A small town closest to the mountain village, called Zhang Town, it was not called this name at the earliest, just because ten years ago, a person surnamed Zhang brought his family to the town, and donated money to repair the only bridge in the town, the bridge was named Zhang Qiao, and this Zhang Juren became the mayor of the town, this town was naturally called Zhang Town.

Mayor Zhang is now over fifty years old, and the main room in the family died of illness last year, leaving only two concubines but never gave birth to a son, until a while ago there was a down-and-out Taoist priest in Zhang's family, the key to the language, saying that it was this Zhang Mayor - Zhang Jixian was already destined to have no queen, so there was no need to think about it anymore.

Zhang Jixian is a person who believes in numerology, and when he saw this Taoist chief of the "Dao Bone Fairy Wind" and listened to his words, he believed it very much, so he had to eat and drink to ask for a way to crack it.

The Taoist priest ate and drank for more than half a month before pointing out a "clear road" to the Zhang family, saying that Zhang Jixian must marry a widowed woman with fire in order to get what he wants. Mayor Zhang was convinced, and immediately invited a well-known matchmaker surnamed Wang in the town, and promised to entrust her to inquire about women who met such conditions.

It is said that this Wang matchmaker has some relationship with the mountain village, and one of her nieces of the family is married to that small village, and the two families have some contacts during the New Year's holidays, so they have heard from her niece about the gossip in the mountain village. One of the most common is a widow Lu who was kicked out of her in-law's house with her son and gave birth to a foolish daughter.

She was entrusted by Zhang Yuanwai to find a widow with the same eight characters, and first thought of the Lu family in the backing village, and there were two eligible widows in Zhang Town, but she lived in this town and heard about the gossip in the inner courtyard of the mayor's house, and who would want to marry this family.

Besides, the Lu family sounds like a good person, and being able to have two sons and a daughter is a good child, so it's really right to say that Zhang Yuanwai's son is indispensable to add some honorarium.

So after the matchmaker received the errand, she borrowed a flower donkey and rode towards the mountain village, and when she arrived at the mountain village, she did not directly find the Lu family, but first found her nephew and the queen to discuss.

The Wang family was very happy to see his aunt, but after listening to her, he felt that this family business was excellent, and it was a good thing for a village woman to be a step-room for a town mayor who was born in a person, but it was a good thing that she couldn't find with a lantern. But if this good thing falls on the head of the Lu family, then she will not be angry, why can such a widow who was driven out by her in-laws and dragged her children and daughters have such a marriage?

Mrs. Wang saw that her niece's face was wrong, so she asked, "But what's the difficulty?" I think this family is very good, why can't she agree? ”

The Wang family didn't treat his own aunt as an outsider, so he said his thoughts immediately, but in exchange for a burst of laughter from Wang's matchmaker.

"What should I be doing, it turns out that you can't see people happy. But you don't know, this rich family's stepfamily is easy to do, not to mention the character of the mayor of the town, just say that the two concubines of his family are notoriously difficult characters, when the main room was still there, the two flattering children couldn't do without the decoction all day long, and this lord ignored it because he favored the concubine, and many people in the town knew that Zhang Jixian's eldest wife was killed by the two concubines. If you really get married, it's a trivial matter if you can't bear the incense, and you may be stumbling by the concubine raised by the big family at any time, and you can't even tell when you will take it. ”

Wang frowned after hearing her words, she was already married to the Lu family, and it was normal to see that the other party was good, but she was still a little hesitant to use this matter to destroy people.

Mrs. Wang stopped when she said this, looked at Wang with her eyes again, and asked, "What, I can't bear it again?" ”

Seeing that Wang shook her head but didn't answer, she had already guessed seven points of her niece's thoughts, and after a moment's change, she smiled again: "It's far away, this is going to be successful, and you need to know her eight characters, so I don't know if Lu Erniang's eight characters are worthy of that." It's better to be like this, your village chief should have a foundation, you go and ask, and we'll make plans when we come back. ”

"It's okay, my aunt is waiting for me at home, I'll go back when I go." Speaking of this, although Wang hesitated, it was not easy to refuse, so he should go. After all, before the Lu's eight characters were measured, it was too early to say anything.

After Wang arrived at the village chief's house, he learned that the village chief Zhao went out because he took Lu Zhi to Qingyang County, so she used the excuse of wanting to reward Lu for her daughter Li Xiaomei's grace to teach art and inquired about Lu's birthday.

Besides, when the Wang family returned home, because the matchmaker Wang was a person who did red things, she only dipped her fingers in tea and scratched it twice on the table after listening to the birthday, and her face was already full of joy.

"This Lu is a fiery person." Wang Matchmaker said happily.

The Wang family listened to it but couldn't say what it was like in their hearts, to say that she had a grudge with the Lu family was a few years ago, then the Lu family took care of her daughter, but seeing that the Lu family's life in the village is getting better and better, even more prosperous than their original residents, how can she easily let go of the resentment in her heart.

Mrs. Wang measured the eight characters of the Lu family, and she was surprised and relieved, as if she foresaw that the large amount of reward silver had entered her pocket, but when she raised her eyes and looked at her niece, she still looked hesitant, but she raised her eyebrows slightly. So she thought about it for a while, and said to the hesitant Wang of Shang Dai:

"Guixiang, are you still afraid that Lu Erniang will suffer a loss, alas, I just thought about answering your thoughts, but what I said was a bit too big, in fact, it is not a bad thing for her to marry, I heard that she is also a heart-eyed, but if she is not too stupid, and she really stays for Master Zhang, how can she not have a good life, it is the wife of the head of a town."

After Aunt Wang finished speaking, she looked at Wang's already loose expression, rolled her eyes and said, "Why, I remember that Lu Erniang didn't beat you up, you don't hold grudges, and plan for others." ”

Wang's face turned pale after listening to her words, remembering that since she had a fight with the Lu family a few years ago, the people in the village had always gossiped about her behind her back, and after thinking about her aunt's words before and after for a while, she told herself fiercely: If the matter really came to pass, it was also a good thing for Lu Erniang, and it was better to marry the mayor of the town and be the lady of the main house, than to be a widow.

Aunt Wang saw that Wang finally nodded in agreement, and suddenly smiled more than a dozen layers of pink folds on her face, and her voice softened, "This is the best, if this thing can't be done, your aunt and I will be embarrassed, but if it is done, your remuneration is indispensable." ”

After the two reached a consensus, they discussed for a while, and then went out to Lu's house together.

Not long after they left, Li Xiaomei, who had been hiding in the stove room and eavesdropping, leaned out half of her body with a small white face, looked at the backs of her mother and aunt in the distance, and bit her lower lip.

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The quota for participating in the examination in the state and county needs to be recommended by the township and neighbors, so Lu Zhi went to Qingyang County with Village Chief Zhao early this morning. Because the registration certificate is required, Yi Yu only saw his family's "household registration book" for the first time last night, a piece of tissue paper called "hand solid" here.

It clearly records the gender and birth date of their family of four, a few acres of land in the family, a few houses, and when and where they transferred to the jurisdiction of Qingyang County, and the name of the head of the household at the top is naturally her mother Lu, and a small "female" word is stamped with a red seal next to it, which is probably the so-called female household.

In this era, people do not need to issue a certificate in the original place of household registration, as long as you live in the local area and buy a land, you can apply for a manual registration into the local register and become a resident of the local area. The imperial court policy is relatively lenient for women, and those who are widowed or over 30 years old and have not yet married can apply for a "female household" and enjoy the policy of reducing taxes by one point every year.

At that time, the government implemented a rent regulation in taxation, collecting taxes according to the number of men in the family in May every year, and conscripting men who had reached the age of 15 to join the army, the local household registration management department would update the registration register at this time, and then the transferred households would naturally be eliminated from their household registration in the area because they did not pay taxes on time and serve in the army, thus avoiding a large error in the population statistics once every three years.

It would be a big mistake to think that you can use this to escape service, in this era, people who do not have a household registration certificate are not just black households, once they are denounced, they will be directly assigned to the border areas of the country, and they will be registered as displaced people, not only will the court never hire the descendants of the court, but also be marked as untouchables, so the people of the Tang Dynasty who emigrated to other continents will be very consciously handled.

After Lu Jun and Zhao Village Chief went out, only Lu and Yu were left in the house, and the two sat in the hall around the brazier to make Lu Jun and Lu Zhi's new clothes, according to Lu Zhi's ability, the family did not think that he would fail in the examination, and the Lu family had already arranged for Lu Jun to ask for leave from the martial arts hall, and after the release of the examination, he accompanied Lu Zhi into Chang'an to participate in the Spring Festival.

Because Lu Zhi applied for the first subject of the regular middle school, he needed to visit Chang'an Sigong to get a place before the spring, and he was too shabby to avoid being blinded, so Lu got the last money to sell rock sugar gourds a month ago and picked the best brocade and silk thread for him in the county.

Lu Zhi laughed at this, although it didn't dampen his mother's enthusiasm, but he didn't show approval, and only concentrated on reviewing his homework and waiting for the exam.

The charcoal in the brazier was almost burned, so Lu put the clothes in his hand on the mat on the side, and was about to go to the stove room to get some more charcoal.

Although she didn't like to see the Wang family, she couldn't rush out when she came to the door, so she could only go out to meet the two people who were walking towards her yard, raising her eyes with a polite smile, but before she could speak, the woman with thin eyebrows and heavy makeup took the lead.

"Yo! This is Lu Erniang, tsk, it's really better to see it than to hear it. ”

Lu Shi looked at her and changed her expression on her face, the eyebrows and eyes pulled out a strange smile, the white powder on her face seemed to shake off a little, and the eyes looking at her were even more strange, not like looking at people but like goods, and couldn't help frowning slightly.

"You are?"

The mother-in-law slightly restrained her exaggerated expression and pulled the people around her, but Wang couldn't wipe her face, and barely suppressed the feeling of being unhappy when she saw Lu in her heart, and said to Lu with a dry smile: "Erniang, this is my aunt who lives in Zhang Town." ”

"Oh, it turned out to be Mrs. Wang." Lu glanced at Wang thoughtfully.

"Look at what you shouted, how dare I call Mrs., you can call my aunt with Guixiang."

"I'd better call you Aunt Wang."

Then Aunt Wang took the opportunity to respond and said: "Erniang, I came here today but I have a good thing to tell you, you think let's go into the house and talk about it." ”

Lu Shi nodded, although he had doubts in his heart, he still invited the two of them in.

Yi Yu sat by the brazier, she had heard the conversation in the courtyard just now, and when she saw the two people who followed her mother into the house, she hesitated for a moment and politely called the two of them.

"Aunt Wang, mother-in-law."

As soon as Aunt Wang entered the door, she saw a little girl sitting by the brazier holding a flower bandage and threading a needle, wearing a thick brocade green breast-length skirt, a goose-yellow silk half-sleeved short jacket, two black and bright braids hanging down her chest, each tied with a grass-green hairband, and a pair of smart peach blossom pupils on her white and tender little face were looking at her vividly.

What a beautiful girl, Aunt Wang admired in her heart, but after a while, as if she suddenly remembered something, she nodded back to Yiyu with a strange face, turned her head and asked Lu: "Erniang, this, this is your daughter." ”

Seeing that Lu Shi nodded, she took a light breath, and then glanced at Wang Shi complainingly, secretly blaming her for lying to her own daughter that she was a fool, if the little girl with this look and eyes was a fool, then I am afraid that the whole Zhao Zhen would not be able to find a good one.

Wang was stared at by her aunt and understood what the other party meant, and then remembered that although she had told her about the beating she had been beaten a few years ago, she had never mentioned that her daughter had already been conscious, and her face was a little unbearable at the moment, but she still couldn't help but not show too embarrassed looks.

Not to mention whether Lu can see the short-term interaction between the two, Yi Yu, who has always been good at observing words and feelings, can see the short-term unnaturalness between the two at a glance, and then think of Lu's person, it is not difficult to guess that she must have said a lot of "good things" to this Aunt Wang, and sneered in her heart, but she still did enough well-behaved and sensible work on her face, got up and saluted the two, and then went into the stove room to get charcoal.

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