Chapter 5 Forced Marriage
The Ye family's house. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
To the south of the outer courtyard is a row of north-facing houses, where guests live, study, or miscellaneous rooms. Take a hundred steps forward, enter the main courtyard through the two screen gates, the courtyard is very large, there are gardens, pavilions, and small bridges and flowing water. In the main courtyard, the north room is the main house to the south, the east and west wings, the main room, the wing room and the hanging flower door are connected by a corridor, surrounding a regular courtyard, constituting the core space of the entire ancient house. The back of the main house is the backyard, which is another layer of courtyard, there is a row of relatively low houses sitting north and facing south, called the back cover room, mostly for the attendants to live, or for the storehouse, miscellaneous rooms.
The hall is spacious, facing the courtyard and directly connected to the main courtyard, with no walls and windows separating it. The inscription of the four characters 'Virtue Loading' is hung under the beam in the middle of the hall. Landscape paintings are hung in front of the hall, and paintings and calligraphy are also hung symmetrically and regularly on the side walls on both sides of the hall. The back wall of the hall house is the Taishi wall, and a long strip of several cases is placed in front of the Taishi wall, and several cases are ** ancestral tablets and incense burners, candlesticks. A pair of vases were placed on both sides of the case, a table of eight immortals and two Taishi chairs were placed in front of the case, and a pair of Taishi chairs and a coffee table were also placed along the wall on both sides of the hall.
As soon as Innis and Yueqiu passed through the gate, entered the outer courtyard, crossed the main courtyard, and entered the hall, before their left foot stepped into the threshold, they saw their parents sitting on the Taishi chair in front of the desk and the two men sitting on the Taishi chair on the left side, one was her cousin Chen Moyu, who was not related to her by blood, and the other was a strange man who had never met.
While they were chatting happily, innissia stopped, turned around and left.
The sharp-eyed Chen Moyu saw Yueshi who wanted to leave, with a thick smile on her lips, and slowly stopped Yueshi, "Zhen'er......."
Insea, also known as Ye Taozhen. The adopted daughter of Yip's Ruibao pawnshop Ye Zeming. This identity is unknown to outsiders except for family members. At that time, Ye Zeming wanted to hire outsiders to take care of the pawnshop, but Tao Zhen volunteered to take on the burden of the pawnshop, followed Ye Zeming and Tong Shopkeeper to learn, and read a wide range of books, applied what she had learned, and became a respected Miss Yueshi.
innis rolled her eyes helplessly at the sky!
"Zhen'er, you're back." A kind female voice rang out next to Innis, it was Innis's adoptive mother, Chen.
Innis turned to look at the people in the hall, bowed politely to them, and said respectfully to their parents, "Father, mother, my daughter is back." ”
Chen had a happy smile on his face, "Zhen'er, come and see Jiang Xuan, Jiang Gongzi." ”
Yueshi glanced at Jiang Xuan, who was looking at her at the moment, and Lianbu gently moved in front of Jiang Xuan, and saluted politely, "Jiang Gongzi is good." ”
There was a hint of joy on Jiang Xuan's lips, "Zhen'er is very polite." ”
Ye Zeming, who is over half a hundred years old, has a beard that is not long or short, his chin is not long or short, his smile is cute, and he looks very kind, "Zhen'er, Jiang Xuan is the son of General Jiang and a good friend of Moyu. ”
Yueshi nodded, knowing that the two elders were being matchmakers again, "Daddy, my daughter is too tired to play today, so let's go back to the room to rest first." ”
"Jiang Gongzi, Zhen'er is slacking." Yue Shi said as she owed to Jiang Xuan, and without waiting for the two elders to say anything, she turned around and left.
Yueqiu nodded politely to everyone sitting there, and then followed innis away.
The atmosphere of the hall is somewhat quiet.
Chen Moyu smiled, "Jiang Xuan, don't be surprised, Zhen'er went to play today, she was a little tired, let her rest for a while, and arrange time for you to be alone in the future." ”
Jiang Xuan looked at the direction where Yueshi left, and nodded with a light smile, "That's nature." ”
On the way to the wing, Innis sighed helplessly, "Daddy is forced to marry again." ”
"Miss, Gongzi Jiang is dignified, and he is the son of General Jiang, much better than the weak scholar introduced by the old lady before." Yueqiu comforted.
Yueshi smiled helplessly, "I don't want to marry a man who will join the Ye family!" ”
Back in the boudoir, Innis lay down on the bed to rest, and after a while, fell into a deep sleep.
Yueqiu looked at Innis, who didn't even take off the veil, shook her head helplessly, fetched a basin of water from outside, took off the veil lightly, looked at Innis with ugly makeup, and gently washed off the freckles and black moles on her face with a wet towel.
Halfway through the wash, Chen came, looking at the sleeping innis, "Let me come." ”
"Yes, ma'am." Yueqiu handed the towel to Madame.
Chen looked at Innis distressedly, gently wiped her face, and no, a three-dimensional appearance without powder, beautiful and refined, and delicate facial features stood out, this is their precious daughter (noble young lady) Ye Taozhen.
Looking at the pleasing innis, Chen and Yueqiu were in a good mood.
As early as two years ago, Tao Zhen, who had just turned 18, asked Ye Zeming to hand over the pawnshop to her to take care of. At first, Ye Zeming was unwilling, a daughter's family was not suitable for such tedious things, and he was bent on finding outsiders to take care of it. However, Tao Zhen, who is familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, Sun Tzu's Art of War, Thirty-six Strategies and other books, has a full stomach for economic wealth, but she cannot practice them, and she is quite distressed. begged again and again, and threatened to ask outsiders to manage it. Since the pawnshop was taken over by him, the pawnshop's business has been booming.
In the past two years, Ye Zeming has been trying his best to help Taozhen find a husband who can take care of her and take care of the pawnshop, but the bamboo basket is empty...... It's not that the husband he found is not good enough, but she threatened, "But if anyone is willing to join the Ye family, I despise him from the bottom of my heart, and I won't marry if I die!" ”
This makes the two old men quite distressed! Now that Tao Zhen is 20 years old, this age is a little embarrassing......
Until nightfall, Tao Zhen woke up, looked at the red and warm boudoir in the room, sat up, and looked at Yueqiu, who was sitting on a wooden bench embroidering by candlelight, "It's already night?" ”
After hearing Tao Zhen's voice, Yueqiu put down the things in her hand, got up and walked to her side, "Miss, are you awake?" ”
"Hmm."
"Miss, are you hungry? Seeing that you were sleeping soundly, Madame was afraid that you would wake up hungry, so she specially cooked bird's nest for you, and I will bring it. ”
"Hmm. Go ahead! ”