"This is really Lord Xia's promotion of the lower official." Master Zhang's mind was very clear, and in the face of Xia Huaiqing's slander, he didn't believe a word, "The eldest lady of your mansion is really too tall, and it is really inappropriate to marry into a lower official's family." ”

Mr. Zhang's words have a little bit of irony in both the open and the dark.

Xia Zhiqiu no longer has any figure to speak of, and the only thing that can be remembered clearly is the heinous mistake she made before.

Xia Huaiqing's face also became wrong, he didn't understand the sarcasm in his words, but he smiled and passed.

"Where is Lord Zhang? I know that Zhiqiu's reputation has been tarnished by some traitors, and it always doesn't sound good. But this is only temporary, she has the support of my Xiahou Mansion behind her, and this traitor will not be able to get away for long no matter how arrogant he is. ”

"Besides, this is a special period, if Zhiqiu marries in the past, I don't ask for a wife's position, and the concubine is naturally enough. After that, when her reputation is good, it is not too late to be promoted to a wife. At that time, there will inevitably be some people who regret it and hate that they don't have the same good vision as Lord Zhang. ”

Xia Huaiqing didn't blush at all when he told lies, he was still very organized sentence by sentence, no matter where it looked, this was a sure-fire business.

If it is changed to other fast-talking, one carelessly moves the talk, and this family business is naturally given.

But Lord Zhang's tone is notoriously tight, he looked at Xia Huaiqing with a smile, and there was impatience brewing in his eyes: "I understand Lord Xia's kindness, but the eldest lady of your mansion really doesn't know the good match of my second son, but I look at the third lady of your mansion is a good one." ”

Master Zhang knew that he couldn't refuse in a short time, so he simply began to change the direction of the topic and led the words to Xia Zhixue.

Now in the entire capital, no one knows how famous Xia Zhixue is.

However, this reputation is all good names compared to Xia Zhiqiu, and she is a celebrity among those miscellaneous people.

Which family can marry such a girl is the luck of which family, who makes it rare for this kind of person to not only take care of the inside, but also deal with the major affairs outside.

It is not surprising that there are a cadre of people who come and ask for marriage.

Xia Huaiqing squinted his eyes and looked at Master Zhang, secretly mocking his lack of human hearts to swallow elephants.

Now Xia Zhixue is a celebrity in front of the emperor, and the reward for this trip is many times richer than that of ordinary officials, and the value is naturally self-evident.

And although the conditions in Lord Zhang's family are not bad, they are really not good for Xia Zhixue.

Besides, now that Xia Zhixue's relationship with herself is already lukewarm, no matter how much she speaks, there will be no room for recovery in this stiff relationship.

Xia Huaiqing's brows furrowed a little furrowed fiercely, and now it has become a top priority to have a good relationship with Xia Zhixue.

"Lord Zhang's mind is really a little too fast, Zhixue has now won such a big reward, naturally she doesn't have the leisure time to get married. And a girl's family has been busy working outside for a long time, and she doesn't know how to take care of the family, so how can a family be so big without a good wife and mother who is in charge? ”

Xia Huaiqing's three or two sentences pushed Xia Zhixue away, one was that she would not be able to take care of the family, and the other was that she had no time to take care of her family, which sounded like a big dissipation.

Master Zhang knew how much truth there was, and he naturally saw that the possibility of letting Xia Zhixue marry into his family was zero. 520

It turned out that the emotions that could still be a little high fell directly to the bottom of his heart, and he and Xia Huaiqing went back to their respective homes without saying a few more words.

Xia Zhiqiu didn't know how to find his mother-in-law's house, and after hearing the news, a group of school-age young people in the capital didn't care about the truth at all, and they avoided everyone who could dodge.

The people who really come to the door to ask for marriage are some crooked goods, either too old or have some disabilities somewhere in the body, or have no status and no source of income, which clearly wants to be a high branch like Xiahou Mansion.

I don't know how many people like this have come, every time Xia Huaiqing orders the guards to throw this group of people outside, how far can they be lost, this kind of person they Xiahou Mansion does not have the ability to raise.

Xia Huaiqing already had some urge to give up in his heart.

He thought that the goal he had set in his heart was easy to achieve.

Although Xia Zhiqiu is now an outcast, her appearance and status are not bad.

According to common sense, even if there is such a big scandal, princes such as Ouyang Huaiyu naturally died early, and other high-ranking officials also don't need to think about it, according to the conditions in their families, those who can look at Xia Zhiqiu are all bad luck after three lifetimes, and they have no eyes.

In this way, his eyes were focused on mid-level officials or some well-known businessmen.

Middle-class officials were always the least noticeable, the most ambitious at court. The name of Xiahou Mansion is enough to make them yearn for it.

And there is no need to say much about famous businessmen. Although the financial and material resources of the merchants are huge, they have no power in the imperial court, and no matter what they do, they will be restricted everywhere.

It is naturally unrealistic for them to go to the imperial examination one by one, and these four books and five classics should not be memorized for them, and they are unfamiliar even to look at.

In this way, finding a daughter-in-law with official power is unspeakably important to them.

Xia Huaiqing's abacus is very exquisite.

After the troublemakers left a few days ago, they finally saw a few serious people, some of whom were seven-rank petty officials in the imperial court, some of whom were businessmen from the south of the Yangtze River, and some of whom had been in the army all year round.

The use value of these people is naturally different, but in Xia Huaiqing's eyes, these are all fragrant buns, as long as they get one at random, it will be very beneficial to the future development of the Hou Mansion.

After a few days of slow selection, Xia Huaiqing finally found Xia Zhiqiu a husband who could barely be regarded as a good husband.

A sallow and thin face, and a handful of people on his body are covered with skin and bones. A pair of eyes the size of copper bells were embedded in the sockets, deeply sunken, and it was a little scary to look at the break.

This person's name is Zhang Liang, and his family has been in business for generations.

It's just that there is a second boy in his generation, who was stuffed with some money by his family and went to the officialdom to barely mix up a petty official, with a little profit.

The reason why Xia Huaiqing fell in love with him was because of so many of them, the Shangjia family had rich financial and material resources, and it was more than enough to subsidize Xiahou Mansion's family.

And this Zhang Liang looked sloppy, but the dowry given also made Xia Huaiqing look sharp.