Chapter 347: Self-defeating and Finally Coming True on Chinese New Year's Eve

Although everyone is happy, but the person who is happy, it is naturally Chen Yanjiu, and he smiled so much that even the corners of his mouth were opened. It's just that he still remembers that the angel on the side of the mirror garden couldn't delay, and the sweet words coaxed Zhu Shi to relax. , actually promised him to send his sister and brother-in-law back, and by the way, to see the excitement. Su Yi on the side had no interest in staying, although he had an empty stomach, he still immediately said goodbye, Chen Yun originally wanted to stay, but he couldn't help his cold eyes, so he had to go with him.

Chen Lan thought that Yang Jinzhou had missed the meal just now, and was about to let him rush back with two bites casually, but Zhu had already ordered Lu Calyx to prepare a box, and put on a few colors of snacks to pad his stomach on the road. As for Chen Qing and Chen Han, the girl who followed had already quietly asked the two of them to leave while others were not paying attention. And Chen Xi stood there silently as if she didn't see the girl's eyes, until Chen Lan left with Yang Jinzhou, took her hand at the door of the main room and whispered a few words, she stared at the distant back for a while, and turned around silently to leave.

"Old lady, old lady, ahead...... The front military department paperwork has arrived! ”

Hearing this, Chen Xi stopped for a moment. Seeing that it was Zheng's mother who rushed into the main room like a gust of wind, she stood up with a little hesitation, and after a while, I saw a little girl open the door curtain and come out, Zheng's mother personally helped Zhu out, followed by a few big girls.

The group looked a little nervous, and none of them noticed her. Faced with such a scene, when the person in front of her came out of the hall, she said to the girl next to her without looking back: "Let's go, let's take a look." ”

"Miss, if the lord and aunt knew......

"You should have heard that it was the military department documents, besides my father, who else in this family would get what military department documents?"

Leaving these words, she no longer paid attention to the cowering big girl, and walked forward quickly. There was a corner door along the mewrack, and she didn't care about anything else, so she stepped forward and finally saw a group of people at the door in front of her, all of whom were daughters-in-law looking around. She almost subconsciously rushed forward, looked around and called a daughter-in-law who usually likes to rap over, and asked in a deep voice, "What's going on?" ”

The daughter-in-law hurriedly smiled and saluted, but when she heard the question, she couldn't help but hesitate, but in the face of Chen Xi's cold gaze, she was very defeated, so she had to explain in a whisper: "Fifth Miss, the little one just heard them talking and said yes............ It was said that the military department had issued an order, and the war in Gansu was tight, so the third master was transferred to guard Suzhou......"

At that moment, Chen Xi only felt a loud bang in his head, and then staggered back a few steps, not even noticing the changing eyes of the daughter-in-law. Finally steadied herself, she glanced blankly at the crowd in front of her, who were excited, shaking their heads, or whispering, and suddenly turned around and walked towards the way they came, and twisted the handkerchief fiercely with both hands.

Maybe...... It's a good ending!

As soon as Chen Lan and Yang Jinzhou came out of the Yimen, they happened to meet the Ministry of War to deliver the documents. It's just that what she didn't expect was that the person who came was not as dedicated to Chen Ying as usual, but like a eunuch who passed the decree, he shouted loudly as soon as he arrived, and the news was already known to everyone before he arrived at Chen Ying's study. At this moment, when Chen Lan got into the carriage with the support of Yang Jinzhou, he still couldn't help but glance in the direction of the study, and then lowered his head and got into the car.

Since the last time I startled the horse, now as long as the husband and wife go out, they are in the same car, so that other Aunt Yun, Aunt Liu and a few girls and the like can only take another car. As soon as the car door was closed, the thick curtain fell, so as not to be overheard in the car, so at this time, Yang Jin hugged Chen Lan and relayed what Chen Ying said just now.

"The agency is too clever to calculate, and it cost Qingqing's life."

Chen Lan muttered in a low voice, and when she saw Yang Jinzhou looking at her in surprise, she snuggled into his arms and said softly: "Unlike Ru Ningbo, who has no merit and was able to attack the lord by just walking through the door, the third uncle is a meritorious man after all. Even if I marryed you as the county lord, even if the fourth brother is working hard to learn literature and martial arts, after all, he is only starting, except that he was born in a long house, and none of them can match the third uncle. The third uncle's jealousy of the long house is just the word borrowing, but there have been so many borrowed nobles in the past hundred years, how many of them have returned their titles? In fact, he didn't have to do anything, he was already sure to win, and he didn't have to make so many small moves at all. ”

After being silent for a while, Yang Jin Zhou Fang shook his head and sighed: "Born in a noble family, since I was a child, I have seen that brothers compete with each other and my father is suspicious. The words he reminded me were nothing more than to say that so many people have been rewarded, but I have not received anything because of your burden............ He didn't know that I was young and high, and I didn't want to go any further. ”

Speaking of this, he paused, and his tone suddenly became low: "I hope that the emperor will only give you a first-class wife, which is what you deserve." ”

"Stay, only the husband and wife are honorable, do you want to be said to be a wife and a husband?"

"What's so bad about that......"

The couple whispered in the carriage, and when there was a gentle knock on the door outside, Chen Lanfang came back to his senses, looked at the untouched box in the corner, and felt that his temples were messed up again, and he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. Fortunately, she had learned a lesson when she went to Runingbo's Mansion to meet her on the first day after her marriage, and she immediately took out the mirror from the small drawer, pursed her head in three or two strokes, and put on the golden toad distraction, and suddenly Chen Yancha's shouting came from outside.

"Sister, brother-in-law, aren't you asleep?"

"Open the door!"

Chen Lan was secretly angry at Chen Yan when he heard this, and then quickly ordered. When she walked out of the dim carriage to the sun, she instinctively squinted her eyes and adjusted for a while, and the familiar voice of Manager Dai came to her ears.

"Master, madam, the celebrant is waiting in Zhiyuan Hall."

"Alright, let's go!"

In the Zhiyuan Hall, the Jiang family sat with him, and the master of ceremonies and eunuch Qu Yongzheng sat on a chair on the lower left, perhaps because everything he could say just now was finished, and both of them seemed to be closing their eyes to recuperate. It wasn't until he vaguely felt as if someone was leaning up behind him and whispered in a low voice, Qu Yong opened his eyes. Almost at the same time as the curtain was raised, he also flicked the corner of his coat and stood up, and naturally rolled down the sleeve that had just been rolled up halfway, and covered his wrist tightly.

Seeing each other on both sides, Chen Lan and Yang Jinzhou naturally apologized for the previous delay, and Qu Yong naturally behaved generously and did not express any dissatisfaction with it at all. The incense case and so on have been prepared for a long time, and after the cadres stood in the corresponding position according to the rules, they each took their own seats" When the familiar beginning sounded in his ears again, Chen Lan suddenly felt a little trance.

She was a little distracted, but the Jiang family couldn't help but glance at the jade shaft Luan brocade scroll, the tail of the curl was woven with the pattern of the lifting dragon, and the two flying dragons were printed with the four gilded seal scrolls of Fengtian's decree, and she had mixed feelings in her heart.

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor system said: husband and mother are noble, and wives are honored by husbands" heard all the ancient times and listed in the strategy. Weier's right army governor Yang Jin Zhou's mother Jiang's family, his wife Haining County Lord Chen's family, Zheng Wei Fuyun, Gui Nai Qing Armadillo, prepared Xian "poems" and "rites", and was good at words. Broken weaving donation, the elegant training of the master of the Daomu; Picking apples and chrysanthemums, following the rules of women's history. Today, Qu Yong, the eunuch of ceremonies, canonized Jiang as Mrs. Yipin, and Chen as Mrs. Yipin. Erqi did not violate the feudal observance of "being in harmony, and making the family last for a long time." The saint is important, but it is not beautiful! Respectfully! ”

Although it was completely different from the last canonization, the literature and science still made Chen Lan's scalp numb, and when she stood up at the end, she respectfully took the edict and put it on the offering table on the side, but when she turned around, she asked in a ghostly manner: "Dare to ask Gonggong Qu, I don't know who this edict came from?" ”

"This is a matter of the Ministry of Rites, and it has been an internal assistant for two times, and Song Lao, a scholar of the Huagai Temple and a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, is personally in charge."

After Qu Yong explained lightly, he said to Yang Jinzhou: "This Mrs. Pin has been sealed, so Lord Yang naturally has another appointment." It's just that the emperor is not easy to announce it now, so it has to be delayed for a while. Thinking about it, with Lord Yang's generosity, he won't mind being told that his wife and husband are expensive. ”

If it weren't for the fact that the banter between husband and wife at that time would definitely not be heard, "Even if I heard it, it wouldn't have been transmitted to Qu Yong so much, so although Chen Lan was a little embarrassed, it could be seen that Yang Jinzhou was all right, so she naturally passed as if she hadn't heard it." When the people were sent away, Chen Yanfang, who had just been hiding under the eaves to watch the excitement, came over, and after the family reflexively returned to the main house of Xifuju and sat down, after the Jiang family sent the people away, they immediately let out a long sigh. Gas.

"To be honest, the things of the past few days are really overwhelming, and now even such a big thing as a reward has unconsciously lost much feeling. When the two of you were not there, I accompanied Gonggong Qu for a long time, he said that Jinyi Wei had already found out clearly, and the matter of the horse was the secret agent planted by Ouyang Xing, the handsome man of Jinyi Weiti, in the Yang family's own house, and when feeding the horse, he mixed a lot of grass with anesthetic, and said that Ouyang was in collusion with the master of Longquan Nunnery, so he had died, and the former Tishuai Lu Yiyun was also involved with the master of Longquan Nunnery, and he was ordered to commit suicide. It's all these scum who don't stop, how many people have been harmed! ”

Is it Ouyang Xing? Even Lu Yiyun has not escaped?

Chen Lan and Yang Jinzhou exchanged glances, and each other's eyes finally showed a hint of relief. And Chen Yan slammed his small fist on the armrest, and snorted angrily: "It's really cheap for them!" ”

The Chinese New Year's Eve of the 26th year of Yongxi has a very meaningful meaning for the whole day. At the court meeting the day before, the emperor proposed to tour the south of the Yangtze River, but countless ministers from top to bottom tried to stop it, and finally said that the emperor was moved to take back his fate. It's just that when the past was not successful, the emperor ordered the emperor Sijing to go to Jiangnan to inspect on the grounds that there have been frequent earthquakes in many places since the beginning of winter in Jiangnan. Although this article was first opposed by the ministers with filial piety, it was decided smoothly with the collective acquiescence of the ministers.

It's just that there is chaos outside, and now Chen Lan has just heard it.

In the days after the new year, she was relaxed and comfortable, almost better than the time when she married Yan'er. Because her husband doesn't have to go to the court every day, she can watch him practice sword riding and archery, he can accompany her to read and write, and the husband and wife can go out to the Buddhist temple and Taoist temple to see the scenery of this year, and they can also go to the street with their mother-in-law to buy New Year's goods in person. In addition, Chen Yan, who comes to the house from time to time to join in the fun, and Jiang, who likes to tell interesting stories about the past few years, the family is not happy.

Therefore, for the second Chinese New Year's Eve after he came to this era, Chen Lan was far more devoted than this time last year. If she was still familiar with this strange time and space at that time, then now she has completely integrated into it, even if she can't say that she is like a fish in water, she rarely floats that not-so-distant memory in her sleep.

At this moment, seeing a few girls lightly arranging the set of exquisite dishes and cups on the table, listening to a daughter-in-law solemnly reporting the dishes of the Chinese New Year's Eve reunion dinner in front of her, "Holding a cup of jasmine 1Γ¬hu tea in her hand, she just nodded lightly from time to time, and did not point fingers again." Only when Zhuang's mother came into the door and talked about the many arrangements when the smoke was released at night, she settled down and listened carefully.

"The rest doesn't matter, only the buckets and wells and so on must be watched in advance, not afraid of 10,000, just in case."

"Yes, Madame, don't worry!"

Zhuang's mother promised to go out, Yang Jinzhou entered the door, took off the big snail on his body and handed it to the red snail on the side, and said with a wry smile: "I originally thought that Hou Shi of Zhendong was alone in the capital, and the second duke had not yet gone to Beijing after all, so I wanted to invite him to our house at night to be lively, but he was robbed of the front." You didn't see it like then......"

Speaking of which, he couldn't help but laugh when he was always cold. Seeing his appearance, Chen Lan glanced at the east house next to him, and when he entered the house first, she instructed Aunt Yun and Aunt Liu to take charge outside, and then got up and went to the east house. As soon as she lowered the curtain, she saw that Yang Jinzhou, who was sitting on the east end of the kang, was grinning like a coke in addition to not making a sound, she immediately walked to him and sat down, and asked in surprise: "What is so funny?" ”

"Today's Chinese New Year's Eve" is due to the death of the empress, so the emperor decrees that only luncheon is held in the palace. As a result, when I arrived at the Hou Mansion in Zhendong, it happened that His Royal Highness King Jing personally came to the door and invited Xiao Shi to the palace in the evening to observe the New Year together. When I heard this, I almost thought I had misheard" The two scholars beside Zhendonghou, as well as the guards and the Tang steward who followed up...... The mouth was wide enough to swallow a goose egg. Xiao Shi's face turned blue at that time, but His Royal Highness King Jing actually swore that he ...... again, saying that this was the emperor's will, in order to prevent the Hou Shi of Zhendong from being Chinese New Year's Eve alone! I looked at the way Tang was in charge, and I almost wanted to break into the palace and ask if there was really such a thing. However, Xiao Shi's face changed for a while, and he didn't know whether he agreed or not! ”

Even if he thought about it casually, Chen Lan could depict what the scene was at that time, and he couldn't help but laugh, but then he sneered at Yang Jinzhou: "Good Ping Pong Xiao Shi is also my mother and my life-saving benefactor, you don't know how to pull him...... His Royal Highness King Jing is also the same, "The last time I was in Huguo Temple, I was a mouthful of Xiao Lang, and even I felt cold when I heard it." ”

"His Royal Highness King Jing is that sex." Yang Jinzhou thought about Xiao Lang's expression at that time, and couldn't help laughing again, "Although I only saw him once with the blessing of His Royal Highness King Zhou, he was the same to me at that time, making fun of me in every way, if I hadn't seen the real ...... when I was in Xinghe Ahem, I'm really going to be fooled by him! Don't worry, since he dares to move the emperor out, it will not be a fake holy decree, and seeing that I actually joked that his palace is very big, if I want, I might as well take my mother and you to go to the night to have fun, where do I dare to respond, I had to run away, and I threw Xiao Shi down very unkindly. ”

"You, you, you......"

Chen Lan finally couldn't help it, pointed at Yang Jinzhou and said three words in a row, almost even turning over the back of the kang chair. For fear that this laughter would attract the attention of outsiders, she had to cover her mouth and look at it happily, then raised her head and said angrily: "Yes, it's okay tonight, if there is something............ Look how long Xiao Shi has to hate you! ”

"I said that this matter can be relieved, don't worry about it, will I still hurt my mother and your savior...... I'll tell you the truth......"

The couple were arguing in the East House, although they tried their best to suppress it, but there was still laughter from time to time, and Aunt Liu was checking the amount of green money used for the evening reward, and she turned back frequently, but Aunt Yun couldn't look past it, and gently pulled her, and whispered: "It's just a two-month marriage, it's common sense to laugh and laugh, I want to ...... Not so much? ”

"I know...... It's just that I'm happy! ”

While the two were talking like this, a daughter-in-law suddenly opened the curtain and came in. When the people who came to see that the people in the bright room were all looking at her, they hurriedly curtsied and saluted, and said with a smile: "The little one called from the second door to deliver the news, because he saw that there was no one in the courtyard, so he came in boldly, and asked a few sisters-in-law and sisters to forgive their sins."

In fact, it was because someone outside claimed to be a relative of the old lady's family, saying that he was from Jiangnan, and this time he went to Beijing to give a festival gift. It was two mothers who came and sent two carts of things. ”

As soon as these words came out, "Don't say Aunt Liu, Aunt Yun was taken aback, and even Yun'er, who was looking down to transcribe the account book, and Hongluo, who was counting the porcelain used at night, raised their heads. Aunt Yun pondered for a moment, and immediately said, "Why don't you go back to the old lady first?" ”

"That's the case, the old lady is taking a nap" It was Zhuang's mother who came out and said that now Mrs. is presiding over the feed, and these things should naturally be returned to Mrs. first. Besides, the Jiang family hasn't moved around for many years, where would any relatives suddenly come, don't give gifts in the name of relatives, or have other plans. ”

Hearing this, Aunt Liu nodded, "Immediately entered the East House to report." After a while, she opened the curtain in the inner room and let Yang Jinzhou and Chen Lan come out. Because he was a relative of the Jiang family, Chen Lan naturally squinted at Yang Jinzhou, but unexpectedly, Yang Jinzhou waved his hand at her: "I have hardly seen people from the Jiang family since I can remember, and the only one is when I first returned to Beijing. You are the housewife of the family" There are a lot of things to do today, so just don't see it. ”

Although Chen Lan didn't want to get into trouble, on the Chinese New Year's Eve of the thirtieth day of the lunar month, if he really blocked the people who came from the Jiang family in Jiangnan to give New Year's gifts, "the movement would be much more than the time when Yang Jinzhou drove people away." Therefore, after thinking about it, she secretly thought that even the Yang family had eliminated the hidden dangers, and there was no reason for her mother-in-law's family to be taken advantage of.

"In this case, arrange people to the small hall outside, and I will meet them."

The daughter-in-law who reported the news is also a person who has been in the mirror garden for less than half a year" I just heard Yang Jinzhou say this about his mother's relatives, and the expression on his face was suddenly a little strange, until Chen Lansong. She quickly agreed, and then turned and walked out the door.

"Chinese New Year's Eve" must always see and know what to mean, otherwise you will stop once and there will be a second time, and no second time people will smear your face, you are not just entering Beijing now! Chen Lan blocked Yang Jinzhou's objection back to his mouth with three strikes and five divisions, and then stood up with a smile, "Don't worry, I'm good at dealing with these old things for relatives and friends." ”

Seeing Chen Lan greeted, Qin Fang and the two little girls came out of the east room after a while, and the three masters and servants went out in a moment, Yang Jinzhou stood in place for a long time, and suddenly chased out without saying a word. Seeing this scene, Aunt Yun and Aunt Liu in the house looked at each other, and then chuckled at the same time.

In the small hall, as soon as Chen Lan stepped into the door, he saw the two middle-aged women standing on the left hand, all of them were wearing a small jacket with a plain silk right side and a green silk cloisonnΓ© compared to a nail, looking dignified and generous. Seeing her come in, the two of them hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and said with a smile: "The little one has seen Madame." ”

"You go ......"

"The younger one is from the Jinling Jiang family, and he was ordered to come to Jingyuan to give a festival gift." The round-faced middle-aged woman who spoke respectfully stepped forward and presented a gold-sprinkled red note with both hands, and saw that a big girl next to Chen Lan took it and forwarded it, so she lowered her eyes and said, "The fifteenth old man asked the little one to say that in the past, the family couldn't live with his aunt's wife, but now that time has changed, the old patriarch is already seriously ill. If my aunt and grandmother are willing to see it, tomorrow the fifteenth master will come to the door to congratulate the Spring Festival in person. ”

These old things Jiang only mentioned the persecution and divorce at home, but did not mention anything about those relatives and friends, so Chen Lan only listened lightly, did not agree or refuse, but quickly glanced at the gift list in his hand.

Seeing that it was either silk or gold and silver objects, which were worth a lot of money, she frowned immediately, and then asked how long she had been on the road and how she had come here. Hearing that the middle-aged woman first mentioned Caohe, then changed her words and said that she had walked 6 for a long time, and babbled for a while, she couldn't help but have some guesses in her heart. Just as she was testing the fifteenth master, the voice of the Jiang family came from outside.

"You just said that the fifteenth master ......" Could it be that the fifteenth brother came in person