Sir, I just want to be a salted fish

Chapter 189 Marriage
Basically, in families where the father and brother were officials, the girls in the family were pretty good-looking. Tang Bingxuan looked at a room full of pretty little girls and couldn't help but feel that she was a generation behind them.

Some were brave enough to come directly to make friends with Sister Tang Bingxuan, some were timid and sat silently admiring the flowers, and some were smart and watched the changes. The young girls were all mixed up with all kinds of thoughts.

Among this group of ladies, there was a little girl who seemed to be invisible and isolated by everyone, sitting alone in the corner.

At first, Tang Bingxuan thought that the little girl was being isolated by everyone, so she hid in a corner and felt sad silently. When she looked closer, she saw that the little girl was holding a snack in one hand and stuffing it into her mouth.

The little girl ate the snacks with one hand and put them into her mouth. She also looked around from time to time, for fear of being discovered by others that she was so ungrateful.

Tang Bingxuan thought the little girl looked very cute when she was eating. Her cheeks were bulging and she never stopped, and her big eyes looked around with a different look.

Tang Bingxuan approached the little girl and suddenly said, "What are you looking at?"

The little girl didn't expect that she had been paying attention to the movements around her. She didn't notice until someone came up and made a sound. She was so frightened that she choked on her snack, grabbed her neck with her little hands and coughed.

Tang Bingxuan was just a little curious and didn't mean to scare the little girl. She quickly asked someone to pour a cup of warm tea for the little girl to keep her calm.

When the little girl first arrived, she noticed that Tang Bingxuan, the eldest aunt who had married out of the Duke's palace, was waiting for guests. She knew that her appearance just now was embarrassing in the host's house, and she was extremely embarrassed.

"Sister Tang, my name is Guo Yuan, and my aunt is Guo, the second wife of the Marquis of Huai'an."

When the little girl saw that Tang Bingxuan's expression did not contain any emotions such as disgust, her worries suddenly disappeared and she looked at Tang Bingxuan with a smile on her face.

Tang Bingxuan walked up to the little girl and saw that the little girl was about fourteen or fifteen years old. She was about the same height as Tang Bingxuan. She was well-proportioned but not thin. Her appearance was not amazing but she had a naive cuteness.

Guo Yuan nodded, "Yes." The pearl pendant on her head rose and fell with her movements.

It is said that the Guo family has been settling in Qianzhou for hundreds of years. Not many of the family's children have entered the court as officials. Most of them run arty things such as study rooms or antiques, calligraphy and painting in Qianzhou.

Tang Bingxuan couldn't help laughing when she thought of this, which made Guo Yuan next to her confused.

The Crown Princess Pingyu's mother, the Guo family, came from an ordinary scholarly family in Qianzhou. The marriage between Pingyu's father and her father was due to the friendship between their ancestors.

Tang Bingxuan smiled warmly and said, "Which family does my sister belong to? What's her name?"

The little girl has a clear voice and two symmetrical dimples when she smiles, which makes people happy when they see her.

No wonder she was alone in the corner, no one probably knew her, and she wanted to hide and eat snacks.

"Are you here with Aunt Guo?"

It turned out to be the cousin of Crown Princess Ping Yu.

Tang Bingxuan liked this genuine little girl very much, and she unconsciously said a few more words.

The little girl bowed and said, "Hello, Sister Tang."

The Guo family produces a literary master every twenty or thirty years. It is a well-known scholarly family in the local area and even in Lingguo.

"Do you like my snacks?"

Guo Yuan heard Tang Bingxuan talking about dim sum and nodded vigorously in agreement, "Yeah. The dim sum at Sister Tang's house is so delicious."

Tang Bingxuan has not seen such a true-hearted little girl for a long time, cute but not arrogant. "If you like to eat, I'll have someone put a box back for you later."

Guo Yuan was overjoyed and quickly thanked Tang Bingxuan, "Thank you, Sister Tang."

There were other ladies in the flower hall who needed to be entertained. Tang Bingxuan asked someone to bring Guo Yuan a few more plates of snacks, then left to greet the others.

After the flower banquet was over and the ladies and ladies from each mansion were sent away, everyone in the Duke's Mansion was very tired. Tang Bingxuan simply stayed in the Duke's Mansion and did not go back.

In the evening, in the main courtyard of the Duke's Mansion, the Duke's wife Liu and Tang Bingxuan, mother and daughter, exchanged their opinions and selected several girls for Tang Wensong and Tang Wenbai from among the girls from each family.

The next day, the mother and daughter discussed the selected candidates with Mrs. Shao, and the three generations of grandparents carefully selected them, and finally decided on three candidates for each of them.

As the mother of Tang Wensong and Tang Wenbai, Mrs. Liu had half the decision-making power on their marriage, so she ordered six portraits to be drawn for each of her two sons to choose from.

Tang Wensong was still the same, letting his mother Liu make the decision without even looking at the portrait.

Tang Wenbai was grateful to his mother, Mrs. Liu, for worrying about his marriage. He listened carefully to his mother, Mrs. Liu, about the family background and character of the three ladies, and settled on one of them, a gentle and polite sixth-rank official lady.

Tang Wensong is not young anymore, and the Duke's wife can't wait to go to the girl's house to propose marriage.

The person involved had no objections, so the wife, the Duke's wife, and the three generations of Tang Bingxuan's descendants made up their minds and chose the queen, the eldest daughter of the Weibei Hou family, to give birth.

Mrs. Liu, the Duke's wife, was afraid of long nights and many dreams, and was eager to marry her eldest son, so she found a suitable person to propose marriage to the Marquis of Weibei.

Speaking of the Weibei Houfu, they are the same family as the eldest princess Ling Ruhua, and Wang Shen is the stepdaughter of the eldest princess Ling Ruhua.

Weibei Houfu has been stationed at the Qianzhou border defense and is the commander-in-chief of the Qianzhou border defense army. His family has been living in the Qianzhou border town for decades.

Now that the Three Kingdoms are at peace, Emperor Ling, on the one hand, sympathized with the Weibei Hou family's suffering at the border, but on the other hand, he also wanted to gradually weaken the military power of the Weibei Hou Mansion.

Two years ago, Marquis Weibei and his family were ordered to return to Beijing. They happened to meet Ling Ruhua's mother and son while passing by the suburbs of Beijing.

Weibei Hou lost his wife in the year when he became king, and he never remarried, and he only had one child, his legitimate queen.

Compared with the three wives and four concubines of the wealthy children, Wang Tong, the Marquis of Weibei, always kept a clean life. Even though he only had a daughter, Wang Shen, he did not marry again after his first wife died.

Mrs. Hou Tai of Weibei has always been anxious and angry about her son marrying a second wife, but her son is unwilling to marry again because he has no money and salt.

Mrs. Weibei Hou Tai had a weak temperament and regarded her husband as her first priority. After the death of the old Marquis, her son, Weibei Hou Wang Tong, had always been her main supporter. Her son didn't like women and she couldn't get in the way.

If Wang Tong was deeply affectionate for his wife, the people in Weibei Houfu were really blind and didn't notice it.

Wang Tong, the Marquis of Weibei, grew up in the border area. He was taken to the border defense army by his father, the Marquis of Weibei, when he was in his early ten years. Since childhood, he has been tasked with guarding the Qianzhou border.

Getting a wife is the matchmaker's order from the parents. Although the relationship is not deep, I am still used to the existence of such a person.

The two had been married for more than ten years, and the only daughter they had was Wang Wen. Wang Tong, the Marquis of Weibei, didn't think anything of it, but Mrs. Weibei Marquis always felt guilty.

Once, against the wishes of Marquis Weibei, he accepted a bridegroom for her husband. Marquis Weibei said nothing, but he never spent the night in his bridegroom's house.

Even because Mrs. Weibei Hou made the decision to add people without authorization, the Weibei Houwang did not enter the inner courtyard to rest for a period of time.