Chapter 323 Proposal for Marriage
"I would like to ask for the marriage of the second grandson of the family, the Lord of Chu Yu County." Lu Guogong bowed slightly and asked.
Everyone in the capital knows that the second young master of the Lu family is a playboy who bullies men and dominates women without any limits.
Last year, I kissed an older girl in public on the street, almost forcing her to death. Fortunately, I later found out that she was the fiancée of the second young master of the Lu family, so the girl's family stopped looking for the dagger.
But who would have known that after the refugee incident last year, the girl from the Dai family died.
Second Young Master Lu was single again.
After the spring of this year, several wives of the Lu family began to look for a daughter-in-law for the Second Young Master Lu. However, the better families looked down on the Second Young Master Lu, and the Lu family looked down on the poorer families.
After this back and forth, half a year has passed, and the candidate for Lu Ershao's daughter-in-law has still not been selected.
The day before yesterday, the Queen snatched away the concubine they prepared for the third prince from under Concubine Lu's nose, and also took away a major resource that the Lu family wanted to win over and utilize. The Lu family hated the Queen.
Yesterday in the court, the ministers advised the emperor to cancel the marriage, and Duke Lu Guo got his thoughts on it and began to have ideas for Xia Zihan again.
After resigning from the court, he went to see Concubine Lu. Once the father and daughter got together, they decided that Lu Ershao would marry Xia Zihan.
Speaking of Second Young Master Lu, he is actually a useless piece of the Lu family.
Take a useless chess piece and marry a good chess piece. No matter how you calculate this business, you will definitely make a profit without losing money.
It's just that Second Young Master Lu is five or six years older than Xia Zihan. By the time Xia Zihan turns nineteen, Second Young Master Lu will be in his mid-twenties.
Although it took a long time to wait, as long as Second Young Master Lu has the tacit identity of Xia Zihan's fiancé, I believe that the common people and soldiers who admire Mr. Chuge will also think highly of Second Young Master Lu.
What they want is to elevate the status of the Lu family in the minds of the people and soldiers.
The Lu family made good plans, but they had to have someone to cooperate with them.
No, the emperor's face suddenly turned gloomy, and his eyebrows were raised high, "Lu Aiqing, didn't you say that it is not easy for County Master Chuyu to get engaged at the age of nineteen? Is Lu Aiqing trying to embarrass me?"
"Your Majesty, calm down." Mr. Lu Guogong bent down a little deeper. "According to common sense, as long as you don't change the stickers, write a marriage letter, or exchange tokens of love, it is not considered an engagement. What the veteran said is just verbal. "
"Hmph, what a verbal agreement. Who in the capital doesn't know what kind of thing that second kid from your Lu family is?" the second prince said angrily, glaring at Duke Lu.
"You, the beautiful little girl from County Lord Chu Yu, have the nerve to ask for that scumbag's hand in marriage. You are not helping Chu Yu, but you want to harm her for the rest of her life."
Duke Lu was so angry that his face turned red and his neck thickened, "Am I treating you like a donkey with good intentions?"
"You know it yourself whether you are really kind or not."
"You..."
The two people started to quarrel in the court.
The second prince remembered that Xia Zihan had saved the second princess, her mother and her son, and spoke for her everywhere, which made Mr. Lu almost run away in anger.
Yesterday, it was the eldest prince and the second prince who went to the palace to ask for help from the second prince, and also talked about the verbal marriage between the Chu family and the Chu family. The second prince agreed to go to court early in the morning and ask the emperor to cancel the marriage for Xia Zihan.
Today, the second prince was also very happy to see that the emperor agreed.
Unexpectedly, Duke Lu Guo jumped out and asked to marry Xia Zihan as his granddaughter-in-law in front of all the civil and military officials.
If Second Young Master Lu was a man of success, he wouldn't have said anything.
But Second Young Master Lu is a scumbag, a dandy who only knows how to eat, drink, whore, gamble and have fun.
With such a thing, even the legitimate daughter of an ordinary family would not agree to marry him.
Otherwise, the marriage of the second son, Married Lu, would not have been delayed until he was almost 20 years old, and a marriage had not yet been arranged.
Duke Lu Guo was furious to death, but he confidently said that he was doing it for Xia Zihan's good, otherwise, he would not ask for Xia Zihan's marriage for his grandson.
The second prince smiled disdainfully.
Just when the two of them were arguing more and more, but no one dared to step forward to stop the fight, the emperor coughed twice and said, "Lu Aiqing, it's not that I don't agree, but Mrs. Chu sent me a message, saying that she has already You verbally booked Chu Yu, but you said it too late.”
Then, together with the second prince, they gloated and watched Lu Guogong's face change from green to white to red.
"The old minister has not heard about this matter. Your Majesty, this is not the intention of the Chu family to shirk it, is it?" Before Lu Guogong gave up, the emperor snorted and sneered, "Mrs. Chu personally brought it up for the Chu family boy, you say What?”
Is it possible that the wife of the second son of your family can be more noble than the young lady of the crown prince Chu of Anguo Duke's mansion?
Lu Guogong's face became even more ugly.
What he said was so clear, he couldn't help but give in.
However, this chess piece went around and around, and finally went to the Chu family, hum...
Zhuo lived in the Chu family, gave birth to children in the Chu family, and had confinement, which was known to all the wealthy families in the capital.
This also explains why the Chu family and the Chu family have such a good relationship. It turns out that both families have settled the marriage arrangements for the younger generation and have become real in-laws. The emperor also said, "In any case, my Ao family has wronged Chu Yu by canceling the marriage grant this time. In order to make up for Chu Yu, I decided to give the two villages on the outskirts of the city to Chu Yu as dowry."
It can be regarded as making up for Chu Xuanyu from the side.
Chu Xuanyu fought several victorious battles for him in the northwest, defended the Water Curtain City, and protected the common people. He has already remembered this great achievement.
But the hardships on the northwest border are not something ordinary people can endure. He received a letter from a spy saying that the father and son of the Chu family even ate together with the soldiers, sharing the blessings and hardships.
Such a minister is worthy of entrusting the protection of the country to him.
The emperor was thinking about Chu Xuanyu, so he asked his father-in-law to draft an edict and gave two villages on the outskirts of the city to Xia Zihan.
At noon, Xia Zihan received the imperial edict. Mrs. Zeng was very happy and hurriedly asked Manager Lu to wrap up several thick red envelopes to reward her young father-in-law.
As soon as the father-in-law who announced the decree left, Xia Shiming, who had just inquired about the news, rushed back.
Knowing from the concierge that the father-in-law in the palace had come, Xia Shiming hurried in and saw Xia Zihan, Zeng, and Manager Lu talking, so he said, "Mother-in-law, Yu Niang, Manager Lu, you all know it." ?”
"Well, the father-in-law in the palace has just left."
Xia Zihan stood up and bowed, and asked Xia Shiming to sit on Zeng's right hand side. Xia Shiming took a deep breath and said with a smile, "With the emperor's reward, this hurdle has finally passed. Now I am full." Everyone in the civil and military affairs of the court knows that you have been assigned to the Chu family, and no one will dare to make any plans for you in the future.”
Mrs. Zeng said cheerfully, "This time, thanks to the Queen's kindness."
"The eldest prince also put in a lot of effort behind the scenes. I heard that the afternoon before yesterday, after the emperor's imperial edict of marriage came down, the eldest prince went to the second prince's palace and begged the second prince to come forward. Only with the second prince's starting point, the other ministers dared to invite Tell the emperor about the cancellation of the marriage."
Otherwise, the emperor has just engaged a daughter-in-law, and the ministers will step on him when he is happy. Although this project is for the good of the eldest prince, but accompanying the emperor is like accompanying a tiger. Who knows whether the emperor will hold a grudge against them in his heart? .
Therefore, the first person to come forward is the most critical.
After hearing this, Mrs. Zeng told Xia Zihan, "Tomorrow, let the cook make a few kilograms of snacks from Jiangnan to send to the second princess. This can be regarded as repaying the favor."
"Yes, grandma." Xia Zihan responded, and she added, "It just so happens that the peaches on the farm are ripe. The head of the farm will send a few boxes over in the afternoon, and then send one box to the Second Prince's Mansion."
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"Well, remember to send a box to the Liao family."
Mrs. Liao was the only friend Zeng made in Jiangnan. If there was any delicious food in the house, she would always send some to the Liao family.
Of course, the Dou family’s share will not be missing.
However, since the death of Dou's family, Dou Er and Dou Si have not been out to play, while Dou San has been practicing in the nunnery.
However, although Xia Zihan and Dou Er and Dou Si did not meet each other, they often sent their maids to exchange letters.
After settling the matter with Mrs. Zeng, Xia Zihan remembered that Xia Shiming went out without breakfast in the morning because he was in a hurry to inquire about the news. At this moment, he looked at the hourglass and saw that it was already past nine o'clock.
Xia Zihan said distressedly, "Dad, you just came back from school, have you had breakfast?"
"Not yet."
"Then I'll tell the cook to give you a bowl of noodles." Xia Zihan said.
Xia Shiming hummed and said, "It's done. Send it to Aunt Zhang's house. I'll go to her place to have a look."
"Yes."
Xia Zihan pursed her lips and smiled.
Her father has changed a lot and is now more humane.
In the past, even if Aunt Zhang was pregnant, her father would not value her so much and pamper her like a concubine.
You know, her father has always treated his aunt as a maid. This time his attitude towards Aunt Zhang has changed for the better, which is also the reason why his concept of his legitimate wife has changed due to Xu's blow.
Perhaps, this is a good phenomenon.
Xia Zihan happily ordered the maid to tell the kitchen to make noodles. After Xia Shiming and Zeng left, they went straight to Aunt Zhang's guest house.
Zeng went to visit Zhuo's twin sons.
After lunch, the emperor sent his father-in-law to deliver the transferred title deeds and house deeds of the two Zhuangzi.
Xia Zihan took the land deed, with a smile on her face, and ordered the maid, "Chu Fei, Nuan Yu, get ready, let's go to Zhuangzi tomorrow to have a look."
When the peaches arrived from the head of the farm, Xia Zihan told him, "We will go to those two farms tomorrow, and you will come with us."
The head of the farm is an old farm head. He has been farming for decades. He is very clear about everything in the village. If he goes with her, the two heads of the farm will not be able to fool her.
The head of the farm took a look at the land deed and saw that the address on it was somewhat familiar. The head of the farm frowned and said, "County Master, this village is not far from our place, half an hour away. When I went there to collect grain last year, , I have also seen this village head.”
(End of chapter)