Marquis Ningyuan looked at Meng Hetong for a long time, and then asked: "Then why are you here?"
"When you are born, you must have something to love, and your love is your rib!" Meng Hetong laughed, "I need to let people know about a rib that actually doesn't bother me! I have been called a womanizer, It’s even harder for people to find my true weakness!”
After hearing this, Marquis Ningyuan was silent for a long time: "If the water is clear, there will be no fish. You are playing with people's hearts!"
"How could you fall into a trap if you have no plan?" Meng Hetong asked with a smile, "The so-called three religions and nine streams are indeed not good places, but the more you are in a place like this, the more you can discover the other side of some people. , and those dark sides are their true faces."
Marquis Ningyuan looked at Meng Hetong for a long time: "Then don't you think this has ruined your reputation?"
"I am a rough man, I don't need a good reputation!" Meng Hetong raised his eyebrows, "The so-called good reputation is just a way for those scholars to hate wealth. It is not so much hatred, but jealousy. Jealousy of others who are born with wealth, obviously He says he doesn't care, but secretly he is the one who cares about these things the most."
Ning Yuanhou picked up the wine glass on the table. He gently shook the wine glass in his hand, and his eyes revealed a bit of approval: "It's rare to see things clearly at such a young age."
"My father once said before his death that he and you have always been a white-faced person and a bad-faced person. My uncle is upright and the army needs generals like you. My father can be regarded as a cunning person, but the army also needs him. General!" Meng Hetong looked at Ning Yuanhou and said word by word.
Ning Yuanhou looked at Meng Hetong in front of him, and suddenly remembered that when he was young, his father died young, and he supported the entire Xu family at a young age. In order not to let others look down on him, he put on dark clothes. Keep your head up and chest out as much as possible to make yourself look like a mature and stable adult.
And the Meng Hetong in front of him was just like his young self back then. At such a young age, he had to support the entire Meng family with his own thin shoulders.
But compared to the one who only knew how to rush in, Meng Hetong was smarter and indeed more like his father.
Just like what Meng Hetong said, he is an upright person and upright in his work. In his view, military orders are like a mountain and cannot be violated. No matter what happens, it is done with a clear sword and a clear gun. He is young and frivolous and has no experience in this. What a loss.
And at that time, it was precisely because he had an old and cunning person like Xian Yongchanghou by his side that helped him avoid the schemes of those sinister people time and time again.
Ning Yuanhou looked at the wine in the cup, then raised his head and drank it all: "Even so, I will not marry Mo Mo to you!"
Meng Hetong was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "I don't know, in my uncle's mind, what kind of man should Mo Mo be betrothed to, which would be considered suitable?"
Marquis Ning Yuan was suddenly stunned. He tapped the table with his index finger, and then said slowly: "Handsome?"
After saying that, Ning Yuanhou glanced at Meng Hetong. This boy was really handsome.
"Suave?"
Marquis Ningyuan glanced at Meng Hetong again. When this boy didn't speak, at first glance, he looked indeed gentle and elegant.
"You have a lot of knowledge and a lot of knowledge?"
Marquis Ningyuan remembered that Meng Hetong and Xu Yanquan were from the same school, and they were very talented. If something happened to Marquis Yongchang and he missed the imperial examination, he would have been able to enter the top three!
"Brilliant, a pillar of talent?"
The more Marquis Ning Yuan talked, the more strange he felt. Finally, he simply said: "After all, isn't it like you?"
"Then why can't it be like me?" Meng Hetong asked.
"You use the gifts given to women as coercion, which is not what a man does. You are not a man who stands upright." Ning Yuanhou said coldly.
Meng Hetong was silent for a long time, then took out the hairpin from his arms and placed it in front of Marquis Ningyuan: "This hairpin was given to me by Xu Qingmo himself. I will not use this hairpin to coerce anyone, but I need this hairpin to let my uncle Give me a chance to speak!"
Marquis Ningyuan frowned: "What do you mean?"
"If I come directly to ask for my hand in marriage, uncle, will you sit here and listen to me say so many words?" Meng Hetong smiled bitterly, "I must be kicked out on the spot. It is impossible to give me a chance to meet you, uncle." Talking so much.”
Marquis Ningyuan looked at Meng Hetong without speaking for a long time, just like what he said, if it weren't for this hairpin, he would not have given Meng Hetong a chance to speak, and he would have directly rejected this brat.
"So you think that as long as you have a chance to talk to me, you can convince me to marry Mo Mo?" Ning Yuanhou asked.
Meng Hetong smiled bitterly: "Of course not!"
"Then what are you trying to do to say this to me?" Ning Yuanhou's eyes suddenly became much softer.
"I need a chance, an opportunity that I can fight for!" Meng Hetong said, "Uncle, why don't you ask me, what can I give Xu Qingmo?"
Ning Yuanhou was a little surprised: "Oh, tell me? What can you give him?"
"Unconditional trust and support." Meng Hetong looked at Ning Yuanhou and said word by word.
Marquis Ning Yuan frowned and did not answer.
"I think my uncle should know better than me. Xu Qingmo is not a canary raised in a cage. He has wings that can fly. He is trapped in a cage just because of his daughter's identity. I can give him It means absolute trust, support, and freedom." Meng Hetong took a deep breath and said in the most sincere tone.
Ning Yuanhou looked into Meng Hetong's eyes for an instant.
"I like her!" Meng Hetong stood up. He looked at Ning Yuanhou for a long time, and then said, "When I was immersed in grief and couldn't recover, it was Xu Qingmo who pulled me out of the swamp. I don't need her to be like an ordinary daughter's family. Give birth to children, take care of the home, and she can always do what she likes, just like you do!"
Ning Yuanhou was silent.
The world is not tolerant of women. Xu Qingmo has been intolerant of the big families in the capital because he likes to wield swords since he was a child.
But for Ning Yuanhou, she didn't think it was unacceptable that her daughter's family liked to dance with swords and guns. In ancient times, Princess Pingyang Zhao guarded the confinement of her wife. Nowadays, her daughter's family does not necessarily have to guard the backyard.
Xu Qingmo's talent in the art of war was far superior to theirs, but because she was a woman, she lost the right to go to the battlefield.
