Chapter 172: Seeking Officials and Slapping the Face
So on the day when Sheng Hong held a family banquet, Li Hao rushed to Sheng's house with a large family. Of course, this time I went out differently from the past, and on the way to go, I took two carriages, one for Wei and Li Jian, and one for Li Hao and Zhang Guifen.
Then in the carriage, Li Hao looked at Zhang Guifen's serious face, feeling like he was going to war, and couldn't help but feel a little funny.
As a result, this action attracted Zhang Guifen's attention, and he turned his head directly and asked, "You look at me smiling like this, is there something wrong with me?" Li Hao hurriedly said: "My wife is so beautiful, even if she is frowning, she is so pleasing to the eye, and her husband can't help but be happy when she looks at it, so she laughs." It's you, how did you get so serious! Hearing Li Hao's praise, Zhang Guifen was still very satisfied, after all, who doesn't want her husband to praise herself.
Especially when Li Hao, a straight man, comes out of his mouth, such sweet words are even more real.
But after the sweetness, Zhang Guifen also said: "You still say it, otherwise you said that Aunt Kang is the unparalleled evil in the world, and I will be like a great enemy." Hearing this reason, Li Hao said: "This person is extremely shameless and hateful, but it also depends on the occasion." Mrs. Wang is also here today, she will not let her daughter talk nonsense and offend the two of us. After all, our family is not a soft persimmon, and the Wang family is now at sunset. Old Madam Wang wouldn't want to have a bad relationship with us, but this Aunt Kang doesn't look down on her concubine in the first place, and she is used to not being good for others. Now that the marriage between Minglan and Gu Tingye has been decided, it is difficult to guarantee that this Aunt Kang will not have any moths, you know more about the twists and turns of big families than my mother, and you need to pay more attention. Zhang Guifen replied: "I naturally know how to do this, but I don't think you seem to care about this cousin." Li Hao saw Zhang Guifen pull up this topic again, and was a little helpless, and said: "How can I have it, just because Minglan is my cousin after all, if something happens to her, my mother will definitely come to me for trouble in the end." And Gu Tingye has always been good friends with me, so I should take care of it when it comes to reason. But Zhang Guifen snorted coldly at this, turned her head and looked out the window.
Now Li Hao died unjustly, so he hurried up to explain to Zhang Guifen, but Zhang Guifen just didn't turn his head.
Just when Li Hao thought that Zhang Guifen was really angry, where Li Hao couldn't see, Zhang Guifen was actually smiling.
In fact, Zhang Guifen didn't really care about Minglan either, because Wei actually said it very clearly at the beginning.
It's just that Zhang Guifen deliberately wanted to tease her husband, because she heard her father tell a lot of Li Hao's deeds before she got married.
Whether it is in the palace change or in the performance of the salt tax clearance, his father has a very high evaluation of Li Hao, praising him for his decisiveness and wisdom.
But when he really got married, he found that Li Hao always felt a little stupid at home, which was completely different from what his father praised.
Of course, Zhang Guifen will not doubt the vision of this father, but feels that this may be his true face, because only at home can he remove layers of guards and restore his true nature.
Instead of being out there in full gear and wearing masks and shackles to deal with all kinds of things. Zhang Guifen liked this feeling, and from then on, she felt that maybe it would be good for her to get married.
Just when the two were still entangled, the carriage had already arrived in front of the Sheng Mansion. At this time, Sheng Hong and Mrs. Wang, who got the news, had already come out to greet them together and brought Li Hao and them in.
As a result, when he came in, Li Hao immediately found acquaintances, and Yuan Wenshao and Liang Han also came today.
It seems that Sheng Hong really worked hard at this family banquet, and recruited his daughter and son-in-law back.
Of course, in addition, the people of the Kang family and the Wang family are naturally here, and Li Hao naturally knows who these people are, after all, they have all watched the TV series.
But under normal circumstances, Li Hao should not know any of these people, so Li Hao waited for Sheng Hong and his wife to introduce him one by one.
And this living lady Wang grabbed it very neatly, the first one started with Mrs. Wang, this is okay, Li Hao also called Mrs. Wang.
But when his brother Wang Shiping was introduced later, Mrs. Wang asked Li Hao to call him uncle, so Li Hao was a little unhappy.
There is no way to get married to your Sheng family, it is because of Minglan's relationship. But she has nothing to do with the Wang family, and she lets herself be a generation lower in the Wang family in vain, and she has no face.
Moreover, the Wang family has descended by one generation, and if they will come to the Kang family later, they will also be lowered, and these people are also worthy. Now is not the moment when I first entered Beijing, now I am in the limelight, but the Wang family and the Kang family are sunset.
In the future, it will definitely be the Wang family and the Kang family who will beg them to do things themselves, rather than begging them to do things themselves, in this case, Li Hao absolutely disagrees with such a statement.
So the scene suddenly became cold, but Mrs. Wang reacted quickly, and maybe even Mrs. Wang's appearance was Mrs. Wang's idea.
Anyway, it's right to try, if it succeeds, if it really fails, she can remedy it. It's like this: "What uncle is not uncle, you are all ministers of the DPRK and the central government, and there is no blood connection, everyone has their own opinions." Hearing this, Li Hao took the opportunity to answer: "Hello Lord Wang." Wang Shiping also responded immediately, and then Sheng Hong, who introduced the people, came by himself and introduced the rest of the Wang family and the people of the Kang family.
When Sheng Hong introduced, Li Hao found that Wang Ruohe's eyes were already a little cloudy, and it seemed that he was a little resentful of what he had just done, probably feeling insulted.
But Li Hao didn't care, his own house was not the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion in the play, if she really dared to make trouble at home, Li Hao just had a reason to take action to diagnose and treat.
Now Li Hao's focus is still on the number of people, Li Hao didn't pay attention to it at first, but with Sheng Hong's introduction, Li Hao estimated that the sisters-in-law of the Wang family and the Kang family should have come, so there are so many people.
After getting to know each other, everyone went back to the main hall to talk. Of course, there were a lot of people, so they still sat separately, but the women's roll was the last, so they simply went to Shou'antang to talk together, leaving the space to the men.
And Sheng Hong also asked Sheng Changbai to take Liang Han, Yuan Wenshao and other nephews away by the way.
So in the end, Li Hao and a few of them were talking in the hall, of course, it was mainly Sheng Hong who was talking.
Because Li Hao is not familiar with Kang Haifeng and Wang Shiping, there is indeed no topic to talk about. So he worked hard to take care of the other four people to speak, and he also stirred up his brains for this.
However, chatting and chatting, the topic slowly changed, and they came towards the Salt and Iron Division, which also made Li Hao understand that it seemed that these two people wanted to enter the Salt and Iron Division.
It's just Kang Haifeng's words, Li Hao can still understand that this guy is drunk and misguided, and there has been nothing lacking, but Wang Shiping returned to Beijing, it stands to reason that the position should have been set, why is there a lot of excitement at this time.
However, Li Hao didn't plan to answer, anyway, he just sat and watched where the three of them could talk about this topic.
Obviously, Kang Haifeng couldn't sit still at first, and said directly: "Hey, if you want to say that the Salt and Iron Division is now in power, it has become a fragrant bun in the eyes of many officials. I don't know that there is no position in the Salt and Iron Division now, and if I can get in, I will definitely obey the orders of Lord Li at that time. Looking at Kang Haifeng's flattering look when he said this, he especially begged for someone who was about the same age as his son.
To be able to say this, he is also thick-skinned, no wonder he deliberately sent his son's generation away with Sheng Changbai before, it turned out that he was afraid of damaging his image.
However, Li Hao didn't mean to agree, so he said: "Actually, if Lord Kang can come, I will naturally welcome it." But if this matter had been done before, after all, I am familiar with Ouyang Daxiang, and with him in office, it will be easy for me to transfer people in. But now the third envoy Chen is not familiar with me, and even when he first came, he gave me a dismount, which is really difficult to talk to. However, if Lord Kang can come through the selection of officials from the ministry, then I will definitely welcome it. As soon as he heard this, Kang Haifeng's face darkened, if he could pass the selection of officials by the ministry, he would come here to pat Li Hao's ass.
However, Kang Haifeng fell silent, and Wang Shiping on the side came out again and said: "Speaking of Ouyang Xianggong, since Master Li is familiar with him, then you can know why Ouyang Xianggong has been closed these days. After hearing this, Li Hao asked suspiciously: "Oh, and this matter, I really don't know." Recently, there have been a lot of things going on in the Shiotie Division, and I haven't been to the mansion of the Great Minister for a while. Wang Shiping said: "It turns out that Lord Li doesn't know, so next time Lord Li wants to visit Ouyang Daxianggong, you might as well go with me." Hearing that he insisted on going to Ouyang Xiuna, Li Hao understood, it seems that this guy will be transferred to the Privy Council when he returns to Beijing.
It's just that this guy was a little unlucky, and he happened to have an accident in the palace, which made Ouyang Xiu hide from it.
Otherwise, normally, if Wang Shiping went to visit, Ouyang Xiu would not turn him away. Just as Li Hao was thinking, Sheng Hong's words quickly confirmed Li Hao's conjecture: "Lord Wang was transferred to the Privy Council when he returned to Beijing this time, and he was appointed as a member of the Privy Council. Li Hao pretended to be suddenly enlightened, and said: "Yes, that's really congratulations to Lord Wang, in fact, it is not difficult for Ouyang Xianggong to speak, it turns out that Uncle Sheng has also done something in front of Ouyang Xianggong, and he also knows this." Moreover, Ouyang Daxianggong has always admired Mrs. Wang, and deeply regrets that he did not see Mrs. Wang's demeanor, so Lord Wang's appointment will be smooth sailing. Hearing this, Lord Wang was very happy and said, "Yes, it turns out that Grand Minister Ouyang respects my father so much, and I really thank Lord Li for reminding me today." Hearing this, Li Hao responded with a smile on his face, but he thought in his heart: Ghost remind you, how do I know if Ouyang Xiuchong reveres your father.
But anyway, as long as you put the name of your father's master, Ouyang Xiu will have to pretend for a while. It's just that after he finishes loading, see that your brother is relying on his father, if he doesn't have any strength, you can wait for the good fruit to eat.
Then the few people didn't talk about business anymore, but talked about interesting things in Bianjing, so that Li Jian could also join in to talk, so as not to be embarrassed to sit next to him.
Then soon the meal was ready, and everyone went to the front hall to eat together, and after the meal everyone was gone.
However, it can be clearly seen that when leaving the Sheng Mansion, Wei Shi seemed a little unhappy, and it must have been on the side of the female roll, something had happened.
Just looking at Zhang Guifen's appearance, it didn't look like she was being bullied, so she didn't ask in a hurry.
Instead, he waited for the carriage, and on the way home, Li Hao got up Zhang Guifen: "Is there something wrong with Aunt Kang over there, why does my mother look a little unhappy." In fact, as soon as Zhang Guifen got in the car, she planned to share the matter with Li Hao, but she was a little reserved, so she wanted to wait for Li Hao to ask.
As soon as Li Hao asked, Zhang Guifen confessed to him. Originally, when a few people first entered, everything was fine, but then Hua Lan mentioned it, saying that the marriage of Minglan and Rulan at home was about to be done.
Then I heard that Aunt Kang began to stir up trouble, saying that the concubine married better than the concubine, and that the eldest lady Wang was really good to Minglan .
If you don't know, you still think that Rulan is a concubine, and Minglan is a concubine. Speaking of this, Zhang Guifen stopped and said: "To be honest, I am also quite curious about this matter, originally I was talking about marrying the daughter of the Sheng family, I also thought it was Rulan, but I didn't expect that it was Minglan in the end." Li Hao saw that Zhang Guifen was curious, so he explained to her what happened, and after listening, Zhang Guifen couldn't help but say: "Gu Tingye's trick is really bad, this is forcing the Sheng family to nod." Li Hao said: "No way, who made Gu Tingye's reputation in Bianjing so bad, without any way, the old lady of the Sheng family will not nod." If he had a reputation like mine, he wouldn't have to do any of these things. Zhang Guifen smiled after hearing this: "You just want to find an opportunity to praise yourself." Li Hao laughed and said nothing, but Zhang Guifen reacted and said, "You know this matter so clearly, didn't you collude with Gu Tingye a long time ago." Li Hao replied: "I really don't know about his trick of cheating marriage, and I will still be in Yangzhou at that time." But he did tell me at the beginning that I knew what his nature was, so I had a little idea. But don't tell my mother about this, or she'll have to beat me to death. Hearing this, Zhang Guifen smiled sweetly, and this feeling of keeping a secret together made her extremely happy.
But she still held back her mood and continued: "Of course, what you just said about cheating on marriage, of course Mrs. Wang will not say it to her face. So he said that Rulan had already been decided, and when Gu Tingye came to ask for it, only Minglan would be left, and Minglan was now recorded in her name, and she was also a concubine. But that Aunt Kang is indomitable, saying that the difference between this concubine and the concubine is worlds apart, and what kind of concubine is noble. Humble and despicable. It was this that made my mother-in-law angry, and then I remembered that you once said that this Sheng Hong was born as a concubine, and he was only raised by his mother-in-law. So she said it, and then Mrs. Wang told Aunt Kang to shut up. But then she showed off her family background, so I can let her compare, my family is a prince for generations, and she can be compared. Besides, he doesn't look at the current situation of King Kang's two families, the official positions of the two families are not as big as yours, why should he compare with my father. Anyway, in the end, she was so angry that she wanted to spill it in public, but in the end she was stopped by Mrs. Wang, otherwise I would have to make her suffer a little. Let her know that I, the tiger girl, have no fake kung fu. Hearing this, Li Hao laughed, but after laughing, it was a little strange, since Mrs. Wang was present, how could she still let the situation develop like this.
Then he asked, "When you were talking, was Mrs. Wang not there, why didn't she stop you?" Zhang Guifen said: "Mrs. Wang was in front of her, but she was pulled to the inner room by Mrs. Sheng to talk." It is estimated that Mrs. Sheng doesn't like this Aunt Kang either, so this is to give me a chance to teach him a lesson. Li Hao was right when he thought about it, Mrs. Sheng was thoughtful and could do such a thing, so she didn't care, anyway, Li Hao didn't think that Aunt Kang would dare to really chase her to her house to take revenge on herself.
And soon Li Hao didn't have the time to care about such a trivial matter, because with Zhao Zhen's health recovery, he returned to the court.
He made a decree that surprised everyone.