Women dressed as men: powerful officials

Chapter 333: Male Unmarried Female Unmarried

Beijing, Xu’s house.

Xu Yuan looked at Zhang Qingyu and persuaded her: "Mom, whether we can gain a foothold in the capital depends on ourselves, not others. If someone like this comes to our door again in the future, just ignore him and you won't be upset."

Zhang Qingyu disagreed: "Yuan'er, you should be kind when interacting with others."

In Sishui County, every family lives next to each other. If you don’t build good relationships with the residents next door, you will be the one who suffers.

Who can guarantee that they will never need help from others?

What's more, being kind to others is a matter of nature.

Zhang Qingyu hopes that Xuyuan will get better and better and not be too picky.

"It's true that I'm kind, but I have to understand clearly what is true kindness and what is false kindness."

He made a wish and sighed softly.

Zhang Qingyu's heart is too kind.

Fortunately, she seldom goes out to attend parties, otherwise, she wouldn't know how she would be teased.

Xu Yuan also understood that since Nanny Yi was always by Zhang Qingyu's side, she was naturally always telling Zhang Qingyu not to lower his posture.

But Zhang Qingyu had never experienced it, and didn't know all those twists and turns, and he still had a sincere heart.

Fortunately, she was still able to protect her mother.

"I think the wife of Marquis Jiaqing is quite good." Zhang Qingyu also saw the jade bracelet, which was of excellent quality.

In Cheng's hometown, when children come to play at home, Zhang Qingyu will prepare some small gifts, snacks, or other food.

This is the love that elders show to younger ones.

In the capital, she often saw some women giving their bracelets to the ladies they liked.

In Zhang Qingyu's eyes, the behavior of Marquis Jiaqing's wife was to attach importance to making a wish.

Even if the two families will not become in-laws in the future, it is good to have more friends.

"Mother, you should have less contact with the wife of Marquis Jiaqing in the future. If she really wanted to be good to me, she wouldn't have gone past you and asked to see me directly. This is one thing."

"Secondly, if she wanted to give me something, it wouldn't matter what bracelet it was, but she gave me the jade bracelet she received when she married into the Marquis's Mansion, and she even said it was a family heirloom. If I accepted the jade bracelet, I would be accepting this marriage."

"Third, Mr. Wan said that if I marry him, my child can have the surname Xu. Mother, have you carefully calculated the time between these two?"

Hearing what Xu Yuan said, Zhang Qingyu subconsciously shook his head.

"Now it's June. If they are engaged and Naji has made preparations for the engagement, the wedding date will have to be delayed until October. By then, the national examination will be approaching. The Jiaqing Marquisate will have given priority to Master Wan's participation in the national examination and proposed that the wedding date be set after the national examination. If my father wins the first prize and has great support in the court, they will naturally be willing to prepare for the wedding. But what if he doesn't?"

"All the concessions that Wan Dengning made today in order to marry me will become good excuses for canceling the engagement in the future. Wan Dengning keeps saying that he is doing this for my own good, but he uses those concessions as conditions for marrying me. If one day he no longer thinks highly of the Xu family, will he then say that I even ignored my ancestors in order to marry you..."

After making a wish, he stopped talking.

She knew that Zhang Qingyu understood.

Perhaps Wan Dengning had no ill intentions, but the wife of Marquis Jiaqing was full of calculations.

When it comes to court affairs, Xu Yuan feels like a fish in water.

But she really knew nothing about what was going on in the inner courtyard of the backyard.

Even for her own sake, she could not agree to this marriage.

Zhang Qingyu was suddenly enlightened. She looked back at Nanny Yi and then made up her mind: "Yuan'er is right. From now on, people like her should not be allowed to enter the gate of Xu's house."

Nanny Yi smiled helplessly and said, "Madam, even if you don't like it, you still have to keep it to yourself. You said that before."

"No need. With me and father here, just be yourself, mom. If you don't like it, don't deal with it."

Xu Yuan shook her head. She held Zhang Qingyu's hand, and her restless heart gradually calmed down.

Xu Yuan knew that if it weren't for her, Zhang Qingyu would not have come to the capital.

If you are not happy, you might as well go back to Sishui County.

Zhang Qingyu nodded, thinking to herself that she should have more contact with those noble ladies in the future, at least not like today, when they had already plotted against her daughter. She still foolishly thought that it was for the sake of making a wish.

Huamei came back after sending the wife of Marquis Jiaqing back.

Xuyuan was also ready to go back.

Before going back, Xu Yuan asked Nanny Yi to compile a list of the people who had visited the Xu family since they opened their residence, and then he took Huamei back to his own courtyard.

Not long after, Nanny Yi sent someone to deliver the list.

After Xuyuan looked at them one by one, he asked Huamei, "What time is it?"

"It's almost noon."

"Will father be back at noon?"

Huamei thought for a moment and replied, "The master usually comes back at night."

"Then go tell my mother that I won't be eating lunch and I have to go out this afternoon."

Huamei's eyes fell on the roster.

She guessed that there must be something wrong with the list, either the wrong people came, or they came at the wrong time.

But she didn't dare to ask, so she took the order to make a wish and went out.

The yard for making wishes was where Xu Xi once lived. There was a small pond outside. Now the sun was shining brightly, the water was sparkling and reflected into the room, which was very beautiful.

Xu Yuan took the pen and thought for a long time. After he figured out how to start writing, he wrote it down immediately.

There wasn't much in the letter, except that it mainly invited a few people to have dinner at Wu Ji Restaurant three days later.

All the invited guests were good friends from the previous time in the capital.

However, what worries Xu Yuan is that she is an unmarried woman now, and it seems a little awkward for her to sit at the same table with men, let alone eat together.

After thinking about it, Xu Yuan wrote another letter to Prince Cheng's Mansion, inviting Bei Yao to go with him.

I just don’t know if Beiyao has the time.

At night, Xu Wenxian returned home and heard about the matter of Marquis Jiaqing's wife. His reaction was similar to Xu Yuan's. Knowing that Zhang Qingyu was feeling upset, he comforted Zhang Qingyu.

At the same time, he also brought back good news.

The Battle of Feishui was a great victory, and the generals who had previously gone to Feishui were about to return to the capital, which meant that Zhang Yue was going back to Beijing.

In the following days, Xu Wenxian was busy traveling outside to choose a suitable residence for Zhang Yue.

Xu Wenxian had a lot to think about. Zhang Yue was not a general and had no military merits, so he might not be rewarded when he returned to Beijing.

But as long as you are in the capital, there is unlimited hope.

Zhang Yue will get married in the future, and if his whole family lives in Xu's house, it will inevitably give people a chance to talk about him.

In the end, Xu Wenxian chose a yard opposite Xu's house.

In this way, the two families are like one.

Three days passed without any news after the letter was sent. Xu Yuan was not in a hurry. When the time came, he took Huamei to the banquet as promised.

Hearing that the people making wishes were all old friends, Huamei was very happy.

After all, the young lady has been back home for a few days and has hardly gone out to play with her friends.

Huamei knew clearly that Xu Yuan didn't have any close friends in the capital. Not to mention close friends, she probably didn't even know the young ladies in the capital.

Therefore, Huamei was quite happy, but the moment she got on the carriage, she suddenly reacted.

Xu Yuan doesn’t have many friends, so who was the old friend she met?

So, Huamei immediately said, "Miss, you are not married yet, it is really not appropriate for you to meet those big and strong men."

Huamei didn't know who they were, but Wu Shiming, whom she had met that day, must be there.

How embarrassing it would be if the news got out that the man was unmarried and the woman was unmarried?