Zhou Wenjun is now on the ladies' banquet where the girls of the Zhou family and relatives and friends gather, placed in the garden, quite a distance away from General Wednesday's courtyard.

Begonia followed Zhou Yijun all the way over, passing through two courtyards full of guests on the way, as well as a long corridor with hand-copying, occasionally dotted with some small scenery of flowers, trees, mountains and stones, but it will not be boring.

Zhou Yijun informed Haitang of the latest news by the way: "Sister Wenjun took Sister Yuqi of the Peng family over." Sister Peng has been living at home for a few days, and she has not been in a good mood, and she didn't want to come out to participate in the banquet today, for fear that someone would chew her tongue. Sister Wenjun and I had a lot of effort to convince her to relent. However, because I was worried that there would be uninteresting people talking to Sister Peng about the Jin family, Sister Wenjun didn't plan to play with others, just let me come to you, and a few of our acquaintances just sat together and talked quietly. ”

Haitang patronized and cared about other things for a few days in a row, and asked her if the news of Jin Jiashu's family was okay, and she didn't know anything about the other Jin family in Chang'an City recently.

Haitang asked Zhou Yijun, and Zhou Yijun told her what was going on.

Peng Yuqi's maternal family, the Jin family, took her to Chang'an City on the grounds that her grandmother, Mrs. Jin, was seriously ill, nominally to serve the sick, but in fact, it was for her to get along with her own child Jin Shanduo.

The Jin family used to be a famous family in Chang'an City, and they used to look down on Peng Tongzhi, a son-in-law from an ordinary background. But now it is different from the past, Peng Tongzhi has become the commander of Tongzhi from the second grade, but the Jin family has gone downhill after the death of the older generation, and now the brothers in charge are just five or six small military attachés, relying on the shadow of their fathers to support the face of the big family, but their ability is limited. In order to revive the lintel of the family, they urgently need to marry a prominent in-law for their children.

Peng Yuqi, the granddaughter of the Jin family, is the best candidate that the Jin family can contact, and she is also the most certain. After all, except for the Peng family, who has been stationed in Ganzhou for many years, the generals in Chang'an City know the details of the Jin family very well, and they will not easily let go of their daughters and marry their daughters.

It's a pity that due to the Jin family's indifference to their daughter and son-in-law in the past, and the disregard for their granddaughter Peng Yuqi after the death of Peng Tongzhi's wife, they are now not sure to directly propose marriage, so they can only let Mrs. Jin play the emotional card and use the illness as an excuse to bring Peng Yuqi to the Jin family in Chang'an.

The Jin family seems to have great confidence in their grandson Jin Shan, thinking that as long as Peng Yuqi and Jin Shan get along for a long time, they will be tempted by him, so they take the initiative to open up to their father and ask to marry this cousin. With Peng Tongzhi's love for his daughter, it is very likely that he will agree. Then the Jin family doesn't need to worry about the Peng family refusing.

Zhou Yijun whispered to Haitang: "That Jin Shan, I heard that he looks very good, looks like a dog, has a gentle and kind temperament, and has been reading since he was a child, and it is said that he can write poems at a young age!" I haven't met him, but Sister Wenjun and they have seen each other since childhood, and there are many girls who are about the same age as us who say he is good. However, Sister Peng has been with him for a while, but she feels that he is a bit inconsistent. It's not that he has a bad character, it's that he ...... looks gentle and easy to speak, but in fact, he is very domineering, he is used to saying one thing and the other, and he can't tolerate disobedience from others, and he has been spoiled by his family since he was a child......"

Peng Yuqi is a girl with a lot of ideas and strength, how can she accept such a life partner? The cousins and sisters were okay when they first met, everyone was amiable, and there was no contradiction, but after a long time, no matter how good they could act, they would also show their flaws, not to mention the young Jin Shan? Peng Yuqi saw his true nature from his daily interactions with his brothers and sisters and girls, and immediately shook his head.

She took out the excuse that men and women had different things, deliberately alienated Jin Shan, and under the banner of caring about her grandmother's condition, she specially invited a famous doctor in Chang'an City to come to treat Mrs. Jin, and revolved around the latter every day, and even boiled medicine with her own hands and fed the medicine herself. On the one hand, this is to emphasize his "filial piety", and on the other hand, he also wants Jin Shanzhi to retreat. He has been pampered since he was a child, he is used to living a good life, he doesn't eat food that is not delicious, and he will never be able to put on his body if his clothes are not incense, so how can he endure the smell of smoked medicine?

Unexpectedly, Jin Shan stayed away from the bitter medicine, but after Mrs. Jin's illness was announced by the doctor to be "cured", it stuck again. He seemed to like Peng Yuqi very much, and wanted to be close to her every day, to talk to her, to play with her, to write poems and paintings for her, and to buy her many interesting gadgets or delicate jewelry.

But the problem is that he does these things and preaches them to everyone. Whether it is the Jin family, or people outside the Jin family, they all know that he is interested in the cousin of the Peng family. The people who wanted to come to the door to say goodbye automatically retreated, but Peng Yuqi had to suffer from the rumors.

She had no choice but to claim that her grandmother had recovered, that she had completed her task of serving the sick, and that she could go home to be filial to her father, and that she was going to leave. Helplessly, the New Year has arrived, even if she is not afraid of traveling thousands of miles in winter, it is impossible for the Jin family to let her leave at this time.

To be more precise, before she nodded and agreed to the marriage, the Jin family would find an excuse to keep her.

Jin Shan had been running to her residence every day since the beginning of the year, and if it hadn't been for the girls' mothers-in-law to stop him, he would have even broken into her bedroom without reporting, even if it was early in the morning. She accused him of being rude and abrupt, and he said aggrievedly that he just wanted to be close to his cousin. And even if she makes trouble in front of her grandmother, Mrs. Jin will only help her grandson - the Jin family originally intended to promote the marriage between the two families, and only those who provide convenience for Jin Shan will definitely not hinder him from acting.

Peng Yuqi was worried that her refusal to marry the Jin family would make the Jin family dog jump over the wall and do something to destroy her reputation, so she quietly sent a letter to her friend according to the method agreed with Zhou Wenjun in advance. After Zhou Wenjun received the letter, he immediately took someone to the Jin family to "visit friends" in person, and then without waiting for Mrs. Jin to react, she found an excuse to pull the person away, and she didn't even bother to bring her luggage, no matter how many times the Jin family sent someone to pick her up, she refused to send Peng Yuqi back.

The Jin family didn't dare to offend the Zhou family now, so they had to stop for the time being. But how long can Peng Yuqi live in Zhou's house? Can it last until the beginning of spring, and Peng Tongzhi sent someone to pick up his daughter back to Ganzhou?

Zhou Yijun whispered to Haitang: "In the past two days, someone has come to the Zhenguo Mansion to talk to a few aunts and aunts, saying that Sister Wenjun detained other people's daughters without permission, which is really not like words. Several aunts and aunts ignored them, but the second aunt once said that Sister Wenjun was causing trouble to the family, and asked her to send Sister Peng back, saying that it is not a bad thing for the Peng and Jin families to be close to each other, and the Jin family will not treat their own granddaughter badly, and Jin Shan is also better than the boys outside, at least gentle and caring, and there is no need to go to the border to guard the ......"

Haitang raised an eyebrow when she heard this: "Did Mrs. Tuesday say that?" Does she have any friendship with the Jin family? "Otherwise, why would Mrs. Tuesday risk offending Peng Tongzhi for the sake of a weak Jin family?

Zhou Yijun blinked, lowered his voice and said: "I heard that the Jin family has a daughter who married into the Tang family, although she is a side branch, she still fills the house, but she is very good at making sycophants, and the second aunt was very happy a few days ago......

Begonias are clear.

It seems that this is the reason why Mrs. Tuesday will speak for the Kim family.

I really don't have a backache when I stand and talk. If Mrs. Tuesday was so optimistic about Jin Shan, why didn't she see the Tang family marrying their daughter to him?

You must know that the Tang family, as the maiden family of the Duchess of Zhenguo, is also one of the most famous families in Chang'an City! If the Jin family is expected to marry the Tang family, how can they look down on Peng Yuqi? From the identity of the daughter of the commander of the second grade, where can she compare with the family background of the daughter of the Tang family?

(End of chapter)