The Forest of Red Mansions

"Fourth brother, this time you can be regarded as a lonely pit." Yinfeng complained, half-truthfully.

Just because of Yinzhen's positive response, a vigorous debt-collection campaign began. If Jia's family and Nan'an County's palace were copied like this, who would dare to renege?One by one, they wished to hold the money and beg the fourth master to accept it.

In such a situation, what else can the prince do?He couldn't scrape together that much money, and he didn't have the face to take the crown princess's dowry, so in the end Suo'etu returned it to him.

Every time he thought of this, the crown prince felt deeply aggrieved and ashamed, and naturally he had some complaints about fourth master.

Hearing this, fourth master still lowered his head slightly, with a respectful attitude, but he didn't answer anything, even the expression on his face remained unchanged, as if he was like a wooden man.

Seeing him like this, Yinreng was left with a heart full of powerlessness, not even thinking about saying a few words about him.

What's the point of singing a solo show?At the end of the song, he was the one who appointed to be depressed. There is no doubt that the fourth brother of his family has the ability to make people suffocate themselves to death.

Yinfeng sighed helplessly and asked, "I heard that you are having trouble with the imperial concubine again today?"

The fourth master said indifferently: "It's nothing, it's just a little dispute, it's nothing to be unhappy about."

Yinfeng glanced at him sideways, "The palace knows everything that should be known, are you still fooling around? Tell me, what's the reason this time? I've always seen you and the imperial concubine on good terms, why these days It's just a mess every three days? The imperial concubine is not too young, and her temper will inevitably become a little weird. If she says something you don't like to hear, just go in the left ear and out the right ear. Why bother to be serious with her and pass it on? How do people see you?"

The fourth master pursed his lips slightly, and said: "Er Niang wants to ask her niece to be a side Fujin for me, and ask me to ask Huang Ama for an order."

In fact, Yinfeng knew about this a long time ago, but he just pretended not to know, and when he heard this, his face showed a little surprise.

"That girl from Tong's family? If Gu remembers correctly, that girl seemed to have made a mistake during the draft, and she was kicked out at that time. Didn't she go with that old eighth Fujin?"

"That's right." The fourth master sighed slightly, and said, "Because of this, girls from the Tong family are not easy to talk about now. Those who are well-matched look down on her character, and the Tong family who are slightly inferior I don't like it, Er Niang wants to make me have a closer relationship with Tong's family, and I have never been appointed as Di Fujin, so now I am counting on Chu Fujin."

"The imperial concubine is also... getting more and more confused. How can a girl who most people look down on match the prince?" Yinfeng shook his head disapprovingly, and asked again: "Then you don't want to?"

Fourth Lord nodded.

Yinfeng asked a little strangely: "Why don't you want to? Although the girl's reputation is not very good now, after all, she is not a Fujin, but a Fujin, why do you want to make the imperial concubine angry about this? It's not that my brother said you, After all, the imperial concubine is not your biological mother, separated by a layer of blood relationship, after all, she is not so close, you have refuted her again and again and did not give her face, what do you want her to think? What should I do?"

The fourth master was silent for a moment, and then said in a deep voice: "It's not that I don't want to show Er Niang some face, it's just that... the hearts of the Tong family are growing stronger."

Yinfeng's eyes flickered slightly, and he smiled lightly.

The Tong family had an empress dowager and an imperial concubine. Their family was already extremely prominent, and they had always been known as "Tong Banchao" in private, which was enough to show the power of the Tong family.

However, it is clear that the Tong family is not satisfied. They still want the glory to continue for a long time, and even... want to be more brilliant.

Where else can such supreme glory come from?Naturally, another emperor came out, otherwise, their family would not have sent their daughter into the palace.

And Kangxi was aware of the Tong family's ambitions, so he refused to let the imperial concubine give birth to a child. Unexpectedly, the Tong family saw that the imperial concubine could not give birth, and sent a little Tong Jia into the palace. Isn't it obvious?

Kangxi was a shrewd emperor, so he was unwilling to let the Tong family get his way easily. He only wanted to punish and suppress the Tong family for the sake of his biological mother. They lost their hope of being mothers and the Tong family's thoughts.

However, because of this innocent scheming, Kangxi still felt a little guilty towards the imperial concubine, so when the imperial concubine gave birth to a stillborn baby and almost died of heartbreak, he couldn't bear it for a while, and hugged the fourth elder brother to her to raise him with.

But who would have thought that the Tong family would still not be reconciled, they could no longer count on their own children, and they would settle for second best and focus on this adopted son.

Attempting to marry the daughter of the family to him is not just to strengthen the relationship between the two of them. In fact, the Tong family thinks more far-reaching. They think that after the fourth prince is pushed to the throne, their daughter She will become a queen again, and in the future, she will give birth to a son of the middle palace, who will be the most legitimate heir. Then, coupled with the power of their Tong family, the next generation and the next generation of emperors will be the grandsons of their Tong family. This kind of glory has been through the ages Who can match it?

The Tong family's surname is also destined to leave an important mark in the history books.

Kangxi is like a bright mirror in his heart, Yinfeng is a child he raised with all his painstaking efforts, how can he not even have such a brain?

He naturally saw through it, and it wasn't that he wasn't worried about being vigilant, he was afraid that Yinzhen really had some thoughts that he shouldn't have, and the reason why he went around probing like this was just to hear his thoughts.

And his sentence "The Tong family's heart is getting bigger and bigger" also clearly expressed his thoughts.

The Tong family was unwilling to be lonely and wanted to jump up and down, but he was too lazy to mess around with them.

Not to say I completely believe it, but Yinfeng thinks the credibility is quite high. After all, this fourth brother has been following him since he was a child. When he was with other brothers, he still wholeheartedly supported him, the prince.

Furthermore, if he had really thought about it, he wouldn't have offended the Tong family in this way, and how many people had he offended for debt collection during this period of time?Almost half of the imperial court was offended, including the Tong family, the Hesheli family, and the Nalan family, the most powerful families in this dynasty.

So much trouble now that many people are calling him "Cold-faced Hades" in private, which is enough to show the disgust and resentment in it.

However, he didn't care about it at all, he was still strict and rigid in handling things, and he was merciless. Not to be hated?

If you want to say that this fourth elder brother has something that he shouldn't have, let alone Yinfeng doesn't believe it, I'm afraid even Kangxi won't believe it.

After walking out of Yuqing Palace, Fourth Master couldn't help sighing secretly.

In fact, the second brother of the prince has always been very kind to him. Even in that life, when he was driven almost crazy by the brothers and Huang Ama, he still retained some brotherhood towards him, even though he knew it at that time. Despite his unwillingness and ambition, he still never laid hands on him after all.

Every time he faces the crown prince, he always feels a little guilty, but he has no choice but to fight for the throne, not only for the future stability and happiness of him and Lin Jinyao, but more importantly, he clearly knows the future of the Qing Dynasty. In the end, knowing that those mistakes and shames can be done again, he doesn't want that to happen again, and he doesn't want the land he loves to be branded with shame again.

There are some things that he must do, and only he can do.

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The days always pass by quickly inadvertently, and in the blink of an eye, another year has passed.

As the wedding day draws nearer, Lin Jinyao also becomes more and more nervous and apprehensive. For a while, she is reluctant to leave her family, wishing she could regret her marriage and not marry. At the same time, she is also worried about her life after marriage, whether a messy woman will intervene, and whether she can have a good life. baby...

All day long, she didn't know what was going on in her head, and she seemed to be a little nervous. If she didn't have a sliver of reason, she would almost really regret her marriage.

The family members were quite sad at first, but when they saw her like this, they became more worried. They didn't dare to show a little sadness in front of her every day, and only wanted to comfort the bride-to-be.

But when the day really came, Lin Jinyao calmed down instead.

On the seventh day of October, the Lin family carried the dowry into the palace.

A total of 120 dowries, thousands of acres of fertile land, all huanghuali furniture, and countless rare treasures filled every box to the brim, and the burden of carrying the boxes was deeply bent. The onlookers were all eye-opened and amazed.

We used to hear about "Ten Miles of Red Makeup", but today everyone has really seen what is called Ten Miles of Red Makeup. The first one has already entered the palace, but the latter ones have not yet left the Lin family's door.

Not to mention ordinary people, even the princes, Fujin, and concubines in the palace couldn't help but be amazed when they saw this dowry, not to mention the other clothes and jewelry antiques, among which the four dowry boxes were full of books. Calligraphy and paintings, and they are all unique copies and works of famous masters, they are extremely precious, taking out one at random is enough to drive those scholars crazy.

What made the women even more envious and jealous was that Dongzhu and Nanzhu were stuffed into a box!

Not to mention women, even the brothers couldn't help being envious and jealous of Fourth Master, this is not married to a daughter-in-law, it is clearly married to a golden baby!

On the surface, there is only so much dowry, but in private, I don't know how much there should be at the bottom of the box.