The Qingming Festival on the fifth day of the first month of March is the birthday of Tanchun, and as expected, not only did it not make a big deal, but also because of Li Kun's housekeeper, he was much thrifty compared to Sister Feng's time, but even the scene of the Spring Festival and the time was not as good. The waiter was aggrieved for Tanchun, and shed tears vigorously. Tanchun looked away, calmly accepted Yuanchun's gift and everyone's birthday gift, kowtowed to Jia's mother and Mrs. Wang, and went to eat wine and watch the play with the sisters, and his expression was more frowning than usual.

Xichun couldn't eat and drink and watch the play because of filial piety, so he went back to his house early after worshipping his birthday. When the little girl Lianhua'er saw her coming back, she hurriedly poured tea. Xichun took a bite and dropped it: "Floocculent, as soon as you eat it, you will know that it is the old year, is it really so difficult in this house?" Xichun sneered, didn't mind, and asked Lianhua'er: "When is this tea?"

Lianhua'er hurriedly replied: "It's the case tea that the house just delivered." ”

Xichun nodded and said, "These teas are given to you." You go and pick up the maple dew tea that Sister Lin gave me. ”

Lianhua'er thanked the reward and hurriedly made tea again.

Xichun listened to the sound of opera in the garden, looked at his room full of coldness, smiled, opened the Western painting textbook given by Daiyu, and read: It is a day to be free now, and I am not sure what will happen in the future.

Daiyu also went to pay homage to her birthday today, and when she saw Tanchun's unusual appearance, she came back and said to Lin Zhao: "The third sister seems to have changed as if she is a different person. ”

Lin Zhao's face was calm, and after a long time, he said: "She is an extremely smart person, how can she not see the current situation of Jiafu clearly? She probably also knows that her family affairs are difficult, I have never moved, I am afraid that I will think that I am a scumbag, so I will also be discouraged, so I have to resign myself to fate." ”

Daiyu listened, looked at her brother, and really didn't understand: "As long as my brother brings in a word, my little sister-in-law can recover her mentality, but why don't you do anything?"

Lin Zhao took a deep breath and said, "Etiquette is a thing, sometimes it is ethereal, but sometimes it can kill. I am about to get married to Baochai, if I have something to do with Tanchun at this time, I am just called 'Merry', but Tanchun can only die to make his will clear. ”

"How come?" Daiyu exclaimed and asked, "Now that our Lin family is cooking oil on fire, even if the second aunt doesn't look down on our family, the second uncle will always take a fancy to it, isn't he thinking about buying the third girl at a good price?

"If he can see clearly, he won't waste time for decades! The Jia family is over, if I don't want to let Tanchun Xiang disappear, I can only wait and see what happens, and get along with my second uncle and aunt after they are punished by national law. ”

Lin Zhao's face became very heavy.

Actually, the most real reason is not said.

Emperor Xiaode has already begun to reach out to the noble family.

Because the concubines of each family are provincial, the financial resources of the old families of each family have been greatly consumed, and they have become accustomed to luxury in the past two or three years, and almost all of them cannot make ends meet.

It can be said that there is only one poor shelf left, and it falls down with a light push.

Therefore, Emperor Xiaode's move to "eliminate the domain" is already close at hand.

The signal was the day he just returned, the financial meeting convened by the emperor in Wenyuan Pavilion.

Before the fall of the Jia family, Emperor Xiaode did not allow Lin Zhao to interfere in the Rongguo Mansion.

And he also believes that Lin Zhao can not only see this clearly, but also tell his parents not to interfere.

Therefore, at this juncture, even if Lin Zhao wants to be one with Tanchun, it is inappropriate.

Daiyu sighed and said, "The third sister was really delayed. ”

Lin Zhao said: "When you go back to see her, tell her that for the sake of our lifelong happiness, it is the best attitude to wait for change." ”

Daiyu nodded, and sighed for a long time.

Although she sympathizes with Tanchun, she can't hate the initiator, Emperor Xiaode.

People are good to the Lin family.

Lin Ruhai was first a high-ranking official in the salt administration, then the governor of Shandong, and now he is going to Beijing to serve as the secretary of the household department.

His elder brother is now the governor of Jinyi Weizuo, and he is a well-known first-class official.

He was married to the young, handsome, gentle and modest Prince Heng.

The royal family is already very good to the Lin family.

People just asked for this moment, and they didn't want Lin Zhao and the girls of Rongguo Mansion to have further exchanges.

So Daiyu really can't say anything.

A few days later, news suddenly came out from Jiafu that Baoyu was engaged.

The girl on the other side is not a high-ranking official.

It turned out to be Xia Jingui of the famous imperial merchant Osmanthus Xia family.

It turned out that some time ago, Mrs. Wang took Baoyu to the Wang family in Dong'an County for a banquet, and met the mother and daughter of the Xia family who came to the banquet.

So under the manipulation of well-intentioned people, after a series of "coincidences", Baoyu accepted a purse sent by Xia Jingui.

Coincidentally, the daughters of many princes and ministers were all seen.

At this point, Mrs. Wang just didn't want to respond, and she had no choice but to do it.

And after she inquired about the situation of the Osmanthus Xia family, she was willing in her heart.

The Xia family is the family of the emperor and the merchant named in the household, and it is one of the best portals, the family is extremely rich, it is the big landlord and the rich man in the capital, the rest of the fields needless to say, there are dozens of acres of land alone to plant osmanthus, where the osmanthus bureau outside the city of Chang'an is the Xia family, even the bonsai in the palace should be furnished is also the Xia family's tribute, so people call it "the Xia family of osmanthus".

The Osmanthus Xia family is famous, in the city of Chang'an, up to the princes, down to the traders, no one knows, no one knows, when it comes to the name of the Osmanthus Xia family, Ning Rong and the two mansions also know. The Xia family is the top imperial merchant who monopolizes all the furnishings and bonsai in the palace and manages all the osmanthus bureaus in and outside the city of Chang'an. There are three weaving bureaus, and the Xia family manages all the osmanthus bureaus, and all the furnishings and bonsai in the palace are monopolized by the Xia family, and the power of the Xia family is even stronger than Jiangning weaving.

Xia Jingui was born like a flower, is a complete beauty, and is quite literate, and is very outstanding in women's Chinese, which is both inside and outside.

What's even better is that the Xia family is not only a million-dollar family, but also has no son, the heir is a grandson, a family fortune, all of which will be married to the son-in-law's family with the daughter as a dowry in the future, and passed on to the grandson.

From this point of view, Xia Jingui's family background and character appearance are very perfect and impeccable. At the time of climbing, the Xia family had no sons, and all the family property belonged to the son-in-law and future grandson, with Xia Jingui's own million dowry, it was inevitable that he would marry into a higher status family, and the Xia family was already one of the richest families in the household, and Xia Jingui's personal conditions were excellent, so the one who could marry Xia Jingui must be an extremely powerful and prominent family of wealthy nobles.

After inquiring about this, Mrs. Wang didn't discuss with Jia's mother at all, but just blew a gust of wind to Jia Zheng, who returned to Beijing: Rongguo Mansion can't make ends meet, not to mention that it owes more than one million taels of silver to the household department, and the Gongzhong Mansion Treasury is almost running away, and if it goes on like this, there will be no huge capital injection, and Rongguo Mansion will cross.

Without the signboard of Rongguo Mansion, what else can he do with the second master of Rongguo Mansion?

Jia Zheng was ordered to study politics, and he wanted to do something, but he was not from a two-list jinshi, so he was repeatedly squeezed out by local academic officials, and he was disgraced, and he also wanted to save a little face.

At this time, the Xia family's million-dollar property dazzled his eyes.

So Mrs. Wang immediately sent a letter to the palace, and soon asked Concubine Xiande to issue an edict to marry Baoyu and Xia Jingui, and there were even four words on the will: "Jinyu Liangyuan".

In the Lin Mansion, Daiyu, Baoqin, Xichun, Miaoyu, Yinglian and others couldn't help but be stunned when they heard Sister Feng talk about it: "It's not that it hasn't been decided for so long, why is it that it's only been a few days, and suddenly they say that they want to get married?"