Lee's house, backyard.

"Woo, master, you can't retreat, you really can't just retreat. Even if we don't think about ourselves, we have to think about it. If this matter spreads, what face does Hui'er have to talk about in Taixue? Mrs. Wang's face was full of tears, and she covered her face with wide sleeves, and her voice was choked and full of grief and indignation.

Li Gefei's brows furrowed into Sichuan characters, and his face was full of impatience. He shook his sleeves angrily and said angrily: "Ridiculous, you don't want to think about it, can we refuse this matter?" Lord Zhao came to the door in person, and he didn't even say hello beforehand, can't you see what this means? ”

When Li Gefei said this, he couldn't help but feel a little more resentful.

The other party wants to save the face of the Zhao family, and he can understand it. But the other party wanted to step on the face of the Li family and save the face of his Zhao family, which made Li Gefei feel cold. The two can be regarded as having a friendship for more than ten years, but now the other party has used such a means for the sake of their own face!

Mrs. Wang just cried and cried, and didn't pay attention to what Li Gefei said.

"What's the use of crying, crying again. Shang'er is estimated to come to propose marriage in the next two days, which can be regarded as solving Qingzhao's marriage, which makes me less worried. As for Er'er, if she can't resist even this setback, don't expect anything to happen in the future. Li Gefei was already upset, and he became more and more unhappy when he saw Mrs. Wang's crying appearance.

He flicked his sleeves and hummed, "Okay, don't cry anymore and make people upset." Er'er will return from Taixue tomorrow, so don't let him worry. ”

"Annoying, are you alone in your troubles. Shang'er is only from a merchant family, how can he be compared with Mingcheng. In the future, if Yi'er enters the officialdom, you, why are you so useless. Mrs. Wang stared at her red and swollen eyes, looked at Li Gefei angrily, and choked up and scolded.

Li Gefei took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and said coldly: "Then what do you want me to do and kneel and beg him to take back the name of the Zhao family?" ”

Madame Wang looked hesitant, obviously having this idea in her heart.

In her opinion, the Zhang family is just a small businessman, where can it be comparable to the Zhao family.

Not to mention that Zhao Tingzhi is a member of the third rank of the dynasty, the sons of the Zhao family are not ordinary, and the eldest son is already an official of the fifth grade. If the Li family can tie the knot with the Zhao family, it will be of great benefit to both Li Gefei and Li Yi's official career.

It's just that Mrs. Wang knows Li Gefei's character better, and speaking directly will only make things more and more out of control.

Li Gefei and Mrs. Wang have been married for more than ten years, and when I saw her expression, I didn't know what she was thinking. He snorted angrily and shook his sleeves and left, but he didn't even leave a polite word between husband and wife.

Seeing Li Gefei leaving in anger, Mrs. Wang couldn't help but cry again from her heart: "Why am I so miserable? ”

Living room.

With a reluctant smile on his face, Li Gefei returned the name card of the two families exchanging birthdays, and said in a slightly stiff voice: "This is the birthday of your son, please take it away from Lord Zhao." ”

Zhao Tingzhi nodded with satisfaction, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart.

Now that Li Gefei is not convinced, the matter can be regarded as an end. In the future, even if there are any rumors outside, it will have nothing to do with the Zhao family. Anyway, the Zhao family's face was barely saved.

"It's a pity that love and dogs haven't been separated. The official still has important things to do, so he won't bother too much and say goodbye? After this incident, the relationship between Zhao and Li was lost, and Zhao Tingzhi didn't want to continue to be polite with Li Gefei, so he said goodbye directly.

Li Gefei symbolically held back, although he was angry with Zhao Tingzhi in his heart, he did not lose his mind. With a reluctant smile on his face, he hurriedly got up to see him off.

It's just that the two of them just walked to the door of the hall, and the outside of the courtyard suddenly became noisy.

Before the two of them could react, they saw more than a dozen young men dressed in pale cyan costumes, carrying several large and small mahogany boxes. On those boxes were wrapped in red cloth, pasted with the word "happy".

As the servants walked into the house, a short and fat old man with a stiff body and white hair slowly walked in, but it was Chu Nangong. He walked slowly to the courtyard on crutches, a pair of small eyes narrowed into slits, his chubby face was full of smiles, and he smiled: "Old decrepit Chu Gong, come to ask for my son-in-law." ”

The name Chu Nangong is a pseudonym given by Chu Nangong after he came to Kaifeng, after all, the title of Chu Nangong is not a small person in history. He is only here to investigate the situation in the world, but he doesn't want to cause unnecessary trouble.

Chu Gong?

Li Gefei vaguely felt that the name was somewhat familiar, but before he could think about it, he was attracted by Chu Nangong's words.

Ask for a kiss!

Li Gefei was stunned for a moment and didn't react, until he saw Tian Yan who appeared next to Chu Gong, and he came to his senses.

Is it Shang'er?

Li Gefei, who had just been humiliated by someone who had just come to the door, and was still quite depressed, couldn't help but feel better after thinking about it. Although Shang'er has never done anything about accepting lottery, asking for names, or Najib, he directly asked people to bring a dowry to the door to ask for marriage, which is really a bit uncourteous.

If it is according to the normal process, after the three things of Nacai, asking for names, and Najib. When the dowry is decided by both parties, it is mainly the parents of both parties who come forward, and the matchmaker mediates the media. Or the man will open the draft post first and discuss with the woman; Or the female family will first make a dowry request and give it to the male family for consideration.

And Zhang Shang directly asked people to come with a dowry like this, which can be said to be a great courtesy.

However, for Zhang Shang in just over a day, he had already prepared a dowry for people to come to the door to ask for marriage, and Li Gefei was still quite satisfied with his sincerity.

Especially in the gap when the Li family was just humiliated, it can be said that it saved some face for the Li family.

Li Gefei was still worried about how to explain this matter to Li Qingzhao before, but now he saw Zhang Shang sending someone to ask for marriage, he was quite relieved, and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, Duke Chu will wait for a while, and then talk about the marriage between the little girl and the noble son in detail when Li sends Shangguan." ”

Zhao Tingzhi looked at the situation in front of him and never showed anything unusual.

He naturally didn't believe that he had just come to withdraw the oral marriage contract with the other party on the front foot, and someone on the back foot came to the Li family to propose marriage. In this regard, Zhao Tingzhi believes that it is a play that Li Gefei is looking for someone to play. In this regard, he was quite appreciative, and even sighed that Li Gefei's brain was easy to use, and in such a short period of time, he had already thought of such a good show to save the face of the Li family.

It's just that Zhao Tingzhi has such a heart, but Zhao Mingcheng doesn't have such a good bearing and city government.

He originally had a good impression of Li Qingzhao, but he had to give up because of Zhao Tingzhi's strength. But even so, it still can't dispel his snooping on the beauty.

Now Zhao Mingcheng thought that the peerless beauty who should have become his wife might soon marry another woman, and he couldn't help but feel as if someone had been wearing a green hat, and he was extremely angry.

He glanced at the dowry brought by Chu Nangong, and sneered: "Even if it is an ordinary small family, it will not be as shabby as only six dowry gifts. What's more, there was not even a courtesy when I was hired, I don't think your son has a Qingzhao girl in his heart at all, right? ”

His voice fell, and the atmosphere in the courtyard suddenly became awkward.

Li Gefei glanced at Chu Nangong rather embarrassed, and then glanced at Zhao Mingcheng, whose eyes were full of disdain, and his face was full of irrepressible anger.

Vertical, deceive people too much!