The Happy Man in the Red Chamber

In the early morning, the ancestor Jia Lian wore a red robe official uniform of a ninth-rank official and a belt inlaid with jade pieces. After meeting Jia Amnesty, he rode a horse and led a team to greet his relatives.They left early, but it was a good thing that the bride was able to leave in the afternoon.Thinking of the bride's brothers and parents, An Lan sat next to Jia She, feeling like she wanted to watch a good show.

Jia Amnesty turned his head and glanced at her, twisting the corners of his mouth: "If you want to see it, go and see it."

"Is there any reason for a mother-in-law to come to welcome her daughter-in-law? I asked Liuli to record it for me. Although I can't see the scene, there is still a written version." An Lan took a short sip of the cold tea and got up and stretched. Waist: "It's coming at noon when the sun shines. I'm a little tired, so I'll go to sleep for a while."

"You're asleep on this side, how are you going to welcome guests later?" Jia Amnesty looked at the woman who was going to sleep, feeling very uncomfortable.Because of Jia Lian's marriage, he has not slept well for several days.But this woman ate and slept well, and she even had to catch up on the most important day right now.

"It's okay!" An Lan waved her hand nonchalantly: "Anyway, I can finish dressing quickly with my skills." She turned a corner and entered the inner room, took off her shoes and got on the kang, and then closed her eyes tightly.

Just after noon, An Lan appeared in the main courtyard with a new look.Where are most of the old friends who participated in the wedding, most of them are related to Qixiufang or have old friends with Jia Sherong Guofu.An Lan has gotten to know a few of them one after another over the years, but it's okay to say hello.

It is said that people are in good spirits on happy occasions, and even though Jia She hadn't slept well for many days, he still had a bright smile on his face.It was his son's wedding, married as an adult.

The praiser invited a fifth-rank servant from the Ministry of Rites.Originally, Jia Amnesty did not have the status to invite a Minister of Rites to do this.But his elder brother, Mr. Jiang, does have this ability.

After a long circle around the city, the bride's sedan chair entered the main entrance noisily.It was already dusk at this time, after crossing the brazier and worshiping the heaven and the earth.The banquet for dinner has officially begun.

After drinking for three rounds, there was a lot of people's voices. Jia Lian returned to the new house after she was overwhelmed with alcohol.Looking at the girl who had changed into a bright red underwear, he sat shyly on the other side of the bed.

Zhang Yunxi looked at him, and laughed: "Aren't you going to wash it, sir?"

"Sit...sit for a while..." Jia Lian's ears were also turning red.After all, he is a child who has not been through human affairs, and he is still shy at this time.Zhang Yunxi looked at him, and sat close to him: "Then... do you want to eat?"

"Dining...yes, eating!" Jia Lian hurriedly got up and let the people outside serve the food. After all, the bride hadn't eaten all day.The first meal for the husband and wife is obviously the most suitable.Is it good to have children when you are full?

It was only after dinner that Jia Lian felt that he had overcome the tension just now.He was served to take off his clothes, and after soothing his nerves in the hot water, he put on clean underwear and entered the bedroom.

Zhang Yunxi had already made the bedding at this time.Zhang Yunxi once strictly ordered that unless Jia Lian wears the crown, the house cannot be consummated.On the one hand, it is for Zhang Yunxi's body, and on the other hand, it is also considering Jia Lian's age.Premature sex is not good after all.It's not good for offspring either.

The two of them were purely covered with quilts, and after all, they were a little excited and couldn't fall asleep.With big eyes and small eyes, they began to chat.

At this moment in the palace, Lin Qing, who had finished the banquet, flew into the palace.The Fifth Prince was setting up a chessboard in a corner pavilion at this time.Seeing Lin Qing who had arrived as promised, he asked someone to serve tea: "I thought you'd drink too much and feel overwhelmed!"

"The emperor invites me, if I don't come, won't I worry about being charged with crimes?" Lin Qing said a joke, but it was very free and easy.Entering the court hall is a boring move.After all, he still needs to enter the WTO right now, and there is still some time before he can be free from vulgarity.

The former fifth prince, the current emperor Mu Chengze looked at Lin Qing and poured himself a cup of tea: "Your junior brother is already engaged to get married, when are you going?"

"The imitation rules in Seven Embroidery Workshop are very heavy. If you don't have refined, you wouldn't dare to think about these things." Lin Qing took a sip of tea: "Shangye Qing is a bit bitter!"

"I like this flavor, so it's not the best one." Mu Chengze looked at the young man who took care of them like a brother along the way, and sighed: "The third brother came to me today and said that the second younger sister liked it." You want me to marry you."

Hearing this, Lin Qing was a little surprised.Turning to a smile: "He still hasn't given up?"

"Maybe!" Mu Chengze didn't want to admit it, he didn't want to experience any sibling rivalry at all.However, this is beyond his control.

Lin Qing put down her teacup and thought for a while: "The majesty of the old sage is still there. If you want to pull you off the horse... Those methods to deal with the prince and prince will not work. At least, you have succeeded in offering sacrifices to the heavens. Although you have no achievements at the moment, you are not a big mistake. As long as there is water, Qixiufang can pass through, so the information is also enough to spread in all directions. Since the old sage helped you up, on the one hand, it is because your mother’s family does not show that you cannot become an emperor. On the other hand, it is also because The mother clan of the other princes has grown bigger now."

Speaking of this, he raised his eyebrows and looked at the current emperor who was still immature: "You don't have any heirs yet?"

"Well! Father doesn't want me to have an heir for the time being. Firstly, it's bad for my health too early, and secondly, it's because Father is here."

"Then there is only one reason left!" Lin Qing sighed, "The Wind of Broken Sleeves..."

"Uh..." Hearing this, Mu Chengze felt embarrassing for a moment: "He did use this reason to threaten me. But... how did you guess?"

"How?" Lin Qing laughed at herself: "Don't you know? Before I was 12 years old, I lived in the Fireworks and Willow Alley!" He smiled bitterly, picked up the teacup and took a sip.The bitter taste at this moment reflected his mood instead.

Hearing this, Mu Chengze never thought of it.He was a little silent, but Lin Qing didn't care much.He smiled freely: "My mother is my father's concubine, and I am a concubine. But when I was young, I was smart and cute, and finally won my father's liking. My father is not a very responsible man, and the mistress's family is very powerful. He just knows me. I was taken away by the mistress, and my father didn't dare to say a word. Later, my grandfather found out and brought me back. However, I have nothing to do with that family now!"

"That...is..."

"Lingnan Meijia." Lin Qing paid a short-term teacup to Mu Chengze who expressed surprise.There was a kind of self-mocking helplessness on his beautiful face.

"Then why is your surname Lin?"

"My teacher's surname is Lin!"

"She's not..." Thinking of that beautiful woman, Mu Chengze didn't understand for a while.Seeing him like this, Lin Qing had no choice but to explain: "I don't know much about the matter of my family teacher. I just said that there was a relationship I didn't understand. That's why I married a descendant of the Rongguo Mansion as a daughter of the Xing family. I don't know the specifics. Yes. My junior sister is similar, but she is a real marriage. It is said that the family teacher is just a process, and the detailed estimation will not be known until I return to Neifang to preside over government affairs!"

"Then... when are you going back?"

"My teacher said that my secular relationship is not over, so... I don't know." Lin Qing looked at Mu Chengze with a gloomy face and laughed: "You don't really have feelings for me, do you?"

"You think too much!" Mu Chengze's face darkened helplessly.

"Okay, okay!" Lin Qing waved her hand: "Actually, if you are willing to let your sister be a widow, I don't mind. After practicing Neifang Kung Fu, you can't get married without the golden core. I have no choice. You can tell the truth Third prince, I really don't care about this. My daughter's family is a fault there. No way, she will be happy after following me. Come and go clean."

Lin Qing's words were cold, but Mu Chengze knew that for the princess of the royal family, he was actually the best.It's just that not being able to be a mother for a lifetime, or even having children of her own, is not a bad thing but a good thing for a royal princess.Because no one will calculate those, and they will not calculate others for those.

Lin Qing leaned against the pillar of the gazebo and thought for a while: "Actually, you and I are not bad as Phoenix. Think about Duke Ning and the old sage."

"My royal father only admires my mother and concubine!" Mu Chengze curled his lips, the degree of his father's infatuation with his biological mother can definitely be written in a storybook.

"Hehe..." Lin Qing smiled and said nothing.He practiced the Bing Xin Jue, and he didn't see much in martial arts, he just looked at the fierce attack.After entering the practice, the effect of Bing Xin Jue on the soul will be revealed.At this time, although he still seems to be the same as before.But he himself knew clearly, Bing Xin Bing Xin.The exercises also bring the pure heart and asceticism of the soul and the coldness to the bone.

Mu Chengze also knew that it would be more beneficial if these lies were confirmed right now.But he didn't want to use it on this person.He also wanted to have someone who could speak freely and remain unmoved in the future.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhang Yunxi was ready to go under the service of the maid.Jia Lian carefully greased her face and boarded the car with her to Rongxi Hall.Today is the first day for him as the eldest son of the Rongguo Mansion to bring his new daughter-in-law to visit his parents and ancestors, and at the same time to register the family tree for his daughter-in-law.Jia Amnesty wrote the scriptures long before the wedding, expressing the importance of opening Rongxi Hall.As the emperor, Mu Chengze will definitely give some face to his brother who wandered all the way.

In the morning, Jia's mother brought her to the Rongxi Hall. Jia Jing wanted to say something.But looking at Jia Amnesty, it seemed that he had no intention of stopping him, so he gave up.After opening the genealogy and worshiping the ancestral hall, Jia Lian took Zhang Yunxi to serve tea to Jia Amnesty who was seated in front of the Rongxi Hall and the memorial tablet of the Jiang family on it.After that, Zhang Yunxi offered tea to An Lan alone.Looking at all this, Jia's mother sighed with emotion that she had missed Jia Jing back then.Sigh again, the current season.

Yuan Chun has successfully become the official fourth-rank Inner Palace Minister, managing the academy in the Inner Palace.But that place is not only far away from the palace where the emperor lives, even those empresses and concubines think that few people read books.At most, it is just a few books, and it should be taken care of.The emperor in front of him left the palace at a young age, and he only had a queen.The harem is empty, although it is said that there will be more colorful girls.In the final analysis, it was just a red line for the ministers.What he left behind were only a few girls from small families.Jia Mu planned that if possible, it would be best for Yuan Chun to be favored by the emperor.But in the final analysis, this matter is also somewhat difficult to handle.

After watching Jia Lian's bustle and bustle, she returned to the courtyard and Jia's mother sat on the grand teacher's chair she used to sit on.Touching the already round and smooth handrail, thinking about how to go next.

Yuan Chun is only a fourth-rank Shangshu at this time, and if he does well, he will only be ordered by his old aunt.In the inner courtyard of the palace, there are not a few such women.Back then, if she hadn't been unable to find a chance to climb onto the dragon bed, she would not have thought about planning a marriage.But in the final analysis, she couldn't let Yuan Chun follow her old path.

Yuan Chun, who was in the palace at this time, was also thinking about the same thing.She is 19 years old. He ran for election at the age of 13 and entered the Fifth Prince's Mansion at the age of 15.After a few years of bluffing, even though he is now one of the four palace ministers.But in the end, she is just a slave.A slave that even a talented person can step on two feet.Since she was born, she knew that her birthday was precious, but right now, even if it is a precious life, she must have a chance.And what she lacks at this time is precisely this life.

While these two were thinking about the same thing, there was a woman in the inner courtyard of the palace who was also thinking about something.

She is none other than the old emperor's imperial concubine, Princess Zhen.

As a disciple of Cihang Jingzhai, she has actually seen through this world of mortals for many years.But she didn't drift away, but was unwilling.She spent the best time of her life with this man, but in the end everything was empty.

It's just because she was born in Cihang Jingzhai, and she is the bridge connecting the emperor and Cihang Jingzhai.She wouldn't have a child of her own, wouldn't have a higher position, wouldn't have... an iota of trust from that person.

But right now, the only thing she can have left is her mother and brother.She didn't understand how the Zhen family had been put on fire all these years.In order to avoid what happened back then, he even tarnished his reputation.The third prince is still thinking about how to make a comeback... It's really ridiculous.Since the man was able to support the fifth child in this way, it was enough to express his concern for the Xiao family's affairs back then.

He resented himself for being a bystander back then, and resented the Zhen family for trampling on him afterwards.But to be honest, that person resents... No, what he hates is the nobles behind the other princes.

But what about myself?It should also be resentful!

The elder brothers and fathers are all living a life of burning oil in their own names, but they don't know it.But what about myself?Every time they wrote, it was not because they wanted to plan something.Have you ever thought about your days here.The same goes for the sect... The important thing about Qing Jing's daughter's family and country that was agreed back then, but in the end it was just trapping herself in this harem.My good master...

Concubine Zhen who was sitting under the hosta flower showed a mocking smile.Her body was already at dusk.Even if it wasn't for that person's order, those people in the Tai Hospital were all hoping that their demon concubine would die early.

On the [-]th, it is dusk in the west.Concubine Zhen looked at the empty palace in front of her with a chuckle, and then she fell on one side of the handrail, and what fell was a letter full of handwriting.

She knew a long time ago that one day she would be abandoned.But I didn't expect that my family would do this.What did they put themselves in the palace?Or... nothing?

"Cao'er, tell me... am I stupid?"

"Your Majesty!" The nanny who had been following Concubine Zhen looked at her master and sighed silently.

Concubine Zhen took a deep breath, read the letter carefully again: "You know what my sister-in-law said today. Tell me, what are they trying to do with those two accumulated debts? "

"Master... the old lady, I'm afraid it's just greed!"

"Greedy?" Concubine Zhen raised a sneering smile: "Yes! They are greedy, but what about me?" She thought for a while, then sneered: "Yes, yes... I am just lucky The concubine's concubine's daughter who was chosen by Cihang Jingzhai... I forgot my duty... Ha! Isn't it ridiculous? My elder brother, I'm afraid he is still sitting in the dream of Uncle Guo! I don't know , how long will it be before the long house sells them and counts the money? Look at my sister-in-law, that old lady of the Jia family poured her some kind of soup, and she is also committing crimes! Tell me, I can protect her. How long have they been? I'm afraid they won't be able to protect them for a while!"

She sighed deeply: "Think of a way, let's meet Sheng once!"

"Your Majesty is..." Mammy Cao looked at her master, and was a little uncertain about her master's thoughts for a while.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to do it with this body. After three or five years, it's time." I know my own affairs, and the foundation has been laid on top of Mount Tai.Everyone in the world thought that she had confused the emperor, but they didn't know that she was the one who was forced.She had kept her innocent body all these years, but because of that man's plan, her life was ruined.Originally, I thought that even if I entered this world of mortals, I would walk away innocently.But in the end, it was completely ruined.However, she couldn't help thinking about her silly brother.

Picking up the cold tea bowl on one side, smelling the tea fragrance inside: "I have to think about it for you. Although my elder brother is not a successful man, he is the one who protects me. Even in the future, I'm afraid he will be the only one I will offer incense sticks and burn some paper."

"Master!" Grandma Cao obviously disagreed with this.But seeing Concubine Zhen's firm expression, she could only lower her head in embarrassment and express that she would make arrangements.

When Mu Chengze saw Concubine Zhen, his heart was complicated.He didn't know much about this woman.He just knew that when his mother knelt under the scorching sun with her body pregnant, this woman stood by and watched a good show.But it was also this woman who made his life easier for a while by ignoring him.After all, the concubine who was in charge back then has already been punished.

Concubine Zhen didn't say much, but took out a palm-sized brocade box and pushed it to him: "Here is what you want, Cihang Jingzhai is in this palace, and all the things I know in this court are here. .”

"What do you want?" Mu Chengze looked at the things inside, frowning slightly.He didn't move, he couldn't believe that this woman didn't ask for anything.

"Three requirements, first, I won't live long but I want to enter the cemetery as a concubine. I know many people are looking forward to my death, but I want the posthumous title of Zhenjing. Second, I and your father's I wrote all the grievances and grievances in it. The past is vivid, and talking more is like pulling the core. You will know everything after reading it. I only ask that after you understand everything, you can keep my blood brother safe life. As for the rest of the Zhen family, It has nothing to do with me. Third, the Jia family asked me for a favor, about their eldest daughter who entered the palace. That girl is also pitiful, but in the end it was her parents who committed a crime. I didn't want to ask for this, but looking at her... I want to stay In this harem, maybe you can live longer. Is it... connected to fate?" Dowager Zhen smiled self-deprecatingly.Seeing her smile, Mu Chengze thought for a while and took the brocade box, opened it to look at the various documents inside.

He watched carefully, and Concubine Zhen was not in a hurry.This place is extremely hidden, and now the old emperor will not pay attention to the contact between them.All the arrangements he wanted were made, and the rest was his son's business.Everyone in the world thinks that the old emperor is holding power, but they don't know how much his son has done in his name.

After reading the above words, Mu Chengze was concentrating for a long time before he calmed down.He packed up those documents and keepsakes and handed them to the inner government order around him to put them away.

"I will act as if I have never seen you, and you have never seen me here!"

Seeing Mu Chengze getting up and about to leave, Concubine Zhen knew that he had already agreed.He also nodded, picked up the wine glass on the table and took a sip: "I'm just looking at the moonlight, drinking alone."

Both are smart people, needless to say or think.