The Cloud Feather of the Red Chamber: A Marriage Arranged with Gong Yuanzheng at the Start

As winter fades and spring arrives, most of the plum blossoms in Zheng Palace have already fallen without anyone noticing.

A gentle breeze blows, cherry blossoms fall in profusion, and a babbling brook meanders down, some of the fallen petals carried away by the flowing water.

Under the plum blossom tree, Xue Gongzi and Qingyu helped Daiyu collect the fallen plum blossoms into a silk bag.

The three of them quickly collected all the plum blossoms under the tree.

The three of them took small hoes and started digging holes. The small hoe in Xue Gongzi's hand was obviously not very handy, but he still dug with great enthusiasm.

Gong Zishang looked puzzled and leaned closer to the three of them. "Are you playing in the mud?"

Young Master Xue was startled and threw away the flower hoe in his hand. "Zhi, Zhi Ren, I have already taken care of all the affairs in the back mountain."

With Gong Shangjiao gone, only Gong Zishang and Xue Gongzi remained as the people in charge of the palace gate.

Xue Gongzi was handling all the affairs of the three palaces in the back mountain, so Gong Zishang felt embarrassed to leave the work of the front mountain to him anymore.

When she was too busy to handle everything, she asked Lin Qingyue to help her.

Young Master Xue learned very quickly and was already adept at handling affairs in the back mountain.

Moreover, there are fewer affairs on the back mountain than on the front mountain. After finishing his daily tasks, Young Master Xue can still go to Zheng Palace and play with Daiyu and Qingyu for an hour or two.

Upon suddenly seeing Gong Zishang, Young Master Xue felt inexplicably guilty.

Qingyu, standing to the side, raised her little hand and said to Gong Zishang with a look of curiosity, "Sister Zishang, we are burying flowers with my second sister!"

"Bury...bury flowers?" Gong Zishang's expression went blank for a moment.

She had never heard such elegant words before...

Daiyu looked at her with a smile, "Master, would you like to come along?"

Gong Zishang didn't know how she took the small flower hoe from Qingyu's hand. When she regained her senses, she was already burying the silk bag in the ground with Daiyu and Xue Gongzi.

Gong Zishang: "..."

Young Master Xue was somewhat excited; it was his first time burying flowers, and he felt quite good about it.

Following Sister Yu'er, I can really learn a lot. There are many things that have not been written in the storybooks!

I don't know where he pulled out paper and pen from, and began to write in a long, flowing style.

Daiyu's gaze fell on the fallen flowers drifting away with the flowing water, and a poem inexplicably appeared in her mind.

"Now that you are dead, I will bury you, but I do not know when I will die."

Today I bury flowers, people laugh at my foolishness; but who will bury me in years to come?

The voice was too soft for Gong Zishang to hear clearly, but she noticed that Daiyu's expression was somewhat off, and she was filled with sorrow.

Gong Zishang was a little worried and was about to ask for more details when he heard Xue Gongzi shout from not far away, "Yu'er, let's go practice our lightness skills!"

In an instant, all the confusion and sadness in Daiyu's eyes disappeared, and her aura instantly became joyful and cheerful.

"Okay! Brother Xiaoxue, let's go right away!"

"Master!" Daiyu looked up at Gong Zishang, her eyes sparkling with anticipation and joy.

"Then Xiaoxue and I will go first!"

"Go on, go on!" Gong Zishang didn't try to stop them.

After they had gone far away, he walked deeper into the Zheng Palace.

There, a patch of epiphyllum flowers was in full bloom.

No one knows how Gong Yuanzheng managed to cultivate the epiphyllum to bloom perpetually.

The epiphyllum he had given her had been in full bloom for over a month, yet it remained as vibrant as ever.

The remaining epiphyllum flowers are also gradually blooming.

When Gong Zishang arrived, he saw a girl dressed in a flower-patterned dress with butterflies, carefully and attentively pruning the flower branches in the flower bushes.

The warm sun shone on her, and as she moved, her clothes swayed. The butterflies seemed to come alive, fluttering among the flowers and around her.

A subtle fragrance wafts through the air, amidst blooming flowers and beautiful women.

Gong Zishang secretly gasped, suddenly understanding why Gong Yuanzheng had requested such an imperial edict.

The palace gates will no longer be secluded from the world; sooner or later, my sister Qingyue will go to Yangzhou and the capital.

Now, with Qingyue's coming-of-age ceremony fast approaching, Gong Yuanzheng's move has effectively sealed the marriage, leaving no room for change.

As long as Qingyue steps out of the palace gates, she will be Gong San's wife.

This single rule has dashed the hopes of many people.

Gong Yuanzheng, you truly live up to your reputation!

After pruning the flower branches, Lin Qingyue walked out of the flower bushes with a flower basket in her hand and saw Gong Zishang standing under the corridor.

"Sister Zi Shang!"

Gong Zishang walked towards Lin Qingyue with a smile, looking at the epiphyllum flowers blooming freely in the flower basket, and couldn't help but tease her.

"I only knew that my brother Yuanzheng's cultivation of herbs was unparalleled, but I never expected that his cultivation of epiphyllum was also unique."

Lin Qingyue smiled, her lips pursed. Having known Gong Zishang for so long, she was now immune to her teasing.

"Is Sister Zishang here to see Yu'er? She should still be burying flowers with Qingyu and Young Master Xue."

Gong Zishang's lips twitched. "I know, I even buried flowers with them."

"I'm here today for this matter."

As he spoke, Gong Zishang took out the imperial edict from his sleeve.

Upon seeing the imperial edict in her hand, Lin Qingyue hesitated slightly, but still accepted it.

After reading the contents, Lin Qingyue was somewhat surprised, but not much.

Given Gong Yuanzheng's personality, it's not surprising that he did something like this.

Seeing that her expression remained unchanged, I thought about how I reacted when I first heard the news.

Gong Zishang shook his head inwardly, never expecting that he was the most ignorant one in the Gong family.

After carefully putting away the imperial edict, Lin Qingyue looked at Gong Zishang with a smile.

"Sister Zishang, Brother Shangjiao has entrusted my coming-of-age ceremony and wedding to you, right?"

Gong Zishang looked at Lin Qingyue with a smile in her eyes, "Of course, if you have any requests, please feel free to make them."

Lin Qingyue smiled gently, "Sister Zishang, I want to prepare for my own wedding."

No girl doesn't look forward to her wedding.

In modern times, young people mostly plan their own weddings.

From wedding favors, flowers, and hotels, to wedding photos and invitation designs, everything was chosen to suit my taste perfectly.

In her previous life, Lin Qingyue had seen many videos of classical weddings online. The beautiful sets always made her want to watch them several times.

She had also dreamed of having a wedding like that.

If she were in Yangzhou or the capital, she naturally wouldn't be able to prepare a wedding like that.

Now that her wedding banquet is being held at the palace gates, why not prepare it according to her own wishes?

Gong Zishang was somewhat surprised, but still readily agreed, "If you need anything, just ask me."

After discussing the wedding, Gong Zishang asked with some concern, "Qingyue, how are you going to tell Yu'er about this?"

Having spent so much time together, Gong Zishang naturally knew how good Daiyu and Lin Qingyue's relationship was. Now that she was suddenly getting married, he was afraid that Daiyu would be sad.

Lin Qingyue wasn't too worried about this.

"Sister Zishang, don't worry, I will naturally persuade Yu'er."

"Yu'er is kind, intelligent, and pure, but she is actually somewhat unconventional."

"As long as I explain it to her clearly, she will understand."

Upon hearing this, Gong Zishang felt relieved. Thinking about the three siblings of the Lin family, it seemed that Qingyu was the most law-abiding.

Needless to say, Qingyue was different from everyone else from their first meeting. It was even Qingyue who suggested the idea of ​​building a harem...

Yu'er too, have you ever seen a young lady from a prominent family whose favorite thing to do is blacksmithing?