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Seeing that Wang Xifeng was worried about being blackmailed by the eunuchs in the palace, Ping'er intentionally changed the topic, and said with a smile in her ear: "Grandma, don't worry. Don't you think Mrs. and Mrs. are so wise that they would end up sitting on a field where the mountains are empty?" ? There is always something safe for the rest of my life. Now there is one thing I want to report to my grandma. The daughter-in-law of Wang said that the interest money from outside has been collected, and I want to ask my grandma to show me when it will be delivered. I understand Because I think this is a routine thing every month, I am not in a hurry to teach her to come back in two days."

When Wang Xifeng heard that Wang's daughter-in-law's money came, she was really happy.Although she was worried about eunuch Xia's extortion and exploitation of Jia's family, after all, it was public money, and her worries were limited, but the interest money released by Wang's daughter-in-law was her private house and had been acquired by Jia's family over the years. The monthly money, the interest rate of the usury loan with rolling interest.She received one month's money from the public office every month, and took it out as soon as it changed hands, so that she could earn the interest on it. She managed to save tens of thousands of taels of silver, all due to her personal considerations. Has.

With a smile on the corner of Wang Xifeng's mouth, she ordered: "Since that's the case, wait until Wang's daughter-in-law brings the interest money, so that I can give this month's monthly money to the people below. There is no rush for these things. Now Brother Bao and Sister Lin are married. Once you get married, although it is said that the old lady's private house is used, after all, the public will have to make a fuss, let alone the royal marriage, it must be lively, so as not to lose the dignity of people like us." While talking At the same time, he and Ping'er planned this matter.

Ping'er listened to Wang Xifeng's plan for Baoyu's wedding, what should be done here, what should be done there, it must be rich and grand, and secretly said in his heart: Second Grandma always wanted to fulfill Bao Erye and Miss Lin, and now she finally fulfilled her wish up.The wedding was so grand, Miss Lin didn't have anything to be picky about, but it's a pity that her parents died early, and such a scene was never seen.pity!pity!

At this time, everyone in the Jia family had already enshrined the imperial decree.Looking at the imperial decree from afar, Jia's mother couldn't help crying: "Finally, a matter of concern has been settled!"My wretched child!Before I knew it, I thought of Jia Min, who died young, and couldn't help but feel sad and happy, and burst into tears.Wang Xifeng next to him saw it, and hurried forward to persuade him. Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Xing also talked with her cautiously.It was with great difficulty that Mother Jia stopped her tears and became happy again.Wang Xifeng took the opportunity to ask Jia Mu to have a look at the bride price and dowry prepared in advance.

It's not easy for girls to be around on such occasions, Tanchun is so alert, he dragged Daiyu outside to talk with Yingchun and Xichun.The girls were talking about insignificant things such as the scenery in the Grand View Garden and the books they read daily, but they were more or less absent-minded.Although Yingchun is a very cowardly person with no opinions, seeing that Lin Daiyu, who is younger than her, is about to leave the cabinet, and remembering that Shi Xiangyun seems to have chosen a family a few days ago, she can't help worrying about her life-long affairs.Yingchun thought that she was a concubine, her biological mother left early, her father, Jia She, was obsessed with eating, drinking, and having fun, and her stepmother, Mrs. Xing, was stupid and weak, and her first thing in life was to make money, and the other thing was to please Jia She to protect herself. Will you take your lifelong events to heart?However, Tanchun was still thinking about the matter of entrusting Baoyu to send a poem manuscript to the King of Beijing a few days ago. It's not easy to ask.Since she was a child, Xichun was used to seeing the wives and concubines fighting in Ningguo Mansion, and the dirty things of princes and grandsons. Although she was young, she had already given up the idea of ​​getting married.She is Jia Zhen's younger sister, with a noble status, and she expected that even if she didn't marry, it would be a matter of course for her to be rich and well-fed, so she sighed for Daiyu: a person like Sister Lin will finally marry.Brother Bao used to say that "an unmarried girl is a priceless gem. If she gets married, she will have many bad problems. In the end, she is not a gem, but a fish's eye", but she still has to marry.Seeing his joyful appearance, I'm afraid he has forgotten what he said before.If a person like Sister Lin is really married, I don't know if it is still a priceless jewel or a fish eye.

So a few girls were chatting outside, because they were afraid that Daiyu's face would be tender, and they had something on their minds, they didn't even make fun of Daiyu about their marriage, they just chatted a few idle words.Daiyu's face was pale, she couldn't tell whether she was sad or happy, and she casually talked with Yingchun and the others.When it was time to remove makeup at night, Zijuan went to hold the face wash, and Fang called Xueyan to him, asking: "Have you ever found out?" Busy with some business matters, and embroidering some dowry. Even Aunt Xue went to Yao's house to look for her, but never met her. Listening to the message from Yinger, Miss Bao is really an honest person, and she seems to be wholehearted It's like marrying that Feng."

After hearing this, Daiyu's voice was muffled: "I just think that she has a heart-to-heart look, and she must not look down on others. Although I have never met that surnamed Feng, I have heard that his behavior does not seem to have any special qualities." Is it possible that she is so in love with her? If it is true that the two are in love with Feng, they are not like each other. But if there is no harm in love, isn't it better to marry Baoyu than to marry Feng? With the benevolence and filial piety she treats her mother , how could you rather turn against your mother than break their ideas?"

Xueyan looked puzzled and said: "Could it be that Miss Bao is doing it for girls..."

Daiyu smiled wryly and shook her head: "It's absolutely impossible. If she really did this for me, I would have known her in vain." After thinking for a while, she asked, "Since she is busy embroidering the dowry, I think it is Is the wedding date approaching?"

Xueyan lowered her head, hesitated for a while and said, "I heard that it will be just one or two days."

Daiyu was stunned for a moment, then suddenly coughed loudly.Xueyan was frightened, and hurried forward to serve her, beating her chest and pinching her back. Zijuan came back with hot water, and when she heard the movement, she hurried forward to help, and it took a long time to cough up a few mouthfuls of phlegm. Take a light with a candle, but it is black and yellow.Zijuan looked at the phlegm carefully, and said happily, "This is a good thing. Cough out all the fire poison, I'm afraid the root of the girl's disease will disappear from now on."

Daiyu saw Zicuckoo's happy face, and suddenly felt a little sleepy.Zijuan was the second-class maid specially given to her by Mother Jia when she came to Jia's mansion when she was young. Her original name was Yingge.Daiyu and Zijuan also had a beautiful and warm life together. Daiyu treated Zijuan as her good sister, and whispered her troubles to her. snow geese.But with the passage of time, Daiyu had to gradually alienate Zicuckoo.Zijuan's parents and brothers are all in Jia's mansion, and they are the sons of Jia's family. He is extremely loyal to Jia's mother, so he only wants Daiyu to marry Baoyu, and he is also treated as a maid.Daiyu once thought that if their relationship was not so good, when Daiyu left Jia's mansion in the future, Zijuan would just stay there, maybe she could help send Zijuan to Baoyu, so she wanted to be an aunt dream.But now...it is unnecessary, both Zijuan herself and Jia Mu who passed the news through her will be overjoyed.They may want to be good for her sincerely, but they don't understand what she needs.

On the Double Ninth Festival, the imperial court bestowed a marriage on Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu, but Baochai didn't care about it.She is indeed very busy these days, for business, for the dowry... She will choose to accept the things that she is unable to change, and she will stick to the things that are still alive.

Different from the Jia family who were given marriages by the court after Bagong, Baochai's wedding was just a lively event for ordinary people, so it was done very quickly. It was successfully completed.Sun Mu deliberately found the most prestigious fortune-teller on the street and combined his horoscope, and the chosen wedding date was two days after the Double Ninth Festival.That day, the entire Yao family was beating gongs and drums, and the big red letter of happiness was pasted from the gate to Baochai's boudoir. Sun Mu and Yao Jing prepared exactly as the boudoir for sending girls away. Grandma Liu and others all dressed in decent new clothes to rush Come to help, the 64-carrying dowry on the wedding day is not comparable to that of the princes and nobles sending girls, but it has already supported Baochai.After returning home three days later, Feng Yuan rushed to Yao's house with Baochai. When the neighbors looked intently, they saw Feng Yuanhua wearing brocade clothes and Baochai's head full of jewels. They all praised loudly and congratulated repeatedly.

Yao Jing saw that although Feng Yuan was not as suave as a son of a noble family, he was still somewhat respectable, so she took back those injustices, and said to Sun Mu secretly: "It is true that Buddha relies on gold clothes and people rely on clothes. This is Feng Yuan. It's not like he can't see people because he's dressed like a dog."

Sun Mu's face was still unwilling: "If you talk about appearance, the second master Bao in Jia's mansion is good-looking, but what's the use of an embroidered pillow? The prince of Beijing is magnificent, but it's a pity that Qi Da is not a spouse, and he is not a good match. Mr. Han is also a good-looking talent, but it's a pity that Baochai is kind and insists on refusing, what can I do?" He said anxiously: "I don't know what happened to that surnamed Feng. These days, Baochai has been bullied. Baochai only brought Ying'er and Madam Zhang are going, if that Feng's heart is malicious..."

Yao Jing comforted her and said: "Don't worry, I'm a little famous person now, even the Jia family has to be afraid of it, a mere surname Feng, I can't resist it." She smiled: "At the beginning, I was worried about this surname. Feng has no foundation in Beijing, and dare not be a monster, so he is asked to act as a blindfold for Baochai, in order to be easy to handle. If not, why don't we let people from a family like Mr. Han and Mr. Wang be elected instead of Baochai? Isn’t such a guy sticking a flower in cow dung like a living thing?”

After all, Sun Mu was worried, and asked Chen Yi's family to accompany the new son-in-law to have a drink in front of him. He secretly called Baochai to his side, asked for a long time, and asked Ying'er carefully, confirming that Feng Yuan had treated Baochai in the past few days. He was very polite, and he rested in the study at night, so he was a little relieved.Yao Jing took out a shark-skin sheathed dagger and a few small white porcelain bottles from somewhere, and told Ying'er: "If that surname Feng dares to have any evil intentions, you can use this Treat him." Ying'er promised again and again, and when she pulled out the dagger to look at it, she saw that the surface of the knife was as smooth as a mirror, and the hair on the edge was blown off. I took a breath of cold air.Sun Mu was about to criticize Yao Jing for being too ruthless, when the curtain on the side door was lifted, but it was Baochai who was reading the books and books accumulated in the past few days in the study next to him, and came out from inside, and said with a smile as he walked: "Now this business is really good. It's getting more and more decent. My eyes are blurred after reading the account for half a day, what are you talking about here, can't you hide it from me?" Sun Mu and Yao Jing hurriedly covered it with words, secretly looking at Baochai's face It didn't seem like he had overheard the situation, and gossiped for a while, and then he slowly let go of his mind.

Three days after the newlyweds return to Ning, there is absolutely no reason to live in her mother's house.Therefore, at Shenshi that day, Chen Yi's family helped the drunk new son-in-law Feng Yuan from the main room, Sun Mu and others reluctantly sent Baochai Yinger out of the door, and they sat in the car together and went out of the city.Feng Yuan was just the son of an eunuch in Jinling City who lived on a meager income. How could he have the ability to buy property in the prosperous area of ​​the capital?Therefore, Baochai's new home is outside the city, a small village five miles west of the city.Speaking of this matter, Sun Mu was not very satisfied, he had already discussed with Yao Jing to buy a property near his home and give it to Feng Yuan, so that it would be convenient for Baochai to come and go.

Most men look ugly when they're drunk, not to mention that Feng Yuan didn't look like Pan An in the first place. On the side, although most of the onlookers just had a glimpse, they could still smell the mismatch.The car rattled away, and just as Sun Mu, Yao Jing and the others closed the gate, there was a sour literati commenting on the side of the road: "Splendid horses often carry idiots on their backs, and clever women often accompany fools. It's a pity, it's a pity!" This sour literati Unexpectedly, the news is quite well-informed, and he knows some gossip about the Xue family of the Jia family, saying how the girl of the Xue family has a hard life, but her mother is pure and filial, but she is not treated well, and how she made a mistake, so she let the prince and grandson not marry, and did not hesitate to leave the house. To marry someone surnamed Feng.He made a speech about this past event as if it were a play, and finally concluded his speech by saying: "As the saying goes, Qi Dafei is not a mediocre girl. This girl from the Xue family is so capable, and the one named Feng is so mediocre. I don't know what will happen in the future." A group of people watching After listening to his lively and vivid story for a long time, it was naturally inconvenient to hit him at this time, so they all agreed and said yes.The sour literati failed many times in the scientific examinations, and he inevitably felt that his talent was not recognized. Now he heard a group of people flattering and applauding him, and he couldn't help being intoxicated.

Unexpectedly, some people would not buy his account.A group of people were echoing, when a very crisp voice suddenly said: "That's not necessarily the case. Miss Xue's family is such a discerning person, when did she see her doing a loss-making business? I'm afraid that this person named Feng really has something special. It's also unknown. Whether she is talented and will be in Jinbang High School in the future, or whether she has great ambitions and will be successful."

The sour literati was frustrated in the imperial examination, and he couldn't hear these words the most. He almost jumped up when he heard the words, squinted his eyes and asked fiercely: "Who is it?" Everyone hurriedly looked in the direction of the voice, but saw that the person who said this was a person The pretty little girl was sitting on the low wall next to her and eating candied haws, watching them coldly while eating.