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In front of His Majesty, what dare the Chen family, an old aristocratic family that has produced a figure like Chen Fang, say?

If it weren't for Chen Li from the Chen family and Chen Luoxue who was trusted by the Queen and became the head of the female officials, the Chen family would have long been the same as those scholars' families who stayed in Chang'an.

He has been lost in the circle of the powerful and can only be a local tyrant. He has no status at all in Youzhou.

Not to mention letting Chen Luoxue marry Marquis Yi'an, even if she married a member of the Shen family who had no title or official status, the Chen family not only dared not say "no", but also had to kowtow and express gratitude.

The Emperor personally hosted the engagement banquet for Yi Anhou, which shows that his future is limitless. He is also the prince's uncle, and the Chen family is delighted that the daughter of the Chen family can marry him.

Just thinking about Chen Luoxue's current attitude towards the Chen family makes the Chen family a little nervous, but no matter what, her surname is Chen and she is a daughter of the Chen family, and this can never be changed.

The Chen family listened respectfully to Old Master Shen talking about the wedding arrangements and to the officials from the Ministry of Rites talking about the wedding process. Although the Emperor did not say a word, he only talked about the navy with Marquis Yi'an and occasionally toasted with Old Master Shen and Shen's father.

The Chen family was sweating and laughing, and they just wanted to end the engagement party as soon as possible. Thinking of the elders of the family who had gone to Chang'an to attend the imperial banquet, their Chen family was so glorious at that time.

There was an Empress Chen. When the Chen family came to Beijing, there were banquets every day and feasts every night. The emperor also treated the head of the Chen family with great courtesy.

The past cannot be retrieved, and the decline of the aristocratic family is inevitable. Even a family as glorious as the Chen family can only rely on the marriage of their children to bring glory to the family...

Dong Su's banquet for female guests was much more harmonious. In addition to Jiang, second aunt, and sister Ayuan, there were two more female guests, namely sister Damai and Shen Dongyue.

Although Sister Da Mai and Shen Dongyue are both cousins ​​of the Queen and have noble status, they would rather go to Shenjiazhuang to play than deal with the noble ladies in the city.

Da Mai Jie was a bit better, at least she had entertained the wives and daughters of Jia Shiba's subordinates. She had learned etiquette from the maids in the palace when she was in Gwangju. In terms of entertaining people, she had a bit of the demeanor of the second aunt and was never stage-frightened.

Shen Dongyue's personality changed drastically. She was not interested in attending the banquet at all. She just wanted to stay at home quietly, taking care of the children and planting flowers and plants.

When the news of Feng Wensheng's death came, Dong Su specially invited her to the palace for a chat, and Qingniu also came with her.

When Shen Dongyue heard the exact news of Feng Wensheng's death, she lay on the table and cried for a long time, sobbing and unable to utter a complete sentence.

Dong Su comforted her and asked her to stay at the Shen Family Manor for a while, thinking that with the comfort of her grandfather, her spirit would be better. But she still couldn't open her heart and was always afraid of strangers.

Dong Su felt that Shen Dongyue would never be able to regain the liveliness of her teenage years in her lifetime. That experience was too much of a blow to her.

She didn't force it, just gave her second aunt some time to comfort her more.

Qingniu, on the other hand, has matured a lot. He is taller than his older brother, and is tall and strong. Just like when he was a child, he is still very afraid of his cousin Dongsu.

Seeing Dong Su blushing from face to neck, he was still afraid of Zhong Yang. It was because he was cheated by Zhong Yang too many times when he was a child, and he knew that he could never beat his cousin with his intelligence.

It's better to stay away from it. Fortunately, Zhongyang had long lost interest in teasing Qingniu.

When he was a child, he could trick Qingniu with a few pieces of meat and cakes, and he would tell Zhongyang all the big and small things in the family.

This has become a joke when the brothers and sisters get together. Qingniu, like Dongyue, has completely cut ties with the second branch of the family and followed his grandfather's cousin.

Not only did Zhongyang stop teasing him, he also supervised him in his studies and often took some military books from the Wanshu Pavilion for him to read.

Zhongyang would teach Qingniu during his holidays. Every time this happened, his grandfather would stand by with a whip in his hand. If Qingniu read slowly, he would be whipped with the whip.

When Qingniu heard that his elder brother was going to arrange for him to serve on a warship, he went to the naval base with his elder brother without saying a word.

He almost cried to his eldest brother about how frustrated he was in Shenjia Village. Qingniu was unable to join the army to fight against the Japanese this time, but his eldest brother said that Qingniu could definitely go on the next voyage.

Grandpa was very pleased with Qingniu's maturity. Although his second uncle was useless, he still had a grandson to support the second branch of the family. He could die with peace of mind.

Dong Suyou asked Shen Dongyue if she wanted to go back to Gwangju?

Shen Dongyue shook her head firmly, saying that she would never return to Guangzhou in her life and did not want to see her parents and grandmother again. She did not know yet that Zhu had died at the hands of Feng Wensheng.

Ding Qi didn't tell her about this, and neither did Grandpa. It seemed that they all had a tacit understanding. Knowing that Shen Dongyue had poor psychological endurance, they simply kept it a secret from her.

Even so, Dong Su naturally wouldn't say anything. She just smiled and said that Granny Hu had gone to the Wangfu Manor to spend her remaining years in retirement. Shen Dongyue was indeed cheered up.

In the entire Shenjia Village, the only person she still cares about is Granny Hu who helped her in the past.

She prepared a gift and asked Ding Qi to ask the Jiang family's fleet to take it to Grandma Hu, just to let Grandma Hu know that the girl she helped back then is living a good life now.

Ding Qi's business with the Jiang family was going very well. Dong Su noticed Ding Qi's talent for arithmetic and decided to arrange for him to work in a bank.

After the bank was officially taken over by the imperial court, Ding Qi was also considered an official of the imperial court, and Shen Dongyue finally reaped the rewards of her hardships.

As for my eldest brother's engagement party, the female guests also went smoothly. Although Chen Luoxue's mother and sisters were not as nervous as her father, they were also very respectful.

With the Queen hosting the engagement banquet, they also did not dare to say a single word of "no".

Even when the Chen family said that Chen Luoxue was going to marry out of the Chen family, Chen Luoxue herself objected and said that she wanted to marry out of the female official's residence.

As the head of the female officials, she had always lived in a house attached to the female officials' agency. After she became an independent female household, she had never returned to the Chen family.

Dong Su naturally respected Chen Luoxue's opinion. Even though the Chen family was very reluctant, they had nothing to say and could only agree.

The only requirement was that the person who dressed up and arranged Luoxue's wedding must be a close relative of the Chen family. In addition, the three-day return banquet had to be held at the Chen family.

Chen Luoxue agreed to these two requests. All in all, the engagement party went smoothly.

Jiang, who always loves to stir up trouble, was smiling the whole time this time. She smiled and nodded at whatever everyone said.

Because she couldn't understand Mandarin, and she liked the beautiful and capable Chen Luoxue very much, she seemed to have never understood how noble her eldest son's status was now.

The only thing she knew was that in her hometown, at Shen Linzhong's current age, he could only marry a widow who had been married twice...

The second aunt was quite speechless about this. With the fourth sister's intelligence, how could she give birth to three such capable children?

My eldest brother's engagement banquet was completed very harmoniously, and the wedding was scheduled for May 8. The emperor's southern tour was scheduled for May 20, just in time for me to attend my eldest brother's wedding.

Dong Su and Ling Moxiao had discussed that the eldest brother and Chen Luoxue would stay in Youzhou, with the eldest brother guarding the naval base and Chen Luoxue taking charge of the female officials and the various institutions under Dong Su's command.

Prior to this, the biggest event in the capital in April was the promulgation of the "new money" law, which would not temporarily cancel the use of old gold and silver ingots, but would no longer raise new ones.

The newly raised money was used in all the matters where the court needed money, such as paying officials' salaries, bank mail, distributing disaster relief funds, allocating funds to various institutions, paying military salaries, etc.

That is, the gold coin engraved with His Majesty's portrait and the silver coin engraved with the Queen's portrait. The conversion unit is one gold coin equal to ten silver coins, and one silver coin equal to one tael of silver.