Chapter 1953 Confidence
Manbao didn't live at home often and didn't know this, but Zhou Wulang knew it. When they first moved in, many people liked to come to their corner door. Some came to sell goods, some to borrow or deliver things. Sometimes they had no excuse, they would just knock on the door and squat by the door to talk to them.
Zhou Wulang, Zhou Lixue and the others didn't know about it at first and thought it was just the neighborly hospitality. Isn't this just like in the village?
When we have free time, we sit together and chat.
Later, Zhou Lijun followed Old Lady Liu to learn how to manage the household for a while, and then she forbade them to talk about family matters to outsiders.
You can squat at the door and chat with people, you can say anything, but you can't talk about family matters, even if you say that you saw someone step on a melon rind and fall flat on his back on the way home today.
If someone doesn't know how to read someone's expression and know when to stop, then just ask them back, ask about their master's affairs, whatever the secret is.
After doing this, more than a month later, no one came to the back corner door of Zhou's house to knock on the door or chat with the old Zhou family members.
Now, the servants who guard the door would occasionally talk, but Madam Liu was strict in housekeeping, so the servants would not tell others about the affairs of the master's family.
So the news was well kept within Zhou's house, but except for the person involved, Bai Erlang, everyone knew everything they should and shouldn't know.
During dinner, Aunt Rong even specially made a braised lion's head dish for Bai Erlang, while Xiao Qian asked Manbao to bring a bowl of steamed meat. The two people's statements were surprisingly consistent.
Manbao said: "My sister-in-law asked you to eat more, eat more and grow stronger..." so that you can get married.
Bai Jilang was sitting at the dinner table, very skeptical, "Is this for me?"
Manbao nodded.
Bai Erlang glanced at Bai Shan and asked, "Isn't it for Bai Shan?"
"No," Manbao emphasized, "It's for you."
The maid who brought the dish also smiled and said, "Young Master Tang, Aunt Rong's braised lion's head is also made for you."
Bai Erlang began to calculate seriously in his mind, "No, my birthday is still three months away."
Bai Shan asked someone to add a set of bowls and chopsticks for Man Bao. Seeing that he was still hesitant, he said, "Just eat it."
Bai Erlang felt something was wrong when he heard this. He picked up a large meatball, looked at Bai Shan, then at Man Bao, and finally turned to look at Mr. Zhuang. He asked hesitantly, "Sir?"
Mr. Zhuang smiled and nodded, "Eat."
Bai Erlang felt that even if Bai Shan and Man Bao would cheat him, his master probably wouldn't, so he looked up at them while taking a bite.
Manbao wanted to eat it too, so he took his bowl and chopsticks from the servant and ate there.
When Zhou's family saw that Manbao had not returned, they knew that she had eaten there, so they stopped waiting for her.
Bai Shan never looked for Bai Erlang until they entered the palace.
The two of them lived in the same room, and they often chatted when the lights went out at night, and tonight was no exception.
Bai Shan asked, "What kind of wife do you want to marry?"
Bai Erlang had just laid down, fanning himself with a palm-leaf fan. Upon hearing this, he sighed, "It's fine if you two are affectionate in front of me on weekdays, but you're also showing affection when you're apart?"
Bai Shan said: "Who showed affection to you? This is a question, and it is a literal question, so please answer it, what kind of wife do you want to marry?"
Bai Erlang was amazed. He half sat up with a palm-leaf fan in hand and looked across at the other side in the hazy moonlight. "Strange! Are you concerned about your cousin?"
"No," Bai Shan said calmly, "I'm just concerned about my junior brother."
He said, "As a senior brother, isn't it natural for me to care about my junior brother's lifelong affairs? As the saying goes, an elder brother is like a father..."
When Bai Erlang heard this, he was so angry that he dropped his palm-leaf fan, stretched out his foot and stepped over the two beds to kick him. Bai Shan rolled inside and avoided it. He laughed twice and said, "Okay, okay, I won't tease you anymore. I'm asking you seriously, do you have someone you like in your heart?"
Bai Erlang snorted and continued to lie back on the bed without saying anything.
Bai Shan propped up his head and looked at him from a distance, but in the night he could only see the outline of the person and could not see the expression on his face.
"Hey, we've been brothers for so many years, is there anything you can't tell me? I even know that you were still wetting the bed when you were seven..."
Bai Erlang exploded instantly, and jumped up and rushed over to hit him, but Bai Shan only stretched out one leg and said, "Don't come, my kung fu is much better than yours."
Bai Erlang was furious, but he subconsciously lowered his voice and said, "I didn't! It was an accident!"
He knew that they were too tired from playing in the mountains that day, and he drank a lot of water, so he couldn't get up for his nap.
Bai Shan chuckled and said, "So what can't you say? Since you won't say it, then I'll ask directly, do you like Princess Mingda?"
Bai Erlang sat beside his bed and sighed after a while, "Whether she likes it or not, I can't ask her to do it."
"Have you begged?"
Bai Erlang shook his head in the darkness and said, "Doesn't it say in the book that marriage is a matter of parents' orders and matchmaker's words? If I can't be sure I can pass the test of the elders, wouldn't I be harming her if I asked her for it?"
Bai Shan nodded in agreement, "There's nothing wrong with our parents. The problem lies with the Emperor and Empress."
Bai Erlang stepped onto the bed board and lay down on his own bed, continuing to fan himself with a palm-leaf fan. "Isn't this nonsense?"
"But whether Princess Mingda is willing or not is still a big question," Bai Shan asked Bai Erlang, "I mean, if Princess Mingda is also interested, what are your plans?"
"Then I will go and ask for marriage from His Majesty," Bai Erlang crossed his legs and shook them, still very confident. "Aside from my poor academic performance, I should be pretty good in other areas."
Bai Shan didn't expect that he had such a self-perception and was surprised for a moment, "You think your weakness is that you are not good at studying?"
Bai Erlang was silent for a moment before saying, "Well, it's a bit behind, but that's compared to you guys. I compared myself with Feng Zongping and the others, and I think it's still okay."
Bai Shan: "...So family background and stuff?"
"Your family background is not bad, right?" Bai Erlang has been a tyrant in the village since he was a child. In the entire Qili Village, including several nearby villages such as Dali Village, no other children can be superior to him except Bai Shan and Zhou Man. Even when he went to Yizhou and the capital, he never showed fear.
Few people can bully him because of his family background. What is there to be afraid of? At worst, he can go home and inherit the land left to him by his father.
Bai Erlang continued to fan himself with a palm-leaf fan, muttering, "I'm not bad looking, and my character is impeccable, but I'm not very good at studying. Princess Mingda loves studying, and it would be better if she didn't like studying like Princess Changyu, and only loved eating."
He must be very confident then.
Bai Shan turned over and said, "Come on, I think it's a good thing that you have this shortcoming." Otherwise, you would be in trouble.
This is wrong, I will replace it later. I feel really dizzy today.
(End of this chapter)
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