After lighting the incense, someone from the Beiming Family came out for a parade, but it was not the eldest lady herself, but the maid next to her, who showed her portrait to the young men who were planning to sign up.
Ma Xiaoquan also came up and was extremely surprised when he saw the portrait of Bei Mingshuang (Xue).
Not to mention, this portrait is very good, but looking at the expression of Bei Mingshuang (Xue) in the portrait, he seems to be very unhappy. Ma Xiaoquan squinted his eyes and thought for a while, thinking: Bei Mingshuang (Xue) was painted
, he must have been forced to pose.
After hearing the news, the young masters who came here saw the portrait and immediately divided into two groups. One group hurriedly signed up, while the other group believed that the Beiming Family was prevaricating by only holding the portrait and not allowing themselves to come out to meet people.
The Beiming Family has a good reason. They say that the eldest lady is dressing up and may have to wait for a while. If everyone is willing to wait, just wait. If you are not willing to wait, the Beiming Family will not force it. Anyway, there are many people who are attracted by it, so
No less than you.
Ma Xiaoquan squeezed to the front and was just about to write his name when two servants from the Beiming Family held down their pens and stretched out their hands to him.
"What are you doing?" Ma Xiaoquan looked at the two Beiming servants with some confusion.
"This young master, our Beiming family wants to collect money when we openly recruit brides."
"What? You have to charge money to recruit a bride? What kind of rules do you have?"
"It's like this. Our Beiming family is considered a big family no matter what. If you want to find your uncle, you will usually be either rich or noble. It's not that we look down on the poor. This money is just friendship money. For the young master, it is definitely not worth it.
It would be too much.”
Ma Xiaoquan crossed his arms and nodded: "Okay, how much friendship money do you want?"
One of the servants from Beiming stretched out three fingers and waved them twice in front of Ma Xiaoquan.
"Three liang?" Ma Xiaoquan said casually.
"No, it's thirty taels!"
"What, thirty taels? Why don't you go and grab it?"
Next to Ma Xiaoquan, several young men who had just paid the money looked at him with disdain and said with a smile: "Boy, you look like a dog in what you are wearing. If you can't afford thirty taels, don't come and accept the kiss."
"That's it, thirty taels, if you can't afford it, get out..."
At another registration point nearby, Ziliang Nangong Lei and others were also filling in the registration. Hearing someone shouting, Nangong Lei smiled and said to the Beiming servant in front of him: "Is it possible that your Beiming family is taking advantage of this open recruitment opportunity?
, come to make money?"
Beiming's servant in front of Nangong Lei smiled and said: "Young Master Nangong is really joking. Even if there are hundreds or thousands of people coming, the eldest lady will only marry one person in the end. Besides, if any young master becomes our Beiming
My uncle from an aristocratic family, do you still need to care about this mere thirty taels?"
Nangong Lei smiled and nodded: "You are right, haha, your eldest lady, we have had some friendship in the past, I hope this time, I will become your uncle, haha..."
Ximen Jing, who was next to Nangong Lei, said: "Nangong Lei, you are so shameless. Are you so confident?"
"Why, you, Ximen Jing, are already engaged, and why are you here to join in the fun?"
Ximen Jing snorted coldly and said, "So what?"
"Okay, you two, stop arguing." Zi Liang frowned and said, "Hurry up and write your name and leave. Don't be like that guy over there, yelling for thirty taels of silver..."
...
Ma Xiaoquan heard Zi Liang's words, glared at him with squinting eyes, and sneered: "Hey, this young man, it's not that I can't afford thirty taels, but my money didn't come from the strong wind, I earned it every penny by myself.
Come here, it’s not like you, relying on your family background to pretend to be a big-tailed wolf here..."
Zi Liang was stunned, looked at Ma Xiaoquan, and said with a smile: "Brother, what you said is wrong, you..."
Before Zi Liang finished speaking, Ma Xiaoquan waved his hand to stop him and said, "Okay, okay, don't talk nonsense to me. Thirty taels is thirty taels. Do you accept cash or banknotes?"
The Beiming servant in front of Ma Xiaoquan grinned and said in a somewhat frivolous tone: "Of course we accept banknotes, but they must be official votes."
Ma Xiaoquan took out an official ticket worth one thousand taels from his pocket and slapped it on the table in front of Beiming's servant.
"This is one thousand taels, and the friendship money is thirty taels, right? Then give me nine hundred and seventy taels. You can also get a banknote. I also want an official vote."
Beiming's servant was stunned, and his frivolous expression just now suddenly became a little embarrassed: "This... this is too big, we... we can't find it for the time being...
..Sir, don’t you have any cash?”
"No!" Ma Xiaoquan said impatiently.
Zi Liang stepped forward and politely said to Ma Xiaoquan: "Haha... Master, let's do this. I will pay for your thirty taels first, and then you will return it to me when you have cash."
that is......"
Ma Xiaoquan looked at Zi Liang and thought to himself, this kid is really strong. I choked him just now, but he wasn't angry at all? Or is he pretending?
"Haha..." Ma Xiaoquan also came to trouble. Seeing that the other party didn't care about what happened just now, he returned the favor and said, "Isn't this brother afraid that I won't return it to you?"
Zi Liang laughed loudly: "Brother, you can come up with a thousand taels of official tickets. It's only thirty taels, but it shouldn't catch your eye, right?"
"Haha..." Ma Xiaoquan nodded and smiled, "You are really good at talking, but since you are willing to help me pay, I won't refuse, so thank you very much. Well, what do you call me, brother?"
Zi Liang chuckled: "I'm Zi Liang."
"Ziliang?" Ma Xiaoquan was stunned and thought to himself: Damn it, I just said who was with these two idiots Nangong Lei, Ximen Jing, and they have been making trouble for a long time, and they are really from the Zi family.
"What? Brother, do you know someone in your family?"
Ma Xiaoquan shook his head and said: "No, no, no, I think your surname is very rare and I have never heard of it before."
"Oh, haha...it's okay..." Zi Liang said, picked up the pen and asked Ma Xiaoquan: "What's your name?"
Ma Xiaoquan chuckled and said, "My name is Ma Laosi."
"Pfft~~~" Ximen Jing covered his mouth and almost laughed out loud.
Zi Liang's eyebrows also moved several times.
"Brother, what's your name?"
Ma Xiaoquan scratched his head: "Yes, my name is Ma Laosi. I am the fourth eldest child in the family."
"Ma Laosi?" Zi Liang seemed to have thought of something and asked again, "How many brothers and sisters are there in Xiongtai's family?"
Ma Xiaoquan thought to himself: I knew you would ask this, huh...