spring cloud warm

Chapter 163
After a shower, most of the heat was dissipated.

People lamented that the rain was so good. In the past few days, it was indeed a bit too stuffy.

In the evening, a new family lived in Yinchen Lane, Taofu Street, Beijing, whose surname was Zhen.

This house was leased to them. Although there were only three main rooms, it would cost 1000 taels to buy it.

The Zhen family has a small population, a master, a wife, a young lady, and a pregnant aunt.

The servant is only one old man, two mothers and three or four servant girls.

The luggage took up a car, and no one was hired to move it.

This master of the Zhen family came to Beijing to be elected as a candidate. He is in his early forties, which is a rare occasion in the officialdom.

If you can go further, it must be another scene.If there is still no improvement, you can only sink into a low-level bureaucrat, and it will be difficult to get ahead.

People like this are rare in the capital.Throw a brick at the gate of the city, and you can hit several at once.

But the arrival of the Zhen's family caused quite a disturbance after all.

It's not because of anything else, it's just that the lady in his family is too beautiful.

When I got out of the car, only a few people saw it.

Although it was just a quick glance from a distance, it was still shocking.

There are more than a dozen families living in this alley, and there are seven aunts and eight aunts who love to inquire about things. They brought snacks to visit the next day.

The Zhen family had just arrived in Beijing, and they were unfamiliar with the place where they lived. They were eager to make friends with a few local people so that they could find out about things and find a way out.

Therefore, when the neighbors came to visit on their own initiative, they naturally welcomed them warmly.

That Mr. Zhen seems to be quite shrewd and capable, but his wife is a well-behaved person, she only gives up her seat with a smile, and doesn't say much.

The important thing is that the young lady of his family, the small name Ning Ning, is only fourteen or fifteen years old, and she looks so pretty that she can't even draw it.

The husband and wife also raised this daughter very well. She is knowledgeable in books and etiquette, able to write poems and paintings, she is also chaste and dignified, not frivolous at all.

According to his wife, Zhen Ningning had two sons before him, but they both died young.

Only this one daughter, naturally loves her very much.

She was too old to have children, so she took another concubine for her husband, and this concubine is now six months pregnant.

The vegetable sellers at the foot of Huangchenggen are all a little extravagant, and they are more knowledgeable than people in other places.

The seven aunts and eight aunts flattered the family publicly, and started talking about it after they came out.

This one said: "See? The whole family is here, and they clearly want to stay in the capital."

The one said: "It can be seen that their family doesn't have many connections, and the only one who can get it is their daughter. She must want to come to Beijing to seek a marriage, and then stay with the help of her in-laws."

"If you say that this girl is really beautiful, if you can give it to some high-ranking official as a concubine, she will definitely please her."

"That's right, but I don't know if his family has the same plan."

A few days later, the Zhen family was instructed by some expert, and prepared a name card for their daughter, and went to meet the fortune teller Zuo Zhengqing.

Zuo Zhengqing's name is so resounding that many officials and noble women come to him for criticism.

As long as you get a good word from him, it is equivalent to being coated with a layer of golden light.

This girl from the Zhen family is so beautiful, if she has a good horoscope, how can she not be able to make a good marriage?

As long as this step is completed, the following things will naturally go smoothly.

Zuo Zhengqing only returned to the capital at the beginning of this month, and the Zhen's family just happened to be there, and after a few days of waiting, they got a reply telling her to go on the tenth day of the Lunar New Year.

The Zhen family was so busy that they specially dressed their daughter in a more luxurious way, and prepared a gift for Zuo Shenxian.

On that day, Zhen Ningning arrived early and was ranked No.1.

The other four women who looked at the picture with her, after seeing her appearance, some felt ashamed of themselves, and some felt sour from jealousy.

There is even more hatred in my heart: "If you are born like a fairy, you must be the same as the one from the Cen family. There will be no good results."

"Miss Zhen, please follow me." A middle-aged woman in Taoist robes walked in and said to Zhen Ningning, "Sir, please go over."

"Qiu'er, you go to the back door and wait for me. I heard that Mr. Zuo doesn't let his servants be in front of him when he looks at people." Zhen Ningning whispered to the maid beside him.

Zuo Zhengqing was not allowed to have a third person by his side, because he was afraid of being disturbed by his breath.

Zhen Ningning cautiously followed the woman out the door, through a large garden, and came to the end of a long corridor.

At the end of the promenade is an octagonal pavilion, which is built in the center of the man-made lake, and only this promenade is connected to the shore.

"Miss Zhen, you can walk the rest of the way by yourself." The woman lowered her head slightly and said, "When you get there, don't talk nonsense, and you can answer whatever your husband asks."

"Thank you Master for your guidance." Because the woman was dressed as a Taoist nun, Zhen Ningning called her Master.

After thanking him, Zhen Ningning stepped onto the corridor and walked towards the octagonal pavilion.The breeze was blowing gently on the water, her slender waist was delicate, her skirts fluttered, and she looked like she was out of the dust.

The woman glanced at her back, her eyes flickering, as if feeling something.

Zhen Ningning approached step by step, the surroundings were silent, and saw that although the windows on all sides of the pavilion were open, they were all hung with curtains, so that they could not see what was going on inside.

When she arrived at the door of the pavilion, she stood still, lowered her head slightly, and tried her best to calm down her somewhat chaotic breath.

After feeling that her breathing had slowed down, she said timidly: "Ning Ning, daughter of Zhen's family, pay my respects to Mr. Zuo."

The white mantle stirred slightly, but there was no response from inside for a long time.

Zhen Ningning became more and more nervous, she couldn't help but grabbed her belt, and bit her lips tightly.

"Come in." The inside finally spoke.

Zhen Ningning let out a long breath, and walked in a little slowly. The waiting just now seemed to have made her very tormented. Now when she walks, her steps are soft.

When I walked in, I realized that there was still a white curtain in the middle, dimly, I could see there seemed to be a long desk behind it, and there was a figure sitting behind the desk.

Zhen Ningning said a blessing to the figure, and said again: "Meet Mr. Zuo."

"Miss Zhen, please sit down." The voice was very slow and low, making people uncomfortable.

Zhen Ningning sat down tremblingly, she was very cautious and did not dare to look around.

"What is Miss Zhen's horoscope?" Zuo Zhengqing asked her.

Zhen Ningning hurriedly reported her horoscope, spoke a little fast, and took a few breaths after finishing speaking.

She was wearing moon-white clothes today, her beautiful eyes were wet, and she had a fearful and apprehensive look on her face, like a Jade Rabbit spirit who just came into human form and met a demon catcher.

Although separated by a screen, she still felt that there was a pair of eyes looking at her behind, like a beast and a madman.

(End of this chapter)