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Chapter 13: The Ritual of Adulthood

"It's a pity that the word was chosen by the elders of the clan. I don't even know what word I will be taken when I wake up from the dream. But your word is really good, and I like it very much. From now on, if you see me in your dream, you will call me Words." Hua Xun smiled in tears, turned her head and didn't dare to let Hua Du see.

"Silly girl..." Huadu sighed in a low voice.

The eldest lady of the Hua family, the head of Huai'an County, and Ji Ji gave a grand and solemn ceremony.Many high-ranking officials and dignitaries who knew and didn't know all came to watch the ceremony to congratulate, those who couldn't come also gave big gifts, and hundreds of young talents crowded to see the ceremony.The Hua Mansion was bustling with people all day long, and you could see horse-drawn carriages delivering jewelry into the mansion at any time, as well as prefects, ministers, and county magistrates who were rarely seen each other.

Everyone in the Huafu was so busy that they didn't touch the ground, Du Juan and Cigu arranged affairs in an orderly manner, Huajun Houli chatted with the white-haired and chicken-skinned old men in the hall, and Gong Ziyan greeted the distinguished guests with the housekeeper Du Zhong at the door.The ritual officials of the ancestral hall had already prepared for their duties, and the arrangement of the family temple was confirmed repeatedly.

Hua Xun sat in the east room, quietly waiting for the ceremony to begin.The elegant music outside has been played, and the music of silk and bamboo is inspiring.She looked at the door, Ling Lan, Pei Lan, and Ze Lan were all guarding the door, while Bai Po and Bai Qing went to the family temple.She was woken up before dawn to take a bath, changed into a vermilion brocade-trimmed cloth dress, combed two buns, and put on sandals.

This time the guest of honor is still a certain female master, it is said that she is well-known in humanities, virtuous and virtuous.Hua Junhou and Mrs. Junhou stepped forward to greet them. The Junhou and his wife saluted and invited all the ladies to enter.The guest of honor and the guests are seated at the guest of honor seat and the ceremony seat respectively, and the Junhou and his wife just took the host seat.Le Zaixing, Junhou got up and said: "Today, my little girl Huaxun is going to come of age ceremony. It is my little girl's luck that you can come to Huafu and come to watch the ceremony! I am very grateful." He glanced at the guests present and said solemnly , "The coming-of-age ceremony, it's time to begin!"

The ceremonial officer sang: "Please Huaxun come into the hall to meet all the guests and friends!"

Hua Xun heard it, got up and walked outside.

As for the gift of Ji, one praise for each Ji, the person who praises is a friend or sister of the Ji, yesterday Chu Zhongci and Hua Wuya were fighting for the position of praise, but fortunately Mrs. Junhou spoke and heard that Princess Anhe and Huaxun has a very close personal relationship, so she asked Princess Anhe to praise her.Both Chu Yan and Hua Xun breathed a sigh of relief, but luckily it wasn't Hua An who praised it.

According to etiquette, Chu Yan should wear a skirt.She changed into a dark black skirt with flying phoenix embroidered on it. She was solemn and solemn. She entered the hall first to wash her hands and took her seat on the west steps.Then Hua Xun came out from the east room, went to the venue, faced south, and bowed to the guests.After that, facing west, he was sitting on the chair.Chu Yan combed her hair and put the comb on the south side of the mat.

At this time, Hua Xun's eyes fell on Hua Du who was sitting with Hua An.She watched Hua Xun sitting on her knees seriously, her eyes moved slightly, as if there were a lot of words in it, and it seemed that she was just following the etiquette.

After the guests washed, Hua Xun turned to sit in the east; the official of the ceremony presented the Luopa and the hairpin, and the guests walked to Hua Xun; they chanted a congratulatory speech loudly, saying: "It's an auspicious day for the moon, and I will take Yuan clothes. Abandon your young ambitions, Shuner Chengde. Shoukao Weiqi, Jieer Jingfu." Then he knelt down and combed her hair, then got up and returned to the original position.Chu Yan symbolically corrected her.After finishing these, Hua Xun stood up, and Bin saluted Hua Xun to congratulate her.

According to the ceremony, Hua Xun returned to the east room, and Chu Yan took the clothes from the ceremony official, and went to the room to change into the plain clothes and skirts that matched the hairpin on her head.Taking advantage of the unprepared officials, Hua Xun sighed: "This is really a toss. I thought the previous etiquettes were already annoying enough, but I didn't expect this ceremony to be even more troublesome."

"Shhh." Chu Yan said grimly, "There is only one gift in life, and it will be over if you work harder."

How can it be so easy.

The first addition, the second addition, the third addition... the first worship, the second worship, the third worship... the placement of wine, the jelly...

Hua Xun stood up and bowed in a daze, smeared her lips with wine, ate a little food, knelt down and bowed again...

Finally, it's time to get to the word Ji.Zhengbin got up and went down to the middle of the hall to face east, and Junhou got up and went down to face west.The women asked for the characters for Huaxun, and read the words of congratulations: "Etiquette is prepared, and the moon is auspicious, and I will tell you the characters. The word Kong Jia is suitable for fashion scholars. It is suitable for fakes, and it will be protected forever. Ask Tangfu." "

Hua Xun was taken aback, why did she always feel that the word "Qiantang" was expected, but also unexpectedly surprised?Seeing that she didn't answer, Zhengbin frowned after hesitating for a while.Chu Yan tried his best to wink at her.

Hua Xun came back to her senses and replied: "Although Wentang is not sensitive, I dare not only serve you late at night." She saluted all the ladies.The guest of honor returned the gift and reset.

Chu Yan breathed a sigh of relief, and Hua Du withdrew his hand that pinched the formula.

After that, nothing major happened, and the ceremony was successfully completed.

Hua Xun went back to the room, collapsed on the couch exhausted, and sighed: "I don't think the complicated etiquette in this world is so impressive."

"It's just a ceremony." Chu Yan followed in, sat next to Hua Xun, and said with a smile, "There will be weddings in the future, which will be even more complicated."

"Oh," Hua Xun rubbed her forehead, "Fortunately, with Zhongci's help, I almost made a mistake."

"you do not say!"

Listening to the voice, Hua Xun was unable to support his forehead.

Sure enough, Hua'an walked in, and sneered, "You are so big, how can you lose your mind halfway, and your soul wander to the sky?"

Hua Du came in, heard this, and said: "If Wu Ya is asked to go through these etiquettes, I'm afraid you will make many mistakes and make people laugh."

"..." Hua An glared at her, wanting to argue but not daring.

"Hua Wuya, didn't you follow this etiquette when you were old?" Chu Yan asked doubtfully.

"Who said no!" Hua'an sneered, "It's just that I don't ask my cousin Tang in such a grand manner."

Hua Xun sat up, smiled wryly and said, "It's grand, I'm exhausted."

"Now Wentang is also an adult, the majestic Huai'an county lord, I'm afraid that those who propose marriage will break through the threshold in the future. I just saw those people, and they all stared at Wentang and couldn't take their eyes off." Chu Yan said with emotion.

Hua Xun shook her head and said: "A bunch of dandies, all of them are shadowed by their ancestors. If my future husband and son-in-law are all from those sons-in-law, I'm afraid I'll cry to death."

"The young masters are willing to sell, look at those gifts, they are almost piled up into mountains." Hua An found out a handful of melon seeds from nowhere, and began to knock again, "Uncle is also a prince after all, if it is an ordinary person, it's fine, cousin you Naturally, there are choices, so don’t worry about these.”

It's rare to hear a good word from Hua An.Hua Xun smiled narrowly: "It doesn't matter what those people give me, it's just you guys, what kind of gift do you have? I don't accept any gift."

Hua An spat out the melon seeds, and readily took out a small wooden sign from the armhole, with mysterious patterns embossed on it.Throwing it into Hua Xun's arms, she leaned against the door and lazily said: "You Huafu gold, silver, jewelry, and rare things. I just glanced at the list of gifts. Oh, it's scary! This thing It's useless to stay by my side, you can play with it, and use it as an ornament."

Hua Xun caught it, and looked at the sign, it was quite beautiful, and the craftsmanship was not like that of an ordinary craftsman.She accepted it unceremoniously: "Thank you cousin!"

"What kind of broken wooden brand, you can give it away!" Chu Yan and Hua'an seemed to be at odds, and they were happy even when they gave a gift, "No matter how poor you are, sending gold or silver is not better than this." ?”

"Hey, what do you mean by Chu Zhongci's speech?" Hua'an kept knocking on melon seeds, "How can those vulgar scraps of copper and iron be compared with my brand? You just have no eyes!"

Hua Xun said with a smile: "Don't worry, Zhongci. I think this wood is not ordinary, and the decoration is also beautiful. Cousin's kindness is more valuable than anything else. I don't care about anything else. I like this brand very much. I will definitely wear it next to my body." on."

"It's a good gift from Wu Ya." Hua Du said abruptly.

Hua Xun looked at her.

"That's right, everyone who has learned a lot has said it, this is a good thing. Blind!"

Hua Xun took a closer look at the sign, but couldn't see anything, only that it was not ordinary wood.

"This wooden card is also called the 'Longevity Card'. Wearing it on your body can prolong your life and even prevent disasters." Huadu explained, "A tree grows in Kunlun, a tree is born in Kunlun every thousand years, and every tree is worthless. Although it is only one inch in size , but it is hard to find in the world, it is a good thing." She turned her head to look at Hua'an, and smiled, "It seems that my cousin's yelling was not in vain."

"That's natural." Hua'an stood up straight, her face full of pride.

Chu Yan looked at Hua An with admiration, and immediately said: "I am ignorant." She asked Hua, "It seems that I am a layman. The gift I gave has returned to the treasury, you can go and see it at night."

"Thank you Zhongci." After Hua Xun finished speaking, he looked at Hua Du, and said with a smile, "Jie Yu has a breeze in his sleeves, what do you want to give me?"

Hua Du's sleeves were empty, and he really didn't look like he was carrying a gift.She smiled slightly and said, "What do you want?"

"What do I want?" Hua Xun rolled his eyes and said with a smile, "I want the stars and the moon, I want the flowing water of Kyushu, I want the stagnation of time, I want Donglei and Xiaxue, can you give it?"

Hua Du shook his head and said, "I can't."

"Hey—" Hua Xun giggled, "Then why did you come here to ask?"

Hua An smiled happily beside her.

"Other than that?" Hua Du didn't make a fuss, and asked again.

Suddenly remembered the crabapple, Hua Xun blurted out: "Then I want the never-blooming crabapple in the mansion to bloom?"

Hua An's face changed.Her laughter stopped abruptly, she looked at Huadu.

Huadu's eyes froze for a moment, and then he smiled lightly and said, "You are really an idiot, so obsessed with that crabapple."

"I was just joking." Seeing that something was wrong with the atmosphere, Hua Xun changed her tune, "Anything Xie Yu can give me is fine, I like it."

Hua Du nodded, flipped his hands, and out of his empty palm, there was suddenly a sachet, white, embroidered with pear blossoms, and the needlework was meticulous and delicate, so ingenious.Handing it to Hua Xun, she said, "This is a sachet I made, and I will give it to you."

Hua Xun took it and couldn't put it down.He raised his head to thank, but saw Hua Du and Hua An went out.

"The flower crow is so weird." Chu Yan frowned, "I've been thinking about your crabapple since the beginning."

"Huh? Zhong Ci, why are you only talking about my cousin? Isn't it strange to explain the words?" Hua Xun said indifferently, "These two people don't know why they are so interested in crabapple flowers. My precious crabapple plant is because of her. It will not bloom for ten thousand years!"

"Can Xie Yu be the same?" Chu Yan pinched her face, "What is everyone's demeanor, that is everyone's demeanor. Begonia, you are so precious, she is not the kind of person who wins people's favor." She said to herself He said to himself, "It's the flower crow, why are you so interested..."

When Hua Xun thought of Huadu's expression just now, he couldn't help being stunned.

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