Chapter 8: Trivia Before Marriage

I was bored at home, watching the embroidered bamboo fly up and down every day to sort out the embroidered bamboo and his fine softness, ready to move, so Wu Shigong asked the embroidered bamboo to sort out the books in his study. The day he woke up from his coma, he saw that the books in the study were also a little too messy. Hearing Wu Shigong's request, Xiuzhu was surprised: Didn't the young master never let her sort out the books in the study? It is said that after being sorted out, I don't know which page the book has turned to, and it is inconvenient to find it in the future. Listening to Xiuzhu's question, Wu Shigong was very disapproving, and thought in his heart: "Master, I am the most annoying of these serious books, whether I will read them again in the future, that is not necessarily." Seeing Wu Shigong's insistence, Xiuzhu also tidied up the study with his hands and feet, and asked Wu Shigong if he wanted to pack these books and transport them to the new house? Wu Shigong hesitated, feeling that it would not be good if his personality changed too much, so he acquiesced to Xiuzhu's idea.

During this period, at the request of Xiuzhu, Xiuzhu accompanied Wu Shigong to visit his personal servant and scholar, Shumo, to show his lord's grace. Seeing Wu Shigong's arrival, Shumo's mother hurriedly welcomed Wu Shigong into the house and accompanied him, saying a lot of good things. Wu Shigong ignored her, and in the house, he saw Shumo lying on the bed like a pig "humming".

Shumo doesn't look a few days older than Xiuzhu. The two cousins look alike. When Shumo saw Wu Shigong coming to visit him, he immediately opened his throat and cried. The one who cried sadly, a handful of snot and a handful of tears. If you just listen to the decibels of his crying, you may think that he has a deep understanding of his mistakes. Seeing such a big man, no! It was a big boy wiping his tears, and Wu Shigong was also soft-hearted, so he wanted to forgive Shumo, but he didn't expect that Shumo's next words would be wrong.

Shumo defended Wu Shigong: At that time, he didn't want to escape, but wanted to go home and find someone to help. By whom? Tricksters? When am I a fool? Wu Shigong was angry and didn't fight anywhere. It's obviously a cowardly escape, and it's understandable to say that such a big boy is cowardly. can look at this defense, Guozijian is in Beicheng, Wu Mansion is in Xicheng, the distance between the two places is not ten miles but eight miles, and when Shumo calls people, the daylilies will become cold. Besides, with your status and face in the Wu Mansion, can you call a ghost in the Wu Mansion? Dingtian can also be called an embroidered bamboo. Is it called to embroider bamboo dancing with an embroidery needle to a beautiful woman to save the hero?

Xiuzhu also felt that his cousin's justification was too ridiculous, and saw that Wu Shigong's face was a little bad, there was no way, and Shumo were always cousins, so he secretly pulled Wu Shigong's shirt and pleaded with him. Wu Shigong forcibly held back the anger in his heart, because Xiuzhu's face still had to be given. He waved his hand and resolutely interrupted Shumo's cry and made a decision: "The death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime cannot be escaped." A fine of twenty taels of silver was deducted from the monthly case and handed over to the embroidered bamboo. ”

On the way back, Wu Shigong proudly showed off to Xiuzhu: "How is it?" The benefits of borrowing my money from the young master are indispensable, in just a few days, fifteen taels of silver have become twenty taels, look, young master, I miss you the most. ”

Xiuzhu dared to be angry because of Shumo's performance just now, she thought complainingly: "Shumo is my cousin, in the end, this silver is still going around between my family." Why am I embarrassed to ask my cousin for money? The young master is so stingy. ”

Xiuzhu saw that Xue Qiang was waiting stupidly at the gate of Wu Mansion from morning to night every day, and he was careful that his intestines were soft, so he told Wu Shigong about it. Wu Shigong thought that it was enough to teach Xue Qiang a three-day lesson, after all, he had to give the Xue family a face. On the morning of the fourth day, he went out and told Xue Qiang that he would not be able to go out in the past few days, and asked Xue Qiang not to wait. But Xue Qiang was very tough and insisted on sticking to his post. Zuihou compromised, Xue Qiang went back every day after reporting to the gate of Wu's mansion. If Wu Shigong decided to go out temporarily, he would send someone to Xue Mansion to inform Xue Qiang. Anyway, Wu Mansion and Xue Mansion are both located in Guixun District, and the two families are not far apart.

Originally, this matter ended here, but when they broke up, Xue Qiang said more: "Actually, it's nothing for the villain to wait so much every day, anyway, it's only ten days of effort, and it's gone in a flash." Xue Qiang still wanted to stimulate Wu Shigong.

What does that mean? Wu Shigong was furious all of a sudden, feeling a little kind as a donkey's liver and lungs. But he immediately calmed down. Wu Shigong and Xue Qiang don't have much contact, they add up to two, but Xue Qiang used words twice or three times to stir up Wu Shigong's anger, Xue Qiang doesn't seem to be a brainless reckless man, he must have ulterior motives. Hum! You want me to chase him away! Although Xue Qiang is not yet at the level of an enemy, he obviously has malicious intentions towards himself. What the enemy wants me not to do, I'm going to do!

Wu Shigong's face changed suddenly, with a smile on his face, he put his arm around Xue Qiang's shoulder and said, "Xiaoqiang." "Listening to Wu Shigong's title, Xue Qiang's goosebumps rose." Xiaoqiang, after thinking about it, don't dampen your enthusiasm for work, you still wait outside the door every day. After speaking, without waiting for Xue Qiang to react, he spread his hand and entered the gate and walked away. Wu Shigong sneered in his heart as he walked: "Hmph! Jack bauer? Even if you are a strong pig, I will play you to death, master. ”

Xue Qiang really wanted to cry without tears, why didn't he understand that Wu Shigong had seen through his thoughts now? It's already self-defeating. He wanted to scold, which Wu family servant who gave birth to a son and no asshole told me that Wu Shigong is a nerd and doesn't know anything about the world? He also received two taels of silver from me. What a grievance!

From that day on, Wu Shigong rode a carriage to visit Beijing every day, and there was no destination, just asking the carriage not to stop. The coachman who drove the car sat in front of the car, and Xue Qiang, who was running next to the car, and the horse were half exhausted. Wu Shigong came to Beijing with a tourist mentality. At first, it was also interesting to look at the classical buildings on the side of the road and the vendors selling them, but after a long time, I was also a little aesthetically tired of the antique, and I felt that it was just like that. On the contrary, he felt that those roadside vendors were a little "dirty and messy", which made Wu Shigong miss Comrade Chengguan very much. I bought some snacks and gadgets every day to give to Xiuzhu, which made Xiuzhu very happy. By the way, the money to buy these things was all paid by Xue Qiang.

During this period, one day after dinner, a very rare person came to visit Wu Shigong's house. It was his seventh brother Wu Shili. Weishenme calls it rare? Because except for the last time when his eldest brother accompanied his father, no other siblings had ever come to his house, and at most he had sent a maid to call Wu Shigong over.

Wu Shili's purpose is very simple, he came to thank Wu Shigong and send Wu Shigong a wedding gift. As mentioned earlier, Wu Shigong's "selling himself" made Wu Shigong's father-in-law Xue Lian solve three positions for the Wu family. The other two positions were occupied by Wu Shigong's two famous elder brothers. one is made up to a county in Guizhou to be a magistrate; The other was made up to a county in Jiangnan as a county cheng. Zuihou's position was originally going to fall into the hands of Wu Shigong's famous brother, but that brother felt that he had hope of being admitted to the Jinshi, so he gave up. In this way, it fell into the hands of Wu Shili, because he was only a prisoner, so he could only be a scribe in the Criminal Department, but this position was quite oily. And Wu Shili was able to get this position, in addition to Wu Shili's mother, that is, Wu Weizhong's concubine, who was more favored by Wu Weizhong, the main reason was that Wu Shili was more good at being a person.

Wu Shili is indeed more good at being a person. Of course, Wu Shigong's other two brothers who won the position also went to thank and give gifts, but they went to Xue Lian's house. Knowing that Wu Shili was going to Wu Shigong, Wu Shili's mother and wife were opposed, but Wu Shili insisted on doing so. The gift was also very heavy, in addition to eighty taels of silver, a large number of other cloths, spices, etc., equivalent to nearly two hundred taels of silver.

In particular, Wu Shili's words are still very decent, and the feeling of sending charcoal in the snow is really good, and the brothers quickly talked happily. It was when they broke up that Wu Shili seemed to be very mysterious and gave Wu Shigong two booklets, which made Wu Shigong a little strange.

Waiting for Wu Shili to leave, Wu Shigong curiously opened the booklet to take a look, and at first glance, he realized that it was two ** volumes. In modern times, Wu Shigong has seen both the album and the A movie, and has done a lot of real swords and guns, and he said without boasting that he is a master in this area from theory to practice, and now when he sees such a primitive Dongdong, he suddenly loses interest. But when I flipped through it again, I found something interesting.

Ancient painters may not have learned to sketch the human body, so the human body they painted, whether it is the proportions of the various parts of the body or the movement of the joints, is very uncoordinated and exaggerated. Isn't this the Q version of the manga version? This made Wu Shigong interested, and he looked at the album with relish, especially when he saw the annotations next to the picture and made two smirks from time to time.

Xiuzhu was embroidering flowers on the side at this time, and when he saw that his young master was reading so attentively, he let out a few smirks from time to time, so he curiously leaned his little head over. immediately made a big red face and said, "The young master is too improper, reading this kind of obscene book, there will be needles in his eyes." ”

was accused by Xiuzhu, Wu Shigong suddenly became a little annoyed and angry. Putting down the book, he taught Xiuzhu with a straight face: "What do you little girl know?" This is a popular science education book. Do you understand science? Then he handed the book to Xiuzhu, "Put the book away." ”

Xiuzhu pouted and thought: "I really don't know what 'popular science' and 'science' are, but the young master himself is not serious and still wants to lie to my little girl, that is impossible." Although there was some slander, Xiuzhu still put away the book.

Wu Shigong's eldest brother Wu Shixun was also transferred to Taifu Temple as an official. Taifu Temple is the management of horses, and in the Ming Dynasty, horses were one of the most important means of transportation. This position is very oily, just think about the high income in the modern automotive industry. He also sent a wedding gift, worth five hundred taels. Other brothers and sisters also sent people to give gifts, and the amount of gift money varies according to gender, origin, and whether they are married or not, but basically around 100 taels. There is not much silver sent directly, and all of them add up to only more than eight hundred taels, and the rest are all items. Maybe it was to his liking, and the four treasures of the study room alone sent more than 20 sets. This made Wu Shigong a little blocked, especially looking at the more than 20 inkstones, Wu Shigong had the urge to smash people. How nice it would be to convert it all into cash for me!

A few days before the wedding, Wu Shigong and Xiuzhu's things were sent to the new house. Xiuzhu also accompanied him. When I came back, I was a little indignant. In front of Wu Shigong, he kept complaining about how arrogant the attitude of the four maids of the young grandmother was, especially the leader named Zhu Yun. After listening to it, I learned that the maids of the original fiancΓ©e insisted on decorating the new house according to their young lady's habits, but with the unremitting efforts of Xiuzhu, they also agreed to the arrangement of Xiuzhu in an insignificant small place. Wu Shigong understood the key point in Xiuzhu's words, it turned out that she wanted to show off her skills, add glory to the Wu Mansion, and add color to her young master. So, Wu Shigong kept praising the embroidered bamboo, which made the embroidered bamboo's swollen and excited little face happy for a long time.

After a few days of rain, Wu Shigong still got into the carriage in the morning to go shopping, and really did it rain or shine. It doesn't matter that Xue Qiang has a bitter face, running in the mud with an oilcloth umbrella. One day, Wu Shigong said to Xue Qiang leisurely in the car: "Xiaoqiang, you are quite good, you have to work so hard after I get married!" Hearing this, Xue Qiang felt that he was about to completely collapse.

On the night of the first day of June, I saw Xiuzhu excitedly not sleeping, and was still busy patrolling the house to see if there were any items that had slipped through the net to be cleaned up. Wu Shigong couldn't help but be a little funny, it seemed that this maid's attitude towards this marriage was more energetic than herself. couldn't help but tease Xiuzhu again: "Xiuzhu, you come to the young master's bed, I heard that the young master of a big family, the day before the wedding, the girl in the room is going to sleep." ”

I was looking forward to seeing Xiuzhu's shy appearance again, of course, if Xiuzhu was obedient, it would be very good, but I didn't expect Xiuzhu to answer very seriously: "The slave maid is the young master's person, but the young master is about to get married, and the slave and maid can't go to the young master's bed without the permission of the young grandmother." ”

Unexpectedly, he was not married yet, and his wife's prestige had been established in the heart of his maid. Wu Shigong was a little regretful, and Xiuzhu's next words were wrong: "If the slave maid accompanies the room today, and they are known by Zhuyun, they don't have to make them laugh at the slave and maid who don't understand the rules, saying that our Wu family is not educated." ”

I see. Wu Shigong couldn't help but cry and laugh. I have done such a skinless and faceless thing, but I didn't expect that a blazing fire of honor ignited in my maid's heart. It seems that when I went to Xue's Mansion that time, the maids around my wife gave Xiuzhu a deep stimulation, so that Xiuzhu will never forget it until now. Now Wu Shigong is looking forward to watching the "Double Bamboo Competition" between the maids of both sides after marriage!

Sleep with your eyes closed. Recharge your batteries for tomorrow and take on the biggest moment of your life!