Chapter 966: Marriage must not be sloppy
In the small courtyard of Li Mansion in Xiangcheng, Li Qianqian held a big red gold invitation and looked at Liu Er puzzled, "This is for me?"
"Yes. Liu Er didn't understand.
This invitation was sent from Yuecheng.
"We don't have any contact with the county lord of Baoru, right?"
"Yes. Liu Er replied in the affirmative again.
Li Qianqian threw the invitation on the table, "Then she specially sent the post to me, what do you want to do?"
Liu Er shook his head, "I don't know, but I've already sent someone to check, and several families in Xiangcheng have girls of the right age, and they have all received posts." Liu Erxin said that it was clear that the county lord of Baoru wanted to choose a daughter-in-law for his son, but the son didn't recognize her, and he was still in the Yuan family as his fourth young master!
However, it was the county lord of Baoru, because he wanted to recognize his son back, and fought for several rounds with the uncles in the house who did not want her son to recognize his mother.
At present, it is the county lord of Baoru who has the upper hand, but her uncles are not fuel-efficient lamps, anyway, they are also the flesh and blood of Prince Nan, and the relatives of the saints today! They are all relatives of the emperor, and their seniority is still higher than that of the county lord of Baoru! Why can the clan only be her help, not theirs?
The difference is that she is a concubine, they are just a concubine!
For the emperor, if no one can inherit the title of Prince Nan, it is nothing to be embarrassed about, the reason why the title was not withdrawn immediately after the death of Prince Nan is because Prince Nan is still alive, she has no son, only a daughter of the county lord of Baoru, and after she is a hundred years, the title will be withdrawn, of course, there is no problem.
Even if Princess Nan wants to have a successor, or to fill the throne with a concubine, it has to be Prince Nan's concubine, and his brothers want to succeed to the throne?
However, these uncles of the county lord of Baoru don't know much about these things, and they think that as long as the princess of Nan nods, they are expected to inherit the title, but they don't know whether to let the successor of the title of Prince Nan have someone to follow, and it depends on what the emperor thinks.
In fact, even if Yuan Sishao really recognized his mother, so what? Whether he could inherit the title, the emperor had the final say, and the county lord of Baoru had to persuade his son to recognize her as his mother first, but the county lord of Baoru could not wait for his son to nod before he would operate this matter, and he had already sent people to Beijing to carry out activities.
Li Jingshi was a military general, and he was in charge of the emperor's personal guards, no matter what happened, but his son was a scholar beside the emperor! If there was an appropriate time, he would say two good words to help him, but he would be a little better than those old men of the clan who didn't care about things, but the steward who went to Beijing to carry out activities sent a letter back, and the threshold of the Li family was really difficult to enter, and they had exhausted their methods, and they still haven't been able to talk to Li Shaoxi.
The county lord of Baoru and the staff thought about it left and right, and finally thought of Li Qianqian, she was close to Xiangcheng, and accompanied the wife of the owner of Fengzhuang to raise a baby! The girl's family is big, and she has to plan for her marriage, and the county lord of Baoru has a total in her heart, yes, Li Qianqian is not yet married, and her son is not yet engaged, if the two of them can see each other and contribute to their sister and sister-in-law, can Li Shaoxi not help each other?
You must know that if this matter is successful, he will have one more prince and son-in-law! The county lord of Baoru does not believe it, and Li Jingshi will not nod his head at this family business, as long as he nods, he will definitely make every effort for his son-in-law to inherit the princehood.
Lord Baoru never thought that there would be people who were not interested in her precious son.
After all, Mrs. Xie's mother and daughter, as well as Feng Gongzi's uncle, are very willing to compete for the throne of Prince Nan and Princess Nan!
Shang Zhigao is the identity of Feng Gongzi's uncle, went to meet the county lord of Baoru, the business side branch was not widely known, the merchant may be a family in his hometown, but in the whole Southern Chu, in fact, it is not a top family, therefore, Shang Zhigao bears the name of Feng Gongzi's uncle, and it is not too attention-grabbing.
If he is Feng Gongzi's maternal uncle, can he use this name to enter the social circle? If Feng Gongzi himself does not have time to personally introduce him, these nobles who know Yuecheng will also use his own worship post as a guide brick, but Shang Zhi does not have Feng Gongzi's worship post on the master, so it can be seen that his uncle is not a relative, and he can only be said to be of the same clan!
And Fengjiazhuang is just outside Xiangcheng, if it is the uncle of the in-law, he did not personally introduce him, nor did he give him a post to facilitate him to enter the Yuecheng social circle, then he should also send a steward to him, or give a few people from Fengjiazhuang to facilitate his actions, right?
From this point, it can be seen that even if Shang Zhigao is really Feng Gongzi's uncle, this relationship should not be so good.
However, because of the relationship between the county lord of Baoru, Shang Zhigao still successfully entered the upper social circle of Yuecheng.
Shang Zhigao is a dignified person who has something to say, and later everyone doesn't care too much about whether he is related to Feng Gongzi or not, after all, there are several officials from the Shang family behind him!
No matter how Feng Gongzi is, he is still from the rivers and lakes, and compared with the official family, he is one layer worse after all.
Shang Zhigao changed his original intention because of this, no matter how good Feng Gongzi is, what if he is just a Jianghu person! If his daughter really becomes the princess of Prince Nan, Feng Gongzi will still have to kneel down and salute according to the rules when he sees her.
When he learned that the Xie family also intended to compete for the princess of Nan, he was in a hurry and hurried back to Xiangcheng to take his wife and daughter to Yuecheng.
Li Qianqian wrinkled his nose and said, "Go back, I'm busy and crazy now, how can I have that spare time to run." In order to show their best side in front of the county lord of Baoru, the girls attending the meeting definitely smiled without showing their teeth and did not shake their skirts, and they did not eat much, and then they had to write poems to show that their talents were extraordinary.
Don't go. Definitely not going.
The county lord of Baoru, who received the reply, was puzzled, "Not available? She is a sect leader, what is there to be busy with? How can she not be available?"
The attendants exchanged glances, and said in their hearts, "If you don't come, maybe you can't look down on Yuan Sishao!" If you want to know Yuan Sishao's reputation in the past, then you would be a proper gentleman! Otherwise, the Yuan family would not have calculated Xu Xiumei at the beginning, who knows, their own family suffered later, and the four sons of the good family went to two for nothing, although they were not born to the wife of Yuan Zhuang, but they were all raised by her!
Thinking that the county lord of Baoru wanted to rob her son with her, he would not be angry, and he would hate her and his own man to death! If he hadn't messed with the county lord of Baoru, how could two of her four sons have died? There are only two left, and the slut is embarrassed to rob him?
Mrs. Yuan Zhuang was angry, and while listening to her three daughters, she chose a wife for her only two sons, so as to make them happy and remember her well, and not to be co-opted by the county lord of Baoru.
Yuan Sishao went on a blind date every day during this time, and he wanted to vomit at the blind date banquet, but his mother-in-law asked him, and he couldn't refuse, anyway, with his second brother as his companion, he didn't worry.
It's just that it's necessary to look at each other now? It's not been a year since his eldest brother and third brother passed away!
However, it was his mother-in-law, not his mother-in-law, even if he was dissatisfied, he didn't dare to say it directly, not to mention that the eldest brother and the third brother all suffered this catastrophe because of themselves, Yuan Sishao thought of the two brothers who died young, so he had no objections.
Second Young Master Yuan complained to Master Yuan Zhuang that Master Yuan Zhuang was at a loss, so he could only try his best to appease his sons and listen to their mother-in-law's words honestly! In fact, he was also very afraid, the only two remaining sons would be extinguished one day when the wind blew!
Think about this time last year, the four sons quarreled, vying to help him go to various places to check the accounts, to collect cash, especially the two small ones, the most noisy, because when they go out to check the accounts, they can go out to play, no one cares, and they are free and easy.
Although the two elder brothers were not killed by his own hands, they also died because of him, and the guilt was growing day by day, and his wife pressed them on a blind date, which forced the boy to change.
It's just that Yuan Zhuang didn't dare to say anything in front of his wife, after all, the eldest son and the third child died because of the county lord of Baoru, as soon as he opened his mouth, Yuan Zhuang's wife pushed everything on his head.
He's to blame at every turn!
Although Li Qianqian was not interested in the banquet of the county lord of Baoru, he still sent someone to pay attention to it, after all, there was Shang Zhigao mixed in!
Shang Zhigao, although he received a letter from Shang Jianjun, he didn't plan to go back at all, and left Fengjiazhuang with his wife and daughter to go to Yuecheng.
Before getting into the car, Shang Yingying held the maid's hand in the car, and asked Mrs. Shang who was already sitting in the car in a low voice: "Will we come back here later?"
"If you don't come back, what are you doing here?" Mrs. Shang snorted coldly, lifted the curtain and looked out, "This family is all unkind. "The family has lived in the outer building for so long, they haven't sent anyone to care, they haven't come to visit in person, and now that they're leaving, no one in the family shows their faces.
It's really unkind!
But I don't want to, as soon as they come, they look like they are relying on your family, not only to stuff one daughter to their brother, but also to stuff all three daughters to them, two to marry those who have not yet married to be the first wife, and the rest of them will be given to those who have already married.
Besides, if they really didn't have someone to take care of them, they could stay in the outer building for so long, and no one came to the door to ask for trouble? You must know that Mrs. Shang's mother and daughter are good troublemakers, and in the first few days of their arrival, they have offended all the residents around them, and if they hadn't sent someone to take care of them, I am afraid that they would have been tricked miserably.
You must know that Shang Zhigao's family doesn't know martial arts, and the neighbors are all martial arts people!
If Feng Gongzi really doesn't care about them, these high-ranking masters, as long as they come in the middle of the night to make trouble, they can definitely scare them out of half their lives, and then run away.
Mrs. Shang didn't know what to do, but Shang Zhigao knew it, because the steward of the building outside the building told him very frankly that he told him to take care of his wife and daughter's mouth, and to gossip about people when he went out, was he impatient to find death? Don't you know that the people living in the building outside the building are all Jianghu people, and if they offend these people, they don't need to make any move, as long as they flick their fingers and put some laxatives in their food, they can make them half dead!
If they hadn't stopped them, the fake Taoist priest who lived on their left side would have given them a group of demons dancing in the middle of the night, which would definitely scare their lives.
Shang Zhigao didn't know until the steward told him that when he was fighting hard in Yuecheng, his wife and daughter were in the building outside the building, and he had added many enemies to him.
"They said, for the sake of the son-in-law's thin face, don't worry about your family, but if they know that your mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are gossiping about them outside, then even if my son-in-law comes forward, it won't work!"
"Yes, yes. ”
Because of this, Shang Zhigao's face was still stinky when he got into the car, and when he heard his wife nagging and counting the Feng Gongzi brothers, he couldn't help but be furious, "Enough!
"Sir?"
"You give me a little honesty. Seeing that his wife was silent, he scolded angrily, "You still have the face to say that people didn't take care of you, do you know how many people you and your daughter have offended these days, and it's all because of the Feng Gongzi brothers who helped settle it?"
"I, we stayed in the house all day, and we didn't go there, how did we offend people?"
"Didn't you?"
"Nope. Mrs. Shang replied categorically.
Shang Zhigao snorted coldly and pointed out, "When I came back, you were scolding loudly with your daughter, who were you scolding?"
Mrs. Shang was stuck, they didn't go there these days, they stayed in the courtyard all day, and quietly peeked at the neighbors' movements.
If you see everything in your heart, no one will know, and no one will care, but Mrs. Shang is a talker, so she is a good teacher, and when she sees something she is not used to, she can't help but count a few words.
She is like this at home, and the neighbors know her temper, so if she doesn't want to see and hear anything, she will never say or do it in the yard, and if there is anything, she will go into the house and talk about it.
That's where the merchant's old house is located, and the neighbors who live nearby are either surnamed Shang, or because of the merchant, they don't dare to deal with her, can't we hide if we can't afford to provoke them?
I didn't expect to cause her such a problem, and she also provoked people who shouldn't be messed with.
Mrs. Shang didn't care at first, but after seeing her husband's face, she vaguely understood that she seemed to be causing trouble for her husband. But she didn't do anything? Isn't she usually at home like this? Why, if you change places, it won't be? Or is the feng shui of the outer building clash with her?
After Shang Zhigao got into the car, Shang Yingying went to the car behind and went with her two sisters-in-law, so she didn't know what happened to her parents.
When she left Fengjiazhuang and went to Yuecheng, she saw that her parents' situation was not quite right, so she hurriedly sent someone to inquire, and when she knew that she and her mother had caused trouble without knowing it, Shang Yingying couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
Her mother doesn't know, it doesn't mean that she doesn't know, their neighbors in the building outside the building, all of them are not small, and when they peep with her mother there, they don't feel that there is anything wrong, after all, when they are at home, don't they all pass the time like this?
At that time, her mother often said something strange in a loud voice, and the neighbors didn't say anything!
"Girl, you have to persuade your wife when you go back, but don't, don't peek at other people's things anymore. "Even if you look at it, don't say it in a big way! Isn't that an enemy for yourself?" The maid who went to inquire said to Shang Yingying.
Because of the origins of those families, she went to inquire, all of them were high-ranking Jianghu people, and I heard that one of them was a Taoist priest who was good at catching ghosts!
A little servant saw with his own eyes that the Taoist priest was talking to the empty courtyard, and he even raised his glass to invite people to drink! Obviously, there was no one in the courtyard except the Taoist priest! I don't know who he invited to drink with!
"Girl, do you remember the Taoist priest who lives in the courtyard on the left? I heard that last time someone offended him, he couldn't sleep peacefully for half a month, and he would encounter ghosts and ghosts every night!"
"That's just nonsense, do you believe it?"
The maid smiled bitterly, "Is it a slave and maid who is talking nonsense, girl, you are so smart, can't you see it?"
It's just that I can see it, so I can't admit it!" "I know, I know! I'll persuade my wife when I turn around." "If what the maid said is correct, then Feng Gongzi still takes care of their family! But why don't you let them know?
The maids glanced at each other and said in their hearts, Feng Gongzi doesn't want to marry you, so naturally he can't let the master and his wife know that he takes care of his family, otherwise the master and the wife will definitely pull the girl up again, wouldn't it be annoying?
But no one dares to say this, so they can only put it in their hearts.
When she came to the house purchased by Shang Zhigao in Yuecheng, Mrs. Shang was very happy, but she didn't expect that the house that she wanted to buy elsewhere but was delayed would be completed by her husband in Yuecheng?
"This is all for the sake of our daughter's marriage, naturally it is not sloppy!" Shang Zhigao was proud, and never mentioned that this courtyard was obtained by Feng Gongzi for the inside information of how many Shang side branches he had sold.