141 Unexpected encounters
The boat entered through the east gate and went directly into the lake along the waterway.
Because the sun and moon twin lakes in the east city are the reason why the city is named after the word "Ming".
Jifu's garden in Moon Lake is called Stacked Spring Residence, and of course Lou Yun has been here a long time ago. So when the boat passed the relatively small round Sun Lake and slid into the long and wide Moon Lake, he looked far away at the southern waterfront.
Diechunju is located on a sandbar curved island between two lakes, taking the meaning of the overlapping spring scenery of the two lakes.
At a glance, he saw a few painting boats under the Xinglin Creek in the south of the continent, and he knew that it was a female guest.
"Is the second aunt in the house coming back and setting up a family banquet? Or is the young lady inviting a female guest? ”
Based on Zhao Deyuan's rumors in the Quanzhou clan, she should be able to live well in Jifu with her behavior. But whether he can book a satisfactory family affair for her this time, after all, it still depends on how the elders of the Ji Mansion feel about her.
Especially the four clan daughters married by the third generation of Jifu, what is their opinion of her.
Therefore, he is still a little uncertain in his heart.
"It's the young lady who is having a treat, my lord."
Ruyi explained with a grin.
Of course, the eldest young lady is Zhao Delin, the wife of Prince Ji. The second aunt is a generation older, and she is married to the second master Ji who is a teacher and scholar in Taizhou, and she is also a county lord.
During the Qingming Festival, of course, the second master wanted to rush back from Taizhou with his wife and children to worship his ancestors.
"When the second old lady met the county lord of Shunchang yesterday, she also asked about you, Lord Lou."
Ruyi carefully lifted Zhao Deyuan, and observed Lou Yun's expression with a sideways face.
Ji Fuli and Lou Yun have a good relationship, of course, they have long heard that Lou Yun wants to avoid suspicion and quit his relatives in order to try the case.
But this time, he asked Ji Fu to come forward to take the county lord of Shunchang to live in the mansion temporarily, and his son-in-law Ji Er couldn't figure out what Lou Yun meant.
But yesterday, the second old lady followed the second old man back to the house. Because she and the sixth generation of the main family of Shunchang County are separated from the same country, they are extra affectionate.
Although the second son of his family is stupid, the housewives in the house, as well as his wishful wife, the nurse of the second son, are not stupid at all.
So when he came to pick up the lord Lou early this morning, he got the words of the old lady, saying that the second old lady summoned her to ask last night. Does Lord Lou mean to draw the second son?
Of course, she couldn't decide. So I specially asked him to carefully probe the tone of Lord Lou today:
The second son is also twenty-seven or eighteen years old, and this time he ate the war in the border army and almost couldn't come back. asked his mother to hug and cry, and he was willing to marry. The county lord of Shunchang is the seal of the seventh grade, and he now has a new deputy envoy of the Shouwei Legion, although he is not as good as Lou Yun's four-grade crimson official robe, and Zhao Deyuan is also just worthy of it.
As for Zhao Deyuan's appearance. In the eyes of the second aunt, it is more than enough to match the second son.
The nursing mother is only afraid that she will not look down on the second son. The second son's face is handsome, but after all, he has just experienced the war, and he is a little pale. The county lord of Shunchang is only twenty years old.
In case she doesn't love her uncle and loves Xiaosheng, wouldn't it be embarrassing for the second son to call the third and fourth young children to compare.
If there is a Lou Lord for the second son, he will make peace from it. That, of course, is different.
"My lord, my second son, I've been thinking about when the adult's family affairs will be done......"
Ruyi's words just came to this point. took Lou Yun's smiling glance and went straight to his heart.
Ruyi was suddenly so frightened that he couldn't speak.
Lou Yun had a number in his heart.
The young lady Zhao Delin is a junior. It's hard to come out and ask, but the second aunt of Ji Mansion, he Lou Yun, has seen it a long time ago, and he also inquired clearly, she and Zhao Deyuan's family are close to the clan.
What's so bad about kissing and kissing?
Anyway, Ji Er didn't fancy any of her nieces in her mother's room.
"My lord, the banquet is on the White Crane Island over there, and it will be there soon......"
Ruyi thought that if he wanted to find out the news in Lou Yun's mouth, his son-in-law might not be able to do it, let alone him?
He didn't dare to ask again, and honestly pointed to the place where Ji Er invited guests to set up a table.
The lake road between the two lakes is narrow, and the green leaves on the shore are deep and light, stretching to the surface of the lake and connecting branches, and the sky and water are all dark and blue.
Lou Yun's boat and those painting boats were about to meet, and across the water three or four meters wide, the clothes and sideburns of the female passengers in the cabin were vividly visible, and Lou Yun was ready to return to the cabin and avoid the female passengers.
However, he inadvertently saw a familiar female figure on the painting boat.
She sat in the front cabin with Zhao.
His eyes froze.
At the mouth of the apricot blossom stream, the falling flowers float in the water, and the light-colored gauze curtain is rolled up in the green lacquer carved window, welcoming the fragrant spring breeze.
Through the ice flower window lattice, Ji Qingchen lightly smeared rouge, tapped his lips, two ruby gold hairpins between the black and shiny buns, and a silver-red gauze skirt covered with gray silk folded branches and flower backs, gorgeous and fresh.
She was talking to Zhao as she turned her head to look at the light yellow flowers flying on the turquoise lake.
In broad daylight, she also saw Lou Yun standing at the bow of the ship as a matter of course.
Because he was going to rush to Jifu as a guest, he was groomed on the boat, at this time he had red lips in his lacquered eyes, a jade shoulder belt around his waist, a black lacquer bent hat and a red robe in a long gauze robe, standing in the wind between the dark and light green waves, it was really a good appearance of jade face and red lips.
He alone has taken up more than half of the green spring scenery on the lake.
“……”
After being surprised, she wiped her eyes with the silk, resisted the urge to throw the silk into the lake to get rid of her bad luck, turned her head expressionlessly, and continued to laugh with Zhao.
It is not good to go out today, so I bumped into such an opponent who caused sores in my eyes.
“……”
Lou Yun secretly hated that his eyes were too good, and watched her unceremoniously give him the back of his head in the painting boat, making him want to comfort himself that it was impossible for her not to see him.
The moment they looked through the window, the corners of her lips did not change, but the smile in her eyes disappeared too obviously. 、
He was unexpectedly happy when he just jumped up in his heart, and he was suddenly splashed with a basin of cold ice water.
From the top of the head, it was cold to the heels.
…… He offended her, it seems that he offended too much?
Can he expect Wang Shiqiang's repentant kid to come back to the banquet in a few days to persuade her to change her mind?
Isn't this a dream?
He'll have to figure it out for himself......
As for Ji Qingchen, he picked for three years, and picked Chen Wenchang, who is not in business or an official but has the same eccentric temperament as Wang Shiqiang. He was already numb to such a thing......
In the painting boat, Ji Qingchen was also talking with Zhao Delin in the painting boat.
Naturally, it is also a matter of the Chen family.
The most lively spring banquet in Mingzhou City two days ago was, of course, the Chen family's Xiaoyuan.
Xiaoyuan's well-known thing is that she Ji Qingchen and her future cousin Chen Hong fell out.
She listened quietly to Zhao Delin's persuasion to her.
"Don't be sad, which family says it's not like this? When there are parents, parents and matchmakers go to stand up for us. Fight for the bride price, fight for the fields and houses brought in the dowry. As for the horses, sedan chairs, and servants who compete to welcome relatives. Competing for the wine at the wedding banquet, which one is a trivial matter? This is the face of entering the door. We must not be wronged. Even when you are confined, it is naturally different to have a mother. Poor parents are not around, and we can only make our own decisions about everything. ”
Zhao Delin is naturally cautious. Although she vomited the grievances she suffered after she got married, she was talking about her Ji Qingchen.
"Aren't you not engaged to the Chen family yet? It is at this time that you can see the people of the two families. When changing the post to say that the dowry, the mother-in-law's family asked for an extra piece of land. It's not uncommon to ask for a few more shops to bring over. You don't need to be polite either. Tell them to put the dowry on display. No one has climbed anyone! You just be careful not to talk to your future husband about it......"
Ji Qingchen didn't want to be in Chen Jiaxiaoyuan in advance, and she and Chen Hong broke up unhappily.
Instead, he smiled and said something that Zhao Delin likes to hear.
Her affairs in Mingzhou Chengfanfang were thanks to the presence of the Zhao family and the help of her husband Ji Dagongzi.
On that day, in Mingzhou City, Bosi Yamen. If the eldest prince Ji is on official business, he can completely ignore the things in Fanfang,
Just let the chief have the final say.
After all, even if she Ji Qingchen has the blood of Middle-earth. But the household registration is still a businessman.
Because it was the wife's wife's mother-in-law who attracted it, after all, the eldest prince Ji still said it in front of the chief. Even if she is a businessman, she is also of Song blood, who dares to say that she is not a Song woman standing in the lobby of the yamen?
Since she came to cry, the yamen didn't want to ignore it.
In addition, the amount of goods in Ji's warehouse has always been one of the best in Fanfang, and no one in their warehouse came out to compete for the longevity of Fanfang, but now her brother wants to occupy two docks to unload goods in his own warehouse, which is also a matter of course.
- Cry once and get famous, but to grab two docks, she can't wait to cry a few more times.
So she took Li Qiulan's best three fabrics that night, and went to see Zhao again to thank her for her help.
As for Lao Siniang, of course, she has her own way to prepare generous gifts to thank the Yamen of Mingzhou City. There is also Ji Dagongzi, who presides over justice.
Prince Ji accepted the gift, as long as he looked at the box of sea pearls and golden flowers inside, wouldn't he dare to give his wife a good look outside?
But in Chen Jiaxiaoyuan, Chen Hong's side was so impatient, but she was a little surprised.
At that time, she had just settled down in Meihuatai, preparing for the three-day spring banquet, and the news from Ji Chenhu's side came.
But even if he ate the siege of the Tibetan people and retreated to Putuo Port on Zhoushan Island with the villagers, Chen Hong actually thought that she was helpless and could only let her future husband be the master?
actually came to her immediately to urge her to marry and make up the dowry?
Sure enough, Fujian maritime merchants are new arrivals in the East China Sea......
If Chen Wenchang hadn't heard the news, he left the guests outside and rushed to Meihuatai to persuade Chen Hong away, she and Chen Hong would not only quarrel that day, but turned their faces into enemies for the dowry.
She's had enough, too.
When she and Wang Shiqiang said that they were married, they had never been so angry about the dowry.
At the beginning, when they opened the river and built a workshop together, they knew each other's roots, and when it came to the dowry, the Siming Wang family didn't have to count on it, but Wang Shiqiang's private property naturally had an account in her heart.
So what dowry he gave and what dowry she brought, she usually said three or four sentences occasionally, and they knew that they had a tacit understanding with each other. It's basically her Ji Qingchen who has the final say.
The only thing he took out to prepare was the broken dragon and phoenix bracelet over there.
Where do you need to be like the Chen family, thinking about it?
And she didn't have a boyfriend in her last life, and she was never married.
She didn't have the opportunity to argue with her boyfriend's parents and elders about whose name the house was written in before she got married.
Now that I think about it, Chen Wenchang is not in business, is not an official, and does not go to the camp, which is a good thing. But after all, he is the second son of the second wife who is doted on in the Chen family - his parents are kind, and his uncle has always taken care of him.
He was caught in the middle, and it was much more difficult than Wang Shiqiang.
To this day, she still remembers that when Chen Wenchang sent her back to Jiyuan, the flowers were green all the way, and her mother and Xiaorui Niang avoided talking outside the cabin. It was only him and her in the cabin, but they were silent.
She knew he had done enough.
But he can't call the shots himself.
But she didn't give the whole Tang Fang to the Chen family just to marry him.
Chen Hong asked her to hand over all the thirteen wharves on the Chuyang River to the Chen family to build and operate, and asked the Chen family to allocate this head in the name of her donation to repair water conservancy. How could she say yes?
The most hateful person Lou Yun actually summoned the Zhang Xueli Zhang scribe to Shaoxing at this time, so that there was one less person between the Chen family and her to turn around and persuade her.
What did he not mean to be?
He thought that if he invited Wang Shiqiang to come forward, she would be able to make him satisfied and give over the thirteen docks to others?
Dream! (To be continued) R655