The Qinghe County Lord of the Red Chamber

Let's say, April [-]th.

The lively scene that day was really true: the golden house is the head of the purple pavilion, and the jade hibiscus is on the fairy hall.

According to the customs of this dynasty, the first gift that the man puts in front of him is twenty sheep, twenty bottles of wine, and forty bolts of red silk, which are used to knock on the woman's door and reward the servants.

Of course, the "baa-baa" live sheep will not be chased away, but twenty sleeping sheep and deer vases will be used instead.

When the central door of the Marquis of Pingyang's mansion is opened wide, it will be the formal ceremony to start carrying it in.

The first ones are three sets of court clothes, crowns and beads of the wife of the prince of the dynasty.

The clothing system is slightly different from that of the county head.

From now on, the gifts bestowed by the emperor will start, all of which will be pasted with gold paper, mighty and mighty, like a golden dragon pressing down on the ground.

The first ones here have all entered Pingyang Hou's Mansion, and more than half of Baoning Hou's Mansion over there have not gone out!

There were spectators all the way, and they all said that the two mansions were indeed very sacred. Look at how many things the emperor rewarded.

These common people who are just for the sake of fun, are talking about congratulatory gossip, so they can reach out to beg for the copper coins scattered along the road in the Baoninghou Mansion.

On the contrary, some people who have already worked hard and waited for Shen Shangduo and Lin Ruhai to "practice extravagance and spend huge sums of money" were dumbfounded.

They have written all the papers, just waiting to provoke the emperor's suspicion: these two people are very powerful, where does this overwhelming wealth come from, I'm afraid they are thieves of the country, please ask the sage to investigate carefully.

Unexpectedly, when I looked at it today, more than half of the front was pasted with the golden paper given by the emperor, shining brightly.

The remaining 64 are about the same as the traditional number of betrothed money for other dukes' families in central Beijing.

If they insist on participating, they will not offend the two governments, but a large number of officials.

And I dare not scold the emperor: You have rewarded too much, how can you spend so much for your mother's family.

After all, Lu Yushi's lessons learned from the past are still there, and no one dares to be stubborn and persuade the emperor on these matters.

So I had to stop with hatred.

Since the marriage was bestowed by the imperial decree, the palace naturally sent an eunuch to attend the ceremony.

The emperor pointed out Dai Quan, which can be regarded as supporting the scene for the two governments.

After Dai Quan's thin throat said: "Follow the Yi code, and not shy, with a certain thing, dare to accept it." After that, Na Zheng, the most complicated etiquette among the six rituals is also counted here until.

Since then, the two governments have truly become in-laws.

Whoever repents is breaking the law.

When the news spread inside, Sister Feng shook Daiyu's hand and said, "Congratulations to my sister."

She and Jia Lian just returned to Beijing a few days ago.

Three years after leaving Beijing, there were still many things in her family that had not been cleared away, but she still asked Jia's mother to send her to the Pingyang Hou Mansion as a representative of Jia's family.

It stands to reason that the two mansions are indeed relatives-in-law, even if Jia's mother is too old to come in person, the two wives of King Xing should be sent here.

Then Mother Jia looked at the two daughters-in-law: one was shamed, but went to embarrass herself;

Knowing that Sister Feng had always gotten along with Daiyu, she was sent here.

When Sister Feng sees Daiyu again, she will first meet the county magistrate face to face.

Daiyu hurriedly asked someone to help her, and said with a smile, "Sister Feng has worked hard all the way, and she came to our house today to help. I am grateful for it."

The two still call them sisters.

Besides, Sister Feng watched the appointment of the Baoninghou's mansion with her own eyes, and she couldn't help being secretly frightened.

What is simplicity is in the heart of the emperor, just look at this long list of imperial gifts.

When she returned to Rongguo Mansion, she first came to answer Jia's mother.

As soon as I entered the Rongxi Hall, I saw not only the two wives of King Xing, but also Li Wan and Sanchun sisters.

She smiled first and said: "Oh, I have such a big face, it's hard for this whole family to wait for me."

Jia's mother spat: "After going out for three years, I was in charge of my own family and became a mother again. I should have some stability. I still look like a monkey now. Beware of your son laughing at you!"

When Sister Feng heard Jia Mu mentioning her son, she was also beaming with joy: "He is a little man who is not even half a year old, how dare he laugh at me?"

This time she and Jia Lian went to the south of the Yangtze River, and the greatest joy was to have a son.

From then on, she had both sons and daughters, and the eldest son added Chengjue's grandson.

Even Jia Amnesty drank a lot of wine for several days happily after hearing this, and bought two maids to serve him as a token of congratulations.

Here, Sister Feng has already started to talk about what she has seen and heard about the Pingyang Hou Mansion today.

In front of Mrs. Wang, she didn't dare to talk about her son.Now Mrs. Wang is the housekeeper, and she just came back, and everything is strange.

Children are so small, if they get a little cold, they will easily disappear when they get hot.

Even if Jia Zhu has been raised to twenty, he will give up if he says he will.

So Sister Feng only brought back the maid nanny who had sold her death contract from Jiangnan, and kept her son tightly guarded every day, instead of using the family of Rongguo Mansion to have a child.

They were all tied behind each other, so they were bribed if they couldn't say it.

Sister Feng had these thoughts in her mind, but she didn't delay her words: "Old lady, you're not feeling well today, and you didn't go to see me, it's very honorable."

"The in-charge internal supervisor, Dai Neixiang, personally accompanied the Hou throughout the whole process, and the number of gifts from the imperial court alone cannot be counted."

"There are a lot of guests today, even Princess Pingning went to sit there in person, and then left Miss Wen to accompany Sister Lin in the mansion, and went to Huguo Temple to light the lamps for the old saint as usual."

The eldest princess is also a smart person.She is the emperor's relative's sister, so now she will naturally act as if she is praying for her brother, and she can't blatantly fall to the emperor's side.

But this does not prevent her from showing her favor to the emperor for future consideration.

When Jia Mu heard it, she sighed, "Has the eldest princess arrived in person? Well, I should have gone too. I ate two mouthfuls of peaches at night, and I can't get up during the day."

Sister Feng lowered her eyes a little. When she came back this time, she felt that there was something wrong with Jia's mother.

It seems to be a lot older, and the most important thing is that the spirit is gone.

He actually acquiesced in the golden and jade marriage, no longer took Xiangyun over, and no longer talked about seeing other people's daughters for Baoyu.

Although Sister Feng is not in Beijing, she keeps Ping'er, that is to say, she keeps one eye in the mansion.

According to Ping'er, Jia Mu's transformation also started from the Shangsi Festival.

That day she went to the palace to attend Daiyu's Jiji ceremony, and then was ordered by the Empress Dowager Shang to speak in the imperial concubine's palace.

After coming back, he was sick for a few days and didn't say anything, and since then he has acquiesced to Jin Yuliangyuan.

Others, Sister Feng, didn't understand, but she knew that the historian was annoyed: Jia's mother had dragged Shi Xiangyun for all these years, and finally left Shi Xiangyun behind.

The two wives of the historian made intensive plans for Xiangyun's marriage, and even considered marrying her outside of Beijing.

Sister Feng thought about these things for a while.

Hearing that Jia's mother was still asking carefully, she simply told today's events from beginning to end.

He laughed again and said, "Today I saw a load of dowry gifts. It's strange. There are Selaginella, glue, lacquer, five-color silk, etc., and some other things. I just passed by, and I didn't see what they were."

Yingchun has always been silent.

Tanchun was about to speak, but seeing Mrs. Wang's gloomy expression as she listened, she couldn't help but stop.

It was Xichun who suddenly said, "Sister Feng doesn't know how to read and write, so I don't know. The few things you said probably belong to the ancient etiquette of the Eastern Han Dynasty recorded in the "Tong Dian"."

"There should be thirty in total, and each color has auspicious sayings. I can't remember the other ones, but I remember that there are wild geese, sake, etc., and the geese follow the sun, and the sake brings blessings. Anyway, each has its own auspiciousness."

Sister Feng clapped her hands and said, "Sure enough, you people who can read and write can understand as soon as you hear it."

Then he smiled and said to Jia Mu: "It can be seen that the Baoning Hou Mansion has a heart, and sister Lin's life will be smooth in the future."

"Today, I looked at the first three imperial wives' dresses, and I really envied them. This is the county mistress before she is married, and she is the wife of the eldest son when she gets married. It is really a blessing."

"When I saw Sister Lin back then, I said that there are such beautiful people in the world. It can be seen that I am very lucky!"

Wang Xifeng boasted that it was like a flowing water mat, which could last for three days and three nights without repeating the same.

At this time, there was a lot of chatter in front of Jiamu, only to stretch the eyebrows that Jiamu said.

Until thinking of Jia Minlai, she shed tears again: "If Min'er is still here, watching Yu'er today, it will be even better."

Everyone came to persuade again.

However, only Mother Jia knew that her tears were not only shed because she felt sorry for Daiyu.

It's even for myself.

If Jia Min was still there, their biological mother and daughter would not be able to watch the Jia family and the Lin family become estranged!

When Jia Mu thought sad, she told everyone to go down and rest herself.

Mrs. Wang got annoyed when she heard good things about the Lin family, so she walked away naturally.

On the contrary, as soon as Sister Feng came back to the house, she saw Jia Lian losing her temper and even dropped her teacup.

"Second Master, you shouldn't throw things when you are angry, and then startle your son."

Jia Lian suppressed the fire and said: "We are not in Beijing, what do you think father did? He fell in love with a few ancient fans in the house of a man surnamed Shi, and he wanted to take out 5000 taels to buy them."

Sister Feng said with a smile: "What's the matter. If we don't spend the money in this family, we will give it to others for nothing. Let the master go."

Jia Lian paused and said, "It would be nice if it really cost money! That man surnamed Shi is also an idiot. He said that he only loves these few fans in his life, let alone 5000 taels, even 5 taels."

"In the end, that damned Jia Yucun, in order to please our family, set up a crime and killed that stone nerd. Without spending a penny, he copied the fan from his house and gave it to my father! My father was still very proud. I said Jia Yucun is good!"

"I see it going on like this, next time someone should raid our house!"

Jia Lian has made some progress in the past few years as the county magistrate, especially in the law.Even Wang Xifeng understood.

Now he really said: "Then Jia Yucun is so obsessed with climbing up, he doesn't even care about human life, where did the seeds of such a lightning strike come from!"

The husband and wife scolded Jia Yucun at each other.

However, this matter has been done, and the stone nerd cannot be resurrected.Jia Lian had no choice but to say: "I'll go to Uncle Lin for advice in the future, and I'll make up for it as much as I can."

Then there was another long sigh.

He came from an official family and had seen quite a few slaves beaten to death since he was a child, so he didn't take human life seriously just like the Jia family.

However, when I was an official and judged the case, and after I was familiar with the law, I realized that a slave is a slave, and a good citizen is a good citizen.

For Xue Pan's trip that day, he should have risked his life for his life.

This is a great crime.

Jia Lian originally planned to wait until the marriage between the Shang and Lin families was completed before visiting Lin Ruhai for advice.

However, in May, the Taishanghuang suffered from wind disease and became more and more ill.

The emperor was furious because of this, and personally reprimanded the noble concubine Xianfei for being confused, flattering and stupid, so that she endangered the emperor's dragon body.

The Supreme Emperor was lenient and could not bear to add more crimes, so he was only punished with a small salary for one year and a large punishment.

The emperor added another one, this year, the two concubines are not allowed to see their mother's family and daughters again.

The whole Rongguo Mansion was in panic.

The author has something to say: the [-] types of betrothal gifts in the Tongdian:

"Yuan, 纁, sheep, geese, sake, white wine, japonica rice, millet, cattail, reed, Selaginella, Jiahe, long-lived thread, glue, lacquer, five-color silk, acacia bell, Jiuzimo, money, lude, Herbs, phoenixes, relic beasts, mandarin ducks, blessed beasts, fish, deer, crows, nine sons, sun flakes, and all 28 things, there are also dan and green."

Each item contains a different meaning: "Yuan, like the sky. Yu, Fadi. The sheep are auspicious, and the flock is not party. The geese follow the sun. Sake brings blessings. Baijiu, the cause of joy. Japonica rice raises Food. Millet is abundant. There are many cattails, and the nature is soft. Reed, soft for a long time. Selaginella bends and grows. Jiahe Xulu. Long-lived thread sewing clothes to prolong life. Glue can unite different kinds. Painted inside and outside shines well. Five-color silk badge Harmony of bells and bells. Nine sons of ink have long-lived offspring. Money and prosperity are endless. Lude and vanilla are auspicious. Phoenix is ​​a male and female couple. Relics and beasts are honest and modest. Mandarin ducks fly to stop their beards, and sing to harmony. Shou Blessed beasts are respectful and kind. Fish live in the deep without shooting. The deer is rich. Wu Zhi feeds back and is filial to his parents. Nine sons and wives have four virtues. Yang Sui Cheng Ming settles down. And Dan is the glory of five colors. Green is the color First, from the east."