All the ancestors in the capital begged me to be a substitute

Chapter 305

After listening to Liu Meiren's words, Shen Lingxi put on a disguise and left the East Palace to go to the Yiyang Marquis Mansion to see the excitement.

Although the Li family of the Yiyang Marquis Mansion is not a prominent family, it is still a large family that has been standing since the previous dynasty.

The Hou Mansion is located in Jin'anfang, which is closest to Xuandemen.

It is only a quarter of an hour's journey from the East Palace to Jin'anfang.

Shen Lingxi arrived in a carriage and saw a lot of people gathered in front of the Yiyang Hou Mansion from a distance.

When Liu Meiren saw this, her eyes excitedly drifted closer.

Shen Lingxi also got off the carriage, and as he approached, he saw Yun Chong, who had been dressed up in disguise, being thrown out of the house by two servants of the Li family.

Also thrown out were the matchmaker brought by Yun Chong and the boy carrying the gift.

Finally, someone threw him out of the door together with the Na Cai Li he had brought.

The betrothal gifts were scattered all over the floor. At first glance, there was no shortage of three animals and four fruits, wedding sweets and seafood, tea, rice and wedding cakes, dragon and phoenix wedding bracelets, gold decorations and golden betrothal gold ingots.

Saying less is worth a thousand taels of silver.

These betrothal gifts are more than enough to serve as a formal marriage proposal to an ordinary official's family.

But now, it is just a meeting gift for the first time to propose marriage, and it has such weight.

It can be seen that the person seeking marriage is very sincere.

A man who looked like the housekeeper of the Hou Mansion walked out of the door and spat at Yun Chong.

"Bah! You're just an incense dealer, but you dare to miss our aunt. If you dare to come to the door again, you will be broken!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone onlookers were shocked.

"Hey! It's my first time to propose marriage. It's such a heavy gift. I thought the person I wanted to marry was the unmarried daughter of the Li family, but I didn't expect that it was the aunt who had just been abandoned by the Zhenguo government."

"What's so special about a concubine who made a mistake in her husband's family that she could get such a good marriage for nothing so quickly?"

"What a kiss. I don't see that the Marquis Mansion doesn't like her. I've thrown out all the gifts."

"Hey... the man who came to propose marriage has a handsome appearance. You can tell from his clothes and gestures that his family must be very well-off. After all, Mrs. Li is a concubine who made mistakes. Even the Li family looks down on such a good marriage. , Marquis Yiyang wants his sister to remarry to some high-ranking family..."

For a while, everyone was talking about it.

Shen Lingxi, who was standing in the crowd watching the excitement, also raised his eyebrows.

She originally thought that the matter of door-to-door employment was a private discussion between Yun Chong and Li, and it was just a formality.

Unexpectedly, Yun Chong came to hit a snag.

Shen Lingxi originally thought that with Yun Chongxin's proud and arrogant temperament, he would not be able to withstand such an insult.

Unexpectedly, Yun Chong just stood up with a smile, patted the dust on his clothes, and bowed his hands to the housekeeper: "Master, please calm down. As the saying goes, gentlemen are so jealous. On the way to Beijing a few days ago, I had a chance meeting with Lady Li. As a fellow traveler, I admired Mrs. Li’s virtuoso style and came to ask for her hand in marriage.”

"I also ask the court official to tell you that I live in Heming Tower. The Marquis refused to allow this marriage, so I will come here every day until Madam Li personally comes forward and refuses."

After saying that, he bowed to him again with dignity, stopped pestering him, turned around and walked out of the workshop.

The boy who was carrying the gift pole earlier seemed to have been instructed by him in advance, and he also lowered his head and followed him out.

The three masters and servants didn't even want the betrothal gifts on the ground.

The matchmaker jumped up from the ground and shouted anxiously towards Yun Chong's back: "Yuan Wai Lang, you have to take these gifts back with you, won't you be coming tomorrow..."

Yun Chong didn't look back, he just waved his hand and said loudly: "I came here to ask for Madam Li's hand in marriage. If Madam Li doesn't accept these things, she must not like them very much. Things that Madam Li doesn't like, for me, they are not worth mentioning. It’s not very interesting, so I don’t want it anymore.”

After that, he boarded the carriage and left without looking back.

The matchmaker had never seen such an idiot in her life. She secretly cursed "fool" and hurriedly knelt down to pick up the most valuable gold.

Liu Meiren floated beside Shen Lingxi, looked at Yun Chong's back, and said, "I thought he was just a idiot, but I didn't expect that his ability to coax women is exactly the same as that of his dead uncle Yun Hongshan. He After such a performance, Li knew that he must have become more and more devoted to him."

Shen Lingxi had probably guessed what Yun Chong wanted to do, and with a hint of ridicule on his lips, he whispered: "The men of the Yun family have always been better than others when it comes to cheating women... It seems that Yun Chong has already thought of a way to escape. It doesn’t matter if the law is over, let’s just watch the show.”

Liu Meiren raised her eyebrows and was about to ask her what she meant——

Suddenly, a shout came from the crowd, "What are you doing here in a daze? If the rightful owner doesn't want something, the one who sees it naturally has a share. Grab it quickly! Don't let that matchmaker take all the good things."

There were at least a hundred people watching on the scene. When they heard this, they immediately reacted.

Under the inducement of huge sums of money, the scene instantly began to riot, and people rushed forward like they were desperate for their lives.

The matchmaker was also pushed to the ground, and the gold ingots and gold jewelry in her arms fell to the ground again.

"It's mine, mine!"

"Fuck you, whoever picks it up belongs to him!"

"Jin Yuanbao, this is real gold! Ouch! Just this one ingot is enough for me to eat and drink for several years! I am really lucky today!"

"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious, you can't get it today, but there will be more tomorrow!"

"Oh my God, is this foreign man an infatuated man, or is he someone who has been taken advantage of? Did you hear that he's still coming after he said it?"

"Bah, bah, bah, what kind of infatuated person is taking advantage of you? Can you speak! This grandpa will be our food, clothing, and parents in the future!"

A group of people were fighting and arguing, and some of them fought over the gold cakes. The shouting, cursing, and crying made people's eardrums hurt.

Shen Lingxi did not expect such a change to happen. She was originally mixed in the crowd, but now the crowd suddenly became chaotic, and she could only passively be pushed and squeezed here and there in the crowd.

"Go this way, there are fewer people here." Liu Meiren was floating in the air, anxiously giving her directions.

Shen Lingxi couldn't break through the encirclement many times, her eyes darkened, and she was about to take action. She pushed her arms with a few hands, taking the opportunity to break open and get out——

"Oh my god."

Liu Meiren seemed to have noticed something, and suddenly she screamed and hurriedly retreated.

When Shen Lingxi saw this, she was filled with doubts. Suddenly, she felt a slight tug.

Before Shang could react, a strong arm pulled him into a strong and warm embrace.

A wisp of the familiar fresh soapy scent hit the tip of Shen Lingxi's nose, making her tense nerves suddenly relax.

It's Chu Yan.

She relaxed her arms around his waist and let him protect her, pushing her way out among the pushing crowd.

After about two cups of tea, the two finally squeezed out from the crowd.

At the same time, the servants of the government office and the servants of Yiyang Houfu also came one after another to separate the rioting crowd.

In just a short time, the front door of the Hou Mansion was already in a mess, and the betrothal gifts that were originally scattered on the ground had already been snatched up.

Many people were pushed to the ground during the riots and trampled on by the crowd. They lay on the ground screaming in pain.And the matchmaker who had been picking up things at the front from the beginning was already lying on the ground, blood dripping from her head, and she fainted.

Chunjun was already driving a carriage, waiting at the corner of the street.

Chu Yan took Shen Lingxi to the carriage, looked at her from head to toe with concern, and asked urgently: "How are you? Are you injured?"

"I'm fine." Shen Lingxi knew that he was always nervous about herself. She raised her head and tried to comfort him with a smile -

It wasn't until this moment that she realized that he had changed his appearance for the first time today, changing into the way he had been when he was disguised as a guard.

It just so happened that the two of them had changed their appearance.

"Why would His Highness appear here dressed like this?" Shen Lingxi asked doubtfully.

Chu Yan pursed her thin lips slightly, lowered her eyelashes slightly, and looked at her with deep eyes.

"I just saw you leaving the palace. Nothing happened, so I came out with you to have a look... Why didn't you call me? Are you afraid that I would hold you back?"

Although his tone was as cold as ever, you could hear the last few words being said almost through gritted teeth.

It can be seen that the last "delay" incident still left an indelible shadow in his heart.

Shen Lingxi smiled coquettishly, "It's really not happening this time. I just came out to watch the excitement."

After saying this, she felt something was wrong again and raised her almond-shaped eyes to look at him doubtfully, "Didn't Chunjun say that you were going to the palace to meet the saint today? How could you be so free?"

Chu Yan coughed and avoided her eyes, "He remembered it wrong."

Chunjun, who was driving a carriage outside, curled his lips when he heard this.

Apparently halfway through, he heard that the Crown Princess was leaving the palace in disguise, so he found an excuse to let the Emperor's pigeons go, quickly turned back, and followed her out in disguise.

I'm too embarrassed to say.

Chunjun shook his head.

Damn, man, there's nothing shameful about being clingy.

Naturally, Chu Yan couldn't hear Chunjun's inner slander. Seeing that Shen Lingxi was doubtful, he quickly changed the subject, "Yun Chong wanted to make a fuss today. What did he want to do? He planned to make Li Shi and Li Xiangyang quarrel, dog bite dog?" But Mrs. Li doesn’t look like she knows too much inside information.”

Hearing this, Shen Lingxi said meaningfully, "Dog-eating-dog is one of them. His purpose may not end there. Since His Highness is leaving the palace dressed like this, we might as well continue to watch the excitement."

As she spoke, she said to Chunjun outside the carriage: "Go to Heming Tower."

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As expected by Shen Lingxi, Yun Chong told the housekeeper of the Li Mansion in public that he lived in Heming Building, and that the "liveliness" in Heming Building was only a lot more lively than the one in front of the Li Mansion.

As soon as Shen Lingxi and Chu Yan entered Heming Tower, they saw that the hall was full of people.

The shopkeeper of Heming Tower personally stood on the stage in the middle of the hall, ordered someone to bring out a tray full of gold ingots, and said to everyone: "This is Zhao Yuanwai from Suzhou. He is offering a reward of one hundred taels of gold. Guangzheng A marriage proposal that can touch a woman's heart, as long as it can help Zhao Yuanwai succeed in his marriage proposal and bring his beloved daughter home, all the gold will be yours."

As soon as this statement came out, the crowd immediately became excited.

"A hundred taels of gold, just to buy an idea that will lead to a successful marriage proposal. What kind of genius is this, that he is worth such a huge sum of money?"

Since people in the crowd ask questions, there will naturally be good people who answer.

So, after just a cup of tea, the news that this "Zhao Yuanwai" came to the house to ask for marriage to Yiyang Hou's sister Li, but was kicked out of the house, immediately spread among the crowd.

The world is most interested in these gossips between men and women.

A well-dressed official spent a lot of money to marry a concubine who had made a mistake.

Even though the woman is the legitimate daughter of a noble family, the man is just a merchant, so there is a huge difference in status.

But in this case, it is also a marriage that everyone calls "elegant".

Shen Lingxi and Chu Yan looked at the people in the hall through the beaded curtain in the elegant room. They scratched their heads and made suggestions for Yun Chong, wrote down the gift list, and participated in the reward for the 100 taels of gold.

It was rare for Heming Tower to be bustling like this. The shopkeeper specially ordered someone to read out the gift list one by one.

Yun Chong was sitting in the private room opposite them. He was not idle from beginning to end. He kept sending people to take down gift lists that he was interested in and went out to buy them.

In less than half a day, the huge lobby of Heming Tower was filled with all kinds of strange and bizarre gifts.

At the same time, the news that this "Zhao Yuanwai" "only asked for a marriage but failed, and did not take away the betrothal gift and allowed others to rob her," also spread like wildfire.

Therefore, the people who came to watch the excitement surrounded Heming Tower tightly on three floors inside and three outside.

As night fell, Shen Lingxi and Chu Yan wanted to leave Heming Tower, but they had to take advantage of the darkness to use light skills to fly over the eaves and walk over the walls.

In the streets and alleys of the capital, everyone is discussing the infatuated "Zhao Yuanwai" who spent all his money on a mere cousin.

And Li Xiaoqing, who was not famous even after being divorced, became famous in the capital because of this incident.

People will even discuss why she was abandoned by her husband's family.

But what’s even more curious is——

How stunning was she that she could attract a man to be so devoted and infatuated with her.

So early the next morning, Yun Chong invited a new matchmaker to come to the door with the betrothal gifts.

The entire Jin'anfang was densely surrounded by tens of thousands of people.

Of course, there are people among them who want to verify their own strategies for the sake of the 100 taels of gold.

More often than not, there are people who are waiting for "Zhao Yuanwai" to propose marriage but fail and grab the bride price.

This matter is really too big, and there are lessons learned from yesterday.

The prefect came to the house overnight to persuade Li Xiangyang, the Marquis of Yiyang, and tried to find a way to calm the matter, but Li Xiangyang kicked him out of the Marquis' mansion.

In desperation, the prefect had no choice but to send yamen to maintain order.

In full view of everyone, Yun Chong asked the matchmaker to come forward and knocked on the door, "I would like to ask the court official to inform you that Zhao Longzhao of Changzhou is asking to marry Mrs. Li of your mansion..."

The matchmaker shouted twice like this, but the door of the house didn't move at all.

It must be that the Yiyang Marquis Mansion was determined to pretend to be dead and the door was tightly closed, with a "you come as you please, we will never open the door" posture.

The anxious people who were watching spontaneously shouted in unison on her behalf, "Please let me know, Mr. Zhao Long from Changzhou, Mr. Zhao, is asking to marry Mrs. Li of your house..."

The sound was deafening, and even the rubble on the eaves of the Yiyang Hou Mansion was shaken so hard that dust began to fall.

When the matchmaker calls, the Yiyang Hou Mansion can certainly ignore it.

But with so many people shouting at the door in unison, Marquis Yiyang could not continue to pretend to be dead.

After a dozen or so sounds——

With a "squeak", the door of the mansion suddenly opened from the inside, and the manager of the Li mansion who kicked Yun Chong out of the mansion yesterday walked out of the door...

(End of this chapter)