The famous book tour starting from the Red House

Chapter 251 Secretly Screaming
However, after Mu Xu and the others came to the hot spring villa in the suburbs, they got carried away for a while, so they inevitably stayed for a few more days. During this period, even Xue Biao's marriage, Mu Xu didn't think of it until the next day. Fortunately, Baochai himself forgot Of course, it is not good to blame Mu Xu for breaking his promise.But then they still sent a letter to the mansion, asking the housekeeper to go to Xue's house, explain it for him, and gave a generous gift without mentioning it.

It took more than half a month to visit the mountains and rivers, go out and enjoy the flowers, until a servant came to report to Mu Xu on this day, saying that there was a servant from the Lin family asking to see him.Mu Xu knew that if his father-in-law sent someone to chase him from the capital to the outskirts of the city, it must be something important, so he didn't dare to neglect, so he ordered someone to invite him in immediately.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the person came in, under Mu Xu's questioning, the servant said that he was ordered by his master to deliver the letter, and he didn't know anything else.Seeing this situation, Mu Xu rewarded him with a few taels of silver, and after dismissing him, he read the letter carefully.After reading the contents of the letter, he knew what kind of medicine his father-in-law sold in the gourd.

It turned out that at the end of last year, a plague broke out in the ancestral home of the Lin family in Gusu, causing heavy losses to the Lin family.In desperation, the head of the Lin family had no choice but to seek help from Lin Ruhai, who was an official in Beijing.While Lin Ruhai was entertaining the people from the Jing clan, he inadvertently heard a piece of news from his mouth, saying that his family members who had not yet passed the fifth service had gone, and only a five-year-old boy was left behind, who is now being taken care of by the clan. .

Knowing this, Lin Ruhai suddenly thought about it, and wanted to adopt the child so as to inherit the family business, but he was afraid that Daiyu would be careless, so he could not make up his mind for a while, so he wrote to his son-in-law, asking him to try it out daughter.

After Mu Xu read the letter, he felt a little funny. His father-in-law had felt guilty for sending Daiyu to Rongguo Mansion for a long time, so he was very concerned about Daiyu's feelings.Encountering such a big event of adoption, she actually looked forward and backward. In fact, with Daiyu's temperament, she would only be happy for the successor of the Lin family, so how could she object to it?
Mu Xu didn't want to hide it from Daiyu, so he took the letter directly to the garden pond, found Daiyu who was composing poems with Baochai and Yinglian, dragged her to the corridor not far away, and handed the letter to Daiyu. she looks.

Sure enough, as Mu Xu expected, after reading the letter, Daiyu greatly agreed with the matter, and said in displeasure, "Why is father like this? This is a major matter related to the family inheritance. I am too happy to be happy. How could he object, he can't even trust his own daughter, and still wants you to test me."

"You have wronged your father-in-law. He did this because he cared too much about your opinion, and he was afraid that you would think that he didn't value you, so he was worried about gains and losses." Mu Xu said something fair for his father-in-law.

Of course Daiyu knew these reasons, she just complained casually, instead of continuing to dwell on this matter, she suggested instead, "We have been here for so long, we should go back soon, I am really worried about Brother Mao. "

"Okay, I'll take you out of the city to escape the heat in summer, and I'll bring Brother Mao with me." This time Mu Xu answered straightforwardly. Daiyu and the others wrote poems to each other all day long, and he didn't like them. Those are really boring.

After making up his mind, Mu Xu immediately ordered his servants to pack it up, and they set off for Beijing the next morning, returning to the mansion before noon.

The third day after they returned home was Jia Tanchun's makeup day, so Daiyu sent Zijuan to go there instead.Zijuan, as an old man in the Rongguo Mansion, came to Jia's back house unimpeded all the way. She first visited Jia's mother and explained to her, "Forgive me, old lady. Recently, our concubine is not feeling well, and the concubine wants to stay to serve you. I'm sick, so I can't come here in person, and she ordered me to apologize to you."

Mother Jia felt a little regretful, but she verbally expressed her understanding, "Being kind and filial piety comes first. She did the right thing. There is no need to accuse me." After that, she asked Concubine Zhang's health with concern. one answer.

When the two of them were talking, the other people in Rongqing Hall had different ideas.For example, Wang Xifeng, she didn't believe Zijuan's words a hundred times, and the concubine was ill, she must be fooling the old lady.When she and Jia Lian went to attend Xue Biao's wedding earlier, she clearly heard what her aunt said was true. Daiyu and the others went on an outing outside the city with the prince of Dongping. If Concubine Zhang was really sick, how could they do this.As for why Daiyu chose not to come, of course Wang Xifeng could guess a thing or two, she even guessed secretly in her heart, she is probably not the only one who can think of this point, maybe the old lady is also pretending to be confused.

Wang Xifeng's guess was right, there were indeed quite a few people who thought that Daiyu was just an excuse and couldn't come, and others could say that, like the Sanchun sisters, they all thought of it by coincidence.After all, the few of them are like sisters with Daiyu, and because of love and reason, Daiyu will definitely come in person on the big day of Tanchun to put on makeup, and the choice now is definitely to avoid Baoyu.After trying to understand the inside story, the three of them complained about Baoyu in their hearts. Even Tanchun, who was closest to him, felt that this brother was really ignorant.

Xichun even angrily scolded Baoyu for harming others, let alone Daiyu's refusal to come, even Qin Keqing would not easily set foot in Rongguo Mansion now, why?A while ago, Li Wan and Tanchun, the sisters-in-law, invited several people to the house to participate in the poetry club. When Baoyu saw Qin Keqing, he kept circling around her.That's all, but this guy didn't give up afterwards, and went to the East Mansion to find Qin Keqing from the small gate in the middle of the two mansions several times.In order to do this, Qin Keqing had no choice but to order someone to block the small gate, which made Xichun now have to make a big detour every time he came to Xifu.

In addition to the above-mentioned people, there was another person in the room who felt very regretful that Daiyu did not come. This person was Jia Baoyu's wife Xia Jingui. Why did she have this idea? Simply put, she was just curious. convinced.Because since she married into Jia's family, she would hear the girls in the back house talking about Daiyu from time to time, wondering why Miss Lin is so beautiful...

Xia Jingui felt that she was beautiful and charming, although she was not as good as Qin Keqing next door, but she would never lose to others, just because of some ignorant girl's words made her think she was inferior in appearance, how could this be possible!In addition, this woman was still the one that her weak husband kept nagging about in private.

After talking with Zijuan, Jia Mu asked her to sit next to Xichun. Zijuan didn't refuse, and sat down gracefully.The rest of the people did not express dissatisfaction, they all understood that although Zijuan was just a girl, she represented Daiyu and the face of Dongping Palace, if her status was higher, she should be at the top.

Since today is not only Tanchun's makeup day, but also the day when Feng's mansion gives a betrothal gift, so many people came, almost all relatives and old friends from Rongguo mansion came.As soon as the auspicious time came in the morning, there was the sound of drum music, and immediately the servants of the Feng family were seen wearing auspicious clothes, carrying all the betrothal gifts to the open space in front of Rongxi Hall.

The people present are all wealthy people, so naturally they are not interested in those objects that represent auspiciousness. What they care about is the value of the dowry gifts sent by the Feng family. From this, it can be judged how satisfied the Feng family is with this marriage. .

As the ceremonial officer reported all the betrothal gifts, when everyone calculated that the value had exceeded [-] taels, many families with unmarried daughters couldn't hold back anymore, and began to curse the Jia family for their shit luck. Not to mention being able to marry a concubine daughter Gao, what is rare is that the Feng family actually values ​​this marriage.

On the contrary, the members of the Jia family were all beaming, especially Jia Zheng, who was the woman's father, standing in front of the Hall of Honor and Hearing all kinds of flattery from his colleagues in the Ministry of Industry, he couldn't help smiling, his face was full of joy. Red and majestic.

As for Mother Jia, who was waiting for news in the back house, when she heard that a servant came to offer a dowry price of no less than [-] yuan, she first showed a satisfied look on her face, thinking that the Feng family was doing it to save face.But then she began to complain in her heart, because she suddenly thought of it, if the Feng family sent so many dowries, how much dowry should she marry?If it is an ordinary family, such as those merchants who come to seek a daughter from a noble family, not to mention that these betrothal gifts will not be taken away by the woman, even the dowry only needs to be paid a few times at will, and the meaning is enough.But the Feng family was different, they belonged to the same noble family as the Jia family, in order not to make people laugh, the Jia family not only could not ignore these betrothal gifts, but also had to prepare a generous dowry.

(End of this chapter)