Chapter 100: Narrative
There are many hard calluses on the big palms that often hold weapons, and the soft hair gently scratches on these cocoons, as if scratching the deepest softness in Feng Mingxiang's heart.
Ever since he saw the sleeping Feng Zhige quietly in Luo Shui Xuan that year, he regarded this sister as someone he needed to protect for life, even if he gave everything he had just to get her a smile, he was willing.
Since then, the word "sister" has a different meaning in Feng Mingxiang's heart.
It was still young, and Feng Mingxiang didn't think much about it, but when he grew up, he occasionally had some doubts in his heart, why did he have such a thought when he first saw his sister?
After thinking about it, he could only come up with an answer to the two of them in the end.
Feng Mingxiang didn't know when this brother-sister relationship had changed, but before he had time to discover it, the originally simple and beautiful brother-sister relationship began to change in another direction, and then completely took root in his heart, and it could never be erased.
When he returned home from an errand that day, he saw his sister, who he wanted to take care of for the rest of his life, talking to two young men.
He watched his sister talk to the two men with a sometimes happy and sometimes helpless expression, but suddenly realized that his sister had reached the age of a gentleman, and one day, she would be married home by another man with a good eye.
The man who has a good eye and can see the beauty of his sister, even if he is not one of the two who are talking to his sister at this time, there must be someone else.
Just thinking like this, Feng Mingxiang felt a heart-wrenching pain in his heart.
At first, he didn't really know what was wrong with him, he just thought that this distress was just out of his brother's reluctance to marry his sister, but when his sister's smile appeared in his dream that night, he realized that maybe his feelings for her may be far more than just brother and sister.
Feng Mingxiang was personally cultivated by Feng Lin since he was a child, and he was confirmed as the next heir of the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion early. Always remember the sense of responsibility to the family, and suddenly found that he had such an unsightly mind for his sister, and he was naturally inevitably hit.
was originally the closest sister, but suddenly became the object of his heart. Feng Mingxiang naturally couldn't accept such a fact.
What makes Feng Mingxiang even more unacceptable is that if his thoughts are known to outsiders, I am afraid that the entire Weiyuan Marquis Mansion, including his sister, who he has been determined to protect since he was a child, will fall into the quagmire because of him.
For Feng Mingxiang. Such a result, even if it was just his imagination, was enough to make him make up his mind.
Therefore, he took the initiative to find Mu Qingwan and mentioned to Mu Qingwan that he wanted to start a family.
Feng Mingxiang thought that as long as he got married, this absurd thought in his heart would always slowly fade until it disappeared.
Getting married, this was originally out of Feng Mingxiang's own wishes, but when this matter was really confirmed. Looking at the joy and jokes on Mu Qingwan and Feng Zhige's faces, he couldn't be happy at all.
Faced with Feng Zhige's inquiry, Feng Mingxiang opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say a word.
But Mama Li, who had been following Feng Zhige's side, looked at Feng Mingxiang's appearance in her eyes, but she had a faint worry in her heart.
Young Master Mingxiang looked at his master's eyes, but something was wrong......
Mama Li just thought about it, and then forced herself to throw out this absurd idea, how Feng Mingxiang has been singing to Feng Zhi over the years, Mama Li is also looking at it in her eyes. If it weren't for this, those of them who had followed Feng Zhige for decades would not have identified with Feng Mingxiang so lightly.
With Young Master Mingxiang's good treatment of his master, how could he have such thoughts?
Thinking like this, Mama Li's worries gradually dissipated.
Feng Mingxiang can meet a good wife like Miss Yu. Mu Qingwan was already very happy, but now that she has Feng Mingxiang's own approval, of course, she is in a hurry to settle the matter.
After this day, Mu Qingwan sent a letter to Mrs. Liang, the two families already had the intention of getting married, and the Yu family was not a family that liked to be polite. After getting the letter, I was very happy and set a date to discuss the marriage.
On that day, Mu Qingwan sent a matchmaker to Yu's house to propose marriage.
For this marriage, Mu Qingwan was very satisfied, so he specially instructed Feng Mingxiang to personally go and beat a pair of brightly colored live geese to send to Yu's house, according to the news that the matchmaker fed back, seeing what Yu's family looks like, he praised Feng Mingxiang's quasi-son-in-law.
The matchmaker brought back Miss Yu's Geng post, and Mu Qingwan invited Mr. to join the eight characters, which was indeed a good omen.
After the small decision, considering that Miss Yu and Feng Mingxiang were already quite old, the two families set the wedding date on the tenth day of October at the end of the year.
Now that it has entered September, it will be less than a month and a half before the wedding, if it weren't for the fact that the Yu family has been preparing a dowry for Miss Yu all these years, and really have to wait for the engagement to prepare the dowry, I'm afraid that such a short time is definitely not enough.
With the current situation of the Marquis of Weiyuan's mansion, Feng Lin has been cultivating in the Huangjue Temple and has not returned, and Feng Mingxiang has entrusted all his family affairs to Mu Qingwan, so all matters large and small have fallen on Mu Qingwan's head.
Mu Qingwan had never been married before, and when she and Feng Lin got married, the elders on both sides had to worry about everything, so she didn't have to think about it herself at all, so she didn't know what to do for a while.
Fortunately, Mama Lin beside her had a lot of things to do, but she helped come up with a lot of ideas.
The days passed little by little in Mu Qingwan's busyness, seeing that the wedding date was approaching, even with the help of Mama Lin, Mu Qingwan was also so busy that her feet did not touch the ground, distributing wedding cards to various families, preparing all kinds of things to be used in the wedding banquet, arranging errands for the wedding banquet of the people in the Hou Mansion, and so on.
The Weiyuan Marquis Mansion has only done this happy event in recent years, and of course Mu Qingwan takes it very seriously, and he can't allow the Hou Mansion to be seen as a joke because of his own negligence.
While busy, Mu Qingwan was also a little melancholy in her heart.
Feng Zhige has already passed the line, in other noble families, the daughter's family should have been in charge of the family affairs by the mother at this age, Mu Qingwan has always wanted to keep her daughter for a few more years, Feng Mingxiang's family affairs were not scheduled before, and from time to time Feng Mingxiang, who was a brother, was not married, and his daughter was not in a hurry to comfort herself.
But now, Feng Mingxiang is about to get married, and it will be the next turn to stop singing.
On the one hand, Mu Qingwan wanted to stay in Fengzhige for a few more years according to the original idea, and on the other hand, she had Miss Yu's experience in front of her. I couldn't help but be a little worried, should I be like Miss Yu, stay for a few years and then marry my daughter off in a hurry?
Miss Yu is not bad, at least Feng Mingxiang is very compatible regardless of his family background or his own conditions. But what should I do if I can't find a suitable husband when I stop singing?
Mu Qingwan was extremely conflicted.
In the midst of such a contradiction, in the blink of an eye, it was the ninth day of October, and Feng Mingxiang's wedding date was about to arrive.
At the beginning, it was agreed with the Yu family to set the tenth day of October as the wedding date, in addition to the fact that both families wanted to complete the marriage of their children, but also because the tenth day of October not only has the meaning of perfection. It's also a rare good day of the year.
Early this morning, Feng Zhige freshened up and was about to go to Rongxi Hall to have breakfast with Mu Qingwan, when the maids from Rongxi Hall hurriedly came to invite her, but it was the Quanfu people of the Yu family who came to the Hou Mansion to make a bed for the new house.
As early as half a month ago, the Yu family had already sent the furniture of the new house to the Hou Mansion, and the complete set of furniture made of Huanghuali was a complete set of furniture, which attracted the unanimous amazement of the people in the Hou Mansion at that time.
Today's emperor doesn't know what is the influence, especially the preference for Huanghuali among all kinds of precious wood, so today's Dawu Dynasty Huanghuali, especially the Huanghuali wood of the last year is rare. From this, it can be seen how much attention is paid to Miss Yu at home.
Speaking of which, I have to mention that Yu Jia, the only girl, is indeed very fond of her.
The Yu family is not a family of eunuchs for generations, but from the old lady Yu, he was gradually reused in the court, which can be regarded as a bit of a head.
Old lady Yu is the secretary of the Ministry of Etiquette, so the Yu family attaches great importance to rules and etiquette, and strictly restricts the children of the family from doing those corrupt things, because although the old man Yu has a high status in the court, the life of the Yu family is not as luxurious as other official eunuchs.
But even so, for Miss, the Yu family still paid enough attention to it.
This is important. The table is on the dowry of the young lady.
Although they have not yet married, the Yu family has already sent Miss Yu's dowry list to the Hou Mansion, don't look at the Yu family's family background, it may not be as good as those famous families that have been inherited for many years, but Miss Yu's dowry is not much better than those famous and noble girls. When Miss Yu got married, she brought out these dowries, which definitely deserved to be ten miles of red makeup.
The Quanfu person invited by the Yu family was none other than Mu Qingwan's close friend Mrs. Liang.
Mrs. Liang is Miss Yu's eldest aunt, and Mrs. Liang's parents and in-laws are both there, the husband and wife are loving, and they have both children. It is the best candidate for Quanfu people.
The new house prepared by Mu Qingwan for Feng Mingxiang is called Tinglan Courtyard, there are many vacant courtyards in Weiyuan Hou's Mansion, and Mu Qingwan chose Tinglan Courtyard as the new house, but it is because Miss Yu's boudoir name also has the word "Lan".
Since the selection of Tinglan Courtyard as a new house, these days Mu Qingwan has not been running here, compared to the previous emptiness, now Tinglan Courtyard can be said to have a big change, and the top and bottom decoration is beaming, which is very in line with the atmosphere of the new house.
When Feng Zhige arrived at Tinglan Courtyard, Mu Qingwan had already accompanied Mrs. Liang to talk in the main room.
Seeing that Feng Zhige was coming, the two stopped talking and looked at Feng Zhige together.
After a salute, the three of them sat down as the guest of honor.
In fact, the reason why Mu Qingwan asked people to invite Feng Zhige to come to Tinglan Courtyard was not because there was anything wrong, but because the people in the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion were thin, and it was a big joy to get married after all, Mu Qingwan couldn't just receive the people who came from Yu's house alone, she invited the three sisters-in-law of her mother's family to come over to help today, but she didn't want Mrs. Liang to come early, and the three sisters-in-law hadn't arrived yet, so she could only ask people to invite Feng Zhige over.
When Mrs. Liang saw Feng Zhige, her eyes showed appreciation.
Since the first time she saw Feng Zhige at the birthday banquet, Mrs. Liang felt that the daughter who handed over the handkerchief back then would definitely shine, and now it is indeed the first omen.
Mrs. Liang is really happy for Mu Qingwan, although Mu Qingwan has had some hard days, but to have such a daughter, presumably Mu Qingwan also thinks it is worth it.
After some greetings, Mrs. Liang was led to the new house by Mu Qingwan and Feng Zhige.
The furniture and furnishings of the new house have been properly placed, but the marriage bed is still empty, Mrs. Liang commanded the servants and women of the Yu family who came with her to bring up the happy quilt and other things, and the convenient happy quilt mandarin duck pillow was placed on the bed one by one, and after the bed was made, it was sprinkled with jujubes, peanuts, longan and other things, which meant that the early birth of a noble son.
Tomorrow is the wedding date, and the Yu family and the Marquis of Weiyuan Mansion are busy preparing for this family business, and Mrs. Liang did not delay after making the bed. After a few more words with Mu Qingwan, he led the people back to Yu's house.
Mu Qingwan led Feng Zhige to look the new house up and down several times to confirm that there was nothing missing, and then left with a smile.
Mu Qingwan has been quiet all these years. Usually, there is nothing she needs to be busy with, but now because of Feng Mingxiang's family affairs, it makes her seem a little more angry than before.
Feng Zhige was naturally happy with Mu Qingwan's change, so she continued to worry about Mu Qingwan, and she planned to go out herself.
Gonggong Lin handed over the news to Han Qingyan yesterday. It's not good news for Feng Zhige.
That day, she was ventilated by Princess Hanyue in the Hundred Gardens, and the prince actually wanted to hire her as the crown princess, and later accidentally met with Zhao Tiannan, and Feng Zhige deliberately showed that he was determined to win the princess.
She originally thought that with Zhao Tiannan's jealousy of the Han family, she would categorically not allow her, the daughter of the Han family, to have a chance to become the future queen.
Things are indeed just as Feng Zhige thought, and Zhao Tiannan did plan to do so.
Later, Zhao Tiannan went to the imperial tomb, but he was so angry that he fainted again by what he saw in the imperial tomb, and then he lay on the sickbed for almost a month before turning around.
Feng Zhige thought that it was about the prince. This should be the end of it.
Even if the prince is the prince, but now the entire Dawu Dynasty is still under the control of Zhao Tiannan, the prince just wants to do something, and with Zhao Tiannan's knowledge in front of him, he can't afford to make any waves.
Unexpectedly, after Zhao Tiannan's serious illness, he had to serve old age for the first time.
He is already in his fifties, and now after fainting twice, he feels that his body is much weaker than usual, Rao is unwilling, and Zhao Tiannan has to think about what will happen after his death in the future. Then he was worried about the future of the Dawu Dynasty.
The prince is not only in poor health, but also has a lot of indecisiveness, although Zhao Tiannan is not satisfied with this son, he only has such a son in the end.
He was worried. In the matter of the young lady of the Feng family, although this time he can make the decision to marry the prince to a princess he is satisfied with, but once he dies in the future, with the power of the Han family, I am afraid that it will not be difficult to stuff the young lady of the Feng family to the prince and become the queen in the future.
During this month of illness. Zhao Tiannan will think of the words of the young lady of the Feng family from time to time, "Your royal family still owes our Han family a queen", every time he thinks of this sentence, Zhao Tiannan will always think of the cold su who lost his breath in his arms more than 20 years ago, and then the delicate white and delicate hand in the imperial tomb will appear in front of him, and after regretting his heartache, he will unconsciously think that if the Han family really thinks like this, I am afraid that the arrogant Miss Feng family may really become the queen of the Dawu Dynasty in the future.
Moreover, during the month of being ill, because the imperial doctor repeatedly emphasized that his current situation should be quiet and recuperating, and he should not spend too much energy on state affairs, Zhao Tiannan put most of the court affairs in the hands of the prince.
Of course, by the prince's side, there will naturally be Zhao Tiannan's people.
From these mouths, Zhao Tiannan faintly sensed that his only son seemed to really have a mind about the young lady of the Feng family.
In addition to anger and hatred, Zhao Tiannan also thought about it.
Zhao Tiannan would never allow the daughter of the Han family to become the queen of the Great Wu Dynasty, there is no doubt about this, even if this daughter of the Han family is just the daughter of the old man Han.
He is still alive now, and he is still sitting on the dragon chair, so he can naturally block many of the Han family's calculations, and he can also suppress the thoughts in the prince's heart, but judging from the current situation, he is afraid that his body is difficult to say that it can last for a few more years.
Since Zhao Tiannan thought of this possibility, how could he sit idly by.
He had to think of a way to get the best of both worlds, and completely cut off the thoughts of the prince and the Han family.
The news from Gonggong Lin is about this.
Feng Zhige originally wanted to go to Fengyi Xuan to see Han Qingyan and deal with this matter, but he never thought that he would see Feng Mingxiang before he left the second door.
Tomorrow is Feng Mingxiang's big day, but Feng Zhige can't see the joy on his face.
In fact, this question has not been talked about by the subordinates of the Hou Mansion these days, and the other sons and young masters will always have some different reactions from the usual on the eve of marriage, or joy or expectation or apprehension, and so on.
But their marquis, from the time they discussed marriage to the time they were about to get married, was as calm as usual, making it difficult for people to find something unusual from his face and eyes.
If you want to say that Hou Ye doesn't attach importance to this marriage, that's not necessarily true, after all, it was Hou Ye who personally proposed it to Mrs. Tai to get married, and the selection of the fiancée was also nodded by Hou Ye.
After many discussions, everyone can only think that their own marquis is particularly introverted.
When Feng Zhige saw Feng Mingxiang, he was standing quietly in the small garden with his back to her.
This small garden is a necessary place to enter and exit, and it seems that Feng Mingxiang is waiting for someone on purpose.
Feng Zhige thought so, and saw Feng Mingxiang turn to look at her.
"Sister, do you have time to talk to me?" (To be continued.) )
PS: I wanted to update it earlier.,But something went wrong with the little black house.,It took two or three hours to get it done.,So it's only one chapter of the expected code of two chapters today.,Tomorrow's update will be about in the afternoon......