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Chapter 578 The Gift of Acceptance
Xue Hong told Baochai what happened between Ye Siyang and the pharmacy that day. Baochai was ignorant after hearing it, let alone who was right and who was wrong.Originally, people in this era are ashamed to talk about their feelings. Everyone is blindly married. Only after they get married can they have a husband and wife relationship. If a woman has any thoughts about a man before marriage, she will be poked backbone.It's just that Ye Siyang is from Jianghu, so she doesn't care about these gossips.

Xue Hong sighed, "Chai'er, do you think I'm really as heartless as Miss Ye said?"

Baochai froze for a moment, but smiled and said, "Second Brother, if you are really that kind of person, you won't be filial to your parents, friendly to your brothers and sisters, and you won't prepare so many gifts for Miss Lin. Since you have rejected Miss Ye , and insist on your own ideas, then you don’t think so much, it’s just adding to the sadness.”

Xue Hong thought about it for a while, and found that this was indeed the case. There are some things that don't need manpower to solve, but need to be left to time.

Baochai saw that his frown relaxed a little, and said with a smile: "Nothing is more important now than your engagement with Miss Lin. Second brother, the golden goose you asked me to design for you last time is ready today. You were not at home when the craftsman delivered it, but now it is stored with your mother, why don't you go and have a look?"

Only then did Xue Hong say: "That's right, I actually forgot, tomorrow is the gift of acceptance, I have to go to my mother first."

Xue Hong and Daiyu's engagement banquet was held on the second day of February, the Huachao Festival. That day was the day when Xue's family formally offered a betrothal gift to Lin's family, which was the fourth of the six wedding ceremonies, Na Zheng.

Before that, Nacai, Wenming, and Najib, these three rituals must be passed first.

Nacai means that the man's family invites a matchmaker to the woman's family to propose marriage. After the woman's family agrees to discuss marriage, the man's family prepares gifts and goes to propose marriage.

Ask the name, that is, the man's family asks the matchmaker to ask the woman's name and date of birth.

Najib, that is, after the man retrieves the woman's name and horoscope, he performs divination in the ancestral temple.

The horoscopes of Xue Hong and Daiyu have already been calculated long ago. Afterwards, the two items of asking names and najib are just a formality, and tomorrow Xue's family will carry out the one of nacai, which is the beginning of the six rituals of marriage. grand.

In ancient times, the man only needs to send a pair of wild geese as a gift, but shooting wild geese does not guarantee that a pair of geese will be shot.Wild geese are also rare birds of loyalty. If one is shot, the other will either die alone or go with them. This practice is too cruel. More and more people in the folk can’t bear to use live geese when they get married. , Instead, use woodcarving handicrafts instead.

The Xue family also does not use live geese, but the pair of geese they use are not made of wood, but a pair of golden geese that have been carefully designed and crafted by skilled craftsmen. The different colors of the feathers of the geese are all made of gemstones. The performance can be described as radiant and luxurious.

When Xue Hong saw the finished product, she couldn't help admiring: "Baochai's design is really beautiful, delicate and not vulgar, it will be the best gift for acceptance tomorrow."

Xue Pan on the side smiled and said, "That's right, it's really getting better and better. It's better than the one I made before, and Baochai's practice makes perfect. I think it's better to put such a unique wild goose in the shop for mass production." , sales should be good."

Xue Hong also laughed: "Brother, I thought you were going to say that the geese made by Baochai for me are better than yours, and you know how to eat them, but I didn't expect that you only cared about making money in your heart."

"Look at what you said, it's just a golden goose. How can I eat it? I have been in business for so many years, and these things are nothing to me. Now I only care about the so-called business opportunities. As long as it can make money, I will I don’t want to miss the same thing. As long as I think that the business opportunities discovered by our family will be useful to the imperial court, I think everything is worth it.”

Xue Hong naturally understood what he meant, and said with a smile: "But brother, Jin Yan is really not easy to put in the shop casually. This is a ritual vessel, so it can't be placed in an antique shop? Let me tell you, if it really needs to be measured To produce this golden goose, it would be better to think about it, directly research a series of wedding supplies, and open a more complete wedding supplies shop. Now there are such shops in the capital, but the things in them are placed around. Those are not new at all, and most of them are aimed at ordinary people, and there are much fewer grades to choose from.”

Xue Hong just said a few words, and Xue Pan's eyes lit up: "That's right, nothing is difficult in this world if you put your heart into it. It seems that I should do more research in this field."

Xue Yi saw that his two sons could even study flowers from a golden goose, and Lao Huai said with relief: "With you two in the Xue family, the burden on my shoulders will be lighter. Well, what should I study?" I don't care about this day or two, I'd better finish Hong'er's business tomorrow."

In the early morning of the second day, the matchmaker hired by the Xue family brought many gifts and the pair of golden geese to the Lin family with beating gongs and drums.

Although Daiyu was in her boudoir, the loud sound of gongs, drums and firecrackers still reached her ears.

Xueyan and other little maids ran to the front several times, and each time they came back, they would bring different news.

"Girl, I saw it, I saw the Xue family's chariots and horses from a distance, so many people came, it was so dark that it would fill the entire street."

"Girl, this is just Na Cai. There are dozens of boxes of gifts from Xue's family, and there will be no room for our courtyard."

"Girl, girl, I just saw the pair of wild geese from Xue's family in front. Oh, it's made of pure gold, and there are so many precious stones on it. It's the first time I've seen that appearance. It's really beautiful!"

Daiyu laughed when she heard this: "You girl should be hit, and the days with this girl are not short, why are your eyelids still so shallow? It's just a golden goose, what's so special?"

The one Daiyu said was Bai Ling, the little girl in her room. This little girl is usually the most lively and loves to join in the fun, but today she runs the most frequently.

Seeing what Daiyu said, Bailing was a little unhappy, and hurriedly said: "Who said that my eyelids are shallow? After following the girl for a long time, have you ever heard me praise something for its beauty? Even the new products of Zhimeifang It's hard to catch my eyes. The girl didn't know, the golden goose was designed by Mrs. Xue, and the materials used were found by my uncle himself. Such finely crafted things are naturally different from others. It's different. Girls are not allowed to go out now, and when you see that wild goose at night, you will know that what I said is true."

(End of this chapter)