The Lin family has a female named Qingyun [Red Mansion]

Seeing that the happy events in the capital haven't stopped in the past six months, Lin Qingyun saw the busy egret beside him, and suddenly remembered: "I'm almost done with my work, but it's better to pick a time to do your important things seriously. The four of you have prepared the dowry list, if you want to go out, everything is ready-made, and you will not be wronged."

Bailu blushed, and said: "Princess, don't make fun of me, I won't be here any longer. The princess needs someone to take care of her right now. How can I hide away? I'll wait until the little prince is born." It's not too late."

"How do you know it's a young son? What if it's a young princess? Besides, you're not in a hurry, how do you know that little son-in-law outside is not in a hurry?" Lin Qingyun deliberately teased her, causing all the maids in the room to laugh.

"He's anxious for nothing!" Bailu blushed but pretended to be calm, and finally couldn't hold on anymore, turned his head and hid.

Lin Qingjun is now in a healthy body, so he can't touch oil painting, even sketching is limited by Tu Yan's time, the most pastime in his daily life is reading books and listening to girls gossiping.

Since the two of them consummated their house in February, there have been many maids on both sides gathered together.Tu Yan took the initiative to arrange the girls around him to look after the house in Zhuyunju, and only brought red silk and green Luo over. Le Gonggong and the others only took care of Tu Yan's message and other things. as usual.Such errands are clear and easy to manage.

Ever since Lvluo came to her, Lin Qingyun knew how talkative this girl was, she never stopped talking all day long, but she was well-informed and knew most of the people in the mansion. The handkerchief is handed over, and the news in the capital stops at ten stops, and six or seven stops can be inquired about.Bai Ling is also a talkative person, the two of them gathered together, it was like having a lecture, even if the yard wasn't busy.Thanks to this, now Lin Qingyun used this to relieve his boredom and listened to the news from the inner house.

At the end, Bai Lingling said, "Those ladies can really make troubles, after all, it's not as quiet as our palace."

Lin Qingyun said with a smile: "Do you think it's quiet? I thought you liked such excitement."

Bai Ling giggled and said: "Looking at the excitement is enough. If I really want to go, I can't bear it. It's better for our prince, only guarding the princess alone. The house is quiet and quiet, and it's not so mothy."

"You girl, it's just a joke, you're just joking, how can you say it's on the master." Hong Ling scolded with a smile, and was about to pack up the books Lin Qingyun had read earlier, but she seemed to hear footsteps, looked out the window, and said with a smile: "My lord came back."

The little girl outside the speaking room had already pulled up the bamboo curtain, and Tu Yan came in wearing a crimson gauze robe, sweating a little on his forehead.

"I came back so late today, I thought my mother cared about you again, she was afraid that you would be exposed to the sun, and left you to eat in the palace." Lin Qingyun asked the maid to bring water and tea, and went up to him and touched his face.

Today he went to the court, even though he sat in the sedan chair all the way into the mansion, his face was scorched from the sun during the short walk from Yimen to the inner house, which shows how strong the sun is outside.Now that she has a double body, she is prone to heat, and she dare not use more ice, so she placed two small ice basins in the corner far away, and another two basins of water. It's better too.It's just that he was sweating all over his body, and he might not be able to bear the excitement when he came in suddenly.

But Tu Yan directly asked Hong Ling to bring the iced sour plum soup, and said: "I have something to delay today, I will talk about it later. I am thirsty and hot, so bring me the soup first to quench my thirst. I am much better now." It's gone, it's not as sick and weak as it used to be, this idea can bear the coldness."

Hong Ling didn't move, just looked at Lin Qingyun and waited for orders.

Lin Qingjun felt distressed and funny when he saw how hot he was, so he told Hong Ling: "Bring the sour plum soup, and put it aside for now." Then he pushed Tu Yan into a chair beside him and sat down, and brought warm tea to him. He: "It's better to drink something hot first. Even if you are healthy, you can't be hot and cold for a while. If you get sick in such a hot day, you can bear it."

Tu Yan had no choice but to drink two mouthfuls of hot tea, then washed his hands and wiped his face with the water brought by the little girl, and then sighed with a smile: "After all, the princess loves me." Only then did he talk to her: "Today, a major event happened in the court. The Prince of Nan'an was defeated in the West Sea Coast and was captured alive by the soldiers."

"What?" Lin Qingyun lost her voice in shock, and hurriedly asked: "How could it be? I have never heard of a war over there, so it's fine..."

Tu Yan sighed: "It's just to fool the uninformed people. Of course, the prince of Nan'an was not defeated and captured. Speaking of the reason here, it has something to do with our going south to Guangzhou. Back then we robbed the prince of Nan'an of fifty guns. There are still [-] guns that they have not traded. They only waited for the Western ship to bring the goods in June this year. This time, the prince of Nan'an went to pick up the goods in person. He did not wait for the merchant ship to dock, but traveled a day or two away. Picking up the goods at sea, I ran into an ambush on the return journey, and was robbed by the soldiers."

"That gun..."

"I'm afraid it will also fall into the hands of the soldiers."

"This is going to be troublesome." Although the small countries along the West Sea are calm on the surface and pay tribute every year, they have long been restless. They always disturb the border and make troubles every now and then, which is also the meaning of testing the court.For the sake of the peace along the West Sea, the imperial court sent the Prince of Nan'an to lead the troops. Who knew that the Prince of Nan'an gave himself to those soldiers for nothing because of his own selfishness.

Tu Yan sneered: "It's not troublesome to say it's troublesome. The small countries along the West Sea have always been inconsistent. Although Prince Nan'an has been captured, they didn't take advantage of the situation to continue the war. Instead, they sent envoys to negotiate peace with the court."

peace?

Lin Qingyun's eyebrows twitched, thinking of Tanchun's marriage and marriage in the original book.However, things have changed now, Tanchun has been designated as the concubine of the eldest son of the Prince of Nan'an, and it is impossible to be recognized as a righteous daughter by the old concubine of Nan'an, and it is even more impossible to replace the princess and get married.

Thinking about it, she quickly asked, "How do they want to negotiate a peace?"

"And relatives, they expressed their willingness to release Nan'an Junwang back, but their eldest prince admires the culture of the Central Plains and hopes to marry a Central Plains woman as a prince and concubine. In addition, they cry for poverty and ask the court to reduce tariffs and increase citations."

"How much are they going to drop?"

"Originally, it was [-] out of [-], but they asked for [-] out of [-] and an increase of [-] citations."

"It's really a lion!" Lin Qingyun was annoyed when he heard it, and felt extremely aggrieved. "So, the emperor wants the Prince of Nan'an to go out of the princess's house to get married in exchange for Prince Nan'an?"

After all, it was said that the prince of Nan'an was defeated and captured, no matter how embarrassing he was, he had to be redeemed for the face of the court and the dignity of the royal family.The emperor had long wanted to seize the military power of the prince of Nan'an, but he had no chance, but now he has a chance, but this opportunity was given by the foreign domain, which made the emperor very passive and extremely annoyed.

Defeated marriages have always been humiliating, not to mention the fact that the prince of Nan'an secretly bought weapons with ulterior motives, even if the princess of Nan'an's mansion really went to marry him, the dowry had to be paid by the court, which was not a small sum.

Lin Qingjun met the princess of Nan'an Palace, named Jingyi.

Princess Jingyi was thirteen years old, and she was born well. She is the daughter of Princess Nan'an, and she is very fond of the old lady.In February and March, there were also rumors that the old concubine was picking a county horse for Princess Jingyi, but she hadn't made a decision so far. If something happened now, the old concubine might regret it.

"The emperor really wants to redeem the king of Nan'an County?" After thinking about it again, Lin Qingyun was not sure, after all, now that the Supreme Emperor was gone, the emperor had no constraints, and there were so many things he could do.

"Father thinks that the prince of Nan'an may not have been captured alive by the foreign vassal. Maybe the prince died during the battle at sea, and his body fell into the sea. How can he find it? Besides, if he really captured the prince, he should go all out, so how can he spend so much time?" In the end, Kungfu only asks for a marriage?"

"Didn't you say..." Lin Qingyun felt that it was strange that he suddenly changed his tone. He was about to ask, but suddenly he reacted and his eyes widened.

Tu Yan nodded slowly: "The emperor does have this intention, and I have already discussed it with you. I recommended Jia Lian as the deputy envoy. Jia Lian is indeed quite talented, and besides, this time involves customs duties and trade in the West Sea. , is related to Honglu Temple, so it would be appropriate to let him go."

"Who is the envoy?" Lin Qingyun asked casually.

"Uncle Zhongshun."

"...You really know how to pick people. Don't you know that the Palace of Zhongshun and the Jia family will not deal with each other?" If Lin Qingjun hadn't known that he really wanted to use Jia Lian, he would have thought that he deliberately designed Jia Lian to suffer.There was already a rift between the two governments, Prince Zhongshun has such a temper, and Jia Lian's officials are petty and dare not offend. Wouldn't it be hard to escort them all the way to get married.

"Lord Zhongshun was not chosen by me, that was the intention of the emperor. After all, it was the king of Nan'an County who was captured. In order to show the importance of the royal family and the court, a person with status should also go to the clan, and he must be able to cope with this kind of situation. Only Prince Zhongshun is suitable. Don't worry, both of them know what is important." Tu Yan said with a smile.

For some reason, Lin Qingyun's mind flashed, and he grabbed his hand and said, "You'an, do me a favor."

"What's the matter?" Seeing her unusual expression, Tu Yan also became serious.

Lin Qingyun said: "I think that the only unmarried Princess of Nan'an Palace is Jingyi, but the old concubine must be reluctant to let her marry far away. Besides, the foreign vassal did not specify who to marry, but the emperor wants the old concubine to go out with her relatives in her own house." That's all. If the old concubine is really reluctant to part with Princess Jingyi, I'm afraid she will choose her daughter as a relative from another family. Nan'an Palace and Rongguo Mansion are old family friends, and it is very likely to choose someone from the Jia family. Sanchun of the Jia family, the second girl Married, the third girl will be given to the prince, only the fourth girl..."

Before she finished speaking, Tu Yan understood.

"You want Xichun to leave Ningguo Mansion by taking advantage of the marriage?" After all, even if the old concubine recognized her granddaughter, the emperor would not agree with it, and some of them would reject it for some reason, and still let Princess Jingyi go to marry.However, if he negotiated with the emperor in private, it would not be difficult to order Xichun. As long as it is agreed, the emperor will give Xichun a title for the sake of face. Xichun will be able to escape.

"Yeah." Anyway, it's only a marriage in name, and it won't work out, so I'm not afraid that Xichun won't come back.

Tu Yan thought that although the prince of Nan'an was captured, there were still many old troops in the army, and he had friendly relations with aristocratic families, the emperor could not push the palace of Nan'an prince too far even for the sake of fame.In Kuangna's mansion, except for the eldest son Huo Yan, they are all female relatives.

Tu Yan nodded in agreement, and said: "The third girl of the Jia family doesn't have to go in after such an incident happened in Nan'an Palace, you can rest assured."

Lin Qingjun said with a smile: "This is also God's will."

Half a month ago, Jia Zheng was reinstated as an official, and he was still working as Yuanwailang in the Ministry of Industry. Naturally, it was the force of Nan'an Palace.It's strange to say that Jia Zheng, a small foreigner, has no ability to restore his official position, but he has the ability to protect the capital of Jia Yucun and others.Now that Jia Yucun has become the great Sima, she is very happy. She also met Jia Yucun's wife once.Most of the people outside don't know about it, they just think it's someone who remarried after the death of their original spouse to fill in the house, and those who know the inside story won't speak out to provoke hatred.

It took two days for the story of Prince Nan'an's defeat and capture to spread.

Mrs. Wang has been busy arranging Tanchun's dowry these days, and she is dizzy. After all, she is an elderly person. She has handed over the daily affairs of the second room to Li Wan, and invited Baochai to help her. Tanchun was preparing the wedding dress in the room.Every time Tanchun saw the wedding dress in front of her, she wanted to cry. No matter where the other sisters married, they always wore bright red wedding dresses when they got married, but she couldn't use bright red, only pink.

Seeing that her tears came out again, the attendant hurriedly stepped forward to persuade her, but she burst into tears before she could speak.

When Tanchun saw her, he comforted her: "My good girl, it will be hard for you to follow me."

The secretary hurriedly wiped away his tears and forced a smile, "What are you talking about, girl? It's my blessing to serve you." As he was speaking, he heard the noise outside, and the secretary frowned, feeling that the people below were too unruly. , waited to go out without much effort, but ran in with a face full of surprise: "Girl, there are rumors outside that the Prince of Nan'an was defeated in the West Coast and was captured alive by the soldiers!"

Tanchun was startled, and looked down at the pink wedding dress in his hand for a long time, his eyes were calm and unwavering.

At this time, the old concubine Nan'an had just returned from the palace. The princess Nan'an led the princess and the concubine to greet her. Seeing that the old concubine was exhausted, she had to hold back her doubts and sent the maids to clean up and change the crown clothes. Only then did he gently hold a cup of tea and hand it over, and asked in a low voice: "Mother, what does the palace say? When will the prince come back?"

The old concubine rubbed her temples, waved her hand to order people to go out, and then sighed: "The palace is angry. After all, it's a good way to say that you've lost a battle." There was a noise, and the tea was spilled. "The foreign vassal asked for a marriage, and wanted to marry our family Jingyi."

Princess Jingyi, who had been trembling all this time, turned pale: "Grandmother..."

The old concubine always loved her, and besides, she was raised by her side since she was a child, so she hurriedly comforted her and said: "Jingyi, don't be afraid, it doesn't have to be you. The foreign vassals only want a woman from the Central Plains to marry, and they didn't say who it was, but now they want to redeem her." Back to the lord, we have to send out someone from our own family. I thought, Jingyi is reluctant to let her go, but she can accept a foster daughter. This person was chosen carefully, and I chose from our family friends. If you take it out, it won’t humiliate the foreign feudal vassal. I’ll do more everywhere, and we’ll pay most of the dowry ourselves, as long as the palace nods and the prince can redeem it safely.”

After hearing this, the princess was sure, and while quickly calculating the girls from each family, she asked the old concubine: "Whose family does the mother want to choose from? After all, the outside world is far away. Once married, I'm afraid I won't have a chance to see you again in this life. I'm afraid I won't give up."

"According to me, the girl from the Rongguo Mansion is the right one, but it's a pity that she has already been assigned to our eldest son, so it's not easy to choose again. Let's just choose a girl from a concubine. The family status should not be too low, go first Take a look at Qi Guogong and Zhi Guogong, I remember that both of them have girls who have not left the cabinet." The old concubine had a plan in her heart, these dukes' mansions are not close to her own, and more importantly, they have all fallen. The next empty shell, the title has been severely reduced.As long as the palace gives a favor, I'm afraid they will be happy to exchange their concubine's daughter.

The old concubine first sent people to inquire about the news, and learned that the concubine girl from the Duke of Qi's family was already talking about marriage.The concubine girl who governs the country is younger, only twelve, but she didn't talk about marriage, but she was born with poor looks, and she wasn't very brilliant, it was really not good.Even though it is to accept a righteous girl to marry on behalf of the princess, after the palace nods, she still has to satisfy the foreign vassal, and she can't tell at a glance that she is not a princess, which will cause trouble again.

For this time, the foreign domain sent envoys here, and they all said that the candidate for the prince and concubine should be sent to teach the foreign domain etiquette.This is tantamount to looking ahead to prevent the court from randomly prevaricating people.

The old concubine had no choice but to look at several other houses.There are suitable ones, but they are all agreed upon, and no relatives are mentioned. Either the age is too young, or the appearance and bearing are not good. There is no suitable one.

This day, the concubine Shizi suddenly said: "Did the old concubine forget that there is still a girl in the Rongguo mansion?"

The old concubine thought for a while, then frowned and said: "The fourth girl? I vaguely remember that she is still very young, and she is the daughter of the Ningguo Mansion, so how can I choose her?"

The crown prince smiled and said: "The old concubine is thinking badly. The four girls are all 12 years old now. I saw them at the beginning of the year. They are charming and charming, and they have the style of the daughters of the Duke's mansion. Moreover , although the fourth girl is a direct descendant, she has been raised in the Rongguo Mansion. How have you ever seen how much Ningguo Mansion valued her? In their mansion... it will be difficult to get married in the future. I don't think the fourth girl may not know it. It's a sad thing, maybe the fourth girl is willing, if she wants to, how can the Ningguo Mansion stop her."

"If they are willing, they are good candidates." The old concubine thought about it and went to Rongguo Mansion the next day.

Mother Jia picked it up by herself.

Regarding the recent actions of Nan'an Palace, even Jia's mother, who doesn't care about foreign affairs, has heard about it.It's just that the third girl has been assigned to their mansion, so is it possible that the fourth girl should go to a foreign domain to get married?Mother Jia was naturally not happy, but she knew that if the old concubine made a speech, their house would not have the confidence to refuse.

The old concubine first recounted the past with Jia's mother, and then said with a smile: "I knew that the old lady would teach the girls, and the three girls in your family are all good. The second girl has only been married to the Duke of Li for a long time, so I am happy. It’s a blessing. It’s rare for me to come today, but let me have a look at the remaining two girls. I heard that Xiangyun is still at your house, and I haven’t seen you for a while.”

"The old concubines are overrated. They are so shy, they can't compare to Princess Jingyi." Mother Jia ordered the girls to be brought out to meet the guests, and said that they would call out together with Miss Bao.

When I was young, five girls came out one word at a time, Tanchun, Xichun, Xiangyun, Baochai, and sister Qiao came out to play with her aunts, and then they also came out.Each of these girls has their own strengths, which are simply dazzling, even the old concubine's eyes are bright.The most outstanding among them is Xue Baochai, but unfortunately Xue Baochai's family background is too low, so the old concubine focused on Xichun, and she was indeed taller than she was two or three years ago.

Satisfied, the old concubine praised the girls one by one and gave them a gift, but she held Xichun's hand and smiled with Jiamu: "Old lady, don't laugh at my shallow eyelids." , I just fell in love with the fourth girl of your family. Such a good girl, how about I recognize her as a granddaughter?"

The local girls and maids all looked shocked.

Except for Jia's mother, who had guessed, it was Xichun who knew about it.Lin Qingyun told her about this earlier, so she was prepared, but she lowered her head to hide her expression so that no one would see it.

Jia's mother knew the old concubine's intentions, but there was no inner reason in the first sentence of Kuang. She only said that she recognized her granddaughter.Then he laughed and said: "My little granddaughter is still childish and willful. She won't regret it in the future. Besides, she is from the East Mansion, so she has to talk to her brother and sister-in-law. My old lady doesn't care. Dare to call the shots."

The old concubine seemed to have made up her mind, and immediately sent someone to Ningguo Mansion to invite Mrs. You, and informed Jia Zhen of the matter.Although Jia Zhen is a jerk on weekdays, she still knows about the prince of Nan'an, and she also guesses why the old dowager concubine recognizes Xichun as her granddaughter.It would be a joke to say that Jia Zhen loves her sister. Now that Xichun has been managed all her life, she can still have a relationship with Nan'an Prince's Mansion, and later she will be the brother-in-law of a foreign prince. Feeling that the deal is good, she talked to You Shi .

When Mrs. You came over, saw the ceremony, and heard that the old concubine said again that she wanted to recognize her granddaughter, she smiled and said: "Thanks to the old concubine who thinks highly of our four girls, his brother said that it is possible to make the old concubine like it." Her good fortune, we as brothers and sisters-in-law can only be happy for her."

The old concubine was very happy when she heard that, and looked at Xichun again: "Are you willing to be my granddaughter?"

Youshi didn't want to come to the muddy water, she deeply felt that getting married was not a good thing, besides, even if she was not close to Xichun on weekdays, after all, she watched her grow up since she was a child, so hard-hearted that seeing her go to a foreign clan to be alone and never return to her hometown.It's just that You Shi was deeply afraid of Jia Zhen, and didn't dare to refute Jia Zhen's intentions, so he had to come.Xichun's temper is extremely lonely, just like that time when she was thrown into a painting, she went to intercede but was arranged for a meal, now I'm really afraid that Xichun will offend the old concubine, and the whole family will suffer.

Xichun just kept quiet for a while, nodded lightly, and agreed.

Outsiders couldn't see the expression on her face clearly, they only thought that she agreed because of the power of Nan'an Palace.

The old concubine liked it very much, the maid fetched the mat, Xichun knelt on the ground and kowtowed, offered tea to the old concubine, and called "Grandmother" in a clear voice, nothing unusual could be heard.The old concubine brought up the marriage recognition ceremony that she had prepared long ago, and put a pair of high-quality silk-wrapped and inlaid precious gold bracelets on her wrists, and said that she would be picked up to live in the mansion in a few days.

After Concubine Nan'an left, Mother Jia cried as soon as she embraced Xichun, "My poor fourth girl."

The sisters also guessed the inside story, everyone else was sad, but Shi Xiangyun was full of anger: "The concubine recognized the fourth sister, so she actually wants the fourth sister to marry?"

"Girl Yun, stop talking nonsense." Xue Baochai hurriedly stopped her disrespectful words. After all, those words were spoken by many people, and if they were heard by the Nan'an Palace, it would really be of no benefit to Xiangyun.

Everyone was crying, but Xichun was the only one who was calm and advised them: "Don't be sad for me, this may be my way out."