"Qian'er, let's go out to eat!" After clearing the seats, Aniang rearranged two sets of bowls and chopsticks. These were meals for her and her daughter.
But she called out but got no response for a long time. Confused, she pushed open the door of her daughter's room. Her daughter was sitting at the desk, but there was a smile on her face. Her eyes were obviously not in the book, but she was still thinking about something.
Happy things!
Auntie came over and asked: "Qian'er, are you worried?"
"Auntie, my daughter is fine!"
Seeing the rosy look on her face, the mother, who had come before her, had some guesses in her mind. She took her daughter's hand and said softly: "My dear, have you fallen in love with that handsome man? You should talk to your mother about it!"
The girl sighed leisurely: "I wish to win the heart of one person and stay together forever! Auntie, do you think this is the most beautiful thing in the world?"
The mother also sighed and said: "Yes, this may really be the most beautiful thing in the world. But has Qian'er forgotten what she once said? In the spring of next year, there will be a talent show in the palace. How can you be here?
Random thoughts. My daughter, forget about him."
The girl was extremely beautiful, but she came from an ordinary peasant family. She also loved playing music, chess, calligraphy and painting since she was a child. Fortunately, her parents had some savings. They were frugal and could not treat their daughter badly.
So now the girl is full of poetry and calligraphy, and she doesn't look like a farm girl at all. It would be really wrong for her daughter to find a well-matched farm boy to become a monk.
And if you want to marry those young masters from rich families, their families cannot protect their daughters, and it is very difficult for families like theirs to become the head wife of others.
At the beginning, the girl said: "Rather than marry one of those rich men and quarrel with those women at home, I would rather enter the palace."
Maybe they were angry words, maybe they were sincere. But these words allowed the parents to find a way out for their daughter in the future. Anyway, it would be difficult to achieve the position of a head wife if she married a rich man. And if she was a concubine, she would really wrong her daughter.
The concubine's status is too low! It has even reached the point where she can be bought and sold at will!
But it's different when entering the palace. With her daughter's beauty, as long as the emperor sees her, he will never be able to extricate himself! Even if he doesn't dare to think about the position of his mother in the world, becoming a noble concubine should not be a problem. At least this way, his daughter can live a wealthy life.
.
The girl raised her head and looked at her mother: "Once you enter the palace gate, it is as deep as the sea. There are many risks in the palace. If you have a lover, my daughter is willing to accompany you and help each other."
The mother sighed and glared at the girl angrily: "You, you, do you know how much effort your father has put into letting you enter the palace smoothly, and he has dealt with a lot of those brats. Now you say you don't want to go.
That's too willful. Take a rest early and stop thinking about it."
The door was closed, and the girl lay on the bed feeling aggrieved, and couldn't help but shed tears of sadness. Did she really have no fate with the young master?
The next day the food delivery team was led by Village Chief Wang, but today he looked at Shi Lei with a hint of caution, which made Shi Lei a little confused!
"Everyone came early to deliver food. You probably haven't used the morning meal yet. The food is already on the table. It's not too late for everyone to finish eating before leaving!"
After hearing Butler Qian's words, all the young men cheered. The family quickly led everyone to the living room for dinner!
Shi Lei came over with a wine glass and offered them a glass of wine, then sat directly next to Village Chief Wang and started eating.
This scene made everyone feel a bit at a loss because no host in this era would just sit and eat with them like this.
Shi Lei said nonchalantly: "Everyone is free to do so. There are not so many rules in my mansion. Besides, I will rent the land to you for farming, and we have a cooperative relationship. You are not my servants, so we can have equal relations.
"
"Master, what are you talking about? You are the master of the family and we are tenant farmers, so naturally we are the servants of the family!"
Shi Lei didn't bother to argue with them and said casually: "In that case, just listen to me and let's eat together!"
Everyone seemed to start eating slowly. But looking at it, everyone seemed very restrained and couldn't let go at all.
Shi Lei looked at Village Chief Wang next to him and asked with a smile: "Uncle Wang, didn't we have a good chat yesterday? Why did we feel a little unfamiliar when we entered the meeting?"
"The young master is joking. The young master thinks highly of the old man. Yesterday, the old man also didn't understand the rules!"
Shi Lei looked at Village Chief Wang and shook his head slightly: "No, something happened here that I don't know about! That made Uncle Wang wary of me. Could it be that he heard some bad rumors about me?
But it shouldn’t be. I don’t claim to be a good person, but I have never made enemies with anyone, and I haven’t done anything extraordinary. There should be no bad rumors about me in the outside world. And I rarely go out, even if
I’m afraid the neighbors in the surrounding area don’t know much about me.”
Wang Rang sighed softly: "Since the young master has said it, I will not hide it anymore. I just want to take a step to speak!"
Shi Lei nodded, looked at everyone and said, "I feel like you can't let go of me here. It doesn't matter, you eat and drink well, but I won't accompany you!"
Shi Lei and Wang Rang left one after another, and the atmosphere in the venue became lively after a while.
The two of them came to the study and Shi Lei whispered to the servants outside: "Go bring some food over. Uncle Wang and I can eat here!"
After the servants left, Shi Lei asked: "It's time to talk now. Did Uncle Wang encounter any difficulties?"
"My little girl is careless!" Wang Rang explained to Shi Lei what happened when his daughter decided to enter the palace: "The king of hell is easy to mess with, and the devil is difficult to deal with. In order for my little girl to successfully enter the palace, I also asked for help and helped everywhere. Now my little girl is easy to deal with.
But I don’t want to enter the palace, this is worrying!”
Shi Lei then smiled and said: "It makes people think that the King of Hell is easy to mess with and the kid is difficult to deal with. That's because you are not qualified to fight against the King of Hell. But Ling Qianjin has something that can threaten others, and that is beauty! A powerless person
, but an outstandingly beautiful woman entering the palace is like jumping into a pit of fire."
Village Chief Wang nodded: "Old man naturally knows that those powerful women are not so easy to deal with, so at that time I can only find a way to bribe a young eunuch. I think that as long as the little girl appears in front of the emperor, she will be rich and powerful.
lifetime."
Shi Lei laughed: "The idea is really naive. It is actually very difficult for an ordinary showgirl to meet the emperor. Let me tell you a story!"
"Once upon a time, there was a peasant girl who was so beautiful that she captivated the country and the city. However, she never saw the emperor when she entered the palace. The reason was that when the palace painter painted the beautiful girl's portrait, others spent a lot of money on it. But she
But it didn’t. The painter painted her portrait very ordinary. The emperor glanced at it and didn’t pay much attention. A few years later, the Xiongnu got married, and she was selected to marry the Xiongnu.
Serving the Xiongnu Chanyu. However, there is a rule in the grassland that violates human relations, that is, after the death of the father, everything he owns, including women, will become the son's inheritance. The woman did not want to suffer this humiliation, and finally committed suicide by taking poison. She was only thirty-five years old!
"
Wang Rang later said: "I have never heard of this story. I have also read some books, but I have never heard of this story. Master, in what dynasty did this story take place, and how many years ago?"
"This matter is just a general story. I can only be the woman in the story. I am lucky. There are also reports of how many commoner women died in the palace because of their beauty. So Uncle Wang, you'd better think carefully before making a decision. I
I don’t recommend Ling Qianjin go to any royal palace!”
In fact, Shi Lei vaguely guessed who the woman was yesterday. Maybe most people are not familiar with Wang Qiang. But when it comes to Wang Zhaojun, I believe everyone in China knows it!
And that woman is Wang Zhaojun. The story Shi Lei just told is also the story of Wang Zhaojun. Just a few words can't explain clearly what happened to Wang Zhaojun. This is an encounter that makes future generations indignant. The sadness of Zhaojun's departure from the fortress is what she wrote
"Complaints", if you are not a person involved, you may not be able to understand what is going on.
After seeing off the guests, Shi Lei said to Butler Qian: "Steward Qian, help me buy some betrothal gifts and go to the Wang family to propose marriage!"
Since I am here, I will not let what happened to Wang Zhaojun happen again!
"Master, which Wang family? I'm going to go now!"
Shi Lei said speechlessly: "Do you think I know a few other Wang families? Of course they are the village head Wang's family!"
"Okay, okay, I like that girl when I see her. She and the young master are really talented and beautiful, they are a perfect match!"
Shi Lei asked with a smile: "A talented man and a beautiful woman. Butler Qian, are you saying that I'm not good-looking?"
"What did the young master say? The young master is the most handsome young man I have ever seen in my life."
"Okay, okay, let's go do some work!" Shi Lei cursed with a smile, and then quickly called the steward Qian to come: "Wait a minute, how much silver is left in the warehouse?"
"There are fifty-three taels of silver, five taels of gold, and one hundred and thirty copper coins!"
"Take it all out. Not only that, I will give you another thousand taels of gold. What I want this time is pomp. What I want is preciousness. If you want more sensation, make more sensation. Do you understand?"
"One, one thousand taels?" Butler Qian was dumbfounded when he heard this number. How much money is this? He has never seen so much money in his life!
Shi Lei walked back to the room and raised the bag containing one thousand taels of gold directly in front of Butler Qian with one hand: "This is one thousand taels of gold, please click it!"
"Gold? One thousand taels of gold?" Butler Qian only heard one thousand taels before. He thought it was silver, but now he was told that it was gold. He quickly opened the bag and saw that the gold inside was so dazzling!
Butler Qian nodded blankly and raised his hands. He staggered, but the cloth bag on the ground did not move at all. He quickly called two servants to help him move such a large bag!
But they obviously had no intention of moving out, and actually planned to move home! Shi Lei said speechlessly: "I am giving this to you so that you can exchange it for money to use for my marriage proposal. What are you doing?
?”
"Master, it's too much, it's too much! Even the emperor can't afford so much money to marry a wife in this world! Master, you can't do this!"
"Why does the emperor care about my affairs if he has so much money? Do you understand that I have to spend so much money? Go out and do things!"
"But, I don't know what to do with so much money!"
"Let's do this, buy some land deeds, a house, and three luxury carriages! Get all the other gold and silver jewelry and everything else, and just discount the rest and give it to them. As for the sensation, forget it.
Bar!"
Shi Lei originally thought of renting hundreds of carriages to form a huge fleet, and then beat the gongs and drums to make the scene bigger, but that was too unrealistic! Let's be more realistic!
In any dynasty, houses, cars and money are very practical. But in ancient times, they only paid attention to a land that can be cultivated!
"Okay, I'm going to go look at the house now. Xiao Liu is going to the horse market to see if there are any good carriages! Xiao Qi is going to look at the place to the east of us and talk about it to see if we can buy it!"
It’s easy to do things if you have money! Everything was ready the next day. After deducting three hundred kilograms, there were still seven hundred gold left, which was enough for the Wang family to last for a lifetime. And it was definitely a living standard for rich people!
Butler Qian came to Wang's house and knocked on the door. The Queen Mother opened the door and saw the gift box being carried behind Butler Qian. There were big red flowers on it, which was unusual. The villagers were also watching!
"Steward Qian, what are you doing?"
Butler Qian chuckled: "I wonder if Brother Wang is at home?"
"Here, he's chopping firewood in the back, I'm going to call him right away!" As she spoke, the Queen Mother trotted off to call Wang Rang: "Old man, something big has happened!"
Soon Wang Rang came out and was a little confused when he saw this formation: "Steward Qian, what do you mean?"
Butler Qian chuckled: "The young master fell in love with Ling Qianjin at first sight, so he specially asked the old man to come over to propose marriage. Don't brothers Wang invite the old man to come in?"
"Wait, wait a minute!" Wang Rang said quickly: "Steward Qian, it's not that I won't let you in. I just think it's too sudden. I told the young master about my daughter two days ago. What's wrong with him?"
Now seeing that Wang Rang has no intention of letting him go out, Butler Qian is not impatient. After all, it is difficult to withdraw the betrothal gift after entering the house. Otherwise, it will be a complete breakup.
Butler Qian was not angry, but said to Xiao Liu behind him: "Xiao Liu, please read the gift list!"
"Yes!" Xiao Liu took out the gift list and began to mutter: "A house in the east of the county town, worth thirty gold, three high-grade carriages, worth sixty gold, six hundred acres of fertile land in the east village, worth twenty gold, a Jade Guanyin
,value.............",
Starting from the first gift, Wang Rang and his wife and everyone onlookers outside were all shocked. What kind of luxurious gift list is this? It's too luxurious!
When I finally heard that there was still 700 taels of cash left, I was completely in an uproar. Countless onlookers looked at me with envy and jealousy.
A man angrily said to his daughter-in-law: "You said that my family is also a daughter, so why didn't the young master take a fancy to her? This old Wang family is so lucky!"
"I can't help it. It's not like you haven't seen the little girl from the old Wang family before. She is really good-looking, even prettier than the woman in the painting!"
The man snorted: "It's all your fault. Why can't you give birth to such a beautiful daughter? Your belly is really disappointing!"
The woman glanced at the short, stumpy man and said, "I gave birth to such a handsome boy, do you dare to recognize him?"