The Third Miss of Zhongli Mansion

Li Chen'an was not interested in this ancient man's choice of son-in-law based on literature.

He felt that this matter was extremely unreliable, and he might be able to choose a real talent, but if this talent had an unbearable appearance... just now the handsome young man said that the third lady of Zhongli Mansion was as beautiful as a flower, wouldn't that be a big deal? Flowers on cow dung?

Looking at the magnificent painting boat, Zhongli's mansion is either rich or expensive. Why do such a family, such a lady, use such a gamble on luck?

After Chunwei finished releasing the list, wouldn't it be better to choose a good son-in-law from that list?

Or choosing from the children of aristocratic families can also play a role in marriage. These are more reliable than selecting a son-in-law by writing.

He just thought about it. After all, this matter has nothing to do with him.

His heart is like an ancient well without waves.

In his previous life, he was thirty-five years old, and he was deeply hurt by the word love, so much so that he created a huge wealth but was still unmarried, and became a glittering diamond king.

Now that I think about it, was my mentality at that time just to get revenge on that woman or to make up for the loneliness and emptiness in my heart? Or both.

In short, in his previous life, he has been shuttling among the flowers for a long time, and often did not return home at night. Of course, the flowers around him changed from one crop to another.

He has seen too many flowers.

There are even some made in Thailand!

Well, just like that handsome young man just now.

In fact, now that I have calmed down, I realize how absurd that is.

What has been deserted is the years, and it also makes some girls who really love him feel cold.

The self in that world should be dead, right?

Then who would be heartbroken at his own funeral?

Maybe none of them.

With a dumb smile, Li Chenan shook his head, leaving the past behind.

Walking out of the turbulent sea of people, he has come to the south of Huaping Lake. Turning his head, the east of Huaping is full of human heads. It seems that the third lady of Zhongli Mansion is really attractive. There are so many young talents, Who has the luck to be the guest of honor on the boat?

The painting boat has already landed.

What's next should be the so-called Wenhui.

Li Chenan turned around without looking back.

He looked at the sun. It was high in the sky, and it was time to go back——

Back to the closed shop, where he lived.

It was a food shop that used to sell some steamed cakes and grass cakes. Since he could only settle down here, he decided to reopen the food shop.

He's not good at cooking. Steamed cakes and grass cakes have a way of making them in his head, but he can't do that again after closing down once.

Let's open a tavern.

I know the work of making wine, and I even went to a certain winery to see it because of the good taste.

There was still two taels of silver left in his pocket, which was given to him by his predecessor's mother through his younger sister a few days ago.

Originally there were four taels, but two taels were spent in these ten days.

It was precisely because of the money that he survived temporarily, so he was extremely impressed with this mother.

She was a kind and kind woman, a thrifty housekeeper, and a rather cowardly character.

So much so that, as the main house of the Li family, he was bullied by the concubine instead. Li Wenhan probably disliked the woman's age. Of course, it may also be because the son she gave birth to was not up to date. Mother didn't have much good looks.

However, the concubine's son has inherited the blood of the Li family. He was fourteen this year, and he was admitted as a scholar when he was last year, and became Li Wenhan's hope.

In this era when mothers are more expensive than children, the life of a mother without any background in Li's residence will become more and more difficult.

Mother's life is not easy, and my sister's life will not be easy either.

It is best to run the shop and earn money to take over the mother and younger sister.

With that in mind, Li Chenan left Huaping Lake and walked into the alley of Qiliqiao.

Pass through Qiliqiao Alley, and then turn around Bajiao Pavilion to Erjinggou Alley where he lives.

It's not far away. It takes about half an hour to walk so slowly.

He didn't know that there was a woman carrying a sword a little far behind him.

She is Yu Heng, one of the four masters under the Fourth Princess.

Looking at his back, Yu Heng frowned slightly with doubts——

His back was slightly hooked at first, but it gradually stood up as he walked forward, and finally straightened.

Although the steps are still slow, they are firm, like a moving javelin.

It's like a sudden transformation.

What has changed?

Yuheng couldn't figure it out, and she didn't think about it again. Her task was to follow him and not disturb him.

It's just that she felt a little weird. How could the fourth princess Ning Chuchu, who is in charge of the Mirror Department, the highest intelligence agency of the Ning Empire, be interested in such an unknown man?

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Painting Pingdong.

There were guards who isolated the distance of tens of feet outside the Yanyu Pavilion.

The third lady of Zhongli Mansion, Zhongli Ruoshui, had already left the boat under the protection of the guards and came to the Yanyu Pavilion.

Of course, the Huaboat is extremely lively now, because if you want to board the Huaboat, you have to read the second couplet of the couplet.

There are three tables on the deck of the painting boat. In front of the tables are three hale-faced old men. They are learned men and are the judges of this literary meeting.

All the couplets published by the students on the shore will be signed and submitted to the three judges. If two of them can get favorable comments, this person will be invited to board the second floor of the painting boat.

If you can get the praise of the three judges at the same time, you can climb the three floors of this painting boat.

If the three judges all judge a certain lower couplet as the best, this person can become the guest of honor in the third floor.

Zhongli Ruoshui looked back at the bustle there, pouted and sat in front of the fourth princess Ning Chuchu, her maid took a curtain to surround the Misty Rain Pavilion, so what happened inside can no longer be seen outside .

She opened the food box with her hand, took a delicate snack from it, and stuffed the snack into her small mouth without any hesitation, her cheeks suddenly bulged.

"The horseshoe cake from Yunjinji in Kyoto is the best!"

"I said... Didn't you write last month saying that you wanted to go to Beimo? Why did you suddenly change your mind and come to Guangling City?"

Ning Chuchu's behavior towards Zhongli Ruoshui seemed to be commonplace, she also twisted a piece of almond cake and took a small bite, "Father changed his mind, I guess...the crown prince wants this credit."

She chewed in small sips, she looked more ladylike than Zhongli Ruoshui, but she happened to be Ningguo's notorious spy chief, while Zhongli Ruoshui was a well-known talented woman in Ningguo.

It seems to be reversed when it comes to eating.

"In September last year, the barren people from the northern desert invaded the border, and the northern desert was guarded by the great general Xia Houzhuo. How could the barren man be his opponent, but the barren man defeated Jiuyin Pass and even occupied Jiuyin City..."

"Isn't this Xia Houzhuo the servant of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince? Could it be that this move...was done on purpose so that His Highness the Crown Prince could gain military merits and overwhelm the Second Prince?"

Ning Chuchu took another bite of the almond biscuit, and raised her beautiful brows, "Who knows? If that's the case... I'm afraid they are picking chestnuts from the fire!"

"Desolate people are not scary."

"The Northern Desert has been at peace for a long time. The barren people in the past were not scary, but now they are not necessarily so!"

"How to say?"

Ning Chuchu swallowed the almond biscuit in his mouth, "The leader of the desolate people is named Yu Wenfeng! This man rose from the Xiushan tribe five years ago, and it took him three years to unify the northern desert and establish a The first real city in the history of the barren people!"

"That city is called Great Wilderness City. In the past, sixteen large and small tribes in the Northern Desert were conquered by him. He founded the twenty-seven states in the Northern Desert. In fact, he has already established a powerful country, but... just above the temple. Didn't realize his most likely ambitions in the future!"

Zhongli Ruoshui was startled, "So powerful?"

The corner of Ning Chuchu's mouth curled up, "I'm afraid it's more powerful than many people think!"

"What does the emperor mean?"

"Father, he... probably wants to see the ability of the prince's brother."

Ning Chuchu said this rather tactfully. In fact, she had already advised her father, but obviously she did not attract her father's attention. https://m.23sk.net

Or maybe the emperor has other considerations.

Who knows?

"I didn't come here to talk to you. I just wanted to ask you, why did you make such a shitty thing about selecting a son-in-law based on his writing?"

Zhongli Ruoshui pursed his lips, took another sweet-scented osmanthus cake from the food box, and took a big bite, "Cheng Guogong wants to propose marriage to me for his son...you know, I used to take it all the time in the capital all those years ago." He is a brother, and now he actually wants to sleep with me!"

"Father doesn't want to offend Duke Cheng's government, what can I do?"

"After much deliberation, I didn't come up with an idea. Later, it was Shen Qiaodie, the eldest lady of the Shen family, who gave me the idea. Before Cheng Guogong came from the capital, I let the Guangling scholar know... You see, the effect is quite good!"

Zhongli Ruoshui, a talented girl from Ningguo, doesn't look like a talented girl at all at the moment.

Her pretty face was full of complacency, her cheeks were still bulging, she looked more like a wild girl.

Ning Chuchu didn't find it strange either, because Zhongli Ruoshui had always had a weird temperament in private.

What surprised her was the girl named Shen Qiaodie.

"Who is Shen Qiaodie?"

"Oh, the daughter of Shen Qianshan, a grain merchant in Guangling... She is both talented and beautiful, but unfortunately her life is not good."

"What's a bad idea?"

"It's not because of her father!"

Zhongli Ruoshui was indignant, and said again: "Her father booked a marriage for her, the baby's relative, the other party is the Li family...the Li family is a family of seven Jinshi father and son, but it is a pity that it is not the son of Li Wenhou, the current secretary of the household department. , but the son of Li Wenhan, the director of Zhuxia Academy in Guangling City."

"Isn't this pretty good? After all, she comes from a scholarly family, so she is worthy of a merchant's daughter."

"You don't know, this Li Wenhan's son is named Li Chen'an. Not only does this guy not have the bookish aura of the Li family, but... how should I put it, although the people in Guangling City say that he is a fool, it is too much, but This person is indeed very ordinary, and I heard that he has been kicked out of the house and has fallen into a dilapidated situation."

"That's indeed a mistake for Miss Shen."

Ning Chuchu didn't have much interest in this matter, so she didn't continue this topic.

She suddenly leaned over, and said to Zhongli Ruoshui mysteriously: "I met a young man just now, and he matched the couplet you wrote casually. I think it's very good, do you want to listen to it?"

"How does it feel?"

"He is still handsome, the key is the temperament that exudes from him... How should I put it? At the age of seventeen or eighteen years old, there is an old man in his seventy or eighty years old... Well, it can't be said to be old. , some can't see through."

"You can't see through either?"

"Well, I didn't see him through either."

"Okay, such a person is interesting, not like that kid from the Cheng family, superficial! What's his couplet like?"

"Listen up!"

Ning Chuchu cleared her throat, and recited the couplet very carefully:

"There is dust in the eyes and the world is narrow, but nothing in the chest is as wide as the bed."

"how do you feel?"

Zhongli Ruoshui pondered for a moment, his eyes lit up:

"...as the honored guest, what about the others?"