[Red Mansions] Minruo Spring Breeze Returns to Dream

The second time, the queen's mediator's marriage is decided

After Jia Lian's marriage was over, Mother Jia began to worry about Lin Jinshu again.This time, Jia Lian's wedding was held in such a grand manner, which is what Jia's mother meant, and invited guests to choose the right family carefully.Among them, Bo Niu Jizong, the first-class grandson of Zhenguo Gong Niuqing, and Liu Fang, the first-class son of Liguo Gong Liu Biao’s grandson Xianxi, both have girls of the right age, and the wives of these two families also have the same thoughts, so He was also very close to Jia Min at the banquet.As for Lin Jinshu, the master of their family is still outside, so it is natural to be careful.

"When did our son become a sweet potato? How many wives and wives have asked me Jinshu's age today, and my mouth is dry to answer." When she returned home, Jia Min breathed a sigh of relief.After dealing with Mrs. Niu here, another Mrs. Liu came over there. Just after chatting with Mrs. Liu, another Mrs. Su turned around.Jia Min looked into the vanity mirror and took off the complicated hairpins on her head, "Look at what those ladies mean, they intend to marry our family. It's just that I have inquired about those girls, and they were all brought up arrogantly. Yes, she has a bit of a petite temper, but I'm not at ease."

"If you don't worry, just refuse. Shu'er's marriage is our decision. Who can oppose us." Lin Ruhai also took off his robe that was full of alcohol, "Tonight, Shu'er drank a lot Can you ask the kitchen to bring him hangover soup? I heard that he has invited the son of Master Yuchi, the son of Imperial College Jijiu, to go out tomorrow."

"Naturally, you should drink it quickly, and you have to go to court tomorrow." Jia Min untied her hair and slowly combed her black hair with a comb. "The kitchen should have boiled hot water. After you finish drinking After sobering up the soup, go to take a bath and sleep. If you miss tomorrow's morning, it will be bad."

"Madam is considerate for my husband, and thank you for my husband." After saying that, Lin Ruhai smiled and made a bow, which made Jia Min couldn't help but give him a sideways glance.

"You're getting more and more glib." Jia Min casually picked up a wooden hairpin and pulled up her hair. "I made you a new pajamas, and you can try it on later." Their more than ten years of married life, It has long passed the tenderness of deep affection and sweetness in the newlyweds, but now it is more of the warmth of each other.

Lin Ruhai slightly curled the corners of his mouth, his eyes filled with tenderness.

In November, the weather seems to cool down overnight.Fortunately, Jia Min made preparations early and asked the people in the sewing room to rush out new winter clothes.Today, Lin Daiyu's feather-blue long gown with deep purple threads mixed with silver grape patterns and the golden white butterfly wearing peach red cloud satin skirt are newly made, using the fabric sent from Yangzhou, and covered with silver and white background The brocade and feather satin cloak with emerald green pattern makes the whole person more and more beautiful.

"A girl looks good in a suit of clothes." Cui Tao smiled, "Aunt Chen's craftsmanship is getting more and more exquisite. The grape pattern and the pattern of the butterfly wearing flowers are really lifelike."

"My aunt is the best at making me happy." Lin Daiyu turned around in front of the mirror, "Let's go and show my mother. I heard that it's time to greet the empress, and I don't know if my mother will take me there. ?”

"If the girl is acting like a baby to the madam, the madam might take the girl with her." Cui Tao asked someone to fetch an oil-paper umbrella, "It's snowing outside, so let's go over with the umbrella, or the madam will blame the servants for being too busy Not thoughtful."

Lin Daiyu obediently asked Cui Tao to serve her and walked to Jia Min's yard. As soon as she entered the house, she felt very warm.After asking Huiyun to take off the cloak, he greeted Jia Min and said, "Mother, do you think the clothes on me look good?"

Lin Daiyu was slender, and she looked even more delicate in this dress, but Jia Min knew that her daughter was in good shape, so she smiled and said, "It's very beautiful, and only my daughter can look handsome in it. Cui Liu Ask the sewing room to make more outfits for the girl according to this color scheme."

"Yes." Cui Liu replied with a smile.

"Mother, I heard that my mother is going to pay her respects to the Queen Mother and the Empress Dowager, why don't you take me with you too." Lin Daiyu turned her beautiful eyes and said with a smile, "Master Guan feels a little unwell and has stopped his homework; My daughter is also proficient in needlework, so it's better to yell at her for being lazy for a day, and she will make up for it in the future."

"I think you've been at home for a long time and want to go out for a walk." Jia Min thought of what Nanny Lu had said earlier, "Forget it, Nanny Lu came yesterday and only said that the Queen Mother misses you and wants me to take you into the palace." Well. It’s just that you have to choose what clothes to wear when entering the palace tomorrow.”

"Okay~" Lin Daiyu thought of her new winter clothes, "The queen mother likes the girls who serve in front of her to dress delicately. I just got several light purple and pink dresses, which are the most suitable. The daughter will go back and choose Mother, come back to help your daughter palm her eyes at night, how about?"

"Little ghost, go." Jia Min smiled dotingly.

In November, the palace was already filled with seasonal flowers, and there were Cyclamen and Baozhu camellias in full bloom in the Empress Dowager's Palace, so there was a faint fragrance lingering in the whole palace.The smokeless and odorless silver charcoal was burning vigorously, and the entire palace was very warm.Jia Min and Lin Daiyu saluted together before sitting down.

"I haven't seen Yu'er for a long time, she seems to have grown taller." The Queen Mother laughed.

Lin Daiyu noticed that there were two young women sitting beside the queen mother, who looked about fifteen or sixteen years old, but she didn't know who they were, so she just smiled and replied to the queen mother: "My mother calls the kitchen to help you every three days." The courtiers brought stewed soup, so the courtiers will naturally grow taller. The aunt who made the clothes also said that my stature is a little taller than when I just returned to Beijing."

"That's right, you are weak, you should drink more soup and water." The queen mother said again, "Eldest girl, second girl, this is the girl from the family of Yu Shilin, Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, do you know her well?" Let's go."

Jia Min was listening to the Empress Dowager talking to Lin Daiyu with a smile. Hearing that the Empress Dowager called "Big Girl" and "Second Girl", she also knew that these two girls had unusual backgrounds, so she quickly got up and took Lin Daiyu to greet the two girls, and then He laughed and said, "So it's the Eldest Princess and the Second Princess, my concubine is being rude."

"It's okay, Madam Lin, please sit down." The eldest princess smiled gently.

Jia Min just sat down, fiddled slightly with the sea blue sapphire bracelet inlaid with diamonds on his wrist, and gradually formed an idea in his heart: the Queen Mother would not want to marry one of these two princesses into the Lin family, would she?The eldest princess was born of Concubine Wu Gui in the palace, and her ancestral family was an old courtier who had gone through two dynasties. It looked like flowers and brocades, but it was inevitable that she had done more meritorious service than the Lord; the second princess was the eldest daughter of the loyal prince, although she was not She was a descendant, but she was also adopted by the emperor and raised in the palace since she was a child.Maybe it's just my overthinking, don't think about it.Jia Min comforted herself like this, and said with a smile: "How is the Queen Mother recently?"

"It's not the same as usual, I just nest here in the harem every day, and I hope that you will enter the palace and talk to Ai's family to relieve your boredom." The queen mother smiled and said, "You go to pay the queen first, and Yu'er will stay here with Ai's family to accompany the mourning." Let's talk."

"Yes." Jia Min faintly felt that something was wrong, but she had no choice but to follow the Queen Mother's words.

Because it was snowing outside, the queen mother specially graciously asked someone to prepare a sedan chair to carry Jia Min there.Arriving at the Queen's Fengyi Palace, as soon as Jia Min got off the sedan chair, he saw Jia Yuanchun waiting outside, his little face flushed from the cold.She was wearing a dark green female officer's uniform, and her young and graceful appearance was forcibly worn into the appearance of an old aunt. She looked at Jia Min with pitiful eyes.

Jia Min just nodded slightly, then turned his eyes away and walked in, completely oblivious to Jia Yuanchun's dimmed eyes behind him.

"Greetings to the empress." Jia Min said.

"Get up quickly, let's take a seat." The queen smiled, "Yu'er was left in the palace by the queen mother?"

"The empress is really good at predicting things." Jia Min took the hot tea from the maid next door, "I look at it, the empress seems to have lost weight, but it's cold recently and you don't want to eat?"

"No." The queen rubbed her belly, "It's just that I'm pregnant, so I don't like to eat much recently."

"Then congratulations to the Empress!" Jia Min hurriedly got up to congratulate, "It seems that this concubine is the first married woman to know the good news. This will also bring some good luck to the concubine."

"It is the best blessing for Mrs. Lin to have both children." The queen asked without showing any trace, "Today, the eldest princess and the second princess have gone to pay their respects to the queen mother. Did Mrs. Lin meet her?"

Jia Min paused for a while holding the teacup, and soon returned to normal, only said: "I see, after all, she is a princess in the palace, and her demeanor is not ordinary. It is not the right time for the concubine, I did not expect to bump into her." It was also my own fault when the princess paid her respects."

"Where is Mrs. Lin's fault, it's just someone doing it on purpose." The queen said pointedly.

Jia Min noticed that all the servants in the hall had retreated quietly, leaving only two or three confidantes who were by the queen's side to serve, Jia Yuanchun also disappeared, and said: "I am stupid, I don't know what the queen said meaning."

"There is a good saying: 'A family has a hundred women'. In fact, it is the same when transferred. The eldest princess was born by Concubine Wu, and the second princess was raised in the palace. How many people watched their marriage, Men of the right age in Beijing have been picked on all over. On the contrary, Mrs. Lin's son has a good education and education. No, Wu Guifei and Guitai Concubine both fell in love with them, and begged the Queen Mother to marry him. The Queen Mother is naturally unwilling, but it's hard to refuse." The Queen pointed it out directly.That Concubine Wu seemed to have surrendered to her, but in a blink of an eye, because she was pregnant and couldn't take charge of the harem affairs, she wantonly deployed her own people. She really regarded her as a queen who was vegetarian!

"That's how it is..." No wonder there are two princesses here today to pay their respects, I'm afraid the Queen Mother has no choice but to do so.Jia Min carefully observed the queen's expression, thought for a while before saying, "The kindness of Concubine Wu and Concubine Gui is appreciated by the concubine, but the meaning of the concubine and the master is clear, as long as the girl is gentle and gentle Yes. The princess in the palace is nice, but..."

The empress smiled slightly, and said: "I also understand this matter, who is a mother who doesn't think hard about her children's future marriage." Not right, "But there is a girl of the right age in my elder brother's family. Mrs. Lin thinks that the Li family and the Lin family are good friends, how about it?"

Jia Min, a girl from the Li family, has inquired about it before, and heard that she is gentle and good at reading poetry and books, but I still have to talk to Lin Ruhai about this matter, and said: "This matter is not up to the concubine, the concubine can't trade." Hastily agreed."

"That's natural. It's good for Mrs. Lin to go back and discuss with Mrs. Lin." The queen smiled gently, "The queen mother also disagrees with the princess's marriage, so Mrs. Lin doesn't have to worry. Conversation, may no fourth person know."

At this point, Jia Min breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I know it myself."

After returning home, Jia Min told Lin Ruhai what the queen said that night.Lin Ruhai, who was in court, saw more deeply and thoroughly than Jia Min.The Wu family is already at its peak, and it is not good to have such an in-laws; the second princess is obviously the emperor's adopted daughter, but in fact, because she is raised by the noble concubine's side, she has constant ties to Zhongshun's palace.It's not just a matter of a day or two that the emperor doesn't like King Zhongshun, it's just because the Supreme Emperor is here so he keeps suppressing it, so it's not a good thing to marry the second princess.On the contrary, the Li family has always been low-key and cautious, so it might not be a good candidate.

Lin Ruhai originally planned to ask Lin Jinshu to be engaged after he left to take the imperial examination, but now there are two forces in the palace staring at him, and he was worried that if the imperial concubine lobbied the emperor to give him a marriage, it would be irreversible, so he decided to After communicating with Li's family, knowing that Li's family also intends to get married, I prepared Geng Tie and invited a matchmaker to visit.After they felt that there was no problem with their birthday horoscope, the two families passed the letter of engagement and formally engaged.

The author has something to say: just to clarify, this girl from the Li family is not Li Hui...