Chapter 22: Dialogue
In the study room in the outer courtyard of the Zhou Mansion, a man was sitting, with the best Biluochun in his hand, and the faint fragrance of tea wafted throughout the room, but the man did not move, but looked at the young man standing in the room. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The boy doesn't look very old, but he looks very mature and steady when he stands there, although he is only eighteen years old this year, he has the demeanor and face that a weak-crowned man should have. It's just an ordinary moon-white plain Hangzhou silk straight jacket, but he wore it out of an elegant and extraordinary style.
With a jade-like face, gentle eyes, and an indifferent expression, Zhou Zhifu looked at his son with pride. Originally, I was a little unimpressed with my wife's calculations, but now I seem to feel that my son has lost.
"What's the important thing for a father to call his son here today?" Zhou Yixuan asked with a smile, walked to the lower hand Taishi chair on the left and sat down, with a relaxed posture, it seems that the father and son get along like this on weekdays.
"Your mother has set you up for a family affair. Governor Zhou said.
"The mother mentioned it to her son before she went out today. Zhou Yixuan's brows furrowed slightly.
"What, not satisfied?" Zhou Zhifu asked as he looked at his son's expression.
"There's nothing dissatisfied, but I think my mother has finally figured it out, and this matter should have gone a long time ago. Zhou Yixuan looked at his father and replied.
"Oh, why should I have gone a long time ago?" Zhou Zhifu was puzzled, could it be that his son was very satisfied with this eldest lady of the General's Mansion in private? Or had they met before? Hehe, he was confused, the person was rescued by his own son, so naturally he had seen it.
"The daughter of the Lin family, what she asks for is not satisfactory but conforms to common sense, and it has nothing to do with liking or disliking. The mother knew that she should act like this, but she stopped it because she didn't like it, so far she asked for marriage, but the result remained the same, but she was ridiculed by outsiders as a snob of the Zhou family, which was not clever. Zhou Yixuan said this, it was completely a matter of facts, and now he was married to the eldest lady of the Lin family, but he was called a snob, and the matter of asking for marriage remained the same, but the reputation of the Zhou family was affected.
"Hey, your mother also feels sorry for you, the reputation of the young lady of the Zhou family is not very good, and she used such a method, your mother will inevitably delay because she is not satisfied. "Governor Zhou doesn't want their mother and son to have any suspicions.
"The matter of marriage, the words of the parents and the matchmaker, the son understands. Zhou Yixuan replied again.
Hearing this, Governor Zhou smiled, this child has always spoken like this, and now what is the words of the parents and the matchmaker, this is to tell himself why he is dissatisfied with the reason why they began to propose marriage without being vigorous, but never said anything.
"Then Miss Lin's family, do you know a thing or two?" Zhou Zhifu still couldn't help asking.
"I don't know, I don't understand. Zhou Yixuan felt that today's father was really abnormal, didn't he doubt his son's character by asking this question?
"Since you don't understand, why did you want to rescue him that day?" He didn't believe that his son didn't know, if it was an ordinary woman who saved it, it would be a big deal, and it would be a big deal to be included in the mansion as a concubine, and the eldest daughter of the Lin family would not be able to get rid of it.
"General Lin Gaoyi, if I don't save his daughter when he dies, I can't say anything. Zhou Yixuan said so, with some helplessness in his eyes, the **** never thought that the woman who had always been flamboyant would calculate him so much and use such unpopular means.
"Huh. "So, if you don't want to save it, you have to save it, this girl from the Lin family knows it very well. However, listening to his wife's meaning, she was not prepared to let this person enter the door, but she just held on, and this girl still got nothing after all. His Zhou family is not so calculating.
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At the same time, the Lin family was also unstable, knowing that the eldest lady was going to get married, so the Yang family and the Jiang family began to discuss the dowry. The affairs of the General's Mansion have always been managed by the Yang family, but the Jiang family's dowry, the rewards received by the General's Mansion for so many years, and the real heritage, are all in the hands of the Jiang family.
"When I first came, she was such a small person, and she was so cute with pink carvings, although she was not the eldest grandson I had been looking forward to, I also loved this eldest granddaughter. Jiang Shi held the incense burner in his hand and said.
"It's all the old lady's charity, and the eldest lady was well raised by the old lady. Yang looked at Jiang Shi with a reminiscent gaze, and also said.
"Now that she is about to get married, she can't be treated badly in terms of dowry, this Jiang family's dowry is naturally going to be taken away from her, and besides, I am going to bring her some things from the big treasury in the house. In Jiang's heart, although she can let her second daughter-in-law take care of the house, the things left by the big house still have to be used by the children of the big house, and she is not old and confused to the point of not distinguishing between right and wrong.
"Yes. That's what the old lady said. It is said that it is a low marriage and a high marriage, and our eldest lady married into the prefect's family as a daughter-in-law, and the dowry must be the first one in the north. Yang said.
Hearing this, the Jiang family was a little unhappy, a prefect is just an official position of the fourth grade, but the current general's mansion is not the same as before, the generals are gone, and it is really hard to say whether the general's mansion still exists. The will of the imperial court has not come down, and although the plaque of the general's palace has not been removed, there is no hereditary repudiation.
"The dowry is naturally thicker, but you have to look at the dowry over there before you can set it much, after all, it is not good to exceed the in-laws' family too much, so you have to bring it over and then make the in-laws' family dissatisfied. ”
Jiang thinks more, now the general's mansion is weak, and although the second son still has some real power in the army, he is not as good as the current deputy general Wei. This Vice General Wei has been this deputy general for eight years, and it is said that the emperor wants to correct his name? If this is really the case, then the second son's position in the army will be even more embarrassing. The Zhou family is also one of the best families in the Northland, and the support of the Zhou Governor's Mansion is also very important to the second son.
"Yes, the daughter-in-law thinks so too, so let's wait for the other side to settle down first. Yang smiled in his heart, he wanted to set the dowry, and he thought about the beauty, those were all her daughter's, so Lin Xi didn't think about it. Wait, wait for the Zhou family to set a date, I want to wait, but I don't know if that one can wait.
Sure enough, Yang expected this, and when Tong came again, he gave a message, saying that the eldest lady was only fifteen years old after the New Year, and she was not yet in time. They are not the harsh people, waiting to marry their daughter-in-law and go back to spread the branches, even if they are in a hurry to see the eldest grandson, they have to take into account the thoughts of the elders in the general's mansion, and the wedding date is set for the auspicious day two years later.
Two years later, hehe, no matter how Lin Xi is, it will not be possible to last until two years later, and the old lady Jiang Shi, who originally thought that the Zhou family was full of sincerity, realized that they let the family play tricks. And the Zhou family also relied on this move to win the praise of the big and small families and the people in the north, but the notoriety made the Lin family carry it, and the only one who was not blessed was the eldest lady of their Lin family.
What else can I do? What else can I do? Geng post exchanged, the eight characters were also combined, what people said was reasonable, what can you do! Therefore, Jiang Shi fell ill, on the one hand, because he was deceived, and on the other hand, because he could not make a big fuss about the Zhou family, not to mention that the Lin family is not as good as before, but also because the future of her second son is closely related to the Zhou family.