learned that Zeng Yu was going to Shangqing Dazhen's Mansion to ask Zhang Guangwei for marriage, the most lively was Niuniu, Niuniu liked the little fairy girl very much, the little fairy girl was both beautiful and amiable, even Ah Tong, who was careful and loved to cry, also said that the little fairy girl was good; Although Zeng Yu's mother and sister were also very happy, they were still a little worried, after all, the family background was too different, and their small family could cope with it if they married Zhang Tianshi's family in Longhu Mountain?

But these are just a little troubles in the happy and festive, Zeng Yu's mother and sister began to prepare for Zeng Yu to go to Longhu Mountain for a blind date, the man asked the matchmaker to go to the woman's house to propose a little bit of a gift, the woman agreed, before the ceremony, but now it is the Dazhen Mansion to send someone to Zeng Yu to propose, the words of the matchmaker are just a show, after the blind date, it must be Nacai, the wine and livestock used in Nacai, according to the customs of Guangxin Mansion, the upper household is about three taels of silver, the middle household is only one tael, and the lower household is only one or two, Although Zeng Yu's family does not have half an acre of land, but the swollen face has to be filled with households, Steward Zhang also said that it will be done according to the customs of Guangxin Mansion, Longhushan Zhang's family knows the details of Zeng Yu's family, and does not put forward other extravagant requirements, but Zeng Yu's mother still wants the bride price to be richer, and she can't let her son show a shabby appearance-

Zeng Ruolan suggested that her husband Zhu Dedong accompany Zeng Yu to Shangqing to propose marriage, these days Zhu Dedong in addition to taking care of the sugarcane field and sugar workshop, rarely with the former fox friends and dog friends, Zeng Ruolan mother and daughter also cared a lot about the three of them, which made Zeng Ruolan very satisfied, thinking that the prodigal son would not change the money and treat it as a treasure-

But Zeng Yu still doesn't have much of a good impression of this brother-in-law, saying that the house also needs to be taken care of, and the brother-in-law doesn't have to accompany him to Shangqing, he went to Yingtan to ask his cousin Zheng Shi to accompany him, Zheng Shi is a native of Guixi, and he also knows Zhouzhi County, so it will be much more convenient to do things and socialize, and his great-mother Zhou also thinks that Zheng Shi is more suitable than Zhu Dedong.

On the tenth day of the first month, Zeng Qian took a daughter and his brother-in-law Xie Mantang to Shangrao to pay New Year's greetings to Zeng Yu's mother, Zeng Qian regarded Zeng Yu's mother as a stepmother, Zeng Yu lured thieves to make meritorious contributions has spread throughout the counties of Guangxin Prefecture, as Zeng Yu's brother, Zeng Qian felt very bright, Yongfeng County official Xie Mantang is even more to come to knot, and now Zeng Yu is.

Knowing that Zeng Yu was about to go to Longhu Mountain Dazhenfu to propose, Xie Mantang was stunned, thinking that Zeng Yu's grandfather was buried in a good hole, and the Zeng family's feng shui was about to be great, and he was able to marry the princely Longhu Mountain Zhang family, he Xie Mantang only looked up, and secretly rejoiced that he did not fall out with Zeng Yu because of the sixth son Dan that day-

Xie Mantang wants to go to Yongfeng County to listen to the almost, can not be delayed outside, in Shangrao only stayed for one day to return to Yongfeng, Zeng Yuliu brother and two nieces here to spend the Lantern Festival, Shangrao City's Lantern Festival is not Yongfeng County can be compared, because of the fright of the thief chaos years ago, the squires and wealthy businessmen have the luck of the rest of their lives, in addition to their own house to hang all kinds of lanterns, the donation of lanterns is also extraordinarily enthusiastic, so this year's Lantern Festival in Shangrao City is more lively than in previous years-

Since the sixth day of the first month, the spring flags are clustered with colors, the spring lanterns are gradually flourishing, the big families hang out the precious bead lamps transported from Fujian, as well as the leather lamps of Hangzhou, silk lanterns, paper lamps, yarn lamps, the lampshades draw various fairy stories, such as Zhong Kui catching ghosts, bangs playing toads, as well as birds, beasts, insects and fish, flowers, trees and grass leaves, exquisitely made, varied, Zeng Yu also went to the city to buy sixteen white paper lanterns, painted grapes, bayberry, persimmons, deer, cranes, fish, shrimp, and inscribed Tibetan poems, eight lanterns in the front hall, eight lamps in the inner courtyard, when night falls, Sixi lit the candles in the lantern, the flowers, fruits, birds and beasts painted on the lantern rotated and shook vividly, Niuniu and Ah Tong and A Wei sisters were so happy that they ran in and out, and they couldn't see enough-

At this time, inside and outside Shangrao City, the lights look at each other, it is better than the sky full of stars, from time to time there are fireworks blooming in the night sky, Niuniu They are the first time to see this kind of grand occasion, they are very happy, Zeng Qian's youngest daughter is several years older than Ah Tong and them, looking at this light is also smiling.

In the blink of an eye, it is the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, Zeng Zhen, Zeng Yu, and Zhu Dedong took Niuniu and Ah Tong sisters into the city to see the juggling in the City God's Temple Square. The shops and vendors prepared all the goods early and stayed all night, this is called the light market, and there will be more people at night.

Zeng Yu went to the door of Xia Yupi's paper shop to take a look, the door was closed, Xia Lingpi was still in Yongfeng, and Zhao Yuwu's silk shop next door was not open.

There are a lot of food stalls in the square, zongzi, dough, melon seeds, lotus stems, etc., Zhu Dedong bought some for the little girls to eat, while watching the square advocate juggling.

After the time, there are more and more visitors in the square, the crowd is crowded, the voice of the people is boiling, the excitement is extraordinary, Zeng Yu suddenly heard someone calling "Zeng Xianggong, Zeng Xianggong", turned his head to look, only saw a piece of human head, rubbing shoulders one after another, he couldn't tell who was who, and the voice called "Zeng Xianggong" was also hidden.

Zeng Yu thought that he had heard something, so he continued to carry Niuniu on his back to watch the juggling, Niuniu was short, and he couldn't see the trick when he stood on the ground, and after a while, Zeng Yu heard someone called "Zeng Xianggong", and Niuniu also heard it, turned his little head to look around, and suddenly beckoned and said sharply: "Over here, over here." He bowed his head and said, "Brother, brother, someone is looking for you, it's that Huang Tolerance." ”

Zeng Yu looked in the direction pointed by Niuniu, and saw that there were two soap subordinates under an old tree on the side of the square, so he said to his brother Zeng Qian and brother-in-law Zhu Dedong: "Let's go back first, and come to see the lights at night, there is someone looking for me over there." ”

Zeng Yu carried Niuniu out of the crowd to the old tree, the head soldier Huang Lao hadn't seen Zeng Yu yet, and was still shouting "Zeng Xianggong Zeng Xianggong" at the top of his voice, Zeng Yu stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder: "Huang Tou Gong, what's the matter?" ”

The two soaps turned around together, the yellow head was sweating profusely, and sang: "Zeng Xianggong made the villain find it so hard, go back quickly, hurry back, the drum music of the good news has been blowing and playing in your mansion for a long time." ”

Zeng Yu wondered: "What good news?" ”

Huang Tougong said with a smile: "Zeng Xianggong is very happy, Zhejiang Hu Butang sent people to celebrate Zeng Xianggong's achievements and rewarded a lot of property, Zeng Xianggong hurry back." ”

Zeng Yu had long known from Governor Lin that Hu Zongxian was going to ask the court for him to ask for a reward, but he didn't expect the messenger to come so quickly, so he hurried back to the house outside the north gate with his brother and brother-in-law.

Huang Toujun hurriedly stepped forward and said in a loud voice: "Zeng Xianggong is back, Zeng Xianggong is back-all fathers and fellow villagers, let one go, let one go." ”

The crowd of onlookers made a way, Zeng Yu and his party entered the house, and the group of drummers by the patio saw that the main master had arrived, and they played harder and harder, and there was a book, a military attache and six sergeants standing on the hallway, and several large boxes draped in red and hanging colors were prominently placed in the middle of the hall.

The military attache was Qi Jiguang's personal entourage, recognized Zeng Yu, saw Zeng Yu enter the door, hurriedly went to salute, the book also came to salute, read out the Governor's Yamen to Zeng Yu's commendation document, reward 800 taels of silver, 3,000 pieces of treasure money, 100 pieces of brocade, and also posthumously seal Zeng Yu's grandfather, father's official position of Qipinsan, Zeng Yu's mother, and the birth mother's widow's decree, and report it after the name of the Guangxin Mansion Rite Room is verified, and there will be an edict issued-

Hundreds of people who watched the excitement outside the gate spread the word of mouth, and heard that Hangzhou Hu Butang rewarded Zeng Yu with so many silver, treasure money, and brocade, all of which were "sizzling" inhaling and "tsk" sounding, eight hundred taels of silver, Tian Sheweng couldn't accumulate these silver in his life; When I heard that I would posthumously seal Zeng Yu's grandfather and father as a loose official, my mother would have a fate, and these neighbors were even more envious.

The villagers were amazed and envious, the drum music rose again, and the reward of Guangxin Mansion arrived again, and the prefect Lin Guangzu personally came to congratulate him, and rewarded Zeng Yu with 200 taels of silver, 80 stones of white rice, and 100 knives of rice paper in Jingxian County in the name of the government office.

For the onlookers of the villagers, although Hangzhou's Hu Butang is official, but it is still not as majestic as the Lord Fuzun who can be seen with his own eyes, even the Lord of the Mansion came to congratulate in person, and rewarded this amount of silver money and rice grain, the villagers are no longer envious of Zeng Yu at this time, but in awe.

At this time, it was already noon, Zeng Yu invited Lin Zhifu to eat in the house, but Lin Zhifu invited Zeng Yu to the mansion for a banquet, saying that a banquet had been prepared, and Hu Butang's envoy was invited to the banquet.

Zeng Yu followed Governor Lin and his entourage into the city to dine, and after the banquet, Zeng Yu said goodbye, and Governor Lin asked with a smile: "Zeng Sheng, when will you leave to Longhu Mountain to propose marriage?" ”

Zeng Yu replied: "Yufuzun, the students will leave early tomorrow morning, first rush to Yingtanfang to see my cousin Zheng Sheng, and then visit Zhouzhi County together." ”

Governor Lin nodded and said: "The government of Zhou Zhixian has sent a letter to ask him to take care of it, you just have to go, this matchmaker is happy to go." He sighed again: "Hu Butang's reward is really like timely rain, your Zeng family is now also a gentleman's family, and the imperial court will soon issue an edict." ”

Zeng Yu understood what Governor Lin meant, that is, in this way, the status of the Zeng family was significantly improved, although it was still not right to face the Dazhen Mansion of Longhu Mountain, but it would not be too disparity and humbleness.

Governor Lin asked Zeng Yu if he needed help with boats, boats, cars and horses to go to Guixi tomorrow, and Zeng Yu thanked Governor Lin and said that he would just hire a boat to go there.

When Zeng Yu returned to the house outside the north gate, the sun was slanting westward, about the beginning of Shen, there were still people watching the excitement in front of the door, and there were several talented friends sitting in the hall, all of whom came to congratulate after hearing the news, Zeng Yu went around for a while, and then went in to see his mother-

Great-mother Zhou's tears of joy, her son has been in school for less than a year, and he can earn his mother's life, which is the glory of Jinshizhi County, which makes the young abducted, poor great-mother Zhou, how not to cry, but the fact that she is happy is too much, tomorrow her son is going to propose to the young lady of Dazhenfu, she wants to be open, not busy and happy.