Shen Yu stepped into the door and walked a few steps in before she felt something was wrong. She suddenly stopped and turned around.
Shen Zhao crossed his arms, "Whose wild girl is back who can't bear to go home?"
Shen Yu thought about it and walked over, "Did you see it?"
"I didn't see it." Shen Zhao said unnaturally: "Look back three times with one step, there is nothing interesting to see."
Shen Yu was silent, "Don't you know that no evil will be tolerated?"
"That's on the street, my eldest lady, please be careful."
When Shen Zhao saw that Shen Yu was still not coming back, he was originally planning to go out to look for her. Unexpectedly, when he went out, he bumped into the two of them, inseparable in the alley.
He almost ran back for his life, and it wasn't him who came back to embarrass himself, so what was he hiding from?
"Why is he here?" Shen Zhao asked.
Shen Yu followed him inside and said, "He came to propose marriage."
"Propose marriage!" Shen Zhao raised his voice, "You are only eighteen. There is no need to be so anxious to get married. It's not like the family can't support you."
Shen Yu knew that Shen Zhao was reluctant to let her go, so she rarely had a quarrel with him. She only said: "Many girls get married at the age of ten. I am not too early to be eighteen."
Shen Zhao glared at her, "That's a poor family. A poor family marries young and has less people to eat. A rich family feels sorry for their daughter and wishes she could stay for a few more years. Take your sister-in-law as an example. She is more than a year older than you, and she is now nearly You don’t get married until you’re twenty.”
"That's because you delayed me."
Shen Zhao: “…”
Shen Zhao took a breath and pointed his finger at her, "I can see that I am so anxious to marry Xie Tingzhou."
"Brother." Shen Yu shouted in a long tone, "Han Shu says that if a woman doesn't marry over the age of fifteen, she has to pay five times the tax. In Mandarin, it also says, 'The parents of a woman who doesn't marry after the age of seventeen are guilty. I want the people to flourish'➀."
"It's useless to act coquettishly." Shen Zhao tilted his head and looked at her for a while, "Are you going to look through books to find reasons to get married?"
Shen Yu quickly shook her head, "No, no, I don't."
"Why is that?"
Shen Yu pursed her lips and said, "I saw it in a dream, a dream."
Shen Zhao understood, she had married someone in that dream, so who said this to her and used these principles to force her to marry? The answer is obvious.
Shen Yu saw his face darken, so she pulled his sleeve, "Brother."
"It's okay." Shen Zhao looked at her and smiled, "I either don't want you to get married, or I just can't let you go."
"I know."
Shen Zhao reached out to rub her hair, but in the end he just raised his knuckles and tapped her forehead lightly.
"I recognized him long before he turned around and went to Shengjing to find you regardless of his safety. I wanted to hand you over to him, but I couldn't bear the grievance. But he has to go through the old lady's test on his own."
"Grandma has written letters to King Beilin and sent gifts to each other."
"What?! Why didn't I know?"
"Please keep your voice down." Shen Yu reminded, "I only found out later."
Shen Zhao was speechless.
……
Yesterday, Xie Tingzhou sent someone to his door to hand over a greeting card, and Shen Yu was the last to know.
Madam Lu gave her enough face and personally greeted this young man at the door.
The post said that she would be at the door at the end of the day, and Mrs. Lu was waiting at the door at the end of the day.
Mrs. Zhang was standing behind her. After Lu Jiaheng came back and talked to her last night, she pulled Lu Shi and cried for a while. It was nothing more than the old lady's partiality. Lu Shi got tired of listening and rested in his concubine's room.
Mrs. Zhang looked at Lu Shi sadly for a long time but received no response. She became very angry and turned her head to whisper to Lu Jiaheng who was standing aside.
Mrs. Zhang said angrily: "Does she think she can find someone better than you? It may not be a good thing to marry a high-ranking family."
"Mother." Lu Jiaheng reminded.
Mrs. Zhang seemed as if she hadn't heard anything, "I asked my servants, and none of the posts were gilded. For such indifference, the old lady came to greet her in person."
Lu Jiaheng: "Mother, be careful what you say."
Mrs. Zhang was asking for trouble and stood aside without saying anything.
After waiting for a while, a large group of people came from the street, with two rows of Qingyun Guards as far as the eye could see.
"It's coming, it's coming," the concierge said excitedly.
Mrs. Lu was extremely curious, but she still kept her airs and did not look around.
Mrs. Zhang quietly moved forward and took a breath when she saw the battle outside, "This scene..."
I saw the leader riding a tall horse again. He looked young and handsome, but he looked like a martial artist. He felt inferior to his own son. Let Shen Yu regret it.
The man passed by on horseback, turned over and dismounted at the door, nodded to everyone and stood aside.
Then a carriage stopped at the door, and the young man on the carriage opened the curtain.
"Your Majesty, we're here," Changliu said.
The man came out of the carriage with a slight bow. The moment he raised his head, everyone was stunned.
Mrs. Lu was stunned for a moment and asked Shen Zhao on the side, "This, is this the Crown Prince Beilin?"
"That's right." Shen Zhao said.
Mrs. Lu clenched her hands tightly, "Why is it different from the portrait I saw?"
Shen Zhao asked: "Have you seen the portrait?"
"Yes." Mrs. Lu said, "King Beilin sent it to me. I saw that the man in the portrait was tall and tall, and he also had a beautiful beard."
Shen Zhao almost laughed, "I'm afraid it was sent to the wrong person."
"If you don't believe me, turn around and let me show you." After saying thank you, Tingzhou stepped forward.
He cupped his hands and said, "Old madam, this junior Xie Tingzhou is very annoying when we meet for the first time."
"He is a polite person." Mrs. Lu whispered.
He pinched Shen Zhao's arm again, cleared his throat, and said, "The Crown Prince is coming here, but it's hard to welcome him from afar."
Xie Tingzhou raised his head and looked around, but did not see Shen Yu.
"They must be looking for Auntie." Mrs. Lu pinched Shen Zhao again and said quietly with her lips moving slightly.
Shen Zhao supported the old lady and was pinched twice in succession. He hurriedly said: "Let's talk about it after we enter the house. We are all our own people."
The group of people passed Zhang, who had not yet recovered, and murmured: "You didn't say that he is handsome like this."
Lu Jiaheng glanced at her, hesitated to speak, and finally said nothing.
Logically speaking, it is not etiquette to come to propose marriage in person, but the two of them are already in love, so there is no need to accept the lottery, ask for names, accept the honor, etc. There are two etiquette officers accompanying this trip, who are responsible for the other matters.
The betrothal gifts were carried in one lift after another. The entrance of Lu Mansion was surrounded by three floors inside and three floors outside. The people watching the excitement were blocked by Qingyun Guards.
The cages were carried from morning to noon, and only half of them were carried after lunch.
① "Book of Han Hui Di Ji": "If a woman is from fifteen to thirty years old and does not marry, it is a five-year rule."
"Mandarin" King Gou Jian of Yue ordered the parents of girls in the country who did not marry at the age of seventeen to be guilty, because he wanted the people to prosper.
