Take the farm down to earth

Chapter 58 Passing Books
The last time Jia Lian, Jia Zhen and Jia Baoyu came to ask about their birth date, they guessed that Jia Amnesty wanted to marry Jia Yingchun.

Then he thought that Jia Yingchun was tortured to death by Zhongshan Wolf Sun Shaozu in the end, and Shi Zhongkui couldn't help feeling sorry.

He thought about taking out the last fan and giving it to Yingchun, and lent her hand to Jia She, so that Jia She would not treat Yingchun even worse.

But as soon as this idea came up, he was rejected.

If you really do this, you will harm Yingchun.

It's better to give it to Jia Amnesty directly. The reason is that Jia Lian has a credit for his marriage with Xue Baochai, so he sent the fan as a token of gratitude.

As for Yu Honggao, Shi Zhongkui believed that he had long since given up sending fans to his superiors in order to beg officials.

Maybe it won't be long before Lao Yu will return the fan he gave him.

As for Jia Zheng and Xia Shouzhong who were waiting in the Daxing County Yamen, Shi Zhongkui didn't know, otherwise he would have prepared two extra gifts.

It's a pity that if he really asked him to prepare, it seemed that there was nothing good to sell.

When he handed over the two boxes to Yu Honggao and said that the last fan was to thank Jia Lian, Yu Honggao's face turned dark.

An old fritter like Yu Honggao never imagined that Jia Zheng and Xia Shouzhong would definitely send gifts.

Otherwise, Shi Zhongkui would be disrespectful, and he, the master, would also be ashamed.

But it's not easy to mention this matter at this time, so I can only give two gifts on my behalf.

Xia Shouzhong said that it was nothing more than three to 500 taels of silver, but Jia Zheng's thank-you gift must be an ancient painting or a rare book.

And ordinary rare books are not enough, after all, this is a thank you gift for marriage, and since Rongguo Mansion doesn't have any good things, since it is going to be given away, it must not be taken lightly.

Thinking of this, Yu Honggao, who was riding back on horseback, couldn't help but secretly bleed.

At first, I thought that when the rice field fish farming was successful, and I was promoted and left Daxing County, the thought of returning some fans was extinguished.

It can be imagined that when Shi Zhongkui becomes a Jinshi and gets married together in the future, there seems to be no better gift than those fans.
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Back at the county government office, Xia Shouzhong and Xue Pan were overjoyed when they heard that Shi Zhongkui not only agreed, but also sent a family heirloom as a token.

Xue Pan took the wooden box with both hands solemnly, and said to Yu Honggao, "Please rest assured, my lord, my nephew won't have any reason to go back on his word if he accepts this marriage."

"Okay, okay," Yu Honggao laughed, and then looked at Jia Zhengdao, "Since the government official and the inner minister came together as elders, and nephew Xue Xian also decided as the elder brother, this marriage can be denied in the spring of next year." end?"

As soon as Jia Zheng and the two heard it, they understood that Yu Honggao wanted to wait for the results of the general examination and palace examination, and strive for double happiness, so of course they agreed immediately.

And the time is not long, only more than ten months, and there is also plenty of time to prepare.

Then three wooden boxes were brought up by servants and handed over to Xia Shouzhong, Jia Zheng and Jia Lian respectively.

Hearing that it was a matchmaker's gift, Xia Shouzhong and Jia Zhengke accepted it with a smile.

Jia Lian was a little surprised, but the more surprised he was, the happier he was, but when he opened it and found it was a fan, he felt very depressed.

Without even thinking about it, he knew that this fan must have been given to his own father, Jia She, through his own hand.

After the marriage was settled, Yu Honggao proposed marriage to Xue Pan and Jia Zheng on the spot on behalf of Shi Zhongkui, and both of them were willing because it was the emperor's will.

In addition, Xue Pan himself did not understand, Jia Zheng had no objection, and of course he had no objection.

Next, they have to hand over "passes", which is the proof of engagement, but this will definitely not work tonight.

Otherwise, Xue Pan didn't understand, no matter how impatient Jia Zheng and Yu Honggao were, it would be impossible for the Xue family to lose face, lest outsiders think that Xue Baochai was impatient to marry over.

They discussed it and decided that after three days, Hong Gao's official wife would come to the door first, and Hong Gao's own son Yu Tongfu had delivered the book on behalf of Shi Zhongkui.

As for the Three Books and Six Ceremonies, that was a later matter. Basically, Shi Zhongkui did not need to do it himself, but Yu Honggao, who could be regarded as the only parent, did it.

After discussing it properly, and seeing that it was indeed getting late, everyone stayed in the county government office for one night.

The next day, the news that Shi Zhongkui and the Xue family were discussing marriage first spread in a small area.

In the following day or two, because of Shi Zhongkui's two consecutive poems and the rumored practice of raising fish in rice fields, it soon spread throughout Daxing County and the capital.

Countless squires and low-ranking families felt remorse and envy, and the Jia family and the Wang family knew it all.

After Jia Baoyu learned of this, his first reaction was to refuse, but no matter how demented he was, he knew that it was useless to say what he said.

Fortunately, he is only 12 years old. At most, he feels angry, annoyed and depressed because of the loss of his young lady.

And to be honest, if you have to talk about Jia Baoyu's true love, Lin Daiyu must be ranked first.

Sulking and furious for a few days, Jia Baoyu had no choice but to accept that no one was coaxing him, and that Shi Zhongkui even gave the ancestral treasures directly to the Xue family.

But Mrs. Wang moved back into the nunnery angrily. It can be said that Xue Baochai is her default daughter-in-law.

In the nunnery, it was often reported that bottles and jars were accidentally broken, and the servants of Jia's family basically understood Mrs. Wang's attitude.

And this directly affected the servant's attitude towards the Xue family.

When Xue Pan came to Beijing, he actually didn't want to live in Rongguo Mansion.

In addition to worrying about being restrained by the elders, the Xue family already had a house in the capital, so there was no need to send it under the eaves.

Now that he was angry with the servants of the Jia family, and thinking that it was a foregone conclusion that his sister would marry, he ordered the servants to clean up the house without hesitation.

Moreover, he also thought that Shi Zhongkui's home in the capital only had a small house in the courtyard, so he couldn't help thinking about whether to give his sister-in-law a house, so that his sister would not suffer hardship when she married.

When Wang Ziteng sent someone to call Xue Pan to Wang's house, he learned that Xue Pan had taken people to Daxing County early in the morning.

The angry Wang Ziteng dropped the teacup in his hand, "You bastard, I shouldn't have allowed their family to come to Beijing."

Prince Teng Zushang is just a county official, not to mention compared with the four kings and eight males, even the historians can't compare.

But he was able to be promoted all the way to the Jingying Jiedushi, he must have the ability, and he did get the help of the Jia family and other nobles, but the most important thing in it is related to the Supreme Emperor's wooing the nobles for power.

Therefore, when he heard about the engagement between Xue Baochai and Shi Zhongkui, his first reaction was that there was something wrong.

After hearing that Xia Shouzhong had gone to Jia's house and met Xue Pan, and then went to Daxing County overnight with Jia Zheng and Jia Lian, Wang Ziteng immediately understood that the person standing behind this matter was the emperor.

To be honest, Wang Ziteng was actually willing to join the emperor. After all, the Supreme Emperor was old, and there was a precedent that he almost failed to survive a few years ago.

But asking him to make it clear that the chariots and horses are taking refuge in the emperor is really embarrassing him, and even killing him.

Of course, he didn't really want to disobey Xue Pan when he came to Xue Pan, but he planned to delay the marriage for a few more years because Xue Baochai was still young, so as to give himself enough time to deal with it.

Unexpectedly, Xue Pan went to find Shi Zhongkui again.

(End of this chapter)