Man Bao didn’t know that he didn’t live at home often, but Wu Wulang knew about it. When they first moved in, many people wanted to come to the corner door of their house. Some were selling goods, and some were borrowing and giving away things. Sometimes there was no excuse. , Just knocked on the door and they squatted by the door to talk.
Wu Wulang and Zhou Lixue didn't know about them at first, and they thought it was the enthusiasm of the neighbors. Isn't this the same as being in the village
When we are free, we squat together and chat.
Later, Zhou Lijun studied housekeeping with Mrs. Liu for a period of time, and then they were not allowed to talk about family affairs outside.
You can squat at the door and chat with people, and you can talk about anything, but you can't talk about family affairs, even if you saw a person stepping on a melon rind and falling all over the place on the way home today.
If someone doesn't know how to stop by looking at the face, then ask back, just ask about their master, and ask about any secrets.
After such an operation, after more than a month, no one would call the door at the back corner door of Zhou's house to chat with the old Zhou's family members.
Occasionally, the servants who guard the door can talk, but Mrs. Liu is strict in housekeeping, so the servants will not talk about the affairs of the master's house.
So the news was well kept inside the Zhou residence, but apart from the person involved, Bai Erlang, everyone knew what they should know and what they shouldn't know.
When eating dinner, Aunt Rong even specially made a braised lion's head for Bai Erlang, while Xiao Qian asked Man Bao to bring over a bowl of steamed meat, and the two people's opinions were surprisingly consistent.
Man Bao said: "My sister-in-law asked you to eat more, eat more and grow stronger..." so that you can marry a wife.
Sitting at the dining table, Bai Erlang was suspicious, "Is this for me?"
Man Bao nodded.
Bai Erlang glanced at Bai Shan and asked, "Isn't it for Bai Shan?"
"No," Man Bao emphasized, "it's for you."
The maid who brought the dishes also smiled and said: "Master Tang, Aunt Rong's stewed lion's head dish is also made for you."
Bai Erlang calculated seriously in his head, "No, my birthday is still three months away."
Bai Shan asked Man Bao to add a pair of bowls and chopsticks. Seeing that he was still struggling, he said, "I'll eat it for you."
Hearing these words, Bai Erlang always felt something was wrong, he took a big ball, looked at Bai Shan and Man Bao, and finally turned to look at Mr. Zhuang, hesitantly asked, "Sir?"
Mr. Zhuang smiled and nodded, "Let's eat."
Bai Erlang felt that even if Bai Shan and Man Bao would cheat him, the master probably wouldn't, so he looked up at them and took a bite.
Man Bao wanted to eat it too, so he took his bowl and chopsticks from the servant, and ate it here.
The old Zhou's family over there knew that she ate there as soon as Man Bao left and never came back, so they didn't wait for her anymore.
Bai Shan never looked for Bai Erlang until they entered the palace.
The two share a room, and often talk small things when the lights go out at night, and it is naturally the same tonight.
Bai Shan asked, "What kind of wife do you want to marry?"
Bai Erlang also just lay down and was fanning the wind with his cattail fan. Hearing this, he sighed and said, "It's fine for you to be affectionate in front of me on weekdays, but you have to show affection when we are apart?"
Bai Shandao: "Who has shown affection to you? This is a question, and it is a literal question, so please answer it. What kind of wife do you want to marry?"
Bai Erlang was so amazed, he half sat up holding the cattail leaf fan, and looked at the opposite side through the hazy moonlight, "It's strange, are you concerned about your cousin?"
"No," Bai Shan said calmly, "I am concerned about my junior."
He said: "As a senior brother, isn't it natural to care about the lifelong affairs of a younger brother? As the saying goes, an elder brother is like a father..."
When Bai Erlang heard this, he was so angry that he threw down his cattail fan, stretched out his feet and stepped across the two beds to kick him, Bai Shan rolled in and avoided it, laughed a few times, and then said: "Okay, okay I'm not teasing you anymore, I'm asking you seriously, do you have someone you like in your heart?"
Bai Erlang snorted, and continued to lie back on the bed without speaking.
Bai Shan raised his head and looked at him from afar, but at night, he could only see the outline of the person, but couldn't see the expression on the person's face clearly.
"Hey, we have been brothers for so many years, what can't you tell me? I even know that you are still wetting the bed when you are seven years old..."
Bai Erlang exploded in an instant, jumping up and jumping over to beat him, Bai Shan only stretched out one leg, "Don't come here, my kung fu is much better than yours."
Bai Erlang was furious, but subconsciously lowered his voice and said, "I didn't! That was an accident!"
He knew that they were too tired to play in the mountains that day, and he drank a lot of water, so he couldn't get up when he took a nap.
Bai Shan smiled and said: "So what can you not say? Since you don't say it, then I will ask directly, do you like Princess Mingda?"
Bai Erlang sat by his bed, and sighed after a while, "I can't ask her if I like it or not?"
"Have you asked?"
Bai Erlang shook his head in the dark, and said: "Isn't it written in the book, the parents' order and the matchmaker's words, if you are not sure that you can pass the test of the elders, if I beg her, wouldn't I be harming her?"
Bai Shan nodded approvingly, "The parents on our side are fine, but the problem is on the side of the emperor and empress."
Bai Erlang stepped on the bed and went back to his bed to lie down, and continued to fan the fan, "Isn't this nonsense?"
"But whether Princess Mingda is willing or not is still a big question," Bai Shan asked Bai Erlang, "I mean, if Princess Mingda is also interested, what are your plans?"
"Then I'll go and ask His Majesty to marry you." Bai Erlang crossed his legs and shook, still very confident, "I'm not bad at all except for my studies."
Bai Shan didn't expect his self-awareness to be like this, and he was amazed for a moment, "You think your shortcoming is that you are not good at reading?"
Bai Erlang was silent for a while and then said: "Okay, it's a bit worse, but it's a comparison with you. I compared with Feng Zongping and the others, and I think it's okay."
Bai Shan: "... so what about family background?"
"There is nothing wrong with family background," Bai Erlang was like a king in the village since he was a child. In the entire Qili Village, including the nearby Dali Village and several other villages, except for Bai Shan and Zhou Man, no other children can surpass him. Above him, even in Yizhou and the capital, he has never been persuaded.
There are very few people who can bully him in the family world, so what are you afraid of, the big deal is to go home and inherit the property left by his father.
Bai Erlang continued to shake his cattail fan and muttered, "I'm pretty good-looking, and I have nothing to say about my character. I just can't read well, but Princess Mingda likes reading very much. If she doesn't like reading like Princess Changyu, she only likes to eat. Enough."
Then he must be very confident.
Bai Shan turned over and said: "Come on, I think it's good for you to have this." Otherwise, you won't be able to go to heaven.