The Ming Dynasty started with caution

How many generals stayed in the border areas and became old.

Yan Kesong was very satisfied to be able to come back twice.

Hearing that his father was back, Yan Chengjin came to the main hall and said, "Did Dad bring wolfberries this time?"

"…………" Yan Kesong.

The kind and familiar feeling, it was my son Chengjin...

"Chengjin, I haven't seen you for a year, how come you have grown taller?"

"There are cotton pads in the shoes to increase height, I asked Qianjin to sew a pair for Dad."

Yan Kesong wiped his tears, went to the ancestral hall, comforted his ancestors, and then returned to the room to change his armor and put on the long-lost Confucian clothes and silk scarves, which was comfortable.

For dinner,

the housekeeper ordered the kitchen to slaughter a sheep and make a table full of wolfberry kidney porridge, turmeric tendons, boiled sheep breasts, lotus running chicken, etc.

The way his father eats has the potential to be a food broadcaster.

Yan Chengjin asked: "When you entered the palace today, did His Majesty say anything to Dad?"

"Let Dad guard Xuanfu. It's strange. Dad was staying well in Ningxia. Why did he suddenly let Dad go to Xuanfu?"

Yan Chengjin nodded, picked up the chopsticks, and said nonchalantly: "I don't know."

Yan Kesong suddenly put down the lamb leg in his hand, wiped his mouth, and looked at Yan Chengjin with burning eyes: "This huge yard, there are only Dad and you two, it's pitiful. If Dad goes to the border, you will be left alone. Every time I see others in pairs, Dad thinks of you. It's really uncomfortable. There are not many opportunities to come back. This time I come back, Dad wants to... find a marriage for you."

Yan Chengjin held a mouthful of lamb soup in his mouth, his face wooden.

Why do you think of me when you see others in pairs? Aren't you also an old bachelor!

"Don't worry, Dad. I have my own plans."

Yan Kesong sighed. His son was smart, but he was extremely cautious. He didn't know what kind of girl would pass his "cautious assessment".

If he was left to his own devices, he might not be able to get married in ten years.

"This matter... let Dad decide!"

Yan Chengjin saw that his father was determined, so he didn't say anything else. He could just decline the offer when the time came.

After seeing the young master go back to his room to read, He Neng came to tell Yan Kesong: "Master, the young master has a sweetheart. It was that young lady who liked the young master first."

"Oh, whose young lady is it!"

"Li Qing'e, the daughter of Mr. Li, sent a lot of cakes to the young master. Please wait for me for a while." He Neng returned to the room and took out all the brocade boxes sent by the Li Mansion.

Yan Kesong was overjoyed. There was also an inscription on it: Li Mansion.

"Master, don't tell the young master. I said it..." Thinking of the family rules set by the young master, He Neng was scared.

Yan Kesong frowned.

He and Li Dongyang disagreed on the literary world. Li Dongyang looked down upon what he wrote, and it delayed Cheng Jin's marriage. What should he do?

…

It was late at night, and Li Mansion was quiet.

Li Dongyang returned to the main room. His wife Liu helped him take off his coat. As she did so, she said, "It's time for Qing'e to find a matchmaker. After the New Year, she will be one year older. You are not in a hurry to be a father."

Li Dongyang picked up a book and sat down and asked, "Do you have someone you like?"

Liu sat next to Li Dongyang and smiled kindly, "I think the son of Lu Jian, the Minister of Guanglu Temple, is good and talented. The second son of Sun Jiao, the Chief Censor of Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate, is also unmarried. I heard that he is a talented man from Jiangnan."

Li Dongyang put down the book with a heavy heart, "This girl has kept it secret from me, I'm afraid she has found a lover."

Liu paused for a moment, "Who is it?"

"If I am right, it is my student, Yan Chengjin, but Qing'e deliberately concealed it, so I can't figure it out. You should find a matchmaker with the Lu family first."

The next day, it was gray and dawned.

Yan Chengjin got up early, ran ten laps in the backyard, and then simply washed up. The father and son had breakfast together.

They were ready to go to the palace for the morning court together.

The housekeeper sighed: "The young master also went to the palace to serve with the old master, so fast!"

Fang Dai was an old bachelor, who treated Yan Chengjin as his own son and served him, and often sighed.

Yan Kesong was used to riding a horse in the border area, but he didn't like riding a sedan chair. He rode a horse and walked side by side with Yan Chengjin's sedan chair.

"Dad, can you keep a distance of three meters from your son's sedan chair when you ride a horse?" Yan Chengjin asked as he lifted the curtain of the sedan chair.

Yan Kesong's mind was full of black lines.

"The scholars in the capital don't know that Yingkesong has returned to the capital. When they see my father, they will definitely gather around to watch. If they walk with my father, they will be recognized in the future, which will cause a lot of trouble."

The scholars in the capital know that Yingkesong's son is also an official in the court, but they don't know who he is. His broken sedan chair is very recognizable...

Sure enough, after walking out of the alley, many scholars gathered around and bowed to Yan Kesong.

Among the three new literary masters, Yingkesong's works are not many, but they are very classic, so he is very popular.

Yan Chengjin's sedan bypassed the crowd and arrived at the Meridian Gate first. Then, he saw his father riding a fast horse.

Father and son entered the palace together.

Several people from the Hanyuan came to greet him, and Luo Qi was surprised: "Brother Cangjin is back in the capital?"

"Yes, I haven't seen you for a long time. Is Brother Jingming still well..."

Yan Chengjin silently joined the team of the Censorate and stood behind Dai Shan.

Li Dongyang turned his head slightly and saw Yan Kesong. Unexpectedly, Yan Kesong also looked at him. The two looked at each other and then turned back.

Xie Qian smiled and said, "The Earl of Anding returned to the capital yesterday, and the scholars in the capital ran back from Liangxiang."

"This trend should not be allowed to continue."

The bell rang, and the ministers lined up and entered the hall in an orderly manner.

There were not many meetings today, and half an hour later, the morning court was over.

Li Dongyang walked out of the hall slowly, and Yan Kesong caught up with him with a smile: "Master Li, long time no see."

"Master Yan, there is no need to say more. I don't agree with this marriage!"

Yan Kesong was a little stunned. He was afraid that he had overheard what he had just asked about at Zuoyemen...

"What's the reason?"

Li Dongyang shook his head: "There is no reason, I just don't agree."

This problem troubled him for a long time.

He wanted Yan Chengjin to be his son-in-law, but after thinking it through, Li Dongyang decided not to.

Qing'e is interested in him, but this kid can't even tell?

He didn't believe it.

If you haven't come to Li's house for a long time, it must be because you are "making trouble".

This son has no problem being a student, but being a son-in-law always gives him a strange feeling.

"This... Cheng Jin's temperament is a bit special, but he is filial to his elders, studious, cautious in doing things, and has the world in mind. Xiaguan has lived with him for these years and feels extremely safe. His daughter married into Yan's house, and with Cheng Jin's temperament , I will definitely protect her very well, and she will definitely become the safest woman in the world." Yan Kesong kept talking, boasting about Yan Chengjin's advantages.

Li Dongyang shook his head and walked away unmoved.

Yan Chengjin walked up and said, "Dad, what are you doing standing here?"

"Cheng Jin, dad wants to discuss something with you."

"Dad, tell me."

"Can you change your temper? Dad already calls you a saint, and Mr. Li doesn't want to get married."

Yan Chengjin looked at the back of his father who was shaking his head and sighing, and then looked at Li Dongyang in front of him. Could it be that he was trying to match-match him just now?

at night,

Li Dongyang was tossing and turning, and Mrs. Liu beside her pillow was not sleeping either: "Today I talked to Qing'e about the second son of the Qing family of Guanglu Temple. That girl Qing'e said it politely, but she refused."

Li Dongyang hummed.

Yan Chengjin is that guy. What does Qing'e like about him? He acts cautiously?

Apart from being handsome, smart, well-read in poetry and books, and having the title of No. 1 Scholar, this boy has absolutely no merit.

"Yan Chengjin... Yan Chengjin..." Li Dongyang muttered.

Mrs. Liu on the side was shocked, why did her husband call a man's name!

"master?"

"master!"

Li Dongyang woke up with a start, sat up, and looked around in shock, sweating profusely.

"Master, what's going on?"

Li Dongyang turned to look at Mrs. Liu, breathing heavily: "Just now... I had a nightmare just now. I dreamed that Yan Chengjin became our son-in-law."

"..." Mrs. Liu.