Mingmen Family

Chapter 238
Ye Hongsheng and Ye Hongrong's Yue's family came to congratulate them, and they both accompanied the guests in the side hall next door.Hearing this, the two hurried out.

Yin's elder brother Yin Weiqian and his wife came to the Yin family, and Mrs. Yin went to the inner courtyard.Ye Hongsheng knew that his eldest brother-in-law was a scholar, he was not good at socializing, and he didn't like excitement, and Ye's family members were noisy, so he accompanied him to talk in the side hall.

In the Zhang family, the Zhang family is a concubine, and his father Zhang Zhizhong is a great salt merchant in the south of the Yangtze River.It turned out that the family background of the Ye family could not be compared with that of the Zhang family, and Ye Hongrong was an unpromising youngest son. Zhang Zhizhong looked down on neither the Ye family nor Ye Hongrong, the son-in-law.

Ye's parents were marrying a daughter, and Zhang thought that Zhang's sending a brother to the wedding was doing Ye's face.Her mother is a concubine, so she can't go out to socialize. Even if she wants to save face, she can't come to see her daughter by chance.

She really did not expect that her father would come in person, and he would also bring along his eldest brother who would be the next Patriarch.

When Ye Hongrong sent someone to tell her, she was stunned, and she rushed over with her servants regardless of the fact that the front yard was full of men.

After Zhang Zhizhong went to the main hall to meet Ye Chongming and Ye Hongchang, he learned that Uncle Yin's family was in the side hall, so he also went to the side hall.

Hearing that the Master of the Mansion had arrived, Zhang Zhizhong's heart moved, he bowed his hands to Yin Weiqian, and said with a smile: "Master Yin, let's go and see too?"

Yin Weiqian is a scholar, although he has no hope of going to school, he admires those who have been admitted to Jinshi and become magistrates.

He hesitated: "Will it be too rude?"

Zhang Zhizhong said: "There are a lot of guests in this courtyard, everyone must go to greet the magistrate, it would be impolite for us not to go out."

Yin Weiqian took it seriously: "I'm thinking about it. Please, Mr. Zhang."

"Master Yin please first."

The two gave way and went out, and sure enough, they saw many people standing in the corridor, all discussing the matter softly, and their excitement was beyond words.

After a while, Ye Chongming walked in with his three sons, accompanied by Qi Zhifu and his son.

Seeing many people standing in the corridor, all saluting to him, Qi Zhipei hurriedly returned the salute, and said a few polite words before following Ye Chongming into the main hall.

The family members of the Ye family who were staying in the main hall came out to watch the fun, but now Li Fu invited them to the side halls and side rooms on both sides.

After a while, the three brothers Ye Hongchang came out and invited the head of the Ye family, Yin Weiqian and Zhang Zhizhong to talk.

About two quarters of an hour later, Qi Zhipei took his son to leave.

When the Ye family saw the patriarch coming back, they all went up to meet him and asked, "Patriarch, what did the magistrate say?"

The patriarch seemed to be unable to recover: "I just asked about some things about our clan."

His pupils focused, and he warned everyone seriously: "In the future, no one is allowed to talk about the change of the head of the Chongming family, even in private."

The magistrate is obviously more enthusiastic about Ye Yaming than Ye Chongming, and the magistrate is even more familiar with her.

Ye Chongxian felt that Ye Yaming's fiancé must be a person of prominent status, so that the magistrate and his son would treat him differently.

On the other hand, Zhang Zhizhong also warned Zhang Shi: "You must be kind to the people in the second room, especially your third girl, she is a capable person. You must follow her in the room."

He is a shrewd man, and it was under his hands that the Zhang family developed into a great salt merchant.

He also met Ye Chongming and Ye Hongchang when Mrs. Zhang got married.The reason why he didn't pay much attention to the Ye family was because he felt that with the abilities of the Ye family and his son, it would be good to maintain the status quo, and it was impossible to go further.

Unexpectedly, the Ye family had a third girl.

The Ye family produced tribute tea, and there was an engagement with a fifth-rank official, Xungui. After Zhang Zhizhong heard about it, he called Zhang's housekeeper back and inquired about the situation of the Ye family.

Therefore, he basically understands Ye Yaming's situation.

When he just met the magistrate, he noticed that the magistrate treats Ye Yaming completely differently. It seems that in front of the magistrate, Ye Yaming has a higher status than Ye Chongming, the old man of the Ye family.

What makes a fourth-rank magistrate treat him differently is either because Ye Yaming's fiancé is more noble than he imagined, or because this third girl is different.

That's why Zhang Zhizhong told his daughter worriedly.

Zhang nodded: "Father, I know. Don't worry."

At the moment, his eyes are full of miscellaneous words, even if Zhang Zhizhong is worried, he can't say much.Seeing Yin Weiqian who was chatting with others at the door came in, he hurried up and chatted with Yin Weiqian again.

Zhang Zhizhong is in business, he is very good at rhetoric, and he has fully practiced the ability to talk to people and talk nonsense when he sees people.At this time, he wanted to make friends with Yin Weiqian, so he tried his best.

Although the Yin family is a farming and studying family, their family background is the worst among the four daughters-in-law of the Ye family.Among the ostentatious in-laws who wear gold and silver, serve slaves and maidservants, the Yin family is inevitably a little short of breath, but they don't have the idea that scholars are higher than merchants; Yin Weiqian's social circle is narrow, and he is very simple.

Now being treated warmly by Zhang Zhizhong and intending to make friends, Yin Weiqian was a little flattered and responded enthusiastically.

It didn't take long for Zhang Zhizhong and Yin Weiqian to call him brothers and sisters, and they hit it off very much.A servant came to invite a seat, and the two of them took the seat together.

The Yin family knew her brother's temper, and since the Yin family was regarded as the "poor relatives" of the Ye family, she was very worried that Yin Weiqian would be treated coldly in the front yard, so she sent her servants to check on the situation from time to time.

Hearing the servants say that the magistrate treats his elder brother differently, he is a little more enthusiastic than he is to Mr. Zhang, and Mr. Zhang is even more enthusiastic towards his elder brother. Yin Shi was stunned for a moment, then suddenly smiled.

Yes, their second room is completely different from before.As her daughter's uncle's family, the Yin family has also risen, and their status among the Ye family and in-laws has risen to an extraordinary level.

Human feelings are cold and warm, and they tend to be popular, but that's all.

After dinner, Mrs. Yin and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Lu, stayed politely: "Sister-in-law, we haven't seen each other for a long time, so don't go back in a hurry, go to my place and have a cup of tea before leaving?"

During this wedding banquet, Mrs. Lu also saw clearly the change of the second wife's status.

When the big house Ye Yaxiu and Ye Jiaxing got married, she also came to the wedding banquet. Tao's natal family was also polite to sister-in-law Yin and her, but their attitude was lukewarm.

But this time, they warmed up to both of them.Mrs. Tao's good words spread out as if she didn't want money, which made her blush.

"Okay, let's go sit with you then." She said cheerfully.

The aunt and sister-in-law went to Yin's yard.

Mrs. Lu sat down and watched the servant girl pour tea and back out. She leaned closer to Mrs. Yin and said in a low voice: "Sister, with the status of Ming'er's fiancé, is it possible to invite the imperial doctor to see her?"

Hearing this question, Yin Shi didn't know why.

Thinking of her parents' age, she suddenly became nervous and asked, "What's wrong? Who's sick?"

Lu quickly waved his hands: "No, no one is sick."

(End of this chapter)