Chapter 231: Mother and Son
Mrs. Fang had no choice but to take Jiang Xian, so she touched her head lovingly, and told Baijie and her lover to serve her well, let her rest early, don't eat indiscriminately, and then returned to her residence.
The dowry gifts sent by the Li family include gold and silver jewelry, and the wedding quilt is to be brought by Jiang Xian, and the bride price is collected by the Jiang family, and the wedding cake and fruit are to be sent to the woman's relatives before they become married. Xiguo and others were sent to the capital overnight, and they were busy until the time of the lantern, and set up a banquet in the flower hall to entertain Mrs. Qi, thanking her for helping to deal with the Li family's employment in the past two days.
Mrs. Fang dragged her tired body to wash hastily, and was just about to rest, when Jiang Lu came over.
The male guests from the Li family were entertained by Jiang Lu.
Mrs. Fang was afraid that something would happen to him, so she changed her clothes again and prepared to go to the hall to see Jiang Lu.
Jiang Lu asked the maid to bring in a message: "You have been busy all day today, it is very hard, and your son is not an outsider, so don't toss." ”
Mrs. Fang was indeed tired, so she made a handiwork, put on a half-new half-arm, and went to the banquet room.
Although Jiang Lu was wearing his daily robe, cleaned his face, and combed his hair, his face was slightly red, and there was still a faint smell of alcohol on his body, and he obviously drank a lot.
He invited Mrs. Fang to sit down on the big kang near the window, and asked the little maid to take a beauty to beat her, and said with a smile: "Mother, I'll beat your legs, right?"
"No, no. Mrs. Fang's heart hurt her son, and she hurriedly said, "You are also tired for a day." Your father is not here, and they all poured you wine, right? Did you drink the decanting soup? Is there anything uncomfortable?"
"I'm so old that I know how to take care of myself. Jiang Lu insisted on beating his mother's legs.
The son was filial, and Mrs. Fang didn't stop her, so she asked the little maid to take the pillow over, leaning there and talking to Jiang Lu: "Why did you come here at this time? But what's the matter?"
"It's nothing, I just want to talk to you. Jiang Lu said with a smile, "Today's representative of the Li family is Jin Haitao who comes to give the dowry gift." He was so busy, I didn't expect him to come in person, so I drank several glasses with him. The Jin family originally sent Jin Xiao to Beijing because they wanted to marry our family. As a result, Jin Xiao was defeated, Jin Haitao was still willing to be a matchmaker for Li Qian, no matter what he thought in his heart, at least he could still take care of the big face, but he was also a character. ”
Mrs. Fang laughed and said, "How old are you? You dare to evaluate Jin Haitao? ”
"Am I not in front of you?" Jiang Lu smiled disapprehantly.
Mrs. Fang thought of Jiang Xian, couldn't help touching Jiang Lu's head, and said with a smile: "You brothers and sisters are a virtue." ”
"In other words, I'm pretty good!" Jiang Lu coquettishly in front of his mother, teasing his mother for a while, and then said, "Jin Xiao also followed his father, and also brought the two sons of the Shao family, the chief soldier of Yulin, over. ”
Jiang Lu thought that Jin Xiao took the opportunity of Jin Haitao to go to the official room to pull himself aside, looked at him with blank eyes, and said: "Brother Allu, don't be angry with me! If I hadn't made a righteous move, how could Li Qian have won the beauty? How could the county lord of Jianan get what he wanted. You see, I'm doing good deeds with good intentions, so don't take the past to heart!"
He had no choice but to nod.
Who knew that Jin Xiao hit the snake with the stick, and immediately said: "Then I will go to Beijing to play with you later!"
He also introduced the Shaw brothers to him.
Shao Jiang, the son of the Shao family, is an old and serious person, but the second son Shao Yang looks like a gentleman, acting impetuously and speaking exaggeratedly, and shouting for Jiang Lu to help him find a wife in the capital.
Only then did he know that Jin Haitao had already planned for Jin Xiao's marriage, and wanted to help his second son Jin Cheng find a more prominent wife in the capital.
He couldn't help but say to Mrs. Fang: "It seems that the Jin family has not had a good time in the past few years at the border. ”
"Of course!" Mrs. Fang said very casually, "The Jin family has been guarding Taiyuan Town for a long time, and the court taboos Beijing officials to hand over foreign ministers, they are closed to the news in Beijing, and they are always slow to do anything, Emperor Xiaozong said that as long as you do what you should do honestly, every three years, every nine years, you can be promoted steadily." But when the first emperor was in power, Qin Guifei liked to be lively, the first emperor had a small banquet on three days, a big banquet on five days, and the effect of going up and down, this atmosphere gradually changed, and some people even ascension to heaven overnight because of Qin Guifei. When the Empress Dowager Cao was regent, she couldn't stop it, and the first ones to bear the burden were those civil and military generals who had served in the border village for a long time.
"The road is far away, only three years to go to Beijing to report on work, often the officials of the Ministry of Officials have already changed a stubble, when you come to the Ministry of Officials to report, those who are responsible for giving you approval do not know who you are at all, the people below have merit is on the peak, mistakes are their own, after several twists and turns, it will not work at all to transfer back with political achievements. I had to take the path of the Beijing official. And the soldiers guarding the nine sides suffered more than the civilian officials, those civil officials had a few teachers of the same year and the like, but the soldiers of the nine sides did not know any of them, and the officials of the military department were also civilian officials, so they couldn't give gifts even if they wanted to. And every time the capital deducts their salaries or equipment, this is what kills people when they start a war......
"How can the Jin family not be difficult?
"Otherwise, why would your father hold on to Datong, Xuanfu and Jizhen?
"I'm afraid they'll ruin these three places.
"What will happen to the guards of the capital then?
"When the Jin family sent Jin Xiao to the capital, your father said that unless your sister took a fancy to it, it would be impossible for the Jiang family to marry the Jin family, otherwise the Jin family and the Shao family are in-laws, and then tied up with our Jiang family, the emperor is afraid that he will wake up in the middle of the night.
"If Jin Haitao is really smart, he should let the eldest son marry a daughter-in-law with an average family, and the second son or the third or fourth son will marry with the dignitaries in the capital, so that the emperor can rest assured, and he can get the support of his in-laws, and help each other in Beijing. ”
Jiang Lu couldn't help but give his mother a thumbs up when he heard this, and said, "Mother, you can really do it! Who said that you will only take care of the trivial things at home, I think you are a female Zhuge ?"
"You don't play tricks on me!" Mrs. Fang said with a smile, "Do you think those trivial things at home are not important! Without me helping you with those trivial things behind you, what do you eat, what do you drink, and do you have sobering soup to drink when you are drunk?" and then taught her son, "You can't underestimate your daughter-in-law because of this in the future." There are men and women in this world, so let you men make contributions outside, and let us women have children at home, this is what Taoism calls the balance of yin and yang. If there is an imbalance between yin and yang, wouldn't it be a mess ......"
Jiang Lu begged for mercy again and again: "Mother, I know." I don't dare say you're doing all the trivial stuff anymore!"
Mrs. Fang looked at her son's unremembered appearance, and she couldn't say any more, so she only urged him to go and rest.
Jiang Lu was also a little tired of making such a fuss in front of his mother, so he handed over the beauty to the little maid who was serving beside him, and got up to prepare to go back to the room.
After walking a few steps, he was stopped by Mrs. Fang and said, "You take the time to go to Li's house tomorrow, and you say that I want to see Li Qian." ”
Jiang Lu was a little surprised, and said, "What do you have to ask him for? ”
"It's a wedding thing. Mrs. Fang smiled, "I told you that I was afraid that your word would leak, so you should just call him over." ”
Jiang Lu replied, and then went back to the room.
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