The Honest Man of the Red Chamber

The man leaned back slightly and broke away from Prince Zhongshun's grasp, "How dare I lie to Sixth Brother? I'm not old enough yet, and my mother and concubine are urging me to get married again, saying that they want to find me a concubine, let me ask you Luo."

Loyal and obedient, but he didn't believe it, "Boys should get married in college, and girls should get married in college. Would you come to ask me about such trivial matters?"

"She wants me to marry the Wan family's daughter."

"The queen's relatives?" Prince Zhongshun frowned. Concubine Shen has always lived in the palace of his mother's queen, obedient and peaceful, otherwise she wouldn't be the only woman after many years.She had such an idea and told the eighth brother that she must have returned to her mother and agreed with her mother.

hateful!

Twenty-year-old Prince Zhongli jumped off the railing. He knew his identity under the guidance of his mother and concubine since he was a child. He will never compete with his brothers, and he doesn't want to compete. There are brothers behind him. Take care of how good it is to have fun freely.But to marry the daughter of the Wan family, it means that the mother's life cannot be violated. Thinking that the sixth brother has always taken care of him when he was a child, and he has never deliberately concealed some things from him until now, so he must inform the sixth brother in advance. Brother will do.

"Sixth brother, you know about my concubine mother, this kind of thing... she will definitely beg the empress dowager to issue a decree to marry her."

Prince Zhongshun put his hands behind his back, "I see, if you can come and tell me, I am already very satisfied, you can go."

"Sixth brother!"

"go!"

Prince Zhongli sighed, turned around and walked out of Prince Zhongshun's mansion.

Leaving Prince Zhongshun alone in the room, he suddenly threw all the cups and pots on the table on the ground, and he growled, "Why, why! Queen Mother, how can you treat me like this, how can you change, I am It's your most capable and lovable young son, isn't it?"

Fourth brother, what a good fourth brother, you are secretly calm and angry, when did you pull the queen mother's heart to you!Do you think I'm afraid?I will not be afraid of you!

Absolutely not!

After Feng Zhenlan received Mrs. Xue's letter from Wang Zijiong, "Hurry up and get ready to tidy up a few quiet houses and come out."

"Yes."

She immediately wrote a letter to Wang Ziteng, Xue Gong used to be a member of Ziwei She, and the Xue family had the job of buying from the imperial merchants, but now Master Xue is seriously ill, and his only son Xue Pan is only ten years old, how can he take care of the family? Without the support of the Wang family, the Xue family's position as an imperial merchant would probably be easier for other offshoots.But Xue Pan is so young, it is difficult to fight for it, and it may be difficult if there is no one who can stand up.

The eldest sister-in-law of the Wang family was chatting with her, and seeing Feng Zhenlan explained everything, she said, "Sister Xue, is she really going to bring Master Xue who is seriously ill to the capital?"

"That's right, she said that Jinling couldn't cure her, and the doctors couldn't do anything about it. We received this letter, and she might arrive by boat in two or three days." Feng Zhenlan asked the girl to prepare a letter to invite the palace. Wang's imperial physician, this imperial physician has always been on good terms with the Jia and Wang families. If his sister, Wang Ziling, hadn't hired a family doctor because of her consecutive pregnancy, he might be the one who worshiped him all the year round.

"I don't know if it's useful to toss like this?"

The sister-in-law of the Wang family sighed, and the man standing upright at the door suddenly fell down. She certainly didn't know how painful it was.Maybe this man really has a fate?They are also brothers, look at her man and his younger brother, who are also sisters, and look at Wang Ziling and Wang Zijiong, there is only a difference in name, but so what?No matter how rich or noble a person is, there is a limit. Right now, even the husband is suddenly sick. If something goes wrong... she will be left with her young children. I don't know how to survive that day!

Then look at Wang Ziling, who married the youngest son of the Jia family. She didn't think it was a surprise at first, but I heard that she had a boy for the first time, and it took eight years for her to conceive another daughter. Xijue's eldest wife, who would have thought that she is almost forty now, not to mention she has given birth to twins, and there is also a younger one, who can follow her husband to Shanxi to be the wife of a second-rank official!

What to do, what to do, there is also a golden plaque in the Zhenwei restaurant, which makes money every day. When I went shopping that day, I saw a place queuing up to sell stewed pork, and there was a limit of [-] copies. She managed to ask someone to buy two copies. When she came back, Feng Zhenlan told her that it was also Wang Ziling's shop.

Wang Xifeng pushed her mother lightly, and whispered, "Mom, what are you thinking? Auntie is asking you something."

"What?" The sister-in-law of the Wang family came back to her senses.

Feng Zhenlan covered her mouth and smiled, "Sister-in-law, I'm afraid she didn't sleep well last night, but it's just some trivial things. If you feel tired, you can go back to the room and rest."

"Yeah, maybe it's because I've been in Beijing for a long time, and I really miss Jinling's sweet-scented osmanthus duck." Although the sister-in-law of the Wang family said this, she didn't move, looking at Feng Zhenlan and said, "It's been so long, why is my sister still Didn't you find a few good people to come out?"

Wang Xifeng blushed when she heard that, she covered her face with a handkerchief, squatted down towards Feng Zhenlan and said, "Auntie, I'm going to go around the garden."

"Go, go." Feng Zhenlan cursed in her heart, knowing that she understood that she was sincerely for her daughter, but those who didn't know thought her daughter would never get married, why worry, how old is she!Or talk about her marriage in front of her daughter's family!

The sister-in-law of the Wang family thinks that the elder brother of the Wang family will definitely ask the eldest brother of the Wang family to help with the matter of the Xue family. This trip has been here for so long, but the things to be done have not been done, and she has no clue at all. Just staying here, the bastard at home does not know What's the matter, it turns out that the second brother has no son, only a daughter, and at the age of 40 years old, it seems that she is destined to be childless, so Ren'er can choose both, but who would have thought that she would give birth to another baby egg.

Thinking of picking a son-in-law for Xifeng in Beijing, they also blocked her from left to right, as if she was so ignorant that she wanted to give her daughter to those princes and grandchildren. She is not stupid, palace gates and palaces are easy to enter ?Seeing the sensuality in Beijing, her desire to marry a noble relative has faded, so she might as well take Xifeng back to Jinling, and marry closer, relying on the Wang family's reputation in Jinling and her second uncle being Prince Teng , Auntie is the power of the second-rank lady, isn't the husband and wife just like the east wind overpowering the west wind, so let her ride on her husband's head and let her do whatever she wants.

"I said sister, give me a straight line, have you found someone for Xifeng? The second day of September is her birthday, and she will be 11 years old at that time! Don't I need to start preparing for my dowry? If not, I Take her back to Jinling to find someone else." The sister-in-law of the Wang family said bluntly.

Feng Zhenlan was questioned like this, and she wanted to say it directly, then you can go back, but the master will let them go back in front of the emperor, if they are allowed to go back, it is true that Wang Xifeng married someone in Jinling, of course it will be fine if the emperor doesn't ask. If she thinks about it, wouldn't her master be guilty of deceiving the emperor?

Seeing that she didn't speak, the sister-in-law of the Wang family was also a little surprised. Feng Zhenlan handled things quickly and rarely hesitated like this.

"Actually, I really thought about a family for my sister-in-law, but I didn't have an accurate word yet, so I kept it secret." Feng Zhenlan balanced her left and right sides, and finally decided to say half of it.

The sister-in-law of the Wang family asked, "Who is it?"

"It's the Jia family that my younger sister married, Jia Lian, the eldest son of the house." After saying that, Feng Zhenban didn't think there was anything wrong, and it was best that the sister-in-law disagreed.

"The Jia family." The sister-in-law of the Wang family glanced at Feng Zhenlan suspiciously, "The Jia family is fine. Is there any reason why she hides it like this?"Is that Jia Lian not in good health?Or when the flowers came out, they had pockmarks all over their faces, making them look ugly?

She was thinking about the Jia family, but don't say, for Xifeng, the Jia family is really good, no matter what, Wang Ziling will take care of her niece, Jia She seems to be holding the title of first-class general Well, Jia Lian also has a third-class general. If she works harder, she might not be able to be appointed as a foreign officer like Wang Ziling, and become a high-ranking official. Even if the mud can't support the wall, the entire Rongguo Mansion is hers. .

Wait, why did Feng Zhenlan hesitate about such a good thing? Could it be that the Jia family disagreed?

"That's right, it's the Jia family." Feng Zhenlan was a little embarrassed, she really didn't get along with her sister-in-law, and unlike her younger sister, she always had endless things to say.

The sister-in-law of the Wang family nodded, "Oh, I see, then please take care of my younger sister." She was still in the capital, Feng Zhenlan didn't tell her, she wouldn't go and investigate by herself, money can turn ghosts around, It costs a few hundred taels of silver and still doesn't make it clear what Jia Lian eats, drinks, and sacks!

"You said you couldn't find out? Why?"

The sister-in-law of the Wang family felt that she had heard it wrong. There were so many servants in Jia's mansion, so if they could ask any of them about Jia Lian, wouldn't they be able to find out?How is this possible.

It was strange for Wang Fu to kneel on the ground, but he really couldn't ask!There were two disciples who saw him twice more, and when they went there again, they pointed at the people around them when they saw him from afar, and they were so vicious that they wanted to arrest him.

"At the beginning, I wanted to ask the door directly, and all the money was thrown back to me from my sleeve. I asked who I was, which family I belonged to, and why I came to ask about the young master. How dare the young one say that I don't even care about the money. If you can’t pick it up, you will run back.”

"Fool, wouldn't you go to the street at Houjiaomen to look for those people in the servant's room? You go to the door, the seventh-rank official at the gate of the prime minister, is there any reason why you can't doubt it when you ask this question?" Mrs. Wang He gave this person a blank look.

Wang Fu nodded again and again, "That's how I am, but even the five or six-year-old girls are very tight-lipped. They ate the candy I gave them, and they all shook their heads when they wanted to ask about the Jia family. At one o'clock, they scattered and ran back to their own homes, and some people called adults to come to me to settle accounts..."

"... Forget it, you useless stupid thing, go down." Wang's sister-in-law thought that Wang Fu was incompetent.

Jia Mansion

Mrs. Li leaned into Jia's mother's ear and said, "Old lady, recently someone has started asking about our Jia's affairs, this time even Lian'er has started asking."

Mother Jia waved her hand as she listened, and all the maids in the room immediately retreated.

"Ask Lian'er again? Lian'er is just a child, is he referring to the east and the west?" Jia's mother frowned and thought hard for a while, then asked in surprise, "Could it be that they want to attack our Jia family from the children? For example Brother Lian's marriage, Yuan Chun's marriage..."

Mrs. Li heard what Jiamu said, and thought it was very possible. After all, a big family is like this. They started seeing each other and getting married early.

"Your younger brother and sister are not in the capital, so Yuan Chun can find out, so I came to ask Lian'er."

Jia's mother concluded that during the period of Jia's family, apart from Jia Amnesty who still owed money in Beijing and Jia Zheng who was busy making up for the shortfall in Shanxi, only Youshi added a daughter, Jia Jing led people to copy books, and Jia Zhen made up the money. Little things like the garden.

Mrs. Li was a little anxious, "Then what should we do? Brother Lian hasn't settled on a family yet, so what if someone deliberately designs us to marry those unfamiliar people?"

"Well, I originally thought that the boys in our family don't have to be so young. When they are older, they know something by themselves, and then find someone who suits my eyes, with a good personality and a good appearance." Mother Jia sighed , "Look at Jia Zhen, after marrying Youshi, she is much more sensible than marrying that Ma Jiaoer before."

Not too bad, there are quite a few women in the room, but it seems that no one has been added in the past two years, but I heard the master said that the gods have seen them, and some mortal women don't look up to them ?What the hell are they talking about, but Mrs. Li can't control Uncle Dongfu's head, Ying nodded together and said, "I think the same as the old lady, boys are late to understand, and wives can't settle down casually." of."

"You, write a letter to your younger brother and sister to remind her. There are many things in this world that you can't tell clearly. Sitting at home with nothing to do, there are also disasters. Although we are not saying that we are afraid, it is also necessary to have precautions in advance. Good." Jia's mother thought, maybe the Jia family offended someone by paying back the money, and maybe Jia Zheng went to Shanxi to make up for the shortfall and offended someone from that faction, but what should I do, will the emperor refuse to obey?I had no choice but to see the tricks and tear down the tricks, and the water came and the soil flooded.

"Yes, old lady." Mrs. Li nodded, seeing that Mother Jia seemed to have something to say, "Old lady, do you have anything else to tell me?"

Mother Jia thought, if she wants to reveal to the eldest daughter-in-law what she said to Mrs. Wang before, what was said at the beginning was an expedient measure, and she has been quiet and never mentioned it, so it should be nothing.But in the current situation, what if someone really came to design Jia's house?

"Actually... When I was chatting with the sister-in-law of the Wang family before, I discussed whether I should ask for their daughter-in-law Wang Xifeng to give to brother Lian, but because everyone is so young... Daxian daughter-in-law, I am not sure. This is the way..." Mother Jia thought that her parents should make decisions about her children's marriage, and Mrs. Li might not be willing.

"Hey, old lady, why didn't you say such a good thing earlier." Mrs. Li was so happy that she would definitely think about it if it was someone else's daughter, but of course she was relieved of the daughter of the Wang family. , Looking at what the younger siblings look like, even if the other daughters of the Wang family are worse, with her watching and the younger siblings helping, how bad will it be!

Mrs. Li was delighted to think that when she was not in good health, she thought that Tuogu wanted to marry a daughter of the Wang family to marry her, but her siblings flatly refused to cheer her up, without even mentioning it.But now that she is in good health, brother Lian is not alone, and brother Cong is a younger brother, so if she hires a eldest daughter-in-law like a younger brother and sister, oh well, she will wake up laughing in her sleep.

The author has something to say: Wang Guizhi: None of my business!

My screen automatically changes color as I type...is it going to explode?Inexplicably scared, I heard that tomorrow is Ghost Festival!