Chapter 47: Marriage
Although Jiang Yuan planted a small heel on the position of the patriarch, resulting in a gloomy face all day long, but immediately an incident happened, which made the entire Jiang Mansion beaming.
On this day, it was still early for Jiang Yuan to return to his hometown, Jiang Xiaoyu was at the sixth aunt, and the two chatted first, joking with an innocent look on Yueyue.
"It seems that Yueyue is doing well here with the eldest lady, this little face has gained a lot of weight!" The sixth aunt smiled softly, "This child already has a big heart, but now he looks more energetic than before, or the eldest lady feels sorry for this child!" ”
"It's not that I feel sorry for her, it's that she is really liked, people are fortunate to live in the world, how can anyone not like such a simple and scheming child by her side!" Jiang Xiaoyu took a sip of flower tea and said with a faint smile.
Yueyue was not very happy to put the pastry in her hand, held her face and said with a sad face: "Have I really gained weight?" ”
"What's wrong?" The sixth aunt asked funny, "What else is there that makes you stop eating what you like?" ”
Yueyue said with a bitter face: "Yanyan said that if girls gain weight, they won't be liked by men!" ”
The sixth aunt smiled and said with a nymphomaniac: "If someone else says this, it is a meaning, and it comes out of your mouth is another meaning, you girl, this young age is when you grow your body, what do you think, is it not possible to have someone to look at?" ”
She was an unintentional joke, but she knew that Yueyue, this girl, was really red-faced, lowered her head embarrassedly, and said angrily: "Auntie, what nonsense are you talking about!" ”
"You really don't have three hundred taels of silver here, you have been in the house these days, except for the day when you followed the eldest lady to the Qin family, did you meet anyone?"
Jiang Xiaoyu's eyes rolled and said, "I guess...... Could it be the boy in white in the carriage? ”
"I don't know, I just haven't seen such a good-looking man!" After the initial shyness, Yueyue became honest without heart, "I just don't know if I will be able to see him again in the future!" ”
Jiang Xiaoyu was slightly stunned for a moment, and sighed: "If everyone in the world confesses like you, there must be a lot less misunderstanding in this world!" ”
The sixth aunt's eyes turned and she wanted to ask who the person was, but she heard the maid report that the master was coming outside, and she was slightly surprised: "Why did you go down to court at this time?" ”
As he spoke, he saw Jiang Yuan enter with a calm face, and when he saw Jiang Xiaoyu, his complexion improved slightly, and his voice was still a little stiff and said, "You are also there!" ”
The father-daughter relationship that has been estranged for many years will not be able to get better in a few days, and the father and daughter are filled with an awkward atmosphere when they meet.
And the expression on Jiang Yuan's face was even more cold, in fact, at the clan meeting that day, one of the places where the other party attacked him was the existence of Xiaoyu, after all, there was rebellious blood flowing in his body, if the Heavenly Family turned over the old accounts that day, I was afraid that it would affect the entire family, after all, it would not be the luck of ten years ago every time.
"I've seen my father!" Jiang Xiaoyu got up and saluted slightly, "I just saw that my father's face was not good, but what happened?" ”
"You don't need to worry about some things above the court!" Gangwon has returned to normal, sitting down on the upper seat, with a paternal demeanor.
The sixth aunt rolled her eyes, keenly aware of what these two people should have to say, but they usually don't take the initiative to find each other because of their faces, but today there is a chance, she thought for a while, and said softly to Jiang Yuan: "Master, I'll go and see if the fruit pulp prepared in the kitchen is appropriate!" ”
Jiang Yuan nodded, and the sixth aunt smiled at Jiang Xiaoyu, and by the way, Yueyue also called down.
"Is Father worried about the position of the patriarch?" Jiang Xiaoyu opened his mouth and asked with a smile, "Actually, my father doesn't have to worry so much, although it is also unexpected for me to suddenly kill Cheng Jin, but the other party may not be able to completely suppress you, those people in the clan are the masters who watch the dishes and see the wind and steer the rudder, and my father still has the trump card in his hand, so what are you afraid of?" ”
"Trump?" Ehara was stunned for a moment, "What trump card?" ”
"Now my father has the highest official position among the clansmen, the best reputation, and the most prestige! Those clansmen plainly supported the newcomer grandfather, but it was only because of the power of the third prince, not because they were sincerely convinced of him! Jiang Xiaoyu smiled slightly, "As for my father's trump card...... The Jiang family is about to marry the Chu Palace, isn't this enough to dispel those people's doubts? ”
"That's true!" Jiang Yuan was first shocked in his heart, then rejoiced, and hurriedly said, "Is this true?" But I didn't hear anything at all! ”
"Naturally, a daughter will not expire her father!" Jiang Xiaoyu smiled softly, "When the son was in the Qin family last time, wasn't the prince also there, he had already given me a promise, I don't think he would joke with his daughter about this kind of thing!" So my father can rest assured, it's about these two days! ”
"Great!" Jiang Yuan stood up happily and walked back and forth in the room for a few steps, "If you can really marry into the Heavenly Family, it means that the Heavenly Family doesn't mind your identity at all, then they won't have any worries!" ”
Jiang Xiaoyu looked at Jiang Yuan's elated appearance coldly, but with a faint smile, he didn't say much, he was obviously more concerned about his own power than his daughter's marriage.
While he was talking, he suddenly saw Jiang Yuan's personal servant hurriedly running over and said, "Master, the holy decree in the palace is here!" ”
"Oh?" Jiang Yuan was taken aback, and hurriedly ordered to go down to burn incense for the record to meet the holy decree.
After a lot of tossing, Jiang Yuan took his family and hundreds of subordinates to kneel in the courtyard to meet the emperor's holy decree. It was a young eunuch who came to deliver the decree, raised his chin and recited the decree in a treacherous voice, and then quietly looked at the black people kneeling on the ground and kowtowed to thank him.
After all the etiquette was over, the father-in-law slowly came to Jiang Xiaoyu's side, personally helped her up, and said with a smile: "Princess, please get up quickly!" ”
"Thank you, Grandpa Chang!" Jiang Xiaoyu recognized that this eunuch was the father-in-law who took him into the palace that day, and talked to her with a smile.
"On that day, the slave felt that Miss was not comparable to ordinary people, and it was really a dragon and phoenix among people, and the slave was also honored!" Chang Dan said with a smile, both close relatives and not flattering.
The old lady had already ordered someone to prepare a jade ruyi and gave it to Chang Dan, he first excused himself, Jiang Xiaoyu smiled and persuaded a few words, and then he took it back to the palace.
"Thank goodness, I'm finally at ease in my heart!" The old lady hurriedly thanked God, and then took Jiang Xiaoyu's hand and said lively, "This holy decree for marriage, your marriage with the prince has finally been decided, and it has been delayed for more than a month, and I am finally relieved!" ”
Although Zhao Ling repeatedly showed the special features of Yu Jiang Xiaoyu in front of outsiders, but the Chu Wangfu or the palace did not speak, and the vast majority of people still held a wait-and-see attitude, and now that the final word has been made, it is no wonder that the old lady has to sigh a few words.
Of course, the people present also had different expressions, some were happy for her, some stayed out of the matter, some were jealous and hateful, and some forced to laugh......
The eldest lady is the most housewife, so she naturally wants to set an example, and immediately suppressed all the sour discomfort in her heart, squeezed out a flawless smile and said: "I heard a magpie cry this morning, it turned out that our Jiang family had such a big happy event today!" Although we have already counted the family affairs of Xiaoyu, but it has not been finalized before, and it is not easy to celebrate in the end, now this marriage is finally ironclad, this is a good thing, we must celebrate it well, so good, I will prepare a dinner, how about the big guys? ”
"Hmm!" Jiang Yuan nodded, touched his beard and said happily, "You are right, it is indeed a happy event worth celebrating, you are ready for life!" ”
However, Jiang Xiaoyu, who is the protagonist, is very calm, just showing a little shy smile just right, she thought that Zhao Ling would find a way to persuade her father to come to propose, but she didn't expect that it was directly a holy decree from the palace. Emperor Zhou, Empress, Empress Dowager...... Do they want to marry Zhao Ling?
"I don't know what my sister thinks?" The sixth aunt picked up the brocade embroidered with peonies to cover her mouth and asked softly.
The third aunt smiled slightly: "Naturally, it's a good thing, it's a good thing for the Jiang family, it's a good thing for all of us!" ”
"I'm afraid it's just going to be someone else!" The sixth aunt smiled and glanced at the eldest lady who tried her best to show her dignity and generosity, "It's really embarrassing for her, this acting is really leaky, if I enter the door on the first day, I'm afraid I will think that she is the biological mother of the eldest lady!" ”
Although the sixth aunt and the third aunt rarely moved, but since they consulted with the third aunt that day, the exchanges between the two have become frequent, and now because they share the eldest lady, an enemy who has not surfaced, they have become angry with each other.
The same holy decree was also read out in the Chu Palace, although he was only in his forties but the gray hair of the King of Chu took the holy decree calmly, and the reasonable side concubine immediately invited the father-in-law who announced the decree to be entertained with good wine and food, and he called the prince Zhao Ling to the study.
"Are you satisfied now?" The King of Chu asked in a deep voice, his appearance is not very similar to Zhao Ling, thinking that Zhao Ling's appearance is mostly inherited from his mother who died early, but this pair of eyebrows and eyes are extremely similar, delicate but heroic, and he looks very spiritual, thinking that the King of Chu was also a rare beautiful man when he was young.
"It's good, thank you father for your success!" Zhao Ling said with a smile.
"You are a person with ideas, you know what you are doing, even if this king is so opposed, you still get your wish!" King Chu sighed, "It's just that although your marriage with her was set when your mother was still there, as a father's selfishness, what I object to is not Xiaoyu's identity, not that Xiaoyu is related to the bloody case ten years ago, but that this king doesn't like his son because he has a plan to marry her, and your mother also likes such things!" ”
"That's how my father thinks of me!" Zhao Ling smiled slightly, with some unconcealable disappointment between his eyebrows, "Actually, I don't blame my father, I think many people see it this way, including Xiaoyu herself, who thinks that I have other plans to marry her!" ”
The smile on his face was a little bitter, and he paused and said: "To tell you the truth, I did have those thoughts before I met her, but after meeting her, I remembered a lot of things when I was a child, and promising to take care of her was something I promised him a long time ago, but I never did it!" I...... I really want to take care of her! ”