Li Chen'an has no interest in the ancient people's choice of son-in-law based on literature.

He felt that this matter was extremely unreliable. Maybe he could choose a real talent, but if this talent turned out to be miserable... The handsome young man just now said that the third lady of Zhongli Mansion was as beautiful as a flower. Wouldn't this be a problem?

Flowers in cow dung?

With that magnificent painted boat, it seems that the Zhongli Mansion is a place where people are either rich or noble. Why would a family like this, and a young lady from such a family, use such a method of gambling on luck?

After the list is released in the Spring Festival, wouldn't it be better to choose a good son-in-law from that list?

Or perhaps choosing from a son-in-law from a powerful family can also play a role in marriage. These are more reliable than choosing a son-in-law based on literature.

He just thought so, after all, this matter had nothing to do with him.

His heart is as calm as an ancient well.

In his previous life, he was already thirty-five years old and was so deeply hurt by the word love that he created huge wealth but remained unmarried and became a glittering diamond king.

Now that I think about it, was my mentality at that time to get revenge on the woman I used to be or to make up for the loneliness and emptiness in my heart? Or both.

In short, in his previous life, he traveled among flowers for a long time, often traveling far and wide at night. Of course, the flowers around him changed one after another.

He has seen too many flowers.

There are even ones from Thailand!

Well, just like the handsome young man just now.

In fact, now that I calm down, I realize how ridiculous that is.

What was lost was the years, which also made some girls who really loved him feel sad.

I must be dead in that world, right?

So who would be heartbroken at their own funeral?

Maybe there isn't one.

With a dumb smile, Li Chenan shook his head and left the past behind.

After walking out of the turbulent sea of ​​people, he had arrived at the south side of Huaping Lake. He turned around and saw that Huapingdong was full of human heads. In this way, the third lady of Zhongli Mansion was really very attractive. With so many young talents, who could

How lucky is it to be a guest on that boat?

The painting boat has docked.

The next step should be the so-called literary meeting.

Li Chenan turned around and didn't look back.

He looked at the sun. It was three o'clock in the sky. It was time to go back——

He went back to the closed shop and stayed there.

It was a food shop that once sold some steamed cakes and straw cakes. Since he could only settle here, he decided to reopen the food shop.

He is not good at cooking, but he does have a way to make steamed cakes and grass cakes, but he has closed down once and reopened, so he can no longer make that stuff.

Let's open a tavern.

I know how to make wine, and I once even made a special trip to a certain winery because it tasted so good.

There are still two taels of silver left in his pocket, which his predecessor's mother asked his sister to give him a few days ago.

I originally had four taels, but I spent 2 taels in these ten days.

It was precisely because of this money that he temporarily survived, so he had a very deep impression on his mother.

She was a kind and kind-hearted woman, a diligent and thrifty woman, and a rather cowardly woman.

So much so that as the principal wife of the Li family, he was bullied by the concubine. Li Wenhan probably disliked that woman for being old and old. Of course, it may also be because the son she gave birth to was not up to expectations. In short, in the memory of the original owner, Li Wenhan was very fond of Li Wenhan.

My mother didn't have much of a good face.

However, the concubine's son did inherit the blood of the Li family, and he was fourteen this year and had already passed the examination as a scholar last year, becoming Li Wenhan's hope.

In this era where mother is more valuable than her son, life in the Li Mansion for a mother without any background will probably become increasingly difficult.

My mother is having a hard time, and my sister's life is not going to be easy either.

The best thing is to run the shop and earn enough money to take over my mother and sister.

With this in mind, Li Chenan left Huaping Lake and walked into Qiliqiao Alley.

After passing through Qiliqiao Alley and then turning around Bajiao Pavilion, we arrived at Erjinggou Alley where he lived.

It's not far, and it takes about half an hour to walk slowly like this.

He didn't know that a woman carrying a sword was following behind him a little distance away.

She is Yu Heng, one of the four masters under the Fourth Princess.

Yu Heng looked at his back and frowned slightly, revealing a hint of doubt——

His back was originally slightly hooked, but as he moved forward it gradually straightened up, and finally became straight.

Although the steps are still slow, they are firm, like a moving javelin.

It's like it suddenly transformed.

What has changed?

Yu Heng couldn't understand and didn't think about it again. Her mission was to follow him and not disturb him.

But she felt a little weird. How could Ning Chuchu, the fourth princess of Lijing Division, who was in charge of the Ning Empire's highest intelligence agency, become interested in such an unknown man?

…

…

Painting Pingtung.

There were guards who isolated the area dozens of feet away from Yanyu Pavilion.

The third lady of Zhongli Mansion, Zhongli Ruoshui, had left the painting boat and came to Yanyu Pavilion under the protection of the guards.

Of course, the boat side is extremely busy now, because if you want to board the boat, you must read the second couplet of the couplet.

There are three tables on the deck of the boat. Sitting in front of the tables are three slender-looking old men. They are knowledgeable people and are the judges of this literary conference.

The second couplets written by the students on the shore will be signed and submitted to the three judges. If they can get praise from two of them, that person will be invited to the second floor of the boat.

If you can be praised by three judges at the same time, you can climb the three floors of the boat.

If all three judges rate a certain second line as top, that person can become a guest on the third floor.

Zhongli Ruoshui looked back at the bustling place, curled his lips and sat in front of the fourth princess Ning Chuchu. Her maid took out the curtain and surrounded the Misty Rain Pavilion, so what happened inside was never seen outside.

She reached out and opened the food box, took out a delicate snack from it, and stuffed the snack into her mouth without any concern for the image, her cheeks suddenly bulging.

“Kyoto Yunjinji’s water chestnut cake is still the best!”

"I said... didn't you write in last month that you wanted to go to Bei Desert in person? Why did you suddenly change your mind and come to Guangling City?"

Ning Chuchu seemed to be used to Zhong Li Ruoshui's behavior. She also twisted a piece of almond cake and took a small bite, "Father has changed his mind. I guess... I guess the prince wants this credit."

She chewed it in small mouths, and she looked more ladylike than Zhongli Ruoshui, but she was the spy chief of Ningguo with a notorious reputation, while Zhongli Ruoshui was a famous and talented woman in Ningguo.

It seems that the eating habits are reversed.

"Last September, the Northern Desert desert invaded the border. The Northern Desert was guarded by General Xia Houzhuo. The desert man was no match for him, but the desert man conquered the Jiuyin Pass and even occupied the Jiuyin City..."

"Isn't this Xia Houzhuo the servant of His Highness the Crown Prince? Could this move... be done on purpose, so that His Highness the Crown Prince can gain military merit and overpower the second prince?"

Ning Chuchu took another small bite of the almond cake, and raised her beautiful brows, "Who knows? If this is really the case... I'm afraid they are trying to pull chestnuts from the fire!"

"The desolate man is not terrible."

"The Northern Desert has been at peace for a long time. The desert people were not scary in the past, but that is not the case now!"

"How to say?"

Ning Chuchu swallowed the almond cake in her mouth, "Now the leader of the Huangren is named Yuwenfeng! This man rose from the Xiushan tribe five years ago. It took him three years to unify the Northern Desert and establish the Xiushui Plains.

The first real city in the history of the desert people!"

"That city is called Dahuang City. He conquered sixteen tribes in the Northern Desert in the past. He founded the twenty-seven states in the Northern Desert. In fact, he has established a powerful country, but...it's just a temple.

Didn’t realize his most likely ambition next!”

Zhongli Ruoshui was startled, "Is it so powerful?"

Ning Chuchu's lips curled up, "I'm afraid it's even more powerful than many people think!"

"What do you mean, Your Majesty?"

"Father, he... probably also wants the crown prince's brother's abilities."

Ning Chuchu said this more euphemistically. In fact, she had already advised her father, but it obviously did not attract her father's attention.

Or maybe the emperor has other considerations.

Who knows?

"I'm not here to tell you this. I just want to ask you, why do you want to do this nonsense of choosing a son-in-law based on literature?"

Zhongli Ruoshui pursed his lips, took another piece of osmanthus cake from the food box, and took a big bite, "Cheng Guogong wants to propose marriage to me for his son... You know that guy, I kept taking it in Kyoto back then.

He treats me as a brother, and now he actually wants to sleep with me!"

"My father doesn't want to offend Duke Cheng's government. What can I do?"

"After much thought, I came up with no idea. It was Shen Qiaodie, the eldest daughter of the Shen family, who gave me the idea to let the Guangling talents know before Cheng Guogong arrived from Kyoto... You see, the effect is pretty good!"

Zhongli Ruoshui, a talented woman from Ning State, doesn't look like a talented woman at all at this moment.

Her pretty face had a proud look, her cheeks were still bulging, she looked more like a girl with a wild temper.

Ning Chuchu didn't find it strange, because in private Zhongli Ruoshui had an eccentric temperament.

What she found strange was the girl named Shen Qiaodie.

"Who is Shen Qiaodie?"

"Oh, the daughter of Guangling grain merchant Shen Qianshan...she is both talented and beautiful, but unfortunately her life is not good either."

"What's a bad idea?"

"It's not like she blames her father!"

Zhongli Ruoshui was indignant and said: "Her father made a marriage arrangement for her, a baby's marriage, and the other party is the Li family... It is the Li family where the father and son have seven Jinshis and three women. Unfortunately, he is not the son of Li Wenhou, the current Minister of Household Affairs.

, but the son of Li Wenhan, the dean of Zhuxia Academy in Guangling City."

"Isn't this great? After all, I come from a scholarly family, so how can I be worthy of being the daughter of a merchant?"...

"You don't know, right? Li Wenhan's son is named Li Chen'an. Not only does this guy not have the bookish aura of the Li family, but... How should I put it? Although the people in Guangling City say that he is a fool, it is a bit much.

This man is indeed an extremely ordinary person. I heard that he has been kicked out of his home and is now in a dilapidated situation."

"That's indeed a mistake, Miss Shen."

Ning Chuchu had no interest in this matter and did not continue the topic.

She suddenly leaned over and said to Zhongli Ruoshui mysteriously: "I met a young man just now, and he casually mentioned this couplet you wrote. I thought it was very good after hearing it. Do you want to listen to it?"

"How does it look?"

"He is quite handsome, but the key is the temperament he exudes... How should I put it? He is seventeen or eighteen years old, but he has the maturity of a seventy or eighty year old... Well, I can't say he is mature.

, somewhat opaque.”

"You don't know either?"

"Well, I didn't expose him either."

"Okay, people like this are interesting, not as superficial as that kid from the Cheng family! What's his couplet like?"

"Listen carefully!"

Ning Chuchu cleared her throat and recited the couplet very carefully:

"The world is narrow when you have dust in your eyes, but the bed is wide when you have nothing in your mind."

"how do you feel?"

Zhongli Ruoshui pondered for a moment and his eyes lit up:

"...As a guest of honor, where are the others?"
Chapter completed!