Not many people knew about Cen Yin's departure from Beijing except for the emperor, Dongchang and the celebrant supervisor, but the emperor's marriage to the four girls of Feng Yan and the Duanmu family was like having wings, and it soon spread in the capital.

For most of the mansions, this is just someone else's business, and it is only regarded as an after-dinner topic, and after a few days of private discussions with great interest, speculating about the direction of the Sacred Heart, and soon the ripples caused by this matter will subside.

Of course, the Xuanguo Mansion also got the news.

“…… The emperor decreed the marriage, and the slave maid heard that Mrs. Tai and the second lady were discussing preparing gifts to send to Duanmu's house to congratulate. A girl in Tsing Yi reported the news to her master one by one.

However, her master had long since stopped listening.

"Impossible......" Chu Qingyu sat by the window with a stunned expression, her lips trembled slightly, and she muttered to herself almost silently, and there was no blood on her beautiful face.

"Bang ......"

Outside the window, the drizzle was like a curtain, and the rain gently slapped on the branches, walls and ground in the courtyard, all of which were chaotic, just like Chu Qingyu's mood at the moment.

How could the emperor give marriage to Feng Yan and Duanmu Fei?!

She always knew that Duanmu Fei was brazenly pestering Feng Yan all day long, and Feng Yan was gradually confused by her, but Duanmu Fei was so big, and Feng Yan's marriage was definitely not something that An Ping could decide...... She thought that she still had time, and little by little she dragged Feng Yan's heart to her side.

Unexpectedly, the emperor actually decreed that the two of them were married, which was too fast, so fast that she was caught off guard, so fast that she was unable to deal with it......

Chu Qingyu's thick and long eyelashes trembled slightly like butterfly wings, and his face turned even paler.

A breeze blew, and the rain curtain outside was blown away, and the raindrops blew into the window and landed on the square table by the window, splashing Chu Qingyu's right hand at the same time.

The cold rain hit his hands drop by drop, but it was far less than the chill that Chu Qingyu felt in his heart at this moment.

She doesn't believe it, she doesn't want to believe it!

She has lived a new life, she has made so many efforts in the past two years, and even did not hesitate to get rid of Chu Qingci who stood in the way, but she made everyone betray her relatives and was placed under house arrest at home, but that Duanmufei was able to marry Feng Yan!

What's wrong?

In the previous life, it was obviously not the case, Chu Qing resigned and died, and Feng Yan no longer had any women around him in this life, even if he would dominate the world in the future!

But now, Feng Yan has a soft spot for Duanmu Fei......

Maybe she's wrong.

It was she who was wrong from the start.

If she hadn't recklessly gotten rid of Chu Qingci, she wouldn't have let Duanmu sit back and enjoy it!

It's all her own fault, one wrong step, one wrong step.

"Third girl......" Forsythia looked at Chu Qingyu's face wrongly, and looked at her cautiously, "Are you unwell?" Do you want a slave to ask for a doctor for you......"

Chu Qingyi raised his right hand and signaled forsythia to silence, his right hand trembled slightly like the branches and leaves in the wind and rain outside the window.

The rain outside was getting heavier and heavier, and the wind was getting stronger, making the green branches crackle.

Chu Qingyu only felt that the wind cut her face like a knife, stabbing her again and again, stabbing her with thousands of holes.

Her heart was cold, and she felt that she was in an infinite darkness, and there was no hope in sight.

She's not reconciled!

She doesn't understand, why Duanmufei, why her, what is her inferior to her?!

Chu Qingyu sat there motionless as if he was frozen, his eyes in a trance, as if half of his three souls and seven spirits had been lost.

Looking at her own girl, Forsythia was very worried, and she didn't know if she should go to the second lady to talk about it.

Forsythia moved her lips again and again, and Chu Qingyu suddenly said, "The tea is cold......

Forsythia was stunned, and saw that Chu Qingyu's eyes became firm and bright again at some point, as if the morning sun had lifted the clouds, brilliant and dazzling.

The rain outside the window gradually became lighter, and the sound of the rain continued to flow.

"Third girl, the slave will pour tea for you." Forsythia hurried to pour tea.

Chu Qingyu looked at Forsythia's back, and his eyes became deep again.

She was wrong.

She was wrong before, she only thought about how to use her knowledge of the future to show herself step by step, let Feng Yan "take the initiative" to notice her, let Feng Yan know that she was different from other women, let Feng Yan know that she could help him "achieve great things", and let Feng Yan become interested in her...... Instead, he put himself in a passive situation, allowing Duanmu Fei to unconsciously lead her by a large margin.

It was she who gave up the "opportunity" to Duanmu Fei!

She was wrong, she should have taken the initiative to approach Feng Yan from the beginning and explain her mind to Feng Yan, she was the concubine of the Xuanguo Mansion, and she knew what would happen in the future...... If she took the initiative to face Feng Yan calmly, Feng Yan would definitely know that choosing her was the most correct.

That's right, she can!

Chu Qingyu said to himself in his heart, his eyes bloomed with a bright light that was difficult to look at directly, and there was a vague determination to fight to the death.

The rain outside the window stopped, the dark clouds dispersed, and the brilliant red sun appeared in the blue sky washed by the rain, and the branches and leaves in the courtyard became more and more verdant and vibrant after being washed by the rain.

Chu Qingyu raised her eyes and looked at the courtyard outside the window, staring at the occasional raindrops that were still ticking under the eaves, and said in her heart: The key now is that she has to go out!

Counting the days, I'm afraid that the Inner Court Division is about to come to the mansion to make a small ceremony, this is an opportunity!

She didn't believe it, and her grandmother and mother didn't let her see anyone during the ceremony!

Among several princes, the second son of the emperor, Mu Youchang, was the first to get married, as early as late February, Mu Youchang had asked the emperor to complete the marriage, and the time set by the Inner Court Division was to make a small ceremony on April 17.

There are many happy events this spring, compared with the family affairs of Feng Yan, the son of the eldest princess of Anping, the marriage of the second prince Mu Youchang is naturally more attention-grabbing.

Everyone knows that the second prince was rejected by the emperor last year, and he left the palace early to open the prince's mansion, and even this year, the third prince and the fourth prince have entered the court on errands, and the second prince is still just an idle prince, as if forgotten by the emperor.

Xuanguo Mansion has always had a transcendent status in the Dasheng Dynasty, ranking first among the four major families, several generations of Xuanguo Gong are holy favors, Xuanguo Mansion has never married the royal family before, this is the first time in a hundred years that the Chu family has married a girl into the royal family.

No matter what kind of mistakes the second prince has committed before, the years will eventually blur those mistakes, and now with the backing of such a Yue family as the Xuanguo Mansion, the emperor will inevitably look at the second prince differently, and for the second prince, this is already a great benefit.

Although the Chu family has always been a pure minister for more than 100 years, only loyal to the Son of Heaven, and does not participate in the prince's succession, but once the Chu family marries the second prince, then the position of the Chu family becomes delicate, even if this Xuanguo Gong can stabilize his position, what about the next one?!

If the second prince can get the support of the Xuanguo Mansion, who will end up in this battle for the throne will become more and more confusing......

The huge capital is like a calm sea, under the seemingly calm sea, in fact, the dark tide is surging, and there are already many noble courtiers secretly thinking about what to do in the upcoming battle for succession......

March ended in the chaotic spring rain, the weather in April is getting warmer and warmer, Duanmu Fei has become more leisurely after the Buddha Bathing Festival in early April, and he is locked in the Zhanqing Courtyard every day to find things to do......

The day of the exchange of Geng posts is approaching day by day, however, the He family and the Xiao He family have never returned to the house, and a solemn atmosphere is gradually permeating the Duanmu Mansion.

In a few days, the eldest princess of Anping will come to the door, but there is no female reception in the house, and the people are carefully holding their tails and behaving, for fear of saying the wrong thing and doing the wrong thing, which will make the master angry.

"Gurgle......

A little maid struggled to hold a large pastel vase and placed it in the corner of the Zhenqu Hall, but the bottom of the bottle was not stable, and there was a crisp collision sound with the ground, which was particularly harsh in the silent hall.

The little maid gasped in fright, lest she might make the eldest girl angry, and glanced behind her.

Duanmu Jun was talking to Mama Zhang with a smile: "Mama Zhang, I see that the window screens here are a little old, so they are all removed and re-pasted with soft smoke, what do you think?" ”

"The slave remembers that there were several rolls of soft cigarettes in the storeroom." Mama Zhang smiled and echoed, and immediately asked people to go to the warehouse to find soft smoke.

The two walked around the hall with a smile and left, and the little maid looked at Duanmujun's light back and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, Duanmujun didn't care whether He returned home or not.

In her opinion, even if the He family came back, she would not rest assured that the He family would take care of her sister's affairs, in case she was messed up by the He family, it would be too late to regret it.

Duanmu Jun prepared in an orderly manner, not only made people rearrange the Zhenqu Hall at the front of the inner courtyard, but also selected a few maids, planning to let them accompany Mama Zhang to the Yimen to welcome guests that day, and let Mama Zhang and a few housekeepers beat the people under them, and told the rules and steps of the day.

On April 15th, the eldest princess of Anping came to the door with the Geng post written with the eight characters of Feng Yan's birthday, in fact, such a thing as exchanging Geng posts could have sent the official media to come, but Anping personally ran this trip in order to show his sincerity, and said that he would send the Geng post to Puji Temple by the master of Xugu to personally divinate and marry.

Master Xugu is not only profound, but also good at divination, quite famous in Beijing, Anping specially invited him out of the mountain, it can be seen that Duanmu Fei's intentions, it can be seen that he is cautious about this marriage, Duanmu Jun is satisfied with this marriage in his heart.

The two families exchanged Geng posts on the same day, and the next morning, the Duanmu family got a good return.

In this way, the rules were gone through in order to carry out the next step of the next appointment, and the two families quickly wrote a marriage letter and set a small ceremony on May 20, which was very auspicious.

The whole process was all handled by Duanmujun alone, she did everything steadily, and the whole government in the house and the mansion in Beijing were also watching this marriage, and for a time there were also a lot of Duanmujun's good names.

It's just that occasionally some people disagree that there is no girl who has not left the cabinet to take care of the marriage, this Duanmu family is really cold, there are really no rules, and this Duanmu girl is not filial to her grandmother, and she forced her grandmother to have to live in Zhuangzi, which is simply unheard of.

These gossips also reached Duanmujun's ears within a few days, Duanmujun didn't care at all, for her, the big things now are not as important as her sister's small ceremony.

After all, it will be after the small ceremony that the marriage will be really decided, and the dust will settle.

"Big girl, the princess's mansion said that the twentieth day of the next month is an auspicious time, and Her Royal Highness the eldest princess will come to the door at that time."

"In addition to the small ceremony, the man must also hold the goose as a gift that day, and the live goose is rare, and most people use wooden geese instead."

"After that, the woman will give a return gift, the four treasures of the study, satin clothes, and the clothes, shoes and socks made by the girl's own hands."

"After that, it will be ...... by the man's daughter."

A housekeeper and grandmother carefully explained the etiquette process of the small ceremony with Duanmujun, Duanmujun occasionally interjected to ask, and the wisteria on the side also silently wrote down the ritual.

After the housekeeper finished speaking, Duanmujun sent the people away, and went back to Zhanqing Courtyard by himself, planning to have lunch with his sister.

Hearing the maid say that Duanmufei was in the small study, Duanmujun went over there, and before he entered the door, he heard a crisp sound of falling children from inside, one after another, unhurried.

The casual sound of falling children unconsciously overlapped with Duanmujun's heartbeat, and she hooked her lips and smiled.

Duanmujun opened the curtain and went in, and at a glance he saw his sister sitting by the window playing chess with himself, and the little white fox and the black little starling squatted on both sides of the chessboard, looking at the black and white chess pieces distributed by the stars on the chessboard with great interest.

A fox and a bird have burning eyes, as if they are more focused than Duanmu Fei, a chess player.

Duanmufei heard the sound of lifting the curtain, casually put down the sunspot he had just picked up in his hand, and turned his head to look at Duanmuxuan.

"Sister." Duanmu looked at her pitifully with a pair of big eyes, as if asking, when will her grounding be lifted?

For more than a month, she has been bored in the house all day, and the paintings she drew for Feipian, Xiaoba, and Tuanzi are almost ready to be integrated into a booklet.

Duanmujun almost didn't relent, but fortunately, at this time, the little starling came to his aid and pecked Duanmufei's right hand with his tender yellow beak.

Duanmu snorted in a low voice, and saw that the little starling then pecked in the black chess box, pecking the chess pieces in the chess box crackling.

Duanmu Fei was a little speechless and picked up another sunspot and put it on the chessboard, the little starling was finally happy, and while jumping his feet, he "croaked" twice, quite satisfied.

The little fox was not happy, and protested "whooping", and swept the white chess box with his fluffy tail.

And there's no end to it! Duanmu looked at the little fox speechlessly, staring at it with big eyes.

Looking at this scene, Duanmu Jun couldn't help but smile, walked over, sat down on the other side of the chessboard, and twisted a white grain.

After looking at the chess game for a while, she dropped the white child in her hand and asked, "Zhen Zhen, how did you do with Feng Gongzi's clothes?" Listening to the housekeeper's grandmother mention it just now, Duanmujun remembered this matter, so he asked casually.

The little fox was satisfied, and jumped to Duanmu's hand with a "whoosh", and squatted obediently.

Duanmu Fei froze, and the sunspot that had just been twisted stopped in mid-air, a little weak.

After exchanging Geng posts, the princess's mansion sent the size of Feng Yan, and at that time, she casually threw the list aside, thinking that it was okay to temporarily rush it in the last half a month.

She'd forgotten about it these days.

Duanmu Fei dropped the sunspot in his hand again, and said vaguely: "Sister, don't worry, I know it in my heart." ”

Duanmujun hooked his lips funny, guessing that his sister hadn't started to do it at all, so he didn't continue the topic until now, and he only felt that his sister's weak little appearance was really cute.

Thinking about it, Duanmujun twisted up another grain of white, and was about to fall, when he suddenly thought of something, and his body froze.

Worst!

At the Xiaoding ceremony, not only did her sister have to make new clothes for Feng Yan, but she also had to prepare a new dress for her sister to wear at the Xiaoding ceremony.

Why did you forget it!

Duanmujun almost didn't beat himself, and he couldn't care about the chess game, so he threw down the sentence "I still have something", and hurriedly ran again.

Looking at her sister's hurried figure, Duanmu sighed in her heart: Sister is really busy!

Well, she still has to meet her grandfather today, it's been so long since Nanhuai's detectives happened, and Jingzhong has returned to its usual calm, grandfather can't keep grounding her, right?

She also wants to go to the princess's mansion in Wuyang.

Duanmu Fei was pondering, but saw that Duanmu Jun, who had just gone out, turned around and came back, and commanded in his mouth: "Wisteria, you go to open the warehouse, and bring a few of the new materials I bought a few days ago, that is, the crimson cloud brocade, and the purple Shu brocade...... Plus the real red peony pattern engraved silk material. ”

"Cinnabar, you go and call the sewing room."

After receiving the order, the two maids left in a hurry.

Duanmujun walked in slowly, Mingyan's face was a little embarrassed, and he could only hide it with a smile.

She was also embarrassed to tell her sister directly, when she went out just now, she forgot that she was going to make clothes for her sister, how could her sister herself not be there.

Duanmujun was worried, this small ceremony is still so trivial, and her sister's wedding will be more complicated in the future, it seems that she will still have to make a list in the future, carefully write down the steps and things to prepare, and come step by step, so as not to make mistakes in the busy.

Duanmu crooked her little face, she didn't expect Xiao Dingli to be at the ceremony, she just thought that Duanmu Jun was going to make summer clothes for her, and reminded: "Sister, this summer's summer clothes have been arranged, and there is no need to add more." ”

Looking at his sister's innocent little face, Duanmu Jun felt even more worried, and explained: "It's your little gift soon, I have to hurry up and make you two new clothes." She sighed in her heart: My sister is still young, why did this marriage come so suddenly?

The little fox and the little starling saw that the sisters were only talking and not playing chess, and they were not happy, one "quack" and the other "whoop", urging one after another.

However, their attention was quickly diverted, and after a while, Wisteria brought four or five rolls of material from the warehouse with a few mothers-in-law, in addition to the three rolls that Duanmu Jun said, Wisteria also deliberately brought two more rolls of materials that she thought were good to choose for Duanmu Jun and Duanmu Fei.

The room was lively all of a sudden, and the little starling had always liked to be lively, happily flapping his wings around the rolls of material, and had long forgotten all about the chess game.

The little fox glanced at the fussy little starling with "disdain" with those ice-blue fox eyes, found a comfortable position at random, curled up in a ball, and went to sleep.

After another half of the tea, the housekeeper of the sewing room also came with two daughters-in-law, and helped measure the size around Duanmufei and carefully recorded them one by one.

Duanmujun listened to a daughter-in-law report her sister's size, smiled, and looked her sister up and down with interest, "Zhenzhen, you have grown taller again." ”

Duanmu, who was stupidly measured by others, said that his eyes lit up suddenly, as brilliant as a meteor, and he stroked his palm happily: "It seems that I may be as tall as my sister next year." ”

Looking at Duanmufei, who had only surpassed Duanmujun's shoulders, several maids in the room secretly exchanged a look, and they really couldn't bear to hit the four girls.

Wisteria cleared his throat and said, "Fourth girl, look at which two materials you like, the slave maid looks at the purple material, the color is quite bright and noble......"

While Wisteria was talking, another little maid came in with a curtain, bent her knees in front of the curtain and said, "The eldest girl, the fourth girl, the uncle and wife of the Xinguo Mansion are here." ”

The Xinguo Mansion that the maid said is the He family, and the current Xinguo Gongzi is the eldest brother of the Xiao He family, and also the nephew of the Queen Mother and the He family, and this uncle is the wife of the Xinguo Gongshizi.

Duanmujun's eyes flashed, and he naturally thought of the gossip about himself and the He family in Beijing these days.

She quietly took the roll of purple material and compared the color on her sister's body, and said casually: "Grandmother and second aunt are not in the house these days, hey, there is really no one in this house to entertain my uncle and wife." ”

She said casually, but sounded high-sounding, and the implication was already clear, she did not intend to entertain the "uninvited guest" "beyond the bounds".

As she spoke, she took another roll of crimson material, put it next to Duanmu's crimson white jade cheeks and compared it, and muttered: "This crimson one is not bad, Zhen Zhen, I look at the ruby head that is very suitable for you." But purple is not bad, you don't wear purple on weekdays, I see this color makes you demure......"

Duanmu Fei was fiddling with her sister casually, her eyes were a little dazed, and she wondered in her heart: Xiao He's eldest sister-in-law suddenly came, is it because He and Xiao He went to Zhuangzi, what it really means!

The corners of Duanmu's mouth turned up slightly, the house has been too calm recently, and she can't go out to see the excitement, so she can only count on the "lively" to come to the door.

The little maid who came to talk glanced at the eldest girl with some hesitation, and knew in her heart that the eldest girl had always said the same, and she didn't dare to say more.

Wisteria walked towards the little maiden, made a gesture to her, and silently withdrew with her.

After Wisteria and the little maid left the Zhanqing Courtyard together, they walked all the way to the direction of the gate, and arrived at the East Corner Gate, and from a distance, they saw an old woman wearing a maroon dark striped gown standing beside the gatehouse with her chin held high, with a proud face.

"Mama Miao," Wisteria took a few steps forward, bowed her knees to the old mama, and said seriously, "My eldest girl said that there are no elders in the family these days, lest I be rude if I don't greet him well, but I won't be rude." ”

What the?! Mama Miao's arrogant round face burst out with disbelief, and blurted out: "Our lady is Mrs. He's uncle." "Mrs. Lady of the Prince of the Kingdom of Letters.

Wisteria has also seen a lot of big scenes with her own girl in the past two years, and the emperor, queen, concubine, prince, and princess don't know how many times they have met, where can a grandmother from the Xinguo Mansion scare her.

She smiled slightly, smiled more kindly, and said decently: "Mama Miao, Mrs. Miao's identity is 'noble', that is Mrs. Xinguo Gongshi who was personally sealed by the emperor, and the eldest girl of my family is a junior, neither being the housewife, nor having a command, if you come to greet your uncle's wife, I am afraid that it will not be thoughtful, wouldn't you snub your uncle's wife?" ”

Mama Miao frowned, thinking about what the other party said seemed to be reasonable, but thinking about it again, she felt that something was wrong.

Mama Miao hesitated for a moment, but still went out of the corner gate and truthfully returned to Mrs. He in the carriage.

Mrs. He was also dumbfounded, since she ascended the throne from now on, as the emperor's cousin-in-law, she has never been treated so poorly in any mansion.

"How can this be true? How unreasonable! Mrs. He muttered in her mouth, so angry that her forehead was bruised.

She knew how He and Xiao He were angry with the two girls in Zhuangzi, it turned out to be such two stinky girls with sharp teeth and disrespect for their elders!

"Let's go!"

After Mrs. He gave a hateful order, the carriage of the He family turned around and left again without entering the door, and the carriage sped away along Quanyu Street, and soon, the sound of horses' hooves and the sound of the wheels gradually faded away......

Duanmu Mansion returned to calm, the spring breeze was blowing, the branches and leaves were swaying, and everything was as usual.

In the morning of the next day, Zhang Yushi was the first to jump out of the queue, and righteously impeached Duanmu Shoufu for not governing the family strictly, and openly connived at his granddaughter's unfilial piety.

It was like a dry thunder on the flat ground, and the whole court was in an uproar.