[Red House] The Twins of Purple Pearls

The New Year's Eve is approaching, and the house is full of joy, but the sky has turned upside down outside.

Wen Baye trampled Shan Guogong's young grandson Ma Nan on the street and seriously injured him, but Ma Nan died within three days.Shan Guogong and his wife went to the palace to ask the emperor for justice, but the concubine Wen asked the guards to stop them outside the Meridian Gate; upon hearing the news, Yushitai played a copy of Wen Shangshu in the court hall. , the daughter interferes in politics without authorization as a concubine, and the grandson hurts people with horses in the street.

Although Lin Ruhai is an official of the Imperial Academy, the turmoil in the court has also implicated the upper and lower officials.

All the wives and grandparents started talking, saying that Wen Shangshu was also lost at the end of the festival, but he was affected by his children and grandchildren.His Majesty Longyan was furious and ordered Dali Temple to investigate the case. General Feng Qiu assisted Dali Temple in investigating and handling it.

Due to many outside affairs, I went to Rongguo Mansion to visit relatives on the second day of the Lunar New Year and came back, and the usual contact with Zhang and Jiang's family was also saved.

"Sister, it seems that the situation is going to be clear now?" Daiyu sat behind the chess table and played chess with Yanyu as before, the cold wind outside the house was bleak, and the snow hit the window railing.

"The mantis catches the cicada and the oriole is behind, but the mantis and the cicada have switched roles." Yanyu stared at the chess game and thought.

I thought that the Wen family could at least last for a while, but I didn't expect it to be worse than the Zhen family.

It took a while for Yanyu to remember, she got up and went to the desk to fetch a rolled up painting and handed it to Daiyu: "I'll draw your beauty picture for you!"

Yanyu promised to draw a picture for Daiyu, but it was delayed when Xia Qudong came.

Later, when Daiyu thought of it, she pestered Yanyu to ask her to draw a picture of a beauty: "Historical books all say that Mrs. Li was a beautiful woman in the Han Dynasty, but I don't know what kind of peerless beauty it should be."

Now that the painting is a picture of beauties, Daiyu unfolded it slowly, and sighed: "There are beauties in the north, who are all over the country and all over the city. It's a pity that Mrs. Li died early, but I don't know how this alluring beauty will end if she doesn't die early?"

Concubine Zhen Gui was also known as the Alluring Beauty when she was young, but she was not Mrs. Li who won the emperor's heart after all.

But even Mrs. Li won the emperor's heart, and she couldn't protect her brothers and sons. The Li family was punished twice, and the only son, King Changyi, died early.

I'm afraid the Zhen family is not as good as the Li family, after all, Concubine Zhen is not as important to the current emperor as Mrs. Li is to Emperor Wu.

"What about the Zhen family is a matter for the future." Yan Yu only said.

The Wen family and the Zhen family, Zhao Wang and Jin Wang, who have been entangled and fighting with each other for these years, are probably just pawns played by the emperor.Now it is not the battle for the throne between Zhao Wang and Jin Wang, but the battle between the emperor and the prince, and there are countless orioles watching.

Daiyu still said: "If Concubine Zhen is Mrs. Li, but who is Emperor Zhao? In truth, the future emperor may not have been born yet."

Talking about the present with her sister, Yan Yu also liked it, so she said: "Huo Guang is really Zhou Gong, but unfortunately Emperor Zhao is not a king (Note 1). It doesn't matter who Emperor Zhao is, who Huo Guang is is the most important thing. "

It's just that the Han family is not in the world now, the emperor is not Emperor Wu, and there is no Huo Guang in the court.

The Marquis of Zhongjing probably also noticed the unusual situation in the DPRK and China. For the marriage between Shi Jin and Daiyu, he only asked Zhuang Shishi to take care of it, while the wife of Zhongjinghou's wife, Wen, said she was still ill.

Wen Shi couldn't sit still anymore, seeing a sudden accident in her natal family, her calculations failed, and she became more and more anxious.

Mrs. Wen Er repeated the old tricks to give her advice, and bought Dao Po with money, saying that Wen's illness was strange and he needed to be happy to recover.

Wen Shi pretended to wipe away tears: "Perhaps this is destined. Mrs. Lin is reluctant to let Sister Yu marry early, and my body is unbelievable. Brother Jin is so tired."

Mrs. Wen Er was about to speak, but was interrupted by Zhuang Shishi: "I don't understand, what does my sister-in-law have to do with Brother Jin? I went to ask Brother Jin's birthday, Brother Jin Early marriage is not advisable. If my sister-in-law's illness can only be cured with joy, why not let me arrange a good concubine for my third elder brother, and set up a few tables of wine and banquets at the house to invite relatives and friends to meet, that would be considered a happy event."

Wen's was so angry that he almost couldn't bring himself to speak up, and Mrs. Wen's face turned livid: "What are you talking about, Mrs. Auntie!"

"If my sister-in-law is not willing, I have another idea." Zhuang Shishi sneered, "Or marry a girl as a child bride for brother Heng, and the relationship between them will be deeper when they grow up together. Besides, brother Heng is sister-in-law His own flesh and blood, brother Heng's marriage to a daughter-in-law is the greatest joy for my sister-in-law."

Brother Heng is still a child, and the girls who are child brides-in-law are all poor and helpless. How can a family with a little reputation be willing to let their girls be child brides-in-law!

Zhuang Shi's sentence was so heart-wrenching that Wen's paralyzed on the couch, but he didn't dare to mention Chongxi anymore.

In the third month of last spring, it was a good day for Xue Luo to leave the court; she married far away in Jinling, and the wedding procession had to leave in advance, so they had to travel day and night to Jinling.

In the past, the wife who was good friends with Xue Luo came to add make-up to Xue Luo, but because King Zhao was implicated by the Wen family and was angered by His Majesty, the official wife who came to add make-up to Xue Luo is far less grand than Na Cai's engagement.

Xue Luo's elder sister, Concubine Zhao, will also marry her in the future. Only Xue Luo's old grandmother led Xue Luo to kowtow in front of the tablets of General Xue and Princess Wen'an.

Only when she saw Xue Bing did Xue Luo shed tears; the only thing she couldn't let go of in the capital was this nephew.

The sisters of the Lin family followed Jia Min to Xue's house to observe the ceremony, and at Xue's house, they met the Liu family and his party from the Duke of Li's mansion.

Second Grandma Liu followed Mrs. Li Guogong with a frosty face, and Wen Qingyuan, who was already pregnant with Liujia, also followed her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, but her pale face was completely different from before; Seeing Wen Qingyuan, his eyes became disdainful and disgusted, as if he was afraid that if he got too close to her, he might get dirty.

Second Grandma Liu Qi's natal family is related to Duke Shanguo's mansion, and the child who was trampled to death by Ba Ye Wen would call Second Grandma Liu a cousin according to her seniority.

Originally, the Qi family had a good relationship with Wen Qingyuan's sister-in-law; but now that such a murder case happened, the two families are in dire straits, and the Qi family is deeply ashamed of having had a close relationship with Wen Qingyuan.

Xue Luo dressed up neatly, but let Xi Niang back away, leaving only Yanyu talking to her in the room.

"Now that I'm going to marry far away and leave Beijing, you really have nothing to say to me?" Xue Luo looked at Yanyu and asked.

"May Sister Luo and Mr. Li's husband and wife love each other, grow old together, and have a full house of children and grandchildren." Yanyu hesitated for a moment and said so.

"You know that's not what I want to hear." Xue Luo shook his head and bit his lower lip lightly, "Who is that strange person you met after Qingping Temple's "Folding Willows"?"

Yanyu lowered her eyes: "Sister Luo is too serious!" Only when she met Xue Luo's burning eyes, she whispered, "I don't know where he came from, and I don't know where he is going, so I say he is a strange person .”

Xue Luo didn't ask any more questions, turned around and took out a purse from the dowry box, but the purse was stitched up with needles and threads, and a lotus flower was embroidered with the blue-and-blue embroidery method.

"Sister Luo's embroidery technique is really superb." Yan Yu sincerely sighed.

"It's just a trick." Xue Luo's tone was not obvious, as if he was just understating something that had nothing to do with her, "If you meet him again, please help me give him this purse. If you don't see him again, then Forget it."

Yanyu didn't know what Xue Luo meant, so she took the purse and replied, "Sister Luo, don't worry."

Xue Luo still said slowly: "He is a strange person, and we have not been able to force him." Then he mentioned thoughtfully, "I heard that sister Yu and the son of the Shi family are engaged. I'm afraid I won't be able to come back in Jinling In Beijing, this green lotus purse is my gift to Sister Yu."

Yanyu caressed the green lotus embroidery on her purse in amazement, wondering what this could have to do with Daiyu.

"It's just a matter for historians!" Xue Luo smiled, and sat down in front of the dressing table, his dazed face reflected in the bronze mirror.

Xi Niang came in to redress Xue Luo's face before Yan Yu left the wedding room and went to the front hall to have a wedding banquet.

However, just as Xue Luo's wedding sedan chair left, the streets were already surrounded by officers and soldiers, and a group of officers and soldiers also came from outside Xue's residence, blocking the door and negotiating with the elders of the Xue family.

The people who came to add makeup to Xue Luo were all the wives and grandmas of the officials. Seeing this posture, they all gathered in the courtyard and talked to each other.

Mrs. Jiang's sister-in-law, Mrs. Jiang, pulled Jia Min to talk in the corridor: "I don't know what's going on! I'm afraid something happened outside."

Mrs. Zhang also responded: "It's not right to look at the situation, you have to go out and ask."

It's just that now that Xue Luo is out of the cabinet, there is no one in the Xue family who can be the master of the house, and there is no idea that something happened suddenly outside.

Wen Qingyuan caressed her protruding belly, leaning against the servant girl with a painful face, sweat dripping from her face.

"Ma'am, our grandma's water broke, what should I do?" Wen Qingyuan's nanny hurriedly went to find Mrs. Guogong for help, and Mrs. Guogong was also panicked when she heard the news; Sitting down, he asked the mother-in-law to go out of the mansion to find the mother-in-law who gave birth, saying that the third grandma of the Duke of Li's mansion might be about to give birth.

When the officers and soldiers who led the team heard about Mrs. Liu, they slapped their heads and remembered: "This Mrs. Liu is a girl from the Wen family! If the girl from the Wen family passes the news to the outside, we won't be able to explain it later."

When the wife in the courtyard heard that Wen's family was mentioned outside, she thought that maybe something happened to Wen's family, and felt uneasy.

It's just that Wen Qingyuan couldn't delay, because the woman next to Xue's grandma knew how to do it. She had delivered to Xue's daughter-in-law before, and Xue's grandma had to let her in to watch Wen Qingyuan's situation.

The girls were talking in the front hall, and came out to look around when they heard the movement outside. They were all talking about how the Wen family was, and they were trembling with fear.

Yanyu held the green lotus purse in her sleeve and went out with Yingping, her heart was full of emotions.

"Sister, I heard it has something to do with the Wen family." Daiyu whispered to Yanyu.

"Looks like it's about to start." Yanyu looked out amidst the hustle and bustle, countless thoughts flashing through her mind.

Note 1: Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty appointed his youngest son Fuling as the crown prince, and gave Huo Guang the picture of "The Duke of Zhou Fucheng King", making Huo Guang assist the new king like Duke Zhou.