Chapter 15: Asking for Marriage
When Zhu learned that Jiang Ruofu had cut the bead curtain, he was so angry that he reached out and waved down the things on the table, and scolded,
"Get out, get out of here!"
"She thought she was something! I tried everything to show affection, but she dared to cut my curtain! Isn't this demonstrating to me? ”
"She is such a cheap thing, she will open a dyeing workshop after getting a few colors, does she really think that the Chen family will be willing to let a prostitute's daughter be a daughter-in-law!"
"She is still unwilling to accept my arrangement, and if she goes on like this, she can only match the lowliest slave in the future!"
She raised her hand and picked up a teacup and was about to smash it down.
The maid hurriedly persuaded,
"Madam, don't smash it, I can't help it."
"Madame, be careful, you're angry!"
Zhu glared at her,
"Don't smash? Isn't it possible that I don't even have the power to smash two cups! ”
Zhu slammed the cup on it, and everyone hurriedly dodged it, and the broken porcelain pieces that were already all over the ground were now even more messy.
Everyone dared to be angry with the Zhu family, who was getting more and more irritable these days.
Now the eldest lady is still grounded, but she repeatedly can't sit still and takes the initiative to harm people, forget it, none of the women in the back house are calculated, but whether the eldest lady is grounded, not only scheming or daily behavior, there is no trace of restraint.
Now they have to record these things that have been smashed, and when the time comes, they will go to the treasury to get a new one, and this account will be deducted on the monthly record of the eldest lady.
The old man has said, when will the money of this Nanzhu pendant be deducted, and when will the ban be lifted.
But now that the eldest lady is like this, when will she be able to deduct the monthly allowance and lift the grounding?
Zhu's eyebrows were upside down, and he said fiercely,
"The second son of the Wen family, although he is a concubine, is the son of Zuo Fengling's family, she is the daughter of a prostitute, even if she fights a horse, she can't catch up, even if she wants to marry, she has to wash her ancestral home and return it to my name to be qualified, I have tolerated her enough! She wasn't even satisfied! Now that she dares to demonstrate to me, she thinks that Ming Yunluo's identity has been spread, who else can she marry! ”
Zhu glared and gritted his teeth,
"In the future, she will only be tired of being discarded, she wants to fly on the branches, but she doesn't know that she is just a plaything like her mother!"
"I still want to marry the Chen family and be a wife! Dream! What a dream! ”
At this moment, a maid hurriedly entered the door, and when she saw the mess in the place, the maid said with a worried face,
"Madam, someone from the house!"
Zhu's eyebrows were upside down, and he clenched the teacup in his hand,
"Who else needs to talk to me now!"
The maid nervously didn't dare to look at Zhu,
"Madam, it's the son-in-law of the Wen Mansion who has come to propose."
Zhu let go, and the teacup raised high in his hand fell to the ground suddenly, shattering with a "stab".
The shards bounced off, and a few of them even sank into the cracks in the floor.
She grabbed the maid by the shoulder,
"What did you say?"
The maid knelt down and cried,
"The son-in-law of the Wen family came to Jiang Mansion to propose marriage, saying that he would hire Miss Seven as his wife!"
Zhu couldn't stand steadily, and fell down solidly, and everyone rushed forward to help her.
Zhu's hand pressed against Fang Cai's broken porcelain piece, and a cut was made in the palm of his hand, and bright red blood flowed out, staining a piece of the floor.
Zhu's face was impatient, and he grabbed the maid's collar with a bloody hand, and said viciously,
"Did you hear me?"
The maid knelt down and said,
"Madam, the slave maid heard it very true, it was Mrs. Zuo Fengling who came directly to the door with Wen Gongzi, and she said that Wen Gongzi fell in love with Miss Seven at first sight at the butterfly fluttering party, and she had to do it."
"Mrs. Wen really had no choice, so she brought Gongzi Wen to the door to ask for marriage in person."
Zhu's eyes turned white, and he almost fainted.
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Wen Qingcen had already drunk the second cup of tea, and he looked very calm, but in fact, his palms were about to sweat, and a thin layer of sweat appeared on his white and smooth forehead.
The first to greet Jiang Boqi was to greet them, and after greeting each other, everyone sat down.
Mrs. Wen is forty years old, her skin is delicate, although she has some wrinkles, but she has many laugh lines, few bitter lines, and a small face, always with a gentle and friendly smile. It makes people feel kind at first sight.
"It's really rude to come here suddenly, but it's just for the sake of my children, and I don't dare to delay."
"Since I've already come, then I'll forgive the reckless woman, I heard that Lord Neishi has a daughter, who is sixteen this year, and she is very generous and beautiful."
Jiang Boqi said in his heart.
It turned out that the relatives came.
"Don't dare to be, presumably Madame is talking about my fourth daughter Jiang Baohe?"
Mrs. Wen lowered her eyes and smiled,
"Definitely."
"The fourth lady Hui quality Lan heart is lovely, but the individual has a personal fate, only the word heart is happy to achieve marriage, I only have a child under my knees, he is young and vigorous, does not know the etiquette, in the butterfly fluttering party only saw Miss Seven once and fell in love with it, begging me to marry him no matter what, I asked left and right, I heard that Miss Seven is just the right age, dignified temperament, and the wife dared to come to discuss the marriage of the two children with the marriage book of the bride."
Mrs. Wen waved her hand and handed over a box to the waiter.
Mrs. Wen said,
"This is the marriage book, and I invite Lord Neishi to take a look at it."
Mrs. Wen handed over a piece of parchment, and Jiang Boqi took it.
The content of the front of the marriage book is very similar to other marriage books, but the content behind it makes Jiang Boqi's pupils dilate slightly.
Thirty granges, ten jade shops, half of the dansha veins in the west of the city, and some other precious utensils as dowry.
Jiang Boqi's hands holding the parchment were a little sweaty.
He knew that Zuo Fengling Wen Jian was born in a merchant, and his father was a famous businessman of the Jiangnan generation in his early years, and he became famous in gambling and mining, and was called Huo Fan Li, but Jiang Boqi never thought that Wen Jian would be so arrogant.
How rich does this have to be a dowry list to come up with?
Not to mention the thirty Zhuangzi.
Let's talk about jade shops, the Wen family's jade and goldware shops in Chang'an almost monopolized the jade industry among the princes and nobles.
Even the secretary in charge of weaving in the palace has to look at the Wen family's complexion. Most of the jade, gold and silver products used by the nobles also came from the Wen family.
Therefore, Wen's jade shops are generally very large-scale, and everything is expensive, and they are very handy, and the value of one can top more than a dozen others.
Unexpectedly, Zuo Fengling actually took out ten such jade shops as a dowry.
You must know that even if you have a Wen's jade shop in Chang'an, you will almost have no worries for the rest of your life.
And the Dansha ore vein in the west of Gyeonggi in the city is even more coveted, and there is only one person who can buy land around Gyeonggi in Chang'an and hit the vein.
Many people are eager for this, because the dansha used in Chang'an has always been transported from other places, not to mention the cost of mining, it is said that it has cost a lot to transport the dansha to Chang'an.
Therefore, Chang'an's dansha has always been extremely expensive, but Wen's broke this situation.
Chang'an Gyeonggi's dansha was born, there is not much transportation cost, and even people can go to the mine to choose directly, even if it is a good dansha, the price will not be sky-high.
All of a sudden, together with Dansha's business, Wen's also monopolized most of it.
The imperial court took a fancy to this vein and wanted to buy it, but the Wen family had already established a chamber of commerce together with other Dansha suppliers to evenly reduce the price and reach a consensus, so as not to cut off the financial route of other supplies.
Because the entire Dansha industry is involved, and the personnel are intertwined, the previous Zhisu Neishi did not do the matter of acquiring the Dansha vein.
But now, Wen's is like watching a gadget, and he actually sent half of the Dansha ore veins casually.
How can this not be tempting!
Jiang Boqi kept thinking in his head, and Jiang Ruofu came this way.
The ice-blue silk satin reflected a dazzling luster in the sunlight, Jiang Ruofu's hair was shining in the light golden sunlight, and the sallow complexion caused by malnutrition quickly faded during this time and returned to its original complexion.
Snow skin and red lips, thick eyebrows and deep eyes, a pair of slender and cold eyes, but the eyelashes are extremely thick and long, like flowers around her dark eyes, the thick eyelashes slightly cover her black and white pupils, but the little light exposed in the eyes is more and more moving.
The green silk is bundled into a fallen horse bun, the eyes and hair color are thick ink, the skin is snow-white, the lips are as red as cherries, and the shape is like flower petals.
Wen Qingcen watched her lift her skirt and walk up the steps, her black hair moving with the breeze, and a wisp of her snow-white cheeks swept over her delicate nose.
A pair of eyes seemed to look in his direction intentionally or unintentionally, and Wen Qingcen's heart suddenly stopped.
In the whole picture, he can only see her walking on the bluestone steps, her long skirt twisting and turning, one step at a time, the skirt rippling like a lake, like a flower blooming.
The sun and the breeze wrapped around the hem of her skirt, and the warm sunlight sprinkled all over her body without hesitation, and she seemed to come with the light.
The shadows of the trees swayed, the sunlight was cut into fine light golden spots, and she walked step by step under the shade of the light and dark mottled trees.
The hair swayed lightly, swaying with the wind, just like his heart, unable to be still.
The city of Confused Yang, which I had read in books before, fascinated Cai and the country, this moment was vividly and concretely extended in front of my eyes.
Although the face in her memory is also beautiful, it is slightly obscured and restrained, at this moment, her beauty is undisguised and sharp.
Tightly grasping the seven souls and six souls of people, tempting to sink again and again.
Mrs. Wen was a little surprised.
Jiang Ruofu is so amazingly beautiful?
No wonder Qingcen fell in love at first sight, struggled to find her identity, and begged her to come to the door to propose.
Such a look is really outstanding, I am afraid that it can be seen at a glance in the crowd.
Wen Qingcen watched her walk step by step, his heartbeat seemed to penetrate his skin, so that everyone present could hear it clearly.
His heart was hot.
She... Is this what it looks like when you comb your forehead?
Jiang Ruofu walked step by step, and he could see her appearance more and more clearly, with delicate red lips and nose, a palm-sized face, and a small red mole on her ear, all of which coincided with the person he remembered who had only met once but impressed him.
Wen Qingcen's eyes were straight, and his eyes unconsciously sank on her.
Jiang Ruofu walked in front of Jiang Boqi,
"Greetings to my father."
Jiang Boqi nodded.
Jiang Ruofu turned to Mrs. Wen to say goodbye,
"Joffer has seen Madame."
Her movements are gentle and steady, generous but gentle. The eyes are respectful, and they don't look out of curiosity.
It gave Mrs. Wen a good impression at once.
Mrs. Wen hurriedly helped her up, but she didn't say anything, just patted her hand approvingly,
"Good girl."
Jiang Ruofu walked in front of Wen Qingcen, Wen Qingcen hurriedly stood up, Jiang Ruofu lowered his eyes and made a flat salute,
"I've seen Mr. Wen."
Wen Qingcen looked at her, his heart beating so that the blood veins in his whole body seemed to tremble.
He reversed the fan he was holding in his hand, held the tail of the fan and bowed to her, and said softly,
"I've seen Sister Ruofu."
The voice was soaked in nervousness, and there was a slight tremor.
He looked at her, and his inky black pupils reflected her little one.
Looking at her up close, he could even see every strand of her hair clearly, the green silk that was as soft as smoke was pulled up with a frost flower silver hairpin and put on the hair, like snow falling on the green silk as black as yarn, he couldn't help but want to reach out and stroke the snow between her hair.
Bu Shao swayed slightly with her movements, the ice-white beads and her black hair shone brightly, the light in her eyes was slightly cold, she looked up at him, Wen Qingcen couldn't help but look at her gaze.
She didn't know how moving she looked in his eyes.
At this moment, she simply wants people's hearts and lives.
Mrs. Wen smiled,
"When I saw it today, if she was really a girl who was generous and unworldly, it was no wonder that Qingcen would never forget it."
"Lord Jiang, these two children are also fateful, when the butterfly fluttering will throw flowers to choose a son-in-law, Ruofu happened to lose the urn, isn't this just going to marry a husband surnamed Wen? To put it mildly, the Wen family, who is the right person in the capital and the Jiangjia family, is just Zuo Fengling's mansion. ”
"And when I heard about the butterfly fluttering meeting, although the urn was placed very close to the position where the girls threw the flower branches, but no one threw the urn on the spot except Ruofu, Lord Jiang, tell me, is it a fate of nodding from heaven?"
Jiang Ruofu heard Mrs. Wen reiterate the matter of throwing flower branches last time, and she subconsciously raised her eyes and glanced at Wen Qingcen.
Wen Qingcen happened to be looking at her, and as soon as Jiang Ruofu raised his eyes, he met Wen Qingcen's scorching gaze.
It's like trying to suck people in.
Jiang Ruofu found out that even though he was a little green, Wen Qingcen also had a pair of peach blossom eyes.
It's just that she doesn't think those eyes are very moving.
She looked at Wen Qingcen's eyes, as if she could see another person through those eyes.
Maybe he has seen a real perfection, such a pair of eyes that look at people with self-affection, but are born with three points of coolness, Jiang Ruofu did not feel a trace of amazement when he looked at Wen Qingcen's peach blossom eyes.
In all fairness, Wen Qingcen's appearance was born extremely well, with Mrs. Wen.
Especially the deep eyes, not only also have a little affection, but also carry the shyness and timidity of a young man, and dare not look at her directly, but those eyes are beautiful enough to make the heart of the woman who has not left the cabinet palpitate.