She is different from the empress in the history books

Chapter 138 Meeting 1
Zhu Sanlang was accidentally discovered by Pei Peng's ability to be eloquent and careful observation. Since then, he has changed from a reserve cook in a restaurant to a person who helps Pei Peng.

Although the chefs in the restaurant also work for Pei Peng to earn money, this job is not the other job. Is it the same level as being ordered by Pei Peng and being ordered by my own grandfather?Therefore, Zhu Sanlang's family still feels that he is too rich.

Zhu Sanlang knew that Xu Zhao had already conveyed Her Royal Highness the Princess's intention to his parents, so the purpose of being arranged to accompany him was to witness whether the fourth brother-in-law of the Xu family really held Xu Zhao's marriage in their hands.

The purpose of Pei Peng's asking him to come is to confirm the real attitude of the fourth wife of the Xu family and Xu Zhao's intentions.

Being assigned such an important task, even though there were other people as supplements, Zhu Sanlang still knelt down and sat down conscientiously, listening to everything and seeing all directions, trying to keep all the process of the meeting firmly in his mind.

And a little further up, the family of three who are sitting opposite each other in turn, except for a polite chat with Zhu Sanlang because of his status as the master at the beginning, they have not paid attention to such an accompanying guest since then
The gentleman who owns the ancestral academy is surnamed Qi Mingxuan. He is not only the dean of his own academy, but also the poetry teacher of the academy.His wife's name is Peng Ying, who is the calligraphy teacher of the academy.His eldest daughter is named Qi Fei, and she did not work in the academy. After all, she is still a young lady, and it is not easy to teach the young man who is full of blood, not to mention that her attainments are indeed not enough to teach her peers, so , her students are the younger siblings in the family, including two brothers and a sister, six cousins ​​and eight cousins, as well as three puppies raised by herself, and two small fishes raised by her own sister.

In short, this family of three can be regarded as a cross-species family.

The fourth Mrs. Xu was interested in Qi Fei's teaching experience - for a very utilitarian purpose, such a little lady who can teach children will be able to raise her children well.

Mrs. Xu Si said to her mother in this way:

"Mom, I can finally see it clearly. No matter how shrewd and calculating a parent is, no matter how capable and capable of taking charge, if they cannot educate their children well, they will really suffer in their old age. Look at my mother-in-law, the eldest son and the second son , the third son...that is, our Shiro can see a little bit, but unfortunately he is at the bottom and can't manage much after all."

It was to her own mother that she dared to satirize her mother-in-law so harshly, but she was still lightly slapped on the mouth by the old lady of the Qin family.

However, the old lady of the Qin family also remembered it in her heart, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt that this was indeed the case.Therefore, although she felt that it was unreasonable for her daughter to bypass Xu's family and decide on her grandson's marriage, she still agreed to help her, thinking it was for the sake of her daughter's retirement.

The Xu family is one of the top local families, and there is also a princess getting married. Qi Fei was approached by such a marriage, even if she didn't know what the hero looked like, she would inevitably feel a bit flattered.

Because of this marriage, the second aunt and the third aunt in the always harmonious family were also a little envious and regretful that their own daughter could not live up to such a good marriage.

The family's attitude change was like a basin of warm water being poured down on her. Although it did not completely extinguish the desire and excitement in Qi Fei's heart, it also cooled her down a bit.

For more than ten years, she has been living a life that her parents respected, the house is enough to live in, the food is seventy percent full, and the clothes are enough to keep warm, but there is always one book in the study. Attitude, to sum up, is that spiritual enjoyment is far greater than material enjoyment, and the desire for knowledge exceeds the pursuit of fame and fortune.

And this marriage seemed to turn her contented life upside down.

When the news came back from the Xu family that the patriarch arranged for Xu Zhao's marriage, Qi Fei became more sober. Could it be that she was going to be involved in such a family strife?Obviously she hasn't been involved yet, so don't go any further.

The Qi family couple also had the same attitude.

Peng Ying did not set her sights on this marriage for her daughter from the beginning because of the Xu family, nor was she interested in taking advantage of Pei Peng. This is not entirely accurate. In fact, she admired Pei Peng very much.

Nowadays, there are women who are good at books, piano, and sword dancing. Among them, the famous ones will also accept apprentices, but they usually accept a few apprentices, most of them are girls, or one or two relatives and friends. boy.

And Peng Ying dares to directly teach men who are about to reach the crown or have already reached the crown in the academy, no doubt they have a bolder and braver desire and ambition to show themselves.

It's just that this kind of desire and ambition is concealed under layers of armor: filial daughter-in-law, virtuous wife, good mother... so that everyone thinks that she accepts this kind of acceptance for the sake of her husband's academy. Arrangement of disputes.

For Peng Ying like this, how could Pei Peng not let her appreciate it.

In fact, she still admired Pei Rong very much. When many princesses depended on marriage to increase bargaining chips for their brothers of the same mother, Pei Rong directly participated in the activities of forming a team to win over various forces.

It's a pity that Pei Rong later fell into the misguided pursuit of revenge for his brother. He didn't even think about how to get more things back for himself, but thought about taking revenge with the only things he had. This made Peng Ying feel regretful.

Therefore, Peng Ying thinks this marriage is good because of a very simple inference: Pei Peng is a very good person, so people who appreciate Pei Peng like her are open-minded people. Xu Zhao, who works beside Pei Peng, is undoubtedly If you appreciate Pei Peng's talents, then Xu Zhao is an enlightened person.

But this kind of inference is based on the recognition of Xu Zhao himself, so if there is trouble in the Xu family, this recognition is not enough for Peng Ying to agree to marry her daughter.

Therefore, the whole process of meeting and talking between the two families was in one kind: the Xu family enthusiastically held on to the topic of marriage and tried to get Xu Zhao to take Qi Fei to the garden for a stroll.Since the Qi family reached a preliminary intention with him before, it is not good to break the contract for no reason, so the topic has not been separated from the "rumor" circulating from the Xu family-the second master has already found a good marriage for Xu Zhao.

Xu Zhao was miserable. He had no concrete imagination about who his future wife would be. He was shy when it came to marriage because of some conventional understandings, such as starting a family and starting a business. With his wife, he entered a new stage of life; For example, he would talk about poetry and painting with his wife, be filial to his parents and raise children; another example would be a lamp in the middle of the night, a drunken bowl of soup...

Therefore, it doesn't actually matter whether this person is Qi Fei or someone else. What matters is her family, father and brother.

But when I actually met Qi Fei, and heard her not talking about clothes, jewellery, rouge and gouache, she just talked about how her puppy chased its tail in circles and how it begged for meat, Xu Zhao suddenly felt that it was so cute. ah……

Dogs are cute, and people are even cuter.

(End of this chapter)