Yu Tang Golden Boudoir

Chapter 99 Worry
"Well, yes." Yu Yaofang reached out to straighten Li Tian's skirts scattered on the couch: "I was talking about you with my mother that day, and my mother said that it is not easy for you, and it is not easy to guard those money shops, my mother said You have to find someone you can rely on and stand up for, in fact, since Cousin Seven came to Beijing, Auntie has taken a fancy to him, with so many children in the Xu family, he is the only one who is worthy of you." Li Tian straightened up all of a sudden. Yu Yaofang patted her back and said, "I know what you're going to say. I don't think it has anything to do with being talented or not. Let alone someone like Cousin Seven, he is a truly talented man who is famous all over the world. It’s not just one or two people who care about their wives, they are poor, poor, extremely stupid and vulgar men, even if they have two extra money, they also seek pleasure from prostitutes.

"You understand much more than before." Li Tian looked at Yu Yaofang and said with emotion, Yu Yaofang smiled bitterly: "Can you not understand, don't talk about me, even A Niang is more open than before, look at Dad, look Look at Weng Weng, there is nothing to dislike. If there is someone like Father and Weng Weng on the table, I would rather he is talented but absurd. At least he can understand what you say. A Niang didn't dare to mention it because she liked the seventh cousin because she was afraid that the second aunt would not agree. A Niang didn't have full confidence in what she meant. Cousin Seven has to prepare for the exam, and I will bring up this marriage after Chunwei. See what it means, the second cousin and aunt have never screwed Cousin Seven, you know how much Cousin Seven thinks of you, so what A Niang means, your marriage is Chunwei It’s not too late to mention it later, you’re still young.”

Li Tian's mouth was full of copious words, but he couldn't say a word. Yu Yaofang said in a gentle voice, "You are only fifteen after the new year, and even if you are engaged next year, you will have to marry at most, which is considered early in our capital."

"Well, if we talk about marriage again this spring, it may not be your seventh cousin who won the fight." Li Tian forced himself to say: "I'm afraid there is something to say, forget it, don't mention it, your mother said it Yes, this marriage is preordained by Yuelao, it’s useless to think about it, I’m thinking too much, let’s not talk about it, is your father feeling better recently? The errand is done? Didn’t you make your mother angry again?”

"How dare he not do it, my uncle is watching him closely."

Yu Yaofang also stopped talking about this matter, and started talking about other gossip with Li Tian.

Li Tian sent Yu Yaofang away, and stood in a daze on the porch, lost in thought. Yingluo helped her put on a thin cloak, and persuaded her in a low voice: "Chunwei is not long, it will pass in the blink of an eye."

"Professor Cheng said that the palace is busy negotiating with the fourth prince. Mrs. Sun has gone to the palace six times this month, and she has never been so frequent. Concubine Ye Gui kept calling for the noble ladies from various families. It seems that the fourth prince The marriage is only in and out of the year, I'm afraid it's almost settled now."

"He's engaged, so you're fine?" At some point, Yue Niang swayed to Li Tian's side and asked a question. Li Tian turned around and glanced at her, and after a moment of silence, he explained: "Concubine Ye Gui I have never been summoned before, that is to say, she and the Ye family have never considered letting the fourth prince marry me. It would be best if the two have nothing to do with each other, but what if the Ye family and the imperial concubine want to have both? Then the fourth prince made an appointment Afterwards, if you marry a wife, you can take a concubine. If the fourth prince declares that he must accept me, what do you think? I don't want to, but who else in this capital dares to marry me?"

"Didn't you say that he wants fame the most? It's not a good reputation for an unmarried wife to take concubines first." Yingluo's doubts were not very certain, Yue Niang frowned, looked at Yingluo and explained: "You didn't see him Seeing Fifth Lady like that."

"I'm worried about the Ye family." Li Tian tightened his thin cloak: "The fourth prince has many scruples before getting married. If his intentions spread, I'm afraid some people may not be willing to marry their daughters to him, so in Before he made the marriage, we wanted to keep it a secret, and the Ye family wanted to hide it even more, but after he made the marriage, if we wanted to hide it, the Ye family wouldn't be sure. It depends on what the fourth prince thinks, or he will let go. Even if this matter is over, we escaped, but what if he refuses to let go? The Ye family definitely doesn't want to offend future officials, let alone have a knot with them in the future. This may not work either, if you want to keep him from being unhappy or entangled, that is to let him have the best of both worlds."

Yingluo shuddered, Yue Niang raised her eyebrows angrily and said, "Then they are not afraid of offending us?"

"Offend us?" Li Tian looked at Yue Niang speechlessly, with a wry smile on his face: "What are we in the Ye family's eyes? It's nothing more than a small ant. If you take ten thousand steps back, even if the Ye family puts us in the eyes, then we will be fine." What is it compared to the fourth prince's dislike? Weigh the lesser of two evils."

"Then what should we do?" Yue Niang looked at Li Tian and asked straightforwardly. Li Tian looked down at the tip of the shoe and was silent for a while, then looked up at Yue Niang and said, "Find a chance to talk to Jiang Jiulang quietly. , if he has the heart, tell him to ask someone to propose marriage quickly, don't be too straightforward."

"Okay." Yue Niang turned around and was about to leave: "There is more." Li Tian called her back again: "Let shopkeeper Cheng carefully inquire about the condition of Princess Ningguo."

"Okay." Yue Niang paused, agreed, and went out without looking back.

"If the eldest princess dies, can it really take a while?" Yingluo asked anxiously, and Li Tian nodded: "Well, Ning Guo is the oldest in the royal family, with a long history, and the royal family is best at superficiality. If you die, the honor and sorrow will definitely be given. It is not a big deal for the princes to be engaged for a month or two. Even if it is delayed for another month, it will be the twelfth lunar month. There are big and small festivals in the twelfth lunar month and the first month. Constantly, even common people don’t choose this time to get married, and the royal family won’t choose, they are too busy at all, so they can be dragged into February next year, and my aunt will be back after the new year, and the spring will be in late February.”

Yingluo exhaled softly, folded her hands and lowered her eyebrows, and said a few words of Buddha in a low voice.

In the evening, when Jiang Hong came out of Xu Xueshi's mansion, he shook his head at the servant who was about to wait for him to get on his horse, and said, "I've been sitting for a day, let's go back and evacuate." Shaking the folding fan unhurriedly, while walking, he was thinking about the comments of his husband on his article just now. He was lost in thought, and his eyes went straight ahead, but he didn't know where they fell.

In a quiet alley, Yue Niang came to meet Jiang Hong with a few packs of freshly bought dim sum. She was only a few steps away when she saw Jiang Hong's eyes resting on her, and she walked past where she didn't know where to look. She turned a blind eye to her, Yue Niang couldn't help but rolled her eyes, and pointed the snack bag in her hand at Jiang Hongyang, Jiang Hong was startled, seeing that it was Yue Niang, she was not overwhelmed by shock, and had already reacted Come over, clasped hands and smiled: "Just now I was in a trance, I didn't see Sister Yue Niang, I haven't seen Sister for a while, how is Sister?"

"I am safe and good. You call me sister so respectfully. My sister can't let you call me sister for nothing. I will teach you a truth. Remember, if you fancy something good, do it quickly. The hands are quick to have, and the hands are slow, but they are gone." Yue Niang smiled, looked Jiang Hong up and down, taught a few words in style, and before Jiang Hong could react, shook the snack bag in her hand, Passed by Jiang Hong, walked two or three steps, turned back and winked at Jiang Hong and said: "Sister's words are the same as the book you read, there is a golden house and Yan Ruyu in it."

Jiang Hong stared blankly at Yue Niang who walked more than ten steps away, then suddenly bowed to the bottom, and then stayed there again.

The next morning, Lin Ke and Jiang Shan went into the Qingtong Courtyard together, and Li Tian greeted them with a smile, "Why did you come here so early in the morning? Doesn't A Ke have to accompany your mother to finish morning classes every day before she can come out? "

"It's Ashan, I haven't finished my breakfast yet, she arrived and said she missed you." Lin Ke removed the cloak, jumped onto the kang and told Qing Zhi, "What soup did you make today?"

"It's very cold today, so I made lamb bone soup."

"Hurry up and serve me a bowl, sprinkle more pepper, and Ah Shan will drink a bowl too?" Lin Ke turned to ask Jiang Shan, and Jiang Shan nodded.

The two drank a bowl of soup, Lin Ke sighed comfortably, and suddenly remembered her sister Lin Wen, couldn't help looking at Li Tian and said annoyedly: "Whenever I eat meat, I think of my sister, she ate several times in Puji Temple It's been a month, Tian Tian, ​​when do you think my sister will come back?"

"I will come back for the new year." Li Tian comforted, Lin Ke's expression was very sad: "Tian Tian, ​​you don't know, the eldest brother-in-law is doting on that Qiu Si now, Mrs. Sun often asks her to talk, their house Everyone said she was good, even Ye Shierniang said she was good, that Qiu Si is pregnant." Li Tian's hand holding the teacup froze, Lin Ke looked at Li Tian and continued: "The day before yesterday A Niang was crying in the Buddhist hall, I clearly saw it, she insisted that the sand got into her eyes, I knew she was crying because she loved her sister, Tiantian, tell me, is there any way to help my sister?"

"Is your elder brother okay?" Li Tian asked abruptly. Jiang Shan sipped her tea and listened intently to the conversation between the two. Hearing Li Tian's abrupt question, she froze for a moment, with a flash of understanding in her eyes. Looking at Lin Ke, he said, "A Ke, could it be that your family has offended the Prince of Dongyang County?"

"How could we offend them? How could we offend them?" Lin Ke denied it outright. Li Tian raised his eyebrows slightly, took a closer look at Jiang Shan, then lowered his eyes to look at the tea in the cup, and then looked up after thinking for a while. Lin Ke said: "A while ago your eldest brother and second brother were so close to fourth master, forget it, let's not talk about it, this is not something we can care about, don't take Qiu Si's matter to heart, let her get favored, A person like your eldest brother-in-law is not a long-term person, he will spoil him for three or two years, and when he has a new one, he will throw away the old one. In these years, he has spoiled very few people."

"But this Qiu Si was originally a girl in Mrs. Sun's house, and now everyone in their house praises her well, and she is pregnant again." Lin Ke said anxiously, and Li Tian snorted angrily: "No matter how good She is also a girl, what can she do? She is virtuous and able to set up several memorial archways, and she is still a concubine at the top of the sky. The Dongyang County Palace dares to indulge her children to spoil her concubine and destroy her wife? There are so many children, and there will be no more of this one."

"Sister Tian is right." Jiang Shan persuaded, "This is a trivial matter. The big sister can't go back in Puji Temple now, and the child is left unattended. It is a major matter."

"As soon as my sister left, Mrs. Sun took the child to her yard to take care of her. If it weren't for this, my sister would have died of anxiety." Lin Ke explained: "The three children are all young, and they are like brother-in-law." Ke couldn't help spitting: "That scumbag, if you think about it, you can see what kind of chaos his yard is in. Without my sister in charge, what can't happen? I heard from Ye Twelve Niang that Mrs. Sun can't do it now. I love the three of them. The old lady has so many grandchildren, she can't recognize everyone. I heard that because of this, many people are jealous. In their house, the old lady will be proud of whoever she likes. Alas, I would rather the old lady I don’t know the three sisters Xi, and I don’t want my sister to chant sutras every day in Puji Temple.”

Li Tian listened carefully to Lin Ke's words, his eyes became more and more serious.

The three chatted and laughed, and it wasn't until evening that Lin Ke and Jiang Shan bid farewell and went back. Li Tian sent the two of them away and came back with her head down. She sat on the kang and was dazed. Yingluo walked up to Li Tian and asked carefully, "Jiang Shan?" Is my wife here for my brother?"

"En." Li Tian leaned back on the pillow softly, looked at Ying Luo and smiled bitterly, "Be obedient, Ah Shan vaguely knows what my brother wants, she said that my brother wants double happiness." Li Tian's heart surged. Feeling bitter and irritable for a while, unwilling to continue, he covered his face with the handkerchief in his hand and said, "One double happiness comes to the door, two double happiness comes to the door, let them double happiness come to the door."

A few days after entering November, Wu Chenglin finally returned to the capital, and only after entering the mansion did he realize that his aunt was really seriously ill and died.When Princess Ningguo saw her son, she let go of her chest, and she never woke up again. Early the next morning, the official family brought a few princes over to visit the sick, and rewarded them with a bunch of ginseng and cinnamon. Start preparations for the funeral of Princess Ningguo.

The Eldest Princess persisted tenaciously for another five or six days before swallowing her breath. The Duke Wen's Mansion, which had been prepared for a long time, was completely white in the blink of an eye. At the funeral.Li Tian was dressed in plain white, and he came out to pay his respects in a very polite manner. He walked for a quarter of an hour along the very spacious bluestone road in front of Wen Guogong's mansion before he got out of the long motorcade, found his car at the corner, and leaned against the On the pillow, she let out a long sigh of relief. This funeral can at least push her crisis until next February.

(End of this chapter)