When Wu Laoer's family arrived in the capital in two carriages, he would never have imagined how much resentment An Dehai and Zhao Zhong, who were required to study hard, had a lot of resentment towards him. asked his subordinates to arrange to park the carriage near the stable, and told Zhang San and Yuan Jiang not to forget to keep an eye on them at night. The car is full of good things, both those that King Zhao 'generously gifted', and those that Wu Lao Er himself produces. After all, although King Zhao was rare in generosity, he was embarrassed to let King Zhao bleed too much. In addition to the "Dictionary of the Hundred Schools of Thought", the other two books are not too high in King Zhao's collection. In addition to the fish intestine sword, the weapon is more valuable for research, and the rest are worse in the historical year, Wu Lao Er thinks that in terms of antiques, it is not a big collection value, although the spear made of flying iron outside the sky is the only one in the world, but the weapon is not suitable as a dowry for proposing. As for the things in the treasure house, Wu Lao Er only took some ordinary goods related to learning, although a few of these ordinary goods were used by the predecessors and sages.

However, although it will make King Zhao feel distressed for a while, with King Zhao's generosity, he will not blame him too much. Who asked you Zhao Wangye to pat his chest and say take it casually! What the? Drunken talk? Just kidding, His Royal Highness King Zhao is famous for not getting drunk in a thousand cups!

This time, Wu Lao Er did not ask Zhou Ji to transfer people to come with him, but asked Zhang San and Yuan Jiang to pick a few Jinyi guards to come over. After all, it is his own subordinates, and it is more convenient to use, not to mention that Zhang San and Yuan Jiang have been competing for the position of the second senior brother recently, and they are eager to sacrifice the chrysanthemum, so let the two of them do something, and they will definitely be impeccable.

Sitting in the hall of Wu Lao's family, Wu Lao's father, Wu Lao Niang, Wu Lao's wife, Wu Lao's sister-in-law, Wu Lao's second, Wu Xiaomei, and Xiao Wu's name. There are a total of seven people, and Wu Lao Er found that the Wu family has a complete set of personnel, and it seems that except for his hometown in Sanmen County before he went to Daye City, only this time he is all there.

Wu Lao Er sat Xiao Wu Ming on his left leg, and Wu Xiaomei sat on his right leg. I don't know why, Wu Lao Er in this life is especially easy to get the favor of children. Sometimes I can't help but wonder, could it be that Xia Keke has taken a fancy to himself because Xia Keke is still a child?

"Nickname (so awkward, why not Xiao Ming?) Take your little aunt to play, and the second uncle brought you a lot of dolls, swords, and so on, and let the next person take them to your room. ”

Xiao Wu Ming jumped to the ground, took Wu Hua's hand and said, "Thank you, Second Uncle." Grandparents, father, mother, and sister-in-law went to play. ”

Wu Lao Er nodded, what a polite child. Seeing the two children go out together after getting the consent of the adults, Wu Lao Er stood up and said as if he was uncomfortable: "Big brother, what are you doing, my father and mother and I are not guests, let's just stay in the backyard and talk, and still sit in the hall where you entertain, it's really life." ”

Boss Wu said helplessly: "Didn't I see the second child that you still brought your subordinates here, according to etiquette, we should narrate in the flower hall." After arranging all the guests, our family can go back to the backyard to cook at home. ”

"Then let's go, my subordinates have already told their subordinates to take them to rest."

"Second brother, you did a bad job, the guest room at my brother's house is not enough to accommodate six people. Daddy, please wait for a while, let Sanniang accompany you to talk in the backyard of the second elder, and I will arrange for the second elder's subordinates to come back. ”

Wu Lao Er frowned impatiently and said, "What is the arrangement, there are six people in total, and we will deal with it for two days first." I also told them to keep vigil at night and watch the carriage, otherwise what if they lose something? Besides, where can you arrange to go? Let them go to the inn? ”

Boss Wu was speechless, "Second brother, how can you arrange it like this, even if it is your subordinate, you can't be a slave." If you do this, how will you let people do things for you in the future? ”

Not to mention Wu Lao Er, even Wu Lao Dad and Wu Lao Niang all showed disapproving looks. The two of them have seen how good their second son's status is in Daye City, and how many people have rushed to give gifts. Not to mention anything else, the day after the two of them arrived, some commander, butler, helper and the like sent a lot of valuable things. It is said that King Zhao also sent someone to send a gift, that is the prince of our Baiyu Kingdom, much more powerful than the county master, so he has to give a gift, which means that our second son is promising.

Jian Sanniang can't stand it anymore, she is a good man anywhere, but she is a little worse in the world. Since the uncle arranged it like that, it means that all the people who came with him were henchmen. Since they are all confidants, how can they care about such a trivial matter? Not to mention, although there are not many guest rooms in my house, there are two of them. I went to the night vigil, and I couldn't live there.

"My father-in-law doesn't know anything, my father-in-law and mother-in-law are running all the way, and they must be tired, so I should have let the second elder rest. You are still here entangled with your uncle over a trivial matter, where is the word filial piety? What's more, since the uncle has already made arrangements, presumably those guests will not have any dissatisfaction. Let's discuss the matter of proposing tomorrow. ”

These words are rigid and soft, reasonable and well-founded, which makes Wu Lao Er can't help but be amazed, his sister-in-law, is much stronger than his eldest brother in seeing things.

Boss Wu heard what his mother-in-law said, and after thinking about it, there was really no need to be so careless about such a trivial matter with his younger brother who was not polite. Think about how many times this kid has done things and said things contrary to himself since he came to the capital, and which one of them has he said about him in the end?

Thinking of this, Boss Wu nodded and said, "What Sanniang said is reasonable, Daddy, let's go to the backyard to rest and talk." ”

came to the room prepared for Father Wu and Mrs. Wu, and the second Wu sat on the chair and squeezed his eyes at his sister-in-law. From the conversation just now, Wu Lao Er heard the current relationship between the eldest brother and the sister-in-law, and the sister-in-law is definitely in charge. His eldest brother may be a bit of a head of the family in front of outsiders, if there is anything on weekdays, he has the final say, and it is definitely the sister-in-law who takes the idea. Thinking about it, his eldest brother's sour appearance, in addition to dragging the text and talking about the big truth, is really much worse in dealing with the world. Now that he is a petty official, if it weren't for the constant mention of his sister-in-law, he might have offended many people in the yamen.

Jian Sanniang blushed when she saw Wu Lao Er squeezing her eyes at her. muttered in my heart, why is my little uncle so unorthodox, how can he have eyebrows with his sister-in-law. I was thinking about when to talk about him, but I heard Wu Lao Er whisper: "Sister-in-law is now giving my eldest brother the clothes that are being cleaned up, right?" Hehe, I think my eldest brother is much more respectful to my sister-in-law than my subordinates! ”

"It turned out that I was too careful, but this little uncle is really exquisite, and I guessed the relationship between the upper and lower levels of the family in just a few words, and I really don't know how much stronger it is than Xianggong in terms of being an official."

Jian Sanniang sighed in her heart, but said: "Uncle, don't talk nonsense, your brother is busy with official business on weekdays, and he also reads books and studies when he has time, so he rarely pays attention to this interpersonal communication." But if you want to talk about big things, it has to be your brother who has the idea, and I know what a woman knows. ”

Wu Lao Er gave his sister-in-law a 'I understand you' look and said, "Alas, my brother, hard sister-in-law." ”

Wu Lao Er is telling the truth. Although the status of women in this era was not as low as after the Song Dynasty, it was not too good. In addition to not having so many dogmatic constraints, women don't have much to say.

Jian Sanniang is just from a small family, her father is just a eunuch, and her power is not as big as Wu Lao Er's now. Her husband became a seven-rank official, but he didn't make friends with officials, and he rarely got together with his colleagues, and he was iron-faced and selfless in doing things, and he didn't give anyone face. If it weren't for Jian Sanniang helping to think of ideas and make suggestions everywhere, I really don't know how many people I would have to offend inadvertently. Don't say that you are too greedy after becoming an official, but at least you have to improve your food and housing. What about your own home? I still live in the same house, and I still eat the same food. I just want to make a few more good-looking clothes, but I can't bear it, and I have to think about opening a small stove for my son.

It is impossible to say that Jian Sanniang has no grievances in her heart on such a day, looking at other people's families with good food and good clothes, generally similar to her husband, they all live in a big house, and her own family is still the same as before, it has not changed at all. What does it mean to be an official like this? Don't talk about others, just say that your husband is the younger brother of a compatriot. How long has it been since I left the palace? I took my father-in-law and mother-in-law away, and it is said that this little uncle's mansion is very big, and it is no problem to live in hundreds of people. If your own family has this condition, you must insist on taking your parents-in-law to live, how can there be a reason that you are not in the eldest son's house, but in the second son's house.

But although her husband has such and such shortcomings, didn't she appreciate his temperament at the beginning? Dare to speak up, not afraid of the powerful, honest, not greedy for beauty, and more importantly, willing to listen to their own words. In this male-dominated world, such men are really rare. Thinking about it, Jian Sanniang looked at her husband's angular outline, clear and thoughtless eyes, and oblique eyebrows inserted into the sideburns, and the more she looked at it, the more satisfied she became. With such a husband, even if he lives in such a house for the rest of his life, he will not have any complaints

"Ahem, Sanniang, the second child asked you."

Jian Sanniang, who was thinking about it, was suddenly interrupted by her husband, listening to her husband's words, it seemed that the little uncle asked him something, and hurriedly said, "What's the matter?" Well, I didn't hear that. ”

Boss Wu pulled the corners of his mouth in embarrassment, "Just now the second child asked you what else did the person named Zhang Baibai do in the past two days?" ”

Jian Sanniang hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, I found a few friends yesterday, and it is said that Zhang Baibai is looking for someone to write articles in the past few days." said that he would take a few good articles for Mr. Xia to taste when he proposed marriage, and he also said a lot of bad things about his uncle. If I want to say that this kind of guy who speaks ill of people behind his back, where is he still worthy of the word 'scholar', it is simply a shame on his ancestors. ”

"Sanniang is talking nonsense, what is the difference between your words and that hundred."

Hearing the words of the eldest son, Mrs. Wu stopped doing it first. Countrymen know each other like this, and they can say whatever their own family members want, and they won't let others say anything about their own family members.

"Say what's wrong with him? even said bad things about the second child behind his back, boss, you don't let Sanniang scold him, if you want me to say such a person, you should be scolded fiercely, where is the qualification to rob my son of his daughter-in-law and son! ”

Wu Lao Er laughed: "Big brother, if you say it again, you will be angry!" I don't have to talk about you, just the ability to do it. If that kid dared to say it to my face, I still respected him as a man, and now he actually said bad things about me behind my back, and I think it's nothing more than that. If Ke'er can look at him, then he is blind. But if that kid dares to say bad things about me to my face, hehe, our big mouth is not negotiable. ”

Boss Wu was extremely depressed, of course he couldn't refute his mother's words, and he couldn't say anything about his daughter-in-law and son-in-law. If you talk about Wu Lao Er, this kid is afraid that he has a hundred words waiting for him. In desperation, I had to change the topic, "How are you preparing for the dowry?" If it's not enough, I still have a few handwritten articles by my family teacher, as well as a few articles by my Dharma patriarch, and if you use them, you can take them all. ”

Wu Lao Er is still very satisfied with Boss Wu's attitude, but is this a dowry

"Thank you big brother in advance, but this time I am very well prepared. I'm afraid that the Confucian disciples don't recognize the things of your Legalist family, right? ”

Boss Wu said sullenly: "Yes, brother, I really can't do anything, if I want to say that I can get a few Confucian classics, but basically they are not too precious." Alas, my brother is the one who can't do it at all, it's really in vain for you to call me brother. ”

Wu Lao Er hurriedly said when he heard this: "What did the eldest brother say, not to mention how much the eldest brother and sister-in-law have contributed to this matter and how much they have helped, as far as the feelings of our brothers and sisters are concerned, they are not comparable to those foreign things!" ”

Father Wu and Mrs. Wu also helped persuade on the side, saying that Boss Wu was thinking too much, and he shouldn't say such things and hurt his family. Jian Sanniang also said that her husband, we can't bear it now, you just work hard, make good friends with Shangguan, and do a lot of work in the province, but you can't get it well, and you even offend people.

Boss Wu was a little disheartened when he said this, thinking that he had not made any achievements in the officialdom, and he had to ask his daughter-in-law and children to help him get ideas at home, and he had done too many things to offend people, if he didn't have his wife to give him ideas, maybe he would have been taken down because of something. I've been out for so many years, and I still live in a yard that says big or small, and even my old father and mother can't afford it. Looking at his younger brother again, he has only been working hard for a long time, and he is 10,000 times better than himself. Probably because I felt that I had achieved nothing, so I said this.

Seeing that Boss Wu was still sullen, Wu Lao Er said: "If you want me to say that this is actually nothing, big brother, you were born with this temperament." If you can't polish the edges and corners well, you are destined to not go far in officialdom. But then again, people like you are actually quite respectable. If all the officials are like this, this white jade country will be soon. But I still have to say that you, big brother, official, are not like this. There are a lot of principled people, but most of them can make some friends. What does this mean? Explain that there is something wrong with your principles. Let's do this first, you go back and think about it yourself, and after thinking about it, you can figure out what to do in the future. Brother, I don't dare to say anything else, you don't have to worry about money, you still think about how to promote you as a petty official. The bigger the official, the more things he can do, so that my sister-in-law can follow the scenery. ”

Seeing that her husband didn't say a word, Jian Sanniang was afraid that he wouldn't be able to think about it, so she hurriedly said, "Okay, let's not talk about these things first, my uncle's business is the top priority in front of me." ”

Boss Wu really went up and asked Boss Wu: "Second brother, how many dowry gifts have you prepared?" Door-to-door propose, your dowry is too shabby and not good-looking, maybe because the dowry is not good, people will not agree. ”

If the woman's family feels that the dowry is satisfied, and the object of the proposal is okay, then you can agree to the family on the spot. Then the two adults find time to sit down together to discuss the wedding date. On the other hand, even if your dowry is good, but the person is not favored by the woman, the other party will refuse. Or if you are a good person, but the dowry is too bad, the result will not be too good. Unless it's the woman's parents who think you're really good, you don't care about the dowry or you may agree to the family, but it doesn't seem to be much. It seems that Boss Wu still doesn't know his younger brother, and he is worried that Boss Wu didn't take the dowry.

"Big brother rest assured, the younger brother will be able to propose tomorrow! According to Confucian etiquette, the younger brother prepared sixty-four kinds of gifts, all of which were of the highest quality, including many Confucian classics. In this regard, the eldest brother should rest assured. ”

"This, so much, all of them are of the highest quality? Where did it come from? Boss Wu was surprised.

"Hehe" Wu Lao Er stood up slowly, making a nonchalant gesture, "For me, there is nothing I can't get, only whether I want to get it." If I want it, even if it's a star in the sky" said Wu Lao Er's right palm facing up, and then he said in a sonorous voice: "Even if it's a star in the sky, it's easy!" ”

Boss Wu: "Bragging"

Wu Lao Er: ""