Since ancient times, there are only two ways to break up a marriage.

Either give up wealth, gold and silver, or promote officials to induce, so that one of them will give up on his own initiative. Either they wield a big stick, beat the mandarin duck with a stick, and press it with force and authority.

Although Yuan Lai and Shi Qingzhuo, who had never met, could not talk about mandarin ducks or childhood sweethearts, they were in love, but this did not delay Mrs. Shi's decision-making.

In Mrs. Shi's opinion, Yuan Lai is the toad who wants to eat swan meat, ridiculous and pitiful, and now hateful, really annoying, but after all, he is a toad, not an ant, and he can't be crushed to death casually, so he has to think of some better way to let Yuan Lai not pester the daughter of the Shi family.

"It's not a good idea to send gold and silver, Yuan Shoucheng's business is not small, and I'm afraid it will be useless to take out ordinary gold and silver. Businessmen, it's nothing more than wanting to make profits, and what my Shangshu Mansion can give them is nothing more than business care. ”

"Go and meet each other, tell them clearly, what they want, let them put it forward, whether it is tax exemption or official business, as long as it is not too much, promise them, but also have a bottom line. Merchants are insatiable. ”

"If they don't want these, then promise them an official, as long as the fool named Yuan Lai wants to enter the office, give them a petty official. But if he wants the imperial examination, remember that he can't promise them, Daqi's imperial examination is the territory of Wang Xie's two families, and we don't need to owe Wuyi Lane favors for them. ”

The above are Mrs. Shi's original words.

When the steward Shi with Mrs. Shi's "Yizhi" came to Yuan's bookstore, Yuan Lai was sleeping. People who are awakened from their sleep usually do not have a good temper, and it is said that this is the saying "get up gas".

Yuan Lai felt that he was very angry to get up now, not only because he didn't sleep well, but more importantly, the steward Shi who forced him to wake up had a very unpleasant face.

Steward Shi is the chief butler of Shangshu Mansion, what high-ranking officials and dignitaries have not seen in these years? Even the current emperor has the honor of witnessing the true face from afar, as the chief butler of Shangshu Mansion, of course, his status is not just a subordinate, so he is a little arrogant, especially when facing some people whose status is far inferior to that of the Shi family.

Not to mention Yuan Lai, the son of a merchant, who is only fifteen years old, is said to be still a fool, no matter what he says, such an object should not be taken into account by Steward Shi.

So unsurprisingly, when he sat in the guest seat with a noble face and saw Yuan Lai who was dozing off Shi Shiran, he frowned, and his eyes showed a thick dissatisfaction.

Fortunately, he knew what he was here for, so he didn't have a seizure despite his dissatisfaction.

"You're Yuan Lai?" he asked with a frown.

Yuan Lai raised his head and looked at the middle-aged man with a serious face and a very unpleasant tone, and did not answer.

Steward Shi asked again: "Are you Yuan Lai?"

This time the boy replied, although his expression was still as lazy as a puddle of mud, but he finally replied: "Yes, who are you?"

Who are you? Do I know you?

This tone and the meaning and attitude behind the language made Steward Shi's face sink, he snorted, and endured dissatisfaction: "I am the chief butler of Shi Shangshu's mansion, and my wife asked me to talk to you." ”

"Your wife?" Yuan Lai's narrowed eyes widened a little, and asked, "It's my fiancée's mother?"

Steward Shi couldn't help but sneer when he heard this, and looked at Yuan Lai's gaze with more and more disdain.

Sure enough, it's a scoundrel who climbs his family. Steward Shi has a very high status in Shangshu Mansion, and is the maiden family who married with Mrs. Shi from her mother's house, Mrs. Shi was originally the daughter of the former imperial master, and Yuan Shoucheng's friend Shi Gongdan was also appreciated and promoted by the prince, so although Shi Gongdan was the head of the family at home, everything had to look at Mrs. Shi's face.

Steward Shi is Mrs. Shi's confidant, and he is very clear about what he is doing now, and he understands Yuan Lai's origin very well, so he looks down on him even more.

Yuan Lai's eyebrows raised slightly, and then he lazily lay down, looking at the other party's attitude, he was not really stupid, and he could feel the hostility of the other party's lady.

It's just that Yuan Lai's personality largely follows the previous life, and he is still a donkey, he didn't take this family business to heart, even Yuan Shoucheng didn't look at the excitement of the story, but he didn't ask for sure to climb this family, the purpose of this trip is really just to "visit" it, if you still miss the old days, the two families will drink and talk happily, see if the family affair is still successful, if it is still successful, then everyone is happy, if it doesn't work, then forget it.

But although the Yuan family thinks so, it may not be the case in the eyes of others.

Yuan looked at the other party, since he had such a cold face, he didn't bother to put a hot face on someone's cold ass.

"That's it, but you said that your wife wants you to talk to me?" Yuan Lai said slowly, his eyes were very innocent.

"Get down to business. Our lady is curious about what you are coming to the capital for. Steward Shi said.

Yuan Lai laughed in his heart, but said seriously on his face: "There are some private things to do, by the way, my father asked me to visit the Shi family, saying that I haven't seen Uncle Shi for many years, and I miss it very much, my father is also busy with business, Uncle Shi is also a busy person, and he rarely has the opportunity to meet, and I always want to meet when I come to Beijing as a junior." ”

These words are not false, Yuan Shoucheng and Shi Gongdan have not seen each other for many years, and they really miss their old friends.

Yuan Lai's words are very bereotypical and reasonable, but in Steward Shi's opinion, it is an obvious relationship and friendship, so Steward Shi's face is slightly cold, and he said: "Master Yuan is nostalgic, but I think you don't just come to meet the elders." ”

"Oh, what do you think I want to do, Mr. Butler?" said Yuan Lai in surprise.

Steward Shi's face turned a little colder, and the still delicate and pleasing face of the young man opposite was full of knowingly asked.

He simply didn't hide it, since the young man in front of him didn't take the initiative to untie this layer of cloth, then it was up to him to uncover it.

"You don't have to ask knowingly! I haven't come to see you for so many years, but now I'm here? Miss Qing Zhuo is going to be an adult in a few months, and when she becomes an adult, she will talk about marriage, don't tell me that you didn't come here for this time!"

"Adulthood?" Yuan Lai was stunned, he really didn't know that Miss Shi was about to become an adult, in his mind, a girl should be sixteen even if she was not eighteen, he never thought that the girl who was only fourteen years old was about to become an adult, and because of this, he never thought that going to Beijing to the Shi family this time would involve talking about marriage.

Slightly stunned, he suddenly remembered that he seemed to have heard that in the Great Apocalypse women are adults at the age of fifteen, and when they reach the age of marriage, it seems that women in ancient times were more adult.

His impression of this is obviously still stuck in his previous life.

Seeing that Yuan Lai was stunned, Steward Shi suddenly became a little angry, he only felt that this young man was too good at pretending to be garlic, even if he had a marriage contract, it was impossible not to know the woman's age, and of course it was impossible not to know the news that Miss Shi was about to become an adult, so he was still stunned, isn't this deliberately pretending?

So he snorted coldly and said to the young man opposite: "You don't have to pretend to be like this! Your purpose is nothing more than to come to climb relatives, think about what status my Shangshu Mansion is, your Yuan family is just a low-status businessman, is it really so easy to climb to be rich and noble?"

Yuan Lai's face turned cold.

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