The Qinghe County Lord of the Red Chamber

Let's talk about the Shangyuan Festival, the children of the Zhongyong Wang Mansion, Cheng'en Gong Mansion, and Baoning Hou Mansion went out to enjoy the lanterns together.

A group of people strolled outside for less than half an hour, and these normally delicate ladies couldn't move anymore.Daiyu, in particular, just felt unable to hold on.

Of course, Princess Lirong is still in good spirits, and it seems that there will be no problem in walking for another two hours.

Just now she went to see a fire-breathing dragon lantern like a gust of wind, and the speed was so fast that even the black dog she was holding in her hand could barely keep up.

Among these people, Shang Chi was the oldest, and he was always careful. Seeing that the women walked slowly, he said, "There is Jinxiu Building in front, which is the first-class restaurant in Beijing. Every year after the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, they will It will not be closed for business, but it has been carefully cleaned and arranged, and it is specially set up for the Shangyuan Festival to entertain the family members of officials and eunuchs, let's go and have a rest."

Except for Princess Lirong who said that she hadn't done enough shopping and wanted to continue walking the dog, and then took her own guards and maids to part ways with them, the rest of the daughters were willing to sit in the Jinxiu Building and watch the lanterns.

Shang Chanchan looked at the black dog sticking out its tongue, thinking that it was usually pampered in the palace, and at this moment she probably wanted Princess Lirong to sit down and rest.

However, the dog's life is difficult, so he couldn't help it, so he could only walk away with Princess Lirong, and turned his head to Shang Chanchan and the others to "woo" twice.

Speaking from Shangchi, some servants of the merchants had already rushed to the front and entered the Jinxiu Tower to stand in front of everyone.

Shang Chi knew that the girls might not be able to visit for long, so he booked the private room on the top floor in Jinxiu Tower in advance.

The shopkeeper had verified his identity, and hurriedly came out to meet these young masters and young ladies in person, with smiles all over their faces.

"Thanks to all the nobles who value our Jinxiu Tower. The room on the top floor is the best place to watch the lights, and it is extraordinarily quiet. I will send someone to prepare refreshments for you gentlemen and ladies—today we have specially invited someone from Kaiyuan Tower here. The pastry chef is specially preparing for distinguished guests."

Shang Chi nodded, and the person who owns the Baoninghou Mansion handed over another bag of silver taels.

The shopkeeper weighed the weight in secret, and he was even more delighted, calling for people without touching the ground.

Shang Chanchan originally wanted to take off the mask to drink tea, but unexpectedly seeing the three girls from the Xie family just pushed up the mask a little bit, revealing a small cherry mouth, took a sip of tea and put it back on, still silent without saying a word.

Just like Jia Jia Sanchun, these three girls have the same last letter of their names, what kind of pronunciation are they all called, because they are shy and quiet, and their voices are like mosquitoes, Shang Chanchan can only hear one Xie Manyin clearly, and the other two can't hear clearly .

Moreover, they had the same clothes, only their masks were different, and when they moved around, Shang Chanchan was dazzled and couldn't tell who was who.

Seeing that they didn't take off their masks at this time, Shang Chanchan didn't take off their masks either.

That's right, the Shang and Xie families are not good friends after all, and they don't have any in-laws, so it's not easy to show up.

Shang Chanchan had no choice but to take a sip of water, and then looked out the window.

Looking down from the top, you can see more and more colorful lanterns on the street, and you can see that there are lights everywhere, the music is loud, and there is an endless scene of peace, prosperity and romance.

And this Jinxiu Building was decorated behind closed doors on purpose years ago, and it is also full of fragrance from tripods, precious trees and strange flowers, golden windows and jade railings, just like a world of glazed brilliance.

At one time, two or three maidservants who were born clean and proper came up and served various refreshments, all of which were exquisite and exquisite. In addition to the emerald jade bean cakes, ice ear cakes, and goose oil rolls with pine nuts that Kaiyuan Building is good at, they also specially serve them during the New Year's Eve. I made a red cake with golden rice cake, as a good intention to look forward to the prosperity of the year.

It's just that the girls here are all from famous princely families, and because Daiyu and Chanchan have weak spleen and stomach since they were young, they almost never dared to eat outside, so they didn't move.

On the contrary, Shang Ji ate some snacks of all kinds, in exchange for Shang Chi's evaluation of "only knows how to eat".

Although Shang Chi's voice was kept low, the daughter of the Xie family who was sitting on the opposite side never heard it, but Shang Chanchan and Daiyu still heard it and couldn't help smiling.

Shang Ji blushed a little in front of the girl from the outer mansion, and said: "Brother, this is wrong. I don't only know how to eat, but my master has also praised my homework recently."

Shang Chi smiled: "Really? I can test you today. This Jinxiu Tower has always had a tradition of competing for the Lantern Festival during the Shangyuan Festival. Wu uses archery skills, and Wen uses lantern riddles. Since you said that you have benefited, the next article Wu, no matter which one, if you come back from the championship, how about I tell my father to buy you a good horse for you?"

Shang Ji fell silent.

In fact, he is not bad at reading, but he is naturally the last in this family.

So his gain, in the eyes of his big brother, is similar to progressing from the bottom one to the bottom two, which can be ignored.

Besides, now here, Wu has Xie Ling, Wen has Shang Chi, and if he has two brains and two arms, he can't win against these two people.

When Shang Chanchan heard about this, she immediately turned off the lights, turned her head and said with a smile: "Brother, can our daughter's family participate? If my sister Lin ends up, I will definitely get the leader of the essay test!"

Shang Chi nodded: "All wives and girls from all prefectures can participate. Don't worry, civil and military are not in one place, and archery skills are specially set up in the courtyard at the back. Only the literary test is in the lobby below, and 99 lantern riddles are hung. You and Miss Lin can just play, and don't have to be afraid of being bumped into."

Daiyu is very talented, and she is not the kind of person who likes to hide her clumsiness. It is written in the book that she showed her talents at ease when she was visiting relatives in Yuanchun, overwhelming everyone. It can be seen that her temperament is exactly the same as that of her father Lin Ruhai, and she is just a very arrogant scholar.

From Shang Chanchan's point of view, this is natural and unaffected, it really is my sister Lin, awesome!

Sure enough, as soon as she brought up the matter, Daiyu's eyes lit up, and after listening to Shang Chi's words, there was a look of eagerness in her eyes.

Shang Chanchan was always in a hurry when things happened, she was afraid that someone would snatch the leader if she was a moment too late, so she took Daiyu's hand and walked down.

The three girls from the Xie family also found it interesting, so they went down together.So behind him, there were many maids and servants from the two families, and both sides supported them, lest the girls bump into each other in the building.

Here, Shang Chi smiled and said, "Young Master Xie, do you want to play around?"

Xie Ling had no intention of playing with these flower guns in such a restaurant - this is more serious than hunting birds in Bibochi.

But seeing that Shang Chanchan was very interested, he had already dragged Daiyu to go to the literary test, so he planned to go to the martial test to bring the lottery to Chanchan.

So he cupped his hands and brought his attendants downstairs.

For a moment, only the three merchant brothers and their followers were left in the private room.

Shang Ji saw that there were people in both civil and military affairs, so he continued to eat a rich fairy cake in front of him.

When Shang Chi turned his head and saw that he was still focusing on eating, he showed an unfriendly smile: "The third brother still eats. Do you think that I just said that I only know how to eat is for nothing? You lost your sister when you turned around. Look at your parents." How to fix you."

Shang Ji smiled and said, "There are so many people following, how can I lose my little sister."

Shang Chi and Shang Jun glanced at each other, both showing horrible expressions.Shang Jun is a gentleman, but that doesn't mean he's not smart or sharp, it's just that he doesn't have that ambition.But Shang Ji's observation ability really doesn't look like someone from the Baoning Houfu.

Shang Chi knocked on the table with his index finger: "Didn't you see that Xie's kid is always following Chanchan? If you let him abduct your sister, and you are still eating snacks here, how do you think your parents will punish you?"

Only then did Shang Ji come to his senses, and then he said in surprise: "Little sister is still young, how old is Xie Ling..." He remembered that Xie Ling was only twelve, but he looked like 20 years old.

Shang Jun, who hadn't spoken all night, finally spoke: "Now they are often in the palace, maybe it's just a coincidence, so they just play together."

Shang Chi smiled, his eyes deep: "If it's just Xie Ling's own idea, it's okay. But if the Xie family wants to marry our family because of the crown prince, it's something that should be prepared early."

The Xie family naturally wanted to support the eldest prince as the crown prince. If they wanted to tie the business to the warship of the eldest prince through marriage, then they had to think carefully.

If the merchant refuses, it is necessary to prevent the Xie family from holding grudges or even turning against each other.

And even if the businessmen agree to marry, they have to plan ahead of time and set up a foreshadowing in front of Emperor Xuanwu, so that the emperor can't suspect that the Baoninghou's residence has a different intention. He has been enthroned for less than a year, and Baoninghou will stand in line with the eldest prince. go.

Shang Chi has been planning for several years, and Shang Ji just reacted: "Ah, is it because Xie Ling is always by my sister's side today, so the eldest brother has this idea? Let me tell you, why is Xie Ling not good looking?" Looking at my own sister, it's really a bit weird."

The two elder brothers looked at Shang Ji who reacted 180 beats slower than them in silence. Is this really their younger brother?

It was also rare for Shang Jun to say a few words: "After all, Xie's family is the eldest prince's mother's family, do you want to inform parents of this matter as soon as possible?"

Shang Chi looked at the lights outside the window, but shook his head: "No, just leave this matter to me, and you don't need to mention it when you go home."

The merchants trusted Shang Chi very much from top to bottom, so the two younger brothers nodded and put the matter aside—anyway, the eldest brother said to him, then the wave will be stable.

Shang Chanchan is not aware of these misunderstandings, and now she is just mindlessly guessing lantern riddles with Daiyu.

Lantern riddles are all small flower sticks hanging under the lamp, and the sentences are all vertical, which is not in line with Shang Chanchan's habits, so it looks quite laborious.

Of course, even if the typesetting looks effortless, she doesn't know how to guess.

So Shang Chanchan found that often before she finished reading the first sentence, Daiyu had already started to write the answer.

Then she just gave up: Daiyu guesses lantern riddles faster than she eats melon seeds.

By the time Daiyu guessed No. 70 to six, Xie Ling had already returned to the lobby and stood with Chanchan on the sidelines.

Shang Chanchan looked at Daiyu with starry eyes, and repeated it to Xie Ling seven times: "Sister Lin is really amazing."

Xie Ling coughed lightly: "I've already won the first place..."

Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Shang Chanchan waving his hand: "Don't talk, I'm concentrating on watching Sister Lin guess the lantern riddles."

Xie Ling: ...

In the blink of an eye, Daiyu had already guessed all 99 lantern riddles. The treasurer of Jinxiu Tower had been paying attention to this place for a long time. Now, seeing that the female relatives were all wearing masks, he was the one who came over. And not abrupt.

So he simply took the lottery in person and sent it up to flatter him: "I have been the leader of the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival in Jinxiu Tower for ten years, but this year is the first time I have been selected as the leader of the literary test so quickly."

Her own servant girl stepped forward to take the gold-painted box.

After everyone returned to the elegant room upstairs, Daiyu opened the box and took a look, only to see a five-phoenix Chaoyang nobile inside.She closed the box again, and handed it to Shang Chanchan.

"Give it to me?"

Daiyu laughed and said, "Now I live at my grandmother's house, so it's hard to give something to my sister. Now I won this, and I'll give it to you."

Seeing that Shang Chanchan was in a daze, thinking that she would not want it, Daiyu continued: "I like the painting that my sister asked someone to give me very much, and I have already hung it up, so I gave this gold hairpin to my sister as a return gift."

Shang Chanchan gave her the picture scroll of Shouxuan, which is not only good-looking, but also simple and elegant, which is quite in line with her wishes.

On the contrary, Jiamu also found a calligraphy and painting with her in her body, but it was a Yulou peony.As a human being, Daiyu didn't love peonies, so she kept Jiamu's picture and put it in the room, which was given by Shang Chanchan.

In fact, it's not that Shang Chanchan didn't want it, but that she didn't expect Daiyu to give her the jewelry she got for the first time, so she forgot to take it in a moment of joy.

Seeing Daiyu handing it over again, she naturally accepted it happily.

Xie Ling looked at the Wufeng Chaoyang hairpin, then changed his mind, and put away the lottery that he had won that was intended to be given to Shang Chanchan.

It was a hollowed out jade carving Nine Dragons Pei.

Both civil and military leaders, Jinxiulou prepared a gift of prosperity from the dragon and the phoenix.Seeing that Shang Chanchan got Fengchai, Xie Ling kept Jiulongpei for herself.

The words are divided into two ends.

Let's talk about the night in the palace during the Shangyuan Festival, which is naturally more magnificent and brightly lit.Not to mention the other side, just say that both sides of the corridors in the palace are lit with the same color of vermilion tall candles, illuminating the entire imperial city like golden dragons.

Xue Baochai sat in her room with her knees hugged.

The room was pitch black, she didn't light the lamp, and Ji Wanwan, who was in the same room, had already gone to watch the lamp with a few other lively maids.

The palace is busy during the New Year's Eve, but they are the only ones from the Hexi Palace, because the princess and the accompanying ladies are not in the palace, so they are at leisure.

And after all, they are female officials from the seventh rank, different from ordinary court ladies, as long as they go together and do not sneak around in private, they can go shopping everywhere.

Xue Baochai was not in the mood to go shopping.

Homesickness is one aspect, but more importantly, she has been thinking about what happened today in her mind.

On the Shangyuan Festival, since the early morning, there has been an endless stream of orders from the families of princes and princes to visit the palace.

Xue Baochai was an aspiring person, so he gave money to the father-in-law of the House of Internal Affairs.After receiving the money, the people from the House of Internal Affairs sent Xue Baochai to the Empress Dowager Chu's palace to help for a day on the grounds that they were ordered to come and go because the Empress Dowager's Palace was short of manpower.

It's not that she doesn't want to go to the Empress Dowager Shang's place, but that the Empress Dowager Shang has strict rules and doesn't like to walk in the palace with a new face.

It can be regarded as Jia Yuanchun's sequelae.

Because she could write and calculate, and was quite knowledgeable, the people in the Empress Dowager Chu's palace led her to record the rituals sent by the imperial edicts of various governments.

Xue Baochai felt his heart skip a beat when he saw the words Nan'an County Prince's Mansion.

It was the Nan'an Palace that lost face because of offending Baoninghou's Mansion.

When Baochai wanted to try to get close to the people in Nan'an County Palace, Zhou Wenran approached her first.

The Nan'an Prince's Mansion has suffered a big fall in the Baoninghou Mansion.

The four kings with different surnames in the southeast, northwest, and north are now somewhat in decline.And after all, he is a king with a different surname, so naturally he can't be like the serious princes Zhongyong and Zhongshun, whose daughter has been named princess early.

But usually when the eldest daughter gets married, the emperor will also appoint a county head or something to express the royal family's special kindness.

Forget about the rest of the daughters.

It's just that today's senior ministers like the four kings and eight princes are not valued as much as the Supreme Emperor, so the Nan'an County Prince's Mansion plans to marry the eldest daughter Zhou Wenran to the Baoninghou Mansion.

If it succeeds, the Holy Majesty will have to give Zhou Wenran a county lord for the sake of the businessman's face.

The Prince's Mansion of Nan'an County has consciously lowered his figure. After all, Shang Jun is only the second son, not the eldest son of Xi Jue.I just feel like it's done.

Who knew that the concubine set off with Zhou Jingran in high spirits, and came back disheveled.

Don't even think about the marriage, even the daughter of the Zhou family will lose face.

And the attitude of the Empress Dowager Shang in the palace is also very obvious, and everyone can understand that as long as she is the empress dowager, the Nan'an County Palace will never get an imperial decree from the palace to confer the county lord.

It's really a chicken-and-egg fight.

Not to mention Zhou Wenran lost a promising marriage, he even lost his future county head.Looking at her younger sister Zhou Jingran looking for life and death every day, how could she not hate Shang Chanchan and Lin Daiyu to the bone?

So she asked people to pay special attention to the two prefectures.

The government of the Marquis of Baoning is very strict, and it has always kept its insides out and its outside words out.But Rongguo Mansion is different, the whole thing is like a sieve, and there are many servants who have the face to be disobedient, and dare to shake everything out.

Especially on that day, the Rongguo Mansion received two imperial decrees in one day, which was even talked about by people.

They are also girls who live in the mansion, one is to accompany the princess to study, and the other is to be a maid who serves others. This kind of new thing has been passed on for a long time, and of course Sister Feng's help is indispensable.

Naturally, Zhou Wenran knew about it.

This time, despite the strange gazes of others, she also wanted to visit the palace with her mother, just to meet this daughter of the Xue family for a while.

If you don't worry about being few but not about unevenness, it doesn't matter if you don't enter the palace, but if you enter the palace, one is a young lady and the other is a palace maid.But whoever is angry, I'm afraid he won't be able to hold back his breath.

Zhou Wenran and Xue Baochai are exactly the same kind of people, but Zhou Wenran is more daring and ruthless.As soon as the two met, they felt that each other was difficult to deal with.So they fought for a long time, and no one was willing to talk about the topic, for fear that the conversation would fall into the hands of the other party.

But Zhou Wenran was not in a hurry, since Xue Baochai entered the palace in this capacity, it was obvious what he wanted.

As long as there is a bait, Xue Baochai is not afraid that he will not take the bait.

So Zhou Wenran just started another topic and said: "Our family has a lot of friendship with the imperial concubine. The imperial concubine is smart and kind, but some people are short-sighted. They only look down on the Liu family's lack of status, so they despise the imperial concubine."

"So the imperial concubine thinks highly of our Nan'an Palace. His Royal Highness the Second Prince is 15 years old this year, and he should be married. It is said that he is particularly outstanding in his studies. Many masters in the study praise him."

Sure enough, seeing Xue Baochai tremble, his eyes became unsteady.

It's not that Xue Baochai is inferior to Zhou Wenran, it's just that the two have different identities, and Zhou Wenran can come up with something to seduce Baochai.

Zhou Wenran smiled and said: "Miss Xue, don't worry. I don't want you to do anything. Besides, if you don't worry about getting annoyed, what can you do? I just hope that you will pay attention to the behavior of the two of them and tell me the news. That's all."

Xue Baochai bit her lip, then said with a smile: "I was originally in the palace to serve the princess and the girls, so naturally I should pay attention everywhere."

Zhou Wenran nodded in satisfaction.

Xue Baochai is a free move she has made in the palace, but she is not in a hurry to use it now.And it will take one or two years until the matter of Nan'an Palace is completely over before she can make a move.

Otherwise, if something happened to Lin Daiyu and Shang Chanchan now, and she didn't get away clean enough, she would inevitably be suspected of revenge.

Nan'an Palace could not bear the double anger of Baoning Hou's Mansion and Lin's family.

Zhou Wenran went out of the palace after the matter, leaving Baochai in a state of disarray.

She was naturally resentful towards Lin Daiyu and Shang Chanchan, if she could use the Nan'an Palace to cause them some trouble, it would be great if she could take advantage of the opportunity to climb the clouds.

But she was a little scared.Shang Chanchan's attitude of being unreasonable and unforgiving that day, catching Xiangyun with a word, and sweeping her into the underworld with her attitude really shocked her a lot.

In Xue Baochai's eyes, these girls should pride themselves on their identities, and even if they are ridiculed for a sentence, they should return it in a clever way, or show their respect by keeping a calm face.Have you ever seen Shang Chanchan's tough style of throwing crabs at people when she raises her hand, and swearing at her words?

Even Sister Feng, who is famous for her pungentness, is only a little more cruel to her servants.Facing the masters, even if Li Wan ridiculed him face to face that he should switch with Ping'er to be a girl, he would just joke around when he got angry again.

Fear of Shang Chanchan's temper is one, and the other is that Baochai can't trust Zhou Wenran.

If the Prince's Mansion of Nan'an County really has the ability to suppress Baoninghou's Mansion, why was Zhou Jingran locked up at home by the Empress Dowager Shang's order to "recover from illness"?

I was afraid that Zhou Wenran would hang her with the position of the prince's side concubine. In fact, letting her be a pawn would offend the Baoning Hou Mansion and the Queen Mother of Shang. Wouldn't it cut off the future of the future, and even the Xue family would be harmed up?

Countless dilemmas rolled in Baochai's mind.

"Oh, why doesn't my sister light up the lamp, I thought my sister was out." The sudden voice startled Baochai, and it wasn't until the candle was lit that she saw Ji Wanwan's smiling face.

Baochai forced a smile and said, "I was lost in sleep, so I didn't turn on the light. You have been shopping all night, but have you finished?"

Ji Wanwan picked up the teacup and drank several glasses of water before saying: "Sister Bao, you don't know how lively it is outside. It's just that the Lantern Festival banquet in the palace ended early this year, and the ladies have all returned to the palace now. We are afraid of bumping into people. I'm back."

The two chatted casually for a few words, and were about to fall asleep, when they saw a palace lady in green clothes knocking on the door, and it turned out that it was Yuan Chun's order to invite Baochai.

Although Baochai and Yuanchun are serious cousins, they had never met each other before entering the palace.

After entering the palace, Yuan Chun summoned Baochai once as usual, but he was not very friendly, he only said some polite words that he could come to find her, but Baochai naturally didn't take it seriously.

Baochai was a little apprehensive about coming to invite her at night, so she followed the palace servant to Yaohua Palace.

Yuan Chun is just a nobleman, not qualified to live alone in the first palace, and now he is living in the Yongchun Pavilion of the Xianfei Qin's Yaohua Palace.

Because it is the Shangyuan Festival, all kinds of glazed lanterns are lit everywhere in Yaohua Palace, and even the trees are decorated with colorful silk decorations. At a glance, there are a lot of flowers, not like winter, but like a spring full of flowers.

Red radish charcoal was burning in the Yongchun Pavilion, and a row of daffodils were placed on the ground, and the heat made the room even more fragrant.

Red radish charcoal is precious, and the narcissus on the ground is also a famous species, which shows that Yuanchun is still favored.

Yuan Chun still had her make-up on at the palace banquet, and she was extraordinarily beautiful under her fine attire.

"Baochai is here, don't be too polite. I asked them to serve you a bowl of Lantern Festival, and you can eat to warm your body."

Baochai invited An Xie'en, and then picked up a chair next to him and sat down carefully.

Yuan Chun's sudden warmth and closeness to her made her feel a little nervous.

The author has something to say: [Regarding Daiyu's CP, please buy and leave your hands. It has been found that there is a cutie jumping sideways repeatedly, and the dragon is betting left and right. 】

The above are all jokes. As a Dai fan, like everyone else, I hope Daiyu has the best destination. This is a sweet article, and it will be a good life no matter what.

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PS: Starting tomorrow, Three Yuan will be preparing for the exam. At present, ten chapters of 6000 words have been saved and prepared, and they will be sent on time every morning.

After the archived manuscripts are used up, I will try my best to ensure daily updates, at least [-], and try to [-].

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