Daiyu's stepmother is not easy to be

In the April [-] palace examination, the Holy Majesty asked a question about how to strengthen the army if Oirat is defeated within ten years.

The Holy One saw that he was young, tall and tall, with a handsome and unrestrained appearance. Although the articles he wrote were somewhat fanciful, they were not empty talkers. At first glance, he was able to do practical things.

Li Mingcheng was appreciated by the sage, jumping from the seventh to the third place, but he was very stable in thanking him, which made the sage appreciate it even more.

The Holy Majesty thought that Lin Hai was also a 19-year-old candidate, and now he is only 46 years old, and he is already an important minister he cannot live without. When he looked at Li Mingcheng again, he had the meaning of being the pillar of the future country.

Although Pan Meizhen is not as good as Li Mingcheng, she also passed the No. 12 exam.

Seeing his name, the Holy Majesty recalled that the companions headed by the second princess were called Pan Meiting, which at first glance were brothers and sisters.

Then think of the brother and sister's father, Pan Youde, who accepted bribes and demoted officials, but his two sons and daughters grew upright. From this, it can be seen that their mother must be a virtuous wife.

The Holy Majesty asked who Pan Meizhen's mother and sister were, and when he found out that her mother was Li Mingcheng's cousin of the same clan, he sighed, "Sure enough, a good mother gives birth to a virtuous son. From the perspective of Li Tanhua from Li An, the Li family has a very good family style."

Pan Mei really thanked the emperor for complimenting her mother, and Li Mingcheng hurriedly came out to thank her.

The Li family won the praise of the Holy Majesty, not to mention the brilliance on the face, but the marriage of the daughters in the family can be improved, and the Li family's children can also straighten their waists when they go out.

This is because the cousin worked so hard to bring up the cousins, so that he earned glory for the Li family.

Li Mingcheng made up his mind that when writing letters home, he must praise his aunt and cousin a lot, so that the family will pay more attention to the cousin.

With the good impression of the emperor, Pan Meizhen's academic ranking is not bad, she was successfully selected as a good scholar, and entered the Imperial Academy to study.

Li Mingcheng is Tanhua, and he is directly the editor of Zheng Qipin.

Since the previous dynasty, Yijia and Sanji and Shujishi have been called "Chuxiang", and the six ministers and cabinet ministers and governors of various places are mostly from the Shujishi of the Imperial Academy.

Li Mingcheng and Pan Mei really had to enter the Hanlin Academy, not to mention a smooth journey in the future, but also a higher starting point than ordinary second-class and third-class Jinshi.

Both her son and nephew were high school Jinshi, Mrs. Li cried again with joy, and was busy going to various acquaintances in Beijing to announce the good news.

The aristocratic families in central Beijing found out that this year Xinke Tanhua and Pan Shuji, who was praised by the emperor, were both eighteen or nineteen years old and handsome, but they were both bachelors and had no engagement, so they came to find out about Mrs. Li.

Mrs. Li declined all marriages for Pan Meizhen, and even took Pan Meizhen to Qingyuan uncle's house to pay a visit to General Feng and his wife.

Pan Meizhen personally told General Feng that although he won a Jinshi, his ambitions have not changed. After Wanyan leaves the palace, if Wanyan is still willing, he will definitely marry Wanyan with three matches and six certificates.

After he finished speaking, he bowed to the ground to show his sincerity.

Mrs. Feng General Wei had heard that Pan Meizhen was now the top son-in-law of various families in Beijing. Two days ago, she was still worried that Pan Meizhen's cold heart would change her mind and make her niece sad.

Seeing Pan Meizhen like this now, General Feng and his wife were very moved.

General Feng personally left his seat to help Pan Meizhen up, patted him on the shoulder and praised him a few times.

That day when the Feng family held a banquet in the garden, General Feng called Feng Ziying back, and the two got Pan Meizhen quite drunk.

After the banquet to see off Mrs. Li and Pan Meizhen, General Feng couldn't hide his smile and praised Mrs. Wei: "This kid is really good! Wanyan really saw him right! It's just that he can't drink enough."

Mrs. Wei hammered him and said, "Still laughing here!"

"The other's child has come to our house well, and sincerely came to please us to rest assured."

"It's a good thing for you to get the child drunk! I'm so tired that Mrs. Li and I lost a lot of money!"

The more she spoke, the angrier she became, and she said angrily: "You and Ziying are not allowed to eat tonight! You have drunk so much yellow soup at noon, sober yourself up!"

After Madam Wei finished speaking, she ignored the two of them and went straight to the inner courtyard.

It was rare for the old lady to show off her power, which frightened General Feng and Feng Ziying to wake up quite a bit.

The two of you looked at each other for a long time, General Feng coughed and said, "Ziying, go to the West Market to see if there are still any pancakes from your mother's favorite shop, if so, hurry up and buy some more .”

"Ask the kitchen to roast tender mutton for dinner, go, go!"

Feng Ziying quickly agreed to go out, then took two steps back and asked, "What about you, dad?"

General Feng's old face flushed slightly, and he glared and said, "What are you talking about! Hurry up!"

Feng Ziying smiled secretly, slipped out to buy food for his mother after rubbing oil on the soles of her feet.

General Feng coughed, went back to the study first, took a quick shower and changed into clean clothes, smelled that there was no smell of alcohol on his body, and went to the old wife's room as soon as he walked.

So what if you're 50?Don't you have to make your wife happy?

General Feng stepped into Mrs. Wei's door, saw Mrs. Wei sitting there silent, coughed lightly, and asked with a smile: "What are you doing, madam?"

Mrs. Wei glanced at him and said nothing.

General Feng hurriedly accompanied one to the left and the other to the right, at least to coax Mrs. Wei into a smile.

Since the palace examination, Pan Meizhen's every move has been watched by those who want to choose a good son-in-law for their daughter.

Mrs. Li and Mrs. Pan Shuji went to Uncle Qingyuan's house with a bunch of presents. Mrs. Pan Shuji blushed from drinking, and the mother and son were sent out by General Feng and Mrs. General affectionately. It took less than a day for the family to know We all know.

Some people are confused, never heard of the friendship between the Pan family and General Feng's family?

Besides, Mr. Feng is the only child in General Shenwu's family. He has no girl, so he's not here to discuss marriage, right?

Some well-informed people remembered that Pan Shuji had a marriage contract with General Feng's niece, Miss Zhang.

After thinking about it again, I found that Mrs. Li and Pan Shuji were really kind and righteous people.

Originally, there was that jealous person who secretly said that Pan Meizhen was Pan Youde's son after all, and if his father was like this, his son might also be destined to break the law in the future.

Now Mrs. Li, Pan Meizhen, has no intention of cutting willows. Pan Meizhen's reputation is much better than before. If someone speaks bitterly in secret, there are not many people who believe it.

Pan Meizhen's work was over, and Mrs. Li began to worry about Li Mingcheng again.

Li Mingcheng is superior to Pan Meizhen in every aspect, no matter in terms of family background, appearance or ranking. Therefore, there are many more families in Beijing who want Li Mingcheng as their son-in-law than Pan Meizhen.

Moreover, Mrs. Li could refuse the marriage for her own son, but she couldn't simply refuse the marriage of her nephew.

Not only could she not refuse, but Mrs. Li had to respectfully deal with every wife who came to spy on her, write down the appearance, conditions and family background of each daughter, and waited to write a letter to her cousin and uncle to explain.

Li Mingcheng had just entered the Hanlin Academy, and he was a new scout, and he took Pan Meizhen to visit the homes of senior officials from various families whenever he was free, and he was also very busy.

Mrs. Li managed to catch Li Mingcheng once, and asked him: "Mingcheng, there are eight families who come to me to talk to you about marriage, what kind of girl do you want in your heart?

"Talk to my cousin, I have a good idea. If there is something you don't like, I won't write it up. If you like it, I will write two more strokes."

Li Mingcheng used to get annoyed whenever his elders talked about his marriage, and when he thought of those girls who praised his appearance, he felt disgusted, and he would run away every time he said something perfunctory.

But now when he heard his cousin asking, not only was Li Mingcheng not bothered, his mind was still full of cousin Pan.

Mrs. Li saw that Mingcheng's face was gradually turning red, thinking that he had opened his eyes to know love, and this time his marriage finally had something to do!

If Mingcheng can tie the knot with a lady from a certain family, she can be regarded as worthy of her uncle's cultivation of Meizhen in the past two years.

Mrs. Li waited expectantly for Li Mingcheng to say one, two, three, so she could choose accordingly.

Who knew that Li Mingcheng, blushing and hesitating for a long time, stood up from the stool and gave her a long bow, and said loudly: "Cousin! My nephew loves cousin Pan! I don't know if my cousin can be a cousin! son-in-law?"

After Li Mingcheng finished speaking, he bowed again, stopped his hands there still, and waited nervously for Mrs. Li to speak.

Although Mrs. Li knew that Li Mingcheng seemed to treat Mei Ting differently, she didn't expect that it was her own daughter who made Mingcheng change his temper, so she couldn't help being stunned.

Seeing that Li Mingcheng was still waiting there in a bowing posture, she quickly got up and helped him up, and smiled helplessly at Li Mingcheng's expectant eyes: "I think Mingcheng is naturally very kind, and it's really nice to be my son-in-law." Very good."

Li Mingcheng was overjoyed, raised his head and smiled so hard that he couldn't see his teeth.

But before he finished grinning, he heard his cousin say helplessly: "Hey, I won't hide it from you. Before Mei Ting left, I actually asked her what she meant."

Li Mingcheng froze there, not daring to move.

"She said she was just an ordinary brother and sister to you, and she didn't mean anything else."

After Mrs. Li said this, she couldn't bear to see the look in Li Mingcheng's eyes disappear.

In addition, she really likes Li Mingcheng to be her son-in-law, so she added a few more words and comforted her: "Mei Ting is young, and she hasn't spent a few days with you, and she hasn't gotten the hang of it, so she treats you like an older brother. Mei is really the same."

"Besides, Mei Ting is accompanying the princess in the palace. The second princess is still young, and she doesn't know when she will be able to leave the palace."

"Hey, Mingcheng, to be honest, you will be weaker this year and next year, and it will take at least five or six years for Mei Ting to leave the palace."

"At that time, when you get married again, you will be 25 or [-]. This marriage is what you like in your heart. I'm afraid your cousins ​​and sisters-in-law won't let you wait until then. Let's see other ladies first."

At the end of Mrs. Li's speech, she still felt that she could not cheat her nephew for Mei Ting, so she sincerely advised Li Mingcheng to consider other girls more.

Unexpectedly, Li Mingcheng was stunned for a long time, and then he saluted again, and said: "Tanggu, don't worry! The elder brother in the family has already married a wife and has children, and there is already a male heir in the family. It doesn't matter if the younger nephew gets married later."

"As for explaining to my parents, my cousin, please just write down the list of these ladies, and my nephew will write to my parents to say that no one is interested this year."

"It will be several years before the left and right cousins ​​leave the palace. After two or three years, my parents will be anxious. It will be a good time to talk about marriage at that time."

After Li Mingcheng finished speaking, he saluted and went out, hurriedly writing letters to his parents.

Mrs. Li stayed in the room, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, thinking that in a few years, when Mei Ting leaves the palace, if she still treats you like a brother, my mother can't force her head to marry you.

She laughed for a while, but she couldn't sit still, so she went to Li Mingcheng's room and explained it to him.

In the Qingyuan uncle's mansion, Mrs. Wei was deliberately coaxed by her husband and son for the whole night, and she was in a good mood after eating her favorite biscuits, roasted mutton and shochu.

As soon as she was happy, she drank again, and at night in the tent, she revealed a few words to General Feng about her daughter-in-law for her son.

General Feng frowned slightly after hearing this, and said: "If I remember correctly, the second girl of the Rongguo Mansion seems to be a concubine?"

Mrs. Wei was very happy, and she didn't care too much about him, she just laughed at him and said: "So what if she is a legitimate daughter of the Rongguo Mansion, and there is a virtuous concubine standing there, I'm afraid Ziying in our family is still alive." It's not enough."

General Feng turned off the fire, and Mrs. Wei continued to count the second girl's advantages: "Needless to say about her appearance, she is really beautiful and blessed."

"He is also generous in dealing with people and things, he speaks and acts gently, and he can also manage the housekeeping. I heard that he has read and practiced calligraphy since he was a child. He really has all the corners!"

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