Chapter 48: On the eve of the draft

The long winter has passed imperceptibly, and the family has had a lively and lively festive year, spring is blooming, summer is coming, and it is time for the draft.

Zhang Ruyan hugged the baby who was already able to stumble and speak, and sat on the bench under the vines, resting this travelogue on her knees, but her eyes did not fall on it, and she was a little distracted.

"Don't think about it so much, it's no wonder you, the so-called knowing people and faces don't know the heart, you have only seen the small side, how do you know if he is good or bad? He and I are amiable cousins, aren't we also deceived? ”

Mingde held the ice bowl, frowned, walked to Ruyan's side, first raised his eyes and glanced in the direction of the West Chamber, and then comforted softly.

A few years ago, Mingde specially inquired about the cousin Ma Yuxiang's personality, and the result of the inquiry, almost everyone praised his character, Wu Shuangquan, the most rare thing is that this person is seventeen years old, and there is no room maid in the house, Mingde listens to it and feels a little moved, he also wants his baby sister to marry in the future, to be able to reconcile with the husband and wife, raise eyebrows, if the uncle does not take a concubine, does not love women, of course it would be good.

But he didn't expect that he had just had such a thought, and before he had time to calculate, there were vague rumors in the capital, saying that Ma Yuxiang and Zhiyun were a match made in heaven, so Mingde was a little annoyed, although he had a little meaning, but his sister's name mattered, these eight characters have not been skimmed, and my sister has not even participated in the draft

Mingde was resentful and annoyed at home, but the next moment, he didn't know what to say - but in the past two days, the rumors in the capital have changed again, no, this time it is not just rumors - that Ma Yuxiang seems to have become a shameless narcissist, today he ran to Lord Wang's door and said that he asked to marry a young lady in someone's house, and tomorrow he ran to the mansion of the prince of the county and said that he had fallen in love with someone else's Gege, and the day after tomorrow he kissed me and me on the street with a small play, and the little play was still a man.

Okay, now the capital is lively, there are very few entertainment activities in this era, the idle Eight Banners brothers, in addition to walking birds and fighting dogs, are not only left Zhang's family Li Jiaxiao gossip and gossip, as a result, the impeachment of the imperial historians flew to the front of the palace like snowflakes, and the elders of the entangled Miss Gege were also indignant, eager to drag the little out of the five horses and divide the corpse, and the old lady of the Ma family was even more angry and half dead......

As soon as this drama came out, Mingde and Zhang Ruyan were afraid of a cold sweat, but fortunately, no one remembers what the rumors were at the beginning. My sister was also taken out early......

It wasn't until the Chinese New Year that Ma Yuxiang disappeared from everyone's gossip menu. Of course, his people also disappeared, and I heard that he was detained at home by the Ma family to recuperate, but no one cared about what the fate was.

At this moment, Zhiyun naturally didn't know that her brother and sister-in-law were worried about their own affairs, because Ouyang was resting today, so she was pulling Ouyang to sit in the library, designing a congratulatory gift for the old immortal Weng who was the master of Zhiyun when she got married.

Zhiyun looked at the renderings on the computer, he was quite satisfied, the half-human-tall ginseng fruit, the luxury carriage pulled by the green dragon were all prepared by Zhiyun, the ginseng fruit was not very effective, but the golden appearance was absolutely shocking, although the metal green dragon could only fly at low altitude, and the speed was far less than Zhiyun's flying carpet or flying car, but the shape was like a real dragon, usually hovering on the wall of the car to decorate, stretching out, more than five meters long, very majestic...... I think I can deter Kangxi.

However, these are the most conspicuous, but not the most important, the other pair of 'Shunfeng Ears' and a pair of 'Transmission Arrays' are the things that Ouyang wants to use in the name of the so-called congratulatory gifts, and Zhengda Guangming has made them useful - 'Shunfeng Ears' is the magic crystal mobile phone, and the 'Transmission Array' is the space teleportation array, but it is currently restricted from transmitting items, not people.

Ouyang wants to control the logistics and communications of this era, and the significance of this does not need to be said, Zhiyun also understands it, so he naturally supports it greatly.

There are two handfuls of blue forget-me-nots in the vase, this kind of tiny, almost grass-like flowers, is Ouyang's favorite. In the past, Zhiyun didn't like it very much, she preferred bright flowers, but in this era, she saw more prosperity, and she fell in love with this kind of simple thing.

The Cool Ice Array was operating quietly, the library was cool and pleasant, Zhiyun hooked the corners of his mouth and watched Ouyang seriously modify the design drawings of the 'Transfer Array' in the computer, and couldn't help but smile: "Although this drawing is said to be a congratulatory gift to the emperor, but in the entire Qing Dynasty, we can only read it, in the emperor's heart, only I can understand, why are you so serious......

Ouyang was stunned for a moment, and then remembered, but no, this is not teaching apprentices and preparing lesson plans, when the time comes, it will be a mysterious big scroll, anyway, except for the two of them, others can't understand the things inside, and Ouyang simply didn't get it, learning from Zhiyun's example, he leaned back and fell on the soft backrest of the sofa - "There is still a little half a month before the draft......"

"Well, let the floating city rise into the air tomorrow night, and when I go to the palace, don't forget to take care of the stealth shield, but don't let it open in advance." Zhiyun explained, looked at his boss and nodded in agreement, and suddenly smiled, "You can make Ma Yuxiang miserable enough, I thought he was a philanthropic person, but after making trouble for a long time, our Lord Ouyang's methods are also very powerful." ”

Ouyang Wen's face was not a little embarrassed - who let the Ma family actually ignore the girl's reputation and use such dirty methods, the so-called rumors are fiercer than tigers, if Zhiyun really let the rumors ruin their reputation, I am afraid that even if he marries into their Ma family, he will not be able to raise his head, besides, he just used a piece of temptation spar to magnify Ma Yuxiang's thoughts hidden in the depths of his heart several times, if he is really a righteous man, then his own way to deal with it will not do anything to him, it can only be said that he himself is not upright.

It is strange to say that Mingde has not explicitly refused to marry the Ma family, why would they be eager to resort to such methods? Is there some other reason for this? In this regard, Zhiyun still has some doubts, but there have been many things recently, and such unimportant matters have been postponed as a matter of course.

After being busy for a long time, Zhiyun looked at the hour, and when it was time for dinner, she let Ouyang go back, and she also turned off the computer and went out.

Outside the corridor outside the west chamber, the waiter sits on the stone bench under the shade of the tree embroidery, she has a good craft, and later was trained by October, at this time the embroidered geese are vivid, they have seen it, they are also very satisfied, next to the sword is kicking the shuttlecock, at this time the sun is slanting westward, but in the end it is very hot, she kicked for a while, sweat beads splashed everywhere, ran over and picked up a bowl of chilled sour plum soup on the table and poured a big gulp.

The face of the servant sword is ruddy, the spirit is flying, the smile on his face has never faded, the servant has been looking at it for a long time, his heart is soft, they finally came out, the three lords of Guarjia Mansion are all good people, not only do they not beat or scold, but also eat with them, all of them are boutiques, I am afraid that they are not a few points worse than other people's young ladies, I have only been here for a long time, and the scars left on my body before have been eliminated by the extremely precious pearl-white alabaster that I knew when I smelled it, and now only a faint mark was left, Not only has his appearance become brighter, but his body has also become much healthier.

The benefits of Guerjia Mansion are really countless, not to mention the crystal lamps on the walls of the trees at home, the warm floors in winter and cool in summer, and the toilet that automatically flushes with water when you pull the rope...... All kinds of extraordinary things, she has never seen before, just say that they have just entered the house, each of them also has two sets of gemstone head jewelry, such treatment, she never dreamed of before, the waiter exhaled, remembering the New Year's Lord's grace, let her and the sword go home to see.

That day, she took home a hundred big coins, more than ten taels of silver, some big wool clothes rewarded by the Lord, a pair of white jade bracelets, two jade hairpins and half a ginseng, and the sick old mother cried on the spot, thinking that she had stolen the things of the master's house, and was so frightened that she hugged her and wailed, and the eldest brother had to pack up her things overnight and wanted to send her away, for fear that she would be caught and killed by the master's family, and finally she swore a curse, which made the mother and eldest brother believe that these things were really rewarded by the master's family, not stolen by her......

After explaining clearly, the mother finally smiled, and the waiter was sour at that time, but looking at the old mother who had been able to sit up from the bed and the thin and sensible younger brother, she was very happy, this family had a head start.

If the family can get by, who is willing to sell their sons and daughters? At that time, their father, who was the main strong laborer, died of illness, and the mother was also too sad and fell ill in bed, and the brother and younger brother were not in good health, which was no way, so the mother cried and handed her over to the tooth wife.

She will never forget her mother's grief-stricken expression......

In the first master's house, she finally rose step by step, from a rough girl to a second-class girl, during which she was beaten and scolded, that is all ordinary, just saw some hope for the future, the master's family in order to buy and sell in the south, but to move the family south, these unimportant little girls were all sold......

I used to always resent the injustice of fate, the sky has no eyes, the waiter smiled slightly, saw his own Gege lazily walking out of the door, hurriedly stretched out his hand to signal the sword to wipe his mouth, and the two of them stood up and greeted them - but, now that I think about it, this god still has eyes.