Wang Xi didn't hide it from Chang Ke, and said: "My mother hopes that Mrs. Tai can preside over my ceremony, so it is more decent to say it." So I'm going to stay in Jilu and see how it goes. But now it seems that instead of relying on Mrs. Tai or Mrs. Hou to find me a family affair, it is better to rely on my grandmother or my uncle and grandmother. They are all women who preside over the feeding of the household. ”

There are hundreds of people in the family, but there has never been someone like Mrs. Tai or Mrs. Hou, who dares to refute what she says.

Chang Ke was silent for a long time.

She didn't realize it before, but after being with Wang Xi, she gradually found that whether it was her grandmother or aunt who used to respect her head, she was very procrastinating and weak in doing things.

Wang Xi couldn't help but sigh when he looked at it, and asked Chang Ke: "Can your mother be the master of your marriage?" If she can call the shots, I think you might as well see one for yourself, and then let your mother propose. ”

The third wife can let her daughter be tortured like this, which shows that she is not an idea.

Chang Kexing's eyes were round.

I didn't expect Wang Xi to be so bold!

She said nervously, "Don't mess around. The order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker are serious. You are so reckless, be careful of self-defeating, but you will ruin your reputation. ”

Wang Xi rolled his eyes at Chang Ke and said, "Who let you teach it privately." Wouldn't you find an opportunity to go out with Mrs. Tai and Mrs. Hou a few more times, and then inquire about the conduct of the sons of each province, see each other's appearance, and then persuade your mother to try to propose marriage one by one? ”

Chang Ke smiled embarrassedly and said, "I've been led astray by you - I think you dare to lie on the wall and look at Chen Luo, thinking that you can even do such a thing as catching a son-in-law under the list!" ”

It's okay that she didn't mention Chen Luo, but when she mentioned Chen Luo and Wang Xi, she felt chest pain.

didn't kidnap her to be a guard, not to mention, he found her peeping, inserted a big knife to threaten her, pity her spent so much energy in the past few days to wait for his news, and went to climb the wall to watch him dance the sword, but she didn't get any benefit, and she may have exposed her identity, and was sued by Chen Luo in front of the elders in the family, not to mention all the face, and those times to see him were wasted.

She'd never done anything so loss-making.

Wang Xi hung his head in frustration, and Chang Ke and Chang Ke leaned on the car window to look at the hustle and bustle of the street with their own hearts.

At noon, they stopped in the woods beside a post road, and they had a hasty lunch, and then continued on their way.

Although tomorrow is the Buddha Bathing Festival, the festive atmosphere can be seen everywhere.

From time to time, they would meet pilgrims who were going to the temple to attend the puja, and the further they went, the more people came.

Wang Xi guessed that they all went to Yunju Temple.

In the evening, they arrived at Yunju Temple.

Wang Xi had been bumped by the carriage and horse like a blanched cabbage, wilted, supported by Mama Wang, until she lay on the bed in the guest room, she felt that the turbidity in her chest had dissipated a little, and when she turned around, she smelled a pungent agarwood that made her feel a little pungent.

Bai Guo hurriedly lit a purlin-scented incense burner, and Wang Xi felt a lot better.

Mama Shi came over and wanted to invite Wang Xi to go to the Buddhist hall in front of her to eat vegetarian food, and said: "Mrs. and Mrs. Hou of Xiangyang Hou's Mansion, several wives, grandmothers, and young ladies are also there. Mrs. Tai said, let you go and recognize your face. ”

Face recognition is a basic skill that everyone in the Wang family must have.

If the man in the family wants to do business, if he can't recognize who the other party is at the first time, how can he make people feel at home, and how can he coax the money in other people's pockets into his own pocket? A woman has to manage the inner house, and she can't even recognize people clearly, how can she deal with the people in the family? How to deal with the contradictions between the houses in the clan? How to become a man's master?

But Wang Xi is too tired, who does she want to socialize?

"You just say I'm not feeling well!" Wang Xi said politely, but implicitly admonished, "I thought that I would be able to arrive at the time of the unitary today, and I could rest in the guest room for half an hour and then go to greet the lady of the Xiangyang Hou Mansion." But I can't climb up now, and if I go, I will only lose face in front of the people of the Xiangyang Hou Mansion, so it's better not to go. ”

Isn't it because I didn't make proper arrangements for my trip in advance?

Mama Shi didn't dare to say anything, and replied with a red face.

Chang Ke was very envious.

Mrs. Hou dared to arrange for her and Wang Xi to sit in a carriage, but she didn't dare to make an inch, so she and Wang Xi lived in a guest room.

What a pity!

She sat there, her left ear went in and out of her right ear, listening to Chang Ning and the ladies of the Xiangyang Hou Mansion arguing with each other, not only did she not have the nervousness of the past, but she also felt that Chang Ning was quite interesting, every time she met the ladies of the Xiangyang Hou Mansion, she was like a hedgehog, and she wanted to say that she couldn't win.

Chang Ning felt that Chang Yan and Chang Ke didn't help her, and when she returned to the house, she shouted: "If Shi Zhu was here, it would definitely not be like this." ”

Chang Ke was still as low-key and silent as before in front of the two cousins, but Chang Yan frowned and persuaded Chang Ning: "Second sister, everyone is older, and it is not appropriate to do this again." If the second sister doesn't like the ladies of the Xiangyang Hou Mansion, just don't have anything to do with them. Why do you have to get the needle on the wheat every time! ”

Chang Ning was very unhappy, and provoked Wang Xi's thorn again: "She didn't show up today, but my grandmother also said that she was beautiful, bold and generous, open-minded, and good words piled up on her like worthless, I see that the second wife of the Xiangyang Hou Mansion has been listening with her ears pricked up!" Wang Xi may have been deliberately absent, just to attract the attention of the Marquis of Xiangyang. ”

Chang Yan's face changed greatly, and her smile after that looked very reluctant.

Chang Ke couldn't help but run to Wang Xi before going to bed, wanting to sleep with Wang Xi.

Wang Xi has grown up so old that he has never slept with anyone else except for his grandmother and mother, so he is naturally not allowed.

Chang Ke said: "I want to whisper to you." ”

Wang Xi asked people to move a chaise longue and put it next to his bed, and ordered Ai Xiang, and said, "What's the matter, do you say?" ”

When he went out this time, Chang Ke could be regarded as seeing Wang Xi's exquisiteness.

At noon, they ate all the dry food prepared yesterday, Wang Xike poured it, and hot water was always simmering on the small red clay stove, and they ate the side dishes made by the cook in her room early this morning.

She sat in a carriage with Wang Xi, not only rubbing a hot meal, but also rubbing a cup of hot tea.

Chang Ke didn't bother with her, and happily talked to her about dinner: "...... The third sister must have taken a fancy to the fourth son of the Xiangyang Hou Mansion, although he is not as famous as the Chen brothers, but he is also a beautiful man with dignified appearance, elegant temperament, and looks very comfortable. And his sister is the wife of the prince of the Qingyun Marquis Mansion, who, like Chen Luo, entered Tengxiangwei at the age of sixteen. But she didn't want to think about it, the second wife of the Xiangyang Hou Mansion has always been above the top, and their family has always looked down on our family, how could they marry our family? ”

Wang Xi was surprised.

She also thought that Chang Yan was as immobile as water, and was ready to let the elders in the family decide her family affairs.

Wang Xi suddenly became interested and said, "Is the fourth prince of the Xiangyang Marquis Mansion here?" Is he really handsome? But marriage events sometimes depend on fate. If you don't give it a try, it's definitely not fateful. If you don't succeed in trying, you can completely give up. I don't think there's anything wrong with your third sister doing this, it depends on what method she uses to fight for herself. ”

Chang Ke laughed and talked about the attention of the second wife of the Xiangyang Hou Mansion to her.

Wang Xi waved her hand disapprovingly and said, "She won't be interested in me, and even if she is interested in me, she probably won't put me among the candidates for her daughter-in-law." ”

This also made her vigilant, and she felt that it was necessary to talk to Mrs. Tai and Mrs. Hou as soon as possible.

Emphasizing too much on the wealth of her family in marriage, in case of provoking those who are not exquisite, who feel that they are meritorious or the official family wants to covet her dowry, and it will be troublesome to accept her as a concubine.

If Mrs. Tai and Mrs. Hou were strong people, she definitely didn't have to worry.

I'm afraid even her mother didn't expect that Mrs. Tai would be so weak, right?

She asked the cook to make Cantonese breakfast such as bean paste buns, dried steamed salted egg yolk siu mai, radish cake, etc., and went to Mrs. Tai early the next morning and had a good talk with Mrs. Tai.

Mrs. Tai realized that there was something wrong with her speech, but she couldn't admit it in front of Wang Xi, so she went through the matter with all her might, but she never mentioned anything similar after that, which is a later story.

After breakfast, Wang Xi met Mrs. Hou of Xiangyang.

This Mrs. is different from her grandmother, Mrs. Hou of Xiangyang is not tall, fair-skinned, thin, dressed very plainly, but her eyes are shining, although she smiles kindly, but people dare not underestimate her.

The female dependents of their family looked very respectful in front of Mrs. Tai, and it could be seen that this respect was not pretended, but felt that she should be respected from the heart.

The ladies of the Xiangyang Hou Mansion are also quite plain in their clothes, but their expressions are quiet and calm, and they move in and out of their ways, and they look much more disciplined than the Yongcheng Hou Mansion.

No wonder the people in their mansion look down on the Yongcheng Marquis Mansion.

Wang Xi glanced at the second wife in their house twice.

She was of medium stature, round and chubby, looked very kind, stood behind Mrs. Hou of Xiangyang, and did not speak much. If it weren't for the fact that she knew in advance, no one would have been able to tell that her eldest daughter was Mrs. Shizi, and her eldest son, Wu Ju, was now in charge of Tongzhou Wei, one of the emperor's personal guards.

It seems to be higher than Chen Luo's official position.

They spent a day worshipping the Buddha in Yunju Temple.

But it was several young ladies from the Xiangyang Hou Mansion who hugged each other, Chang Ning and Chang Yan together, Wang Xi and Chang Ke together, and Miss Pan followed Mrs. Hou from beginning to end, although the wives and ladies of the Xiangyang Hou Mansion did not talk to the people of the Yongcheng Hou Mansion much, but Wang Xi still remembered their appearances.

In the afternoon, when everyone was resting in the Buddha hall, Master Jingxian, who had thick eyebrows and big eyes, led a few small novices to greet the two ladies, and also brought the amulet that was said to have been opened by him to the young ladies of the two mansions.

As he spoke, Wang Xi noticed that Chang Yan was tiptoeing and glancing outside the Buddhist hall.

She felt that there must be a son from the Xiangyang Hou Mansion who followed.

I don't know if Princess Baoqing had the opportunity to meet these beautiful men mentioned by Chang Ke on her birthday.

Wang Xi thought boredly, and asked Mama Wang to donate two hundred taels of silver to the temple.

In addition to the amulet, she also got a string of Buddhist beads of wenge wood eighteen sons that had been opened.

Every year, Wang Xi doesn't know how many such things he gets.

She doesn't like the monks' things in the temple very much, and it would be easier to accept them if it was an anthem.

She gave the bead to Wang Xi and asked him to dispose of it casually.

At dawn the next day, they made a bumpy journey back to the Yongcheng Marquis' Mansion.