"Zhou Changshi is really poor." Brocade clothes and jade food, and even some Wang Sun who don't know minced meat, where have they seen such people?

The walls are made of mud plates, and the roof is made of firewood and grass. The door was closed, and a fire could be seen through the crack in the door. was about to shout for fire, but found that the people around him did not move.

The housekeeper of Fengyang Mansion stepped forward and knocked lightly on the wooden door: "Second lady, Wang Sun is visiting, and the king is also here." ”

With a "squeak", the door opened. Zhang, who was dressed in coarse cloth clothes, saw a man of medium stature standing in the courtyard, wearing a hat with a black veil hanging from the hat. Beside him were two very temperamental maids, and Fengyang Bo Zhou Zongqi just stood aside and stood with his hands down.

Hurriedly bowed and saluted: "The people's daughter Zhang, knock to see His Royal Highness Wang Sun." He turned to Fengyang Bo and bowed down, "Nephew Zhang, meet your lord." ”

"Mrs. Zhou, please get up. Lonely and presumptuous visit, abrupt, please forgive me. Wang Sun personally opened his mouth to greet and salute in return.

It seems that she is indeed the orphan daughter of the first prince. Zhang's goodbye: "His Royal Highness Meng's jade toes are coming, and they are shining." Your Highness inside please. Then he got up and waved his hand.

"Thank you Fengyang Bo for showing the way."

"The old minister didn't dare. The old minister retired. "Uncle Fengyang led the people of Fengyang Mansion to leave.

Out of this courtyard, he said to the housekeeper: "Zhou Cong, I love my nephew." You wait for Diao Nu to treat his wife and child like this? ”

"Damn it, old slave! When Wang Sun left, he immediately changed the courtyard for the second lady and the two little sons. ”

As soon as you enter the house, you will have the smell of rice porridge in your nose. Wang Sun took off the hat and looked around: the west side of the door was the stove, and it turned out that the fire in the crack of the door was Zhang's fire. The floor was covered with mud and there were no tiles. The west side looks like a bedroom, with only a curtain hanging down and no door. On the north side is a stone side with a clay platform in the middle, and a low table in the middle, with mats on both sides, which looks like a dining table.

Zhang also looked up at Wang Sun, who was a delicate-looking girl with a goose egg face and equal courts; willow eyebrows, red phoenix eyes, the tail of the eyes is raised, bright and clear; The nose is straight, the mountain roots are plump, and the nose is full; The lips are red and plump, the philtrum is clear and deep, and the floor is full and slightly upward; The hair is soft and jet black and shiny, covering the horns. This kind of appearance, the facial features are separated and the vision is mediocre, but it is born on the face of Wang Sun, which is indeed full of fairy spirit and beauty.

Wang Sun also looked at Zhang, his appearance was similar to his own, his horns were full, and he was very blessed. It was only recently that Zhou Cong was imprisoned, and he felt a little sad. opened his mouth and said: "No wonder Zhou Changshi has no noble blessings, starting from the end of the micro, but he is more fortunate than the son of the family." It turned out that he married a virtuous wife like you. ”

"Your Highness has won a false award. Zhang's fatherless and motherless people have a bad fate, thanks to Zhou Lang's refusal to give up, he has survived to this day. But His Highness is blessed, and his life is safe. ”

"Zhou Changshi was an official in the mainland, and he came down for six hundred stones for several terms, and he did not take a penny from the people, he was as honest as water, and he had many benefits. The uncle regretted that he did not know the soldiers regardless of the history of Zhou Chang, and was sent to the border county to have today's disaster. Special dispatch Hua Fang to give money to his wife to atone for Zhou Changshi. ”

"How can Zhou Lang be virtuous? Received money from the king to atone for his punishment? The people's daughter Zhang worshiped Wang Shang Longen for her husband, and thanked His Royal Highness Longen. As he spoke, he bowed three times and bowed nine times.

"It doesn't have to be that way. Uncle Wang recently has a favorite concubine who is pregnant, and if the mother and child can be safe, he will be amnesty to the world. At that time, it is necessary to have a long history for the community and go out of the mountain again for the people. This time, Zhou Changshi came out of Tingwei and went to my house to be a guest, and there was Mr. Feng, the former military advisor of Han Taiwei, who was in my house, and he could teach Zhou Changshi the art of war. I also hope that Zhou Chang Shi Mo will refuse. ”

"Tell Zhou Lang from now."

"That's very good. Say goodbye to Lone and wait for Zhou Changshi in the Mansion. ”

Wang Sun returned home, always felt unsatisfactory on the way, that week Zhang was in this thatched house, although coarse tea and light food, everything was bowed, but he was happy. He and Sun Yu have been together for ten years, but they are suspicious of each other, they are afraid that he cares about the nobility of his king and grandson, and Sun Yu is afraid that he will not be able to fulfill the marriage contract. Now that Gongsun Linggong is sick and retired, and the royal power is declining, Sun Yu has changed his old respect, and there is a lot of wanton in his words and deeds. Teachings of the Uncle:

"A wife is in her husband's house, and she is not honored because of virtue, nor is she favored because of her husband's love; The wife is respected only because the uncle's family is strong, and the wife is favored only because the uncle's family is favorable. ”

At first, Wang Sun felt that his uncle's explanation was too snobbish. But now Sun Yu's snub makes Wang Sun wonder if Sun Yu will still spoil himself under the decline of royal power. But is it more than ten years of waiting that has worn down Sun Yu's patience? At Sun Yu's age, others already have a group of wives and concubines, and their children are on their knees, but only Sun Yu is still alone. Did you make him wait too long?

I want to ask my uncle when he will officially get married. But the girl's family took the initiative to ask these questions? also wanted to urge Sun Yu to formally propose, but Sun Yu's recent attitude was not ready to propose.

"After the New Year, I will be in time. But why didn't Sun Lang say anything about proposing? ”

"Your Highness, this is not something that slaves and maidservants can speculate about."

Alas, the princesses of the royal family, the daughters of the princes, although they lived a privileged and carefree life. However, marriage is not as free as a peasant woman, and they are greeted by political considerations and a game of power. The first king was a little jealous of the Fuchun Marquis and needed to stabilize the Fuchun Marquis, so he made a verbal marriage contract. His Majesty King Zhao is not so jealous of the Marquis of Fuchun - the three feudal states of Xihai Prefecture were withdrawn and changed to counties during the reign of King Zhao - so he dragged the marriage contract and did not express his position.

Maybe this is the reason why the Sun family is not in a hurry to propose marriage.

On the other side, as soon as Wang Sun left, the Zhang family immediately called the housekeeper servants who let him move to go to the Tingwei Mansion with him to redeem his sentence. The housekeeper didn't dare to hide the news: "Second lady." It's not easy for you to come forward as a woman, so let the king send someone. ”

"That's very good. Zhou Lang has not been home for six years, and this time the gentleman came forward, and the uncle and nephew were relieved. ”

So Fengyang Bo Zhou Zongqi personally took Qian Bao to the Tingwei Mansion to redeem Zhou Cong.

Zhou Cong didn't know that this money was rewarded by Wang Sun, and thought that his cheap uncle paid for him, so he was moved to cry bitterly, knelt on the ground, and hugged Uncle Fengyang's thigh: "Uncle is above, and the unfilial nephew Zhou Cong pleads guilty to his uncle." ”

"It doesn't have to be like this, I'll talk about it when I get home."

At that moment, there was a housekeeper servant to help Zhou Cong get into the carriage, and Feng Yangbo did not dislike him for his tattered clothes and dirty car, and also went up to sit down: "Now that I have made two long histories, and I have climbed the friendship of the king and grandson, everything I want to establish a system." Don't mess around in the slums anymore, don't be without the prestige of Shangguan, wear these rags and rags, ruin the face of the court, and then I, as an uncle, will have a dull face. ”

"In the future, when you become an official, you must be with the light. Whoever wants to respect the princes and friends, how can they not toss their colleagues for some troublesome people and trivial matters? In this way, isn't it upside down? Isn't it just that yin and yang are out of harmony? Isn't it just a matter of discipline? ”

"How can you do the thing of raiding the family and exterminating the family? Today you copy other people's houses, tomorrow they copy you. When will it be resolved? When the time comes, not to mention the impact on his wife and children, even the entire Fengyang will have to be looked at. ”

"The book of the sages is what the people are precious. But what does the Book of Sages say? Those who win the hearts of the people are the Son of Heaven, those who win the hearts of the Son of Heaven are princes, and those who win the hearts of the princes are scholars. The thing of buying the hearts of the people is something that only King Zhao, the Son of Heaven, does, and you are worthy of doing it in a small long history? ”

Zhou Cong obeyed his uncle's orders and didn't dare to disobey him, but he only made promises, saying that he regretted the past.

However, there are two questions in my heart: if it is really as my uncle said? Which official has made meritorious contributions and been promoted and reused? Also, when did you climb the high branch of Wang Sun?

When she returned home, her wife saw her and children in an elegant home. This courtyard is carved with beams and paintings, and there are two men and eight women to serve. Only his wife is still coarse and old-fashioned.

Only then did I know that it was His Royal Highness Wang Sun who rewarded the money and silk, so that there was money to redeem the punishment. After suddenly realizing it, he decided to agree to be a guest at Wangsun's mansion.