PS: I thought I could, but after a few bowls of yellow soup poured down, it was already three poles when I got up...... I'm sorry everyone! There's no shame in asking for votes or anything!

People always don't know their own depths. Alas......

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Yan Mansion has always been low-key in the imperial capital. The Sanjin courtyard, which is not commensurate with its identity, is in the eastern city of the imperial capital.

But today, Yan Fu is unusual. From the flyover to the east, all the way to the front of Yanfu, expensive Persian wool blankets are covered with red flowers, colorful silk is displayed on both sides of the road, all the hotels and restaurants in the entire Dongcheng District are lit up, and the plaques of various merchants are hung with dazzling banners.

"Congratulations to the eldest lady of Yanfu on her engagement"

"He Dahan Zichuan Marquis and the president of the Han Chamber of Commerce tied the knot of Qin and Jin"

"Great Happiness, Double Happiness, Four Happiness Coming"

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All the liquor shops and hotels on the entire street have been chartered by the Yan family today, and everyone can eat and stay here for free. Various shops also launched promotional means to congratulate the engagement of the daughter of Yan Zhun, the president of the Han Chamber of Commerce.

The Yan family's wealth and influence are so wide that people can't help but look sideways.

Not only that, the Yan family's merchant ships have been coming and going on the canal since yesterday, and the wealth and gifts brought into the imperial capital from all over the country have loaded a full ten large ships, and as of this morning, the canal waterways are still full of Yan family's merchant ships, and the porters in various ports are like ants unloading their goods, and they still can't cope with it.

Such a grand scene naturally attracted countless onlookers. The entire Dongcheng District has become a sea of people, and it is not enough to describe it one after another.

To put it mildly, I'm afraid that the scene when the Han Emperor visited the imperial city tower yesterday is not as big.

This is just the engagement gift of Yan Mansion. If you are married...... Tsk, many people can't imagine how spectacular that would be!

The Yan Mansion is really busy at the moment, and the small courtyard is full of people coming and going. But although he was busy, he didn't see any panic, and everything was going on in an orderly manner. The Yan Mansion urgently summoned dozens of competent treasurers from all over the country to take care of and arrange these affairs, and there were three housekeepers and four treasurers in the Yan Mansion alone.

To the west of Lie Cui Xuan, in a small building standing on the edge of the lotus pond. Yan Ruyue looked at the two sets of clothes spread out on the show. But there was not a hint of joy on his face.

One set is a phoenix crown. It started with the Holy Ancestor Emperor. A dress that can only be worn by the queen of the main palace. However, it is not easy for the Holy Ancestor Emperor to read the women of the world, so he stipulates that when a folk woman marries, she can also wear a phoenix crown and a xia veil to show her honor!

The other set is Feng Xiang Ni Dress. The splendid Han-style caftan and the golden phoenix embroidered with gold thread almost seemed to fly out of the clothes.

Both sets of clothes are adorned with gemstones, and the phoenix crown and the golden phoenix have dragon's eye sized South Sea Night Pearl, especially the one on the phoenix crown. It is the size of an egg, exuding a graceful and soft light, which makes people dare not look at it.

These two sets of clothes, any one of them is of unparalleled value, and if an ordinary woman sees it, she is afraid that she will immediately scream. Rejoice so much that you can't faint. But Yan Ruyue did not have the slightest joy.

In a thought, Yan Ruyue grabbed Fengxiang's neon dress violently, and her hands were about to tear it, and the jewels and pearls on the neon dress swayed, like the stars pouring out and flowing in the sky.

"Miss, don't!" Xiao Cui pounced and stopped her, and said with a sad look on her face, "Miss." If you tear this garment, If this engagement is ruined, even the lord and the eldest lady will be furious. At that time, it will be a trivial matter for us to be punished, but the young lady ......"

"Mother?" Yan Ruyue suddenly thought of her poor mother.

She married Yan Zhun at the age of fourteen, who was still unknown at the time, and was supposed to be the main room, but because she was the queen of the Qingxu Cao family, after Yan Zhun married the niece of Zhigong, she could only become a side room. Usually it's not as good as a maidservant.,Often have to do some heavy work.,Even so.,The main room is often scolded and punished.,It's extremely difficult.。

This time her daughter was forced to get married, and she, as a mother, didn't know anything. It's just that she has always been accustomed to being submissive, and she has long had no courage to resist, but today, Yan Ruyue's face is full of tears, but she is too cowardly to come to dress her daughter, and only let Xiaocui come over alone. He hid in the room and sighed, wiping his tears and weeping.

Thinking of her mother's misery, Yan Ruyue's slender hand holding Ni Shang gradually loosened, there was no blood on her face, and she suddenly collapsed gently in front of the bed.

"Miss!" Xiao Cui choked up with tears.

At this moment, there was a soft knock at the door, and a woman's voice sounded in the doorway.

"Miss, I'm Miaomiao. The second lady asked me to bring the eldest lady a high-quality rouge gouache. ”

Yan Ruyue was unconscious, but Xiaocui quickly wiped away her tears, got up and opened the door.

Miaomiao came in with a brocade box, and she saluted Yan Ruyue, who was slumped in front of the bed, and bowed her head and said, "Eldest Miss, Second Miss ordered me to send rouge gouache." ”

Yan Ruyue was in front of the bed in a daze and did not answer. Xiao Cuiqiang laughed and wanted to take it, but Miaomiao dodged her hand and said, "The second lady said that this thing must be opened by the eldest lady herself!" Auntie, don't be embarrassed! ”

"Aunt" is the honorific title of the younger maid to the older maid in the big family.

Xiao Cui froze, and a helplessness was added to her sad face.

The second lady, Yan Ruyu, was born to the lady of the main room, and her status is naturally not comparable to that of the daughter of the side room like the eldest lady. Even the subordinates who served the second lady were a little noble, and she Xiaocui could only be helpless.

Miaomiao walked to Yan Ruyue's side, squatted down and held the brocade box in front of her eyes, and opened it gently.

"Miss, please take a look at this rouge gouache, do you like it?"

Yan Ruyue's smart eyes were already like dead ashes, but she just subconsciously turned her head to look.

Suddenly, her eyes instantly regained their brilliance, and she eagerly snatched the brocade box over, looking like madness.

Xiao Cui thought that the eldest lady was too sad, and was about to step forward to stop it, but saw Yan Ruyue take out a page of paper folded into a square shape from the brocade box.

Xiao Cui suddenly stopped, and her face was filled with joy. She had seen this kind of square-shaped paper, just under the eldest lady's dresser, pressing a lot, and every time the eldest lady looked at these notes, she would cry and laugh. Slowly, she realized that these notes were given to her by the eldest lady's sweetheart, the Marquis of Bohai.

Seeing the eagerness on Yan Ruyue's face, Miao Miao stood up with a smile, and suddenly said loudly: "It seems that the eldest lady likes these rouge gouaches very much, and the slave and maid retired first!" With that, he slowly withdrew.

As she left, she gently closed the door. Outside the door. Four maidservants with washbasins and towels were standing there. In the distance, there were several housekeepers with sticks on guard.

Since the last time Yan Ruyue secretly ran out of Yan Mansion to see Shen Yun, these people have never left Yan Ruyue's side. It's called protection, but it's actually surveillance.

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The son-in-law Yan Zhun chose this time was Kong Shen, the son of the Marquis of Zichuan of the Han Dynasty.

Speaking of this Zichuan Marquis, it is not an ordinary family. The Confucian family is a descendant of the holy master Confucius. During the period of the Holy Ancestor, the Confucian family produced a military general. Named Kong Xiu. Accompanied the Holy Ancestor to fight in the east and west, and made countless feats. However, it is okay for him to be awarded the title of earl, but there is still a gap between him and the marquis. However, the Holy Ancestor took into account that he was a descendant of the Holy Master and set an example for the world, so he made an exception to make a marquis and Yongzhen Jinan Mansion.

to this generation of Zichuan Hou Konghan. It's mediocre and unproductive. But he had a good body and gave birth to fourteen sons. The eldest son has died, and the second son, Kong Shen, has become the son. However, Kong Han has not established a son for a long time, so most people call Kong Shen still named after the second son.

This second son, Kong Shen, was the one who had a gap with Shen Yun as soon as he entered the Imperial University, first sprinkled Fang Yun's bed with wetness, and then provoked Shen Yun to be furious and threw all his beds outside the dormitory.

Of course. Yan Zhun did not choose his son-in-law based on these criteria. He was a businessman. The only criterion is whether it can bring enough benefits to the Yan family.

In fact, Yan Zhun did not consider the possibility of marrying Shen Yun. After all, Shen Yun is now a marquis who has inherited the title, not like Kong Shen. It is necessary to wait for the old Kong Han to die before he can master the family.

So why did Yan Zhun choose Kong Shen in the end?

There are three reasons for this.

The first is, of course, the reason for the Queen Mother. Although Yan Zhun did not know that the death of Bohai Marquis Shen Mu was committed by the Empress Dowager, he knew that the Empress Dowager did not have a good impression of the Bohai Marquis family, or even disliked it. Especially because of the Imperial Bank, Shen Yun "robbed" the post of logistics officer that originally belonged to the British Prince, so that the Hou Party lost a chance to regain control of the Imperial Bank, which made the Empress Dowager extremely dislike Shen Yun.

In addition to his own business talent, the good relationship between the Zhigong family and the Queen Mother and the Ying family is also indispensable. In terms of choosing a son-in-law, he naturally had to consider these first.

The second is the main room of Zichuan Hou Kong Han, that is, Kong Shen's biological mother is the younger sister of Yinggong. Yan Zhun's main room is the niece of Zhigong, and he is a related relative to the Zhigong family, and if he marries the Zichuan Hou family at this moment, it is equivalent to a relationship with the Yinggong family.

In this way, although the reputation of the Yan family's Hou Party has been confirmed, it will also give the Yan family greater benefits - after all, the Imperial Bank still has most of its strength in the hands of the Hou Party.

Yan Zhun is also inseparable from the Hou Party now, you must know that although he is now rich and rivals the country, he also has many confused accounts that have been entangled with the Imperial Bank, and these accounts all happened when the Hou Party was in charge of the Imperial Bank. That is to say, if the Hou Party loses its grip on the Imperial Bank, whether the Yan family can get money from the Imperial Bank again is another matter, and more importantly, his foolish accounts will be investigated, which is not 1200 million money, but an astronomical amount!

Yan Zhun once roughly estimated that if the Imperial Bank seriously pursued it, the interest on those confused accounts would be as high as 10 billion, not counting the principal and profit sharing, and then Yan Zhun would have to go bankrupt to compensate.

The third reason is Kong Han, although the thirty-sixth generation of the Marquis of Zichuan is only fifty-six this year, his body is said to have run out of oil because of his perennial indulgence. But if he hadn't worked so a woman's belly, he wouldn't have been able to give birth to so many offspring.

There was a Japanese riot in Bohai, and Kong Han's Jinan Mansion was also required to carry out military preparations, Kong Han suddenly fell off his horse when he went to the barracks, and his injuries were serious, and the doctor diagnosed that he would not be able to reach the beginning of spring this year, Kong Han was worried that something like the Marquis of Bohai would happen after his death, so he immediately announced that the position of the prince belonged to Kong Shen.

Of course, this news has not yet reached the imperial cabinet and has not been approved by the emperor. However, the Yan family is well-informed and has already known for the first time. This is also the most important reason why Yan Zhun hastily decided to marry his daughter to Kong Shen.

As for what her daughter thinks, Yan Zhun can't think about it so much. What's more, although Kong Shen is not as powerful as Zhang Shi, the son of Zhang Ke, the Marquis of Linzi, he is also a talent, and he will be able to graduate from the Imperial University next year, and he has a great future.

However, Yan Zhun has always known that his eldest daughter is a soft and rigid personality, and he was afraid that she would have something wrong at today's engagement wedding, so he specially sent someone to watch her. So as not to make any mistakes.

"Master, the eldest lady is ready!" A maid came to Yan Zhun to report.

Yan Zhun thought that his most beloved daughter was about to get married, and he was actually a little stunned in his heart, and asked, "Yue'er, is she still so sad?" ”

The maid said, "No, the eldest lady is very happy." The phoenix crown was worn on the wedding day, and she also took it out for me to clean carefully. And she was wearing a phoenix dress, and she was very happy to circle around the house! ”

"Huh?" Yan Zhun suddenly became puzzled and asked, "What's wrong?" Wasn't it still yesterday...... Who went to see her in the morning? ”

"In the morning, the second lady sent Miaomiao to send a box of rouge gouache to the eldest lady. There is no one else. ”

Yan Zhun was even more puzzled. Which play is this? Could it be that Ruyue suddenly changed her character? (To be continued.) )