Chapter 168: Zheng Jing's Misunderstanding
Zhou Zhong stayed in Xie Lingyun's room until the time of the lamp, and then he was sent out by Xie Lingyun, but at this time, Xie Lingyun's face was already much better-looking, and even the corners of his mouth still had a little smile, Zhou Chong also had a relaxed expression, although he agreed to a few conditions from the other party, but he finally got Xie Lingyun done.
In fact, Xie Lingyun's conditions are not too much in Zhou Chong's view, mainly there is only one, Xie Da only has one daughter, after she marries Zhou Chong in the future, the Xie family's property should be regarded as her dowry, but Xie Lingyun asked that even after passing the door, the Xie family's property should still be placed in her name, because this is what she left for her future son and daughter, after all, there is still a gap between her flat wife and her wife, and the children she gave birth to are worse than those of her grandmother, she is worried that her children will be wronged in the future. So leave some inheritance for your sons and daughters in advance.
Zhou Zhong almost didn't laugh out loud when he heard Xie Lingyun's request, he didn't expect Xie Lingyun to think so far, this is not married yet, she even planned for her children's affairs, but anyway, Zhou Chong has never coveted the Xie family's property, so he agreed to Xie Lingyun's request without thinking about it.
In addition to this main condition, Xie Lingyun also put forward other requirements, such as being a flat wife, she requires all treatment to be the same as Wang Jinxuan, and even the days of staying in their respective rooms every month must be fair, this is Xie Lingyun, after all, she and Zhou Zhong already have the reality of husband and wife, although it is shy to put forward such a condition, but it is nothing, if it is replaced by Wang Jinxuan, I am afraid that such a condition will not be put forward anyway.
For these conditions put forward by Xie Lingyun, in Zhou Chong's opinion, they are nothing at all. So naturally, they all agreed one by one. This also made Xie Lingyun feel that the grievances in her heart were reduced a lot. In the end, even she herself was a little embarrassed, Zhou Chong took this opportunity to say a lot of love words, which made the two stay in the room for a lot, and Zhou Chong accompanied Xie Lingyun to have dinner before leaving.
Zhou's important wedding, this is not only a major event of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, but also a major event of the entire Shuangyu Port, after all, with the development of cooperative smuggling, almost more than seventy percent of the cargo owners are customers of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce. In addition, a considerable number of small and medium-sized chambers of commerce have passed the examination of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce and relied on the smuggling business outsourced by the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce to survive, so it can be said that the influence of the entire Nanyang Chamber of Commerce is no longer limited to Beigang, and there are many small and medium-sized chambers of commerce in the Nanyang District and Xigang District under the command of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce.
It is also the huge influence of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce now, so when Zhou Chong was given a marriage, and the news that he was going to get married on the sixth day of the first month of next month, it immediately caused a huge sensation, although many people wondered that Zhou Chongwei was not married to Miss Xie Jia, but this is not important, the key is that this is an opportunity to take care of the relationship with the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce. Therefore, whether there is business or not, most of the entire Shuangyu Port will send a congratulatory gift.
But then there is a problem. That is, Zhou Chong's wedding must be held in Songjiang Mansion, but now there are so many people in Shuangyu Port to congratulate, and it is impossible for these people to rush to Songjiang because they all participated in Zhou Chong's wedding, so Zhou Chong discussed it with Sanniang and others, and finally came up with a feasible solution.
In fact, this method is not troublesome, that is, the wedding in Songjiang Mansion is still held on time, but on the second day of the wedding, Zhou Zhong will take the bride back to Shuangyu Port, and then set up a grand wedding banquet at the Chamber of Commerce to entertain the guests, which is not a loss of courtesy, of course, if the guests of Shuangyu Port can go to Songjiang to participate in the wedding Zhou Chong is also very welcome, everything depends on the guests' own arrangements.
The time for marriage was too hasty, so Zhou Chong couldn't stay in Shuangyu Port for too long, and after Aunt Wang and Bang'er packed up their things, they immediately left Shuangyu Port, in addition to Zhou Chong's family, Sanniang and Bai's sisters also went back together, this is mainly because Steward Xu has to take care of his wife Su Niang, who is about to give birth, so he can't follow Zhou Chong, the wedding needs a capable manpower, and the last can only let Sanniang go, Bai Junwan is Sanniang's right-hand man, naturally he has to follow, as for Bai Mengwan, She just followed along to watch the fun. The wedding banquet here in Shuangyu Port also needs to be presided over, but this matter is left to Uncle Camel.
After Zhou Zhong returned to Songjiang, he immediately devoted himself to the intense wedding preparations, such as preparing invitations for the guests, arranging the wedding banquet, wedding procedures, etc., although Sanniang and Bai Junwan helped to handle it, but some things still need to be handled by Zhou Chong himself, after all, there are no elders above him, and Aunt Wang doesn't understand this, so he can only let him, the groom, do it himself.
Fortunately, Xu Guan's officials in Songjiang Mansion were also very hard-working, and they didn't have to worry about many things, they had already helped Zhou Chong do it, but when Zhou Chong sent invitations to the guests at the banquet, he encountered a not very pleasant thing.
The story is like this, it has been said before that Zhou Chong has several close friends in Songjiang, namely Zheng Jing, Li Zheng and Zhang Kuang, these three people have helped Zhou Chong several times when the Zhou family was in trouble, and from the perspective of friends, persuaded Zhou Chong to study hard to gain fame, and was even willing to bear the cost of Zhou Chong's study, although Zhou Chong rejected the proposal of several friends, but he was still very grateful to them in his heart.
Now that Zhou Zheng is married, he naturally wants to invite some relatives and friends, and Zheng Jing and the three of them are naturally the first guests he wants to invite, but when Zhou Zhong sent someone to send the invitation to the house of the three of them, Li Zheng and Zhang Jing were very happy to accept it, but Zheng Jing turned away the person who sent the invitation, and asked the servant to tell Zhou Chong that he Zheng Jing would not be friends with a butcher whose hands were stained with blood.
Hearing what Zheng Jing relayed, Zhou Zhong almost guessed a few points, it seems that Zheng Jing also heard about some of what he did when he was in Shuangyu Port, and as an orthodox scholar, he may not be able to accept his own approach in some things, such as using extremely bloody and cruel means to destroy the Jeolla Chamber of Commerce and the Shangquan Chamber of Commerce, so Zheng Jingcai is unwilling to make friends with Zhou Zhong again.
If it is an ordinary friend, Zhou Chong is too lazy to explain, and may even scold the other party for being pedantic in his heart, but Zheng Jing is a friend who helped him in his most difficult time, and he is also extremely honest and talented, such a friend may not meet a few in his life, so Zhou Zhong feels that he needs to meet Zheng Jing in person.
However, Zhou Zhong did not go directly to Zheng Jing, but first went to Li Zheng and Zhang Kuang's house, ready to call both of them, after all, Zheng Jing knew what he did in Shuangyu Port, so Li Zheng and Zhang Jing must also know that although both of them were willing to participate in their wedding on the surface, they must have some guilt against themselves in their hearts, otherwise after the news of their marriage came out, they should have come to the door to congratulate them as soon as possible, but until now Zhou Chong has not seen anyone.
In fact, it is indeed as Zhou Zhong expected, although Zhang Kuang was still as enthusiastic as before when he saw him, but his words and deeds gave Zhou Zhong a sense of distance. Fortunately, Li Zheng is still as sincere as ever, the relationship between the two was the best before, and Li Zheng also believed in Zhou Chong's personality very much, just to avoid Zhou Chong's embarrassment, so he didn't say a word about what Zhou Chong did in Shuangyu Port.
Feeling Zhang Jing's alienation from him, Zhou Zhong couldn't help but sigh in his heart, although he prepared a lot of rhetoric to explain himself today, but he didn't know if Lu Dao could mend the feelings between several people?
When Zhou Zhong proposed to go to Zheng Jingfu with them, Zhang Kuang's face showed embarrassment, and Li Zheng coughed and persuaded: "Wenda, Brother Minglun is in a bad mood during this time, how about we visit another day?" ”
It seems that Li Zheng and Zhang Kuang both know that Zheng Jing is disgusted with Zhou Chong, but Zhou Chong is here to solve this problem today, so I saw him smile and said: "Shrike and Fang Shi, I sent someone to send an invitation to Brother Minglun's wedding before, but he turned him away, and I also know that you must have heard about some of what I did in Shuangyu Port, so there may be some misunderstandings about me, so I just squeezed out time to find you today, and I want to go to Brother Minglun's house with you to explain, If you still don't agree with what I'm doing, then I have nothing to say. ”
Hearing Zhou Chong's words directly, Zhang Kuang's face also showed embarrassment, and Li Zheng sighed and said: "Wenda, Brother Minglun did have some misunderstandings about you, although I persuaded you several times, but it was useless, but since you are willing to explain today, then let's take a trip, I believe that for the sake of the past friendship, Brother Minglun will not turn us all away." ”
"Well, since Wenda has said it, I also think it is necessary for you to explain it to everyone, in fact, not only Brother Minglun, but I also have some objections to Wenda's approach in Shuangyu Port!" At this time, Zhang Jing, who had always been sleek, suddenly became very serious, his personality was not as square as Zheng Jing, so although he did not agree with Zhou Chong's approach in his heart, he would not show it directly like Zheng Jing.
"Ha Lu Ha~, Brother Fang Shi finally told the truth, the fake smile on your face just now was really uncomfortable!" Li Zheng was very happy to hear that Zhang Zheng could say his heart so sincerely, but Zhang Zheng couldn't laugh or cry at the moment because of Li Zheng's straightforwardness.
Zhou Zhong and the three of them went straight to Zheng Jing's house in a carriage, speaking of which, because they are all Zheng Jing's close friends, it is not the first time they have come to Zheng Mansion, and the descendants of the Zheng family also know them, so they don't need to report at all, find someone to ask Zheng Jing when he was studying in his study, so the three of them went directly to the door of Zheng Jing's study. (To be continued......)