Chapter 2: Arranged Marriages

Zhang Hao walked out of the gate of the Thorn History, and at this time, someone behind him stopped him, "Mingde, stay for the time being." ”

When he looked back, he found that Gongsun Chan was calling him from behind, so he wanted to salute him. Gongsun Zhan walked quickly to Zhang Hao, held his hand, and said, "Mingde, don't be polite, I'm just a few years older than you, if you don't dislike it, just call me Brother Gongsun." ”

Zhang Hao thought to himself, how old are you and how old I am, shook his head and said, "The kid will be a subordinate of Changshi in the future, and he can't mess with the etiquette." ”

"You scholars just care too much about these false courtesies, I just can't stand this set to become a general."

Zhang Hao didn't know how to answer this, so he had to change the topic, "Thank you for Changshi Fangcai's help, the kid is grateful." ”

"It's a little thing, I've long seen that old guy is not pleasing to the eye, a dignified county guard, and he actually opens his eyes for eunuchs, it's really hateful. Of course, the assassin also wanted to kill the prestige of the eunuchs, so that they would know that they were not in charge of everything. ”

"The kid still has to thank the two Ming dukes, if he has any use to get the kid in the future, the kid will definitely do it."

"It's easy to say, take the liberty of asking, what is your relationship with the history of the assassin?"

"The kid is seeing Thorn Shi for the first time today, and he hasn't had any intersection before."

"Impossible, don't you know? So why would he risk offending the eunuchs to call the shots for you? And let me come to show my support. Although Gongsun Chan muttered very quietly, Zhang Hao still heard it.

It turned out that I thought that I or our Zhang family had an old relationship with Liu Yu, and wanted to save the country and help him achieve something through me, but I said that I was so enthusiastic about me, and it really had a purpose.

"That being the case, I still have official business in my hands, so I'll go first." The flat voice was completely devoid of the enthusiasm of Fang Cai. After speaking, Gongsun Chan turned around and left.

Zhang Hao looked at Gongsun Zhan's distant figure and said self-deprecatingly, "In the eyes of big people, I am just a dispensable chess piece." When it is valuable, it is held in the palm of the hand, and it is worthless, and it is discarded like a shoe. But after thinking about it, I seem to have won a position in a county, and it is not without gain, and the result is still good.

Zhang Hao adjusted his mentality, rode on the horse, and went home.

In the Assassin's Mansion, Liu Yu was handling official business, when a young man walked in from outside and came to Liu Yu's side, "Meet my father, they have all left." "The person who came was Liu Yu's son Liu He.

"yes, I see." Seeing that Liu He was still standing in place and did not leave, Liu Yu put down the official document in his hand and asked, "Do you have any doubts in your heart?" ”

"The son is really confused in his heart, the Zhang family has no friendship with us, why does the father want to help them like this, now the ten permanent servants in the court are powerful, and their relatives and friends are rampant in the township, and no official dares to control it, why did the father offend the eunuchs for a plain and unprovoked person?"

As soon as Liu He finished speaking, Liu Yu's originally unwavering face immediately became angry.

"Rebel! Get on my knees! ”

Liu He didn't know why he was friendly on weekdays, why his amiable father suddenly became angry, he had never seen his father so angry, so he had to kneel on the ground obediently and wait for his father to fall.

Liu Yu also realized that there was something wrong with suddenly getting angry at his son, so he slowly calmed down his mind and said slowly, "Son, you have to know that this world is our Liu family. Now that the eunuchs are in power, the traitors are in power, and the foreign wars for many years, the more onerous taxes and various natural disasters have made the people of the world miserable, and there are countless rebellions of all sizes in various places. All of this is because the Son of Heaven is a villain, Yuan Xianchen. Others are afraid of the power of the eunuchs and dare not speak out, but as a royal family member of the father, the Liu family is incompatible. If you offend, you will be offended, and the Son of Heaven is not so confused that he will condemn me because of a few slanderous words. ”

Liu Yu got up and helped Liu He up, dusting off his knees, "Besides, the Zhang family and I are not without friendship, I am an old friend of Zhang Hao's late uncle Zhang Fengnai, he has always regarded Zhang Hao as his own son, and now that the deceased is gone, I should help out." ”

"My son got it." Liu He bowed.

"Well, let's go down and do something."

"No."

Syllable!

Yang Zhong angrily threw a clay bowl to the ground, and judging from the fragments on the ground, it was clear that more than one was broken.

"The hateful Liu Yu, the hateful Gongsun Zhan, didn't even take the old man in his eyes! Whew! Yang finally gasped, after all, he was old, and he was very tired after falling the bowl for so long.

Sitting down, the old man took a bowl of water handed over by the maid, and while drinking water, he thought about how to retaliate against the two of them, and Zhang Hao was completely ignored by him, for him, an ant like Zhang Hao could be pinched to death at any time.

"Wait for me, the old man will have this evil breath sooner or later."

……

Zhang Hao returned home and told his parents the news that he was about to go to Fang County to take up a post.

Father Zhang Zhen nodded after knowing and encouraged Zhang Hao. When the mother heard this, Zheng, hugged her son and cried. said that he didn't want his son to go.

"Didn't you say that you were working in the Assassin's Mansion? It's so close, I'm still a little relieved, why do I have to run so far now to Fang County. I'm just such a son, I can't see each other every day, in case my son suffers outside, how distressed I am for my mother, woo woo. Besides, there was an accident just a few days ago, and my son Ji was born and came back to life, but if there is another three long and two short, how can I live. ”

"Hmph, in the woman's opinion, my Zhang children should go out and make a career, what is it like to stay at home all day. Besides, this is an appointment by the assassin history and appointed by the imperial court, how can there be any reason to change it. Zhang Zhen was a little upset by his wife's nonsense.

"I'm just such a son, I don't care, anyway, Hao'er can't go that far. Unless ......" Zheng suddenly changed his words, Zhang Hao suddenly felt that something was wrong, how could it be a foreshadowing in front of him, and now the poor dagger began to put forward conditions.

"Unless Hao'er agrees to be a mother and settles your marriage before going to Fang County, my mother will not agree." Zheng looked at Zhang Hao and said.

At this time, his father Zhang Zhen also came over to interject, "Your mother is right, you see that you are twenty years old and have not yet married, and the cousin Zheng Shuang of your uncle's family is one year younger than you, and now he is the father of two children." Settle the marriage before you take office, and it will also take care of the hearts of our two old people. ”

The two of you are a group, I just thought that my father, you were speaking for me, Zhang Hao thought to himself.

"Mother, didn't you say before that I would decide for myself, how can you regret it now." This is the agreement between the original owner and his parents in Zhang Hao's memory.

"So you've decided to get to this point?" Zheng suddenly stopped crying, and the momentum that erupted from his body shook Zhang Hao back a few steps.

"Look at it, which parent in the world let the child decide the marriage by himself, I agreed with you before because my mother and your father thought you had a crush on the little lady of which family, but I didn't expect that there was not even a single news for so long, do you want us to wait until we die?"

"Don't say such unlucky words, hasn't my son found a suitable one yet?"

"So if you can't find it, my mother will help you find it. Mother can tell you, this time it is useless for you to say anything, my mother has arranged it for you, it is the lady of our Fang family in Jixian County, named Fang Wan, sixteen years old, knowledgeable, and my son is just the right match. Zheng said excitedly.

"I've never met anyone." Zhang Hao said weakly.

"I said that it has been arranged for my mother, you will meet another day, and then I will discuss with my mother-in-law to set an auspicious day, and we will do this marriage, and the letter of appointment from the imperial court will be sent to us for at least a month, and my mother promises to let you marry the bride into the door before taking office."

Zhang Hao wanted to struggle again, but Zheng decisively refused to give him this opportunity, "It's so decided, it is said in the book, there are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is the greatest, you should fulfill your obligations as a son, and it is your obligation to marry and have children." ”

Zhang Hao said that he couldn't help the Zheng family, and if he continued to tear it up, he would have to bear the charge of unfilial piety. The Han family rules the world with filial piety, and a filial son can have a huge reputation, be respected by the world, and even recommend him as an official.

"No, the child obeys his mother's arrangement." Zhang Hao had no choice but to give in.

However, it's not a big deal, for myself who has been single for twenty-three years since I was a child, it would be good to find a partner, and now I can arrange a marriage, to be honest, Zhang Hao does not refuse in his heart, he may have resisted a little because of the concept of later generations, but he immediately succumbed. Love is something that will come slowly after getting married.