Chapter 100: The Repentant Husband Seeks the Title
Qi Ling guessed right, most of the ladies in this pavilion decided to try it when the time came.
After all, they are all beautiful girls, not to mention everything, but they also have their own specialties, and their looks are not bad, so they have a great chance of being selected.
So as soon as she said this, everyone immediately agreed, and there was still a little expectation on their faces.
Zhao Wan'er was the only one who listened to Qi Ling talk about the Flower Dynasty Festival, and she began to blush, as if she was drunk, and everyone else looked at her with meaningful expressions.
Qi Ling was a little incomprehensible, why was there something he didn't know about?
A straightforward girl frowned when she saw Qi Ling, knowing that she might not know the story, so she explained it to her very intimately.
"Miss Qi Ling, don't you know, Wan'er was rated as a peony flower envoy last year, and she walked around the city a whole circle that day, and the prince who called her was dumbfounded, for fear that she would be favored by others, and when she returned home, she asked her parents to come directly to propose marriage."
Prince Wang?
Qi Ling remembered that the last time she came to give Zhao Wan'er salva, her maid Cuiyu teased her with this prince.
It's just that this prince is still an interesting person, his hands are fast enough, and if he likes people, he will go directly to the door to propose.
Hearing others talk about her sweetheart, Zhao Wan'er was even more embarrassed, and hurriedly spoke.
"Oh, stop talking about that goose! He sent me a letter from the academy a few days ago, telling me not to choose any more flowers this year, listen to what he said! ”
"But I'm really not going to join in the excitement this year, so I'll give this place to the sisters."
After hearing this, Qi Ling laughed directly.
"This prince is really a wonderful person, why doesn't he let you choose a flower envoy, this is because he is afraid that you will bring back a lot of love rivals for him this time!"
"That's it, after all, he hasn't married into the family yet, Wang Gongzi is not at ease!"
Everyone joked, and some even roared, asking when the two would get married.
Zhao Wan'er didn't want to say it, after all, her daughter's family seemed very unreserved when she said this, but she couldn't grind everyone, so she had to squirm and pinch her mouth.
"The parents of the two families said that after two years, they would wait until he finished the imperial examination."
Qi Ling suddenly realized, it turned out that this prince was still a scholar, and she had seen a lot of love stories between this scholar and the young lady in modern times.
For example, Cui Yingying and Zhang Sheng, and then Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei, these are all stories of lovers who eventually become married.
As Zhao Wan'er's friend, Qi Ling also hoped that she and Wang Gongzi could have such an ending, so she sincerely blessed her.
"Then I hope that Wang Gongzi will work harder, so that our Wan'er can directly become an official wife when she enters the door."
Qi Ling's words are naturally Zhao Wan'er's wish, who wouldn't want her fiancé to be at the top of the high school list and sit in an official position.
Moreover, Zhao Wan'er's father, that is, Zhao Governor's willingness to let Wang Gongzi be his future son-in-law, also took a fancy to him for his brilliant literary talents, humble personality, and not a competitive person, so he was willing to marry Zhao Wan'er to him.
In fact, this is not only Zhao Wan'er's wish, but also the goal that many young ladies sitting there have been striving for.
After all, for these ladies, the future husbands will be carefully selected by their parents, either the right sons, or those who have not yet read a famous name.
After all, finding a scholar as a husband is actually equivalent to a modern kind of "venture capital", although it may take many years, and even be in a state of loss.
But once it was on the list every year, it was a major event for the glory of the ancestors, and the hardships suffered over the years can be regarded as rewarding, and according to this probability, it can be regarded as "winning the jackpot".
Therefore, naturally there are many people who are willing to marry poor scholars, some may be because they like it, but there are also many who are willing to make a fortune and become an official wife in the future.
It's just that if you really become an official's wife, will you be insured?
Not necessarily!
After becoming an official's wife, she also had to prevent her husband from looking for a concubine, raising an outer room, and looking for flowers and willows outside to steal food.
Even many people will turn around and deny their wives, and climb another branch, such as Chen Shimei, who is known as "the scumbag among scumbags" in modern times, isn't that it?
Even if the husband is honest and duty-bound, internally, the officials and wives have to take care of the family's chores of eating, drinking, and Lazar, and outside, they have to help their husbands do some "lady diplomacy" in the officialdom.
Some officials are often sent by the emperor to remote places, and they go for a few years, and the transportation of this dynasty is so inconvenient that even there are only a few letters a year.
The taste of this lonely empty boudoir is naturally not very pleasant, otherwise why are there so many boudoir grievances in history, how can there be "suddenly see the strange willow color, and the penitent husband is looking for the marquis." "Naturally, it's because of this voice.
Besides, I have been confined to a small back house all my life, and I can only see the three-inch sky above my head, so what's the point?
Therefore, Qi Ling understands the choices of these people, and even for his friends, he will wish them all the best in their future lives.
But she herself would not make such a choice, and her heart still longed for a free life.
Just like the Gu Shan couple she had envied before, the two had no money, and they could only eat some coarse tea and light meals and wear some coarse linen clothes, but they could get along day and night and live together. This is what she thinks is the best way to live the lives of two people.
If you can, you can stay in the village all the time, make money, and help the villagers and elders to make a fortune, wouldn't it be more beautiful!
So this is the life that Qi Ling dreams of.
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Qi Ling discussed the matter of the party with everyone in the pavilion for a while, and they all talked about the rise.
For these young ladies, they may not have been to the countryside until now, so they are naturally very curious about life in the countryside, so Qi Ling picked them up and told them some interesting stories in the village.
For example, digging wild vegetables to make cakes, going up the mountain to pick flowers to make garlands, going up the mountain to hunt and picking wild mushrooms, and she opened a small workshop to collect dried flowers in Shili Eight Villages,......
These bits and pieces of things made these young ladies hold their heads one by one, listen to them with taste, and ask a few questions from time to time.
The more they listened, the more they were inspired and admired, and seeing that she was not very old, she was so knowledgeable and courageous, and dared to do something that even men could not do.
Buying a mountain and opening a workshop are things they can't think of, looking at the joy on Qi Ling's face, they know that she really likes and enjoys what she is doing.
This naturally made these young ladies confined in the backyard begin to be a little envious.