"Ye'er, go and call Mother Wu. I have something to ask her."
"Yes, girl."
Zhou Yu stood at the door and listened for a while without going in. After giving instructions to Ye'er, he went to the backyard.
After a while, Wu followed Ye'er.
When Mrs. Wu arrived in front of Zhou Yu, she first bowed to Zhou Yu.
"girl."
"sit."
Knowing Zhou Yu's temperament, Wu didn't refuse and sat down on the stone bench next to her.
"Wu Ma, you have been in Kyoto for a long time. Do you know about the Fang family?"
"Returning to the girl, the Fang family slaves know that Fang heard that this man is very good at studying. In ten years, he went from being a Jinshi to the position of the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Industry. Today, the matchmaker came to say that he is his legitimate second daughter, named Fangman.”
There were too many people serving as officials in the court, and the Wu family couldn't remember them all. She only knew this about the Fang family.
Hearing that the youngest daughter of the Fang family was called Fang Man, Zhou Yu thought of the voice of Man'er he heard in Cao Ge's old mansion. Even without thinking, he could guess that the woman who was in the rockery that day was this. There is no doubt that she is a young lady from the Fang family.
But this was just her guess, and Zhou Yu didn't want to wrongly accuse anyone.
Knowing what she wanted to know, Zhou Yu asked Wu to go back to the main room to wait on her.
Afterwards, Zhou Yu asked Ye'er to find Wu Lang, and then asked Wu Lang to inquire about the Fang family.
After listening to Zhou Yu's instructions, Wu Lang rode to Kyoto City and inquired around Fang Mansion. He did not return to Jinjia Village until sunset.
The matchmaker praised the girl from the Fang family all over in front of Mrs. Lian, but Mrs. Lian only said that she should consider it, but did not give any definite words.
If the other party agrees immediately when visiting the house for the first time, it must have been agreed upon by the two families before. Like the Fang family and the county prince's palace, which were not informed, it is reasonable to say that they should consider it. The matchmaker didn't think too much about it. I went back to Fang Mansion and told him that he planned to come back in a few days.
Zhou Yan was not at home today, and he didn't know about the matchmaker's visit until he got home. By the time he got home, it was already dark, and Wu Lang just happened to come back. Zhou Yu directly asked Wu Lang to tell him in front of the whole family. He told what he found out today.
"The girl's guess is correct. Fang Man's cousin did propose marriage to Fang Mansion two days ago, but the marriage was rejected by Fang Mansion."
Zhou Yu asked Wu Lang to go to Kyoto City to inquire about this matter. As long as this matter was confirmed, it would have nothing to do with the Fang family's daughter.
After hearing Wu Lang's words, the three members of the family were a little confused and all looked at Zhou Yu. Zhou Yu no longer kept anything secret and told the three of them the conversation he heard when he went to Cao Mansion for a banquet that day.
Except for Zhou Yan, the client who didn't feel anything, both the couple were very angry. You must know that in ancient times, a woman's reputation was extremely important. The girl from the Fang family had a private meeting with a foreign man in the Cao Mansion, even though the man was her cousin. .
But if this matter spreads, her reputation in this life will be ruined. Apart from marrying his cousin, the only option is to twist her hair and become a sister-in-law in the temple.
But the couple was still kind-hearted. They knew the seriousness of the matter. Although they were angry with Fang's family, they had no intention of spreading the news about the girl's secret meeting with her foreign man.
"Brother Yan, just pretend this never happened."
"I know, mother."
Alas, I don’t know when my son will find a wife.
In fact, according to Lian's own ideas, she still likes to find a girl from the village as her daughter-in-law, but she also knows that this idea is unrealistic.
It's not that she doesn't like those wealthy ladies, it's just that they are all eldest ladies who don't have a finger in love, and she's afraid that when they come, the two sides of the family have different habits, and conflicts will arise.
She had suffered enough from her mother-in-law before, so she thought that if her son married a daughter-in-law, she would treat her well no matter what. Naturally, she wanted her son to marry someone with similar habits to hers, so that the conflict between the two would disappear. lesser.
Just like that, the whole family went back to their rooms after dinner.
A few days later, the matchmaker came to the door, but before the matchmaker could finish her words, Mrs. Lian interrupted her.
"The girl from the Fang family is good, but she is a little younger. She is only fifteen years old this year, and my son is already twenty-one. The age difference between the two is too big to be suitable. If you have a girl from another family, I You can take a look, forget about the Fang girl."
After being a matchmaker for so many years, you can tell it just by listening to your tone. Whether this family did it intentionally or unintentionally, knowing that the county prince's palace did not want the girl from the Fang family, the matchmaker was not angry. Anyway, the most important thing in her hands was the girl.
Let alone the girl from the Fang family, he took out a booklet from his sleeve and opened it from the middle. All the pictures on it were the girl's profile.
Page after page, I introduced the girl from the family above to Ms. Lian, seven or eight of them in a row.
However, these girls all have one thing in common, that is, their fathers and brothers do not have high official positions at home, and most of them are county magistrates.
Mrs. Lian didn't care so much about family status, but she felt that her son was the best, but none of the girls' families looked down on her son. Mrs. Lian looked at the girls from several families and was not interested.
The matchmaker knew that Mrs. Lian did not like these girls, but it was difficult for her. You must know that the reputation of Anping County Prince's Palace in Kyoto City is not good now, and only people like the Fang family who are good at studying would want to follow her. When it comes to getting married in the Anping County Prince's Palace, any family with a little bit of respect would not deign to marry their daughter to the prince of the County Prince's Palace. What can she do?
He knew that today's trip was in vain, but what surprised him was that when leaving, Mrs. Lian actually had someone give her a purse.
When she got out of the county prince's house and opened it, she saw that there were ten taels of silver ingots in the purse. The matchmaker was still a little unhappy, but she was put off by the ten taels of silver.
The Fang family asked a matchmaker to come to Jinjia Village to marry their daughter. This matter was originally done secretly, but somehow it spread in Kyoto City.
Fang Wen would always be greeted by his colleagues when he was on duty during this period. He could certainly hear the sarcasm in those words.
The same goes for Mrs. Fang. When she went to Beppu for a banquet, the same lady from Beppu used words to tease her. As time went by, the couple couldn't bear it and they thought of a trick.
It was revealed to the outside world that it was Zhou Yan who fell in love with his youngest daughter, so he asked the matchmaker to come to his house to arrange a marriage. However, his family did not agree. It was not that his family asked the matchmaker to go to the county prince's palace to arrange a marriage for their youngest daughter.
The two versions spread in the city of Kyoto, and in the end the Fang family's words trumped the previous rumors. Zhou Yan's reputation was only average before, but now it is indeed worse.
Although Zhou Yu was studying the rice transplanter at home during this period, she still asked Ye'er to pay attention to the rumors outside, saying that she was fine and that her elder brother was okay!
Moreover, Zhou Yu knew that the most ferocious rumors were from the maids in the girl's courtyard of the Fang family. Zhou Yu could still bear it now and planned to let it go, but she didn't expect that there were people who didn't want to be a good person. She couldn't blame her. .
