Chapter Ninety-Five: Chatting
Liu Yunyun didn't know that Zhou Minhao's mother, Concubine Shu, once intended to let Lu Fangfei marry her son, not only in the past, but now, she also had this thought, but Zhou Minhao himself disagreed. But Lu Fangfei herself has heard a little about this matter, and her mother even complained hysterically at that time, her daughter looks so captivating to the country and the city, and her talent and virtue are the best among the noble daughters of all families, how can she be wronged and marry a prince who is destined not to be the prince in the future? ! His daughter, whatever she says, is also a well-deserved candidate for the imperial concubine!
"Your Royal Highness instructed me, saying that if I must visit you, are you willing to marry His Highness and be his concubine?" Liu Yunyun put her arms on the kang table, supported her cheeks with both hands, looked at Lu Fangfei who was sitting opposite her and asked.
Lu Fangfei lowered her head and thought about it, and replied with little confidence: "If you ask me if I want to, to be honest, I don't want to, but this matter is not something I can do!" Since ancient times, the marriage of children has been the words of the matchmaker at the behest of their parents, which is the rule and the filial piety that children should fulfill. ”
Liu Yunyun stared at Lu Fangfei with her eyes, until she finished speaking, her heart seemed to have overturned the five-flavor bottle, and the sweet, sour, bitter and bitter came up together.
Marrying someone is a woman's second reincarnation, the fourth major turning point in life, how can she be so blind...... Although the Great Zhou Dynasty on this unknown planet does not have the cruelty of blind marriage and dumb marriage in ancient China, but it is also very repressive for women, Liu Yunyun even thinks, this is not only the suppression of women, but also for men, whether adult or underage, they have to obey the orders and arrangements of their parents, no wonder many big families, big families, children in order to compete for those inheritances, to fight to the death, this is caused by the system, but also from a young age to listen to their parents with the habit of using their parents, I have lost part of my ability to strive for self-realization and self-realization!
"Actually...... Sister Lu, if you say, alas...... I don't know what I'm going to say anymore. Wouldn't it be better if we thought about it together and could think of a way to get a marriage that didn't violate the opinions of our parents and could also get something that we were satisfied with? Don't give up too soon! Liu Yunyun suddenly had an idea in her head, but is it inappropriate to talk about marriage with an unmarried woman? Alas! I learned this rule, but I really failed, I was too much of a failure!
Liu Yunyun turned the teacup on the kang table, considered the wording, and said tentatively: "Sister Lu, you ...... Don't think too much, I don't learn the rules very well, if you say something inappropriate, don't be angry with me...... Do you have a good candidate for Langjun in your heart? ”
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The third prince Zhou Minrui took his henchman Xiao Shanzi and walked leisurely along the female wall of the five forbidden schools in the west to the third palace where the second prince was located.
"Get up, second brother in the small study?" Zhou Minrui looked at Xiao Cuizi with a faint smile and asked.
Xiao Cuizi thanked him, straightened up, and replied: "The Second Highness has been waiting for the Third Highness for a long time, and he is in the water pavilion behind him at this time, instructing the servants to wait for you here and welcome you." ”
"Water Pavilion? When did the second brother build a water pavilion again? Hehe, okay, you can lead the way. Zhou Minrui originally wanted to remind him, but after thinking about it, the second brother is much more cautious than himself on weekdays, so he didn't say anything, but it seemed that he was doing too much.
In the newly built water pavilion in the back garden of Zhou Minhao's bedroom, the fire dragon baked the warm and pleasant pavilion, the pavilion window was wide open, Zhou Minhao frowned, lying lazily on the rocking chair, holding a cup of warm milk tea, this is still what Liu Yunyun taught the cook Zhang's sister-in-law in the other courtyard, Zhou Minhao looked down at the silky and fragrant milk tea like satin, sighed softly, and didn't know if she was sure that she could let the three ladies of the Lu family take refuge in her own camp, after all, disobeying her parents, in the current view, it is a big felony of unfilial piety! Thinking of the excitement in her eyes when she put forward her ideas to herself, Zhou Minhao slowly drank milk tea without taking a sip of the cup, and looked out the window at the bare scenery that only winter has.
"Second brother......" Zhou Minrui walked in with steps, Xiao Cuizi instructed the guards guarding the door to be vigilant, and he quickly walked to the small warm pavilion by the water pavilion and picked up the silver kettle warm on the red clay stove, poured a cup of milk tea and brought it into the water pavilion.
Zhou Minhao still looked out the window, stretched out his hand, and casually pointed to another rocking chair next to him, "Sit down first." ”
Xiao Cuizi put the milk tea on the mahogany round table between the two rocking chairs, pulled Xiao Shanzi, who had already shed his cloak to serve Zhou Minrui, and retreated all the way to the warm pavilion to guard, leaving the space to the two brothers.
"Yo, what is this? Smelly of tea? ......" Zhou Minrui sat on the rocking chair, picked up the teacup, looked at it, took it under his nose and sniffed it, and looked up at Zhou Minhao, "Second brother, when did you drink such a weird thing?" What is it? ”
Zhou Minhao turned his face to look at him, and said casually: "This is milk tea, the method taught to Sister-in-law Zhang by the concubine of the Liu family is quite fragrant, you can taste it." ”
"I didn't expect her to study these, looking at the little one, I didn't expect there to be a lot of things, she's in your courtyard now? You let her take care of the accounts? ”
"Hmm." Zhou Minhao shook his rocking chair and tilted his head to look at Zhou Minrui, "Don't look at her as a child, the things in her head don't look like a child, the mine incident was her idea, can't you think of it?" As the granddaughter of a scholar of Liu, Liu Shilang is also a well-behaved literati, and he actually educated her such a rude daughter...... However, thanks to her idea, otherwise...... I don't know what those people are going to do about it. ”
"Speaking of the mine, have you found out?"
"Not yet, the evidence is insufficient, I have already locked up those suspicious people, it's just that part of this evidence has been cleaned up by them, and it's not easy to investigate."
"Taishi Cao has recently begun to prepare a dowry for Miss Cao's family, at this time, about Miss Cao's dowry, it can be regarded as the hottest topic to discuss in the entire Jinjing City, the day before yesterday, I heard that Ning Mo wanted to toss something, but she was suppressed by Concubine Min, and now she will not let her leave the palace at a step."
"Today, you accompany me to Changfu, I have already passed the gas with Master Chang......" Zhou Minhao hesitated, "Miss Lu Jiasan is also in Changfu." ”
"Didn't she enter the palace to accompany Concubine Min?" Zhou Minrui's eyes widened, and he understood the meaning of the second prince's words in a moment, "Are you planning to ...... Can you be sure? After all, she is the concubine of the Lu Mansion! ”
"Nope!" Zhou Minhao's words made Zhou Minrui choked, and he didn't know what to say for a while.
"But you can fight! The eldest brother loves the third lady of the Lu family, this matter is known all over Jinjingcheng, if she wants to marry the eldest brother, she will not be too bad in the future, with the eldest brother's love for her, she will never watch her be wronged. ”
"Do you want her to marry?" Zhou Minrui straightened up, looked at Zhou Minhao and said, "If she really marries, she will never help us again." ”
"Yes, I know! She got married, not so that she could deliver news to us, but so that the Cao family could have an attitude! Zhou Minhao squinted his eyes, looked out the window, and continued in a tone full of ridicule: "The back house is restless, but it is the most troublesome thing, this matter, the eldest brother can bear it, I don't have that ability!" ”
"Second brother, you still don't want to be served?" Zhou Minrui's face was slightly red, and he said cautiously, "You don't really have any thoughts about the second lady of the Liu family, right?" ”
Zhou Minhao wrinkled his brows, a trace of irritability and depression floated in his heart, as if he didn't want to talk about it, "It has nothing to do with her, I don't have the energy now, and I don't want to be distracted, besides, who knows that the Si Yu sent over is not someone else's eyeliner, and this pillow person is the most unguardable." How? Do you have an accountant? ”
"Not really." Zhou Minrui waved his hand again and again, and explained with a smile: "They are very peaceful, I have never let them into my study, nor have I invited them to sleep, or second brother, you are right, this pillow person is the most unguardable, and now is not the time." ”
"Second Highness, Third Highness, the servant asked, when will you leave? Prepare the minions. Xiao Cuizi bowed into the Water Pavilion and asked respectfully.
"You'll leave at the right moment." Zhou Minhao instructed, "Go and wrap the Ru kiln azure unstriped oval daffodil basin I put in the study, and be careful." ”
Xiao Cuizi was ordered to bow down and exit the Water Pavilion to pack up his things and arrange casual guards and other matters.
"For Chang Daren?" Zhou Minrui finished the last drop of milk tea, put down the cup and asked.
"Chang likes this kiln, I also came across it occasionally, thinking that he likes to collect, so I kept a set."
"Lord Chang is all right here, right?"
"It's been done a long time ago, a few days ago, he told me about their granddaughter's marriage, and wanted me to get an idea."
"He wants to marry his granddaughter to you?"
"No, what Master Chang said to me was very solemn, he didn't want her granddaughter to marry the royal family, he was interested in two families, one was Fang Renhe, the sister-in-law of the Guozi Prison Fang Sacrificial Wine, and the other was Sun Zhiping, the grandson of Sun Shilang of the Criminal Department."
Zhou Minhao smiled self-deprecatingly, "The people think that it is a blessing to marry us, but they don't know that parents who really love their children are most reluctant to marry their beloved daughter to us!" ”