40. Back to the Wei Mausoleum
The eldest daughter of the Zhenguo Mansion got married, and the other party was the son of An Guanghou, and the high gate attracted the attention of all the capitals.
Since the engagement, Mrs. Xie has been like a war every day, and there is no need to be in such a hurry, mainly because the Weiguo Mansion is very unconvinced that An Guanghou chose the daughter of the Zhenguo Mansion, and has made a lot of small moves in private, An Guanghou is unbearable, and Mrs. An Guanghou has bitten that only Xie Menghua is the hostess who can support their Hou Mansion, so she simply marries the door quickly, and cooks raw rice and rice, so that the Weiguo Mansion can break off her mind.
What was supposed to take two years to do was suddenly reduced to half a year, and Mrs. Xie wished that she had eight hands, but fortunately, Mrs. Xie had already prepared a lot of dowry for Xie Menghua to help Mrs. Xie reduce a lot of burden.
Qian Luojin secretly asked Xie Menghua: "Cousin, have you seen the prince of An Guanghou?" ”
"I've seen it, I've seen it secretly through the curtain." Xie Menghua replied blandly.
Listening to her tone, she must not call An Guanghou Shizi, alas, but everyone said that this was a good family matter, and even the Weiguo Mansion came to grab the head.
"Cousin, do you want to marry him?"
"If you don't want to think about it, as far as you ask strangely, I don't know what kind of person he is, but I am happy to be able to overpower the Weiguo Mansion." Probably Xie Menghua is the most competitive daughter of the Xie family.
As the eldest daughter of the Zhenguo Mansion, Xie Menghua's every qiē is the best, and she is the wife of the prince when she marries, and the specifications of the wedding cannot be small.
On the day of the dowry, Xie Menghua's dowry was placed in the red carrying box, a burden, a bar and a bar were all vermilion lacquer and gold, and the brilliance was brilliant.
Qian Luojin was assigned the task of checking the dowry list by Mrs. Xie because of the outstanding accounting table at Mrs. Xie's birthday banquet, and saw boxes of dazzling things constantly being carried out, and looking ahead, there was only a long red line that did not see the edge, and Qian Luojin from modern times couldn't help but be shocked.
The so-called ten miles of red makeup is like that, right? In this environment, if you want to say that you don't care, Qian Luojin really can't do it, this long street infected by red seems to be the dream of her daughter's life, saying that it is ignorant and backward, but it is so beautiful, but I don't know if there will be such a grand scene when it is her turn in the future?
As long as he faced Mu Congjin, Luo Jin couldn't hide things in his heart, and described the scene of Xie Menghua's dowry day to Mu Congjin completely: "It's a pity that you can't see it, all the people in the mansion have been sent to give dowries, do you know what is ten miles of red makeup?" I can be regarded as understanding, especially after reading the dowry list, Xie Menghua deserves to be her own daughter! Biological, absolutely biological! ”
Mu Congjin only snorted lightly: "I have seen the princess get married, and it will only be more than your cousin's dowry." ”
"I don't know how much property my cheap father has, and how much dowry can he give me?" Qian Luojin is now thinking about Master Qian's family background: "I know that there is no richer than him in the entire Weiling, just a daughter like me, she shouldn't treat me badly, right?" ”
"Don't forget that this is a class society, and there is an upper limit on the dowry, which depends on the grade of your future husband, if you marry a bun seller, the dowry can only contain two bags of noodles."
Mu Congjin's cold water splashed Qian Luojin stunned, and said pitifully: "Don't you really consider marrying me?" When I get the dowry, I'll give you a quarter!" …… Third? …… Halfway! ”
Before Qian Luojin finished speaking, Mu Congjin had already walked away.
This guy! Qian Luojin gritted his teeth, money, beauty, can't tempt him, this person must be sick!
Xie Menghua's strong mentality also aroused Qian Luojin's vanity, since Xie Menghua successfully snatched the east bed fast son-in-law in the picture of the Weiguo Mansion, it is better to stuff some stones in their hearts, Qian Luojin grinded Mu Congjin to personally come to the face of the Zhenguo Mansion, Mu Congjin was very interesting, not only came by himself, but also brought the three princes, and for a while even the plaque of the Zhenguo Mansion seemed to have a light.
With a dowry of ten miles of red makeup, and two princes came to the wedding scene in person, Xie Menghua's family is in the limelight.
Xie Menghua's ability to join the Marquis of An Guang Mansion also gave Mu Congjin a great boost, and the reason why the Weiguo Mansion was eyeing An Guanghou's family business was not because of the military power in An Guanghou's hands. The second prince has already enveloped a group of ministers in the court, but most of them are civil officials, and it's okay to spread rumors and quarrel around the emperor, but you can't rely on your mouth to seize the throne, right? What he needs most now is military power.
It is impossible for Mu Congjin and the third prince to let the second prince ascend the throne, the best situation is that the emperor has braided his hair without a prince, and he can fight with a knife and a gun on both sides; The worst-case scenario is that the emperor died after appointing the second prince as the crown prince, and he could only lead his troops to rebel while calling out that the holy decree was forged by Concubine Li.
It seems that there is no difference between the two situations, and in the end it is decided by force.
Military power, the soul of the power struggle, this is also the reason for the decline of the Zhenguo Mansion, since the old lady Xie is old, he can no longer lead the troops to fight, Uncle Xie is a dou who can't be supported, and the military power has been handed over one after another, a martial arts family has no military power, isn't there an empty shell left?
"Recently, the frontier has been in turmoil, and the emperor wants to release the military power in his hand to consolidate the frontier, which is an opportunity, I already have a plan with the third prince, but I need to go in person," Mu Congjin said and straightened the crooked hairpin on Qian Luojin's head: "But you stay in the capital alone, is it okay?" ”
"It's the same traverser, who are you looking down on? Don't worry, I didn't live well before I met you? ”
Qian Luojin's words originally wanted Mu Congjin to relax, but listening to Mu Congjin's ears was another taste.
That's right, before she met him, she was also alive and well, Mu Congjin felt uncomfortable in her heart for some reason, it was the same with him or not? I thought I could be retained, such as crying and shouting and hugging his leg and begging not to go......
Sometimes, Mu Congjin will miss Qian Luojin's drunken appearance, which is really a terrible thought.
In fact, Mu Congjin's departure from the capital gave Qian Luojin a considerable blow, relying on the habits of the powerful, it was like using a smartphone every day to suddenly change to Nokia, and the preferential treatment was gone all of a sudden. No one fed her the palace food, no one took her outside to play, no one told her the gossip in the palace, and no one complained with her about all the unscience in ancient times.
Mu Congjin left, and Qian Luojin realized that she had such a long time to do nothing every day, and she used to feel that she was too busy with schoolwork and didn't have enough time to play.
After Xie Menghua got married, it was Xie Mengyao's turn to start marrying, Xie Mengyao was already keen on female celebrities, and now she is hiding in the house all day long to embroider in the hot summer, Xie Mengxi has been practicing calligraphy hard recently, and she does not play with Luo Jin.
Qian Luojin got a dog's tail grass out of nowhere, half lying on the edge of the bed, listening to the hissing of cicadas outside the window, so empty, so lonely, so hot.
"Go and carry a bucket of ice again, Miss is listless, don't be from heat stroke."
Over there, Xiuxi had just come back from the lower room, took a letter in his hand, handed it to Luo Jin, and said, "Miss, Madame's letter has arrived." ”
The opening is as always all kinds of care and all kinds of advice, Mrs. Qian's vocabulary is poor, every month is the same thing, Qian Luojin looked at it expressionlessly, but after seeing it, Luojin's expression changed, her eyes became bigger and bigger, and she shone brightly.
"Mother told me to go home for a while!"
Qian Luojin excitedly said to the people around her that after leaving Weiling for so many years, she really missed the good mountains and rivers of her hometown and the group of ordinary people who let her fish and meat.
"Madame really said that?" Han Cui's face was full of joy, she was the daughter of Mother Feng next to Mrs. Qian, Luo Jin lived in the capital, she and Mother Feng had been separated from mother and daughter for a long time, so she naturally missed it very much.
"Miss! When are we going back? ”
Qian Luojin brought those subordinates from Weiling who didn't want to go back to see, they would only be more excited than Luojin in their hearts, and they didn't dare to lose their honor in front of Luojin, but the eyes of each other had betrayed them.
"Pack your things! We'll leave when we're packed~"
Hancui really missed her mother, and immediately began to organize Luo Jin's luggage, the things she used before were still in Weiling's hometown, but she didn't need to pack too many things, but Mrs. Xie couldn't let Luo Jin go back empty-handed, originally Luo Jin only needed three or five carriages to go home, Mrs. Xie directly and suddenly added to ten, Xie Lao Taijun was not enough, and added five more, a full fifteen carriages, all about to catch up with a caravan.
"Have you arranged all the manpower to go to Weiling with Luo Jin?"
"It's arranged, they are all smart old servants in the family, and tomorrow her uncle will be sent to the ferry, and the boatmen are also familiar with each other, and they will send our family to people, not outsiders."
"Well, I don't have to worry about you." Mrs. Xie nodded, it was also her negligence during her illness, and she kept Luo Jin by her side in the past few years and did not let their mother and daughter reunite.
Although it was a happy thing to return to Weiling, when she thought of the painful journey of three days by water and four days by land, Qian Luojin was stunned, she stayed in the cabin, and there was no mobile phone to play, even if she said that she wanted to dive, Hancui would only think she was crazy.
"If Miss is bored, I'll find two new patterns for Miss, and Miss will embroider the purse, right?"
Luo Jin glanced at Han Cui deeply: "I'd better stay like this." ”
"Miss, the boatman said he has a fishing rod, maybe he can relieve Miss's boredom."
"Good, good! Get it. ”
Although he got a tattered fishing rod, it was useless to have no bait, so Xiuxi went to ask for a large piece of fresh raw meat and tied it to the hook: "Miss, I heard that there are also carnivorous fish." ”
It is a carnivorous fish...... But girl, you hang a whole piece of the pig's front leg on it, you want to catch a great white shark!