When the men looking for water came back, the two eldest ladies were in a hurry, and they had already prepared three or four pots of vegetables and a large pot of rice, beckoning everyone to start eating.

Under the hillside, in the leeward place, mules, horses and carts form a semicircle, a straw mat is spread on the sand in the center of the circle, and a low table is placed on the straw mat, Zhang Xiuxian led the two eldest ladies to serve the food to the low table, placed the "old lady deer" and "old man deer" to eat, and waited for Dong Yong to wash, let him accompany the two old men to the head, and then took the "youngest son" Qin Muye to the carriage to accompany the "daughters" to eat;

The leader of the guards, a man named Zhang Zixiang, who was about forty years old, rough on the outside, but very fine on the inside, was able to drill into the camp, at this time he sat on a corner of the straw mat with a bowl, faced Xiaobai, and talked loudly with rice crumbs:

"Old lady Lu, let me say more: these two girls in your family should have hearts and eyes, and they should look good, and the eldest grandmother should hire two little girls to follow her closely, and raise them more finely. The eldest girl is an adult, right? The second girl is also thirteen or fourteen, right? You haven't said anything about the others, right? If you want me to say, you old people are too careless. When this trip is completed and you return to Kyoto, why don't you let your relatives, the immortal Yun family, right? Let the people of the Yun family tell the eldest girl that she is a rich man's family, and she is a talented person who is in charge of the house; and tell the second girl that she is a big family, she has a good temper, even if she is a concubine, it is better than being a concubine and running with you to run business, eating sand and drinking wind along the way! Just two squeamish people like the two girls, where can they endure this hardship? They are the only people, and they don't have to suffer this hardship! You, don't you delay the child!"

Zhang Zixiang is one of the eight disciples of Hu Sihai, the master of the Hujia Martial Arts Hall in Kyoto, Chasing Cloud Country. Hujia Martial Arts Hall is the largest and strongest martial arts hall in Chasing Cloud Country, and there are branch museums in all major county towns, and the martial artists in the hall are all brave. The main business of the Hujia Martial Arts Hall is to open the museum and teach apprentices, and the second is to undertake the bodyguards and guards of the DPRK and Chinese officials and large merchants and caravans. A small-scale, family-type caravan like the Lu family could not hire a martial artist from the Hu Family Martial Arts Pavilion to escort them, but this time Zhang Zixiang was actually sent to escort them, because the owner of the pavilion, Hu Sihai, had some personal relations with the head of the Yun family, and was entrusted by the head of the Yun family, but it was only arranged for the sake of face.

Xiaobai listened to Zhang Zixiang's lofty argument and said with a smile: "How can they have such ability? Don't tear down the bones of the children of the rich and wealthy families and the big families, and give the house to the rest! Hmph, and make people concubines? No one is worthy of being ancestors for others!"

"That's not what I said. Why can't you be worthy? Although your family background is a little worse, and the girl is a little more delicate, but she can't help but grow well. I'm an elder, so I shouldn't have said that, but I've lived for more than 40 years, and I've seen a lot of the world, and I've never seen a girl who looks better than yours! Don't those children of wealthy families pay attention to a beautiful wife and concubine? As long as you keep saying something, I will help them all talk about being a good family when I break my leg!"

"Aha, I'm not saying that they don't deserve others, I'm saying that others don't deserve them. Lao Zhang, don't bother about this. Our little Lingyun is a little Susu, that's not a big girl, it's a little ancestor. How can they give people what kind of wives and concubines? That is, if someone asks them to be their ancestors, they still have to look at the person, and if it is not that person, they are not rare. You can be your guards in peace, and let them be old girls for the rest of their lives!"

Zhang Zixiang blinked, only to understand that this "old lady" was unreliable, and decisively ignored him, turned his head and said to the wind and water: "Old man Lu, don't hide it from you, I know a few officials, old men and rich people, if you can trust me, the relatives of the eldest girl and the second girl will cover me!"

The wind and water smiled silently, unfathomable.

"Master Lu, what do you say? Children pay attention to the life of their parents, and the words of the matchmaker, my old Zhang has a lot of tongues today, waiting for your words!" Zhang Zixiang turned to Dong Yong again.

"Ahh Dong Yong looked up at the incense car of the two senior aunts, and said with difficulty out of the corner of his eyes: "Wealthy families, we are not worthy, and besides, there are also ancestors in the family, and the ancestors do not allow the daughters of the Lu family to be concubines." That, Captain Zhang, thank you for worrying, their family affairs will not be troublesome. ”

"No, what's the trouble, hey, don't be in a hurry to refuse, listen to me first: Gu Taiwei Gu Changhai, you know, right? Let's chase the head of the military attache of the Yun Kingdom, the current Tai Lieutenant, the official is big enough, right? His eldest son Gu Hu was promoted to general of Fengjie last year, and was transferred to the northwest to guard the border, and the eldest daughter-in-law stayed in the capital to preside over the housekeeping. Zhang Zixiang raised his eyes and swept away the little white wind:

"Who is the only son of her family's third room, guess what? It's the Wen Tanhua that she just ordered on the Spring Festival this year, her name is Gu Mingde, remember it? This Gu Mingde, who is only twenty-five years old this year, is from a family of military generals, who knows that Wen Ju is also a blockbuster! It's a pity that the daughter-in-law she married is the little county lord of Qingfeng in Qingyang County's family, and she has been sick and weak since she was a child, and she can't give birth to children, and the Gu family has no way to have children, so she asked my sister to pay attention to her, and I want to hire a good look, good temper, and strong body to continue the bloodline. Other people's concubines are bought, but his family is hired. Hire, do you know? The concubine who was hired back is also called a flat-headed wife, and there is not much difference between her and her main wife! When my sister talked to us, she sighed that a few of us had not given birth to a good-looking girl! I will go all the way, just see that the second girl of your family is a kind person, born with a good appearance, a strong body, and a smart person, so she should go to this family to be a flat-headed wife!" Zhang Zixiang said that he was excited, and put the bowl on the ground, the soup splashed, and the chopsticks fell into the soil, he didn't care about it, and said loudly with his dancing hands:

"What ancestral precepts are not ancestral precepts! Rules are dead, but people are alive! Isn't that right? The ancestors also want their children and grandchildren to live a good life! Isn't that right?! If the second girl becomes the flat-headed wife of this Gu Tanhua, a talented and beautiful woman, how many are romantic! The children born in the future will all be nobles! She is out of the woods, don't you follow the light? Even if your family can't be the little nobleman's foreign family, it is also the flesh and blood of the little nobleman, isn't it? At least the least, you can also earn the future of your little young master! How good is this? Fools push it out!!"

"Bang bang. A few crisp applause sounded, the carved door of the incense car opened, Wu Lingyun stretched out her wonderful mantis head, bent her beautiful moth eyebrows, clapped her hands and smiled at Zhang Zixiang:

"Captain Zhang, this is a great family business, thank you for thinking about my sister. I am in charge of our family's affairs, and we should do this family business! But I have one condition, I will follow my sister when she gets married. I heard that Gu Tanhua is a fairy couple, Gu Tanhua is a gentleman like jade, and the lord of Qingfeng County is virtuous and virtuous, but the fly in the ointment is that he has no children, and the concubines in the family are dying in succession. As for me, I admire their husband and wife, and I want to be edified with the past, and accompany my sister by the way. ”

Zhang Zixiang was stunned for a moment and persuaded: "Big girl, what do you mean...... But the Gu family is only willing to hire one concubine, both of them are married, I don't know if the Gu family is willing or not. Besides, it's a pity to be a concubine for people with such talent and appearance, and you should marry into a rich family's family to be a lady and run the family for them!"

A beautiful little head stretched out from the carved car door, and said with a smile: "Uncle Zhang, how can I see that my sister can be a lady, and I can only be a concubine? You may not know, I am much more fierce than my sister!"

"Yes, yes, yes! She's a little liar, and she's the best at sticking onions in her nose -- pretending to be an elephant! Otherwise, if I marry Gu Tanhua, I'll meet this fairy couple and let her marry into a rich family. ”

"That...... The Gu family wants to hire a beautiful concubine with a good temper, a strong body, and a good child, you are beautiful enough, this, temper, you, aren't you, not very good?" Zhang Zixiang said that he really couldn't imagine that the eldest girl of this family would be so spicy and direct, and she would snatch her sister's good relatives in person, and the second girl of this family was sent by the sister of the same mother on weekdays, and she couldn't wipe her face away at the critical time of being a parent, seeing that her sister didn't do a word about her own relatives, just like her, how many days can she live in the Gu family?

But what can he do, Grandma Gu saw the two sisters in the Yun family, and fell in love with the second girl. Zhang Zixiang rubbed the stubble on his chin and pointed at Zhang, his big eyes turned around twice in his sockets, and he had an idea:

"Big girl, in fact, I still have a good family business in my hands, it depends on whether you have the courage and talent, and whether you dare to respond. ”

"I'm not interested!" Wu Lingyun said.

"Why don't you listen to me first? Yes, aren't we now on the boundary of Suzhou in the northern province, the largest and most well-funded merchant team in Suzhou has built a sand castle, have you heard of it? The owner of the fort, Qi Wenzhong, is my uncle, my uncle, he is the head of the martial arts in the northern province, black and white are all-trade, and there are people in the military, government, and business! There are 100 heroes and more than a dozen horse teams under his hands, and outside the northern province, there are shops in four or five small countries, and there are always seventy or eighty trade routes that have been stepped out! The silver earned has been piled up into a mountain! The favorite of his life is his fifth-ranked eldest son......"

"Stop, stop! Don't mention anything else to me, I'm going to marry Gu Tanhua! I don't need you to propose marriage for me, I'll go find him myself!" The dusty door curtain flicked, and Wu Lingyun disappeared into the carved car door.

Zhang Zixiang choked and closed his mouth, and after a while, he picked up his big bowl again—the rice had been cooled by the wind, and when he looked closely, the dishes of the rice bowl were also covered with a thin layer of dust. Zhang Zixiang didn't care, while eating the cold rice with ingredients, he squinted at the carved carriage, and he couldn't say that he was annoyed or not angry, in short, he was choked by Miss Lu and was a little uncomfortable eating, and he panicked.

The men of the Lu family had already eaten well, but because Zhang Zixiang was still sitting here, it was difficult to put away the low table and straw mat, so they had to leave Dong Yong to sit with him and clean up after he had eaten.