[Red House] The Twins of Purple Pearls

Yu's younger sister is Yu Jing, who died at the age of 15.

Her father was seriously ill that year, and thinking about it, she was still reluctant to part with her daughter and decided to let Yu Jing return to vulgarity.Yu Jing took off her monk's clothes and changed into lay clothes, and served her parents as a filial piety. Later, Master Yu died, and Mrs. Yu and Yu Jing went to Beijing after the filial piety.

Perhaps it was because Yu Jing had served the Buddha before, her brows were also bleak, as if she was out of tune with this world.

The mother and daughter of the Yu family came to the capital and only bought a small house in the west of the city to live in.It's just that their orphans and widowed mothers don't have anyone to take care of them, because the Yu family used to live with Mrs. Yu in the past, worried that their aunt and sister would be bullied, so they asked their mothers to take care of them for a while.

Old Mrs. Xu learned that her relatives were coming to Beijing, so she wanted to share as much as she could, and invited Mrs. Yu and Yu Jing to have a dinner at the house on Qixi Festival.

Yu Ming and the sisters of the Lin family had already planned that the Qixi Lantern Festival would go to the archway in the north of the city, and now it doesn't matter if they add Yu Jing.

They didn't go out until after dusk, and the eldest lady Li gave another order.

The streets on the night of Qixi Festival are very lively, the dim lights illuminate the dark night brightly; several girls got off the carriage at the archway in the north of the city wearing bamboo hats, and a group of people went up to the archway.

The archway in the north of the city has always been a place for girls to enjoy the lantern festival. Sitting at the upper window of the tavern and looking down, the world in the dark is reflected in red and yellow colors by the lights of the city.

"Sister Jing is going to Beijing for the first time?" Sitting by the window and looking at the lights, Daiyu asked Yu Jing.

"Probably many years ago, my parents took me to Beijing to visit relatives." Yu Jing said after a little thought.

Yu Ming and Yan Yu were talking on the other side, and it was rare for Yu Ming to talk eloquently, as if he hadn't been so happy for a long time.

"When I was young, I always ran out of the house with my elder sister to watch the lanterns, and my mother happened to catch me in front of the door, and I was about to be punished for copying books." Yu Ming was at a loss, recalling the past when he was young, feeling very melancholy.

Yanyu listened to her quietly, knowing that the sister Yu Ming mentioned was the late third cousin Xu Yuqing; Yu Qing was implicated and died in the Pingfeng Rebellion, and she was the elder sister who loved Yu Ming the most.

While talking, I suddenly heard a commotion under the archway, and the girls watching the lanterns on the archway also heard the sound and peeked out from the upper room.

Yanyu's sharp eyes saw a wet young girl being fished out of the river, and an old couple jumped up and pulled the girl, crying.

"What happened over there?" Yu Ming asked.

"What a poor girl!" Yanyu sighed in a low voice.

When the Lantern Festival was about to end at Xushi, a group of them came down from the archway to return home, and they happened to meet Sheng Ping on the way and greeted each other.

When Sheng Ping saw the Lin sisters, she showed a strange look of hesitation, but she said goodbye without saying anything.

After returning to Xu’s mansion, I greeted you in the old lady’s yard, and suddenly heard hurried footsteps outside, and saw the servant girl serving in the front yard come in and report: “Old lady, Your Majesty’s decree has arrived, and the master invites the old lady, wife, grandma and girl Let's go to the front hall to receive the order."

Suddenly hearing the imperial decree coming, Mrs. Xu hurriedly took the whole family up and down to wait for the imperial decree.

The incense table and censer had been prepared in the front hall, but it was Mr. Peng, the servant of the Ministry of Rites, who came to deliver the decree. The whole Xu family knelt down to receive the decree.

"The daughter of Xu Xu, the Marquis of Tingshan, Yuming of the Xu family, is gentle, gentle, shrewd, Zhuangjing and dignified, inherits the virtues of the virtuous, and is a well-known family. I am very pleased to hear it. When the grandson is suitable for marriage, he should choose a virtuous woman to match; Consultation to hire Xu's Yuming as the grandson's concubine, and become a beautiful woman. All etiquette will be handled by the Ministry of Rites, and a good day will be chosen for the marriage. (Note 1)"

The whole Xu family hurriedly received an order to thank you, Master Peng smiled and said: "Congratulations, Mr. Xu! Congratulations, Miss Xu! When the Ministry of Rites sets an auspicious day, the palace will send a ceremonial officer to teach the concubine grandson about everything in the palace. Please do it as soon as possible." Prepare."

Master Xu quickly thanked Mr. Peng before sending Mr. Peng out.

When the decree came, all the people in the mansion and relatives and friends knew that the fifth girl of the Xu family had been chosen by His Majesty as the Empress Dowager and Concubine.

If there is no mistake, the empress dowager and grandson concubine will be the empress empress who will be the mother of the world in the future, and the Xu family will be extremely dignified in the future, so everyone will come to congratulate her.

Yu Ming stared blankly at the imperial edict, and the maids and wives all said that the fifth girl must be overjoyed.

It wasn't until he returned to the courtyard that Yu Ming was completely exhausted.

Just after the imperial edict, she became the enviable concubine of the empress dowager and grandson.

After congratulating Yu Ming, Daiyu saw the confusion between Yu Ming's brows before she thought about it and asked, "Sister Ming, are you worried?" .

"I'm very happy, but it's like a dream, it doesn't seem real." Yu Ming hesitated for a while before opening his mouth with difficulty, "My father, mother and grandmother are very happy, but I worry that it will be difficult to see them in the future, and I will never see them again." Never seeing you again."

These are her sincere words, but she cannot reveal the slightest to others.

Thunder, rain and dew are all blessings from heaven, and this is the glory that others can't dream of.

On the second day of Chinese Valentine's Day, Jia Min came to pick up his two daughters, came to say hello to Mrs. Xu, and gave Yu Ming a Lantian jade pillow.

"Thank you, Aunt Lin." Yu Ming accepted the Lantian jade pillow, lowered his eyes and said softly.

After leaving Xu's house, Yanyu couldn't wait to ask Jia Min in the carriage: "Mother, you actually already knew about elder sister Ming's selection as Empress Dowager and Concubine?" She remembered that her mother had mentioned that Yu Ming Marriage is near.

"What nonsense! Only when His Majesty's imperial decree is conveyed can we know." Although Jia Min said so, he told the sisters, "Actually, the most important thing about the selection of the imperial concubine is the intention of Crown Princess Zhaoming and Princess Xinning. , Miss Xu Wu is the empress dowager and grandson concubine whom the two nobles have long preferred. But no one dares to speculate freely before His Majesty's decree."

It is said that the names of more than [-] official ladies were handed over to the Ministry of Rites this time, but it is a pity that Princess Zhaoming and Princess Xinning have already made a decision to let those who want to use this to become foreign relatives to go further. .

Hearing what her mother said, Daiyu thought about it and asked: "Because Uncle Xu is an old minister who followed Prince Zhaoming in the past, Princess Zhaoming and Princess Xinning are worried that the future Empress Dowager and Sun Concubine will not be of the same mind with them, so they must follow the old minister. The empress dowager and grandson concubine were selected from the family members of the family, and elder sister Ming is the only suitable person."

Jia Min nodded in relief: "That's exactly the reason."

In terms of emotion and reason, Yu Ming is the most suitable candidate for the grandson concubine.

The auspicious day of the zodiac selected by Qin Tianjian is the beginning of spring next year, and the Ministry of Rituals has been preparing non-stop for the grand wedding of the grandson and concubine, and the etiquette ladies in the palace also came to Xu's mansion to teach Yu Ming the wedding ceremony.

And Baochai also entered the palace to run for female officer, and three days later, outside the palace gate, the list of selected female officials was announced; Baochai was on the list, but she was not an accompanying female official for the princess and princess, but was transferred to the Palace History Department Be a female officer in charge.

There is another reason for this.

In the past, Concubine Zhen and Concubine Wen fought, and the female officials and family members in the palace were all their accomplices; now that both of them are implicated in treason cases, people related to them can no longer be used, and many female officials are either punished or punished. was sent.Therefore, taking advantage of this selection of accompanying female officials, other palace female officials were also selected.

Seeing that Baochai was well-versed in poetry and books, the female official of the Department of Historical Records chose her to be in charge of the Department of Historical Records.

For Baochai, this is also a blessing.

Aunt Xue was overjoyed, so she took money and held a few banquets for her daughter. She invited the Jia family's wives, grandmothers and girls to drink, and also invited Xiangyun, the eldest daughter of the Shi family who used to play with Baochai, and the sisters of the Lin family.

It was only then that Yanyu found out that Baochai had been selected as a female officer, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

It will take three years for Baochai to be a female official, and it will take three years for her to leave the palace; by then, Daiyu will have already married Shi Jin, and the chances of seeing her again will only decrease.

Even if Fairy Jing Huan has any bad ideas, after all, Shenying's waiter himself is already in the palace, so forgive her for not being able to come up with any big tricks.

So the sisters also happily went to the celebration banquet of Xue's family, sincerely happy that Baochai was selected.

After eating two cups of wine at the banquet, Yanyu felt drunk, so she excused herself to wash her hands and went out to drink on the porch, just in time to see Baoyu and Baochai talking under the moon door behind the porch.

Yanyu leaned on the porch and listened carefully, she heard what they were saying.

Baoyu seemed very anxious, pulled Baochai's sleeve and said, "Sister Bao, everything is fine, why are you leaving again? My eldest sister has entered the palace, and I will never see her again; now You have to go there anyway."

Baochai just took half a step back calmly, and still said with a smile: "I came to Beijing to be elected to the palace, and now I am lucky to be a female official in charge, Brother Bao should be happy for me of."

"But, sister Bao, a place like that in the palace..." Baoyu wanted to say something more, but was interrupted by Baochai hastily: "Brother Bao, be careful, being able to enter the palace is a great blessing of the emperor's grace." Ze Wanmin, don't say such things again."

Listening to Yanyu, she could only feel that Shenying's waiter is also very good, and it is not easy for a woman to break the boat like Baochai.

It didn't make any sense to hear it again, so Yanyu turned around to go back, just as Baochai had walked around the moon gate and came here, Yanyu turned her head and greeted Baochai with a smile as if she had just seen Baochai: " Sister Bao!"

"Sister Yan." Baochai also called out with a smile when he saw her.

"Congratulations, Sister Bao." Yanyu said sincerely.

"Thank you." Baochai nodded with a chuckle, walked back along the long corridor with Yanyu, and asked, "I haven't seen sister Yan for a long time, how are you doing?"

Yanyu nodded naturally: "Everything is fine, Sister Laobao is concerned."

Baochai thought for a while and then said: "I heard that Sister Yu has made an engagement with the Prince of Zhongjing Hou. Then I will trouble Sister Yan to say congratulations to Sister Yu for me. I will also prepare a congratulatory gift for Sister Yu."

After hearing Baochai mention Daiyu, Yanyu hesitated subconsciously before smiling as usual: "Then I will thank Sister Bao first for Yuer."

The two entered the front room, and then went back to the banquet to continue drinking; after a while, they saw Baoyu come back, but they looked unhappy and sat beside Aunt Xue, with wandering eyes.

Note 1: The canonization edict refers to the ancient concubine's canonization edict