Women Wearing Men: The Growth Path of the Bastards of the Aristocratic Family

Sitting down on the chair in front of Cheng Yan, Gu Yunji poured himself a cup of tea, and asked leisurely:

"Recently, there are many nobles in Beijing who want to marry you. The matchmakers almost broke the threshold of your family, but you didn't agree to any of them. Some people are not reconciled, and they begged me to come here and want to ask you What kind of woman do you like, let you tell me, so they can go back and look for it."

"It's better to go back and look for it? Heh." Cheng Yan sneered, "Listen to what they mean, if I tell you, they really want to send a woman who meets the requirements? They keep talking about their daughter like an object. , thanks to them doing it.”

Gu Yunji said: "Some of them fished in troubled waters, but there were also many good families who were sincerely married. I heard that even His Majesty's uncle, the King of Lin'an, intends to recruit you as his son-in-law. His daughter is the princess. You don't know that." tempted?"

Cheng Yan didn't think so: "The royal family of my dynasty loves to marry a new Jinshi who comes from a poor background like me. One is that the foundation is shallow and easy to deal with, and the other is that there is no one to rely on in Beijing, so they can only listen to Yue's family. If I really choose If I become King Lin'an, I'm afraid I'll be restrained for the rest of my life, and I won't be able to be free."

Gu Yunji asked: "What about the family of a rookie in the imperial examination like you? He doesn't have a prominent family background like a prince, nor is he an important member of the court with real power, but the advantage is that he is in the same family as you, and won't put too much pressure on you. In the future, in the DPRK and China, we can help each other and rely on each other."

Cheng Yan poured the remaining cold wine on the banquet table, and took a sip leisurely: "It's hard for me to move forward in the court without root and foundation. If there is another one, I'm afraid they won't rely on each other, but will be suppressed together. Squeeze it out."

Gu Yunji was not discouraged, and asked again: "The head office of an ordinary family with a scholarly family, right? After several generations of imperial examinations, while accumulating some background, they will not be arrogant and domineering. Most of the daughters they raise are also well-educated. Li, isn't it just right for you?"

"It's not good at all." Cheng Yan ruthlessly rejected this choice, "This kind of scholarly family is the most traditional and respectful, so you won't betroth your daughter to a person whose parents have both died, let's forget it .”

Gu Yunji raised his eyebrows: "This is not okay, that is not okay, what do you want?"

Cheng Yan looked calm, took a sip of wine unhurriedly, and did not reply.

Seeing Cheng Yan's calm and calm look, Gu Yunji sized him up a few times, with a strange expression on his face: "While picking and choosing, but at the same time refusing to say what kind of one I like, Cheng Yan, you can't be... right?"

Cheng Yan raised his eyelids lightly, and took a light look at him: "If I have someone in my heart, I'll just come to ask for a kiss. Is there any need to talk nonsense with you? Besides, we stay together almost every day. When will you see each other?" What kind of strange woman have I met?"

"That's true." Gu Yunji listened to the truth, and a wave of anxiety surged up in his heart, "Then you tell me what you plan to do? Your parents are not here, and you don't think about life-long events, so you only have me as your friend." I'm here to think about you, you can't just keep procrastinating like this, can you?"

Facing Gu Yunji's burning eyes expecting an answer, Cheng Yan acted as if he hadn't seen it, and slowly picked up the wine glass to sip, as if savoring carefully.

"Oh, drinking is bad for your health. What kind of wine should you drink in the afternoon?"

Gu Yunji was impatient with his slow look, so he simply grabbed his wine glass, forcing him to face up to his question: "I asked you something, but you said it!"

Cheng Yan looked helpless: "You are a young man who is in the prime of his life, how come you have learned to be old-fashioned at a young age, and your mother-in-law is constantly worrying about you?"

Gu Yunji said unhappily: "Isn't it for you? You are not in a hurry for your own life-long affairs, but you want me to do it for you. How dare you say so?"

Can Gu Yunji not be in a hurry?In the past, he and Cheng Yan went in and out at the same time, both of their hearts were on the imperial examination, and there was no big difference.Now that the imperial examinations are over, Gu Yunji is reunited with his family, and will marry Xu Shuhua soon, the family is happy and happy.

On the other hand, Cheng Yan's parents passed away, and he had no brothers or sisters, so the house was deserted from morning till night.Under such circumstances, he even disliked interacting with outsiders more and more, and seemed to sink himself into solitude, which made Gu Yunji feel distressed and worried.

Compared to Gu Yunji's anxiety, Cheng Yan seemed calm and unhurried: "You also said that marriage is a lifelong event, so naturally one should be extremely cautious. How can you find a random woman and get married? Besides, I am not very old now, You know your cousin Gu Mingxuan was only married at the age of 24, why am I so anxious?"

Gu Yunji's eyes showed surprise: "Why, what you mean... are you still a late marriage advocate?"

Hearing this somewhat novel word, Cheng Yan raised his eyebrows: "It's not that I have to delay the marriage, I just want to wait a little longer and take a look."

As he spoke, he let out a long sigh: "For a woman, marriage is a choice for the rest of her life, but for a man, why is it not an important choice in life? If you choose a wife poorly, it can range from being incompatible with each other, to serious problems in the house. .Although I, as a man, can have many women in this life, but it is not what I want to put my love in a concubine's room."

"A young married couple should spend their whole life together hand in hand, and the relationship should be the deepest. My future wife doesn't have to be born in a prominent family, nor does she have to be outstanding in talent and appearance. I just hope that she can be like-minded and understand each other. It means—not looking for rich families and embroidered households, but looking for people who know the heart.”

Gu Yunji was silent, and then asked: "Then who is your confidant?"

Cheng Yan answered neatly: "I don't know. I'm still looking, still waiting."

"After a few more years, if I really can't find it, maybe I will make a compromise and find a woman of the right family to marry. Of course, I may not give up, and I would rather be alone for the rest of my life than give up."

Gu Yunji did not expect Cheng Yan, who has always been quiet and introverted, to have such persistence in the matter of marriage. For a while, his heart was complicated, and he didn't know what to say.

After being silent for a long while, I finally couldn't help but said: "Since this is the case, you should open yourself up and communicate with others more. During this period of time, I was busy proposing marriages and hiring, and I didn't care about you, so you just bored yourself all day At home, you don’t go out without seeing guests. If you don’t know more about people and things, can those people who know you know take the initiative to come to you?”

"Well, I know, you don't have to worry about me so much." Cheng Yan said casually, stood up from the chair, "Since sitting for a long time, my body is very stiff, I'm going out for a stroll."

Seeing that Gu Yunji was about to follow, Cheng Yan pushed him back: "Didn't you see that Miss Xu and your sister are walking this way while admiring the flowers? They will walk in front of you in a while, and you are here Waiting for them, after staying with me for so long, at least I have to have a word with your fiancée, right?"

As he spoke, Cheng Yan raised his head and glanced at the two of them. After staying on Gu Yunqiao for a moment, he quickly withdrew his gaze, turned and left.