The Qinghe County Lord of the Red Chamber

After finishing the sad expression, Shang Chanchan blinked and regained her cheerfulness.

He even compared his own wrist to Daiyu: "Oh, it's a pity that this expression is easy to put on and haggard, but it can't be done in a day or two."

"Sister Lin's wrist is always so slender, look at me, it seems to be a little rounder."

Daiyu touched her wrist and felt it was as soft as fat. She couldn't help laughing and said, "You have been practicing archery and having fun these past two years, but your health is getting better and better. Ever since you had a fever that year, you have never been sick. We have big hearts."

Shang Chanchan nodded: "It's not just me, sister Lin didn't suffer from cough this year, did she? Maybe it's because of the kite that brother used the year before last, and took away the root of the disease for us."

Speaking of Shang Chi, Shang Chanchan patted her forehead again: "I'm so stupid, I've been here for half a day, and I even forgot to take out the birthday gift my elder brother gave to my sister."

After finishing speaking, he called Fu Ling who was at the door, and took from her a half-worn and not new box filled with lacquered sunflowers.

Daiyu is a little strange, who doesn't use brand-new boxes for gifts, but uses old ones.

In the past, the gifts from Shangchi were all ancient books, calligraphy and paintings that were painstakingly searched, or they were exquisite playthings.

For example, in last year's birthday gift, there was a hibiscus purple fan with a suet white jade handle, which was just suitable for holding in the hand in summer.

Shang Chanchan signaled Daiyu to open it, and said: "Now everything in the palace is simple and plain, and the calligraphy and painting decorations in my sister's room have to be put away, and the gifts that my brother originally prepared are not allowed to be given away—if they are given away, they can only be placed in the warehouse. Eat ashes, so he changed the gift."

Then he lowered his voice and said to Daiyu: "As for the others, just wait for sister to come into our house and go see for yourself."

Unlike Shang Chanchan who didn't care about the jokes about the marriage, Daiyu still felt dizzy every time she listened to it a lot in the past two years.

She reached out to open the box, and couldn't help being a little stunned.

"Are these some land deeds and properties?" Daiyu was even more confused. This operation of sending money directly was not like Shang Chi, but rather something that Shang Chanchan could do.

Now Daiyu has been in charge of the Lin family for a few years, and it is no longer the daughter's family who lived in the Jia family and didn't even recognize the pawnbroker.

Shang Chanchan nodded: "Although there is a law in this dynasty: if the grandparents and parents are present, and the children and grandchildren have separate household registrations to divide the property, the cane will be [-]. But the shop and land given by the parents are fine."

"Since the elder brother entered the court, he naturally had his own entertainment affairs, interpersonal communication, and it was not cheap to use it from the family account. So my father gave the elder brother these shop fields."

Shang Chanchan pointed at the box and said with a smile: "So, the big brother's private money is all in it, and now I hand it in together."

Although Daiyu was heartbroken, seeing that Shang Chanchan was only looking at her with bright eyes, she blushed and said, "It's just that there is no time to prepare a new gift, so I thought of this way to save trouble."

For a moment, he was a little worried: "These things are here with me, if he is waiting to use them for a while."

After I finished speaking, I laughed too. If I really cared about it, it would be chaotic: Shang Chi's people went to pay the money, and the shop would not let the uncle's people go there with the shop deed every time.

Shang Chanchan grinned: "So the eldest brother only has liquid assets now, and the fixed assets are all with my sister."

Daiyu laughed and said, "Where did you come up with these weird words?"

Shang Chanchan made a slip of the tongue for a moment, and quickly said: "Brother Xie taught me." After putting the pot on Xie Ling, he pointed to the box and said, "There is a gift underneath, sister, don't you want to see it?"

Only then did Daiyu find a blueprint under a pile of land deeds.

Now that she is familiar with Shang Chi's brush and ink, she can tell at a glance that it was drawn by him himself, and it is a sketch of a house.

In the painting, the courtyard is vast, the windows are bright, the houses are deep, the eaves are double, and the sheep sills are quiet and elegant.

There is another pavilion at its end, and there is also a lotus pond under it.

It was actually very similar to her courtyard in the Lin family, only much wider.

Shang Chanchan said casually: "The place in our house is big, but there are few people. In the past, many courtyards were locked and unoccupied. Since last year, my brother drew the blueprints and asked someone to rebuild the courtyard in the east. once."

Daiyu said quickly, "He has never entered our inner house, and you must have told him."

Shang Chanchan nodded: "Right now it's just the general shape, my sister will see if there is anything to add or change - now many things may violate the rules and can't be used, I have to wait for the elder brother's position as the eldest son and the elder sister's county head Only when it is sealed can it continue to be perfected."

Then he pointed to the pavilion and said, "For this pavilion, my brother said that it would be good if Sister Lin wrote her name and the pair on the pillar."

Daiyu looked at the blueprint, with a smile on her lips, and said, "Then it's called Taoranting. As for the pair, I don't need to tell you, he will know it just by hearing the name."

Shang Chanchan thought: Forget it, I'm just an innocent pigeon.I don't understand the code between humans.

The two just continued talking and laughing, watching Xueyan register the gifts.

Because of the matter of the overlord, there was a lot of turmoil in the palace, everyone was vegetarian and praying for blessings, so it was absolutely impossible to shoot birds and kill them.

Even the Fifth Prince and Princess Lirong didn't dare to stand up to the wind, they were all cautious and copied Buddhist scriptures every day.

When everyone met each other, they all smelled of white sandalwood incense.

So even though it was Daiyu's birthday today, Wenshan and the others only came to give gifts, and then they didn't dare to sit and laugh, let alone hold a drinking order like in previous years and have a few drinks.

They all went after sitting for a while and getting busy.

Seeing this, Shang Chanchan thought to herself: "The grass and trees are like soldiers, I don't know when it will be a head."

In the past two months, she has always been looking forward to returning to the mansion once every three days—everyone in the palace eats vegetarian food, and she never likes to eat vegetables and tofu. Look at the meatloaf.

When it was time for lunch, Shang Chanchan looked at the table of vegetarian dishes and was almost speechless.

Even the longevity noodles are a bowl of plain noodles.

Shang Chanchan tasted the soup in disbelief, and was even more disappointed: In previous years, the fresh soup was made of cloud legs, chicken, fish and other meat to serve with vegetarian noodles, but this year it was only clear soup with little water, that is, white water boiled noodles.

She couldn't help feeling sad--real sad this time, not feigned: there was no way to live.

Now let's press the palace affairs.

We only mentioned the Huachao Festival, and the next day, Lin Ruhai went to work at the household department, but saw Shang Duoan sitting on it, motionless.

I can't help feeling a little headache: "Doesn't Lord Hou need to deal with official duties?"

Shang Duo said quickly: "Today, I will not leave until I have an accurate word here."

"After three months, the saint's decree for marriage came down. How about our two houses getting married in June?"

Lin Ruhai felt pain in his heart just thinking about his daughter becoming someone else's family member. In the past, when Shang Duo mentioned it, he waved his hand.

Now hearing that Shang Duo actually intends to rush to the wedding, his face turned down on the spot: "Even if a saint bestows a marriage, there are still six rites to go. Three months is too hasty, of course it won't work!"

Seeing that there was no one around, Shang Duo said, "Don't be in a hurry, listen to me. Our family is not trying to act hastily and wrong the daughter. It's just..."

He lowered his voice: "The old saint is getting worse and worse."

Lin Ruhai's eyebrows twitched: Although he is a high-ranking and powerful person, in terms of familiarity with the situation in the palace, he is naturally not as good as Shang Duo, who has a sister who is the queen mother.

"At the end of the first lunar month, didn't the imperial physician say that as long as you take good care of yourself, you will be fine this year."

Due to the repeated illness of the Supreme Emperor, one time when the imperial physician came back to report, a dozen important ministers happened to be waiting in the imperial study for an answer.They all followed the emperor to pay his respects to the Supreme Emperor.

Everyone heard the words of the imperial physician order that day.

Imperial physicians have always been the most cautious, and if they can protect the emperor for three years, they can only say one year.

So since they dare to say that this year will be fine, of course they are sure, so everyone's psychological expectation is that the Supreme Emperor can live for two or three years.

Therefore, Lin Ruhai was shocked when he heard Shang Duo's words.

If the Supreme Emperor is really bad...

Shang Duo explained: "The problem lies in this 'just take good care of yourself'. You should know better than me the temper of the old sage. He is arbitrarily arbitrary in the world, and he becomes more domineering when he gets old."

"Now that I'm sick in bed, I can't even speak well. How can I calm down my anger, let alone take care of it."

"According to what the Empress Dowager said, all those who serve will be beaten, scolded and punished every day. This is evident. This disease requires avoiding getting angry. The old sage is like this, just be afraid."

Lin Ruhai didn't even notice the ink dripping from the pen in his hand, he just muttered.

Once the Supreme Emperor dies, there will be a great funeral in the state, and no banquet and music will be allowed within a year for all noble families, and common people will not be allowed to marry in three months.

Naturally, these important ministers are being watched more closely by others. I don't know how many people are staring at them and waiting to find out their mistakes.

Naturally, you can't do anything beyond the rules - if you can't even hold a banquet, the marriage will have to be postponed.

That was indeed a long time.

Shang Duo rarely looked serious: "And there is one more thing. Once the old sage's mausoleum collapses, the emperor has been angry with Jin Huai for many years, and he will not be able to bear it anymore. I am afraid that someone will be in trouble immediately, and the four major families will bear the brunt."

"Rongguo Mansion is your Yue's family after all, and Shi Taijun has also raised Ling Qianjin for several years. If you ask to come to the door, how will you deal with yourself? You will lose your heart if you don't help. If you don't help, I'm afraid the person outside will not be able to tell. If you say something good, even Ling Qianjin's reputation will be damaged."

There are many people in this world who love to chew their tongues, praise and criticize others casually, if the Jia family asks to come to the door, but the Lin family ignores them, I am afraid that someone will say that their father and daughter are ungrateful.

Shang Duo continued: "If the marriage is over early, people from the Rongguo Mansion would not dare to come to our house to make noise about Lingqianjin. It's easy for you to be alone, but at worst, please let Sheng go out to hide for a year or two by accident, and call Chi'er in Beijing. Just look at it."

If the Jia family collapsed, people from the Rongguo Mansion would definitely go to the Lin family to cry and beg.

In particular, Shi Taijun is a maternal grandmother after all, and he has been kind to Daiyu in nurturing her. If she really pulls Daiyu to cry, it will be difficult to handle.

Lin Ruhai also understood the Jia family's temperament very well, and would definitely come to pester them.

However, before he could talk to Shang Duo here, he saw a little eunuch running in and said repeatedly: "Master Hou, please go to the palace quickly. The urgent battle report is eight hundred miles away, the bandits in southern Fujian are rampant, our army is lost, and we are lost." Counties."

Shang Duo got up immediately, frightened and angry: "What!"

Two years ago, he and Lin Ruhai had discussed the matter of going to southern Fujian, and they thought it was just a case of ringworm and scabies, not something to worry about.

Even if he is a civil servant, he may not be proficient in the way of marching. However, the Ministry of War also came to such a conclusion, and it should not be bad.

How could it suddenly lead to a catastrophe today.

I saw another little eunuch running in from outside with his hat on, this time he said to Lin Ruhai: "My lord hastily summoned Lord Lin to the palace, and asked him to bring all the account books related to the Southern Fujian Army over the years."

Then he bowed and said: "Lord Lin, look for it slowly. The Holy Majesty said that it must be complete. The servant is waiting here."

Lin Ruhai and Shang Duo looked at each other, and immediately understood: It seems that there is something wrong with the military supply, and it is not small.

The emperor's suspicions all came to Lin Ruhai, so he immediately ordered him to bring the account book into the palace without delay - this is the time for not changing the account book.

Shang Duo asked in a low voice: "Is there nothing wrong with you here?"

Lin Ruhai nodded: "The accounts of the Beijing Central Household Department are absolutely flawless."

Then he said to the eunuch who was called waiting but was actually watching: "Eunuch, you don't need to wait too long. The account books of the household department always have their own records, and they can be found very quickly."

Especially in southern Fujian, the past few years have been troubled, and Lin Ruhai is even more careful, sending someone to get the box of detailed accounts over the years, and the general account is locked with him.

But after a while, it was all over, the eunuch hurriedly praised them, and followed them into the palace.

When Shang Duo entered the imperial study, he saw Xie Yuce and Geng Zhongwen, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, standing there with their heads bowed.

The emperor's face was gloomy as if ink had been spilled.

Seeing the two people come in, he directly pointed at Geng Zhongwen: "Read it again."