The Happy Man in the Red Chamber

An Lan smiled and handed tea to Mrs. Wang: "This is the young lady of Guoyi Hou Mansion." She was talking about the woman next to her who was dressed in moon white and goose yellow, and pointed to the woman who was dressed in soy sauce: "This is the eldest princess." Mrs. Shizi of the mansion, I think you all know each other."

After talking about these two, the other three were introduced.There is the eldest daughter-in-law of the Bai family and the wife of the Minister of Rites.Mrs. Wang looked at the people sitting there, a little surprised.She originally attended the party, and she just followed Jiamu to see the old relatives Jiamu came into contact with.The upstarts in front of us have never been in contact with them.She pretended to be an honest person, and everyone didn't mind.

It's just that Guo Yihou's young lady pointed to a girl in the gazebo not far away and said, "Did you see which one?"

"Ms. Qin Juye's family? I invited you here today, and Mrs. Jiang Taibao's face is better." Mrs. Bai took a look, and raised her teacup to look at An Lan.She knew An Lan's identity. After all, although the Bai family had relatives earlier, they were much farther away from the direct line.The closest relationship right now is the Seven Embroidery Workshop.Although the Bai family is an imperial merchant, most of them are Chinese who do not take concubines, and they have a good reputation among scholars.It can be regarded as a serious and clear stream.This is also thanks to the Seven Embroidery Workshop. Although it has been closed for many years, it has left a foundation.

She intentionally made a point, and An Lan followed her words and looked over: "Miss Qin's family is said to be raised with golden branches and jade leaves, and she looks graceful and graceful."

"It looks good, but it's just a hard life." The eldest wife of the eldest princess mansion sighed: "I don't know which one will be cheaper in the end."

"The daughter of a fifth-rank official family...it will be difficult if she wants to be promoted!" Mrs. Wang looked at the woman's graceful figure and her moon-white body was very beautiful, and she thought she was beautiful just by looking at her.After hearing her words, several people looked at each other and smiled.Yi Shi looked at An Lan: "Why, your family doesn't know?"

She asked lightly, but after all, all the women at the table could hear clearly.An Lan picked up the teacup and glanced at the others, she turned her head and said, "If the old lady doesn't say anything, even if she knows, she can only say that she doesn't know. Besides, I am not a serious daughter-in-law brought up by the old lady since I was a child. Some of them who became monks halfway may not be Let me know. But I looked at it, and my siblings probably thought of their own daughter. The eldest sister looks really good, but she was born on the first day of the new year."

She didn't say much, and the other families all understood the meaning.Although Mrs. Wang was full of doubts, she could only suppress it and waited to go back to ask Mother Jia.

At noon, Mrs. Wang returned home because Yishi held a banquet, saying that she still had her youngest son at home.No one stopped her, after all, they were all mothers.During the dinner, Mrs. Shizi proposed to play the leaf card with rice, and An Lan waved her hands again and again: "It's enough to lose last time. If you really like something from me, just open your mouth. I don't want to say this, but I won." I can't sleep a lot at night."

"But it's the ones that win that are the most interesting. If we really want it, we won't waste our time. What's more, the little face of the loser looks so cute." card.After one round, An Lan's face became extremely ugly.The others looked at Le He's strength, and only wanted to make her happy.

An Lan was so angry that she threw the cards in her hand on the table: "Don't play, don't play anymore. Are the old players teasing me alone? I think it's your business, Mrs. Shizi, tell me!"

Seeing her like this, it's hard for a few people to continue teasing her.I had no choice but to withdraw the card: "Didn't I hear that you gave Jia Shena a little girl to make you happy!"

"I think you are making fun of me!" An Lan sneered, took a sip of tea and calmed down: "If you don't send him to the room, why don't you still keep it by your side to serve the person you care about? I told you earlier Sooner or later, the General's Mansion and Rongguo Mansion will be separated. Since the old lady is reluctant to part with Rongguo Mansion, it is better for us to move out. There will be trouble all of a sudden, and it will only be our unfilial name. No matter what, we have to let her It’s better to be unkind first, isn’t it?”

The people in front of them are all relatives-in-law, and they understand more or less what they have.

"Then what's in it for you?" The wife of the Bai family looked at her: "I know you well, so don't tell us nonsense right now."

"What nonsense can I say?" An Lan curled her lips: "Mrs. Jiang knows all about it. I just borrowed the position of such a general's wife. Why don't I follow him and let him go out? You are just worrying about it." .”

"Oh...you're blaming me? If it wasn't for you, why would we come here in the hot weather? We have to find a cool place. My villa in Xishan is good." The wife of the Bai family also said It's not forgiving, looking around is a united front.

"That's my fault?" An Lan smiled and got up and bowed: "I'm here to apologize to all the grandmas and wives!"

"All right, all right, stop playing tricks." Yishi smiled helplessly, the woman in front of her kept saying that she and Jia She were a formal marriage.She originally wanted to persuade, but looking at the chaos in the mansion: "What do you think? You are not young after all, and you have to be accompanied by someone no matter what. Although men are like that , but when I get old, there is really someone. At first, I also thought that it was okay if there was this person or not. But now, there is a gap. Wife, wife, isn’t that the truth.”

An Lan knew that she meant well, so she smiled and bowed her head in silence.Seeing her like this, the others could only shake their heads: "We've spent a lot of time together, just to ask you a heartfelt message."

An Lan picked up the tea bowl, sipped it and then put it down: "In the end, I made all the sisters worry, but... I said that I am not afraid of the sisters' jokes. The sister of the Bai family knows my identity." She took it out of her arms. An eye-catching red jadeite with lifelike peonies carved in relief.As soon as she put the oval sign on the table, several women's eyes turned red.

"Okay... Let me tell you that you must have something good. Last time I asked for a Diancui, I felt so distressed." Madam Shizi has always been impatient, and picked it up without waiting for An Lan to say anything.It's just that she reached out and touched the back, and turned it over to see that the three characters "Qixiufang" were inlaid with gold wire, and the surface was filed with gold, within a square frame.The four corners of the frame are embossed with four bats.She put down the sign abruptly and looked at An Lan.

The Bai family's daughter-in-law carefully squeezed the handkerchief in her hand: "I only knew that you were from Neifang, but I didn't want to..."

"I am the owner of Seven Embroidery Workshop in this generation."

"Then why did you marry into Jia's family?" Yishi's mind was clear, and some things gradually came out of context.She only knew that this woman came from Qixiufang, but she didn't know what position she would take.But if it is the owner of the workshop, how can he marry into Jia's family.

"Because of karma, Xing Anlan has a karma with Jia's mansion. I have already entered the innate, and I can feel some secrets. If I want to go further, I have to complete this karma. But in the end, Jia She and I are not really married. My skills are limited, and he can't beat me..." An Lan laughed as she said that, the other people were originally family secrets, and only the daughter-in-law in charge of the family knew about them.Seeing her like this made her feel relieved.

The wife of the son of the eldest princess's mansion was the most thought-provoking. She held the jade pendant in her hand: "I know this thing must be expensive, and I don't ask for much. My sister and sister have been here for so long, and you have the nerve to hide it. How about, every family It’s enough to get a brand of three or four dollars. We don’t want more, I’ll return this to you if you take it and exchange it.”

"Oh... look at this, it's still three yuan or four yuan. Let me see, who doesn't have a daughter? Count them one by one, and one piece for each daughter is the truth." How could the daughter-in-law of the Bai family not know that her bag Although the third child is going to be engaged now, she will also have a daughter in the future.Among other things, they can see clearly on this day.

That's the thing with men, after you get married and have children, they think you're a fart?If you want to live a comfortable life, the truth is that he really can't beat you.Look at Jia Amnesty, he is still in the palm of his hand.Let concubine, take concubine.If you leave the mansion, you will leave the mansion. This is like beating a tiger with a stick.It takes a real guy to make it.If he refuses to let go in the future, he will not dare to shake the third leg.

At this time, it was the early and middle period of the Song Dynasty. Although Neo Confucianism had developed, it had not yet entered the stage of folk customs.It was only discussed among some scholars and bureaucrats, and the folks were only slightly more restrained than after the prosperous Tang Dynasty.It doesn't matter if women are domineering or romantic.It's just that there is more respect for those widowed women.

An Lan reached out her hand as fast as lightning, and leisurely squeezed the jade pendant in her hand.She moved so fast that a few people didn't even notice her movements.Yi Shi recalled how he looked like a butterfly fluttering around that day, and smiled: "They are all teasing you. But no matter what, they must bleed."

"You said it so cruelly, as if if I don't give it to you, I'll be torn apart." An Lan put the jade pendant in her arms, and winked at Nanny Qian behind her: "Just let someone send it over tomorrow. I can still afford a brand. It’s just that the inside and outside of this workshop are divided into inside and outside, and I can’t be the owner of the inner workshop for the time being. It depends on the talent of the person. There is only one thing, Yuhuan’s can have it, but Empress Wu’s can’t have."

"If you can be like a noble concubine, it's a skill. It's okay for Empress Wu, my little girl is only six years old now, and the sister-in-law of Cihang Jingzhai came to the door. Good girl, who wants to believe in that Buddha? Yes. Not to mention changing your temperament, you will also waste your life!"

After getting the confirmed news, several people regained their enthusiasm.Before leaving, they left messages for each other, so what kind of gossip should be shared?He even asked An Lan to be the first to let them know if there was anything interesting.An Lan felt nothing, so she agreed with her mouth.Anyway, it's all fun to watch and listen to, isn't it better to have fun alone than to have fun with others?

Mrs. Wang went back to the house to see Baoyu where Jia Mu was, and told Jia Mu what she had heard and seen in detail.Mother Jia nodded when she heard the words: "The daughter of the Qin family is a bit mysterious to say the least. The family background of the Qin family can be calculated clearly, and the girl is very meticulously raised. It is the princess who is out of the palace. It may not be good. Did you ask alone?"

"There are many people around, so I didn't ask." Mrs. Wang shook her head.Mother Jia thought for a while, and called Lai everyone: "Then my post, I will write a letter and send it to the old concubine of Nan'an Palace. I will come back when I ask for a reply."

As he spoke, he got up and wrote the letter, and got the envelope ready for everyone Lai to send over.Mrs. Wang had doubts in her heart. It seemed that everyone outside knew about this matter, but Mother Jia didn't know about it.Thinking about it again, since Jia Amnesty's first wife passed away, Jia's mother seldom left home, just saying that she was unwell.I have less contact with those people, and I don't know about it.Thinking of it this way, I was relieved a lot.

Lai Da brought back an astonishing piece of news that the daughter of the Qin family turned out to be the biological daughter of King Linjun.Before the incident, it was taken out by a court lady and put into the Yangshengtang, only then was carried back by the Qin family couple.After all, people with some capital know the origin of this girl.It's just that she is a girl after all, and the emperor turned a blind eye on the other side.

Mother Jia watched and pointed at the table and chairs.This Qin family is a fifth-rank official, about the same age as Jia Zhu.If it can be said that this marriage is possible, it may raise the status of the second wife.Thinking of this, she looked at Mrs. Wang: "You watched that girl, what do you think?"

"After all, she is a graceful and graceful person. She looks very good." Madam Wang didn't want to say that she didn't like such a character.It was difficult to handle at first glance, but what was said in the letter from Nan'an Palace made her tempted.Not to mention anything else, if Zhu'er marries the invisible Yibin.Thinking about it this way, she was also a little conflicted.

Mother Jia didn't know what she was thinking, she nodded: "In the final analysis, the Qin family is also the deployment of the old roots of my Rongguo Mansion. Although there were no in-laws in the past, if the girl really has such an identity, I am afraid Marriage is also difficult. After all, Zhu'er looks like the son of a fifth-rank official, but she is also the root of the Rongguo Mansion after all. If she asks for a marriage, it may not be embarrassing."

Mrs. Wang nodded: "Looking at it this way, it is more appropriate than marrying the daughter of a civil servant of four or five grades."

Jia Mu nodded and patted her hand: "It's good if you think so."

At night, when Jia She heard about An Lan's identity being leaked, he frowned: "Are you not worried about Cihang Jingzhai?"

"I don't have any conflicts with them. Yuhuan Taizhen's matter is her own matter. Although Qixiufang takes them in, the fate is still a matter of her own choice." An Lan pulled the quilt, basking in the sun Xuanruan is very good.Jia Amnesty turned to look at her, thought for a while and smiled, "That's right, they can't beat you."

"That's it!" An Lan turned her head to look at him, pursed her lips and smiled.

On the second day, An Lan asked Nanny Qian to deliver the things to her door.The eldest princess held the piece of crystal with a slap-sized token inlaid with glass and gold, and looked at her daughter-in-law: "Is this what you want?"

"Whether it's necessary or not depends on our own family, just thinking about that Cihang Jingzhai who is spreading the net everywhere right now, having such one more can be regarded as one less thing." Mrs. Shizi looked at her mother-in-law, she was dressed in crimson red very decently.

The eldest princess nodded, she didn't like the Zhen family in the palace.With a noble and beautiful appearance, she cares about Jiangshan Sheji... If she hadn't been unable to get the position of empress all the time, she might even be able to become a Martial Emperor.Thinking of this, she nodded: "The number given is the number of prostitutes. I saw a total of two yuan. The third girl and the fourth girl have no chance. You have to make this matter clear."

"My daughter-in-law has a share, and my daughter-in-law knows about it. I'll have someone send it to the house for the eldest girl, and Niu Niu's one, just let her take it to visit." Mrs. Shizi thought clearly, the eldest daughter is already married and only I can leave it to my daughter.The remaining one must not be given to the concubine.

Yishi has no daughter, but has a granddaughter.Just seeing that there was only one piece, she glanced at her mouth and said to Jiang Cheng: "Looking at what a stingy girl, I knew we only had one granddaughter. You didn't explain it to me at the beginning, so I kept giving it to Jiang Cheng." People persuade me to have children."

"Then Jia Enhou is not capable, what can I say?" Jiang Cheng curled his lips. Today he was taking a rest, just in time for Mother Yue to deliver the sign.He held the sign and looked carefully at the texture: "Right now, Cihang Jingzhai is casting a net around, wondering whose girl will be the next Concubine Zhen. I see, Xiao Pei'er is also three years old now, you It’s better to let her mother take her to see it.”

"Is there one more person?" Yi Shi is not worried that his daughter-in-law is not at home, but just worried that they don't want you to go with the whole family.

Jiang Cheng waved his hand: "It's nothing, there are rumors in the rivers and lakes that the Seven Embroidery Workshop is like a fairyland for cultivators, and it belongs to another world. As the Buddhists say, one grain of sand and one mustard seed."

Yishi nodded when she heard the words: "Now that you have entered the cabinet, it looks like you will be a permanent resident in the future. You may even participate in the competition for the reserve position. Make a decision earlier and cut off their thoughts earlier. Good. The girls in our family can live peacefully and beautifully in the future."

Jiang Cheng nodded, and he stretched out his hand to hold Yi Shi's hand: "Let's see if your mother's family is suitable, even if it's the baby's best."

Yi Shi looked at him and nodded.Then I thought about it: "If she can have a child, I would not dislike her if she is younger."

Jiang Cheng looked at her, shook his head and smiled.My own wife is good at this, and my own is always the best.

Qian Yue and Qian Yue came back from various residences and saw that An Lan was looking through this season's Bai Xiaosheng's affairs in the Jianghu. It was interesting to watch.Yingluo supported Liuli's lack, and watched the two nuns hurried forward to welcome them in: "My wife was still talking about it just now!"

"Master!" After the two saluted, they sat on the spring bench under the kang, "Everything is done, but the master is so blatantly robbing the disciple from the name of Cihang Jingzhai..." The two smiled at each other, feeling that There will be excitement.

"I just gave a few tokens, how can I say that I snatched the disciple?" An Lan smiled and threw the volume in her hand aside: "Your master, I am trapped in this square inch all day, and I am not worthy of me." Looking for some fun?"

"That's what..." The two smiled and said nothing, and soon a letter appeared out of thin air on the kang table next to An Lan.Opening it casually and looking at the contents above, An Lan smiled happily.

Jia's mother is going to ask Concubine Nan'an to be an intermediary to talk about the marriage between Qin Keqing and Jia Zhu.It was just the beginning, she smiled proudly.At the beginning, I thought that Qin Keqing would go that day, so I took Mrs. Wang with me.Unexpectedly, it really worked.She nodded her chin, and smashed the letter paper casually: "Have someone reveal this news to the inner court order. I want to see what the emperor will do in the end. Should I let my elder brother's definite descendant marry the son of a fifth-rank official? Stop finding a good marriage for this girl."