Chapter 259 The Gifted Bride Becomes a Disciple
The former Prime Minister was the chief steward, the Duke of Chengguo was the external chief steward, and the two princes were bridesmaids. This luxurious lineup shocked the capital.
When Jiang Qingzhi arrived at Li's house, Chang was holding his wife's hand and crying.
She had been crying for half an hour and it looked like she would continue crying.
"Dad, the bride-picking party is here." The son Li Dun came in and saw his mother still crying, and he couldn't help but frown.
"Madam, please stop using your magical powers right now!" Li Huan smiled bitterly, and Chang then let go of her hand. Someone took Li Tian to the back to make preparations.
"We're going to make things difficult for him!" Chang said almost gritting his teeth.
Don’t think about taking my little cotton-padded jacket away easily!
"Don't worry, mother!" Li Dun laughed and said, "Many of my classmates came today, and they are all good at making things difficult for me."
But not long after, Li Dun came back with a pale face, "They are here."
"She's useless!" Chang felt heartbroken when she thought about her daughter's imminent departure.
"Mother, my brother-in-law's best men are... two princes, and the one presiding over the ceremony is Duke Chengguo. How dare they make things difficult!" Li Dun said with a wry smile.
My brother-in-law is cheating!
Jiang Qingzhi came in smoothly.
After completing all the etiquette, Jiang Qingzhi felt sore all over.
Li Huan also admonished his daughter, saying that she should be a woman of virtue, observe etiquette, and be frugal and manage the household...
At the end of the story, Jiang Qingzhi found that his father-in-law was choking up. He held back his tears and waved his hand, "Go! Don't forget to go back home. Your mother... is thinking about you!"
The delicate flower that I had raised for more than ten years was taken away along with the flowerpot one day.
……
"Your Majesty, the bride has been picked up and is on her way back now."
Rui Jingxian was sweating profusely and looked very diligent.
This is the first time in history that the East Factory is used to inquire about wedding news.
Emperor Jiajing looked at the portrait on the wall in silence.
Rui Jingxian took a look and quickly lowered his head to leave.
The woman in the portrait was Empress Dowager Jiang. Looking at her, Emperor Jiajing felt as if he had returned to the past.
"Mom, I found my uncle's family. Today is the day to celebrate his wedding. Are you happy?"
That thin hand slowly touched the portrait.
The Empress Dowager Jiang in the portrait has gentle eyes and eyebrows, as if she is nodding.
……
After receiving the bride, the subsequent events had nothing to do with Jiang Qingzhi.
The person in charge at the moment was Zhu Xizhong, who sat at the host's table with a big horse and a golden sword, raised his glass and said, "I won't go home until I'm drunk today!"
Everyone raised their glasses, "Don't go home until you're drunk!"
Just after a few drinks, someone came in and said, "The prince is here."
What the hell!
The old playboy, who was trying to force Xianzhang Hou Du He to drink, almost stuffed the wine glass into his throat and quickly stood up, "Greetings, Your Highness!"
The prince entered the hall and asked, "I am not late, am I?"
Zhu Xizhong smiled and said, "We are just about to start eating, it's not too late."
The prince personally delivered the gift, asked about the wedding, then drank three glasses of wine before returning to the palace.
This is a huge honor.
Jiang Qingzhi was unaware of the situation outside at the moment; he was struggling with his clothes.
"How do you untie this?"
"..."
"Hey! Why don't you say something!"
“They said, don’t talk.”
"My wife is actually a chaste woman?" Jiang Qingzhi teased her.
But when he had gone through so much hardship, climbing mountains and crossing seas to achieve his goal, the chaste Li Tian asked, "Is this a success or a failure?"
"What do you mean?" Jiang Qingzhi was sweating profusely.
“They said it would hurt.”
“Hasn’t this started yet?”
"Ah! It hasn't started yet?"
"Wait a minute, I..."
"..."
Being overturned by the red waves, men and women love each other...
The biological clock still woke Jiang Qingzhi up on time.
He opened his eyes and reached out to touch something.
"What the hell! What is that?" Jiang Qingzhi sat up, looked at the still burning candle, and then looked at the long hair sticking out of the quilt beside him, "I'm fucking married?"
I have a wife?
A wonderful feeling arises spontaneously.
"Stop fussing."
"Don't waste the beautiful spring time."
"Then let's go on a spring outing."
"I'm talking about... your beauty!"
"It hurts, I bit you!"
"Ouch! Are you a cat?"
"Meow!"
The two people overlapping each other slowly looked up.
Duoduo squatted on a stool nearby, looking at the two men and women eating and drinking curiously.
"ah!"
A jade hand reached out and pulled the quilt up to cover the face.
A muffled voice came from under the quilt:
"That's Duoduo."
“I was seen.”
"Why are you afraid of being seen by a cat? Come on, my lady, call me husband, ugh! Husband is not a good word, call me husband... Isn't this a eunuch?"
"What's that called?"
"Then call me...husband!"
"Husband."
"Miss!"
It was already past noon when Jiang Qingzhi and his bride finally got up.
Xia Yan drank too much last night. Fu Cheng was worried that no one would take care of him when he returned home, so he stayed in Bo's house for one night and was drinking porridge at the moment.
"On the second day of the wedding, we have to meet the parents-in-law and tell Qingzhi that his situation is special, so he should just worship the tablet!"
Jiang Qingzhi thought so too, but when he was offering sacrifices, he silently thought of his parents from that time and space in his heart.
"I hope you are all well!"
Next, it's time to serve tea.
You can't serve tea to the tablet, right?
Just as Jiang Qingzhi was scratching his head, Fu Cheng arrived and said, "Your Majesty is here."
What the hell!
Jiang Qingzhi hurried to the front.
"I'm a little thirsty!" The Taoist said briefly, but today he made an exception and wore a brocade robe.
Jiang Qingzhi was startled, and Xia Yan winked at him from the side.
Is the guessing game starting again?
Emperor Jiajing glanced at Xia Yan and said, "I heard that you have been enjoying yourself recently?"
"I have no worries and am naturally free." Xia Yan said calmly. When the Taoist turned around, he quickly made a gesture to serve tea.
Jiang Qingzhi understood and ordered, "Ask the wife to come over. Also, prepare some tea." Li Tian was resting. Huang Yaner was anxious to go to the new house to check it out, but Li Tian stopped her and said, "No need to go."
Huang Yan'er was stunned, "This is what my wife told me to do!"
Li Tianyu's face flushed. "He burned it last night. He said it was a vessel... a vessel for cultivating some bacteria or something."
"Madam." A maid reported outside the door: "My Lord, please go to the front."
Li Tian stood up, shook his body a bit, and secretly despised the madness of someone in the early morning.
When he got to the front and saw Emperor Jiajing, Li Tian was stunned.
"Seen..."
"Cousin." Jiang Qingzhi guessed the answer to the Taoist's riddle.
"Hello, cousin." Li Tian squatted down.
"Ok!"
The couple offered tea, and the Taoist took it and said, "A man can only be called an adult after he gets married. Why do you say that? A man has people to support and care about, so he can have concerns. With concerns, he can act thoughtfully and not rashly. So from today on, Qingzhi is considered an adult."
"Yes." Jiang Qingzhi lowered his head and looked pleasing.
But the Taoist knew that this guy was full of inappropriate thoughts. He looked at Li Tian and said in a gentler tone, "We should take care of the affairs of the Bo's Mansion."
"Yes." Li Tian looked at Taoist boldly.
The Taoist drank the tea and returned to the palace.
He went straight to Concubine Lu Jingfei.
"Your Majesty, what about the bride?" Concubine Lu Jing had been angry these days. She called her brother Lu Wei into the palace and scolded him, saying that he did not cherish her at the beginning and now his golden son-in-law has been snatched away by someone else.
"I've seen her and she's a good housekeeper, perfect for Qingzhi." Emperor Jiajing said with a smile, "If a man doesn't have a woman to take care of him, he'll lose sight of the big picture."
Concubine Lu remained silent.
Emperor Jiajing looked at her and suddenly held her hand.
Concubine Lu blushed a little, "Your Majesty..."
"You... tidied it up nicely."
……
At the Bo's Mansion, Fucheng and his family of servants paid their respects.
"I've met my wife."
Li Tian sat in the hall and nodded, "Thank you for waiting."
"Don't dare!"
Li Tian said, "I just came in, and I haven't sorted out many things yet. I'm still following the rules. Let me take a look first."
Fucheng’s eyelids twitched.
He was ready to hand over all power, but what did the bride mean?
When Xu Wei learned about this, he smiled and said, "This is to observe what he says and check what he does."
Someone went to see Jiang Qingzhi, and Jiang Qingzhi said, "I don't care how to do it. In a word, follow my wife's rules."
After everyone left, Fu Cheng came and said, "My Lord, when I was in the palace, when a nobleman was promoted, they would kill a chicken to scare the monkeys, or when a new official took office, they would make three big moves. It was lively, but soon, everything would go back to the old ways.
After someone gets to the top, he stays calm and seems mediocre. But after a while, he suddenly takes action and takes down the most cunning people with thundering means, and everyone else is convinced. "
Jiang Qingzhi never expected that his little wife, who liked to wander around alleys just like him, actually had such a talent.
At night, when he asked a question breathlessly, Li Tian said, "My husband, don't worry about the affairs of the back house, just do the big things."
"No big thing is more important than family affairs." Jiang Qingzhi still has the mentality of a petty citizen in later generations.
"What about my husband's ambitions?" Li Tian was surprised.
"You've made me as soft as silk." Jiang Qingzhi teased.
But no matter how much tenderness there is, it cannot stop the passage of time.
Three days after returning home, Jiang Qingzhi prepared to set off.
To Jiang Qingzhi's surprise, Zhou Xia, the attendant reader of the Hanlin Academy, actually came. After presenting a gift, he asked Jiang Qingzhi a question.
"May I ask, Lord Wei, which is more important, Taoism or material desires?"
Tsk!
This is a soul-searching question.
Out of ten people, no, out of ten thousand people, nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine would reply: "The Tao is the most important."
But in fact, the answer in these people’s hearts is material desire.
Jiang Qingzhi pondered.
After a long while, he said, "Minimal material desires."
People who can ignore material desires are probably no different from the walking dead.
“Don’t be too black and white?”
Jiang Qingzhi nodded, "There is no real black and white, right and wrong in this world."
Zhou Xia was stunned. Jiang Qingzhi said, "Who set the standard of black and white, right and wrong? Who dares to say that this standard is correct?"
This is a cage.
Imprisoned most of the world's population.
Zhou Xia's eyes gradually lit up, "Minimize your desires, stick to your own path, and don't be bothered by what the outside world calls right and wrong, black and white."
"This young boy is teachable." Jiang Qingzhi was extremely busy and took advantage of the situation.
But Zhou Xia bowed and said, "I will accept your instruction!"
Zhou Xia returned to the Hanlin Academy.
He walked past the stone tablet, took a look at the aphorisms of the sages, and then left.
He came to ask for an audience with Xu Jie.
"Sir, you are about to go to the Ministry of Rites, and I will also leave you." Zhou Xia saluted.
"Oh! Where are you going?" Xu Jie's going to the Ministry of Rites was basically decided, but it was not made public.
Zhou Xia said: "I have been very confused for a long time, and have been thinking about what my Tao is. Today I suddenly realized it. From now on, I will abandon what I have learned in the past and start from scratch."
Xu Jie said gently: "Who made you wake up?"
"Long Wilbur!"
Zhou Xia bowed solemnly, "Goodbye, sir."
Xu Jie nodded gently. He and Zhou Xia were master and disciple, but in reality they were only in name only.
But the moment Zhou Xia walked out of the duty room, a hint of gloom appeared in Xu Jie's eyes.
……
"What? Become my disciple?"
Zhou Xia then visited Jiang Qingzhi again and knelt down to become his disciple as soon as he saw him.
Zhou Xia said: "I have been pursuing the truth in my heart, and for this reason I have been lingering in the aphorisms of the ancient sages. Until I recalled the debate with Lord Bo, those words shocked me deeply. I am willing to follow Lord Bo in this life."
Jiang Qingzhi was startled, then asked, "Aren't you afraid of being criticized by the scholars and denounced as a traitor to the Confucian school?"
Zhou Xia looked up. "Wherever the Dao is, I will go even if there are thousands of people!"
Xu Wei winked at Jiang Qingzhi, suggesting that this was a good thing.
In the predicament of being surrounded by enemies, Zhou Xia's apprenticeship was a ray of light, which split the fog created by the literati and allowed more people to see that the Tao is not limited to Confucianism!
Jiang Qingzhi certainly knew this truth, but he still asked, "Are you willing to overturn what you have learned in the past?"
Zhou Xia nodded, "Yes!"
"I'm not very old, aren't you ashamed?"
"In my humble opinion, knowledge is more important than age."
Jiang Qingzhi patted his shoulder and turned to go in.
Zhou Xia was at a loss, not knowing whether this was a promise or something else.
Xu Wei smiled and said, "Why don't you go and serve tea quickly?"
Spring, the twenty-seventh year of Jiajing.
Zhou Xia, a reader in the Hanlin Academy, defected from Xu Jie's school and became a disciple of Jiang Qingzhi.
Shocked the scholars in the capital.
(End of this chapter)
