With the help of Park's mother and Chunxiang, Zhao Liusi combed through the entire family under the pretext of helping Yan Ran solve the case, and he secretly recognized all the people.

The Zhao family is not a wealthy family, Zhao Qi was originally a splasher, his parents died early, and he had no brothers to help him, so he went around as a gangster to make a living as an adult. But he is clever, handsome, and has the favor of the girl, and the woman's popularity is very good, so his life is not very difficult.

Zhao Liusi's mother Liu is the daughter of the old master of the yamen, and the Liu family has been a scribe in the yamen for several generations. When the Liu family was in harmony with Lu back then, the person who said that she was close to almost broke through the threshold, but no one expected that she would finally fall in love with Zhao Qi. Master Liu was not very satisfied with Zhao Qi, but Zhao Qi was clever, down-to-earth, and had no relatives and friends, so he accompanied his wife to live in Liu's house after marriage.

"So don't always talk about grandpa's favor to my father, if he doesn't have the ability, he won't be able to rise." Zhao Liusi briefly wrote Zhao Qi's resume, and patiently persuaded Pu's mother not to put on a benefactor anymore.

"There are many capable people, but how many have the opportunity to become the main bookkeeper? The location of the sixth room is left by each family to their nephews in the next life, it doesn't matter, even if you have the ability to turn the sky upside down, you can only be a soldier. While drinking tea, Park told Zhao Liusi about the past. Her craftsmanship is not good, and the paper is crooked, but in the end she was "invited" by Zhao Liusi to drink tea and replaced Xiaoman to help.

"Just say it yourself, don't shout outside." Zhao Liusi frowned, and finally couldn't help but mention Park's, "No man likes others to say that he relies on nepotism to get to the top, if you shout like this again, be careful that my father doesn't like me." ”

"There's the eldest lady here, where is our turn." Park didn't care, she was a slave in the Liu family since she was a child, and she grew up in the yamen with the Liu family when she was a child, so compared with the mother in the general backyard, she has some knowledge, at least when it comes to the affairs of the government, she is not afraid, and it is a spittle. "If it weren't for the master to help my aunt sit in the position of the main book, he wouldn't have been able to see the prefect. He can't even see the prefect, no matter how capable he is, no matter how talented the prefect is, it is impossible for him to marry his daughter to a white body. ”

Faced with Park's mother's rebuttal, Zhao Liusi was speechless.

In fact, Mother Park is not wrong, Zhao Qi's good relationship with women is a bit excessive. As a gangster, he can get the favor of the baby daughter of the local snake, magically change from an official to an official, and eat official food, which is already a luck that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve. But who knew that his wife had been dead for a long time, and after being a widower for many years, he met an appreciative Shangguan again, and it didn't count marrying his eldest daughter like a flower to him, but also helped him get promoted again, completing the general class jump from a clerk to an official.

Zhao Liusi just heard from Pu's mother that she was the manager of the sixth room, although the ordinary people would call them a master, although they were really not officials in the court, they could only be officials. The gap between the officials and the officials is like heaven and earth. ”

Therefore, although the Liu family is kind to Zhao Qi, the eldest lady's family also has a lot of support for Zhao Qi, so the eldest lady is also extremely important in this family.

"However, how could a lady with such a background marry her father?" Zhao Liusi added a note of "Ping'an Bo" after the identity of the eldest lady, and asked Pu's mother with some puzzlement.

She originally felt that the eldest lady was not simple, but just now after listening to Mother Park, she learned that her maiden family was still from the Earl's Mansion in Beijing, and her grandfather was named "Uncle An Yuan" by the saint. However, the old uncle passed away the year before last, and the title was inherited by her uncle, and the Zhao family also went to give a gift.

Speaking of gossip, Park's mother raised her eyebrows and lowered her voice and told her, "That's just nice to say, she's not a serious lady." ”

"Not a serious lady?" Zhao Liusi frowned, feeling that this concept was very vague.

"Her mother was a courtesan sent by the county magistrate when he was an official in Yangzhou," Pu's mother said in a low voice, "Because she looks good and can make men happy, she was kept by the county magistrate and taken to serve in office." Although everyone in the yamen calls her face Mrs., she has not even entered the genealogy of the Zheng family, not even a serious aunt, and she is not more noble than a decent maid in the Zheng family. ”

"But she is Lord Zheng's blood and bones, and the marriage will not be practiced." Zhao Liusi felt that it was still incomprehensible, even if it was a concubine, but the concubine of the Earl's Mansion was not an old widower from a gangster who could match.

"You don't know this, her mother is fighting with the lady in the house. Originally, when she returned to Beijing with the county magistrate for the first time, the eldest lady noticed that she was not a fuel-efficient lamp, and wanted to detain this little goblin in the house and send her personal maid out to occupy her place. But her mother's means are powerful, and she coaxed the county order to bring her to her side, and the sky is high and the emperor is far away, which makes the eldest lady grit her teeth angrily. Mother Park said with a smile, "Later, the eldest lady made a lot of efforts to prevent her daughter from entering the family tree, and said that she would pick a good one in marriage." ”

"Their mother and daughter should be very favored by the county magistrate, and they won't be so compromised in marriage." Zhao Liusi frowned and said analytically.

"Ouch, my young lady, you are still a child, where do you understand the mind of a man. No matter how good you are to him, no matter how happy you are to make him, it is just fun. Just like a kitten or a puppy, you still expect him to stand out for you. Mother Park was rarely wise, shook her head and shared her gossip, "At that time, the two of them were in the mansion, and I happened to know Sister-in-law Niu in the pulp washing room, so I heard a lot of gossip. Her mother also begged the county magistrate, but what is the good son-in-law that the county magistrate likes? It's not a talent to be tested, or a talent who has fallen behind. ”

"Well, that's not bad." Zhao Liu thought about it and felt that there was nothing wrong.

"You don't know how expensive firewood and rice are when you don't have a family, what is her background, and what is her mother's background? They have been going around with the county order, being complimented by serious ladies and misses, living a life of fine clothes and food, and never worrying about money. Now you let her marry a poor scholar to take care of the housework, and she is willing to marry? Mother Park smiled and gloated, "If she were Miss Zhen, she would have a dowry of thousands of taels of silver, and she would have married a poor scholar, but she didn't." ”

As she spoke, Mother Park stretched out two fingers and compared the words, "When Mrs. enters the door, the dowry is two hundred taels, which is not even one-tenth of your mother's." This is enough to eat for a lifetime in a poor family, but according to her life, it will only be two or three years. ”

"My mother has so much money!" Zhao Liusi was extremely surprised, firstly, he didn't expect the eldest lady's dowry to be so small, and secondly, he didn't expect his mother's dowry to be so small.

"The Liu family is a big family in Lingtai County, and the old man's family has made four or five generations of master books, and the changes of dynasties have not been moved, do you say it is powerful?" Park was a little proud, "Besides, although we can't farm land here, we have a lot of business." The caravan from the capital went north through the desert, and then to the west, there were Hu people with high noses and blue eyes, they were rich, and they heard that a pound of silk could be exchanged for a pound of gold. ”

Well, this is the Silk Road. As soon as Zhao Liusi heard what Mother Park said, she understood.

Although Biansai is bitter, the big family of Biansai is not poor. From east to west, there is the Silk Road, where treasures and spices abound. From the outside in, there are more horses and lambs, in this environment, Liu Zhushu, as the head of the snake, even if he only receives filial piety, he can earn a lot of money.

Liu is the only daughter of Master Liu, and she married when Master Liu was alive, so this dowry is naturally amazing.

In this way, I also understand why Zhao Qi can marry the Liu family alone, on the one hand, it is one thing for the Liu family to like him, on the other hand, Zhao Qi has been in the market since he was a child, and he is a ruthless character, and only such a person can keep the family fortune after his death.

As for marrying Zheng, it is logical. For the county order, talented people are worthy of using a daughter to envelop, but a place is even more worthy of being encircled.

"I thought the officials would be rich." Zhao Liu thought for a long time before he said silently, "Didn't people say that in three years, the Qing Governor's Mansion will be 100,000 snowflakes and silver." ”

"It's not that easy to make money." Pu's mother looked like an old man, "The officials in this place are like the clouds in the sky, they come every once in a while, and they come every once in a while, and they don't even take root, and if they want to make money, they have to ask other local colleagues if they agree." Besides, he just got the money, and he still has to find a way to use it? Although they belong to the Earl's Palace, the county magistrate is not the chief, and the family has no money to give him flowers, otherwise they wouldn't have come to us, right? ”

The bitter cold on the side, and the fierce folk customs, is not a good place to serve.

"That's right. You say he was demoted? ”

"yes. I heard from the people who served my wife that my wife grew up in the south when she was a child, and her father's previous official son was quite old, but later he committed something and accompanied all the money for many years, so he barely kept his official position, and came to us to take office with grievances. The scope of gossip that Park's mother heard was really breathtaking, "The dowry money that Mrs. entered the door was all the silver that her mother had saved, and the Zheng family didn't have a single one." ”

"Not really." Zhao Liusi asked in surprise, "Her father didn't give a cent?" ”

"Not only did she not give a penny, but it is said that she plans to marry an old man who is willing to pay." Park's mother gloated and said, "So it will be their mother and daughter, begging the master to marry." ”