Man Bao didn't know that he didn't live at home often, but Wu Lang knew it. When they first moved in, many people wanted to come to the corner door of their house. Some were selling goods, and some were borrowing things and giving them away. Sometimes there was no excuse.
, just knocked on the door and squatted by the door to talk to them.
Wu Lang, Zhou Lixue and the others didn't know it at first, and they thought it was just the warmth of the neighbors. Isn't this just like in the village?
When everyone has free time, they squat together and chat.
Later, Zhou Lijun studied housekeeping with Mrs. Liu for a period of time, but later they were not allowed to talk about family affairs outside the house.
You can chat with someone while squatting at the door, and you can talk about anything, but you can't talk about things at home. Even if you saw someone on the way home today, he stepped on a melon peel and fell backwards.
If someone doesn't know how to stop looking at someone's face, then ask back and ask about their master's affairs and any secrets.
After doing this for more than a month, no one was calling the door at the back corner of Zhou's house to chat with the old Zhou family.
Nowadays, the servants who watch the door occasionally talk to each other, but Mrs. Liu is a strict housekeeper, so the servants will not talk about the master's affairs to outsiders.
So the news was well kept inside Zhou Zhai, but except for the person involved, Bai Erlang, everyone who should know and shouldn't know knew everything.
During dinner, Aunt Rong even specially made a braised lion's head for Bai Erlang, and Xiao Qian asked Man Bao to bring a bowl of steamed meat. The two people's opinions were surprisingly consistent.
Man Bao said: "My sister-in-law asked you to eat more so that you can grow strong..." so that you can marry a wife.
Bai Erlang sat at the dinner table and was very suspicious, "Is this for me?"
Man Bao nodded.
Bai Erlang glanced at Bai Shan and asked, "Isn't it for Bai Shan?"
"No," Man Bao emphasized, "It's just for you."
The maid who brought the dishes also smiled and said: "Master Tang, Aunt Rong's braised lion head is also made for you."
Bai Erlang began to calculate in his mind seriously, "No, my birthday is still three months away."
Bai Shan asked someone to bring a pair of bowls and chopsticks to Man Bao. Seeing that he was still struggling, he said, "Eat as long as they are given to you."
Bai Erlang always felt something was wrong when he heard this. He picked up a big meatball, looked at Bai Shan and then at Man Bao. Finally, he turned to look at Mr. Zhuang and asked hesitantly, "Sir?"
Mr. Zhuang nodded with a smile and said, "Eat."
Bai Erlang felt that even if Bai Shan and Man Bao would cheat him, Master probably wouldn't, so he raised his eyes to look at them and took a bite.
Man Bao also wanted to eat when he saw it, so he took his bowl and chopsticks from the servant and simply ate here.
Lao Zhou's family over there knew that Man Bao had eaten there when they saw that she didn't come back, so they stopped waiting for her.
Bai Shan didn't look for Bai Erlang until they entered the palace.
The two of us share a room and often talk small talk when the lights go out at night, and it will naturally be the same tonight.
Bai Shan asked: "What kind of wife do you want to marry?"
Bai Erlang had just laid down and was fanning himself with a cattail leaf fan. Hearing this, he sighed and said, "It's okay for you to be affectionate in front of me on weekdays. Do you have to show affection when we are separated?"
Bai Shandao: "Who showed affection to you? This is a question, and it is a literal question, so please answer, what kind of wife do you want to marry?"
Bai Erlang was so surprised that he half sat up with a cattail leaf fan and looked towards the opposite side through the hazy moonlight, "It's strange, do you care about your cousin?"
"No," Bai Shan said calmly, "I am caring about my junior brother."
He said: "As a senior brother, isn't it natural to care about your junior brother's life-long affairs? As the saying goes, an elder brother is like a father..."
When Bai Erlang heard this, he was so angry that he dropped the cattail leaf fan, stretched out his legs and stepped across the two beds to kick him. Bai Shan rolled in and avoided it, laughed twice, and then said: "Okay, okay
Okay, I won’t tease you anymore, I’m asking you seriously, do you have someone you like in your heart?”
Bai Erlang snorted and continued to lie back on the bed without saying anything.
Bai Shan raised his head and looked at him from a distance, but at night he could only see the outline of the person and could not see the expression on the person's face clearly.
"Hey, we have been brothers for so many years, what can't you say to me? I even know that you are still wetting the bed at the age of seven..."
Bai Erlang exploded instantly. He jumped up and jumped over to beat him. Bai Shan only stretched out one leg and said, "Don't come. My kung fu is much better than yours."
Bai Erlang was furious, but he still lowered his voice subconsciously and said: "I didn't! That was an accident!"
He knew that they were too tired from playing in the mountains that day, and he drank a lot of water, so he couldn't get up during his nap.
Bai Shan chuckled and said, "So what can't you say? Since you won't say it, I'll ask directly, do you like Princess Mingda?"
Bai Erlang sat beside his bed and sighed after a while, "I can't ask her whether I like her or not?"
"Have you begged?"
Bai Erlang shook his head in the darkness and said: "Isn't it written in the book? My parents ordered a matchmaker. If I am not sure that I can pass the test of the elders, wouldn't I be harming her by begging her?"
Bai Shan nodded in agreement, "There is no problem with our parents, but the problem is with the emperor and empress."
Bai Erlang stepped on the bed board and went back to his bed and lay down, continuing to fan himself with a cattail leaf fan, "Isn't this nonsense?"
"But whether Princess Mingda is willing or not is still a big question," Bai Shan asked Bai Erlang, "I mean, if Princess Mingda is also interested, what are your plans?"
"Then I will go and propose marriage to Your Majesty," Bai Erlang crossed his legs and shook his head. He was still very confident. "Except for my reading skills, I should be good at everything else."
Bai Shan didn't expect his self-perception to be like this, and was surprised for a moment, "Do you think your shortcoming is that you are bad at reading?"
Bai Erlang was silent for a while and then said: "Okay, it's a bit far behind, but that's a comparison with you. I compared with Feng Zongping and the others, and I think it's still okay."
Bai Shan: "...So what about family background?"
"There's nothing wrong with our family, right?" Bai Erlang has been a bully in the village since he was a child. In the entire Qili Village, including the nearby Dali Village and several other villages, except for Bai Shan and Zhou Man, no other children can dominate him.
Above him, even when he went to Yizhou and Beijing, he never gave up.
There were very few people who could bully him at home, so what was he afraid of? The worst he could do was go home and inherit the property his father left him.
Bai Erlang continued to shake the cattail leaf fan and muttered: "My appearance is not bad, and my character is not to mention. I am just bad at reading, but Princess Mingda likes reading very much. If she doesn't like reading like Princess Changyu, she only likes to eat.
Enough."
That way he must be very confident.
Bai Shan turned over and said, "Come on, I think it's good for you to have this." Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to go to heaven.