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Chapter 56 Choosing a son-in-law?

"Dear guests, the wine is here!"

The shop assistant quickly brought a jar of wine to the horse-faced man's table.

Hearing several people talking about the King of Wei's daughter, the shop assistant, who also loved to join in the fun, immediately interrupted and said:
"The daughter of the King of Wei is the Queen's sister. How honored is she? Common people like us naturally cannot see her."

"but……"

At this point, the shop assistant seemed to want to show off and kept the question in suspense.

Ma Renyu immediately yelled angrily, "You bastard! You were only halfway through your sentence just now, and now you're holding back on what you're saying?"

"Thank goodness I gave you some money just now. Damn it, you might as well give it to the stray dogs on the roadside to have a good meal!"

While cursing, he also pretended to slap the shop assistant.

Fortunately, Li Yi pulled him back in time, otherwise the slap would have been too strong for the shop assistant with his frail body.

The horse-faced man beside him also seemed a little curious and couldn't help but say, "I've already given you a reward of over ten yuan, and you still think it's not enough? If you have any news, why don't you tell me quickly? What are you talking about?"

"The reward money has to be handed over to the shopkeeper first, otherwise there won't be much left for me..."

The shop assistant grumbled a little aggrievedly, and noticed that the three of them were staring at him with a hint of hostility.

He quickly turned around to look at the shopkeeper and found that the other party was busy counting the accounts and did not notice that he was slacking off.

The shop assistant then whispered, "We heard that news from someone else. They said the King of Wei was planning to recruit someone to choose a son-in-law!"

"Choosing a son-in-law?" Li Yi's face changed slightly.

Damn... I was just thinking about taking advantage of the King of Wei's family, why did this suddenly happen?
Then doesn't that mean I have no chance?

No! Fu Yanqing has two daughters, he can't marry them both off at once, right?

Whether it is the second or the sixth son, Li Yi is actually not picky, as long as he can marry one of them.

He was just about to ask for details, but the horse-faced man asked for him.

"You're not talking nonsense, are you?" The horse-faced man expressed his doubt. "I've been staying at this inn recently, and I've been going to Weizhou City for a while. How come I don't know this news?"

The shop assistant said with some pride: "If you don't have a certain status, there is naturally no place to inquire about this matter."

"Ugh!" Ma Renyu cursed. "What kind of shitty identity do you have as a waiter? How do you know things that others can't find out?"

Ma Renyu is a big and strong man with a slightly ferocious look. When he frowns, he looks like someone who would "dare not let a child cry at night."

"The villain is naturally the stinking dog shit on the street."

The shop assistant quickly smiled and said, "I heard this from a distant cousin. My cousin works as a maid in the Prince of Wei's palace. When she was sent home to visit her family a few days ago, she mentioned it in casual conversation."

"If this gentleman hadn't thought highly of me and was willing to reward me with some hard-earned money, I wouldn't have dared to tell you about this..."

Seeing that the shop assistant was chatting about random things and not getting to the point at all, Li Yi became a little impatient.

He frowned and said, "Tell me the details."

"okay!"

Although Li Yi behaved very gently from beginning to end, the shop assistants could tell from their keen eyesight that this owner was no ordinary person.

He immediately replied honestly: "It's not necessarily the case that we're choosing a son-in-law..."

Before he could finish his words, Ma Renyu interrupted him, "You're talking about choosing a son-in-law, but you can't say the same thing the next day. Are you teasing us?"

"Will you please stop fucking talking?"

Li Yi was really annoyed by this guy's chattering. He kept interrupting for no reason, so he couldn't help but kick Ma Renyu.

Ma Renyu rarely saw Li Yi get angry, and he couldn't help feeling a little scared, but he calmed down.

The horse-faced man saw what the two were doing. He glanced at Li Yi and Ma Renyu with a strange look, as if he was thinking about something.

Meanwhile, the shop assistant was interrupted for a moment before continuing, "It is said that the King of Wei will invite talented young men from the vicinity of Daming Prefecture to his mansion for a banquet the day after tomorrow."

"You said it's not a festival, but the King of Wei suddenly did this. Isn't it very strange?"

"The servants in the mansion all speculated that the King of Wei might be thinking of choosing a son-in-law. But Madam Fu Liu is still young, so there's no need to be so anxious, right?"

"On the contrary, Madam Fu Er is already 23 years old this year. If she were a girl from another family, she would have given birth to a basket of children."

"Thinking about it this way, it naturally makes sense..." "Of course, in the final analysis, it's all just our imaginations. We dare not speculate about what the King of Wei is thinking."

After saying this, the shop assistant looked back and saw the shopkeeper looking at him. He said hurriedly, "I won't accompany you gentlemen anymore, otherwise the shopkeeper will scold me again later."

The guy ran very fast, but he couldn't escape the shopkeeper's sharp eyes. As soon as he reached the counter, he was grabbed by the shopkeeper and scolded.

"Could it be that my tiny butterfly wings really have an impact on the general direction of history?"

Li Yi withdrew his gaze and pondered secretly.

He remembered that in history, Fu Er Niang took over her sister's job and was taken in as Chai Rong's second wife after Empress Fu died.

After Chai Rong passed away, she became the empress dowager and took charge of government affairs.

This is why Zhao Kuangyin bullied the "orphan and widow".

It's impossible that the historical records are wrong... It shouldn't be possible!

There may be room for manipulation in small details, but the general historical trend is basically difficult to falsify.

At this moment, the horse-faced man suddenly spoke up, "No wonder I saw Sanlang from Wang Jieshuai's family arrive at the posthouse in Weizhou City a few days ago."

"I was wondering why Wang Sanlang came to Daming Mansion for no reason. Now I understand... He came here for the Fu family's wife."

"Wang Jieshuai?"

Seeing that Li Yi was a little confused, the horse-faced man explained: "Oh, I'm talking about Zhangde Jiedushi Wang Rao."

Wang Rao... Li Yi remembered.

This man had been an officer of the imperial guards since the Later Jin Dynasty. He had served as the commander of the Konghe and Fengguo armies. He had become a military governor during the Later Han Dynasty. After Chai Rong succeeded to the throne, he transferred him to be the military governor of Zhangde Army, and also appointed him as the Shizhong and Tongpingzhangshi.

In the current Later Zhou Dynasty, he was considered a figure second only to King Fu Yanqing of Wei.

However, compared to him, his daughter may be more famous, because Wang Rao's third daughter, Wang, was Zhao Kuangyin's second wife.

To be honest, Wang was actually the founding queen of the Song Dynasty. Zhao Kuangyin's first wife, He, died early, before he established the Song Dynasty, and was posthumously named queen.

So when Li Yi was looking up this history in his previous life, he specifically looked up the records about Wang Rao.

Otherwise, he really wouldn't know who Wang Rao was.

Li Yi asked doubtfully, "Could it be that you know this Sanlang from Wang Jieshuai's family?"

"My dear brother, you are too kind. How could someone like me be related to the son of a military governor? It was only last year when I was doing business in Xiangzhou that I happened to meet the third son of the Wang family. I recognized his appearance."

As he spoke, the horse-faced man poured a bowl of wine, tilted his head back and drank it all in one gulp. It seemed that he, like Ma Renyu, was a big drinker.

He wiped his mouth and smacked his lips, "Mrs. Fu Er has been kept in the palace by the King of Wei for many years. Why is she suddenly thinking of getting married?"

"But it doesn't necessarily have to be Madam Fu Er... Madam Fu Liu may not be very old, but she will be coming of age next year, so we can arrange a marriage in advance."

"Huh? If you really think about it, Madam Fu and the current queen were both born to Prince Wei's first wife. They wouldn't be promised to anyone easily. Otherwise, who would be qualified to be the emperor's brother-in-law?"

"Madam Fu Liu is the daughter of a second wife, and her status is indeed lower than her two sisters. In my opinion, if the King of Wei really wants to choose a son-in-law, I'm afraid Madam Fu Liu is more likely to be the one!"

I don’t know if it was because Li Yi generously gave him wine and food.

The horse-faced man was not shy and directly stated his speculation in front of Li Yi and the others.

Hearing this, Li Yi couldn't help but look at the other person a few more times.

Only then did he realize that he had been so focused on the affairs of the Wei Wang family that he hadn't noticed that the man with the horse face did not look like an ordinary businessman.

There is a faint aura of a warrior, and he is not an ordinary soldier. Li Yi has been in the imperial guards for several years, so he has some insight.

Li Yi chuckled and asked tentatively, "Brother, I'm afraid you are from the military, right?"

"Brother, can you even see this?"

The horse-faced man did not shy away from the matter at all. Instead, he was curious about how Li Yi figured it out.

"I'm just guessing." Li Yi smiled slightly and didn't explain too much.

The horse-faced man didn't care and sighed, "I was once a captain in the Tianxiong Army, but I was too stubborn and offended the superiors. They wanted to demote me to a horse ranch as a gatekeeper, but I couldn't stand it, so I resigned."

"Nowadays, I'm doing some business. When there's business, I work. When there's no business, I rest. Hehe, it's pretty free..."

(End of this chapter)