Shouchun, Zhou's villa.
Zhou Shang paced back and forth in the main hall, looking anxious.
"uncle!"
Zhou Yu stepped into the lobby and saluted Zhou Shang generously.
"My uncle summoned me urgently. Is there something important?"
Zhou Shang turned around and glanced at Zhou Yu with a look of pity on his face.
"Yu'er, sit down and talk."
"good!"
Zhou Yu shook, and the black wool lamb on his body fell off.
A maid caught the black wool lamb in time and helped Zhou Yu hang it on a hanger.
Another maid knelt down and filled Zhou Yu's freshly brewed hot tea. Before leaving, she secretly looked up at Zhou Yu's unusually handsome face.
Zhou Shang also sat down, but he really didn't know how to speak, so he stood up again and considered his words.
Zhou Yu noticed that his uncle's expression was abnormal. After taking a sip of hot tea, he asked slowly: "Uncle, are the people sent to Nacai to propose marriage come back?"
"How did you know..."
Zhou Shang was taken aback, and then realized that his nephew was smarter than anyone else, and he really didn't need to make a fuss.
"But Mr. Qiao agreed?"
Zhou Yu blew the foam on the tea, covered it with his sleeve, and drank it all in one gulp.
Although Zhou Shang looked strange, he still nodded.
"Mr. Qiao has agreed to the marriage."
Zhou Yu couldn't suppress the joy in his heart, and said with joy: "The gift of acceptance has been completed, can I ask about my name?"
"Etiquette": There are six wedding rituals, including receiving gifts, asking for names, accepting gifts, accepting invitations, asking for dates, and personally welcoming.
Nacai is a marriage proposal, and asking for a name is asking a matchmaker to ask the woman's name and birth date, because later Naji needs to combine the horoscopes to predict good and bad fortune, so as to get engaged.
The subsequent acceptance of the request is the sending of betrothal gifts, the application date is the date of the wedding, and the personal greeting is the wedding ceremony.
The above six rites are all necessary for a man to marry his first wife. But there are differences between wives and concubines, so there is no need for so many etiquette when taking a concubine.
Zhou Shang took out a bamboo slip from his sleeve robe and threw it in front of Zhou Yu.
"See for yourself."
Zhou Yu was still immersed in joy and did not notice the strange expression on his uncle's face. He reached out and picked up the bamboo slip to look at it.
"Qiao Wan, what a great name!"
"There is a saying in "Zuo Zhuan" that elegance forms a chapter, and it is exhaustive without being tainted. It is really appropriate to be named after euphemism!"
Just looking at the name, Zhou Yu was full of praise.
Zhou Shang's lips moved but he didn't speak.
"The Book of Songs says that there is a beautiful person, clear and graceful."
Zhou Yu pressed the bamboo slip against his heart and thought of the beautiful appearance of the bridge.
pretty!
Fresh and refined beauty!
The name is beautiful too!
Zhou Yu was so intoxicated that she said, "Suddenly, my appearance changed. She is as graceful as a dragon riding on the clouds. She can be called a goddess!"
"A person is as his name goes, he is as his name goes!"
Zhou Shang couldn't bear it anymore and coughed twice.
Of course, he was also afraid that Zhou Yu's expectations were too high and that when he finally found out that it was not the case, his mentality would completely collapse.
Only then did Zhou Yu come to his senses and continue to look down.
"Birth date: Guihai, Bingxu... Tsk, tsk, judging from my nephew's years of studying the Book of Changes, this girl's horoscope is very similar to my nephew's!"
“It’s almost a match made in heaven!”
"Uncle, do you still want to ask someone to predict your marriage?"
Zhou Yu said smugly.
Zhou Shang said with a dark face: "As long as it suits you."
Zhou Yu laughed loudly and couldn't put it down while holding the bamboo slips.
"Guihai, Jiayin...wait, wait, Guihai? Six years of Guanghe? How come the Qiao family's daughter is only thirteen years old?"
Zhou Yu suddenly came to his senses, put the bamboo slips in front of his eyes and read them over and over again with great care.
"It shouldn't be!"
Zhou Yu tried hard to recall the scene when he met Daqiao that day. That face and figure didn't look like Thirteen's!
Precocious puberty?
possible.
"Ahem~"
Zhou Shang made up his mind and told the truth: "Yu'er, this is what happened..."
"Although General Qiao agreed to the marriage between the Zhou and Qiao families, he did not promise his eldest daughter to you. Instead, he promised his second daughter to our Lujiang Zhou family."
"What you are holding in your hand is the name card of General Qiao's second daughter."
"Second daughter?"
Zhou Yu thought about it for a long time, and finally remembered that there seemed to be a little girl beside Daqiao that day who looked exactly like a sister.
"I want to marry the eldest daughter of Qiao. What does Mr. Qiao mean by agreeing to my second daughter?"
Zhou Yu's face was full of doubts.
Zhou Shang: "Listen to my uncle slowly..."
"If we propose marriage a few months earlier, ah no, even if we propose marriage just a few days earlier, General Qiao will be willing to marry his eldest daughter."
"It's just unfortunate that the Qiao family's daughter just confirmed their marriage a few days ago!"
Zhou Yu's smiling face disappeared, replaced by suppressed anger.
"Who will Mr. Qiao marry his eldest daughter to?"
Even though Zhou Shang was Zhou Yu's uncle, Zhou Shang was still a little scared when he saw his nephew's changed face.
"this……"
Zhou Shang's eyes dodge and he hesitates to speak.
"Uncle, please answer my nephew!"
Zhou Yu held the bamboo slip in his hand tightly as if holding a sharp sword.
Zhou Shang swallowed a mouthful of saliva and finally spoke: "General Qiao promised his eldest daughter to the eldest son of the Yuan family..."
Snapped!
The bamboo slip in Zhou Yu's hand broke into two pieces.
Zhou Shang sweated on his forehead and said half-heartedly: "But it's not for my wife, it's for my concubine!"
Zhou Yu stood up immediately.
"Young master of the Yuan family! How dare you insult me!"
Zhou Yu threw the remaining half of the bamboo slips on the ground and cursed angrily.
Fortunately, Zhou Shang was standing all the time. When he heard the sound, he immediately came up and covered Zhou Yu's mouth, so that Zhou Yu could not curse even worse.
"Don't be angry, nephew. General Qiao also said that he will not accept any betrothal gift. He is only willing to form a good relationship with me, the Zhou family of Lujiang, in the Qin and Jin Dynasties."
"Pooh!"
Zhou Yu broke away from Zhou Shang's hand. Although he was filled with anger, he still had some sense left in him, knowing that there might be spies from the Yuan family both inside and outside the hospital.
"He has the nerve not to accept the betrothal gift! But my family, the second Taiwei of the Zhou family in Lujiang, can have the nerve not to give it?"
Just as Zhou Shang was about to speak to persuade, Zhou Yu waved his hand to stop him.
"How unbecoming it is to marry the eldest daughter to another family as a concubine, but let me, Zhou Gongjin, take the youngest daughter to be my wife!"
"It's useless for me to call him Lord Qiao, how dare you treat me so lightly!"
Zhou Shang spread his hands and said, "Good nephew, General Qiao is not to blame for this."
"Yuan Gong sent Han Yin to propose marriage, how could he refuse to agree? How dare he not agree!"
"I asked my uncle to tell me that if Yuan Xianneng can marry the eldest son, it's not a bad idea for you to marry the younger one."
"Didn't you just say that the horoscopes are so compatible? It's a match made in heaven!"
Zhou Yu didn't say anything, and the image of Yuan Yao with a few straws stuck in his head appeared in his mind.
Yuan Jia Shu Zi, I should have known that this must be his fault!
Zhou Yu said with hatred in his heart.
Taking a deep breath, Zhou Yu turned around, picked up his sword, and walked out.
The maid standing behind her hurriedly picked up the black wool lamb and draped it on Zhou Yu's body.
Zhou Shang quickly stopped him with a few steps: "Yu'er, where are you going?"
Zhou Yu pinned his sword and said, "I will go to Qiao Mansion to find the Qiao family's daughter."
Zhou Shang asked in confusion: "I am waiting for you in my boudoir, why do you come here to look for me?"
"Say kiss!"
"You have to go to General Qiao to propose marriage. General Qiao's soldiers are in Qiyang and not in Shouchun... Besides, it's useless to go to General Qiao to propose marriage now!"
Zhou Yu had already thought of a solution in the flash of lightning and said calmly: "The son of the Yuan family was born the day before yesterday, and his marriage to the eldest daughter of the Qiao family has not yet been completed."
"As long as I explain my feelings to the eldest daughter of the Qiao family and work with her to persuade her father, this can be done!"
Zhou Yu said confidently.
Zhou Shangren was dumbfounded: "This, this, this...nephew, you are robbing your bride!"
"The one you're trying to steal is Yuan's wife. This, this, this... must not be done!"
Zhou Yu sneered: "Humph! My nephew has his own sense of proportion!"
"If you want to blame Yuan Yao, just blame him for taking a concubine instead of marrying a wife."
"You must perform six rites when marrying a wife. If an outsider comes to interfere during the six rites, this is considered bride robbery."
"But he doesn't need to perform the six rituals when marrying a concubine. As long as he has not passed the marriage and the eldest daughter of the bridge family is still innocent, I can get it!"
After saying that, Zhou Yu laughed and walked away, leaving behind a stunned Zhou Shang.
