Xu Hao received the news of the death of the Queen Mother in October last year, and returned to the capital in April of the following year.

lingered with his wife overnight, and on the twelfth day of December, it was exactly ten months old, Mu Ningxue successfully gave birth to a son, and Xu Qingtang named Xu Yu.

On the 14th, the Xu family and relatives gathered together to congratulate the child and celebrate Xu Jiang's wedding.

In Qianshoutang, Aunt Wang, who was dressed up, was smiling, and everyone congratulated her, laughing that her aunt had finally become a mother-in-law for many years. And the wife of the main house, Liu's biological son, had a happy husband and wife, and gave birth to a boy and a girl and two grandchildren, so naturally she didn't care about her, and accompanied the old lady with a smile.

The old lady said: "Let's go to the new house, drink tea and talk, and wait for the fourth daughter-in-law to invite the newlyweds to come out to worship the church, so as to save both sides of the care." ”

The eldest lady Wang asked, "I don't know who will be in charge of the lamp?" ”

Liu said with a smile: "Rong'er and Brother Yi'er are very good. ”

Xu Rong and Xu Yi are the most decent among the brothers of the same clan, and Aunt Wang was very happy to hear it, and immediately invited the wives to wait for tea in the west courtyard of the third room.

Xu Qinglian and Xu Cuitao took the sisters to the new house to wait for the arrival of the bride, and Xu Hao accompanied the third uncle Xu Zengfu to receive guests in the main hall.

When it was time for the groom to pick up the bride, he found that Xu Jiang was missing, and he looked around for nowhere to be found, Zhong Kegu shouted: "Brother is not in the house." ”

Aunt Wang hurriedly came out, and sure enough, the person was gone, and she was in a hurry, and took the maid and the maid to look for someone everywhere. After a while, even the three wives were in a hurry, and just when the whole family was at a loss, they suddenly heard a girl shouting: "Here you are." ”

Many people followed the sound and looked, and saw Xu Jiang sleeping in a large box containing books in the study, sleeping on his back, on the surface, it was impossible to see that someone was inside, and no one could think of hiding here.

Such a big guy is relieved. I thought it was very funny, Yuan was so anxious that he was sweating, and asked the girl to pull the person up, Zhu Qiaoqiao stepped forward to dust off the dust for him, wiped his face, and said with a smile: "Hurry up and pack up and pick up your daughter-in-law, don't let your relatives laugh crookedly when they hear it, who is the groom hiding in the box?" ”

The wives outside laughed loudly when they heard this, but they didn't know that Xu Jiang and Jin Gui had a tryst here last night, and because he was tired, he simply lay down and fell asleep.

Xu Rong and Xu Yi laughed so hard that they almost dropped the lantern on the ground. Xu Jiang only cared about smirking and was taken away like a puppet.

Outside the gate, Xu Hao sent away his younger brother riding a big white horse, and the drummers who played and played couldn't see the edge at a glance, and the young generation who were not married followed to join in the fun.

Xu Zengfu was pleased: "Start a family, I hope that Jiang'er will study hard after getting married, and your brother will not lack a martial arts, so he will send a jinshi." ”

Xu Qingtang smiled with a long hair: "I think Jiang'er is stronger than their brothers, and they used to be young and frizzy. Now the father-in-law is the household Langzhong, the Jinshi in the Hongwu period, and the daughter must be a well-informed lady, and the filial piety of the in-laws assists her husband in his hard work. In the coming year, I will definitely take the Xiucai exam, and in three years, there will be another lifter, and I will be a jinshi in my twenties. ”

Xu Zengfu smiled bitterly: "Borrowing the words of the eldest brother, I only hope that he can be angry and strong." Before the age of 30, let's take the exam. ”

Xu Haoxin said that the third uncle's words are quite reliable, but Dad is too much, you should eat Chinese cabbage! One bite at a time. One lifts people.

Suddenly, Xu Wen walked quickly from the other end and said, "The old men and ladies in the house over there have all come." ”

Xu Qingtang and Xu Zengfu hurried to greet their brothers Xu Yingxu and Xu Zengshou, and the inner house was also lively. Xu Hao didn't have so much patience to deal with many relatives, turned around and returned to Daoxiangju, and saw Xu Miaojin and Xu Cuiliu, Zhu Xianyuan and Zhang Hai and other girls who had not yet married, all talking to Mu Ningxue who was in confinement.

Xu Hao watched Qingshuang take the children to build a snowman in the yard, pinching the time, and he couldn't be absent when he worshipped.

Since her aunt and Cuiliu both set an example and were unwilling to get married, there seemed to be more and more unmarried people around Xu Hao.

On weekdays, it's okay to say, in the face of the discussions around them, they simply don't see it and hide in their own small world, but in the current environment, it is undoubtedly their most embarrassing moment.

Fortunately, Xu Hao is like a towering tree, capable of protecting them, even if he can't stop gossip and accusations, he can keep these people and things out. First of all, there are people in the family who dare to chew the root of their tongue behind their backs, no matter who immediately sweeps the floor out as soon as they find out, you are welcome.

After a long time, everyone knows that he is backing, and there is no room for anyone to play right and wrong in his eyes, anyway, no one in the Xu family will be bored, as for the flood outside, in the end, the door of the Xu family is too high, so high that most people in this world can only look up.

This is the same as in later generations, the pressure of leftover women in ordinary families is not ordinarily large, and the pressure on Bai Fumei will be much less, people have the conditions to be single aristocrats, in addition to saying a few sour words to outsiders, what can they do to people?

An hour later, Xu Hao set off and saw Xu Jiang, who was accompanied by a big red dress, holding the bride with a phoenix crown with red silk and walking slowly.

The old lady sat on the top with a smile, Xu Zengfu and his wife sat in the middle, and Aunt Wang was supposed to be standing, but Zhu Qiaoqiao pressed her on the chair.

Seeing Xu Hao coming in, Zhu Qiaoqiao turned around and walked over, frowned and asked, "How old are you?" And the bride is naturally tall and big, where is this husband and wife, it is clear that the old lady is leading the son. ”

Xu Hao also looked awkward, not to mention that the age difference between them was more than six years, Xu Jiang himself was small, and he was still a child, but most of them were married at this age, and they were twelve or thirteen years old with immature faces.

The problem is that the bride is too tall, Zhu Qiaoqiao's height is about 1.65 meters, and Mu Ningxue is about 1.70 meters, which is just right in ancient times. Under the influence of machismo, almost all local customs advocate a petite and delicate person, who is too tall and naturally unpleasant.

However, in terms of human aesthetics, a slender and slender figure is a natural hanger, especially a beautiful woman looks good in anything, and the ancients could not help but admit the advantages of being tall.

Xu Hao is about 1.80 meters tall, and he is particularly coordinated with his wife. The size of the couple was very rare in the Ming Dynasty, and how pleasing the handsome men and beauties were, it was to give people the impression of a fairy couple.

But a woman who is 1.75 meters tall, especially with wide shoulders and a wide body, is too much, especially standing side by side with Xu Jiang, who is 1.6 meters, giving people a strong sense of incongruity.

The whole family and relatives also noticed the abnormality, and whispered in surprise, the bride Fu is like a door-like mother-in-law, Xu Jiang is only half her height just now, although they are husband and wife, they are like mother and son.

Xu Zengfu saw it and secretly beat his chest and fell to his feet. regretted that he shouldn't have listened to the concubine's words, and agreed to this family business. Liu also felt that her face was gloomy, but fortunately it was not her own.

As for Aunt Wang's aesthetic taste, which is different from ordinary people, she thinks that her daughter-in-law is tall and means that she is good at birth, and who will have trouble with money? The rich family is such an only daughter, and in the future, all the family wealth will have to be inherited by the son-in-law, and it is not easy for the son to want a beautiful maid?

Because it has nothing to do with themselves, after everyone's initial shock, most of them will send blessings with a kind attitude.

In the good-natured laughter of the people. The maid helped the two newlyweds to worship heaven and earth, and then pulled the couple to worship, and Mrs. Wang came over to remove the red hijab from the newlyweds.

Xu Jiang was dizzy, when he went to greet his relatives before. He saw with his own eyes that the four girls who were married were not standard, and everyone was on par with Jin Gui's appearance, and the maidservant girl was like this, so the beauty of the girl could be imagined. At that time, his eyebrows fluttered with joy, and he instantly left Zhu Xianyuan, who was thinking about it for a long time, behind.

Now that he saw the true face of Lushan, he was so frightened that he almost sat on the ground. The face is not fat, but it has a big round face; Although his body is not fat, his body can be ashamed of a man. The eyes are round like apricots, the eyebrows are thick like hooks, and the hands are very delicate, but they are as short and thick as a fan.

It's too late to regret it, Xu Jiang thought of the rich dowry, the four beautiful maids, and was aggrieved and ready to kowtow to his parents.

Xu Hao, like most people, didn't have too many ideas when he saw the fierce looks of his younger siblings, and he wasn't his wife, is it important to be beautiful and ugly?

In fact, if Xu Jiang regrets it, doesn't the rich family regret it? hurriedly glanced at Xu Wen, Xu Hao, Xu Song, Xu Hai and other brothers of the same generation, all of them were tall and handsome, only Xu Jiang was the shortest, not to mention, his appearance was a passerby, and even his temperament was the most obscene, not to mention the disappointment in his heart.

When the couple knelt on the ground and bowed to the old lady's parents for eight times, Aunt Wang cried with joy in her heart, and her tears were sprinkled and she couldn't say a word.

The three wives are all from the past, and they can understand her mood of joy and sorrow, Mrs. Wang said: "What a pair of beautiful women, and Mrs. Wang is blessed." ”

After a long while, Aunt Wang said with tears in her eyes: "It's all from the three wives, and my mother and son are grateful for it." "It's really a tearful word.

The couple were helped up, and they worshiped the elders, brothers, sisters-in-law, sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law and a bunch of other people one by one.

Fu listened carefully to Jin Gui's introduction all the way, and worked hard to keep the name in her heart, she remembered her father's reminder who was the most important person in the Xu family.

So when it was Xu Hao's turn, Fu gently tugged and asked Xu Jiang to accompany her to kowtow to Xu Hao respectfully. Zhu Qiaoqiao watched this scene with a smile on the side, and said in his heart that he was a smart person.

Other people didn't care when they saw this, if they weren't so solemn, they would have seen the hell, it could only show that the bride was a stupid person, and they didn't even inquire in advance who the most important person in the Xu family was, so you can imagine how the days after marriage will be.

Thinking that Xu Song's wife Yuan was like this, Xu Hai's wife Zhong was the same, it is needless to say that the benefits of Xu Hao and his wife are valued, and no one dares to provoke the whole family until now, it is impossible without Xu Hao's love, just Li Qiu's wife Pearl and others are guaranteed to be able to make the young grandmother angry to death.

Therefore, there is never a shortage of smart people in this world, and I can't think of why there are high-ranking officials in the relatives, and there are still people who dare to deliberately disgust or even provoke each other, isn't the other party the biggest reliance of their own family? Even if you don't have to be close to stammering, at least you have to be kind to each other, right?

It can only be said that many novels deliberately set up details that go against common sense in order to create plot conflicts, not to mention a deputy national level like Xu Hao, even if he is a section chief, who is not respectful to relatives and friends? You can be unconvinced, but that's the reality.

Not to mention the excitement of sending the newcomer into the cave room next, Xu Hao called Xu Hai over, and Zhu Qiaoqiao gave him a list.

Xu Hai took it and looked at it, and exclaimed, "God, 100,000 taels of silver? ”

Xu Hao said: "This is the money for the construction of a new house, you and the fourth couple will look at it, and ask a few sisters-in-law if you have something." At that time, the general ledger and the title deed will be handed over to your third sister-in-law for safekeeping, according to the current pattern of the three mansions, there are still clansmen's houses, don't neglect anyone's family.

If you don't have enough money, open your mouth with your sister-in-law, you have to remember that if your sister-in-law doesn't rub sand in her eyes, there must always be a limit to the oil and water of the people below. ”

"I remember, third brother, don't worry." Xu Hai patted his chest and reassured.

Xu Hao actually didn't care about the construction process of the mansion at all, sent Xu Hai away, and handed a gold-painted box to Zhu Qiaoqiao, "This is the general file of all our family's valuable things, and send it to Liaodong secretly." ”

Zhu Qiaoqiao raised his eyebrows and said, "You really plan to go to Liaodong to live for a long time." ”

Xu Hao said softly: "Cunning Rabbit Three Caves, it is not wrong to make some preparations in advance. The main reason is that you are too capable, once such a big foundation of our family is known by the imperial court, you know better than me what the consequences will be. ”

Zhu Qiaoqiao asked, "Then when will you pass?" Will the ancestors agree? ”

Xu Hao said without thinking: "Actually, I don't have to worry too much for twenty years, I don't want to compete for power, I'm still young, there won't be too many people who want to think about putting me to death, even if there is, I'm not afraid." But power is such a thing, even if you occupy a position for too long, it will become a thorn in the side of others. ”

"Twenty years?" Zhu Qiaoqiao's phoenix eyes wandered, and she smiled with deep meaning. (To be continued......)