Chapter 314
Jin Xida applied to the emperor half a month ago that the two marquis' mansions would not attend this year's New Year's Eve palace banquet. First, the family separated for two or three years, and this year was the first year of the League membership; second, the daughter-in-law Nangong Miao had a body and was still in the first three months, so it was not suitable to attend the crowded New Year's Eve palace banquet.
The emperor thought for a moment and agreed: "Let's do this, you don't have to enter the palace for the New Year's Eve banquet. The third day of the New Year is the birthday of my mother. Your whole family will bring Xiaoguai and Huohuo to the palace."
In recent years, the empress dowager took the lead in reducing the expenses of the harem to increase the supply of food and grass for border soldiers and cold-proof quilts. The birthday banquet was very simple, and not many people attended. Anyway, the lively New Year's Eve palace banquet was just a few days before the birthday banquet. Everyone had gathered and seen it.
The emperor was filial, but he also knew that the empress dowager was for him. For the sake of the Great Zhou, he had to follow the empress dowager's wishes and prepare to wait for the empress dowager's sixtyth birthday to make it lively.
After Jin Xida left, Dafuzi's father-in-law sighed: "As soon as this comes every year, many people are worried about not receiving posts from the palace banquet, and they also see someone asking not to participate for the first time. The two marquises, Wenyuan Hou and Yongping Hou, are really different from others."
The emperor said meaningfully: "Some people have little hearts and don't want much things, so they will not have much hesitation; some people have big hearts and want everything, so they have to worry a lot."
Dafuzi was stunned for a moment, but he didn't understand what the emperor meant. Are the two marquises too little or too big? However, there was a gossip topic in the capital on New Year's Eve, and many people were probably so excited that they couldn't sleep because the two marquises finally "fall out of favor".
However, when it was the third year of junior high school... Hehe, Da Fuzi was happy after thinking about it. The emperor really liked to watch the fun the most... During the Chinese New Year, he was not going to let the staff from all the governments take a break.
The old year is over tonight, and the new year is coming tomorrow. On this day of farewell to the old and welcoming the new, the whole family gathered together to toast and congratulate each other, and imagined that there would be a fat baby who was babbling at this time next year. It was so unhappy and comfortable! This warmth and happiness are not something that can be felt in a palace banquet where a big show is performed.
Shuwen’s only regret is: “I haven’t seen the fireworks in the palace.” He entered the palace in the first year, but he sent the emperor health pills and missed the fireworks. The next three New Year’s Eves were all mourning in Yulin. This year was the first reunion year for their family, so naturally he didn’t want to go to the palace to sing a big show with so many people, just to watch a fireworks, which was worth it.
Shuwen's plan is better than anyone else. The butler, Uncle Kui, said that their second master would never do a loss-making business.
Jin Xida laughed: "There are many opportunities to watch fireworks. You can see the New Year's Eve palace banquet every year, or there are foreign countries coming to worship, and you can celebrate the important event in the palace, such as the Empress Dowager's 60th birthday."
Fanbian came to worship? Shuyao suddenly remembered that when she ran away from the sedan chair in her previous life, she happened to be a prince and princess from Fanbian who came to Beijing from thousands of miles away. The streets were very lively, otherwise she might not have left Beijing so easily. Just do it. That is to say, it happened in May this year, not long after her birthday.
However, she seemed to have heard people talking about it while running away. The people from Fanbian were quite rampant, saying that they were coming to worship, but it seemed like they were coming to provoke.
Suddenly, a string of firecrackers pulled Shuyao's thoughts back. He couldn't help but laugh at himself. How could she, a girl, worry about the affairs of the court? However, the adoptive father and elder brother will inevitably be busy and troubled.
"Let's go, Brother Tian'en, let's go set off firecrackers too," Shuwen pulled Zhao Tian'en and was about to go to the yard.
Shujie hurriedly said, "Wait a minute, Wen'er, you have to set off firecrackers and go by yourself. God, how are you thinking about your marriage? It just so happens that everyone has time today. If you decide, next time you send soybeans and flour carriages to Yulin, ask them to bring a letter to grandma and second uncle.
The marriage is made in advance, and it doesn’t matter if you get married later. You can still follow the shopkeeper Du to open a new store in Kuncheng. Qiutao is less than sixteen years old anyway. As long as the marriage is made, Uncle and Aunt Li are not in a hurry. You can return to Beijing in one or two years at most. Then you will return to Yulin to get married and bring Qiutao to Beijing."
When Shuwen heard that it was Tianen's marriage, he immediately became interested in gossip and didn't want to set off firecrackers: "Sister Qiutao, well, it must be much better than your fairy cousin. But Erbao's uncle said that your fairy cousin is a beauty, more beautiful than her aunt."
Shuwen felt her hair standing up when she thought of Cheng's artificial appearance. She really didn't feel that she was beautiful, right? Judging from Cheng's virtue, her niece was definitely not a good woman. Her name was vulgar and she was also a "beautiful immortal".
Shujie pretended to glar at Shuwen with a funny look, "You are a little man, what do you know? Eat your melon seeds and kernels."
Shuwen likes to eat melon seeds, but he is impatient with eating melon seeds. Since he was a child, Shujie has always helped him peel melon seeds, and he still has to do these things in a habit. So, it is rare to have time to chat, so he can get started immediately.
Shuwen stuck out his tongue and began to attack a small pile of melon seeds in front of him. Shujie smiled at Tianen and said, "Of course, if you really like Aunt Cheng's niece, we will not interfere, we just give your meaning back to grandma."
However, if Tianen really married Cheng Meixian, Shujie would not be prepared to let him continue to work in the Xia store, so as to avoid trouble in the future.
Not long after Shu Yao and the others returned to the capital, they heard that Cheng's niece came from Haicheng to join her. I don't know how Cheng told Zhao Erbao, but Zhao Erbao actually asked someone to bring a message to Tianen to Yulin, marry Cheng Meixian and come to the capital together. Fortunately, Zhao He received the news in time and immediately sent someone another message, saying that Tianen's marriage was led by Zhao He, and Zhao Erbao and Cheng could not interfere, and the contract was written in black and white.
Zhao He asked Shujie and Nangong Miao to help him arrange a marriage for Tianen. As long as the girl is virtuous, it doesn’t matter if she is originally a slave, as long as she can redeem herself.
Since the incident of "Pairing Wife's Cousin" back then, Zhao He felt guilty and rarely took the initiative to interact with Shujie's three siblings. Zhao Dabao and Zhang came forward for anything. However, Zhao He still believed that with Shujie's nature, he would definitely help Tianheng's affairs sincerely.
It was also coincidental that the old neighbor of Xitang Street, Uncle and Aunt Li fell in love with the silly and willing to work hard, and just asked Aunt Mei to ask. Aunt Mei quickly told Nangong Miao about this. Qiutao was the neighbor that Aunt Mei grew up, and it was also a neighbor that Shujie and his three brothers and sisters knew since childhood. Although they were just pretty, they were diligent and simple, and cheerful and generous. They were really a rare candidate.
After Shujie mentioned this matter to Tianen, Tianen just blushed and lowered her head. Shujie knew that he was introverted and embarrassed, and did not urge him to think about giving him a reply for two days.
At this moment, the whole family is staying up all year round, and they have a rare time to chat, so they naturally caught Tianen and asked for the answer.
Tianen's face turned red when he heard Shuwen's teasing, and his face turned red. He was about to open his mouth to defend himself, but when he heard Shujie's words, he was shocked and didn't care about being shy. He quickly replied: "No, no, I don't like any beautiful fairy cousin. Qiutao girl is very good, really good."
Tianen met Qiutao two or three times in the Yongping Hou Mansion in Yulin, and he also had a good impression of it, but he didn't dare to think about it any way. Moreover, he was devoted to learning how capable he could grow and not lose Shujie's face, but he didn't have time to think about those erotic things.
Hearing Tianen stuttering his thoughts, Mrs. Jin laughed: "Your child, getting married and having children is a major event in life, and it does not affect your work in the store. How come it becomes a 'flowering matter'?"
Suddenly, Mrs. Jin's eyes dimmed. Yes, a big event in life, if she hadn't planned on her son and hurt him, now...
I don’t know who this son looks like, so infatuated? He is so bastard, uh, that person is also infatuated, just infatuated with his concubine.
Where can Jin Xida feel his mother's emotional changes? She sighed secretly. He is unfilial. Although his mother has not mentioned the fact that he will have children in recent years, who does not want to see his son get married and does not want to hold his grandson? That is a bloody inheritance.
Before, he ignored his mother's complaints and requests, mostly because his mother was just trying to use him, not really considering him. But now that his mother has changed and does not mention that matter at all, it makes him feel guilty as a son. There are three kinds of unfilial piety, and no descendants are the greatest.
He "chats" with Zhen Zi Rou and Xia Linxuan almost every night, and his heart became more and more relaxed. Perhaps this is the fate destined by God. His Rou'er and him will have a fate without separation in this life, and can only be hidden deep in his heart. Otherwise, it will not only be an "unrighteousness" to Xia Linxuan, but also a blasphemy to Rou'er. He can only look forward to being destined to be destined in the next life.
Therefore, he was not rejecting marriage, but I don’t know if he had exhausted his feelings. Facing other women, he really didn’t have the same feeling as he wanted to be with Zhen Zirou for the rest of his life. The emperor even asked someone to find several women who looked very similar to Zhen Zirou. After seeing the portrait, he didn’t even have a chance to meet him.
He knew very well that what he liked was Rou'er, not his appearance. Otherwise, when he saw the strange girl who looked the most like Rou'er, he would not have been surprised, but only doubts about "whether he did it carefully" (of course, now he knows that it is Rou'er's real sister).
Jin Xida didn't want to find a substitute for Donnie Yen. That would be a smear of his feelings and an unfairness to the woman.
Jin Xida smiled bitterly, as the emperor said, he was a person with a quirk of thought. But, do you really want to marry a woman to have a child for "filial piety"? He also remembered the look of the emperor looking at him like a madman: "How many people have never seen the woman they want to marry before they get married, okay? They are in love with each other? You are like Zhen, it is really a private gift."
Jin Xida was struggling alone, but Tianen quickly expressed his attitude. He had been worried that he would not be able to open a shop in Kuncheng if he became a relative. Now Shujie's words dispelled his concerns. He originally liked a girl with a temperament like Qiutao, but he didn't respond quickly. He was really planning to be a stepmother Cheng and had nowhere to cry. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.)
Chapter completed!