my grandmother

Loutou Town, Pingjiang City.

Zhou Chennian stood at the door of the two upside-down rooms rented by Ni Rushi's mother and son, with his hands behind his back, looking around leisurely.

Ni Rushi walked in quickly carrying a load of firewood. When he saw Zhou Chennian, he was taken aback, and then he smiled and said, "Sir, you lost your way, or is there something wrong?"

"Are you Ni Rushi?" Zhou Chennian looked up and down Ni Rushi carefully.

"Yes, sir is here to look for me?" Ni Rushi hastily put down the firewood load, and looked at Zhou Chennian slightly worried.

"My surname is Zhou, and I'm doing some chores with the Shizi." Zhou Chennian said with a smile.

Ni Rushi's eyes widened, looking at Zhou Chennian who was looking at him, he pursed his lips slightly nervously, waiting for Zhou Chennian to continue.

Zhou Chennian laughed, this Ni Rushi was quite calm.

"However, my trip here is not on the errand of our Shizi, but on the entrustment of the fourth wife of the Li family to talk to you."

Zhou Chennian paused, smiled and looked at Ni Rushi who was visibly nervous.

"Is it the Li family of Yueyang Company?" Ni Rushi asked.

"Do you know other Li families?" Zhou Chennian asked back.

Ni Rushi shook his head.

"Si Niangzi looked at your ink scroll and felt that you are a bit inferior in style." Zhou Chennian paused again, looking at Ni Rushi who was tense and slightly pale after a while, and then said with a smile: "Si Niangzi let me I tell you:
"There is a Gaojia Academy in Gaojiaji, Kunshan County. Mr. Shao is giving a guest lecture there. Although Mr. Shao is not very proficient in Gezhi, he can teach you enough. You might as well go to the Gaojia Academy for a few days. Please Mr. Shao give you some pointers. Mr. Shao traveled to many places when he was young, and he also served as a counselor for the government affairs of a small county for several years, so he can also give you advice on policy.”

As Zhou Chennian said, he took out a small silver coin from his sleeve pocket and handed it to Ni Rushi, "These five taels of silver were also entrusted to me by Fourth Lady."

"Thank you sir." Ni Rushi didn't back down, reached out to take the silver key, and thanked Zhou Shen.

"You don't need to thank me, take the exam well." Zhou Chennian patted Ni Rushi on the shoulder and walked out.

Ni Rushi followed behind, seeing Zhou Chennian turned around the entrance of the alley and lost sight, stepped back to the yard, held the silver handle to look at it for a while, took a deep breath, put the silver handle into his sleeve pocket, Tie it up carefully, pull out the shoulder pole, and run out.

While it was still early, he hurriedly bought two more loads of firewood and some more rice, prepared enough firewood and rice for his mother, and filled a tank of water when he came back. After dinner, he planned to sleep for two hours before getting up, and set off for Gao home set.

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Pingjiang City.

Mrs. Wu, the daughter-in-law of Huang Zhubo in the Pingjiang Weaving Department hesitated for a few days, but still felt that she should talk to her husband and let Huang Zhubo think of a way.

After dinner, Mrs. Wu watched her son enter the wing room to study, made a bowl of light tea and served it to Master Huang, and said with a smile, "Master, do you have time? I have to discuss Dalang's marriage with you."

"This is a big deal, tell me." Huang Zhubo hurriedly put down the book in his hand.

"Didn't you say that the little girl of the Li family is very favored by the Shizi?" Mrs. Wu sat next to her husband.

Huang Zhubo straightened his upper body. …

"It doesn't seem to be the Li family, or not just the Li family." Mrs. Wu subconsciously lowered her voice.

Huang Zhubo raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"The tea house on Shuyuan Street has been pushed down by the Wangfu ever since Shi Ziye arrived in Pingjiang City. You told me that."

"This is the truth, we all know it." Huang Zhubo hurriedly nodded.

"There is Qiaodong Lane next to Fuxue, which is very close to the tea house. The Wu family in Qiaodong Lane has a little girl, who is also about fourteen or fifteen years old, and is also thin and timid. She goes to the tea house every now and then. Fang, it took more than half an hour to enter, and once, when I came out, I changed my clothes." Mrs. Wu approached Huang Zhubo, her voice was extremely low.

Huang Zhubo's eyes widened, "How do you know?"

"I saw it with my own eyes!" Mrs. Wu curled her lips, "I asked Mama Wang to see it first, and I went to see it twice after hearing Mama Wang's words. You can see clearly!"

"Then, have you seen Shi Zi?" Huang Zhubo frowned.

"What the master said, there are several doors on the back and side doors of the tea house, and the son of the elder son goes in and out, can we see it?" Mrs. Wu snorted.

Huang Zhubo frowned even tighter, thought for a moment, and said in a low voice: "This matter needs to be inquired clearly, if it is really..."

Huang Zhubo didn't dare to say the following words, if the eldest son really likes thin and timid young girls, it would be a shameful scandal!I can only pretend not to know, getting married is absolutely impossible!

"It's too scary." Mrs. Wu said in a low voice.

"Well, tell Mother Wang not to let her talk nonsense, about it," Huang Zhubo frowned, and rubbed his face vigorously, "I'll try to find out, don't move around, alas, what's the matter?" It will!"

"I don't think Shizi is like this kind of person." Mrs. Wu muttered in a low voice.

"Oh, who knows!" Huang Zhubo let out a long sigh.

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Gu Yan returned to Pingjiang Bieye, not too long ago, please see the manager of the academy tea shop.

Gu Yan hurriedly called into the shopkeeper.

Seeing the gift, the shopkeeper lowered his hands and reported: "My lord, on the 21th of last month, the fifth lady of the Wu family who lived in Qiaodong Lane came to the teahouse for the first time and ordered a cup of the cheapest tea. After an hour, on the [-]st, the fifth lady of the Wu family came again, also ordered a cup of the cheapest tea, and also sat there for an hour.

"This time," the shopkeeper raised his head and glanced at Gu Yan, "Before the fifth lady of the Wu family came to the tea house, there was a woman who was hiding at the entrance of Cailian Alley and kept staring at the tea house. When the lady came out, the woman at the entrance of Cailian Lane followed Wu's fifth lady and followed them all the way to Wu's house.

"One day later, that woman stood at the entrance of Cailian Lane to watch the tea house again, and after a while, the fifth lady of the Wu family entered the tea house again.

"The young one thought it was strange, so he asked someone to take the old woman quietly, and after a little scaring, the old woman said everything.

"The mother-in-law said that her surname was Wang, and she was the dowry of Wu, the daughter-in-law of Bo Huangqing, the head of the Pingjiang Weaving Department. She said that Huang Qing and his wife heard that the eldest son of the Li family looked at the fourth lady with special respect, and that the fourth lady's sister, the second lady, was discussing marriage. , I wanted to get married to the Li family, so I entrusted Miao Matchmaker, an official matchmaker in the mansion, to propose marriage to the Li family.

"Miao Matchmaker told Mrs. Wu."

The shopkeeper paused, glanced at Gu Yan, swallowed, and said: "The little one reported it according to the woman's original words, saying that it was the Miao matchmaker who said: The son of the world has someone else in his eyes, let Wu see it himself Go and see, say yes,"

The shopkeeper swallowed again, "They say they come to the tea house to wait on them every now and then."

Gu Yan narrowed his eyes when he heard this, and for a moment, he opened his eyebrows and said calmly: "You are very careful, very good. You don't need to pay attention to that side, let the lady of the Wu family go if she wants to go."

"Yes!" The shopkeeper relaxed in one breath.

Watching the shopkeeper go out, Gu Yan told Shi Gun, "Find someone to pass a message to Huang Qing. The second lady of the Li family already has someone she likes, so let him stop picking someone."

"Yes." Shi Gun agreed, and withdrew with his hands down, picking someone to talk to.

Gu Yan sat down and drank half a cup of tea, and ordered Wan Qing to come in.