The New Year passed quickly, and it was the Spring Festival that students were most concerned about. Tang Buqing was indeed very knowledgeable and talented. He actually passed the Jinshi examination. Although he was not in the top three, his ranking was also very high.
After Tang Buqing, who had achieved his wish, celebrated with the other newly promoted scholars, he took the matchmaker and solemnly went to the door of Duke Anguo's Mansion to propose marriage to Miss Gu.
Because it had been tacitly understood before, An Guogong never thought of embarrassing him, and agreed immediately, and then began to enter into various processes of getting married. After all, Gu Shi Yao was not young anymore, and she was bad-tempered. Her reputation influenced other ladies in the family to marry her, so she needed to get married as soon as possible. Of course, this was what Yao wanted in ancient times. She hoped to get married as soon as possible, so that she would be the definite wife of the future prime minister.
The marriage of the eldest daughter of Duke Anguo was going on in an orderly manner. After hearing some rumors, Mrs. Qiyang Hou couldn’t sit still. She called Ming Xun and scolded her again: "Look at the shameless eldest daughter of the Gu family. She has found someone." Married, your marriage has not been settled yet, I am almost anxious for you! I asked you to go see me and you refused, when will you be willing to get married? "
"Mom, I'm not unwilling to get married. Have you forgotten that I won't marry anyone other than Miss Gu San?" Ming Xun said with a smile. He had gotten to know Gu Shichu a lot in the past six months, and the two of them went to eat and drink together in private. Having fun was a common topic. He felt that he had found his soulmate in life, and he was sure once again that if he had to marry a wife, he would definitely find Gu Shichu, who had the same goals as him.
When Mrs. Qi Yanghou heard this, she suddenly felt the veins in her temples pulsing. She glared at her son who was obviously handsome but insisted on showing a carefree attitude, and shouted: "You haven't given up yet? I told you, The girls in Duke An Guo's mansion are all restless, I won't want anyone from their mansion to be my daughter-in-law..."
"That's okay. The worst I can do is never marry a wife in my life. Fortunately, you and your father have a son like my second brother, otherwise there would be no one to carry on the family line..." Ming Xun said with an exasperated smile.
As expected, Mrs. Qi Yanghou was so angry that she was trembling all over: "You, you evildoer! You want to make me angry to death, right?"
"Mom, I don't have it. I'm being filial. Look, this is a gadget I brought for you outside. I heard it was something passed down from the sea." Mingxun said, taking out a round, unique shape. The small box came out, and I didn't know where I pressed it. It suddenly opened with a "pop" sound. Inside, a small figure as big as an adult's little finger slowly started spinning. A pleasant sound of unknown musical instruments followed. It rang.
This is indeed a very new thing. Mrs. Qi Yanghou forgot to be angry with her son. She looked at the little dummy that could spin in circles with the sound of music with a surprised look on her face: "What is this?"
"People overseas call it a 'music box'. When you open it, the sound of music will come out. It's quite interesting." Mingxun explained proudly.
This gadget was actually given to him by Gu Shichu as a reward for taking Gu Shichu to taste a lot of delicious food in the capital.
Gu Shichu knew that he liked strange and novel gadgets, so he spent a lot of effort to find such a music box as a gift to him. Ming Xun fell in love with it as soon as he saw it, and he has been playing with it these days. If it weren't for the purpose of coaxing his mother, he would be reluctant to take it out.
Mrs. Qiyang Hou carefully picked up the music box and observed it. Listening to the sweet and fresh music, her mind was completely occupied with guessing how this thing was made. She did not realize that she had completely forgotten to urge the marriage - Ming Xun The goal has been achieved.
Mrs. Qi Yanghou is indeed worthy of being the person who can give birth to a playboy like Ming Xun. She also likes novel things and wants to dismantle the music box to understand how to make such a thing.
Ming Xun took the opportunity to escape, and quietly ran to find Gu Shichu. He gave the music box to Mrs. Qiyang Hou. He was very distressed and wanted to ask which merchant Gu Shichu bought it from. He also wanted to buy one. .
Gu Shichu looked at Ming Xun speechlessly, who came to climb the wall of Duke Anguo's mansion because of a music box, and said: "You should be lucky that my yard is always remote and no one comes, otherwise you would be shot into a hedgehog by the guards of the mansion. .”
"No, although my martial arts skills are not as strong as yours, I am still more than enough to take on the guards in your house." Ming Xun said boldly, not knowing where he got his confidence.
"I bought the music box from a businessman from the West. The businessman has a beard, blue eyes, and a tall man. He looks different from our people. But he said that he sold out this time in the capital. The goods will be returned to your own country soon, so you probably won't be able to find him now." Gu Shichu said with a straight face.
In fact, this music box was the inventory in her companion space. She didn't know which world kept it. She was thinking of finding a small gift to give to Ming Xun as a reward for playing with her, so she found this music box.
In this dynasty, there were many blond and blue-eyed Western merchants at the coastal ports. They brought novel goods from their own countries that were completely different from our own to sell, including original clocks, kaleidoscopes, small mirrors, etc., so in ancient times Chu didn't worry at all that he would be suspected if he took out a music box.
After hearing what she said, Mingxun was very disappointed, but still refused to give up: "Then did he say when he would come again?"
"No." Gu Shichu shook his head, "But I will help you pay attention. If he comes again, buy another music box from him."
"That's great! No matter how much it costs, you can buy it for me." Mingxun suddenly became happy.
When I first saw that he liked that music box so much, I thought I would find an excuse to take one out of the space and give it to him after a few months, so that he would not have to think about it all the time.
"Get out of here if nothing happens." Gu Shichu kicked him and said, "Don't come to me all the time. Although I don't care about the secular rules and red tape, I don't want you to visit me like you're visiting the back garden. This yard.”
"Hey, don't I treat you as one of my own?" Mingxun said as shamelessly as a city wall, "By the way, why don't you just marry me, so that you and I can continue to eat, drink and have fun together in the future. If Marry someone else and you just wouldn’t be as free as you are now.”
When Gu Shichu heard this, he looked at him in surprise: "Are you serious? You're not joking?"
"Of course, to be honest, I have mentioned to my mother several times that I want to marry you. Unfortunately, my mother has too many opinions on your cousin. She thinks that there is something wrong with the character of the girl in your family, and she doesn't agree with me marrying you. Let’s get involved again.” Mingxun frowned and said unhappily.
