dhibooks Chapter 185: September
Chapter 185: September
With the pair of mandarin ducks that were sent here, Jin Pei actually made a "golden jade"!
This made Mr. Wan even happier.
Now that it has been settled, the engagement certificate will be passed. The man will send a "pass book", commonly known as "red and green book paper" (two layers of paper with red on the outside and green on the inside), and the woman will send a "back post" for approval, commonly known as "wending".
Therefore, in the old days when husband and wife quarreled, the wife often said that I had "red and green book paper", so as to restrain the husband.
This is the whole process of betrothal.
Wantong kept silent all the time, but looked at these procedures curiously. He actually had no experience. He asked someone to ask about these procedures before he started to follow them step by step. These
In fact, Wantong didn't tell him that Wu Youwei was still at a loss...
Wantong saw that it was a success, so he drank a... honey water...
That's right!
Wantong, the matchmaker who came with him, and all the people who came here drank... honey water.
The water made with honey was sweet and sweet, but he frowned after drinking it, but he had to drink it.
In the old days, there was a custom that matchmakers could not drink tea when they entered the house for the first time. It was said that "matchmakers do not drink tea", and it was said that drinking tea would dilute the marriage.
The matchmaker is also known as the "matchmaking cabinet", and the matchmaker can eat "hundred meals" and must be rewarded with "thanks to the matchmaker for wine". However, if the husband and wife are not harmonious or the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are not harmonious after marriage, the matchmaker has the responsibility to mediate.
So for the sweetness of married life, Wu Youwei specially found honey and made honey water for them to drink.
However, Wu Youwei looked at Wantong again... Every time he saw Wantong drinking honey water, he had the urge to cover his face!
A big man, a Jinyiwei Qianhu, actually drinks such a feminine thing as honey water!
Every time he drinks, he is frowning, okay?
It's like swallowing medicine, what on earth should he...should someone replace it with plain water?
The matchmaker didn't care, but the more she drank, the happier she was.
This time, the matchmaker thank you gift has 100 taels of silver!
If it weren't for the auspicious meaning of "Hundred Years of Harmony", she would prefer "Thousand Years of Fate... Then she would be able to get 1000 taels...
Now that the agreement was made, these people returned to the capital after a rest.
Choose a date to hire.
But although Wantong walked with them... it is not good to walk around, the matchmaker said, how many people come and how many people leave, otherwise it is unlucky!
Unless it's a door-to-door son-in-law!
Wantong just followed them...and he came again the next day!
Then he told Wu Youwei what he found out, and Wu Youwei laughed so hard that his stomach hurts: "Food and sex!"
"Damn!" Wantong swears: "I don't know how much he spent on his official position as a servant. He came out of activities, and he still opposes the emperor everywhere."
What is even more irritating is that he didn't stand up against the emperor by himself, but united with several censors to provoke the emperor in court. The emperor is young and easy to get angry, and every time the emperor gets angry All excited....eat!
Wu Youwei was stunned by the words of ten thousand barrels!
He remembered that it was said in history that Emperor Xianzong did have a stuttering problem, but some people said that he did not, it was all made up.
Later generations generally believe that there is no such thing, because the emperor!
Claiming to be the son of heaven, the son of heaven is, the son of heaven, how could he have physical defects?
You know, none of the emperors in the past was disabled!
Of course, there will be no clear records, but in the Ming Dynasty, the feudal society was becoming more and more perfect, and all kinds of rules and regulations were set on him. How could a prince with a stutter become the emperor?At that time, the first emperor had more than one son.If the emperor stutters, how can he hold a court meeting?Talking one by one, stuttering?How to receive envoys from various countries?
Open your mouth: "Welcome, welcome, welcome... welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome you?
No matter how big the Golden Luang Hall is, it can't bring back echoes, can it?
At that time, what will be the face of Daming, the suzerain country?
It turns out that stuttering is real, but when people are angry or excited, they do have some symptoms. Wu Youwei has seen it before, such as crying with joy. Joy should be happiness, but when you are very happy, you shed tears up.
Some people even get angry and laugh angrily.
He has seen an example: He had a classmate, a young man, who lost his temper and shed tears!
I remember one time, he seemed to be robbed by a few gangsters, but the money in the bag was his tuition fees, he was so angry... he beat up the gangsters, crying while beating, the police came It's time to be confused, okay?
Of course, they were also confused.. Which elder brother is tall and strong, and the scene of beating someone with tears in his eyes will never be forgotten in this life!
Oh, this is already his second life...
Wantong finished talking excitedly, only to realize that he had slipped the tongue, and looked at Wu Youwei even more coldly: "It's all your fault!
Wu Youwei was already laughing so hard that he couldn't straighten his waist, and it took him a long time to recover: "You said you were bald, what does it matter to me?"
"Don't tell it!" Wantong seriously warned him: "Do you know about the emperor's affairs?"
"Got it, got it!" Wu Youwei waved his hand: "I'm not a gossip."
Wantong is depressed, and neither is he!
"I told the emperor, but this kind of thing...really...the other party is too cunning!" They didn't break the law, and they couldn't do anything about it. Besides, they were not allowed to marry someone with a dowry, and the dowry Rich daughter-in-law?
Wu Youwei also felt that they had no way to control this kind of matter within the scope of the law.
The two of them thought about it that day and didn't think of Zhe'er. At night, Xu Niang came to see Wantong, but she heard about it. Xu Niang said, "What if there is a riot in their own backyard?"
Wantong pondered for a while: "I made a fuss... huh??"
The next day, Wu Youwei also told him: "No matter how strong the fortress is, it is difficult to break into it from the outside, but it is easy to let them mess up by themselves.
Wantong nodded, and quickly finished off the fried buns made by Chef Fang.
He went back after breakfast.
Wu Youwei continued to toss about his affairs here, and Wantong entered the palace there.
He came and sent Wu Youwei's notebook with various crops that he had copied, as well as his idea of dealing with Lin Shilang, and resolved it internally.
However, when Emperor Xianzong looked at the records of the crops, he was completely confused!
"Is this true?" Emperor Xianzong frowned: "Why are they all from overseas?"
"Because it's an overseas item, no one has discovered it before, and it's all just looking at it out of curiosity..." Wantong explained to him.
Just this matter, the two of them talked for a whole day until night, when Wan Zhen'er sent someone to ask, should they eat in the front palace or go to the back?
"Go to Zhaode Palace, you go to see your eldest niece too!" Emperor Xianzong was very happy when he mentioned Wan Zhen'er and his eldest daughter, the little guy is the cutest now.
Three days later, Mr. Wan came to give the dowry.
The father and son didn't save a lot of money, but they had a lot of good things. After all, Wan Xinpeng was with Wantong, and he did a lot of business.
A dowry gift worth 5000 taels of silver was given.
There are four pieces of silk and satin each, two sets of gold-faced face, four sets of silver-faced face, and two sets of pearl-faced face, all of which are popular in the south.
There are also various "things for dowry gifts."
Combs, rulers, pressing money and other nine treasures,
Finally, the betrothal money is 1000 taels; a load of betrothal cakes; seafood, three animals, etc.
Wan Xinpeng personally caught a pair of wild geese.
Wu Youwei was finally satisfied after seeing so many betrothal gifts. People who can give away so many things must have a good life. At least he, a righteous sister, will not suffer when she gets married.
Happily accepting the betrothal gift, they were invited to a meal at noon, and after the meal they began to discuss the time of marriage, which is called the invitation period.
Wu Youwei insisted on getting married after next autumn harvest.
Mr. Wan wants to get married in the spring, so that he can hold his grandson in his arms during the Chinese New Year.
In the end, the two sides fought back and forth, and it was decided on the second day of August, when Peony got married, so that she could celebrate her birthday at her in-law's house.
The man gave the dowry, and the woman should return the gift:
Tea, fruit, lotus root, taro and pomegranate (one pair each), a Hewei towel, and a pair of trousers: it means longevity and wealth.
Shoes (a pair): means to grow old together (shoes)
Hinoki, ginger, fried tea, sponge cake.
Wu Youwei gave him good things from Wantong, and the tea was Junshan Silver Needle and tribute tea given to him by Master Jikong.
He also made a face for Peony. There are quite a few maids in his family, and they will all have to do this when they get married.
Then he had an idea....
After sending the person away, Wu Youwei began to write the dowry list.
In the first one, he bought a small shop for Peony, whether it was rented out or opened by himself; the second was to buy [-] mu of land, in the suburbs of Beijing.
Real estate belongs to real estate, and this thing will always preserve its value.
Wan Xinpeng gave a betrothal gift of 5000 taels of silver, and Wu Youwei gave Peony 3000 taels of silver as a box money, and gave Peony all the betrothal gifts as a dowry.
Then he planned to spend 1000 taels of silver on a dowry, which was purely money.
Clothes, jewelry, and fabrics can all be taken from the warehouse. There are many things there, and all kinds of goodies even have tributes supervised by the palace.
And other things have to spend money to buy.
He handed it over to Butler Lin Su to handle it.
Butler Lin Su took money and brought people into Beijing. He would not be able to go back for at least half a month. Time to serve as a servant for the eldest lady.Wu Youwei couldn't think of such a thing. After all, his way of thinking was different from that of ancient people.
It was October, and the weather was quite chilly. Butler Lin Su had already bought almost everything. His master bought another house in the capital. The house was very big, with four courtyards and a back garden.
There is an embroidery building in the back garden. The embroidery building is separated by an inner wall, and outside the inner wall are two rows of sixty rooms for servants.
This house cost 8000 taels of silver!
The master is really generous, but this house is very suitable.
In the future, the master will have a place to live when he comes to Beijing, instead of borrowing someone else's house every time.
What about Wu Youwei?
He is calculating his gains.
Now he is not only in and out of here, after all kinds of rewards, he finds himself very rich.
After the autumn harvest and entering winter, he cleaned up his space, and found that the space was much larger, and the top-quality jade material in it also grew a lot.
After thinking about it, he simply made one and asked the Mu family father and son to carve it into a statue of the old monarch.
This is a delicate job, and it takes at least half a year to carve successfully. Wu Youwei asked them to carve for a year without any problem: "How to do it so finely!"
Because he remembered that Emperor Xianzong seemed to prefer Taoism?
In the end, it is said that he died after taking too many pills. Of course, some people said that he missed Concubine Wan Gui too much...
At the same time, the official circles in Beijing were also surging.
First of all, it is the inner house of some high-ranking officials. After the queen frequently summoned the mistress of the house, the main family members have opinions on the inner house.
At that time, when everyone entered the palace and met the queen, they could see Concubine Bai and Concubine Wan saying hello to the queen.
Because Concubine Wan had a daughter to take care of, the queen asked her to step down. The imperial wives felt that this was an embarrassment to Concubine Wan, because Concubine Wan's background was too low. Didn't the queen let her receive these imperial wives?
Bai Fei is different.
Tall and good-looking, I heard that the emperor will visit her ten days a month!
Concubine Wan has a princess, and it is reasonable for the emperor to visit the child. What does Concubine Bai have?
The queen asked Concubine Bai to be by her side to make her set the rules!
The queen can take care of the concubine in a fair manner, why can't they take care of those concubines in a fair manner?