At this time, Li You was sitting in the detention room in the office, thinking about his own trivial matters.

Suddenly, Zhao Liangli and the senior official broke in and shouted: "You are not an uncle!" ”

Li You stood up and saluted and said, "Why did the big official say this? ”

"Have you seen my little daughter? Why did she instigate her not to obey her parents? ”

Li You sighed, the little lady yesterday was really playing tricks on his words. If you don't watch out, she really made a sentence, and it is estimated that she will use it to reason with her parents when she returns home, and the little girl will have this thought.

"What did Little Seven Ladies say?" Li You asked.

Zhao Liangli sat down and said: "She said that you told her that marrying the Qian family is just greedy for the same qi and echoing each other, but the Zhao family is already extremely wealthy, so why do you need to do this more, don't you hear that if the water is full, the moon will be full and the moon will be lost." Moreover, the Zhao family was based on Shilin with the name of the article and the eunuchs of the past generations, and married the imperial merchant family, so that his family color increased a little, but the Zhao family may not be profitable. ”

Li You hurriedly denied it, he was not a long-tongued woman with three aunts and six mothers-in-law, so he had no interest in discussing other people's family affairs. It's just that he subconsciously said that "the money family can't be handed over". I didn't expect to be added to the vinegar by the little seven lady after I went back, and I pretended to be his words, but I was really unexpectedly used as a gun by the little girl.

However, there seems to be some truth in this passage, and the Zhao family does not necessarily need to marry the Qian family.

"You really didn't say that?" Zhao Daguan reconfirmed.

Li You shook his head and said, "I have no interest in other people's housework. ”

"That's right! You've always been a person who doesn't care about yourself, for fear of getting into trouble. Zhao Liangli nodded and said, "Besides, you are not such a hypocritical and vulgar person." ”

Li You, who was praised inexplicably, didn't understand it, wouldn't it be vulgar to encourage Zhao Liangli to marry his daughter to the Qianhuang businessman?

He felt that Zhao Liangli's thinking began to jump, and he saw that he made a big statement: "Most of the people in the world are hypocritical and don't see the true surname!" Everyone chooses a son-in-law who values talent rather than wealth, so is it really good? ”

This one... Li You couldn't keep up with Zhao Daguan's thoughts again. According to what he has seen personally, people in the world are obviously valuing wealth rather than talent, and the two sides are fighting for a few taels of silver.

Thinking about it, it is probably the reason for the difference between him and Zhao Lianglisheng [***].

To use an analogy, if a wealthy man recruits a son-in-law, one choice is a young poor talent who can be exempted from servitude and is expected to be promoted after a good academic performance, and the other choice is a rich man who is also rich. At this time, the poor show talent may not be less competitive than the rich household, so there is also a phenomenon of valuing talent rather than wealth.

Li You felt that he had nothing to say, and continued to listen to Zhao Daguan's frustration.

"Everyone says that my Zhao family is a scholarly family with a prosperous literary style, rich and expensive, and there is no lack of wealth. Even my daughter thinks the same thing, and she wants to marry a talented man. ”

Actually, I think so too, Li Youxin said. Since your family is in the circle of civil officials and scholars, it is indeed right to collude with scholars, and it is even more important to be involved with the vulgar emperors and businessmen.

In fact, in this year, the literati are not very exclusive to businessmen, and many officials' families have the same people to do business, but the key is that the Qian family heard that it is a bit of a relative's identity, and no matter how specific Li You is, it is not clear.

"It's ridiculous that people in the world are burdened by false fame, and a few broken books for men and women are not fresh at all, but they make people's hearts suffer a lot. In fact, a promising scholar has ambitions, and those who have ambitions must be admitted to the ranks of scholars and officials, and to become officials, they have to travel in all directions. If you take your family with you, you will inevitably be displaced and run around for a few years. If you don't bring a family, you can take a look at Chen Xundao, where is his wife and child? I heard that it is placed in my hometown, how is this different from keeping a widow? If you can't even get famous, it's even a joke! Could it be that my Zhao Liangli's daughter should suffer all this for the sake of facade? ”

Li You finally understood that Zhao Daguan didn't come to ask for guilt, but because he was not understood and came to talk to someone.

In contrast, although the Qian family is not a famous gentleman, it is also a wealthy and noble empress dowager of the dynasty, who has lived in Suzhou for generations as an imperial businessman. Marrying into his family is comfortable and rich, close to his mother's family, and there will be no suffering from drifting abroad, how is it not good compared to a scholar with an uncertain future? ”

When the Empress Dowager is a member of the clan? Li You was secretly surprised in his heart. Although he is a small official, he also knows that he was only eight years old when he ascended the throne today, and it has been seven years since then, and he has not yet married and is in power, and the queen mother has a very heavy weight in the palace. It is rumored that the edict of the former emperor was listened to by the queen mother, which almost opened the precedent of the Ming Dynasty. However, the Queen Mother is virtuous and virtuous, and she entrusts political affairs to the cabinet.

In the end, Zhao Liangli sighed and concluded: "A caring father like me is rare in the world, but it's a pity that a hard work has caused complaints." Weisi people, know who to be with. ”

At the end of the speech, Zhao Daguan picked up a stack of papers from the case and slapped it in front of Li You: "Don't be stunned, write it to me." ”

"Write what?" Li Younahan said.

"Write down all the meanings I have just said, and write them to your niece as letters. Enlighten her to get married in a year or two, don't be fascinated by the story of talented and beautiful women, especially the one you made up What a young lady picks a few sons, I don't know what it means, many women love to watch it. By the way, I want to write two letters, and one more for my brother. ”

It turned out that Zhao Liangli was like an old woman who nagged a lot in order to ask him to write letters as a confidant uncle... Li You clenched his hands, this letter can't be written, at least not now.

How can his bad words see the light, and it is a joke to shine in front of people. Usually, there are scribes who do the official work for them, and you can't ask someone to write them here.

The more important reason is that the Qian family is bold in doing those things, once they can't cover it, there will be endless troubles, is it really suitable to persuade the Zhao family to take unnecessary risks to get married? He was still counting on hugging the thighs of the Zhao family.

However, the Qian family's involvement in the embezzlement of Haitang stone should have been kept strictly confidential, and for their own safety, no one should be allowed to know that they had discovered it. Do you want to say it at this time?

Seeing that Li You didn't move at all, Zhao Liangli looked suspicious, "Are you still unwilling to let me marry the Qian family?" ”

"That's exactly what it means." Li You said very seriously.

Zhao Liangli also noticed Li You's tangled mood, as if there was something unspeakable. Suddenly realized: "Could it be... Are you intentional about the little girl and ashamed to say it? Speaking of which, it is only four or five years old. ”

Li You was shocked and coughed violently a few times, "I already have a wife!" Don't talk nonsense! ”

Zhao Liangli smiled and said, "I still like you to be your son-in-law." The skin is good, a bit of poetry, and a seven-grade official at a young age. The most rare thing is to be able to be an official in the local area, and you don't have to travel far away from your hometown, which is enough to envy everyone. It's a pity, I'm already married, and I knew I should have caught you in the first place. ”

Li You refuted: "At the beginning, I was just a small official in the county, I don't believe you dare to condescend to marry your daughter to a small official." ”

"Also, I almost forgot that you are also a traitor, and you still have to suffer if you don't want to be someone else's son-in-law."

Li You feigned anger, patted the case and got up and said: "Zhao Xianggong insults people too much! I don't send it! ”

"Stop pretending." Zhao Liangli didn't care at all, "I know you're not angry." I really don't understand, what the hell do you mean? ”

Li You had no choice but to sit back in his seat, did he really want to tell the truth? So he said tentatively: "How much do you know about the affairs of the Qian family?" Recently, they have been in the stone business, do you know? ”

"So what?" Zhao Liangli didn't understand why Li You talked about it.

Li You carefully observed the expression of Zhao Daguan, and made sure that he didn't know the truth, so he leaned closer and whispered.

Zhao Liangli was dumbfounded when he heard this, "Stealing and selling Haitang stones, seriously?" ”

Li You nodded.

Zhao Daguan smiled bitterly: "What kind of unique luck are you, you can bump into a big case anywhere." ”

That's wrong, I'm no different than anyone else. There is no impermeable wall in the world, and there must be others who have discovered it, but they are all afraid to speak out like me or when they don't have the right time. You know because I said it, and if anyone in the know doesn't say it, it's like it didn't happen. ”

Zhao Liangli sighed: "It makes sense, even I have to pretend not to know, who knows if this matter has anything to do with the Queen Mother." With this hidden secret, it is absolutely impossible to marry the Qian family. Actually, I just want to be safe, if I get in, it won't be worth it. The marriage is abandoned, but I have to think of something suitable to say. ”

Li You was about to send off the guests, but Zhao Liangli pulled out another matter: "I told you last time about the selection of Oiran on this year's flower list..."

Li You was speechless about this, just after discussing the major affairs of his children, he began to talk about remembering the affairs of the family in a blink of an eye, and there was no buffer, don't you think it is very awkward and disobedient?

"I'm going to push you to be the main judge." Zhao Liangli explained the meaning.

Li You didn't want to think about it, so he refused: "This official is now a seven-rank life official, how can he do such a thing in front of everyone, it is unseemly." ”

"You're getting more and more boring as an official. What is the seven-grade pusher, I want to comment on the flowers on the Qinhuai River back then, and people come out to sit on the main seat like the second-grade Shangshu. You are not from a clean stream, so why do you need to pretend to be serious. ”

Li You, who was counted down, interrupted: "It's still early, I'll talk about it later." ”

"Okay, let's not talk about that now. At the moment, the spring is just right, and in a few days I want to go boating in the spring, and you want to enjoy the light. Zhao Liangli got up and left.

For Li Tuiguan, this is not the end... After going back, in order to break off the marriage with the Qian family, Zhao Liangli and the officials took the trouble to think about what excuse to use.

In the end, he did not disappoint everyone, and showed his usual unobtrusive style, so that people went to the Qian family to spread the word - I am very sorry, Zhao Daguan changed his mind and planned to give his daughter to Li Tuiguan of the government, so he could not marry the Qian family, and I hope that your mansion Haihan will forgive me a lot.

Poor Li You was used as a gun by Zhao Liangli like a scoundrel again, and he was unexpectedly involved in a turmoil that could not be said to be good or bad.

(To be continued)