Do you know any wonderful stories about catching a husband under ancient orders?

The Song Dynasty in history was a golden age of "leftover men" and "leftover women", so there was a strange phenomenon, that is, catching husbands under the list. Because these people who passed the imperial examination became the first choice for rich children to choose a son-in-law, in the Song Dynasty, "choosing a son-in-law" was also called "catching a son-in-law", and there was also an ironic "widowed son-in-law". So in the Song Dynasty, there were many interesting stories about catching a husband under the list. Here I choose two typical stories as examples. ? ?

There was once an upright juren who was favored by the dignitaries because of his high face value and brilliant talent. Then the family sent a dozen able-bodied men to take Juren home, only to find that the man was in no hurry, neither refusing nor running away. After arriving, the man in official clothes said to the young man, "There is a daughter at home who is willing to marry you. I wonder if you agree? " Then the young man hunched his back and replied, "If you can climb high, it must be a big deal, or you can wait for me to go home and discuss it with my wife." The onlookers burst into laughter when they saw this scene. ?

Others don't even consider each other's age in order to catch the husband under the list. A man named Han Nanlao was admitted to Jinshi, so someone came to propose. Instead of directly refusing in person, he made a quatrain: "After reading all the documents, the old man got a blue shirt, but the matchmaker asked Yu Lao, thirty-three years ago." This was a joke at that time.

It can be seen that there was a great demand for those who passed the imperial examination at that time. In order to be able to choose them as son-in-law, they even went hungry, even the 70-year-old Jinshi was spared.