Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Calculated Marriage

The wedding is really in full swing. The relevant matters are taken care of by the Jin Zhao family, although Jin Xin is a concubine, but, after all, there is an old lady to protect her, not to mention that she has no parents to help, she is married to a big family like the Cui family, she is reasonable, to Jin Xin to the Cui family, no matter what, so as not to tell the truth, she has to do things well. Therefore, although this marriage is not as big as the scenery of the concubine, it is also quite grand. Although Jin Xin was reluctant in his heart, he had nothing to do, so he had to deal with this marriage head-on, praying wholeheartedly, hoping that after marriage, he could not interfere with Cui Qi's well water and live his own way. "Fifth Miss, these bead hairpin jewelry are specially made by the eldest lady to order Xiang Fuxing, how about it, isn't it beautiful?" Wang Quan'an's maids put the jewelry they were holding on the table in front of Jin Xin one by one, and said with a smile. Jin Xin raised his eyelids, glanced lazily, and smiled: "Well, it's pretty beautiful." Wang Quan'an looked at her face and asked, "Miss Five's face doesn't look very good, what's the matter, is it because she is not feeling well?" Jin Xin was in a bad mood, but he couldn't tell the truth, so he had to say perfunctorily: "Yes, I didn't sleep well last night, and my spirit was a little lazy." "Oh, it's not going to be a bride, nervous, right?" Wang Quan'an's family laughed all of a sudden, and said with a gesture of coming over: "Fifth Miss, this is also a common thing, when my daughter's family is going to get married, there will always be a few days like this, excited, nervous, and inevitable." When you worship the church and enter the cave room, you will be all right. Jin Xin listened, did not speak, there seemed to be a smile on his face, but he snorted coldly in his heart. Oh, where is the excitement and nervousness, the anger and boredom! What is this breaking the times, forcing people to marry, it is simply spiritual oppression and personal control! However, she is now in such an era, she can do things that are out of line, but there must be a limit to how out of line, otherwise, how can she survive? People who can't even stand on their feet, let alone others? Jin Xin felt that he was guilty of his fate at first, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was not necessarily fate, many things had to be long-term, and some things could not be as good as he wanted for a while, so he had to calm down and stand firm first, so he could go down the next road. As for marrying? Forget it, at least the person looks good, isn't it crooked melon and cracked dates? In this era of involuntary marriage, if you can marry someone who looks good and has a good family background, it is time to have fun. She comforted herself like this, and finally the resentment in her heart dissipated. Wang Quan'an's family was still talking there, holding a pair of pearl earrings in his hand, and handed them to Jin Xin, "Tsk, I have to say, Miss Five's skin is really too good to say, this white and tender, even this pearl can't take away your brilliance." "People say it with sincerity, not like a compliment, but as if they mean it sincerely. Jin Xin smiled and said: "These bead hairpin jewelry are very beautiful, I like them very much, and I don't have anything special to love, it's hard to choose for a while, otherwise, just put them all here, I think about it carefully, and then send the rest to people." "Oh, what did Miss Fifth say? These are not for you, they are all for you. "All for me? That's a lot, right? Jin Xin was stunned and said, "Isn't it better to pick a few things to wear on the wedding day?" "That's right. However, the rest is also to be given to Miss Five, which is counted in the dowry. "Dowry? I already have a dowry. "Hehe, I know that the second master has already confessed before his death, and left a large amount of dowry for the fifth lady, but the eldest lady said that the second master gave it to the second master, and our Jin family also wants to give it, these are only a small part, and the rest will be sorted out when the time comes, and then it will be carried to the fifth lady's house." "This ......" Jin Xin was stunned, it stands to reason that the Jin family is going to prepare a dowry for her, because she is a concubine, the number is naturally not much, but it should be a scene, but Jin Kezhen has already left her a dowry, in addition to the wooden box that the old lady gave her that day, there are many other physical objects, the number is full, she thinks that it is enough to have these numbers, the Jin family is afraid that it will not prepare for her extra, how can I think that the Jin family will prepare another for her? Moreover, looking at the way Wang Quan'an's family spoke, it seems that there are quite a few of them. What's going on? Why is the eldest lady suddenly so kind? Jin Xin felt strange, and always felt that Jin Zhao was unlikely to be such a generous person? Even if you get in the way of explaining in front of the old lady and the Cui family, you won't be able to do such a thing, right? She just wanted to say something, but Wang Quan'an smiled, took a step back, and said goodbye. Jin Xin didn't stay long, and let the chess be sent. Wang Quan'an's family went out with a room of maids, and the originally slightly crowded room became much more empty and quiet at the same time. Ziqin picked up a hairpin and looked at it, and said, "Miss, these things are exquisitely made, and each one seems to be of great value." The eldest lady is so generous? Come to think of it, it should be the old lady's orders from behind. Jin Xin glanced at the hairpin in Ziqin's hand and smiled: "What you think is too simple." Ziqin looked at her in confusion: "Too simple? Miss, what do you mean by that? "I don't know why, but I always feel uneasy in my heart, as if there is something I don't know." "What can it be? Miss, have you been in a bad mood lately and are thinking too much? "Ziqin, have you ever heard of a woman's sixth sense?" "Sixth sense? I've only heard the five senses, what is the sixth sense? "Instinct." Jin Xin smiled, and then, his eyes sank, as if he was staring at a certain place, and muttered: "My intuition tells me that this wedding is not so simple." Ziqin looked at Jin Xin strangely, puzzled. * Soon, it was the day of the wedding. Because Cui Qi is now in Linzhou, he personally came to pick up his relatives and directly took the bride back to Yizhou to get married. Jin Xin got up early in the morning to dress up, a big red wedding dress on his body, exquisite makeup, looked beautiful and extraordinary, first went to say goodbye to the old lady and everyone, then covered with the delicate red hijab of embroidery, with the support of the bride, on the small sedan chair prepared in the courtyard. The sedan chair man dressed in festive clothes carried the small sedan chair, and carried the small sedan chair directly to the door of the house all the way and put down the sedan chair. As early as before the marriage, Jin Xin had been informed about the process of welcoming the bride, she felt that the sedan chair fell to the ground, and she knew that it was at the gate of the house, in order, the next should be the groom official to come and carry the bride out of the sedan chair and into the big sedan chair outside. Jin Xin sat in the small sedan chair and waited, and after a while, he felt that the sedan curtain was opened, and he only heard the smiling voice of the bride: "The groom picks up the bride!" Jin Xin raised his head slightly, and through the gap in the swaying tassels under the red hijab, he saw a man squatting at the door of the sedan chair, with a thin back, looking like he had no strength, Jin Xin was a little strange, and always felt that the person with this back looked a little different from the impression that Cui Qi saw at the Oiran Contest that day. She even worried that leaning on his back would crush him. Seeing that she didn't move for a long time, Xi Niang was stunned and kindly reminded: "Oh, the bride is too shy to get off the sedan chair!" Rest assured, the groom is gentle, not a tiger, and will not eat people! One sentence caused a burst of laughter from the people gathered around the door to watch the excitement. Jin Xin could hear that this was a reminder, so he had no choice but to bend over and get up reluctantly, grabbed the groom's neck with both hands, and leaned forward. The bridegroom felt her leaning over, and with a push of his hands back, he lifted the whole person on his back. Jin Xin's heart hung in the air, for fear that he would not move her with his strength, but he would make a joke. However, it turned out that she was too careful, the groom looked thin, and he had strength, but he looked very reluctant, and walked briskly with her on his back, as if he couldn't hold it, and quickly walked to the door of the big sedan chair, turned around, and put Jin Xin in the sedan chair backwards. Jin Xin was almost thrown to the seat, his spine was knocked out, his brows were furrowed, and he couldn't help screaming. "Sorry, it didn't hurt, did you?" A warm voice sounded, with a little apology and restraint. Jin Xin was stunned, she didn't expect him to be polite, everyone apologized sincerely, and she didn't lose her temper, so she had to say, "Oh, it's okay." "The bridegroom, it's time to come out." Outside, there was the sound of the bride's banter again. Jin Xin seemed to hear the groom whisper something, and the person went out again. Jin Xin adjusted her posture and recalled what the groom said just now, but unfortunately, the other party's voice was too vague, and she didn't pay attention, and she couldn't remember what he said at all. Soon, with the sound of gongs and drums beating again, the sedan chair rose steadily. Jin Xin sat inside, feeling the sedan chair swaying slowly, thinking that she had fallen to such a point today, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable in her heart, in modern times, how could she have thought that she would inexplicably travel to such an era, and where could she have thought that she would be arranged to get married, and she couldn't resist? I really don't know what evil I created in my previous life? Suffer this sin! * Yizhou and Linzhou are not far away, and they are by water, and they will arrive at the place in less than six days. I got off the boat, and I was still blowing and blowing along the way. Because the day of marriage is the next day, according to custom, the bride's party will stay at the inn for the time being. The people of the Cui family have already been tied, so when the people arrived, they were sent directly to the inn, and the guest rooms were all set, and Jin Xin checked in directly. The wedding dress is heavy, and the phoenix crown is on top, it is really tiring, Jin Xin wore it all day, only felt that his whole body was sore, and his body was not his own, so as soon as he arrived at the place, he immediately let Ziqin and Ziqi help take them off, removed the makeup, his hair was loosely draped, and he was only wearing a middle coat, although his clean face was not as gorgeous as that of the powder, but it was elegant and fresh, and it was very pleasing to the eye. She sat with her head tilted against the bed rail, looking at the candle flame on the round table in front of her with empty eyes, but with a mysterious smile on the corner of her mouth, the whole person looked a little lazy and a little charming. Ziqin tidied up the wedding dress, hung it on the screen on the side, walked over, saw her appearance, and called her: "Miss, what's wrong with you?" Jin Xin raised his eyelids and glanced at Ziqin, sighed, and said: "Melancholy, thinking that I will become someone's wife from tomorrow, my mood is extremely heavy." Obviously very melancholy, but inexplicably dyed with joy by her tone, Ziqin listened to it, and couldn't help laughing: "Miss, I've been worried for so long, and now that everyone is here, it's about to be completed, why are you so depressed?" I understand your thoughts, Miss, you don't want to marry, but, think about it carefully, in the end, it is a woman, and she is going to marry someone after all. Even if you dodge it, one day, you have to face it. Even so, what is the difference between early and late? Moreover, I think that Cui Gongzi is actually good......" "Speaking of that Cui Qi, I think he feels different from what I saw that day. Jin Xin interrupted Ziqin's words, raised his eyes to look at her, and said, "Ziqin, on the day he came to greet him, I couldn't see it with a red hijab, you should have seen it, right?" Do you feel any different about him? "Miss, haven't you asked this many times? It's no different. "But I always felt something different. For so many days, you didn't notice anything was wrong? "Miss, although I don't wear a red hijab like you, but I am your dowry maid, a lady, although Cui Gongzi is here to greet his wife, but after all, he has not officially married Miss You, I still have to avoid it, we have been on a boat, each with its own house, it is not easy to see him." "Didn't you see it today?" Seeing that she was asking so persistently, Ziqin sighed helplessly, so she had to try to think about it, and muttered: "It's really no different, if you really want to say anything different...... Ah, by the way, skinny! "Thin?" "Yes, thin. However, his appearance hasn't changed much, and if you don't pay attention, you really can't notice that he has lost weight. Jin Xin bowed his head and said nothing, he was out of the sedan chair by her that day, and she also felt that this person was very thin. She wrapped her arms around his neck, and her arms could feel the bones in his shoulders. Isn't it noticeably thin? Perhaps, but in reality, he is too thin! Is this because you are not in good health to be so thin? Could it be that Jin Zhao and Cui Ying found her a sick seedling? Jin Xin couldn't help but think about it, and when he thought about it, his heart skipped a beat, this is terrible, if he finds a sick husband, there will be a lot of problems next! She didn't have the confidence to take care of patients. Thinking of this, her brow furrowed. Seeing her face change suddenly, Ziqin asked, "Miss, what's wrong, is there anything wrong?" "That's a big problem." Jin Xin responded angrily, but he didn't bother to say, and when Ziqin wanted to ask why, he pulled the quilt and lay down: "Okay, it's not early, I have to get up early tomorrow, go to sleep." Ziqin looked at her inexplicably, didn't ask, shook her head, walked over, blew out the candle, groped and lay down on the small bed on the side, and also fell asleep. This night, Jin Xin couldn't sleep over and over, thinking about this marriage all over the place, and the hidden sense of uneasiness in his heart became stronger and stronger, and he always felt that there was something wrong with this marriage! *The next day, the wedding will be held as normal. The Cui family can be said to be a gathering of guests, and there are festive celebrations everywhere, firecrackers are crackling, gongs and drums are noisy, and like all the weddings, they are lively and joyful, but after all, they are big families, and they are naturally grander than ordinary people's. Jin Xin was carried to the front of the hall by the groom's official with apprehension, and a brazier was placed in front of the door, which was burning with a beep. The groom carried Jin Xin on his back, seemed to take a deep breath, and suddenly stepped over the brazier. When they arrived at the front of the hall, someone went over and stuffed one end of the red silk into Jin Xin's hand, and the other end was naturally in the hands of the groom. Jin Xin took it, but her heart was up and down, she knew that in ancient times, once she worshiped heaven and earth, it was equivalent to officially becoming a husband and wife, and in the future, if she wanted to regret it, it would be absolutely useless. Before she could think clearly, over there, people had already begun to read: "The bride and groom, worship heaven and earth!" Jin Xin felt that the end of the red silk moved, and he knew that it was the groom who was moving. She bowed her head, gritted her teeth, and turned around, facing the direction of the door. "Second worship high hall!" Jin Xin turned around, hesitated, and bowed again. "Husband and wife worship each other!" This is the last bow, goodbye, there is no turning back! Jin Xin was at war in his heart, he didn't worship, he didn't worship, he couldn't hold back. "Eh, why doesn't this bride worship?" "yes, don't you want to get married?" "No, everyone is here, how can they regret it? I heard that it was the young lady of the Linzhou Jin family, how could she do such a thing? Around, there was a lot of talking. Jin Xin was a little embarrassed and felt pressured. And just when her heart was in turmoil, she heard someone say: "Eh, strange, even if the bride doesn't worship, why doesn't the groom worship either?" "That's right, this eldest prince has always wanted to marry a bride, but why is it that when someone comes to him, he is just one step away, but he is not in a hurry?" "It's just ...... "eldest prince?" Jin Xin was stunned, if she remembered correctly, Cui Qi should be the second in the family, right? How do you say it's the eldest prince? Just when Jin Xin was strange, one of the people who heard it said anxiously: "Eh, look at it, is this eldest son sick again and unwell?" Oops, hey, the person fell ......" With that shout, Jin Xin only felt that the red silk ribbon in his hand shook, and he heard a bang on the opposite side, like the sound of a hard object falling to the ground. "Lin'er!" Mrs. Cui, who was originally sitting in the high hall, suddenly shouted, rushed to the side of the groom who fell to the ground, helped people up, and kept shouting: "Lin'er, Lin'er, what's wrong with you?" Lin'er! The scene suddenly became chaotic, and the chatter came and went, and it was noisy. While listening to people's discussions, Jin Xin listened to someone telling people to find a doctor, and heard the "Lin'er" and "Lin'er" in his ears one after another. Jin Xin's originally nervous heart was like a gong, and he was slammed by something, and he woke up. Ziqin approached her side and said anxiously, "Miss, the situation is not quite right!" Mrs. Cui doesn't know why, how can she call the second son the eldest son! Jin Xin's heart sank, and he felt that what he had been uneasy about in his heart had been confirmed, and he had a clear answer and explanation, where could he still hold it, and he didn't care about any rules, so he ripped off the red hijab on his head. A stunning face was revealed in front of everyone, and it attracted a lot of attention at once, and the originally chaotic scene was inexplicably quieter. Jin Xin didn't bother to pay attention to it, just looked at the people on the ground without blinking with clear eyes. A dignified woman was holding a man in a bright red wedding dress, calling earnestly, and there seemed to be tears in the corners of her eyes. And the man who was being held, with his eyes closed, without a trace of expression on his face, fainted, but his lips were trembling, as if he was enduring some kind of torture, muttering. looks still like Cui Qi, but thin, it should be a well-concealed figure, at this time, because he was held by a woman, the clothes were pinched out of the outline, and his thinness was suddenly revealed. This person should have been called Cui Qi, however, Mrs. Cui called him "Lin'er", Lin'er, that should be called the eldest son Cui Lin, right? Jin Xin looked at the scene in front of him, knowing that he shouldn't ask, but he still couldn't help asking: "This is Cui Lin, the eldest son of the Cui family?" Mrs. Cui blindly hugged Cui Lin, calling eagerly, choked up, and ignored Jin Xin. But Master Cui, who was a penny, also looked sad and anxious, but he still tried to calm down, heard Jin Xin's question, looked at her, and said, "No matter who he is, he is your future husband." Jin Xin listened to those words, looked at Master Cui's undoubtedly condescending expression, and was stunned, and then, after a while, she suddenly pulled the corners of her mouth, and couldn't help it, as if she was smiling, she laughed a little, as if she had heard a joke, and looked at Master Cui: "What, is the person I want to marry is not Cui Qi, the second son of the Cui family, but the eldest son in front of me, Cui Lin, whom I have never met?" "Haven't you seen it now?" Master Cui replied confidently. Jin Xin was stunned, and there was some kind of emotion lingering in his chest, as if it was blocked there, scattered, and condensed, and he couldn't vent it, but he couldn't hold it back. She didn't know what kind of expression to use to face this reasonable man in front of her, she felt funny, but she couldn't laugh. Jin Xin pinched the red hijab in his hand and looked at them: "You, you, have it all right from the beginning?" She had already asked Jinniang to check the Cui family, and knew that the Cui family had two sons, the eldest son Cui Lin, and the second son Cui Qi, Cui Lin had not been in good health since he was a child, and he had always lived in a simple place, never showed his face, and did not like to deal with people, even the people in Cui's house, few people had seen him, and Cui Qi was different, he was a very bold son, proficient in poetry, writing, and ink, known as a talented man, and his personality was not as obedient as his eldest brother, and he had many friends. She knew that Cui Qi had an older brother, but she didn't know that Cui Qi and his brother Cui Lin were twins! That's really...... They are really far-sighted, and what is even more terrifying is that her aunt and sister-in-law who have worked hard to help her prepare for the marriage are really well-intentioned! Because I had a temporary appointment in the evening, I went out and came back late, so I didn't have time to change. There are more than 6,000 here, everyone will look at it first, and the remaining 4,000 will be made up tomorrow.