Miss Song Qi was afraid that Miss Song Six would offend Miss Peng's family, so she hurriedly said, "My sister didn't mean that, she was just too surprised." Then she smiled wryly, "I don't know how the two sisters feel, anyway I was as surprised as my elder sister. Even though Ms. Yu is smart, the Pei family is too kind to Ms. Yu."
Like the Song family, the Peng family is a wealthy local family. I don’t know how many people want to flatter their family. Every year, many squires try their best to send their daughters to their house to play. They want to win their favor. She has a good reputation of being able to walk around in their house. After leaving the cabinet, she can talk to the aunts of the Peng and Song families, and catch up with the uncles of the Peng and Song families.
But whether it is the Peng family or the Song family, they all have a bit of contempt for the girls who are sent to them like this. No one can receive such courtesy from the Pei family like Yu Tang.
This made the ladies of Peng and Song couldn't help guessing whether Yu Tang had some unknown background or ability.
The ladies looked at me and I looked at you, but they didn't say anything for a long time.
Miss Song Jiaqi still winked, and tried to say: "Why don't we take a look first. Don't offend people and don't know. Anyway, if we go too far, at least the Pei family will lose face."
The two young ladies of the Peng family nodded repeatedly.
Miss Song Liu didn't give up, and said, "How about we ask Miss Gu? From the way I look at Miss Gu, it seems that I know Miss Yu very well."
After all, I still don't believe the results of the Peng family's investigation.
The two Ms. Peng were very unhappy, but they also knew that Ms. Song Jialiu was out of tune, so they said a few words to Ms. Song Jiaqi, "That's okay, ask more people, maybe you can find out something else." If so, get up and say goodbye.
Miss Song Qi knew that her elder sister had completely offended the Peng family, and she was a little annoyed, so she took her back to the wing room, made an excuse that she was going to pay her respects to the fourth wife of the Song family, and left her behind. Mrs. Song Si ran away alone.
However, Sixth Miss Song didn't realize it, and she talked about Yu Tang's matter with Mrs. Song Fourth, and said, "Could it be that the Yu family is related to someone else by marriage?"
Mrs. Song Si had already received the letter and knew what was discussed at Pei Yan during the day. She was worrying about the Song family needing a large sum of money to take care of Wang Qibao and Wei Sanfu. Impatiently, he sent Sixth Miss Song away, and began to discuss raising money with his close wife.
The old woman was also quite displeased with Miss Sixth Song, so she advised Mrs. Fourth Song: "If it's really not possible, marry Miss Sixth!"
There is an upstart who wants to marry the Song family and is willing to pay a large sum of dowry. It is impossible for the Song family to fancy such a family. But Sixth Miss Song is too capable of causing trouble. When the woman mentioned it at this time, Mrs. Song Si was a little moved, and said in a deep thought: "The Song family will not be reduced to the point where they want to sell their sons and daughters, but you are right, Mr. Six, if you stay here and there, I'm afraid it will cause disaster, so it's better to marry off as soon as possible."
That old woman spoke so hard in front of Mrs. Song Si because she was favored by the nouveau riche family. Now that she has obtained the letter and figured out Mrs. Song's intentions, she feels more and more that this matter may really be a coincidence. The ground became more and more energetic, and said: "The Song family has been neglected when they go out these years. Speaking of it, it has nothing to do with the young ladies in the family. Look at the young ladies of the Gu family and the Shen family. The ladies in our family are magnificent, but they are still respected? The wife needs to rectify, so as not to hinder the marriage of the men. "
This time Mrs. Song Si wanted to marry a girl from the Pei family for her son, and made a kiss, but Mr. Pei Lao'an explicitly rejected it. The Fourth Mrs. Song was on fire in her heart, how could she hear such words? Although she didn't say anything, she secretly made up her mind to go back and marry Miss Song Liu.
But in front of this woman, she still didn't express her position, and continued to talk about raising money: "I don't know when those two ships will be able to go to sea? Every day a large amount of money is poured into it, and I feel panicked when I look at it." Very much. That’s it, the Peng family still said it’s not enough, they need to build two more ships. I don’t think the Peng family wants to do business with our family, but they want to use this method to drag our family down. When we go to sea, our family can only listen to their family."
The woman can still say a few words about the affairs of the inner house, but when it comes to the common affairs of the outer courtyard, it is completely incomprehensible.
She didn't dare to speak, and laughed beside her.
On Pei Yan's side, there was a whole morning discussion, and at noon everyone went back to discuss with their staff for a long time. They had a preliminary charter in their minds. In the evening, everyone was going to get together again to determine the details of how to receive Wei Sanfu and how to visit Wang Qibao. down.
That is, how much money each family contributes and what requirements they have.
Gu Chang came to see Pei Yan ahead of time because of Gu Xi and Pei Tong's affairs, unexpectedly Tao Qing came earlier than him, Shen Shanyan also became Pei Yan's guest.
He couldn't hide his surprise.
Shen Shanyan smiled wryly, and said bluntly to Gu Chang: "I'm here for the Li family's affairs. Xia Guang promised to help, but I'm afraid things might change, so why are you forcing Xia Guang to write me a letter of recommendation?"
Even if Pei Yan agreed to help, he would not be able to go there in person, and he could only rely on Shen Shanyan to take care of the Li family.
Because of Gu Xi, Gu Chang didn't want to ask more about this matter, but Tao Qing didn't have any scruples, and asked Shen Shanyan curiously: "What are your plans?"
The implication is that Pei Yan will help them to achieve their goal.
Shen Shanyan knew that the Tao family had their own contacts and methods in the court, and hoped that the Tao family would help for Pei Yan's sake, so he spoke very directly, saying: "It is natural for Li Yi to do such a thing. I don't care about him. I just want to keep Li Duan's fame so that he can continue to take the imperial examination in the future."
This is a bit more difficult.
It's easy to keep his fame, but if Li Duan continues the imperial examination, he must go for an official career. A student who goes for an official career must have a good reputation. If he has a good reputation, there will be no criminals within three generations. It means that he cannot be dismissed from office in the name of corruption.
Gu Chang couldn't help looking at Pei Yan who was writing a letter.
Pei Yan's expression was calm, his posture was focused, and there was no trace of waves on his pearly face, obviously he knew Shen Shanyan's plan for a long time.
Inexplicably, he felt that Shen Shanyan's request was a little too much.
Gu Chang couldn't help but said: "Xia Guang, Dali Temple can't afford this matter, right?"
Pei Yan nodded slightly, deeply regretting in her heart.
If he had known this was the case, he shouldn't have agreed to Shen Shanyan in a moment of anger just to get angry with Yu Tang.
He is not usually so easily irritated.
If you want to blame, you have to blame Miss Yu.
Let him do something so contrary to his heart.
However, Shen Shanyan still wanted Li Duan to continue his official career, as if his eyes were covered with gum.
Others said that it was bad luck for him to marry Mrs. Shen, but now it seems that he and Mrs. Shen are a good couple.
However, he has a lot of ways to make Li Duan feel uncomfortable.
A thought flashed across his mind, and he suddenly stopped writing.
If Miss Yu knew that Li Duan would end up like this, she would be very happy, right
Why did he not leave a name for his good deeds
He had to tell Miss Yu about it.
Pei Yan thought about it, and happily decided to do so.
He replied to Gu Chang: "So I am going to write a letter to my mentor, asking him to come forward to see if I can preserve the reputation of the Li family."
Zhang Ying is just an official minister, but when he was the official minister, he supported many people. It is not just a matter of money to invite such people to help.
As for whether it can be done, it depends on Shen Shanyan's ability.
Shen Shanyan was very grateful, and said: "I said, why did you write the letter for so long, so there is still a letter to the boss. Xia Guang, I have written down your kindness. When Li Duan and the others come back from the capital, I will personally write the letter. I brought him here to thank you."
"You don't need to thank me." Pei Yan said with a sad face, "This is against my principles of life. If you really want to thank me, just don't tell others about it. I'm afraid others will know that I set up the Li family. Take the handle, and when the time comes, point at our Pei family's nose and scold us, so that our Pei family will not live in peace."
Shen Shanyan blushed, took Pei Yan's name card and letter and left Zhaoming Temple in a hurry.
Tao Qing looked down and laughed.
Gu Chang was puzzled.
Tao Qing didn't explain, but said: "Chaoyang came to Xia Guang so early, he must have something to tell Xia Guang. I've been sitting here for a long time, and I just got up and walked outside to exercise my muscles and bones. You can talk." , leave me alone." After finishing speaking, she got up and left the hall.
Pei Yan didn't know whether he was tired or at home, and habitually showed an arrogant attitude.
He sat there boldly, pointed to the grand master's chair at the bottom, and said, "Sit down and talk about it if you have anything to do!"
The kind of calmness and composure that knew everything in his heart made Gu Chang very uncomfortable for a while. He felt that he was not only a bit petty but also a bit narrow-minded when he repeatedly came to tell Pei Yan about Pei Tong.
He hesitated whether to talk about Pei Tong with Pei Yan again, Pei Yan was a little impatient - since he had lunch, he wanted to talk to him privately in one place or another. He said he was thirsty, and he really didn't have the heart to play the guessing game with Gu Chaoyang again.
"You came here for Pei Tong's business, right?" Pei Yan said straight to the point, "Do you know how old Pei Tong is now?"
Gu Chaoyang was stunned.
Pei Yan didn't wait for him to speak, and continued: "He is only eighteen years old this year. I don't know how your Gu family does it. But look at our Pei family, let's not talk about studying for the time being, who is not able to go out to be an official? Officials are not good ministers? That's because our Pei family not only requires their children to study, but also requires them to be able to study, especially those who can go on official careers to travel more. I don't have the final say on Pei Tong's affairs. It's when my elder brother is dying. I once left a will to let him take the imperial examination ten years later. He insisted on going out to study so loudly because he was influenced by my sister-in-law. As for my sister-in-law, I only listen to the words of the Yang family. If you think it doesn’t matter , I don't stop here, you ask him to write me a pleading letter, and I let him go to study. But from now on, he has nothing to do with the Pei family.
It is impossible for our Pei family to break the rules because of him alone! "