The sun is still scorching, and the autumn breeze is refreshing.

Dong Ce stood in front of the bronze mirror early in the morning and took off the gauze on his right ear, looked at the row of tooth marks on the earlobe that had formed blood, and was too lazy to bandage it, tidied up his appearance and walked out of the guest room, and saw Liu Fu waiting outside the door at a glance.

"Eh, okay, it's a little sample, it's new." Dong Ce looked at Liu Fu's brand-new blue shirt and hat, and couldn't help but smile faintly and teased: "Want to hook up with someone else's Cao Mansion maid?" ”

"Oh, young man, you...... Ahem, isn't it all about giving you a long face! Liu Fu blushed suddenly, after all, he was only in his early fifteens, and Dong Ce was four years older than him, but in this era, most men of the same age as Dong Ce, the baby ran all over the ground.

In the Daning Dynasty, men can get married at sixteen, women can marry at fourteen, and it is not uncommon for men who have not yet married to twenty, and if a woman is not married at twenty, she is an older leftover woman, and she will be ridiculed and laughed at by the neighbors when she walks on the street.

Dong Ce heard Dong Yuanchang say that his daughter-in-law who had not passed through the door should be seventeen this year, if he hadn't been sick last year, he might have been married, but this is still too early for Dong Ce now, less than eighteen, isn't this a crime! Fortunately, their family was in the middle of the road, so they avoided this marriage that was extremely absurd for him personally.

The master and servant first asked the innkeeper about the address of Rulin Cao'an, but unfortunately, how did the shopkeeper know, but he told them where Rulin was.

This Confucianism is not the type of opera that Dong Ce knows, the appearance of Confucianism in the Ning Dynasty is to provide a teacher for the scholars to teach their children, in other words, an institution that provides tutors!

There are very famous local bachelors in the Rulin, some of whom are as old as their fifties and sixties, and some are only in their early twenties!

And Dong Ce's father-in-law, Cao An, is a teacher in Rulin.

Rulin, located in the west city of Gusu Mansion, live near Rulin are some dignitaries, Mr. Rulin's residence is basically nearby, but the scale is generally not large, from the inn where they live is actually not far away, the master and servant two drove the carriage, and it took only half an hour to arrive! Compared with Dong Ce's previous life, it was much cooler to be in the metropolis for half an hour!

Dong Ce jumped out of the carriage and glanced at the alley where he couldn't see the end, the number of courtyards on the left and right sides couldn't be counted, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly, just as he saw an old man walking out of the alley, he stepped forward and said, "Dare to ask the old man, do you know the residence of Mr. Rulin Cao'an?" ”

When the old man heard this, and then saw Dong Ce so polite, he smiled and said, "Oh, Xiao Cao, the eighth room on the right hand is his mansion." ”

"Thank you, sir." Dong Ce thanked him and was about to go in, when the old man suddenly asked, "Listening to Gongzi's accent, he is not from Suzhou." ”

Dong Ce paused, stopped and smiled: "Well, I'm from Jinling Mansion in Ningzhou." ”

"Ahh Jinling! The old man seemed to be a little surprised, opened a pair of old eyes and looked at Dong Ce carefully for a moment, and suddenly leaned in and lowered his voice: "Could it be that the Dong family of Jinling Mansion?" ”

"Huh? How do you know? Dong Ce was really surprised.

"Oh, that's true!" The old man smiled sweetly as if he had eaten honey, and said: "Who lives in this alley, who doesn't know that the daughter of the Cao family is ready to be married to the Dong family of Jinling Mansion, and looking at your age, you are a talent, old and rotten guess, nine times out of ten!" ”

"You're old and wise!" Dong Ce couldn't help but smile bitterly, and chatted with the old man for a while, and when he was about to leave again, the old man pulled him again and said, "Xiao Dong, if you have time to sit at Uncle Liu's house, it's just across the door from Cao's house." Saying that, just as Dong Ce was about to say goodbye again, the old man said again: "Also, be careful, if you can't stand it, if you can retreat, you can retreat, I'm afraid that few people in this world can stand it, presumably the Cao family can't force you No, it's really not good, just go to my house to avoid it, old man, I'll stand up for you!" ”

Dong Ce was not impatient at all, but felt more cordial in his heart, because he felt that this old man was very much like his neighbor in his previous life, although he liked to nag, but he also knew how to take care of people.

As for what Uncle Liu said, Dong Ce felt cold in his heart, and seemed to think of something, but he didn't control his mind and didn't think deeply, and said with a smile: "Okay, I'm afraid that I will disturb your old Qingxiu when the time comes." ”

"Don't bother, don't bother, okay, my old man won't bother you anymore, go ahead." Uncle Liu is very self-aware and let Dong Ce go.

Looking at Dong Ce's departing back, Uncle Liu touched his goatee and giggled.

"I can't imagine that the son-in-law of the Cao family is really good, good looks, good manners, not impatient, good temperament, the most important thing is those eyes, elusive, worthy of being a peddler, if there is a chance to enter the government by the government, the achievement will not be low, but unfortunately it was given to the Cao family, I don't know if it is fortunate or unfortunate...... Cough! After Uncle Liu finished speaking, he put his hands behind his back, hummed an unknown tune and slowly walked out of the alley.

Caofu, although the courtyard is not large, but it is simple and elegant, and the glory is introverted.

In front of the door, a young boy was holding an old book and shaking his head, as if he didn't notice someone visiting.

"Little brother, this is Mr. Cao An's mansion?" Although he learned the address of the Cao family from Uncle Liu, if he was old and confused, then he would be embarrassed.

"Huh?" Xiao Tong was shocked when he heard this, and when he looked at it again, Ju was a tall figure standing in front of him, and he couldn't help but be even more afraid, and took two steps back and said in a panic: "What are you doing?" ”

"This is Mr. Soan's residence." Dong Ce asked with a smile.

"Yes, what are you looking for my master?" When the little boy heard that someone was coming to find the master, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"Then what do you want me to do with your master?" Dong Ce saw that this little boy was very cute, so he couldn't help but tease his heart and laughed.

"How do I know? Say it. "However, the children are simple by nature, and they can't hear that this is Dong Ce teasing him.

Dong Ce couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "I can't understand with you, you went in and reported that Dong Ce, the son of Dong Yuanchang of Jinling Mansion, came to pay a visit." ”

"Oh, the son of Dong Yuanchang of Jinling Mansion, Dong Ce is visiting, right, I'm ...... Yes? Supervise...... Dong family! The little boy first repeated, his eyes suddenly widened, and he exclaimed: "You are from the Dong family in Jinling?" ”

"Exactly." Dong Ce is a little strange, there is no need to be so exaggerated.

As soon as the little boy heard this, he immediately turned around, and the girl ran wildly towards the courtyard, shouting as she ran: "Master, it's a big deal, someone from the Dong family in Jinling is here!" Lord......"

"Holy!" Dong Ce looked at Liu Fu with a puzzled expression, and his eyes seemed to ask, are you all like this?

Liu Fu was also puzzled, and said suspiciously: "This may be a style of the people of Gusu Mansion, although it is shocking, but the message is extremely fast, I have to learn and learn!" ”

"Teng Teng Teng ......" A burst of hurried footsteps suddenly came from the house, and when Dong Ce raised his eyes when he heard the sound, he was stunned to see a short-bearded man about forty years old, with a short-bearded face hanging on his feet, wearing a coat and running wildly.

"Oh, virtuous nephew!" The man shouted, strode in front of Dong Ce, grabbed Dong Ce's hands, looked up and down for a long time, and said with great satisfaction: "Not bad, well, not bad, very good, hahaha!" ”

"Uncle Cao?" Dong Ce frowned and asked, he wanted to retract his hand, but the people grabbed it too tightly.

"What kind of uncle, you should call me father-in-law!" After Cao An finished speaking, he let go of Dong Ce's hands with a satisfied face, and suddenly looked up to the sky and sighed, and said melancholy: "Alas, when I went to Jinling to see you, you were only as high as my waist, and in the blink of an eye, you are almost a head taller than me. ”

"Holy." Dong Ce can be regarded as having experienced what the style of the ancient literati is, this expression, this mood, and the Sichuan face change have to fight!

"The marriage is not over, it is better to call uncle, I don't know that my uncle was still resting before, and my nephew came to disturb this morning, I am afraid that I have picked the wrong time, which is really a sin." In order to prevent Cao An from grabbing the word father-in-law, Dong Ce said a few more polite sentences.

Fortunately, Cao An didn't care anymore, and said with a smile: "I have already gotten up, but I am just reading in the study, and I am too lazy to dress, but I make my nephew smile." ”

After that, Cao An grabbed Dong Ce's hand again, pulled him and walked inside, and instructed a few servants who rushed to the news to prepare wine and food to entertain their future uncle!

"My carriage ......" Dong Ce suddenly thought of Liu Fu, but he was about to turn back, but was pulled by Cao An, and he smiled and said: "Those have their own arrangements, the virtuous nephew doesn't need to worry, let's go, follow me to the house to have a look, and meet Luo Rong and her grandmother, the old man often talks about you, several times urged me to go to Jinling to pick you up, I was also going to go to a trip, but I first received a letter from your father, saying that you are seriously ill, and I happened to encounter some trivial delays, I didn't expect this delay to come to this time, yes, How is your father? ”

Dong Ce was stunned and was dragged through the courtyard by Cao An, just entered the hall, heard this, and was about to simply say what happened in the middle of the family, and then said that he couldn't drag down their Cao family, so that the marriage was solved, however, when these words came to his mouth, Cao An spoke first: "Oh, let's not mention these things first, let's take a look at the old man." ”

As Cao An finished saying this, three people walked out of the door of the hall, in the middle was an old woman over sixty years old, next to a beautiful woman who looked only about thirty, and on the other side was a boy of the same age as the gatekeeper, who was only about ten years old.

"But Ce'er?" The old lady stared at Dong Ce with a smile and kept looking up and down, and beside her, the beautiful woman was also full of smiles, looking at Dong Ce kindly, as for the little boy, he was tilting his head and blinking his big eyes, his eyes were full of curiosity.

"It's the junior." In the face of this kind of occasion, let alone this life, even if you add the previous life, Dong Ce is the first time that the eldest girl has been on the sedan chair, so he doesn't know what to do!

"Okay, good, good, I didn't expect that this guy Dong Lao Ghost could give birth to such a grandson with excellent quality." The old lady walked to the main seat with the support of the beautiful woman, knelt down, and said with a smile: "You are here, if you don't come again, the old man is afraid that he will come to your house to ask for an explanation!" ”

"Alas, fortunately you didn't toss for a long time, otherwise this bone would have to fall apart!" Dong Ce naturally didn't dare to say this, but he had to mention that this ancient man really aged fast, in his sixties, this is in the descendants, that can only be regarded as an aunt, especially when he arrives at the square, he walks with broken steps, twists his small waist, and his body is so good.

"It's really the fault of the younger generation, from last year's illness to this year, it has only recently improved, so I came to see you old, by the way, I want to tell you...... "Dong Ce is about to mention the matter of repentance of marriage again, he doesn't want to drag it out, otherwise he really has to finish nagging these people, he said it again, isn't it just a waste of everyone's saliva!"

However, he still couldn't help what he wanted, and he was only halfway through this, when suddenly, he heard a woman's heroic groan in the front yard behind him, which was still the classic sentence of Han Gaozu: "The wind is blowing and the clouds are flying......"