Miss Lin Family of the Red Chamber

Meng Yan's Jiji ceremony is dominated by Lin Ruhai and Meng's husband and wife. Lin Ruhai took up the post after being transferred to the Ministry of Rites for another month, and then officially took office as the left servant of the Ministry of Rites.

This time, Meng Yan and Yan Lin's family also distributed invitations widely to entertain relatives and friends.

The Meng family invited the eldest daughter-in-law of the eldest uncle of the Zhang family, the cousin of the Meng family, Meng Yan's cousin, as the guest of honor, and the Miss Zhou family, Meng Yan's cousin, as the guest of honor, and the rest of the officials and deacons. Fixed number.

Meng Yan didn't know about the guests in the main hall. At this time, she went down to wash and change under the service of several nuns and maids. She changed her clothes and shoes, put her hair in a simple double bun, and sat in the east room to wait for the message in the main hall.

Having been tossed about early in the morning, Meng Yan is still dizzy now.

The maids were standing in a row inside and outside the house, when they heard the flyer outside asking for hairpins, Wan Tang and the other maids immediately helped Meng Yan to the main hall.

When she entered the hall, she saw that the cousin of the Zhou family was washing her hands and then took her seat on the west steps. Meng Yan was led to the middle and followed the guide to salute.

This is the first time Meng Yan has formally appeared in front of everyone. She is dressed in simple unadorned clothes and simple hair accessories. The Liu Haishu combed out on her forehead covers half of her face, covering up the shining stars. Eyes and endless style, in the eyes of everyone, only the beautiful figure, slim and light; icy skin, tender as water.

Meng Yan was led to kneel on the mat, facing southwest, and the cousin of the Zhou family who praised it first untied Meng Yan's bun, then took a comb from the tray held by the secretary to comb her hair, and then put the comb on the south side of the mat.

Meng Yan watched her movements silently, and it was very cumbersome to have rules for each step.

Then came Aunt Zhang's Biao, who was the guest of honor again. After listening to Aunt Zhang's Biao and Lin Ruhai making room, Aunt Zhang's Biao took her seat.

There is a voice, and the guest of honor is Jidu Chujia.

Afterwards, Meng Yan and Zhang's aunt chanted the congratulatory speech loudly, saying: "On the auspicious day of the month, I will start to add yuan clothes. Abandon your young ambitions, follow your success and become a virtue. Shou Kao Wei Qi, Jie Er Jing Fu."

Afterwards, he knelt down and combed Meng Yan's hair into a bun for Meng Yan. After a while, the fairy flew into the bun, holding the golden hairpin and shaking it to add a hairpin to Meng Yan.

Liu Hai, who had half of her face, was combed up, revealing the unbelievable appearance that outsiders don't know. Everyone only saw that it was a delicate oval face, with fresh cheeks, greasy goose fat nose, sculpted eyebrows and starry eyes. , Looking forward to the gods, just looking at his appearance is like a fairy entering the mortal world.

Everyone gasped and talked silently, the audience felt regretful and fortunate.Those who regretted lost a beautiful daughter-in-law because Meng Yan was engaged to give a marriage; but also because Meng Yan was engaged to give a marriage, they would not compete with their daughter who entered the palace for election.

Then Meng Yan got up and went back to the east room to change her plain clothes and skirts. The cousin of the Zhou family, who praised her, took the plain clothes and skirts she had prepared earlier to match the hairpin from the hands of the secretary.

When Meng Yan came back in plain clothes and skirts, the audience in the hall gasped and looked away.

Meng Yan first showed the guests, wearing plain clothes and skirts, and then faced her parents and performed formal salutes.This is the first time to pray.This time it is to express my gratitude to my parents for their upbringing.

This is the first prayer after the first addition.

Then came two plus.

Mencius sat facing the East and watched Zhang Jiabiao's aunt wash her hands and reset herself again; the secretary offered the hairpin, Zhang Jiabiao's aunt took it, and walked to the Jizhe; he chanted his congratulations loudly: Erfu. Respect Erweiyi, Shu Shende. My eyebrows will live forever, and I will always be blessed by Hu Fu." The praiser Zhou's cousin went to hairpin for Meng Yan.Zhang Jiabiao's aunt knelt down, put hairpins on the hairpin for the hairpin, and then got up to reset.The praiser Zhou's cousin helped the hairpin symbolically.

After another cumbersome ceremony, Meng Yan returned to the east room, and the cousin of Zhou's family, who praised her, helped her get clothes, and went to the room to change into the dark clothes with curved trains that matched the hairpin on her head.

This is the second addition, and after the second addition is the second worship.

Tired after completing the three plus three prayers, Meng Yan went to the hairpin to match the crown, and changed into a gorgeous and solemn dress with long sleeves and long skirts, wearing rings and ribbons.The original alluring appearance, clean and dusty temperament, is now multi-threaded bright and graceful, and the temperament is more elegant, graceful, and graceful; now it is more like a fairy concubine who descended from the sky, alluring, bright, pure, elegant, grand, and dignified, which makes people amazed but dare not Blasphemy.

Meng Yan saluted Lin Ruhai and the Meng family again, thanked all the guests, and retreated.

Afterwards, the whole people went to the main hall to become lively, and the guests praised Meng Yan one after another.

After the banquet, when all the guests left the house, all the female guests were more emotional.

"Thinking that Mrs. Lin's eldest daughter is so beautiful, she is a little bit better than Jia Min back then. Do you think so, Mrs. Wang?" A luxuriously dressed woman said to others. Naja met.

"What is Jia Min? Mrs. Lin's eldest daughter was not born to Jia Min. It is said that she was born to a concubine and recorded under the name of her stepmother. Mrs. Lin's step-wife, Mrs. Meng, is the aunt of his eldest daughter. Look at Mrs. Meng The appearance is slightly inferior to Jia Min, who was in the prime of life back then, which shows how stunning the birth mother of Mrs. Lin's eldest daughter is. I am afraid that Jia Min, the most famous beauty in the capital, is not as good as Jia Min. Mrs. Li, the most famous beauty in the capital, heard that Let's go."

Another woman said, her tone of voice was obviously at odds with Jia Min back then.Behind the two of them is a woman wearing a Chinese dress, which looks like a second-rank imperial order.

"Hey, so what about the number one beauty, and what about being the daughter of the most beautiful women in the capital. Back then, when she mocked me for my poor poetry, she certainly would not have thought that today would happen. I, who was mocked by her in the past, are now here to participate in her stepdaughter's coronation ceremony. And she has already turned into a pile of loess."

After the woman finished speaking, she nodded to the two of them, then boarded the sedan chair and left.

Mrs. Li: "This is Mrs. Du, the wife of Mr. Du, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs?"

Mrs. Wang: "It's Mrs. Du."

Mrs. Li: "Mrs. Du, why is she complaining to Jia Min?"

Mrs. Wang: "You didn't know about that back then?

Mrs. Li: "I was sent out with my father when I was young, and I only came to Beijing when I was about to reach the age. I only saw Jia Min once at a palace banquet. When there is news, it will be the news of her marriage."

Mrs. Wang: "That's not the case. No wonder you don't know. What happened back then was a big mess.

Back then, Jia Min invited the ladies of the capital to appreciate the plums in Rongguo Mansion, and Madam Du also went there. Madam Du's father was a third-rank official, but Jia Min looked down on Madam Du and ridiculed Madam Du's poems about plum blossoms. , the irony made Mrs. Du cry even more.Mrs. Du was the only daughter in the family. She was so doted on and she left on the spot.

The Rongguo Mansion was prominent back then, so naturally they looked down on Mrs. Du's natal family. Although Jia Min offended Madam Du with his words, he didn't apologize, and the Rongguo Mansion acted as if there was no such thing.Although the Wei family of Mrs. Du's natal family was afraid of the power of the Rongguo Mansion and never expressed it at the time, after the incident, the Wei family secretly stated that they had severed diplomatic relations with the Rongguo Mansion.

Although this matter did not make a fuss in the past, it spread secretly. Except for those who wanted to curry favor with the Rongguo Mansion, most of the people in Beijing broke up with the Rongguo Mansion.Back then my elder sister also went to the Plum Appreciation Banquet, and when she came back, her mother told her not to associate with Jia Min in the future. Since then, my elder sister, me, and the girl from my natal family have never been to Rongguo Mansion. "

Mrs. Li: "There is such a thing. No wonder my aunt and cousins ​​told me not to associate with that Jia Min after I came to Beijing, but I never thought about it. Fortunately, I didn't associate with that Jia Min back then. It's from the third grade, I'm afraid Jia Min will not like me."

"She was the number one beauty who was famous in Beijing back then, how could she like us girls from petty official families." Listen, these ironic words.

Mrs. Li: "The number one beauty? I once heard from the servants in the mansion that the oiran lady of Baihualou was selected as the number one beauty in the capital last month. Fangrong. If I knew about this back then, if I had a thousand pieces of gold to spend, I would go to Rongguo Mansion to see the number one beauty."

Mrs. Wang: "Bah, big talk. Duke Rong was still there back then, and the power was so powerful, you dare to go?" Dare to mock the daughter of the Duke's mansion as a flower girl, isn't this courting death?

"Just kidding."

Mrs. Wang: "However, I heard that the eldest daughter of the Second Household of the Jia Mansion, who was newly named a nobleman, was also known as the number one lady in the capital before entering the palace. It is not impossible for you to want to see this."

"It's just a noble lady. Mrs. Du's daughter just now is the concubine of a sage. The daughter of Jia's family can't match it." Li Fu thought that when my daughter was drafted to the palace and became a concubine, she must have a higher status than that of Jia's mansion.

"Fortunately, Master Lin's eldest daughter is not drafted this time. Otherwise, with her stunning beauty, she would be considered as the six palaces of pink and white." Mrs. Wang's daughter married early, and she didn't care if she didn't have a daughter to participate in the election. Lady's voice.

"No, my daughter is not as good as her, I'm afraid it's hard to match the beauty of the harem." Although Mrs. Li felt that her daughter's appearance was not ordinary, but now seeing the Lin family's daughter, she knows that she is a country.

"Mr. Yan San of Cheng En Gong's Mansion is really lucky. I heard that when Master Lin was still in Yangzhou, Mr. Yan asked Mrs. Yan to make an order for him. If such a stunning beauty enters Beijing, I'm afraid it will be Yan San." The third son can't monopolize its beauty."

Not to mention the saints in the palace, how could those princes and grandchildren miss such beauties.

"You're right."

Since ancient times, beauties have been a disaster, and women who are too beautiful are often not a good thing.

"Let's go, I should go back."

"It's time to go back, so don't let this go, and come to my house when you have time."

"Go at your leisure."

After talking, they got into the sedan chair and left.

After the two left, Meng Zhou came out from the corner.

"Eldest son."

"Don't let your father know about this matter."

Although Jia Min was wrong in every possible way, the deceased was already dead, and he didn't want to mention this person again.

"It's the eldest son."

After the guests had dispersed, Meng Yan in Feiluan Pavilion had already changed her clothes and changed her makeup. Daiyu and her two younger brothers had just had a fight with Meng Yan, and she was eating freshly baked snacks in the small kitchen of Feiluan Pavilion.

After Meng Yan Jiji, her wedding date with Yan Chengze was also put on the agenda. I heard that Madam Yan and Mrs. Meng went to Tianqi Temple to pray for auspicious dates, and the wedding date was set at the end of November.

In May, contestants from all over the country went to Beijing, and in June, they entered the palace. It lasted two months. In August, the palace delivered a decree to Yan Xuechun to be the first imperial concubine.

The next month, the Empress was ill, and Concubine Yan was in charge of the Six Palaces. The concubine summoned the Meng family to bring Daiyu into the palace.According to Daiyu's return, she met Jia Yuanchun, who was already a concubine of Jia, in the palace. Jia Yuanchun did not know where he learned that Daiyu had a good relationship with Yan Guifei, so he asked Daiyu to speak for her in front of the imperial concubine through a relationship.Daiyu was so frightened by the stalking that she didn't enter the palace to meet her friends for several months after she left the palace.

Unexpectedly, at the beginning of November, when Lin Ruhai went to Jia's mansion to attend Jia Zheng's birthday banquet, there was a sudden rumor in the palace that Jia Yuanchun had chosen Fengzao Palace Shangshu because of his talent, and he was also named Xiande Concubine, the same rank as noble concubine.

When Lin Ruhai brought back the news, both Meng and Daiyu were astonished.