The Royal Merchant of the Red Chamber

Xue Pan lived in the palace for three days, and when he returned to the mansion on the fourth day, he saw boxes and cages piled up in the inner courtyard, countless belongings, and the yard was arranged in a mess, Xue Pan raised his eyebrows clearly, and stepped forward. After entering Ruirong Hall, I saw Wang Xifeng sitting in the hall with Ping'er and sister Qiao, chatting with Mrs. Xue.Xue Baochai.Lin Daiyu and Xue Baoqin are at the side for company.From time to time, I open my mouth to comfort Sister Feng.The atmosphere is somewhat quiet.

Xue Pan took a closer look. Although Wang Xifeng's complexion was not very good, and his expression was a little sad and lonely, but his every move was still orderly. Although the matter of reconciling with Jia Lian made her lose interest for a while, it was her own after all. Choose, even if it's for sister Qiao, she will organize her thoughts and push through.

In this room, Mrs. Xue has already ordered her servants to clean up the courtyard and leave it for Mrs. Wang Xifeng and three of them to live in.In order to make things real that day, Xue Pan did not tell Wang Xifeng the progress of the matter.The day when Wang Xifeng got the exact news was also the first day when Jia Lian brought the foreign house back to Rongguo Mansion.Therefore, Wang Xifeng did not have time to purchase houses and yards outside in the future.Now she left Rongguo Mansion with her dowry and had nowhere to go for a while, so she moved her things and came to Zhongxinhou Mansion to live temporarily.Wait until you buy the yard before moving out.

Xue Pan looked at Wang Xifeng and said with a smile: "It's good that you came, you can chat with Mom all day long, so that she won't be bored."

Wang Xifeng hooked the corners of his mouth reluctantly, but didn't reply.

Xue Pan knew that she was feeling uncomfortable. After all, she and Jia Lian had been husband and wife for more than ten years, and they ended up in such an end...

Xue Pan shook his head, and stopped chatting with Wang Xifeng, Madam Xue smiled at Wang Xifeng: "I think you are tired too, why don't you let the little girl take you back to rest, we can talk about it tomorrow. "

Wang Xifeng got up, saluted Mrs. Xue and Xue Pan respectfully, and slowly walked out of Ruirong Hall with the support of Ping'er and Qiaojie.

Xue Pan sat in the hall, looked at Wang Xifeng's boring back, and sighed softly.

Mrs. Xue interjected: "It's hard for her to accept it for a while. Who would have thought that things have come to this point? Let her take it easy!"

Xue Pan nodded.

Mrs. Xue said again: "You have a lot of connections outside, and you usually look at some men with good character and about the same age. It doesn't matter what family background, as long as you can love others and have no bad intentions."

Xue Pan was stunned, and blurted out: "Mom, what are you going to do, can't it be too fast?"

"What do you know?" Mrs. Xue gave Xue Pan a blank look, and said, "It's easy for you to be a woman and set up a household by yourself? Besides, Feng girl has a Qiaojie to take care of. Find her a friend who knows the cold and the hot." , a husband who loves others, made her gradually forget that Jia Lian is serious."

After a pause, he continued: "Girl Feng is only 30 years old now, and her days are still long! How can she be allowed to be so depressed? Her parents are gone, and now I am her elder. I have to take care of her. It’s about planning.”

Xue Pan shook his head dumbfounded when he heard his mother's more avant-garde words. "Then you can't just wait and find someone. It's better to wait for a year and a half, and Feng girl's heart is almost relieved. Otherwise, she thought it was because our family was impatient to receive her, so she wanted to do whatever she wanted. Find someone to marry her to!"

Mrs. Xue nodded Xue Pan's head and reprimanded: "You are the only one who will make the plan? I want you to look at it for the time being, is there any suitable person. You think this is so easy, and you can't do it with a basket?"

Xue Pan chuckled, and said with a nonchalant smile: "I know, don't worry! This matter is on me."

Then he said: "In a blink of an eye, it will be the day when Baochai will leave the cabinet. But everything has been settled, if there is anything missing, just tell me, and I will go to make arrangements."

Xue Baochai blushed, glared at Xue Pan, and said softly, "Brother, you should be busy with yourself! Are you going to enter the palace soon?"

As he spoke, he looked at Xue Pan with some regret.

She also heard gossip about her brother and the Holy One when she followed her mother to visit other houses.Really did not expect to have today's results.Xue Baochai just lamented that his elder brother did not misunderstand the person. Although the Holy Majesty looked cold-hearted on weekdays, he was only thinking of his elder brother's good.Could it be that the things he did were done for his brother to the extreme, and it was definitely not what the history books said, those emperors didn't care about the people next to them for the sake of quick time.

Thinking of this, Xue Baochai looked at Xue Pan in front of him, and said with more emotion: "I never thought that one day I could become a relative."

When she became interested, she got up and said to Xue Pan: "My daughter Xue's Baochai, I have seen the empress. May the empress be in peace."

Everyone who said a word roared with laughter.

Xue Pan looked at his younger sister more and more helplessly, and shook his head dumbfounded.

While laughing and laughing, someone outside suddenly said that the wife of Ningguo Mansion, Youshi, brought the third and fourth girls of Rongguo Mansion over.

Everyone in the hall was surprised when they heard the words, Lin Daiyu rolled her eyes and asked, "Why are you here all of a sudden?"

Didn't even post a greeting?

Madam Xue immediately smiled and said: "Please come in quickly."

But after a while, Youshi, Tanchun and Xichun entered Ruirong Hall under the guidance of the little girl.First, I greet Madam Xue, and after seeing all the sisters, I sit on a high chair beside her.

You Shi took the lead and said: "I originally went to the mansion to greet the old lady, and then I heard about Feng girl. I thought about coming to see Feng girl. Come and have a look. Just come together."

When everyone heard the words, their hearts were sad.

Xue Baochai said, "I saw that Sister Feng was a bit tired, so I asked her to go to the yard to rest. But I thought she might not be able to settle down. Come and see her, maybe she will feel better."

Mrs. Xue also nodded and said with a smile: "That's the reason. Bao girl, you take all the sisters to Peony Garden to see Feng girl!"

Xue Baochai nodded in agreement, and immediately got up and led all the girls out of Ruirong Hall.Wandering to the peony garden, I saw that the courtyard was quiet, Xue Baochai led the people into the house, and a group of girls, big and small, were helping to pack the boxes and cages, all of them tiptoeing.

Ping'er quietly pointed to the inner room, Xue Baochai understood it, and immediately led everyone into the inner room, only to see Wang Xifeng lying on the couch with her eyes closed, with sister Qiao in her arms, with a sad and desolate look.

Xue Baochai sighed softly, and raised her voice and said, "Sister Feng, do you see who has come to see you?"

Wang Xifeng moved slightly, opened his eyes, saw the three You Shi, immediately struggled to get up and said, "Look at me, I haven't washed up yet."

"It's like this, why are you being polite." You Shi said, directly supporting Wang Xifeng's hand and sitting on the couch, couldn't help sobbing: "I knew that none of the men in the Jia family was good. "

Wang Xifeng was saddened by it, and couldn't hold back the sadness any longer, and cried bitterly while hugging Youshi.You Shi originally tried to comfort Wang Xifeng not to be sad, but after persuading her, she thought of her own situation and became even more embarrassed, so she even started crying along with Wang Xifeng.

The crowd couldn't bear to look at it, and they couldn't stop crying, and each of them wiped it with a handkerchief.

After crying for a long time, Wang Xifeng gradually stopped.Stretching out his hand to touch the tears on his face, he forced a smile and said, "I'm really happy that you came to see me. For some reason, I actually cried out, which makes you laugh."

Tanchun stepped forward and sat beside Wang Xifeng, put his arms around Wang Xifeng's shoulders, and sighed softly: "Second sister-in-law, please don't say that—"

Seeing Wang Xifeng's face suddenly changed, Tanchun hesitated slightly, and said, "I'd better call you Sister Feng!"

Wang Xifeng sighed lightly, but did not speak.

Tanchun continued: "When we came here, the old lady told us to bring you a good baby. She also said that she is in poor health and cannot come to see you. She will be well in a few days and come to see you immediately. The old lady Having said that, no matter when and where, you are her most proud granddaughter-in-law. It is the second brother and the Jia family who are sorry for you."

When Wang Xifeng heard this, the tears that had just been put away fell down again.

Everyone looked uncomfortable, and for a while they were silent and sighed secretly.

After gossiping for a while, Xue Baochai looked at Wang Xifeng's expression. He was really haggard and tired, so he said, "Let Sister Feng sleep for a while! I'm really tired just looking at her."

Everyone nodded, and comforted Wang Xifeng a lot, and then filed out of the inner room.Meeting Ping'er outside, You Shi took Ping'er's hand and said: "Look at your grandma taking medicine, take good care of her, don't let her get tired again."

Ping'er nodded in agreement one by one.

Only then did You Shi sigh lightly, and followed the crowd out of the peony garden.

After that, there was more than a month of hurried preparations, because the Zhongxinhou's mansion had to prepare for the marriage of the two villages of the eldest girl and the uncle, and the two weddings not only took place after a time interval, but also married to Tian's family, one was the queen, and the other was married. It is the princess, who is not easy to neglect and negligence, so everyone from the master to the servants feels a lot of pressure, wishing to split one day into two days to prepare, and have no mind to pay attention to other events.

This busy work was very busy until the first day of May, Xue Baochai's happy day.

On that day, the sky was dimly bright, and Xue Pan got up early and went to Ruirong Hall to greet his mother.Because of Baochai's marriage, Xue Zhizhang did not go to court today, but specially asked for leave to send Baochai to marry at home.The entire Zhongxinhou Mansion was led by the master, except for today's heroine Xue Baochai, the rest of the people stayed up almost all night, making various preparations.

When Xue Pan arrived at Ruirong Hall, the dowry boxes for marriage were placed all over the yard, which was not considered as the most important dowry that had been moved to Prince Zhongchun's residence a few days ago.Xue Pan walked into Ruirong Hall in a hesitant way in the yard, and saw Xue Zhizhang and Mrs. Xue already dressed up and drinking tea in the hall.Wang Xifeng, who lived in the mansion for a while, was also busy with Zhang Luo. Xue Pan went up to greet him first, and then said with a smile: "Mom and dad didn't seem to sleep at all yesterday!"

Xue Zhizhang glared at Xue Pan, but smiled like a spring breeze on his face: "It's as if you slept all night yesterday."

Xue Pan chuckled, the only girl was getting married, how could he sleep as an older brother?Tossing and turning on the bed until the fourth watch, then fell asleep for a while, and got up again before the fifth watch.I really couldn't sleep, so I simply got dressed and came over to Ruirongtang, and everyone chatted together, and the time was not so difficult.

While talking, they only heard the voice of someone greeting outside, and everyone turned their heads to look, and Xue Baochai came in wearing a patriarch's clothes, served by Yinger.

Mrs. Xue got up, frowned and said, "I'm not telling you to take a good rest. If the bride doesn't sleep well, she won't look good, and her husband's family will laugh at her."

Xue Baochai pursed her lips and smiled, walked forward slowly to greet everyone, and said in a low voice, "I slept very well, I slept all night! It's just that I couldn't sleep when I woke up now, so I simply came over to say hello to my parents. "

After a pause, he said in a low voice, "I can't do this again in the future."

Mrs. Xue was taken aback when they heard this, and Mrs. Xue immediately said: "Don't talk about this on a big day. You married into a special family. When you get to your husband's house, you don't have to wait on your in-laws all day long. But you also remember that you often go to the palace to give to the concubine. Greetings. Please take good care of the prince..."

Mrs. Xue took Xue Baochai's hand and talked a lot.

The maids outside took advantage of the situation and set up breakfast. After everyone had eaten, Mrs. Xue went back to Wutong Garden with her arms around Xue Baochai to get dressed, and was busy again knowing it was time.Outside the gate of the mansion, the pick-up team from Prince Zhongchun's Mansion has arrived.It turned out to be Prince Zhongchun himself who was the first, followed by the fifth, sixth and seventh princes, and even the eldest prince Tu Xuan and the second prince Tu Yang came to join in the fun, but Prince Zhongshun was not seen.

Officials at all levels who followed behind to join in the fun sighed and sighed, this means that the marriage of the Xue family into the palace can be done so casually.

Seeing this, Xue Pan curled his lips and said to Lin Mozhi who was guarding the door, "I'm still optimistic about the Seventh Prince."

Lin Mozhi blushed, glared at Xue Pan, and said in a low voice, "It's your sister's happy day, don't talk nonsense."

Xue Pan chuckled and incited everyone to embarrass the princes outside.It's also called a rare opportunity, so many princes can't be embarrassed all the time.

For a while, Prince Zhongchun was asked to recite love poems in front of everyone, and he asked all kinds of brain-twisting questions to molest the prince.There were also Lin Mozhi, Zhen Baoyu, Wei Ruolan, Feng Ziying and a group of dudes who followed suit, making the lords groan unbearably, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

Laughing, but I don't know that the atmosphere inside is a bit weird and silent.

When the bride gets married, all the girlfriends and friends who are familiar with the bride come to join in the fun.Only no one from Rongning and Ningfu came, not to mention what Xue Baochai was thinking, Lin Daiyu, who was always outspoken, took the lead in snorting coldly, and said more and more distastefully: "I really don't understand etiquette any more."

Mrs. Xue also turned cold with embarrassment, she put her arms around Xue Baochai's shoulders and said with a smile: "Don't think about these things on the big day. Even if it comes, get on the sedan chair!"

Xue Baochai nodded, and pursed her lips shyly.Xue Pan had had enough tossing outside, and seeing that the auspicious time had come, he let the princes in with satisfaction.A group of people crowded into Baochai's house, Prince Zhongchun looked at his bride who had already covered the red hijab, smiled, and without saying anything, he hugged the bride in his arms and strode out Head to go.

When a group of people saw this, they immediately booed and yelled.Everyone pushed and shoved the bride into the sedan chair, started the schedule, and the band played happily.All kinds of precious things are placed in front and back of the sedan chair.The wedding sending team was extraordinarily luxurious, and Shili Hongzhuang purposely circled the city in a grand manner before slowly walking towards the Zhongchun Palace.

What is worth mentioning is that under Xue Pan's instructions, the wedding procession specially went around to Rongning Street, playing for a long time, looking at the closed doors of the two Duke's mansions, Xue Pan forced himself to hold back the resentment and dissatisfaction in his heart, coldly Said loudly: "Go!"

In the Rongguo Mansion, Prince Zhongshun stood in the main hall of Rongxi Hall with his hands behind his back with a cold face. Dao Gesen stood there, and the yard outside was filled with all kinds of prohibited items that had been confiscated.Hearing the joyful sound of suona, gongs and drums that was almost loud enough to shake the sky, he frowned impatiently, and said in a cold voice, "Take me away!"