Under the pressure of Chen Ke and others, Brother Xiaoliang confessed the reason:

Things have to start from seven years ago, Chen Xiliang passed the provincial examination and became a 'provincial lifter', also known as a tribute. Because since the 'Zhang Yuan incident, after the incident, the palace examination of the Song Dynasty has no longer dethroned the scholars, only ranked. So he's already a ...... of preparatory jinshi.

On the day of the release of the list, the most classic 'catching a son-in-law under the list) of the Song generation was staged again.

In Bianjing City, as long as the family is a princess and a wealthy merchant who has a daughter to be married, the whole family will go out to compete for the son of Dengdi as a son-in-law..., and even rich gentry from Luoyang and Nanjing also joined in the robbery. Then the scene of you fighting for me is like a football game in later generations.

In recent decades, it has basically been a list every four years, with a maximum of 400 jinshi on each list. Moreover, based on the average age of 32 years old, there are definitely no more than half of them who are unmarried. On the other hand, it is a daughter who has been saving for four years in Bianjing, and even a big household in the country, and her wolf has more meat and less meat, which can be imagined. At this time, the birth date, family background, and physical appearance of the new science and technology scholars are no longer important, and even whether they are married or not, they can be ignored first...... Snatch it home and ask slowly.

Thinking of Chen Xiliang, who has good grades, looks good, has no spouse, and is not too old, the fifth diamond king is naturally a sought-after commodity. But he rejected all the old men from all walks of life...... Under people's questioning, he finally explained the reason: 'The choice of a son-in-law under the list is the identity of the Jinshi of the figure, and the marriage is an official, this identity: not to mention that I still have four sons, how can I bear to let the pearl of the family come to be the stepmother? ，

In fact, to put it bluntly, I can't get used to your behavior!

But there are those who don't believe in evil, and the grade is so high that it is staggering that Cao Guoyi, the brother-in-law of today's official family and the younger brother of Empress Cao..., yes, it is the one among the eight immortals..., who came to propose marriage for him and the queen's sister, the wife of Chu State, Cao Shi.

Speaking of Cao, he is also a hard-working person, not long after he got married, his husband died in the Northwest Battlefield, and then he was widowed for eight years and has never married. Not to mention Empress Cao and Uncle Cao, even her father-in-law was very anxious, in the Song Dynasty, there was no festival to say, if a woman is widowed, childless and still living in her mother-in-law's house, this is a great pressure on her mother-in-law's family.

One will be suspected of coveting the daughter-in-law's dowry, and the other, the husband and brother-in-law are also in danger of being talked about. Ouyang Xiu, the leader of the literary league, was slandered as a duster because his daughter-in-law had been widowed for a year and had not married, which made him disgraced, and he quickly married his daughter-in-law, but he still left a stain forever.

It is conceivable how much pressure the father-in-law of the Cao family, the old lady of the flail family, is under...... On the last list of imperial examinations, he wanted to choose a hearty stephusband for his daughter-in-law, and everyone felt that he was really a good son-in-law with both talent and appearance, but he had no choice but to pass the Cao family.

In the past four years, he pondered carefully and finally understood that his daughter-in-law did not like those men who were impetuous and full of climbing high branches once they won the first place, so this subject was chosen very carefully. After hearing about Chen Xiliang's deeds, he suddenly felt that this person was the only one.

But he was worried that he wanted to catch the old and indulge and wait for the price to sell, so he told Uncle Cao Guo about his concerns, Uncle Cao Guo said It doesn't matter, I have a rough understanding of people's skills, and I will talk about it when I go to see. As a result, after meeting, without a few words, it was directly escalated to a proposal..."

Chen Xiliang naturally would not agree. Old lady Liu has that concern, and he ...... it too.

Uncle Cao Guo smiled and said it doesn't matter if you don't agree, let's make friends. I'll invite you to my house for a drink, isn't that okay? Don't worry about anything else, I've hired someone else, not just you.

Brother Xiaoliang couldn't refuse again, so he went that day.

turned out that he was still too realistic, except for him and Uncle Cao Guo that day, there was only one female guest...... Obviously, the woman was also brought here, Uncle Cao Guo and his wife, one greeted the other, lest these two run away. almost forcibly held them and finished a blind date meal.

There is a way that is a thousand miles of marriage, and after eating this meal, Brother Xiao and Liang were shaken. And Cao also had a good impression of this cold-faced scholar. But the two had such and such concerns, and until Chen Xiliang left Beijing, there was no progress.

In the following years, the two maintained the Hongyan biography. If everything goes according to plan, this sullen man and woman is likely to carry out the warmth to the end.

However, in the war in the southwest, Chen Xiliang narrowly escaped and survived, which greatly stabbed them.

Under the huge psychological fluctuations, the feelings were like a flood bursting the embankment, out of control, and finally, in the crowd that greeted the triumph of the army, Cao's figure appeared!

After that, the considerate official family left Chen Xiliang in Beijing, ready to marry at the right time. However, unfortunately, Empress Cao's mother died suddenly, and the marriage dragged on for another two years. It wasn't until last year that Queen Cao and Uncle Cao couldn't wait to start managing the marriage...... As a result, in the first month, the emperor fell ill and suddenly rushed out of the palace gate, shouting at the ministers: 'The queen and Zhang Mao are rebelling!' ，

Although later the official version was that the emperor was crying crazy words when he was sick. But the things forbidden in the palace are as secretive as deep, and in the eyes of the outside of the palace, it is naturally true and false, and confusing. Many people say that since it is crazy, why did Zhang Mao commit suicide? It can be seen that there is no reason for it......

In short, Queen Cao washed her face with tears all day long, and the pressure on the Cao family was also great, and this marriage, which had a lot of good things, had to be put on hold again",...

"For the past few years, my father's life has been taken care of by your Aunt Cao." Looking back on the past seven years, Chen Xiliang sighed with emotion: "No matter what the ending of the Cao family is, I will definitely marry her!" ”

After listening to this, Chen Ke and others applauded warmly, celebrating the Chen family's birth of another love Christmas after Erlang.

"Tell you this", Chen Xiliang was embarrassed: "It's to make you less resistant to her." ”

The three Chen brothers shook their heads together: "Absolutely no resistance, as long as you like ,..."

"Stinky boy", Chen Xiliang felt a little sour on the tip of his nose, he was not angry with his stepmother for the sake of his four sons, he had not renewed the strings for more than ten years, and now even the youngest Liulang is already a big man of fifteen or sixteen. The children's understanding and support for him is the best reward.

After explaining the gossip, he remembered: "Why didn't you see Brother Lao Quan, didn't San Lang write a letter saying that you should arrive in Beijing together?" ”

"Cough"..."Chen Ke coughed and said, "Let's take a look at the residence first." ”

"It's fine." Chen Xiliang took them to visit their new home in the capital.

As the only metropolis in the world, the people of Bianjing have enjoyed the convenience brought by the metropolis more than 1,000 years in advance, and have also tasted the pain of big city diseases more than 1,000 years in advance. There are too many people in this place. At the beginning of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the design capacity of Bianzun City was 300,000 people, but now, with fixed and mobile, the population has reached 1.5 million, which is five times the design capacity, and its inch of land and gold can be imagined.

Buying a house in Bianjing, you don't even think about it, even if it is the ministers, they mainly rely on renting, of course, the ministers are not unable to afford it, but their positions change too frequently, and no one knows how many years they can be officials in Beijing and come back in a few years.

Naturally, rents are also high, and ordinary people and low-level officials cannot afford to rent private housing at all, but there is no phenomenon of sleeping on the streets. This is because there is a low-rent house in Bianliang, as long as you go to a yamen called "shop house, pay a rent" according to the size of the house, the rent is different, the average is 170 wen per month, only one-tenth of the price of commercial housing.

You can rent a small house, although the sparrow is small, it is complete.

Chen Xiliang had been renting a public house before, but this time the family moved to Bianjing and wanted to get married, so he was ruthless and asked the Cao family to help rent a larger residence. Cao's family also regards this place as their own home, and is naturally very attentive, so that people have been looking for a long time before they find this quadrangle with a back garden that extends in all directions, is quiet in the middle of the noisy, and enters the back garden twice.

Chen Xiliang said that the Cao family meant to let them all live in the back house, but how could Chen Ke and them be so ignorant? Stick to the front yard...... This residence naturally can't be compared with the former residence of Qingshen, but the number of rooms is not quite a bit at all. In the front yard, there are three main rooms, two ear rooms, three left and right wing rooms, and three inverted seats. More than enough to accommodate a few of them.

Although Chen Ke entered Beijing with tens of thousands of yuan, he had no blessings that he couldn't enjoy, and he didn't feel that he couldn't live in a compact place, what was wrong, and it was still lively.

After dinner, Chen Xiliang motioned to Chen Ke and walked with him to the backyard. After being silent for a while, Chen Xiliang said, "Uncle Su, are you angry with me?" ”

"Or else?" Chen Ke shrugged and said; "If I hadn't gone back to Sichuan, would you believe it or not, the second monument would have been erected again?"

"Alas"..."Chen Xiliang sighed and said: "Who would have expected it" ,... "

"The Liu family, is it Mrs. Cao's ex-husband's family?" Chen Ke asked.

"Well, that female doll is her ex-husband's eldest niece", Chen Xiliang sighed: "I always thought it was a good thing at the time, but who knew it would be like this." ”

"It's strange, since you're a family, why can't we discuss?" Chen Ke frowned.

Later, I learned that the character of the Liu family is quite "domineering." "Actually, it's really hard to say what Chen Xiliang is looking at in this matter. He smiled bitterly: "But the problem has been solved" It's also thanks to you that you can invite Ouyang Gong, they have to give face. ”

"That's good." Chen Ke breathed a sigh of relief and said: "If you say no, you will get ......"

"But, number one, you have to come and apologize." Chen Xiliang's voice became quieter and quieter: "Second, you have to let one of your brothers take over this family business." ”

"Damn, it's really domineering", Chen Ke rolled his eyes and said.

Know Yu Qiuyu and Jin Yong...... And some modern literati, why do they dream of returning to the Song Dynasty? Here's why. (To be continued)