Shen listened to Zhao Xiu's words, and said with a smile: "It's true, my father-in-law personally called our husband and wife to order in the past, can it be fake?" And I listened to his tone, and seemed to hope that Ze Ge'er would leave as soon as possible, and said that he wanted him to go home for the Mid-Autumn Festival. ”

Zhao Xiu couldn't help but sneer, now there is only one month left before the Mid-Autumn Festival, if there are a few people, hurry back to the capital, then there is still hope to arrive before the Mid-Autumn Festival. But if you take the waterway, even the master and the servant, a large group of people walk slowly, and most of them will still be in Shandong after a month. Zhao Yu's words should be just an excuse, in the past two years of the Mid-Autumn Festival, didn't Zhao Ze spend it in the sect? I heard that I still spent it with two girls in my yard, and I couldn't even participate in the family banquet in the sect. There's nothing special this year, so why do you suddenly want him to go home for the holidays?

But this has nothing to do with the second room, Zhao Xiu only went to see his grandmother Zhang's expression.

Zhang's face was faint: "If he can go back, we will also be happy to be quiet." It's not that we as elders have to get along with a child, his biological mother has a great enmity with our grandchildren, and he also made a big mistake when he was a child, and he still doesn't repent. Such people are dangling in front of our eyes all day long, which is really uncomfortable. Since the eldest nephew offered to send people away, that was a good thing. Jing's daughter-in-law, you will pack up for Zhao Ze according to your father-in-law's instructions, if he lacks entanglement and refuses to ask you for it, just come and tell me, I will ask someone to charter a boat for him to sweep away his worries. ”

Zhao Xiu pursed his lips and snickered, this is to prevent Zhao Ze from making excuses that he is not entangled, and he will not leave, right? It also means to prevent him from leaving a few people to peep at the movements of the second room. When Shen heard this, he hurriedly smiled: "Uncle and grandmother are looking down on me." It's a little entangled, but our family can still afford it. I have sent to the servants who had gone south with him, and told them to pack up their belongings as well. Staying in our house all day and doing nothing, I knew that I was naughty, and I was impatient. ”

Zhang nodded, didn't seem to care much about Zhao Ze, and only talked to Shen about other things: "Sister Qing is fourteen years old, it's time to show her someone, right?" Do you husband and wife know what to expect? ”

Shen was most concerned about this matter in his heart. Seeing Zhang's question, he hurriedly said, "Exactly, our husband and wife have been worrying about this matter recently." Brother Yuan is the elder brother, and his marriage has not yet been decided, so it is difficult for Sister Qing to say goodbye. It's just that we think that our own family is just white. Although there are some fields. But it's not decent enough to take it out. If our uncle or Brother Yuan can come back with a meritorious test, when he says goodbye to his child, he can also choose a better family. ”

Zhang raised his eyebrows: "That's not bad, it's just that Jing'er has only started to work hard in the past few years, and she didn't pass the county exam last year, but Brother Yuan'er's homework is better, and he has taken the exam a few times, but he is only short of the college exam." It's a show. It doesn't matter if a boy gets married later. But Sister Qing may not be able to wait. I advise you to take a look at a few people's homes, just in case. If Brother Yuan can be admitted to Xiucai within three years, it is naturally the best, in case he fails the exam, he can't let Sister Qing wait forever. ”

Shen couldn't help but sigh: "I also know in my heart that just looking at my daughter's current appearance, I can't bear to let her marry into a small family, worrying about firewood, rice, oil and salt all day long; If she chooses the son of a rich man's family, she is afraid that the laity will insult her. ”

It's no wonder that the Shen family has a high vision, when the old county prince was still there, the Zhao family could be said to be the head of the big family on the ground in Fengxian, and the clan house had a close relationship with the second room, and the marriages were all famous and wealthy families, and the Shen family himself came from a famous family in Songjiang, where could he look down on the ordinary rich man in the countryside, or a poor sour scholar? But now that the Zhao family is in decline, there is no famous child in the sect, Zhao Yuan is just a child, and Sister Zhao Qing is an out-and-out daughter of a rich man, it is really not easy for those scholarly families and big families to look down on her.

However, the Shen family only has one son and one daughter, and the son's upbringing can't be interfered with, so he is extra attentive to his daughter, and he completely cultivates Sister Qing according to everyone's standard of beauty. Now Sister Qing is beautiful and smart, she knows poetry and books, she knows a little about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, she is a red needlewoman, and she has learned everything well, in Fengxian, except for her aunt Zhao Xiu, she can hardly find a second girl who is better than her. As soon as he thought that such a daughter would marry unsatisfactory, the Shen family hated to die.

She thought about it and thought, and said hatefully: "It's a pity that more than half of the young people who have been tested by Tongsheng in the past two years are from our Zhao family, and the rest are not better than our children. Well, when the township test list comes out this time, I will let the uncle take a look in person, if there is a new person who can see it, even if the family is poor and a little older, as long as the character is good and the person is kind, it is not impossible to consider. ”

Zhao Xiu's eyes widened on the side: "Sister-in-law Jing, Sister Qing is really only thirteen years old this year, so you don't need to be in a hurry to get married, right?" Just pick slowly, otherwise, according to your meaning, it is difficult to choose a much older husband for her? ”

Shen's face was a little sneering: "Of course I won't pick someone who is too far apart, in the end it is my own daughter, how can I be too wronged by her?" But after thinking about it, even if you pick a twenty-five or sixteen-year-old newcomer, that age is twice that of a girl, it seems that it is really too far away. Usually men of this age have already married and had children, and if they are widowed, do they want their daughters to fill in the houses?

The Shen family sighed, and thought in his heart, should he write a letter back to his parents' house, and ask if there are suitable boys in the Shen clan, even if he has not yet achieved fame, as long as he is willing to study, his homework is passable, which is better than others.

Zhang said to her: "You don't have to be too anxious, the engagement will be made within two or three years." There are many nephews and nephews in your mother's family, so you may have suitable children. Our Zhang family is also a scholarly heirloom, and it is not bad to have a few children, but the family background is a little thin, I am afraid that you will not look down on it. ”

Shen hurriedly said: "Uncle and grandmother are serious, our family is not a rich family, the Zhang family has been scholarly for generations, where is it worse than others?" "I thought about it in my heart, and felt that the Zhang family was also good, but I didn't know which children there were, and I thought that the Zhang family was filling the house, and the generation was big. is young, and she is afraid that among her nephews, the right age is not right. The generation is the same, and the age is too young.

Shen was still struggling when he left, and he didn't pay much attention to packing Zhao Ze's luggage, so he only sent two girls to take charge of it. Zhao Ze asked the girl to talk back and forth, saying that he wanted to see the servants he brought from home, and ordered a few words. She didn't think much about it before she agreed. After that, Zhao Ze obediently packed up her things, and seemed to have accepted the arrangement of the sect, so she was even less wary.

Who knows five days later. Zhao Yu urged, Zhao Ze took the servants to leave, refused to be escorted by the sect, and claimed that he would find the dock himself. Get on the boat that Zhao Jing helped hir. But the people on the pier waited for half a day. They didn't see their master and servant appear, so they sent someone to the sect room to inquire, and Zhao Jing and his wife knew that he didn't plan to leave at all. All the previous things were just to confuse the people of the sect.

Zhao Yu was furious and ordered his son to inquire, and then became angry at Liu Ying, suspecting that she was helping Zhao Ze make trouble. Liu Ying shouted that she was wronged, saying that she was completely unaware. I don't know where Zhao Ze went, and he used the disappearance of the grandson of the old lord Niu as an excuse. pestered Zhao Yu to cry, and Zhao Jing and his wife should be investigated for negligence.

Zhao Yu was so annoyed that he was going to die, Zhao Jing and the Shen family had a secret hatred in their hearts, fortunately, there were many people from the Zhao clan living on a street, and someone noticed Zhao Ze's whereabouts and told them, they knew that someone among Zhao Ze's servants had rented a two-entry small house in advance behind the Chenghuang Temple in the north of the county, and paid four months' rent.

Zhao Yu angrily took Zhao Jing and a group of servants and ran to the small mansion to look for someone, and sure enough, he found Zhao Ze. Zhao Yu asked him why he was coaxing himself, but he knelt down and cried: "Grandmother and father have orders first, and nephews and grandchildren have not been famous for a day, and they can't go home to see them for a day." How dare you disobey the order now? Since the uncle and grandfather were unwilling to take in the nephew, the nephew had to find a place to live and move away. The nephew has already sent someone to Beijing to deliver letters, and what he will do in the future, whether to return to Beijing or stay in his hometown to study, still has to wait for his father's instructions. ”

Zhao Yu was so angry that his face turned white: "The travel expenses you asked me for a while ago are entangled, and there are enough two hundred taels of silver, could it be that you don't plan to stay on the road at all, but use it to rent a house and daily expenses?!" ”

Zhao Ze bowed his head and was silent, and Zhao Yu was irritable again: "You give me a hurry back to the capital!" If not, I'll go to the county office and accuse you of stealing!" At that time, you won't even want to be eligible for the imperial examination! Zhao Ze said: "The silver is all rewarded by the elders, where is the reason to go back?" The nephew does not live in the clan's house. You also said that you have already left my family, and you are no longer the elders of my family, how can you still stop me from living in the county seat? ”

Zhao Yu was almost choked to death by him, and he was about to scold again, Zhao Jing hurriedly stepped forward and persuaded in a low voice: "Father is angry, he has left our house, where he falls in love, it has nothing to do with us, and when the money is spent, he will always leave." Besides, he rents a house outside, which is not the same as living in our sect's house, and his father will surely send someone to pick him up when he gets the news. Let's leave it alone, shall we? ”

Zhao Yu stomped his feet and said, "The people didn't send them away, so how can I go to see the second room and the people?" I brought him back then, and you all said it was my fault, and if I couldn't send him back, wouldn't it make you complain for the rest of your life? ”

Zhao Jing suddenly, it turned out that his father suddenly changed his mind, he had such a thought, and couldn't help laughing: "Father, rest assured, your mind, the people of the He clan can understand." Zhao Ze is already an outsider, whether he wants to stay or leave, it has nothing to do with us, let's go back, right? ”

Zhao Yu reluctantly turned around and left, but before leaving, he didn't forget to glare at Zhao Ze fiercely: "Don't knock on our door if you have something, you coaxed me once, don't think about asking for a penny from my house again!" When she returned home, she also ordered that Liu Ying was not allowed to go out, not even the girl waiting beside her, so that's it.

Zhao Xiu and his grandmother Zhang soon learned about this episode from the Shen family, and they were a little crying and laughing, but they also felt that Zhao Zelai was really annoying if he didn't leave in the county, and they didn't know what he planned to do. However, Zhao Jing's words also make sense, as long as he doesn't live on the land of the Zhao clan, where does he want to go? Fengxian is not the place of the Zhao family.

In a blink of an eye, time passed in a hurry, and it was immediately August, the weather was getting more and more dry, and the harvest in the field was three or four percent less than last year. Zhao Xiu began to worry, and was a little worried, after such a long drought, things will be reversed, will there be a rain disaster? So he told his grandmother to take precautions.

At the same time, the long-awaited township test finally began. (To be continued......)