Chapter 240: The Reluctant Bridegroom
On the 12th day of April, the door of the Marquis of Guangping Mansion was opened early, the red carpet was spread, and the red lanterns were hung high. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 On the other side of the info front yard, Mrs. Xue took the Chen family and the Yao family to watch the mother-in-law carry out the prepared box cage with a brand new red silk tie, which was the dowry that the Marquis of Guangping Mansion had sold most of the Zhuangzi's fields to complete, and this child would be carried all the way along the market to the mansion of Princess Shouning.
Yao stared at the cage and beckoned to the mothers-in-law who were carrying the cage: "...... Slow down, slow down, it's full of head and face jewelry, if it's broken, be careful of your life! ”
The mother-in-law responded cautiously and walked out with the cage.
Old Madam Xue glanced at Chen, who was sitting on the side and didn't come forward, and said with a little sarcasm: "Mrs. Shizi is idle these days, but the banquet for today's banquet is ready?" If there is any negligence, it will make the eldest princess and our Hou Mansion lose face. ”
Chen said softly: "I have already instructed the chef to prepare, but I am afraid that the preparation will not be enough, so I specially went to Guanghe Building to order two tables and send them over." ”
Yao watched the cages be carried out one by one, then turned around and returned to his position, raised his eyes to look at Chen, and showed a slight sneer: "Mrs. Shizi has really been different these days, I heard that yesterday I asked people to go to the chef to instruct the chef to buy good tribute swallows and send them to Qionghua Courtyard, which is really exquisite." "She has taken advantage of Mrs. Xue's momentum these days to take care of the errand of the dowry purchase, and she is proud of the spring breeze, and she even knows the things in the chef clearly, and she is more and more resentful of the Chen family, and she has to find an opportunity to stab the Chen family.
Old Madam Xue's face turned even colder: "It's good to pick Gong Yan, where is there so much exquisiteness." She snorted coldly, "You are in charge of the middle feed of the Hou Mansion yourself, is it possible that you don't know what the situation in the mansion is now, where you can eat these valuable things, yesterday I also wanted to tell me to be more frugal these days, and even I don't need any bird's nest there." ”
Chen didn't know what to say for a while, and bit his lip for a while before saying: "This is Lang Zhongkai's prescription, saying that he is pregnant, and he has fetal fever, so it is good to use a good tribute swallow to raise it." ”
Chan is pregnant?! Old Madam Xue and Yao's faces changed, and they couldn't help but look at Chen's lower abdomen, only to see that she was wearing a loose begonia red flower makeup satin gown and horse-faced skirt, and they couldn't see anything, but Chen had already smiled slightly, carefully caressing his lower abdomen: "It's been more than three months, and I'm too busy and confused, so I haven't even noticed it." ”
Old Madam Xue's face changed and changed, and she laughed after a while: "This is a happy event, our house has always had a difficult heir, only Sister Ping has a sister, now you can give birth to a son and a half daughter for the son, and you can also spread the branches and leaves of the Hou Mansion, but it is no better." She glanced at Yao, "It's been three years since you married into the Hou Mansion, why haven't you seen any movement?" ”
Yao's face was pale for a while, and he was both envious and jealous, so he opened his eyes and whispered: "Mrs. Shizi is really a blessing. In the past three years since she married into the Hou Mansion, she also tried her best to give Xue Wenqing a brother, thinking that Xue Wenqing had no hope, she had never entered the office, and the Hou Mansion did not value the second room, so she could only hope that the heir could make a living through the ancestral shade, but there was no movement at all, but the aunt in the courtyard gave birth to two concubines, which made her angry and annoyed, and she gritted her teeth with hatred.
Old Madam Xue changed her face and beckoned to Chen: "Come and sit here." Holding Chen's hand, he asked warmly: "You have a body now, but it's different from usual, you can't be careless, you have to be extra careful when you are the first child, you have to be careful about what you eat and what you use, and I will let Mama Chang go to your yard to take care of it later, after all, she has experienced something, and I am more relieved to have her there." She ordered the girl again: "Go and get a soft pillow for your wife to lean on, this son can't be careless, can't be too bothered." ”
Chen was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "It's okay, I'm in good health, Lang Zhong also said ......"
Old Madam Xue interrupted her words with a smile: "Those Lang have mediocre medical skills, where do you know what matters, can our house be the same as those ordinary people, what you have in your stomach is the brother of the long house in our house, if there is a little difference, what if there is a little difference." She couldn't help but instruct, "Since you have a body, I can't let you be tired, you don't have to ask about these things, just let your second brother and sister look at it, you can give birth to your body." ”
Chen gritted his teeth, and it took a long time to force a smile, thank Old Madam Xue, and sit aside without saying a word.
Guangping Hou Mansion outside the lively very, forty-eight dowry ceremony scenery carried towards the market, there are brightly dressed little guys on the side knocking on the gong to open the road, the red and bright silk flowers on the cage are dazzling, for a time many people on both sides of the road stopped and scrambled to watch, are a look of sigh and surprise, such a pomp is really rare, there are forty-eight dowry alone, and they are all good cages, according to the rules, I am afraid that the marriage will be more.
Xue Wenhao rode on the horse with a cowardly face, his face was a drunken feeling that had not yet woken up, just now he was pulled up from the hugging building by Xue Maoye, the day before and Gao Hongxuan ate a few wine and ate until midnight, and was sent back drunk like mud, this time he had not woken up, and he put on a brand-new red and flowered eight-group satin robe, tied a hairpin and gold crown on his head, and was dressed as a groom official of the horse grade, but he did not have the slightest joy of being a groom official, just a look of despair.
Riding a horse with the little maids carrying the dowry to the eldest princess's mansion, Xue Wenhao was in a trance, he was not the first time to be a groom, the last time was to marry Shen, at that time the Marquis of Guangping had just reinstated the title, he had just served as a bachelor in the Hanlin Academy, the scenery was infinite, and he rode a horse with a dowry in high spirits, and went to Baoding Mansion to welcome Shen back, although Shen was not what he liked, but he was also a young couple, and he was not unhappy at that time.
Thinking about it at this time, Xue Wenhao seemed to see the big red mandarin duck playing in the water under the turban again, Shen's soft and beautiful face, looking at him shyly and timidly with affection, she was actually very good-looking, and she was also gentle and considerate to him, and she was supple in every way, but why did she become like this! The current Shen family has no affection for him, and is even more indifferent, but he is going to marry the eldest princess of Shouning!
Thinking of the eldest princess of Shouning, Xue Wenhao's face was even more bitter, this woman was obviously more than ten years older than him, but she tried her best to force him to marry her, her appearance was ...... It's that kind of temperament again, I'm just afraid that after today, when those two aunts greet her early tomorrow morning, she will be disposed of, and don't think about being able to get close to other women in the future!
"Third master, the eldest princess's mansion has arrived." The little girl's words frightened Xue Wenhao's body trembling, and he almost fell off the horse, looked up at the Shouning Eldest Princess's Mansion not far in front, and closed his eyes helplessly, really unwilling to go any further.
Babao bean paste bun said
Today's single watch, tomorrow's three more to make up.