Chapter 219: Asking for a Date
The reason why Sun Shaozong was willing to come forward to protect Xu Tai was that he respected his ability to remain calm and command in the face of danger, and his courage to lead the team to pursue the Japanese pirates to the death after suffering several wounds.
Secondly, as mentioned before, whether Sun Shaozong likes it or not, he has already become the leader among his peers. If he ignores Xu Tai at this time, he will lose his responsibility and backbone as the leader.
Sun Shaozong never had too much of these two things.
But after Xu Shouye was overjoyed, he suddenly remembered something and said hurriedly, "Brother Sun, should we invite a few more classmates to come to strengthen our momentum..."
"Absolutely not!"
Before he could finish, Sun Shaozong shook his head like a rattle and said solemnly, "You and I went to meet him with a small group of people. That's the friendship between us. If we go to meet him with a large group of people, it will be suspected of being a demonstration to General Wang. If General Wang really gets ruthless, with your and my small bodies, I'm afraid we won't be able to save Xu Tai, but will kill him instead."
“Yes, yes, yes!”
Xu Shouye suddenly understood, and bowed in fear, saying, "Thank you, Brother Sun, for your advice! Fortunately, I came to see Brother Sun first, otherwise I would have messed around and harmed Old Xu!"
Sun Shaozong hurriedly helped him up and said with a smile: "How can you call it 'advice'? Brother Xu is a man of integrity... Ahem, Brother Xu is eager to help others and is a role model for our generation."
He originally wanted to say "kind-hearted", but then he felt that these four words were too "dirty" nowadays, so he quickly changed his words halfway through.
Then, Sun Shaozong asked again, "I heard that Brother Xu is stationed at the Caoyun Wharf recently. This information is much better than mine, so I can only ask Brother Xu to find out about Xu Tai's itinerary to Beijing."
"Just leave it to me!"
Xu Shouye patted his chest and agreed, and then asked about the reunion of classmates.
Sun Shaozong was too busy with government affairs and preparing for his son's full-month banquet to spare any time, so he simply postponed the date of the party to the end of February, and said that he would announce the time and place of the party in the same year after the full-month banquet.
The two chatted about some random things, and then Xu Shouye politely declined the invitation to have lunch together, stood up and said goodbye.
After seeing Xu Shouye off, Sun Shaozong went to the backyard to amuse his son as planned. He also took some time to see how the housekeepers Shi Liu and Furong were doing.
By the way, he plans to name his son " Sun Chengyi" to commemorate his past self.
We spent about half a day enjoying family happiness in the backyard.
In the evening, Sun Shaozong went to the east courtyard as usual to check on his three nephews and nephews-in-law's preparations for the exam.
Seeing that the Spring Examination was approaching, Yu Qian and Sun Chengtao were relatively calm. On the contrary, Sun Chengye seemed to be under great pressure. It seemed that he had not slept well for several days. The circles under his eyes were as dark as a panda's, and he did not look as steady as usual at all.
Although the imperial examination was the most important event in this era when everything except education was inferior, his performance still lowered Sun Shaozong's original evaluation of him - among these three people, Yu Qian really had to be relied on!
However, Sun Shaozong did not show his thoughts. He encouraged Sun Chengye equally and privately asked Sun Chengye's servant to go to the treasury to get some calming and sleeping aromatherapy so that Sun Chengye could sleep more peacefully at night.
After completing the inspection, it was time for dinner.
Sun Shaozong was just about to go back to Ruan Rong's room for dinner, but was stopped by Zhao Zhongji, who said that the master wanted to invite him.
"Did Big Brother say what happened?"
"To answer your question, I guess it's about 'applying for a period'."
The so-called "asking for a date" actually means that the man chooses a date and sends someone to the woman's house to discuss whether this date is suitable. If the woman objects, another date will be chosen - of course, under normal circumstances the woman will not object , this is just a formality.
But when Sun Shaozong arrived at the main courtyard of the back house, he saw Sun Shaozu staring at a half-bald old brush with his mouth wide open and laughing.
"Look!"
Before Sun Shaozong could ask, he held the blunt brush in his hand and said, "This is the brush used by Yang Gong, the first champion of this dynasty and the former chief minister of the cabinet. It is the most suitable brush for our Cheng Yi to use during his one-year-old birthday celebration!"
The full moon banquet hasn’t even been arranged yet, why are you thinking about the one-year-old celebration?
Sun Shaozong sighed helplessly: "Brother, how much did this thing cost?"
"Five hundred taels of silver!"
Sun Shaozu compared it exaggeratedly, and said proudly: "I bought this only because of a favor. After all, the Yang family is not short of this little money."
Five hundred taels to buy a blunt pen?
It's really amazing that he is willing to do that!
"Brother, if you have this money, why don't you buy an ancient inkstone or something? It's an object after all, but you got a blunt pen like this..."
"What do you know!"
The cheap brother glared and said, "There are plenty of good inkstones, but how can a child pick them up? What if they bump into something?"
Sun Shaozong was really speechless after hearing what he said.
never mind.
Anyway, the money is earned by him, so how he spends it depends entirely on his wishes.
"Brother."
Thinking of this, Sun Shaozong wisely changed the subject: "You asked Butler Zhao to call me over, don't you want me to see this bald pen?"
"Of course not."
Sun Shaozu put down the blunt pen, took out a big red note, handed it to Sun Shaozong and said, "Tomorrow you take someone to deliver this to the Jia family and set a date as soon as possible so that I can have a son as soon as possible!"
As he spoke, he added with longing: "When the time comes, the three brothers will stand on each other's shoulders and look after each other."
Sun Shaozong took the wedding invitation, hesitated for a while, and finally said with his last effort: "Brother, have you heard about the case I tried recently? The old man was 42 years old, and he still gave birth to a son..."
"Later, that unfilial son angered him to death!"
The cheap elder brother said unhappily, "In my opinion, this mother gave birth to the child too late! If she had given birth to the child when she was young, she would have taken care of the little beast long ago when her muscles and bones were still strong!"
There is actually such an explanation...
Sun Shaozong was really speechless, so he silently flipped through the 'date request' post and saw that, as expected, the wedding date was set for March, and on March 18th, the day the emperor held his palace examination.
But in this case, if any of the three nephews or nephews-in-law pass the imperial examination, wouldn’t they be unable to attend the wedding in time?
In this regard, the cheap elder brother explained: "I can't care so much, let her get some literary talent first, so that when she has a son in the future, he can be as talented as you in both literature and martial arts!"
Hehe~
Sun Shaozong didn't think that he had the nerve to call himself a "talented man of both civil and military affairs".
