[Comprehensive Red House] Infinite Merit

Mrs. Xue looked up quickly after hearing the sound, and saw Youyi slowly coming in holding Xue Xun's hand, her every move was full of elegance and demeanor, which could be called the standard of family etiquette.Little Xue Xun walked beside Youyi, not kicking around like usual, but very gentle.

Madam Xue's heart melted when she saw this, she spread her arms and called out, "Brother Tuan, come to grandma soon."

Xue Xun turned to look at Youyi, saw her slightly raised her chin, and walked to the kang at a gentle pace, saluting Mrs. Xue and Mrs. Chen: "Xun'er greets grandma and mother. "

"Get up quickly." Mrs. Xue pulled Xue Xun into her arms, and said with a smile, "It's a pity that Brother Tuan didn't go today. Your aunt and grandmother even ordered someone to prepare milk and water chestnut cake for you." And you."

Xue Xun said: "Auntie took Xun'er to eat delicious food. In the afternoon, Aunt Qiongzhi also made milk water chestnut cake."

Mrs. Xue laughed when she heard this, and seeing that Mrs. Chen had already stood up to make way for Youyi, she waved her hand and called Tong Xi and said, "Take out the golden lock that my aunt gave to Brother Tuan."

Tong Xi let out an "ah" and came back with a small brocade box after turning around. When he opened it, it was a red gold chiseled golden lock for five sons to ascend the throne, and in the middle was a pearl the size of a lotus seed wrapped around a flower with gold wire. , with six round rubies embedded underneath.It doesn't look like a new item, but the workmanship is really exquisite, and it is enough for a medium-sized family to spend for several years.

Mrs. Xue played with it in her hand with a smile, and said to Xue Xun with a smile: "This is the golden lock that your Uncle Baoyu wore back then. Today your aunt and grandmother ordered someone to find it out, and asked me to bring it back for you to wear. 'Accumulate blessings and live long'." He said again: "Your father also wore it back then, but it was worn by your uncle and grandfather when he was young, and now he can't find it."

"Tuan brother, take a look, do you like this?" She smiled and asked Xue Xun.

Xue Xun nodded, and Mrs. Xue put it on for Xue Xun with a smile, and Fang said tentatively to Youyi: "Your aunt told me today about getting married for Brother Tuan and her beautiful sister. "

Youyi looked up at Mrs. Xue, her words seemed to be somewhat helpless, she frowned and said: "The future wife of the Xue family, the first-class lady, must not have someone who puts loan sharks outside, buys and sells lawsuits, and has no law Mother and a grandfather who was behaving absurdly."

Mrs. Xue frowned, looked up at Youyi, and said with disapproval in her eyes: "Sister Qiao is the granddaughter of a first-class general. Her mother is also from our royal family, and now her elder brother is a first-rank official. Sister Qiao What kind of background, how can you not be worthy of Brother Tuan? You said those things, if there are some powerful people in Beijing, how many would not do it? Now the Jia family still has a concubine, so nothing will happen. "

Youyi sighed, and said: "Mother, Brother Tuan's future wife, her father may not serve in the court, and she may not have a noble background. But she must know etiquette, understand the law, and be a family official. You must be able to become Xun'er's good wife. Such a girl is not difficult to find in the Jiangnan family. Now that Xun'er has a first-class duke, it is not difficult to think about marriage in the future. Why do you have to stick your eyes to these few families in Beijing? ?”

Mrs. Xue said: "Brother Tuan's daughter-in-law, it is enough to take care of the housework! A woman is virtuous if she is ignorant! Even if she is proficient in writing, shouldn't the most important thing be needlewomen? He's just a blind man with his eyes open, if he doesn't have the virtues of a woman, how can he be the wife of Brother Tuan?"

Youyi closed her eyes, raised her hand and rubbed her eyebrows, and said to Mrs. Xue seriously: "The Xue family is now full of flowers and beautiful flowers, and the fire is cooking oil. The title of first-class duke is because of the dedication of good seeds, and because of this credit. The Xue family does not need to be demoted within three generations, and at the same time, it is impossible to become an official! The Xue family’s foundation is in the south, and there are many families in the south of the Yangtze River. Two slaps can’t count the century-old families. His wife must be able to deal with them. Today is not the past , if the Xue family is just an ordinary imperial merchant, those roads can't be found, so there is no need to worry about this. But with this title, no one in the south of the Yangtze River is more honored than the Xue family. It can be seen that it is really about to be ridiculed."

"If you really hope that the Xue family can be good for generations, I hope that one day there will be Xue's children standing in the court, and I hope that no one in the south of the Yangtze River will pick up our family affairs behind our backs and gossip. My daughter hopes that you can stop worrying. Xun'er's marriage."

"With regard to the candidate for the future clan wife of the Xue family, my daughter has already made up her mind. The head of the Xue family is now the daughter. The future clan wife of the Xue family is a major event for the ancestors. My daughter hopes that you will not be confused at this juncture."

Seeing that Mrs. Xue was still a little stubborn, Youyi frowned fiercely, and her words became harsher.

Mrs. Chen sat beside her with lowered eyebrows, not saying a word.Xue Xun also seemed to sense something was wrong, so he climbed onto the kang beside him and sat obediently, playing with the fringed tassels on his cuffs, without saying a word.

Mrs. Xue's complexion was ashen by You Yi's words, and she asked coldly: "In your heart, am I just an old fool?"

"It's better not." Youyi pursed her lips, "If you are really sober, you should know that in the current situation of our family, in the current situation, our family should not be too close to the old honor. Daughter The door has been closed to thank guests for half a year, and there are only a handful of people who come to our door with honorable status to enter my main courtyard. Now that you want to engage Xun'er and sister Qiao, you are nothing more than holding back your daughter."

As she spoke, she straightened up and said to Mrs. Xue, "My daughter is resigning." With that word on the floor, she flung her sleeves and left.

Madam Xue's face was ashen, she reached out and swept all the things on the kang table to the ground, and angrily said: "I have raised a good daughter!"

A room full of maidservants knelt down to plead guilty, Chen took Xue Xun and stood on the ground, when suddenly someone called from outside: "Sister-in-law, Ah Xun, come with me."

The two hurriedly bowed to Mrs. Xue, then turned and went out.

The departure of the mother and son seemed to add fuel to the already stagnant atmosphere in the room. Mrs. Xue pushed a bottle of plum blossoms on the kang cabinet beside her to the ground, furious, "You talk about filial piety, how do you do it in private?" Is it filial piety to send some things here every day! As a grandmother, I just talked about the marriage of Tuan Geer, so why did I provoke such a bunch of talk!"

Tong Xi looked at the pieces of broken porcelain on the ground, but he didn't dare to say that the vase was the white porcelain from the Ru Kiln sent by the princess. He could only look down at the thick blanket on the ground, and the people and maids in the room knelt silently. .

Naturally, someone from Youyi reported that Mrs. Xue was very angry, and Chen said: "The princess don't have to blame yourself and get angry because of this. When I look back, I will naturally go to comfort the old lady."

"Sister-in-law, you don't need it." Youyi sighed softly, and told Bai Shao: "Remember to write a post tomorrow and ask the imperial doctor to come over and show it to mother. Also, I opened my private treasury to make up for the furnishings in my mother's house. Tomorrow Arrange for the carriage to be ready, and take my mother to the Buddhist temple in the suburbs of Beijing to offer incense."

Bai Shao responded: "The servant knows."

That Qiongzhi came over with three celadon teacups, and bowed slightly to Youyi, "Master, drink some chrysanthemum tea."

He offered another cup of chrysanthemum tea and Chen's, and a cup of Zhong'er milk tea to Xue Xun, and said with a smile: "This milk tea is not salty, it is mixed with honey. The young master will definitely like it."

Xue Xun has always loved sweets, and he said happily when he heard the words: "Thank you, Aunt Qiongzhi."

Qiong Zhi smiled and backed away.

You Yi drank half a cup of chrysanthemum tea, then turned her head to Chen Shi and said, "From now on, if mother talks about Xun'er's marriage with sister-in-law, sister-in-law will just pretend to be stupid and pass by. Xun'er's future wife, young It is said that if he is from a serious and scholarly heirloom family, if he carefully plans and plans, it is not a bad idea to marry a noble daughter of an aristocratic family, but if he is allowed to marry a nobleman, it will delay him and the Xue family."

Chen agreed with a smile: "Naturally, I will listen to the princess. What happened to Xun'er is nothing more than your planning for him. After all, you will not harm him."

Xue Xun also said: "Xun'er listens to my aunt."

You Yi just smiled, raised her hand to touch Xue Xun's little head, and said, "Auntie will definitely ask you to marry a daughter-in-law who can manage family affairs in advance and recite poems and paintings in retreat."

Xue Xun nodded with sparkling eyes: "Yeah!"

You Yi smiled softly, and said to him: "I used a lot for dinner, so don't use too much milk tea. Otherwise, carefully, I will let your Aunt Jin talk about you, so you won't be able to sleep peacefully tonight, just listen to Jin Mother misses you!"

Xue Xun's face wrinkled into a bun after hearing this.Underneath, Jinniang smiled helplessly: "Princess, at any rate, you said that the servants are better, what is this?"

Mrs. Chen looked at it with a smile on the side, under the shadow of the lights and candles, her smiling eyes were extremely gentle.

In the early morning of the second day, an imperial doctor came to ask Mrs. Xue for pulse, and all the decorations in Mrs. Xue's room were replaced again.

After getting up early, Mrs. Xue was invited behind the screen after finishing her makeup and hair, and then an imperial physician came in to ask for pulse.

Mrs. Xue thought that Youyi had been softened, but she was still a little proud. She didn't want to see Youyi come over to ask An to apologize after the imperial doctor left.

Mrs. Chen came over for a while, but just sat down as a matter of routine. Mrs. Xue was still angry when she saw her, waved her hand, and sent her away.

After lunch, the big kitchen prepared a rich lunch. Mrs. Xue ate it alone. I thought Youyi was going to take it easy, right?

But I heard Shunxi come back to report: "Old lady, the carriage outside has been harnessed, and the guards are also here. The princess sent you an additional [-] guards to send you to the Banshan Temple in the suburbs of Beijing to burn incense and worship Buddha."

Mrs. Xue was stunned on the spot: "What salutation to Buddha?"

"The princess said that you have been impetuous and angry recently, so you should go to the temple to worship, eat fast, and calm down." Shunxi lowered her head, her tone was calm.

Or to put it very clearly, after saying this sentence, Mrs. Xue must not be in a beautiful mood.

But what if it's not beautiful?The princess has spoken, and these servants dare not disobey.