Promotion and fortune in Song Dynasty

Grandmother was not in a hurry before, and planned to observe for a few more days. After all, it was the marriage of her beloved daughter, so of course she had to choose carefully.

As a result, the more she looked at this son-in-law-to-be, the more satisfied she became, when she suddenly heard the news that Lu Ci was going back to Mizhou, of course she couldn't sit still. As soon as she lay on the bed at night, she took the initiative to approach the face-stricken man for a long time. Xianggong mentioned this matter.

Even her grandfather, who was still brooding over the failure of the purchase, was taken aback by her whimsy, and expressed his objection without hesitation: "No!"

What is the virtue of his daughter, as a father, I don't know it all?

She wears men's clothing with her maids all day long, and does a lot of things to hang out in the streets, but the serious female celebrity doesn't know anything, she doesn't know a few big characters, let alone play chess.

If the temperament is gentle, pleasant, and understanding, it can also make up for one or two.However, she is lazy, domineering and domineering, and her appearance is very ordinary.

If it weren't for the fact that he only had two sons and one daughter, I'm afraid I couldn't help feeling a little disgusted.

As she got older, it was time for her to talk about others, and what he thought was to find a family in Suzhou City who knew everything, had a good temper, even if the family was poorer.

He can increase the dowry a bit, marry off the man, and live under his nose in the future, without worrying about taking care of him.

Who would have thought that his wife would come up with Lu Ci's idea for no reason?

His attitude was firm, and grandma was not happy about it. She said coldly, "You've been running around outside all day, and I don't see you worrying about your daughter. Now that I'm thinking about a good marriage, you don't want to ask me anything." , just cared about objecting?"

Grandfather is very clear about seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages.Seeing that she couldn't figure it out, she couldn't help but impatiently said: "What do women know? You were involved in the matter of taking away the dowry from your younger brother back then, and you were the one who forced her to go away. How could you forget?" Is it completely clean? Based on this layer of origin, it is considered good not to have any enemies now, but you should be able to see it from Lu Ci's lukewarm attitude. Fortunately, you dare to marry your daughter to him When the time comes, she will be far away in Mizhou, and even if she has difficulties, she will have no one to ask, so how will you take care of her?"

At first, he agreed with his son to restore the relationship with Lu Ci, but what he valued was that his younger brother, who he thought was cowardly and bully, seemed to have made a fortune and wanted to take the opportunity to make a fortune.

When the money is finished, no matter whether the other party will hold grudges in his heart or not, he has the idea of ​​not getting in touch with each other anyway, and he doesn't plan to be a relative for a long time.

However, after actually meeting Lu Ci, his thoughts gradually changed slightly.

After so many years, he has seen clearly that there is no one in the Sun family who can really study well.But my nephew, whom I haven't seen for many years, still has some hope.

If the other party is really prosperous one day and is willing to care about their blood relatives, his two incompetent sons may still have the possibility of becoming a low-ranking official through their shadows and have a good life in their lifetime.

Grandmother didn't think about going so far, and she even forgot about bullying Mother Lu.

After being stumped by her grandfather, she was silent for a moment, and then argued again: "In my opinion, if he really held a grudge, why would he spend so many days worrying about Uncle's body and take care of it himself? Besides, his mother When I took him away from Suzhou, he was not yet old enough to remember, and your younger brother doesn't seem to be the one who would mention these things to Tong Xiaolang repeatedly, I'm afraid he only knows the general idea and doesn't understand the inside story."

If he was clear about the entanglements of grievances and grievances, and could treat them so calmly...it would be too terrifying.

Such a deep scheming is definitely not something a young man can do.

Grandfather obviously didn't think about it, but frowned: "He looks smart, even if my younger brother doesn't tell me, I'm afraid I can guess a lot of things."

Sun's mother said confidently: "During these days, don't you see that Dalang gets along well with him? Besides, I don't know how many years have passed since the matter of taking his mother's dowry. Now the two families are not short of this little money , is there anyone who is so small-minded, and only cares about this little thing. If you are still worried, why don't you just return it and give him some other things, so as to eliminate this pimple, and you don't have to think about it too much Thinking about something."

Grandfather hesitated.

He still feels that the marriage is unreliable, but since his younger sister is already rich and not what it used to be, Lu Ci himself seems to have a bright future, regardless of whether there is any drama in the affair, it is really not easy to keep such a potential enemy exist.

It is of course best to be able to write off with a small amount of money as soon as possible.Otherwise, if Lu Ci really has great promise in the future, the grudge will not be eliminated so easily.

If Lu Ci insists on not accepting it, he can say that he didn't really take over his mother's property that day, but just wanted to take care of it for her.

Having said that, anyone who is sensible should agree to write it off.

Anyway, the Li Family Manor was not bought, and the money prepared earlier was still there, so there was no shortage of resources. It sounds good to spend such a small sum of money to complete this matter.

"Anyway, you don't care about this matter. I will never agree to this marriage, and you don't mention it to anyone. "

After warning Mrs. Lin, Grandfather turned over, turned his back to her and pondered for a while before falling asleep.

Early the next morning, he called Sun Jingwen to the study, and asked straight to the point: "What does your cousin like more?"

Sun Jingwen was very baffled: "Why do you ask this?"

Father Sun knew that when it comes to gift-giving, one has to pay attention to what one likes, in order to get twice the result with half the effort.

Seeing his son's stupid look, he couldn't help frowning, and his tone became bad: "It's not uncommon for you to look for him on weekdays, why can't you even figure out what he likes?"

"Although I have seen my cousin quite often, I have never seen him particularly fond of anything. Can this be blamed on me?" Sun Jingwen defended herself dissatisfied, and replied casually: "In my opinion , there is no one in the world who doesn't love money, and he must not be exempt."

Don't look at it, it's a stinking thing in the mouth of some self-proclaimed nobles, but even today's dignitaries and dignitaries in the court can't put it down.

Grandfather used to think that the eldest son was only a little witty and unrefined, but now that he has lost such a little advantage, he felt exhausted physically and mentally for a while, and sent: "You go back."

Sun Jingwen also felt unhappy about being reprimanded as soon as she came, and being driven away by her grandfather was exactly what she wished for, so she left without hesitation.

Father grand didn't have to worry about such a trivial matter, and he didn't want Lu Ci to stay here any longer.As the saying goes, nights are long and dreams are many, maybe my wife who can't figure it out still doesn't give up and will cause some troubles again.

When the shopkeeper delivered the account book, he had a thought, and simply added up the value of the goods that were emptied by Lu Ci that day, and exchanged it into a common post in Mizhou, and asked the housekeeper to send it to Lu Ci. go.

Of course, you can't send it off quietly, but wait for Lu Ci to get on the carriage and go to the port, and then send it off with great fanfare, so that others will know that I have treated this nephew well.

Lu Ci had already boarded the boat at that time, and seeing the housekeeper of the Sun family bringing a group of people to see him off, he was a little surprised, and when he learned of the intention of coming, he was even more determined not to accept it.

The housekeeper hurriedly took out the remarks prepared by grandson's father in advance, and explained a few words to Lu Ci in a low voice.

Seeing that Lu Ci hadn't returned for a long time, Liu Qi, who boarded the boat one step earlier than Lu Ci, could not help but come out of the cabin to check the situation, and happened to see such a scene.

He waved the folding fan unhurriedly, carrying a handsome and handsome look, and walked to the front leisurely, the voice was not loud, but enough for the curious people around to hear clearly: "Brother Lu, please accept it. Since it is your uncle Taking care of the dowry income for your mother, how could you refuse on behalf of your mother?"

"What brother Liu said is indeed reasonable."

Lu Ci sighed, and reluctantly accepted it.

The butler successfully completed the master's account, and he was greatly relieved. After watching the boat carrying Lu Ci leave, he went back to report to his grandfather.

Grandmother was still thinking about how to get her daughter to meet Lu Ci secretly, and when she learned the bad news, of course she would not let her go and made a big fuss with grandfather.

Grandfather let her lose her temper, and became impatient for a while, so he simply hid in the study, but he was determined not to let go of his daughter's matters.

He vaguely felt that although Lu Ci looked easy-going and filial, in his bones, he might not be easy to provoke.

If he was really a good man, he would not have dared to go down the boat alone at such a young age, without any troubles on the way.

Grandfather still doesn't know yet, but because of his usual caution, he inadvertently managed to avoid the bad luck of being further tossed...

The servants were cleaning the Qingzheng residence, and when they saw three pieces of paper spread out on the table, they didn't dare to throw them away, so they showed it to grandpa.

Although my grandson went to a private school for a few years, he couldn't memorize memorization, and he couldn't recite poems, but he could recognize a lot of words alone.

"Just look at this character, it's much more beautiful than Da Lang's."

That was his first exclamation.

One says 'Xiao He Han Xin', one says 'Gentlemen carry things', and the other says 'North and South'.

He looked and looked carefully, but couldn't figure it out. After Sun Jingwen came back, he called him to look together again, but still couldn't come to a conclusion.

Sun Jingwen was afraid that her grandfather would get angry again because he couldn't answer, so she said decisively: "I'm afraid my cousin didn't write it casually when he was practicing calligraphy. There is no deep meaning at all. Why bother to study it?"

Grandfather probably guessed so, so he just scolded with a straight face: "I see you wandering around all the time, and you are not diligent in studying, and now even your cousin's handwriting is much better than yours."

Sun Jingwen made a haha, and prevaricated.

Because the handwriting was really beautiful, grandpa put it in the study for a few days unconsciously, and finally got someone to clean it up.

The servant who was assigned to deal with this object also liked the word, so he didn't want to throw it away, so he kept it at home at will.

Until one day, when his wife went to a temple fair to set up a stall to sell some miscellaneous goods, she accidentally brought it out, only to be seen by a scholar who was picking goods.

The scholar stared at it and pondered for a while, then quickly recalled it, and couldn't help laughing: "Why are you even selling this?"

Among the three heroes in the early Han Dynasty, only Zhang Liang was missing;

Isn't it just calling people immoral, isn't it a thing?

The author has something to say: Notes:

1. These few words are inspired by Lv Mengzheng, who was the number one scholar in the third phase in the early Northern Song Dynasty.

When he was a teenager, he lived in poverty and was extremely poor. He wrote such a couplet

The upper couplet: "two, three, four, five", the lower couplet: "six seven, eight nine", and the horizontal batch is "North and South".

Shanglian and Xialian mean "lack of food and clothing", while Hengpi means "nothing". "Pretending to Live in the Song Dynasty"

2. Yin tonic: Including father, grandfather, great-grandfather and other direct relatives, as well as brothers, uncles, mother-in-law and other blood relatives, can provide opportunities for shady tonic.But if the relationship is relatively distant, there will be differences in official ranks.The influence of Yinbu is very limited. Of course, it is far less superior than those who get into the imperial examination, but it can still be regarded as a kind of help. "Song Dynasty Imperial Examination Society" p139