Take the farm down to earth

Chapter 159 Two Women Married Together
Because the Supreme Emperor ordered the marriage, Xue Baochai and Jia Yingchun were the same in status, but Shi Zhongkui's move to take over Baochai first was tantamount to confirming Baochai's status as the eldest wife of the Shi family.

After Xue Pan, Xue Bian, and the other 7 elders and children of the Xue family who rushed over from Jinling understood this point, they were so excited that they didn't even have the intention to make things difficult for Shi Zhongkui.

Just let him write a few poems about welcoming the bride, and let him go.

Fortunately, Shi Zhongkui has really studied hard in the past few years, and even read the book.

Otherwise, it may not be possible to write festive poems.

And for those present, it was definitely the easiest thing to ask him to write poetry.

After some greetings, Xue Pan, as the head of the Xue family, took him to the ancestral hall to meet the ancestors of the Xue family, and read the marriage letter in the ancestral hall.

Then I went to see Aunt Xue, and several elders from the Xue family who were two generations older.

Aunt Xue saw him knelt down to her, and saw that he was more handsome than Jia Lian and Jia Rong, she kept wiping away her tears happily.

He even took his hand and told Baochai repeatedly that if he did something wrong, he must be tolerant and tolerant.

Shi Zhongkui naturally agreed.

Moreover, he promised in front of everyone that he would only persuade others with reasoning, and would never beat others.

Although these words were too blunt, Aunt Xue and the others were relieved and did not doubt at all.

After all, with Shi Zhongkui's identity, the feasibility of what he said was still very high.

At this point, all the necessary procedures have been completed, and it's time for Xue Baochai to be invited out to get on the bridal sedan chair.

Xue Baochai, who was in the boudoir, heard the words from outside, and the smile on her face suddenly became brighter.

He secretly said that he was worthy of his humility to Yingchun, let alone the girl he wanted from his mother to be a companion.

She hugged and cried with Aunt Xue and Xue Baoqin who rushed over, then put on the red hijab, and was supported and followed the matchmaker out of the boudoir.

When Shi Zhongkui saw Baochai who was being carried by Xue Pan and Wang Ziteng and helped out by the servant girl, he glanced at Baochai's figure and heaved a sigh of relief.

Although I didn't see Baochai's appearance, and I couldn't see the details in Dahong Xifu, but I could tell that my daughter-in-law had definitely grown up with her height, shoulder width, and walking pace.

Seeing him staring blankly at Baochai for more than ten seconds, everyone couldn't help laughing.

Now it seems that the groom is still very satisfied with the bride.

And those female relatives and maids who have seen Baochai, and some elders and brothers of the seventh house of Xue's family who have seen Baochai when she was a child, have more confidence in Baochai's appearance.

Wang Ziteng took Xue Pan, Xue Bian, the eldest son Wang Ren, and several elders around Shi Zhongkui.

In Baochai, the sedan chair was already fragrant, so he let him go with a smile.

Shi Zhongkui didn't understand it at first, and he didn't realize it until he got on the tall horse.

This is a deliberate delay of time, while doing it for outsiders to see, and embarrassing the Jia family at the same time.

Shi Zhongkui shook his head helplessly, it seems that Wang Ziteng really doesn't like to see the Jia family very much recently.

But it's no wonder that when Jia Yucun had an accident, Jia Amnesty, Jia Zheng, and Jia Zhen were not even willing to pay 5 taels of silver.

But not long after, the Jia family actually said that they were going to build a provincial hospital.

This is as big as 10 taels, or even a million taels of silver, and the Jia family is not short of money.

He completely took Wang Ziteng for a fool.

No wonder Wang Ziteng never fulfilled his promise to help Jia Zheng get promoted.

Now that he has the opportunity to lose face of the Rongguo Mansion, Wang Ziteng will certainly not let it go.
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After picking up Baochai and getting into the sedan chair, the bridal team did not go back to their home immediately, but took Xue Baochai's sedan chair to pick up Jia Yingchun.

Nominally, Baochai was picked up first, and then Yingchun. It really seemed that Shi Zhongkui valued Baochai more.

But the Jia family is not so easy to get along with.

Just let Baochai's sedan chair wait on the street, and outsiders can feel that Yingchun has a higher status.

Otherwise, there is no reason for the eldest wife to wait for the second wife.

Therefore, when the Jia family saw that Shi Zhongkui took Baochai first, although they were dissatisfied, they did not show it.

It was a tacit plan to delay for a while.

However, Jia Lian, Jia Baoyu, Jia Rong, Jia Lan and other descendants of the Jia family have already been bought by Shi Zhongkui, or they have been subdued.

How dare you trouble him at this time.

Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng, one is greedy for money and likes to take advantage of small things, and the other is an old master. After being forced by Shi Zhongkui with words a few times, they suddenly felt embarrassed.

Jia Lian and Jia Baoyu were forced to say a few words by Shi Zhongkui, and they were embarrassed and rushed to ask them to urge them.

Jia Zhen was even more frightened by his words, "It's good to respect the master", and took him to the Jia's ancestral hall in Ningguo Prefecture.

Otherwise, if Shi Zhongkui really went to Jia Jing to file a complaint, the custody of Jia Zhen would be beaten to death by his own father Jia Jing.

Speaking of which, the Jia family has always had a tradition of educating the next generation with sticks.

Jia Jing, Jia Amnesty, and Jia Zheng were beaten countless times by their father.

On the contrary, Mother Jia was sober enough at this time.

Although there are so many guests at this time, it is not easy to appear outside the second gate as a female family member.

But after hearing Jia Lian and Jia Baoyu's message from the maid, Jia's mother only thought for a while, and then asked the maid to urge Wang Xifeng and Li Wan to hurry up on the grounds that the auspicious time could not be missed.

Wang Xifeng was not only angry because the wedding reception team came late, but she also planned to delay on purpose to make Baochai who was waiting outside in the sedan chair wait a little longer, so that it would appear that Jia Yingchun had more status than Xue Baochai.

But Mother Jia ordered someone to come over and say it twice, so she couldn't delay any longer.

She could only look at Yingchun, who was dressed in a bright red dress, and said, "Second sister, it's not that my sister-in-law doesn't help you, it's because your husband-in-law's status in the old lady's heart is too high.

And it's not good to embarrass my uncle too much at this time, so as not to damage the relationship between you and your husband-in-law. "

As soon as Yingchun changed her previous wooden character, she hurriedly got up and saluted Wang Xifeng, "My sister knows the friendship of the second sister-in-law and the love of the old lady."

Then it was probably really reluctant to leave the home where I lived for 16 years, and I was worried and confused about life after marriage.

His eyes turned red, and he hugged his sisters and started crying.

After hearing that Shi Zhongkui had been to Ningguo Mansion and met his ancestors and Jia Mu, Wang Xifeng personally put on a red hijab for Yingchun.

Together with Li Wan, he went to the main gate with support.

Shi Zhongkui was already waiting at the gate at this time, and he was really anxious to wait.

Even if you don't believe in auspicious times, no one really wants to miss the time.

People in the Celestial Dynasty always maintain the mentality of certain things, preferring to believe in them.

At the same time, in the eyes of others, the Jia family is full of flowers, but in his eyes, it is full of fire and crisis.

Looking at the guests of the Jia family around, not only were there not many nobles, but the officials were only low-level officials of the fifth or sixth rank, so one knew that everyone was not stupid.

Even compared to Yuan Chun, the well-informed people in the court knew that Shi Zhongkui was the biggest potential stock.

So even the patriarchs or eldest sons of the six princes' mansions out of the four kings and eight princes had gone to their own homes at this time.

As for the four kings, King Shui Rong of Beijing County didn't even receive the invitation, so of course he didn't have the face to come directly to the door.

The kings of Nan'an, Xining and Dongping have not been in Beijing, let alone appear.

Of course, if Yuan Chun gave birth to a prince, that would be another story.

Even the bigger the official, the bigger the desire and ambition in the heart, it is easier to curry favor with the concubines in the palace.

When Shi Zhongkui was thinking, he suddenly heard a group of women talking and laughing in Rongguo Mansion.

Suddenly understand that the bride is coming out.

Seeing that there were twice as many people seeing off the Spring Festival as Baochai, Shi Zhongkui couldn't help but secretly sighed, this emaciated camel was indeed bigger than a horse.

Seeing that the dowry was obviously two or three times less than that of Baochai, Shi Zhongkui sneered again in his heart.

It seems that the Jia family really doesn't have much confidence at this time.

Otherwise, even if Jia Amnesty is a miser, Jia's mother would not be inferior to Xue's family in this respect.

The amount of dowry also determines the daughter's status in the husband's family.

Even if Yingchun thought carefully, she didn't have the confidence to compete with Baochai, let alone Yingchun was actually a concubine.

Her mother passed away very early. Even if she was wronged and went back to her natal family to file a complaint, she could only find Mother Jia or Mrs. Wang.

Because compared with Baochai's dowry of 10,000+ taels of silver, Jia She and Mrs. Xing, who only paid 1 taels, didn't have the confidence to ask Shi Zhongkui for an argument.

On the contrary, Jia Mu and Jia Zheng, who paid 2 taels, were more qualified to find Shi Zhongkui.

Then when he saw the two women supporting the bride, he recognized Wang Xifeng at a glance, and was immediately shocked by her.

A pair of red and phoenix triangular eyes, two curved willow-leaf hanging eyebrows, a slender figure, and a coquettish physique. The comments are really right.

And if Li Wan hadn't dressed too plainly, his appearance and figure would actually be no worse than Wang Xifeng's.

Fortunately, Shi Zhongkui was not a hungry ghost, he just glanced at them a few times, then bowed to the two of them and stopped looking.

On the contrary, it was Wang Xifeng, Li Wan and others, as well as the married wives, who were attracted by his appearance and stared at him fiercely.

This married woman is indeed different.
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After welcoming the Spring Festival, the team grew bigger again.

Moreover, both families have the intention of giving more dowry maids.

So much so that on both sides of the bridal sedan chair line, not to mention a dozen good-looking maidservants, there were also four ordinary sedan chairs following behind the line.

Shi Zhongkui didn't even need to guess, he just knew that there must be a house-filling girl in the sedan chair.

But what he didn't expect was that besides Ying'er, Baochai's eldest girl, Xue's family actually sent Xiangling over.

Calculated according to the time, Xue Pan has almost accepted Xiangling at this time.

But since getting engaged last year, Aunt Xue has started to pamper her daughter.

But Xue's family brought only a dozen servants to Beijing, and Baochai's big girl even had only one Yinger.

Where can I find a girl who is beautiful and obedient, and who knows that she doesn't have to worry about threatening Baochai?
And Aunt Xue was worried that there would be twists and turns in Xue Pan's beating to death, so she always took Xiang Ling by her side as a maid from the beginning.

When Xue Pan told Shi Zhongkui last year that his family and the Jia family would inevitably choose more beautiful dowry girls, he had actually agreed with Aunt Xue to let Xiangling dowry.

As for the Jia family, there are more options to choose from.

It's a pity that Ping'er and Qingwen, whom Shi Zhongkui missed, were already in Jia Lian and Jia Baoyu's room.

Even if Shi Zhongkui asked for it, he couldn't explain how he knew these two maids.

Even in an ethical environment, this would actually drive Ping'er and Qingwen to death.

Moreover, spying on the gossip of the old man's housewife would ruin his reputation completely.
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Jia Amnesty and Mrs. Xing first thought carefully, planning to give a girl beside them to Yingchun, and then Mrs. Wang also had the same idea.

This forced Mother Jia to settle the matter first.

Only then did Mother Jia reward Yingchun with her two first-class maids, Amber and Pearl, and six other girls who had been raised for two years and were 6 and 11 years old.

Adding the four maids and four old women in Yingchun's own room, the number of people exceeded 4 in one fell swoop.

And this pearl is not Hua Xiren.

After Xiren was pointed out to Jia Baoyu by Jia's mother, the name of Pearl became vacant.

When Jia's mother decided to choose a dowry girl for Yingchun, she chose from the second-class girls around her, as well as the 7th room in Beijing, the 12th room in Jinling, and Lai Momo.

Finally, from the family of the big family in Jinling, a girl with an extremely beautiful appearance was newly selected as the eldest girl, and she was named Pearl.

The purpose is nothing more than to help welcome the Spring Festival, and there is no need to worry about Zhuzhu daring to turn against the guest.

Even if Shi Zhongkui dotes on her again, Pearl is not qualified to compete with Yingchun due to her status as a house filler.

Shi Zhongkui rode on a tall horse, leading a full mile of dowry team, beating gongs and drums to the passers-by who watched the excitement, and walked for almost half an hour before he saw the gate of his own house.

During worship, the guests, relatives and friends present are the envy of everyone.

After all, people who can hold two big red ropes, one left and one right, can only be seen in books.

Shi Zhongkui thought that the emperor and the Supreme Emperor would send eunuchs to the door, so he walked slowly while holding the red rope.

Sure enough, eunuchs came to the door without waiting for the worship hall, and there were three waves one after the other.

Dai Quan must have come first, and then Xia Shouzhong, who was waiting not far away, came to the door to announce the emperor's reward after Dai Quan left.

As a result, Shi Zhongkui had to take the two brides-to-be to salute again.

Fortunately, Baochai and Yingchun's maidservants came to support them early in the morning after receiving Shi Zhongkui's instructions.

And this also made Shi Zhongkui see Xiangling with a red mole on his forehead at a glance.

But this is not the time to talk too much, I can only suppress my doubts and deal with Dai Quan, Xia Shouzhong, and Eunuch Liu sent by Yuanchun.

Dai Quan and Xia Shouzhong were very knowledgeable. After announcing the rewards and getting Shi Zhongkui's silver ticket, they said a lot of auspicious words and left.

But that Eunuch Liu wanted to get big, so he used words to overwhelm Baochai.

Immediately, Shi Zhongkui was furious, and he raised his head and squinted his eyes to stare at him, and Eunuch Liu couldn't help feeling guilty.

Among the surrounding guests, there are many teachers and uncles in Beijing, such as Zuo Shilang from the Ministry of Industry, Zuo Shilang from the Ministry of Accounting, Yuan Donggang, a bachelor of the Imperial Academy, Yu Honggao, and Shi Zhongkui.

Seeing that Shi Zhongkui was obviously angry, he couldn't help feeling like he was fighting against the enemy.

Yu Tongfu, the No. [-] in this subject, and a dozen or so Scholars all glared at him directly, and almost scolded them directly.

As for Xungui who came to have a wedding banquet, some people watched the excitement, while others became anxious.

This Eunuch Liu is no fart in the palace, but he makes trouble at other people's weddings.

If Yuan Chun ordered this, it would be even more troublesome.

(End of this chapter)