When Tang Zheng and his sister came out of Cai's mansion, they were already close to Xushi, and the streets were full of patrolling soldiers coming and going. Seeing that Tang Zheng's brother and sister were still wandering on the street so late, Tang Zheng stepped forward to interrogate, Tang Zheng showed his identity certificate, and then explained that he was going to the elder's house to make an appointment tonight, and he was about to go home. After the soldiers confirmed Tang Zheng's identity as an official, the captain of the city patrol arranged a team of people to escort Tang Zheng home. Back in the Tang Mansion, Tang Zheng once again expressed his gratitude to the soldiers who escorted his brothers and sisters home, and took out ten taels of silver casually, saying that it is not easy for everyone, and this should be regarded as the money for inviting the brothers to drink. The soldier took the silver with a smile and thanked Tang Zheng loudly.

"Brother, you are too generous, you are also a court official, why do they escort you home, and you still have to give them silver?"

"You don't understand this, as the saying goes, Hades is easy to provoke, and little ghosts are difficult. It's not easy for everyone to live in this world. I just paid ten taels of silver in exchange for their favor, and maybe you will know the value of these ten taels of silver when you can use them in the future. ”

"Well, you have a point. By the way, brother, do you know the reason why Uncle Cai invited us to dinner today? Tang Ji looked at Tang Zheng narrowly.

"What? Are there other reasons? Didn't Uncle Cai invite us because he was an old friend of my father and wanted to get to know me? Tang Zheng asked curiously. Although he was a little strange about why Cai Yong invited him, he didn't think about anything else at all. He heard his sister say that Cai Yan already has a marriage contract and will get married next year. In this era when literati doctors value their faces more than their lives, it is rare to do such a thing as repenting of marriage and breaking their promises. What's more, it is a world-renowned writer like Cai Yong, and it is even more impossible for him to make such a decision. So Tang Zheng couldn't think of the reason for this at all.

"Forget it, I'll understand after I don't tell you. By the way, how do I feel that you are not very smart, how did you get to this position? And how can you have such a high opinion from the outside? Tang Ji turned around Tang Zheng and frowned. You want to say that he is smart, but his emotional intelligence is outrageously low. If you want to say that he is not smart, then he will not be where he is today. Tang Ji really can't understand his brother, how can there be such a contradictory person in the world.

In fact, this is also very understandable, after all, Tang Zheng's understanding of this era comes from history books, and history books are also written by later generations. After all, they have not experienced it, and they have also learned about it from some documents or other places, researched and sorted it out, and then compiled it into a book, so that the records in the history books are often very different from reality. When you meet some responsible editors, there may not be much difference, but if you encounter an irresponsible person who gives you a crown and Li Dai, the difference is even greater.

Some things that Tang Zheng took for granted were incompatible with Tang Zheng in the eyes of others, and the things that others seemed to take for granted seemed unbelievable to Tang Zheng. Although literati and doctors cherish their own face and regard face as more important than life, don't forget that Cai Yong is also a father, and he is also a father who lost his wife and daughter in his early years, and he is nothing to save face for the happiness of his daughter.

Judging from Cai Yong, whom Tang Zheng knew from history books, he would not make such a face-damaging decision at all. Therefore, Tang Zheng didn't think about Cai Yan's family affairs, so he didn't know what purpose Cai Yong was trying to entertain himself tonight.

Tang Zheng looked at his sister and shook his head and said, "Okay, it's not early, go back to the room early to rest." Tang Ji made a grimace at Tang Zheng and said, "I know, you should rest early." With that, he walked towards his boudoir. Tang Zheng kept seeing his sister enter his boudoir before turning around and walking towards his room.

After Cai Fu, Cai Yong and Cai Yan sent Tang Zheng's two siblings away, Cai Yong called Cai Yan to the study.

"Yan'er, do you really like that Tang Zheng?" Cai Yong asked Cai Yan.

"Daddy, my daughter has embarrassed you. It's just that I can't forget it since I met my brother. If the father really wants his daughter to marry Wei Zhongdao, the daughter will marry her. ”

"Silly child, how can a father ignore your happiness because of his own selfishness. As a father and a daughter like you, since your mother died, our father and daughter have been dependent on each other. You have been well-behaved and obedient all these years, this time it was for the sake of my father, and I didn't consider your feelings, but fortunately, it's not too late. As a father, I will write to your Uncle Wei to explain the reason, and I believe that your Uncle Wei is also a reasonable person who will understand. ”

"Daddy." Cai Yan hugged Cai Yong and cried bitterly.

"Okay, okay, stop crying. You can rest assured that everything has me. It's not early, you go back to your room early to rest. ”

"Daddy, my daughter will go back to the room first, and you should rest early." Cai Yan said to Cai Yong, and after speaking, he saluted his father and turned around and walked out of his father's study to his boudoir.

Looking at his daughter Cai Yong leaving, he frowned casually, his daughter was going to leave him when she grew up. The scene of her daughter lying on her lap seems to be just yesterday, and her daughter has grown up in a blink of an eye.

Cai Yong spread out the paper and took up a pen and wrote: "Brother Wei is like meeting, you and I have been separated for many years..."Cai Yong wrote until late at night, wrote the letter, dried the ink, put it in an envelope, and sent someone to send it to Wei's house in Hedong tomorrow. After the letter to the Wei family was written, Cai Yong wrote to Tang Mao, who was far away in Huiji, roughly asking Tang Mao about Tang Zheng, and also intentionally or unintentionally mentioning Tang Zheng's marriage. The ancients were all subtle in doing this, even if their daughter liked others, they would ask the man's family to come to the door to propose. Cai Yong is no exception, he also implicitly expressed this meaning in the letter, I hope Tang Mao can read the meaning of Cai Yong's letter.

The next day, Tang Zheng got up early in the morning, and when he came to Luoyang to report, Liu Yu had already said that two days later, someone would be sent to inform Tang Zheng to enter the palace to face the saint. Today is already the third day that Liu Yu said that he entered the palace and faced the saint.

Tang Zheng got up early, went to the kitchen to boil porridge, and brought a bowl to his mother. When Tang Zheng entered the house, his mother had already woken up and was washing under the service of the maid, Tang's mother saw that Tang Zheng brought gruel so early, so she said to Tang Zheng: "Why don't you sleep for a while, the porridge will have a cook to do, why do you have to do everything yourself, what's the use of asking them." ”

Tang Zheng put down the porridge bowl and said to his mother: "My mother is recovering from a serious illness, and I don't feel at ease when others boil it." Besides, the child is used to getting up early, lying in bed and can't sleep anyway, so it's better to get up early to help his mother make a bowl of porridge. ”

"You, I don't even know what to say about you. By the way, it was okay to go to Cai's Mansion to dine last night? ”

"Don't worry, Uncle Cai is very good to me and my sister, and we treat it as a family."

"Yes, that's good. Hey, it's just a pity for Zhao Ji, such a good girl is going to marry the sick son of the Wei family. You said that if we had proposed to you earlier, I don't know if he would have agreed? ”

"Mother, the eldest brother seems to have gotten married, besides, the Hedong Wei family is also a big local family, and the Shuli heirloom and Uncle Cai's family are just the right match, wait for Cai Yan to marry and let Wei Jia Wei Zhongdao go to Rinshan, I'll see if his illness can be cured." Tang Zheng planned to let Wei Zhongdao go to Rinshan for the sake of the friendship between the Tang family and the Cai family to see if there was any possibility of curing his illness. Of course, Tang Zheng didn't want Cai Yan to become a widow at such a young age.

"Who said it was to propose marriage to your eldest brother? You are also a big boss, if you haven't been missing for two years, maybe with your father's friendship with Cai Yong, Zhaoji will become our daughter-in-law. Oh, what a girl. ”

"Mother, my affairs are not in a hurry for the time being, it is true that you should take care of your body first." Tang Zheng said to his mother. Looking at Tang Zheng, Tang's mother shook her head, picked up the porridge bowl, and drank it by herself.