In the afternoon of this day, Wang Yuanwai had just returned to Zhuangzi after negotiating business outside, and his subordinates reported that there was a handsome young man outside who claimed to be a descendant of the Xiao family in Jiangnan, and brought many dowry gifts to propose to his young lady.

"Descendants of the Xiao family?" Wang Yuanwai pondered, could it be the century-old scholarly family that has declined? But...... Even if the Xiao family declines, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, so there is no reason to go all the way to Jinju to ask for marriage, or to marry a small daughter who is not an outsider...... Could it be a liar?

"Master, the young man said that there is a token to prove that he is the descendant of the Xiao family." The family didn't know how the young man could be so smart, and he actually knew what his master was worried about.

"Then let him in......" Wang Yuanwai took a few sips of Xiangshan cloud and mist, and waved his hand to ask the family to invite the young man.

Regarding the accommodation of Lin Mei's family, in the end, Shu Wangjin generously bought the small courtyard of Xiao Yuan next door, he and Shu Zhou lived in Xiao Yuan's small courtyard, and Xiahou Linlang lived in Lin Mei's house with Lin Mei, and the three meals of the four of them were taken care of by Sister-in-law Liu, and Xiahou Linlang naturally would not take the initiative to cook after touching the wall once.

After lunch, Shu Wangjin was in Lin Mei's room to open the letters from the capital and major shops, and when he was about to reply to the letter, he found that Lin Mei's room did not even have a pen and ink, and instantly felt that he wanted to enjoy the soft fragrance of red sleeves and grinding ink, so he had to send Shu Zhou to take the remaining pen, ink, paper and inkstone from Xiao Yuan's room next door, and laughed so loudly that Lin Mei was detained in the room and honestly studied ink for him.

Lin Mei originally wanted to go back to her boudoir bed and squint for a while, but when she saw Shu Wangjin reading the letter in her room, she looked at him without complaining, and dragged her steps to go to the room where Xiahou Linlang slept to squint.

"What did you do last night?" Shu Wangjin was hanging her head and reading the letter carefully at this time, when she heard Lin Mei's footsteps, she opened her mouth coldly to call her.

"Didn't do anything...... Lin Mei covered her mouth and yawned quietly with her back to him, so she didn't want to tell him that she pretended to be a ghost and played tricks on Xiahou Linlang for half a night last night, so scared that Xiahou Linlang didn't dare to sleep for a night, and she herself only slept for two hours.

Shu Wangjin didn't ask much, his expression was gentle as usual, he just stretched out his hand and pointed to the Duanshi inkstone on the side and the remaining half of the rosin ink, and said, "Then help me study the ink." ”

Lin Mei almost didn't jump up when she heard this, she didn't rest so late last night, and now Shu Wangjin even instructed her to do what such a maid can do, naturally she was full of unwillingness, how did she know that the current literati and ink scholars are proud of the beautiful woman's gentle whispering on the side, Shu Wangjin called her to study ink, it must be blue-eyed, otherwise she would have asked the dumb-eyed Xiahou Linlang to come to the side to serve the nephrite jade warmly.

"I don't want it!" Lin Mei squinted her eyes, she was so sleepy that she couldn't open her eyes, she didn't look at Shu Wangjin for a while, turned around and wanted to leave, when she suddenly heard a dark voice behind her, "That bottle of golden jade dew ......"

Lin Mei grinded her teeth, and suddenly looked at him fiercely with wide eyes, "How much silver!" I'll just pay you back! "It's a big deal, she went to borrow some money from Liu Yufei!

Shu Wangjin slowly put down the unopened envelope in his hand, smiled softly at her, and his eyebrows in his eyes were infinitely springy, "Wu Lao is the former head of the Tai Hospital, please let him go out of the mountain and spend three thousand taels of silver and a big mansion, this bottle of gold and jade dew...... Since I am so familiar with Miss Lin, I should give it away for free! ”

Phew! Who is acquainted with you! Wait a minute...... How much silver?!

"Three thousand taels!" Lin Mei suddenly covered her mouth and screamed, God! She can't raise so much money in her life! plus a large mansion......

"So, does Miss Lin want to stay and help grind the ink?" Shu Wangjin still smiled like a spring breeze, and his words were full of tenderness and sweetness, but Lin Mei looked at him like a father and an enemy, eager to bite him to death here, forget it!

Lin Mei stiffly pulled up the corners of her lips, rolled up the sleeves on both sides and walked over to pick up the half piece of rosin ink, her voice was surprisingly gentle, "Master Shu takes such good care of the little woman, just give it to the little girl for such a trivial matter as grinding ink!" "That's right, Shu Wangjin is a well-dressed beast with a human face and a beast's heart, wouldn't it be too cheap to just bite him to death!

"Then please ......" Shu Wangjin put the inkstone under her hand, and replied to his letter attentively.

Hey? The letter is......

Shu Wangjin looked at the signature on the envelope, and couldn't help but sink his face, Jiangnan Xiao ...... Hasn't it been a few years since it fell? How could you suddenly write to yourself? And...... How could the people of the Xiao family know that they were not in the capital and in Jinju!

He opened the envelope, where he poked the seal with red clay, and could vaguely see the word "Xiao" in ancient seal style, and the stroke at the end of the word Xiao was as sharp as a knife carving, which ordinary people could not imitate at all, and it seemed that it was indeed the mud seal used by the Xiao family in Jiangnan.

Lin Mei saw that Shu Wangjin was in a trance, and couldn't help pouting secretly, but her subordinates were still honestly grinding ink, but she didn't know how many times she had scolded Shu Wangjin in her heart.

Shu Wangjin was looking at the envelope in his hand intently at this time, looked at it for a long time, and gently cut the sealing mud with a knife, there was a high-quality letter paper sprinkled with gold plain paper, which was neatly stacked with fly's heads, although the handwriting was delicate, there was no woman's weakness, Shu Wangjin looked straight to the end of the letter, and sure enough, a few words were written there, "Xiao Zihuan stayed", it seems that it is a young man of the same generation as the Xiao family, named Xiao Zihuan.

Although this letter seems to have a lot of words at first glance, most of them are nonsense, such as this sentence "In his early years, he was in charge of Shu's family, and he had the posture of a bandit gentleman and a beautiful jade, opened up his family business, changed his laws, won the favor of the imperial court, and was known as an imperial businessman...... "It's just how to pat the Shu family's sycophants and praise Shu Wangjin for being young and promising, and the last few sentences made Shu Wangjin really a little frightened.

Xiao Zihuan not only knew that he was in Linshan County, but also knew the grievances between Lin Mei and Miss Wang, and he said that he also gave a big gift to himself and Lin Mei, so that Lin Mei could wait for good news.

This Xiao Zihuan is so powerful, he knows everything...... It's horrible.

Shu Wangjin's face was gloomy, looking at Lin Mei who was lowering her head and grinding ink next to her, she just wanted to tell her not to grind anymore, but found that her head was little by little, obviously about to squint, the corner of Shu Wangjin's mouth overflowed with a wry smile, this is really a good thing to feed, you can fall asleep when you stand.

Because of Lin Mei's matter, he has offended Wu Lao, I am afraid that the large group of Tai doctors in the Tai Hospital, who are good friends with Wu Lao, will not have a good face for the Shu family in the future, and now Wu Lao's matter has not been resolved, and there is another Jiangnan Xiao family, I am afraid that it is also not good, this year is really an eventful autumn, I don't know what kind of trouble there will be when I return to Beijing.

Shu Wangjin was thinking about how to reply to the letter, but she didn't pay attention, Lin Mei's head smashed straight to the inkstone on the table, so shocked that Shu Wangjin almost lost her soul, if she knocked up, even Jin Yulu couldn't keep Lin Mei's face, so she hurriedly got up and protected her in her arms, leaned over to look over, and saw that Lin Meiren was still in a daze, and she didn't know that she was almost disfigured again.

"You only said that you were unlucky in your three lives when you met me, how do you know that I am not the same......"

Shu Wangjin whispered in Lin Mei's ear, regardless of whether she heard it or not, in the end she had to reluctantly carry her to the bed and settle it, this is not the place where those young ladies in the capital live, naturally there is no such superfluous thing as a brocade embroidered couch, Shu Wangjin saw that she was already asleep, so she took those letters to the outside and asked Shu Zhou to send them to the post station, and she must be sent to the capital as soon as possible.

On the side of the county magistrate's mansion, Liu Xianling was still smiling and receiving his future son-in-law, that is, Zhao Tao, the eldest son of the county magistrate next door, and was about to ask with a pleasant face, "Don't come to the virtuous son-in-law?" Unexpectedly, Zhao Tao knelt in front of Liu County's order.

"Virtuous son-in-law, what are you ......" Liu Xianling was a little surprised, looking at this Zhao Tao's face, he didn't know if it was a good thing, could it be that Yufei had enlarged the belly of the concubine in the family before he passed the door? That's kind of ridiculous......

"Lord Liu, the younger generation is a ...... who came to withdraw from the marriage"

"You, what did you say?" Liu Xianling looked at him in disbelief, his hand pinching his sleeves was a little shaky, his Yufei is also one of the best beauties in Linshan County, not to mention the dowry of 10,000 taels in the county when Yufei's mother got married, with such a foundation, Zhao Tao dared to withdraw from the marriage? !

Note: The term "bandit gentleman" comes from "The Book of Songs, Wei Feng, Qi Ao", which is a poem praising men, and the original sentence is "There are bandit gentlemen, such as cutting and learning, such as pondering and grinding." ”