He raised his hand and knocked on the door, once, twice, three times.

The footsteps of the greeting inside immediately greeted from far and near. He sighed too, threw the reins as the door opened, and walked out into the courtyard.

"Got guests?"

He glanced at the two Tsing Yi family members standing up in the gatehouse, looking a little familiar, but he couldn't remember the servants in which house.

"Yes, sir-"

The general who acted as the doorman whispered to Lou Ye, the housekeeper, and Lou Ye hurriedly replied, "The guests are serving tea in the outer hall." ”

Lou Yun expects that there will be guests today.

Yesterday, Zhou Beizhao of the Palace Painting Academy invited him to eat and drink, and recommended his nephew to come over and be the criminal scribe in his study.

He didn't care, and walked straight to the outer hall along the stone path under the shadow of the trees.

On the contrary, Lou Chun chased after him, looked at his expression, and whispered:

"My lord, Shi Niangzi's background is too low. Adults don't care about her, forget it. Isn't it Qingming Festival in a few days? Is it the green season of Lin'an City? The villain heard that the ladies in each province will go out of the house to visit the garden and cruise outside the city this month. If you go to see more, you might meet a woman you like. Marry to be a wife. ”

Lou Yun's footsteps didn't stop, but he glanced at him and snorted lightly.

Lou Chun immediately knew that he was right, and Lou Yun planned to marry his wife before taking a concubine.

He really doesn't like the county lord of Shunchang, so he wants to quit his family, but there are many women in Lin'an City who are worthy of him.

Lou Chun felt reasonable, so he said honestly:

"My lord, Gongzi Wenchang and the adult are the same age, and the eldest is not married. In Quanzhou City, there has been gossip. The adults hurriedly looked at a well-connected person. Maybe we can do family affairs earlier than Ji Fang's owner. “

“……”

Perhaps it was the sentence "Do family affairs earlier than the owner of Ji Fang" that moved Lou Yun, he stopped on the steps of the outer hall and said:

"There's no rush either. I ordered this family business in a hurry. Pingbai made the county lord feel wronged. ”

His expression was a little distressed. The voice was also consciously lowered.

The outer hall is wide, the stone steps have been repaired three levels, and the lacquer doors carved with ice lattices are four pairs of eight, which are hidden.

It can be seen that there is a hall at the entrance, the terrazzo floor tiles are smooth, the left and right paintings are hung, and there is a boxwood seat at the end of the painted bird

Screen. Inside, there is the inner hall where the guests are waiting.

"It's me who didn't do it properly. The Zhao family is actually reluctant to quit their relatives. So far, I haven't sent a letter of divorce. Rites

I should wait for the county lord of Shunchang to enter the capital. Then she went to her father to make amends. I also have to arrange a way back for the county lord—"

The most difficult thing for him is of course that the holy order is difficult to disobey, and it is the official family's advice that he is not allowed to withdraw from his relatives.

But it stands to reason that he can't do it is the Shunchang county lord's side.

If their family wants to entrust him to keep their two sons, they are unwilling to quit their relatives. He couldn't press anymore.

He groaned, and the wing wing leaf waved back and chased after him. Obviously with unexpected joy, he caught up with two steps and pulled Lou Yun down the steps.

He peered into the outer hall. While whispering to the ear canal

"Your Excellency. In the hall, Lord Zhao came. ”

“…… Which Lord Zhao? ”

Lou Yun couldn't help but look sideways, and even Lou Chun's eyes widened.

"Back to my lord. It is the father of the county lord of Shunchang, the founding man Zhao Binglin. The family inquired from the attendants beside him. It is about that the county lord got a bad illness in Mingzhou City. ”

Lou Yun was taken aback, and before he could ask about the cause, Lou Ye still said with a smile on his face. "The doctor said that he had no life but had to raise him for three or four years, and it was not suitable for marriage. His family was afraid of delaying the adult's youth, so he could only come to the door to withdraw from his relatives. Soshoji is over there. They're going to mention it—"

"What kind of disease?"

Lou Chun looked at Lou Ye's smile and knew that there was a reason for the sudden illness of the county lord of Shunchang. But he became angry, and said:

"It's clearly just a nonsense excuse. Their family heard what the Queen Mother said in the palace, so they were afraid of being affected by adults, so they wanted to withdraw from their relatives, right? Why didn't you mention this stubble when you came to ask for the bride price? ”

“……”

Lou Yun just looked up at the skylight hanging high in the red sun.

He wanted to make sure if he was dreaming.

Zhao Binglin took the initiative to withdraw from his daughter for his daughter, which was really unexpected.

But for him Lou Yun, there is nothing better than this.

She Ji Qingchen can't look down on him Lou Yun, but doesn't anyone want him Lou Yun? He can't meet the woman he likes anymore and live a good life with her wholeheartedly?

He whispered a few words to Lou Ye, and hurried into the hall to see the founding man Yue Binglin.

Naturally, there are girls waiting in the outer hall, and there is no matter of Lou Chun at this time.

"What did your lord tell you to rent a boat for?"

He chased after Lou Ye and asked, Lou Ye looked at him with a smile and replied:

"What? Isn't it what you just mentioned, hurry up and take advantage of the current green season to go outside the city to see the ladies in various prefectures? If there is a suitable one, the adult will come to the door to say kiss? ”

……

In the Qingming season of Mingzhou City, although the apricot blossoms are good these days, there is not much rain.

Ji Qingchen sat in the swordfish cabin and listened to the woman's crying from the parallel riverboat next door.

At this time, she didn't know that it was the county lord of Shunchang who had a "bad disease", and Zhao Deyuan, who could not enter the capital to worship her ancestors.

She just listened to the woman cry and weep, and there was something strange in her heart.

"My brothers are from the Zhao family, so I'm not from the Zhao family? My brothers are my father's flesh and blood, so I'm not my father's daughter? I knew that I was inferior to my brother in my father's eyes, so why did he give birth to me in the first place? ”

Listening to her complain about her parents, her heart moved, and she listened.

The footsteps around her were quiet, and Lao Siniang, the deputy manager of the Tangfang Stack, was so eye-catching, she just said in her ear, "Big lady, I heard that the accent was from Quanzhou......"

She nodded silently.

At this time, she got off the Tangfang sea boat and was taken by the steward of the Tangfang branch to enter the city on the riverboat, but it was only an hour or two.

In Dongdumen, Mingzhou City, Bosi needs to go through entry procedures, so naturally there is a season of stewards to arrange it. Ji Chenhu and the 300 households on the ship were also placed and taken care of by him.

And she, like several leaders on the ship, as well as Chen Wenchang's uncle and nephew, was followed into the city by the stewards who greeted her.

In the capital of Hu Gang, Mrs. Hu's birthday banquet is tonight.

Tang Fang bought a house in the city, and the Chen family bought a very famous Jiangnan garden in Mingzhou City decades ago.

When Chen Wenchang sent her on the boat just now, he had already made an appointment, and after the banquet in Hu's mansion was over, he would also post a post to invite her to enjoy spring in the Chen family's Xiaoyuan.

In the river that surrounds the city, four boats can travel in parallel.

There is a constant stream of river boats going out of the city, and you can often see carved gold and painted green, and the newly decorated private boats of the mansions drive out of the city to play.

You can also see boats carrying sacrificial banners and returning from neighboring prefectures to worship their ancestors.

The riverboat that ran parallel to her boat was a small dhow, with four cabins small at both ends and large in the middle, and at first glance it was an old riverboat rented cheaply.

Usually in the freight business, in April and May when there are many passengers, only occasionally carry passengers.

Therefore, there is only one window in the four rooms, and it is still a sealed window closed outside.

Because the air before the rain was so stuffy, the windows had already been removed by the shipowner, revealing the curtains woven by straw poles.

The woman's crying came from behind the curtain.

She listened, the woman was indeed the accent of Quanzhou City, and after complaining for a while just now, the woman seemed to be too sad, and she fell on the table and whimpered.

There was only one river around the city, and now it was a time when there were many boats, and it was not easy for her to ask the boatman to push the boats away.

Her swordfish boat was also rented by Tang Fang, but it was a very clean new boat for swimming in the lake.

The sliding lattice window is carved with a five-blessing map, half-open into the river breeze, blowing a layer of spotted Xiangfei curtains inside, a layer of white silk embroidered curtains, revealing mottled light and shadow.

The cabin was covered with a new green coat, and in one corner there was a carved wooden standing incense burner, which was blown away with incense.

She listened dispensably.

"The big lady eats tea."

Lao Siniang diligently put the Wuyi mountain tea she was used to eating on the small table at hand, and opened the box of fine tea food.

She smiled and nodded, twisted a dried lychee fruit and put it in her mouth.

Sure enough, there was a sound of persuasion on the boat over there, but it was the voice of a little boy, also with a crying voice, and said:

"Third sister, don't say that. Father is no way. It was the Xinjun Mansion who sent someone to say that if our family marries Lord Lou, next year's big ceremony will not be held in our house. I want to go to my second uncle's house. They don't want my father to be the sect leader of our branch. ”

Ji Qingchen sighed slightly in his heart.

Lao Siniang also leaned into her ear and said, "Big lady, it sounds like a child of the clan." ”

didn't need her to speak, Lao Siniang stretched out her hand, quietly lifted the corner of the curtain, and took a closer look at the situation on the opposite boat.

She is a cousin of Zhuangtou's mother-in-law, the Lao family, and the first person in that group of northern craftsmen to be sent back to the Great Song Dynasty by Ji Qingchen.

In addition to Song speaking well, she is also a very eye-catching and sociable character.

So as soon as she looked at the situation on the boat opposite, she knew that it was the same common broken clan as in the capital, so although it was on the boat

However, there are little ladies and little sons, but there are no capable servants.

In addition to the two river ladies who are holding the boat, they are an old family member on the back boat, and an old woman is taking care of them.

"It's like the children of the broken clan, it should be Qingming who was called into the capital to worship their ancestors. But now I don't go to the capital

When I came here, I was afraid that I didn't dare to go to Lin'an. Even Mingzhou City didn't dare to stay, and wanted to avoid the ship outside the city. ”

She turned her head and whispered.

was expected by her.

Ji Qingchen also nodded.

Because she didn't know how many clansmen there were in Quanzhou City, she couldn't immediately tell where the woman on the boat outside was

A.

But she knew that she should be a county lord.

Because of the 70th birthday of the Queen Mother the year before last, the eldest daughter of each branch of the clan was crowned by Tuien.

The woman on the ship outside was so embarrassed, but the father of the family was the eldest son in the branch. Therefore, she should be the daughter of Wupin and have the honor of being crowned the county lord. (To be continued) R466