The sun is just right at noon.

Outside the door of the hospital, four bearers slowly lifted Zhang Zhuo's dark red official sedan and merged into the flow of people on Anxi Street.

There was a faint fragrance in the medical center. Bai Li leaned towards the counter, looked out the door and asked, "I seem to have seen Mr. Zhang Zhuo. Why did he leave so quickly when he saw us?"

Chen Ji put the chess pieces into the chess basket one by one: "Master Zhang said he would have a banquet at noon, so he left first."

Bai Li was confused: "Did Mr. Zhang come here specifically to see you? Does he want to act as a lobbyist for the Chen family and persuade you to go home?"

Chen Ji also had a question mark on his forehead: "No, he seems to be here to persuade me not to go home..."

Bai Li: "Ah?"

The prince, who had just climbed over the wall and came in, lowered his head and patted the dust on his body, while jokingly saying: "Maybe Mr. Zhang took a fancy to your talents and wanted to recruit you to be an official in the government office."

"Can I become an official without taking the imperial examination?"

The prince smiled and said: "Of course I can. With Mr. Zhang's identity and background, it will be easy to recommend you an official position. Maybe he really wants to invite you to take up an official position. You can first go to the government office as a staff member for two years, and then you can become a foreign official."

Put it in one place and serve.”

Liu Quxing said sourly: "What kind of official can Chen Ji be? He is not as good at medicine as I am. At the beginning of the year, I could figure out the location of the twelve major meridians, but he still can't remember where the Yongquan point is...

"

She Dengke folded his arms in front of his chest and sneered: "You remember the acupuncture points, but you can't remember how good others are to you."

Liu Quxing rubbed his neck and blushed: "What the hell did you fart!"

The prince sighed: "No mouth in Taiping Medical Center is in vain."

At this time, Old Man Yao was playing with the beads on the abacus, taking notes, and said calmly without raising his head: "Don't make random guesses. As soon as Mr. Zhang came in, he asked me if Chen Ji liked any house.

A woman. I said no. This kid’s brain may not have grown up yet, so he hasn’t thought about it yet.”

Liu Quxing's breath was stagnant.

Old Yao put down his brush, raised his head and continued: "Then Mr. Zhang began to praise his daughter for being gentle, knowledgeable, and good at managing housework. Don't you understand what Mr. Zhang means?"

The hospital suddenly became quiet.

Liu Quxing opened his mouth wide and looked at Chen Ji silently, but stopped talking.

Chen Ji looked at Liu Quxing: "What does senior brother want to say?"

Liu Quxing gritted his teeth: "You really deserve to die!"

Chen Ji: "..."

Master has made it clear to him that it is inappropriate for him to pretend to be stupid: "Master, you didn't answer his question, did you?"

Old Man Yao sneered: "I'm not your father, who am I qualified to say such things? But I came to the hospital early in the morning just to see what kind of character you are up close. Now that I'm satisfied and leave, I'm afraid it's not

I want to go to the banquet, but to the Chen Mansion."

Chen Ji frowned: "Are you so careless? Master Zhang and I have only met three times in total, so he can judge my character?"

This time it was Old Man Yao's turn to be startled: "Three times is not enough? He is quite sincere in making a special trip to the hospital for this matter. It seems that his daughter is very much loved."

Chen Ji suddenly realized a problem: in marriage in this era, what both parties choose is not the person, but the family.

As Master said, Zhang Zhuo was extremely responsible for his daughter by personally coming to the hospital to see Chen Ji's character.

She Dengke said in a dull voice: "How many daughters does Mr. Zhang have? Which one is he going to be a matchmaker for now?"

The prince leaned on the counter, thoughtfully: "Master Zhang only has two daughters. The older one has already married into the Liu family, so he should be the younger one, but..."

Chen Ji was confused: "But what?"

Liu Quxing said bluntly: "But the remaining daughter is the legitimate daughter, but you are the concubine. Could it be that Lord Zhang has an illegitimate daughter?"

The prince shook his head: "Even if Chen Ji is a concubine, he is still a concubine of the Chen family. The Chen family has been wearing hairpins for generations. Now the head of the family, Chen Luchi, is the elder of the court and serves as the minister of the Ministry of household affairs. If Mr. Zhang is an illegitimate daughter, he comes to visit.

If you try to be a matchmaker, Mr. Chen will get rid of the Chen family. Therefore, Mr. Zhang is probably going to be a matchmaker with his legitimate daughter."

A legitimate daughter marries a concubine...

Liu Quxing became even more sour.

While he was thinking about it, Bai Li said from the side: "But, this Master Zhang Zhuo's reputation..."

"Huh?" Chen Ji looked at Bai Li.

Bai Li hesitated for a long time and gently tugged on the prince's sleeve: "Brother, tell me."

The prince had no choice but to say: "If you want to be promoted under Mr. Zhang, the promotion of a county chief registrar will cost 800 taels of silver, and the promotion of a county magistrate will cost 3,000 taels of silver. The prices are clearly marked. Every day in the Zhang Mansion, there is a bustling crowd, and there are people queuing up outside the door.

There are people, and it is said that there are officials from other states. But Zhang Da has an excellent reputation. As long as you pay him, he will really do things for you."

Liu Quxing on the side became more energetic: "I heard that Mr. Zhang has taken dozens of beautiful concubines. Is it true?"

The prince smiled and said, "It's true. Countless officials send him concubines every year. He doesn't refuse anyone who comes and accepts them all."

Liu Quxing sighed: "How many houses will be needed?"

The prince said: "Master Zhang divided his beautiful concubines into three, six or nine grades. The upper three grades stayed in his own house, while the lower six grades were all sent to the farm to do farm work..."

Bai Li said from the side: "The Chen family is a clean figure in the north. There has always been a rift between the court and the Xu family in the south..."

Chen Ji shook his head: "These are not things I consider in the court, I'm just not interested in this matter."

Old Man Yao said sarcastically: "You talk as if you can decide this matter. How can you make the decision about your parents' orders or the words of your matchmaker?"

Chen Ji replied: "When Mr. Zhang thought about this, he probably took a fancy to the cement formula in my hand. Now that the prince and I have not signed the deed to transfer the formula, things are still going to turn around, so Mr. Zhang made up his mind.

.I just need to sign a contract with the prince as soon as possible and let Mr. Zhang know that if there is no improvement in the cement matter, he will abandon me like a worn out shoe."

Old Yao stroked his beard and said, "That's true. This person has no profit and can't afford it early. He is a real villain."

The prince suddenly said: "However, Mr. Zhang was not like this when he was young. He was a scholar at the age of twelve and the top scholar in high school at the age of fifteen. At that time, he already had a wife. Mr. Xu Ge asked someone to talk to a matchmaker and wanted him to divorce him.

He wanted his wife to marry a daughter of the Xu family, but he rejected her. At that time, he said to the matchmaker, 'If you don't have me, your daughter will still be a noble daughter, but if my wife doesn't have me, she might just be a skeleton.'"

"When Mr. Zhang was nineteen years old, his wife died of illness. He resigned and returned to his hometown in Jiangling, Huguang."

Bai Li was confused: "Hey, why did he marry Mr. Xu Ge's niece again?"

"It is said that Mr. Zhang figured it out after a year of idleness at home. He then married Xu Ge's old niece and rose to prominence from then on."

However, at this moment, Bai Li suddenly lowered his voice and said: "Chen Ji, someone is staring at me across from the medical center. This is not the first time I have seen him."

Chen Ji looked out of the corner of his eye and saw a vigorous middle-aged man standing under the shadow of the awning of the bun shop, silently watching Bai Li.

This middle-aged man is dressed in black and has a tiger back, a wasp waist, and mantis legs. He is extremely powerful.

Chen Ji wanted to see the other person's face clearly, but the other person was wearing a bamboo hat, and his face was hidden under the bamboo hat.

Is he a spy from the Secret Service? No, a spy wouldn't stare at people like that.

He thought for a while and asked: "How many times has the princess seen him?"

Bai Li recalled: "Four or five times, the first time was in the wine shop at the foot of Donglin Academy. That day I followed my brother down the mountain, and he was sitting alone in the wine shop. This man has a special figure and a special temperament, so I saw

It’s easy to remember.”

"Where else have you seen me since?"

"Let me think about it, after returning from the academy, he was standing by the roadside when we first entered Luo City." Bai Li said: "I was quite scared when I saw him at first, thinking he was some gangster, but then slowly

Once he gets used to it, he just looks at it, looks at it for a while and then leaves."

"Does he have any other characteristics?"

Bai Li recalled for a while and suddenly said: "I remembered that I passed by him once, and I saw a tattoo on his wrist with his sleeves rolled up, which seemed to have a Buddha tattooed on it."

"Buddha?" Chen Ji frowned and looked outside the hospital, but there was no one under the awning of the bun shop.
Chapter completed!