After Jing Yuanzhao came back, the winter in Yicheng became much warmer.

The sun was shining brightly all day long, and the wind blowing on my face was less moist. It's warm, and there's also the subtle fragrance of wintersweet.

Sheng Rouzhen's engagement party was very lively.

The engagement banquet is a new style and Western style. In the future, weddings will still follow the old rules. This is Madam's wish.

Madam hosted Sheng Rouzhen's wedding.

The engagement banquet was held in the West Flower Hall in the inner courtyard of the Governor's Mansion, and guests entered through the west door.

The front and back doors of the West Flower Hall were removed and connected to the front and back yards, filled with more than fifty tables.

"I'd rather sit in the courtyard and eat." Zhang Nanshu whispered to Yan Xin.

It was a clear day on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, with a cloudless sky. The sun was so bright that it was almost scorching, making the courtyard warm.

The tables and chairs placed in the front and rear yards were more comfortable. Even the governor and the two division commanders sat at an empty table in the yard and smoked.

Compared with the warmth of the courtyard, there is neither sunshine nor heater inside, but it is cold.

"Go and change places with a certain lady." Yan Xin said.

Zhang Nanshu: "I really want to, but my wet nurse will definitely nag her. That's all."

The seats at the banquet in the Governor's Mansion are arranged according to proximity and official position.

There was no need for Zhang Nanshu to lower herself at Sheng Rouzhen's engagement party.

"Why don't you see the second lady?" Zhang Nanshu asked again.

Yan Xin: "She is the mother-in-law, so naturally she won't come."

"My mother-in-law won't come to the engagement party?"

"The engagement banquet we are talking about now is the 'nazheng' in the old marriage negotiations. The man carries the betrothal gift to the woman, and the woman's family holds a banquet to entertain the man and his guests.

At this step, the male guests should be the prospective groom, matchmaker and clan relatives, and the prospective groom's parents do not need to be present.

When the bride gets married in the future, the girl's parents will not go to the groom's side to have a drink. It will be the girl's brothers and relatives who will give her the wedding. "Yan Xin said.

Zhang Nanshu: "But for the new engagement banquet I attended, the woman's parents and relatives will also attend the banquet."

Yan Xin glanced at her.

Zhang Nanshu reacted immediately: "Madam, you don't want the second lady to come?"

"I just don't want her to step into the Governor's Mansion." Yan Xin said.

Zhang Nanshu: "..."

The eldest lady, Sheng, was very tolerant of Xifu, and everyone in Yicheng knew that.

She never treated them harshly in the open, and tolerated every little thing.

There are only two things that are against her: first, the ownership of the property is all in her hands, and Xi Mansion is not allowed to get even half of it; second, He Menglan is not allowed to step into her mansion.

She followed the Overseer.

She would not allow He Menglan to step foot into her and the governor's house, whether it was the old house or the current official residence.

If a person doesn't care about everything, is tolerant in everything, and insists on one or two things, others will not say that she is stingy, but will only praise her for being principled.

——I gave you eight things but refused to give in to two. What can you say? Your complaints are because you are not satisfied.

Madam Sheng has always been able to tolerate small things and stick to the key points.

"...I'm really afraid that my wife will not live long." Zhang Nanshu said suddenly.

Yan Xin couldn't help but glared at her: "What nonsense!"

"It's true, she is too sensible." Zhang Nanshu said.

A person who is too rational means that she must always use reason to suppress her emotions.

But everyone has moments when they lose control. There should be moments of anger, sadness, and impulsive and reckless moments.

Who, like Mrs. Overseer, lives like a carved template? Not one point too much, not one point too little, just like one day for thirty years.

How hard she worked.

too tired.

After listening to Zhang Nanshu's words, Yan Xin sat there, thinking in silence, feeling a huge sadness.

Why is Madam like this?

It’s been practiced since childhood!

The madam told Yan Xin that before her family was massacred by the rebels, her family wanted to send her to the palace to become the mother-in-law.

For the eternal prosperity of the family.

Her natal family will help her and support her, but she needs to work hard on her own.

Every step she takes requires clear goals and abandoning personal feelings.

Maybe she has only just started to remember, and she has not even begun to understand what the world is like before she begins to receive this kind of education.

Zhang Nanshu is lively, cheerful, generous and cheerful. Her parents gave her the richest love and the freest environment to grow up. Her education was based on words and deeds, rather than building a mold to fit her into.

Madam, however, has been trapped in a mold her entire life.

Zhang Nanshu couldn't bear this kind of backlog and shaping, and felt too tired, but her wife was used to it and didn't even think of resisting.

Even if her family is destroyed, she still lives in the mold, following the path she took when she was a child, and reaches today.

Compared with his wife's life, Yan Xin was not that hard-working.

"Can one day in the future I break the shackles on Madam's heart and let her live freely?"

Someone came over.

"...What are you thinking about?" Jing Yuanzhao sat on the chair next to Yan Xin, "You don't look happy."

Yan Xin came to her senses.

"No, sitting here is boring." Yan Xin said.

Jing Yuanzhao: "It's still early for the banquet, why don't you go out for a walk?"

Yan Xin: "No. Nan Shu and I are listening to the show, and you go and do your work."

Many people want to talk to Jing Yuanzhao because he has a lot of things.

He nodded and just said: "Don't rush away after eating. I'll see you later if I need anything."

He passed first.

Being interrupted by him, Yan Xin was freed from her bad mood.

On the stage in the front yard, the invited famous actors have already appeared on the stage, performing a song of joys and sorrows.

If they don't talk about it, there will always be someone who can't stop talking.

"I thought that my wife's adopted daughter would marry into the West Mansion and the two mansions would be harmonious from now on. Looking at things like this today, that's far from the case."

"This is compensation."

"How to say?"

"The third young master of Xifu blocked Miss Rouzhen's gun and injured his arm. He may be a disabled person. That's why he wants to marry Miss Rouzhen." A wife said.

Jing Shuhong’s left arm is really not working hard.

Whether it can be restored in the future is hard to say. Even if it heals, it can only recover [-]% to [-]%, and this hand is half useless.

Fortunately, he was the son of the warlord and only had his left hand, so his sky did not fall.

At the engagement party, he also socialized in front of people.

Jing Shuhong was wearing a Western-style pure white tuxedo today, which made him look very energetic with his thick black hair, deep and bright eyes.

"He's quite happy." Zhang Nanshu whispered to Yan Xin.

Yan Xin: "He asked for this marriage himself, not someone else forced it on him. Of course he is happy."

"He likes Sheng Rouzhen?"

"Rou Zhen is very beautiful." Yan Xin said.

The engagement banquet at the Governor's Mansion was decorated in new styles, but a theater troupe was invited to sing. The groom-to-be wore a new style of dress, but the groom's mother did not attend, so the bride-to-be was not present.

Whether it was the old-fashioned collection of gifts or the new-style engagement banquet, I couldn't tell for the moment.

However, the world where the old and the new alternate, is originally chaotic, everything is reasonable and nothing is reasonable.

After the main banquet at noon, Yan Xin was about to leave, but Jing Yuanzhao found her.

"Let's take you somewhere." He said to Yan Xin.

There were so many people and so many eyes, so he didn't do anything, he just smiled at her, revealing his deep pear.

Yan Xin did not reject him and followed him out: "Where are you going?"

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