Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

Su Mu held a portrait of a woman and was fascinated by it. He was laughing and happy, and had already alarmed Xiaodie who was waiting at the side.

The little girl also looked up curiously.

When Su Mu mentioned the portrait, he patted her head and asked, "Is it beautiful?"

"Very beautiful." Xiaodie said sincerely.

"impossible."

Xiao Die said seriously: "This girl has a big silver face and a dignified appearance, she is indeed beautiful."

"What a big silver plate face, it's obviously a pancake face, okay? What aesthetic taste do you have!" Su Mu laughed angrily.

"Dare to ask the master, what is pancake?" Xiaodie asked curiously. It took Su Mu a long time to give the Indian pancake to his dedicated chef, and the future bed warmer girl explained clearly. ,

After Xiaodie asked clearly, she laughed so hard that she held her stomach and wiped her tears and said, "Master, this girl loves you so much that she gave you the portrait, but you're not afraid of hurting her confidante's heart like this? "

Su Mu stretched out his hand to scratch her nose, and the little girl raised her eyebrows in anger: "Xiaodie, my master is busy all day long, so why would he be interested in having fun? This painting was given to me by the girl's mother in the portrait." Mine, let me recognize my face."

Xiaodie suddenly became nervous: "This girl's mother gave it to her. Who is the matchmaker? What should Sister Wu do?"

Su Mu smiled wryly: "What are you talking about? I, Su Mu, are not good enough for this girl. If I really marry her, it will be bad luck for eight lifetimes!"

My master said this, but Xiaodie was not convinced: "Master is a dignified master after all, and he might be able to win a Jinshi in the future. When that day comes, it will be the Wenqu star descending to the earth. If the young lady is not worthy, it is difficult to paint this A girl or a princess?"

What Xiaodie said was really right, but Su Mu didn't explain, just said: "I also got this portrait by chance, but this woman is really unmarried."

Xiaodie asked curiously: "Why can't you marry?"

Su Mu: "They want to recruit a son-in-law."

Indeed, being a son-in-law is really no different from being a son-in-law.Once you marry the princess, you will have no chance to become an official in the imperial examination.This is the system of the imperial court. The civil servants and relatives of the civil servants and the imperial relatives of the Ming Dynasty are extremely wary. In their view, these people who are close to the royal family are born rebels.Once you become a clan, you can't be an official, you can't do business to accumulate wealth, and you can only live on the dead wages issued by the court for a lifetime.

Thinking of Princess Taikang's ancient times and absurdity, Su Mu suddenly felt sympathy for Zhu Houzhao's future brother-in-law.

Xiaodie: "It turned out to be a door-to-door son-in-law. I want to come to this girl's mother to know the master, and I want you to help her find a son-in-law." Take a long breath of relief.

Su Mu: "Yes, yes, Xiaodie, you are right. Her mother wants me to introduce a son-in-law to her family." If you go to Cangzhou this time, if you want to find Princess Taikang, you have to talk to the future The son-in-law dealt with each other.

But what if the princess didn't go to Cangzhou?

Who cares, since Empress Dowager Zhang told me to go to Cangzhou, I'll just try my luck first.

This portrait is drawn as a four-dimensional image, which has no reference value. To be honest, it is not as good as Su Mu's painting.

He stuffed that portrait into Xiaodie's hand: "Take it and throw it in the kitchen, and use it when fighting fires."

Xiaodie: "Master, what a beautiful woman, don't you think it's a pity to just burn it like this? If you miss her in the future, it's just a thought to look at her a few times."

But she deliberately made fun of Su Mu.

Su Mu scratched her nose again, and said, "By the way, I'm going to Cangzhou in a few days, please help me pack some things."

"Going to Cangzhou...what to do?" Xiaodie was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized: "The master said a few days ago that he was going to go on a study tour, but Xiaodie forgot, so I'm going to pack my luggage."

After finishing speaking, she was about to go out, but Su Mu held her back and said, "I'm not in a hurry tonight."

Xiaodie thought that she was going to go on a study tour, so Su Mu would make mistakes without explaining the reason.

Xiao Dieen stopped short: "Master, I need to prepare something, let me tell you first. Also, how long will the master stay for this trip to Cangzhou?"

"Don't prepare too many things, just two changes of clothes, and you don't need to bring books, pens and ink. By the way, tomorrow you will take 100 taels of silver to exchange for some gold, and it will be convenient to carry." Su Mu said: "This The first time I went to Cangzhou for a study tour, the days are uncertain, it depends on the situation. The shortest is ten days and a half months, and the longest is half a year. In any case, I have to come back before the Spring Festival.”

Su Mu really didn't want to leave Beijing, and he said to himself: Amitabha, Bodhisattva bless you, I hope I can catch that female Wenqing as soon as I go to Cangzhou!

Thanks to the bad traffic in ancient times, most people go out once a month these days.In particular, it is not uncommon for scholars to go out to travel to increase their knowledge and knowledge, and it is not uncommon for them to go out for three to five years.

Xiaodie didn't think there was anything wrong, she just said that she would also go with Su Mu.

"You don't want to go!" Su Mu frowned slightly, he went to Cangzhou this time to run an official business for the royal family, and it involved the affairs of the royal family, so the less people who know about it, the better.It may not be a good thing for the little girl to really bring Xiaodie there.

Xiaodie refused, and looked a little annoyed, saying that when she came to the capital from Baoding before, she also traveled all over Shandong with Su Mu.And my master is used to being at ease, and he doesn't know anything about world affairs and human relationships, so let him go alone without worry.

Su Mu had a headache, and his heart suddenly moved, Xiaodie was good at everything else, her only weakness was that she was a little greedy for money.Of course, Su Mu also loves yellow and white things.This is probably because he and Xiaodie were very impoverished in Baoding for a few years before, and they have tasted the eyes of the world.

And money can bring them a certain sense of security.

Perhaps, Xiaodie can be persuaded from this aspect.

Su Mu laughed and said, "Of course I am eager to go to Cangzhou with you, but if you leave, what will happen to the family? Think about it, this house is worth thousands of taels of silver, and how many pieces of money are there at home?" Thousands of taels of silver. If you and I are not at home, are you relieved of those newly bought people? Leaving you, the little housekeeper, this house is still in chaos?"

Hearing what Su Mu said, Xiaodie came to her senses, and said repeatedly: "Yes, yes, but Xiaodie can't leave, she has to protect the house for the master. But, the master will probably go for a few Yue, Xiaodie feels sad..."

Speaking of this, the little girl looked a little depressed, and Su Mu coaxed Xiaodie for a long time before she returned to normal.

"By the way, I am leaving the capital this time. If there is anything at home, I can go to Master Hu Shunhu."

Before the words were finished, Xiaodie was about to explode.

Su Mu hurriedly said: "Forget it, don't go to him, you can go to Hu Jin directly to learn."

Only then did Xiaodie nod: "It's okay to find a big guy."

Su Mu was still worried, and told Xiao Die Zhang Yong's address outside the palace: "I know Mr. Zhang well, if there is any trouble, you can go to him for help."

Although Zhang Yong lives in Xiyuan and the Imperial Palace, he can't live in the house he bought outside for three or five days a month.However, for Mr. Zhang, there are two eunuch gatekeepers at home day and night. If there is an urgent matter, he is not afraid that he will not be able to find someone.