Mrs. Xia: "Jin Gui, I'm really worried about my mother. You..."
Xia Jingui lay leisurely on the chair, eating preserved fruit: "Mom, just don't worry, my daughter is not one of those delicate little girls, she has many ways and means!
If the Jia family really doesn’t want to acknowledge this marriage, my daughter, I can make a fuss that will even make the empress in the Jia family’s palace lose face!”
But Mrs. Xia is still a little worried. After all, her daughter is really playing too much!
When Mrs. Xia was anxious, the maid came to report: Madam, Miss, the Jia family is sending out invitations, and the date is set for this month.
Only then did Mrs. Xia feel relieved.
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In the back house, Mrs. Wang, who was bedridden after being beaten by Jia Zheng's Five Lang Bagua sticks, handed a stack of silver notes to Zhou Rui's family and told them: "Here are fifty thousand taels of silver. You can have someone deliver it to the palace."
In the hands of the empress, the palace is no better than the palace. Money needs to be used everywhere and management needs to be done everywhere.
The glory and wealth of us ladies all point to our empress.
By the way, this one thousand tael silver note is for the eunuch Xia Shouzhong, please ask him to take more care of your empress in the palace."
Zhou Rui's family put the banknotes into the box, put them away and walked out.
Because the date for Xia Jingui and Jia Baoyu's marriage had been set, and invitations had been distributed widely, Mrs. Xia, in order to show the strength of the Xia family, directly took out 200,000 taels of silver to fill up the provincial villa.
It is now September, and the Lantern Festival is not far away.
Although Ningguo Mansion was confiscated, everyone in Rongguo Mansion was fortunate that Jia Zhen, the land deed for the half of the garden of the provincial villa, had already been given to Rongguo Mansion.
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Xia Jingui arrived at Jia Baoyu's yard happily, and happened to see Xiren holding a medicine bowl in his hand, talking and laughing with Baoyu, and he immediately became angry.
Xia Jingui rushed in quickly, grabbed the medicine bowl and threw it on Xiren's face.
"ah!!"
Baoyu quickly got out of bed, hugged Xiren and checked: "Sister, are you okay? Xia Jingui, what are you doing!!"
Xia Jingui smiled coldly, threw away the empty bowl in his hand, put his hands on his hips and shouted: "What am I doing? I want to ask you what you are doing!"
Mom, I worked so hard to get pregnant, and this is your seed! Instead of caring about me, you had the time to flirt with this little prodigal, and now you are asking about me!"
Jia Baoyu saw Xia Jingui's fierceness and was about to say something, but was frightened back by Xia Jingui's fierce eyes.
Xia Jingui pulled Jia Baoyu away: "Get away! I haven't even married Baoyu yet. You, a despicable maid, seduced a man and you seduced me! You don't know whether you live or die! I'll slap your mouth today, and I'll see you grow taller."
memory!"
Xia Jingui raised his hand and slapped Xi Ren hard on the face, knocking Xi Ren to the ground.
Jia Baoyu woke up from his daze, ran to the attacker, hugged the attacker, pointed at Xia Jingui and said, "You cruel woman! Vicious woman! I, Jia Baoyu, will never marry you even if I die!"
Xia Jingui: "Humph! It's not up to you. How much money did your Jia family spend on our family? I just beat up a maid and you feel bad for me?"
I just wanted to call you to see how you are doing!
Jia Baoyu was so frightened by Xia Jingui that he cowered and did not dare to speak. He just lowered his head and sat down next to the attacker without saying a word.
Xia Jingui originally wanted to establish her authority, but then she thought about it. After she married into the Jia family, she would have time to deal with this little prodigal! It wouldn't be too late.
Xia Jingui glared at Baoyu coldly, twisted her waist and left.
After Xia Jingui left, Jia Baoyu took action. He stretched his neck to see if Xia Jingui had left. After confirming that Xia Jingui was gone, he dared to speak out to comfort Xiren.
Xiren didn't know whether he was frightened or aggrieved, he just sobbed and said nothing...
The Jia family sent out invitations widely, and the Xue family and Bowenhou family also received the invitations.
The difference is that the invitation to the Xue family is written according to the specifications and status of the relatives.
The invitation to Xue Hong was written by Jia Zheng himself as a subordinate, respectfully inviting Xue Hong to come.
However, Xue Hong was not at home at this time.
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In the court hall, envoys from the Jin Dynasty in the North and several Mongolian tribes near the Ming Dynasty each sent envoys to ask for help.
Although it has just arrived in October, I don’t know what’s going on in the North. Just after leaving the Ming Dynasty border, heavy snow started to fall!
Houjin was caught off guard, and many crops and livestock were frozen to death.
Several Mongolian tribes were even caught off guard by the heavy snow. The pastures they relied on for survival were frozen to death overnight, their livestock had no food, and the food reserves for the winter were not sufficient.
Moreover, the heavy snow is still falling, it has been falling for seven consecutive days, and I don’t know when it will stop.
If in previous years, they encountered such a situation, the first thing Houjin and the Mongolian tribes would do was to rob! Rob the residents around the Ming Dynasty!
But now... the army on the Ming side has sufficient food and pay, and everyone is looking forward to Houjin and Mongolia with gleaming eyes, so that they can use their heads to make meritorious deeds!
The Mongolian tribes and Hou Jin Danfan were a little careful, and the border troops from all over the world, who looked like hungry wolves, greeted them!
Especially the new firearms of the Ming Dynasty army. Their range is longer than their lives. How can they fight?
Once the cavalry reunited, and there were no obstacles, they were the master of the Ming army's firearms.
If the charge is dispersed, the advantage of the cavalry interspersed will disappear. Facing the infantry who rely on chariot formation, they will still be slaughtered!
What else can we do? Be soft, flatter Ming, and then swindle some food and grass to come back. If the tough one doesn't work, then come with the soft one. Anyway, there are a group of literati who dream of saints in their court who will speak for them.
Unfortunately, the ideal is full and the reality is cruel.
Nowadays, most of the people in the court are members of Emperor Longqing. Not to mention all of them are militants, at least few of them are the kind of idiots who like to capitalize on the enemy.
No, as soon as the envoys made their requests, someone came out to act.
Yu Zheng, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, "I would like to report to Your Majesty that the harvest in our country is not good this year, and many places need assistance from the national treasury."
Minister of the Ministry of Industry: "Your Majesty, the dikes in many places in the south of the Yangtze River are dilapidated and urgently need to be repaired or rebuilt, otherwise the people will be in danger!"
These two people are just telling lies. Ever since Xue Hong fed the Golden Dragon of Luck, now in the Ming Dynasty, it rains at night and is sunny during the day, and the weather is smooth.
Moreover, Emperor Longqing had just cleaned up the south of the Yangtze River last year, returning large tracts of land to people's homes, so this year's food supply was particularly abundant, and warehouses everywhere were filled with food.
But be it food or money, even if I throw it into the water and hear the sound, I will never give it to you for free!
If you want, you can! Bring me something in exchange!