Guo Peng's diligence and willingness to work hard in martial arts made everything fall into the eyes of the Cao family.

Read a lot, and the connection of martial arts is not lazy or lazy at all, and the appearance of diligent and hard work is better than the group of salted fish boys of the Cao family Xiahou family.

Those little salted fish knew that they were stealing chickens and dogs and gathering people to play, and they had no enterprising ideas and will at all in their studies, which was a headache for the Cao family.

But whether it should be said or not, the Cao family can't invite famous teachers to teach the children of the family to learn the scriptures, although they can copy the scriptures from the Taixue collection through channels and take them home, but whether they learn or not will be another matter.

Famous teachers are all scholars, famous in the world, high status, their own private schools, who will be your tutor?

Or is it a family that has the right to interpret the classics, and the characters in the family personally start a family study to teach the children of the family, who cares about your Cao family?

Ordinary heroes and powerful people can't get a book, where can there be a famous teacher to teach?

With the status of the Cao family, they can only invite some of the more down-and-out children of the single family, that is, the commonly known children of the Hanmen family, to come to the house to teach their children knowledge, and even some pretentious and high-ranking children of the Han family will not look down on the Cao family, and they don't bother to teach their children knowledge at all.

But in this way, it is difficult to control whether they learn well or badly, and the knowledge mastered by the children of the single family cannot be compared with the children of the excellent scholars.

This is also the dilemma faced by most Haoqiang families, it is not a simple road to transform from Haoqiang to the scholars, even if you are a high-ranking official in the court, but you can't learn the classics, you can't master the knowledge, you can't transform into a scholar, this power is fleeting.

The Cao clan has made great efforts to transform into a scholar clan, but this path is indeed very difficult to follow, and it is extremely difficult to master a family scripture, let alone start a sect.

There are countless losers, and there are very few successes.

The Sima clan in Hanoi is a successful case of a military general who made a fortune and then transformed his family, but there are too few such cases, which has extremely high requirements for the right time, place and people.

The Cao family did not have enough educational resources, bright clansmen, and enough time to complete this self-revolution, so they put their hopes on the option of bringing in foreign talents.

In terms of knowledge, the Cao family is not qualified to judge Guo Peng's level, but in terms of martial arts, Guo Peng is stronger than Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan, so the peers are simply admired, while the older generation has other plans.

All of these things about Guo Peng fell on Cao Song's ears at all, and Cao Song's idea of marrying Guo became even stronger.

Also last year, Cao Song went home to save his family, Guo Shan came to Cao's house to "meet" Shangguan Cao Song, and then, Cao Song took advantage of an occasion to mention to Guo Shan the proposal of the two families to marry.

It stands to reason that the upper official and the lower official should be very happy, but this time is different.

Shangguan was from a humble background, but Xiaguan was born in a century-old scholar family, so in fact, the initiative is still in the hands of Guo Dan, Cao Song in order not to embarrass himself and leave some leeway, in fact, he mentioned this matter to Guo Dan alone in private.

He learned Cao Teng's philosophy of life very well, which made Guo Dan feel very comfortable, and he didn't feel that Cao Song was aggressive.

Cao Song has been mentioning this matter for a while, and Cao Song went back after saving his relatives for a while, and Guo Dan has been hesitant until Guo Peng knew about this matter, and expressed his willingness to Guo Dan.

The reason for Guo Dan's hesitation is, of course, that the Cao family made a fortune by eunuchs, and the turbidity current in the turbidity current, the status and status are really too bad, although the efforts of the two generations have made the Cao family's social status rise, but compared with the Guo family, it is still too far behind.

However, because of the case of Tang Heng and Xun's in the past, many times people will use this case as an example to endorse their actions.

Guo Peng took advantage of this loophole and made Guo Shan make up his mind.

There is no fame, there is no reality, sooner or later he will starve to death, and now some people are willing to change their names with reality, why does Guo Shan still hold the ethereal "name" and not do it?

The Guo family really didn't have anything else to put on the table.

The Guo family wants the power of the Cao family, and the Cao family needs the identity of the Guo family, so one is willing to fight, the other is willing to suffer, and the two families thought of going together, so they made a pair.

Guo Shan sent a matchmaker to Cao's house to ask for marriage, and the Cao clan was overjoyed when they learned about it, and immediately sent someone to Luoyang to inform Cao Song, and the people sent quickly whipped up and arrived in Luoyang in four days.

After Cao Song learned that Guo Shan had sent someone to ask for marriage, he breathed a sigh of relief and was very happy in his heart, and immediately sent someone to reply to him, asking his cousin Cao Yin, who was recuperating in his hometown, to be the representative of the Cao family and talk to Guo Dan about the engagement.

The two families used matchmakers as messengers to communicate with each other, and they talked about problems very happily, and the Cao family not only promised the Guo family an extremely generous dowry on the scale of several estates, but also expressed his willingness to bear most of the expenses required for future weddings to ensure that the Guo family was satisfied.

Guo Shan expressed his gratitude for this, but still said that the Guo family was responsible for the wedding, which was related to the façade of the Guo family.

Cao Yin expressed his understanding, accepted Guo's request, and then discussed with Guo Dan that he could prepare for the start of the engagement ceremony, and complete the process as soon as possible, so that the "lovers" could finally become married.

After Guo Shan received Cao Yin's request, he called Guo Peng to his study again.

"Xiao Yi, this is the last time it is confirmed, once the engagement is negotiated, there is no possibility of repentance, do you like Cao's daughter? You're all going to be in this boat for decades to come, can you do it? ”

Originally, this kind of thing Guo Shan didn't need to think about, and he would talk about it as soon as he talked about it, and Guo Peng was not allowed to express any opinions.

But Guo Shan prefers that Guo Peng will not act purely for the sake of profit, and the pillow man and wife in the next few decades will not be treated like a servant.

Guo Peng is precocious, assertive, and very smart, and like him, he will act for the overall situation of the Guo family, but Guo Shan is worried that Guo Peng is just using the Cao family's daughter as a tool, not his wife.

A man can't stay with a tool for a long time, and the daughter of the Cao family is not a tool that can be simply used up and thrown away.

Guo Peng knew Guo Dan's worries and just smiled.

"Why should my father worry? The daughter of the Cao family has a gentle temperament, and I like it very much, if I really don't like it, the Cao family asked my daughter to come out to see me earlier, and I will not have contact with her. ”

Guo Peng didn't tell a lie, in fact, at the beginning, he didn't think about marrying the Cao family at all.

He didn't think that the Cao clan would take him and his father seriously, because the two fathers and sons had the name of the Yingchuan Guo clan, but they had no real power.

However, one day after Guo Peng became famous after kicking Xu Shao's ass in Runan, he came to Cao's house to play at Cao Cao's invitation, but "accidentally" bumped into Cao Cao's younger sister, Guo Peng knew it in his heart.

Cao, I'm afraid I have an idea.

At that time, he diverged his thinking and thought about something far away in the future, so he realized that marrying the Cao family may not be a good path.

When everything is still uncertain and I don't know how far I can go, binding the Cao family, a family power that will be rich and noble in the future, will be beneficial to myself and harmless.

Guo Shan was worried that the stigma of the Cao family's eunuch would tarnish Guo's worth and reputation, but how could Guo Peng explain to Guo Shan so that he could understand that this was the future royal family?

And if you really don't like it, Guo Peng will not accept the "accident" arranged by the Cao family, and will not cooperate with them to sing this play, if a man really doesn't like a woman's appearance, he will rule it out at first sight, and he will not have the idea of getting along deeply.

The younger sister of the Cao family, Cao Cao's youngest sister, is named Cao Lan.

A woman's name is generally not revealed to a man with a foreign surname, but Guo Peng knew Cao Lan's name through Cao Ren's relationship, so Guo Peng knew Cao's thoughts.

Does he like Cao Lan?

I can't talk about it, I really can't talk about it, an eleven or twelve-year-old girl, in this era, it is indeed not too young, there are really a lot of ordinary peasant daughters who get married at the age of eleven or twelve, and only some people abide by the rules of marrying a daughter at the age of fifteen.

But in Guo Peng's eyes, she is a little sister, a little sister who is well-behaved, shy, and afraid of life.

Doesn't he like Cao Lan?

The same cannot be said either.

From the perspective of interests, Cao Lan is the best choice to tie herself and the Cao family together, and she has benefited immensely.

From the perspective of her own heart, this shy little sister is really likable.

Her voice is very good, and she seems to think that Guo Peng is very amazing, very powerful, and looks like adoring, Guo Peng always feels very happy when he talks to her.

In terms of appearance, Cao Lan is not a national beauty, but it is not the type that he does not plan to continue to get along with after seeing him.

In these years, it is absolutely rare for people in the upper class to look ugly, and even officials have to look at their appearance.

The ugly-looking Pang Tong can even be recorded in the history books, which shows that it is quite incredible that he can be ugly and still be among the upper class in this era.

Rich people will naturally marry beautiful women or marry handsome men to improve their genes, not to mention that all the offspring are handsome guys and beauties, at least the appearance is decent.

Cao Lan is better looking than the medicent, with good facial features, delicate, and the best thing to look at is a pair of big eyes.

She is indeed not a beautiful woman, of course she is inferior to those world-famous beauties, but Guo Peng is absolutely willing to accept it.