Red House Shoufu

Chapter 343

This is the first time Yingchun mustered up the courage to tell her father what she wanted, and after nearly 16 years of enduring, she finally cried out to Jia She.

"My daughter is going to marry someone else's family tomorrow, and she will become a wife of the royal family from now on, and she can no longer be called Jia's daughter. Father, my daughter asks you, is the relationship between father and daughter so weak?"

Yingchun's tears fell with the wind, she had cried for a long time tonight, her eyes were already red and swollen.But in Jia She's eyes, this usually quiet daughter has become strange, especially when Yingchun's "father" made him feel a little at a loss.

Master, father, these are two completely different titles.Jia Amnesty has not heard Yingchun call him father for many years, five or ten years?
He really didn't pay much attention to his daughter, and he didn't dare to get close to his daughter, he just wanted to let her have enough food and clothing.Moreover, the situation was difficult a few years ago, what if Prince Teng saw that he valued his daughter and let Yingchun also enter the palace?
Yuan Chun, the old lady's heart, was sent to the palace, so she, a "stupid girl", was eaten alive when she went to the palace?
Faced with Yingchun's crying and questioning, Jia She didn't know how to answer for a while?Deliberate alienation has become a habit, this will want to put on airs of a strict father and be softened by Yingchun's tears.

After being at a loss for a long time, thousands of words finally turned into a long sigh.

Ugh!
"Go back and rest, you have to get up early tomorrow."

Jia Amnesty's expression became sluggish a lot, and his straight waist seemed to become stooped.He wanted to turn around and leave, but resentment filled his heart again.

Avoiding Yingchun's teary eyes, he said, "Go into the house, Dad has something to tell you."

The house in Yingchun is now covered with red silk, which is quite different from the simple elegance of the past.It was the first time for Jia Amnesty to come here, and he had been to the small building behind Rongxi Hall at most occasionally.

Siqi brought two bowls of lotus seed soup and a plate of snacks to Jia She and his daughter, which would be inappropriate for drinking tea.

"Young lady doesn't have enough for dinner, and the maid is afraid that she will be hungry." She explained and retreated to the door, where she stood guard at the door and kept an eye on the movement in the room.

Jia Amnesty pushed the snacks in front of Yingchun, and said stiffly, "Eat some, I'm afraid we'll have to cook for a long time tomorrow, so don't starve."

His tone was stiff, but softer than usual.Yingchun nodded, and handed the dessert to Jia She: "Father eats it too. My daughter made this dessert herself."

Although Jia She ate a lot for dinner and drank a lot of wine, he will not be hungry at all.But the sentence that he did it with his own hands made him pick up a small snack and take a bite lightly.

"tasty……"

The four words of choking came out of Jia Amnesty's mouth, and he suddenly felt that the snack in his mouth was bitter, and his face felt moist.He touched it, but unconsciously his eyes fell.

Jia Amnesty put down half of the snack in his hand, looked at Yingchun who was also crying silently in front of him, and reached out to pat her head.

"Grow up and be sensible. When you go to your husband's house, remember not to wrong yourself. If the boy from the Wang family treats you badly, come home and make decisions for your father!"

Yingchun burst into tears, clutching Jia Amnesty's sleeve tightly and crying out of breath.This is the first time in more than ten years that she has vented her emotions presumptuously, unlike when she was five or six years old, hiding under the quilt and secretly enduring her grievances.

The second young lady of the dignified Duke's Mansion, was bullied by the nanny and couldn't find anyone to support her.At that time, she mustered up the courage to find her father, but was scolded by her drunk father.

From then on, Yingchun hid all her grievances in her heart and settled down numbly.It wasn't until the second elder brother Jia Lian's prodigal son returned that she had a few days of easy life.

But the father's love that has been missing for more than ten years is what Yingchun dreams of.This is like an obsession, firmly occupying the most important position in my heart.

Yingchun was crying, and Jia Amnesty was also crying silently.

Jia Amnesty wiped away the tears from his eyes with his sleeves, and then handed Yingchun his handkerchief.It was getting late, and my daughter was going to get married tomorrow, so I had to say what should be said.

He handed the stack of silver bills at the corner of the table to Yingchun, and said solemnly: "This is a 30,000 taels silver bill. At the bottom are two shops, one in Xishi and the other in Jinling. There is also a small village in the west of the city. These are for the father to use for your body."

Regardless of the number of bank notes and the shop's Zhuangzi, Yingchun was taken aback.She helped Wang Xifeng take care of general affairs for almost a year, and she knew that the Rongguo Mansion's money was still very tight.Especially after repaying the debt owed by the Ministry of Households and building the Grand View Garden, it is very good to be able to maintain a balance of income and expenditure.

"Father, where did you get the money? The daughter knows how much money the mansion has..."

Old Jia She blushed, waved his big hands and pretended to be proud and said: "Your father is also the head of the Duke's mansion, how can you still be short of this little money? If you tell you to take it, you can take it. Why are there so many problems?" .”

Yingchun stubbornly handed back all the bank notes and land deeds, shook her head and replied: "I know the situation in the mansion very well, and I probably know how much private wealth my father has. The dowry of a daughter is not much worse than that of a prince's daughter. Father should take the money back."

At the end of the talk, Yingchun murmured in a low voice: "Father bought that ancient painting last month or asked his second brother to collect the money..."

Jia Amnesty was a little bit annoyed, he really had no money.He has always liked to collect gold, stone, calligraphy and paintings, and he has already spent all his personal wealth, and the money in the mansion has also been strictly controlled by Wang Xifeng.The banknotes for Yingchun this time and the Zhuangzi shop just opened were borrowed from Gao Yongheng.

He has always had a good face, not to mention that he wants to be full of compensation for his daughter.

Jia She pushed the things in front of Yingchun again: "Take it! Most of the dowries bought by the mansion are flashy, only the silver shop is the most important. That Zhuangzi is next to the family farm of our mansion, and it took a lot of effort for my father to buy it. Bought..."

"Does the ancestor know? Does the second brother know?"

Yingchun naturally knows the truth of not worrying about widows but about inequality, she doesn't want to be separated from her family because of money.

Jia She shoved the title deed into Yingchun's hands, and glared at her impatiently: "Don't talk nonsense, take it, your father and I are the owner of the Rongguo Mansion! Don't worry, your second brother knows..."

After talking about it, Yingchun took over the bank note and land deed.She placed in front of Jia Amnesty the pressed box containing silver gifts from her elders and brothers and sisters, and sighed: "My daughter is really not short of money, and with the money from her father, there are almost 100,000 taels. dowry."

Jia She took a look and found that except for a few large-value banknotes, most of them were gold and silver ingots decorated with blessings and fortunes. They were probably gifts from the elders that the children of the family had saved over the years.

He sighed, skipped this matter and told his daughter who is about to get married again, what to do after getting married, respect her parents-in-law, and at the same time, don't wrong yourself, and don't be a gourd with sawn mouths in the future, etc., until the time of Haishi. He left Yingchun's small courtyard in his eyes.

"Father!"

Just as Jia Amnesty left the gate of the small courtyard, Jia Lian, who had been sitting in the corridor for almost an hour, got up and greeted him. Under the moonlight, he could clearly see his father's red eyes.

Jia Amnesty looked up at the bright full moon, sighed again and said to Jia Lian: "The second girl has suffered a lot these years, you should watch more from now on. You don't need to worry about the money, as the father will return it to Jiu." Lord."

"Father? The son is the second sister's biological elder brother, so he will naturally take good care of her. The money for the second sister will naturally be shared by both father and son."

Jia Lian smiled and helped his father who was in a daze, and the two walked forward slowly while talking in low voices.Yingchun walked out from the half-open courtyard door covering her mouth, and watched her father and brother leave from a distance.

……

On May [-]th, it is advisable to get married, with red makeup!
Mingzhaofang Jining Street Wangfu is decorated with lanterns and festoons, and the red lights are hung on the side of the gate of Mingzhaofang.

The Wang family got up to work before dawn. After breakfast, Wang Qi happily sat in the main hall and talked about today's arrangements with the elders of the Wang family who came to Beijing.

As the future son-in-law of the Wang family, Lin Shu naturally had to come to help early.After all, he could marry Wang Yuan home only after his uncle got married.

"Brother Wei Zhong puts on this number one scholar red, and he still looks like a dog! Come on, brother, put on some rouge and gouache for you..."

"Hey, hey, I don't paint this, it's too ugly! It's indecent!"

A lot of guests came today, but fortunately, when the old Wang family came, they brought several younger generations of the Wang family with them, and they were very skillful in welcoming and sending them off.

"Brother Lin, Brother Tang, Brother Sheng..."

Nanzhili in Beijing almost all arrived at the Wang family early in the same year, and more than [-] people chatted together to discuss what poems to do when welcoming the bride, and how to break through the difficulties and obstacles set by the Jia family's brothers-in-law.

After the luncheon, the white horse champion was red, and the bridal sedan chair accompanied me.With the sound of firecrackers, the welcoming team rushed to Dashi Yongfang with drums and gongs.

Naturally, Rongguo Mansion was full of guests. The mansions of princes who were close to the Jia family were almost always visited by the head of the family. In addition to Jia She and Jia Lian's friends, the wedding canopy set up in the front yard was full of people.

Gao Yongheng is a lively person, and the one who is getting married today is the daughter of his good friend Jia She, so naturally he came to Rongguo Mansion early to send the wedding off.

"This married girl can't be short of money. You see, I'm so kind. I specially asked someone to cast this box of gold ingots."

When it comes to gift giving, Gao Yongheng always saves as much as he can.This time, they were so bold that they directly cast one hundred and one small gold ingots with Fuzhong gold cakes, plus a pair of golden boys and girls, the value of which was no less than 5000 taels of silver.

"It's a waste..."

Today, Jia Amnesty is not as chic as before, but his eyes are red and swollen and listless.As a good friend, Gao Yongheng asked inexplicably: "I haven't seen you like this girl so much on weekdays, why are you reluctant to part with it today?"

"But she is my biological daughter after all. From now on, her surname is Wang. The Wang family is no longer the daughter of the Jia family."

Jia She let out a long sigh and wiped the corners of his eyes.He tossed and turned the whole night last night, his mind was full of blurred images of Yingchun's biological mother.He could still remember the words that Yingchun's biological mother begged him when she died of illness, but unfortunately he didn't do those things as promised.

Seeing that Jia Amnesty was really sad, Gao Yongheng wanted to comfort him but didn't know what to say, so he could only pick up the jug on the table and pour two glasses, and drink with him.

Crackling, crackling...

Firecrackers sounded outside the door, Jia She drank a glass of wine, got up and came to the entrance of the front hall.Through the courtyard wall, he could clearly see the rising smoke, and he muttered to himself: "It doesn't matter if you are married, a scholarly family is also worthy of a second girl!"

……

After hearing the sound of firecrackers, Yingchun tightly clenched the round fan in her hand. Xichun looked out of the window and saw that Jia Cong and others had already blocked the gate of the small courtyard.Jia Cong, Jia Huan, Jia Rong, Jia Qiang, and Jia Lan were still holding wooden sticks wrapped in red cloth in their hands, and they were guarding the door covetously.

"Brother Rong, when the second brother-in-law comes, don't really hit him, what if you break the second sister?"

Jia Rong turned her head to look at Xichun, who was poking her head out of the window, and grinned: "Don't worry, little aunt, my nephew won't really hit me, just to frighten Second Uncle, and warn him not to bully Second Aunt..."

Although the sisters said they were reluctant to part with each other, they also understood that Yingchun's marriage was really a good one.Xichun took out a clean handkerchief, carefully wrapped the stack of dim sum on the table, and stuffed it to Siqi.

"After a while, if the second sister is hungry, you can quietly stuff it into the sedan chair. I heard that it will take a long time. I'm afraid you may not be able to eat at Haishi."

Siqi nodded fiercely, looking as if he was in charge.Yuan Chun was amused by the two of them, and comforted him: "Don't worry, there must be some tea and water in the sedan chair, and the second girl won't be hungry."

The sound of firecrackers became clearer and clearer, but the tension in Yingchun had been relieved by the funny and comforting voices of the sisters.

After the noise of laughter came from outside the small courtyard, a few old ladies and maidservants from the Jia family came out, and Yuan Chun took a few younger sisters to avoid the wing room.

After Wang Huan signed a lot of "unequal treaties", he happily came to Yingchun's house and read the makeup poem.

Fortunately, Yuan Chun had already explained it, and there was not too much embarrassment.After Wang Huan entered the door, he thanked the elders of Jia's family and held Yingchun's hand.

He grinned excitedly and said softly to Yingchun: "Second sister, I'll take you home!"

Wang Huan and Yingchun first went to Rongxi Hall to bid farewell to Jia Shishi, and came to the front hall again amid Jia Shishi's choked-up and earnest instructions.

The two knelt in front of Jia She and Jia Xing, kowtowed and said goodbye.

"The second girl will be handed over to you. If you treat her badly, the soldiers of Rongguo Mansion will attack Wang's house!"

Wang Huan bowed down again and made a promise: "Father-in-law, don't worry, my son-in-law will regard the second sister as a treasure and cherish it for the rest of my life!"

Jia Xing's family was also doing their duty today, according to the traditional admonition to greet the spring and honor their parents-in-law, etc. In the end, his elder brother Jia Lian carried Yingchun on his back and went out, and did not pat Wang Huan on the shoulder until Yingchun got on the sedan chair.

"It should be said that I told you yesterday, from now on, don't let Brother Wei see you in the Qin Lou Chu Pavilion, otherwise... hum!"

……

After the sedan chair left Ningrong Street with the sound of firecrackers, Jia Huan and Jia Cong let go of Jia Baoyu's arms.

"Second sister is gone! Just go away like this!"

Jia Baoyu suddenly sat on the ground and began to cry.

In fact, he knew that there would be such a day in the end, and he was also happy that Yingchun found a good husband's family.But he just felt the pain in his heart so badly that he couldn't help but burst into tears.

Jia Lian sighed, and stepped forward to help Jia Baoyu: "The second younger sister is married, but it's not that she can't come back. Rongguo Mansion will always be her home, and you will always be her brother. If you miss her, visit Wang's house more often." , no one is stopping you!"

Jia Baoyu was a little discouraged, he also saw through the many unsatisfactory things in the world, and knew that some things could not be done according to his wishes, otherwise he would harm the second sister and the others.

He shook his head and said, "It's different, once or twice is fine, going too many times will only cause trouble for the second sister!"

Jia Lian watched Jia Baoyu leave listlessly, and asked Jia Huan and Jia Cong beside him in surprise, "Did you say anything to Baoyu? How could he say such a thing?"

　Something happened tonight, so the update is a bit late.Feel sorry……

　　
　
(End of this chapter)