Prime Minister

Chapter 157
Inside the hall of Wu Mansion.

Mrs. Li was sitting shoulder to shoulder with Mrs. Yang.

Below are a few juniors. Sitting on the west side are Mrs. Fan and Shiqiniang, sitting on the east side are Mrs. Zhang who married Zhang Dun not long ago, and Mrs. Shiqiniang's handkerchief is handed over to Mrs. Zhang.

Everyone gossiped for a while, Yang looked at Shiqi Niang and smiled at Li Shi: "Your Shi Qi Niang looks really good."

Mrs. Li said with a faint smile: "It doesn't matter how good-looking it is, but it has a bad temper, lack of discipline, and last time I heard that it even ran afoul of my in-laws."

Yang said with a smile: "There is no collision, Seventeen Niang is outspoken, but it's my temper. She must be at the age of marriage now."

Mrs. Li smiled and said: "It will be fifteen after the new year, and you can get married. But my master said there is no rush, so he just watched slowly. It doesn't matter how outstanding, as long as you are young and talented, even if you come from a poor family Some are okay."

Yang's eyes were fixed.

That day Zhang Heng was a guest at her mansion, and said that the Wu mansion seemed to be planning to discuss marriage for her concubine daughter, but at that time they invited many unmarried young talents to the mansion, and Zhang Yue was one of them. one.

Hearing this, Yang couldn't help but move his mind.

I thought it would be great if I could help my nephew, and see if I could resolve the conflict between the two families by the way.

It happened that the Wu Mansion invited her to the mansion to reminisce about the old days. She was not in good health before, so she rejected it half-truthfully, but the Wu Mansion invited her twice more, and even let Zhang Dexiang's granddaughter visit the mansion, so she Only then was he convinced of the sincerity of the Wu family, so he brought his daughter-in-law here to show that he valued it.

Yang looked at Shi Qi Niang repeatedly, but seeing her sitting cautiously aside, she didn't say a word, very well-behaved.

Shi Qi Niang looked apologetic when she looked at her with her own eyes.

Yang thought to herself, this girl is not bad.

But it's not because of the concubine's daughter that she doesn't want to accompany her as a dowry, so she just wants to find a child from the Han family?In case of prosperity in the future, it will also help the Wu family get an Olympic aid in the temple in the future.

It's not unreasonable to look at the third brother so much.

Yang thought so.

But it seems that this girl really has nothing to choose, but I don't know if she will have a bad temper. If she gets married and relies on her family background to bully others... In this way, it will hurt the third brother.

Thinking of this, Yang smiled and said: "Where is the in-laws? These days, poor families can give birth to noble children. As for the future, in Ma Shaobao's words, I and other women don't know about it."

When Lu Yijian was young, since his father Lu Mengheng served as the county magistrate in Fuzhou, the minister Ma Liang was surprised when he saw Lu Yijian and wanted to marry his daughter to him.

His wife, Liu Shi, said angrily, "Are you really going to marry your daughter to the son of a county magistrate?"

Ma Liang said contemptuously: "I don't know that."

As soon as these words came out, Li's smile faded, and Fan's interjection said: "It's not that Ma Shaobao's daughter can't get married, but he really likes the talent of Lu Xianggong."

As Yang said, she glanced at Shi Qi Niang, but she saw that the other party's smile was the same as before, without the slightest hint of displeasure.

Yang said with a smile: "That's the truth. Didn't the in-laws also fall in love with the in-laws at the beginning, and now they are also the officials of the frontier?"

Having said that, everyone laughed.

The atmosphere is much better. At the beginning, the Li family fell in love with Wu Chong. The other party has experienced 20 years of official career. Now he is appointed as the transfer envoy to the west of Beijing and has become a member of the frontier.This also confirmed Li's original vision.

Yang thought to herself, but to be honest, although the Wu family has become prosperous and rich in recent years, they have been neglectful in educating their children in careers, and they have acquired a lot of rich and noble habits, but at least they were also a scholarly family at the beginning, and their daughters taught them a lot. Very virtuous and intelligent.

These Seventeen Niangs are definitely not such domineering daughters of the Gao family, so I can rest assured, otherwise, the three prime ministers like Ouyang, Ji Xia, Lu, and Wen would not marry them.

Such a woman is like a floating cloud when she is leisurely and wealthy, but she is afraid that her long-sleeved and skillful dance will encourage her husband to fight for power and position.

Seeing this, Yang had a general impression of Shi Qi Niang.

She looked at Mrs. Li, then at Seventeen Niang and thought, no matter how low-key this woman is on the surface, the ambition in her eyes cannot be concealed.

This point follows her nominal mother, Li Shi.Yang doesn't dislike women's ambitions, but it depends on who they marry.

Everyone talked again, and then went to the banquet.

Yang walked up to Shiqi Niang, took her hand and said with a smile: "As the saying goes, three generations of virtuous women prosper, Shi Qi Niang must be a virtuous daughter-in-law and a virtuous wife in the future."

Seventeen Niang was taken aback when she heard the words, then she bowed shyly and said, "The in-laws are too famous."

After the banquet, Mrs. Li was drinking fragrant tea, when she saw Mrs. Fan coming, she said, "Have you all gone back?"

"Yes, they were all sent out. One of their cars broke down, and I asked Liuquan to drive the car to deliver them."

"Very good." Mrs. Li took another sip of tea approvingly.

Mrs. Li said to the left and right again: "You all step back first."

A roomful of old ladies serving in the room bowed and said yes, and then they all backed down.

Fan said: "Mother, Mrs. Zhang's words are to make up for Mr. Zhang Sanlang, but my daughter-in-law knows that Mr. Zhang Sanlang is not on good terms with his elder brother."

Li Shi said: "I don't know, but I have inquired about it. Mr. Zhang's family is still respectful to her. Sanlang ignores Mr. Erlang, but he still obeys Mr. Dalang. That is to say, she can still speak. People who can talk. Anyway, we can't get around it in the future, even if we don't let people do things, it's fine, but we can't make people do bad things."

"I see. Mother is really thoughtful."

Li Shi said: "What's more, I also heard that after Scholar Ouyang asked Dr. Chen (Chen Xiang) to teach Zhang Sanlang's poems and Fu, Mrs. Zhang's wife's son went to see Dr. Chen, and seemed to ask him to take care of him again and again. At any rate, Dr. Chen was also his original teacher."

Fan suddenly said, "My daughter-in-law understands."

Li Shi said: "Now we have to recognize it first, and we have to wait until the master returns to Beijing from Luoyang to make a decision, so as not to rush in the future and blame us for not making arrangements in advance."

Fan said: "Mother really thinks about everything first."

"It's already a step too late, who knows that the Zeng's family first took a fancy to it. Otherwise, I really want the master to come back to Beijing to talk about it."

Fan also said: "My daughter-in-law is also not reconciled. But my daughter-in-law heard that the Zeng family came from a scholarly family, and Zeng Zigu's younger brothers were all motivated. When the family was in decline, his younger sisters were all at home. For the family, to collect the expenses for them to go to Beijing for the exam... It can be seen that everyone is virtuous. I am afraid..."

Li Shi said: "We can't make up our minds for the master on this matter. There were so many heroes who came to our house, but he only let Mr. Zhang Sanlang go over the house to talk, and he didn't even like Liu Ji. But the master is a family. The lord, who has been an official in the court for so many years, sees people as close as possible, and no one is as good as him when it comes to the eyes of people, so you have listened to his arrangements for this matter."

"However, due to the establishment of the reserve and the turmoil in the court, I thought that the Wenxiang Association would keep the master in Beijing, but who would have thought that he would suddenly become an envoy to the west of Beijing, so that Zhang Sanlang's visit was delayed. "

Fan said: "That's true, so Zeng Zigu has taken a fancy to him, and he has made eye contact for us first. Isn't it right to say that father and mother had good eyes at the beginning? Anyway, our attitude is to pass it on first, and it depends on whether it will be successful or not." The fate of the family. But I think Mrs. Zhang seems to like Shi Qi very much, and she seems to fall in love right away."

Mrs. Li smiled slightly and said: "There is no reason to fall in love at first glance. Who wouldn't say nice words, and now that his official is still at home, it is also possible that he will come to ask for it in the future."

Fan said: "Mother, Mrs. Zhang's family has looked at Shiqi repeatedly and looked at him many times. I don't think it's just a polite way."

Mrs. Li finally smiled and said: "Although I don't teach much at Seventeen, I have improved a bit after being with her sisters for so many years. But Mrs. Yang is also good. I think her daughter-in-law is also one of the best in a hundred."

Fan laughed softly upon hearing this.

Li Shi also said with a smile: "You usually feel that I seldom praise Seventeen, and I even have partiality. Yes, parents always have partiality. These children have a preference. Seventeen is not my own, but our parents run the family. No matter who is biased in his heart, his face must be leveled. Family and everything are prosperous, this is the long-term way to manage a family."

Fan's face froze when he heard this, and he felt a little ashamed.

Mrs. Li didn't seem to want to beat Mrs. Fan with these words, but instead said: "However, the Zeng's family... just make some casual remarks. Zeng Gong is a scholar, such a family can confide in you when there is no one to argue with." , once someone argues, they will stand aside in a high-spirited manner."

Fan couldn't help saying: "Is it too much trouble for my mother to do this? My father has not yet decided whether he wants to belong to Mr. Zhang Sanlang."

Li said: "Why do you think I am like this?"

After thinking about it for a while, Fan suddenly realized that Li's reasoning of "parents should not be partial" is here.

The end of the year is approaching in a blink of an eye, and the Chinese New Year is coming soon.

Some days before the Chinese New Year is the Taixue Public Examination.

This time, the imperial court appointed Hu Su, a famous official, to supervise the Taixue public examination. It is rumored that Hu Su will be the Zhigong Examination in the spring of next year, so the Taixue students are all motivated to prepare for this big exam.

But Zhang Yue has been studying poetry and Fu with Chen Xiang these days.

The level of poetry and prose has finally changed from "difficult to see" to "slightly noticeable".As for Chen Xiang, he also revealed to him that Zeng Gong invited him to his house as a guest.

Zhang Yue immediately agreed.

But after Zhang Yue agreed, Zeng Gong never followed up.Zhang Yue didn't know what went wrong.

Zhang Yue also asked Chen Xiang, but Chen Xiang seemed vague.

This makes Zhang Yue feel melancholy, the eight great masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, who doesn't want to see it, so that they can brag to their descendants in the future.

But Zeng Gong didn't call him all of a sudden, as if he was afraid of disturbing his public test, it seemed that it was for his own good.

It is true that Zhang Yue has no time to be distracted by other things now that the public test is coming up.

Apart from Taixue and Chen Xiang's family, Zhang Yue took the time to collect food. He hired a clerk to sell the seals he carved on weekdays there.

Later, someone asked him for words, and Zhang Yue agreed, and asked the clerk to write it down, and then he wrote it down and sent it to Soujizhai.

Calculated to maintain a balance of income and expenditure, excluding the cost of hiring people or shop rent, on the contrary, I earned a little less than my original engraved consignment sale.

However, Zhang Yue also knew the reason why he hadn't devoted his energy, and when the public test was over, he would set up the collection room and get on the right track.

(End of this chapter)