Chapter 96: Climbing Power and Attaching to the Party (5)
"Why, you haven't chosen a suitable one yet?"
Seeing Ye Yongjia enter the study, Cai Xianqing quickly approached him, patted his shoulder and asked.
"Yes," Ye Yongjia shook his head in frustration, "either I think those families have a bad atmosphere, or they think I am rootless, powerless, and old. I advise you not to rush me anymore. This matter is really
It’s not easy to handle.”
Cai Xianqing smiled and said: "This is Tinglong, your requirements are too harsh. The matchmaker told you, which one is not from a scholarly family and a good match? They are all children of gentry families, and they are not from other places. This can be considered the best nowadays.
The conditions are met. If it really doesn’t work, I’ll just make do with it.”
"Mr. Cai, it's not that Ye has a high opinion of himself," Ye Yongjia pushed away his chair and walked to the case and sat down. "After all, I haven't even seen the girl's face, so what can I ask for? I just looked at those gentry people.
Xingzhi, when I think about being married to such a person in the future, I feel extremely contemptuous in my heart, and I’m afraid I won’t be able to cope with it.”
Cai Xianqing seemed to fully understand what he meant, and nodded with a smile: "Yes, what Tinglong said is not unreasonable. Nowadays, the world is not peaceful, and everything is in decline. The high families of the world have lost their former prosperity.
, the descendants will naturally not practice virtue, will not keep the family tradition, and will be full of male thieves and female prostitutes."
"Don't mention this anymore." Ye Yongjia thought about his life experience and became increasingly filled with mixed emotions. He quickly waved his hand and told Cai Xianqing to stop.
"Then it's time to talk about Cui Longhuai." Cai Xianqing's tone gradually became serious.
"What else can you say? Didn't Captain Zhou already transport the coffin? The money for the funeral was also given."
"Cui Yi wanted to come to see you that day, but because of the failure, the idea has not disappeared. In the past few days, he has always asked Zhou Chao to tell me, asking me to come to Tinglong, saying that if I don't see my benefactor, I won't be able to die in peace.
.Why don't you just go with Zhou Chao and attend this funeral."
"Then I'll follow him..." Just when Ye Yongjia was about to make a decision, a little hesitation flashed through his mind. He immediately frowned and slowly moved his eyes to his face, "You won't hide anything.
Follow me?"
"What are you hiding?" Cai Xianqing replied calmly.
"I'm afraid you are not a person who can give up," Ye Yongjia said. "How can I make you give up your advice? I heard that Cui Yi has a daughter. You won't..."
"Hey, what are you thinking about?" Cai Xianqing couldn't help but laugh, "Her husband died, and now her father died. She still has three years to keep her mourning. How could I be so confused?"
"I hope I'm being overly concerned," Ye Yongjia clenched the brush back and forth in his hand, "This is a matter of personal morality. Don't try to trap me into injustice."
"Don't worry, don't worry..." Cai Xianqing said, reaching out to help him up.
"Master!"
As soon as Ye Yongjia stepped into the door of Cui's house, he heard a burst of earth-shattering wailing. As soon as several old servants saw the coffin carried by the Zhou officials, they knelt down by the roadside and cried miserably, turning pale.
My voice was almost hoarse from crying.
"Who are you, where is the coffin?" Ye Yongjia slowly approached and asked softly, but the old servants couldn't listen at all. They just kowtowed as if they were smashing garlic, stared straight and shed tears.
The two had no choice but to move the coffin to the hall. They thought it would be quieter, but unexpectedly the servants came after them again, holding the coffin in their hands and continuing to cry bitterly.
Ye Yongjia endured these cries for a long time, but still did not see Cui Yi coming to pay his respects, so he anxiously asked the Zhou officials: "Why haven't Cui and Xun arrived yet? We can't stand here for several hours."
Official Zhou reported back: "Master Ye, I have a good relationship with him. He is not a rude person. If there is nothing urgent, he will not fail to see the coffin. I am familiar with the roads of Cui Mansion.
I will take you into the inner courtyard to find him."
"Okay, I'll go with you." Ye Yongjia was eager to get out of here as soon as possible, so he left with him without thinking too much.
"Sister," Cui Yi pushed open the door, bowed at the door and said, "Brother Zhou said a few words and then left. The coffin has been carried over by the servants. Please come with me to see my father."
"Where are you putting it?" Mrs. Cui, wearing a white coat and a white hat, walked out and asked, her voice even choker.
Cui Yi stepped aside and answered sullenly: "I put it in a side room in the front. All the slaves, big and small, are crying."
Ms. Cui couldn't help but burst into tears again, but she still put the emotion back, wiped away her tears and said, "Let's go."
The two walked in from the back room of the wing. Cui Yi walked in front. When he was about to open the curtain, he heard a burst of chaotic footsteps in the living room outside. He immediately shrank his hands, took a big breath, and his heart skipped a beat.
Got up.
"Sister, you...you go there first." Cui Yi took half a step back and looked at his sister with timid eyes.
"What's the matter?" Ms. Cui raised her hair between her eyebrows and walked up in confusion.
"I...I can't accept it." Cui Yi gritted his trembling teeth and said.
Mrs. Cui went to lift the curtain and muttered: "It's inexplicable, what are you doing..."
She walked to the living room, raised her eyes and saw the person coming towards her, and was stunned. The person in front of her was a man wearing a red official robe. He was extremely tall, but his face looked a bit thin and turbid.
There was an aura of indifference in his eyes, which looked empty, yet awe-inspiring - this person was Ye Yongjia. She didn't know how to describe such weird eyes, she just looked at him curiously.
The two looked at each other blankly for a while, but Ye Yongjia came to his senses first. He began to avoid the eye contact just now, deliberately put on a serious and stiff expression, and slowly saluted: "Dare you ask me, girl?"
yes……"
When Mrs. Cui heard the word 'girl', her face turned red and she lowered her head in embarrassment.
"Master Ye," Official Zhou came over and whispered, "this Ms. Cui is now a widow without a husband, so she should not be called a girl."
"Oh..." Ye Yongjia realized that he had made a mistake and quickly corrected himself, "Are you Mrs. Cui? I was rude just now."
"This is Ye Shangshu, who is also in charge of the military and criminal departments. Why don't you bow?" The Zhou official turned to look at Cui again and motioned for her to salute quickly.
Mrs. Cui was still at a loss and just when she didn't know what to do, she saw Cui Yi rushing out of the back room. She knelt down in front of Ye Yongjia with tears streaming down her face: "Master Ye, you have to save our Cui family! Our whole family is only counting on our late father."
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, now that he is gone, we are all alone and have no support! My sister has also seen this situation, so I specially ask you to join me. No matter whether you are a wife or a concubine, you must protect the continuation of my Cui Mansion! I hope you can grant my sister's request.
, to save the villain’s family business!” This chapter has been completed!