Out of the front yard through a small door, to the middle courtyard, there is a century-old Wei tree in front of the main hall of the middle courtyard...... There is a large flower bed around the tree, which is quite similar to the Yang Mansion, in front of which is the main hall and several guest halls, and on both sides is a long corridor, and there are courtyards distributed in the long corridor, which belong to the brothers of each room

"Young Master Yang, please come with me"

The housekeeper did not lead him into the front guest hall, but went up the steps and went to the corridor on the left, which made Yang Yuanba feel a little strange in his heart, would it be so troublesome to give a gift?

"Childe, we're here, please come in"

The housekeeper took him to the second courtyard gate on the long corridor and respectfully invited him in, "Son, please sit down for a while, I will go to report to the master"

Yang Yuanba walked into the small courtyard, there are three rooms in the front, the same as the structure of the main hall in front, but a circle is reduced, the doors of the three rooms are open, but there is no one inside, Yang Yuanba walked into the small guest hall on the left, the layout is quite elegant, the walls are snow-white, there are a few celebrity calligraphy and paintings, a few good ebony furniture are placed in the front, two rows of six single couches, and a leno screen with a landscape background is placed in the front

Yang Yuanba sat down and put the wooden box on the table, when a maid came in with a cup of tea and put it in front of him, "Childe, please use tea"

"May I ask this girl, when will your master come?"

"Childe, please wait, the master will come soon"

The maid looked at Yang Yuanqing carefully, smiled, and went out

Yang Yuanba had to be patient, slowly drinking tea and waiting, he also knew that he was coming on behalf of his father, not only to send things, but also to come out to greet him a few words, which was an informal guest

But after waiting for a long time, he didn't see the master come in, his brows were furrowed, could it be that Bai Ji was the son of the Yang family, and the Zheng family despised it?

was really guessed correctly by Yang Yuanba, the Zheng family's inner house was discussing the Yang family's marriage proposal, there were seven people sitting in the main hall of the inner house, the eldest son Zheng Shanyuan and his wife Cai, the second son Zheng Yuancong and his wife Zhang, the third Zheng Yuanfan was an official outside, not in the house, but his wife Li was sitting, and there was another woman, Zheng Yi's eldest daughter, named Zheng Xiaoniang, who lived in her mother's house

Sitting in front of the old lady who was more than a year old was their mother, Zheng Yi's wife Liu, and the family of seven was discussing the matter of the Yang family's request for marriage

This marriage was proposed by Yang Yinglong to his wife to the Zheng family, of course, this is not a formal proposal, it is just an intention, Yang Yinglong intends to marry the daughter of the Zheng family for his third son Yuanba

Zheng has a total of six rooms, the family is huge, the population is large, Zheng Yi is only one of the rooms, but it is also the most important room, after the death of Zheng Yi, the head of the Zheng family, the status of the dynasty has decreased slightly, slightly declining, has been relying on Hongnong Yang through marriage

If Yang Yinglong's other two sons, Yang Jun or Yang Rong, came to propose, then there was no problem at all, and the Zheng family would immediately agree, but this time it was for a concubine, and it was specified that he wanted to marry Zheng Yuancong's fourth daughter Zheng Chunshui as his wife, which made the Zheng family feel a little uncomfortable

At the beginning, the Zheng family took the initiative to marry the third generation of the Yang family, that is, they hoped to marry the daughter of the Zheng family to Yang Jun, the eldest grandson of Yang Chudao, but was politely rejected by Yang Chudao, and finally Yang Jun married the daughter of the Cui family of Qinghe, and the second son Yang Rong has been married to the daughter of the Taiyuan Wang family, and the other children of the Yang family or married the daughter of the Guanlong noble, or married the daughter of a large family in the capital, but no one married the Zheng family again, which made the Zheng family a little dissatisfied with the Yang family

And yesterday, Yang Yinglong suddenly proposed to the Zheng family through his wife Zheng that he was willing to marry the daughter of the Zheng family for his third son Yuanba

The Zheng family did not immediately agree, nor did they refuse, but euphemistically proposed that a blind date could be arranged

"I'm not very in favor of this marriage"

The old lady Liu looked unhappy, and said to her children: "Obviously, this time they wished to celebrate their birthday, and they didn't invite the Yang family, so they realized their indifference to the Zheng family, so they wanted to remedy it, so they wanted to use a concubine to repair the rift between the Zheng and Yang families, I think, this is the Yang family's perfunctory to our Zheng family, and it is also a kind of rudeness, I don't want to agree to this marriage."

The second son, Zheng Yuancong, coughed, and said slowly: "I also agree with my mother's words, just now I deliberately admired chrysanthemums in the outer courtyard, and wanted to see this Yang Yuanba with my own eyes, but I was disappointed, guess what he is?"

His wife gently stabbed him on the side and said in a low voice: "Erlang, don't play dumb riddles, just tell everyone directly"

"Yes, we can't guess, Yuan Cong, you just say," his mother Liu also said

"Hey, it's really rude, I kindly said hello to him, but he replied to me coldly, the important thing is that he actually wore a blue cloth robe to the door, which is obviously humiliating our Zheng family, I don't want this kind of rude and rude son-in-law"

"I heard Yun Niang say that this Yuanqing is actually an illegitimate child, raised by his nursing mother since he was a child, and he didn't even go to genealogy, how can he understand etiquette?"

This is the third wife, Li, commenting on Yang Yuanba, she has a good relationship with Yang Yinglong's wife, Mrs. Zheng, many years ago, I heard Mrs. Zheng talk about Yang Yuanba, this kind of illegitimate child, women generally remember it very deeply

"Just reject him like that......"

The three words "illegitimate child" stabbed the old lady Liu in her heart like a knife, and she also began to get annoyed in her heart, and she was extremely dissatisfied with her daughter Yunniang, how could she contact her mother's family about this marriage

At this time, Zheng Xiaoniang, the eldest daughter who had been silent, suddenly said: "Mother, I heard that this Yang Yuanba is not bad, Feng Yi is the same as the three divisions, and there is a title, should we think about it again?"

The lobby immediately fell silent, Liu closed his eyes, and the eldest daughter's words also carried a lot of weight, she had to think about it again

Yang Yinglong wants to propose marriage to Yuanba's daughter, is Zheng Yuancong's fourth daughter Zheng Chunshui, and the only daughter of the Zheng family who is currently suitable for marriage, Zheng Chunshui is thirteen years old, with thin shoulders and a graceful body, the girl has just grown up, and her face is quite beautiful, after the age of thirteen, she began to consider her own lifelong events, but she can't be the master, it is up to the elders to decide, but she will also secretly look forward to marrying a gentle and knowledgeable husband

Today she had heard that a blind date had come, which made her heart flutter, and she wanted to take a sneak peek, but she didn't have the courage, so she had to let her personal maid take a look for herself

"Girl, I see him"

Zheng Chunshui's personal maid is called Xiaohe, the maid who served tea to Yang Yuanba just now, she ran in in a hurry, panting and said, "That Yang family's son......"

She bent over, gasping for words

"Don't worry, take a break"

Xiaohe slowly calmed down before standing on tiptoe and stretching his hand high, "He's so tall, I can't even compare to his shoulders, and his armgap ...... That's thicker than my legs, and he's really a general."

Zheng Chunshui's brows furrowed, she didn't like the generals, she liked Sven's reading Lang Xiaohe smiled again: "But he looks good and laughs, it makes my heart pound, girl, you go and take a look"

"This ...... Not so good"

"Girl, go take a look, it's not safe, I think he's pretty good"

Yang Yuanba had been waiting for more than a quarter of an hour, and he was really a little impatient with the rudeness of the Zheng family, and he wanted to leave several times, but finally restrained his dissatisfaction

Sitting in the room bored, Yang Yuanba walked out of the room to the yard, the small courtyard is full of flowers and trees at this time is late autumn, the autumn wind is slaughtering, the ground is full of fallen leaves, flowers and trees are zero, only a dozen autumn chrysanthemums in the flower garden on the left are blooming brightly, giving people a sense of late autumn

Yang Yuanba lacks a feeling of sadness and sadness in his bones, and he has no rise in the blooming chrysanthemums, the important thing is that he has no good impression of the Zheng family, he feels very depressed here, and he is not in the mood to appreciate the flowers at all

He glanced at Chrysanthemum and turned to go back to the house, when suddenly someone behind him asked him, "Don't you like Qiu Ju?"

The voice was a young woman, Yang Yuanba turned around, and saw a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl standing behind her, with a thin figure, and a beautiful eyebrow, wearing a pale yellow dress, Yang Yuanba was stunned, how did she get in?

He looked to both sides again, and then found that there was a moon gate behind a few osmanthus flowers in the east, probably through the inner courtyard, I don't know which woman of the Zheng family is this?

Due to the long-term influence of the Hu people's phoenix spirit, the Han people in the north are more open than the Han people in the south, and everyone can show their heads and talk to strange men, and even some women can decide their own marriages in large and small households other than the famous families

The Zheng family is a famous family, although a woman's marriage has no right to decide, but it is okay to meet on a blind date, but it is generally with the elders, like Zheng Chunshui, who secretly came to meet alone, but it is relatively rare, if it is seen by the elders, it will definitely be reprimanded

Zheng Chunshui saw that Yang Yuanba was really as tall as the maid said, and she only tied his neck, which made her feel a little pressure in her heart, but if Yang Yuanba was actually a little disdainful of the gorgeous chrysanthemums, Zheng Chunshui was as careful as a hair, and she felt in her heart that Yang Yuanba didn't seem to have the kind of love before and under the moon, which made her feel a trace of disappointment in her heart

"Isn't this chrysanthemum beautiful?" she asked softly

Yang Yuanba reacted at this time, he smiled and said: "I prefer natural flowers, such as small flowers on the grassland, flowers full of trees in the forest, unknown, blooming in spring, endless for dozens of miles, very splendid and magnificent, I don't like this kind of flowers raised in the deep courtyard mansion, too delicate"

"You...... Are you ridiculing me?" Zheng Chunshui's eyes looked at Yang Yuanba dissatisfied, her eyebrows furrowed, she sensitively felt that Yang Yuanba was ridiculing her for being too delicate

"I don't even know the girl, what are you doing mocking?"

Yang Yuanba shook his head and walked towards the room, his words were not speculative, he didn't like this woman, "Girl, there is a box, you can transfer it to ...... for me"

Yang Yuanba turned around, but saw a middle-aged man behind him, and the young woman just now had disappeared

"I've kept my nephew waiting, I'm not well, I'm resting just now, I'm sorry"

The middle-aged man is Zheng Shanyuan, the son of the Zheng family, he is not in good health, and he doesn't speak loudly, he smiled politely, "Thank you nephew for sending me a birthday gift, and thank you to your father for me."

He didn't mention the blind date at all, which meant that the Zheng family's marriage door was slammed shut to Yang Yuanba, and Yang Yuanba didn't know that he had walked around the periphery of the marriage hall