The Second Master Lian of the Red Chamber

Not long after Lin Hai returned to Beijing to take care of himself, Lord He, who had been promoted to the general of the Fuguo, ordered the housekeeper to send a letter to Beijing, asking Jia Lian to help look after the house, preferably two adjacent houses, and he sent a letter with him. The box is full of bank notes, and it is stated that if you pay less, you will not return it.

Mr. He is a military general, he used to speak straight and straight, and he didn't have any taboos. He just wrote in the letter that he wanted the big one for him and his eldest son's family to live in when they returned to Beijing, and the small one for the youngest son He Yan'an after he got married, and asked Jia Lian to look after him. My own sister picks her face carefully.

Jia Lian was dumbfounded and unambiguous, and ordered Xing'er to check all the vacant houses for sale in Beijing, picked out the geomantic omens of the corners, made a new list, sent two copies, and sent them to He Yan'an and Yingchun respectively for review. , Ask the two of them to choose by themselves.

Yingchun shyly turned it down again and again, and just said that the young master of the He family looked good, but He Qian'an has always been careless and careless about money and economy. At a glance, it is a good location in the capital, and the mansion is not bad at all. , so he pushed it to Jia Lian with peace of mind, and he can choose whichever one he chooses.He also plausibly said that he had only been in Beijing for a few years, and he was a errand in front of the imperial court and seldom left the palace. How can he compare with Jia Lian, an authentic person from the capital?

Jia Lian sneered at this, deeply felt that the He family was not right at the top and crooked at the bottom. He was a manly man who ran faster than a rabbit when it came to mundane affairs.But it was related to Yingchun, he still had people draw the blueprints, went out to look at it himself, circled two courtyards, called Yingchun to choose, and told Xing's daughter-in-law that if Yingchun refused to choose, he would He took a sum of money from the He family, and bought four houses together, and kept them for the children and grandchildren born in the future.

Yingchun couldn't help it, and it was her home after marriage, so she had to endure her shame and choose a place she thought was more pleasing, and let someone send Jia Lian back.I just feel sorry for Xiaohong, who is helping out with errands. She runs to serve her master, but because Yingchun laughed when her face was flushed, she asked Yingchun to stomp her feet and deduct ten copper coins of the monthly money, which made her angry. Several girls laughed together.Xiaohong pretended to cry or not, Yingchun also pretended to grit her teeth and rewarded her with a hairpin, laughing happily.

Jia Lian almost laughed when he heard about it, and couldn't help but lament that these girls' skins are too thin.However, he didn't provoke Yingchun anymore, instead, he asked Xing'er to bring someone to buy a house to transfer ownership, and by the way, he made dowry furniture for Yingchun according to the size measured in the new house, and at the same time spread paper and rubbed ink to bring this interesting incident to life. Tell Daiyu to know.

The more he wrote, the more Jia Lian missed Daiyu, and remembered how pitiful and lovely she was.Since the flower viewing feast that day, the Lin family guarded him as if they were thieves, and never let him see Daiyu again. When he went to pay his respects, Lin Hai always had a strange mood, and Lin Zhang followed him wherever he went. Following, even Jia Min shook his head and waved his hands, expressing his helplessness.If the marriage certificates of the two families were not properly registered in Shuntian Mansion's books, he would have thought that the Lin family was going to regret their marriage.

Suppressing Wang'er to go with the clerks in Shuntian Mansion as a precautionary measure, Jia Lian added another sentence at the end after a second thought. "Young girl Ying and the young master of the He family have never met each other. They are indeed unfamiliar and inevitably shy. However, you and I agree in love, so we are quite different from the two of them."

After finishing writing, Jia Lian read it from the beginning again, and finally took another Songtao paper to copy it again, and swallowed the iron painting with silver hooks written in the four characters of love and affection, and swallowed the mountains and rivers. Went to Lin's house.

It's hard to know what Daiyu is doing in her heart, but Lin Hai should be very angry at Jia Lian's shamelessness.When he came to visit after a few days of rest, he didn't even go in the door of the Lin family's study. He stood in the yard and listened to Lin Haihao's heartbroken accusations, and he still smiled and was as polite as a brazen wall.Even when Lin Hai served tea to see off guests with a sullen face, he could salivate and ask Lin Hai to pass on some exquisite handkerchiefs for him, and also asked Lin Hai to take care of himself, so as not to get angry.

As long as he doesn't want to retire, a few words are nothing more than a spring breeze to him, let alone standing for half an hour, even standing for a day is a sweet treat.Not to mention watching him stand hard, Daiyu was willing to come out and have a word with him.

It's a pity that Lin Hai's heart was as hard as iron, until Mrs. He and his eldest son and daughter-in-law came to Beijing to arrange He Qian'an's marriage, and Jia Lian never had the chance to see Daiyu again, so that he was filled with resentment. He Qian'an was not pleasing to the eye, on the day of the marriage he personally led a group of good hands to guard the gate, and He Qian'an, who was almost making things difficult, couldn't enter the door.

Both the He family and Jia Lian were servants of the dragon, and they both made great contributions during the palace chaos. The marriage between He Qian'an and Yingchun was certain, and the emperor and empress would each receive rewards. The eldest prince and the second prince were ordered to sit in the He residence and the Rong residence respectively. Add luster to He Jia's marriage.His Majesty loves him so much, so the officials naturally followed suit and came to congratulate them one after another. Even ordinary people who don't know much about the government, seeing Yingchun's endless dowry with their own eyes, also smacked their tongues at the wealth of the two families.

It wasn't until one year later that Daiyu got married and entered Rong Enbo's mansion that the people in the capital, who were fond of talking about the marriage between the He and Jia families, turned to talk about this new happy event.

Jia Lian is a superb earl, and Daiyu can wear first-class women's clothes when she gets married. This honor alone is what many women can't dream of in their lives. She asked for the imperial decree of marriage before marriage, and her thoughtfulness and meticulousness really envied everyone.

With the imperial decree of marriage and the nine pairs of Ruyi in various colors and mandarin ducks and lotus carved by Yang Yuan as a base, the red jade Guanyin statue added by the queen and the congratulatory gifts given by several concubines and princes are not very eye-catching in comparison. However, most of the aristocratic families talked about His Majesty's great favor and favor, and they expected the red makeup of the Lin family when they married their daughter.After all, the Lin family is also a hereditary marquis, with a small population in the past dynasties. This time, the eldest daughter married the uncle of Xijue. It is not unusual to accompany Jinshan Yinshan.

But having said that, on the day when Daiyu was putting on her makeup before she got married, none of the wives and grandmothers who went over to make fun of her did not feel sour. Husband and wife love their daughter.Just look at the tiles and other things that represent the fields and shops, and the boxes full of calligraphy, paintings and antiques, let alone married daughters, it is nothing more than a separation of brothers and sisters.Someone secretly calculated the accounts for the Lin family, not counting the box money that most married women in Beijing would give, and the things on the surface are no worse than the titled princess of the palace.

Even the noble daughters of the noble family couldn't help but envy them secretly, and ordinary people talked about it for a long time in shock.Not to mention the imperial gift at the beginning, the heavy huanghuali wooden box at the back is a hundred and one loads.Even though there is still some distance between the Rong Mansion and the Lin family, when the previous imperial gift was carried into the gate of the Rong Mansion, the last box of dowry was just carried out of the gate of the Lin Mansion.

The people watching the bustle by the side of the road are still very interested in talking about the wealth and honor of the two uncles with the outsiders who have just entered the city beside them. Can't help being dazzled, just staring at it carefully, not wanting to miss a single bit.The Jia family did not treat the people who followed along the way. When the sedan chair landed at the stone lion outside the gate of Rongfu, the servants who had been ordered early in the morning lifted the bamboo basket tied with red silk and scattered copper coins into the distance.

Amidst the auspicious words resounding behind him, Jia Lian ignored Xi Po's urging him to kick the sedan door, and directly lifted the sedan curtain and held the hand of the sedan curtain, and led Daiyu out who was covered with a veil.

The groom was so unruly, and the two bridesmaids, who were used to things in rich families, were a little dumbfounded. After looking at each other, they dared to speak again and advised Jia Lian to hold the wedding silk in their hands.Looking inside and outside the capital city, the dignitaries, the nobles, the Qingliu, and even the common people in the market, have absolutely no reason for the groom's official to hold the bride's hand while walking.

This time Jia Lian never pretended not to hear.He nodded his head almost invisibly, solemnly held one end of Xisi with his left hand, and then when Xipo let out a sigh of relief, he held Daiyu's slightly trembling palm with his right hand, leading her step by step. Passed the threshold.

When she got up this morning to comb her hair and put on makeup, Daiyu's eyes were already red and swollen from crying, and the constant bumps in the sedan chair with her head covered all the way aroused all the fear and panic in her heart.If it weren't for the piece of mandarin duck jade pendant that Jia Lian managed to give her some time ago hidden in her sleeve, Daiyu might not be able to hold back her tears even in the sedan chair.

But as soon as she was grasped by Jia Lian's warm and rough hands, her heart gradually settled down, and the thundering suona, gongs and drums in her ears seemed to have dropped a lot, only the occasional turbulence between the flying hijab tassels in front of her eyes. The boot has been leading her forward.Daiyu always had an inexplicable thought in her heart, thinking that she should not have taken this path, but if there was no such path, she didn't know where she would end up.

Suddenly shivering, Daiyu couldn't help but squeeze Jia Lian slightly back.After holding hands, the two never separated their hands. Even though they prayed to heaven and earth three times in the main courtyard, Jia Lian still stood tightly beside Daiyu, holding her hand and bowing down.

It wasn't until Li Cheng was sent to the bridal chamber, and Jia Lian accompanied Daiyu back to the newly furnished wedding room to sit down, that he let go of the hands they had been holding each other, and picked up the wishful scale in the auspicious words that the bride is not the same. He opened Daiyu's hijab, and smiled gently at his shy and anxious wife.

Jia's mother and Mrs. Xing Wang's second wife were all outside to greet the guests, and Jia Lian made it clear that no one was allowed to come to the bridal chamber. At this moment, there were only the two of them in the wedding room, and their servants were alone, so he was not in a hurry to have a drink with Daiyu. .He ordered the maids to bring up the hot noodle soup that he had prepared, and he personally coaxed Daiyu to eat half a bowl, and then persuaded her to pick up the phoenix crown and change her homely hairstyle, and then he was so anxious to kneel outside to persuade her Zhong reluctantly went out to go to the front to accompany the guests to have a drink, and before leaving, he still reminded Daiyu to change into homely clothes quickly, so as not to wear out the dress and make all the maids in the room bow their heads and giggle.

Daiyu's face was as red as the evening glow, and she was full of agility and quick thinking, so she could only lower her head as if she didn't see the maids' smiles, and she got up after a while, and a few dowry maids waited on her to take a bath and change her clothes.