[Comprehensive] With a deep golden finger

Chapter 71

While Zhou Lang was concentrating on preparing the dowry, the Grand View Garden in Rongguo Mansion was also completed.It is said that Jia Zheng took Jia Baoyu and a group of literati to visit the Grand View Garden, wrote inscriptions and wrote poems, which won a lot of praise.

Aunt Xue was quite envious, and went to Jia's mansion from time to time, and heard Mrs. Wang talk about the scenery in the Grand View Garden, as if both of them had visited.Zhou Lang just smiled and said nothing, secretly counting the money he earned this time, feeling very happy.

The Xue family had lost a lot of money and almost sold the shop.Fortunately, Xue Pan was packed away, and after Zhou Lang took over, he rectified severely. At this time, he made a fortune, and the Xue family's economy finally recovered some vitality.

Most of the Xue family's things are naturally left to Xue Pan to inherit, but Aunt Xue is also a person who loves her daughter.Aunt Xue only murmured a few words inwardly about Zhou Lang's plans to include several shops and farms in his dowry, but said nothing on the surface.

She thought about Mrs. Wang's dowry list, and recalled the situation when Jia Min got married. She was inexplicably unhappy, so she added another 30 taels of silver to Zhou Lang.

When Aunt Xue got married, she was not as good as Mrs. Wang in terms of dowry. Now that she married her daughter, the Xue family had plenty of money, so she didn't want her daughter to be as wronged as she was!

Two days later, Ying'er told Zhou Lang and Aunt Xue that the Rongguo Mansion had bought more than a dozen small opera actors, and now they lived in Lixiangyuan, singing and practicing their voices all day long.

Zhou Lang knew about this for a long time, so he didn't think anything of it, only Aunt Xue was upset again.

The yard that was originally lent to relatives is now being lived in by a little actor, no matter how I think about it, I feel uncomfortable.However, the Rongguo Mansion is very powerful, after all, it is someone else's yard, and it can be lived in by whoever likes it.Aunt Xue could only be secretly unhappy for a few days, but on the surface she happily went to talk to Mrs. Wang.

How should I put it, after all, Mrs. Wang has a daughter in the palace, doesn't she?In the future, there will be plenty of places to support her son and son-in-law.

Thinking of her son-in-law, Aunt Xue was worried again.Her good daughter can only marry an unknown person now.It is said that it is Lord Huang, who is valued by the emperor, but the official position, what is the inspector censor, I heard that he is an official of the fifth rank.How can an official of the fifth rank win the emperor's fancy!

Not as good as that kid surnamed Jiang!

Aunt Xue sighed, regretting not accepting the previous marriage.After this toss, the daughter is getting married more and more.

No matter what Aunt Xue was dissatisfied with, Zhou Lang was happy anyway.

Itachi picked a free time to pay an official visit to Xue's house, and Aunt Xue talked a lot about it, and saw that Itachi gave him a rich list of betrothal gifts, another good-looking talent, with a smile on his face that was neither overbearing nor humble, and his complexion looked much better.

"Since the wedding date has been set, let's welcome the bride when we get married!" Aunt Xue forced a smile, reminding herself that this is a gift of marriage, and she must not appear very unhappy.

The Xue family was busy with Zhou Lang's marriage, and the Rongguo Mansion was also busy with Yuanchun's province.

After Miaoyu and several Taoist nuns had moved into the Grand View Garden, and various living things were put into the garden, and the antique pendants were arranged, Jia Zheng applied to let Yuanchun go home to visit his relatives.

The memorial was not approved quickly, and it took half a month to set a date, which was after the New Year, the day of the Lantern Festival.

Because of this big event, everyone didn't have much time to celebrate the new year, but just wanted to have a little fun.Although the years passed so-so, everyone was as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and the servants walked with wind when doing things.

After the eighth day of the first lunar month, a team of eunuchs came out from the palace to inspect the Rongguo Mansion, picking out some unsatisfactory places from time to time.And Jia Zheng naturally followed respectfully, and asked his servants to change all the irregularities at any time.

On the night of NO.14, the Jia family stayed up all night.Just after the third watch, Mother Jia and others, under the service of the girl, put on high-grade imperial clothes and began to wait for Yuanchun to visit relatives.

The Xue family was also invited to ask Aunt Xue and Zhou Lang to visit Yuan Chun in the Grand View Garden.Aunt Xue was also in a hurry, unable to sleep for a while, and urged the maids to find her most solemn attendants to come out and put them on, and asked Zhou Lang to dress up and wait.

Zhou Lang was dug up in the middle of the night and sat in the living room drowsy.She had known earlier that Yuan Chun would not arrive at the Grand View Garden until late in the evening.But Aunt Xue and everyone in Jia's family didn't know, and no one would believe that Yuan Chun didn't arrive until late at night.

Everyone thought that when they left for a meal, Yuan Chun might come.

When night fell, after wave after wave of eunuchs, Yuan Chun's sedan chair finally arrived slowly.Welcomed Yuanchun and sat down in the Grand View Garden. Jia Mu took Mrs. Wang and others to meet one by one, and Jia Zheng and Jia Amnesty led the men of Jia's family to meet from a distance across the screen.Everyone only said a few words, and half an hour passed.

After seeing the elders, Yuanchun specially invited Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Sanchun to speak, asking how they ate recently and what books they were reading.

After Lin Daiyu answered obediently, she sat quietly with her head slightly lowered, not knowing what she was thinking.

Yuan Chun carefully looked at Lin Daiyu's face, seeing that her face was a little pale, and her body was even weaker, so she knew that her mother was right.How can a weak girl like Lin Daiyu be Baoyu's daughter-in-law!

It's a pity that my mother originally had a crush on the girl from the Xue family, but now she's already engaged.

Yuan Chun sighed in his heart. After all, he was curious, so he asked Jia's mother, "I heard that Aunt Xue also has a girl. Why haven't I seen anyone?"

Aunt Xue hurriedly stood up and replied: "She is young, when she first saw such a noble person as the empress, she was afraid that she would offend the empress if she didn't understand the rules."

Yuan Chun smiled, very kindly, "It's okay, we're both my sisters, if there's anything to conflict with, just ask her to come and have a look."

One of the maids immediately took the order and led Zhou Lang to the hall after a while.

Previously, the palace specially sent a nanny to teach the etiquette of meeting a noble concubine. Jia Mu and others learned it, so Zhou Lang was also sent to learn it specially.At this time, when I met Yuan Chun, everyone was watching, Zhou Lang was not stage fright, and saluted as he had learned before, without any mistakes.

Yuan Chun looked at Zhou Lang's round face with a smile on his face, and waved, telling her to come closer and talk.It was still asking what to eat and play on weekdays, and what books to read.

Zhou Lang was not a girl in her teens, so she could tell the occasion.At this time, Yuan Chun put away his usual insouciance when he asked questions, and although he deliberately restrained his answers, he couldn't stop his sentences from being concise, meaningful, and revealingly tactful.

After hearing this, Yuan Chun felt that his mother had good eyesight. Such a good-looking little girl who could talk and do things was not timid at all.

But now, such a good candidate is already engaged.The more he thought about it, the more he felt it was a pity, so Yuan Chun's eyes shifted to Jia's mother, slightly dissatisfied.

If it hadn't been for Jia's mother to stop her and insist on bringing Daiyu and Baoyu together, mother would definitely have decided on Miss Xue's family long ago, so why regret it now!

Jia's mother was watching Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu whispering with a smile, when she noticed Yuan Chun's gaze, she immediately looked back and met Shang Yuanchun's smiling eyes.

Yuan Chun smiled and said: "These years, thanks to the old lady running the mansion, the old lady has really worked hard, so take care of your health!"

Hearing Yuan Chun's concern, Mother Jia was naturally overwhelmed, and hurriedly said: "It's not hard work, it's what an old man should do. The imperial concubine is alone in the palace, so you have to take care of yourself!"

Thinking of Yuan Chun being alone in the palace, without any relatives to support him, and struggling every step of the way, Mother Jia and Mrs. Wang wet their eyes and almost cried again.

However, all the eunuchs and maids were staring at them, and they knew the seriousness, so they hurriedly pressed the corners of their eyes and turned to other happy topics.

After talking for a long time, seeing all kinds of lanterns outside, everyone finally remembered that today is the Lantern Festival, and they should celebrate the festival happily.

Therefore, Yuanchun added some glamor and asked everyone to guess lantern riddles.After a round of excitement, all the prizes were won, an eunuch turned around from behind and reminded Yuan Chun: "Your Majesty, it's getting late, it's time to go back to the palace."

Upon hearing that he was going back to the palace, Yuan Chun realized that time had passed quietly.For a while, everyone was silent, and the garden was quiet, except for the birdcage hanging on the porch, from time to time the birds twittered in their dreams.

Yuan Chun stood up slowly, and with the support of the maid, he took two steps, then stopped suddenly, and carefully looked at the scenery of the Grand View Garden.Under the dim light, the flowers, plants and trees could not be seen clearly.

After a while, she said to Jia Mu: "It's a pity that such a beautiful scenery is empty. Let Baoyu and all the sisters in the family move in. Don't let this garden be empty and deserted."

Mother Jia hurriedly agreed, looking at Yuan Chun with reluctance and anticipation.Yuan Chun is going back to the palace, and it will be even better in the future.When she gets well, the Jia Mansion will be even better.

Mrs. Wang was already wiping her tears secretly, after all, she was her own daughter, and she was such an excellent daughter.This time in the palace, although she and Jia's mother could visit the palace occasionally, Yuan Chun could never come back to Jia's mansion.

Zhou Lang watched Yuan Chun get into the sedan chair from afar, and seeing everyone in Jia's mansion tearfully waving goodbye reluctantly, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: Since then, Jia's mansion has flourished, but it's time to die.