Survive through the ancient apocalypse

"Master Hou and the others have already gone to the place of distribution. Jiang Jingzhi is weak and took the sea route. He will arrive in Yangshan County tomorrow morning. If you are satisfied, I will arrange for you to meet tomorrow." People talk about matchmaking, and Chen's official matchmaker was also entrusted by others. Through various relationships, they found a scholar from such a small fishing village, who basically met the requirements of the Jiang family.

After Chen's official media explained Jiang Jingzhi's family background, character, appearance, and various advantages and disadvantages of marrying him, he asked Ye Mingze to give a clear answer. If he was not satisfied, he would refuse on the spot, and if he was satisfied, he would go see him tomorrow.After all, time is running out, and there is less than half a month left for Jiang Jingzhi to turn around.

The pros and cons of this marriage are very obvious.With luck, if the Jiang family can manage to clear the charges and recover, the entire Ye family will benefit a lot.Especially Ye Mingze and Ye Zequan, there are people above them, so it's not easy to get into an official career!The problem is that it is more likely that the Jiang family will decline from then on. If they want to make a comeback, it will take at least five years, and the descendants of the next generation will have to work hard.

Don't you see, it's easy to add icing on the cake, but difficult to give charcoal in the snow.Once the Jiang family suffered a crime, the relatives and friends of the past were anxious to get rid of the relationship, for fear of being implicated by his family.In just half a month, several married women in the Jiang family returned home, most of them were young wives, including one who already had a group of children.

Of course, it’s not like they don’t want to help. Those with high status need to think carefully about all aspects, so they don’t want to act rashly. How much can those with low status help?

This time, it was his good friend Lin Wenjue who helped Jiang Jingzhi to say goodbye. The Lin family is also a noble family, but Lin Wenjue's status is rather embarrassing.Although he is a legitimate son, there are several younger brothers born to his stepmother, not much younger than him.Not to mention how badly he was treated, it's always a shock, isn't it?

Lin Wenjue is only 20 years old, he doesn't have much power in his hands, and there are not many people who can help Jiang Jingzhi.This time, he used the little power he had to buy Jiang Jingzhi's two servants who were sold by the government.Among them, five members of Jiang Jingzhi's nanny's family followed him, and the other room was Jiang's mother's accompanying room, who would take care of Jiang Houye's family near the place where he was distributed.

Jiang Jingzhi has a reputation for raising people, even if he was sent, the reputation of Jiang's family has not been removed.

The fame and fame of a man's wife can only benefit his parents, husband and children.For example, the head of the Ye family is Mr. Ye, and the land property is in his name. If the son and grandson in Mr. Ye's account are admitted to the scholar, he can be exempted from the [-]-acre land tax under his name, and there is no need to rely on the names of the two grandchildren. Down.

If Jiang Jingzhi married Ye Mingze, then the [-] mu of land he could exempt from taxes could only be recorded in his and Ye Mingze's names, and only Ye Mingze could be exempted from corvee.It can be seen that there are still many disadvantages for men to marry.

Ye Mingze knew clearly that if he married Jiang Jingzhi, it would be fine if he didn't become an official, but once he became an official, he would almost lose the help of his in-laws and even be dragged down.Even if Jiang Jingzhi can still participate in next year's Chunwei, no one will choose him as a Jinshi, his family is in exile, which examiner would be willing to take trouble?

Because of the many troubles, the final choice fell on Ye Mingze.Under normal circumstances, it is the words of the matchmaker at the order of the parents. Parents at most refer to the opinions of their children. How can they let them?

"By the way, I forgot something just now. Jiang Jingzhi was engaged in marriage before, but this time the woman took the initiative to withdraw the marriage. Don't worry, the relationship between the two is not deep, and they have only met a few times." Official Chen was a little annoyed that it was so important It's only now that I think of it.

Ye Mingze was quite satisfied with the description of Jiang Jingzhi by Chen's official media: "That's it, let's see each other tomorrow."

Sending away Chen's official matchmaker, Aunt Yang stayed behind to do daily chores. Tomorrow she will lead the way for Ye Mingze's family.

After dinner, the father and mother gathered in the room of Ye Mingze's three brothers, looking at him worriedly, hesitating to speak.

"Father, mother, just say what you have to say, you don't need to hide it from your son." Seeing his parents like this, Ye Mingze felt tired, so he took the initiative to talk.

"Mingze, what on earth are you thinking? Jiang Jingzhi's health is not good and he's in a lot of trouble, why are you still willing to marry?" Ye Mu first thought about her son's heirs, focusing on frailty.

"Mother, it doesn't mean that he has been cured. It only takes a few months of recuperation to return to normal?" Ye Mingze is not worried about this. Whether it is good or not will be clear tomorrow.

"Son, the only advantage of marrying Jiang Jingzhi is that you can exempt the five hundred acres of land from taxes. For the time being, there are only disadvantages for you. The younger brother can benefit, but he can't bear the disadvantages, but he can benefit from the advantages." Ye father Usually don't talk much, but see clearly.

"Father and mother, you don't have to worry. It's still unknown whether you can win the exam. With our background, even if you win the exam and are not favored by the superiors, you can only marry a wife of ordinary family background. This is not the same as marrying Jiang Jingzhi." How much difference." Ye Mingze saw clearly that Jiang Jingzhi is the best wife he can marry now.

The direct descendants carefully cultivated by the Hou family are much better than ordinary people in terms of self-cultivation and insight.As long as the two don't hate each other, he will try his best to fight for it.

"Father and mother, it's not decided now, don't we still have to see each other? You and grandpa will help me check it out tomorrow, so I can't go wrong."

"Okay, you've been big-minded since you were a child, you can figure it out!" Ye Mu pulled Ye Father Shi Shiran away.

"Hey, let me tell you, you two, after listening to it, go to sleep!" Ye Mingze shook the heads of his two younger brothers, and then he got under the covers and quickly fell asleep.

Early the next morning, Ye Mingze followed his grandparents and Aunt Yang to Yangshan County in a donkey cart.

The county seat is more than 20 miles away from Yejia Village, and it takes an hour by donkey cart.When the group set off, it was still daylight, but by the time they arrived in the city, the sun was already high.

The donkey cart stopped in front of an inn, and Aunt Yang signaled that she had arrived.

A young servant came forward to meet him: "Master Ye? The young master is waiting inside, please follow me."

The servant led everyone through the hall to the backyard.

Jiang Jingzhi looked at the people who came, and there was only one who met the requirements. This person was quite tall, with handsome features, and he didn't look like a peasant boy.

At the same time, Ye Mingze was also looking at Jiang Jingzhi.I think it was because of a serious illness, I lost a lot of weight, and my clothes were a little empty.The whole person looks gentle, with picturesque eyebrows, and the corners of his mouth are bent without smiling. He is a character.

The two reached their own conclusions and smiled at each other.

In the end, the result of the acquaintance satisfied both of them.

Ye's father and Ye's mother saw that Jiang Jingzhi was gentle and moist. Although he was thin, he was not too weak. Since his son agreed, the two of them no longer objected.Grandpa Ye was just going through the motions. Ye Mingze still wanted to take his idea. As long as he wanted it, he would naturally agree.

On the same day, Jiang Jingzhi asked his nanny and husband Zhang Guanshi to go to Yejia Village to look at the house, and bought it when he saw a similar one.He knew that Ye Mingze's house was not rich, and the nanny's family would have to settle elsewhere in the future.

Jiang Jingzhi has lived in the imperial capital for a long time, where there are abundant materials, and products from the north and the south can be seen.The traffic here in Yangshan County is blocked, and all you can see here are local products, and southern products are rarely seen.He estimated that he would not be able to fully adapt to the eating habits here for a while, so he could only make do with it first.

Although they are all in the north, most of the officials and officials in the imperial capital sleep in beds, so there are very few kangs.If there is no kang bed in Yejia Village, it will be difficult to survive the winter.In this way, Jiang Jingzhi didn't need to prepare the bed which occupies the largest part of the furniture.

Lin Wenjue left all the money he could move to Jiang Jingzhi.Ye Mingze's family is not rich, but the room is quite big.In order not to look too special, Jiang Jingzhi didn't plan to prepare much dowry. He only chose a few simple furniture, quilts and some fabrics, all of which were made of cotton and linen, and silk and satin were omitted.

While preparing the jewelry, Jiang Jingzhi finally realized that he was really going to get married.Looking at the hairpins, hairpins and Bu Yao provided by Jin Yutang, Jiang Jingzhi was speechless, and the smile on his face could hardly be held back.Has he ever used these two kinds of jewelry, hairpins and step shakers?Although they are all men's styles, they are exclusive accessories for husbands and wives.Gold, silver and jade were of three textures, one of each was chosen, and Jiang Jingzhi left the Jinyu Hall as if fleeing.

Jiang Jingzhi is in poor health and cannot be busy all day long. Most of the dowry needs to be selected by him himself, so he can only spare an hour every morning to buy it.Some small and trivial things let the shopkeeper take them to the inn for him to choose.

When everything was busy, Lin Wenjue left him 500 taels of 350 taels of silver, leaving 150 taels for his health, and he could still use 200 taels.

Jiang Jingzhi was not embarrassed, and directly asked Steward Zhang to go to Yejiacun to ask Ye Mingze what his plans were, whether to buy a shop, a property or a fishing boat?You can buy two for the smaller ones, and one for the larger ones with a little extra.The land property is only enough to buy [-] mu of medium-sized fields, and the fishing boat can buy a boat twice the size of Ye Mingze's family.

After careful consideration, Ye Mingze suggested purchasing land property. After all, this is not taxed, is it?

Jiang Jingzhi thought it made sense, so he asked Guanshi Zhang to come forward to handle the matter.It happened that a family in Yejia Village moved and was in a hurry to dispose of their land. Jiang Jingzhi bought [-] mu of high-grade farmland, [-] mu of middle-grade farmland and [-] mu of low-grade farmland at a slightly lower price.Not long after the grain was planted in the field, the seller didn't pay extra, so it was a free gift to Jiang Jingzhi.

Even though 500 taels of silver is a lot, it really doesn't cost much.It cost 200 taels to buy 100 mu of land, 30 taels to buy a house in Yejia Village, nearly [-] taels each for a set of gold, silver and jade jewelry, and nearly [-] taels for other miscellaneous furniture, cloth, bedding, etc.In fact, there are really not many things, and there are not many things added together.In the end, Jiang Jingzhi spent more than ten taels of silver to buy three strong laborers for farming.

Considering that he will live in Yejiacun for a long time in the future, and it will not be very convenient to buy things, Jiang Jingzhi bought enough health supplies for two or three months.

Jiang Jingzhi was busy preparing the dowry, and Ye Mingze was not at ease.

Due to time constraints, the wedding had to be completed within half a month, and the Ye family was extremely busy.After making the betrothal gift, getting engaged, arranging the new house, and going through a series of procedures, everyone was exhausted.