swear not to be concubine

Chapter 145

On the eve of Jian Yan's wedding, she asked someone to call Li Xin over.

Li Xin is now 15 years old.The young man grew up very fast. When he first entered the mansion, his stature was no more than her shoulders, but now, the young man's figure is tall and straight and handsome, but he is half a head taller than her.

After Li Xin came in, he called his sister.

Jian Yan was sitting on the wooden kang by the window, looking down at the two brocade boxes on the rosewood corseted kang table.Hearing Li Xin calling her, she raised her head, and then beckoned him to come and sit down.

So Li Xin sat on the other side of the Kang table.

Jian Yan looked up at Li Xin.

Over the past two years, Li Xin's temperament has become more and more stable.Although he still doesn't talk much, his temperament is no longer timid, and he is calm and calm when encountering problems, and his advances and retreats are well-founded.

Although the boy is thin, he has done what he promised Nie Qingniang.

He is no longer weak.Over the past two years, he has rapidly grown into a man, carrying the entire Zheng Guogong Mansion with a pair of thin shoulders.

Looking at Li Xin like this, Jian Yan always felt that her eye circles were a little hot, and her nose was a little sore.

In fact, she also wanted to stay and help Li Xin for two more years, after all, he is only 15 years old now.But thinking that Xu Zhongxuan had silently waited for her for so many years, if she refused again, it would be a bit unreasonable.Fortunately, Xu Zhongxuan said that after getting married, they will always live in the capital, and they will not let her stay in Tongzhou, so she and Li Xin are close at any rate, so they can come back and have a look if they have nothing to do.

Thinking of this, Jian Yan had a slight smile on her face.

"Xin'er," Jian Yan smiled slightly, pushed the two brocade boxes in front of Li Xin, and then explained, "This brocade box contains the mother's dowry list, as well as the house deed. And the title deed. There is a jade shop in it. Seeing that the income has not been increasing in the past few years, I simply sold it, and the money I got bought another farm in the suburbs of Beijing. As for other shops and farms, I see Seeing that the income of these years has been good, so it has not been touched. Inside this brocade box is the money in and out of the Duke's mansion in the past few years, as well as the account book of how much money the Duke currently has. Listed in the account book, you can take a look if you are fine."

Li Xin opened the brocade box and took a look, then looked up at Jian Yan and said in surprise: "Sister, mother's dowry is all for you, why, why did you leave it to me? I can't take these .”

After finishing speaking, he pushed back the brocade box containing Nie Qingniang's dowry list, house deed, and land deed.

Jian Yan had already put both hands under the Kang table.

"Xin'er, I didn't give you all of mother's dowry. Look carefully at mother's dowry list. I also took some of the jewelry and antiques. As for the farms and shops, you should keep them." Better."

Although Li Xin is now a duke of the state, he has no real power after all. How much salary can he get just by relying on the title of duke of the state?And such a huge state government has to spend every day, and he will need a lot of money when he gets married in the future, so those farms and shops left by Nie Qingniang and Jian Yan are not moved, but the others He only took some of his jewelry and antique toys for symbolic purposes, and left all the others to Li Xin.

Li Xin naturally knew Jian Yan's good intentions, but he still refused to accept it.

Now he only has such a relative in this world, how can he let her dowry be so shabby when she gets married?

"No way, sister," Li Xin insisted, "mother said at the beginning that when you get married, she will make up a dowry of 120 for you, but now how much dowry do you have? Sister, what mother left You take all the dowry away. There are also shops and farms in the Duke’s mansion, and there is still money in the mansion, and I have the salary of the Duke’s mansion. What do you leave all these to me? Such a small dowry, the people of the Xu family It can talk."

"What do they have to say?" Jian Yan smiled, "And you don't have to worry about the dowry, I've gathered enough dowry for myself so that no one can make a mistake."

Seeing that Li Xin still insisted, Jian Yan smiled and said: "Xin'er, my sister tells you a secret. In fact, the Shijin Pavilion in the capital is my sister's property."

Li Xin was stunned, and looked at Jian Yan in shock.

He knows Shijin Pavilion.At that time, before Jian Yan was recognized as returning to the Duke's Mansion, he had heard about the fame of Shijin Pavilion, so he went for a special visit and bought a lucky cat.

But Shijin Pavilion turned out to be his sister's property?Li Xin couldn't believe it at all.

Jian Yan turned her head and smiled at him again, and then said: "Are you scared? Think about the reputation of Shijing Pavilion in Beijing, and your sister is much richer than you. So you should keep your mother's dowry .Only one thing, you entrust a trustworthy person to take care of these for you."

This time when Jian Yan got married, the dowry maid only brought Si Yue and Ting Feng, and the other young maids brought two.As for Nanny Wei, Jian Yan originally wanted to take her by her side, but Nanny Wei didn't really want to leave the Duke's Mansion. Jian Yan thought about it, she stayed in the Duke's Mansion and took care of her every day. Li Xin's diet and daily life, he can feel at ease, so he agreed.

Li Xin stopped talking, and sat there with his head down in silence.

For more than two years, the siblings can be said to have depended on each other for life. Now that Jian Yan is getting married suddenly, Li Xin has been depressed every day since a month ago.

Jian Yan saw it in her eyes and felt distressed in her heart.

She stretched out her hand, held Li Xin's hand, and said in a low voice: "Xin'er, you have done very well in the past two years. However, you are still young after all, and no one asks you to be a good person." What kind of height, why are you so old-fashioned every day, accumulating everything in your heart? You still have a sister, if you have something on your mind, you can tell your sister."

"Sister," Li Xin still lowered his head, and said in a low voice, "I don't have anything on my mind. I just, I just don't like my sister."

Jian Yan patted his hand and said with relief: "Even if my sister is married, she is still in the capital. You can still go to see my sister when you are free, and she will come back to see you when she is free. Don't think that my sister comes back too often, I'm annoying my sister."

Her last words were obviously meant to be teasing, but Li Xin raised his head when he heard it, looked at Jian Yan, and said sincerely: "Sister, you are my sister, the only one I have in this world. My relatives, how can I bother you? Sister, I will work hard to become stronger in the future, and I will become your greatest support. But as long as I am here, I will not teach anyone to bully you. No matter how great Xu Zhongxuan's official position is, if he dares to bully you, I will not agree. Besides, even if you get married tomorrow, I will always keep this Xinyi Pavilion for you. The gate of Zheng Guogong's mansion will always be for you Leave it wide open, you can come back anytime."

After hearing this, Jian Yan was greatly moved, she didn't know what to say for a moment, she just held Li Xin's hand tightly.

After a while, she just said: "It's just Xin'er, my sister doesn't want to see you persecute yourself so hard. Your own life is not for others, but for yourself. Xin'er, there is a way Traveling thousands of miles is worse than reading thousands of books, but my sister hopes that you can go out and travel when you are free."

This child has pushed himself too hard these years. If he can go out and travel, among thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, what kind of depression will not dissipate in the end?

Hearing this, Li Xin thought about it, and then said: "A few days ago, I thought about going out for a trip. Well, after the spring of next year, I will pick a day to go out for a walk, and gain a lot of knowledge. "

When Jian Yan had nothing to do in the past two years, in order to make Li Xin happy, she would pick out some books such as travel notes and show him to read, in order to let him go out to relax.

But now hearing what Li Xin said, Jian Yan was relieved a lot.

After the siblings talked for a while, Li Xin got up to say goodbye, and only said that Jian Yan should go to bed early, and she would wake up early in the morning.

The next morning, Jian Yan was called up by Nanny Wei.

When she woke up, Jian Yan was still a little unconscious, she asked Si Yue and Ting Feng to wash and freshen her up with her blindfolded eyes.

Nanny Wei is an old man who has had children for many years, and she is considered a lucky person, so I let her do the hair combing.

Jian Yan's black hair was like a waterfall, Wei Mama took a sandalwood comb, brushed her hair up and down, and said some auspicious words in her mouth.But as she spoke, her voice slowly became whimpering.

If the wife is still here at this time, how happy she would be to see the girl getting married.

But Mother Wei didn't say this out loud, today is the girl's day of great joy, she should be happy, why did she come out after saying such a thing?

So although there were tears in her eyes, she tried her best to put on a smile and said, "You are old, and you want to cry when you encounter happy things. Miss, don't laugh at the old servant. "

"Nurse Wei is weeping with joy." Si Yue held the phoenix crown and stood aside, and said with a hasty smile, "Miss understands in her heart."

Wei Mama nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes, this old slave is crying with joy, crying with joy."

On the one hand, he carefully combed Jian Yan's hair and put on makeup.

Ting Feng came over with a bowl of glutinous rice balls on a tray painted with red lacquer and gold, and said with a smile, "Miss, come and eat a bowl of glutinous rice balls. It's so harmonious and beautiful."

Jian Yan knew that there would be a lot of trouble today, and she was afraid that she would not know when it would be until she was able to eat, so she couldn't eat any of this bowl of glutinous rice balls left.

As for other marriage matters, Jian Yan had already arranged everything in detail earlier, today she just needs to sit here and wait for Xu Zhongxuan to come to pick up the bride.

At the right time, the sound of firecrackers and gongs and drums could be heard faintly outside.

Supported by Si Yue and Ting Feng, Jian Yan kowtowed to Nie Qingniang's tablet and said in a low voice: "Mother, my daughter got married today. Are you happy?"

Speaking of this, tears flowed out uncontrollably.

Nanny Wei, Siyue and the others standing on the side were also in tears, and they persuaded Jian Yan not to cry any more, and she cried carefully to make up her face.

Then I saw little maids running in and out from time to time, saying that the bridal sedan chair had entered the mansion, and my uncle was waiting in front.

Nanny Wei hurriedly put a phoenix crown on Jian Yan, and covered her with a hijab embroidered with peonies and flowers.

Li Xin had already walked in at this time.

According to the custom, as a brother, he should leave the cabinet behind his sister's back.

Although Li Xin's shoulders were not broad, and he was still as thin as a young man, but when he carried Jian Yan on his back, every step he took was still so steady.

Jian Yan lay on his back, she couldn't care less about whether to wear makeup or not, her tears could not be controlled anymore.

Although she had been busy at first, she didn't feel like getting married.Until just now, when she knelt down to bid farewell to her mother, and now she let her younger brother leave the cabinet behind her back, for some reason, she suddenly felt like she was married.

Even in the future, she will still be in the capital, so close to the Duke's Mansion, and she will come back anytime, but there is still something different.

Li Xin was also feeling sad in his heart.

In the past few years, his mother and father have left him one after another, and now even his only sister is getting married.

But no matter how sad his heart was, no matter how long the road from Xinyi Pavilion to the Duke's Mansion was, and no matter how limited the young man's strength was, he still safely carried Jian Yan all the way onto the sedan chair.

After watching the red embroidered dragon and phoenix show with his own eyes, the sedan chair curtain was lowered to cover Jian Yan's figure, before he straightened up, and before he had time to wipe the sweat from his forehead, he just looked at the wedding chair that was standing On the side, Xu Zhongxuan in a bright red wedding dress said with a serious face: "I handed my sister into your hands. From now on, you must treat her well. Otherwise, I will never forgive you. "

Xu Zhongxuan bowed to him, and replied with the same serious face: "Please rest assured, I, Xu Zhongxuan, will definitely protect Yan'er well in the future, and will never let her slip up in the slightest."

(End of this chapter)