As soon as he heard that his father was looking for an in-law for his sister, Kong Lin's mind immediately started to change. For a merchant family like theirs, the marriage of their children has always been the link between the family and the outside world. It is rare for them to choose by themselves. Everything is based on the family.
The idea of putting interests first has been deeply embedded in people's hearts for generations.
When his father said this, Kong Lin naturally thought about how to choose a suitable marriage for his sister to strengthen the family.
After thinking about it, Kong Lin asked tentatively: "Father, my sister has reached the age of marriage. There are many merchants in Yangzhou City, and there are at least twenty or thirty that can be equal to my Kong family. Which one do you prefer?
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"Lin'er, what do you think?" Kong Wen asked instead without answering, sitting aside and picking up the tea cup and slowly sipping the tea.
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Kong Lin heard that this was obviously his father testing himself. The more his answers satisfied his father, the sooner he would delegate power to him.
After thinking for a while, Kong Lin said cautiously: "Father, I think that the current situation in the court is turbulent and gangsters are raging. There is a reason why our Jubaozhai business is getting harder and harder to do. It cannot be undone without human resources. Since the jewelry business is difficult to do, we can temporarily put the business aside.
I will shift my focus to other places, and which family Ruolan will marry will depend on where our family will develop."
"Well!" Kong Wenjing sat on the chair and nodded slightly without comment, as if asking another unrelated question, "Lin'er, do you think the Pang Baihu who came today can do great things in the future?"
Kong Lin answered honestly: "I don't know, but just now I wanted to give him two singers to sleep with him, but he refused. From this, it seems that his character should not be too bad. I guess he only needs
If he doesn't die on the battlefield, then at least his official career won't be too bad."
At this point, Kong Lin's heart moved, "Could it be that my father prefers that Baihu?" Thinking of this, he immediately shook his head. Although Baihu was a fifth-rank official, to be honest, the social status of military commanders in the late Ming Dynasty was not very high.
, not as prominent as one parent's official position in those places. According to the status of the Kong family in Yangzhou, the official position of this hundred households is still a bit lower.
Then he looked back at his father who was sitting quietly at the table with his eyes slightly closed and his hands resting on the arms of the chair. He was just leaning on the chair with his eyes closed and concentrating. Kong Lin didn't dare to disturb him and just stood there waiting for his father.
Next to it, the room was silent for a while.
At the same time, in a small courtyard house in the northeast corner of the Confucius family compound, a dozen candles illuminated a boudoir. A long table was filled with account books, and a beautiful figure in the candlelight was facing away.
The man sitting behind the long desk kept writing something.
At this time, the door opened, and a small and exquisite figure rushed in casually, saying in a loud voice: "Miss, Miss, the outer courtyard is so lively tonight, the master is greeting guests outside, and ah, come in from the outer courtyard.
There are a lot of officers and soldiers there. Those officers and soldiers are different from the officers and soldiers we usually see in Yangzhou City. They all have scary looks with raised eyebrows, and..."
The figure that rushed in was a girl in her prime, wearing a white silk double-breasted coat, a red skirt, and a lake green skirt around her waist. She looked neat, free and easy, and very cute. The girl was like a gust of wind.
Rushing to the long case, he was chirping like a happy little sparrow.
The beautiful figure who was writing something at the desk turned around and said helplessly: "Ling'er, can you not be so surprised? It's normal for dad to treat guests, even if it's a banquet with military attaches, it's not a big deal.
You shouldn’t make such a fuss about things, right?”
When this beautiful figure turned around, the face of a pretty girl appeared in front of the little girl. The most impressive thing about this beauty is that she has a pair of big eyes that are both happy and angry, as if they can talk.
Leaning alone in front of the long desk, under the light of the fire, her face is as crystal clear as jade, like a crescent moon, like flowers and trees piled with snow.
, incomparably beautiful.
This is the person that Kong Wen and his son were talking about just now, Kong Ruolan, the eldest lady of the Kong family. The one who just rushed in is Kong Ruolan's personal maid Ling'er.
After what the young lady said, Ling'er was not discouraged. Instead, she stepped forward and took Kong Ruolan's delicate hand and said, "No, young lady, although the military attache the master is hosting tonight is not a big official, I heard Aunt Wang from the outer courtyard say
, it was this military attache who escorted the eldest young master all the way back, and it was thanks to him that the eldest young master was saved from the murderous hands of the gangsters on the road, so the master specially hosted a banquet for him. "
The Ling'er family chattered and told their young lady the gossip they had learned. Kong Ruolan was a good audience. She just listened silently without interrupting, and then quietly analyzed in her mind how these things would affect the family.
Kong Ruolan was born in a merchant family. She was smart since she was a child, extremely beautiful in appearance, and well-behaved. What is even more rare is that she has a very high talent in business. She has been helping her father manage the family business since she was eight years old.
Kong Wen was Wen's right-hand assistant and did a very good job, which often made Kong Wen sigh: If Ruolan hadn't been a daughter and a father, the family business would have been handed over to her a long time ago.
Precisely because he treasures his daughter, Kong Wen has declined many offers of marriage in recent years, so much so that he is almost seventeen and has yet to make a reservation for his in-laws.
She knew that his eldest brother Kong Lin had gone to Qingzhou to purchase goods some time ago, and she had anticipated the dangers involved, so now she felt somewhat grateful to the officer who escorted her eldest brother back.
Kong Ruolan knew that her personal maid liked liveliness. If the outer courtyard was so lively today, she would definitely take a peek. "Ling'er, how are you, the person who escorted your eldest brother back?"
Upon hearing this, Ling'er smiled proudly and said: "Miss, it turns out that you are also curious sometimes. Let me tell you, I actually saw that Baihu outside the hall just now. Let me tell you, he looks tall.
De Ke is really young, about the same age as the eldest young master. He is tall and tall, and although his appearance is not too handsome, he is very powerful and impressive at first sight. Some of the little cowards in our house secretly ran to see him.
As for him, let me tell you..."
Facing this little girl who talked endlessly, Kong Ruolan was really dumbfounded. She said angrily: "Don't just talk about others. Are you also very romantic? If so, I understand.
I’ll tell you, brother, to send you to that master so that you can get what you want?”
"Miss, you are here to make fun of me again." Ling'er twisted her small waist and pulled Kong Ruolan's skirt and started to complain, "I said that I will serve you for the rest of my life. Wherever the lady goes, I will go."
Kong Ruolan saw that Ling'er was anxious, and she stretched out her jade finger in a funny manner and touched the tip of Ling'er's small and straight nose, "Okay, I'm just joking with you, you are really anxious, okay, okay... I
I promise you that I will take you with me in the future."
"Hehe, I knew the young lady was the best." After hearing her young lady's promise, Ling'er turned angry and became happy.
During the feudal period of China, officials and the daughters of wealthy families kept one or more maids by their side from an early age. Because these maids grew up with their own ladies, they were generally very loyal to their own ladies. Waiting for this family
After a young lady gets married, these people are generally treated as dowry maids and married together as bed-warming maids or even concubines. In this way, these young ladies have a good helper when competing with other wives and concubines in the husband's family. This trend has reached
The Ming Dynasty gradually reached its peak
It's just that the two women who were fighting in the boudoir didn't know that in a guest room of the Confucius Mansion, the man they were talking about was lying alone on a soft and comfortable big bed, unable to sleep.
, smelling of alcohol, he muttered some vague words: "Brother, you are so stupid. If someone wants to send such a decent girl to warm his bed, why are you pretending to be serious..."
Well, a friend of A Ding opened a new food stall tonight. A Ding took his son and wife to a friend's house for a drink, and accidentally drank until early in the morning. Sorry, I didn't update until now!
Here A Ding saw the reward from classmate Shen is not **, thank you!