The Red Mansion is so charming

Chapter 213
The Ouyang family's new house in Fengwei Hutong was not kept, the reason was nothing more than Emperor Xiaozong's unintentional words.According to Dai Quan, the great eunuch in the palace, when the fifth prince went to Tangshan to plead guilty with the emperor, the Lord Long Live comforted the fifth prince with a smile, and asked the fifth prince not to take it seriously. , On the contrary, it will make the royal family troublesome, like Ouyang's stupid family, making a little joke from time to time, it doesn't hurt.

At that time, several Shangshu adults were discussing with Xiaozong about the imperial examination in the palace. Not only did everyone see that Xiaozong didn't intend to blame the fifth prince, but they comforted him in a low voice and hurriedly sent many good words.Even in front of Xiaozong, Cheng Zimo hardly praised Zhengde to the sky.Emperor Xiaozong was overjoyed, and within two days, Cheng Zimo, a confidant, was impeached by the imperial censor.

This is actually something to say later, just talking about a few adults going out of the palace gate, Xiaozong loses his face and complains to Dai Quan that Ouyang's family doesn't know good from bad.The simple words "I don't know what is good and what is bad" are like flying pigeons, and they are heard by all officials at once.There is absolutely no possibility that Ouyang's family didn't know about it. After hearing this, the old lady Ouyang gave up completely, and immediately called someone to pack up her belongings, dragging her weak and sick body, and gave up the house in Fengwei Hutong on the same day.

Xu was still afraid of embarrassment, so Ouyang Jia moved away quietly at dusk. It is said that the panicked appearance at that time was not much more decent than that of the Qi family when they were exiled.

The old lady Ouyang led her son and granddaughter, and about thirty people squeezed into the private house of the second master in Tiaozi Lane.The second master's newly favored concubine was directly sold to the tooth shop by the old lady for 300 taels of silver.The second master didn't even dare to say "no", and let the little concubine be dragged out of Tiaozi alley by the woman in the tooth shop all the way, crying and howling.

The fat man who was behaving mischievously at the gate of Ouyang's house that night was shaking his fat body that night, showing off to his neighbors proudly, and threatening loudly that whoever can come out in person, he will offer this house with both hands.For a while, it also attracted many people who inquired.

The first one was Yuan Keli's family, the royal censor of Qiandu, but unfortunately, the price disappeared immediately after asking. This fat man is so greedy, it is more than twice as expensive as when Ouyang's family bought it from Qi's back then.At this price, it is easy to buy a down-and-out palace. There are many good gardens in Fengwei Hutong. For example, the Xing’s family on the opposite door is dozens of times more expensive, but the price is not the same.

All the wives were hesitant, but Mrs. Lu felt itchy after hearing this, and after weighing the money in her hand, she also thought it was good, so she called Xiuyan to discuss this matter.

"When Mrs. Qi was here, our mother and I went to see it. The garden is not smaller than here, and it is neatly tidied up. There are mountains and waters. You love flowers and trees. The yard of the eldest and youngest mistress of the Qi family is not perfect. Few famous products. I want to buy them and count them in your dowry." Lu Shi dismissed the maids who were serving her early, and took out her own small treasury account book: "I will pay for the garden, how to deal with it in the future is up to you. Our family has accumulated quite a lot of antique calligraphy and paintings over the years, and when the time comes, we will open a warehouse, and you can choose whatever you want."

Xiuyan laughed loudly: "Mom, don't you plan to save Brother Fu to marry a wife? If your siblings know that you favor me so much in the future, won't they fight with you?"

Lu said angrily: "Damn girl, you are making fun of me! Are you going to buy a garden for you or buy a garden for me!"

"Oh, Mom! I don't even have a horoscope, so you asked me to move into that house alone to be my aunt?"

Mrs. Lu rushed to the ground and said "bah", "What kind of aunt is not an aunt, you will learn less from the old lady of Jia's family in the future, good girl, whoever has nothing to do can go to some nunnery or Taoist temple?" She greeted Xiuyan with a slap, although the fight was neither painful nor itchy, but Xiuyan bared her small white teeth and pretended to be in terribly painful pain to seek sympathy.

Sure enough, Mrs. Lu couldn't bear to move after only two pats. She lightly embraced her daughter's shoulders, and said melancholy: "You said, just because of our looks and temper, why didn't a good young man come to our house to propose marriage?" ? But some crooked melons and cracked dates always make do with you when they have nothing to do."

Xiuyan laughed and said, "Did you feel anxious when you saw Sister Lin becoming a monk?"

Mrs. Lu stared fiercely: "How dare you mention it! How dare you mention it! Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang may be laughing at our mothers behind their backs. Miss Lin is married well, and you have become an old girl. I will go to Rongrong in the future." Guofu, let the spittle stars of those two people be drowned!"

"I'm only seventeen, okay? How did I become an old girl!" Xiuyan rolled her eyes: "In our era, 17 years old would still be the age to go to school! I'm enjoying life wantonly! It's not like now, what a They kept sneaking around the door, lest they be said to be unethical. Besides, those two women from the Jia family have always had conflicts with me, even if I became a queen, they could find a hundred reasons to disgust me."

When Lu Shi thought about it, she also felt that her daughter's words made sense.I feel a lot better in my heart: "I sometimes think about it, when I was in Suzhou these years, your father's official reputation was good, and I was not the kind of boss who was unreasonable and unforgiving, but no one wanted to propose marriage. , it must have something to do with that little bastard Gu Erlang. Fortunately, in the capital, the Gu family can reach the sky in the south of the Yangtze River, but not at the feet of the emperor. I think the third son of the Song family is not bad!"

Xiuyan looked at her old lady with a half-smile, and Lu Shi chuckled: "I think you and Song Chen are a good match, otherwise, please invite Mrs. Xu to visit Song's house?" Lu Shi still knows her own daughter very well. It's reason that has the upper hand, but she won't be beaten and scolded by a man just because of some romantic matter.This damned girl has never looked down on a resentful woman like Wang Baochuan since she was a child. If there is no waves in the ancient well for 18 years, and the cold kiln is facing the sun for more than a thousand years, if it is in the hands of this girl, Xiuyan, she must change her singing style.

The Lu family also had their own considerations. The girl and Gu Erlang had formed a hatred, and she had to find a powerful and prominent family to marry in order to suppress the arrogance of the Gu family.In the huge capital city, the Song Mansion is a resounding gold-lettered signboard.Moreover, Song Chen is not the eldest son. When the family is separated in the future, this girl of her own can live alone. She buys the opposite door. No matter what kind of wife Fu Geer marries in the future, Mrs. Lu can take care of her. These two babies are lumpy.

Although it was all the flesh that fell from his own body, but when he asked himself, most of Lu's heart was still on Xiuyan.

Xiuyan smiled and took out the house deed. At first, Lu didn't know what it was, but when he saw the big bright red seal on the yamen, Lu exclaimed, "Where did it come from?"

As soon as this remark came out, Lu Shi felt that something was wrong, and then he couldn't believe it in his eyes. He pointed at Xiuyan with his right index finger: "Did you make the play in front of Ouyang's house? No, you got a group of people there." Scoundrels?"

Xiuyan smiled lightly: "Mom is really forgetful, you just praised that one so well, and you forgot after a while?"

"Song, Song Chen?" Lu Shi swallowed her throat, hoping that her dry cough would be relieved for a moment, but it was useless, not only useless, this swallowing made her cough violently.

Xiuyan hurriedly poured the clear water on the table with her, Lu Shi first took a sip, then felt something was wrong, and pressed Xiuyan: "Please tell me clearly, what is going on between you and Song Chen ?”

"I came up with the idea, and he contributed people and efforts, so this is what we have to do?" Xiuyan handed over the house deed to Mrs. Lu, and euphemistically told her mother what she wanted to do.When Lu Shi heard this, she became furious: "This young mistress of the Gan family didn't tell me about such an important event! Why, do you have to wait until the newlyweds have stepped into the gate of his house with half a foot? No, no, I'm going to go home and ask for an explanation."

Xiuyan managed to hold Lu Shi back: "Mom, calm down, it's better if you do this. Aren't we afraid that Daiyu will be wronged, and there is no way to ask her to come out and be the master of the house! Now we even have excuses, we just Said that the house the Gan family found was too small, and Daiyu was wronged. Our Xing family paid for a house to live with her young couple. If the Gan family is hard-headed, then well, we can find a house of similar size and location in the capital. No, ha, then I can only wrong Xie Yuangong of Jining Mansion!"

Lu Shi stared at her daughter for a long time: "Have you thought about it? You don't want to keep that house?"

Xiuyan took Lu Shi's hand: "I'm your daughter, you don't know what kind of temper you have since you were young?"

Lu Shi nodded secretly, the girl has never been that kind of stingy person, not to mention the two girls are not so good, and they are no different from their own sisters.Lu sighed lightly: "Forget it, since you've made up your mind, I won't force it. But when your father comes back, we still have to talk about Song Chen."

Xiuyan spit out her sweet tongue: Oh, my old lady remembers it clearly!

In the evening, when Xing Zhong came back from the yamen, he was very calm when he heard Lu talking about these things.Let alone the ability of his own girl, if it is not his turn to make a move, the Ouyang family will be crushed.Speaking of Song Chen, to be honest, Xing Zhong had long felt that there was something tricky between the two children.Qianhu, the youngest member of the Zhenfu Division, who is about to be promoted to the governor, has been friendly to his family several times. If there is no problem, Xing Zhong finds it incredible.

The couple immediately decided to invite Song Chen to the house as soon as the palace examination was over, first quietly asking the child what his plans were, and if Song Chen was willing, the Xing family could start preparing the dowry for the two daughters!
On March [-]th, Xiaozong hurried back from the Tangshan Palace, changed his clothes, and sat on the imperial chariot to the Hanyuan Hall.The [-] low tables had already been set up properly, and the six ministers and several academicians stood motionless around the dragon chair, looking indifferently at the kneeling students.

"The emperor is here!" The eunuch's sharp and characteristic voice immediately resounded over the Hanyuan Hall, and Sanbai Juzi's back was bent even lower, and his heart became more pious.

Xiaozong looked at the following with a smile: "Everyone loves you. You are the pillars of the country. Today is the big exam every three years. You should do your best to live up to the good time."

Half of the disciples in the Hanyuan Hall heard this and burst into tears. In their view, seeing the king once in a lifetime is already a blessing in life.And the other half went for the position of the emperor's favorite minister.

Gu Erlang is one of them!

(End of this chapter)