Chapter 373: Showdown

Xiao Rui stared at Cui Shouzhen's eyes playfully, and asked word by word: "Ling Ai really has a marriage contract with the son of the Wang family?" ”

You......

"Master Cui, I have thought clearly about the answer, I want to listen to the truth! The people of Chang'an call me Xiao Rui will be revenged, and the people of the grassland outside the Saiwai call me a spicy hand slaughter, and countless people have died at my hands, but what I hate the most is a liar full of lies! ”

Swindler? What do you mean? Do you dare to do it with me? Cui Shouzhen looked at Xiao Rui in disbelief.

"Don't worry, you are Chengqian's benefactor, and I, Xiao Rui, will not take revenge."

Bah! You won't take revenge? If you come to embarrass me and bring the prince to marry my daughter, you will take revenge.

"Taiyuan Wang? Even the five surnames and seven wangs are indeed huge, but so what? The family has a big business and a big worry, just find a reason to kill a few of them, just like playing, they can't do anything to me Xiao Rui. ”

Burst......

Don't be stingy, this is the special hob meat!

Thinking of Xiao Rui's various notorieties in Chang'an, Cui Shouzhen was afraid, so he could only say truthfully: "Let General Li come back, the little girl has never made a marriage contract with anyone." ”

"Oh...... So, rumors in the city? Xiao Rui pulled a long tone.

Cui Shouzhen brushed his sleeves and said: "That's my Cui family's family affairs, don't worry about it." ”

Xiao Rui smiled and said to Li Chengqian: "Chengqian, you go out first, I'll have a good talk with the Cui family master." ”

Li Chengqian knew that he was going to get down to business, so he walked out in a hurry, wanting to hide outside the door and eavesdropping, but he couldn't hear anything, so he had to wait anxiously, and from time to time he walked around the yard absentmindedly.

Xiao Rui swaggered and sat down in the living room, Cui Shouzhen had a headache for this scoundrel-like guest, and he couldn't drive it away, so he kept it to annoy me all day long, how could he provoke this evil star?

"Here, look at this thing, do you know the handwriting on it?"

Xiao Rui handed over the note, Cui Shouzhen took it, and immediately scolded angrily, "Ning'er, this dead girl, will really cause me trouble!" ”

Troublesome?

"Haha, Master Cui, your daughter is much more innocent than you. If you hadn't received this, you would have almost been fooled. ”

"It's not so much trouble as fate. The meeting between the two of them is fate. ”

Cui Shouzhen glanced at him, "The matter of marriage, the words of the matchmaker of the parents, what is the fate?" The Cui family doesn't talk about this. ”

"But I, Xiao Rui, will talk about this." Xiao Rui said domineeringly.

Cui Shouzhen said: "Master Hou wants to meddle in my Cui family's family affairs? ”

Xiao Rui said calmly: "Isn't it obvious enough?" Take Cheng Qian to marry your daughter, the purpose is very clear, I won't leave if no one gets it. ”

You......

"I don't agree with this father, can it be that you can still snatch people from the Qinghe Cui clan?"

Xiao Rui pointed to the note that was crumpled and thrown on the ground, "If it's a robbery, why should I give it to you?" I have already taken people away according to the address. Respect your family is the benefactor of Chengqian, so Ben Hou reasoned with you. ”

Reasonable? Oh, from beginning to end, I haven't explained the truth to you once.

Cui Shouzhen's face was full of sneers.

"What bullshit parents say? I Xiao Rui don't believe that. Of the three ladies I married, none of them were matchmakers. Since Cheng Qian and Ling Ai are in love, they should be together. The royal family and your Qinghe Cui clan are married, right? ”

Cui Shouzhen arched his hand and sneered: "I'm sorry, the lintel of the Cui clan in Qinghe is low, and it can't climb the royal family." ”

Xiao Rui got up slowly, his face fell, and he said solemnly: "Master Cui, I came with sincerity, and you don't give face like this?" ”

"Invite Ling Ai out, and we asked her face to face if she was willing to marry Cheng Qian. If she doesn't want to, we'll turn around and go. If she says yes, wouldn't it be good for the two families to be happy? ”

Seeing that Xiao Rui was serious, Cui Shouzhen didn't dare to persecute him too much, so he could only sigh and say truthfully: "Why should Master Hou be forced to force each other? The five surnames and seven wangs can't marry the royal family, it's not that you don't know this rule. ”

"The rules of bullshit, to put it bluntly, are that you look down on today's royal family and think that they are stained with Hu blood." Xiao Rui did not shy away from breaking it.

Li Tang is in the same vein, Li Yuan's mother is surnamed Dugu, and is a famous general of the Northern Zhou Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and a Xianbei clan. So Li Yuan has half of the Xianbei bloodline. When it comes to Li Shimin, it is a quarter of the Hu blood. Then Li Chengqian is one-eighth of the Hu blood.

The reason why the five surnames and seven hopes pay attention to marriage, alliance is one thing, and the bloodline theory also accounts for a very heavy proportion. They profess to be pure-blooded Han Chinese, and their blood is pure and noble.

During the Western Jin Dynasty, there was an internal struggle in the Eight Kings Rebellion, which seriously damaged the vitality and caused the northern Hu people to take the opportunity to invade the Central Plains in the south. Because of the devastation of the Five Hu Chaohua, the population of the country dropped sharply from 30 million at the end of the Han Dynasty to 3 million, and the idiom of ten rooms and nine emptiness appeared at that time. The Hu people not only slaughtered the Han people, but even more ruthlessly than those small days. Burning, killing, looting, and doing all kinds of evil, killing men, insulting women, and cooking them as food when they run out...... The allusion to the two-legged sheep is also from this era, and the darkness of this history is so dark that the history books dare not write it.

If it weren't for the fact that Ran Min, the king of martial mourning, held high the banner of righteousness, issued an order to kill Hu, and called on the Han people in the world to uncover the rod and resist, I am afraid that the Han people would be killed to the point of extinction.

It is precisely because of the humiliation and darkness of this period that the status of the pure blood of the Han people has been raised, perhaps the five surnames and seven hopes boast of themselves, but the people of the world still recognize this.

Cui Shouzhen was silent for a moment, motioned for Xiao Rui to sit down and said, the two sat down separately, and Cui Shouzhen also told the truth, "Master Hou, the bloodline issue is nothing, the royal family can sit firmly, who can say that they are not noble?" ”

"Today, I will open the skylight with Hou Ye and say that it is an agreement that the five surnames and seven wangs will not marry the royal family. For the unity and balance of the five surnames and seven hopes. Presumably Lord Hou should understand. ”

Xiao Rui took a leisurely sip of tea, of course he understood, but it didn't mean that he had nothing to say, "Really?" There are no exceptions? The crown prince Jiancheng married Zheng Guanyin, the niece of the former patriarch of the Zheng clan in Xingyang. ”

Cui Shouzhen's face became even more bitter, hesitated again and again, gritted his teeth and said, "This is indeed the case." But that was the result of the joint deliberation of the five surnames and seven hopes. ”

Oh? This is strange, the Zheng family marries a daughter, but the five surnames and seven families want to discuss together? As a co-chosen marriage bargaining chip? So why did you choose the Zheng family? No comments on others?

Seeing that Xiao Rui had to get to the bottom of it, Cui Shouzhen sighed: "This time and that time." At the end of the Sui Dynasty, there was chaos, smoke and dust were everywhere, and the five surnames and seven wangs were also watching and betting from time to time. In the end, after observation, it was decided to bet on supporting the Li Tang family in Taiyuan. ”

"Marriage is only a small part, and through marriage, we still support most of the money and food behind the scenes. The bargaining chip is not only that Li Tang sits on the world, but also that the next emperor must be the crown prince. ”

Burst......

Shocking melons! Xiao Rui swears, I really don't know about it, I've never heard of it. Did I hear something terrific? If you know more, will you be killed?