Old things in the Red Chamber

Jia Gu was right in the imperial prelude today. The two talked for two hours in the imperial study, mostly about the affairs of the Ministry of War, starting from military horses and weapons, to caring for the dead and caring for the seriously injured soldiers. There will be endless questions in a while.Seeing that it was noon, the emperor gave Jia Gu a meal together.

"I met the girl Jia Qing's family raised a few days ago, and I thought it would be good to have two surnames with Jia Qing."

Jia Gu smiled, and quickly thought about the clan that was close to the emperor. "I don't know who the emperor gave the marriage to?"

"I heard that Jia She's daughter was raised in your family, so it is natural to give her a marriage. Lin Hai's daughter is still in filial piety, so it is not appropriate to give a marriage."

"Yes, yes, yes," Jia Gu decided to ask more bluntly, "Which family does the emperor promise the minister's niece to...?"

"What do you think of me?"

Jia Gu's heart twitched in an instant, as if he had been pinched a few times, it hurt and sore, and the skin on his face also jumped twice, "...the emperor...not...the minister...please the emperor said A little more, the wind is a bit strong, and I can't hear clearly."

The emperor smiled, "If I were to be Jia Qing's nephew and son-in-law, what would Jia Qing think?"

not so good.

But Jia Gu was so cowardly that he couldn't speak.

"I have already sent an order to your mansion." The emperor was very talkative today, with a smile on his face, and even used the word "your mansion".Jia Gu shivered in fright.

"I have something to say, Your Majesty, that is my niece, not my daughter. This matter should also be sent to the Rongguo Mansion. What's more, I still want to go back and discuss this matter with my brother..."

"I can tell who is the relative, Jia Qing, try this dish, does it suit your appetite?"

It's over, now Ying'er will enter the palace even if she doesn't.

Jia Xun was on duty at the Taipu Temple, and now the weather has turned cold again. Both the royal horse farm and the horse farm of the Ministry of War sent a report, reporting the arrangements for the winter horse farm. Jia Xun was discussing the two seals with his officials. The elder followed Xia Zhi and came in, "Grandpa, hurry home, there will be an official from the Ministry of Rites to deliver the decree."

This is a big deal, the officials hurried him to go back, Jia Xun was still thinking about it while riding on the horse, the imperial decree came a bit inexplicably.Thinking back to my recent business affairs with my father, there is nothing worthy of commendation, and the emperor attaches more importance to the reward of the title, and he refuses to reward anything easily, Jia Xuan's heart keeps falling. Could it be a reprimand will.

Going home quickly, the female relatives in the backyard also knelt behind the screen. Jia Xun immediately knelt in front of the incense table, listening to the officials of the Ministry of Rites recite the imperial decree written in parallel script, and slowly felt that the taste came out. A large section of antithesis praises a woman,...isn't it what he thinks it is?

"...Master Xiao Jia, accept the order."

Jia Xun accepted the imperial decree, and invited the officials of the Ministry of Rites to drink tea in the main hall, "This...is a happy event, but I am too young to be in charge of the family, but I have to ask, does your lord know what the regulations are?"

"Master Xiao Jia, this is a grace. I heard from the Shangguan that this matter is urgent. You should prepare the dowry according to the positions enshrined in the imperial decree. After a few days, someone will naturally discuss with your mansion about the date of entering the palace."

Sending off the officials who delivered the decree, Jia Huan immediately went to the backyard. The female relatives had been helped to sit in Madam Tong's upper room. Is it... the emperor?"

Jia Yingchun was like falling into the clouds, watching Mrs. Tong's mouth opening and closing, but couldn't hear what she said.

Lin Daiyu saw that the two of them became like this, so she had to ask the mother-in-law to ask Qi Jingan to come back from the princess mansion quickly, and then called Jia Gui's family to reward the servants in Madam Tong's yard first, and let her couple Restraining the servants at home, "You must not make it public."

The voice of the maid greeting Jia Xun sounded in the yard, and Lin Daiyu hurried to the door to stop Jia Xun, "Did the eldest brother send someone to report to the eldest uncle?"

Fuck, forgot about this episode.

It was only when Jia Huan remembered that something was wrong, the uncle was the sister's real father.He slapped his forehead, "Cousin will take care of the house first, and wait for your sister-in-law to come back to take care of the housework. I will go to uncle first."

He went to get the imperial decree, put his sleeves in his sleeves, and rode out to the outside of Ningrong Street, so someone invited Jia Amnesty to come out. He first found a private room in the teahouse, and poured cup after cup of tea in it.

After a while, the door of the private room opened, and Jia She came in, shaking a folding fan in the cold.

"Eldest nephew, drink tea slowly." Jia Amnesty showed his elder's money, thinking that he must teach his nephew how to drink tea.

Jia Xuan immediately took out the imperial decree and pulled him to sit down, "Uncle, please promise your nephew first, no matter what you will see later, you are not allowed to call out."

When Jia She saw the imperial decree, his whole body froze. Hearing what Jia Cheng said, he started to cry, "Nephew, is it true that the emperor is looking at our house...does he want to ransack the house and ask for crimes?"

Jia Xuan never expected Jia Amnesty to react like this, opened the imperial decree, and slowly pointed to him, "Here, do you see that, I will welcome my younger sister as a concubine. Jia Amnesty's daughter, aren't you just a girl? I wonder if the imperial edict Why did you give it to us?"

Looking at Jia She again, he hiccuped twice and fell back on his head. Jia Huan hurriedly supported him, pinched the person, complained again, and poured a pot of tea on his forehead like water, Jia She topped Holding the tea leaves at one end is the only way to regain your senses.

"Good boy, bring it here and let me see it."

Jia Xun handed him the imperial decree, and Jia She, the idiot, watched and smiled, and finally couldn't help it, "Hahahaha, my girl..."

Jia Huan immediately covered his mouth.

"Uncle, this is a tea house, let's find a quiet place now and discuss my sister's dowry."

"What are you discussing?" Jia Amnesty put away the imperial decree and handed it to Jia Xun, "My girl is also a mother-in-law, so you don't have to pay the dowry. Let us pay the money. How much does Jia's second girl take? I also want to give my daughter a dowry."

Jia Xuan had to remind him, "My younger sister is a concubine, and the dowry is only a few hundred taels of silver. From now on, my uncle will also be more particular about his speech. A concubine can't be called a concubine, but at most a noble person. A concubine and above is a concubine." Well. Let's not lend her light, and don't bring her trouble."

Jia She nodded and asked for the edict back, "I'll take it back and show it to the old lady. I guess the old lady will ask someone to bring the nobleman back today. Don't let them bring Ying'er back, wait a while before entering the palace." Come back in two days and send it directly to the palace. The Wang family of the province has taught your sister badly. Your sister is an idiot. If she does something unpleasant, she will be stupid and stupid. How can there be a good life. By the way, tell your father, choose a proper girl to accompany the nobleman into the palace, and don't let the old lady and Mrs. Wang intervene."

Jia Xuan nodded and agreed, Jia Yingchun did not adopt to her own family, although the imperial decree came to the mansion, it is a bit unreasonable to marry from the mansion.Watching Jia She happily get into the carriage, urging the driver to go fast, Jia Huan didn't know what to do. Although he had seen a lot, Jia Yingchun was indeed not a smart person...

Jia Amnesty held the imperial decree, and on the way back to the mansion, he still had a gloomy face. As soon as the carriages and horses entered the door, with a smile on his face, he carried the imperial decree and went to Shi Taijun's yard.

As usual today, it was the juniors who accompanied the old lady to tell jokes. The young men and girls in the room made Shi Taijun feel a few years younger.

The lady at the door came to report, and the elder was waiting outside the yard, holding an imperial decree, and had something to say.

Shi Taijun was upset when he first heard the elder was outside, and then he heard the imperial decree, so he quickly called him in.

Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Xue quickly hid behind the screen, and the juniors stood up to welcome Jia Amnesty.

"Old lady, great joy." Jia She held the imperial decree and unfolded it for Shi Taijun to see, Yuanyang hurriedly handed the tortoiseshell glasses to Shi Taijun, Jia She read it word by word, and finally said, "There is another nobleman in our family. "

Everyone in the room looked at each other, Mrs. Wang behind the screen didn't care about the defense of men and women, she came out of the screen to look at the imperial decree, then called her son Baoyu over and asked him to read it, and then said in disbelief, "This must not be true, Mr. My lord, to forge an imperial decree is a death penalty, besides, there are no angels to proclaim the decree today."

Shi Taijun thought so too, no one came to proclaim the decree, why did the decree come from, and scolded Jia Amnesty, "Nie Zong, you are trying to kill the whole family."

Jia Amnesty felt cold for a while, thinking that only your family can produce a court lady, can't our family produce a nobleman?Put away the imperial decree, "The angel didn't come to our house, but went to my old brother's. If the second wife thinks it's not true, you can ask someone to go to the Ministry of Rites or the House of Internal Affairs to inquire. The palace will definitely give it to the new nobleman." To change the things in the palace, the Xue family is an imperial merchant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, so there must be a way to find out."

He also said to Shi Taijun, "It's time to enshrine the imperial decree, and it's time to prepare a dowry for the child." After speaking, he left with the imperial decree in hand.

At Shi Taijun's door, he was still thinking that when Jia Gusan was on duty, the two brothers should meet and discuss what to do in the future. Jia Amnesty had been in the East Palace, and there was a wall between the East Palace and the Harem. Listen early. It is said that the life of the low-ranking concubines is difficult. Jia Yingchun's position is one of the nine concubines, which belongs to the lower middle position. She can barely raise children, but there are not many cases...

Mrs. Wang immediately asked her mother-in-law to call Jia Lian and ask him to go to the Ministry of Rites to inquire. Mrs. Xue volunteered to ask Ying to arrange for someone to go to the House of Internal Affairs to inquire.Mrs. Wang couldn't sit still, and quietly sent her confidant servants to the vicinity of Zhongwuhou's mansion to ask if an angel came to announce the decree today.

Before noon, Jia Lian came back beaming and said that someone from the Ministry of Rites had indeed announced that Jia Amnesty's daughter, Jia Shi, would live in the Pixiang Hall as a concubine.

People from the Xue family also came to reply. Three days ago, they received an order to change the curtains of the Pixiang Temple, and now they are sending porcelain and jade bonsai.

Shi Taijun was overjoyed, and took Mrs. Wang's hand, "If they are sisters, one of them will be able to give birth to a prince."

For Shi Taijun, all the daughters in the palace are Jia's daughters, and the princes he gave birth to are all Jia's grandsons.But for Mrs. Wang, it was someone else's daughter and her own daughter.Holding back his anger, he perfunctory Shi Taijun, used the excuse of tidying up Baoxia for Yingchun to live in, and returned to his yard in a rage.

Lin Daiyu stood behind Qi Jingan, and Jia Yingchun sat beside her, and asked Licorice and Vanilla, who were kneeling on the ground, "Which of you would like to accompany the girl to the palace? Once you enter, you will never get out in this life, but your family and brothers, Grandpa will arrange it himself."

Licorice kowtowed, "I am willing."

Mrs. Tong nodded, "You move back to live with your parents for the time being, and I will take you there when the girl enters the palace."