The old lady Ximen rested in the house for a while, and only came out at dinner time, he was about sixty years old, he looked in good spirits, his hair was only gray, his waist was straight, and his blue cloth shirt made people feel that he was more and more elegant.

"Grandfather!" Simon was talking to his mother in the outer hall, and when he saw his grandfather come out, he looked deeply at the old man.

"Kai'er, you look pretty good." Simon smiled and waved his hand lightly, and sat down by himself. Look at the Ximen Zhi couple and Ximen Zai couple on the side, "It's rare for the family to get together and have a meal!" ”

Ximen Zhi and Ximen Zai got up together, Mrs. Ximen Zai asked someone to pass the meal, and Ximen Zhi helped the old man to sit down.

Ximen Zhi is also a very elegant middle-aged, about forty years old, also dressed in cyan cloth, with a Confucian scarf of the same color tied on his head, standing next to the old man, it is a real father and son.

And Mrs. Ximen Zhi is also very simple, and she seems to be older than Ximen Zhi. Dressed in a coarse silk gown, with only a silver hairpin on his head, he was very different from the jewels of Mrs. Ximen Zai. But she smiled indifferently and stretched out her hand to Ximen Kai, but her eyes were full of love.

Although Simon was dressed in civilian clothes, his blue fine silk gown and a transparent jasper inlaid with a soft hat of the same color on his head also showed his current identity.

"By the way, second brother, did you go to Qiao's house to be hired?" The old man picked up the chopsticks, as if he remembered something, and looked at Ximen again.

Simon looked at his father and eldest brother again, and hurriedly said, "Kai'er said that he was not busy with the matter of hiring!" ”

"Kai'er!" Simon looked straight at the eldest grandson, not angry, but probing.

"I'm sorry, grandfather, the Qiao family saw what their grandson meant, and directly rejected their grandson." Ximen Kai thought about it, but still raised his head and smiled and said frankly.

Before the old man and Ximen Zhi and his wife could react, Mrs. Kong of Ximen Zai slapped the chopsticks: "Why? ”

Mrs. Simon Zai's son is dead, and now she is particularly sensitive, and Simon Kai is rejected by a small official's family. What does that mean? Is the Simon family already so despised?

"Who refused? Qiao Dayong! Simon wiped his mouth, put down the white silk veil, and watched Simon open.

"Qiao Ye and Qiao Zhutou both refused." Ximen Kai was a little gloomy.

"What are their reasons?" Simon looked up and thought for a moment.

Qiao Ye didn't say the reason, only said that this incident never happened; And Qiao Zhutou felt that Qingqing was a little shy, and he didn't want Qingqing to marry far away. Simon smiled wryly.

"What does that mean?" Mrs. Simon frowned.

"That is, unless I don't leave Kaifeng for the rest of my life." Ximen Kai let out a long sigh, looked at the dishes on the table, there were six people, and there was a table full of people on the table, it was really a delicacies of the mountains and seas, no matter which dish it was, it seemed to be full of color, flavor, and flavor.

Ximen Kai sandwiched a scallion roasted sea cucumber in front of him, which he loved to eat, stuffed it into his mouth, nodded, and turned around to call someone, "Send this dish to Qiao's house." ”

Everyone looked at him together, but the people behind him still came, put them in the basket, and ran out as fast as they could.

"Qiao's family still doesn't know how to cook?" The old man looked at the dishes on the table and smiled lightly, "Does Qingqing know how to cook?" ”

"No, she spends most of her time reading books and doing research." Simon smiled lightly.

"Forget it! You are the eldest son and grandson, you are the third generation of the Ximen family, your daughter-in-law naturally has to be generous and decent, it doesn't matter if she can cook, but she has to be able to manage her finances. Ximen frowned again and gave his father a chopstick dish, "Dad, Kai'er has a lot of responsibility now, I really don't think the Qiao family is suitable." It just so happened that they also felt that it was inappropriate, so they told Qiao Ye that it would be better if it didn't happen. ”

"Kai'er, do you still want to hold on now?" Ximen lowered his head and took a bite of rice, choking slowly, and then looked at Ximen Kai.

"I don't know." Ximen Kai thought seriously for a moment before smiling bitterly.

"Why?" Ximen Zhi asked Mrs. Xie Shi softly.

"I didn't ask Qingqing what she meant, if she is interested in her son, then her son will kneel and beg Qiao Ye and Qiao Zhutou for their consent." Ximen Kai didn't say anything later, but the meaning was very clear, if Qingqing also refused, he decided to give up.

"Ah, you haven't even asked Miss Qiao what she means?" Ximen Zai's wife Kong jumped up, she thought that the two were happy, so she forced the family to propose, "Kai'er, do you know Miss Qiao?" ”

"Yes, we've met a few times because of Joe's head." Ximen Kaizi couldn't tell the second uncle and aunt that Qingqing was helping to solve the case. This matter, Lord Tie said in his letter to Ximen Zhi, this made Ximen Kai very unhappy, even now, he didn't want to say on the table, "She is a girl with excellent rules and is very smart." So I like her a lot, it's just that she doesn't know it yet. ”

"Second child, help me send a post to Master Qiao, and I'll invite him to dinner tomorrow." Simon nodded and looked at Simon again.

Simon frowned again: "Dad, Simon's family ......"

"The Simon family is not under your control now, but under my control." Ximen looked at Simon again coldly.

"Yes!" Simon held back his breath and bowed his head in response.

"Kai'er, is Miss Qiao beautiful?" Kong Shi looked back at Ximen Zai.

"I think when she's the prettiest, you can't see her face at all. In the eyes of the world, she should be beautiful. Simon thought for a moment and smiled softly.

"So it's still pretty!" Kong snorted, her feelings for Ximen Kai were very complicated. When she had a son, she was jealous of Simon Kai's eldest grandson. Later, she lost her son, and she became even more jealous of Ximen Kai, because Ximen Kai was still alive.

Just now she was angry with the Qiao family, it was because the Qiao family refused not Ximen Kai, but the Ximen family, which did not mean that she supported this matter.

Now, she is subconsciously telling the old man that this old man's proud eldest grandson is also a womanizer.

"Grandfather, you seem to have a good relationship with Master Qiao?" Ximen Kai turned to Ximen Zhi, he didn't care at all whether he was a drunkard in the second aunt's heart, he just knew that he wasn't.

"Well, when I was the governor of Kaifeng Mansion, Qiao Ye was a head catcher. He's a very capable headcatcher. Simon thought for a moment, then shook his head with a smile.

"Will Master Qiao investigate the case?" Ximen Kai was really taken aback.

"You are the same as your second uncle, you are still self-righteous by inertia, the Qiao family is deeply rooted in Kaifeng Mansion, there are some things that we can't do, it doesn't mean that the Qiao family can't do it. So the Qiao family also has its own limitations? is the reason why Qiao Dayong refused to let his daughter leave Kaifeng Mansion, because if he left Kaifeng Mansion, he would be powerless. He wants to protect his only baby daughter, if Qingqing is the same as her mother, Qiao Dayong will not agree to you marrying Qingqing. Simon shook his head and sighed softly.