Zhenshu got into the carriage and drove the strange man Mei Xun, who had never spoken.

When the carriage drove away from Yu Yichen's sight, Zhenshu called Mei Xun and said, "Sir, I want to come down and walk and ask for directions, you drive behind me, okay?" ”

Mei Xunle stopped the carriage, and Zhenshu jumped out of the carriage. This is an ordinary rural village in the north of the Central Plains of the Great Calendar, with adobe walls and courtyards, blue bricks and tiles, and the road is clean and clean, but there are no pedestrians. Zhenshu walked forward, and suddenly saw a young man in his twenties, and stepped forward a few steps forward and asked, "This eldest brother, the little girl wants to ask for directions." ”

The man was dressed very brightly, looked up at Zhenshu and shouted with joy: "Second Miss Song, rudeness!" ”

Zhenshu took a closer look before he exclaimed: "Liu Gongzi, how could it be you?" ”

This person turned out to be Liu Wensi, the son of Liu Zhang, a big landlord in Hanjiaji, Wenxian County. The clothes on his body were fine silk and very bright colors, but perhaps the new clothes he had just sewn did not fit very well on his body. He took two steps back embarrassedly and said, "I'm here to find your eldest girl, right?" I'll take you. ”

Zhenshu asked, "Why is Liu Gongzi here?" ”

Liu Wensi said with a smile: "My father was originally from Liujiazhuang, and he went to Hanjiahe back then. Now because I see the spring season, I also want to go to the capital, so I live in my house first. ”

He stretched out his hand and asked: "Coincidentally, the eldest girl in your family rented a new yard that my father had, because my family is in Wenxian County, and this place has been vacant. ”

Zhen Shu was a little curious because he saw that he was about to go out, and said: "If Liu Gongzi has something to do, and he can handle it himself, it is the same if he points out the way, and the little girl looks for herself." ”

Liu Wensi glanced at Mei Xun, nodded slightly before whispering: "I went out this time to see my godfather, and now he is waiting in the front market." ”

Zhenshu suddenly realized, and said in his heart, your godfather looks a little younger than you.

When she arrived at the gate of the courtyard, Zhenshu was about to knock on the door, Liu Wensi pulled her again and said: "There are still a few groups of people and guests in this courtyard today, all of them are going to say that they are going to ask your house to let Zhang Rui enter Beijing to catch the exam, what do the second girls have in mind, please think about it before going in." ”

More than a group of people?

Zhenshu said goodbye to Liu Wensi and knocked on the courtyard door, and saw his apprentice Hua'er running to open the door, and hurriedly put the door panel to call Zhenshu in. Zhenshu entered the courtyard, and saw several horses tied to the manger under the west wall of the courtyard. Hua'er didn't know Mei Xun, but she also hurriedly called another kid out to carry the things brought by Zhenshu together.

Zhenshu entered the inner courtyard and saw a thick curtain hanging on a room on the west side, and knew that Zhenyuan must be in that room, so he lifted the curtain and entered the house. Zhenyuan hired an old mother surnamed Liu to take care of her, and at this time, the two of them were gossiping on the kang and under the kang. Seeing Zhenshu come in, Zhenyuan hurriedly got up and got off the kang, and said with a smile: "I heard that I wrote a letter saying that you were coming yesterday, and I waited for you for a day, thinking that I couldn't come because I was disturbed, but you came today." ”

She pointed to Liu's mother again and said, "There is an uncle of mine driving outside, so my mother will go and pour water for him." ”

Liu's mother answered the door, and Zhenyuan was busy looking for a teapot to pour tea for Zhenshu, and asked, "I'm afraid I haven't had lunch yet, right?" But a morning trip? ”

Zhenshu dared to say that he had been fooling around all night. Hurriedly stopped Zhen Yuan's hand and poured his own tea and said: "I have eaten, I am not hungry or thirsty, tell me to take a good look at your stomach." ”

In a few months, the Zhenyuan girl was a little fatter, her lower abdomen was bulging high enough, and there were a few playful freckles floating on her white face. Zhenshu sighed: "Even if she is pregnant, the eldest sister is still the most beautiful." ”

Zhen Yuan bit her lip and pointed to the upper room and said: "The two elder brothers of the Zhang family and Dou Keming are all sitting in the upper room, and I want to wait for you to come and give him a word and ask him to go to Beijing to take the exam." I mean, I might as well just tell him to forget it. The mother's letter also agreed, but the father did not have permission to speak, you answered here first, and then you went back and then moved the father. ”

Zhenshu knew Zhang Rui's character more than anyone in the second room of the Song Mansion, and said with a long sigh at this time: "Now you have not filed in the official mansion, nor have you announced that the clansmen will invite guests to the banquet, if he throws you here and chooses someone else to marry after the examination, how can you live a bright life in this life?" ”

Zhen Yuan said: "He swore a small oath on three days, a big oath on five days, and swore that he would never leave our mother and son." Besides, the man's world is outside, I pestered him like this and detained him in Liujiazhuang, his heart is not here, I am afraid that he will complain about me in the future. ”

It's a very difficult thing to do.

Zhenshu pointed to the door and said, "You are a pregnant woman, and there are only two children and an old mother from outside, how do you live when he is gone?" ”

Zhen Yuan leaned on the chair and said: "Coincidentally, the courtyard we rented is the house of Master Liu of Han Jiaji in Wenxian County, and his son-in-law also lives here this time, saying that he will take care of it next door until Zhang Ruichun comes back." ”

Liu Wensi just said that he also wants to have a spring season, doesn't he have to take the test?

Zhenshu said: "After all, Liu Gongzi is a foreign man, if you have some stomach pain and fetal gas, how can he take care of it?" ”

Zhenyuan frowned and said: "After all, they are all fellow villagers, my father still has some friendship with his family, he has taken great care of our family these days, and Chun Yu is about to come back, as long as he passes the exam, he will come back, and it is also made." ”

Zhenshu was about to open his mouth, and suddenly heard laughter in the main room. After a while, Liu's mother came in and said, "The princesses in the main room asked the second girl to come over and talk. ”

Zhenshu went out and entered the main room, and when he lifted the curtain, he was a smell of wine. The two men who were born in the face, about Zhang Rui's eldest brother and second brother, sat on both sides, circled Dou Keming in the middle, Zhang Rui accompanied by the prime minister, and the four of them were eating and drinking. Seeing Zhenshu enter the door, Dou Keming first stretched out his hand with red eyes and pointed: "Little matchmaker, come over and have a glass of wine." ”

Zhang Rui hurriedly stopped Dou Keming's hand and said, "You're drunk, you're drunk!" ”

Dou Keming slapped his hand and said, "I'm not drunk, this should be my pretty matchmaker." ”

He staggered to his feet and came over with a wine glass, and hummed in his mouth: "Pretty matchmaker, if I am in the same tent with your young lady, how can I ask you to make a quilt and fold the bed." ”

When Zhenshu saw him coming over, he slapped an ear scraper and said, "Second brother-in-law, you are drunk." ”

Dou Keming is the youngest son of the Marquis of Beishun Mansion and his wife, and he has a good appearance, who in Beijing does not give a little thin face. Since he was a child, except for Zhang himself, no one has ever dared to do anything to him. Dou Keming was annoyed and slammed his wine glass and said, "Little slut, don't be embarrassed." ”

Zhenshu also hated: "Can you be a father like this?" ”

Zhang Rui saw that Dou Keming's fists were clenched and he was about to fight, so he hurriedly came over and stopped: "Everyone is a family, smashing bones and tendons, what's the trouble?" ”

Although he persuaded Dou Keming in his mouth, he pushed Zhenshu with his hand and said: "Quickly apologize for the fifth prince, if he asks you to have a drink, you can drink a cup, what a big deal." ”

Zhenshu saw that he was still holding a wine glass, and remembered the appearance of him and Tong Qisheng in the drunken world, and couldn't help but be disgusted: "It seems that you also use me as a prostitute?" ”

Zhang Rui said: "Second sister, what are you talking about? Now that we are brothers and sisters, why don't you have a drink with everyone? I told you to use means to confine yourself to this farm, and the brains that have been sitting all day are about to burst, and today is more lively, and the door is closed, so let's have fun together. ”

"Third brother!" Brother Zhang Rui suddenly got up and said, "You are also drunk." ”

He came over and lifted the curtain and said, "Second Miss Song, how drunk they are, they are drunk today, don't you want to take it to heart, I will compensate for them." ”

Zhenshu was about to go out, Dou Keming turned around and stopped at the door, drew the sword on his waist and said, "Today I want the little matchmaker to have a drink with me, how about it?" ”

Zhenshu took the wine glass from Zhang Rui's hand, glanced at the contents of the glass, and splashed it all on Dou Keming's face, looking at him coldly. Dou Keming wiped his face, angrily pointed at Zhenshu with a sword and said, "What are you?" What's there to clear high? The maid ring in your second sister's room, I can sleep with that one when I like it, and I can sleep there if I want. ”

Zhenyuan and Liu's mother both rushed over, and when they saw Dou Keming pointing a sword at Zhenshu, they screamed in fright.

Zhenshu has been a strong and I am stronger since I was a child, and no matter how strong I am, I will work hard, and now I am angry and not afraid of him, but he is still staring at Dou Keming with a pair of eyes, and he seems to be about to erupt fire. Zhen Yuan reacted first and shouted anxiously: "Uncle Zhao! Uncle Zhao! ”

But in a moment, a person rushed in from the outer courtyard, and before Zhen Yuan could turn around, he arrived at the door of the main room, waved his hand and picked up Dou Keming's sword in the air, and the sword nailed to the beam of the room with a chill. Mei Xun drew his sword and pointed at Dou Keming and said, "Get out!" ”

His voice was already very weird, and his expression was as cold as ice, and at this time, a pair of eyes were staring at Dou Keming, so that he had to be afraid, and staggered to look at Mei Xun and said, "This brother looks familiar!" ”

"Get out!"

Dou Keming saw that the tip of the sword was only a minute away from his nose, and the sword was cold, so he raised his hands in fright and said, "Get out!" My little girl? The fifth grandfather has drunk enough today and wants to return to Beijing. ”

His two little servants ran in and helped him one by one, and carried him out of the courtyard. Dou Keming looked back at Zhenshu for a long time, and suddenly smiled from afar: "Little matchmaker, what is capable, now such a person dares to climb?" ”

After speaking, he went out and set up his horse and left.

The eldest brother and the second brother of the Zhang family were originally elders, and they did not come forward to stop it, at this time, they saw that the people in the Song Mansion forced Dou Keming away, and they also knew that although the second room of the Song Mansion was a concubine, it was a little difficult to provoke, and at that moment the two brothers hugged their fists and apologized to Zhenshu: "Second girl, I have offended a lot today, I came to discuss business, who knew that it would be like this, why don't we discuss it another day?" ”

I'm going to leave. Zhang Rui stepped forward and pulled the eldest brother and said, "Big brother, please ask for a favor in front of the second sister, the fame and hope of the third brother's life are all in the present day." ”

Brother Zhang and Second Brother Zhang both avoided it, and they also went out to drive their horses.