As a salted fish, I was forced to become the teacher of all ages

Wan Yanran's complexion suddenly changed when she heard the words, she looked at Hua Manlou coldly and said, "Hmph, you really have the intention of marrying her."

"!"

Hua Manlou turned pale with shock, "I...you tricked me?"

Wan Chengyan didn't hold back, and laughed again: "I'm not a jealous wife, why use such a small trick?"

Hua Manlou wiped the cold sweat off his brow: "This...it's really hard to say, I'd rather believe that there are pigs climbing trees than women who are not jealous..."

"That's true." Wan Chengyan sighed softly: "To be honest, I'm not willing to let irrelevant people into the house, and I don't want to share you with others, but firstly, Jiu'er is not an irrelevant person, and secondly... ...How can you only have me? Besides, you have already done your best, so why should I make you unhappy? "

Huamanlou fell silent.

488. Did you really agree?

As Wan Chengyanran said, Huamanlou is really an anomaly in these years.

For a person like him who is young and ambitious and still has a high position, who doesn't eat more and take more money, and finally plays outside happily?

For example, a certain Zhang Xiaoguo has already started to rely on Liuwei Dihuang Wan for hygiene. For example, Qi Wanrong’s family always has a face-born girl who is either her father or her brother brought back, or Wen Liang finally got an extra girl with her. Mom of average age...

And that's not counting the wildflowers outside.

Compared with Huamanlou, after traveling for a long time, I still haven't been able to see what kind of brothels are played these days, and I have to play role-playing with him in the end.Living a life that is completely ascetic in the eyes of other nobles, he has always been a group of people—although he has already eaten three, but the stupid son of the landlord's family with a little spare money has more than three concubines, not to mention spending a lot of money. building?

And those skinny horses that others gave him, he pushed them out without further ado. Recently, there were even rumors that his Uncle Hua was dying, and some people even dumped the blame on the innocent Miss Wen—on the surface It turns out that she is an old woman, so others said that it was because Miss Wen was not happy, so Hua Manlou sent a group of girls out.

Wen Liangfeng commented on being victimized for no reason, and some people said that she was too lenient before entering the house, and she was a domineering jealous woman, which made Wen Liang, who was said to be not angry at Kefu in the past, trembled with anger...

All in all, this is the way of the world today, so it is even more commendable to be full of flowers.

What's more, the few people around Huamanlou have things they want to do, but Huamanlou doesn't let his daughter-in-law stay out of the house like other nobles at all—Wan Qiyanran is a doctor in front of her. Wen Liang works part-time as the general manager of Xishan; Qi Wanrong still took advantage of the opportunity to grab a position of a thousand households in Xishan Wei Sahuan'er, but Qiaoqiao was not at home, and she was still in charge of the money bag full of flowers every day. wait for freedom...

Anyway, a few girls think it is commendable.

Wan Chengyanran and the two eldest ladies knew that their lives would never be so free and unrestrained without Huamanlou, so they didn't want Huamanlou to live too depressed—whether it was to compare their hearts or reciprocate If it's not too much, how can they bear to let Huamanlou feel aggrieved?

Furthermore, Su Jiuer can not only stay with Huamanlou to ensure his safety, but she is definitely not the kind of person who disturbs the family and restlessness. The most important thing is that she and Huamanlou seem to be in love with each other—— Horses and other coquettish sluts are not allowed to enter the house, so how can such a good girl let her waste her life?

That's why Wan Cheng Yanran specially came to Jie Hua Man Lou today, hoping that he would not miss it.

"This matter...is it your idea or yours?" Hua Manlou asked after a long while.

Wan Cheng Yanran asked without answering, "Who's meaning is important?"

Hua Manlou sighed and said, "It's important. It's a great fortune for me to be able to marry both of you at the same time, so why bother to add controversy because of this matter? If this matter makes everyone unhappy and makes the house restless..."

Wan Cheng Yanran smiled and stretched out her hand to cover Hua Manlou's mouth: "My husband is wrong. We should be lucky to meet you. Sister Wanrong said in a chat before that without you, she might not be able to get married in this life." "Sister Wen also said that without you, she would be uncomfortable after marriage, and maybe she wouldn't marry."

After a pause, she continued: "And I, if I hadn't met you, I'm afraid I've already fallen into the loess at this moment, and even if I was alive, I would still be the Holy Maiden of the White Lotus, and I might fall into the hands of the court at some point. Is there such a comfortable life now?"

Wan Chengyanran's statement is no exaggeration.

Needless to say, Miss Qi, her body shape and style have long made her mate selection narrow like a dwelling house. If there are no flowers all over the building, most of the people who want to marry her are those who try to cling to Qi's family in vain. Marrying her is mostly offering her up; although Wen Liang wants to marry a lot of people, but in reality, her scope of mate selection is narrower - how many people can fall into her eyes?

As for Wan Cheng Yanran...

She has no face to choose a mate at all. The leader of Bailian had no good intentions in promoting her as a saint in the past. Besides Hua Manlou, who can directly influence the emperor to pardon her, who else can make her carefree? Study medicine?

"In short, everything depends on you." Touching Hua Manlou's face, Wan Chengyan said softly: "If you want to marry her, you can marry her together."

Hua Manlou smiled wryly, "It would be nice if it were as simple as you said."

From a man's point of view, who doesn't want to have a harem?But from an ideological point of view, Huamanlou's group of people can be said to be Chunlan Qiuju who are good at each field. In his previous life, almost every one of them would have a large group of licking dogs, and they are still the kind of "send the goddess to family planning" Tools to participate in the "dog licking", so you can collect Huamanlou together and feel that you can wake up in the middle of the night with a smile, let alone add another person to join in the spring, summer, autumn and winter?

"When did you become such a mother-in-law?" Wan Chengyan pointed her finger at Hua Manlou's forehead: "There is still a month or so before the wedding, which is enough for you to be hired, and tomorrow I will sort out some things and send them to Jinzhong! "

Hua Manlou was stunned and said, "Down... Xiapin? You have eaten up the acceptance and asking for a name? Besides, Xiapin is the process of marrying a wife..."

This is also a point that Hua Manlou struggles with. After all, it is very unclear who the main wife is in the family.Although both the Wen family and the Qi family followed the process of marrying wives, in theory, Wen Liang is a regular wife to the outside world, and Wan Qi Yanran can only be regarded as an ordinary wife—the origin of the three wives and four concubines is still in the Qing Dynasty, and even if they rely on a According to the algorithm of first wife and second wife, all three are already full.

That's why Hua Manlou felt that since he couldn't give him a decent name, why bother to provoke him?

But Wan Cheng Yanran waved her little hand and said, "Who in your family would care about that? If you feel that you owe her something, you can treat her better in the future, or make more contributions and ask His Majesty to grant you an imperial order?"

this thing...

It seems to be a way, after all, most concubines cannot be favored.

So Hua Manlou scratched his head: "Okay then, tomorrow I will send someone to join Jiu'er's teacher... well, it doesn't seem like it will take long to get back and forth, do you want me to go there myself?"

Before Wan Chengyan could answer, a cold voice suddenly came from behind the two of them: "Xiapin?"

"Uh……"

As if they had seen a ghost, the young couple turned their heads in a daze, only to see Su Jiuer standing behind him in a hurry.

"Ah!" Wan Chengyan was the first to react, and she quickly broke away from Hua Manlou's embrace and stood aside and asked weakly, "Jiu... When will sister Jiu'er come back?"

"Just entered the mansion just now." Su Jiu'er answered very naturally, but the hand behind her was trembling slightly.After answering Wan Cheng Yanran's words, she stared blankly at Hua Manlou again and said, "You just said that you are going to hire... do you want to marry me?"

Hua Manlou was extremely embarrassed: "Uh... yes, isn't it, if you don't dislike..."

Before he finished speaking, Jiu'er nodded: "Okay, I'll marry."

After answering this sentence, she turned around and went to the backyard. Hua Manlou and Wan Chengyan were stunned for a long time before staring and saying: "She...is she really agreeing or is she angry?"

"Maybe... did you really agree?"

489. Due righteousness

Taigu County.

"Mr. Qian, will uncle take care of us if we go back?" Song Jie's younger brother looked sad: "Miss Su must have returned to Beijing after wasting so many days. If she had something wrong on the way, we guessed I have to wipe my neck..."

Song Jie was upset and said, "Who is to blame? Isn't it because you didn't keep an eye on people?"

"You can be reasonable. Miss Su left the second day we arrived. According to Miss Su's ability, if she doesn't want to be discovered, who can find her?"

Song Jie kicked him: "How the hell do I know! So this is not punishing you?"

"Oh." Brother Song Jie responded, and said after a while: "Then what should we do, return to Beijing now?"

Song Jie rubbed his head and said, "Let me think about it."

"How about we take those teenagers back and say that we were delayed on the way because we had to escort them?"

"I said, let me think about it, get out first!"

"Yes……"

After the little brother was away and made noises, Song Jie began to organize his thoughts: "The reason why Miss Su left Beijing must be because she didn't want to see Uncle get married, so now she returns to Beijing in a hurry...for what?"

After pondering for a while, Song Jie suddenly thought of another thing: "Speaking of which, the third senior brother came back the day before, and he vaguely remembered that he went to get drunk on the day Miss Su left... Could it be that this person who coveted Miss Su, and then Did you go to drink because you were rejected?"

"In this way, things seem to make sense. Miss Su... must have figured out that she wanted to marry Uncle before returning to Beijing?" Song Jie squeezed his chin: "If you can read Miss Su's letter What, this matter can be determined. But the problem is, it is very difficult to steal books under the nose of Mr. Qin..."

"Why don't you... try it out?"

Just as he was thinking about it, little brother Song Jie ran in again: "Mr. Qian, that Shi Mingde came out with a gloomy face, should we continue to follow?"

Song Jie said, "Shi Mingde went drinking again?"

"Yes, I have been drinking for many days."

Song Jie had a flash of inspiration: "Why didn't I expect to get news from this person! Where did he go to drink? Let's go and see!"

……

The third senior brother has indeed been drinking for many days.

He is not a person who does not know what is good or bad, nor is he a shameless person. After all, he came back the day before and planned to have a sincere chat with Su Jiuer, and then asked the master to be the master to betroth his junior sister to him. Leave without saying goodbye, this matter...

It was almost equivalent to blatantly rejecting him.

Again, Shi Mingde is not a person who doesn't know what is good or bad, he is just an ordinary Jianghu man, with ordinary looks, mediocre mind, and no ambitions. The greatest wish in his life is to take over the martial arts from his master and at the same time take over the Jinzhong Sword The title of saint—or even better, Shanyou Sword Saint.

He knew that he was not worthy of Su Jiuer at all. After all, his most proud swordsmanship was even weaker than Su Jiuer's—savvy is quite metaphysical.

The most important thing is that last year Su Jiuer found the main witness Guan Haiwei Commander Shi Zuo and led a group of elite soldiers to hunt down and arrest the Japanese pirates fleeing in Ningbo, so after returning to Beijing, Emperor Guangxing rewarded him for his meritorious deeds as before. Qi Wanrong also gave her a loose title like that: Cong Liupin Zhongxian Xiaowei.

This thing is worthless and does not lead the army. Taking it out is not even as useful as Huamanlou's personal bodyguards, but it symbolizes that Su Jiu'er's identity has changed from a commoner to an official. Those with a salary, and if they live in Taigu County, the county government has to send people to condolences every year and festival.

So from this point of view, is he, Shi Mingde, a militia coach who is not at all worthy of Su Jiu'er?

Shi Mingde thought about going to the army to make contributions - after the Nine Frontiers abolished the guards and replaced them with recruits, the soldiers tended to be professionalized. In theory, it would not be difficult for Shi Mingde to stand out if there was a war, but how can there be battles in the current border situation?

Moreover, Shi Mingde vaguely knew that what attracted Su Jiu'er's attention must be Huamanlou, who made the border unfightable.

So now the inner OS of the third senior brother is like this: My rival in love is rich and talented, how should I die?

Shi Mingde didn't look at the letter Su Jiuer left behind, but from Qin Youque's complicated and pitiful gaze, he could easily see what Su Jiuer meant, so it wasn't just that he could only use wine to drown his sorrows in honor of himself. First love?

When he was half drunk and half awake, Shi Mingde suddenly found a young man sitting beside him, and asked with a smile, "Why are you drinking alone here, brother?"

When Song Jie visited the martial arts gym, Shi Mingde was still hangover, so he had never seen him.Seeing that Song Jie had a friendly face and he wasn't here to find fault, he hiccupped and said, "I'm just depressed because of... some small things."

Song Jie laughed and said, "This drinking method doesn't seem like a trivial matter."

Shi Mingde raised his brows and wanted to scold 'it's none of your business', but Song Jie changed the subject: "But I don't bother to ask more, but drinking alone is not very enjoyable, so I came to set up a table with my brother and drink together How many cups would you like?"

Shi Mingde thought for a while, and directly put the wine bowl under Song Jie's nose: "Very good, drink!"

Song Jie smiled slightly, and after drinking a few glasses with him, he said: "Brother, you have a good capacity for alcohol. I can't handle this kind of drinking. Why don't you have a few bites first, chat and drink slowly? The days are still long."

"Talk... What are you talking about?"

"You can talk about anything you want. You and I don't know each other before, and today we are destined to gather here for a drink. After today, it may be difficult to meet again in this life, so no matter what you say, it doesn't matter." Song Jieruo pointed out: "Just Would you like to tell me why Xiongtai is drunk here alone?"

Shi Mingde raised his drunken eyes to look at Song Jie, and spoke after a while: "I have a junior sister..."

"Hmm, the pretty one?"

"Yes, it must be beautiful."

After drinking a lot of wine, Shi Mingde said what he should say and what he shouldn't say, and in the second half of the drink, he burst into tears and cried loudly—it's a pity that Song Jie booked the restaurant for business, otherwise the third senior brother would have nothing to do with himself. From today onwards, it is estimated that he will have no face to live in Taigu County.

After the goal was achieved, Song Jie sent the already drunk and deep Shi Mingde to an inn, and after returning to the residence, he drank three cups of strong tea to recover his energy: "Sure enough, my guess is right, Miss Su has fallen in love with Uncle! Let me just say, even the talented girls like Miss Wen and Miss Wanqi are hard to escape from Uncle, so where can Miss Su be so clever? "

"Hey hey, look at how my uncle sent me here to worry about Ms. Su, so now that Ms. Su returns to Beijing, the two of them will definitely get things done. So the wedding is approaching, so there must be an elder on Ms. Su's side, right?" Song Jie After smoothing out his train of thought, he had an inscrutable look on his face: "Then, it is right to invite old Mr. Qin to go to Xishan. I think my uncle won't blame me for missing the task of protecting Miss Su because of this." ?”

"Well, it is necessary. We are half a matchmaker anyway. Uncle said that he has to give me a gift of thanking the matchmaker!" Song Jie was extremely happy: "Come here, come here, prepare a gift, let's invite Qin Qin Father!"

490. Can

Although she straightforwardly agreed to Huamanlou's marriage proposal, Su Jiu'er's actions remained the same as before: she exercised on her own when Huamanlou was dealing with matters or being lazy, and followed Huamanlou like a shadow when she went out. He, after returning to Xishanbo's mansion, she stayed alone in the small courtyard allotted to her, and she would not come out when no one called her.

This style of behavior made Huamanlou mistakenly think that her saying "I'll marry" was purely a joke, or it was a fantasy produced by her day-to-day thoughts and night-time dreams.

"that……"

With the intention of chatting with Su Jiuer about the marriage, Huamanlou walked out of Xishanbo Mansion early in the morning and headed for the back mountain. In the gazebo, Hua Manlou hesitated and said, "Don't you have any requests?"

Following Huamanlou all the way, Jiu'er, who was still standing beside him at the moment, was a little dazed: "A request?"

"Ah, um, I mean, marriage." Hua Manlou was a little embarrassed: "Jinzhong...do you want to invite your relatives and friends? Or go back with you?"

"No need." Su Jiu'er replied flatly, as if the discussion was not about her business.

Hua Manlou thought for a while, then turned around and held Jiu'er's little hand with all the courage in his body—even though the two were in love, Su Jiu'er's daily silence and indifference made it impossible for Hua Manlou to see through her at all. I'm afraid she will regard this kind of thing as 'frivolous' and give herself a catch or something.

But in terms of results, Jiu'er only trembled a bit, but she didn't break free.

Hua Manlou breathed a sigh of relief and pulled her towards him, then raised his eyes and said, "Although I know you may not care much about your identity, I can't really take it as it should be, so if you have any thoughts , can you tell me about it?"

Hua Manlou's meaning is very clear: Except for Wen Liang, in the eyes of others, even if he is marrying a matchmaker, he can only be regarded as a flat wife, such as Su Jiu'er and Wan Cheng Yanran, who can't even leave after Liuli. concubine.Although I can ignore this kind of thing at home, people's words are scary, and Su Jiu'er will inevitably feel pimples if she talks too much about it.

And as far as Huamanlou himself is concerned, family affairs are more complicated than state affairs, because he has no way to balance a bowl of water, so he can only make up for it in other aspects as much as possible.

"Since you know I don't care, why do you say more?" Su Jiu'er's attitude was still flat.

Hua Manlou squeezed her fingers, and gently stroked the calluses on her palms from years of sword practice, and said with a smile, "That's not what I said. At this moment... just forget about the other things, there should be a token of love, right?" ?”

Su Jiu'er's body froze for a rare moment, then she looked away and asked, "Are they...all of them?"

"Hmm... it's... probably all of them, probably." Hua Manlou coughed dryly.