Li You really encountered a strange thing. When he was reviewing the case files that day, he saw Zhang San walking up to him and taking a letter of greeting and presenting it. When he opened it, he saw that the handwriting was good, but the content was that someone Claiming to be an old friend of Li's father, he came to visit.
Li Tuiguan immediately couldn't laugh or cry. A few days ago, he had been sympathizing with Chen Xundao for being beaten repeatedly. He was glad that he was not studying astronomy. Unexpectedly, he encountered the same thing today. How did his father, an old head catcher, come from such a cultured past? ?
As the saying goes, if you are poor in the busy city and have no one to care about you, if you are rich in the mountains, you have distant relatives.
Li You had no interest in dealing with such a person, so he was just about to ask his disciples to send him away at will, when he discovered that there was a letter attached to the invitation. Looking at it again, he recognized that the letter was actually written by his father, introducing Li You to the letter holder. .
Since he had a father, Li You sent Zhang San to bring the person in. However, he saw that the man was less than forty years old, neatly dressed, with long eyebrows and narrow eyes, and looked elegant and elegant. He came to Li You and bowed deeply. Said: "I entered Zhou Jiexi as a junior student and met Mr. Li, a fellow countryman."
He was a latecomer, and Ganqing was also an educated person. For this reason, Li You casually handed over his hand as a return gift, without saying a word, waiting for the other party to explain his intention first.
Zhou Jiexi ignored Official Li's indifference and said to himself: "I have a huge happy event that I want to tell Mr. Li."
What a happy event? What a big deal? Li You thought about his current situation. It was impossible to get promoted, he was looking for a fortune, and he already had a wife. How could there be any other big happy events?
Opening one's mouth to make lies and make lies to bluff people is really a lobbying routine that has not changed for thousands of years. Don't you know that I am also familiar with this method? Li You thought to himself. If it weren't for the sake of his father's letter, he would have been beaten with a stick.
"I'm going to be a matchmaker and arrange a good marriage for Mr. Li." Zhou Jiexi finally revealed the purpose of his visit.
Hearing this, Li You immediately shouted: "Why do these crazy people dare to talk nonsense and tease me? Come out and beat me!"
Zhou Jiexi hurriedly shouted: "Don't you want to hear whose family it is? I'm sure you'll be satisfied!"
If you don’t want to hear it, it will be troublesome... Li You somehow thought of Zhao Daguan’s face, and he remembered the joke he made when talking about his daughter a few days ago. Only Zhao Liangli, who has always been out of shape, would do this. In terms of thoughts and actions, besides him, who else could be there?
The wolf-like government servants outside the door heard Li Tuiguan's order, came in, picked up Zhou Jiexi from the left and the right, and dragged him roughly outside the house.
When he was dragged to the door, he saw Xianggong holding the door frame with both hands and shouting seven words with all his strength: "The woman is from the Qian family of Huang Shang!"
A word came out of nowhere, and Li Tuiguan was immediately dazzled and confused in the wind...
It is said that in the city of Suzhou in this dynasty, the Qian family of Huangshang was really famous. The head of the Qian family was named Cheng, and he was from the same family as the Empress Dowager Qian, the biological mother of the emperor. Although the blood relationship was not very close, in detail it was clear that He is considered the clan brother of Empress Dowager Qian.
This man knows business and understands business. More than ten years ago, he received the favor of Ouchi and took over the job of supervising the construction of gold bricks in Suzhou Prefecture. He transformed into an imperial businessman. Now Mr. Qian's family business has grown bigger and bigger. He is a well-known wealthy businessman in Jiangnan. He only focuses on business. He owns 14 pawnshops in Su, Song, Chang, Jia and Hu prefectures, and more than 30 other stores, with a capital of no less than 200,000.
Looking at his house, it can be said that there are groups of beautiful concubines, full of children and grandchildren, vast buildings and clouds, flowers like brocade, gold and jade like gravel, and silk ribbons like straw paper, allowing him to enjoy all the wealth in the world of mortals.
Of course, no matter how rich Mr. Qian is, Li You doesn't think it has any direct relationship with him. He ruined the beautiful marriage between the Qian family and the Zhao family. This is something that God knows and that you know and I know. No outsiders should know about it.
So why did the Qian family suddenly show up to ask for marriage today? What kind of reason is this? It is simply one of the weirdest things I have encountered since time travel. Even if Qian Huangshang came to him to seek revenge, it was much more normal than this.
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Li You, who already had a family, was puzzled, but what was certain was that something must have happened that he didn't know about...
Li You only relied on his intuition to guess that today's matter must have something to do with Zhao Liangli, a senior official, otherwise there would be no one else to connect him with the Qian family. He waved his hand and asked his men to go out, and asked Zhou Jiexi: "You
What does it have to do with the Qian Mansion?"
Zhou Jiexi replied: "I am employed by the Qian Mansion as a teacher."
It turned out that he was a Qingke living in a wealthy family. Li You asked again: "Then do you know whether the Zhao family has been in contact with the Qian family recently? I heard that the two families are getting married."
Zhou Jiexi secretly thought, Mr. Li, why are you pretending to be confused? "To be honest with you, the third master of the Zhao family has sent someone a message, saying that he wants to promise his daughter to you, Mr. Li, so there is no need for Zhao and Zhao to continue discussing the marriage."
Promise that little seventh lady to me? Sure enough, it was Zhao Daguan who caused the trouble! Li You couldn't calm down anymore and punched the case again and again, deeply reflecting on whether it was wise to continue to associate with Zhao Daguan.
Zhou Jiexi was indeed a teacher in the Qian family. He taught the younger generation how to read and helped the master have fun at the same time. On the day Zhao Liangli sent someone to deliver the message, Qian Cheng, Emperor Qian, Shang Qian, and Master Qian were playing chess with Mr. Zhou.
After learning that the Zhao family rejected the marriage, Mr. Qian, who had been going smoothly for more than ten years, was disappointed. He lost the opportunity to marry into a well-known family. Can he not be disappointed? By marrying the daughter of the Zhao family, his son will have the opportunity to become a scholar in the future.
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Who is Mr. Li Tuiguan? He sounds very familiar. Mr. Qian thought hard and finally remembered that this person is mentioned on the salary inscriptions of public craftsmen from all walks of life in the city recently. There are several monument erecting ceremonies.
I went to watch the ceremony with him.
"I will never let this person go!" Mr. Qian said angrily, throwing the jade chess piece to the ground. It was probably this official who ruined the good thing.
But Zhou Jiexi advised: "Don't be angry, Mr. Dong, but I have some other ill-thought-out ideas. I am from Xujiang and from the same hometown as Li Tuiguan. I heard that he married a wife and started a family when he was a minor official."
Mr. Qian was surprised and said: "You have a family? That's strange, but Zhao San said that he would marry his daughter to Li Tuiguan."
"I conclude that if the third master of the Zhao family dares to say this, it must be that Li Guan has the idea of changing his wife and remarrying, otherwise a slap in the face will not make a difference." Zhou Jiexi made a bold assumption and carefully argued.
Mr. Qian nodded and said: "It makes sense, but I didn't expect that Zhao San would actually fall in love with a person who was born as a small official and has a wife."
"This man is not an ordinary person. He has no family background and no background. He became a seventh-rank official in less than twenty years old. Is it something that ordinary people can do? Furthermore, although he has no fame, his poems are famous all over the south of the Yangtze River. There is one
His nickname is Li Tanhua, no one dares to say he has no talent."
"Speaking of these allusions, I also remembered that I had heard them before." Mr. Qian's voice changed and he said displeasedly: "Mr. Zhou has no words to praise him. How can he reason?"
Zhou Jiexi stood up and bowed to him: "Since Mr. Li has the idea of marrying another man, I am bold enough to suggest that Mr. Dong choose one of his daughters to marry Mr. Li."
"Absurd!" Mr. Qian scolded. But after he said the words, he began to think deeply. Mr. Zhou's idea was by no means aimless. It sounded absurd at first glance, but if you think about it carefully, you will find that there are so many wonderful things that it is difficult to describe them in a word, and it is very cost-effective.
There is profit and no loss.
In this dynasty, although the second-married man who changes his wife after being rich is extremely despised, the Zhao family, a family with a family that inherits poetry and etiquette, can marry a girl shamelessly, and his upstart, unscrupulous Qian family has no scruples.
It's a pity that Zhao Liangli just used Li Tuiguan as a shield to make the Qian family give up. No one had any other intention. No one expected that the situation would develop to this extent.
