Pei Yan had beads of sweat on his forehead, but he didn't look panicked at all. He was thinking about who should he ask to propose marriage.

This person must have a good personal relationship with Yu Wen and be able to have a say with the Pei family.

Unfortunately, the status of the Yu family and the Pei family is very different. Pei Yan couldn't find a suitable one after thinking about it in his mind.

Just when he was wondering whether he should go and ask Mr. Pei for help, he suddenly thought of Mr. Wu who had accompanied him to drink at Yu's house today.

Isn't this a ready-made candidate?

Pei Yan instructed Hu Xing: "Go and send a letter to Mr. Wu in Qingzhu Lane, saying that the second master wants him to come to his house for a drink."

Hu Xing left immediately.

Pei Yan went to Pei Xuan's place.

Pei Xuan was cleaning the leaves of the orchids he raised with a small spray pot. When he saw his brother coming, he did not put down the small spray pot in his hand, but raised his chin and said "sit down", then asked him: "What kind of tea do you want to drink? I have the newly delivered Biluochun and Xinyang Maojian."

Both of them grew up in Lin'an, but neither of them drinks West Lake Longjing tea much.

Pei Xuan prefers Biluochun and Xinyang Maojian, while Pei Yan prefers Fujian rock tea and Qimen black tea.

Pei Yan didn't come to drink tea with his brother, but he was not one to let himself be wronged, so he asked Pei Xuan's servant to make him a pot of Qimen black tea.

Because it was not the tea Pei Xuan usually drank, the servant spent a long time searching for the Keemun black tea jar. Ah Ming complained to him, "Since you can't remember it clearly, just tell me. I can run back and get it faster than you."

It's also because the second master and the second wife are both soft-hearted. If they were in the third master's room, they would have been sent out to sweep the yard early in the morning.

Pei Xuan told Pei Yan about his reinstatement: "I wrote a letter to my mentor, and he agreed with me seeking a position in Beijing. But you also know that my third cousin from my fourth uncle's side is also interested in becoming an official in Beijing recently. I don't know what your arrangements are, so I was thinking that after you finish your work in Hangzhou, we two brothers should sit down and talk, but you came first. Let's have lunch here at noon, and I'll have someone make your favorite radish sauce dumplings."

Pei Wang's third son was Pei Feng, who was about the same age as Pei Xuan and had been the prefect of Baoding Prefecture for several years. Logically, he should have been transferred to the capital to serve as an official. However, Pei Xuan and Pei Feng were brothers, and Pei Xuan was afraid that the Pei family would attract the attention of other families.

Pei Yan has never agreed with his family's so-called "hiding one's strength and biding one's time" approach.

People leave traces wherever they go. The Pei family wants to be rich, but they are afraid that without power as a backing, they will attract people's covetousness and bring disaster upon the family. How can they really fade out of the eyes of the world? The best way is of course to enter the world.

And who can really last for thousands of years?

Fail when it is time to fail, and be reborn when it is time to be reborn. This is the true way of being a human being.

Hearing this, he said, "Brother, don't worry about these things. I have also sent a letter to cousin Feng, asking him to find Zhou Zijin. Zhou Zijin will be in the capital these days, and ask him to find a way to help cousin Feng find a better position. Why should our family be tolerant and cautious? If we live like this for too long, people will become decadent. Look at the next generation of children, except Pei Chan and Pei Bo, who else can make people look at them?"

Pei Xuan said nothing. He felt that his brother was right. He also felt that his father's decision to hand over the Pei family to Pei Yan before his death was the right one.

He made tea for his brother himself.

Pei Yan had just scolded his brother in such a high-profile manner, and now he had to bow his head and beg Pei Xuan, feeling a little embarrassed.

The two brothers drank two cups of tea in silence. Pei Yan finally summoned up his courage and said, "Brother, I need your help with something!"

Maybe because he rarely asked for help, his tone was rather stiff, but based on Pei Xuan's understanding of his brother, he knew that he had something very important to tell him.

Pei Xuan's heart sank.

His younger brother is not only smart and resourceful, but also arrogant and won't ask for help from anyone when he has free time.

Even if he is his brother from the same mother.

He could not help but sit up straight and said solemnly: "You say!"

Pei Yan felt even more uncomfortable. He lowered his head and took two sips of tea before he said slowly, "It's like this. Didn't Mom host a lecture at Zhaoming Temple a few days ago? People from the Song family and the Wu family came, and they kept talking to Mom or me about my marriage. The fourth wife of the Song family simply lives at home and hasn't left yet. I thought it wasn't a big deal, so I planned to marry a girl from Lin'an. It happened that I was in Hangzhou a few days ago on business, and the daughter of Yu Xiucai from Qingzhu Lane accompanied Yin Mingyuan's fiancée to Hangzhou. We met a few times, and I thought the girl was good. I told Mom about it, and Mom also thought she was good. Now all we need is someone to talk to the Yu family about this matter. So I came to ask my brother for help."

Pei Xuan was stunned.

When did his younger brother become such an honest and timid person?

Did he give in when Song, Wu and others proposed marriage to him?

So who was the person who made it difficult for Zhang and Li to step down?

Pei Xuan couldn't help but look at his brother carefully.

Only then did he notice that Pei Yan's ears were a little red.

Ha ha!

Pei Xuan laughed in his heart.

What kind of forced marriage? His younger brother has fallen in love with the daughter of Mr. Yu!

What else did you say, Mom agreed?

Maybe his mother was so angry with him that she lay down on the bed.

Ever since his elder brother married Yang, his mother hated the private marriage the most. She thought it was good that she didn't discriminate against the couple, so why did she agree to it?

It was the first time that Pei Xuan saw Pei Yan being so shy. He found it very interesting and wanted to play with her: "Don't worry, I'll take care of this matter. I'll go discuss it with Mom right now, you wait for my news."

Let’s see how mom will deal with him then!

Pei Xuan couldn't wait to meet Pei Laoan.

Pei Yan saw his brother patting his chest and assuring him, but he never thought that Pei Xuan didn't think so at all. Not only was he very grateful, but he also felt that he didn't care enough about his second brother's affairs, and said embarrassedly: "Then I'm sorry to bother you, brother." He also gave Pei Xuan some advice, "Mr. Yu and Mr. Wu who live next door to their house are very good friends. If you go to Yu's house, you might as well ask Mr. Wu to accompany you."

I have thought of all the methods for this!

Pei Xuan agreed immediately, but turned around and saw Pei Laoan and said, "Mom, what has my brother been busy with these days? Why did he ask me to help him propose marriage? He said he wanted to marry the daughter of Yu Xiucai from Qingzhu Lane. Does mom know about this? We don't have much friendship with the Yu family. Should we find out what the situation of the Yu family is in advance?"

Who knew that after hearing this, Pei Laoan did not show the Shura scene he thought, but just glanced at him calmly and said, "Your brother asked you to be a matchmaker? Then go and ask around."

Pei Xuan touched his head, not knowing what to say.

Mr. Pei knew that his son looked honest and well behaved, but when he was naughty, he could cause more headaches than an ignorant child.

"This is your brother's business," Pei Laoan urged Pei Xuan, "As a brother, you must handle his business well, otherwise people will laugh at our Pei family."

Pei Xuan was stunned.

It turns out that his mother really knew about this and had agreed to the third son’s marriage!

Didn't he kneel outside the bedroom like a boss for half the night? Didn't he get whipped so hard that he couldn't get up from the bed?

How did the third brother do it?

Why can he always do whatever he wants?!

Pei Xuan thought with some jealousy, the old lady is just partial!

He walked out of Mr. Pei's yard with his head down and waited for Mr. Wu to come and have "tea" with him as instructed by Pei Yan.

After Yu Tang knew Pei Yan had come to her house, she did deliberately avoid him. She did not do anything out of the ordinary, but kept making hair flowers in her room, preparing to give them as gifts to relatives and friends during the Chinese Valentine's Day. So when Ma Xiuniang, who was worried about her, came to visit her, she found that she was calm and composed, which was completely different from the day she went to see her. She seemed like a different person, which made her wonder if she had heard it wrong.

"You didn't say anything to my mother, did you?" Yu Tang asked Ma Xiuniang with some concern.

Ma Xiuniang glared at her and said, "Am I such a person without sense of propriety?"

What if Pei Yan hasn't dealt with the people at home yet and she yells at him? If any rumors get out, how will Yu Tang live in the future!

Yu Tang raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "I won't speak for him. If he wants me to do even these things, it shows that he has no sincerity."

This means that we will leave Pei Yan alone and let him do whatever he wants. If this marriage can be successful, it will be successful. If not, there will be no need to force it!

Ma Xiuniang gently pinched Yu Tang's cheek and said, "Don't say one thing and mean another. Who is the one who is so nervous in front of me?"

Yu Tang admitted it with a red face, but still didn't intend to speak for Pei Yan: "He can't even have the courage to speak up about this, right? That's not what I should do."

That's true.

Ma Xiuniang nodded repeatedly. She still felt that Yu Tang would not find a better marriage than this. She was a little worried that there would be trouble out of nothing. Even after returning from Yu's house, she asked Xi Que to keep an eye on the family's movements.

But for several days, there was no movement from the Yu family.

Just when she was hesitating whether to come to Yu's house again, Yu Wen was already furious.

He stared at Master Wu with a frown and said, "What did you say? The third master of the Pei family wants to marry our daughter? How old is he? How old is our daughter? No! This is absolutely not allowed!"

Master Wu was startled by his decisive tone and said, "The third master of the Pei family is only a young man who became famous. He is only six or seven years younger than your girl. Isn't that good? The girl doesn't have to suffer with her aunt. She will become a Jinshi scholar as soon as she goes there. Is there anything better than this?"

"That won't do!" Whenever Yu Wen thought about Pei Yan being so good to his family for some other purpose, and that even the money in his family that he thought he earned was actually donated by others, he wanted to run to Pei Yan and throw all the money he had spent on food and drink into Pei Yan's face. "It's not like our daughter can't get married. Besides, our family wants to keep her for donations."