Red Chamber Fellows: You Are Not Guilty

May [-]th is a good day for marriage, setting up a bed, breaking ground, trading, good luck.

Today is the big day for Jia Lian to get married.Early in the morning, the door of the First General's Mansion was wide open, wrapped in red silk everywhere, and the sound of drums and music. Even the two stone lions on both sides of the gate were newly tied with red silk flowers, showing their spirit.The butler stood at the gate of the mansion, saluted the relatives and friends who had come earlier, and the clever servants took them into the mansion, and took them to the places according to the list that had been arranged long ago.Mother Jia and Erfang's family were naturally among the first to come, and they were respectfully introduced into the inner house.

In the inner house, Jia Lian, dressed in happy attire, saluted Jia She and Madam Xing respectfully. Jia She looked at this cheap son who had matured a little bit, and felt a sense of emotion that my family had just grown up.Either the original owner's will, or his own feelings, who cares, anyway, now this cheap son has to call himself father.

Mrs. Xing was also a little emotional. Speaking of which, she could be regarded as watching Jia Lian grow up, but it turned out that the two of them, let alone being close, had limited time to meet each other. Ming's hostility, where did she get her feelings?Plus the original daughter-in-law, oh, what a happy day, what do you want her to do?It is said that the bride is a well-educated woman, so she doesn't need to be filial, as long as she treats Qiao better, she won't pretend to be a mother-in-law.

Seeing that Mrs. Xing was silent, Jia Amnesty coughed and said to Jia Lian, "Now you are married again, and you have a real job, and you are doing well. In the future, this home will be yours, and your brothers, sisters, and daughters will all watch it." Yours. Lian'er, you are an adult now."

Jia Lian was quite moved by this sentence of my lord: when he got married for the first time, his father just took a look at him and let him go to greet him without saying anything.My father at that time must have been disappointed in himself.Now that my father has admitted that he is an adult, and still ranks his brothers, sisters, and daughters behind him, does it mean that his father thinks that he can take care of the family?Faced with this trust, Jia Lian was both happy and at a loss.

Mrs. Xing went on to say: "When a newcomer enters the door, if you are not familiar with your temper, you have to make room for it, and don't show face to others early. Your father and I can rest assured that your husband and wife are harmonious."

Hearing these words that he hadn't heard when they were married for the first time, Jia Lian was even more upset.In fact, when I got married for the first time, they also expected the same, but at that time, I looked at them everywhere, thinking that they only had selfish interests in their hearts, and wished that my second uncle and aunt were my parents.But at that time, the second uncle and the second aunt mostly looked at Big Brother Zhu, so how could they have their own place?Did the second uncle and aunt have no self-interest in mind?It's just better than his parents can cover up.

It has to be said that Jia Lian grew up quickly on the morning of his marriage. He began to have a sense of family responsibility and a caring relationship with his parents.I saw him saluting again solemnly: "Father and mother, please rest assured that this son will live a good life with the new couple this time." I won't let you worry about the house affairs of the younger generation, and won't let you be looked down upon by a daughter-in-law.

Sister Qiao also got up early today, wearing a bright red dress to reflect the joy, with two small buns combed on her hair, surrounded by red coral beads, big red dots on her forehead, hanging a hollowed-out With a gold collar, he came in with a smile to say hello to his grandparents.Seeing that his father was also there, he looked at Jia Lian curiously: "Greetings to father. Father is in good spirits today."

When Jia Amnesty and Mrs. Xing saw her, they put away the seriousness on their faces long ago, but Jia Lian made her praise a little embarrassed: "Well, sister Qiao is also well-dressed today."

Sister Qiao nodded: "Mother comes to the house today to make mother like Sister Qiao."

Mrs. Xing hugged someone and said with a smile: "Grandmother's sister Qiao is beautiful, smart and sensible, everyone likes it."

Sister Qiao still looked at Jia Lian: "Mother said that if she likes Sister Qiao the most, my father told her not to forget." Sister Qiao, who is one year older, can already express herself clearly.

Jia Amnesty said to Jia Lian: "Okay, you go to eat something too. Seeing that the auspicious time is coming, it's time to meet the bride."

Jia Lian laughed and said, "Once I see my granddaughter, my father will not have a son." Then he withdrew.

As soon as the auspicious time came, Jia Lian got on his horse, and there were eight good men behind him, they were eight cousins ​​of his uncle's family.Originally, Jia's mother wanted Baoyu to go too. This was originally her own brother's business, so she came out at this time, so that people would know that the two families were close.But when compared with the members of the Zhang family, I put out this idea - they all have fame and fame, and at worst they are candidates, but Baoyu is not even a child.

Along the way, with fresh clothes and angry horses, the relatives came to the door of Sun's house.After the drumming ended, a son of the Sun family came out to block the door, Jia Lian took a step back, the cousins ​​of the Zhang family stepped forward, and the children of the Sun family looked at each other: These people are familiar with each other, everyone knows who's details, how can we stop them? ?Originally, the Sun family was contemptuous of this new son-in-law who was born in a military general's family and Meng Zuyin was an official, but after seeing the person who accompanied him to welcome his relatives, he felt a sudden shock in his heart, why did he forget about the Zhang family? ?

So Jia Lian, who was not troubled by anything, successfully took the newcomer back to the general's mansion together with the dowry.Sun Yuan's dowry is 120 levies, which is already the Sun family's greatest capability. If it weren't for the purpose of preventing his daughter from being compared to those in front of Jia Lian, most of the Sun family's married daughters would be 88 levies.

The Jia family didn't care about the amount of dowry, what they wanted was a head mother who could support the backyard and support Jia Lian until they got old.Sun Yuan, who has just finished worshiping heaven and earth with Jia Lian and is sitting in the tent, does not know how his newly married life is going to be, and is feeling uneasy.

"Mother, mother." Sun Yuan, who was covered with a hijab, heard someone calling, and felt that the voice was a little familiar, and then heard a soft voice: "Sister Qiao, you can only call mother tomorrow."

Another voice that was a bit cold said again: "It's not too late to call tomorrow."

The soft voice at first seemed to say to the cold voice: "Third Miss, you shouldn't have said that. When will your second room girl be in charge of our first room's affairs?"

There was a small hand holding Sun Yuan's hand and shaking it: "Does mother miss me?"

Sun Yuan then remembered that this was Jia Lian's daughter, the one who the queen personally asked her to call her mother.Sun Yuan, who had been taught by his father, uttered his first voice today: "Mother naturally misses sister Qiao, does sister Qiao miss mother?"

There was a small face stuck to Sun Yuan's hand, a pair of round eyes looked at Sun Yuan from under the hijab, and said: "Mom is so beautiful today."

All the female relatives in the room who came to see the bride laughed.Mrs. Xing took the opportunity to tell the story of the queen personally asking sister-in-law Qiao to call her mother: It's not that our children don't know the rules.

When Jia Lian came in, Miss Qiao asked Mrs. Xing to hold him in her arms to make room for him.Picking up the red hijab again, Jia Lian didn’t feel that he was a skilled worker. He still had some expectations for the newcomer under the hijab, hoping that she would be gentler, that she would be more sensible, and that she would not be so aggressive with her sisters. I hope she can treat sister Qiao kindly.

Just as Jia Lian expected, the red hijab fell to the ground, and Sun Yuan formally appeared in front of the Jia family.This is the standard lady of everyone, with impeccable makeup, impeccable wedding dress, impeccable bowed head and shy look, impeccable everywhere, and also, a little alienated from everyone everywhere.

It's no wonder that whoever comes to a strange place has to be more careful, not to mention being a bride, it is the most critical time for people to judge.Sun Yuan also heard those conversations just now, and knows that not everyone is friendly to him.

Jia Lian saw Sun Yuan's powdered face drooping, shy and timid, and a desire to protect him was born in his heart. He had a family again, so he must maintain it well this time, and he must explain clearly to the bride early about the two spouses. , Let her know that she is the eldest daughter-in-law of the big family, and she can no longer let her daughter-in-law put others first and forget to be filial to her parents.Thinking of this, he glanced at Mrs. Wang's face, and he saw an expression of reluctance.Jia Lian didn't care whether she was happy or not, but only thought about how to tell the bride for a while.

Xi Niang stepped forward, spread the tents and chanted happy songs, making the atmosphere very lively.Jia's mother and the two wives of King Xing inevitably thought of Jia Lian's first wedding, but they just laughed it off.No matter how unwilling Mrs. Wang is, and no matter how much Jia Mu sighs, they can't refute a piece of imperial decree, so the bride doesn't have to carry out the ceremony of filling the house.

When the crowd dispersed for a while, Jia Lian saw that Sun Yuan was a little uncomfortable, so he smiled and asked the girl to come up and wait for the waiter to wash up, but he also went to the back to wash up without mentioning it.

Here, Jia She and the two are about to go to bed, but Mrs. Xing still can't let go after a busy day: "Master, the newcomer looks kind."

"You are a mother-in-law." Jia Shexin said that as long as you are kind, it will be fine.

Mrs. Xing said again: "The dowry looks generous."

Jia Amnesty was a little puzzled: "Our family has not yet used the daughter-in-law's dowry, so it doesn't matter if her dowry is rich or not."

Only then did Mrs. Xing express her meaning: "The Sun family is not a rich family, but the daughter-in-law's dowry is still like this. We are also a general's mansion, and the dowry for Yingchun can't be worse than that of the daughter-in-law."

Unexpectedly, she mentioned this, Jia She thought that Mrs. Xing who even calculated Xing Xiuyan's one tael of silver per month in the original book, probably this is not the same person.Seeing that he was silent, Mrs. Xing thought he was unhappy, but it was rare for him to start. The master was going to inspect the nine provinces and did not know when he would return. Mrs. Xing just said to herself: "Accordingly, this girl's dowry should be my dowry." Take them all out. But the master also knows that my dowry back then was that, not even a third of the daughter-in-law's." Otherwise, Wang Xifeng would not look down on her poor mother-in-law.

Seeing her pitiful words, Jia She was afraid that if she left, she would go to Gongzhong again for the dowry of Yingchun, and then it would be fun to watch.He simply got up by himself and went to the study to get something.

Mrs. Xing didn't know why he went out suddenly, she just thought that some words made him unhappy, and she was annoyed that she shouldn't be a disappointment on such a day.But the master will leave Beijing in a few days, and the dowry for Yingchun will be prepared. If we don't talk about it now, when will we talk about it.

I don't want Jia Amnesty to go and come back, holding a box in his hand.The box was flat, less than eight inches long and four fingers wide. Mrs. Xing couldn't see what could be contained in it, so it was worth the master's solemnity to pick it up in person.