The Concubine of the Red Chamber is a little flower essence

On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the streets are filled with the sweetness of Laba porridge.

As a mother-in-law, Xiaohuajing received the Yunnan soil ritual sent by Shuiqing and his wife from Yunnan to the palace.

At the same time, the Lin family also sent some special products to the Rong Mansion, and the escort was none other than the Seventeenth Prince Xijun.

Ma Shangxiang was eagerly looking forward to her son Shui Ying, but in the end, not only Shui Ze Shuin did not return to the capital, but even Shui Ying did not come back.

Shui Ying asked Seventeen to bring back four carts of gifts, respectively for the Empress Dowager, Mother Concubine, Your Majesty and Xiao Huajing, the master and sister-in-law.

Water is also a gift of four carts, for grandma, parents, empress dowager and empress.

Shui Ze gave his father a white tiger skin, but gave his mother a silver fox fur cloak.

Emperor Qianyuan was happy in his heart, but he laughed and complained: "Hmph, I only have such a skin, not enough for a piece of clothing."

Xiao Huajing was also picky on purpose: "Your tiger fur is unique in the world, but silver fox fur is not rare. If you don't like it, can we change it?"

Emperor Qianyuan pursed his lips and smiled: "Don't do it, I will spread the gift from my son on the dragon chair."

The soil instruments sent back by Shuiying are mainly fruits. If you want to say what is the rarest thing in Kyoto in winter, it is fresh fruit.

Papaya, sugar cane, tangerines, oranges, raw fruits, olives, longan, and dried longan are all rare items in Jinfu.

The happiest thing for Xiaohuajing is to receive a box of letters.

Shui Ying, Shui Ze, Dai Yu, Shui Qing, and Zhou An all wrote personal letters to Xiao Huajing.

Emperor Qianyuan didn't even have a letter, so he said bitter words: "Ze'er and Qing'er are too biased, can I treat them badly?"

Xiao Huajing patted Shui Qing and Mu Liangyu, and there was the secret brocade box of Uncle Lin Jia Hu: "Your Majesty, don't be too greedy, even the concubines don't have this box."

Emperor Qianyuan picked up the locked secret box with a sullen face and left: "Can this be the same?"

Xiao Huajing looked at Emperor Qianyuan funny, and kept saying that the emperor was selfless, but now she came to ask her children to have an affair?

Xiao Huajing read her son's letter first.

Shui Ze was like a fish in water in Yunnan, and told how many small animals there were on the mountains in Yunnan, and how stupid they were, he was so stupid that he bumped into a shack where people lived.

He said that he finally believed in waiting for a rabbit, and it was true.

In short, Mizusawa wrote about how happy he was.

Looking at Shui Qing's letter again, the lines between the lines are full of longing.

Although her mother-in-law did not explicitly ask her to stay at home with her husband and children.

However, every time she went to see Mr. Lin, her mother-in-law asked Mu Liangyu to follow her, and asked for Shui Qing's pulse every three days.

Now the Huimin Department of the Yunnan Provincial Government is handled by Daiyu. She is pestered by Mu Liangyu's mother and son, and has no time to take care of her.

Xiao Huajing wrote back to Shui Qing first, and she taught Shui Qing to handle the relationship between husband and wife with Mu Liangyu first.

Then, let the husband mediate with the mother-in-law, and things will go much smoother.

Daiyu's letter was very smug, everything was fine, and Xiaohuajing was relieved that the Yunnan Huimin Department was running smoothly, but I also said that girls in Yunnan prefer to practice martial arts.

Daiyu had to teach literacy and martial arts together. If the daily literacy task was not completed, she was not allowed to participate in martial arts exercises.

In this way, the women's interest in literacy has been greatly improved.

However, Daiyu also said that most of the volunteers in Yunnan are civilians.

Not to mention that the female family members of the officials' families in the imperial court were unwilling to participate, even the female family members of the auxiliary officials in the surrounding Fusi Yamen were unwilling to participate.

Daiyu also mentioned that those official women not only refused to let her daughter participate, but also said sour words in front of her mother, thinking that Daiyu's public appearance was very bad and would make people laugh.

Her mother didn't have the temperament of being disadvantaged, so she went back: "She agreed to her in-law's family, her mother-in-law supported her, her husband doted on her, and her natal family couldn't interfere.

Furthermore, their husband and wife were hired by the princess, and the righteous school was presided over by the empress.

This is a major event for the imperial court, and it is also a good event that benefits the country and the people. Our natal family can only support it. "

Baoyu served as an instructor in Yixue, and also taught girls to tie kites and make rouge.

This is a way for girls to make a living, and they can't deny it if they have eyes.

Supporting his wife so much is not considered pampering?

On the other hand, their daughters are trembling in her husband's house.

His face was ashamed but he didn't dare to refute.

Lin Ruhai is still the local emperor here.

They talked under the guise of being good for Daiyu.

Jia Min showed off how his in-laws and son-in-law liked their daughters.

Ridiculously worrying about them.

Moreover, Daiyu is running errands for the empress and princess.

A big hat was pressed down, and he didn't dare to chew his tongue anymore.

Xiao Huajing wrote back and said that voluntary schools were originally intended to popularize education for the common people, and girls from official families could save money if they didn't participate.

She also encouraged Daiyu: After three years, my younger sister will teach more students than official daughters, and it will be a joke at that time.

Daiyu helps host the women's free school, and Xiaohuajing can't do anything for nothing.

Xiao Huajing issued a decree, appointing Daiyu as the Huimin Department of Yunnan Province, offering wine for women's free schools, and supervising the opening of free schools in the eight prefectures of Yunnan Province.

The position sacrificial wine, the fifth grade of the administrative grade.

Along with Yizhi, in addition to the gold seal, there is also a waist card for entering and leaving the palace gate: the front is engraved with sacrificial wine, and the back is engraved with six innings and five ranks.

The official uniform is a purple flying fish suit, a black gauze hat, and buckskin cloud boots.

There is another sable cloak Zhaojun pocket.

The sable cloak is the standard equipment of first-rank officials in the imperial court.

Xiaohuajing ordered Zisu to hand over the Yizhi together with the brocade box to Jinyiwei, and it was expedited to be transported to Yunnan along with Shuiqing's gift within eight hundred miles.

Since the canonization of a female official has nothing to do with the Six Ministries, it only needs to be filed with the Sixth Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

For Zhou An's letter, the little flower essence was directly handed over to the empress dowager to watch.

Now Zhou An, together with Shui Ze, Shui Ying and Shui Li, are studying with Lin Ruhai and practicing martial arts with Daiyu.

The empress dowager was gratified and surprised at the same time: "The eldest girl of the Lin family is both civil and military?"

Xiao Huajing nodded: "Before my uncle thought it was my sister's child, and I was going to let my sister marry him, but my uncle and aunt were not in good health, so I asked my sister to practice martial arts with the young master and girl of Rongfu.

In addition to archery, horseback riding and archery, the girls in our family can also kung fu with fists and kicks. "

The empress dowager nodded with a smile: "Girls' families should be so lively. Some people advertise that women are virtuous without talent, illiterate, do not practice martial arts, and lethargic. I don't know how they will live their lives."

Xiao Huajing smiled and said: "Grandfather and grandmother don't allow us to admit that we know martial arts outside, so as not to be disgusted by others."

The Empress Dowager smiled and said: "I think Yuan'er is the best woman in the world, whoever dislikes her is because she has no eyes." Then she mentioned Yingchun and Xiangyun: "Didn't the second girl in the family be engaged to Shui Rong? Did you invite her during the wedding? ?

And what about the marriage between Miss Yun from the historian's family and the Wei family? "

Xiaohuajing said: Yingchun is waiting for the engagement at the Hundred Flowers Festival in February.

Sister Yun's marriage with the Wei family is still under discussion, she is still young, and it is estimated that it will be settled in the next year.

The empress dowager was in a good mood because of Zhou An's good news, and said: "For this year's annual banquet, let your second daughter, Miss Yun, come to the palace to see her."

There is not much free time on New Year's Eve. Letting them in is probably a reward to increase the status of the girls.

The status of the girl that the Queen Mother likes in her husband's family can be raised to a higher level.

General Wei's wife actually looked down on Yun'er's identity a little bit, and wanted to marry Shi Ding and Shi Nai.

Mrs. Wei disliked Xiangyun's bad luck.

Furthermore, Xiangyun's dowry is definitely not as high as that of girls with two or three bedrooms.

No matter how much the old lady of Rongfu likes herself, she also has a granddaughter, so what can she subsidize?

Only then did the marriage drag on, without finalizing it.

Xiao Huajing passed the news back to Rongfu.

Jia's mother was very happy: Yun girl who looked down on me with high eyes and low hands.

Now the empress dowager and empress are summoned by name, the ladies of the Wei family are not qualified to have an audience, so why bother.

On the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, Jia Mu entered the palace to meet her, smiling like a flower on her face.

Nowadays, Xiangyun is the only one who needs her special love, and the rest of Daiyu have relatives and relatives, brothers and sisters-in-law.Only Xiangyun is alone, and the marriage is not going well.

The Wang family didn't like it, and neither did the Wei family.Mother Jia was in so much pain that her heart was melting.

Entering the palace that day, Mother Jia gave the eldest granddaughter 5000 taels of silver notes, and asked Yuan Chun, the empress, to personally reward Xiangyun.

Jia's mother said: "Yuan'er, don't think that grandma is partial. There are precious jades for spring and spring, and you are all the same.

When I was married from a historian, Xiangyun's grandmother bought a dowry of [-] yuan for my father-in-law, and a private box back of [-] silver for me.

My mother's dowry was taken away by me, not my son.

Even with the dowry and dowry, I will marry into the Rong Mansion with a hundred thousand silver, and your first mother would not dare to bully me, a motherless daughter-in-law.

Although her grandmother has three sons, she is a lovely girl.

Xiangyun is also my granddaughter, and I will give [-] pieces of silver as a dowry. The [-] pieces of silver belonged to her grandmother. There is also a copy.

Does Yuan'er know why the Wei family has not decided on marriage for so long?

The two wives of the Shi family only gave 2000 taels of silver as a dowry, and the Wei family also ordered only [-] taels.Shameful stuff. "

Hou Menqian's daughter's dowry of 2000 taels was a bit small.

Common people's concubines also have these dowries.

This is also the pain of everyone who raises everyone, who made Shi Jiu and his wife die early.

Xiao Huajing responded: "Grandmother, don't worry, my granddaughter will definitely make things perfect for you."

In a blink of an eye, it was New Year's Eve.

This year, only some imperial orders were called to worship in the palace.

The imperial concubine called by the Empress, apart from the dear brothers and sisters, Princess Rong and Princess Ying, is the three residences of King Rongning and the historian.

This is to make it clear that the relatives are summoned, and others really can't say anything sour.

The empress dowager was even more straightforward. There was no one in the Xu family. She just summoned Zongling's wife, Princess Zhongjing, and Princess Beijing, and there was no one else.

The empress dowager must have a big hat on her face, she is a little lazy.

Why are you lazy?

The first emperor passed away, and I feel uncomfortable.

In fact, the empress dowager was very happy.

Xiao Huajing summoned relatives here.

All the four houses paid tribute to the queen, and the little flower essence returned the reward.

The rewards and gifts in return are all based on honor, either gifts from Fanbang entering the palace, or products produced by the Neizao Office.

In short, they are rare items that cannot be bought with money.

The girls all have presents, a one-foot-square mahogany makeup box with a brass lock back, depicting the four gentlemen of plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum, very beautiful.

On the frame of leaving the palace, Xiang Yun rides with Shi Ding's wife.

The sisters all looked at the gifts, and were very satisfied with Hetian Yuruyi and Zujin Buyao.

These dowry can be heirloom.

Xiangyun didn't open the lid for a long time.

Mrs. Shi Ding frowned: "Girl Yun, what gift did the empress give you? Didn't you like it?"

As he spoke, he opened Xiangyun's jewelry box.

She thought Xiangyun was short of things and was unhappy.

Unexpectedly, when he opened it, he saw that besides Yu Ruyi and Jin Buyao, there was also a palm-sized sachet in Xiangyun's jewelry box.

Mrs. Shi Ding poured out a silver note of 1 taels, and there was another piece of letterhead written in small letters: Congratulations to Sister Yun for being married to a good son-in-law.

Ten thousand silver is the dowry given to Xiangyun by the empress.

The historian's family wealth has been divided up by the second and third families.

Xiangyun's dowry of two thousand silver was Shi Nai's 1000 taels and Shi Ding's 1000 taels.

Of course, this is the decision of the two Madam Hou.

Whether Shi Nai and Shi Ding knew it or not, no one knew.

Mrs. Shi Ding blushed with a bang on her face.

However, Mrs. Shi Ding is very courteous, and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, with the words of the empress, we don't have to worry about getting married. The Wei family's eyes are high and their hands are low, and they are still unwilling to make up their minds. Now we are not married yet."

Xiangyun smiled: "Listen to Auntie."

She was told more than once: The Wei family is not happy.

Because of her small dowry, and because of her hard life.

She comforted her aunt on the face, and cried secretly several times.

My aunt said she would plan for her, and she did.

Xiaohuajing added 5000 taels of silver, not to embarrass historians.

It was because the Empress Dowager would give Wei Ruolan a marriage.

At that time, Shi Xiangyun's dowry will only be 2000 taels, and at the wedding banquet, the Shi family will lose face and be ridiculed.

Instead of being ridiculed in the future, it is necessary to sound the alarm now.

When the horses and horses left the Shenwu Gate, Shi Xiangyun said goodbye to his aunt very calmly: "My aunt said before that after I leave the palace with my aunt, I will still go back to Rongfu for the New Year."

Xiangyun got out of the car without taking the jewelry box.

Mrs. Shi Ding said: "Xiangyun, the jewelry box."

Mrs. Shi Ding wanted Xiangyun to show the things to Mother Jia.

But Xiangyun said: "Auntie take it for me, my niece trusts Auntie."

Mrs. Shi Ding's words were very piercing in Mrs. Shi Ding's ears.

At the beginning, before Mrs. Shi Tai passed away, she entrusted Xiangyun to Mrs. Shi Ding in this way: "Sisters and sisters help to collect Xiangyun's dowry, I believe younger sisters."

Today, not only is the family property of the Shi family no longer a part of Xiangyun, but also the private property of the Shi Nai couple is gone. All that is left are Mrs. Shi Nai's worthless wooden boxes and jewelry worth more than 1000 taels of silver.

Shi Tai had once been Lord Hou, and even ghosts would not believe him when he said that Lord Hou was selfless.

It's just that, in the past ten years, the two families have spent about the same amount of money in order to manage things and become officials, and their children get married.

There is still some silver in the account, but Yintian will take it back soon, and the property of the Shi family will be greatly reduced.

There is no one in the big house, so if you bully the little niece, no one will tear up her face with the Shi family.

I never thought that my aunt would ask the queen to come forward.

Mrs. Zhen has also been the mistress for many years, and she would not believe that her aunt did not come forward to persuade her.