The maid of the red house

Because Emperor Changqian and the Empress Dowager suddenly rewarded Xueyan with a few things, the things were not many, and they were not very precious. What is rare is this decency that is remembered by the Tian family. How many officials have never been in the palace for a lifetime. Xueyan from Lai's family worked harder to reward her, and Mammy Lai specially picked out a red sandalwood openwork small kang screen, a peach blossom stewed stone tripod and a set of jade carvings from her ladder to add to her dowry list. Lai Shangrong and Lai Xinrong wrote to them, telling them not to be stingy when adding makeup to Xueyan next year.

After everything is settled, Nanny Lai said to Lai's daughter-in-law: "Use all porcelain from official kilns, don't use things from ordinary folk kilns."

Lai's daughter-in-law understood, and said: "Although the folk kiln is not bad, it is not as decent as the official kiln. So at first, the porcelain from the official kiln was prepared, but the number was not much. Now I will add more, two sets of tea sets, bowls and plates. , what does the old lady think?"

Grandma Lai listened, nodded and remained silent.

Lai's daughter-in-law asked: "Although Xueyan has a lot of jewelry, are the four sets of heads missing? Do you want to add a few more sets?" When Lai Xinrong got married, they bought 24 new sets for the heads alone. There are really too few sets.

Nanny Lai said, "Alright, let's add four more sets."

Lai's daughter-in-law sighed, if she knew this, she should have been more generous before, but adding it now would seem too sycophant.

The Zhao family soon got the news, Mr. Zhao and Mrs. Zhao couldn't help but sighed deeply, "I knew there was such a face, we should add a little bit more to the betrothal gift." There are some ladders that have not been distributed to the children and grandchildren, and the dowry money for the next hire was prepared by Zhao Yun himself, and they did not give any private property.

Niu and Mi's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were secretly worried, they were so aggressive before entering the door, wouldn't they overwhelm them after entering the door?Just thinking that the backing behind Xue Yan would be beneficial to Zhao Feng's future, the two of them felt a little joy.

Zhao Yun was not surprised at all. He knew Xueyan would not be forgotten in the palace. After all, Nanhua had saved Emperor Changqian, and he also knew that Xueyan had never thought of relying on Nanhua's decency to climb the dragon and the phoenix. Neither of the sisters had ever asked for grace, otherwise she would She is no longer just a girl, but others always think that she has a big backer.

Zhao Yun didn't care about this, he just rejoiced for Xueyan. In this way, no one would dare to underestimate her previous background after she married.

After thinking about it, he called Mrs. Li, and Zhao Yun pointed to the two pots of wintersweet and two pots of narcissus that had been pruned just now, and said, "Mother Li, send them to Miss Wang, and let her appreciate them."

Mrs. Li agreed, changed her clothes, and went to Lai's house in the car driven by Guanyue. When she saw Xueyan, she gave flowers and said what Zhao Yun wanted. Zao cleverly took rewards for her and Guanyue, three hundred dollars each, and said: "Come here in the wind and snow, and buy wine for mother and brother outside."

Mrs. Li hurriedly laughed and said, "Miss, please spend your money on wine and food."

Xueyan winked at Cui Liu, and Cui Liu came out with a bag made of pine flower silk and pink silk, handed it to Mrs. Li, and said with a smile: "It just so happens that our girl made a raven for my uncle a while ago." The blue-feathered satin fox fur jacket has only been stitched for two days, and it still has a pair of stuffy hands, since my mother came over, I will take it back to my uncle."

Mrs. Li saw that Zhao Yun remembered Xueyan, and Xueyan also remembered him, so she was naturally happy for Zhao Yun, so she agreed.

After Mrs. Li left, Xueyan ordered Xiaolan to place a pot of single-petaled narcissus on the small table beside the bed, a pot of double-petaled narcissus on the desk, and two pots of delicate yellow and tender wintersweet flowers on the porch outside the window. When the wind and snow blow and hit, it is even more arrogant.

Lai's daughter-in-law came in and saw it, and praised: "Such a beautiful plum blossom, such a fragrant narcissus."

Xueyan put down her pen and got up, and said with a smile: "It's snowing very hard at the moment, why did the godmother come here?"

Lai's daughter-in-law asked someone to bring up the three extra things Lai Mammy had added to Xueyan, and pointed to the two bolts of clothing material held by a girl, and said: "Your grandmother was looking for something just now, and there are two big red doraemons. Well, it turned out to be a good thing that the old lady gave twice a year, but I was reluctant to wear it, and I forgot about it, and then I saw it and asked me to bring it to you.

Xueyan knew that dorait was a tribute, and she followed Daiyu with only two or three dorait jackets and a dorait jacket, but there were several of the clothes left by Nanhua, and one A big red horse and a blue Dora horse, heard the words and hurriedly said: "Grandmother and godmother leave it to the elder sister, I have enough clothes."

Lai's daughter-in-law smiled and said, "Your sister has it, and it's for you. I just found these things, so don't dislike them."

Xueyan still didn't refuse, when she suddenly saw the housekeeper's daughter-in-law approaching in a panic.

Lai's daughter-in-law frowned and asked, "What happened? Who did you bump into in such a panic?"

The housekeeper's daughter-in-law hastily apologized a few times, and then said: "Go back to Madam, it's the Zhen family's matter that has now been convicted."

Lai's daughter-in-law was shocked when she heard this, and said: "Didn't it say that there was the protection of the Supreme Emperor, and the help of various family members to deal with it, and there was also a scholar of Rong University who was escorted to Beijing for several months without conviction. Sudden conviction?"

The housekeeper's daughter-in-law said: "It was published in the mansion newspaper, but I don't know why."

Lai Da's daughter-in-law hurried out of Xueyan's house, and hurriedly called someone to find Lai Da. Before she had gone far, the Rongguo Mansion sent someone to call her over. Seeing her, Jia Mu asked, "Do you know?" Is the Zhen family convicted?"

Lai's daughter-in-law said: "I just found out, and I don't know why."

Jia's mother frowned, and if she was worried, she said, "Send someone to find out and come back and tell me that our family and the Zhen family are old relatives. We can't just see the Zhen family collapse like this. In the past few months , I thought that at least there would be the Supreme Emperor, the Grand Master Rong and all kinds of family friends, but I didn't expect the saint to go his own way and suddenly send the Zhen family down."

Someone went out once, when Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng came to pay their respects to Jia's mother when he was young.

Jia's mother hated Jia Amnesty now, and she didn't have a good face when she saw him. She just looked at Jia Zheng, who understood, and quickly comforted her: "Mother, don't worry, I've called Lai Da to go, and we'll have news later. .”

Mother Jia sighed: "How can I rest assured? How important is the Zhen family? How can you say that if you are convicted, you will be convicted?"

Jia Zhengyao thought about how beautiful the Zhen family was when they picked him up four times, but now he is a prisoner, his family property is seized, his servants sell it, and the whole family is imprisoned. In the entire family, there is only one widow and grandma who has not been imprisoned because of her cleanliness and chastity for many years, but she just brought her only son to live in a ten-room house, which is so tragic. Let people sigh.

Jia Amnesty said disapprovingly: "Although the Zhen family has been exiled today, the Zhen family is a century-old family. How can the emperor allow it?"

Jia Zheng shook his head and said, "Otherwise, the emperor's body has not been safe in recent years, and he has not been in court for a long time. Since the Zhen family was sealed up, no news was allowed to reach Shangyang Palace. The emperor may not know about the Zhen family."

Jia She let out a little surprise, and said in amazement: "Why is the second master so well-informed now?"

Jia Zheng shook his head and smiled wryly, but did not say that Yuan Chun sent the news from the palace with great difficulty.In his life, his eldest son died early, and his eldest grandson was young. Although he had a second son, if he didn't have one, only this daughter was the most upstanding. But he won't trouble Yuan Chun with this.

Jia She glanced at him, pondered for a long time, guessed a bit, snorted, and said nothing, if it wasn't for the fact that the lady in the palace came from their room, she was the family's reliance, she couldn't make mistakes, he would have sent Jia to him a long time ago. Zheng kicked out of Rongxi Hall.

When I was young, Lai sent the report to the mansion out of breath, and Jia's mother hurriedly ordered Jia Zheng to read it to her.

Jia Zheng held the residence newspaper, his hands trembling slightly, Jia Amnesty snatched it away, put on his glasses to look at it, he couldn't help but turn pale with shock, and said: "Old lady, the Zhen family has indeed been convicted, Master Zhen Ying Jiazhen gave a white silk He hanged himself in prison, and Mrs. Zhen and others may have the shackles displayed to the public, or be imprisoned, or exiled, or demoted to common people."

Mother Jia hurriedly asked, "What are the charges? Why is the sentence so severe?"

Jia She said: "There are so many crimes, such as being short of money, exceeding the system, having a family property of more than ten million yuan, nepotism, concealing and not reporting many natural disasters, and lying about the flood in Jinling and embezzling the government's disaster relief money. There are more than a dozen major crimes. Mrs. Zhen He and several housekeeper grandmothers were imprisoned for the crimes of usury, exploitation, and litigation, etc., and they were displayed to the public for a month. crime, but is now in jail."

Mother Jia was astonished, and said, "Why are there so many charges? Can't you turn over?"

Jia She said with a sigh: "I'm afraid it will be difficult to turn over. There are so many crimes, one after another, and they are not light. I heard that Long Yan was furious, and all the tens of millions of the Zhen family's property were returned to the state treasury." The Zhen family repeatedly cried and complained that they were in short supply without money, which was a slap in the face. Some officials who had defended the Zhen family before seeing this huge fortune also fell silent.

In the room, Sister Feng, Li Wan, and other female relatives who were hiding behind the screen were all frightened, especially Sister Feng and Li Wan. When Sister Feng heard that Mrs. Zhen and several housekeepers were imprisoned, she couldn't help but think of herself, and only thought of herself. How to erase this matter.Li Wan was worried that Mrs. Wang would receive the thirty or forty boxes sent by the Zhen family. She wondered whether she would be charged with hiding an official's family property, but she also knew that the Zhen family had been convicted, but the property was ten thousand. Don't hand it over, otherwise, wouldn't you tell outsiders that you hid it?

Tanchun and others have always heard that the family envied the wealth and beauty of the Zhen family, but they never thought they would lose if they said they were defeated.

It's fine for others, but Tanchun had expected it long ago, secretly saddened by the Zhen family's situation, and didn't know what to do with her own family. Unfortunately, she is a woman. If it was a man, she would have gone out to make contributions, and there is no need to watch the family business decline day by day. And there is nothing to do.

Mother Jia sighed and asked, "Does their family have a precious jade? It is said that it is very similar to our precious jade. What's the matter?"

Jia Amnesty said: "Zhen Baoyu has not been charged with any crimes. He is still in prison. Even if he is released, he will have to wait for a while."

After finishing speaking, Jia Amnesty hurriedly said: "The Zhen family has fallen to such a point, we would rather stay far away than get too close, and carefully get involved by the Zhen family. Our family still has a lady in the palace, so we can't just because the Zhen family is out." What's wrong with empress' dignity."

Not only Jia She and the Hefu people thought this way, even the outsiders who had a good relationship with the Zhen family also thought this way.

Rong Kui was secretly annoyed that he failed to save Zhen's family from the fire and water. He had already been sick at home for many days. Emperor Changgan naturally didn't take it seriously. Instead, he kindly allowed him to recuperate at home for a month. Immediately turned around and ordered the Zhen family to be dealt with again. Countless party members were involved in the matter of the Zhen family. In a short while, dozens of officials from the capital city and the south of the Yangtze River were sacked. Once they were convicted, Emperor Changgan arranged for him The succession of the promoted confidant officials did not affect the foundation of the court.

Zhou Hong and the others were so busy that they invited Zhao Yun over.

Now that Zhao Yun has everything ready, the only thing left is to welcome the bride in February of the next year. Now that the twelfth lunar month has just entered, naturally he is not in a hurry to be busy with his own marriage affairs. When he met Zhou Hong, he discussed with him how to take care of the current affairs.

In fact, both of them don't like to take care of these things. Compared with this, they both look forward to galloping outside the Great Wall and fighting on the battlefield, rather than dealing with these intrigues in the court. Perfectly done.

When Daiyu heard about Zhen's family, she couldn't help thinking of the defeat of Jia's family, and sighed, "I seem to have seen what happened to my grandmother's family."

Due to recent incidents in the Zhen family, people in the house were in panic, Lai and his wife were also running around, Xueyan's dowry was ready, her hijab and wedding gown were all embroidered, she was free, Daiyu came to pick her up, and she was ready immediately Came here by car, heard this, said: "It is said that the world is hot and cold, we have understood it before, it is ridiculous that the Zhen family has been proud for more than a hundred years, and it also ended like this."

The Zhen family mirrors the Jia family, what the Zhen family is like today, and what the Jia family will be like in the future. It is ridiculous that the Jia family also avoids the Zhen family. Fortunately, they still have thirty or forty boxes of belongings from the Zhen family. There is also a source of time.

Daiyu couldn't help frowning: "What should I do?"

Xueyan said: "It's not that I'm cold-hearted, it's just that the girl also knows that it's too late for the mansion to reform itself today, not to mention that they think they have their mother in the palace and have no fear." Not only that, they didn't Taking the matter of the Zhen family as a lesson, he thought that with Yuan Chun as his backer, and Jia Mu's birthday this autumn, he received a generous reward, and his family would never end up like the Zhen family.

Xueyan didn't tell Daiyu these words, but she knew that Daiyu must understand.

Daiyu sighed: "The former son inquired about the news that Mrs. Zhen had died in prison, and that Baoyu of their family had been reduced to a beggar, and there was no one to take him in. I don't know where he is now. He said that there must be Yuqing in a family of good deeds. Although the Zhen family is not benevolent, they do all kinds of evil, but they have always helped several families in the past, but now no one has reached out to help. From this point of view, I don’t know what the future of my grandmother’s family will be. No one thought about it."

Xueyan's heart moved, and said: "It's probably only the third girl who has seen something."

Regarding Tanchun, apart from her different attitude towards Daiyu Baochai, Xueyan admires her shrewdness and decisiveness very much.

When Tanchun was mentioned, Daiyu was slightly startled, and then said: "The third younger sister is the smartest. In this matter, among these sisters, even Sister Bao is inferior to her. It's a pity that she didn't come out of the second aunt's stomach. Think about everything." Looking at the second aunt, the second aunt failed to give her a lifetime, I hope the second aunt will love her more tomorrow, and when the second sister gets married, quickly find her a good family." Seeing that the Rongguo Mansion will be defeated, I only hope It is better for the sisters to leave one by one than to end up with the girls of the Zhen family.

Xueyan listened, nodded in agreement, and hoped that Tanchun could escape the pain of marrying and parting. Even if the person she said was not a wealthy family, it was not perfect, but it was better than she would never come back after traveling thousands of miles better.

When Zijuan changed the tea again, she came over and said, "It would be great if the second wife really loved her, but right now I don't know if it's true."

Daiyu and Xueyan listened, but remained silent at the same time.

Half a day later, Daiyufang forced a smile and said: "In the old year, on the third girl's birthday, even the empress gave a few things as a birthday gift. I think the second aunt was very satisfied with her, so she told the empress, and the empress looked at her differently." Wait, other people's birthdays are not so respectable, and it's unknown if Second Aunt will treat her kindly and choose a good marriage for her, after all, if the third girl marries well, it will also benefit Second Brother."

Zijuan shook his head and said: "No one knows about these things. I usually don't think so, but now I feel that the second master is just a fifth-rank official. Even if there is a noble concubine, the third girl is only a fifth-rank official. The concubine's status is much lower than that of the fourth girl and the second girl. Now that the second girl is married to such a family, how can the third girl get over it? It must not be possible. Now I only hope that after the second girl, the third girl and the fourth girl will have A good result."

Speaking of this, everyone sighed.

Ting Lan said: "What are you sighing for? It's so easy for the snow geese to come, but the girl just makes her sad."

After being persuaded by her, everyone turned around.

It's just that Daiyu was very thoughtful, and she was still very worried about Jiamu. When Xueyan left in the evening, Daiyu hurriedly signaled Zijuan to hand her a brocade box the size of a rouge box, and said, "I wanted to give it to you last time." , but I forgot."

Xueyan opened it, but it turned out to be a box of gems, complete with red, blue and green, and a few cat's eyes, very neat, she couldn't help looking at Daiyu.

Daiyu laughed and said, "It's better to buy jewelry tomorrow, or inlay or inlay it."

Xueyan said: "Girl keep it for yourself, what will you do for me? I don't lack these."

Daiyu pursed her lips and smiled, and said, "I have a lot of them. I didn't mention that there was a box when I left the pavilion, and there were two or three boxes in the things you gave me back later, not to mention the pearls, agates and jades. When Zijuan comes out of the pavilion, I will Give her a box too, not just for you. You take this and match it with some gold, and ask the Lai family to find a craftsman to make you some jewelry with new designs, and you will be my face when you leave the court."

Zijuan, Ting Lan and others persuaded her to accept it, but Xueyan had no choice but to accept it.

Back at Lai's house, Xueyan met Lai Nai, saw her leaning on the pillow, with a hint of worry in her expression, she knew she was thinking of Zhen's house, and said: "What is grandma thinking?"

Nanny Lai came back to her senses, and said with a smile: "I never thought about it, you go back to Aunt Lin's place, how is Aunt Lin?"

Xueyan said: "Everything is fine, girl."

Nanny Lai nodded and said nothing, Xueyan went back to the house, put away the gems and didn't think about making jewelry, she carefully estimated that she had a lot of dowry, she didn't need to do more, it's better to save it for another day for.

Although the Jia family was in panic because of the Zhen family's incident, they didn't care about it, and after a few days, they acted as usual.

After Lai's daughter-in-law panicked, she also calmed down and beat the servants everywhere, returning to the old way for a while.

This day Lai's daughter-in-law answered in Jiamu's room and told Jiamu about the rent and things sent from various places this year. Jiamu listened quietly, and then sighed for a long time, saying: "The house is not as good as it is every year." Now, what do such a small amount of things do? I didn’t pay attention to it, and I didn’t know that the mansion was already in such a difficult situation.”

Lai's daughter-in-law is also very worried. The income of the mansion is getting less and less every year. During the New Year, I have to give gold and silver to reward people. : "This year, the snow is heavy, there are snow disasters in several places, and there is also a bowl of hailstones, destroying many crops, so the harvest is inevitably less, so we have to make do with the New Year."

Mother Jia nodded and sighed again.

Lai's daughter-in-law couldn't help being very worried when she saw that Jia Mu's voice was not as good as in previous years, and her energy was also much worse.

After a while, Mother Jia suddenly remembered something and asked, "I heard that the palace rewarded snow geese?"

Lai's daughter-in-law knew what Jiamu meant, presumably because of the recent affairs of Zhen's family, Jiamu knew the benefits of having someone in the palace, so she asked this question, pondered for a while, and replied: "That's right, it's been a long time. , are enshrined at home, hey, it is indeed something from the palace, it is really good, it has been left to Xueyan as a dowry, so decent."

Jia Mu pondered for a moment, and said, "Since that's the case, you'll have to buy a dowry for Xueyan, so don't treat her poorly."

Lai's daughter-in-law hurriedly smiled and said: "The old lady is right, we treat the snow geese as if they were our own."

Jia Mu said: "It's so good. Tomorrow, Xueyan will go out, and I will send Yuanyang to put on makeup for her. Is the date fixed?"

Lai's daughter-in-law said: "Thank you for your kindness, old lady, the date has been set for February 26 next year, and there are only two months left."

Jia Mu nodded and said: "It's a few days earlier than the second girl came out of the pavilion. The second girl is a good day on the sixth day of March. It's a coincidence for the two of them. Ask your mother-in-law to bring the snow geese here next year, don't let her alone People are at home."

After hearing this, Lai's daughter-in-law hurriedly agreed, wishing that Jia's mother would add makeup to Xueyan, so that the dowry would be more beautiful.

At the end of the new year, the Jia family was not affected in the slightest by the incident of the Zhen family, and it was still full of prosperity and beauty everywhere.

When paying New Year's greetings to Jiamu, Mammy Lai came with Xueyan. Everyone congratulated her when they saw her. Come on with a three-point smile.

Xueyan has always said that it is best to rely on others, relying on everyone, and relying on herself is the best, so she has never thought of relying on others. Of course, she will take advantage of the situation, but she will not rely on it. But she has so many backers behind her. In the eyes of outsiders, he is attached to them. When talking to her, his words are more friendly than usual, and he has a rare seat in front of Jia Mu.

In terms of status, Nanny Lai and Da Lai and his wife are servants, but Xueyan is not, but she can't sit on top of Nanny Lai, so she only sits on the brass footrest that the mandarin ducks brought over, and it's next to Nanny Lai.

It's a pity that none of them thought that if they lost these backers one day, would they still be like this?Xueyan smiled and sighed in her heart, but unfortunately, people in the world can't see through, how can the backer compare with her own ability.

After drinking for three rounds, everyone moved to the flower hall to talk, and a stage was set up in front of the hall.

In Xueyan's heart, the Rongguo Mansion is not as good as before. Although there is a lot of entertainment and drinking during the New Year this year, it is much less, and even the voices of giving money are not as dense as in previous years.Just as he was thinking about it, someone said that it was three o'clock, and other maidservants brought up new clothes.

Sitting under Jia Mu was a big mattress made of snow wolf fur, which Daiyu honored her in the old year. She was wrapped in a mink fur cloak, which was also made of the mink fur Daiyu honored her. There were handkerchiefs on her lap. There was a cloisonné enamel hand stove on it. Mother Jia covered her hands and looked up to see Xueyan wearing a peach red satin squirrel jacket and a big red pomegranate skirt, but she was wearing a stone green silk squirrel cape. Then he laughed and said: "This cloak is too plain, you will have a good time in front of you, you should wear it brighter."

Xueyan was taken aback, thinking that she was wearing silver red and bright red, because they were too bright, only azurite could hold the color, how could she be so plain?Glancing at Yingchun, Tanchun, Xichun and Baochai, Xiangyun, Baoqin, Xing Xiuyan and others present here, I don't feel that I am dressed plainly, in fact, I am much more colorful than Chaiyanxi and others.

Before she could finish thinking, she listened to Mother Jia's instruction to Yuanyang: "Bring the bright red cloak you found out earlier and give it to the snow geese to wear. Girls, don't be too plain, it's taboo. "

The mandarin duck agreed, and went there for half a day, and came out with a big red cloak woven with gold makeup, foreign thread, fancied silk, and celestial horse skin, shook it out and handed it to the snow geese, it was really bright and eye-catching.

Nanny Lai glanced at Xueyan quickly, and signaled Xueyan to thank her.

Xueyan had no choice but to change into the azurite cloak she was wearing, and kowtowed to Mother Jia to thank her.

At that time, Baoyu, who had passed a hundred days, was also present, looked at Xueyan once, nodded and said: "Sister Xueyan was born as clean as snow, so she looks more beautiful in this red dress, like red plums in snow."

Xueyan bowed her head shyly when she heard this.

Suddenly I heard a young woman who was sitting next to Sister Feng say: "You look beautiful, you talk and behave well, you are a good girl, and only such a good girl can marry a good family. No matter what, she has passed the imperial examination." Juren, relying on real work."

Quite a few people present here today Xueyan didn't recognize them, so they looked up when they heard the sound.But I saw that this woman was only seventeen or eighteen years old, she was born like flowers and tender willows, she was eating melon seeds and looking at herself with a smile, she had gold hairpins and jade hairpins on her head, and silk and satin on her body, she was very luxuriously dressed, she was on par with Sister Feng, It's just that she doesn't have the aura of Fengjie, concubine, concubine and fairy.

When Sister Feng heard this, she immediately smiled. Because she is pregnant now, which is what the eldest family has been looking forward to for many years, so she has a seat here today, unlike Youshi Li Wan who is still standing by the side to wait.

Nanny Lai hurriedly turned her side and reminded Xue Yan in a low voice: "It's the newly married grandma of the Xue family."

As soon as Xueyan heard it, she knew it was Xia Jingui. Now that Xue's family lived in Rongguo Mansion, it was natural to invite Xue's family to a banquet next year, and hurriedly got up and went to say hello.She had heard about this person a long time ago, and because of the absence of Xiangling, she only suppressed Xue Pan's arrogance, and did not give Xue Pan any advantage of Bao Chan, so she was arrogant and domineering in Xue's house, and did not put Aunt Xue, mother and daughter in the least place. In her eyes, Aunt Xue regretted it too much, but Baochai was calm by nature, and every time Xia Jingui wanted to provoke her, she used words to suppress her ambition, so that Xia Jingui did not dare to offend her easily.

Xia Jingui took Xueyan's hand, looked it up and down, and smiled at Jia Mu: "The old lady has really good eyesight, look at this dress, which makes people more beautiful than flowers. I often say that young girls should Dressed in red, willow and green, some of them are wearing half-new blue, lotus, blue, honey, and khaki, as if they are cursing themselves, which is really unlucky."

When everyone heard this, they quickly looked at Baochai. It turned out that Baochai was wearing a honey-combined golden squirrel double-breasted short jacket today, paired with a scallion-yellow brocade embroidered cotton skirt. With the old year's lotus blue bucket pattern and the icing on the cake, the cloak with foreign thread and silk, the cloak that Xueyan wears now is made of the same fabric, and they are all tributes from foreign tributes, but they are not as colorful as Xueyan's cloak.

Baochai looked calm, as if she had never heard of it.

On the contrary, Aunt Xue was so angry that her liver hurt, but she couldn't show it in front of everyone.

Xia Jingui curled her lips, took off a gold bracelet inlaid with precious stones and double dragons to grab the beads from her wrist, gave it to Xueyan, and said with a smile: "I'll give it to you as a reward, we don't lack money or jewelry, we dress better every day, don't imitate Those who are reluctant to wear it."

Xueyan smiled wryly and declined several times. Xia Jingui simply put the bracelet on her wrist and looked at Aunt Xue, mother and daughter provocatively.

Tanchun saw it in his eyes and sighed in his heart, what time is this, and he still cares about these trivial things, thinking of the Zhen family, it is a bit sad, but the family didn't notice it, they still ate, drank and played, and couldn't help but become more depressed.

Xueyan suddenly caught a glimpse of Tanchun alone waiting, and secretly sighed, even if she is a man, she can't reverse the disadvantages of Rongguo Mansion, because the mansion is rotten from the inside to the outside, if they are safe It's all right, how can I be worthy of the people who are oppressed by the Rongguo Mansion if I just reform and settle my mistakes?For example, the stone nerd Zhang Jin and others?

It was so easy to wait until the end of the song, Xueyan and Madam Lai went home in the same car, and asked: "Is this grandma of the Xue family embarrassing Mrs. Xue's wife and Miss Bao in front of everyone like this?"

Nanny Lai held the stove to warm her hands, and said, "It's not just that, she does it even in front of outsiders."

Knowing that she regarded the members of Jia's family as her own, Xueyan wondered, "Give Miss Bao no face, what good can their family do? Is it because she can't suppress Miss Bao at home, so she acts like this?"

Nanny Lai sighed: "I'm afraid it's because of this, and it's the Xue family's own fault."

After hearing this, Xueyan hurriedly asked questions.

Nanny Lai said: "Xue's family married Miss Xia's, do you know that Miss Xia only has an old grandmother to guard Miss Xia's life?"

Xueyan nodded, and said: "It is said that in order to make a fortune for the Xue family, the grandmother of the Xia family also wanted to cling to the Xue family, and even the mansion behind the Xue family, so she let the Miss Xia family come out to see Uncle Xue, Uncle Xue regardless of the rules. He was originally a greedy and lustful character, so he caught it at a glance, and the grandmother of the Xia family showed such intentions again. The aunt of the Xue family naturally sent someone to propose a marriage. After all, it was the Xia family who had this idea first, and the Xue family beat the snake with the stick , got married."

Nanny Lai said with a smile: "Both of them think about the benefits, they think about the rich dowry, and they never thought about inquiring into the character of men and women in detail, so now they regret it very much. After the grandma of the Xue family came in, she knew that the Xue family It’s not as good as before, the business has already been consumed, and Uncle Xue has no skills, so how can there be a millionaire? So he used his old skills to run rampant in the Xue family."

After hearing this, Xue Yan took it for granted, no matter how rich or powerful the family is, it is better to inquire about each other's character before getting married, otherwise it will be regrettable like the Xue family and the Xia family.

Xue's family gradually became lively. Xia Jingui had nothing to do with Baochai at home. Whenever things went wrong, he would roll around and carry guns and sticks everywhere when he went out to talk. Aunt Xue and Baochai mother and daughter could only endure.Everyone in Ning Rongguo's family knew it, laughed and sighed, but they didn't know what to say about Xia Jingui. They felt that they had seen all kinds of people in the world, but they had never seen such a beautiful woman with a strong heart.

Years passed, Xue Pan lost his rigidity more and more, Xia Jingui was in charge of the whole family, Aunt Xue was angry and hated, but there was nothing she could do.

Xueyan didn't care about these things, but the Lai family often went to the mansion, so she could not help hearing something, and knew that everyone thought it was not easy for Baochai, such a kind and gentle sister-in-law, but met such a powerful sister-in-law.

Because it was the first lunar month, she couldn't do needlework, and Xueyan had nothing to do, so she practiced calligraphy and painting at home, or set up a chess board for self-play.

The matter of the Zhen family is over, and the officials who were implicated and imprisoned have been taken care of. Zhao Yunfang went out of Beijing to go home to welcome his relatives. Xueyan learned from Daiyu, and just sighed lightly. In other words, neither of these two people are confined to a small area. Unfortunately, eight or nine out of ten unsatisfactory things in life, they still have to stay in the capital for now.

Xueyan has lived in the capital for many years, and she doesn't really like the right and wrong of the capital. She really wants to visit the world's scenic spots, but she knows that the world is difficult, and the wife of the Zhen family dare not go on the road alone, let alone herself?I had no choice but to hide my thoughts.Right now they are getting married soon, although everyone says they are compatible, but they don't know what will happen in the future, they can only hope that they will be happy for the rest of their lives.

Looking forward to February 25, it is the day before the wedding. As usual, the wedding is given away, and relatives and friends add makeup.

Xueyan usually doesn't notice it, but when things come to an end, she becomes shy and hides in the room without seeing anyone, but the old sisters have come, Yuanyang, Yuchuan'er, etc. Naturally, Daiyu can't come, and so can Zhou Yan. Followed over, can't stop joking.

The scene was not as lively as when Daiyu came out of the court, but the Lai family also had relatives and friends who had come over, and after reading the dowry list that the Lai family had prepared for Xueyan, they also recognized that there were many things from the palace. They praised her endlessly, and felt that the Lai family treated Xue Yan very well, and the dowry was not much lower than when Lai Xinrong got married, but the amount of money in the box was just unknown.

Xueyan's dowry was Jin Ruyi bestowed by Emperor Changgan at the first lift, and Yu Ruyi at the second lift, and the rest of the dowry was all gifts from the palace. Among the two hundred acres of land, a house, and the things Juliensheng gave him that day, there were two deeds for her as a dowry.

After watching the dowry, everyone came to add makeup to her.

Among the visitors, Daiyu is the most respected, but the mandarin ducks came at the order of Jia Mu, so Daiyu let her go first.

After looking through the dowry list, Yuanyang held a filigree brocade box and opened it. Inside was a set of red gold dots emerald inlaid with gemstones. One of them was a red gold and silk peacock lying on a bead. It was so lifelike that it was worth a lot of money.

When everyone saw it, they all praised it, and then saw that what Daiyu gave Xueyan was also a set of looks, but it was red agate.

Lai Shangrong and his wife did not come in person, so they sent two sets of masks, followed by Lai Xinrong. Next, everyone either had a hairpin, a hairpin, a bracelet, or a ring, some gave rulers, and some gave gold and silver. There are many kinds of Kaizi's, and she thinks that the sage rewards things to add makeup, and she has an older brother in the palace, so she doesn't dare to be too thin.

Although there is no ten-mile red makeup, but there is dignity bestowed by the imperial court, and when the dowry is sent over, the scenery along the way is boundless.

Zhao Yun's new house has long been decorated, and the dowry is displayed in the courtyard for relatives and friends to see. At first glance, they say that she doesn't look like a girl who has just left her nationality, but looks like a daughter of some rich family. Not everyone has a gift from a saint. decent stuff.

When Mrs. Zhao saw Jin Yu Ruyi and other things, she was so happy from ear to ear, she wished she could offer them immediately.

But Yuanyang reported back to Jiamu at night and told Jiamu the approximate number of Xueyan's dowry list. After hearing this, Jiamu sighed softly and asked, "Do you understand? She has so many dowries." ?”

Yuanyang said: "I can see clearly, there are tens of thousands of money in the deposit box alone, and I heard that it is not the Lai family's dowry."

Jia's mother smiled bitterly, and said: "She has such a sister, such a god-brother, and Yu'er has always treated her very well. With such a girl in front of her, the second girl's dowry can't be thinner than her, which is amazing. joke."

The mandarin ducks think so, if the dowry for Yingchun is thinner than the snow geese, wouldn't it be a joke to their family.From Yuanyang's point of view, except for the box money that is not on the list, Xueyan's dowry is not more than that of Yingchun, and there are only a few antique calligraphy and painting furnishings, which can't compare with Yingchun. In the future, others will add more makeup, but Xueyan's There is a lot of money in the box, so the amount seems to be richer than Yingchun.

Jia Mu had to call Sister Feng to try to add some dowry things to Yingchun.

Sister Feng didn't go to Lai's house today, but she sent Ping'er to put makeup on the snow geese for her.