiao Si more to tell her not to be upset about this."

"I know." Yi's mother stood up to see her daughter.

Yi Huan was restless in the room. It was too early to get married at the age of sixteen or seventeen. Since she got engaged, she has never seen Wu Liming or her mother. She was not a woman who was easy to get along with. She really didn't have the confidence to manage this marriage well.

"Xiao Si." Yi's mother stood at the door and called out.

Yi Huan sighed lightly, got up and greeted him, "Mom."

The mother and daughter went into the room to sit down, and Yi's mother held Yi Huan's hand, "Xiao Si."

"Mom." Yi Huan's heart was deep. The person who got engaged to her was her deceased grandmother. Although her parents were not very satisfied with this marriage, their filial piety forced them to obey their grandmother's wishes. Is this marriage really inevitable? Should she really run away from home to escape the marriage?

Yi's mother said slowly: "Xiao Si, the Wu family invites the matchmaker to come. You want to withdraw from this marriage. Your father has agreed."

"Ah?" Yi Huan was slightly surprised, "Mom, did you just say that the Wu family wants to break the engagement?" He was a little disbelief and confirmed again.

"Yes, the Wu family wants to break off the engagement." Yi's mother held her hand tightly, "Xiao Si, parents will find another good marriage for you."

Yi Huan was overjoyed and didn't even want to know the reason for breaking the engagement, so he expressed his eagerness: "Mom, there is no hurry to get married to my daughter. My daughter wants to spend more years with her parents at home."

"Good girl." Yi's mother hugged Yi Huan in her arms pity.

Yi Huan's head was buried in her arms, her lips raised, and she laughed happily. Wu Liming was really tactful and saved her any trouble.

Break-in is not a glorious thing. Although neither family has been circulated, there is no airtight wall in the world. Yi Huan instantly became a person who was ridiculed in the circle. Yi Huan ignored gossip, but the two sisters married in Jizhou City were worried. When they heard the news, they came back to visit them. Seeing that the little sister was as sad as her mother said, she was not sad. She lived a quiet life as usual, and then she was sure that the little sister was not sad about breaking up.

Of course, some people don’t believe it, pointing out that Yi Huan is “forced to smile” and advised her, “Don’t be sad, it’s no big deal to be broken off from the engagement. Although the reputation is broken, it will make people gossip and marriage will be a bit unhappy in the future, but you are so beautiful and have a good family background, so someone is willing to marry you.”

"Jianyun, what's wrong with you here today?" Yi Huan was bored by Xiang Jianyun's hypocritical comfort.

"There is a new movie released in Deli Cinema, let's go and watch it." Xiang Jianyun said with a shiny look.

Yi Huan said with a drooping eyelid: "I don't want to go out." Since Xiang Jianyun believed that she was sad about breaking the engagement here, she pretended to be sad and avoided walking with her.

"Huanhuan, I know you feel uncomfortable because you were broken up from the engagement and don't want to go out. But you are always stuck at home like this and are not good for your health. Let's go out to watch a movie to relax." Xiang Jianyun pulled Yi Huan's skirt.

Yi Huan's eyes circulated and he thought, "You make sense, then let's go out to watch a movie, you treat me."

Xiang Jianyun's expression froze, "Huanhuan, I didn't bring out the money."

"Why don't you bring money every time you go out?" Yi Huan asked sideways. For a long time, because they are relatives, Yi Huan was patient and tolerated Xiang Jianyun to play tricks, occasionally letting her take advantage of her. But today, Xiang Jianyun actually took advantage of her breaking off the engagement and made Yi Huan feel a little annoyed. Do you really think she is a stupid person and a person with no temper?

Xiang Jianyun bit his lower lip and said, "You don't know what's going on in my family, why bother me like this? I know you've been disconnected from the engagement, so I'm kind enough to visit you, comfort you, and want to accompany you to relax, but you treat me like this, which really makes me feel disappointed."

Yi Huan looked at Xiang Jianyun angrily, his eyes flashed slightly, he smiled faintly, and said, "I'll change my clothes, let's go to the movie."

"Okay." Xiang Jianyun stopped getting angry immediately.

Yi Huan called the maid in and served her to change her clothes. Then she reported to Yi's mother, and with Xiang Jianyun, she went out to Deli Cinema with Xiang Jianyun. The one who sent Yi Huan was Brother Xiang, her special rickshaw driver, and Xiang Jianyun called another rickshaw.

When he arrived at the cinema, Yi Huan got off the car and said, "I'll go buy a ticket." He deliberately did not help Xiang Jianyun count the fare. Although the fare was not expensive, only four cents, she had to make some blood.

Xiang Jianyun shouted anxiously: "Happy..."

Yi Huan had already walked into the ticket hall quickly and almost ran into another woman who went in to buy tickets. Looking at Yi Huan's back, Xiang Jianyun stomped his feet in annoyed manner, and had to take out his wallet, pay the fare, and send the driver away.

Yi Huan bought movie tickets in the building, and the woman bought movie tickets in the private room. The two walked out of it. The woman raised the ticket and shouted, "Liming, I'm here."

Yi Huan saw a man wearing a 30-seven-part hair and wearing a navy young outfit walking towards this side with great strides. Yi Huan didn't care much, so he found Xiang Jianyun, bought melon seeds and water chestnuts, gave Brother Xiang a dollar, and asked him to pull the car to the shade, and go to the tea stall on the side of the road to have tea and wait.

After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, the audience of the previous show came out of the cinema, and Yi Huan and Xiang Jianyun got tickets to enter.

The 1918 movie was also a black and white silent film. On the blurred cloth curtain, a man wearing a black top hat, big leather shoes, small crutches, and a small beard under his nose was performing silently.

Comedy Master Charlie Chaplin.

Yi Huan laughed and cried with tears and watched the "Homeless Man" that lasted more than half an hour, and walked out of the cinema with Xiang Jianyun, and happened to meet the couple before. Yi Huan still didn't realize that this man was Wu Liming, the eldest son of the Wu family who had just broken off from her not long ago.

Seeing that the audience was over, Brother Xiang took a rickshaw over. When he passed by Wu Liming and the girl, the girl stopped him and wanted to get in. Brother Xiang refused, "I'm here to pick up my lady."

"What do you mean? You don't even make money?" Wu Liming asked unhappily.

"This young master, I am not a coachman who pulls passengers on the side of the road. I am a servant of the Yi family. This is the special car of my fourth lady." Brother Xiang patiently explained that the Yi family is a famous wealthy businessman in Jizhou City. The Yi family's business is spread all over the country. There are several factories and dozens of shops in Jizhou City alone, and they have opened private banks with others.

"Yi Family?" Wu Liming's expression changed slightly. How could it be such a coincidence?

"What's going on?" Yi Huan came over.

"Miss Four, this lady and this young master are going to take a rickshaw, I have explained to them." Brother Xiang said.

Wu Liming turned his head and saw a girl wearing a white blue flower jacket and a dark blue long skirt, holding Ruyi's bun, and a light blue hairband in her bun. This fiancée, who had been in love with him for five years but was missing, was not as rustic as he imagined. Although she did not wear the Western skirt that fashionable girls like to wear, she had an indescribable classical beauty, with clear eyes, rosy cherry lips, and a calm smile.

The girl with Wu Liming was stunned when she saw him and called out, "Zhide."

Wu Liming came back to his senses and retreated a little, "Sorry, we were abrupt."

"It's okay." Yi Huan didn't mind such a trivial matter and got in the car, "Jianyun, I'm back, see you another day."

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Chapter completed!