Chapter 1049: The night is long and I have no intention of sleeping
After the banquet is over.
Mrs. Cui Zheng took her daughter back to her residence. She was so drunk that she lay down to sleep early under Chuntao's service.
From Cui Yingying’s residence, there were constant sounds of poetry reciting:
"When the flying swallows come to Xinshe, the pear blossoms are behind the Qingming Festival. There are three or four spots of green moss on the pond, one or two oriole sounds at the bottom of the leaves, and the day is long and the flying catkins are light..."
The matchmaker, who was sleeping in the small bed next to her, listened to her young lady reciting it back and forth for more than a dozen times. She felt that she could almost recite it, so she joked:
"Miss, have you taken a liking to Mr. Su?"
Cui Yingying was teased by the maid, but she was not annoyed. She just sighed and admitted:
"So what if I fall in love with you? My father has already betrothed me to my cousin Zheng. My mother will not agree to betroth me to Mr. Su again!"
Thinking of the marriage arranged by her parents, Cui Yingying simply got up from the bed and walked around the tent regardless of her smooth, fragrant shoulders and half-naked body, constantly lamenting about her fate.
As a personal maid, the matchmaker saw that her young lady couldn't sleep, so she couldn't keep lying down, so she could only get up, put on a light veil, and stood with her at the door, looking at the new moon in the sky.
The master and servant were silent for a long time.
The matchmaker suddenly complained:
"Miss, Zheng is just a idle, lustful, and lustful loser who relies on his family background. How can I let you marry him?"
The matchmaker remembered that she had found out the news about Zheng, and she immediately felt grievances for her own lady, and at the same time she was worried about her future situation.
After all, the matchmaker is Cui Yingying's personal maid. If Cui Yingying marries a loser, she will also serve that loser.
Even if it wasn't to save the young lady's unfair fate, just for herself, the matchmaker decided to fight.
"Miss, if there is a way for you to marry Mr. Su, would you be willing to do it?"
"What can be done?"
Cui Yingying knew that her maid had been full of tricks since she was a child, and she might actually have some good ideas.
"Private decision for life!"
As soon as the matchmaker spoke, her young lady was startled:
"This...how is this possible? My mother will beat me to death!"
In this era, making a private lifelong decision will expose the whole family to the criticism of the entire society.
As the saying goes, if a thousand people point their fingers, they will end without any disease.
If the incident spread and ruined the reputation of the Cui family and the Zheng family, Cui Yingying couldn't imagine how angry her mother would be.
The matchmaker is different from Cui Yingying. After all, she was born as a maid. One person can eat enough and the whole family is not hungry, so she immediately came up with a "bad idea":
"Miss, you are the only daughter of Madam and Master. If Madam finds out, the most she can do is scold you. Besides, as long as the deal is done, Madam will have nothing to do with you."
The matchmaker kept encouraging Cui Yingying.
Cui Yingying thought of her infamous cousin Zheng, and then thought of Su Mingzhe. She compared her thoughts and finally her yearning for freedom prevailed:
"Matchmaker, I am willing to make a lifelong private contract with Mr. Su, but do you think he will agree?"
"Miss, as long as you agree, I will ask immediately."
At tonight's banquet, the matchmaker drank a lot of wine because she couldn't recite poems. At this moment, she felt that her whole body was unbearably hot. She told the young lady to stay in the camp without worries, and she walked towards the handsome tent.
Not long after.
In the handsome tent, the matchmaker saw Su Mingzhe and directly stated her purpose of coming.
"Matchmaker, you said your lady likes me?"
When Su Mingzhe saw that his performance at the banquet really attracted Cui Yingying, he immediately laughed excitedly:
"In that case, I will go to Mrs. Cui tomorrow to propose marriage and try to make an engagement as soon as possible. Once your lady's filial piety period is over, we can be together."
"Mr. Su, my wife may not agree to your marriage."
When the matchmaker saw that Su Mingzhe also had a crush on her young lady, she told him how his wife had deceived his master and betrothed the young lady to Zheng Shangshu's son.
"Zheng Shangshu?"
When Su Mingzhe heard this, he showed a "weird" expression on his face:
"Matchmaker, you are talking about Zheng Shangshu, but is it Zheng De, the former Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites?"
Years ago, some people attacked Cui Xiangguo, whose ancestral home was Boling, and that he was from Liang. They accused him of betraying the country by surrendering to the enemy.
Cui Xiangguo was so angry that he died of illness.
As for Zheng De, he was born in the Zheng family of Xingyang and could be considered a native of Liang. In addition, he was Cui Xiangguo's brother-in-law. He was also jealous of the emperor and had to take the initiative to report illness and return home.
At this point, although the Cui family and the Zheng family still have some connections in the Tang Dynasty, the power they can directly control is gone.
The current Cui family and Zheng family, after three hundred years of suppression by the Tang Dynasty, have long lost the heritage of a thousand-year-old family.
If I were to give him one comment, it would probably be "a skinny camel is bigger than a horse", which is barely enough for these children of aristocratic families to talk about.
"That's him."
The matchmaker thought that Su Mingzhe was from a poor family and didn't know the current situation of the family, so she started to explain:
"The Zheng family and his son are different from my father. My father and His Majesty the Tang Dynasty are life and death friends. When His Majesty re-established the Tang ancestral temple, it was with the strong support of the Boling Cui family. Your Majesty asked my father to be the Prime Minister. That is
It's a matter of course. But Zheng Shangshu became the Minister of Rites because of my relationship with my master, and he has no real ability..."
Su Mingzhe also didn't expect that the matchmaker was so ambitious that she would dare to comment that one of the six ministers had no real ability.
However, he just thought about it for a moment and then burst into laughter.
In other places, there may be idiots who are just trying to make ends meet.
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But those who can get involved in 'politics' are 'excellent talents' with superior IQs.
An incompetent person sneaking into it is like a husky joining a pack of wolves.
Unless he keeps silent, doesn't speak, and pretends to be a "dead wolf", otherwise in the blink of an eye, his true colors will be revealed.
Therefore, if Zheng's father could become the Minister of Rites of the Tang Dynasty, he must have real ability.
On the contrary, the accusations and impeachments against Cui Xiangguo and Zheng's father in the court are somewhat reasonable.
After all, the Zheng family in Xingyang and the Cui family in Boling were both within the scope of the Liang State. It may be false to say that they are treasonous, but it is definitely not false to say that they have connections with the Liang State.
The matchmaker chattered for a while, but when she saw that Su Mingzhe just smiled and said nothing, and looked at her with a look that seemed to have a bit of "scorn", she couldn't help but become angry:
"Mr. Su, do you think I'm lying to you?"
"No."
Su Mingzhe flatly denied it and said seriously:
"I was thinking that without the support of Mr. Xiangguo, the Zheng father and son would not be able to even gain a foothold in the court. I'm afraid they would be nothing but nothing."
"What the young master said is true!"
When the matchmaker saw Su Mingzhe agreeing with her, her expression turned happy, and even spring began to flow from the corners of her eyes:
"Sir, it's getting late. If you have nothing else to do, I will leave first."
Is this girl hinting to herself that she can do something to her?
Su Mingzhe thought of the matchmaker's "daring behavior" in the movie, and a little fire flashed in his heart:
"Matchmaker, it's a long night, why don't we sit for a while..."