Yunzhu asked Forsythia, who was the most well-informed: "How old is Steward Chen?" ”

Forsythia thought for a moment and said, "Thirty-two-three? ”

Yunzhu looked at Steward Chen again.

Being able to do stewardship in the Ningguo Mansion, the Chen family's father and son's usual food and clothing are more exquisite than some rich peasants outside, they eat well, and the Chen steward is also good-looking, about seven feet seven, only one cut shorter than Cao Shao.

Today, Steward Chen wore a dark gray muslin round-necked robe, a cloth scarf on his head, and a black belt around his waist.

Just like many men look at women's faces first, here in Yunzhu, when she looks at a man, the first thing she looks at is his body.

"Call Steward Chen over."

Forsythia took the order and went along the garden path to ask for Steward Chen.

Steward Chen didn't see the girl swinging over there, thinking of the voice he had just made, he followed behind Forsythia and said worriedly: "Did I make a noise to the girl?" ”

Forsythia: "The girl isn't angry, it's just that I don't know what she's telling you to do." ”

They are all domestic servants, and she is in charge of Chen according to their age.

Soon, Steward Chen stood in front of Yunzhu.

There is a difference between respect and inferiority, and after Steward Chen finished his salute, he lowered his eyes respectfully, waiting for the little master's command.

Yun Zhu didn't say anything, only looked at Steward Chen from his forehead to his chin, and then from his left ear to his right ear.

The more quiet it was, the more it made Steward Chen panic, and he maintained a posture of bowing his head and quietly raising his eyes.

With this lift, a few fine lines appeared on the forehead.

Yunzhu: "...... Steward Chen, you smile. ”

Steward Chen looked dazed.

Forsythia: "The girl wants to see you laugh." ”

After all, Steward Chen is a subordinate, and he often laughs in front of his masters, and after being stunned, he naturally puts on a smiling face.

Yun Zhu saw the fine lines at the corners of his eyes, and his interest suddenly disappeared, and he asked Steward Chen to go on an errand.

Not to mention Steward Chen, the two maids were curious about what kind of medicine was sold in the girl's gourd: "Girl, why did you call Steward Chen over?" ”

Yunzhu shook her head.

She just wanted to see what a man in his thirties really looked like.

For Cao Xun, she was satisfied with his family background and talents, knowing that he was handsome, and she didn't observe Cao Xun's face too seriously after a few contacts, and later Cao Xun asked her to think carefully, Yunzhu suddenly thought of something related to the age of men, such as whether they had wrinkles on their faces, and whether the skin texture would be rougher than that of young people.

His father, Li Yong, was Yunzhu's main observer.

Yun Zhu was very relieved when she found that her forty-year-old father had no wrinkles and a handsome face, but just after seeing Steward Chen, Yun Zhu suddenly understood that men are different from men, and the maintenance of appearance may be related to nature, or it may be related to acquired living habits, and she can't judge how long Cao Xun will start to look old according to her father or Steward Chen.

However, Cao Xun is a martial artist like his father, and practicing martial arts can strengthen his body, presumably when Cao Xun is forty years old, he will not be much worse than his father?

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The four days passed in a flash, and in a blink of an eye it was the end of the month.

Yesterday it was gloomy, and when I woke up in the morning it was raining outside, and the clouds were not too strange.

The end of the month is a day off, and Li Yao can rarely share breakfast with his family.

Meng Shi looked at his eldest son, and then at his husband, who had been idle at home for five months, and couldn't help but sigh softly.

When her husband was just dismissed, she was trying to comfort her husband, and because Xiao Biesheng was newly married, she really didn't care about her husband losing his official position, anyway, the Ningguo Mansion had a family business that had been saved for more than 200 years, which was enough for several generations of an old family. But as time went on, her husband dangled in front of her every day, and she didn't have anything serious to do, and no matter how handsome her face was, Meng would get tired of seeing it.

Meng is reckless outside, but she also has a good face, and she will hope that her husband can have an errand, even if he is an errand like Sun Chao, the prince of Qi State, and he is also an official, so that her husband can have a place to display his talents.

"Brother Yao, you are on an errand in front of the emperor, has the emperor mentioned your father recently?" Meng Shi cared.

Li Yong's hand holding the chopsticks paused slightly.

Li Yao glanced at his father and shook his head.

Meng's heart is cold, and he has been with a friendship for more than 30 years, Emperor Yuanqing really wants to abandon his husband?

Li Xiandao: "Make up for it, even if the emperor wants to use his father, he needs to wait for the opportunity." ”

Meng Shi said worriedly: "Only when you have an errand can you make meritorious service, and if you don't have an errand, you don't even have the opportunity to make meritorious service." ”

Whether the husband can restore his grace is also related to whether his daughter can marry a husband who is satisfactory in all aspects, she is already eighteen, can she not be in a hurry?

Li Yong ate slowly.

He can understand his wife's feelings, and he doesn't blame her for being in a hurry.

In fact, if he is thick-skinned and goes to the palace to cry in front of the emperor, with the emperor's benevolent temper, he will be rewarded with an official position.

It was Li Yong who didn't want to do that.

Yunzhu looked at her mother, then at her father, and said her own suggestion: "Daddy, my mother and brother's words are reasonable, the opportunity has to wait, but you also have to take the initiative to fight for it, the emperor did not send you an errand, you can go out and find it yourself." In the whole world, it is not the king's land, even if the city wall is missing a brick and you help make up for it, it is also to help the emperor repair the city wall, and if you accumulate a lot of small work, it will also become a great achievement. ”

Just staying at home and waiting for the subjects to forget his father's defeat, or hoping that one day Emperor Yuanqing will suddenly miss his father so he will give the official, it is too passive.

Li Yong's eyes lit up, he had lived half his life in vain, and he didn't have a daughter to see through!

"I see," he said, looking at his wife, "don't worry, I'll earn myself some errands and come back." ”

Meng Shi was suddenly sad, she couldn't get used to seeing her husband not wanting to make progress, but she felt distressed when she thought that the dignified grandfather had to run around looking for opportunities.

Li Yong was aroused by his daughter's fighting spirit, and regardless of whether it was sunny or rainy outside, he put on his coat and rode out on horseback, and before leaving, he also explained that he didn't have to wait for him for lunch, and he would not come back until the evening.

Li Yao was dumbfounded: "Father won't really go to repair the city wall, right?" ”

Meng Shi said in disgust: "Are you stupid, the walls of the capital are watched every day, and if there is really damage, someone will make up for it on the same day, and you still have to wait for your father to make meritorious contributions?" ”

Li Yao touched his nose and felt that his mother was too partial, and she always spoke softly to her father, so she reprimanded him at will.

Yunzhu leaned over to her mother and asked, "Mother, I want to go shopping on the street, and I won't come back for lunch." ”

Meng: "Do you have to do it today?" It's inconvenient to rain a lot. ”

Yunzhu: "It's only when it rains that there is a sense of meaning, and there are fewer people on the street." ”

Meng agreed, and asked his two sons to accompany his daughter.

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There is a "Forget Worry Teahouse" in the capital, the tea is good, but the most famous is the storyteller inside, talking about the book is full of fun, every day there are people who run to drink tea in order to listen to him.

The Yunzhu brothers and sisters spent more than an hour in the teahouse.

Leaving the teahouse, it was still two quarters of an hour before noon.

Yunzhu said: "Let's eat in Taihe Building later, my brother will go to Zhan Ya Room first, and my brother will accompany me to buy a few pieces of jewelry." ”

Taihelou is also one of the big restaurants in the capital, separated from the drunken immortal residence by more than a dozen shops.

Li Yao thought that he could go to drink first, agreed, and handed the purse to Forsythia, meaning to ask his sister to spend his silver.

Yunzhu casually picked a jewelry building, picked and chosen, and half an hour passed.

Li Xian was a little worried that his eldest brother would have drunk wine for half an hour, but seeing that his sister was choosing jewelry with great interest, he didn't say anything to urge.

After spending a few hundred taels of silver tickets, Yunzhu was finally satisfied and took his younger brother into the carriage.

Yun Zhu deliberately sat and waited for a while to see the side of the Drunken Immortal Residence.

The carriage whirled along the stone path, and the clouds opened a curtain slightly, and a drizzle of cow's hair drifted in with the breeze.

Putting down the curtain, Yunzhu opened the jewelry box, played with a butterfly hairpin, and asked his younger brother: "Are you hungry?" ”

Li Xian shook his head, just slightly hungry.

Yunzhu teased him: "If you were a lady from another family, would you have the patience to accompany her to choose jewelry for so long?" ”

Li Xian still shook his head.

Yun Zhu smiled: "Ordinary ladies are not good, when you meet someone you like, you must be willing." ”

Li Xian, who was just fourteen years old, didn't think about the relationship between children at all, and he didn't really understand why his sister made such a joke.

When the carriage was about to pass by the Drunken Immortal Residence, Yunzhu instructed the coachman: "Go to the Drunken Immortal Residence and buy a jar of immortals to get drunk." ”

"Yes."

The carriage stopped, the coachman jumped down to buy wine, and Yunzhu lifted the curtain on the right side and looked up at the private room on the second floor of the row of drunken immortals on the street.

In a private room upstairs, Cao Xun had already finished his meal and drank tea slowly.

Ah Jiu saw that the master looked out of the window from time to time, only when the master was enjoying the rain, he was actually aroused by Yaxing. In the spring of the border pass, the wind is strong and the sand is blowing, far less prosperous than the capital, look at the rows of shops outside the window, look at the misty drizzle, and even the men and women passing by with umbrellas on the street are like a painting.

At this time, a blue-curled carriage slowly stopped downstairs.

Ah Jiu's eyes were very good, and he said unexpectedly: "It's the carriage of the Ningguo Mansion." ”

Hearing this, Cao Xun held the tea in one hand, lowered his eyes and looked downstairs, and saw the coachman walking quickly into the Drunken Immortal Residence, and saw the curtain of the carriage pick up a corner, revealing a light and dusty beauty face.

The beauty also saw him, and the moment her eyes met, she quickly lowered the curtain as if she was abrupt by the disciple.

Soon, the coachman got into the carriage with a jar of wine and drove away slowly.

Cao Xun watched the carriage go away and smiled faintly.

He asked her to show up, and she did.

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On the first day of the fourth month of the next day, hundreds of civil and military officials went to court.

Although Cao Xun is young, his military exploits have been better than Xie Zhen and other elder generals, and he is old and scheming, Emperor Yuanqing personally awarded him the official position of the governor of the military capital of Zhengyipin, and other officials were all convinced.

Some queens can bring glory and grace to the family, and put them in the Cao family of Dingguo Mansion, which is the outstanding military exploits of three generations of ancestors and grandchildren, and only then did the daughter of the Cao family be crowned queen.

When the new official took office, Cao Xun was busy with official business, and he walked two quarters of an hour later than others in the evening, and ordered the coachman to go directly to the Ningguo Mansion.

He changed back into his robe in the carriage.

Yunzhu's family was sitting in Zhenghe Hall, and the kitchen had just put the food on the table.

Yunzhu looked out the door, and the last trace of the sunset was about to disappear.

Cao Xun, is this guy going to come to discuss with his father in a few days, or is he angry because she went to the appointment too late yesterday?

Yunzhu doesn't regret it, going too early will make her seem anxious and hating to marry, even her younger brother has the patience to accompany her to pick out jewelry, Cao Xun wants to marry her home, what is it to wait for half an hour?