capital girl

Chapter 22

Li Yulou stepped forward and said to Zhou Hong, "Brother Zhou, I'm sorry, my mother..."

"I'm the one who's sorry for you..." Zhou Hong didn't say anything more, glanced at Li Yulou, and stepped out of Li's house.

Meng Shiyu nodded at Li Yulou, and quickly followed Zhou Hong's footsteps.

"What are you doing with me, are you looking at my jokes?" Zhou Hong said angrily to Meng Shiyu.

"No, just to care about you a little bit..." Meng Shiyu had a sincere expression on his face.

Zhou Hong glanced back at Meng Shiyu, and snorted, "A ruthless person like you still cares about others, so it's not bad to take pleasure in misfortune."

"I'm really here to enlighten you." Meng Shiyu followed in Zhou Hong's footsteps, and didn't let him go back to his home. Instead, he took him to a small restaurant, where he ordered two side dishes and a jug of wine.

"Why do you say you like Miss Yulou?" Meng Shiyu asked.

Meng Shiyu's words made Zhou Hong stand there in a daze. He didn't know how to answer for a while, and then said after a while, "I like it if I like it. I like everything in Yulou..."

"Your answer is too broad. In fact, you don't like her very much. Maybe your feelings for her are almost the same as for Miss Zhou Ying." Meng Shiyu said.

"Zhou Ying is my younger sister..." Zhou Hong said with widened eyes.

"That's right, you two are like brothers and sisters." Meng Shiyu took a sip of his wine.

"I can tell the difference between the relationship between brother and sister or between a man and a woman..." Zhou Hong was furious.

"A fan of the authorities, you may not be able to recognize the true thoughts in your heart." Meng Shiyu said earnestly with an elder-like appearance.

"My father doesn't like her. If she really marries into your family, life may not be easy in the future."

"Do you want her to have a bad life?"

Meng Shiyu slowly told him what he could think of to persuade Zhou Hong, very patiently.

"Then you yourself, do you like her?" Zhou Hong snorted, "It's not for yourself..."

"According to what you said, you are an orphan, and you will need to rely more in the future..."

"How can you compare with me? I'm too strong. I can do it on my own." Meng Shiyu said.

Zhou Hong,...

Where did this person come to persuade him, he came to piss him off.

"Stop drinking, you hypocrite." After finishing speaking, Zhou Hong stood up and shook his sleeves away.

After taking two steps, he turned back and stared at Meng Shiyu, "Do you really like Yulou?"

"I just haven't made up my mind yet, that's why I didn't come to propose marriage. If I'm sure, I will naturally come to propose marriage." Meng Shiyu replied.

"Then you should think it over as soon as possible, and give Yulou an answer, don't delay her, she is also seventeen."

Zhou Hong paused, "Also, if you marry her in the future, don't let her down, she is a good girl."

Zhou Hong didn't wait for Meng Shiyu to speak before he finished speaking, he turned around and left the small restaurant.

Chunhui Academy started school again.

Meng Shiyu wanted to prepare for Qiu Wei, so he began to live in the academy to study.

The Li family has also resumed its usual rhythm. Li Xu is teaching at Chunhui College, studying along the way, preparing for his last Qiu Wei exam.

He has already decided, just for the last time, if he can pass the exam, he will be a teacher for the rest of his life.

Zhang Xiulan didn't want him to take the exam, so there was nothing wrong with doing silk business in Xiuzhou for the rest of her life.

If you pass the Jinshi exam, you will become an official. Now that Li Xu is turning [-], what else can he do for an official career.

Being an official would mean moving her place, losing her business, and living on Li Xu's meager salary in the future, Zhang Xiulan dared not think about it.

In the early years, she still hoped to be an official's wife and to be ordered. Now that she is at this age and her life is stable, she really doesn't want to make a fuss.

But Li Xu had a lifetime of integrity in his heart, and it was difficult for him to give up completely, so the two agreed that this would be the last time.

The Li family started their own busy work, and Li Yulou also started researching new materials, so they couldn't bring forth new ones, and a small shop like theirs could only sustain one family's food and clothing.

She wants to earn more money, and the recent purple silk yarn is selling well, which makes her feel more happy about making money.

Listening to the sound of the abacus beads clicking every night made her feel happy.

In addition, her father was going to the capital to take the exam, and he would leave in a few months. This time, there was also money for Meng Shiyu to take the exam, and she had to take it out, otherwise he probably wouldn't even have food on the way.

These thoughts made Li Yulou work harder.

"Miss, Miss Zhou Ying is here." Chuntao came to the workshop in the backyard knocking the melon seeds and called Li Yulou.

Li Yulou checked the color paste carefully again, then took off his apron and went out of the backyard.

After washing his hands in the basin outside, he came to the front yard to meet Zhou Ying.

Zhou Ying is in a good mood today, with light makeup on, and a new dress made of purple silk gauze, with a beautiful phoenix hairpin on her head.

"Go to see Mr. Wu?" Li Yulou asked with a smile.

Zhou Ying nodded shyly, with a smile on her face, "Today he rested for half a day and took me shopping. The new hairpin he bought for me, do you think it looks good?"

"It's beautiful..." Li Yulou looked at it solemnly, "This enamel pendant is also very exquisite."

Zhou Ying smiled beautifully.

"My mother is going to propose marriage to the palace." Zhou Ying said with a restrained smile.

"Really, this is good..." Li Yulou said with a smile.

"You don't like my brother at all..." Zhou Ying looked at Li Yulou in disappointment.

"I've always thought of Big Brother Zhou as an older brother, and I have the same feelings for him as you do. I've never considered the relationship between a man and a woman. I'm really happy for him." Li Yulou took Zhou Ying's hand and said.

"Okay..." Zhou Ying pouted, "Actually, I really want you to be my sister-in-law, but after thinking about it, my marriage has already been settled. Even if you get married, we won't be able to be together for a few days." under one roof."

Li Yulou smiled and pinched Zhou Ying's cheek, "You're really thinking too far..."

"It's just that the lord has already signed up, and I've given it to the Anping county magistrate. It may take another two months. When my brother and the county magistrate's marriage is finalized, she will be the princess." Zhou Ying curled her lips.

"Do you know what level the princess is?"

Li Tong shook his head.

"I heard it's from the first grade..." Zhou Ying said, "It's higher than the comfort envoy Cao, and the same level as the prime minister and the grand scholar."

"In addition, His Majesty will give you a house, a fief, and food... Anyway, there are many things, which are much higher than us..."

"That's much better than marrying me..." Li Yulou blurted out after being surprised.

"My mother doesn't think so. She cried several times, saying that this is not marrying a daughter-in-law, but marrying a son."

Li Yulou couldn't answer these words anymore.

"Forget it, let's not talk about our family's troubles. Fortunately, my brother seems to have stabilized his mind and is concentrating on his studies. He will go to high school in one fell swoop in Qiuwei."

"That's true..." Li Yulou nodded in agreement.

"By the way..." Zhou Ying lowered her voice, her gossip expression instantly turned on her face, "Have you heard that, during the time we were in Hangzhou, the Cao family was in a mess. Cao Jianzhang finally reconciled, and lost money." Tens of thousands of taels of silver...he really likes you."

(End of this chapter)