Section 157 Unsalable
Yan Majin's three official media mothers-in-law can be regarded as catching Master Huang today. Thinking about the hard work of copying for half a year, and then calculating the many performances after the success of this order, the three women couldn't help but ...... at the same time Glancing at the opponent.
As he spoke, Master Huang entered the flower hall. Because there are female guests, there is an extra mother-in-law behind the master today. When the three women saw Master Huang coming in, they hurriedly got up and saluted, and their attention was focused on Master Huang, who was dressed in a plain robe.
In the long career of the three women, there are really not many templates like Master Huang, which is also one of the biggest motivations for the three women to chase Master Huang: the case is special, and there are special achievements after winning it.
Before this, Huang Ping's details had long been explored by the matchmaker world: before the middle move, he was a down-and-out talent, living in a monk temple outside the city, and making a living by writing letters to people. Later, overnight, the lintel was changed.
Here's the wonder: Master Huang's hair growth is too violent.
Usually lift people, the official register is tax-free 400 acres of land, after the lifting of various light and dark items, but the cost is also not small. A dick like Huang Ping, who has no big clan support behind him, and has to live in a high-consumption city like Hangzhou, is just a middle-class person at the beginning, and the Xiangche mansion can't be done without a generation's accumulation.
However, Master Huang did it. Ordinary Ming people have long been accustomed to getting rich overnight, or how to say the dream of the Ming Dynasty? But matchmakers are different, it is a professional requirement to find out the inside of the client's home, and they know very well how big the difference is.
There are no in-laws to support, there is a mansion at home, a fragrant car, and a good job..... This kind of diamond king Lao Wu will be robbed of his head in the future generations. What Master Huang didn't know was that he had already been transferred to the highest level by his mother-in-law, and his conditions were second only to those mansions.
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After Master Huang entered the flower hall and sat down, he casually ordered Mrs. Yan to come first to promote, and the other two went to the side hall to wait.
This Yan Pozi is about 30 years old, wearing a light red Hangzhou silk jacket, a green silk skirt, her face is full of white powder, her lips are thick and her cheeks are fat, and she eats with rice with her mouth. After stepping forward to see the ceremony, Yan Pozi smiled all over her face, and when she opened her mouth, a series of clichés burst out, and the old man Huang almost turned into a giant regeneration, tearing the onion possession.
Huang Zhicheng smiled bitterly and waved his hand, signaling Mrs. Yan to hurry up and get down to business, didn't you look at me for a second?
After Yan Renjing saw the old man's signal, he stopped his mouth for a while, and took out a small "embroidery book" from his sleeve and began to flip through it.
The "embroidery book" is a necessary information book for every official media, which lists some public information of customers, and there are also private notes: this is a secret deposit, and only I can understand it; Miss Zhang's family has a fox smell, and the master of the Li family doesn't lift it...... This is all internal information that cannot be made public.
While flipping through her embroidery book, Yan Pozi began to promote it for Master Huang; Master Huang listened while drinking tea.
There are too few cases like Huang Ping where no elders in the family come out to call the shots. The phrase "the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker" is not a joke, without the consent of the parents, it is a private marriage, there is no matchmaking procedure, it is fornication, this is more severe, so usually the matchmaker is more dragged - if you don't believe it, you can refer to the masterpiece "Golden Vase Plum".
Of course, in the case of Master Huang, the matchmaker must like it, this one seems to be able to call the shots on the spot, with a golden triangle style...... When it comes time for the elders to appear, it is estimated that one or two deaf and blind old men will come out to support the façade.
In this way, Mrs. Yan kept recommending the young ladies of the family, and Master Huang sat on the top as if he was not listening, and unconsciously half an hour passed, and Huang Zhicheng became more and more irritable the more he listened.
He knew that his conditions were good, so the matchmaker would definitely pick some girls with similar conditions to introduce to him at the beginning, but this meant that the feet were bound - those who did not bind their feet were a special case, and they would definitely not appear in the first wave of promotions.
What's even more depressing is that in this process, he can't reveal the subjective desire of "I want to find a bigfoot wife...... Once it is spread by the matchmaker, then Master Huang will become a laughing stock in Shilin in an instant.
Everything has to happen naturally: the matchmaker introduces a certain bigfoot girl, the matchmaker desperately tries to cover it up, the matchmaker desperately praises the advantages of the other aspects of the girl's family, Huang is deceived, and Huang is diverted from the bigfoot by the matchmaker's superb language skills......
It's called sociology – when society as a whole is so sick that it is a standard of dignity to bind small feet, certain people have to be careful not to be seen as different.
In the end, Yan Pozi failed.
After listening to Mrs. Yan's recommendation, Master Huang said politely: "Yan matchmaker has worked hard, wait for me to consider one or two." After that, put some reward and send them away.
Next up is Ma Pozi, who begins to receive a new round of bombardment in the eyebrow flying color dance.
Huang Zhicheng regretted a little at this time: he was derelict in his duties before. If you had started the marriage two months earlier, then there was no need to be so urgent now: once you entered Xiong Wencan's shogunate as planned, what if you didn't cooperate with the marriage at that time? If I go to Fuzhou afterwards, what should I do if I delay it?
In short, because of some reasons that cannot be put on the stage, the current embarrassing situation has been caused, and it may be dragged down to the right thing.
"Alas, I was still too carried away before, and I have to find a way to make up for it." Master Huang was already out of the world at this time.
Unconsciously, the foaming matchmaker in front of him has been replaced by Mrs. Jin, and Huang Zhicheng has been suffering for an hour and a half: "Let the housekeeper listen to it tomorrow!" Looking at the booklet in Mrs. Jin's hand and turning it to the end, Huang Zhicheng thought easily.
At this moment, a turning point appeared, and in Huang Zhicheng's ears, he heard the keyword "wrapping feet" for the first time today.
coughed quietly, and there was already a small servant on the side holding a spitting bucket, Master Huang spitted, wiped his mouth, and then got up and went to the back to dissipate...... After sitting for more than an hour, and drinking tea or something, you must always allow the master to be convenient and convenient.
After the convenience, Huang Ping returned to the flower hall again and wiped his face with a wet hand towel. ”
Mrs. Jin did not doubt him, so she brought the story of the family that was interrupted just now from the new way.
This family's surname is Zhong, and his reputation in Hangzhou is not obvious, but he is undoubtedly a gentleman. The ancestor of the old man Zhong is the side branch of Zhong Fang, a famous minister in Qiongzhou during the Zhengde period, and the Zhong family has passed down poetry and books for generations.
Mr. Zhong himself has been a director of Nanjing Guozijian and a prefect, a few years ago, Wei Zhongxian gained power, Mr. Zhong saw that the situation in the DPRK was wrong, and he was decisive, and now he is at home.
The Zhong family has two sons and one daughter. The eldest son is a famous person, and he is currently a county leader in Nanhai County, Guangdong, and the second son has no merit.
And the matchmaker plans to sell to Master Huang is the eldest daughter of the Zhong family: her name is Zhong Xiuxiu.
There is a reason why Zhong Xiuxiu was put at the end of the booklet by Mrs. Jin: the eldest lady of the Zhong family was abducted and trafficked when she was a child.
When Miss Zhong was deceived by a kidnapper, she was only 5 years old, and was later sold to a family of squires surnamed Xu in Pingyang County, Wenzhou. Fortunately, this squire bought people because of the seven sons in the family, and the only daughter was missing.
The so-called squire is actually a countryman, this countryside is not so particular, Zhong Xiuxiu has not bound his feet since he was a child. It wasn't until Zhong Xiuxiu was sixteen years old that things took a turn for the better: the kidnapper was arrested and put in the yamen because of another case.
A few clamps were pulled down, and the crutch was in the public court, and immediately began to spit out, and then vomited more and more, and Zhong Xiuxiu's pile was also mixed in. Then it is logical, not long after Master Zhong was to Shishi, he heard the news and handed a piece to the Renhe County Ya, and even rewarded it with the envoy silver, and the officials immediately worked hard, and within a few days they arrested the two crutches - it is very common for children to change hands between abductors.
The eldest lady of the Zhong family was finally found.
When Master Zhong saw his daughter again more than 10 years later, Zhong Xiuxiu was already slim and heroic...... Since I was a child, I have 7 older brothers leading me to play, and I can't say it if I'm not sassy. Seeing Zhong Xiuxiu, who had changed her name to Xu Baoer and looked like herself, Master Zhong immediately cried.
After that, it was a negotiation between the two families: Squire Xu and his wife were raised with Zhong Xiuxiu as a small padded jacket, and they never lacked snacks and clothes, and the maids and mothers-in-law were all equipped, and they did not treat their daughter badly. Now that I've become a big girl, I'm about to talk about marriage, cough... Someone's father has appeared.
Master Zhong was first glad on his side: it was normal for the girl to be abducted and sold to the Qinglou Theater, and Zhong Xiuxiu was able to grow up in the Xu family, which was already a fluke.
The second is difficult to do: it's not a child daughter-in-law who is beaten every day, just take it away with confidence, and people are raised as young ladies!
Originally, he planned to pay the money to the Xu family, but Squire Xu didn't want to ...... The countrymen are a little dirty, but can this matter be solved with silver? I'll give you a few more, is it okay for you to leave, and I'll have to pay a lot of dowry when you leave!
...... In the end, after negotiations, the two families finally reached an agreement: from now on, the two families became good friends, Zhong Xiuxiu changed back to his original name, and recognized the squire and his wife as righteous parents.
After this and this, when Miss Zhong returned to Hangzhou, she was already 17 years old.
It's good to come back, and when you come back, you have to get married. However, the really good words of "heroic posture" and "walking like flying" were put in the disgusting circle, and they suddenly became the object of people's snickering when they passed through the circle of perverted doctors in the Ming Dynasty who swore that they must do well......
2 years, when Zhong Xiuxiu returned to Hangzhou 2 years later, she was already 19 years old and still did not get married.
Mr. Zhong's face is wrinkled, his daughter is unsalable, help us......
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The story of Miss Zhong is finished here, Mrs. Jin's mouth is dry, and Master Huang is secretly satisfied-he is sure that he has just heard Mrs. Jin say this: "The country controls loosely, and Miss Zhong has a short time to wrap her feet, so her feet are slightly larger than those of other young ladies." ”
Generally speaking, if a young lady has a hidden disease such as fox odor, the matchmaker can completely pretend not to know, and you will talk about it later.
However, if you don't wrap your feet, the matchmaker will never dare to deceive, first, she can't hide it, and secondly, even if the man is hidden, how can a character like Master Huang spare you afterwards?
So no matter how difficult it is, no matter how difficult it is to speak, Mrs. Jin has to say it cryptically today: Miss Zhong's feet are slightly bigger than other daughters.