Lord, don't be afraid, the princess is not angry

Chapter 132
Xu Qingqing's marriage was presided over by the Ministry of Rituals, and the palace also sent a nanny to the Hou's mansion to help. After all the busy work, Mrs. Huguo Hou didn't touch much, and she didn't get any benefits from it.Madam Huguohou had a lot of complaints about Xu Qingqing, but she didn't dare to say it in front of the nuns in the palace.Xu Qingqing knew that she was such a person a long time ago, and even got into trouble with her when she was about to get married.Seeing that she was so stable, the mothers in the palace looked at her with admiration, thinking that the newly named princess had not been taught by the Marquis of the Huguo.

When it came time for her to get married, Zhuhua went to add makeup to her and gave her a golden hairstyle.The lady next to her saw that although she felt that the price of this heavy gift was not low, she also thought that the things from the Cheng family were too vulgar.Zhuhua also followed them, which made Xu Qingqing feel embarrassed in private.In fact, before officially adding makeup, Zhuhua had already secretly sent her a box of books related to the customs and people's livelihood of the Northland, and also collected a carload of drought-resistant crop seeds and sent them to her.

Xu Qingqing was very grateful. Even if she thought of these things, she didn't have a private house and no one in her hands, and she didn't even have a clue if she wanted to buy it.She also thought about secretly pawning some pearl hairpins for some silver, but now that so many people are staring at her outside, how could she bump into it at this time.After all, it was Zhuhua who knew her heart best, and prepared all these things quietly.She has always known that her friend in the boudoir who has not been together for a long time is smart, and people who are born outsiders don't know it, and many gossips are spread to damage her reputation.

Looking for an opportunity, she also persuaded Zhuhua to restrain herself a little outside.

"Sister, don't worry about me. I'm restrained enough. I can't control what other people want to say. I think the rumors have faded a lot now. When new interesting things happen in Beijing, no one will remember me .”

"You're too relaxed. Even if the rumors are over, those who are interested will still remember. What if those good people miss you, a good daughter-in-law?"

"Our daughters all pay attention to low marriages. If they all marry low, and the other party is still so confused, it's better not to talk about this marriage as soon as possible." Seeing that Xu Qingqing wanted to persuade her, Zhuhua quickly stopped her and said: "Sister, you should think about your own affairs more. After you get married, you have to take care of the house. You can't let other women conceive your boy before he grows up."

"As long as you know." Xu Qingqing gave her a reproachful look, and said, "You have to settle it as soon as possible, or my daughter-in-law will have to order someone else's."

Zhuhua smiled lightly, waved her hand and said: "Don't be afraid, my daughter is definitely popular. She must be smart, and she must be beautiful. Her mother is just so good-looking."

Xu Qingqing chuckled and said: "If you really want to be as beautiful as a flower, I'm afraid you have to find a gentleman with a jade face."

"It seems that Erlang in Beijing didn't pick out any good-looking ones, but Fang Jiulang can barely get by." Zhuhua shook her head disappointedly.

"You haven't seen His Highness Prince Ping yet, have you?"

"I've never seen it before. Jun?" Zhuhua asked curiously.

Xu Qingqing nodded slightly shyly, Zhuhua's eyes lit up, and said: "I must find a chance to meet King Ping by chance."

Hearing this, Xu Qingqing also smiled, but didn't take it seriously.

After Xu Qingqing got married, Zhuhua stayed at home for several days before regaining her spirits, and planned to follow Mrs. Sun to attend the banquets of various families again.She also has to work harder to marry herself out, right?Naturally, she still remembered the matter of King Ping, and asked Qiu Chu to inquire about it. Hearing that other people also said that King Ping was more handsome than Pan An, she really thought about meeting him.

But before she acted, King Ping was given a marriage again, this time to the second daughter of the former Jingzhou governor, Mr. Wen, who had just returned to Beijing to report on his duties.The eldest daughter of the Wen family is Miss Wen whom Zhuhua and the others met outside the teahouse. She is married to a son of a well-known family in Beijing. Zhuhua also met her at a banquet.Miss Wen was still dressed elegantly, whispering something to the congenial wives. As for Miss Wen, who had been working with her parents all along, Zhuhua had never seen her before.

She was also quite curious about how this Erniang Wen, who was not afraid of being restrained, went to several banquets but did not meet her by herself. Later, she heard that she was ill and could not go out to meet guests.I don't know whether her illness was not acclimatized after returning to Beijing or was really overcome by King Ping. After more than half a year like this, at the end of the year, Erniang Wen died of illness.

Zhuhua heard that Wen Erniang had contracted an illness on the way to Beijing, and she had always been weak, so the illness fluctuated from good to bad.However, Wen Erniang also likes to learn people to be arty, and likes to listen to the rain and watch the wind and bury flowers from time to time, so that minor illnesses are dragged into serious illnesses.The night before she died of illness, she had to watch the epiphyllum bloom in the garden, saying that she could not disappoint the flowering period, but she couldn't hold on after staying overnight, and passed away after a few days of high fever.

Naturally, the common people would not blame her for her death, and the rumors about King Ping's restraining his wife became rampant again.It's nothing more than defeating Wen Erniang, he even defeated the future Yue's family.A few days after Wen Erniang's death, Mr. Wen's embezzlement of money and silver in office was revealed.Because of this, the Wen family was dismissed from office and sent back to their original place of origin, and they were not allowed to enter Beijing without summons. Although Miss Wen was not implicated, she kept a low profile for a while because of this.

Regardless of whether the Wen family deserved what they deserved or not, the people in Beijing always believed that it had something to do with King Ping's fate.King Ping was very helpless when he heard the rumors in Beijing. Erniang Wen was born weak and refused to take good care of her. What did her death have to do with him?It's just that such a thing, I'm afraid it won't happen in the future.

Taking advantage of the evaluation of the officials at the end of the year, King Ping was transferred again, this time to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The people did not know what he was doing, but the princes did.

"How can the father transfer you to take care of the rare birds and animals in the imperial garden?" Ji Wang said very unfairly, "What happened to the Wen family has nothing to do with you, the father will never listen to people like outsiders." Are you destined to be evil? If you really have evil, I will be the one who will be restrained. We have been together for so many years, haven’t I been well, and I have a wife and daughter. You often hug my daughter, and I don’t see what she has. Not good!"

"This is the third..."

"The first few are all..." Because he was involved in this matter, Ji Wang was embarrassed to continue, and instead said: "You are talented, and you have done well in the household department. Rumors will bury you."

"I don't have any talents. It's just that the adults put the credit on me for the sake of face." Ping Wang said helplessly.

He was really helpless, he tried his best to be inconspicuous, but because of his status as the prince, he was granted some credit, which made his father's eyes fall.He is a prince who is destined to have no relationship with the throne, and he cannot marry the daughter of an important minister. If his father is still scrupulous, his marriage may be difficult.

"You have always been smart, and you learned faster than me when you were studying."

"That's all dead knowledge. If I really do something, I can't do it."

"You are still modest! You can't do this, and I can't do it."

King Ji has always stayed in the Ministry of Officials, never solved a single suspicious case, and often mistook the criminals.Concubine Ji had already asked him when he would change his position. In fact, his father had also asked him, but he wanted to solve a famous case in the official department. If he didn't solve it, he didn't want to leave.

"It's just that the opportunity hasn't come yet. These are all falsehoods. It's real to hear that Sixth Sister-in-law is pregnant again."

King Ji smirked and said: "My big goose is really obedient, sweet, sweet and caring. Every time I go back, he hugs me. The concubine mother is looking forward to the concubine giving birth to a son, but I think it's better to be a daughter." , how good my daughter is, if I give birth to a son like me, I'm afraid I can't help but break his leg."

King Ping glanced at him, as if he was saying that this man finally knew how much money he had.

King Ji's eldest daughter has the word "E" in her name, which is his choice, and the other word is "Ying", which Princess Ji thought of. Her full name is Ying'e.Concubine Ji was very dissatisfied with the series of goose-related nicknames that Prince Ji came up with after using the word "E", so she told him that only nicknames were allowed, and Princess Ji would still choose the big names.In fact, if he hadn't been a rascal for several days begging Princess Ji to choose her own nickname, the nickname Big Goose would not have been used.

When King Ping first heard Prince Ji smugly mentioning this nickname, he thought it was not easy for Princess Ji, nor for his niece.

"Except for the four emperor brothers, you don't have a son now."

"It doesn't matter if I have a son or not. The prince's elder brother has a son, and he has three sons. The fourth emperor's brother not only has no son, he doesn't even have a daughter. I don't know when you get married. Can he have a child? By the way, your marriage... Do you have a fancy girl, no matter who she is, who will accept it first and give you a child?"

"No need, if a woman with the temperament of the sixth sister-in-law wants to marry me in the future, wouldn't the side concubine of my house have to be dismissed?"

"That's right." King Ji nodded.

Not many people in Beijing paid attention to King Ping's transfer, and Zhuhua didn't take it seriously, since King Ping had been transferred several times anyway.It's the end of another year, and 15-year-old Zhuhua still hasn't been able to find a good family, leaving her speechless.She thinks she's pretty good and doesn't have too many demands, so why can't she speak out?

Mrs. Sun was also a little anxious, Yinhua was late enough to get engaged, why is Zhuhua so late, is her daughter so difficult to marry?Seeing that Mrs. Sun has gotten angry recently, Zhuhua quickly thought of several reasons to comfort her.

"Mother, look, my sister was engaged when she was sixteen, and she was engaged to someone she knew before. It can be seen that marriage is hard to say. Maybe next year there will be a childhood sweetheart here? Even if not, I will be engaged when I am sixteen." It's not too late. Besides, I heard that the eldest princess in the palace is the same age as me, and she is not engaged. There are many young ladies in Beijing, too. There are many."

Thinking about it carefully, Mrs. Sun found that it was true.Because many families who got engaged early have divorced later, now men and women in Beijing are getting engaged late, and there are also those who get engaged early and get married early, but it is rare among high-ranking families, unless there is an accident with one of the parties. Can't wait.Thinking of this, Sun felt relieved again, but she couldn't see Zhuhua's relaxed face, so she reached out and nodded her head.

"You should serve some snacks too, you are all big girls."

"Why didn't I pay attention? I almost stopped a young man on the street and begged him to marry me. Second sister wasn't as active as I was back then."

"You have seen more people than her, but why don't you look down on them?"

"Mother, those people actually didn't even look at you, but they still blamed me?"

Mrs. Sun curled her lips, thinking of being retorted by her daughter, she stretched out her hand to pat her, and said, "Be sensible, you see, Fan Erlang is engaged."

Although the marriage between Zhuhua and Fan Erlang failed, Mrs. Sun and Mrs. Fan still became good friends.The two, together with Mrs. Yan and Mrs. Ma Qi, who had gone to incense with Mrs. Sun before returning to Beijing, became good friends who talked about everything, and they would get together almost every few days. The key point is Zhuhua's marriage.Ma Qi also said that if she had known that Zhuhua hadn't engaged anyone, she would not have engaged her son in a hurry.Zhuhua thinks about the rambunctious Ma Shitou when she was a child, and sighs secretly, luckily he got engaged early.

By the way, the woman Fan Erlang was engaged to was named Fang, she was the daughter of a side branch of the Fang family, she was gentle and beautiful, and Fang Qiniang also said she was good.Because of Fang Jiulang's matter, Zhuhua and Fang Qiniang had no contact for a while, but she and Chen Wuniang had no quarrel, and the cooperation with Chen's mother's dim sum shop was still going on.Later, Zhuhua met Fang Qiniang at the banquet and said a few words, and the two reconciled, but Fang Qiniang would never ask Zhuhua to go to Fang's mansion again.

Zhuhua was still in the wait-and-see stage for this overly lively friendship, and Fang Qiniang faded away, so she wasn't sad at all.Now she also met a few new ladies, and often walked around with Mrs. Wu Ying's mansion.

Wu Guogong once pointed to several generals at the reception and jokingly said that Zhuhua would be rationed. Several Zhuhua had met several times at Wu Guogong's banquet, and they were obviously more interested in the beautiful maidservants in the mansion.

Zhuhua smiled immediately and said: "If I was born as good as Sister Yinxi and can discipline others like Sister Tuwu, I will accept this marriage."

"It's enough to have your mouth, and nothing else matters. Besides, you are not bad, and you have grown taller than last year."

"Yes, if you dress decently, you can look like a teenage girl."

Wu Guogong laughed, knowing that she didn't care about her proposal, so she revealed the matter.She doesn't worry about Zhuhua's marriage, as she has been unmarried like her and she has a good life, and Zhuhua's current wealth is enough to live alone until old age.Just looking at her, she would always think of the time when she got engaged. She thought that she would be like an ordinary woman and live a normal life with her husband and children. Women can do it.

No matter how tough it is, it's always good to have a home.

(End of this chapter)