Comprehensive film and television: The Queen of Rolls Opens the Roll Again

Zhang Xueming went back and changed into a black suit, put on a white gauze hat, and slung the long sword around his waist.

"Zhao Zhao, you don't look like you're going to meet your family, but rather like you're going to a fight..." Gong Zishang was surprised, and then praised: "But you look really good in this outfit, you look so heroic, it's so charming~"

"It's better to be prepared." Zhang Xueming stroked the handle of the knife and said with a smile, "Thank you for the compliment, big sister."

Gong Yuanzheng glanced at her doubtfully, and always felt that there was a hint of murderous intent in Zhao Zhao's smile. He was afraid that what she wanted to tell the visitor from the Zheng family was not simple.

Gong Zishang was present, so he couldn't ask anything he wanted to ask. He just followed them silently, listening to them talking about the customs of marriage outside the valley.

From the six ceremonies of accepting the bride price, asking for the bride price, accepting the bride price, accepting the bride price, to the dowry of the daughter of an aristocratic family, which also includes a bed made of craftsmanship that looks like a small room, a ancestor barrel (gong barrel) filled with red dates, peanuts, longans and oranges, and even funeral clothes and materials...

Some families would send people to the man's family to dig a well for the married girl, to show that their daughter would be raised by her parents from birth to death and would not drink a drop of water from her husband's family. If the man's family treated his daughter harshly, his family would stand up for her.

"The bride's family is the foundation of a married woman. If the bride's family is strong, the married woman can make a living as long as she is kind-hearted and has some means."

The more Gong Zishang listened, the more shocked he became. He felt that the palace's marriage selection was like a business. What if it turned out to be a fake family?

She quickly shook her head to get rid of these unorthodox thoughts. This topic is too dangerous, let's change it.

"What did Zhao Zhao learn at home? Needlework, sewing, music, chess, calligraphy, and painting?"

"More than that." Zhang Xueming smiled.

The Zhang family has been entrenched in the northern border for hundreds of years and is the largest family in the northern border. The saying "the guards come and go, but the Zhang family remains forever" refers to her family.

Because of the regional characteristics, compared with the aristocratic families in the south, the women of the Zhang family, in addition to memorizing genealogy, managing household affairs, analyzing government affairs, dealing with people, and raising troops, also had to learn military tactics, battle formations, how to lead troops, and how to handle government affairs. Learning literature and martial arts was the basics, and the art of elegance was used to spice up life.

The old Zhang family was dominated by men and weak by women, and they did not prohibit women from taking power, so several heads of the family were women. At the age of thirteen, Zhang Xueming won the position of young master in a fierce competition.

If Changling City had not encountered a war a few years ago, she would have had some psychological problems due to fighting for more than two years in a row. If the news that her two cousins ​​who were traveling outside had not met with accidents in the South had not come back, Zhang Xueming's solo trip to the South would never have been allowed by the family.

Not to mention that she had been away for more than two years, and could only occasionally learn about the progress of her series of plans against the barbarians and the South from letters from home.

However, although it took a bit of time, it was still a good thing that she accidentally found the "medicine" that could cure her illness.

Zhang Xueming looked at Gong Yuanzheng deeply, and when their eyes met, she smiled sweetly. The tenderness in her eyes was like a net that wrapped him tightly.

Gong Yuanzheng blushed and gave her a slightly shy smile in return.

This caused Gong Zishang to smack his lips and said, "Tsk tsk tsk tsk, in broad daylight, enjoying sex."

Zhang Xueming burst out laughing. Gong Yuanzheng blushed and glared at him, "I told you not to use the wrong words. This is not how you use the word!"

"Oh, really? I haven't taken lessons from the poetry teacher for a long time." Gong Zishang said indifferently, and clenched his fist to hit Gong Yuanzheng on the back: "Your stinky little brother only knows how to spoil things. When he was young, he was a snitch, and when he grew up, he became a spoiler. Zhao Zhao, throw him away and elope with your sister!"

Seeing that the two siblings were about to fight, Zhang Xueming quickly grabbed one of them and told them about the education of the girls from the southern noble families from childhood to adulthood.

As they listened, Gong Zishang and Gong Yuanzheng could no longer laugh. They suddenly understood why those ladies who died of depression in the palace had difficulty smiling, such as Madam Lan and Gong Zishang's mother, Madam Ting.

The brother and sister looked at each other and felt uncomfortable as if a stone had dropped in their stomach.

The pampered girl at home was only allowed to bring two boxes of dowry when she entered the palace. If she didn't please the man, she wouldn't even have basic living security. Who could be happy when encountering such a thing? It was amazing to be able to survive and leave behind the bloodline of the palace.

Zhang Xueming was thinking about asking his men to find out the information of the first few sects that defected to Wu Feng, so he answered whatever Gong Zishang asked.

Realizing that the brother and sister were silent, Zhang Xueming looked around, just smiled at them comfortingly, and then changed the subject to talk about the scenery in various places. Only then did the brother and sister smile.

Zhang Xueming sent Gong Yuanzheng and Gong Zishang to the observation deck on the high cliff next to the city gate, and glanced casually towards the dock:

At the dock, cargo ships were unloading many half-man-high red-painted camphorwood boxes with brass corners. The guards were like busy worker ants, transporting the boxes one by one to the mountain, forming a long winding dragon. Three or four empty ships had already turned around and went back the way they came, indicating that there were still things waiting to be transported.

Jin Miao has already notified the person in charge from the Zheng family to wait at the restaurant, where the accommodation arranged by Gongmen for the Zheng family is also located.

Zhang Xueming didn't stay long and left with Qingzhi and Su Rong.

Gong Yuanzheng had been sticking with her every day recently, so he felt a little weird when they suddenly separated.

He watched Zhang Xueming's back gradually disappear into the distance, and heard Gong Zishang's trembling voice sighing in his ears: "Is the dowry of a girl from an aristocratic family outside the valley so generous? Gong Yuanzheng, you are hooking up with a rich woman."

Gong Yuanzheng was in no mood to refute her. He hesitated for a while with his lips pouted, and finally said to Gong Zishang: "Sister, please help me to watch over the inspection later. I will prescribe some whitening medicine for you later."

Before he finished speaking, he used his Qinggong skills to run away. Looking at the direction, it was the same direction that Zhang Xueming left.

"Hey, this stinky brother who forgot about his sister after getting a wife!" Gong Zishang scolded with a smile.

Since there were no spectators, she stopped making those weird faces and sat down hugging her knees. She looked at the red lacquer boxes in the distance that were as bright and dazzling as blood in the sun, thought about Zhang Xueming's words, thought about her mother who was treated coldly by her father, and thought about her cold treatment in the Shang Palace over the years, and fell into a long silence.

Gong Zishang was thinking about the past and the future, while Gong Yuanzheng finally caught up with Zhang Xueming: "Zhao Zhao, I want to go with you!"

His eyes were not red, nor were there any tears, but he just frowned a little, pouted a little, and looked at her without blinking, which perfectly interpreted the words "pitiful" and "fragile", as if he would shatter to pieces on the spot if Zhang Xueming said "no".

What could Zhang Xueming do? His heart softened and he felt a sore spot every time he pressed the button.

Raising her hand to stop Qing Zhi from reminding her, she took Gong Yuanzheng's hand and said, "Are you not afraid of what your brother will say about you?"

"Just say it." Gong Yuanzheng held her hand tightly, his eyes shining, "If he beats me, I will run away."

"Where are you going?"

"Come and ask Zhao Zhao to help me beat him back!" Gong Yuanzheng puffed out his chest proudly.

Qing Zhi and Su Rong's mouths twitched when they heard this: "Young Master, you are so bold to say that. You can't beat him, so you ask your fiancée to do it. What is there to be proud of?"