I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Chapter 352 The Marriage Is Set 3

Mu Jingzhi was originally following the plan of his brother and sister, but as the saying goes, plans cannot keep up with changes. After he found his ideal partner, Mu Jingzhi simply gave up the path he had been taking.

He shamelessly changed his mind and asked his sister to help him act as a matchmaker.

Although his sister was surprised, she still actively helped him.

That family was a military family. They did not care about their origin as much as the literati and aristocratic families did, and did not mind the Mu family's original identity as merchants.

The girl herself is very smart. She never haggles over trivial matters, nor does she compete with girls of the same age for attention.

Rather than playing hair with others, she prefers to practice martial arts and taste delicious food with the maids around her. She can be said to be a very low-key girl.

Mu Jingzhi's sister felt that a girl like this was more suitable to be married home and live a stable life together, so she was very happy to see this marriage.

Mu Hanzhi was satisfied as long as his younger brother was satisfied, while Mu Jingzhi's mother continued to be a vegetarian and a Buddhist as always. She left all her son's matters, big and small, to her son's older brothers and sisters.

Mu Jingzhi got engaged to the girl he loved as he wished. He was so happy that he wrote two letters overnight to show off his good news to his best friends, Bai Jingzhou and Peng Xuan'an.

Seeing that boys and girls of similar age around them were getting engaged one after another, Bai Chong and Ning Cuizhi became more and more anxious about Bai Jingxin's still uncertain marriage.

It was hard to say what the situation was with Su Yunzhan. Bai Jingzhou didn't want to tell them in advance and make them happy for nothing, so he didn't stop them from making arrangements for Bai Jingxin.

Fortunately, although Su Yunzhan looked untainted by the worldly dust, he was actually very quick in doing things.

When he returned home, his grandparents learned that he had not passed the imperial examination, so they wanted to lower the standards and arrange a marriage for him.

Of course, the requirements for the girl are still the same as before. After all, once the girl gets married, she will spend her whole life with Su Yunzhan, so one still has to pay attention to her appearance and temperament.

Their lowering of standards means lowering the requirements for the girl's family background.

In the past, his grandparents had always wanted to arrange a marriage for him where someone in the girl's family was an official. Even if the official was just a distant relative like the girl's cousin, it would still sound better if it was told to others.

Later, they found that the girls from such families, as long as they had a clean-cut, decent face and a decent temperament, would be kept to marry into more valuable families. The only ones they could talk about were those with problems in appearance and temperament. So his grandparents lowered the standard and planned to find him a girl from a family of scholars with a jinshi or juren degree.

However, when the new dynasty was first established, the court was in need of people. Those who had the titles of Jinshi and Juren and had not committed serious illegal acts while in office would basically be given an official position by the court as long as they were willing to serve as officials.

Only people like Lin's father, who voluntarily stay in the opposition for various reasons, meet the requirements of Su Yunzhan's grandparents after "taking a step back". However, there are few such families, and even fewer with girls of marriageable age. As for those who are willing to marry their girls to Su Yunzhan, I'm sorry, at least there is no one in their family's network of relationships.

This time when Su Yunzhan failed the exam, his grandparents once again lowered their requirements and planned to relax the standard to "as long as the family is a farming and reading family with a clean family background and at least one scholar in the family."

Su Yunzhan's elder brother felt that this was too unfair to Su Yunzhan, so he once again persuaded his grandparents to change their minds and not just give his younger brother such a small amount.

Seeing that his grandparents were about to be persuaded by his eldest brother, but his eldest sister-in-law pursed her lips tightly, and was visibly depressed, Su Yunzhan hurriedly said to his grandparents: "Grandfather, grandmother, it's better not to have an in-law who comes for profit."

"My marriage is not going well because I didn't pass the exam this time, not because my family gave me less. If I had been on the list, even if my family didn't give me anything, I wouldn't be despised to this extent."

After a pause, he continued, "Although I failed to pass the imperial examination in Daming Prefecture this time, I made several good friends with good knowledge and character. Among them is a man named Bai Jingzhou. He has a younger sister who just came of age. She is of good character, good looks, and well-educated..."

His grandparents and brother and sister-in-law all stared at him in surprise. You know, this was the first time Su Yunzhan mentioned a girl, not to mention that he had to struggle to utter two words to praise her.

When his grandmother saw that his cheeks and ears were red, she knew that he must have seen the girl and was very satisfied with her, so she smiled unconsciously.

She asked Su Yunzhan, "That Mr. Bai, did he go to Daming Mansion with his sister?"

Su Yunzhan nodded, "He went to Damingfu with his clansmen and relatives. We encountered bad guys on the way..."

He briefly recounted the process of his acquaintance and interactions with Bai Jingzhou and others, and then focused on the time when he fell ill after being caught in the rain during an exam, and how Bai Jingzhou and others treated him and left him in the front yard to recuperate.

Only then did the Su family realize that Su Yunzhan had failed to make the list for this very reason.

His grandparents and elder brother were heartbroken. They kept asking the servants to call for a doctor, and at the same time they blamed Su Yunzhan for not putting such an important matter first.

Su Yunzhan was not an articulate person. He waited until the three of them had finished what they wanted to say before he finally had a chance to explain, "I'm fine now. Although Brother Bai is young, his medical skills are no worse than those of the doctors in the clinic."

Old Master Su was half-believing and half-doubting, but after thinking about it he decided to ask a doctor to come and take Su Yunzhan's pulse again.

Su Yunzhan couldn't persuade him, so he had to let him go.

While waiting for the doctor to come, Old Madam Su asked Su Yunzhan some more details.

Soon, she and Mr. Su summarized all the information they wanted to know from Su Yunzhan's words.

Bai Jingzhou was from Baijia Village, Qingshan County. His father was a country doctor. By chance, he became a disciple of a great master and learned great medical skills. Later, he changed his career path to the imperial examination and quickly passed the examinations to become a scholar and a juren, demonstrating his amazing talent for reading.

And from what Su Yunzhan said, he and his family and relatives had actually practiced martial arts before, and he, his wife, his wife's cousin and several uncles were the best.

As for family wealth, just look at them. When they go out, they not only have a large team with complete carriages and horses, but also stay in inns and independent courtyards throughout the journey. They even carry a lot of weapons legally. They also have their own houses, shops and other industries in Daming Prefecture. Such a family has undoubtedly more wealth than their Su family.

Not to mention that they also took along the economically disadvantaged tribesmen and provided them with transportation, horses and accommodation throughout the journey.