Since ancient times, everything is inferior, only reading is high, and the Wang family has received elegant gifts, all of which are from the hands of famous talents in the capital and even in the locality, which is more surprising than receiving money, and the Xu family's thoughts have changed in an instant.

"There are a lot of famous scholars who congratulate you, and the long house has now become the premier scholarly door in our Xiaojia Village! Over the years, only the Xiao family can compare with it, which is really enviable. ”

"Who said it wasn't, I heard that the lord of the wine festival of the Guozijian personally wrote a good couple, and the Wang family regarded it as a treasure and hung it in the new house. What kind of people are the priests of the country? If you are not a great Confucian in the world, you can't be in charge, and if you get his ink treasure, there must be green smoke coming out of the ancestral tomb of the Wang family. ”

As the wives and women talked about this, for a while the Wang family felt that they had a lot of face, and they held their heads up wherever they went.

The second room is quite disapproving, envious and envious, but they all agree that the Li family is really glorious. The reason is simple, there has never been a scholar in the Wang family for several generations, only the second young master in the long room is a scholar, and he is only stained with the light of the young master, the Xu family is rich and noble, and they can never afford to be the title of a scholarly family, let alone the Wang family.

In contrast, the third young master also passed the Tongsheng examination, if he hadn't changed his martial arts position later, it would not be difficult to take the Xiucai exam in the future, and there were also Xiucai among the people who came to congratulate him, and who in the officialdom was not from a Jinshi background?

In short, the public says that the public is reasonable, the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable, and the two rooms of the long room do not let each other go. Xu Wen is very proud, at least after this incident, no one will say that he is not as good as the third child.

However, Wang Yu was like a chicken's blood, for fear that Li Qiu would bring a few more champions to add icing on the cake, so he hurriedly ran to the capital to demonstrate. At this time, he was standing proudly in front of the Li family, and began to brag about how face-saving his young master was, and he made friends all over the capital, trying to save face.

The people in the second room frequently laughed at him at first, but Wang Yuman didn't care. kept telling a lot of personal experiences, and gradually gathered a lot of people, and it was regarded as a listening storyteller to relieve boredom.

Li Qiu was faintly a little uneasy, he was a subordinate person, and it seemed that the movement of a relative was too big, if it weren't for the relatives of the two young ladies blocking it, it would be easy to cause trouble if it went on like this.

In this way, Li Qiu let Wang Yu outside brag, and he pulled the Li family to hide in the house, which made Wang Yu more and more excited, thinking that the Li family was soft. The spit was frothing and gushing.

Boasting to a group of women for a long time, the fluttering Wang Yu began to speak without thinking, and in order to completely defeat the Li family, he actually laughed and said: "Look, the Li family has made shrinking turtles one by one." haha！ I feel that I can't compare to my Wang family, I must have learned that my new daughter-in-law is not perfect, otherwise why don't you even dare to show your face? ”

As soon as these words came out, the women were all shocked, and immediately a mother-in-law said in a deep voice: "Is this true? That Zhou's daughter-in-law was the person in your long house. If something ugly happens, you don't look good on your face. Speak with real evidence, if you dare to spew blood, don't say that the third young master doesn't rub sand in his eyes, if Li Qiu is annoyed. I'm going to have to fight for you. ”

Wang Yu said disdainfully: "I spew blood? It's not me Wang Yu who exposes his ugliness, and everyone is not an outsider. Who doesn't know what kind of romantic temperament the two young masters have? Who hasn't been used by the girl who has a little bit of grace around her? His daughter-in-law, Pearl Man, as her name suggests, was born like a flower, and at first she was a maid by the side of the second young master. Later, I went to the eldest young master's house, and passed through two hands! Who doesn't know about this in the long house? It's just that the relatives don't say anything.

Otherwise, why do I have to marry someone else's daughter? Just because there is no perfect girl in the long room, Lao Tzu doesn't want to be the eighth king. ”

The woman and the women around her looked at each other. I think Wang Yu's words are true, about the rumors on the side of the long house, I still don't listen to it much on weekdays?

The mother-in-law sighed and said: "It's weird, I reminded the sister-in-law of the Li family again and again earlier, don't go to marry over there, there will be no serious girl." Now it's okay, marry back a personal slut. ”

Wang Yu said proudly: "Even if the Li family has a face, it is not uncommon, and after the candle night in the cave room, the daughter-in-law is actually a good fighter, Li Qiu, you can sit back and enjoy it!" Haha, don't forget to kowtow to the two young masters to thank you, how much effort did you save for your daughter-in-law's hard work? ”

Several children of the Li family in the house were furious when they heard this, and they were about to go out together to beat Wang Yu, but Li Qiu stretched out his hand to stop his younger brothers.

Li Dong said angrily: "Third brother, can you bear this? ”

Li Qiutie's face was blue, and he said slowly: "Your future sister-in-law is not that kind of person, the elders all know about this matter, Pearl was sent to the eldest young master because she didn't want to be from the second young master, and later in order to keep her innocence, she begged the eldest lady to let her go." ”

Li Dong said angrily: "Then you can't let Wang Yuna talk nonsense, I'm going to kill him." ”

Li Qiu suppressed his anger and said calmly: "This matter is already unreasonable, and if you hurt people again, you can't spread it?" If everyone is golden, your sister-in-law's innocence will never be explained. Don't worry, there is a young master in the past who asked the midwife to inspect Qiu Xiang in public, this time in order to prove himself, the pearl can only be wronged, and when the marriage is completed, I will never spare Wang Yu. ”

In this way, the Li family continued to endure, and Wang Yu continued to be unbelievable, which provoked people to think that this was indeed the case, and the people in the second room sympathized with Li Qiu. Especially the more beautiful the Li family's marriage is, the more embarrassing it means.

It is said that Xu Wen and Xu Ji never expected that the consequence of impulsive publicity was that they were reported by officials, and they had never been involved in officialdom, so they didn't know the depth of it.

It doesn't matter if there are favors between officials, this is the normal situation of people, and no one is exempt from vulgarity, even the emperor has no choice but to do anything about this. But you have to abide by the rules of officialdom, in the years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, I have never heard of anyone taking the initiative to accept gifts for the sake of receiving gifts.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there were traitors such as Wang Zhenyan Song who took the initiative to take bribes on a large scale, and the problem is now the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.

Fortunately, although Xu Wen and his brothers don't know much about the rules of officialdom, everyone else understands it very well, and they don't leave evidence of bribery, at most they are courtesies and thin gifts, and besides, a guard and a showman, even if they give a generous gift, what can they do?

It was because Zhu Yuanzhang didn't attach importance to this matter, so he sent someone to investigate, and he dared to say that the three brothers of the Xu family had nothing to do. It was purely for the sake of face, and Xu Hao himself had not participated in it, and he had already left the capital at the time of the incident.

Among the officials who give gifts, there are a lot of ministers and nobles, the problem is that the prince Wang Qing does have personal contacts with Xu Hao, and Xu Hao has almost been there during weddings and funerals, which belongs to the fair and honest exchange of gifts, as for some ordinary officials, they are worthless native products, and the so-called law does not blame the public.

Zhu Yuanzhang keenly noticed that this matter was very strange, so many officials gave gifts to the Xu family at the same time. On the surface, it is a courtesy exchange, but in fact, there is a lot of article, and there seems to be a deep meaning that Xu Hao wants to look good. In accordance with the practice of dealing with such matters in the past, such ostentatious people often lose their positions and are dismissed.

Comrade Lao Zhu thought that he had come for himself, because over the years there had been too many officials who had been executed for corruption and bribery, and all civil and military officials had grievances, so they all took advantage of this incident to vent their dissatisfaction.

Zhu Yuanzhang's state affairs are getting worse and worse, and he has no heart to pursue this matter, so he wants to wait for Xu Hao to return to Beijing. At that time, he was reprimanded in person and warned him not to make an example, but Xu Wen and Xu Ji were not in the eyes of the emperor at all because their status was too insignificant.

When chatting with Zhang Meiren in the evening. said this incident as an anecdote, Zhang Meiren immediately said that she wanted to support her nephew, it seems that the reason is the same as many people, purely for love and righteousness. Comrade Lao Zhu's heart was moved at that time, and he did not say anything against it.

Just as Wang Yu continued to brag, someone shouted, "Send someone to report to Mrs. quickly." There is someone in the palace, and the middle door is opened to greet him. ”

With this shout, the bluffing Xu family became a mess, some people ran to the gate, and some people rushed to the inner house.

Li Qiu ran out with a black face, glared at Wang Yu, who was confused, and hurriedly rushed to the gate, saw the grade of the person who came, and shouted: "What are you panicking, this is the father-in-law, not the eunuch who sent the decree, there is no need to prepare an incense case to alarm the old lady and his wife." ”

The people of the Xu family suddenly relaxed, and someone ran to inform the inner house, and the Qianshoutang, which was jumping with chickens and dogs, gradually calmed down.

Seeing this, Wang Yu said strangely: "What is the father-in-law of the inner court doing in our house?" ”

Li Qiu knew that this must be the person next to Zhang Meiren in the palace, so he didn't explain, and stepped forward to invite someone into the mansion.

The father-in-law was about thirty years old, white-faced and uncourteous, and he smiled and raised his foot to enter through the side door, followed by eight small yellow doors, carrying gifts that were once wrapped in red silk.

As soon as he came in, his father-in-law knew that it was Li Qiu who was standing in front of him, but he deliberately asked loudly: "Which one is named Li Qiu, come out to speak." ”

Li Qiu was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "The villain is." ”

The father-in-law smiled, looked at the people gathered around him, and was very satisfied that so many people had been alarmed.

The father-in-law said unhurriedly: "Our family came here today to make a special trip to Bixia and Zhang Niangniang's kindness, I heard that the granddaughter of the old lady of your mansion is about to get married, and I want to show my respect for the elders. ”

The Xu family was suddenly boiling, even the emperor came to give gifts, this glory has never even been in the house, and named Li Qiu's name, it is conceivable that the root is from the third young master, now the Li family has a great face, and there is no more graceful than this.

Wang Yu's face was bloodless, and he couldn't wait to slap himself hard, he knew that the Li family could move Bixia's head, so why bother with a single-minded fighting spirit? After this is over, not only will he become the laughing stock of the whole family from now on, and he will not be able to do anything to be ridiculed, but he will also have a big enmity with the Li family.

The father-in-law raised his hand slightly, and in an instant the people quieted down, and everyone pricked up their ears and said with a smile: "Zhang Niangniang heard that Lord Xu's personal entourage Li Qiu is also going to marry a wife, because Niangniang recognized Lord Xu as her godson, and by the way, I entrusted our family to reward a heart, a set of auspicious clothes for the groom, and a set of jewelry for the bride, please smile." ”

The people are more and more surprised and happy, with the support of the mother, the Li family can be said to have completely defeated the Wang family, and the second room can also be separated from the lintel, and the third young master also has a reputation for supporting the portal independently. (To be continued......)