In the blink of an eye, it was the middle of the moon, and every family inside and outside the capital was busy preparing for the New Year, Li Tian was dressed as an ordinary scholar, wearing a cloak of dark pattern and silk cotton, wearing a hat of the same color, standing on the second floor of Li Qijia's main store not far from Zhengmen, looking at the heavy snow and the bustling West Street downstairs.

It is ten days away from the small year, such a heavy snow can not stop the enthusiasm of the people of the capital to do the New Year, the West Street along the street is still full of large and small sundries stalls, selling what door gods, Zhong Kui, peach boards, peach charms, and what to turn back the deer and horses, the financial door blunt donkey, Tianxing posts and other auspicious things necessary for the New Year, carrying a full of fresh leeks, lettuce, mint leaves in the suburbs of the peasants with thick snow on their clothes, in the crowded crowd is still flying fast, to the familiar wine shop people delivery, The shops on both sides of the street have hung the lanterns under the porch early, and the long colorful tassels under the lanterns are flying in the wind, stirring up the goose feathers and heavy snow, adding countless joys, and from time to time there is a huge snow lion squatting in front of the shop, blocking the road, forcing the dense flow of people to flow like water meets stones in the middle, and then flow back.

"It's coming!" Yinhua lifted the curtain briskly and came in, and Li Tian hurriedly looked in the direction of Zhengmen.

A convoy slowly came in from under the tall city gate, the flow of people was too dense, and the convoy of cars stopped and stopped, moving very slowly.

In front of the convoy, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old, slender, slightly thin young man walked beside the front car, the young man's eyebrows were clean and sparse, his eyes were like paint, wearing a azure gray Hangzhou silk cloak, no hat on his head, with a green hosta hairpin to tie the bun, the snowflakes swirled and fell on his head, and then into his neck, but he did not see him have a trace of shrinking, the flying snow and the noisy crowd could not suppress the peace and tranquility revealed by him, he was like a warm jade on the gravel pile, It's so pleasing to the eye.

This is the Lang Jun that Mrs. Lin ordered for Li Tian, the Leng family, Leng Ming is relieved.

Li Tian breathed a sigh of relief gently, and Yue Niang flicked the window lattice with her fingers and exclaimed: "What a handsome young man!" As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Li Tian and continued: "Don't worry, this Leng family Xiaolangjun is a humble gentleman at first glance, he can't suppress you, you will definitely be able to eat him to death." ”

Li Tian didn't bother to pay attention to her, Yingluo pursed her lips and smiled, raised her hand and nodded downstairs, "The old lady of the Cao family is here." ”

Leng Mingsong's side, Cao Si's old lady and the old lady of the Cao family were covered with thick soot, holding a basket of miscellaneous charcoal in their arms, shouting and staggering forward, passing by Leng Mingsong's side, suddenly their bodies were crooked, and even the charcoal basket in their arms smashed on Leng Mingsong's body.

Li Tian and the others held their breath, watching Leng Mingsong's reaction intently, Leng Mingsong hugged the old lady of the Cao family who almost fell, stood firm with her, her face was full of concern, and said something, the old lady of the Cao family roared with an anxious and annoyed face, and danced with charcoal dancing hands that scattered all over the place, Leng Mingsong nodded again and again, let go of her, picked up the charcoal basket, and a small guy behind ran over, and Leng Mingsong picked up the charcoal back into the basket, the old lady of the Cao family didn't take the charcoal basket, she just pulled Leng Mingsong and didn't know what to say, while saying, While rubbing his hands full of cigarette ash on Leng Mingsong's body, Leng Mingsong did not have a trace of disgust and impatience on his face, and listened to the old lady of the Cao family with a gentle and clear smile and a focused expression.

The old lady of the Cao family was upside down for a long time, and then she took the charcoal basket and walked a few steps into the small alley next to her.

Yinhua couldn't help but laugh and said: "The old lady of the Cao family is really good at pretending to be a ghost, seeing that she rubbed other people's clothes and got dirty to death, Uncle Leng is really good-tempered." ”

Li Tian pursed his lips and smiled without speaking, turned around and went downstairs, got in the car and went back.

Yue Niang lifted the curtain and sat in the car, looked at Li Tian and said seriously: "This little Langjun's tutor has nothing to say about his temper, but he is a little less sharp, and in the future, he will be a good official and commander of hundreds of officials, but I am afraid that I will not be able to point it." ”

"I didn't mean that he commanded any hundred officials at all, if he really looked extraordinary and not like a thing in the pool, I don't want to get married," Li Tian smiled lightly: "Haven't you heard of that sentence, the penitent husband is looking for a marquis, it's all bright on the outside, I don't know how to suffer inside, I don't want this, it's best, it's the best thing is that I have been doing it when I was young, if I can ask for a beautiful scenery, it would be better, I will go with him to the post, anyway, what we have is silver, if you don't seek to be motivated and not lack silver, he is easy to do as an official, I and him two people eat, drink and play, and the United States, how comfortable how to live, a term of five years to change a place to continue to have fun, do a four or five terms, forty years old, begging bones back, in the suburbs of Beijing to build a garden, he drank a little wine, chanted a few sour poems, I planted flowers and plants, leisurely see a Nanshan or something, so good! It would be even more perfect if he raised an outstanding son, a young man, and a leader in all officials. ”

Yue Niang laughed out loud, laughed for a while, and then patted Li Tian on the shoulder and said: "What a big ambition, I also yearn for the day you said, well, I will accompany you, and I will listen to sour poems and enjoy flowers and plants in this life." ”

The Leng family's convoy finally squeezed through the crowded street, and arrived at the house that the Leng Ding brother helped purchase, and the Ding family's mother-in-law and the Leng family's subordinates who were waiting at the gate of the courtyard were busy moving this and that. Leng Ding didn't care about this, and he didn't even get out of the car, so he hurried over to see his mother, Mrs. Zhou.

Mrs. Zhou hadn't seen her daughter for more than ten years, she hugged her head and cried endlessly, Leng Ding said urgently: "Auntie, don't cry, I'm fine, your son-in-law is transferred back to the capital, we will be together in the future, this is a happy thing, I still have important things." ”

"Yes, yes," Mrs. Zhou hurriedly wiped away her tears and said: "It's not important, Princess Jiang Jun just sent someone to ask if you have come back, just wait for you to come back and draft the post and make a decision, let me tell you, the fifth sister of the Li family gave birth to one in a hundred, one in a thousand in temperament, and ......."

"Auntie!" Leng Ding's fingers pressed his temples, and he interrupted Mrs. Zhou's words irritably: "I asked you to pay attention to a few family affairs for Brother Song, not to tell you clearly, you must choose a maiden family to help, then the fifth lady of the Li family, what ribs does she have?" Look at what you've done!" Leng Ding's breath was held all the way, and as soon as he opened his mouth, his tone was not good, Mrs. Zhou's face was a little unbearable by her daughter's count, and she said angrily: "But that's it, don't talk about grass posts, even if you haven't met yet, if you don't want to, you won't, I'll worry about it in vain!"

"You have all responded to the family, and the palace of Nanning County is still locked up in the middle of this matter!" When Leng Ding heard his mother's rather irresponsible words, he was really angry: "Didn't I tell you in my letter, let you pay attention first, and wait for me to come back and see each other, why did you agree to others?" If you say yes, isn't it a yes? Didn't let people poke their backbones!"

"If you want to poke me, you can't get in the way!" Mrs. Zhou was also annoyed, although Leng Ding's family said that she had a headache of anger, seeing that her mother was annoyed, she had to reluctantly explain to her mother: "Auntie, think about it, the seventh master of the Jiang family in the Marquis of Linchuan Mansion and Brother Song's father are the Jinshi in the same list, Brother Song'er and his father are the top of the list, and Jiang Qiye is the last seat to accompany him, but now you see, Jiang Qiye has achieved it from the second grade, and Song'er's father has worked hard to get to the fifth grade, and it is not because Jiang Qiye is supported!" In terms of academic ability, how far worse is he than Song'er and his father?!

Brother Song is sensible and willing to read, and he won the lift last fall, how old is he? It is said that he can learn to win the first class in that article, Ah Niang, when I think of Brother Song, he will be like his father in the future, and he will suffer all his life, this heart is the same as that of a cat, if this child is not promising, I will admit it, but Brother Song is so good!"

"That's right!" Mrs. Zhou nodded again and again, as if she felt empathy for her daughter's pain, Leng Ding wiped her tears and sighed: "I want to come and go, that is, the road of climbing the door and being close, this is the way for you to find a family in the capital and have a foundation to help, you ......"

"It's nothing, Ming'er, I'll go to the palace of Nanning County, just say that you don't know about this, I ordered it, and now you don't look ...... it's suitable" Mrs. Zhou was busy comforting her daughter, Leng Ding thought about it and said: "It's better for me to go, it's not appropriate for me not to go to this matter, so I have to pull down my face and accompany him." ”

"That's fine!" Mrs. Zhou hurriedly agreed, this is not a matter of giving up the old face to accompany her, it is better not to go: "It's okay to retreat, let me tell you, I originally looked at the child, not to mention, the most rare thing is her dowry!" When her aunt got married, you didn't see it when you weren't in the capital, the dowry was not a box, it was all a box, and the four of them were sweating! When her grandmother took her back, the dowry was all taken back, so much dowry, the capital couldn't find a second home, I just responded, who knows, her grandmother said no, it was gone, she and her grandmother's residence went again, I heard that she was empty-handed back to the Yongguo Mansion, and the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion took the title and sent it back to the countryside...... If you retreat, you will retreat, and I have been thinking about this for the past few days, and I am also sullen in my heart. ”

"I don't want other people's dowry, Mrs. Lin's temper is more to protect the short, this sister grows up with her, what do you have to get used to?!"

"Don't say it, this Sister Tian is really sensible, chaste, gentle and generous, she doesn't look like her grandmother, like her father, where to stand there, it's like the lotus flower that is half of the dew in the morning, and her temper is good, the little girl in the palace of Nanning County, pampered like that, she can get along well, if you want to say that this girl's family, all over the capital, I will see her best!"

Leng Ding's annoyance was thinking about how to push this family again and not offend the palace of Nanning County, and he didn't listen to Mrs. Zhou much, her aunt's temper is the best when it comes to anyone.