[Qing Chuan + Red Mansion] Midas touch

Everyone in the Xue family went crazy with joy.

When receiving the imperial edict, the Xue family really did not expect that it was an imperial edict to bestow marriage.Not to mention that the girl from their family would become the prince's first wife Fujin.

The prince's concubine Fujin, the emperor's lord's daughter-in-law.

You know, they didn't even dare to think about side Fujin before today.

The girl is so precious at home, but she has to enter the palace for a small election. After a toss, even though she stayed with the prince and elder brother, she is still a nameless person.

Thinking of when the uncle got married before, the girl kept hiding from others.Which one in the Xue family is not both distressed and unpleasant.

It's all right now, it's finally over.

Looking at her mother-in-law, Wanyan couldn't help being happy.Because she has little contact with her, she still has no feelings for her sister-in-law.But thinking of her own sister-in-law, the aunt of her future child who has become the prince's heir Fujin, the Wanyan family is also overjoyed.

With such a sister-in-law around, as long as the family members don't risk their lives, a stable and good life is certain.

While asking people to reward the internal officials who came to deliver the decree, they helped Aunt Xue to walk back.After entering the house, Wanyan took the lead to say congratulations to Aunt Xue, Aunt Xue said yes with tears of joy, and ordered Quanhe Mansion to pay three months of monthly money, and asked Xue Biao to tell the ancestors and Father Xue.

After busy work, finally calmed down, Wanyan discussed with Aunt Xue whether to send someone to bring sister-in-law back to prepare for marriage.

Speaking of preparing for marriage, Wanyan and Aunt Xue only thought about dowry and wedding date.

The two of them were discussing this matter when they saw that Eleven Prince's Mansion sent someone.The person who came was none other than Tian Guo, the personal eunuch who had been by Eleven's side since childhood.

Ever since he found out that sister Yifei had mentioned his marriage to Zuo Xi, he had been quietly looking at the almanac on Eleventh to find the most auspicious day for getting married.

Can't be too far ahead, because I don't know when the edict of marriage will come down.It can't be too far behind, after all, there is no normal man who is not in a hurry to marry a wife.Eleven picked and picked, and finally picked the two auspicious days of the sixth day of April next year and the [-]th of August next year.

When the imperial decree of the marriage comes, Zuo Xi will show the selected date on Eleventh. In order not to be teased by someone, but also for the little secret joy in her heart, Zuo Xi is obviously happy in her heart but still pretends to be happy. I picked an auspicious day on the sixth day of April with a look of 'I really can't do anything about you'.

Don't look at the fact that there are eleven months before getting married, but in fact, there is not much time.

Not to mention that the furniture needs to be broken out, even the dowry boxes must be broken out.

At this time, the daughter is married, and the boxes used to hold the dowry are all camphorwood boxes made of aged camphor wood.However, camphor wood is also divided into qualities. People like the Xue family who are not short of money naturally want to pick the best ones for their daughters who marry into the royal family.Camphor wood is easy to see, as long as the money is in place, it is not difficult to find.

Putting aside the dowry box, the only thing left to worry about is the furniture in the dowry.

At this time, wooden furniture, especially those with status, generally choose wood according to the rule of one yellow, two purple and three red.

One is huanghuali, the other is rosewood, and the third is rosewood.

People who love their daughters will collect wood after their daughters are born, so that they can be used as dowry for their daughters in the future.

In Baoqin's dowry, there is not only rosewood with water, but also several pieces of furniture made of huanghuali.Wanyan's furniture isn't as good as Baoqin's, but it's also full of rosewood.However, all her furniture was her biological mother's dowry, not from Wanyan's family.

Not to mention anything else, just the Lin family, Jia Min also collected a lot of good wood for Daiyu as a dowry during his lifetime.

It stands to reason that wealthy families like the Xue family should do the same, but the Xue family wanted their daughter to enter the palace to fight for their future, so naturally they did not prepare such a dowry for their own daughter.

A complete set of furniture requires a lot of wood. Even if the Xue family is not short of money and has many shops under their name, it may not be possible to collect so much wood in a short period of time and make it into furniture.

Forget it, let's put those things aside for later, let's go and pick up my aunt and grandma to go home and get married.

I don't want Tian Guo to tell Xue's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law that Zuo Ximing will come back after dinner, and there is no need to send someone from Xue's side after talking about the [-]th day. received.

Aunt Xue and Wan Yan looked at each other, and directly decided that Zuo Xi's furniture was all made of huanghuali, and now it depends on how much they can buy on the [-]th.

It's the day, and I will enter the palace to thank you on the [-]th.First went to Qianqing Palace to meet his father, Lao Kangtou. Lao Kangtou looked at his delicate son who was struck out of gold and didn't say anything else. He asked Eleven about his body and told Eleven to retreat.

Eleven came out of Qianqing Palace and went to Yikun Palace.In Yikun Palace, Concubine Yi and Guo Guiren are picking up their private houses.

Seeing that Eleven is gone, the two of them are busy like a spoiled child with no limit.Originally, they wanted to keep Eleven to have lunch in Yikun Palace, but thinking about their current temper, the two reluctantly sent Eleven out of the palace.

That old bastard saw Eleven who came to thank him, so he decided to come to Yikun Palace to play a wave of deep fatherly love.

Even if you don't come at lunch time, you will definitely come in the evening.The son managed to gain some weight, so we can't let that old bastard spoil his appetite.

When the two sisters wanted to be married by Master Kang, they were more gentle and caring than the other.Now that the imperial decree has come down, one by one is more disgusted than the other.

Realistically don't want to.

It's not that they can't see each other anymore, so Eleven and Zuo Xi didn't do the farewell scene. After dinner, Zuo Xi simply packed up his luggage and took Cheng Jin and Xiaozi back to Xue's house.

After returning to Xue's house and being congratulated, Aunt Xue brought Wanyan and Zuo Xi to talk about the dowry.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law wanted to buy a stunning dowry for Zuo Xi, but they discounted the furniture.

Counting the ones sent over on November, they can only drop two-thirds of them at most.

Zuo Xi blinked and blinked, and rolled his eyes in a circle, it was just a small idea.

The most expensive and the most elegant is nothing more than Chinese style furniture, but now there is a shortage of good wood, even if you gather so much furniture, you can't finish it in a while.It's not that she and Shiyi really lack furniture to live on, so why not make some arrangements.

There are not so many wooden tables and chairs, it doesn't matter, let's get a large L-shaped fabric sofa.

It doesn't matter if you don't have so much time to fine-tune the Qiangongbabu bed, let's make a post-modern Chinese-style bed.

The beds in this era are placed against the wall, and there is only one exit to the outside for getting on and off the bed.It doesn't feel inconvenient to sleep alone, but if two people sleep, the person inside will wake up in the middle of the night over the person sleeping outside, not to mention, it is especially easy to wake people up.

Make a double bed that can be seen everywhere in later generations, and put it in the center of the bedroom.Both sides can get in and out of bed, and whoever gets up in the middle of the night will not affect the other person.Get two more bedside tables, so you don't have to get out of bed to pour water or anything.

As for how to place the curtain on the bed, a shelf at the head of the bed would be fine.There are not many beds like that in many film and television dramas.

There are chaise longues and arhat beds, these can actually be made into soft bags.Cover the back and seat with leather or fine burlap wrapped in cotton, and who knows what kind of wood it is wrapped in.

Moreover, the furniture is all wrapped up, so it is soft and comfortable to use, and there is no need to make additional cushions.

As for those that cannot be upholstered, such as kang tables, round tables and book cases.It can also be embedded.

In addition to book tables, such as kang tables, round tables, and stools, you can go directly to the porcelain store to order a few table tops, either square or round, with landscape paintings on them, or a few Tang and Song poems written on them, and finally use them For the table top to be inlaid onto the table legs.

For top-door cabinets, go to a glass factory or Liulichang to buy large pieces of glass or colored glaze as cabinet doors.It would be even better if we could buy so many mirrors as cabinet doors...

People's thinking is actually solidified, and in their consciousness, rich people will not wear fakes.In the same way, in the eyes of the world, the millionaire Xue family should not be the kind of family that is short of money.

Counting the small golden mountain, the seven large boxes of gold bricks and the dowry items beside them, when the world sees these furniture, they will not think of these weird things. The strange furniture is because the Xue family is in a hurry to get married and lacks wood.

At this time, after Zuo Xi opened up new ideas for Aunt Xue, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the two supplemented Zuo Xi's ideas based on what they had seen and heard.For example, the same pattern is carved on some obvious or inconspicuous places on the legs of the bed, stool or table, so that people can know at a glance that this is a complete set of furniture, rather than patchwork.

Zuo Xi nodded fiercely, this is possible.

The three of them calculated the sum carefully, and found that under the premise that the cost did not increase much, the wood needed was exactly two-thirds.

In other words, the wood they have is enough to make a whole set of furniture for Zuo Xi.

And because a lot of non-wood raw materials are used, the production period of furniture is also greatly shortened.

The most worrying thing for the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was solved, and the two talked about the various needles and threads in the dowry.

It stands to reason that in addition to all kinds of materials and leather for dowry, hundreds or eighty new clothes need to be made for the bride to bring to her husband's house to wear.

When the Wanyan family got married, they made 120 sets, so it was Zuo Xi's turn to start with [-] sets.

However, Zuo Xi directly refused.

Just make sixteen sets of new clothes for spring and summer, and replace everything else with materials.

Don't look at the girls and daughters-in-law of this era who don't usually go shopping in the streets, but there are still many popular things passed on in your circle every year.The styles and materials that are popular every year are different. If you make so many sets of clothes in one go, they will all become outdated before you wear them all.If I don't like it, I will get people to point it out when I wear it, and I will say whatever in the end.If you don’t wear it, it’s a waste. Over time, it will really become the bottom of the box.

In Zuo Xi's opinion, it is enough to ask someone to make sixteen sets of spring and summer clothes and put them in the dowry after the Chinese New Year.If you have the time, you might as well make more sets of bedding and embroider curtains.

All right, the eldest girl has her own ideas, and others can only follow her.

"What about the jewelry? The shape of the jewelry has to be selected first, and then it should be typed carefully." This is also a time-consuming task.

"I don't know my sister-in-law just came home. There is an old couple in my yard who make jewelry for me. I have made many sets of jewelry. I just ask them to make more. There are them on the left and right. , I still can’t wear it without jewelry.” After a pause, Zuo Xicai said again: “But it’s not like that if you don’t buy a set outside, sister-in-law, let’s see.”

The biggest advantage of the Xue family is that they have a lot of shops, and they can prepare all the necessary items in a very short time just by taking the purchase order from the shop.

Mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, sister-in-law said it again, and Zuo Xi remembered that she forgot to tell them about the heavyweight dowry she prepared herself.

Another mountain of gold, another box of gold bricks, is not like an ordinary object after all.Zuo Xi didn't want to cause Wan Yan to have other ideas because of this matter, so he waved away the others, and whispered to the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law that the eight dowry was prepared for her by Shi Shi, just for appearance.If others ask about it, they will only say that it was left by the deceased old father Xue to his own daughter.Even in front of Eleven, he just didn't know.

Aunt Xue was dumbfounded once again, and even Wanyan's eyes widened in shock.

A small golden mountain?

Seven boxes of big gold bricks?

After a while, Wanyan finally said in a daze, "Brother Eleven treats my younger sister with a heart that no one can match."

Even the most devout believers worship the Buddha, that's all.

Zuo Xi twitched the corner of her mouth, lowering her eyes to hide the embarrassment in her eyes.

hehe~

The advantage of being a master these days is that the master speaks loudly, and the servants run away.

Zuo Xi’s 128 dowry, aside from the 8 carried by the “October” friendship offering, and the remaining 120 carry, but within two or three days, the regulations were completely finalized, and after that it was time to stock up and let people provide according to Zuo Xi A variety of drawings were produced.

On the other side, the girl from the Xue family became the prince's heir to Fujin, and many acquaintances came to congratulate her.Aunt Xue wanted to hold a banquet to celebrate, but Zuo Xi stopped Aunt Xue.

Don't make trouble, don't you know that you are taking your eighteenth elder brother on a tour outside the Great Wall?Let's stop and stop.

Brother Eighteen, that is the same existence as Jia Yuanchun.

Whoever marries Jia Yuanchun is the emperor.When the eighteenth elder brother dies, that is when the prince will be abolished.

Originally, Zuo Xi had always been paying attention to which son he would bring with him every time he went outside the Great Wall. He had never seen him bring eighteen in previous years, but this year he did.

Well, Zuo Xi's heart has been raised in his throat since he knew that he had taken Shiba to go outside the Great Wall, and never let it go.Thinking of changing Xue Pan to Fangrehe Palace, Zuo Xi's heart became even more burning, worried that some accident would cause the Xue family's silly spores to catch up.

There are twenty palaces from the capital to the grasslands, and there may not be such a thing as the Rehe Palace.But Murphy's Law has told Zuo Xi many times that many things cannot be avoided if you want to.

There are so many things in his heart that Zuo Xi dare not tell others to listen to.In addition to praying that everyone is well, I usually complain to my pen pal.

Zuo Xi: "Why did the emperor have so many sons?" 'Fewer births can save a lot of trouble.

Eleven: "Maybe it's not hard work for a man to have a baby."The man is happy overnight, and he will have an heir in ten months. 'Emperors are men too.

Zuo Xi: 'Yes, this world is really unfair.Women have to endure the hardships of pregnancy in October, experience the pain of childbirth, and even risk dystocia and blood collapse to give birth.Men are born of women, so why talk about men being superior to women?Those who say that men are superior to women, don't they look down on their mother who is a woman from the bottom of their hearts.It's really unfilial. '

eleven:"……"

Is this the truth?