prosperous age

Chapter 37 Chapter 37
The horse team entered the city, turned around and quickly entered a big house.

After everyone got out of the car, Wei Guangde followed his parents, elder brother and uncle into a courtyard.

At the gate of the courtyard, two well-dressed middle-aged men were waiting there. Hearing his uncle's pleasantries with them, Wei Guangde knew that these two were Zhang Shigui and Zhang Fugui, the sons of Zhang Qing, the commander of the Jiujiang Guard.

They are Wu Dong's uncles. After Wu Dong met Li, Wei Wencai and Wei Guangde followed closely and called "Uncle".

"Okay, Wu Shuang's son, hey, he's a good-looking talent."

Zhang Shigui looked at the two brothers who came forward to greet him, and patted their shoulders kindly, showing enthusiasm.

Then he smiled at Wei Meng: "Brother Wei is so lucky, the two sons are a dragon and a tiger, you just wait to enjoy the blessing."

"By the way, Brother Wei, is your boss's marriage settled yet?"

At this time, Zhang Fugui on the side also stepped forward and said: "Before I just heard Zhankui mention that his two nephews are good. I just saw him today. As far as the young man's appearance is concerned, he is also first-class in Jiujiang Mansion. If there is no engagement , I’ll help you look back.”

"Fugui, Wencai has already made a marriage arrangement, she is Liu Qianhu's daughter."

Wu Zhankui spoke at this time.

"Liu Cheng? It's not bad. Although I haven't seen his daughter, but Liu Cheng's appearance, the daughter should also be pretty, so it's a good match."

Zhang Fugui said with a look of regret, as if it was a pity that he didn't become a matchmaker.

"Okay, everyone go in, dad is still waiting for you inside."

Then he said to the younger sister Wu Zhang who was next to him: "Go and kowtow to father first, and mother misses you very much from behind." '

As everyone entered the room, Mrs. Wu and Zhang took their daughter and son and kowtowed to Zhang Qing and Zhang Tongzhi. Wei Guangde stood at the back, watching a large group of people queuing up to salute, and took the time to look around the room.

Although the Wei family is an official of a hundred households, his uncle Wu Zhankui is also a real-time official of a thousand households, but after all, it is like that. Compared with this family, the family is really shabby.

It was dark, Wei Guangde didn't look carefully outside, but it was different in this room, there were many candles around to illuminate the room brightly.

The house has obviously been repaired years ago, the walls have been repainted, and the walls appear to be clean, and the doors and windows seem to have been repainted, making the whole house look like new. A trace of mottled can tell that this house is still an old house.

When Wei Guangde entered the room, he smelled a faint scent of sandalwood. It was the fragrance from the two copper furnaces on both sides of the lobby, and it made people feel very comfortable.

In the main hall where Zhang Tongzhi sat, there were two Taishi chairs. In the middle was a big Eight Immortals table, and at the bottom were neatly arranged chairs and coffee tables. I don’t know if they were made of red sandalwood or huanghuali. .

The position against the wall is also a small table at intervals, with potted plants placed on it.

The house does not contain all kinds of things that show wealth and honor, it is very simple and clean, and it reflects the way of life of the owner here.

In the end, it was the turn of the two brothers of the Wei family to follow their father to salute Zhang Tongzhi.

Wei Guangde didn't want to knock around, but it's like this in this era.

There was no other way, Wei Guangde followed his elder brother and others to kowtow to Zhang Tongzhi, who was his uncle's father-in-law, so naturally he was also an elder.

After saluting, Wei Guangde also retreated to the back. At this time, he also took a closer look at Zhang Tongzhi.

An old man in his 60s, dry, with deep wrinkles on his face, similar to those old men in the guard, but his skin looks fairer. After all, he is not often exposed to the sun and rain, so it may be better maintained.

The front was talking, and Wei Guangde was sitting near the door doing nothing.

A supporting role is always a supporting role. Wei Guangde sat below for a while, then saw his cousin coming from behind, saluted his grandfather and said, "Grandpa, grandma asked me to bring the Wei family brothers in to meet him."

"Then you take them there."

At this moment, Zhang Tongzhi was talking to Wu Zhankui and Wei Meng, and waved his hands indifferently.

So Wei Guangde went to the backyard with his cousin Wu Dong to salute Mrs. Zhang, and a boy from the Zhang family went with him. He probably saw that his grandfather and uncle were having a good chat outside, and he was fine. , I can only talk to the two brothers of the Wei family below, but they are not familiar with each other after all, and it is the first time I see them, so I just follow them into the house.

When Wei Guangde was in the outhouse before, he saw that the Zhang family seemed to have only one grandson, who looked younger than his elder brother Wei Wencai, about fifteen or sixteen, and his name was Zhang Hongfu.

Before, they just chatted casually outside, but now in the backyard, Wei Guangde noticed that the two brothers of the Zhang family seemed to be underpopulated.

My mother and aunt are sitting under the old lady at the moment, my two cousins ​​are tired of sitting beside the old lady, and there are two girls next to him, Wei Guangde blindly guessed that you should be a girl from the Zhang family.

In Mrs. Zhang's place, Wei Guangde only saw Zhang Hongfu's grandson, and the other two were granddaughters. It seemed that the fighting strength of these two brothers was only as good as that of his uncle, who had one son and two daughters.

In my impression, it seems that these two are already engaged, and they are both from the gentry families of Jiujiang Mansion.

After saluting, Wei Guangde watched and laughed with the people above, but now the main object was the elder brother Wei Wencai, who was talking about the marriage he had just arranged.

Well, the women in the backyard probably like to talk about these things.

Wei Guangde didn't have all his hair, so no one said anything about him, he just had fun, and sometimes he would say a few words.

After waiting for a while, the servants came to report that the banquet was ready.

Finally, I had a good meal. I didn't eat very good at my uncle's house this morning. There was no big fish or meat for breakfast. I just ate it on the boat for lunch, which was not very good.

Anyway, at this moment, he was regarded as Xiao Transparent, and Wei Guangde also enjoyed it, and just ate vegetables without wine below.

However, he was also listening to their conversation with his ears open, during which he also roughly learned something about the Zhang family, which was similar to what he had guessed blindly.

Zhang Shigui, the eldest of the Zhang family, has a son and a daughter, who are also planning to attack his post, so he followed his father Zhang Qing in the officialdom, and his son is Zhang Hongfu.

Brother Zhang Fugui has only one daughter, and he obviously has low energy, but he didn't study for the imperial examination, but went to do business, and also managed a lot of things in the Zhang family.

Although he is not in the officialdom, it seems that Zhang Fugui is more familiar with Jiujiang. After all, in business, he has to deal with three religions and nine streams, and the contact surface is even wider.

After the banquet, Wei Guangde and the others were taken to the wing room to rest, while Wei's father was called to go to the study with Zhang Tongzhi and his uncle Wu Zhankui, and Zhang Shigui was also passing by.

(End of this chapter)