: Accepting a bride

Author: I have a pot

: Accepting a bride

The people from the Ministry of Rites took a long list, and eunuchs and palace maids carried the box and cages to the court.

A total of eight boxes came.

Eight boxes, more than tens of millions of treasures in the imperial warehousing, such as jade Ruyi, gold bars and gold cakes, and silver ingots worth ten taels per person. Eight boxes are also wealth that ordinary people can never make in their lifetime.

With such a wealth, Tang Xiaoniang's face would be raised higher.

The official of the Ministry of Rites asked Xiang Daying and congratulated him, and then the eunuch carried a bunch of cakes in.

First of all, there are 100 kilograms of cakes, eight seafood styles, a pair of coconuts, four-jing fruit longan, lychee, dried walnuts, peanuts in a row, four-color sugar rock sugar, orange cake, winter melon sugar, dried persimmons, and oil-seed tea gifts, fragrant bracelet gold, and there are also lotus seeds, lilies, sesame, red beans, mung beans, and red dates.

These etiquette things are fragmented and are all the old rules to please.

Then the officials of the Ministry of Rites sang the names one by one according to the long list of etiquettes. Two little eunuchs were serving each other. When the official read one, the eunuch opened a box to display it.

Tang Xiaoniang sat on her head, staring at the eight big boxes with her eyes tightly. She would probably not have enough to enjoy it in her life. She had to keep her legs away.

The family is unfortunate, and I guess I have to make money by relying on my daughter’s eight boxes.

The first big box was opened, and it contained two jars of green apricot wine, which were made of childhood sweethearts and had the same meaning. There were two silver basins, made of thin silver, and eight bags of tea and two coconuts.

The second box is some cloth like brocade.

The third box contains silk and a whole piece of fox fur.

The other boxes were filled with ordinary porcelain or ornaments, and a box of bride's clothes.

It is not a valuable thing. One of the boxes contains 36 kilograms of raw glutinous rice and 36 kilograms of white sugar. This is used to make dumplings for the woman's family to make the young couple perfect and sweet.

The etiquette in the palace is very complicated. Although it has been simplified now, I still recite it for half an hour.

The further I read, the whiter Tang Xiaoniang's face became.

She was a palace maid, and she didn't understand these cumbersome etiquettes at all, let alone care. The key is that you have to give some valuable things, right?

What are the things that are brought here, lychees, longans, walnuts, incense candles, rock candies, combs, Ruyi scales... Are you going to open a grocery store?

Depending on the color of those fabrics, they are probably not worth much money, and those silk bottles are not useful.

Fortunately, the people in the Ministry of Rites read the orders so that their throats were smoked. There was nothing valuable in these boxes.

Tang Xiaoniang's face is not good-looking.

Just the young master of Qingcheng, he just picked up a handful of things and married him. There are more than just these betrothal gifts and brides? Xiang Yan is now marrying the prince, so shabby, so shabby.

"Thank you all, I'm a little tea here. Please, dear, please." Xiang Daying arranged.

The people from the Ministry of Rites bowed their hands and replied, used a cup of tea, clapped their hands, and called two palace maids.

A palace maid held a small box and opened it. There were several hairpins lying inside, two-flowered gilded silver hairpins inlaid with gems and butterflies, two-colored phoenix hairpins with longevity fruits, magpies climbed plum hairpins, two-colored silver hairpins with wealth and honor, two-colored silver hairpins with enamel flowers, and begonia beads and flower steps.

The box in the arms of another palace maid opened, and it was a pile of colorful palace flowers and some paste powder.

Regardless of the palace flower, the hairpin of this color is old and most of it is silver hairpins. Xiang Yan is a daughter of Xiang’s family and will not buy it to wear it. I don’t know when the palace was looking out the things that were in the box in the palace.

The last item is the silver notes in the gift box.

Tang Xiaoniang's neck was stretched out.

After the Ministry of Rites officials handed over the silver notes, Suang Dae-ying accepted them with a smile.

As soon as the officials of the Ministry of Rites left, Tang Xiaoniang quickly asked Xiang Daying: "How much money have you given? I saw that this pile of useless things is worth some money. It's a few thousand taels. It is said that the palace loves the good fortune, and I thought that nine thousand taels are good, six thousand taels... Forget Yan'er is pregnant with his child, which is reasonable."

"Two hundred taels." Xiang Daying personally handed the silver notes to Tang Xiaoniang.

"Two hundred taels?" Tang Xiaoniang's face turned green: "What did you say? The palace gave two hundred taels of bride gifts and silver?"

"yes."

"This..." Tang Xiaoniang almost angrily thrust over, thinking in her heart, "Aren't the palace bullying people? Which prince only gives two hundred taels of money for marriage?" But when she saw the old lady Xiang sitting in the head, she was afraid that she would be criticized by the old lady Xiang: "Can you not marry, can you wait?"

I can only give up.

A carefully cultivated daughter.

Qingcheng is the most beautiful.

A bride price of 200 taels?

Two years ago, I took Xiang Yan to a banquet for a wealthy family. Xiang Yan was like a flower and just bloomed. The people at the banquet said, "If you look so beautiful, you will have to get a lot of money in the future."

A large sum of silver flew.

It's only two hundred taels, do you still want it?

I can only endure it.

If others ask about Xiang Yan’s bride price in the future, Tang Xiaoniang will shut her mouth up.

There were also the boxes of glutinous rice and white sugar that were carried over, but I couldn't think of what to do. I even thought it was a hindrance when I put it in the kitchen.

The servant shrank his head and ran in and asked what to do if the chickens and gooses brought by the Ministry of Rites.

Yes, the people from the Ministry of Rites also brought two chickens and two long-necked geese.

The chicken and the goose were running around the yard, shaking their necks, flapping their wings and pulling feces. God, as the time when the Ministry of Rites read the orders, the yard was almost full by them.

The servant asked Tang Xiaoniang what to do with these poultry.

"I'll go to the kitchen and kill it. I'll stew the soup tonight." Tang Xiaoniang had a cold face.

No matter whether it is a chicken or a geese or not.

Can't you vent your anger with others, and can't you catch poultry and get angry?

The chicken soup was served, Xiang Yan drank two and a half bowls by herself, and one chicken had two legs, and she ate a pair of them by herself.

Finally, I asked the kitchen to make a bowl of lotus seed soup, saying that it was salty and wanted to drink some sweet things.

I always vomited in the first three months, and sometimes I had to get up and vomit halfway through the night. Now I am getting better, and the child in my stomach is safe. She is just hungry. She just ate rabbit meat, beef, and a bowl of white rice that I just hungry in the afternoon. She supplemented a plate of snacks and a chopped green onion. As soon as the sky was dark, her stomach started to rumbling again.

It's a sin.

Tang Xiaoniang watched Xiang Yan blowing the wind on the dining table. She drank a large pot of chicken soup and drank such a big goose. She grabbed it and ate it. This meal was simply not a way out for the rest of the table.

When talking about the bride price of 200 taels of silver, Tang Xiaoniang thought Xiang Yan would be a little ashamed. How could the daughter of a second-rank official get 200 taels of bride price? She didn't want Xiang Yan to educate her: "Why is my mother so short-sighted? So what if I don't want bride price? In the future, I will marry into the Lu Palace. Isn't the gold and silver I get in the mansion? Even the second prince has to obey my command. How much money do you want at that time?"

Tang Xiaoniang had to pat her legs if she couldn't sleep at night, but she was reluctant to pat her own, so she patted Xiang Daying's legs and said, "I've really given birth to a money-lossing guy. My ancestors, just that, can still eat, and said that they would take charge of the Lu Palace in the future."

"Think about what you do, go to bed." Suny Suen turned over.

"Oh, what can I think now? If I marry an ordinary family, we will have the best bets and brides. Marrying Guo Ding is such a hasty matter. Oh, Guo Ding quickly brings the sedan chair to pick up the people, otherwise I don't know how much rice and flour will cost in vain these days."

That's it, on the day of Xiaonian, Guo Qing married Xiang Yan. When she woke up early in the morning, Tang Xiaoniang still washed her face and started howling.

The mansion posted a big red word "Happy" and hung up the wedding tent. Several little beggars at the door were lying on their heads, and Tang Xiaoniang drove them away.

Because the prince is married, the prime minister is the second-ranked family. I thought there would be a huge wedding, at least the scene of picking up the bride would be very big. Tang Xiaoniang rubbed the bride's house several times inside and outside the house, but after seeing the auspicious time, Guo Dan still had not arrived.

Xiang Yan had a phoenix crown and a robe, swept across the Emei, and her lips were bright red. Tang Xiaoniang personally covered her with a veil and broke another osmanthus flower for her to hold it in her hand, which meant to give birth to a noble son early.

Seeing that the auspicious time was about to pass, the servant in the mansion ran out of the alley and explored several times before finally coming happily: "The King of Lu is here, the King of Lu is here to welcome the bride."

"There was no movement, and there were no musical instruments?" Tang Xiaoniang was puzzled.

There are musicians and musical instruments, but as soon as they started playing, Guo Ding was quarreled: "I delayed my sleep and twisted my head off for you."

Who dares to play?

A red sedan looks a little deserted.

There was no one on Guo Zhideng's mount.

Then he heard his entourage whispering beside the sedan chair: "Prince, Prince, I'm here, I'm here."

"I want to sleep."

"Prince, you are getting married today."

"Marry? Who are you?"

"I married the daughter of the Grandpa Xiang family, the third girl. Congratulations to the prince."

"She is tired of sleeping early, what's the point of congratulations?" Guo Qing pulled the red flower on his chest, and the huge red flower rubbed against his face, making him feel very uncomfortable.

Xiang Yan was slowly standing on the steps of the Xiang Mansion by Chunyu.

A group of relatives and friends, led by Mrs. Xiang, came out to see him off.

Tang Xiaoniang howled twice again: "Yan'er, you will leave your mother when you get married, how can you let her go?"

"Don't I also hope that I can marry a good husband?" Xiang Yan said softly.

"But this Guo... what is this King of Lu's wish... You smell it... I drank it like this before I picked up the bride on the wedding day."

"Whatever he drinks, is it the prince, right?" Xiang Yan laughed.

Guo Zhitian slept in the sedan chair and didn't come out, his mount screamed at the gate of the prime minister's mansion.
To be continued...