Whoever wins the crouching dragon wins the world

It was almost early spring when he recovered.Kong Ming took off his nondescript down jacket, put on a seasonal cloth inner shirt, and a three-layered dress with a right lapel collar, wide sleeves and a loose waist, tied with a red string at the chest, and a small patch on the left Barely concealed by crappy light stitching.

He opened his hands, turned around on the spot, and asked for advice from the frowning little girl leaning against the door: "Yueping, what do you think of this dress?"

"No, it's really poor. My servants are all dressed more decently than you." The girl called Yueping had a candy stick in her mouth. Although her speech was vague, her disdain was undisguised, " My younger brother is getting married, don't you even have to wear a new dress, so you're going to wear old clothes to watch the ceremony?"

Kong Ming said with a good-tempered smile: "Why not?"

"Do you really want to go out in rags to be ashamed and conspicuous?" The little girl stared her eyes as big as almonds, and said in disbelief, "It's strange that girls and nannies are all sorry for my sister, but she wants to marry someone like you!" Let's go!"

Even if she spoke innocently, her words were a bit rude.Besides, at Lin Yueping's age, she would never have thought of an idiom like "shame and be conspicuous". She came up with this idea, probably because she learned it by ear when talking with adults, so she can use it now.

Kong Ming's eyes flicked across the figure who suddenly stamped his feet outside the window, with no expression of joy or anger on his face, he asked her unhurriedly, "What kind of family do Yueping think we are?"

Yueping threw the candy wrappers away, and opened her mouth to answer, "Eat brown rice, live in an old house, wear rags, don't burn incense in summer, and can't even afford a stove in winter!"

The black shadow reflected on the window shook and faded.

Kong Ming didn't seem to notice, and he still said in a teasing tone: "Then what kind of family will Yueping marry in the future?"

"I want to be the daughter-in-law of the Dragon King of the Sea!" The little girl was not yet at the age of knowing shyness, her teeth leaked, and she answered very solemnly, "I want to live in a dragon palace that is as big as Jingzhou City. The tortoise cart sits, and there are eighteen fish fairies to serve them during the rest. They eat and cook in a separate dining room. When it is hot, someone will fan it, and when it is cold, someone will send clothes. Whoever does not listen to me, I will send them to the trench to feed the shrimps! "

I was originally angry that she disliked Kong Ming, but after hearing about her ambitions, I couldn't argue with a six-year-old girl.

Kong Ming laughed.

Fengcha picked up the curtain and entered the door, saying that Zhuge Jun cut a bamboo dragonfly for his future wife and sister, and asked Lin Yueping if she wanted to play in the yard.Kong Ming watched her happily run out with a smile.

Kong Ming glanced at the boundless blue sky outside the house, and asked me, "How is the preparation for the wedding banquet going?"

"With the help of Mr. Huang Chengyan, everything went smoothly."

Although I have delicate feelings for my "rival in love" Huang Yueying, I have to admit that the Huang family has a deep foundation in Miannan. If Kong Ming marries her, it will be a big help in marrying her.Regardless of the fact that Huang Yueying's mother, the Cai family, is the sister of Liu Biao's wife, and she became a relative of the emperor in one fell swoop after climbing into the Huang family, it is said that Zhuge Jun's marriage would never have gone so smoothly without Huang Chengyan's help.

Only Master Xukong's remarks about Lin Yuejie's filial piety marriage after the death of Mrs. Lin did not know how much money Huang Chengyan secretly filled in for management.

Kong Ming sighed: "This time I owe you a big favor."

An unknown wind blew by, and the wind chimes I hung on the beam jingled.

In the opera, there is often a scene in which "the son of a rich family gives his all to help, and the girl of a good family promises her with her body". I don't know if Kong Ming intends to do the opposite?

I suddenly felt irritable and awkwardly restrained my mind.

Kong Ming asked about Lin Yuejie's dowry again, and I handed him the gift slip that Lin Yueping had sent just now, and the Zhenghong wedding paper, which was slightly larger than an A4 paper, was packed full of gilded official script.

The first few lines read:

Gold 1000 taels

Silver 3000 taels

silk eight hundred feet

Cloth a thousand feet

Five hundred shi of rice

Three hundred buckets of corn

……

In addition, there are several hectares of fertile land, hundreds of pigs, ten acres of fish ponds, all kinds of furniture, antiques, jewelry and jade.

No wonder two hours ago when Lin Yueping swaggered through the market with 120 red boxes, the street was almost full of saliva about Zhuge Jun being a rich woman.

"Zhuge's family really hit the jackpot. Miss Lin emptied the entire family property as a dowry!"

"After Mrs. Lin left, there were only her and the youngest sister left in the Lin family. The two daughters were unable to support the family. Instead of asking the Pangzhi family to conspire to seize the family property, it is better to bring face to the husband's family."

"There is no one in her family, otherwise she wouldn't be able to send a dowry to a six-year-old girl."

"Didn't you see that the box is heavy, tsk, tsk, the four men didn't lift it, I don't know how much gold and silver treasures are in it."

"Hey, are you envious? Then you go and marry a rich and extinct family!"

……

I hesitated and said: "Because of the rich dowry, the neighbors are all waiting to see the scene of our wedding ceremony tomorrow. If it is too shabby, people will inevitably gossip. Look, sir, why don't we replace the four-person sedan chair with an eight-carry one?"

Kong Ming glanced at me, and raised the corners of his mouth: "Is this your hard-won idea, or someone told you to listen to it?"

……

Why are you so smart!Be stupid and no one will take you for a fool!

I didn't expect him to guess even this, so I couldn't help suppressing my thoughts, and confessed honestly: "Ms. Lin's wet nurse told me, I don't know if it was Ms. Lin's instruction..."

Kong Ming shook his feather fan: "If you get married, how many sedan chairs do you want to carry?"

"Sixteen lifts!" I replied without hesitation.But there are few women who do not yearn for a beautiful marriage. The number of sixteen sedan chairs is a casual number I made up. I only know that the more the number, the more face I have. What grade of sedan chair depends on personal grade.Kong Ming has always been suspicious of my origin, and today's unexpected question can be regarded as a disguised temptation, so his expression immediately became meaningful.

I was baffled by him, so I still sneered and said, "You are a maid, and you want to sit in a sixteen-carrying sedan chair when you get married? Even if you can be a straight lady, at most two people will pick you when you enter the door. If you give it to a big family He is a petty person, and he is not even worthy of worship, so just make a face and it's over."

It was only then that I realized that I had made a slip of the tongue, smiled and wiped my forehead, and made amends: "I know that I am delusional, but are people still not allowed to daydream?"

Kong Ming didn't reply, but his smile made people feel creepy for no reason, which made me swallow the sophistry subconsciously.I complained endlessly in my heart, and I really couldn't relax for a moment, and my flaws would be exposed if I didn't pay attention.

But I come from modern times, where can I be as comprehensive as the aboriginals in customs and practices?For example, when I first arrived in Longzhong, when the government levied tax on people, I thought it was nothing to do with me, but I was told that the only people who could be exempted from the tax were domestic slaves who had signed a contract of sale, because their bodies were not even their own, and they were no different from things.And like me, a maid who takes care of herself is the same as a merchant. Although she works in a lowly business, she is not a slave and needs to pay taxes every year.

"Sir, I..." I wanted to explain, but there was nothing I could say, so I shut my mouth again.The common sense in the eyes of those aborigines is like a bomb that may explode at any time. I have never heard of it, and there is no way to prevent it.

Fortunately, Kong Ming is a modest gentleman who doesn't like to get to the bottom of things. He will always hold his hand high at critical moments, and never pushes me to a dead end: "Forget it, I won't mention this for now. As for the wedding sedan chair, since everyone is married by younger brother Jun, let me Let him make the decision!"

As if I had received an amnesty, I ran out the door as if to escape, lest he change his mind.

In the end, it was still a four-person sedan chair that took Lin Yuejie to Zhuge's house.

There were a lot of onlookers, and Zhuge Jun sat on the wedding horse borrowed from Huang Chengyan's house, straightened his back and accepted the pointers from the neighbors.

Kong Ming also put on the same attitude as his younger brother, turning a deaf ear to the rumors that he would marry Huang Yueying's family.

It is well known that Huang Chengyan only has Yueying and one daughter, so how could he have nothing to do when he contributed money and effort to Zhuge Jun's marriage?

So at the wedding banquet, the rumor spread like a prairie fire.

The meddler grabbed Kong Ming and congratulated him: "Mr. is not married, but he made a return to his younger brother... I don't know when Mr.'s marriage will be a ceremony? Congratulations, congratulations, you are really a dear relative! Both of you brothers have climbed to the high branch !"

Kong Ming smiled warmly and drank with him without any suspicion, as if he didn't hear the cynicism in his words at all.

Huang Chengyan stroked his beard, whispered something in his daughter's ear, and in an instant, Hongxia climbed up Yueying's face, the girl's shyness could not be covered even by the bright red rouge.

The gaze she cast on Kong Ming is so tender...

I couldn't sit still any longer, I just felt that there was a burning fire of ignorance that made my internal organs ache, so I simply dropped my chopsticks and left the table.