female concubine

Chapter 105 Keding Jue Family

In the ninth year of Jianping, Qishan county magistrate suddenly left in March in the late spring, and handed over all affairs to Qishan county magistrate Bo, and now it has been more than a month since he came back.

"The county magistrate left suddenly last time, and the magistrate of Fengxiang was extremely dissatisfied when he found out about it. The subordinate officials were very worried about him..."

"I know about this matter. Thank you, Lord Liu, Bo Zhengyi for helping me out of this siege."

Liu Shubai shook his head, "This is all the job of the lower officials, but the lower officials think that the prefect of Fengxiang seems to care about you, the county magistrate, and every time he deliberately finds troubles, and fortunately he is greedy and despicable, the lower officials can only solve it method."

The King of Chu was riding on his horse, bowed his head and smiled, and then looked at a caravan of camels parked on the street, seeming to be arguing about something, and they were all wearing hip-short shirts with narrow sleeves and round necks, "They were saying What?"

"Oh, it's Xia Guo's caravan, and the leader is scolding them for failing in their work and leaving things behind."

"Liu Zhubo can also understand Xia Guo's words?"

Liu Shubai nodded, "Xiaguan's father was a merchant. When he was young, he went to Xia Kingdom with his father, and learned their characters and dialects."

"Can you teach me?"

"If the magistrate wants to learn, the lower officials are naturally willing to teach, but..."

"My lord, don't get me wrong, Qishan County is safe and sound, and it's good to learn more."

"It's no wonder that the county can be awarded a Jinshi at a young age." Liu Shubo stroked his beard and praised.

Two people on horseback were slowly patrolling the street, and a young servant trotted all the way to catch up, "A Lang, A Lang!"

Liu Shubo was dissatisfied with his rude confrontation, "How can you be so rude in front of the county magistrate?"

"I've met the magistrate of Wei."

"Ah Lang, that scholar from Fufeng County came to propose marriage with a hired geese, you should go back quickly."

The King of Chu laughed and said, "Master Liu, it seems that your family will have a happy event soon."

"What's the joy? She is a woman who shamelessly and privately made a lifelong appointment with the scholar. If I agree to the scholar's background, wouldn't it be that I will let her suffer in the past?"

"At any rate, he is also a scholar who should be admitted, but he just failed once."

"Wei Zhixian doesn't know something. If he studies hard, it's fine, but he is a young man who is hard to learn and has a poor family... It is not an exaggeration to say that he is mediocre."

"Children's matter, parents' heart, if the two love each other, why does Liu Zhubo beat the mandarin ducks?"

This county magistrate named Wei Qian has been in Qishan for half a year. Although he has just entered the officialdom, he does not behave like a young man who has just reached the crown. He lowered his head and smiled helplessly: "Xiaguan's daughter is only a few years younger than the magistrate. If there is a magistrate who understands things like this, Xiaguan won't need to worry so much."

"No, Mr. Liu, please don't make up my mind. Not to mention that no matter whether I succeed or fail in this life, I will only stay with my wife until I grow old. But Mr. Liu, you are also an imperial official after all. What about being a concubine?"

"With the talent of Weizhi County, I can't think of being transferred back to the capital in a few years. The official has lived for decades and has seen countless people. Weizhi County must have a bright future in the future. The official does not want her to be a concubine. Just to meet good people..."

"Hehe." Chu Wang interrupted Liu Shubo's words with a smile, and muttered in his heart: Isn't this old fox just trying to find a reliable support for his daughter...

"How about this, I will go with Liu Zhubo to meet this scholar surnamed Wang, and it will not be too late to make plans after checking his character, how about it?"

"That's very good, please." Liu Shubo stepped aside.

Inside Liu's house, Wang Xiucai was sitting in the middle hall waiting, and there were two wild geese on the wine jar.

In the boudoir in the East Wing, Mrs. Liu was playing with her hair and trying on her new makeup, both eager and delighted, "Do you think Daddy will agree?"

"Wang Xiucai is the scholar who should be selected. He is much better than that dude named Zhang in Fufeng County. He also falls in love with you, girl. I think Alang will definitely agree."

Listening to the envoy's answer, Liu sneered secretly: "But father has repeatedly reminded me to communicate more with the magistrate of Wei."

The female envoy was thinking, "The new county magistrate from our county is elegant and easy-going. He doesn't look like an official but looks like a son of a noble family, but I heard from the yamen servants that the magistrate of Wei has married a wife."

Mrs. Liu nodded, "He is from the capital city. Although he hasn't told his origin, I guess he must not be a son of an ordinary family. Dad said that the people at the foot of the imperial city are the most important. The eldest lady of Wei Zhi County should also be a woman of aristocratic family. The county magistrate is so strict, I think she must be a powerful woman."

"Why do you think that the girl said this as if she envied the big lady of Wei Zhi County?"

"Don't talk nonsense."

"Yes, yes, I know, the girl can only pretend to be a scholar in her heart."

"Daddy hasn't returned yet, remember to ask them to serve tea and refreshments, don't let people just sit there and wait."

"When Wang Xiucai first arrived in the house, the slave gave them instructions. The girl can rest assured that she won't neglect my uncle."

The two green robes got off their horses at the gate of Liu's house, and Xiao Liuzi led the horses back to the backyard with Liu Shubo's attendants.

When Wang Xiucai heard the sound of horseshoes, he got up and walked out of the middle hall, stepped forward and said respectfully, "My nephew has met my uncle."

Liu Shubo just nodded lightly, "I'll see the county magistrate soon."

Wang Xiucai turned his gaze to a county magistrate who was about the same age as him, with red lips and white teeth. He also heard that Liu Shubai still intended to betroth his daughter to him, so he felt hostile in his heart, and said respectfully on the surface: "I have seen the county magistrate, the county magistrate is here He was elected as an official at such a young age, which made Wang feel ashamed."

"When everyone is frustrated, after the disappointment passes, the pride will not be far away. Think about what you have. Poetry and wine are in their prime, so why bother to envy others?"

The little thoughts hidden in his belly were guessed by the young county magistrate, Wang Xiucai bowed his head in shame and said: "It is a shame that someone regards the belly of a villain as the heart of a gentleman. I hope the county magistrate will not blame him." good."

The King of Chu looked at this Wang Xiucai, and he was not as miserable as Liu Shubo said, but he was really not very clever, and he didn't have much city mansion, so she smiled and said, "I am here to promote your marriage, as long as Miss Liu is willing, And relax, a gentleman does not take away people's love."

Wang Xiucai raised his head in great joy, and said excitedly, "Thank you county magistrate for your success. If it works, I will definitely come to the door to thank you."

Liu Zhubo turned to the King of Chu and said, "County magistrate, please take your seat."

The King of Chu also sat down on the main seat in the middle hall.

"Come here, let's have some tea." Liu Shubo immediately sat down, and placed a load of Xukou wine covered with red silk flowers on the ground, so he raised his eyebrows and said, "Nephew is here this time?"

Wang Xiucai folded his sleeves and bowed to Liu Shubai, "I would like to hire Lingai as my wife. From now on, I will love you and respect each other like a guest. I will be prosperous in the future with one heart and one mind. Room IKEA, and I beg my uncle to help me."

Liu Shubo only felt that he was very sloppy, "Marriage with three media and six employments, no matter how bad it is, this form is always required. Is this post without media and grass, is it too hasty?"

"Nephew has thought about it. My uncle and my father are family friends, and the two families know each other well," he said, taking out the small post, "and brought it with this Xukou wine. My father, mother, and elder brother have all passed away. It's too early, my nephew wants to let uncle you decide the time, and the dowry is ready."

Wang Xiucai's attitude was sincere, and Liu Shubo remembered that he and his father were childhood friends, so he couldn't help but refuse, "This..."

Listening to their conversation, the king of Chu got up from his seat and walked to the wine bearer, "This is the Xukou bar? This is the first time I have seen it."

The wine bottle is covered with a flower garland, decorated with eight large flowers and bright red silk, and the wine-carrying burden is also tied with red silk.

Liu Shubo was puzzled by the casual question of the king of Chu, "This folk marry a wife, if the two parties agree to send a detailed post and Xu Koujiu, isn't the magistrate married a wife... I don't know?" Liu Shubo began to have some doubts. Did the county magistrate use his married wife as a perfunctory excuse?

"Ah, the wedding arrangements are all handled by my lord father and the matchmaker. I didn't ask in detail, so I went to the lady's house when I kissed the gift. I didn't even see the lady's face before the kiss."

Liu Shubai was dubious, and the King of Chu immediately said: "Wang Xiucai is so sincere, the county magistrate might as well agree with him. I heard that they are still childhood sweethearts, and they may be a good story between Fufeng and Qishan in the future."

Liu Shubo was very hesitant. After all, County Magistrate Wei had not been in Qishan for long, and he was not familiar with the background of Wang Xiucai, and his own daughter was just a young girl who had just begun to love her. How could she know how to read people, "But this marriage..."

"As the order of the parents and the words of the matchmaker, Master Liu loves his daughter so much, why don't you listen to what your daughter wants?"

Liu Shubo sighed softly, "Go and ask the eldest girl to come over."

"Yes."

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A few days later, the news that the Wang family of Fufeng County had concluded a marriage contract with the daughter of Liu Shubai, head of Qishan County, spread in the two counties.

In the backyard of Zhang’s house is a cage half as wide as a person. Inside there is a green chicken and a red chicken. The two chickens face each other with their heads lowered and fluttering wings. It had a lustrous luster, and the downy part of its back was snow-white. In the stalemate, the green chicken flapped its wings and suddenly jumped up to peck at the red chicken.

"Peck it and peck it, it's still my dark clouds and snow." A group of teenagers were watching the game cocks pecking each other intently around the cage.

One of the servants in Zhang's house hastily ran in, approached one of the older young people, leaned into his ear and whispered, "Mr. Proposal, the engagement has already been made."

The young man threw the money he had won at Qingji angrily, "How can it be reasonable that the man surnamed Wang dares to go to the Liu family to propose marriage?"

He rolled up his sleeves, "Bring some people, I have to teach him a lesson today."

"Yes."

As soon as he reached the door, he was stopped by an official in a blue round collar uniform, "Da Lang."

"Daddy, why are you back?"

"Where are you going?" Qing Pao slowly approached, stroking his beard.

"Dad, does he know that the poor scholar in our county went to the Liu family to propose marriage?"

Qingpao nodded with his hands behind his back, "The ancestors of the Liu family were in business. Although they lived in a small courtyard, their accumulated wealth is still one of the wealthiest households in Fengxiang. Even the magistrate has to accept his love. It's fine for him to withdraw the engagement, don't cause trouble."

"Hey, my son knows, we must let that scholar withdraw the engagement, and we must also marry Mrs. Liu in."