Yu Tang Golden Boudoir

Chapter 115
"Why are you back?" Princess Jiang looked at Lin Yangfeng and asked in surprise, Lin Yangfeng stepped forward to help Princess Jiang and explained: "Isn't the list released today? Yesterday I asked the leader to ask for leave, saying that my cousin is going to end. I'll come back and have a look. If I win, I'll stay for a few days until Cousin Hong releases the list in the palace exam before going back. Anyway, Shouling is fine. Everyone asks for leave because of this or that. I'm a serious matter. , the Commander responded with one word, and just came back to stay for a few days."

Princess Jiangjun heard what Lin Yangfeng said, she breathed a sigh of relief, and taught her a lesson: "Others are others who make excuses to ask for leave. You don't care about them. You have to do your own things well. Then, when you look back at the performance appraisal, you will know how good it is."

"I know, don't worry, Auntie." Lin Yangfeng listened to Princess Jiang's nagging in a good-tempered manner, answering a sentence or two from time to time. There was a flash of light, and the anxiety on his face dissipated all of a sudden. He opened his mouth to speak, but swallowed the words suddenly, subconsciously turned his head to look, pushed Lin Yangfeng and said, "Come in, Ma'am, I have something important to tell you."

After entering the upper room, Princess Jiang retreated from the crowd, and said in a few words that Jiang Hongdian was going to propose marriage to Li Tian after the test, and looked at Lin Yangfeng and said: "You know the love and affection that Fourth Master has for Sister Tian. Yes, this relationship can't be mentioned, and the reason for this can't be mentioned outside. It just so happens that you are back, so you can go to find the fourth master tomorrow, and ask Jiang's family to propose marriage to the fifth sister of Li's family. No, no, don't say it's the Jiang family, just say that I heard that someone has taken a fancy to Sister Tian, ​​and they are going to come to propose marriage after the announcement of the palace examination. Remember, don't make a special trip to talk about this, you have to find An excuse, just right, you have been guarding the late emperor's mausoleum for more than half a year, and you haven't seen the fourth master, and the fourth master just got engaged, so you go to say congratulations, and mention by the way that someone wants to propose a marriage after the palace examination is released Remember about my sister, you must mention it casually! Don't take it seriously."

What Princess Jiangjun said, Lin Yangfeng nodded and agreed to something, and after nodding and agreeing, he came out and went all the way back to his yard, not thinking about what it meant to say that he had to make a special trip to say it and not make a special trip to say it.

The next day, Lin Yangfeng rushed to the household department early in the morning, drank a full stomach of tea, stretched his neck until the sun was setting, and the servant next to the fourth prince came out and led him in.

Lin Yangfeng enthusiastically congratulated the fourth prince on his engagement. The fourth prince's expression became colder the more he heard it, and he gradually frowned and said, "You didn't work hard in the guard camp, so you came back here just to say these things?"

"No, no, it's not for this, it's for something else." Lin Yangfeng's words got stuck all of a sudden, and Auntie said she wanted to be smooth, but it couldn't be smooth!

"What's the matter?" The fourth prince had already asked bluntly, so Lin Yangfeng had no choice but to answer honestly: "My aunt went to congratulate cousin Jiang Hong's high school yesterday, and heard that cousin Hong was planning to go to the Li family to propose marriage after the palace examination was announced. The fifth sister of the Li family."

The fourth prince froze all of a sudden, this gaffe was only a blink of an eye, the fourth prince came to his senses, put down his pen as if nothing had happened, looked at Lin Yangfeng with a gentle smile, and said, "That's a good thing, after the big one, you can come here and say Say, this is where you put your heart into it. The former son Guo Dutong also told me about you, saying that you are careful and cautious in your job, which is very rare. Although guarding the tomb of the first emperor is an extremely important job, you are still young after all, so you have to take more responsibility. Yes, I will tell Guo Dutong later, you should go to the household department to get a job."

Lin Yangfeng was overjoyed, he stood up, bowed his hands and thanked him endlessly, the fourth prince said a few words to him with a smile on his face, and then sent him back.

The third day of March is Li Tian's birthday. Li Tian has no interest in celebrating her birthday. In the past, when grandma was around, because grandma liked to announce her birthday most, she was happy to celebrate her birthday every year to make grandma happy. Now grandma Let's go, what's the point of celebrating this birthday?Last year she passed by keeping a filial piety, and this year she plans to let it go.

But some people think it's interesting. There are still a few days before the third day of the lunar new year. Mrs. Sun sent someone to pass on the message that last year was the year of Li Tian's birthday, and because of filial piety, he missed the wedding ceremony. This year, he must make up for it anyway. She was going to Zhang Luo for Li Tian, ​​how could Li Tian let her Zhang Luo?I had no choice but to invite my sister-in-law, Second Grandma Wang, to come over to discuss it, and plan to simply make up for this matter of Jili.

Mrs. Sun heard that someone gave Li Tian and Ji a set of ancient jade hairpins for hairpins that day. The Princess of Dongyang County also gave a set of red gold hairpin combs, and said that she must come to watch the ceremony that day. Princess Jiang County heard that, Mrs. Xu, Mrs. Cui, Jiang Hong's mother, Mrs. Yuan Shi, Mrs. Jiang Shangshu, Mrs. Gao, Mrs. Xu Shangshu, Mrs. Huang, Mrs. Xu Xueshi, and others also sent people to deliver gifts, expressing that they would like to send gifts that day. When he came to watch the ceremony, Li Tian looked at the congratulatory gifts that were placed in the room, and everyone who was counting on to come, heaved a lot of sighs, it seemed that there was going to be a lot of movement in this pre-existing ceremony.

Li Tian had no choice but to ask Second Grandma Wang to come over to discuss again, and sent Grandma Xiong, Yingluo, Qing Zhi and others to help Second Grandma Wang, and led the servants of the whole house to busy for a few days before the matter of Jili was finally settled.

In the early morning of March [-]rd, the West Courtyard of Duke Yongguo's Mansion, where the fourth bedroom lived, had been tidied up and festive. Mrs. Xu arrived first with Yu Yaofang. Second Grandma Wang and Li Tian brought them into the main hall. Li Tian originally planned to let them Mrs. Xu came to give her a gift, and asked Yu Yaofang and Lin Ke to be her praisers. Madam Xu heard that Princess Liujun was coming to watch the ceremony, so she specially sent Yu Yaofang to come, and asked Li Tian to ask Princess Liu to give her a gift. Let her increase the number of praisers from two to four, and add Ye Shiriniang and Jiang Shan.

As soon as Li Tian said a few words with Mrs. Xu, Princess Jiang arrived with Lin Ke and his daughter-in-law, Second Grandma Xu. Second Grandma Xu inspected all the places, and when she saw that everything was in order, she nodded in satisfaction, turned into the main hall, and met Mrs. Xu. Before making any noise, she called Second Grandma Wang and said with a smile: "It's hard work!" You are here, you have to deal with such a big event not long after you came here, you didn’t go around the mansions very much in the past, I’m afraid you didn’t know the wives and wives very well, and there are so many people here today, let’s let you know later Your second sister-in-law will accompany you to make a fuss, first identify the person."

"Thank you, Princess, for being considerate. I'm worried. The fifth lady will salute in silence. I'm really afraid that I'll lose my manners. With the help of my second sister-in-law, I will feel at ease." The tension on Second Grandma Wang's face relaxed obviously, Thank you with a grateful knee.

Princess Jiang asked Li Tian to ask a few more questions, and then let her talk with Lin Ke and Yu Yaofang, and then she talked about homework with Mrs. Xu.

Not long after, Mrs. Cui, Jiang Hong's mother, brought Jiang Shan into the second gate. Immediately afterwards, Mrs. Huang also arrived, but did not bring Xu Jie. Mrs. Gao and others got off the car one after another at the second gate. He was the last one to arrive, besides Ye Twelve Niang, he also brought Mrs. Wen Guogong Wu Chenglin's wife Qiao, Mrs. Sun's natal nephew and daughter-in-law, Ding Guogong's wife Qian Shi and several young ladies.

The Yongguo Mansion was full of pearls and emeralds, the clothes fluttered, the laughter continued, and it was very lively.

In the East Courtyard of Duke Yongguo’s Mansion, the third lady Li Yunshang’s Ziyun House is the closest to the West Courtyard. At this moment, Grandma Zhou is picking out embroidery patterns with her. Li Yunshang is flipping through the pattern book absently. No matter what Grandma Zhou asks, she keeps her eyes down. Just say yes, Grandma Zhou's one-man show is uncomfortable, she looked at Li Yunshang and smiled; "What's wrong with the third sister? Are you uncomfortable?"

"No." Li Yunshang answered sternly, picked up the soft album paper with his fingers and said in a low voice: "The West Courtyard is so lively, I don't know if the ceremony has been completed."

"Well, I heard that there are quite a few people here." Grandma Zhou seemed to understand Li Yunshang's thoughts: "It is said to make up for the missed ceremony of observing filial piety last year. Can it be lively? I heard from the mother-in-law of Qingtongyuan that this year is still quiet Yes, in previous years, when Mrs. Lin was here, it was ten times more lively than this."

"Yeah." Li Yunshang's mood became more and more depressed. Grandma Zhou looked at the embroidery album that Li Yunshang had rubbed and said, "It's best to order all the embroidery samples today. It's a day to send them out early. Auntie lowered the price." The price is low, the embroidery workshop said that there is no money for rush work in this price, if the embroidery samples are given late, they will not care if they cannot embroider."

"Sister-in-law, I really regret being married to this family." Li Yunshang said this abruptly, and Grandma Zhou was stunned by her jumping: "Why is the third sister talking like this? My mother loves you, so she tried every means This door has been set for you dear."

"Sister-in-law, this marriage was arranged by my mother. Even if it is true or not, I don't know. Why did the fifth sister blame me? If I knew this, I would not want this marriage even if my mother made the marriage." Li Yunshang burst into tears Turning around in her eyes, Grandma Zhou only had good feelings for this sister-in-law and had no malice. She sighed and persuaded: "Don't think about it. Didn't you go to Qingtongyuan back then to make a good relationship? Now this marriage It's settled, let her blame it, what can I do?"

"I'm not, I didn't think that much at the time." Li Yunshang denied angrily and anxiously: "I didn't just want to make a kiss, I didn't want to do that at all. I didn't expect that A Niang would do this. The time I played with my son was the happiest time when I grew up. My sister-in-law also knew that my mother had strict rules. I hadn’t been out much since I was a child. I don't know that I can still live like Fifth Sister, with so many companions, playing everywhere, and everyone treats me well." Li Yunshang burst into tears: "Since we got married, so many things have happened. My sister separated from us, I wrote them a letter, but they didn't reply me, sister-in-law, I really don't know about the engagement, I didn't expect my mother to do this, I would rather not have this relationship."

"Forget it, don't think so much, actually." Grandma Zhou hesitated before continuing: "The day before yesterday, Fifth Sister sent someone to invite Auntie and us to watch the ceremony. Auntie came back and said she was sick. You You have to prepare a dowry, you don’t have time, look, Fifth Sister doesn’t ignore us at all, you also want to open some, when you marry to the Xu family, you can come and go with these people often, and they won’t look at you It depends on the face of the Xu family. Your eldest brother has also mentioned twice about the engagement. Auntie is too impatient. The fifth sister is such a smart person. Since she is willing to take you around, she must want to I want to find a good relative for you. This is someone's marriage. A Niang stretched out her hand to take it. She is engaged and married, so she doesn't care about it. Alas, if Auntie had been patient back then, and waited for her to find a good marriage for you, firstly, it might not be worse than the Xu family's marriage. Second, listen. That mammy Xiong said, she originally planned to use the things from the fourth house to add makeup to you, forget it, I’m just ashamed, you just pretend that I didn’t say it, you’re going to get married after summer, get married I'm fine. If you're busy serving your uncle and husband every day, you don't have time to think about these things, and you don't have time to go out to play. Look at me, even if you are free, Auntie won't let me go out. That's fine, don't Thinking so much, you don’t have much time now, so hurry up and pick out the embroidery pattern, in case someone can’t embroider it, and Auntie will lose her temper again, you’re okay, it’s all up to me!”

The main hall of the west courtyard was full of people. Li Tian had already changed into a solemn red-trimmed black dress. The tray held the green jade hairpin that Mrs. Sun had given her. Just wait for Princess Liujun to insert the hairpin into Li Tian's bun after she finished her auspicious words.

Concubine Liu Jun finally finished her auspicious words, stretched her arms and just took the hairpin, only to hear a burst of chaotic and eager footsteps outside the hall, everyone turned their heads to look at the sound in surprise, outside the hall, the fourth prince was dressed in a black tuanlong uniform , walked in the front with big strides, went straight to the main hall and came in. A few second-door servants with pale faces and cold sweats followed behind, and behind them, followed by a long line of holding large and small cups of various colors. The boys in Tsing Yi of the gift box.

Princess Liu Jun didn't expect the fourth prince to come, she was stunned for a moment, then she came to her senses and gently put the hairpin she picked up back on the tray in Yu Yaofang's hand. Yu Yao was twisting her body and staring at the fourth prince, she was so shocked that she didn't notice it at all. Princess Liu Jun put the hairpin back on the tray.Lin Ke's mouth was rounded in shock. Seeing the fourth prince, Ye Twelve Niang was overjoyed at first, opened her mouth and called 'cousin', before she finished uttering the word 'brother', she remembered that her cousin would not Should be here!The word 'brother' got stuck in her throat. Jiang Shan had never seen the fourth prince before, and she stared at the black-bottomed dragon robe on the fourth prince's body with wide eyes. Few people can wear dragon robes!A man in a dragon robe broke in here?
Concubine Jiangjun breathed a sigh of relief inexplicably, Mrs. Xu stood up with a 'huh', staring at the fourth prince in disbelief, Mrs. Huang and the others were stunned, and Mrs. Cui looked straight at the fourth prince , suddenly turned to look at Li Tian, ​​the handkerchief slipped all the way to the ground; Wen Guogong's wife Qiao Shi and Ding Guogong's wife Qian Shi reacted from the surprise, and hurriedly got up to salute.

Second Grandma Wang stood closest to the door, and saw a man barging in from a distance, her brows raised in anger, halfway through, she could clearly see the black dragon robe on the Fourth Prince's body, and the brows were set on her forehead, forming a perfect pattern. Feeling very strangely stunned, she turned her head stiffly to look at Second Grandma Xu, Second Grandma Xu was equally astonished, swallowed with a 'Gudong', her throat was so tight that she could hardly squeeze out a sound: "Fourth Master!" Second Grandma Wang was stunned. He blinked his eyes in a daze, and then blinked again, but he didn't realize which fourth master this fourth master was for a long time.

Li Tian had already stood up, turned around to look at the fourth prince, there was no surprise or anger in his heart, only strong sadness and depression.

The fourth prince smiled warmly and amiably, greeted all the wives respectfully and politely, and smiled at Princess Liujun, "Today is Tiantian and Ji's big day, thank you, aunt, I am so late, I am really ashamed Very well, please, auntie." Princess Liu Jun said with a smile: "I'm taking on a heavy responsibility today, so please forgive me for being rude, Fourth Master can just find a place to sit down and watch the ceremony."

Li Tian had already lowered her head and knelt on the mat again, as if she didn't see or hear the words of the fourth prince and Princess Liujun. Yu Yaofang stared at her, her movements were so stiff that she could hear the friction between bones. ’ sound, turned to Princess Liu Jun, Lin Ke half opened his mouth, looked at the fourth prince, then at Li Tian, ​​suddenly understood, clenched his fists tightly, his angry face was a little crooked, and his whole person instantly became A firecracker filled with anger.

Princess Liujun put a hairpin on Li Tian, ​​and it became a gift. Li Tian stood up, as if nothing had happened. According to the etiquette, he bowed his knees to thank the wives and wives who came to watch the ceremony one by one. Princess Jiangjun Li Tian was lifted up affectionately, congratulating repeatedly, Li Tian lowered his eyes, and before she finished speaking, he moved to the side of Jiang Shangshu's wife, Yuan Shi, who was sitting next to her, Madam Yuan helped Li Tian up pitifully, without saying a word. Said, just sighed as if there was nothing, Li Tian lowered his eyes and continued to express his thanks, Mrs. Xu Shangshu's Mrs. Gao's eyebrows showed a bit of relief. If this is the case, even if Brother Hai won the first prize, then There are too many to count.Xu Xueshi's wife, Mrs. Huang, looked at Li Tian with complicated eyes. Mrs. Cui helped Li Tian up, subconsciously looked at the fourth prince opposite, and shook slightly inexplicably.

Mrs. Wen Guogong's Mrs. Qiao and Mrs. Dingguo's Mrs. Qian were very polite and bowed slightly, congratulating them with smiles all over their faces.

The fourth prince looked at Li Tian and thanked him in unison, stood up and bowed his hands in gratitude, saying: "Fifth sister and Ji Dali, ladies and gentlemen, you can enjoy the ceremony, Ziyu is here to thank you." It can be heard that Li Tian's back was straight, his eyes were calm and emotionless, and he looked directly at the fourth prince. The fourth prince Xie Bi walked half a step towards Li Tian and said softly: "Last time you were sent I will keep the things that are given to me for you first, I personally picked them for you these few days, and I don’t know if they are suitable for you, if they are not suitable for you, I will ask someone to replace them for you.”

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Li Tian to answer, he took a step back, bid farewell to everyone in a gentle and polite manner, turned around and left the lobby, and walked straight away.

(End of this chapter)