The daily life of the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, thick black

Chapter 18
Recently, there was a so-called "bandit trouble", and other people were not busy, which made Zhang Ying dizzy.

In Tongcheng, Anhui, the spring rain continued, and it fell for two days.

Zhang Tingyu and Zhang Tinglu brothers leaned against the corridor in the backyard of the Zhang family mansion and walked outside.

Zhang Tinglu is young, although she is seventeen, but in the eyes of everyone, she is a brat who has not grown up. Zhang Tingyu sees that he is not growing up, so she just reprimanded him: "You should also be careful, the second son of the Gu family will be a juren this year." , you are seventeen, others are nineteen, don't fall into the name of my Zhang family's scholarly family."

Zhang Tinglu couldn't see her second brother's dead face, so she just groaned and said, "I've seen that Gu Hanchuan, he's just a bookworm, a mediocre idiot, should he learn from our elder brother? Didn't the second young master of the Gu family also go this year in Chunwei? Didn't he come back with a feather? Our elder brother has been a Jinshi for 18 years."

The corners of Zhang Tingyu's slightly curved lips were pulled down a little bit like this, and he walked forward with his hands behind his back, with an old-fashioned look: "Just be stubborn."

"I'm telling the truth." Zhang Tinglu rolled her eyes towards the sky, rolled her eyes, and suddenly moved closer to Zhang Tingyu, bumped into Zhang Tingyu's next door, and said in a low voice, "Second brother, I heard that the Gu family from Wuxi is here. I’m afraid there’s news over there, so you don’t want to ask? How about I go to Mother’s place and ask you about it?”

"What can I inquire about?" It's not like that, seeing this marriage, I'm afraid it won't happen.

When Gu Zhenguan was still a guest at Zhang's mansion, Zhang Tingyu had a premonition.

Seeing Zhang Tingyu's uninterested expression, Zhang Tinglu pursed her lips: "Second brother, you don't even care about this kind of thing. I really don't know what in the world can interest you? Sigh, but I want to know... You said that the eldest daughter of the Gu family will not marry you, so what about the third daughter of his family?"

Why did you mention that idiot Gu Sanlai for no reason?

As soon as Zhang Tingyu heard Gu San's name, he thought of the crooked characters, and his teeth were about to fall down.But... there seems to be something strange in what the third brother said.

He turned his head and looked at Zhang Tinglu without speaking.

"cough……"

Zhang Tinglu coughed, feeling a little embarrassed to see her second brother looking at her so bluntly, "Second brother, what does it feel like to like someone?"

It's interesting.Zhang Tingyu still didn't speak. He knew that Zhang Tinglu couldn't hold back things in his heart.

Sure enough, Zhang Tinglu didn't wait for Zhang Tingyu to reply, and said, "Ever since I saw those three girls last time, I've been thinking, why do you think this girl's family is so beautiful? Second brother, is this the so-and-so who said that?" of—food and sex, sex too?”

Zhang Tingyu's eyes flashed, and he continued to walk forward. It was raining outside, and the spring rain dripped down the eaves.

The third brother has so much interest in the third girl Gu?
If you say that Miss Gu San is also really beautiful, with elegant eyebrows and eyes, but when I think about it now, that beautiful face is as if it is trapped in the mist of ten miles in the south of the Yangtze River.Everyone has the love of beauty, let alone someone like Gu Huaixiu?
I still remember when he stepped down the ruler, when Gu Huaishu stared at him with tears in his eyes, he felt as cute and pitiful as a cat.

Zhang Tingyu's heart moved slightly, but he suppressed it in an instant.

"You're just young, seeing pretty girls so—"

"Second Young Master, Second Young Master stay for a while, the master has something to ask for you, please go there immediately."

A young servant ran up, bowed behind Zhang Tingyu, and shouted such a voice.

Zhang Tingyu didn't finish his sentence, so he didn't bother to say now: "You go back to father, I'll go now."

He turned around and said, "Brother, you should go first, my father is afraid that he has something to discuss with me, so I will go over and be back in a while."

"Well, I'll go and tell my elder brother first." Zhang Tinglu responded, but she was a little curious, wondering if Zhang Tingyu was called to talk about Miss Gu San?

Zhang Tingyu went all the way around the yuyemei in front of the garden, and then returned to Zhang Ying's yard. Zhang Ying's wife, Mrs. Wu, was sitting outside, holding Zhang's embroidery pattern in her hand and watching slowly. Seeing Zhang Tingyu coming in, she pointed to the inside , Said: "Your father is waiting for you inside, go in quickly."

"Yes, mother."

Zhang Tingyu bowed before entering.

I am afraid that Zhang Ying is the only one among so many officials who has only one wife. Mrs. Wu may not be very shrewd, but she is also virtuous. For so many years, Zhang Ying has lived by her. It is rare that she does not have three wives and four concubines. .

Zhang Tingyu went into the room with something to worry about, and Zhang Ying stood under the picture of burning weeds in front of the hall, holding a piece of letter paper in his hand, as if he had been thinking about it for a long time.

"Here we come." Zhang Ying could hear the slight sound of footsteps without turning her head. She is not young, but her ears and eyes are smart, and her body is quite strong.

"The boy outside said that the father is looking for a child, and it seems to be something." Zhang Tingyu was respectful, lowered his eyebrows, and looked reticent.

It's a little hard to say, but it's something to say.

Zhang Ying had expected such a result a long time ago, so she turned around, saw the calm expression on her son's face, and couldn't help but smile: "You are a perceptive person, I thought I didn't know how to say this, but seeing you This is calm, but you have an idea?"

"I heard that a messenger came from Wuxi at noon, my son thought, it's about the eldest daughter of the Gu family, right?" Zhang Tingyu didn't hide it. Since Zhang Ying asked, she knew that it was pointless to pretend to be confused, so the father and son opened up and said , A family does not need to hide and hide, a family is a family that is more open.

After hearing Zhang Tingyu's words, Zhang Ying asked again: "Then do you know what the result is?"

"Tingyu has little talent and little learning, and she has no strengths. The eldest daughter of the Gu family is afraid that there will be many embarrassments. Father doesn't have to worry about it, and it will hurt the relationship between the two families."

All good things have been said by her own son, what else can Zhang Ying say?
When he listened, he actually laughed out loud, stroked a tuft of beard on his chin, Zhang Ying said: "I originally thought that the two families would have a happy event, but I didn't expect that the other party would not like it. There is no way, everyone has their own It's good for you to understand the fate of people. It doesn't matter to me here. Your father and I have been best friends with your Uncle Gu for many years. How can we hurt our peace because of this? I'm afraid you juniors have a lump in your heart. Something bad happened. Now that you are open-minded, I feel relieved. There are many good girls in the world, and when I return to the capital after my reinstatement, I will seek a good marriage for you."

Due to Zhang's family background, there are naturally many famous ladies who are willing to marry in, so Zhang Ying is not in a hurry about their children's marriage.

As he was talking, he stuffed the letter back, thinking about waving Zhang Tingyu away, unexpectedly, Zhang Tingyu spoke again.

"Father, my child has ideas about this marriage."

He was straightforward, but Zhang Ying was very surprised: "What else do you think? Is it possible that you still want to marry a girl from the Gu family?"

"Exactly."

Facing Zhang Ying's question, Zhang Tingyu lowered his eyes, lifted his two thin lips, and said these two words quietly and gently.

Exactly.

Exactly?

Zhang Ying was a little dizzy: "The eldest girl is not willing, can you still force her to marry? Your father and I, but I can't bear this shame before asking."

Zhang Tingyu knew what Gu Yaofang meant, how could it be possible to stalk her?What he was thinking about was something else, "My boy just said that he wanted to marry a girl from the Gu family, not the eldest girl from the Gu family."

The hand holding the beard trembled, Zhang Ying was a little horrified.

He looked at Zhang Tingyu in a strange way, and suddenly walked around Zhang Tingyu twice, looking up and down, Zhang Tingyu stood there with a blushing face and heartbeat, letting his father look at him.

It wasn't that Zhang Ying was slow to react before, it was unexpected.

But now, Zhang Tingyu has made it so clear that there are only two girls in the Gu family, one is Gu Yaofang, and who is the other?Think about your toes and you know it!
Zhang Ying suddenly felt interesting, with an inquiring smile on his face, vaguely said, "I don't see it, but your heart is quite wild, when did you fall in love with him?"

Zhang Tingyu just felt dumbfounded. Sometimes Zhang Ying was very serious, and sometimes he gave people a sense of absurdity and disrespect.

"Father, stop making fun of the child."

"Who made fun of you? Have the guts to tell me and ask you something, and you still resist?"

Zhang Ying paced back and forth with her hands behind her back, stroked her beard again, and looked sideways at the second son. Seeing that he was still silent, she couldn't help but added, "I was passing by a while ago, and I heard the cook in the kitchen say that you gave orders to him." When the third girl from the Gu family exchanged porridge, I thought my ears were bad, but I didn’t expect you to be courteous to other girls. I said you boy, I was holding back my heart. At that time, the elder girl of the Gu family There's nothing wrong with it."

Since it's something that hasn't been heard yet, then this piece of Tingyu actually has a heart for his fiancée's sister, isn't this kid nervous and looking for trouble?

Zhang Ying frowned, and suddenly felt that it was time to ask for family law.

Seeing this, Zhang Tingyu sighed secretly, thinking that this was enough for him to suffer.

He didn't mean that at first, so he had to explain patiently: "Father, the matter of changing the porridge is just a matter of saying, and there is no more meaning."

However, when it comes to Gu Yaofang's refusal to marry, I have already had a bad premonition, just because when I was the husband of Miss Gu San, I heard her say a few strange words, so I already had a bad premonition. It turned out to be true.

"The marriage between Zhang and Gu's family was originally a happy event. If there is even the slightest rift between the two families because of the eldest girl's refusal to marry, it is a mistake. Marrying the eldest girl is marriage, and the third girl—isn't it also a marriage?" ?"

Zhang Ying listened, snorted coldly, looked at the letter in his hand, and shook it off a bit: "Smart words make you look ugly, you are a dull gourd when you don't speak, but you can speak clearly and logically when you speak, but you can see it." Master Gu San, why bother to have so many names? What’s the matter with a man who says he likes a girl? I don’t think the third girl is like the rumors outside. Everyone has a love of beauty. You have this The heart is not a rare thing."

Hearing Zhang Ying's shocking remarks, Zhang Tingyu only pursed his lips and did not speak, with a gentle smile on the corners of his eyes and brows.

Zhang Ying said again: "I'll revise a book later and tell you Uncle Gu, but it's hard to say whether Gu San is willing or not. You say you are the same. If I knew today, why did I offend people so hard when I was a husband?" ? You deserve it for not being able to marry a daughter-in-law in this life!"

As she was talking, Zhang Ying remembered the matter of Miss Gu San being punished. Because of this matter, Zhang Ying had scolded him a few times earlier, and if she caught him, she would teach him a lesson. Care about, like what?

Zhang Tingyu agreed without any rebuttal, standing there just like a green bamboo, tall and straight and elegant.

he?I added one more sentence: "In the eyes of a child, there is no distinction between men and women when it comes to academic studies."

The implication is that treating girls is no different from treating men, so he feels that there is nothing wrong with punishing Gu Huaishu.

Seeing that he didn't refute, Zhang Yingyuan thought he was being educated, but now he was choked by his words, and immediately got angry, and waved him to get out: "You hurry up, you don't know what's in your heart, Sooner or later, it will suffocate you to death!"

Knowing that he had offended his father, Zhang Tingyu bowed to leave in a good voice, and when he came out, he said hello to Mrs. Wu before leaving.

Mrs. Wu could hear clearly from outside. Seeing that Zhang Tingyu had left, she hurried in and said with the first sentence: "Master, people outside have rumored that Miss Gu San hooked up with outside men and was an immoral person. Could it be that Tingyu has lost his mind?" ?”

"Look at what you're talking about?" Zhang Ying actually liked the three girls of the Gu family quite a lot. Hearing what Wu said, the boss didn't want to, so he said, "Whatever they say is what they say? Brother Yuanping taught them How could the child of a child be a corrupt person? You think too much, and you don't have a word about this matter, so don't worry about it, just go about your business. "

Wu Shi couldn't say anything, so she could only rest and go out in a muffled voice.

Here, Zhang Ying repaired a book immediately and asked someone to send it to Wuxi immediately.

(End of this chapter)