In Tangzhuang, Wabaozhai in Xianyang, the old lady of the Tang family was listening with great interest to the old lady Guo, the head of the Guo family, who was known as the first imperial merchant in Zhongzhou, talking about his admiration for the upbringing of the children of the Tang family. Although the Tang family's business has a lot of dealings with the Guo family in Luoyang and Gyeonggi Province, they are all handled by the shopkeepers below, and there is no correspondence between the masters of the two families.

"I'm not afraid of the old lady's jokes, most of the children in my Guo clan have been raised now, although they don't run rampant in the countryside or do anything illegal, but they also have nothing to do all day long, only know how to eat, drink and have fun." Old Lady Guo's face blushed a little when she said this, "Since the early years, the old man has been teaching and urging the children of the clan to study hard and make progress. In order to protect themselves, some silently leave the family to find another way to make a living, and some seek to be in front of old decay. Although the clan asked and made these children better, after all, the atmosphere in the clan was sloppy, and they couldn't even hire a good master for clan learning. ”

is so ugly, in front of outsiders who meet for the first time, Mrs. Guo naturally has to feel uncomfortable. After many years in the mall, of course, he knew that the lower his posture was, the easier it would be to be accepted by the other party. Not only did he want to make friends with the Tang family, but as he said, the Guo family has rotted from the inside, and the various interests within the Guo family are intertwined, and the position of the head of the family has been deteriorating since his father. Although after Guo's father returned to the West, he tried his best to keep the position of the head of the family and did not let those villains succeed, but many bad habits have accumulated and it is difficult to return, so that he has no way to start as a head of the family. In the past few years, although he has straightened out some aspects and established some prestige among the clan, he has not yet had the ability to uproot some of the forces left by those people on his own. He thought about it for so long, and he put down all his self-esteem and came to the Tang Gate, just to borrow the Tang Gate, which is the stone of his mountain.

"It stands to reason that this is the Guo family's ugly, and it shouldn't be brought to the table, let alone disturb the noble old lady." Tang Wen's wife, Tang Lan's mother, is a first-class edict from the imperial court, and she is naturally noble. "But the old man is also desperate, one thinks that we are neighbors in Luoyang, and the other is that when he was walking in Jiangnan to run business, he and his wife's brother, the third master of the Chen Mansion is quite a deed, and he can be regarded as a close friend, so he dares to come to the door to disturb now, and I hope that Mrs. will tolerate the old decay in front of his brother."

"Old man Guo said with a smile, not to mention that you are a friend of the third brother, even if it is just our neighbor in Luoyang, then you should move around more, only blame me for taking care of housework over the years, rarely go out, when the first husband was in charge of pacifying the border city for the imperial court, few are at home, children and grandchildren are also busy with military affairs, and those who take care of business at home are only a few stupid, slow to do things, put down the spoon every day to make a stove, and have no time to look up to greet people, but also my wife did not think thoughtfully, let them visit you when they go to Luoyang."

"The old lady is polite, it's true that I came to visit you, where do you dare to work for the sons of the house." Old Man Guo said very sincerely, and put away the hypocrisy of businessmen's entertainment: "If the sons of the Tang family are stupid, there will be no smart people in the world." They are so young, and they have taken care of their business so well in the past few years, which is the envy of the little old man. Not only is he capable, but his character is even more outstanding, who doesn't know that the sons of the Tang family can be upright. I'm not afraid of your jokes when I say it, if I am dozens of years younger, if I am a woman, I will beg my parents to marry me into the Tang family no matter what. ”

"Guo Lao, Guo Da's shopkeeper, aren't you scolding me? My few grandchildren who are not angry, and there are still a few singles. It's all old women, I'm not good, I'm too indulgent with them, and I must pick the woman I like according to their wishes. This has not all dragged on the age of saying that they are married, and the daughter of a good family has already been decided. If the old man really has a good girl, for the sake of my third brother, don't hide it. ”

Although Chen Biyan has never seen Mrs. Guo, Baihuatang and Baicaotang are not vegetarians, and they are close to their own large courtyard of exquisite medicinal herbs, and it can even be said that the Guo family surrounds their own refined medicine Zhuangzi, as the head of the family, how can she not understand him clearly, not to mention that he is the first imperial merchant of the Celestial Empire. She naturally knew what Mrs. Guo cared about, and she wanted to choose a good mother-in-law, It was the girl who came with him today, Mrs. Guo's granddaughter Guo Yuhan. This kid looks very aura, but he doesn't know what his temper is. Whether it is suitable or not, or which grandchild it is rationed to, she needs to observe for a while.

It's just that this Guo family is very strange, usually most of the rich businessmen will add some daughters to the official eunuchs' families, or be optimistic about those literati students, sponsor them before they become officials, marry their daughters to them, and when these people become famous, they can also help businessmen in the officialdom and make their business bigger. Of course, there are also those who gamble on the wrong treasure and lose their lives. And the Guo family never provoked these scholars and literati, most of them married their daughters to small families or medium-sized families, and then helped their son-in-law's family to make their livelihood bigger, so that their daughters could stand straight in their in-laws' families. Even if the father and mother and brother of the family are not angry, they also uphold the belief of the family, although there is no glory and wealth, but the daughter who wants to marry can live a happy life.

From this point of view, Chen Biyan admires them very much. In this heavenly court, when you look up, the daughters of such noble families are almost all used as tools and weights to marry for the interests of the family. People who can love their daughters in the family like this, no matter how good those fathers and brothers are, at least the good side of human nature still exists.

Now that the Guo family has brought their unmarried granddaughter to the Tang family, which has many children and grandchildren, does it really want to ask for a marriage? How to look at the quirkiness here, there are a lot. The lintel of the Tang family is obviously more than one and a half points higher than the Guo family of the merchants, except for the second and fourth children who married wives and had children, more than half of the others are floating, but most of these are not in the army, that is, they have recently won the official position given by the emperor because of their meritorious service in the autumn hunt. According to the principle that the Guo family does not marry officials and does not marry high-ranking families, they cannot be selected among these. On the surface, it seems that it is possible to be the new jie who is now accompanying him to meet guests here. She was in doubt, only to hear the old lady of the Guo family say again: "I have already told the old lady that the sons of the Lower Admiration Mansion are well educated. This daughter got married, and when she arrived at her in-law's house, she was also a husband and a child. It's a pity that my Guo clan looks prosperous on the surface, but in recent years, it has been too lacking in the education of children, whether it is a man or a woman. In terms of his heart, Lao Yu really envies the family of a woman who can marry into the Tang Sect. But it's clear how many pounds of nails there are in my rotten ship, I'm afraid that my granddaughters will not marry the two families, but because of clumsiness and trouble, it will become a feud. The old man thought about it again and again, and now he licked his face and came over, I wanted to ask the old lady for one thing, that I could allow my grandchildren and granddaughters to study at the Tang Sect's home school for a few years. ”

This requirement is not a big deal, and many of the Tang family's students are not children of the Tang family. But it is also very difficult, because most of these disciples are villagers of Wabao Village or orphans of the Tang family in the army, neither of which ordinary people want to come. If a precedent is set, not to mention far away, it is these ten miles and eight townships, and people who admire the Tang family around Xianyang City are likely to send their children here, and when the time comes, it will be difficult to accept whoever will not accept them, how can it be said that the Tang family can't offend all the local villagers here. Chen Biyan just groaned slightly, and the old lady Guo, who had become a fine man, had already answered: "The old man naturally understands the old lady's dilemma, but for the sake of his children and grandchildren, he has to ask for a thick face, so that these two children can be named under the name of the Chen Family Academy in Jiangnan, and they will be taught in the Tang family, and Jiangnan is too far away for us, These two children are still young, and I want to watch my children and grandchildren around when I am old." They can go home for two days a month in Xianyang, but it will be difficult if they go to Jiangnan. ”

Jiangnan Chenjia Academy is not only famous, but also very picky about the selected disciples. With the friendship between Mrs. Guo and Chen Sanye, it is not difficult to recommend children to school. And the disciples selected by Mrs. Guo from the many Guo family disciples must also be the best in the family.

"Since Guo Lao has already said this, the Tang family's family is naturally waiting for the two. To be honest, these two children look smart and clever, even if they don't look at the face of the third brother, as long as Guo Lao is willing, I want them to give it a try. But there are some things that still have to be told first, I want to come to Guo Lao already knows that the Tang family's family study is not only studying, but also practicing martial arts and medicine, which is harder than the general academy, and martial arts all depend on whether the personal physique is consistent with my Tang family's martial arts path, whether they are really suitable, whether they like it, only they can know. And whether or not you can enter the temple in the end also depends on one's heart and fate. But I can guarantee that our masters and masters will never underestimate them just because they are disciples who have sent their names. ”

"What the old lady said was that if they were not qualified enough to learn, it was their fate, and they would never have doubts. But the old man is looking forward to it, if they can meet the requirements of the academy, I really hope that they can come out and have half of the Tang family. Not to mention the direct descendants of the Tang family, that is, the friends who have friends with the Tang family, they are all first-class and capable people, not to mention anything else, it is to rent our Jiahezhuang guests in Luoyang, this year's market, can buy so much wheat in our hands in a chic manner, how much capital does this cost. This master has only been in the rank for a few years, and he has made such a big business, not only for food, but also for his own fun and crafting, the pig iron charcoal he bought is enough to spread a layer on our wheat slope. ”

Lao Jianghu, Chen Biyan and Xinjie knew that the real purpose of Old Man Guo's coming here was to be a first-class capable person. This old lady Guo can really be described as smart-minded, and she began to make friends with the Tang family with admiration, but she also further expressed her sincerity as a friend. Although this Jiahe Village has been rented to others, it is also the Tang family's place. In case there is any problem, outsiders will naturally suspect that there is something wrong with the Tang family, and renting it to others is just a cover. If the Tang family is involved, the people involved in it will be wide, from the former dynasty to the harem, from Jiangbei to Jiangnan, from the court to the rivers and lakes.

The lights in the outer study were not extinguished for several nights. Since sending off Old Man Guo, Xinjie Xinyuan took over the affairs of Luoyang with Lian'er under Chen Biyan's order. Many passers-by in Tangjia, Kansai-do, Gannam-do, Gyeonggi-do, and Gyeonggi-do entered the high-level alert.