In September, the weather cools down. After an autumn rain, the summer heat wave fades cleanly. As soon as the morning dawned, the morning market in Huai'an County gradually became lively. The carriage of the Lu family entered the county town early in the morning, bypassed the morning market, and quietly stopped at the entrance of the alley behind Baohe Building.

The shopkeeper of Baohelou packed up neatly before dawn and stretched his neck on the door in the back corner and waited, seeing that the carriage was approaching, his face was relaxed for a moment, and he took three or two steps to meet him, bowed his hand and bowed, and smiled with wrinkles: "I can be regarded as looking forward to the girl back!" I had tea prepared, and I asked the girl to go to the building to rest first, and the shopkeepers from all over the place arrived. ”

Without waiting for the words of the shopkeeper Wan to fall, the little girl behind neatly stepped forward to raise the curtain, and a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl stepped down from the carriage and nodded to the shopkeeper Wan and thanked him: "Uncle Lao Wan is bothered." His voice was soft and smiling.

Shopkeeper Wan smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed into a slit, and he hurriedly got out of the way, and while leading the way diligently, he took a deep breath while looking at Lu Ran's expression - he really couldn't figure out the girl's thoughts, just such a delicate little girl, who could have imagined...... Thinking about it, Shopkeeper Wan couldn't help but sigh again, there are always some geniuses in this world, he can be regarded as seeing a living example, let alone the girl's appearance...... Even he, an old man who is over half a hundred years old, will be stunned when he looks at it, I heard that the girl is going to talk about marriage, and I don't know which brother can enter their girl's eyes......

"I heard that someone came to smash the building before?" Lu Ran's voice was very soft, and he asked with a faint smile on his face, as if he was inadvertent.

Shopkeeper Wan's footsteps stagnated, shook his head, and replied with a little cry and laughter: "It's not a big deal." On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Uncle Wen and Second Master Xu drank two more glasses, and quarreled over a red official in Dicui Building...... So I did it. Uncle Wen suffered a little loss, and he was angry for a while, so he smashed a few stools. ”

"Wen family?" Lu Ran raised his eyebrows unexpectedly, a trace of disgust flashed in his eyes, "Is it the maiden brother of that Mrs. Wen in the Anxi Palace?" ”

"Yes," Shopkeeper Wan nodded, and added with a smile, "This Uncle Wen is Mrs. Wen's brother, and the Wen family is also one of the few families of poetry, books and etiquette in the south. ”

"The House of Poetry and Etiquette?" Lu Ran snorted lightly, did not comment, and followed the shopkeeper Wan into the backyard of Baohe Building. The shopkeeper Wan personally came up with tea, and heard the little guy outside reply that a few shopkeepers had arrived, so he asked Lu Ran to show him and retreated to the outside room to greet a few shopkeepers.

Lu Ran held the tea, listened intently to the sound of talking outside, and his thoughts gradually drifted away. It's been almost four years since she's been in this world, and it seems like a blink of an eye. Maybe God was too unwilling to see her die, so he let her come back to life. It's a pity that there are too many differences between this world and the previous life, and she almost doesn't remember that previous life......

Just as he was out of his mind, the shopkeeper Wan had already sent away a few shopkeepers, bowed in and replied: "I told a few shopkeepers what the girl explained, and the Chongyang cocktail competition has been prepared everywhere, and yesterday Governor Li also sent someone to talk back, saying that it was bound to come." The dry shares of several shops have also been sent out, and I will make a list tomorrow. Girl, look at it, but what's wrong? ”

"What's wrong with you staring at the cocktail party? When Ming'er and Sun Ping come back, I asked him to come to you, and the affairs of Chengfeng Business should also be busy. Lu Ran put down the teacup, with a smile in his eyes, waved his hand and sighed, "I'm just here today, and I'll ask you for something to eat by the way." ”

"Rest assured, girl, it's ready. There are a few new snacks in the kitchen before, and I just asked the girl to give me a palm. Shopkeeper Wan also laughed, laughing and letting the little girl come in with a food box to set the meal.

After having breakfast in Baohe Building, Lu Ran and his party went back to Luoxia Courtyard directly, and as soon as they entered the door, the mother-in-law outside led Mama Zhao, who was in front of Qin, the second wife of the Lu family, to come in and replied: "...... The old man specially instructed that the uncle's family affairs could not be delayed any longer, but our wife did not dare to make an assertion, and we had to ask the second girl to take a look at it herself. My wife specially instructed me to come over and ask the second girl to show me, I wonder when the second girl will have time to go back to the house to see people? ”

Lu Ran glanced at Mama Zhao with a faint expression, reached out to take the hot tea from the eldest girl Yinyue, leaned on the bamboo couch near the window, and asked unhurriedly: "So, the second aunt has already been chosen?" ”

"It's a few of them," Mama Zhao glanced at Lu Ran quickly, and said with a smile on the corner of her mouth, "Mrs. can't make up her mind, so she came to invite the second girl over." ”

"It made the second aunt bothered, and asked my grandmother to go back and thank the second aunt for me and my eldest brother, and said that I would go back to the old house the day after tomorrow." Lu Ran's voice was very flat, and he couldn't hear the joy or anger, so he only took a sip of tea slowly, and didn't look at Mama Zhao, turned his head to Yinyue and ordered, "Yinyue send Mama out." ”

Mama Zhao breathed a sigh of relief at this time, agreed with a smile, and bowed to Lu Ran and withdrew.

Seeing Yinyue and Mama Zhao turn around the verandah, the big girl in green clothes pursed her lips very disdainfully, and sneered while sorting out the books in front of the bamboo couch: "The second wife wanted to set the cousin of the Qin family for our uncle a few years ago, who doesn't know this thought?" How do you say that......"

"Sima Zhao's heart." Hongrui on the side reminded the green clothes funny.

"Yes, yes, that's it!" Green Yi snapped the booklet on the couch, grinded his teeth, looked at Lu Ran's expression, sighed and muttered, "Why did the girl agree......"

Lu Ran was amused for a while, raised his hand and tapped the door of the green clothes' head, and scolded with a smile: "How should we decide your uncle's family affairs if we don't go over?" Could it be true that I will let you girls and I go to Zhang Luo? Lu Ran said, sighed softly, and said helplessly, "After all, the eldest brother's family affairs have to invite the elders to come forward, the rules of the world are like this, you girls and I are not good at interfering in the face." Otherwise, there is a lot of gossip, and I can stand it, but it depends on whether your future grandmother can stand it. Besides, your uncle is also a parent official of a county now, so he can't cherish his reputation? Rumors hurt people, and we can't make gossip about it. ”

"The girl is worried." Hongrui nodded approvingly, "I learned a lesson over there last time, so it's time to remember it a little longer." ”

On the other side, Mama Zhao got Lu Ran's permission, so she took the car to Lu Mansion to reply, and just entered the inner courtyard, she heard the voice of the eldest girl Lu Shuang from a distance, mixed with a little crying, and occasionally heard Mrs. Qin's angry scolding. Mama Zhao was taken aback and hurriedly ran to the main house. Mrs. Qin's henchman, Hongxing, opened the curtain and shook her head at Mama Zhao with a flustered expression.

Mama Zhao opened her mouth, but she didn't open her mouth, she just waited quietly at the door, and after a while, she heard that something was wrong.

“…… That's a romantic gentleman, let alone a concubine...... This gift cannot be accepted! It's a fire pit...... I don't want to...... A-Niang, do you want to think of a way......" Lu Shuang's crying voice was intermittent, full of panic and uneasiness.

"What are you crying about?" Mrs. Qin held her forehead and took a deep breath, her face was pale, and she scolded angrily and distressedly, "Why didn't you talk about this earlier...... Why did he see you? ”

"That day on the street, I thought it was...... Who knew it was the disciple ......" Lu Shuang sobbed and choked, unable to cry. Mrs. Qin was so angry that she raised her hand and wanted to slap Lu Shuang, but her hand waved in the air, but she still couldn't bear it, and she was so angry that her chest hurt.

Seeing this, Mama Zhao glanced at Hongxing, and the two retreated outside the curtain, and Mama Zhao lowered her voice and frowned and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Hongxing looked around, leaned close to Mama Zhao's ear and said with a wry smile: "Uncle Wen, the brother of Mrs. Wen of Anxi Wangfu, saw the eldest girl somewhere, and today he actually sent a steward to propose marriage." Mama said, how can this mention of relatives be like this...... What's more, that Uncle Wen is still a well-known drunkard, and he made the eldest girl a concubine...... The Wenfu is powerful, and the steward is not allowed to say a word, and he is still waiting in the outer courtyard to get the eldest girl's Geng post. When the eldest girl heard about this, she cried all afternoon, and the wife was very angry. ”

When Mama Zhao heard this, her brows furrowed even more, and she had no idea for a while. King Anxi is half of the emperor in the south, I heard that Mrs. Wen is extremely favored, and the Wen family has become increasingly powerful in the south in recent years.

In a state of confusion, she suddenly heard Mrs. Qin shouting Hongxing, Mama Zhao hurriedly followed into the inner room, hesitated for a moment, and saw that Mrs. Qin had calmed down, so she went to Mrs. Qin and told Lu Ran's words.

Mrs. Qin let out a "hmm", there was a sense of annoyance between her eyebrows, and her already unattractive face sank even more. Seeing that Hongxing served Lu Shuang and cleaned her face, but Lu Shuang still sobbed, Mrs. Qin didn't know what she thought, her brows suddenly jumped, she took a breath with a complicated expression, looked at her daughter who was crying and her face was flushed, muttered for a moment, motioned to Mama Zhao to come closer, and whispered a few words.

Mama Zhao was shocked when she heard this, hesitated to persuade her, but was scraped by Mrs. Qin's fierce eyes, so she had to stop her mouth sneeringly, forcibly suppressed the uneasiness in her heart, and found two purses of fifty taels of silver and a few taels of silver in Hongxing, and turned her head to the outer courtyard to find her own man Lu An carefully explained.

Lu An saw that there was silver to obtain, and the little worry in his heart turned over and over again, but it couldn't be worth the weight of the silver, and he couldn't take care of a lot, so he took the purse with the silver ticket and went to the outer courtyard to find the money manager of the Wen Mansion.

“…… Don't hide it from the chief steward and say that our eldest girl has indeed made a decision, and she just made a small decision...... Don't be annoyed, don't be annoyed! Hey, our wife said that this is indeed our house, you see, this repentance is not good to say, and the reputation of Uncle Yu Wen is also hindered, so it is not beautiful. There is not only one eldest girl in our house, but also a second girl and a third girl. Speaking of which, the eldest girl in our family is much inferior to the second girl, hey, you haven't seen our second girl, that look is really ...... Tsk, I can't pick out one in ten thousand! Although it is a little younger, but it has also reached the age of the marriage, our wife is looking at each other for the second girl, you see, this ...... Can the uncle meet the two girls? As he spoke, Lu An had already stuffed a bulging purse into the hand of the money manager.

The money steward pinched the purse, checked it quietly, and finally loosened his tone: "How old is your second girl?" ”

"Thirteen, the second girl was born early, and the New Year will be fourteen!"

"That's too small!" Steward Qian frowned and glanced at Lu An impatiently.

"It's a little smaller, but I really don't have to say what it looks like. It's only a year and a half of ......," Lu An said this, his voice lowered, and his face was ambiguously flattering, "It's not small, it's not the masters who have the final say, and this young age also has the advantage of being young...... Being able to serve the uncle is also a blessing for our second girl. Please take a little extra effort, maybe our two girls can close the eyes of the uncle, wouldn't everyone be happy? Seeing that the money manager hesitated, Lu An secretly took a sip, gritted his teeth, and stuffed a purse into the money manager's hand.

Steward Qian's brows relaxed, sighed, and nodded embarrassedly: "Well, for the sake of the sincerity of your house, I have to go to the uncle again and say, but whether this person can close the eyes of the uncle also depends on the creation of your house." "Alas, alas, if you are willing to bother, our wife is already very grateful!" Lu An breathed a sigh of relief, smiled and bowed for a while to thank him, and sent the money manager out with great gratitude.