Golden Branch

The backyard of the county government office was decorated with lights and colorful lanterns.

In the main courtyard of the central axis, in the southwest corner of the courtyard, a Qinglu was built according to the customs of the northern border. After the bride enters the house, she will step on the felt mats laid along the way and enter the Qinglu, where she will hold ceremonies such as worshiping in the hall.

This is also the so-called "Qinglu Ceremony".

The maids of the Wang family, dressed in brand new clothes, were busy welcoming and seeing off guests.

They couldn't be said to be overjoyed, but they were all very positive - the lord married the daughter of the Cui family, and thus became relatives with the Yang, Lou and other leading generals.

With this relationship, the Wang family will only get better and better in troubled times.

Only when the master is doing well can they, the slaves, live well.

Unlike the previous few months, the Wang family was forced to return to their hometown, and was even besieged by rioters in the fortress.

In order to get out of the predicament, Wang Lin, the head of the Wang family, gave away money and goods, beautiful maids, and finally even his own wife... Ahem, it's unspeakable!

This matter is a secret in the Wang family and must not be told.

Not to mention these slaves, even the masters of the Wang family were divided up after they talked behind the scenes in the fort.

When the young man came to Hedong County to take up his post, he did not bring those illegitimate young men with him.

From then on, those families will become ordinary side branches and then become impoverished families.

Langjun was so decisive in dealing with his half-brother, which shows how taboo "that thing" was to Langjun Wang!

...I've strayed off topic. On this happy occasion, let's focus more on the wedding ceremony.

Before dusk, Wang Lin welcomed his new bride into his home.

Enter the Qinglu and hold the wedding ceremony.

Wang Lin is a handsome man with elegant appearance and refined temperament. He has nothing to do with being a "remarried man".

The bride, Cui, held a round fan in her hand, covering her face tightly.

Although her appearance cannot be seen, she has black hair and a slender and graceful figure. Even if she is not a stunning beauty, she is not ugly either.

However, none of this matters to Wang Lin.

He already had the most beautiful ex-wife, and he was no longer at the age where he was only obsessed with beauty.

Nowadays, Wang Lin can tolerate any second wife as long as she is not too ugly.

After all, what he wants is never a woman, but the family behind the woman and the benefits it can bring to him!

Worship heaven and earth!

Two thanks to the high hall!

Husband and wife say goodbye!

The ceremony is completed.

The more solemn part came to an end, and relatives and friends began to make noise and play, just to create a festive atmosphere for the wedding ceremony.

Amid the crowd's cheers, Wang Lin recited a poem on the spot to reject the fan.

"Is the bride satisfied?"

Someone took the lead in creating an atmosphere.

Others laughed and echoed.

If the groom's talent and sincerity in writing the poem about the fan can move the bride, she will take the fan and reveal her true face.

If the bride is not satisfied, the groom has to continue.

Of course, this is just a little game to adjust the atmosphere. Unless the bride is not satisfied with the marriage, she will still take the fan even if she really doesn't like it.

Sure enough, while the relatives, friends and guests watching the ceremony in the Qinglu were still making a fuss, Cui had already put down her round fan.

She raised her head, and saw that she was wearing a gorgeous and dazzling flower crown on her head, with golden hairpins and hairpins in her temples. Her head was full of pearls and jade, and it was dazzling.

Wang Lin's gaze fell on Cui's face and he was stunned.

Cui's appearance is not ugly at all, it can even be described as beautiful.

However, her beauty is different from that of the original wife, Jiang.

Jiang was a woman of stunning beauty, cold and noble, just like Chang'e in the Moon Palace.

As for Cui, she had a pair of tall, thin eyebrows, two phoenix eyes, a high nose bridge, and slightly pointed cheekbones, which made her look a bit sharp.

Her mouth was not the cherry-like small mouth that literati liked, but a slightly blessed one, and was painted with bright red rouge.

Bright and flamboyant, just like the most beautiful peony.

Cui's appearance is a fusion of the characteristics of foreign races, with three-dimensional features and an imposing aura.

In this way, it lacks some of the gracefulness and elegance of the Han style.

Wang Lin couldn't tell whether he was surprised or disappointed. He lowered his eyelids slightly... He had been prepared. He married Cui not for a woman, but to get a wife's family that could help him.

Take a wife and marry a good man.

If you really want a beautiful woman that suits your taste, you can even take a concubine!

Thinking of this, Wang Lin raised his head again, and his gentle eyes were filled with joy and tenderness.

Seeing the affectionate handsome man, even though he was several years older than her and was a second marriage, Jiang still blushed.

This young man from the Wang family was indeed handsome and elegant, just as the ideal husband she had imagined.

The man has feelings and the woman has intentions, so everyone else in the qinglu seems very redundant.

Everyone was not ignorant. Seeing the bride and groom in such a state, they all smiled with "understanding" and left the Qinglu one after another, leaving only the newlyweds to continue the ceremony.

Among the crowd, there was a little girl of eight or nine years old. She squeezed out and hurried to the courtyard on the east side.

"Jiu Niang! Jiu Niang!"

Baizhi entered the west wing of the east courtyard and called out repeatedly.

"Baizhi, what's wrong? Didn't you go to the main courtyard to help?"

Holding a cherry biro in her hand, Wang Heng puffed up her little face, chewed it hard for a few times, swallowed the food in her mouth, and then asked in some confusion.

Fu's mother, who was following Wang Heng, frowned slightly, "Baizhi, don't yell!"

"Oh, Mrs. Fu, it's already this late, and you're still fussing about this?" The situation is urgent.

"... Is there something wrong with the bride and the lady?"

After all, Fu's mother was older, and just by listening to the tone of Bai Zhi's voice, she knew that she must have seen something in Qinglu.

"The new lady is extremely beautiful! The young man was stunned by her!"

There was obvious worry in Baizhi's tone.

The lady is gone, and the man has remarried. The new lady is still so beautiful, and the man is obviously very satisfied.

Then, what should their Jiu Niang do in the future?

There is a huge difference between a favored stepmother and an unfavored stepmother.

Bai Zhi is young, but she has been in the back house for two or three years and has seen many wives and concubines in other rooms fighting with each other, and fighting between legitimate and illegitimate children.

She knew too well what kind of conspiracies, filth and dirt were going on in the inner courtyard of this mansion.

"Oh!"

Wang Heng didn't care.

The stepmother who had just come into the house was far inferior to the delicious food in her hands.

Freshly picked cherries in May are boiled into jam, made into fillings, and made into cherry biro.

The thin skin and full filling have the wheat aroma of the dough and the sour and sweet taste of cherries.

When she put it in her mouth, it burst with juice, and Wang Heng felt so satisfied after eating it.

Bai Zhi widened her eyes, she was so anxious that she was about to get angry, but her own Jiu Niang was still eating leisurely?

By the way, is this cherry biro so delicious?

Uh, no, that's not the point.

The point is, Jiu Niang seems to love eating and can eat a lot recently.

This little face is already round and chubby, and after eating so much these days, it seems to have gained even more weight.

Although Jiu Niang is still so cute and delicate, like a festive golden boy and jade girl.

However, the aesthetic of the Zhou Dynasty was slenderness. Even children would be ridiculed if they were too fat.

"Jiu Niang! Didn't you hear what I just said?"

After collecting her thoughts, Bai Zhi turned her focus back to her second wife, Cui.

She is Jiu Niang's stepmother, but how many stepmothers have been kind to the original wife's children since ancient times?

Why isn't Jiu Niang worried at all?

"heard it!"

After finishing the last piece of cherry biro, Wang Heng still felt a little unsatisfied.

She licked her fingers. Some of the filling had leaked out when she was eating just now, and the white and tender fingertips were stained bright red. Wang Heng quickly licked them clean.

Mother Fu's forehead twitched slightly. Jiu Niang looked really unbecoming.

"After hearing what I said, Jiu Niang isn't worried?"

"Don't worry, there's still Big Mom!"

Wang Heng always says that she is not smart, but she has the sharp intuition of a small animal.

The eldest mother did not like her, but she might not like a daughter-in-law who could satisfy her son.

Jiang, Madam Xie is not satisfied.

Cui may not satisfy Madam Xie.

"Also, a few days ago, when my father sent me here, he also told my grandmother that she would be the one taking care of me from now on."

Wang Heng would not go to Cui and bother her.

As long as it doesn't hinder the Cui family, the Cui family shouldn't do anything either.

Wang Heng still underestimated the complexity and ugliness of human nature. She hid in Madam Xie's yard and did not take the initiative to provoke Cui.

However, Cui still felt that Wang Heng was superfluous.

Moreover, Cui's method was very simple and crude, without the subtlety and circuitousness of ordinary inner chamber ladies...

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