Lucky husband

Whether it's the camellia on Li Mingjin's suit, or the kapok and coral vines embroidered on Bai Ting's clothes, they are all commonly used patterns on women's and brother's clothing. Aunt Qiu took Li Mingjin and the others for four weeks. After living in a medium-grade tailor shop in the capital, they picked out suitable cloaks for both of them.

Now that they bought what they wanted to buy, they didn't continue to stroll outside, and hurried back with their cloaks.

At this time, Li Mingjin and Bai Ting held small things that could be decorated on their clothes, including fur collars made of rabbit fur, and Bai Zhiwen's broken gem ornaments that Li Mingjin had successively given to Li Mingjin in the past two years. Li Mingjin brought some He prefers to be in the luggage, which can come in handy at this time.

Back then when Li Mingjin made his own wedding dress, he used a lot of bright red broken gemstone ornaments to make a wedding dress made of not particularly exquisite materials look like jewels, which caused a lot of limelight on their wedding day.

Li Mingjin not only has bright red broken gem ornaments, but other similar red broken gem ornaments include crimson, pink, orange, red and yellow. These colored broken gem ornaments can be used in On the cloaks and spring shirts they bought this time.

First of all, add a circle of pure white rabbit fur to the neckline. The pure color, especially the white fur, will not be obtrusive no matter where it is decorated. It is warm and playful.

The next step is to use broken gemstone ornaments of different sizes and patterns to sew on the cloak with or without embroidery.

Not only the cloak has been remodeled, but also the spring shirt inside has been changed, using broken gemstones of the same color. Although there are not many places to add broken gemstones to the spring shirt, but because the same thing is used, the cloak looks different. It seems that they bought it outside, but it is a complete set with the spring shirt inside.

The three of them worked together for three days, and finally changed two sets of clothes and two cloaks. Regardless of the material or embroidery skills, the clothes that were considered ordinary in the eyes of the nobles in the capital were changed into a glamorous one. overflow color.

Wearing this kind of clothes and standing in the sun, it will not be too eye-catching because the gemstones on the clothes are too large, as if I keep telling others what I use here, and it will not be dull because it is not bright enough.

Qiu Nanny looked at the changed clothes, and finally showed a smile on her face: "Okay, you two change your clothes, and I'll see if there is anything inappropriate that needs to be modified."

"Yes." Li Mingjin and Bai Ting took the clothes back to the house and changed their clothes.

Li Mingjin's face is slightly rounder than Bai Ting's, and he has a pair of round and round almond eyes. It is the kind of appearance that is full of blessings that the elders like. It echoes the big camellias on his body, and he changed his clothes. After looking at him, he has the atmosphere of Chinese New Year.

Bai Ting's face is slightly elongated. She had a hard life before she got married, so her figure has always been thinner. After giving birth, she gained a little weight. This kind of her suits well with the kapok and coral vines on her clothes. , very suitable to wear.

Qiu Nanny asked the two of them to look at the appearance of wearing only the spring shirt and the spring shirt with the outer cloak.

Looking at it, Qiu Momo frowned. The clothes were very nice and made the two children more energetic, but she always felt that there was something missing.

Li Mingjin and Bai Ting didn't pay attention to Nanny Qiu's expression. They looked at each other in their own clothes, and they were all very amazed. The effect was better than they thought, especially when they slowed down a little while walking. Show your style.

At this moment, Li Mingjin suddenly understood why Qiu Nanny asked him to walk slowly, to move his feet and not to move his body. It turned out that he had to wear such clothes to see the effect.

Looking at the two people admiring each other, Madam Qiu realized something that made her feel strange -- the necks and heads of the two of them were still a little empty, and there was no jewelry on them.

Although she was working as a nurturing mother after returning to the original Han Province, she was still far away from noble families and high-ranking officials and nobles. She had forgotten such an important question before, and it was only at the end that she suddenly remembered it.

Interrupting Bai Ting and Li Mingjin's mutual admiration, Qiu Nanny asked: "Brother Jin, Mrs. Bai, where are your jewelry?"

"Ah?" Li Mingjin looked at Mother Qiu, "I've already put it on."

Bai Ting also stopped and looked at Nanny Qiu. Like Li Mingjin, she had already put on jewelry. When Nanny Qiu asked, did she think that the two of them didn't wear jewelry on their heads, or did they not have enough jewelry?

"Is there only these two things?" Qiu Mama looked at the two or three small decorative hairpins and hairpins on them, and took a deep breath. It is impossible to make jewelry by yourself. If you don't have it, you can only go out and buy it. up.

Li Mingjin listened to Qiu Nanny's words, and understood that she was saying that they couldn't do jewelry like this. He turned his eyes on his sister-in-law, and paid attention to her hair and neck. He felt that she was really a little thin.

Li Mingjin's most gorgeous set of jewelry is the one he used when he married Bai Zhiwen. It was made together with the dowry gift from the Bai family and his own dowry.

This time when he came to the capital, Li Mingjin thought it would be useless, so he didn't bring it. If he did, he could just choose a part of it to decorate on his head, and he would be able to go to Zhang's house during the Chinese New Year, but he didn't bring it.

Not to mention Bai Ting's side, her natal family hardly prepared a dowry for her. The jewelry she usually wears was either a betrothal gift from Li's family, or bought by Li Mingde after she married Li's family.

Unlike Bai Zhiwen, who had Bai Mugen to help when he was studying in Fucheng, Li Mingde found a job to earn money, and he had money to buy things for Li Mingjin, so Bai Ting's jewelry was either basic silver hairpins without tassels. , without complicated craftsmanship, it can be matched with the clothes she usually wears, but this one will not work.

There was no other way. Mother Qiu could only ask them how much extra money they had. They went to the jewelry shop in the capital to see if there were any suitable and not so expensive jewelry.

The jewelry in the capital, not to mention the raw materials used, is the craftsmanship of the jewelry craftsmen here, which is worth a lot of money.

Take jewelry made of gold and silver as an example. Artisans can draw gold or silver into filaments, wind them into different shapes, and make full and three-dimensional patterns.

Or they can beat gold and silver into very thin but textured sheets, engrave the desired lines on them, and then shape them.

Using these complicated techniques to make gold and silver into silk or sheets is not to save gold and silver, but to make the weight of the jewelry as light as possible and reduce the burden on the head.

Ladies often don’t only wear one or two pieces of jewelry on their heads. If everything is solid and piled on the head, it’s not uncommon to add up to several kilograms. It would be embarrassing if the waist fell off. There have been people who accidentally twisted their necks when they turned around because the things on their heads were too heavy.

Therefore, in order to make the noble ladies wear as many jewelry as possible to look extravagant without being tired, these craftsmen also racked their brains.

Only those families who have no background, think that the more and heavier things on their heads mean that the family is more powerful, they will wear solid jewelry on their heads.

In addition to gold and silver jewelry, there are all kinds of silk flowers made of silk thread, silk fabric or velvet cloth. The most complicated ones are wrapped flowers made of silk thread, the most realistic ones are velvet flowers, and the lightest ones are made of silk fabrics. Flowers, these flowers and other jewelry don't look like the material is gold, jade, or silver, but the price is not cheap.

In addition, jewelry made of various jade, agate, jadeite, gemstones, etc. is very common, but the price of this type of jewelry varies greatly due to the different raw materials, so buying cheap ones tends to look particularly inferior.

In addition, there is another kind of jewelry that is relatively common, which is made of pearls, shells, emerald feathers, ox horns, and goat horns. Some are cheap and some are expensive, depending on the raw materials and craftsmanship of the craftsman.

With not much money available to buy jewelry, Madam Qiu directly ruled out the plan to buy jade jewelry, and her goal was gold and silver jewelry or velvet flowers.

Of these two types, one is not easy to make mistakes as long as you choose a good style and workmanship, and the other is that although it is not cheap, it has a large area, and one flower can decorate a large area, and it can be used for a long time if it is well preserved.

After having a goal, Li Mingjin was taken out by Bai Ting alone with 30 taels of silver. Both of them felt a little uneasy. They were not the kind of people who had never been in a jewelry store, but they really didn't bring much money today. I don't know. Can you buy a few pieces of jewelry that can withstand the scene in the capital?

Led by Nanny Qiu, they first visited the first jewelry store in the south. This store opened in the south, and its target was ordinary people living here.

After looking around, Madam Qiu was not very satisfied. The gold and silver were not delicate enough to withstand close inspection, and they were relatively clumsy, let alone other materials.

Such a result was expected by Nanny Qiu. When ordinary people buy jewelry, what they care about is not whether the hairpins are fine enough or whether the patterns are fashionable, but whether they can be seen by others if they wear them on their heads.

Li Mingjin and Bai Ting followed behind and looked a little unsatisfied. The things that Madam Qiu didn't notice were those they hadn't seen much in their hometown before.

Therefore, Nanny Qiu didn't hold them back, and took them to the jewelry store in the west of the capital after they finished reading.

All the people living in the west are relatively wealthy families. What is lacking is not money, but status.

For example, there are regulations on the size of the house they live in, the material and style of the clothes they wear, the shape of the shoes on their feet, and the specifications of the jewelry they wear on their heads, all of which cannot exceed what they can use with their current status.

The jewelry shops in the west are not inferior in workmanship to those in the east. The difference lies in their styles, so you can only choose some commonly used ones.

Now that Li Mingjin and his identities, it is more appropriate to go to the west to buy jewelry, it will not be outrageous or cheap.

However, when they walked happily into the first jewelry store on the west side, a haughty voice on the second floor of the store asked condescendingly: "Guban, can any cat or dog enter your store now?"

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