After the Dragon Boat Festival, on the eighth day of the first lunar month, Prince Chun, the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Rites, came to the Lin family for a big appointment.

There are regulations for the prince to marry, but the situation is special, not only the emperor and queen attach great importance to it, but the emperor also keeps this only grandson and concubine in mind, and with the blessing of the three parties, the dowry sent to the Lin family is extremely grand. The gate of the Lin Mansion was open, the Ministry of Rites sent dowries in, and the front yard and the back porch were all full. The people of the capital surrounded the streets, fortunate enough to witness a grand scene, envy and jealousy.

Lin Ruhai saw that the royal family attached so much importance to it, and his heart for Lin Qingyun's worry was slightly relaxed.

At this time, in the back house, Daiyu was by Lin Qingyun's side, listening to Bailing relay the excitement ahead, and the focus was naturally on the dowry. Bai Ling said with a look of surprise and surprise: "Girl, it's amazing, the royal appointment actually sent all the gold mountains." As soon as I arrived in the front yard, I saw a golden light under the sun, and it took me a long time to see how many pieces of gold it was, and I heard my sister-in-law say that the bride price alone was 6,800 taels of gold. ”

The thrush exclaimed, "That's sixty or seventy thousand silver!" ”

Daiyu smiled and said: "That's just an auspicious number, the man is hired, and the woman's family has to pay double in the dowry." ”

Thrush's eyes widened: "Then isn't our family going to accompany hundreds of thousands of silver?!" ”

"The girl coaxes you to play." Lin Qingyun sent the maids out, picked up the list in his hand and glanced at it, and sighed: "Father-in-law doesn't have to be like this, this dowry is too rich." ”

Who marries so many daughters? Neither can the princess. It is the pure prince who hired this time, and the bride price of 6,800 taels is not the regulation of the prince's marriage, but the personal supplement between the emperor and the emperor, and the royal marriage is already glorious and decent, and the bride price cannot be compared with the officials and the people. Lin Ruhai prepared a very rich dowry for her, completely in accordance with the customs of marrying a daughter in the current dynasty, in addition to the popular Qiangong stepping bed in the south of the Yangtze River can not be prepared due to time problems, other silk and satin, jewelry and clothes, antique calligraphy and painting, home furnishings, medicinal materials and spices, dowry maids and servants, etc., in addition to the field shop, the house Zhuangzi, calculated to be worth more than fifty or sixty thousand, and there is one thing in the dowry is the silver at the bottom of the box, Lin Ruhai was not stingy, and gave 100,000.

All in all, the dowry has cost more than 100,000 yuan.

Lin Qingyun always knew that the Lin family was rich, and when he arrived at the Lin Mansion at the beginning of that year, he had nothing to do and calculated in his heart: the ancestors of the Lin family were feudal marquis, and they were passed down for several generations, only marrying wives and not marrying daughters, and the accumulation over the past generations has been rich. The aristocratic family has ancestral property, and real estate and shops are added every year, although Lin Ruhai is not much as an official, but he has been re-elected as Yanzheng for many years, and the annual three festivals and two birthdays and Bing Tan Jing are not small incomes. In the original book, Jia Lian once said that it would be good to make another two or three million silver fortunes, and it is very likely that the money will come from the Lin family, and the Lin family has a million family foundation is absolute, of course, it is not all cash, most of it is antique shops and other real estate.

Even so, Lin Ruhaiken spent 100,000 dowry silver for a righteous daughter who had been recognized for two years, even the father and daughter of the Lin family didn't care, but Lin Qingyun felt that it was hot.

Lin Qingyun said: "I know that my father-in-law is thinking about me, and I am afraid that the royal family and people outside will look down on me, so I will be emboldened with silver." But really, who doesn't know that I'm just a talented girl? My confidence comes from the power of my father-in-law and the protection of the Lin family, and the amount of silver is the same, not to mention what do I want so much silver for? I don't have to talk about the length of my father-in-law. The things on the dowry have already been purchased, but there is too much silver in this box, and forty or fifty thousand yuan is enough. ”

If it's not too little, it's really not good-looking, even if you don't give a penny, after all, Lin Qingyun has her own library. Lin Qingyun did not share the money with the Lin family too clearly, the monthly money was received, and the food and accommodation were still from the Lin family, but when it came to the New Year's Festival or the birthday of the Lin family's father, he was never stingy in buying gifts and things, although he felt that it was too tiring to do needlework, he would make two sets of shoes and socks for Lin Ruhai every quarter.

Daiyu said: "This is a father's heart, it is natural for a father to give a dowry to his daughter, not to mention that my sister is not married to an ordinary family, and silver is extremely important." Although my sister entered the door of the pure prince's mansion, she didn't have to spend money on food and accommodation, and my sister had her own money. Besides, which of the royal minions is easy to deal with? You have to spend some money, otherwise it's not cheap to do anything, and my sister should have more silver on hand. Moreover, there are many royal people, three festivals and two birthdays every year, many county princesses' birthdays, princes and princesses' birthdays, and there are all waiting for the royal palace's weddings and funerals to marry Tian Ding, what kind of food does not need money? My sister has a lot of money to spend. ”

Lin Qingyun laughed when she heard this: "I knew that you were so clever that even the girl of the Zhao family dared to go back in person, and now this eloquence is used on me." Having said that, I really deserve it, and my sister is also considerate and considerate of my heart. If you change places, I'm afraid that my sister won't ask for a penny. ”

"It can be seen that my sister is out of sight, if my sister refuses again, I will be annoyed!" Daiyu pretended to be angry, but she was really afraid that she would push each other to stalemate again.

Seeing this, Lin Qingyun pondered for a moment, and nodded in compromise: "Then I'll accept it." ”

Lin Qingyun thought that in the end, if she married to the royal family, even if Lin Ruhai didn't hurt her, she would have to give a lot of things for the sake of face, and it was really not good to blindly excuse herself. Outsiders look at the excitement, and there are more sour words with them, and there are fewer people with them, and they can't stop the rumors. Now accept this silver, and when Daiyu gets married, she will double her makeup.

Calculating, Daiyu is eleven this year, and Lin Ruhai must keep her and Lu before she gets married, and there are still four or five years of hard work. She couldn't make that much money in a few years of hard work, but it wasn't really impossible for her to make money, and now she was more and more familiar with Lawrence, especially the translation of books, which made her see another business opportunity to make money. In the past few years, she has saved some by herself, and the silver in the box has been moved as little as possible, and she will add another 20,000 or 30,000 yuan to Daiyu in a few years, as a gift for adding makeup, Daiyu is not easy to shirk.

As a royal daughter-in-law, there is one thing that saves trouble, that is, you don't have to embroider a wedding dress. The wedding dresses of the princess and princesses are customized, she only needs to embroider some small things, and some large pieces are done by the maids in the room, and a group of embroiderers hired from the embroidery village are outstanding embroiderers to process and make them, and they can be completed before August.

The queen only has such a son, Tu Yan, and it is easy to marry a wife now, so she keeps an eye on the progress and asks one by one in person, lest she is not careful and inappropriate.

Yesterday's sudden change of weather, strong winds, and heavy rain poured down, which was extremely cool for others to dispel the heat, but for people with weak bodies like Tu Yan, a cool breeze could cause them to fall ill. Therefore, when she got up early in the morning, the queen ordered someone to go out of the palace to Prince Chun's mansion, and ordered the red silk who was served by the prince to come in and reply.

As she entered the palace, she was confronted by a young girl and stepped aside to make her go first.

The girl was only fourteen or fifteen years old, her appearance was beautiful and gentle, and her eyes were smiling, which was very moving. Although Hongya is serving Prince Chun, she often walks around in Fengyi Palace to reply, and she has seen at least seven or eight stops when the ladies and ladies of various families enter the palace to ask for peace, but this one has never been seen.

It's just that the other party has walked away, but Hong Aya is standing in place in a daze.

"Sister Hongyan?" The little eunuch who led her called her.

Hong Aya came back to her senses and asked the little eunuch, "Who is that young lady just now?" ”

"That's Wu Guifei's maiden niece, she is fourteen years old this year, and she will enter the palace every twenty-six period, and Wu Guifei likes her very much."

Red Aya's head was silent, thoughtful.

After entering the main hall of Fengyi Palace, the queen asked about Prince Chun's diet and daily life recently, and learned that he was just mentally lazy but not sick, so she couldn't help but let go of her heart, and added a little smile to her face: "It can be seen that Master Miaoyu is a capable person, and the girl of the Lin family is indeed blessed, since the marriage, my son has only had two colds, and he has recovered after a few days, which is really fortunate!" ”

"This is the queen's mother's sincerity and touching the heavens." Tattoo Heart smiled and complimented.

"Queen Qiyu, the slave maid has a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not." Red Aya was hesitant.

"What's the matter? Just say it. Seeing her like this, the queen sent all the palace people in the palace except for the tattooed heart.

Only then did Hong Aya say that she was puzzled in her heart: "There was an unruly maid in the mansion that day, and the slave didn't think much about it, but she didn't know how powerful she was when she entered the mansion for the first time, and she wanted to climb the wealth." But it was too coincidental at that time, in the end it left a shadow in the slave's heart, and when I entered the palace today, I accidentally met a young lady, who was four or five points similar to the maid that day......"

The queen's expression changed slightly, and her eyes were cold: "Who is it?" ”

"The slave asked the little eunuch and said that it was Wu Guifei's maiden niece."

The queen's face became more and more solemn. still remembers that during the banquet in the fifteenth palace of the first lunar month, she once saw a girl who was good, and later learned that it was the niece of Wu Guifei's mother's family, so she stopped thinking at that time. Now that Prince Chun and Princess Chun have decided, Tu Yan is unwilling to set up a side concubine, and the queen naturally doesn't pay attention to the girls of various families, where did she expect that someone would reach out to Prince Chun's mansion!

This is touching the queen's scales!

"Tattoo heart, you quietly go and bring that maid, this palace will ask you personally!" The queen knew everything in Prince Chun's mansion, and the maid who tried to climb the bed in vain was hit by twenty boards and thrown in the stable, and she was supposed to have to do a lifetime of hard work. The queen was very angry when she learned about this, after all, the imperial doctor had already said that the pure prince was not suitable for sexual intercourse, and he and the princess had no heirs, and a cheap maid who didn't know whether to live or die also tried in vain to harm her son, where could the queen bear it! The queen then ordered the maid to be married to a widower who was more than half a hundred years old and ugly, and the widower used to be a horse breeder, and he liked to get drunk and whip people, and the maid's life can be imagined.

Wenxin persuaded: "In the end, in the palace, it is difficult to hide it from people if you rashly bring a maid in, and it is not good to spread it." If the mother can trust the slave and the maid, the slave and the maid will ask in person, and the matter will be clarified. ”

"It's Hongu who is negligent." The queen has always paid attention to the rules, but when she encounters the affairs of the pure prince, she loses ordinary people.

Wenxin went out of the palace and came back two hours later.

After retiring from everyone, the tattoo heart replied: "The slave and maid carefully interrogated the maid, and the maid only said that someone gave her money to send her into the palace of Prince Chun, and also said that the prince has never said that he is married, but he once admired a girl, but the girl died early, and the maid and the girl are seven or eight points similar, if you can see the face of the prince, you will definitely be favored." ”

"Idiot!" These arguments are all lightly believed, and they are nothing more than a vain attempt to climb the high branches.

The queen's mind was full of thoughts, and she sneered for a long time: "The people in this palace are starting to be restless. Bengong thinks that You'an is just a rich and idle king, Yongjia is already married, and Bengong is the queen, what do you do with their smoky miasma? It's not for nothing. But now it seems that I have forgiven them, but their courage has come up, and they have calculated that I have failed, but they should not have stretched out their hands to the sons of this palace. ”

"Could it be Wu Guifei'......" Wenxin said and shook his head: "It shouldn't be someone who looks similar to her niece, but the slave can't guess it, what is the purpose of the person behind it?" What's in it for you? ”

The queen smiled, "What can you get?" I'm afraid that the righteous liver hurts! That happened before the marriage, they didn't know that the emperor and I had set the Lin family girl for Prince Chun, but everyone in the lantern banquet in the first month understood why, that night I looked at the niece of the Wu family twice, and talked to Wu Guifei, and afterwards the Wu girl entered the palace, Wu Guifei also took her over to sit twice, so some people guessed. They are afraid that the daughter of the Wu family will marry into the palace of Prince Chun, and the palace will help King Dingjun and make such a farce, which is nothing more than to spoil Prince Chun's impression of the girl of the Wu family, or it is unknown if he has other plans, but it is too ridiculous. As he spoke, his voice was sharp: "No one else can do such brainless things, only Concubine Qi Shu!" ”

Tattoo Xin also said: "I heard that Concubine Zhen on the Chengjun Palace's mansion is not very good, and Concubine Qi Shu intends to let the third girl of the Zhen family fill this position." ”

The queen sneered: "Concubine Qi Shufei has a good calculation, for fear that the Zhen family will run away." ”

"Niangniang, do you think the emperor will agree?"

The queen shook her head: "How can we guess what the emperor thinks." "The queen knows a little bit about herself, but there are some things that are not suitable to say.

Seeing this, Wenxin didn't mention it anymore, but said with a smile: "When the slave maid returned to the palace, she went to see the prince, and the prince asked me to ask the queen for her mother, and also said that she would come early in the morning to ask for peace." ”

The queen stretched her brows and asked with a smile, "What is the prince doing in the mansion?" ”

Tattoo heart said: "The prince is cleaning up the house, looking at the things that have been moved in and out, it looks like a big study, which is expanded on the basis of the prince's original study, there are two rooms as big, and there are several bookshelves, all of which are more than one person high, but I am afraid that it can hold thousands of books, and now it has been half loaded." I also asked the prince, why don't you send someone to buy the book at one time, the prince said that everything that can be added has been added, and the remaining half is left for the princess, and said that the queen also has many good books in her private collection, and Ming'er asked Ann to ask for a few books to go back. ”

"What's it worth, those books are also wasted, you go and clean them up later, and bring them back to him tomorrow. The palace remembers that the girl of the Lin family likes to paint, and you prepare a few good ones for the prince, and the princess will pass through the door in the future, and the two poems and books will be together, and they will paint by the window, which is also elegant. The queen said with emotion, only hoping that Lin Qingyun would be really blessed and You'an would be better from now on.