Chapter 33 Concubines
The nine days of the autumn examination passed in a flash.
During this waiting time, the families with candidates in the alley had a distracted Mid-Autumn Festival - after all, they were all thinking about the people who took the Gongyuan exam.
When the entrance examination room of the Gongyuan School opened the door, the people who had been waiting at the door naturally went to find their own candidates and hurried home to recuperate.
After a period of quiet in the alley, it became louder and louder again.
I heard that some candidates outside were coming back, Xiaoman couldn't help looking outside.
Zhixia naturally knew that children love fun, so she didn't restrain her and let her go out to play casually.
After returning, Xiaoman vividly described it to Zhixia.
"It's amazing. Wei Xiucai and his friends' faces were pale and haggard. They could smell the smell from two miles away. They said that they had been in the small grid for nine days after taking the exam. When the young master of Mr. Wu came out, he heard that he was almost fainting."
Jiang Zhixia listened absent-mindedly to Xiaoman's description while thinking about the problem--she always felt that she had forgotten something. But she didn't even think about it. Forget it, if she couldn't remember it, she wouldn't think about it anymore.
"Girl, a guest is coming from home." Aunt Zhang knocked on the door and walked in as if she didn't know whether to be happy or sad.
Aunt Zhang's expression was quite strange, and Zhixia couldn't help but wonder.
"What's wrong? Is Aunt Li coming? Or is Brother Chu resting again?" Zhixia asked in confusion.
"Not one. It's a matchmaker coming to visit." Aunt Zhang suppressed her emotions and replied softly. At this age of the master, and with the establishment of a female household, she forgot that the master is also a woman and wants to get married.
Jiang Zhixia was also stunned, a matchmaker? She has been busy for two months after leaving the palace. She either bought and bought all kinds of things or was worried about how to make money. She forgot about getting married.
In the past life, many people married their lovers and formed their own small families for love.
However, in this era, it is all about the matchmaker's orders. It is even more impossible to come out alone after getting married, and once you get married, you will have to marry a big family. At that time, you will have too many things to live with a big family, and there will be too many things to do if you have a family matter or a broken child.
So, she now has a house, land and money, so why should she get married? Is it to give her money to others after getting married? To serve other people's parents after getting married?
Jiang Zhixia calmed down and continued to ask, "Where did the matchmaker come from? Who did you tell me about the matchmaker?"
"The matchmaker didn't say anything. He just said he wanted to talk to the girl in detail." Aunt Zhang was also very nervous.
I wonder what kind of family a girl would marry into if she got married?
She has heard of it in the tooth shop. Some people really don’t regard their servants as humans. They want to let their servants work constantly, which is not as easy as they are in a girl’s house.
However, the girl is not young anymore. This year, she is twenty-three years old, and the Chinese New Year is twenty-three. If she were an ordinary woman, she would not only get married early, but she would probably have to have two or three children.
A girl is so good, she can’t be alone for the rest of her life, and she will be alone and will not be able to take care of her in the future.
Jiang Zhixia didn't expect that Aunt Zhang thought more than her in this while. After hearing the report, she changed into the clothes for meeting guests and slowly walked to the front yard conference living room.
As soon as he walked into the door, Zhixia saw a woman in a red dress standing up.
"Oh, this is Miss Jiang, right? She is indeed a talented person." The matchmaker praised with a sweet mouth.
Jiang Zhixia gave a gift, covered her mouth with a veil, and smiled and said nothing.
The matchmaker saw Jiang Zhixia's style of a lady of a noble family, and his smile became stronger and stronger.
"The old woman's surname is Wang. The girl can call me Wang Po." The matchmaker first introduced himself with a smile.
After hearing her introduction, Jiang Zhixia couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Seeing that Wang Po was stunned, he quickly explained: "Auntie is too young. He called Wang Po for nothing, but he was really old. I will call you Aunt Wang."
‘Wang Po sells melons and boasts himself.’ Since ancient times, there has been no such thing as this dynasty, so a lot of Wang Pos have appeared.
After hearing Zhixia's compliment, the matchmaker smiled into a flower on her face.
"Miss Jiang has moved here for more than two months, right? I'm still alone now, right? There is an official here who wants to accept someone. I thought that the girl's appearance is just right, so I told the girl up to her with a good reputation." Wang Po said with a smile.
Jiang Zhixia's face changed after hearing this, and she took a concubine?
She doesn't even want to be a wife, so why is she worthy of being a concubine?
"Aunt Wang was joking. Although I was just a civilian woman, I didn't think about being a concubine." Jiang Zhixia replied with a reluctant smile.
"Oh, I naturally know that the girl is a nobleman from the Empress Palace. Ordinary families hire girls as their wife. But this official family is not an ordinary family. His family is from a sixth rank official, and he is only forty years old this year. He is in his prime and his career will be immeasurable. His wife has never had a legitimate son, so she wants to take a serious concubine. After giving birth to a child, she will be recorded in the name of the legitimate wife. She is a serious child of the official family." The Wang Po was obviously a person who was eloquent and grasped the key points.
Jiang Zhixia didn't want to be perfunctory, so she took the reputation of the original owner's dead father and refused: "My father is a scholar. The little girl has to be taught by her father, so she dare not be a concubine. No matter how good the family is, I don't plan to be a concubine. Just ask Aunt Wang to push her."
When Wang Po heard that Jiang Zhixia brought out all the dead ancestors, she felt a little embarrassed.
Ancient people attached great importance to reputation, especially the reputation of their ancestors.
Moreover, Wang Po did not do this very authentic. Normally, when people talked about marriage, they would give each other a message to the man and the woman so that both families could arrange for people to inquire about each other.
However, this time, a sixth-rank official family wanted to take a concubine, so Wang Po thought it was inevitable - after all, a normal old-age ordinary woman could marry an official family, but few people refused.
Therefore, Wang Po directly gave Jiang Zhixia's situation to the official family. Now that she has been rejected, she still has to go back and think about how to explain it.
Although there are officials everywhere in the capital, and it is not a fear of being a sixth-ranked man, she, a small folk matchmaker, must not dare to offend easily.
Jiang Zhixia called Xiaoman in and took a purse to Wang Po, and used it as a tea fee and sent Wang Po out.
Originally, Wang Po was quite unhappy because she was rejected and felt that she had been slapped. After receiving the reward, she finally felt better, at least she had not run away in vain. When she left the door, she opened her purse and saw that it was five hundred cigarettes inside, almost half a tael of silver. Her happy face was as happy as a chrysanthemum.
It turns out that he came out of the palace, and even the rewards were paid so much.
Seeing the high reward, Wang Po planned to go to the official house to reply, but she had to say more good things about Zhixia.
Wang Po hurried to the house of the sixth-rank official, Lord Lu, to report the news.
Just so happened that Lord Lu was talking to his wife about something. He heard that it was Wang Po who came to repay him, so he did not avoid it.
Wang Po said something that Jiang Zhixia was unwilling to be a concubine. Although Wang Po tried hard to say a lot of good things about Zhixia, Lord Lu was still a little angry.
After all, he was a dignified official family and was rejected by a civilian woman.
Fortunately, Mrs. Lu was quite rational. Seeing that Lord Lu was angry, she quickly persuaded: "Master, she came out of the Empress's palace after all. This time, the emperor pardoned the world, but because the Empress was happy to get a dragon son. She had only heard that she was more polite, so she wanted to accept her. Since she didn't have this blessing, let it go."
"That's right. I guess this girl also thinks she is too old and it's hard to give birth to a child, right? She will be twenty-three soon." Wang Po accepted Zhixia's reward, and saw that Lord Lu was almost persuaded by Mrs. Lu, and quickly added next to her.
Lord Lu felt much less angry after hearing what his wife and matchmaker said. However, he was still thinking viciously that he was just a civilian woman who didn't know how to polite her. He had a chance to turn around and must breathe a sigh of relief.
Chapter completed!