Hearing that Huang Chengyan was visiting with his disciples, the Taishou Mansion Council Hall was crowded. The civil officials who live in the city all want to come to the council hall to take a seat, so as to see how long and short this famous man in Jingzhou is.

Kou Yan also felt that if there were more people, he would be able to say less, after all, he was still holding the girl's body, and if he said more, there would be more loopholes, what a tricky person Huang Chengyan was, he had already learned at the apprenticeship banquet in Xiangyang in his early years, this time, she decided to speak less, after all, if you talk too much, you will lose.

So, when Huang Chengyan appeared in the conference hall with Jiang Wan, Kou Yan waited early with Xu Shu and the Ma brothers and other Changsha officials in their respective positions. In order to impress the old man, Kou Yan decided to do the best of the courtesy, give him face, and make him happy before he could talk about other things.

As soon as the guards outside said that someone had arrived, Kou Yan immediately gave the teacher a look, and Xu Shu stood up with the officials as soon as Huang Chengyan stepped into the hall with one foot. When Lao Huang saw this formation, his vanity was already satisfied a little, and he also had a smile on his face.

stepped forward and said hello to Kou Yan with a big grin, Kou Yan respectfully called "Mr. Huang" and said a bunch of nonsense about Xiangyang and said a lot of nonsense that he missed very much before he and Jiang Wan sat down, and by the way, their eyes kept wandering around Jiang Wan.

Huang Chengyan, the big Buddha, Changsha can't afford it, but his disciple Jiang Wan's wrist is not big or small. He is a veteran celebrity, about the same age as Xu Shu, and he is the golden age of a civil official. The key is that Kou Yan doesn't need to ask to know that Jiang Wan is also a talented person, otherwise, with Huang Chengyan's status, when the war is about to come, why would Jiang Wan be so free and follow the teacher to Changsha for a tour?

Therefore, from the very beginning, Kou Yan targeted him. As soon as Jiang Wan sat down, Kou Yan spoke: "I really didn't expect us to meet again so soon, Senior Brother Jiang." "Hehe, yes, yes, Jianchang said goodbye that day, but I didn't expect Xiao Taishou to get bigger and bigger. Jiang Wan said with a smile, his tone full of kindness.

"Thanks to the help of teachers and colleagues, we have the situation in Changsha today. It made Mr. Huang and his senior brother smile. Kou Yan is now 100% sure that Jiang Wan is looking for a job in Changsha, and he is very happy. Even talents like Jiang Wan have their hearts set on Changsha, what else does she have to worry about?

The first time she met Jiang Wan was at her own apprenticeship banquet, and like the other "famous" brothers, they only had a glimpse of friendship. It's just that I heard the teacher say afterwards that Huang Chengyan's disciple is an outlier among the disciples of the same generation.

As we all know, Huang Chengyan is very knowledgeable and has a very wide range of knowledge. In this regard, even Sima Hui is willing to bow down. However, Huang Chengyan has a shortcoming that is not a shortcoming, even if he has a strange temper, not only is he used to doing his own thing, but he also likes to point fingers at other people's disciples, generally speaking, such people are unpopular and even disgusting.

However, his advantages well concealed his shortcomings, his fingering became a teaching guide, and his own way became chic and uninhibited, and there were countless young talents in Xiangyang and its surroundings who wanted to worship him as a teacher, but he has only accepted one disciple so far, and this disciple is Jiang Wan.

Jiang Wan is about the same age as Ma Jing, a few years older than Xu Shu. Before entering Huang Chengyan's door, he had always been a county order, and he was depressed. After meeting Huang Chengyan, he resigned and worshiped under his door, and since then he has been studying by his side, and has not become an official again until now. He is the same age as Xu Shu, but his actual generation is the same as Kou Yan.

In Kou Yan's opinion, Jiang Wan's temper is similar to Ma Jing's, but his ability to do things is definitely not comparable to Ma Jing's, and he is the most suitable candidate for the main bookkeeper. In Changsha's official system, there has always been a lack of a master book, Xu Shu is a long history, a civilian official on the face, and is actually used as a military general. Originally, after Ma Jing came, he could be the chief bookkeeper, but Kou Yan disliked him for being too rigid and sincere, and he was not suitable to sit in this position at all.

In addition, her civil service system is full of loopholes, and no one can do it if she is too guarded, let alone the main book, so she doesn't care too much. However, when he saw Jiang Wan today, his eyes lit up, this person is the most suitable candidate. Be sure to keep him.

If he came alone, Kou Yan felt that he was seventy or eighty percent sure that he could persuade him to stay, but with Huang Chengyan sitting next to him, this old man was not so easy to dismiss. Kou Yan observed the old man's expression while thinking in his heart.

As soon as Xu Shu saw the demeanor of the disciple on the side, he knew what she was thinking. So, he took over his disciple's words: "The two of you came from afar, and they worked hard all the way. I wonder what Mr. Huang has to say here?"

Kou Yan also looked at them curiously, if he said that he was looking for someone to defect, wouldn't Xinye be closer? Liu Bei should not give up recruiting Jiang Wan. Are they here to travel? If they are traveling, they don't have to make a special trip to visit themselves.

"The old man is here, and he has made a special trip to ask the little lady to ask for a person. Huang Chengyan touched his white beard and said his intention bluntly. Hmm? Kou Yan thought that he had a problem with his ears and heard it wrong, asking for someone? Who do you want? I don't lack anything now, but I don't want people, okay?

She couldn't help but look at her teacher, figuring out Guò's expression to see if she was the only one who had misheard. Of course, Xu Shu also heard it, and he was also surprised: "Who do you want?"

"Hehe, the little old man is here to ask for a son-in-law for his daughter. Huang Chengyan said without blushing and panting. Poof, everyone is over. This old man doesn't cultivate, he can't ask for his son-in-law in Xiangyang, so everyone knows it, and now he has come all the way to Changsha, isn't he afraid of making her daughter's reputation so that she really can't get married?

But think about it again, Huang Yueying's reputation has been almost ruined by her father, and Huang Chengyan probably knows that he can't find a target in Xiangyang, so he came to Changsha to open up a second battlefield.

Kou Yan looked at the old man with a smile: "What does Mr. Huang mean is to choose a husband for Ling Ai's daughter in Changsha? Why did the gentleman choose to come to Changsha to recruit a son-in-law?"

"Because your teacher, Brother Yuanzhi, is here. At this time, Huang Chengyan did not hide his desire for Xu Shu, staring at him with bright eyes. On the side, Jiang Wan hurriedly lowered his head, the teacher was really embarrassed like this. He did it, and no one else could stand it.

The other people present suddenly realized, and they all looked at Xu Shu with a good look. Xu Shu is almost forty years old, and he has never had a wife. Now it's okay, my wife has sent it to the door, and she is still a noble daughter of a family, although it is ugly, but looking at Huang Chengyan's persistence, it seems that there is a way to do this. Now it depends on what Xu Shu's attitude is.

When Xu Shu heard Huang Chengyan say this, there was not much surprise, more helplessness and wry smile. Because Huang Chengyan's choice of son-in-law was known to him as early as when he was in Xiangyang. At that time, Old Man Huang didn't take him into consideration. First, because he is old, he is an older young man in his thirties in any era, and there is a generation gap with Huang Yueying in the cardamom years.

The second is because Xu Shu's seniority is the same as Huang Chengyan, Huang Yueying wants to call him a teacher in person, if Xu Shu marries Huang Yueying, he will really be talked about behind his back.

But now, Huang Chengyan can't take care of it much. Cao Cao is coming, and the nobles in Xiangyang City are looking for their own way back. Those who followed Cai to Cao could wait for Cao Cao to move their nests. Huang Chengyan didn't care, anyway, after Xiangyang changed hands, the family could still live like that even if it was moved to the north, but his daughter's marriage was his heart disease, if his daughter couldn't choose a son-in-law, maybe after arriving in the north, she would not find a suitable one, and she would die alone.

In Jingzhou, his father still has a favor card to play and a social circle to use. If you really go to the north to choose a son-in-law, you can't see anything clearly with a black eye. Therefore, even if he knew that Xu Shu was not suitable, he had to reluctantly give it a try.

Xu Shu smiled bitterly for a long time, and found that it was not appropriate to say anything. The answer is definitely not to marry, it is not a question of beauty or ugliness, it is that he has never thought of marrying a wife. But he couldn't say it so bluntly. He understands Huang Chengyan's ruffian, he can't listen to opposing opinions, and he can't go against Mao.

Xu Shu was silent, Huang Chengyan didn't do anything, and simply lived his old face: "Yuan Zhi, I know that you want to use Changsha as a frontier position to fight against Cao Thief, and now that Cao Thief is about to go south, you are alone, it is difficult to support it alone, if you nod your head, when the marriage between the two of you is over, I can move the entire Huang family to Changsha to help you." ”

Huang Chengyan's statement made everyone present gasp except for Kou Yan. What a dowry this is! Huang Chengyan really regarded Xu Shu as his daughter's last straw! I heard that those who married their daughters to accompany the family slaves and the wealth and silk never stopped accompanying the entire family, this is really unheard of and unseen.

Xu Shu's face became even more ugly, he knew that he had to refuse, but how could he refuse? People were obviously embarrassed, and they were sincerely going to kidnap him, if he said no, would the old man Huang still have the face? He would definitely be angry, and if he didn't get angry, he wouldn't have the face to go out again. accompanied the whole family, but failed to marry his daughter, such a father is really a failure.

This is the difference between Xu Shu and Zhuge Liang, the young Zhuge Liang rejected Huang Chengyan categorically for his future and for a breath, and it was useless for Liu Bei to be a matchmaker. Xu Shu had the heart to refuse to speak, and he had to take care of Huang Chengyan's face.