Chapter 16: A Marriage Contract
Half an hour later.
On the samurai polo field, a song of warblers and swallows danced and laughed, and there was a cry of surprise from time to time.
Qin Mubai's means of coaxing girls to be happy have never been bad.
"Yay! The second lady scored another goal! Captain Qin, you have to come on! A group of women clapped their hands and shouted.
Qin Mubai and Wu Zhao seem to have become the core of this group of people.
In the Tang Dynasty, people used to call women 'Niang' or 'Niangzi', regardless of whether they were married or not. It's like calling a man 'Lang', which has a sense of respect in its casualness. But where there is such a title as "Miss", it is used exclusively to refer to *.
Wu Zhao clapped his hands, crossed his waist and pouted, turned his head to look at Qin Mubai provocatively and giggled: "Captain Qin, don't lose to me!" ”
"Why?" Qin Mubai smiled slightly, "Could it be that if you lose in the next place, you can make a promise?" There doesn't seem to be this clause in the bet. ”
"Hee-hee!" A group of women covered their mouths and smiled, and whispered: "This Qin Mubai is really a good mouth, although his words are a little frivolous, but when he comes out of his mouth, he only has a romantic taste, and he can make people happy." ”
Fortunately, the people of the Tang Dynasty were open, and Qin Mubai's words and actions were not very out of line, but they could please the girl.
"Humph! If you promise, I don't want it. Wu Zhao stomped his feet and argued with a slightly red face, "Unless you!" ……”
Speaking of this, she consciously lost her speech, stuck out her tongue and stopped.
Qin Mubai was about to kick the ball, deliberately paused his movements, and looked at her with a smile: "Unless it's down?" ”
"Hehe, second lady, say it quickly!" A group of women laughed jokingly around Wu Zhao, and Wu Zhao's peach cheeks and pink face were flushed.
"I hate it! Why are you all elbows turning out! Wu Zhao was ashamed to fight with everyone.
Only the eldest sister of the martial arts family looked much more dignified and steady, smiled meaningfully, and gently walked to Qin Mubai's side and said: "Qin Gongzi Hugh must be serious, the second sister has always been used to talking nonsense without concealment. ”
"What if I accidentally take it seriously?" Qin Mubai smiled strangely. This is not clear, does this martial arts elder sister have something to say when she comes over? Of course, I want to give her face and discuss the topic in depth.
The eldest sister of the Wu clan smiled lightly, obviously understanding, and said: "Gongzi Qin is a person who is as careful as a hair and amorous. To tell you the truth, my second sister has been a lively and arrogant person since she was a child. This year is fourteen years old, and I am still waiting for words. When my mother and brother asked her about her marriage, we must have been too ashamed to speak, but she said that she would not marry unless she was a famous family or a heroic person. ”
"Famous family, heroic and interesting." Qin Mubai smiled, stopped talking, and cleverly stopped the topic.
If you want to get away with it, you can't do anything good in a monkey hurry.
"Does Qin Gongzi have a heart?" The eldest sister of the Wu family didn't want to let it go easily, and waited for an opportunity to ask.
"According to the meaning of the eldest sister, it meets her standards?" Qin Mubai couldn't help laughing.
Speaking from the heart, a beautiful and precocious little girl like Wu Zhao with a few children is a man who will be tempted when he sees it. However, talking about marriage when they met for the first time was a little too ridiculous for Qin Mubai.
It's like eating ginseng fruit, you have to taste it slowly. Like Zhu Bajie, he swallowed it without tasting it, which was obviously not Qin Mubai's usual style.
"Does Gongzi Qin really think that the concubine doesn't recognize you?" The eldest sister of the martial family smiled lightly and said in a low voice, "Now your name has resounded throughout Chang'an City, and you can play the pipa with a wonderful hand, even the emperor is amazed, calling you 'a generation of grandmasters', and you are currently a well-known celebrity." The third son of the Qin family, a famous family, and a heroic young man, isn't it just in line? Moreover, when my father was alive, he still had a slight friendship with Lord Lingzun. Isn't this a good thing to kiss and kiss? ”
No wonder she changed her mind to call me Childe. Qin Mubai glanced at her in surprise, and his heart was open.
The marriage between famous families is too normal in Datang. Although the Wu family is down, it is also the early Tang Dynasty, and the mother of the Wu sisters is still the Yang family, the daughter of the former Sui clan, and the family is not much lost to the Qin family.
It's just that this eldest sister of the martial arts family, who has already married to the Helan clan, why is she so anxious to marry her sister?
After a little thought, Qin Mubai thought of something. The Wu family has been away from Chang'an for a long time and the family is down, and there is no foundation in Chang'an. If you can marry a wealthy family in a short period of time after returning to Chang'an, and have an in-law like the Qin family to take care of it, it will naturally be a great thing for the martial family. Not to mention the comeback, at least you can survive on a better foothold.
Wu Zhao is just a concubine born to her mother, and she is not valuable to the Wu family. Using her in exchange for these benefits is obviously a good thing.
There is really no free lunch in this world, and every inch of the wealthy family is permeated with interest collusion!
"Sister, what are you hiding and muttering! Brother Jun of the Qin family, play football quickly! It's not that you're really afraid of losing! Wu Zhao's voice sounded, and Qin Mubai and the eldest sister of the martial family had to temporarily stop this discussion.
"If Gongzi Qin is interested, he may wish to talk to my brother and mother in detail." The eldest sister of the martial arts family threw down this sentence and walked away with a meaningful smile.
"Did I really kill Peach Blossom? This is all through reincarnation, as long as you get on the side of a woman, you can pull out the story. Qin Mubai blinked a few times, picked up the ball and kicked it away.
The prestige of the Chinese men's football team did not scare a man like Qin Mubai, who usually went to play a few kicks when he had nothing to do. Although the level is not very good, penalty kicks are always a strong point.
But Qin Mubai lost.
A group of girls led by Wu Zhao won a fine colored silk from the palace, and Qin Mubai's wonderful mouth always coaxed people lightly, so they all smiled happily and comfortably. On the polo field, the colored balls and the clothes dance together, and the spring color is boundless.
A man and a woman, the man is still handsome and romantic, Qin Mubai is obviously like a star and moon in this group of women.
Just having fun, Wu Yuanqing came.
When the three daughters of the martial arts family saw this eldest brother, they all quieted down, and Wu Zhao stretched his face even more, and snorted and turned his face away.
Wu Shiyan has passed away, and there is a way to be the eldest brother like a father, and this martial artist is naturally Wu Yuanqing in charge. Obviously, the relationship between these three concubines and the eldest brother is not very good.
"Gongzi Qin, His Highness sent me to summon Gongzi over." Wu Yuanqing didn't dare to slack off, and bent down to give Qin Mubai a salute.
Wu Zhao's eyes suddenly lit up, and the corners of his mouth were hooked as if he was a little relieved, and he smiled a little evil and proud.
"I'll be right next day." Qin Mubai nodded, signaling him to go first, and he had to say goodbye to these beauties.
"Then I will say goodbye and go to King Wu to reply first." Wu Yuanqing bowed his hand, glanced at Wu Zhao a few times meaningfully, turned around and walked away quickly.
"Hey, hey! Seeing this guy look like a servant, I was happy in my heart! Wu Yuanqing didn't go a few steps before Wu Zhao spoke.
"My sister is talking nonsense." The eldest sister hurriedly said something to seal her mouth, there is a way that the ugliness of the family should not be publicized.
"There's nothing you can't say, huh!" Wu Zhao pursed his lips, and said with disdain and hatred, "He will also bully us and women like my mother, and let us live in the back hall courtyard and not be allowed to go to the main house, didn't he say yesterday that he would drive us back to his hometown and not allow us to live in Chang'an?" I didn't even give half a cent of the property, I obviously wanted to starve us to death! My mother cried all night, and I hated him to death! ”
"Hey, my little sister is straightforward and fast-talking, and she talks about these things regardless of the occasion." The eldest sister of the martial arts family shook her head helplessly and smiled bitterly, and said to Qin Mubai, "Some trivial and ugly things in the family make Qin Gongzi laugh." ”
"It doesn't matter. I feel that the second lady is quite a bit of a woman, and she doesn't let her eyebrows be sassy and heroic. Qin Mubai smiled, looked at Wu Zhao a few times, and turned away.
Qin Mubai didn't go far before a group of girls behind him started talking.
"Hehe, this Qin Mubai is really good at talking and behaving, and he doesn't look bad, he's a wonderful person!"
"Second lady, aren't you spring-hearted and fall in love with him?"
"Nonsense, begging! He's just a seventh-rank lieutenant, and he just has a mouthful, how can I ......?"
"Hee-hee, blushing, blushing!"
……
Qin Mubai came to the front hall of the martial family, Li Ke was sitting there with a golden sword, several guards were waiting outside the hall, and next to him were two brothers from the martial family, and a half-old.
It must be the mother of the Wuzhao sisters and others, the Yang family. Counting her age, in fact, she is already about sixty people, but she is still radiant when she is well maintained, and a little shadow of Wu Zhao can be vaguely seen from her. You can imagine how glamorous it was back then.
"Concubine Yang has seen Captain Qin." Born in a famous aristocratic family of the Yang family, she is low-key and forbearing, as a lady of Sanpin, she now gives Qin Mubai a salute first.
"Don't dare, the younger generation has seen Mrs. Yang." Qin Mubai gave a salute, and Li Ke beckoned him over.
"Come, Brother Mu Bai, sit beside this king. Mrs. Yang is also invited to sit down, no need to be formal. Li Ke obviously had ulterior motives and deliberately raised Qin Mubai's value. He smiled strangely, and he didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd.
Qin Mubai sat down, looked at Li Ke suspiciously, and asked him with his eyes about the meaning of this behavior.
"Mu Bai, that's the case." Li Ke cleared his throat and said seriously, "You and I have grown up together since childhood, just like our own brothers. You're not too young, it's time to talk about your family, right? ”
"Huh?" Qin Mubai was slightly stunned, "Why did Your Highness suddenly talk about this?" ”
"Why, did this king say something wrong?" Li Ke smiled wryly, "Men should marry and women should marry, isn't this humane justice, Mrs. Yang, what do you say?" ”
"Your Highness knows the righteousness, and what you say is naturally correct." Mrs. Yang replied.
Qin Mubai understood in his heart that when these two sang and combined, they could be regarded as a close beat.
"I brought you to Yingguo Mansion today, in fact, for a serious matter." Li Ke's face was slightly gloomy, and he said very formally, "How about this king being a matchmaker and letting you marry Mrs. Yang's second daughter, Wu Zhao?" ”
"What?" If it weren't for the fact that his concentration was beyond ordinary people, Qin Mubai was afraid that he would have to jump up.
Isn't that child's play?!
"Didn't you hear me? Or against? Li Ke Zhengse said, "Ying Guogong is the founding father of the Dragon Meritorious Minister, one of the eight prime ministers of the Wude Dynasty, a first-class Guogong, and the current saint of the Ministry of Rites." In terms of origin, origin, and bloodline, Wu Zhao is worthy of you. As for the characters...... You've definitely seen it. As expected, no man in the world would be dissatisfied with her. Am I right? ”
"It's not bad." Seeing that Li Ke took out the prince's style, Qin Mubai had to smile bitterly, he couldn't slap Li Ke's face in front of Mrs. Yang and sternly refused.
This Li Ke can really pretend to be forced.
Having said that, Wu Zhao ...... She is indeed a superb woman. To say that a man is not moved by her is either hypocrisy or a eunuch.
"Then it's decided." Li Ke laughed loudly and slapped one hand on his thigh, "The beauty of a gentleman's adulthood, I must have done a great thing today." ”
"Your Highness, wait!" Qin Mubai said loudly, "The marriage is a big matter, the words of the matchmaker of the parents' orders, so I should also consult Mrs. Yang and my father." ”
This is the last excuse that Qin Mubai can come up with. Although it is a good feeling for Wu Zhao, this kind of thing of taking a marriage as soon as they meet is indeed a bad scenery in his opinion, just like Zhu Bajie eating ginseng fruit, he didn't taste it, and he fell into his stomach. Moreover, if you like to drink milk, do you have to raise a cow?
"Don't worry, is this king the kind of person who is rash and abrupt?" Li Ke laughed, "Mrs. Yang herself is here, isn't her opinion obvious, otherwise can this king still be difficult to force her?" Also, when you were just playing Keju with the samurai sisters and others in the backyard, this king went to your mansion and told the marriage to the Duke of Yiguo, Qin Shu Baoxian and his wife. ”
"What?" Qin Mubai couldn't help but be dumbfounded: This Li Ke is also a little more efficient...... Was this a whim, or was it premeditated? Or, both?
The beauty of a gentleman as an adult, he has fulfilled my good deeds, is it true that our Qin family owes him a favor and wants to make it a good thing for him? …… Wishful thinking, good fight!
"No fuss. In fact, Ling Zun and Ling Tang have also been thinking about your marriage. Li Ke smiled weirdly and said, "The door is right, there are women like photos, what else is there to find fault with?" Your mother doesn't need to say it, she can't wait to marry her today. Even your father, who has always been immovable, is a little happy. ”
Qin Mubai was speechless.
In this current situation, it seems that it is a knife to stretch the neck, and it is also a knife to shrink the neck. Then ...... Reluctantly!
"It seems that Brother Mu Bai has no opinion, okay!" Li Ke clapped his hands, "You will make a marriage contract today." Mrs. Yang, what is your opinion? ”
"The concubine is a female stream, and it is completely at the disposal of His Royal Highness King Wu." Mrs. Yang looked at Qin Mubai a few times, nodded and smiled with satisfaction. Obviously, she, the mother-in-law, is quite satisfied with Qin Mubai, the second son-in-law.
Soon, Li Ke took out a piece of paper from his arms like a trick, which was actually a marriage contract. It really has the signatures of Wu Yuanqing and Qin Shubao and the handprint of his mother Liu for a long time.
"This Li Ke is really amazing!" Qin Mubai felt a little crying and laughing.
"Your mother and son-in-law signed and signed the pledge, and this engagement deed is complete." Li Ke said, "I, a big matchmaker, will discuss other things with you." ”