Wei and Jin Cooks

  Chapter 1076 Open and honest

  Zhao Hanzhang coughed lightly, and explained for him in a low voice: "Theoretically, it's a rest, but in fact there are still many things to go in the yamen, so everyone is working overtime."

   Seeing Wang looking at her quietly, Zhao Hanzhang immediately said: "I also went out to work overtime today."

  Even she, the general, is busy, so naturally everyone has to work overtime.

Mrs. Wang snorted softly and said, "Your wedding date is coming soon, but you don't care at all. It is said that the newlyweds should stay at home half a month earlier, but it turns out that the wedding date is two days away. But you are still running outside, look outside the house, where does it look like there is a wedding going on?"

"Why not?" Zhao Hanzhang argued: "Look at the red paper pasted on the windows, the red cloth hanging in the yard, and the red paper pasted by every household in the streets and alleys outside, and the red lanterns hanging. The city is red, isn’t that festive?”

  Zhao Hanzhang hugged her arm and said with a smile: "Mother, this wedding is already very grand, and I feel extravagant."

"Your expenses have been cut and cut again and again, is this extravagant?" Wiping her eyes when she said this, she choked up and said, "Your expenses are not even a third of what your grandfather prepared for you back then. The dowry Not to mention, I reordered the dowry today, and compared it with the list your grandfather prepared for you back then, I found that it didn't even have a tenth, which is too wronged."

  Zhao Hanzhang looked embarrassed. She spent all the dowry her grandfather gave her, including the bride price prepared for Zhao Erlang.

  Princess Hongnong on the side was also a little embarrassed, because the Fu family did not prepare much dowry. She felt that the Zhao family did not have much dowry, which was probably due to the dowry.

  According to the custom, the dowry is matched with the dowry. If the dowry is small but the dowry is large, it is actually an insult to the Fu family.

  Princess Hongnong felt uneasy, and was about to grit her teeth and prepare to go back to find someone to borrow money, first give some more dowry, and pay it back in the future...

Before he could make up his mind, Zhao Hanzhang coaxed Wang to say: "Mother, the dowry and dowry are just cosmetics. They are just good-looking, not practical. We know it ourselves. Ting Han and I have many properties that are not on the list. , but those industries are still our assets, this is the lining.”

   "The inside is much more important than the face."

  Wang Shi: "You can want everything in face and face, write them down on the list, how beautiful it is."

Zhao Hanzhang shook his head again and again, and said helplessly: "Mother, the war is just over, and the next five years will definitely be the period when civil marriages will explode. The upper and lower will take effect. Only when I am frugal, the folk culture will be frugal. This can actually promote the marriage rate and population development. "

   "If I am too extravagant, the people will follow suit, and it will become more and more serious every year. The people are obviously suitable, but they cannot get married because of the high cost of marriage. Isn't this damaging the foundation of the country?"

  Wang: "... so big?"

  Zhao Hanzhang nodded solemnly, "It's so big, so we have to be cautious."

   After coaxing Mrs. Wang, Zhao Hanzhang quickly picked up the remaining three pairs of earrings in the box and gestured to his ears, "Look, look again, look last, which one is the best?"

   Wang: ...

  She couldn't help but pat her, "You just stay for two breaths, how can I compare?"

  Zhao Hanzhang acted like a baby, "But Auntie, I'm hungry."

   Only then did Wang realize that the time was running out, and quickly said to Princess Hongnong apologetically, "Blame me, I forgot the time when I tried. Princess, wait a moment. I'll go see how the kitchen is getting ready."

  Princess Hongnong smiled and said she was fine.

  When Mrs. Wang left in a hurry with Qing Gu and others, only Ting He, the two girls serving tea, and Ren Hui beside Princess Hongnong were left in the room.

  Princess Hongnong looked at Zhao Hanzhang with a smile.

  Zhao Hanzhang seemed to know that she had something to say, so he turned his head and told Ting He, "Go to the kitchen to get some pastries and make a pot of tea."

  Ting He responded, and brought the other two maids with her when she left.

Princess Hongnong also nodded to Ren Hui, and Ren Hui bowed and retreated. After going out, she guarded not far from the door. This position is not far or close, and you can see the expressions of the two people in the lobby so that they can call people. can respond quickly, but can't hear them talking.

  Zhao Hanzhang closed the jewelry box on the table, took it down, and looked up at Princess Hongnong opposite. The two could finally talk face to face.

   "Ting Han is very happy that the princess can return to Luoyang smoothly. It is his and my luck, and it is also Da Jin's luck."

  Princess Hongnong: "I am the daughter of Emperor Xiaohui. Now that you are in charge of the government, it is said that I am more beneficial to you outside. Why did you travel thousands of miles to welcome me back?"

Zhao Hanzhang said: "Princess, I am different from the Eight Kings, and I am also different from Gou Xi, Wang Yan and others. In my heart, my power is not the most important, but the people of the world. Maybe you will think that what I said is right. It's too big, too empty, but I do mean it sincerely, you are the princess of Dajin, you have always been loyal and brave, and I need your approval."

  Princess Hongnong thought for a while and then sarcastically said: "It's because of the stability, and the minds of the aristocratic families from all over the world are floating again, isn't it?"

  Zhao Hanzhang did not speak.

Princess Hongnong sneered: "I knew it..." Looking at the quiet person opposite, Princess Hongnong let out a sigh of relief: "I believe you, you are different from them, those aristocratic families will only fight for their own interests, What do you want me to do?"

  Zhao Hanzhang said with a smile: "The princess doesn't have to do anything special, as long as you are in Luoyang and stand by His Majesty's side, that's enough."

  She is the daughter of Emperor Hui of Jin, she has the reputation of loyalty and bravery, even the little emperor is inferior to her in name, not to mention King Langya in Jiangnan and Jiangdong?

  As long as she is in Luoyang, it is her support;

  As long as she is in Luoyang, there will be those who claim to be loyal to Luoyang among those aristocratic families with floating minds.

Oh, by the way, their minds are floating not because King Langya has a better name than her, but because her vigorous policy of settling refugees, land distribution and relief, and vigorously supporting agricultural development have begun to touch their hearts. foundation.

  Before the war, the main conflict was the conflict with the Xiongnu and Shile. Everyone was united, so they didn't care about it. The policies at that time were all regional, and the action was not strong.

  Unlike now, the national movement, and the war has ceased, and everyone started to seek their own development. At this time, interests conflicted.

  Zhao Hanzhang didn't want to get into too much trouble with them, and in the end they beat her, or she beat them, so Princess Hongnong was a shield she erected.

  She believed that they would side with Princess Hongnong and push her to fight with herself.

  Princess Hongnong slowly cleared up the relationship and looked at Zhao Hanzhang. Their eyes collided in the air, as if they were looking into each other's heart through their eyes.

  Zhao Hanzhang saw surprise and...fear in her eyes, and Princess Hongnong found that she couldn't see through Zhao Hanzhang on the opposite side.

Good night

  (end of this chapter)