The misunderstanding was finally cleared up. It turned out that Liu Tao came to Qiao's Mansion yesterday to play with Qiao Xiaogongzi, and took out the finely painted sheepskin scroll to brag that he had painted it himself and showed off to Qiao Xiaogongzi. When he went home in the evening, he forgot to take back the parchment drawing, and Qiao Xiaogongzi was a child, so he went to the study and secretly took a blank roll of parchment to draw a picture by himself.

Of course, in the end, Qiao Xiaogong, who was only five or six years old, didn't draw anything, and wasted a precious piece of parchment. At last moment, the child lost his temper, and took a fire twist to burn the parchment he had drawn.

It's just that Qiao Xiaogongzi was also unlucky, and just burned half of it and let his father hit him, and he was slapped mercilessly.

And the real sheepskin drawings were seen at a glance by the Miss Qiao family, who usually takes care of Qiao Xiaogongzi, and took them back to her boudoir for safekeeping.

When this Miss Qiao took out the parchment from her house unhurriedly, the expression on Master Qiao's face turned to a torrential rain in an instant, and as soon as he wiped the tears on his face, he was about to take over the full parchment drawings.

It was Zhang Xiu who reminded him aloud, "Master Qiao, your precious hand ......" Only then did Master Qiao realize the fact that his hands were black gray and mud and snot and tears, and quickly withdrew his hand and rubbed it in his wide sleeves, signaling his daughter to hand over the drawings to Zhang Xiu and others.

This Miss Qiao is not timid in front of a group of big men, she walked over, Ying Ying smiled and gently bowed down and handed over the parchment: "This picture is intact, no one has seen it except the little girl, you adults can rest assured!" ”

Originally, this picture should have been taken over by Zhang Xiu, after all, Zhang Xiu's current identity is Lu Su and Zhuge Jin's entourage, but at this moment, Zhang Xiu saw the familiar words, deeds, demeanor and temperament from this Miss Qiao's family, but she was in a trance.

How dare Lu Su and Zhuge Jin open their mouths to trouble Zhang Xiu. Although Zhang Xiu is indeed acting, Lu Su and Zhuge Jin are still just newcomers and young people of Zhang Xiu Group, and they have not yet reached the level of getting along with Zhang Xiu freely and informally.

It was Lu Xun who stood up at the right time, took the parchment handed by Miss Qiao, and handed it to Lu Su and Zhuge Jin to check.

Lu Su and Zhuge Jin only glanced at it twice, and after confirming that this was the drawing described by Liu Ye, they asked Lu Xun to put it away and keep it on their behalf.

"May I ask Miss Fang's name, what is her age? Ranking in the family? Have you ever had a marriage agreement? ”

Coldly, Zhang Xiu, who had been staring at this Miss Qiao family on the side, suddenly spoke, and fired a series of cannons. At the same time, Master Qiao had an unexplained look, while Lu Su and Zhuge Jin looked embarrassed.

According to normal circumstances, Zhang Xiu's abrupt question was enough to make Master Qiao, the head of the family, change his face. After all, the Confucian way of etiquette has been popularized in this world for hundreds of years, and respect and humility and etiquette are still very important. How can there be a mere assistant who asks questions about the private affairs of his children in front of his boss and his daughter's father?

But the way of the world has changed, and now there are soldiers and people in the world who are the last word, and it is useless to talk about etiquette, especially in Huainan under the rule of Zhang Xiu, who may be cut by the ruthless Zhang Wenjin at any time. So although now this assistant who has no rank and is not in the stream is abruptly out of courtesy, Master Qiao can only dare to put on a look of "I can't hear it, I don't understand it".

As for Lu Su and Zhuge Jin, although they secretly said bad in their hearts, no one would speak out at this time. After all, even Mencius Meng Yasheng said: "Food and color, sex also!" ”

What's more, this is Zhang Xiu, it is his own father-in-law, and Lu Su and Zhuge Jin have no reason to hinder Zhang Xiu. After all, it is now a well-known fact that Zhang Xiu has no marriage and men and women since his wife died of illness, and he has devoted himself to leading troops to fight wars and military and political affairs, which has earned most of the land of Yangzhou, and Yuan Shao of Hebei, Cao Cao of the Central Plains, Liu Biao of Jingzhou, Liu Zhang of Yizhou, and Liu Bei of Dongxu.

But compared with Yuan Cao and San Liu, Zhang Xiu's most obvious shortcoming is not his prestige, but his heirs.

They are all thirty years old before they have a pair of children, if there is a slight accident, Zhang Xiu Group will immediately fall into an embarrassing crisis with no inheritance at all. Look at Yuan Cao, a lot of children are not mentioned, the key is that they now have several adult sons to help them share the burden. Although there is still Liu Bei, a "big problem" who didn't even have a son, Liu Bei now has several wives, and he has also given birth to one or two daughters to prove that he has "regeneration ability", which makes his subordinates not very worried.

But Zhang Xiu is really looking like he hasn't touched a woman for several years!

On the one hand, Yuan Lian, Yan Xiang and others lamented Zhang Xiu's affection for his wife, on the other hand, most of the Wenchen led by Yuan Jian jointly advised Zhang Xiu to marry another room several times, or to recruit wives and concubines. But Zhang Xiu always prevaricated a lot.

And now, Zhang Xiu finally has some requirements and performances in this regard, Lu Su and Zhuge Jin are not stupid, where do they care about the question of etiquette and humility.

What's more, although this Miss Qiao family looks like she can't see anything amazing at first glance, but the more she looks, the more she will find that her facial features are more and more exquisite, and her light body is even more mixed with her dusty and elegant temperament. But there is really that beautiful woman!

Obviously, this Miss Qiao didn't expect that this not-so-amazing assistant in front of her would suddenly say "crazy words" and ask such a direct and straightforward question in front of so many people, especially her father. At the moment, his face couldn't hide his unhappiness and embarrassment.

But after turning her head and seeing that her father's expression was "peaceful", this Miss Qiao Jia, who was familiar with various etiquettes and ways of treating others, still suppressed the discomfort in her heart, and said with a slight owe: "The little girl's cheap name is Qiao Jin, she is twenty-nine years old, she is the eldest daughter in the family, and she has never promised to marry." ”

Eighteen years old? I guess that's an older age. This Qiao family is really, the daughters are eighteen years old and still don't get married, and if they delay it, they will become old girls, but it's not bad now, wait until Zhang Xiu.

Wait, this Qiao's family is so old and hasn't married yet, in fact, Zhang Xiu should have the responsibility. The Qiao family is already declining, and it is naturally difficult to find a family with the right family to marry. Especially after Zhang Xiu purged ninety percent of the wealthy families in one go, if the Qiao family didn't want to marry their daughter to those poor families, they could only raise their daughter in the boudoir for the time being.

cough, let's think more about how to talk about the proposal later, don't think about these useless Lu Su and Zhuge Jin retracted their thoughts and looked at the daughter of the Qiao family together.

Master Qiao saw that something was wrong at this time, Lu Su and Zhuge Jin, the two staff members, did not stop one of his low-level assistants from speaking rashly, but set their eyes on their daughter together with the assistant. What's going on, could it be that this assistant is a relative and nephew of Zhang Xiu, and he specially took the opportunity to retrieve the treasure map to arrange his marriage?

Hibiscus? Haven't heard of it! Twenty-nine? That's eighteen, five or six years younger than his previous life, and almost half his current age. Joe's daughter? Isn't that Big Joe? Oh, yes, most of the names of women in the Three Kingdoms period are not recorded in the history books. I don't know that Da Qiao should be called Qiao Hibiscus. Don't have a promise to marry? This, this, why did you suddenly blurt out this question just now?

Taking his gaze away from Da Qiao's face, Zhang Xiu returned to his senses for a while before he regained his normal senses. glanced at this Da Qiao again, but he felt in a trance again, so he quickly looked away again, took two deep breaths to calm his inexplicable mood.

Da Qiao was also stared at by Zhang Xiu, feeling uncomfortable, and immediately took his younger brother's hand and retreated, leaving a group of embarrassed men.

At this moment, Master Qiao's heart is constantly measuring. Although this assistant official now looks like he has no rank and no rank, but looking at the two Zhang Xiu shogunate scribes who still dare not disrespect him, he must be Zhang Xiu's close confidants. Such a character, if Zhang Xiu goes one step further in the future, he will definitely be a high-ranking and powerful figure, and it is good for his sensible eldest daughter to marry him.

Seeing Da Qiao go away, Zhang Xiu suddenly asked Master Qiao again: "I heard that Master Qiao's family has two daughters, this is Da Qiao, and what about the other Miss Xiao Qiao?"

After hearing this sentence, not to mention that Master Qiao almost turned his back on him, even the faces of Lu Su and Zhuge Jin couldn't help but twitch a few times.

Master Qiao: If you want to marry my eldest daughter, it doesn't matter, but it's still interesting to my youngest daughter, do you really think that you are a character, or do you think that Qiao's family doesn't have the temperament of a big family with broken jade? If I am humiliated by these two maids and one husband, my Qiao family will have no face to continue to survive in the world.

Lu Su and Zhuge Jin: What's wrong with your own master today? Even if you endure and suffer for too long, you shouldn't be so hungry and thirsty. Although it is said that marrying two people at the same time does not have to worry about not being able to have children, but such a reputation-damaging thing, wouldn't it be best for the two of us to talk to the Qiao family, why bother the lord and you to do it yourself?

"Master Lao has remembered, the contemptible little girl, although she is still in the boudoir, has made a marriage contract with Zhou Gongjin and Zhou Gongzi of Shucheng Zhou." Master Qiao replied with a very unnatural face, and at the same time calculated in his heart how to send someone to Shouchun quickly.

Did you really let this unruly assistant marry my two precious daughters? Hmph, fortunately, I heard earlier that the eldest son of the Zhou family was interested in my second daughter, and now Zhou Yu heard that he is very valued by Zhang Xiu, and Zhang Xiu also went to Jiangdong to recruit him in person!

Presumably, as long as he pulls down his face now and takes the initiative to send someone to Shouchun to propose marriage, the temperamental Zhou Gongzi will definitely accept this family affair happily. At that time, even if you are General Zhendong's close cousin or something, you will be helpless in the face of Zhou Gongjin, who has a bright future. And I, Qiao's, can also keep Ronghua safe.

However, before Master Qiao could congratulate himself on his improvisation, someone on Zhang Xiu's side suddenly shouted: "What? How did Xiao Qiao get married to Zhou? ”

It wasn't Zhang Xiu who said this all the time, Zhang Xiu actually asked so much for that person.

Lu Su and Zhuge Jin never expected that Lu Xun and Lu Boyan, who had been silent since entering the gate of Qiao's house behind him, would suddenly lose his temper, and he couldn't help but come up with such a sentence that surprised everyone, which made him also interested in the second lady of the Qiao family.