Chapter 246 245 No concubine is a wife

Today is the fifteenth day, and the day of rest.

Wei Guangde slumped in the chair in the lobby after getting up early in the morning. He drank a little too much two days ago, but now he feels dizzy.

There is a cup of strong tea next to it. Wei Guangde has changed his tea these two days, and he has put more tea leaves. The light tea he used to drink is tasteless now.

Although the quality of these years is guaranteed, whether it is vegetables or meat, and it is absolutely green and pollution-free, the taste is not satisfactory.

Although Wei Guangde had been to the Ming Dynasty for many years, he was really helpless with the seasonings of this era.

In the past few days, the seasonings used for cooking are not only salt, but also plums and wine. People use fish, meat, etc. to make seasoning sauce. The main ingredients are dried meat, fruits, vegetables, etc., and pepper, cinnamon, ginger,

Spicy spices such as onion, bean curd, mustard, etc.

For Wei Guangde, the taste was heavier in the past, but now there are no condiments such as chili, MSG, and so on. That is quite unaccustomed to it.

But there was no way. He had never seen La Jiao before and had gestured with others, but no one had seen it.

In this regard, Wei Guangde concluded that this thing is afraid that it is still overseas and has not been introduced at home.

I vaguely remember that many domestic plants are varieties introduced overseas, but they are not found in China since ancient times.

As for MSG, let’s forget it. I only heard that it is chemically synthesized. He has no impression of how to make it.

In fact, for many people, seeing that shiny thing is like a chemical product. In fact, like soy sauce and vinegar, it is a brewing product that can enhance people's appetite and increase the body's absorption of other foods.

Ability has a certain nourishing effect on the human body.

For his eating habits, it seems that only tea has not changed, and it still tastes the same.

"Young Master, Young Master."

At this time, Zhang Ji ran in from outside the house.

When outside, Zhang Ji always called Wei Guangde the master, and only after entering the house would he call him the master.

"What's the matter?"

Wei Guangde may have drunk too much in the past two days and was not in good spirits, so he asked casually.

"The master wrote a letter and sent Zhao Hu and the others over, saying that he would protect you and help you guard the house."

Zhang Ji entered the house and saw Wei Guangde and said hurriedly.

"Are they here?"

Wei Guangde understood after a little surprised that Li San used to be the only one, but now he knew that he had bought a house in the capital and sent a few more servants to take care of him.

"How did they find it here?"

But immediately, Wei Guangde said to Zhang Ji with a question mark.

When Wei Guangde heard Zhang Ji say about Zhao Hu and the others, he guessed which ones it was. It must be the guards sent to him when he suppressed the Japanese pirates last time.

However, few people go out these days, how can these people be found? Can you ask for directions?

"They went to Jiujiang Guild Hall first, and the manager of the Guild Hall sent a servant to bring it to him."

Zhang Ji hurriedly answered.

"Give the servant a reward and ask them to come in."

At this time, Wei Guangde had not yet arranged the matter of buying a servant. He held a banquet two days ago and invited the chef back from a nearby restaurant at a high price. Even the attendant hired two temporarily.

With the arrival of Zhao Hu and the other two, six or seven people moved into Wei Guangde's yard, all of whom were old men.

It turned out that the old man who came to see the house, Wei Guangde sent the money out, leaving only a group of people from Bengshan Fort at home, so he felt relieved.

My father arranged the guard, but this time I didn't find anyone to take care of Wei Guangde's diet and daily life. It would be impossible to rely on Zhang Ji alone. I still have to find a fangshang to buy a few people to come back, boil water, cook and clean. Those rough ones

A man is not that material.

After receiving Zhao Hu and others, Zhang Ji asked them to take them down to settle down. There were many empty houses in the front yard, so you could just go out to buy something on the street.

Wei Guangde sat alone in the lobby and looked at the letter his father asked them to bring, and looked at the content. This should have been arranged by someone to come to Beijing after reading the Tang newspaper. The letter he wrote should be on the way and they did not receive it.

It is different from later generations to collect letters carefully. The value of a letter from home in this year is not something that people in later generations can understand.

In the era when Wei Guangde came through, mobile phones and the Internet were already popular. Even if you want to see your relatives thousands of miles away, it is really simple to be honest. Whether it is a call or a video, you just need to move your fingers.

But when you get here, letters are all about missing you. When you miss home, you can take out the saved letters to ease your homesickness.

Therefore, he carefully kept every letter he received and stored it, and did not dare to be careless.

Wei Guangde can only place his longing for his family in his previous life, and there is nothing he can do about it.

After getting up, Wei Guangde returned to his bedroom with his letters, opened a box at the head of the bed, took out one of the small boxes, and two letters inside were neatly placed inside.

This year, when Wei Guangde saw someone coming from his hometown, his homesickness burst out. He did not put the letters in his hand, but took out the other letters inside, sat aside, opened them one by one, and read them again.

After reading the letter, Wei Guangde put the letter away without any satisfaction and carefully put it back into the box. However, the moment he closed the lid, he paused.

Thinking of what was said in the last letter before, Wei Guangde wondered. After so long, his father had no famous quotes. Which girl he arranged for him?

I smacked my lips, closed the lid, and put it back into the box.

Time passes day by day, and in a blink of an eye it will take more than a month.

During this period, Wei Guangde took the time to go to the Yashang store near Nanxunfang to buy two cooks and two maids, and two servants to clean them. Now his Wei Mansion is a little bit like that.

Surprisingly, Wei Guangde received another letter from Jiujiang.

After receiving a letter from home last time, Wei Guangde felt that there was nothing to say for the time being. The letter he sent out before had already said everything he wanted to say.

It is normal for a reply from home, but this letter was not sent by merchants from Beijing and Jiujiang, but a team leader in his father's family team, and a young man dressed in a scholar who Wei Guangde didn't know.

After seeing the ceremony, the servants handed Wei Meng's letter to Wei Guangde and introduced the person behind Wei Guangde.

"Young Master, this is Xu Huai, the eldest son of the Duke of Wei in Nanjing. This time I came to the capital to recognize a door."

"The villain Xu Huai has met Lord Wei."

The scholar dressed up as a man also politely to Wei Guangde at this time.

"No need to be polite, please sit down."

Wei Guangde quickly stopped his salute and pointed to the empty seat beside him and said.

Naturally, the servants of his family don’t need to arrange for him to sit down, but the person who came with him was from the Duke of Wei’s mansion, which means Duke of Wei, and this face must be given.

He is just a seventh-rank sesame official. In front of a super-ranked prince like Duke Wei, he actually doesn't count anything.

"I don't know Xu"

Wei Guangde just said this, he was a little stuck and didn't know what to call the other party for a while.

Let’s talk about the young master, the other party is just a chief follower in Duke Wei’s mansion, and he is not even a manager.

"Just Mr. Wei just called me Xu Huai."

Xu Huai interrupted in cleverly at this time and said, alleviating Wei Guangde's brief embarrassment.

"I wonder if you are here this time, is the Duke's instructions?"

Wei Guangde still knew about the matter that the Zhang family of Jiujiangwei and the Duke of Wei in Nanjing. He subconsciously thought that the other party might have known that he was an official in the Hanlin Academy in Beijing, and he was very leisurely anyway, so he wanted to find something for himself.

As long as the Duke of Wei was not a ruthless person, Wei Guangde really didn't have the courage to refuse.

After all, my family still has to be taken care of by others.

Hereditary military positions sound nice to say. As many families have hereditary official positions go, how many people can get real positions?

There is no one above, so you can only stare at the side and watch others eat the oil and water there.

"Mr. Wei will know the details after reading Mr. Wei's letter."

Xu Huai said hurriedly.

Wei Guangde frowned slightly when he heard this, glanced at the servant standing beside him, and picked up the letter on the table without saying a word, carefully tearing open the seal and pulling out the letter paper to look like it.

Soon, Wei Guangde became slightly surprised.

After the provincial examination, I heard about the eldest son of the Xu family. I knew that he had been to Jiujiang Mansion, met his father, and drank the celebration wine he had passed through the examination at home. But I didn't expect that it was

The marriage mentioned in the letter from my father was actually a girl from the Xu family.

When he fell on the Duke of Wei's mansion, he said that the girl seemed to be wrong, and she should be a daughter.

The letter has a lot of content and a lot of information. It explains in detail the ins and outs of Xu Bangrui and Wei Meng’s marriage, and even mentions some time nodes.

Obviously, my father had already thought of a lot when he wrote this letter, so the content in the letter was extremely detailed.

Wei Guangde ignored Xu Huai, but looked at the letter paper and began to ponder it in his heart.

The whole process of marriage seemed to be agreed after he got the exam, but after the results of the palace examination came out, there seemed to be some variables in the Duke of Wei's mansion. Although it did not have much impact in the end, it was enough to make Wei Guangde realize a lot of things.

I am afraid that there is something else in the Duke of Wei’s mansion that has not been said, so my father didn’t know, or he guessed it but it was hard to explain.

Now the people from the Xu family are sitting below. Are they here to solve the mystery for themselves or something?

Wei Guangde was not sure for a while and hesitated a little.

Sure enough, the letter introduced the information about Xu Jianglan, the daughter of the Xu family who was engaged to him. He is Xu Bangrui's sister.
To be continued...