There was a reason for this, no wonder Ling Xi was so cold to him, and he also spoke with a gun and a stick. Chang Lehou regretted not falling because he was indiscriminate and slapped her.

This matter originated from a bastard family affair that the Lian family gave Chang Ling Xixun two years ago.

At that time, Ling Xi was faced with the unknown six gods and no master of the man's family, and he was worried in his heart, so he looked for Yuehua and cried. Yuehua befriended her, and secretly bribed the vendor who sent vegetables to the Hou Mansion with her own money, and asked him to help inquire about the other party's situation carefully, only to know that the man was actually entangled in a life lawsuit. The deceased's family also has a backer, and they want to sue reluctantly, even if they don't want to pay more. Therefore, the man did everything possible to climb the family business of the Hou Mansion, and wanted to take advantage of the momentum of the Shaoqing Chang Zhixin of Dali Temple to settle the matter and save his life.

That Lian didn't know whether he really didn't know, or pretended to be stupid, so he agreed to it.

Ling Xi's mother was the original wife of Changle Hou Zheng'er Bajing, and she died early, so she carried Lian to do the continuation. Ling Xi has not had the protection of her mother since she was a child, she is a weak character, she has always been kneaded by the Lian family and Chang Lingyan, and even her concubine Ling Luo dares to bully her. But that time she started to be ruthless, and when she heard that the man's family was anxious to come over and make up her mind, she rushed into the kitchen to find a kitchen knife, made a big fuss in the front hall, and cut it when she saw someone.

At that time, she was wearing a hair and her eyes were about to split, so frightened that the other party immediately fled, and the marriage was abandoned.

Since then, she has tasted the sweetness of resistance, and she is not afraid of death, what else is there to fear? It's just cowardice in ordinary small things, but it's a lifelong matter, that is, you have to fight for your life.

Lian was also frightened that time, and cried in the room, shouting that it was difficult for the stepmother to do. Chang Lehou didn't know the reason, but Ling Xi didn't know what to do, and a slap in the face completely cut off his last thoughts in his daughter's heart. It was still thanks to Yuehua's circumstance that Ling Xi, who was angry and unscrupulous, did not suffer a lot.

The people in the house blamed her for being ignorant, until two months later, the man's family had a lawsuit and was beheaded after the autumn, and people didn't know what to do, but it was Ling Xi's dead mother who calculated that the man was a short-lived ghost, so the possession disrupted the marriage.

Hou Ye was shocked into a cold sweat after realizing it, felt sorry for his daughter's future, quarreled with the Lian family, and then lost again. Since then, the embarrassed and angry Lian family has ignored Ling Xi's marriage, she has become an old girl who can't get married, and the estrangement between her and Chang Lehou has deepened.

After Chang Lingxi finished speaking, he was blessed and left, and he didn't look back. Chang Lehou was stunned in place, thought for a long time, and went out of the house to the matchmaker's place in a rare way, and inquired carefully about the situation of the man's family again.

The matchmaker got Lian's advice, so naturally she blew the man's house into a daze, and Chang Lehou felt relieved and asked the man to come to the capital to see each other in person. The mother-in-law responded happily.

Chang Lehou went to find two familiar colleagues in the DPRK and China for tea, and inquired side-by-side according to what Mrs. Zhou said. The two recalled that there was indeed such a family among the officials who went to Baoding Mansion in the spring of this year, who was decent and well-off, especially the only son in the family was eager to learn and progress, and was amazingly talented. Both of them were full of praise, and Chang Lehou was completely relieved.

This family affair spread in the mansion in an uproar, and everyone said that Yuehua's fortune was coming, and this was a good family that was hard to find with a lantern.

Although it was a major marriage event, the order of his parents, and the words of the matchmaker, Lian still went to Yuehua's courtyard in person and told her about this happy event. The man's family is impeccable in terms of family background and conditions, according to Yuehua's conditions, it can be said that Gao Pan, if she doesn't say half a word, then it is really true, I don't know what to do.

Yuehua just hooked her head, repeatedly whispering that she didn't want to marry and wanted to honor her uncle and aunt for a few more years.

Lian patted Yuehua's shoulder kindly, and he also had a mother-daughter affection, and got up and went back to Zhang Luo with a few smiles.

Mrs. Zhou got up and went to Baoding Mansion Zhang Luo to do this, and Lian's gave enough entanglement, it seems that as long as the other party likes it, this marriage is almost ironclad. Lian began to prepare a dowry for Yuehua, saying that it was not easy to travel between the two places, and the man's family according to the eight characters of the birthday, August was the month of Dali, and he must be in a hurry to marry, if there was no big change, the groom official would directly bring Yuehua back to Baoding Mansion.

The most exquisite thing in the dowry is the bedding for the dowry, a few covers and a few covers, a few copper coins on the corners of the quilt, and a few strings of chestnut red dates and peanuts need to be hung. The most particular thing is that this quilt can not be made by the family, you need to invite the elders of Quanfu who have both children to come and thread the needle, the snow-white quilt, a long red line, no knots, no cutting, from head to toe, meaning white head and old together.

There is a custom among the people that they do not make quilts in July, for fear of hindering the weaver girl, and the husband and wife will be strangers in the future. But Lian's was anxious to send Yuehua out, and prepared a phoenix opera peony satin quilt early, flocculated the cotton core, picked a double day, and invited the Quanfu grandmother, who had several children in the family, to come to help.

The Hou Mansion also borrowed this excuse to prepare for the banquet, and invited several uncles of the Chang family to the Hou Mansion to discuss Yuehua's marriage under the pretext of eating and drinking. Several uncles should also prepare gifts in advance and hand them over to the Lian family as Yuehua's dowry.

These needlework did not use a few grandmothers to intervene, to the needlework room to thread the needle and thread to go through the process, and all of them were handed over to the needlewoman to do, a few concubines and the two daughters-in-law in the second master of the Chang family sat in the back hall to chat, and a few masters accompanied the two respected old men in the clan to eat tea in the front hall.

Before the eight characters of this matter were written, the Lian family shouted that everyone knew about it, and asked for wine and gifts, which was a little embarrassing, and several people had a lot of slander in their hearts.

Li sat and drank tea, and asked Lian as if unintentionally: "This month, Hua girl's dowry sister-in-law is all ready?" ”

Lian Zhang took a few girls to bring pumpkin seeds, donkey rolling, honey three knives and other delicate snacks and fruits, and placed them in the hands of several grandmothers: "It's almost the same." ”

Li's "bah" spit out the tea leaves in his mouth: "I heard that the man's family promised a dowry of 8,000 taels, and the dowry of the Yuehua girl is shabby, otherwise the man's family will see a joke, and it will be difficult for Yuehua to raise her head when she marries in her mother-in-law's house." ”

Lian's heart twitched suddenly, she kept the amount of this dowry secret to her, and she had never mentioned it to outsiders, including Chang Lehou, who didn't know about it, how did Li know about it?

"Third brother and sister, who is talking nonsense, eight thousand taels? Don't say that a small magistrate, even if we are a big member of the capital, may not be willing to take out so much silver taels to ask for marriage, right? ”

Li glanced at Ding, who was looking down to peel pumpkin seeds: "The matchmaker once mentioned it to other families, naturally it is not groundless, could it be that she didn't tell the truth to her sister-in-law?" ”

Lian was a little annoyed in his heart, why didn't the mother-in-law have a doorkeeper on her lips this week, and she was talking nonsense everywhere? She only pretended not to know: "The man's family has not come yet, so the dowry has naturally not been discussed yet." I'm not selling my daughter, as long as the family is good, it doesn't matter how much or less the dowry is, I am married in a beautiful way. ”

Li gave Lian a thumbs up: "Sister-in-law is really high-spirited, and she is an example for a few of us." It's just that I don't know how much my sister-in-law married Yuehua girl, and we can follow suit, so we can't treat her badly. ”

Lian's expression was a little unnatural: "I'm different from you, I'm a long house, and Yuehua grew up in my house, so naturally I think of marrying a daughter, you just do your best, of course, my eldest aunt said a cheeky word for Yuehua, and the more the better." ”

Ding peeled the golden orange at hand again to eat, and at this time, the orange was sour, and he couldn't help frowning: "Third sister-in-law, are you worrying about the sky?" At the beginning, the fourth aunt and grandmother left a lot of shops and fields, all of which were Yuehua's dowry, I am afraid that the whole capital is the only one, and the man's family marries a God of Wealth grandmother to enter the door, that is to burn high incense and worship the Buddha, where do you dare to treat our Yuehua girl? ”

Lian's face sank more and more, Ding's words were stabbed at the tip of his heart, and the words were all about letting him return to Zhao after the fine soft fields left by Zhirou at the beginning.

She raised her eyes again to look at the second lady Sima Shi, who was sitting silently on the side, she was holding a purple agate-like crystal grape in her hand and peeling it carefully, cocking her orchid fingers, focused and serious, and did not participate in the conversation of several people.

The second master has a heavy army, he is a hot figure in Chang'an, and he is also a popular person in front of the empress dowager, Sima has always been arrogant, and he is silent in front of several concubines, and he doesn't like to mix with these messy quarrels.

Lian also wants to be like her, without much effort, every gesture is full of arrogance, and there are still people who are flattered. She gritted her teeth and thought: Wait and see, when my family Ling Yan becomes the queen one day, and some of them are when you slap me.

She had to perfunctorily avoid the important and said lightly: "Although the Hou Mansion has declined in the past two years, it will not be able to treat her badly." ”

In this room, everyone was fighting wits and courage with their hearts, and suddenly heard a commotion in the front hall, and some girls shouted in panic, with a crying voice.

Lian Shi frowned slightly, and ordered the girl in front of him: "Go to the front hall and see what's going on?" I don't know how many uncles are here, who is so short-sighted? ”

Before the big girl could take a step, Chang Lehou's entourage in the main hall outside was in a panic at the door of the back hall, and replied through the curtain: "Big lady, go to the front hall to take a look, Miss Yuehua has a big accident." ”

Lian stood up with a "poof": "Good and dignified, what's wrong?" ”

"It was the girl in front of Miss Yuehua who stumbled to report, saying that Miss Yuehua couldn't think about it for a while, so she looked for a short time."

Chang Sui knew that this matter could not be hidden, and several masters were in the front hall, and they all saw it in their eyes, and there was nothing to hide.