[Red House] A beautiful girl welcomes the spring

The above sentence, the following will break your leg.Lin Daiyu's wedding date was postponed, which meant that her gown and court dress had to be remade. Of course, these are trivial matters.Anyway, King Yi is now in charge of Xuanhui Mansion, and the Manufacturing Office is a department under Xuanhui Mansion. Even if it is not for the Queen's face, but for the King Yi's face, it is impossible to short Lin Daiyu.

For Lin Daiyu, anyway, she lives in the Grand View Garden, and after accepting the order to remarry, she can continue to live in the Grand View Garden.But for the rest of the Jia family, this means a lot.

Aunt Xue ran to Jia's house immediately, and was very embarrassed to discuss with Mrs. Xing whether to arrange the marriage between Xue Biao and Xing Xiuyan first.

In the early years, when Xue Baochai put a lot of manpower and material resources into Shangqiu under great pressure, Aunt Xue objected.But now, I just didn’t see it with my own eyes, but from the imperial palace newspaper, the news from the merchants that Xue’s family was familiar with in the past, and the news from the shopkeepers below, Shangqiu’s place is now very different from the past. don't.

Among other things, in the early years, there were three years of drought, three years of floods, and three years of locust plagues on both sides of the Yellow River. One year out of ten, the weather was smooth.Therefore, the imperial court spends 200 million silver to manage the Yellow River every year. In fact, it is to consolidate the embankment of the Yellow River, and then to reduce taxes on both sides of the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and to provide money to relieve the people.

It's all a disaster.

But now?Judging from the news specially sent by Xue Baochai, in just three to five years, although the Yellow River is still causing disasters every year, but because the rectification project of Shangqiu has attracted a lot of manpower and material resources, in the past two years, the imperial court did not need to spend a lot of money every year. The money and food went to help the victims.

Not only does the imperial court not need to spend a lot of money and food every year to help the victims, but even in times of peace, the common people all go to Shangqiu because they have meat to eat!Can eat!Can eat well!

The reason is very simple. If there is oil and water to eat, the appetite of strong laborers will not be so large. Without oil and water, the appetite of strong laborers will increase dramatically.However, in this era, except for the wealthy lords in the south of the Yangtze River, they would supply big fish and meat when they needed labor to help them harvest grain in the harvest years of the Taiping era. In the leisure time, who would supply big fish and big meat to the mud legs below?

However, in Shangqiu, as long as you are willing to work hard, you can eat chicken, duck and fish!

That's right, chicken, duck, fish and pork.Especially the pork, soaked in wine and steamed for two hours, it is fresh, crispy and soft, four yuan is a catty!Every strong laborer can eat half a catty at noon, that is, two pieces of braised pork, and even women and children can get a piece!

Not for themselves, but for the mother-in-law and the baby, those common people also dragged their families to Shangqiu!

Xue Baochai wrote clearly in the letter, with his back to the Empress Empress, Chen Yuanshou will serve another term, so he might be like Jia Lian, able to be a second-rank political envoy!And because the Jia family already had a queen, the sons of the Jia family could neither serve as officials in the capital nor join the cabinet, but Chen Yuanshou did not have this taboo!

In other words, half of Chen Yuanshou's future rests with himself, and the other half rests with the queen.

Although Chen Yuanshou is the most outstanding brother of the Chen family, how many nobles are there in Beijing?How many foreign relatives?Among other things, it is the mother's family of the Supreme Empress, isn't she envious?

Aunt Xue may not be smart enough, but after all, she is the daughter of an official family. Even if she lost the things she learned when she was a teenager for 20 years, it is easy to pick them up.Aunt Xue soon realized that without the support of the queen, her son-in-law might be promoted to the south of the Yangtze River and give way to some people.Therefore, for the sake of her son-in-law, her daughter, and even her son, Aunt Xue urged Xue Biao to marry Xing Xiuyan back.

After presenting a generous gift and sitting down in the east ear room of Rongxi Hall, Aunt Xue said: "Originally, this kind of thing shouldn't be disturbed. It's just that the marriage of Qin girl has already been settled. My daughter-in-law is weak and won't do anything." What's more, girl Xing is her own sister-in-law, she wants to leave the cabinet, and it will be more decent to have her own sister-in-law to help her."

Mrs. Xing couldn't help asking curiously: "Girl Qin's marriage is settled?" @无限好文，all in Jinjiang Literature City

"It's settled." Speaking of this, Aunt Xue also smiled, "It was Bao girl who led the thread, her mother-in-law was the matchmaker, and the one who married was also a brother of the Chen family, or a direct branch." , and introduced Xue Baoqin's fiancé-in-law to Mrs. Xing.

It turned out that Xue Baoqin's fiancé-in-law was named Chen Jiao, and his status in the Chen family was similar to that of Jia Baoyu, the second son of the third son.Although he is not the brother of the direct branch of the Chen family, he is also a close branch of the clan.The Chen family was also the mother family of the emperor, and they were able to marry Xue Baoqin as their first wife, but it was for the sake of Xue Baochai and the queen who stood behind the Xue family sisters.

After hearing Aunt Xue's words, Mrs. Xing immediately said: "Oh, this is really an excellent marriage! I don't know how many times better than the Mei family!"

Hearing Mrs. Xing talking about the Mei family, Aunt Xue immediately said: "That's not right! Back then, the Mei family divorced and regretted it not long after. That brother even sent someone to stop us Pan'er. You also know our Pan'er's stink Temper, at that time a punch passed."

Where does Aunt Xue know about the Mei family's plans?Why did the brother of the Mei family come to say that he did not voluntarily withdraw from the engagement, but actually saw that the empress was willing to take care of their Xue family, so he regretted it and wanted to stick together? !

Aunt Xue is not an idiot who can't see through the plans of the Mei family.Before, they felt that their Xue family was in decline, and the dust under the porch of their new house had not been swept away, so they hurriedly divorced, and then it was like that again.Is such a family really reliable?

Either Aunt Xue said, or even a humble businessman would not want such an in-law unless he was at the end of his life.

Mrs. Xing said: "Hey! That's okay, right? The Mei family is a Hanlin, and they have a good mouth!"

"Mrs. Hou is worried." Aunt Xue said with a smile, "Our Pan'er has suffered this kind of loss before, so why would we make trouble on this? Not to mention, Tiao'er was there at the time, and he stopped Pan'er , so the man just received a fist, and then he was scolded bloody by the scorpion, and left on the spot in desperation."

Mrs. Xing said: "After this incident, the Mei family's reputation may be ruined."

Aunt Xue said: "That's right. I heard that brother was originally a student of the Imperial College. After the incident happened, he went back to the south."

When something like this happened, why didn't the students of the Imperial College talk about it?

It would be better if you just let it go.But the palace here helped Xue Baochai to make a marriage, and the brother on the other side came up to pester her.To put it lightly, it is because this brother is not doing things well, and to put it in a heavy way, it is because there is something wrong with the Mei family's family style.

Even Jia Zhu, the son of a thick-skinned person like Mrs. Jia Zhengwang, would have died because of the pressure of public opinion, let alone the Mei family who was born as a scholar.

Once such a thing happened, the Mei family might not only lose their reputation, but also ruin their future.

Aunt Xue sat in front of Mrs. Xing for a while, said something, and left.

Although Xue Pan's rank is low, Chen Yuanshou's rank is not low, and Xue Baoqin's marriage is also good, so now she can be said to have stepped into the elite circle of the capital with half a foot.Now she often comes to Qingrong Hou's mansion, but Mrs. Wang's side, after being separated from Mrs. Jia Zhengwang, she has never been there.

Even Mrs. Jia Zhengwang bought a new house for the joy of housewarming, she didn't give any gifts.

Her daughter Xue Baochai has reconciled with Jia Baoyu, so of course she has to keep a distance from Mrs. Wang, even if she and Mrs. Wang are sisters.

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Like Lin Daiyu, Xing Xiuyan now lives in the Grand View Garden.Of the girls in the Grand View Garden back then, she and Lin Daiyu were the only ones left.Xichun had already moved back to Ningguo Mansion because she had to keep a filial piety for her father for three years. Xing Xiuyan originally thought that she was younger than Lin Daiyu and should marry after Lin Daiyu, but now it seems that she married earlier than both Lin Daiyu and Tanchun.

Although married relatively early, although the Xing family came to Beijing almost empty-handed, Xing Xiuyan had a lot of dowries.

Before Jia Yan entered the palace, he distributed his old jewelry to the sisters. As a member of the Grand View Garden, Xing Xiuyan also had a share.And when Jia Yan became the mother of the country, especially with two pregnancies and two births, Mrs. Xing definitely received a lot of gifts.

Loose hands are naturally generous.

Seeing that the Xue family has Jia Yan's favor, Mrs. Xing picks and chooses from the jewelry given to her from the outside, chooses a few pieces and fuses them, and makes new jewelry for Xing Xiuyan.Plus the dowry gift from Xue's family.

In the end, Xing Xiuyan's dowry was really decent. There were twelve loads of jewelry alone, and they were all full and complete.Then add the sundries of clothes, and finally Xing Xiuyan got married wearing Fengguan Xiapei with 36 liters of dowry. @无限好文, all in Jinjiang Literature City