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Zhang Chao felt that what Dong Qing said made sense. He had just had an ordinary meeting with Zhao Siniang, but now it was the Tang Dynasty. If some rumors come out and then to Cui Shisanniang, it would be easy to have misunderstandings.

After thinking about it, Zhang Chao felt that he should meet Cui Shisanniang.

It is really hard to accept that marriage first and then love. Since the wedding date has been set, Zhang Chao still wants to know more about her before marriage. After all, we only met for a while that day and didn't say a few words.

He did it as soon as he thought of it. Zhang Chao wrote a letter directly, but didn't say much, but just asked to ask her to meet her.

After writing, Zhang Chao asked someone to hand the letter to Zhuzi of Cui's mansion. Zhuzi would go to the shop in Zhangjiaxi City every day to buy some cooked food. Zhang Chao knew that she was Cui Shisanniang's close maid, so he asked him to deliver the letter. Zhuzi was already very familiar with the people in the Zhangjiacai shop, so he naturally had no reason to refuse Zhang Chao's request.

The letter secretly handed over to the red line, and the red line was handed over to Cui Yingying.

Cui Yingying hesitated for a long time when she held this letter. According to Cui's family rules, such private meetings are certainly not allowed, but Cui Yingying really wants to meet Zhang Sanlang, especially now that the wedding date is approaching, none of the Cui family prepares her dowry, but she still wants to seize her mother's dowry all day long, which makes her feel more and more dissatisfied with the Cui family.

She has a lot of words and wants to find someone to talk to.

"On the ninth day of the 10th month, incense will be burned in Qinglong Temple in Xinchangfang, Yanxingmen, southeast of Chang'an." With excitement, Cui Yingying wrote this line of words. After writing the letter, she read it nervously several times.

"Red line, do you see if my word is not good today?"

"Young lady, I wrote very well. Your character is written by Wang Youjun, and it is written the same as that one."

"Really?"

Hong Shi nodded repeatedly. As Cui Yingying's personal maid, she also read and read.

"What do you think of this letter?"

"Would it be a little too plain? Why don't you change it with golden flower paper, sprinkle some rose fragrance and make some golden powder?" Hong Shi said with an idea.

"Ah, wouldn't that be too much?"

"Then that's it, I won't change it."

The master and servant discussed for a letter for a long time, but finally decided to be simple and elegant, and folded the letter without a name or a signature. This is also to prevent the letter from falling into someone else's hands. Anyway, if Shuanzi was asked to deliver the letter, he knew who gave it to Zhang Sanlang.

"Please let you brothers and sisters."

"Don't worry, little lady, my brother is very reliable in his work." Hongxian smiled, "Little lady, when you get married, you must remember to bring our brother and sister to the Zhang family together."

The Hongxian family was a dowry brought by the thirteenth mother Zheng, then, so they can also be said to be Cui Yingying's people rather than Cui's family.

"Don't worry, I'll definitely bring yours."

"Then I'll feel at ease." Hongxian put the letter in his arms and delivered it.

Zhang Chao quickly got the reply letter. After receiving the letter, he felt very nervous and even excited. This feeling seemed to be the first time he wrote a love letter to a female classmate when he was in middle school.

Excited, nervous.

The letter folded into Fang Sheng also has a silky fragrance.

It opened slowly, and there was only one sentence inside.

"housekeeper."

"Young boss, you call me?"

Zhang Chao nodded and asked impatiently, "Butler, do you know Qinglong Temple?"

"I know that the Xinchangfang in Yanxingmen is the ancestral home of Tantric Buddhism. Qinglong Temple is most famous for every spring when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom. At that time, countless people will go to enjoy the flowers and burn incense, which is very lively. At this time of year, there will be customary talks in the temple, which is quite lively."

The cherry blossoms of the Tang Dynasty, well, the cherry blossoms of Chang'an City and the peonies of Luoyang City are as famous as the ones.

But this cherry blossom is the cherry blossom.

The ninth day of the 10th month is the day after tomorrow.

"Qiuyue, come and grind the ink for me. Young Master, I'm going to write a letter." Zhang Chao shouted excitedly.

Although the four treasures of the study are expensive, Zhang Chao's family is now considered a big family, and of course the family is prepared. Zhang Chao has even asked the carpenter to build a large bookcase, although there are no books on it yet.

Qiuyue is very skilled in grinding ink.

The brushes in the early Tang Dynasty were generally short and thick, and the tip of the brush was very hard. This kind of brush was to adapt to the writing style of this period. In many cases, the Tang people did not write on a table, but held the scroll in their hands, held the scroll in their left hand and the pen in their right hand, which was written in the air.

While writing, the hand holding the scroll is also turning, which is a very test of the pen strength.

Zhang Chao's calligraphy is very ordinary. He usually uses a quill, but for the first time he replied to his fiancée, Zhang Chao planned to use a brush.

After spending a lot of money to lay down the letter paper, Zhang Chao held his wrist and thought for a long time.

Final writing.

"The moon rises to the willows, and people make an appointment to meet after dusk!"

Originally, Zhang Chao wanted to copy Ouyang Xiu's poem, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was inappropriate. The second half of the poem was written in a very sad way.

In the end, Zhang Chao only copied one sentence, which was considered a famous saying for dates. He added a sentence that he saw him, which was originally written by himself.

After the letter was sent, Zhang Chao was a little worried. What if he really met and found out after a detailed discussion that this girl was not in harmony with him? What if she was a domineering woman from the Tang Dynasty?

The wedding date is set on the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month. Even if my father goes out to fight, the postponement will not be delayed for long.

Zhang Chao hoped that the other party was a good girl and did not ask for such a virtuous person. He hoped that Zhao Siniang would be like this. For some reason, Zhang Chao suddenly thought of Zhao Siniang.

Zhao Siniang is quite good, intellectual but smart, neither charming nor gorgeous.

Shaking his head and driving away these thoughts, he couldn't eat the bowl and look at the pot.

The next day, Zhang Chao went to Qinglong Temple to check in, donated a lot of incense and oil to the temple, and put a lot of incense and candles. The monk from Qinglong Temple was very happy and even attracted Zhang Chao to meet the host.

Zhang Chao said that he was once a monk, and he also said that his master was Master Sanzang.

Of course, the host had never heard of Master Sanzang, but after hearing that Zhang Chao was the adopted son of Duke Qin Shubao of Yiguo, he was still very enthusiastic. There were many temples in Chang'an City, and Qinglong Temple could only be regarded as an ordinary temple.

Especially now that the Li family is in the country, they respect Laozi as their ancestors and Taoism.

Zhang Chao proposed to want a room and practice here for a few days.

The host agreed straightforwardly.

The money for sesame oil given by Zhang Chao is enough to live in the best inn in Chang'an.

Zhang Chao lived directly in Qinglong Temple.

Every day when I walk around the temple, I see Buddha burning incense, and chat with monks. Sometimes when I meet some good pilgrims, I will chat with them.

The third day is coming in a blink of an eye.

The ninth day of the 10th month.

Zhang Chao looked through Qiushui and finally waited for Cui Shisanniang.

Before Cui Shisanniang went out, she had already reported to Cui Shanfu that the Cui family had strict rules and children who had not become officials and unmarried women were not allowed to go out at will, and they had to ask for instructions and approval when going out.

Cui Shisanniang has had a very quarrel with Wang recently. Cui Shanfu also doesn't like Shisanniang, thinking that this girl is ignorant and is about to marry into the Zhang family. The Zhang family is also a rich person, and you are still thinking about what to do at home.

I don’t know that the family is very hard, and many of them are gone. There are many sons and daughters at home. They are all at the same age as marriage. The son has to give a marriage and the daughter has to give a dowry.

We will prepare a large amount of bride for our son. Although the wife has brought a lot of dowry after she has married her, it is customary that the wife's dowry belongs to her own private property and even her husband has no right to use it. This dowry will be used for marriage to her son and to marry her daughter in the future.

To put it bluntly, marrying a son, especially a family marriage, costs at least one million, but no matter how much the wife's dowry is, he can't use it. To marry a daughter, he has to prepare a dowry of at least hundreds of thousands. The grooming gifts given by the son-in-law's family will almost always buy the dowry for his daughter.

In short, even a wealthy family like Cui family would have to spend a lot of money to marry a wife and daughter.

Cui Shanfu himself is not the Cui family's main body. After he moved to the capital, he was separated from the fifth branch of Zhengzhou's house, and his family business was bought by himself. After experiencing wars, his family's foundation was actually very weak, otherwise he would not have sold his marriage.

Zheng and Wang came to the house one after another, and brought a lot of dowry to help subsidize the family income. Now that their daughter is going to get married, she wants to take away all of Zheng's dowry. Cui Shanfu is reluctant to let go, and Wang is even more reluctant.

Until now, Wang had told him that Zheng's dowry must be kept, and he would not prepare a dowry for Thirteen Niang.

In Wang's words, the Zhang family is just a poor family, so they can't do anything without giving a dowry.

However, Cui Shanfu has hesitated a little these days.

Zhang Sanlang won a baron for Zhang Tieqin and won a great official for himself. Thinking of him, Cui Shanfu, a son of a famous family, does not have a title yet.

He felt that he had really underestimated the Zhang family before.

My daughter was going to burn incense, but Cui Shanfu thought about it and agreed. Maybe he would have to have more contact with his son-in-law in the future.

As soon as the Cui family's carriage arrived at the mountain gate, Zhang Chao received a notice that Shuanzi had been squatting here for three days.

Zhuzi and Shuanzi successfully connected. The two are now contacts between Zhang Chao and Cui Shisan, and they are very familiar with each other.

Cui Yingying first went to the main hall to worship Buddha and burn incense.

Then Shuanzi told Hong Shi, saying that Zhang Chao was waiting for her in Zhuyuexuan.

Zhuyuexuan is a corner of Qinglong Temple, which is quite quiet. You can get here by passing the cherry blossom corridor. Because Zhang Chao has handled the monks, no one will disturb you here for the time being.

Cui Shisanniang left the servants in front to rest, and then came to Zhuyuexuan with only the red thread.

In winter, under a green bamboo forest, Zhang Chao had already done some work on the pavilion, surrounded the wind with a curtain, burned a charcoal stove, and prepared tea and some desserts on the table.

Cui Shisanniang slowly walked over and Zhang Chao stood up to greet him.

She seemed a little nervous, not as free and easy as she was last time in Cui's mansion.

"I thought you were not here anymore, but I was looking forward to it." Zhang Chao pulled open the chair for her and said with a smile.

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