Entering April, it is already considered summer according to the convention. The Korean paper between the window lattices has now been replaced with green gauze, and as for the more conspicuous first-class minister's mansion, glass is naturally also used. Compared with the time when the eunuchs and merchants used glass in the early years of the Chu Dynasty, almost all of the good things from the imperial prison are now only for the palace and the palace, and the people rarely see it. Just like the Yangning Hou Mansion and other people, now only the old lady's car has a small piece of glass on the door, and there is no room in the upper house.

There is no transparent glass, and even though it is a sunny day, the second room of the main landlord of Tateka-in is still holding the lamp. In order to see the map on the kang table clearly, Lu Calyx and Jade Peony even held a candlestick, trying their best to make Zhu and Chen Lan on the kang more clear. After a long time, Zhu put down the glasses that he hadn't taken out for a long time, breathed a sigh of relief, and then turned his head to look at Chen Lan and asked, "Do you think that this Yingchang and Luomahe are victorious, can your third uncle lead the troops together?" ”

Chen Lan knew that now that the Zhu family had done everything for her sister and brother, she was already really relying on her, but when it came to the third uncle Chen Ying, this one would inevitably still grit her teeth. Looking at the two places on the map that were very far apart, she remembered that she had found Ying Chang Luomahe on several geographical maps in the study before, but she couldn't get the essentials, so she could only ask Chen Yan to help find them. Last night, Chen Yanxing rushed to send the map, stared at the thing and pondered for several hours, and vaguely had some guesses.

"The old lady is asking me, how much knowledge do I have about this thing on the march and fighting? can think of coming to the Korean government to sit in Beijing on behalf of the Duke of Weiguo, this army is always led by the Duke of Weiguo, and it is indispensable to send troops to this famous general who shocked southern Xinjiang back then. As for the two great victories, it may be like those scripts, all the way to the army, all the way to the division, and the third uncle is the deputy Qincha who went to Xuanfu with the King of Jin to investigate the case, how can he leave? ”

"You're right."

As soon as these words came out, Zhu's face suddenly showed joy, but thinking about the pustule of King Jin shrinking in Xuanfu, she couldn't help but sigh again, secretly regretting that she shouldn't have felt that King Jin was the second son of the emperor back then, and tried her best to make her granddaughter choose as the princess, but now her granddaughter fell into a problem at a young age, and she didn't even have her husband's pity, all because her heart was too big Thinking of this, she looked up at Chen Lan, and saw that he was looking down and packing up the map, she gradually smiled.

In any case, as long as she supports their sisters and brothers to win the Hou Mansion, in the future, the Yangning Hou Mansion and the Korean Mansion will help each other, and they will continue to stand firm, not like the Dongchang Hou Mansion, and will not be like the Guangning Bo Mansion, and the head of the family will be busy selling the industry and dividing the family, lest the royal family clean up one by one.

"Old Lady"

Hearing this voice, Chen Lan, who had carefully folded the sheepskin map, raised his head and saw Mrs. Ma taking Mother Zhu into the house. Although it is almost impossible to return the title of the second room, and Chen Jiu is still lying in bed to recuperate, but now Mrs. Ma is in high spirits. Because of the national funeral, the official eunuch was forbidden to marry, but this did not delay the preparations, not to mention that she had just received the letter, and it was inevitable that she would come to the old lady and say at this time, and by the way, she raised her eyebrows in front of Chen Lan.

"Old lady, a mother was just sent from the Runingbo Mansion over there, and I didn't rush over to disturb you because I was worried that you were not in good health." After Mrs. Ma sat down on the first chair of the next head, she said with a smile, "Someone in the palace has already sent a letter to the other side, saying that the matter of the fourth lady is almost decided, and it is the meaning of the first queen." The eight characters of the fourth lady and the eight characters of King Huai have passed together, which is just right, and as soon as the twenty-seven months of filial piety has passed, she will be registered as the princess immediately. Amitabha, the queen mother still remembered these highnesses before she left, and she was really a first-class kind person......"

Now the emperor is all about the queen's future affairs, and he can still take care of his son? Even if the queen really has a will, the princes all have to serve their mothers, which one can get married at this time, I am afraid that it is not the palace people who report the news, it is the Yang family who saw that the queen went to the princes' country to mourn, so they hurriedly entered the palace to inquire about the concubine Qi, but it is a good thing if King Huai really decides, at least, this extremely self-centered guy will not come to pester her again......

Chen Lan sneered at first, and then felt relieved, adding a little gratitude to the late queen, but his face was light, and he took a cup of tea from the green calyx and brought it to the Zhu family. It's easy to wait for Mrs. Ma to finish so nagging and showing off, she thought that this person should go, who knew that after Mrs. Ma said something inconsequential, she smiled and tried to find the dowry.

Zhu could still listen calmly, but when Mrs. Ma asked about this, a trace of anger suddenly flashed in her eyes, and she immediately nodded lightly at the green calyx. Green Calyx hurriedly bent his knees and agreed, went to the side of Duobaoge and opened a drawer, and after a while, he turned out two lists, and then walked up to Madame Ma and respectfully handed them away.

Mrs. Ma took a look, and saw that there were fly-headed small letters densely written on it, and the handwriting was vaguely Chen Lan's, so she couldn't help but look up at her, and then looked down and continued to look. She could still hold her expression, but when she looked at it, she gradually showed joy, and in the end, she almost tried her best to hold back the ecstasy that surged into her heart.

Twenty pieces of Shu brocade, twenty pieces of silk, twenty pieces of flash satin, twenty pieces of makeup satin, and twenty pieces of palace yarn...... These materials alone are ten kinds and two hundred horses. In addition, she is the most important gold and jade jewelry, gold bracelets, gold hairpins, gold collars, gold back combs, and gold Zhai crowns...... Almost all of them are dotted with emerald inlaid treasures, plus field shops and various leather furniture and ornaments, etc., only she estimates in her heart that the value of these dowries is no less than 20,000 taels

With this excitement, she turned up the dowry list of the concubine Chen Yun again, and saw that the silk and satin were all halved, and the gold jewelry was not as good as Chen Bing's in front, and there were even a lot of silver jewelry, but the furniture and furnishings were almost the same, only the real estate was only a slope and a mountain, and there were no shops, and it was estimated that there were seven or eight thousand taels. She even muttered a little in her heart when she looked at it, and couldn't help but have the idea of getting something from Chen Yun to leave it for Chen Bing.

Zhu didn't bother to care what Mrs. Ma thought, and when he saw her expression that was very satisfied, he glanced at Chen Lan, and then showed tiredness. Chen Lan asked knowingly, and the green calyx jade peony had no choice but to step forward to play the double reed, and the satisfied Mrs. Ma naturally would not stay here to accompany an old lady who couldn't speak, so she hurriedly stood up and retired on the grounds that the old lady was resting too much, but before leaving, she couldn't help but pinch the dowry list in her hand.

With such a rich dowry, are you still worried that Ru Ningbo's Mansion will treat Chen Bing badly?

"Back then, it was short-sighted greed for money, but now that a man has no title, he still hasn't grown at all"

As soon as Mrs. Ma walked away, Zhu snorted coldly, and when she saw what Chen Lan was going to say, she waved her hand and said, "You don't need to say it, I know better than you who your second aunt is." She didn't know my family background, and she always thought that this Hou family couldn't compete for the third child in one room, so she was temporarily satisfied with this. Green calyx, you take out all the things I told you last time. Yu Shao, you go outside and watch, unless it is the Zheng family's return, the rest will be in the way, just say I'm resting. ”

Green Calyx's heart suddenly, seeing that Yu Peony hurriedly went out, she took a deep breath, stepped forward to the cabinet on the wall, groped for a while at the bottom, and found an oiled paper bag, then held it in both hands and put it on the kang table, opened it carefully, and finally revealed the horn seal inside, and then retreated to the side.

Earlier, when there was an accident in the Jin Palace, Chen Lan had seen Zheng's mother take out this under the instruction of the Zhu family, but at this time and that time, now that she saw it for the second time, how could she not understand what the Zhu family meant. Sure enough, Zhu picked up the seal with his right hand, which was now moving freely, rubbed it for a while, and then handed it to her.

"Old Lady ......"

"I've saved a lot of good things in my life, and it's just a drop in the bucket for the two of them to marry." Zhu's tone was plain, but there was an indescribable confidence, "Others say that the Marquis of Yangning Mansion is rich, but they don't know what kind of person the old Marquis was in the first place. He is a good hand in war, but the loser is also a good hand, if it weren't for my rich dowry, I am also good at management, this family would not have been able to hold on for decades The public property of the Hou Mansion has long been filed in Shuntian Mansion, and it is not worth a few dollars, I want to see what it looks like when the third child is scheming but ends up empty."

Now it is different from that time, but when Chen Lan thought that the things on Chen Bing's dowry list were already extremely rich, the Zhu family still said that it was a drop in the bucket, so he couldn't help but feel that the benefits exceeded his own merits, so he said sincerely: "Old lady, I know that you treat our brothers and sisters kindly and trust us, but this is the body you have saved for half your life, please think twice." The Korean government is troubled now, can you let go of the Korean duchess? There are also Princess Jin and the prince of Korea, they are still young after all. ”

Zhu naturally understood the meaning of Chen Lan's words, but the more she did, the more she felt that she was not wrong, and nodded with satisfaction, with a smile on her face: "Okay, good, you finally didn't disappoint me." I give you these things in the hope that you will support each other with the young four and the Korean government in the future. The Dongchang Marquis Mansion is gone, the Guangning Bo Mansion is defeated, and there are only two of the four families left, your eldest cousin is a little stupid, you can help him more. Also, you don't need to be a Korean duchess in the future, just call your aunt, she also hugged your father back then. ”

Chen Lan had always known very little about her father, and when she heard Zhu say this, she was suddenly surprised. Sure enough, the next moment Zhu sighed and said: "The old aunt who gave birth to your father was personally selected by me to give to the old marquis, but she was not blessed, when she gave birth to two children, only your father survived, I have been your father since then, thinking that in the future he will become a family and support this marquis, I can't think of his soft ears, and I am not strong enough...... Don't talk about this, what you just said shows that you are kind, don't worry, of course I won't lose your aunt and eldest cousin. ”

Seeing that Chen Lan heard this, Zhu's face was full of shock, so he took her hand and said, "Your eldest aunt's temperament is too reluctant to take care of these industrial fields, so I have already given her the savings in those gold and silver shops, as well as your eldest cousin and eldest cousin, in addition to many years of jewelry and property. As for you, you can take care of it over there in Tiananzhuang, and the rest can naturally be taken care of, and those old people you should use and cut them, listen to you. These things are for you, I rest assured. Remember that two and one add five, half of it will be given to you to marry, and half will be left for the little four."