In the afternoon, Xue Shao brought Li Dan and Li Chongye to Zhang Zong's house and congratulated Zhang Zong in advance for his engagement. Zhang Zong also asked Wan'er to prepare a banquet and accompany the three of them to eat and chat. It was not until dark that Xue Shao and the other two left.

The next morning, Wan'er started to deliver the things she bought yesterday to her home. I won't talk about all kinds of gifts. The most important one is a wild goose, which is also a must-have item for proposing marriage today.

In fact, the proposal of marriage is also called Nacai, which means that the man asks the matchmaker to go to the woman's house to propose marriage. If the woman agrees, she will accept the geese, and then the matchmaker and the man go home to prepare the betrothal gift. Next, there are five steps to ask for names, Najib, Nazheng, and ask for a date, and welcome the bride. Each step has specific rules and is not careless at all.

The geese must be alive. When they were delivered, Wan'er carefully checked it and confirmed that there was no problem with the geese before accepting it. After all, the geese will only be used tomorrow, and the more lively it is, the better. If it suddenly dies tonight, it will be a trivial matter to spend money to buy it, but it will lose a good sign.

Zhang Zong sorted out the things he sent. Wan'er soaked some millet at this time and then used them to play with the geese. Zhang Zong also felt it interesting. Speaking of which, he had only seen the geese in books. In later generations, it was already a national second-class protected animal.

After lunch, Zhang Zong and Wan'er were also waiting for the matchmaker, because Wan'er and the matchmaker had already made an appointment, and the other party would come this afternoon and inform Zhang Zong about some things to pay attention to during the Naming Procuratorate and some important procedures.

However, what Zhang Zong did not expect was that before the matchmaker came, Li Hongxing walked in from outside the yard, paying attention to coming in from the gate of the yard, not the door of Furong Garden, which made Zhang Zong look surprised.

"A great joy, Zhang Zong, you are going to get married!" Li Hong walked over with excitement at this time and said loudly. Looking at him, he seemed to be happier than getting married by himself.

"Crown Prince, do you know too?" Zhang Zong was stunned when he heard Li Hong's words, but when he thought that Li Dan and Li Chongye knew, maybe Li Hong learned it from them, so it was not surprising.

"Of course I know, you... already know?" Li Hong was stunned when he heard Zhang Zong's retort, and then asked in surprise.

"Of course I know my own affairs. Prince, why do you ask this?" Zhang Zong asked even more strangely when he heard this. He was going to marry Ning'er, and as the person involved, he was of course the first to know.

"No, are you sure we are talking about the same thing?" Li Hong felt something was wrong at this time and asked with a frown.

"Isn't the prince asking about me being engaged?" Zhang Zong also felt something was wrong at this time, so he asked.

"Yes, it's your marriage, but it's not an engagement, but a marriage grant!" Li Hong nodded after hearing this, and then corrected that although engagement and marriage granting were only one word different, the meaning was completely different.

"Give marriage?" Zhang Zong was stunned again when he heard this, and then he thought of an explanation, "Have the eldest princess convinced His Majesty to ask His Majesty to give us a marriage?"

Zhang Zong's guess is not impossible. Giving a marriage is also a kind of honor for the ministers. Although Ning'er is not the biological son of Princess Chengyang, it is not much different. You should know that Ning'er also has a title of princess, so Princess Chengyang is completely likely to ask Li Zhi for marriage, and Zhang Zong is not an ordinary person. Many of the contributions he made before were suppressed and Li Hong did not give him any rewards, so giving a marriage this time is nothing.

Unexpectedly, Li Hong was stunned when he heard this: "What does this have to do with his aunt?"

"Uh? I want to marry Ning'er, why does it have nothing to do with the eldest princess?" Zhang Zong became even more confused after hearing this. He even doubted whether Li Hong was deliberately joking, otherwise how could he be so rude?

"Ning'er? Sanlang's sister?" Li Hong shouted in shock when he heard this.

"Yes, your highness, don't you know?" Zhang Zong asked strangely again when he saw Li Hong's disbelief. At the same time, he vaguely felt that what he and Li Hong were talking about were probably not the same thing at all.

"When did you decide to marry Ning'er, why did I know nothing about it in advance?" Li Hong asked with an anxious expression at this time.

"Just two days ago, and yesterday I went to see the eldest princess with Sanlang. After obtaining the eldest princess' consent, I decided to come to propose marriage tomorrow. Even the wild geese are ready." Zhang Zong said as he pointed to the wild geese in the cage next to him to prove his words.

"It's bad! The big thing is not good!" Li Hong stomped his feet anxiously when he heard this. He was filled with joy before coming, but he never dreamed that he would encounter such a thing.

"What's wrong? What happened?" Although Zhang Zong felt something was wrong, he still couldn't guess what Li Hong was talking about?

"This...I..." Li Hong also became hesitant at this time, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "The father has issued an order to marry you with peace!"

"What?" Zhang Zong shouted when he heard the news, his face full of disbelief. After a while, he realized it and said anxiously, "How is this possible? When I went to the eldest princess's place yesterday, I met the princess. She knew that Ning'er and I were going to get engaged, why did Your Majesty suddenly marry me and the princess?"

"Taiping knows about you and Ning'er?" Li Hong asked in shock when he heard this.

"Of course I know, do you..." Zhang Zong suddenly thought of a possibility, and immediately looked as if he was dead.

Li Hong also smiled bitterly at this time, and then he explained: "Today Taiping put on the military officer's clothes and ran to the emperor to dance. At that time, the emperor also asked her why she wanted to wear the military officer's clothes. As a result, Taiping said that she could give this dress to the prince-consort, which made the emperor understand her thoughts."

Li Hong paused at this point, and then smiled bitterly again, "Father asked Taiping what kind of prince consort he wanted to marry, but Taiping insisted on marrying you. The father also thought you were very suitable, so he summoned me to ask. I didn't know what you and Ning'er were, of course, strongly agreed, so the father asked someone to draft an edict, and I wanted to prepare you first. I guess the edict will arrive soon."

"Taiping! Taiping!" Zhang Zong was so angry that he screamed twice when he heard this. He didn't expect that the other party was so vicious and deliberately destroyed his marriage with Ning'er. He just didn't like the other party before, but now he completely hated the other party!
Chapter completed!