Chapter 184: The Bai Family's Father and Daughter Visit
As soon as the first day of the new year passed, the following days seemed to go much faster.
On the eighth day of the lunar month, father and daughter Bai Wu and Bai Miaoqing followed Bai Yi (son of Butler Bai) to Longxian Village.
Fucheng and Longxian Village are far apart. The Baiwu people set out a few days ago and only arrived here on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year.
They arrived just before noon.
Ms. Song and Ms. Zhao sent a woman about their age out of the door with a smile.
The woman who came out had a matchmaker's mole on the corner of her mouth. She was also a bit plump and had a smile on her face when she looked at people.
This is Matchmaker Li from the next village. She knows exactly which family has a girl who should become a prostitute or whose child should get married in these eight villages.
The Shen family and Zhang family have been here for so long that others have gradually become familiar with them.
Originally it was only known that the two families who had fled from famine had some low income, but later the news spread that Shen Rong was a scholar.
After this, not only the people in Longxian Village, but also the people in several neighboring villages knew about this matter.
For people like them, if a scholar comes out of the village, it is an extremely honorable thing.
Therefore, people of the right age like Shen Dalang's gate naturally become popular in the eyes of outsiders.
Song, Zhang and Ding Hehua also happened to have the intention of proposing marriage for them, so they would not refuse the matchmaker who came to inquire about the news.
As soon as Mrs. Song and Mrs. Zhao sent Matchmaker Li away, they saw the carriage parked in front of their house, and the driver was Bai Yi, who had sent them here in the first place.
Bai Yi jumped down from the carriage shaft, then moved a stool from the side and placed it on the ground and knocked on the carriage.
"Second Master, Miss, we are here."
The carriage door was pushed open from the inside, and Baiwu walked out first.
He stepped on the stool that Bai Yi had just placed on the ground and walked down, and then helped Bai Miaoqing, who had poked her head out from behind, down.
Before the smile on Mrs. Song's face fell, she saw them.
She stood in front of the door and said, "Oh, here you are, it's such a long way, why do you think you're even making this trip?"
He said this, but his movements were not slow at all to invite people inside.
Mrs. Song called Bai Wu and Bai Miaoqing to go inside, while Mrs. Zhao called on Bai Yi to drive the carriage into the yard from another gate.
As for the matchmaker who had just been sent out, her eyes were filled with tears when she saw such a luxurious carriage arriving in front of Shen's house.
This Shen family actually knows such a wealthy family.
If it weren't for the fact that she didn't have a suitable son or daughter in her family, she would have wanted to get married.
But even if she can't get into such an in-law, as long as she can arrange a marriage, the money she will get will definitely be a lot less.
Matchmaker Li thought this, then happily rubbed the handkerchief in her hand and left.
Everyone in the Shen family was surprised when they saw the arrival of the Bai family father and daughter.
He quickly greeted people and invited them into the house.
Bai Yi also carried the gifts from the carriage and followed Zhao.
Everyone in the Shen family looked at Bai Wu and Bai Miaoqing. They were both wearing clothes made of silk and satin.
While they were looking at the Bai family father and daughter, they were also looking at the Shen family.
Seeing that the Shen family looked good, they knew that the Shen family was living a good life here.
After Xiao Zhang's confinement period was over, she also sat in the main room chatting and warming herself by the fire.
She and Mrs. Shen each held a chubby-looking little baby.
The two babies have just turned one month old. Two days ago, the Shen family dyed a lot of red eggs and gave them to people in the village.
Now both babies were wrapped in thick swaddling clothes. Bai Wu took out two sterling silver longevity locks from his arms and stuffed them into the swaddling clothes of the two babies.
The longevity lock was prepared before they came.
Baiwu was a doctor and he estimated that Zhang would give birth before the year, so he prepared a meeting gift for the two children in advance.
Bai Miaoqing teased the baby for a while, then left the main room holding hands with Shen Yuxi and returned to Shen Yuxi's own room.
Shen Yuyu looked at Bai Miaoqing beside her and asked her how her life was in Baifu.
Bai Miaoqing's smile was toothless, unlike Shen Yu's lively and public temperament.
She replied: "I am living very well. My uncle and aunt are all very good."
Once inside the house, the cold wind was blocked outside.
Bai Miaoqing saw a pile of papers lying randomly on the table and picked up the top one.
After looking at it twice, Bai Miaoqing asked in surprise: "Did you write the content above?"
Shen Yuyu smiled and asked: "I told Big Brother and they took turns to write it down. Have you read it too?"
Bai Miaoqing picked up the lower one again, which was connected to the content on the page just now.
She nodded and replied: "I have seen it. My cousin Mingzhe likes to read these things. He asked the boy in the mansion to buy them. He was afraid that I would be bored in the mansion, so he brought two copies for me."
She said with admiration: "The content is indeed very well written. I didn't expect it to be written by someone I know."
Shen Yuyu smiled sheepishly. In fact, she had the right time, place and people.
Because she grew up in the 23rd century, which was hundreds of years later than this era, she has come into contact with many things that are not available here, and it will be more attractive when she takes them out.
As Bai Miaoqing spoke, she picked up the next page and read on. She felt very happy that she could know the follow-up one step ahead of everyone else.
She said while reading: "The reputation of this story book is not small. In just a few days, a new bookstore has been opened. Even many women in the city know the contents of this story book very well."
Book store?
Shen Yuyu asked: "Is this Wuyao Bookshop?"
Bai Miaoqing moved his eyes from the paper full of fonts to Shen Yuyu, and replied: "This is it. This bookstore suddenly appeared in the most prosperous place in the city. Who would have thought that it would become famous by relying on the script. Woolen cloth. "
As if remembering something, she said funny: "To be honest, many literati don't like things like story books. They feel that the person who wrote this thing has insulted the character of the literati, so after the story book became popular, he would just go into a teahouse and You can hear some self-proclaimed arrogant literati criticizing the person who wrote this story."
Bai Miaoqing suddenly paused, and then deliberately looked at the way those scholars looked when they were criticizing, straightened his back, and raised one hand.
"Huh, it's really disgraceful to us scholars. Han Chuang has been studying hard for ten years, and he actually wrote such a book of love and love. If I, Li, met him..."
Naturally, these people have not read the contents of the storybook. They only think that the storybook is mostly about love, love, and love, so they directly start criticizing it verbally and writing.
Bai Miaoqing parroted the words, and Shen Yuegu laughed repeatedly while listening.