After thinking about the benefits clearly, Princess Zhongshun became even more enthusiastic.
"If you go by what you say, will the imperial brother not interfere in his marriage?"
King Zhongshun said proudly: "Of course the emperor wants to intervene, but the emperor's sister-in-law has no daughter. For the sake of the prince's position, the emperor cannot let other princesses marry Tingxuan."
"Besides, the emperor will definitely think that Lin Ruhai's daughter is a suitable candidate."
Princess Zhongshun nodded. In the palace, only the third princess was of the right age, but the third princess' biological mother, Concubine Shu, was not a worry-free person.
"From this point of view, Lin Ruhai's daughter is really suitable. Not only are the Lin family's heirs few, but there is no need to worry about Lin Ruhai's in-laws."
"In that case, don't worry. I will let Zhaojing and Qian's daughter-in-law take good care of her."
King Zhongshun said: "The Lin family's daughter is just a candidate, you don't want people to see it."
The princess said: "You don't need to worry about this. I will take care of it for Qian'er."
This idea came about when Wang Shuirong of Beijing County wooed Wang Tingxuan. That time when I had a drink with Lin Ruhai, I suddenly realized that the Lin family was really a suitable candidate.
This is also the reason why King Zhongshun directly invited Lin Daiyu to the party.
Wang Tingxuan didn't know King Zhongshun's plan, nor could he tell it from his body.
He came from a later generation and didn't pay much attention to the custom of getting married at the age of fifteen in this era. He didn't even realize that King Zhongshun was considering this issue for him.
In fact, in ancient times, it was unrealistic to have free love.
He was also prepared for the emperor to grant the marriage with his eyes closed. As for the choice of the woman, it was actually not that important.
Some people don't care about the woman's family background, but some people care very much.
Mrs. Wang came back from the palace and was very unwilling. She actually found a matchmaker and went directly to someone else's house to propose marriage.
Those matchmakers are all smart people. How dare they rush to the homes of first- and second-rank officials to propose marriage to the sons of fifth-rank officials.
There was only one matchmaker who was greedy for money and went to the house of Mr. Xu, the left minister of the Ministry of Industry, to propose marriage.
The official position of Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Industry is indeed lower, but he is Jia Zheng's superior official, so it is not unacceptable.
Result?
Needless to say, the matchmaker who proposed the marriage was involved in a lawsuit and was arrested. A matchmaker who could do such a thing for money must have done more than one such thing.
Mrs. Xu directly arranged for her family to investigate thoroughly and send it to the Yamen.
Officials in the yamen did not dare to offend the left minister of the Ministry of Works. The status of the Ministry of Works was now extraordinary.
In addition, Jia Zheng's official position has changed, from the fifth rank to the sixth rank.
In other words, Jia Zheng is back to the starting point.
This is still a small thing, but what makes him most unbearable is that he is busy with endless work every day and never has any leisure time.
If his business ability is not good, then he should run errands. The methods of torturing people in the officialdom are not as good as the methods of tormenting people in the inner house.
Because the Xu family is secretive, few people know the whole story.
Jia Zheng didn't even know how he offended Shangguan, or even which Shangguan he offended.
Mrs. Wang knew about it, but she never dared to see Jia Zheng, for fear that he would find out the clues.
At this time, Mrs. Wang finally realized the reality. If her mother-in-law did not care about her relatives, others would not take her seriously.
Therefore, the villa for the bride-to-be must be built, and it must be built well to suppress all the queens who are the bride-to-be.
Mrs. Wang went to Jia Mu and said, "Old lady, our yard still needs to be repaired."
Of course Jia's mother knew that it was necessary to repair it. The house was already built like this. If she suddenly stopped repairing it, who would take the Jia family seriously in the future?
But building a garden requires a lot of money. Where does this money come from?
"You have a way to solve the silver problem."
"Old lady, your Majesty is the support of our family, and we can't offend her. Baoyu is her biological brother, and we can't offend her. Now all we can do is wrong Baoyu."
Jia Mu didn't speak, she just sat there with her eyes closed. If she hadn't kept moving her fingers, others would have thought she was asleep.
"How much silver is left in the yard, how much can you take out."
Mrs. Wang felt distressed and said: "My daughter-in-law is stupid and not good at business. She doesn't have much left in her dowry. The most she can afford is one hundred thousand taels. But Feng girl said that if she wants to repair the yard, she still needs at least six hundred thousand taels."
Jia's mother would not believe Mrs. Wang's lies, but she also heard that she was only willing to give out one hundred thousand taels, and the shortfall of five hundred thousand taels was unaccounted for. The 800,000 taels borrowed by the Xue family were also unaccounted for.
If they don't agree to this marriage, they have to return some of the money to the Xue family. The Jia family will have to come up with at least one million taels of silver.
Jia Mu's own private house probably has more than 600,000 taels, and Mrs. Wang's house has about the same amount. If they really take it out, both her and Mrs. Wang's pockets will be empty. What will happen to Baoyu in the future?
"That's all, Mr. Wang's face still needs to be given, so just do what he wants."
Mrs. Wang said with disappointment: "That's all we can do now."
Jia Mu added: "However, you also know Baoyu's temperament. I don't need to say more about what he is thinking. How do you plan to tell him?"
At this point, Mrs. Wang started to hate Lin Daiyu. She had stolen his son's heart but was irresponsible. She was really a scumbag.
She also didn't want to think about it. If Lin Ruhai agreed to the marriage between the two families without noticing, the Lin family would have no room for regret.
Every few days, Jia Baoyu would make a fuss and go to Lin's house. If Jia Zheng hadn't been at home, he wouldn't have been able to stop him.
Now that Jia Zheng is in the yamen every day, he has no intention of taking care of Jia Baoyu, and now he can hardly take care of him anymore.
If he knew that the person he was engaged to be engaged to was not Lin Daiyu, he might have made some kind of joke.
Mrs. Wang did not dare to take risks and said, "My daughter-in-law is thinking about not telling Baoyu for the time being."
Jia Mu had no other choice and said, "You are Baoyu's biological mother, and Mrs. Xue's biological sister is your biological sister. You can make the decision yourself."
Mrs. Wang immediately went to Jia Mu's place and went to the Xue family's residence.
The words were changed again.
"Sister, the empress agreed to the marriage between Baoyu and Baochai, but she regretted not being able to make the decision for her younger brother. The empress wanted to find an opportunity to ask the emperor for a marriage after the marriage ceremony."
Aunt Xue said to herself that now the money is in the hands of the Xue family, and it is the Xue family who has the initiative. After the provincial villa is built, we can still force the empress.
"Sister, it's not that I want to argue with you. Pan'er is so naughty that he hid all the seals. I can't be the master of the family either."
Of course Mrs. Wang knew that Aunt Xue was lying, but she had no way to deal with her. She originally wanted to use Xue Pan's lawsuit to take advantage of the Xue family, but the Yamen refused to accept it.
The Yamen's reply was that Xue Pan was the nephew of Mr. Wang Ziteng, and they needed to ask Wang Ziteng.
In fact, it was King Zhongshun who told the Yamen to ignore the Xue family's affairs for the time being.
How dare Mrs. Wang let Wang Ziteng know about it, so she could only accept this idea.
"What the empress means is that our two families will change the marriage certificate first and there is no need to publicize it to the outside world. We will tell our relatives and friends after the emperor grants the marriage. What do you think?"
Aunt Xue did not believe her sister and said, "You must tell your brother."
Mrs. Wang had no choice but to agree: "This is what you should do. Even if you don't tell others, you should tell your brother."
In this regard, the marriage of Jia and Xue's family was settled.
