Chapter 20 Qin Huairong chooses son-in-law

Since being accepted as a disciple by Zhao Yong, Li Shang has lived in the Prime Minister's Mansion in a daze.

After Zhao Yong left that day, Mrs. Qin also came to see him for the first time. The woman's eyes were full of emotions. He didn't know why. He guessed that he had a very good relationship with Zhao Jinjin. Maybe Mrs. Qin thought that he was a prostitute. , that’s why emotions leak out like that.

Nowadays, he is taken to the academy to study every day, and he can still see Zhao Jinjin when he returns home. Li Shang feels that this is something he has never dared to think about.

Everything happened quickly and unprepared. Some things seemed to have suddenly changed, but they didn't seem to have changed. He couldn't tell what it was, but he could feel the change that he couldn't grasp.

It made his heart float, unstable, and lifted in the air.

He felt that sooner or later everything would turn into a phantom and leave him.

Shen Jingyuan had sensed that Li Shang was preoccupied a long time ago, but now her tasks were becoming more and more heavy. In addition to teaching her mother-in-law about etiquette and rules, and the family hired an old man to teach her how to read and write, she had almost no time to do anything else. Think about other things.

I thought it would get better after a while, but I didn't expect that it would be day after day, and in the blink of an eye it would be a light snow day in the winter moon.

Learning without thinking will lead to indifference, thinking without learning will lead to peril. Studying extensively is enough to understand the past and the present. Shen Jingyuan is surrounded by old gentlemen reading these boring things every day, and he feels that his brain is about to become twice as big.

Today, she decided to go on strike!

Looking at the light snow outside the courtyard, Shen Jingyuan ran to the back kitchen with red leaves and green radish for a long time, and finally asked someone to place the iron pot in the pavilion in the courtyard and put many dishes on the table.

Shen Jingyuan picked up the meatballs and mushrooms and poured them into the hot red pot, turning around and asking Hongye: "Where is Li Shang? How long will it take?"

Hong Ye helped place the dishes and chopsticks and said, "Liu Zi has gone to invite you. He should be here soon."

As soon as he finished speaking, a boy came with someone from afar.

Under the snow and ice, the young man was wearing a dark robe that stood out. He held a bamboo umbrella in his slender fingertips and walked slowly through the snow.

When the person came in front of him, Shen Jingyuan raised his red face and said, "After staying in the Prime Minister's Mansion for so long, you are finally no longer as thin as the wind."

Li Shang took the umbrella and sat down with a smile: "Thank you for the cakes you bring every day."

The seasoned jade bowl was pushed in front of the boy. Shen Jingyuan picked up a piece of mutton with chopsticks and put it in: "Eat quickly! This way of eating is the most comfortable in winter!"

The young man took a bite obediently and asked, "I heard that Mr. Shu is giving you a hard time?"

Hearing this, Shen Jingyuan's face fell, and he said angrily: "It's so inhumane. My father doesn't know where he found this person. This old man tried every means to make me write a thousand characters every day, and he even... You have to memorize three minor tunes and five poems, and not only that, you have to take a test on four books every day!"

"You know the Four Books, right? They are the Four Books and Five Classics that you want to take the imperial examination. I'm really surprised. Why am I, a woman, reading these books? I don't want to take the imperial examination and I'm not an official. I just read what a woman should read. Why do you have to catch me and read all the books in the world?"

She bit the meatball in her mouth angrily. Is it easy for her to wait for death? She just wants to be a dead fish and just belch when the time comes. Why is it so difficult?

Li Shang couldn't help but burst into laughter: "The prime minister has good intentions. All the noble ladies in Kyoto are proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting. I'm just afraid that you will suffer a loss in the future."

Shen Jingyuan became even more angry when she talked about music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and when she thought of the face of the upbringing mother, she looked painful: "I am no longer the person I used to be! Look! Look! The calluses on my hands And wounds! They were all injured by learning these things.”

Like a child complaining, she raised her hand in front of him to show him. Li Shang looked down and saw that the white and tender fingertips were indeed covered with red wounds and thin calluses.

Lulu, who was doing the dishes on the side, said: "Miss, please bear with me a little longer. You have to learn these things. Madam has recently started to choose a husband for you. All your hardships today are for the future." So sweet."

The young man picking up vegetables at the side paused when he heard this, lowered his eyes and ate the vegetables in the bowl.

Shen Jingyuan became even more angry when he heard Lu Luo's words: "It's so sweet! You have to know everything to marry me, right? So, should you marry me or a talented person? That's what I look like. If you don't like me, don't marry me."

She looked up and saw the young man eating vegetables opposite, and then asked: "Li Shang, what kind of woman do you want to marry in the future?"

The boy's body stiffened under his robe, and he looked up at the girl opposite who was becoming more and more charming in the winter. After a long time, he said, "I like...I like it."

"Yes, I'm just asking you what kind of thing you like."

"I can't tell you." He paused and then said, "As long as I like it, anything is fine."

Shen Jingyuan smiled: "You are much better than other men." She said jokingly, "My mother chooses this and that for me, why not let me marry you."

Li Shang seemed to be scalded by the hot soup splashed from the iron pot. He loosened his fingers and dropped the jade-colored chopsticks on the snow.

Shen Jingyuan quickly picked up the silk handkerchief on the side and handed it to him: "Quickly wipe it."

Hongye picked up the chopsticks on the ground, ordered someone to bring a new pair and handed them to Li Shang. The young man looked at the hot steam boiling out of the iron pot and said, "Mrs. Qin is choosing a husband for you?"

"Well, I will be thirteen next month."

Shen Jingyuan felt extremely happy at this moment. She endured and endured, and finally this year was coming to an end. It was almost coming, and there was only one year left before she could burp.

"Is there anyone chosen?"

Shen Jingyuan picked up a piece of soft tofu and took a bite: "It seems so. I heard that my mother is in trouble between the two sons of Duke Jingyuan and the Marquis of Weihai."

They are all princes, marquises and queens.

Li Shang lowered his eyes and subconsciously curled his fingers. The feeling of inferiority once again enveloped him.

Luluo thought about it at the side: "Miss, I heard that the legitimate son of Duke Jingyuan is outstanding and is preparing to win the title of No. 1 Scholar next year. There is also the second son of Weihai Marquis. I heard that he has the shadow of his father. He is majestic and has great martial arts. Nowadays, everyone The soldiers who went to sea in Yun Dynasty all admired him."

Shen Jingyuan bit the crystal pill in his mouth and laughed. It was just a waste of effort. No matter how good Qin Huairong was, it would be of no use. Zhao Ling would not marry Yun Min in the future.

Duke Jingyuan, Marquis of Weihai? Can he be as powerful as today?

There was green plum wine on the table. Shen Jingyuan looked up at the flying snow in the sky and became interested. She picked up the wine bottle and started drinking. At this time, after drinking the wine, her whole body became warm.

"Is this wine so intoxicating?" Shen Jingyuan, who was blushing and swaying after only half a bottle of wine, stood up, pointed at the sky and said deliberately: "Today I want to enjoy the snow, no one can disturb me!"

"Hongye! Order. Go down! Watch the door of Jinxiuyuan. No one is allowed to come in today!"

Shen Jingyuan burped, turned around and held the boy's hand: "Li Shang, let's go and build a snowman with me."

Wearing a moon-white pleated skirt embroidered with hibiscus and auspicious clouds, and covered with a snow-white soft fox-sable, she took his hand and walked out of the pavilion and ran towards the snow outside.
Chapter completed!