dhibooks Chapter 252 Zhang Family's Reaction
Chapter 252 Zhang Family's Reaction
Wang Mazi is almost 50 years old. When he was young, he had a daughter-in-law. He drank every day and beat her when he drank too much. But the daughter-in-law couldn't take it anymore and ran back to her mother's house.
Her mother's family was not vegetarian either, so they came to beat Wang Mazi up, and the two reconciled.
Wang Mazi didn't have a child either. Over the years, he had been drinking heavily, and beat others when he drank too much, but she was not his wife.
Over time, after drinking, he would drink like crazy, take off his pants and fart in the street, don't care about his reputation, and he only has an earthen house, and the [-] acres of land at home are rented out, and he usually does odd jobs for others Living, if I have some spare money, I go to drink M..〇
Anyway, it's not a good candidate, but Mrs. Zhang is satisfied that such a person should be matched with that little bitch of the Ma family.
"It's not Wang Mazi either." Uncle Zhang stomped his feet: "Oh, it's not the family you chose! Mother, it's Jin Jia!"
"The Jin family?" Mrs. Zhang thought for a while: "The Jin family in the north of the city? It seems that there are no men of the right age in their family? Relatives?
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"It's not the Jin family in the north of the city, it's Jinjia!" Uncle Zhang said, "It's Jinjia, gold doesn't change, the man in the government office doesn't change sir.
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"It's him!" Master Zhang stood up with a solemn expression: "He is Lord Ding's right-hand man."
"Ding Tian?" Mrs. Zhang frowned: "I didn't see them last time... Do you think differently about that woman?"
"The hair is long but the knowledge is short. At that time, the people in the yamen were impartial, and they were helping that woman." Master Zhang thought for a while: "Send someone over to see if they can get any news? If not... today is Fourteen, right? Fifteen tomorrow, I'll go see my 'good mother,...'"
According to the rules set by the eldest family of the Zhang family, on the fifteenth day of every month, go to "Old Madam Zhang" to say hello.
In order to show that the Zhang family is still a family of "family etiquette".
"Okay, I'll let people keep watching!" Uncle Zhang immediately went to arrange people.
Mr. Zhang stroked his beard and thought for a while: "Master Ding meddling in, we can't fight against him... You just swallow it."
Mrs. Zhang stopped pulling the Buddhist beads and praying to Buddha: "That woman has tortured me for more than ten years, I can't swallow this breath!"
Even if she wanted to control her sister's marriage, it made her feel aggrieved!
"Do you want the entire Zhang family to be buried with you for your breath?" Master Zhang became angry: "He is Captain Yunqi.
The adults of the house dare not speak loudly in front of him, and he has a good relationship with His Royal Highness Ning Wang. No matter how powerful our family is, can our small arms be able to twist our thighs? "
Mrs. Zhang's complexion was not good: "Then it's all for now?"
"Wait until the junior from the third family's family wins the Juren examination, then study hard, get a Jinshi and become an official... We in the Zhang family have not been able to fight His Royal Highness King Ning in the ring for a few lifetimes. Lord Ding is also a big man, and that Jin Jia...it's different, he's a commoner...when the youngest of the third family becomes an official, wouldn't it be easy to deal with a commoner?"
"Then when will it be?" Mrs. Zhang was depressed: "You have six fathers, and you didn't even pass the exam. The grandson's one
Seniors, when will the eight candidates who take the examination for scholarly talents be able to pass the examination for Juren?What's more, there are Jinshi?It’s not that the one from the third room didn’t pass the Jinshi exam. He went to the capital twice, spent thousands of taels of silver, almost used up his family’s wealth, and didn’t pass the exam... he didn’t even have a fellow Jinshi! "Same Jinshi, also a Jinshi!
But he failed the exam twice, so he is still a well-known scholar in the clan.
At that time, all the families gave their share money, even their family gave 100 taels of silver.
"Then what do you think we should do?" Mr. Zhang said with a stern face: "Rush over with the family members? Smash the Ma family? Who do you think you are?" Today's Fucheng is no longer the Zhang family and the other two big families. The era of high and mighty has passed, and the Ma family has vanished into thin air; the Lin family has attached itself to Lord Ding.
Only Zhang's family failed to climb Gao Zhi'er but had a bad reputation. The family was filial and could not leave the door.
Mrs. Zhang also made a long face: "Then bear with it!"
The couple were holding their breath. At this moment, one of Mr. Zhang's housekeepers brought a bowl of lotus seed soup into the study room without knocking on the door.
This house girl is twenty-five or six years old. She is dressed in white clothes. She is pretty and filial. Wearing such a dress, this girl timidly enters the door: "Master, this servant has cooked a bowl of lotus seed soup for you... .”
According to the progress in the past, she should feed the master soup, and then be dragged to the kang inside by the master, and have a good time on it...
Who knew that she was unlucky today, although she deliberately dressed up pretty, but the couple were holding their breath.
"Bah!" Mrs. Zhang's face was very ugly.
She is over 60, what good color can she have?And the master's house girl is only 25 or [-] years old, even if she is in filial piety, who will she show her to be so pretty?
And Mr. Zhang was also on fire, seeing such a housekeeper who dared to put her nose on her face, not only came to the study, but even went into the study without reporting... Immediately, he became angry!
He kicked the servant girl backwards: "What are you? How dare you come to the outer courtyard? How dare you bring lotus seed soup into the study? Who do you think you are? This study does not have the permission of the master, and even the wife is not allowed to come in." , what are you talking about?"
After getting angry, the girl in the room covered her face in fright, crying softly, not daring to speak loudly.
It's a pity that the master won't take pity on the fragrance and cherish the jade when he is angry, and shouted outside: "Come in, someone who is panting, pull this thing out, and find someone to match it, don't come in to serve you in the future, go to the Zhuangzi outside, Let my master out of sight and out of mind."
"Master, master!" The servant girl in the house was frightened: "Master, I am Cui Mei, Cui Mei!"
On weekdays, the master said that he likes her tenderness and consideration the most, and her thick eyebrows the most. He said that "there is no painting but black", so he named it "Cuimei".
"Pull it out..." Mrs. Zhang glanced lightly at the girl who was really crying: "It's better to ration it to the old Zhang on the Zhuangzi, and his wife has been dead for a few years."
The old man is almost seventy years old, two years older than the master, and Cuimei married...hehe....
"Yes, master, ma'am." Butler Zhang brought someone in and dragged this pretty maid out like a dead dog.
When the old couple of the Zhang family were quarreling and getting angry, the hall of the Ma family was full of joy.
Ma’s house has three entrances, with two courtyards and a back garden. The first entrance is where the horses and servants live, the second entrance is for receiving guests, and the third entrance is the back house, but the second girl Ma lives in the back garden. , After hearing that someone came to propose marriage, the second girl of the Ma family has returned to her own residence in the back garden.
The back garden is actually not big, but there are many apricot trees around it, because the second girl Ma is called Ma Xing'er, and she was born when the apricot blossoms were in full bloom.
The back garden is just a bit bigger, with apricot trees planted, and a few crabapple and sand fruit trees. It is the boudoir of the second girl Ma. There are three tile-roofed rooms, the west wing is for two maids, and the east wing is a small kitchen. , soup, a place to make dim sum.
The second girl Ma has given up on her marriage, and now she is calmly ordering something to cook soup in the East Wing, thinking that the fire will be hot in spring, and she will make pork bone and radish soup...
As everyone knows, the people in front are already chatting happily.
The Ma family naturally liked this marriage, and Ma De was more satisfied with Jin Buhuan.
Especially the matchmaker is Lord Ding. In the three northeastern prefectures, you can count people with titles with a single slap, and the most conspicuous one is Lord Ding.
Daqing's military merits are promoted the fastest, and he also attaches the most importance to military merits.
Ding Jue could come because he valued money, otherwise Ding Jue, who has been reclusive all the time, would not come to the Ma family with great fanfare to be the matchmaker.
Jin Buhuan hasn't married yet, so he's married, but the first wife is the first wife, and she's about the same age.
Ma De hadn't thought about Ding Tian, his second younger sister was not a match for Lord Ding, and her status was even more mismatched, so she didn't have so many worries about marrying Jin Buchang.
Ma De had agreed to the marriage on behalf of the Ma family, and Jin Buhuan took out the token of his engagement: "This is a set of golden needle formulas handed down from the family. Except for my Jin family, no one else knows it. Yes, some tricks are only known to my Jin family, and the Jin family has an ancestral precept, pass it on to your sons but not to your daughters... to your daughter-in-law but not to your girl."
Those were two thin sheets of paper, both slightly yellowed.
But Ma De took it over very solemnly. The butler Ma had already quickly taken a piece of good cooked rice paper and handed it to Ma De.
"Since it is Mr. Buchang's sincerity, then my Ma family will accept it." Ma De put the papers against each other. He didn't even look at what was written on the paper, so he put it on the cooked rice paper, and then put the rice paper After folding it, it became an envelope, then lit the wax again, and sealed the handmade envelope: "Don't worry, my Ma family will take this as one of the dowry and bring it back as a dowry."
Ding Tian sat on the side and grinned: "It's just two pieces of paper, you are ashamed to take it out."
Jin Buhuan smiled and said nothing, but Ma De said: "Master Ding, this statement is wrong. Only these two pieces of paper can show that Mr.
meaning of importance. "
Ding Tian scratched his head: "Quickly, take out the token of love!"
Only then did Jin Buhuan take out the pair of jade pendants, which had the pattern of a pair of Liuyun Baifu.
Composed of moiré patterns and bats.
If the shape of the cloud pattern is wishful, it is continuous, which means wishful and long-lasting;
"Snail bat" means "all blessings".
This pair of jade pendants symbolizes happiness, wishful thinking or endless happiness.
As a token of love, it is the most suitable, and it is expensive as hell at first glance!
There are not many pieces of such high-quality mutton fat white jade in the entire Beifeng Mansion, Ma De stood up immediately, and told the housekeeper: "Go and ask your family to go to the backyard... Tell the second girl!"
This is to let the second girl of Ma see her for gold... Well, if you meet in front of so many people, you won't be afraid of gossip, not to mention that he has already agreed to his sister's marriage, so naturally, it's okay to meet.
This is a rare enlightened act in ancient times, not to mention coming to receive a token of love.
Ma De is also for the good of his sister, and he can't wait to publicize it all over the world. His sister finally has a good marriage.
"Yes, yes!" The housekeeper was so excited that he ran to find his wife.
There is Steward Ma in the family, and Steward Ma's daughter-in-law, Mrs. Zhang... well, Ms. Ma specially married a daughter-in-law surnamed Zhang to the housekeeper of her natal family.
Ma Zhang's back garden was blown away like a gust of wind: "Second Miss, Second Miss!"
"Mr. Ma Zhang, why are you yelling so loudly?" The second girl Ma came out of the small kitchen: "But the proposer was sent away? Are you going to prepare lunch?"
Mrs. Ma Zhang stomped her feet: "My good girl, what are you sending away? Good marriage, good marriage! Hurry up and dress up, the uncle is receiving the future son-in-law, you should go out to have a look, the son-in-law brought a token of love over here , Grandpa asked you to pick up things!,,
The second girl Ma didn't quite believe it: "Brother agrees?"
The eldest sister and the second brother are very concerned about her marriage, and she believes that they will never cheat her, but...the elder brother actually sent someone to tell her to go ahead...?
"This marriage couldn't be better. If the uncle disagrees, the aunt will have to deal with him!" Mrs. Ma Zhang dragged her into the main room without any explanation, and pressed her in front of the dressing table: "Hurry up! Xiaoxi? Xiaoque? Go to heat the water, and take out the girl's newly made lake green spring shirt...!"
The second girl Ma still couldn't believe it, and she held Ma Zhang's hand a little scared: "Who's Xu's family?"