Chapter 224 How to get married if the trouble is not solved?
The news about Jinjue County Count spread throughout Zhuangzi in an instant. After nightfall, all the farmers who had gone to bed got up and the lights were lit in the houses.
Li Qinzai and Cui Jie were walking near the courtyard. Cui Jie was stunned for a moment when she heard the knight's roar, and then looked at Li Qinzai in surprise.
"You... have been promoted to nobility again!"
Li Qinzai was also stunned for a moment. He did not expect that he would be promoted to a noble title. After all, he had disobeyed the order first. What he had been waiting for after returning to Chang'an from the Japanese Kingdom was the punishment from the court.
As a result, the punishment did not come, and he was promoted to the first level of nobility. So, what happened in the court?
Cui Jie's eyes seemed to be a bit adoring, there were moons in her eyes.
"Ji Cao, don't do it six times." Li Qinzai quickly regained his composure after being surprised.
At the gate of the Li family's villa, the knight who reported the news was still shouting, as if he wanted to spread the news of the Fifth Young Master's promotion to the whole village.
Li Qinzai frowned, immediately took off his shoes, and threw them at the knight.
The knight didn't pay attention and was hit on the head by a shoe, causing the roar to stop abruptly.
"What kind of promotion? Do you have a sense of public morality? It's so noisy and noisy that the neighbors don't have to sleep? They have to go to work tomorrow!"
The knight shut up and smiled dryly at Li Qinzai.
Li Qinzai put his hand on Cui Jie's shoulder, pointed to the shoes on the ground, and said, "Pick up the shoes and give them to me."
The knight held up the shoes to his feet with a bang.
Li Qinzai put on his shoes and said without raising his head: "Get out of here and be quiet at night."
The knight immediately got out obediently.
After putting on his shoes, Li Qinzai saw that every household in Zhuangzi had lit up their lamps, and many villagers had put on their clothes and were walking towards other courtyards. It looked like they were about to deal with another wave of congratulations.
When the farmers didn't approach, Li Qinzai shouted loudly: "What are you doing out at night? When you have nothing to do, go back and hug your mother-in-law and make more babies. If your mother-in-law is happy, take it as a congratulation to me.
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When the villagers heard this, they kept walking, but turned around, turned around and went home quickly, blowing the lamps and getting on the Kang.
Cui Jie blushed and punched him: "You are so dirty!"
"The way of Dunlun is a matter of course, what's sordid about it?"
Cui Jie looked at Li Qinzai, her eyes curled up into crescent moons, and she chuckled: "It's a great joy to be promoted to a noble title, why are you not happy at all?"
Li Qinzai smiled: "What's there to be happy about? To me, it's just something that happened to me. As long as it doesn't affect my normal life, it doesn't matter whether it's good or bad."
Cui Jie sighed: "With such an old monk's state of mind, it's hard to imagine that your reputation in Chang'an City was so bad back then. I really wonder if someone deliberately discredited you..."
Li Qinzai smiled and said: "When you first met me, you called me a bastard. Are you trying to smear me?"
Cui Jie's face turned red and she said angrily: "You are a bastard now too!"
Then Cui Jie suddenly sighed: "I heard that you just entered the officialdom last year, right? You were a young prisoner of the Firearms Prison, and then you were granted the title of county son. Today you are promoted to the county uncle. In less than a year, you have become so prominent.
,Such speed is truly unheard of, Your Majesty treats you with great kindness."
"Perhaps His Majesty has some hostages in his hands. Their two sons are still in my hands."
"Don't talk nonsense, as your words will bring disaster!"
Cui Jie bit her lower lip and whispered: "Last year before you went on the expedition, you said that you..."
Li Qinzai said seriously: "I understand that you can't wait to marry me and are ready to give me a baby, but you can't do it now."
Cui Jie was startled, then said angrily: "Who, who can't wait to marry you!"
"Okay, it's me, I can't wait to marry you, okay? But, there is a problem that must be solved, otherwise I will always feel like I am being pushed aside. This once-in-a-lifetime marriage cannot leave a shadow on you and me."
"What trouble?"
Li Qinzai smiled and said: "Have you forgotten? Your stepmother who just came in is planning to break up us. If we don't resolve this matter, our marriage will be hasty. It seems that we have to get married in order to avoid this trouble. Ha, I
I have never had the habit of avoiding trouble in my life."
Cui Jie said worriedly: "What are your plans?"
"Wait a minute, the Taiyuan Wang family, a thousand-year-old family member, will not be afraid of me just because two servants had their legs broken. I am curious about her next plan."
Qingzhou, Cui family.
The Cui family is also a powerful family in the world. The family has luxuriant branches and branches all over the world. More importantly, the Cui family has a huge influence in Qingzhou. Even when the government implements certain policies, it has to communicate with the Cui family first and get the Cui family's support.
Only with support can the policy be implemented smoothly.
This is the influence of powerful families. In their respective territories, they can compete with the imperial government's decrees, and the imperial court has to make compromises with them.
Li Zhi and Wu Mei devoted their lives to weakening the power of the clans in order to centralize power so that the local influence of the clans would always be lower than that of the imperial court.
Early in the morning in the Cui family, the servants were cleaning the ancient and simple ancestral house and waiting on the masters to dress.
The ancestral house of the Cui family not only houses the contemporary head of the family, but also many important members of the clan, as well as the great scholars of the time who were hired with huge sums of money.
These great scholars are very important. From a certain perspective, they are more important than the Cui clan.
The reason why aristocratic families are different from the nouveau riche is not only because of their deep-rooted influence in the local area, but also because of their cultural heritage that the nouveau riche cannot match.
It is these great scholars who support the cultural heritage of the clan.
The total number of people in the family, large and small, is at least over a hundred.
After Cui Linqian, the head of the family, got up, the maid carefully served him to dress and wash. Cui Linqian sat in the side room, drank a bowl of light porridge in a hurry, tidied his beautiful beard and long beard, and then Shi Shiran walked out of the door.
Turning around the quiet corridor, I met my newly married wife, Mrs. Wang.
Cui Linqian stood still, and Wang stepped closer, placed his palms on his forehead, and saluted Cui Linqian.
"Greetings to my husband, I wish you good health."
Cui Linqian smiled uncomfortably.
The newly remarried head wife looks good, but her personality is too phlegmatic, she is rigid in everything, and she pays particular attention to etiquette. It seems that in order to maintain her status as a wealthy family, even the greetings when husband and wife meet are as solemn and formal as visiting ancestral graves.
When Wang was in her early thirties, she was no longer a young lady before marrying Cui Linqian. To be precise, she was actually a widow before.
Wang was betrothed to someone else more than ten years ago. Within a few years of the couple's loving relationship, the man fell ill and passed away. Wang had to return to the Wang family in Taiyuan. After being a widow for more than ten years, the Wang family betrothed her to Cui Cui of Qingzhou.
Cui Linqian, the head of the family.
Cui Linqian lost his wife a few years ago, and Wang lost her husband many years ago. Both of them are middle-aged people who have experienced life, and they are not pretentious. What's more, the interests involved in the marriage of the two powerful men are more important than the relationship between the couple.
During the Tang Dynasty, widows were not criticized for marrying, and it had nothing to do with chastity or reputation. In fact, both the government decrees and the private scholars and people advocated and encouraged widows to marry.
Because the population of the Tang Dynasty was too small, the imperial court encouraged people to have children. If all the widows in the country had to stay widowed for their dead husbands, how could the imperial court and the government allow such a serious waste of social resources to happen?
As long as you haven't reached menopause, get married as soon as possible, w; it doesn't matter if you can't find a partner. The government has officials who specialize in matchmaking, referred to as "official matchmakers", and they will help you find a partner.
Yes, it is reasonable for the state to provide betrothal gifts. After evaluating each family's conditions, you can make whatever you want. If you dare to ask for sky-high betrothal gifts, if nothing else, the woman's reputation will be completely bad in the local area and her husband's family, and will be so bad for the rest of her life.
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In order to control the local government to have more children, the government has also worked hard, negotiated matchmaking, and accepted offers. Everything has been prepared for you. Hurry up and go to the wedding ceremony. If you have more children, you can also receive additional rewards from the government.
The weddings of aristocratic families are naturally different from those of ordinary people, but they are still the traditional six rites of the Zhou Dynasty, but they are much more luxurious and grand.
After the matchmaking, Cui Linqian married Wang, and Wang took charge of the Cui family's ancestral home as the head wife.
The wedding day was very pleasant. Cui Linqian was only in his early forties this year, and Wang was in her thirties, which is also the most charming age in a woman's life.
Cui Linqian naively thought that the marriage between the two middle-aged people would hit it off immediately, and the thunder from the sky would stir up the fire on the earth...
However, after a few days, Cui Linqian felt a little boring.
This Mr. Wang is so serious. Even the bed mat is a serious matter. The couple can move in and out and it's over. They have to kneel down and salute each other before blowing off the lamp. Can you believe it?
As for posture, Wang is as rigorous as a nun with a pure heart.
A few days after getting married, Cui Linqian had the idea of going to a brothel in Qingzhou City to have fun, which shows how uncomfortable the middle-aged couple were in getting along.