When they arrived at Shou'an Hall, everyone asked the old lady for peace and sat down.

The old lady opened her mouth and asked, "I just sent a bunch of things, saying that your family brought them to Minglan from your family, why did you bring so many things?" ”

After hearing this, Wei explained: "Yes, it's not like we're going back to Yangzhou for a while in two days, and I didn't bring anything with me last time, so I thought about sending something to Minglan before leaving." ”

After hearing this, Minglan first said: "I'm doing well with my grandmother, and I don't need these things." Then he asked, "Auntie, why do you suddenly want to go back to Yangzhou this time, and how long will you stay?" ”

After hearing this, Wei said: "It's not that your cousin fell into Tanhua, and he should have gone back to meet his teacher in person to congratulate him, but a few days ago he went to Lord Ouyang, and Lord Ouyang asked him not to leave Bianjing for the time being, waiting for the official selection of officials, so your uncle and I went back to help your cousin go to congratulate." In addition, our family is thin, and if we live in Bianjing in the future, we have to invite the ancestral tablet to Bianjing when we go back this time, so that we can worship it at all times. ”

"I won't stay long when I go back to Yangzhou this time, it will be as short as two months, and as long as half a year, I will definitely return to Beijing."

Minglan understood after hearing this, but after listening to the ancestral ancestral hall, she remembered that her mother's tablet was placed in Sanqingguan, and she couldn't enter the Sheng family ancestral hall, and she suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

And the old lady didn't notice it, but she heard something else and asked, "According to this, Brother Hao'er should be in Bianjing this time." ”

Hearing this, Wei looked at Li Hao and asked Li Hao to answer by himself, Li Hao said: "It's not confirmed, it's just that when I went to visit Bachelor Ouyang's house that day, Bachelor Ouyang told me that I am not suitable for Bianjing County at this age, and I may stay in Bianjing City to do some idle errands, but the details are not confirmed, just let me stay in Bianjing and wait for news." ”

After hearing this, the old lady thought for a while and said: "What Bachelor Ouyang said makes sense, there are examples in the past at your age, like Yan Daxianggong, who was one year younger than you when he was a Jinshi, and later gave the secretary orthography to stay in Bianjing." ”

"That's fine, if you have nothing to do in Bianjing, you can come to the house to meet and talk to Changbai and Minglan, speaking of which, the three girls in the family, Rulan and Molan all have a biological brother, but Minglan doesn't. Now that you have a cousin in Bianjing, it's good to be able to come to you for ideas when there is something. ”

After hearing this, Li Hao said: "Yes, if my cousin has something to do with my cousin, I will directly order it." ”

Minglan didn't answer after hearing this, but the old lady said to Minglan after hearing it: "Hear it, I will discuss it with your cousin if I have something in the future." ”

Wei also said at this time: "Yes, Minglan." If you really want your cousin to do something, just tell him directly, you're welcome. If he prevaricates you, you come to me, and I'll give you a vent. ”

After hearing this, Minglan said, "Thank you, aunt." ”

Wei smiled after hearing this, and then chatted with the old lady again. After waiting for a while, the old lady said to Li Hao: "It's boring for you to sit here, it's better to let Minglan take you around the courtyard, or go to Changbai to sit there." I'll talk to your mother again, and I'll have someone come to you when it's time to leave. ”

Li Hao didn't want to sit here anymore, so he said, "Okay, then I'll go out for a walk." ”

Then Minglan took Li Hao around the courtyard under the orders of the old lady.

After the two left, the old lady asked casually, "I heard that someone went to your house to discuss the matter of marriage in recent days." ”

After hearing this, Wei said: "There is such a thing, but don't hide it from the old lady, you also know the original situation of my family, how can I know the good or bad of the officials and relatives in this Bianjing City." In addition, Hao'er is still young, so this matter is not in a hurry for the time being. However, you have a wide range of knowledge, and if Hao'er really wants to discuss marriage in the future, I may have to ask you to help me see it then. ”

After hearing this, the old lady said with a smile: "What's the matter, since I am Minglan 's cousin, of course I have to worry about it if I need to." And Minglan is also getting old, and there is no one to choose for the time being, so it is better to wait and see each other together. ”

After hearing this, Wei said with a smile: "Yes, that's waiting and seeing." ”

Minglan and Li Hao don't know about this meaningful conversation in Shou'an Hall for the time being. Li Hao was walking around in the backyard garden under the leadership of Minglan , after all, there were not many places to visit, and Lin Qige in the backyard definitely couldn't go, and Li Hao didn't have anything to say to Lin Xiaoniang's family.

But because he didn't go, he didn't see a good show, and Lin Yushuang was depressed and panicked when she learned that Wei was going back to Yangzhou. Because now that the men of Zhou Niangzi's family have just been sent to Yangzhou, Lin Yushuang is afraid that he will bump into the Wei family in Yangzhou at that time, and it will be really troublesome. So he hurriedly pulled Zhou Niangzi over and asked: "Do you have a way to contact your man and ask him not to do it when the Wei family is in Yangzhou, after all, the Wei family is now the head snake in Yangzhou, don't be fine, in the end, it will not look good." ”

Zhou Niangzi said: "It shouldn't be, and I also told the man in my family not to fight the name of the Sheng family." The people of the Wei family don't know him, and even if they do, nothing will happen. ”

Lin Yushuang said: "That's right, anyway, you can send him another message and let him be careful." ”

Zhou Niangzi promised: "Then I will go to the delivery shop tomorrow to send a letter to Yangzhou." He said that he saw that there was nothing to do, and then withdrew.

And Minglan and Li Hao, who were strolling in the garden, were chatting a little awkwardly, and Li Hao didn't know why, he always felt that Minglan was a little alienated from him today, but he thought that the two were not familiar with each other, so he didn't think much about it. Originally, Li Hao wanted to persuade Minglan on Qi Heng's matter today, but looking at this situation, he was afraid that it would be inappropriate to say something in depth. I didn't want to stay like this, so I had to say, "Cousin, why don't we go and sit down at Brother Changbai's." ”

Minglan didn't want the two of them to be embarrassed to walk around the garden, and listened to Li Hao's words and hurriedly said, "Okay, I'll take you to the second brother's yard." As he spoke, he took Xiao Tao to lead the way in front.

When they arrived at Sheng Changbai's courtyard, after Minglan took Li Hao in, she saw Sheng Changbai sitting in the courtyard with a book and watching, and he didn't notice that two people had entered the courtyard. It was Minglan who said hello, and Changbai found out.

So Li Hao smiled and said: "Brother Changbai is really bookish, and he has a fight with Senior Brother Zigu." ”

After hearing this, Sheng Changbai said: "Read a book a hundred times, and you can see the meaning of it, and it's always good to read and read if you have nothing to do." As for comparing with Brother Zigu, then I'm still far behind. "By the way, is Brother Zigu still in your mansion now?"

Li Hao replied: "They returned to their hometown two days ago, and they will not return to Bianjing until more than a month later, when the officials are about to be conferred." ”

Sheng Changbai nodded after hearing this, and then asked the two to sit down and let the maid come to serve tea, but listening to the names of the maids with wolf hair, sheep hair, and mouse whiskers is always a bit of a drama.

Next, the two talked about studying together at the Li family before the exam, and then Sheng Changbai talked about pity for Gu Tingye. So Li Hao happened to ask Gu Tingye about his situation, and heard that he had a falling out with the Gu family, and now when he lived in Xiaotianshui Lane, Li Hao knew that it was estimated that Gu Tingye's plot had not changed, and it seemed that he could not escape Zhu Manniang's catastrophe. However, Li Hao still wrote it down, how can he help Gu Tingye keep Brother Chang's son, children are always innocent.

Then the two chatted about something else, and then saw Dan Tang come over and say that the old lady had finished talking, and Wei and they were ready to leave. So Li Hao said goodbye and went to find Wei, and then left the Sheng Mansion together.

By March 29, Wei's side was ready, and today he will take a boat back to Yangzhou. Minglan also deliberately came out to the dock to send Wei and Li Jian, and then got on the boat and talked to Wei before getting off the boat, and after watching the boat slowly leave the dock, Minglan and Li Hao said goodbye and went home, which also made Li Hao always feel that he didn't know where to offend Minglan as if he had offended.

In the days that followed, Li Hao really didn't have anything to do in Bianjing. After Wei and Li Jian left, only Li Hao was in the house, and no one came to visit the house.

Then when Yan Fu was free, he asked the two of them to try their skills in the major restaurants in Bianjing City, and occasionally visited Ouyang Mansion to see if there was any progress in awarding officials. Later, he also made an appointment with Sheng Changbai, and asked him to take Rulan and Minglan to Fanlou to eat and drink, and make up the celebration he said when he tried to release the list, which made Minglan who entered Fanlou for the first time happy, and Xiaotao, who followed Minglan was also happy. However, Minglan is still very alienated from Li Hao, which makes Li Hao very strange all the time.

Li Hao thought that he would just live a leisurely life, and he would wait until the officials were awarded. Until that day, Li Hao returned home from the outside, and saw Xiao Tao waiting anxiously in the house, saying that he was looking for him for something, and asked Li Hao to go to Sheng Mansion quickly.