Mrs. Sheng got a good deal from her first matchmaking, and Mrs. Kang went to see Chang Wu in person. Sister Wang had had enough of useless scholars in her life who were conceited, lustful and incompetent. She liked Chang Wu very much when she saw him. He had long hands and feet.
He is tall, dignified, generous and warm-hearted towards others. Although he is not very handsome and fair, he is loyal and cheerful. Just at the end of spring, the Kang family agreed to the marriage. In view of the fact that both the man and the woman are quite old, the two families agreed to arrange the marriage as soon as possible.
Already.
Things are going well here, but the Yu family is very miserable. Although Mr. Yu Ge has been an official for many years, he still has connections in the capital. No matter how nice Princess Pingning says, after repeated investigations, the situation is not optimistic. It's really
Following Mo Lan's crow's words, the second young master of Marquis Ningyuan is really 'perverse'.
He has been domineering and domineering since he was a child. He often gets into fights in the streets and creates troubles. He often hangs out with the prodigal sons of the princes and princes. When he is a little older, he actually hangs out with people from the lower reaches of the world, sleeps in flowers and willows, plays tricks on young actors, and causes trouble.
After a bad debt, it was easy for the Gu family to find a match. Unexpectedly, the second young master was dissatisfied and wanted to break off the engagement. The old man and his wife refused, so he went directly to the family's house and hosted a banquet for guests in front of everyone.
, he ridiculed and ridiculed that family so much that the family was so embarrassed and angry that they wanted to die. Naturally, the marriage was ruined. After this, the most respectable people in the capital did not dare to marry their daughters to him. The Gu family was anxious, so they stretched out their claws.
From outside the capital.
Minglan frowned and looked out the window. Yanran had no one to complain to, so she asked Minglan to come over every three or five days to talk about the news that Yu Ge asked about and her own mood. These news were like a series of bad news. The recent news
Said, that guy seems to have a habit of cutting off his sleeves, and he is very close to several famous princes and grandsons in the capital who are fond of male sex, and they go to the tavern together!
Oh my god, as a professional legal practitioner, Minglan knows very well that the real world is actually not YY at all. Bad people are just bad people. There are not so many prodigal people who have hidden secrets or have reformed their evil ways. Moreover, a crooked man is a crooked man. It’s not like that.
It’s easy to get married, don’t you see? The life of the famous Japanese writer Yukio Mishima’s wife was miserable. She married him with the dream of marrying Mishima brother, but what happened? She gave birth to two sons, but Mishima brother was still very strong.
Famous.
In the few pornographic novels I have read in my previous life, the love between the male and female protagonists was beautiful and soul-stirring, and the female characters were almost all cannon fodder. Mr. Ye is a dragon. How many girls who like reading pornographic novels are willing to marry a gay?
Minglan doesn't want to, and Yanran probably doesn't have this hobby either.
On this day, Minglan was invited to the Yu Mansion again. She hugged her and cried intermittently for a long time, her eyes red. Recently, Mr. Yu Ge and Mr. Yu had a serious quarrel over letters. Mr. Yu Ge wanted to break off the engagement, but Mr. Yu refused to agree.
, and also said that children should obey their parents’ orders regarding their children’s marriage. The implication is that nothing will happen to them without you! Mr. Yu Ge said okay, parents make the decision on children’s marriage, right? He sent a blank divorce letter without signature, saying that his daughter-in-law
She is disobedient and unfilial. She wants her son to sign a signature to divorce her!
Over there, stepmother Yu was crying and wanted to take her children back to her parents' home. Over here, Mrs. Yu was crying and asked the father and son to cease fighting. Yanran was the ignition point. How could she not be sad and sad? She said straight away: "...Sister Minglan, I am really unfilial and make the family uneasy."
, just get married and forget it!"
Minglan tried her best to cheer her up: "Perseverance is victory! Whatever mistakes my sister made, it was your stepmother who encouraged her to drag a beautiful flower into the quagmire. They want to climb a high branch, why don't they scoop up your half-sister?
Honey? She is only two years younger than you, and she can talk to others, but she only pushes you forward. Isn't this harmful?"
Yanran has been crying almost out of shape these past few days, looking very weak: "Grandpa is old and can't stand the torment. He has been lying on the bed for many days. If anything happens..."
Minglan sighed and said: "Hey, what's so angry about this? It's not like your father has betrayed the Lord, he's just thinking about getting married and making people think he's confused. It's inevitable to make mistakes in this world. I even secretly ate my grandmother's offerings in front of the Buddha.
The fruit has been beaten. After this hurdle, is it possible that the blood relatives of father and son will still become enemies? You are the same. Although there is a stalemate at the moment, as long as you marry well, you can live a small life for ten or eight years.
When you are prosperous and you take your husband, children, and gold, silver, chicken, duck, and fish back to your parents' home, can your father still deny you?"
Yanran burst into tears, filled with hope: "Is this really possible?"
Minglan patted Yanran's shoulder hard and said: "Don't worry! When your grandfather was the chief minister, there were so many strong winds and waves. How could he capsize in a small gutter? Ahem, it's not that your father is a small gutter! You have to fight too.
Come on, serve your grandfather well in front of and behind the bed, don't look like this sad face, put on a smiling face! What a big deal, if you haven't made a decision and you haven't celebrated, it doesn't count as regrets!"
In fact, from Minglan's point of view, this matter is still very feasible. Mr. Yu Ge is so angry, presumably Mr. Yu in the capital does not dare to be too disobedient. With the letter of divorce, Mrs. Yu also does not dare to act rashly, otherwise she will be executed first and later.
The marriage was already set, and it would be troublesome to regret it then! After listening to Minglan's detailed analysis, Yanran finally relaxed her mind for the time being.
The matter was at a stalemate, and Minglan was like a beacon of light in the darkness. Whenever she was hesitant, she would pull Minglan over and tell some jokes to comfort her, which would relieve her anxiety. As her best friend, Minglan had a duty to go back and forth.
, Mr. Yu Ge and his wife, as well as the second uncle and aunt of the Yu family, all praised Minglan and praised her for her good nature and kindness.
I don’t know if it was a good time or not, but after a few days, the situation began to improve. It is said that the second young master Gu paid a very sincere visit to Mr. Yu in person and asked for his hand in marriage. The old marquis also wrote a letter of sincere begging, which Mr. Yu Ge and the old lady read.
After getting married, I was a little shaken. After all, I am a son of a noble family. If I am willing to repent, it might not be a good marriage.
Yanran has a gentle nature, and she was a little moved when her grandparents said this; Minglan pursed her lips and said nothing.
A cow is still a cow when it comes to Beijing. She has been attending the court and taking notes all year round. Ming Lan believes in the words of that old drunkard Gu Long: A woman may change for a man, but a man cannot change for a woman. It's just a matter of pretending for a long time.
Sheng Hong scheduled Changbai's wedding at the beginning of next year, and the wedding would be held in the capital at that time. Since his term was about to end at the end of the year, the entire Sheng Mansion began to count the family property and servants again from the end of summer. Some of the properties and estates purchased were sold as soon as possible, and some were bought locally.
The servants and handymen were sent away as soon as they were dismissed, and Minglan also began to talk to the maids in Mu Cangzhai alone, asking if they would not like to follow.
Needless to say, the family had children, but they could only buy Xiaotao Ruomei and three other little maids from outside. The Sheng family treated the servants generously, and Minglan had a good temper. None of the maids wanted to leave. More than a dozen girls asked, but only
The two of them will stay with me.
Then Minglan started to count her property. In fact, she didn't have much private money. Although the old lady gave her a lot of pocket money on weekdays, she also spent a lot on taking care of the maids and wives. It was only a few dozen taels of silver. Minglan calculated it carefully based on the prices at that time.
After all, it is enough for a family of six or seven to live for two or three years. It looks like a lot, but in fact, I can't do much in an official family. In fact, I have accumulated a lot of gold, silver, jade, jewelry and furnishings in the past few years. Brother Changbai gave it to me
Calligraphy and painting books were indeed worth a lot of money, so Minglan simply ordered a book of artifacts, recorded her belongings in categories, and checked them one by one into the book.
Before she moved into Mu Cangzhai last year, Mrs. Sheng sent over a set of jewelry boxes from her old residence in Jinling. There were nine boxes in the set. The largest one was one foot high, with a total of 49 clear patterns and nine floors. There are eighteen hidden compartments, and the smallest box is only the size of a palm. When opened, there are actually nine small compartments. The boxes are interlocked and the compartments are removable. They are all made of high-quality ebony begonia openwork carvings and gold and black mother-of-pearl inlays. There are nine large locks of facing Pisces and eighteen small locks of exquisite half-fish size.
Although the whole set looks old, the wood is still smooth and bright, and the white copper and brass are polished as bright as new, showing a beautiful color under the light. The exquisite and simple Minglan can hardly open her mouth from ear to ear. During the heyday of Tiangongfang, it was the best Several master chefs worked day and night for a month to make top-grade products—one of the items that Mrs. Sheng used to marry!
When this thing moved into Mu Cangzhai, Ru Lan was fine. She had seen many high-class dowries from the Wang family, but she just said a few sour words and just looked at Ming Lan with blank eyes for a few days. But Mo Lan almost turned red on the spot. I wished I could eat Minglan alive, and cried again with Aunt Lin when I went back, and Aunt Lin cried with Sheng Hong.
Sheng Hong spread his hands: The old lady gave the dowry to whomever she liked, what could he do? To put it bluntly, the old lady had no children after she entered the Sheng family. If the old lady died and Yongyi Hou Mansion came to ask for the remaining dowry and property, He was too embarrassed to comment.
Aunt Lin learned from the pain and decided to get up wherever she fell. She wanted to come to Jian'an Hall to say hello, but was blocked by Fang's mother. Aunt Lin knelt at the door and cried, attracting everyone in the house to look, and Old Mrs. Sheng groaned. I fell ill in bed, and after checking my pulse, the doctor came up with these two words: I am depressed and my pulse is blocked.
To put it simply, the old man was unhappy! Sheng Hong hurriedly dragged Aunt Lin away.
At first Minglan was very apologetic, feeling that she had offended Aunt Lin, but Mrs. Sheng took it easy and said, "This is not the first time. Every time she wants to get benefits from me, she comes here." Noisy!”
Minglan was very curious and asked what was going on?
Old Mrs. Sheng didn't hide it, she said bluntly: "...that year when she found out something was wrong, the wife wanted to kick her out, but the master refused to let her go. He said he would not let her in, so he would set up a separate room outside. The wife refused to drink her tea. , she came to me crying and begging, and knelt on the ground for several hours without getting up. She just begged me to fulfill her wish. She cried and begged all day and night, saying that if I didn't fulfill her, she would have no choice but to be killed. , I was really tired of being teased, so I turned away from everyone and asked her alone, "Why do you have to be my concubine?" She said that it was because she admired my talent and character! Humph, if she just said it, it was because she was poor when she was a child. I am afraid of suffering and coveting wealth and glory, so I have finally swallowed my breath, but she has to try to trick me into sincere friendship! She is just looking at my former reputation, so she talks about true feelings in everything! , she knows what true love is? True love should be... true love should be..."
"The true love is that you can't be lascivious with wealth, you can't be moved by poverty, and you can't be surrendered by force!" Minglan said.
"Haha, Meng Shengren's words are actually scooped up by you and used like this. I'm not afraid of Mr. hitting you!" The old lady praised in her heart, but feigned anger and hit Minglan's palm a few times.
"What happened next?" Minglan asked with shining eyes.
"I felt disgusted, so I went to the master and told him face to face that I could help them, but not to see her again. If she agreed, I would immediately let her in, but she would not be allowed to come to me in the future! She started I was crying and looking like I was in a dilemma. I pretended for a few days and then gave up half-heartedly. I forced my wife to let her in."
Minglan didn't say anything. The old lady sighed and said, "She doesn't take anything she says seriously. A few years after I entered the house, she didn't come to me to apologize. She cried and begged. She knelt down and kowtowed."
It's like she doesn't want money, she wants me to understand this sincere emotion, and she wants me to forgive her for her unintentional mistake... So I came directly to your father and said that she would come to torment my wife again, so I moved out to live alone, and your father was born.
She is not allowed to come here under a death order!"
Minglan listened for a long time and sighed. She had felt a faint hot and strong emotion from the calm surface of Old Mrs. Sheng a long time ago. She was a woman who loved fiercely, hated fiercely and was also fiercely proud. This kind of absolute
However, extremes are often easy to hurt others, and even easier to hurt yourself.
Contacting Mo Lan when he came to please her, Ming Lan gradually discovered that Old Mrs. Sheng had a weird temperament. If someone didn't want her, she would be willing to give her. If someone was deliberately plotting against her, she would not give her life or death. Ming Lan secretly felt happy when she thought of this.
Back then, Minglan had a bright future but was drowned by a mudslide. After she was reincarnated, the employment situation was very bad, so she became a complete pessimist. From the day she entered Ji'antang, she never asked for anything.
She estimated everything about Mrs. Sheng from the most pessimistic perspective. Seeing that snacks and snacks were not always displayed in Ji'antang like Wang's, she even saved her pocket money to buy snacks to eat with the old lady, which made Old Mrs. Sheng upset.
I couldn't laugh or cry.
Aunt Lin and Mo Lan are good at everything, they are scheming and enterprising, but they don't know that the old lady doesn't want to fight if she likes them.