[Qing Chuan + Red Mansion] Midas touch

In order for a prince to marry a daughter-in-law, in addition to the current decree to bestow marriage, he also has to go through the marriage procedure in order.Therefore, before the welcome ceremony, there are necessary procedures such as engagement and acceptance.

Fortunately, these procedures are handled by people from the House of Internal Affairs and the Clan House. The Wanyan family borrowed the help of two nuns from the palace next to Aunt Xue, and left Zhou Yun in the capital to help.When it was necessary for the family members to be present, Wanyan sent someone to Hongyun Town to deliver a message to Xue Pan.

Zuo Xi has only one older brother, Xue Pan, and Xue Pan is the only male in the Xue family. Now that Zuo Xi is going to marry Shiyi, his fifth brother will naturally not ask his younger brother's uncle to stay in Rehe Palace .

Taking advantage of the transfer of officers and soldiers, Wu Ye transferred Xue Pan back from Rehe.In this way, it is also convenient for the Xue family to deal with the red tape of the marriage.

Eleven's health is not good, and the people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs dare not toss about Eleven.There are also concubines Yi and sisters in the palace watching. For those who need to show up on the eleventh, not everything is simple and ask Master Jiu to clock in.And Zuo Xi is a newlywed, no matter how healthy she is, she has to pretend to be reserved.Therefore, as new couples, Shi Yi and Zuo Xi couldn't be more relaxed in the whole marriage.

For Zuo Xi's marriage, Aunt Xue and Wan Yan returned to the city as early as last month.At the end of the day, Zuo Xi continued to stay in Xiaotangshan because he lived in another courtyard on the mountain on Shishi.When the twelfth lunar month entered, the furniture in Zuo Xi's dowry was all ready.Since all the furniture was stored in Xue's house in the capital, Zuo Xi deliberately returned to the capital in a carriage.

The furniture is all made according to the drawing paper she gave, it's not too bad, that's all.After looking at the furniture, Zuo Xi heard that there were still a lot of good materials left, and after listening to Yan's suggestion, he made some small things.

After looking at the furniture, talking and laughing with Wanyan and Aunt Xue, Zuo Xi went to the guest courtyard to find the old couple who gave her gold and silver jewelry.

The jewelry to be taken away in the dowry is almost finished at this time.At this moment, apart from the gold jewelry master who is still busy with her dowry, the aunt who is good at making silver jewelry has already picked up the silver sent by Zuo Xi and made all kinds of small and cute silver coins with good meanings.

In addition to the silver locks, Zuo Xi also asked the aunt to help unlock a lot of silver locks.

There are many relatives in the royal family, and children will be born every now and then.At this time, the child needs to be baptized three times on the third day after birth.

The three rites of baptism are to put the child in a basin, and the midwife will take a green onion and dip it in water to wash it for a few times. During the washing, the relatives of the same family who are watching the ceremony will add a spoonful of clean water to the basin and put some extra water. present.Gold, silver and jade items are available, so they don't need to be too expensive, after all, these things are finally given to the birth mother.

Therefore, Zuo Xi thought that if he was idle, he would be idle, so he might as well get some silver locks for cleaning and refilling basins in advance.

It’s fine to be more refined, after all, I can’t pay back the original ~

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As soon as he mentioned this, Zuo Xi felt stuffy.You can't live without contact with anyone, can you?Once in contact, it is doomed to avoid all kinds of personal etiquette.There are more eleven brothers and more relatives in the same family. As long as Zuo Xi thinks about the various full moon gifts, birthday gifts, side gifts, etc. that will be sent out in the future, he will feel that he is at a loss.

This is like the modern people who are not ready to have children, or even get married, receive all kinds of marriage and full moon notifications every now and then.

Let's go, whose money is not blown by the strong wind, who can feel comfortable when they send money out knowing that they will not be able to return.But if I don't go, I feel a little embarrassed, and I always feel that it will be awkward to meet in the future.

Especially during the Chinese New Year, when relatives have a big gathering, and a group of relatives’ children stand in front of you, you will ask whether you will give them New Year’s Eve money?

Zuo Xi is not short of money, and it's not that he can't suffer a little loss in money.But she doesn't want to be taken for granted and taken for granted.

When a nanny next to Eleven was chatting with the little maid, Zuo Xi listened.It is said that what is the bottom line at the beginning will be the bottom line in the future.At the beginning, others may point and point, but after a long time, everyone will get used to it.

Hearing this, Zuo Xi drew inferences from one instance, and set up 'rules' for the relatives of the eleven families before they got married.

Xisan, no matter whose family's cub is a five tael silver lock.

The full moon, no matter which one it belongs to, is a three-piece set of gold locks and gold bracelets.

Years old, a set of zodiac signs in solid gold.

Zuo Xi had read a lot of film and television dramas and novels in the past, in which the harem fights extremely fiercely, and often there will be cannon fodder who is implicated.Therefore, Zuo Xi decided to give gifts that would not be tampered with.

But gold and silver are both soft and solid, and they are the most difficult things to manipulate.

As for birthday gifts, makeup gifts and betrothal gifts, Zuo Xi prepared to deliver materials.

They are all ten horses of official materials, such as color and texture, Zuo Xi decided to let them choose by themselves.

That's right, you pick it yourself.

There is a kind of gift voucher in later generations, with which you can go to the designated store to receive the corresponding items.Zuo Xi's mother's unit often distributes such gift coupons to employees during the annual festival. Zuo Xi and her mother used to go to collect things.

Most of the gift certificates sent to them are designated products, but a few gift certificates can be exchanged for purchase.

If you add some more money, 188 items can be exchanged for 288 items for you.

That year I went to get mooncakes, and the gift voucher was blue and red silk mooncakes from the north, but my mother knew that Zuo Xi liked to eat Cantonese-style mooncakes, so she specially added money to replace the green and red silk mooncakes with Cantonese-style mooncakes that are delicious. .

Recalling this point, Zuo Xi decided to get a gift coupon.

She designed the look of the gift certificate herself, using paper torn from a printed notebook in her small apartment.

One piece of paper was torn from the middle, the first half was sent to the shop for archiving, and the second half was packed in an envelope and sent to the person who passed the ceremony.The family wanted to pick up the material, so they took the second half directly to the shop. The shopkeeper confirmed that it was correct, and after receiving the gift coupon for the lower half, he would let them pick the material.If the shopkeeper is smart, he can also recommend them to add money for better materials like those store salesmen in the previous life.

By the way, it is worth mentioning that the upper and lower half of the gift certificate will write the gift recipient and the date range of the pick-up.As for the pen used for writing, Zuo Xi is not proud, no matter how high the falsification ability of this time and space is, he can't get it out.

Even if these pens can be seen everywhere in modern times.

For the time being, the gift certificates are only issued in the dowry shop allocated by the Xue family to her name, and the other ones have to wait until the actual application to know whether this method is feasible.

In fact, these are not the things that bother Zuo Xi the most. What worries Zuo Xi the most is the festival and birthday gifts for Kangxi and Xiaohui, the mother and son, who have three festivals and two birthdays every year, and the filial piety to the two mother-in-laws in the palace.

The gifts to Kangxi and Xiaohui don't ask for excellence, as long as they are mediocre and without fault.To give gifts to the two mother-in-laws in the palace, you need to pay more attention.

After all, she still has two relatives and sisters-in-law to compare with. No matter how favored she is on Eleven, her daughter-in-law is not close.

Thinking of those mother-in-laws in later generations who took the initiative to learn to swim in order not to embarrass their sons, Zuo Xi couldn't help but feel a little lucky while envious.

Now we all live separately, and there is no quarrel about supporting the elderly or other trivial matters.Isn't this much better than marrying into an ordinary family, where the daughter-in-law and sister-in-law live together in the same house, and several generations live under the same roof?

But speaking of this, Zuo Xi finally thought of something important.

In those novels of the Qing Dynasty, it was written that Master Kang had decreed that a concubine with a uterus would go out of the palace with her son to support her elderly.So after the fourth master ascended the throne, he let the concubines who had children live with their sons out of the palace.Although the toffees were still provided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs for everything they needed, the toffees actually left the palace.

The reason why Zuo Xi was deeply impressed by this plot was because in many novels it was written that Concubine Hui lived in the Mansion of the Eighth Lord and Concubine Yi lived in the Mansion of the Fifth Lord.

The problem now is not Concubine Hui and Concubine Yi, but Lady Guo.

Guo Guiren is Eleven's mother-in-law and Zuo Xi's mother-in-law.Apart from the fourth princess who married Fumeng, Guo Guiren only had one son, Eleven, so Guo Guiren must live with Eleven when he leaves the palace.

A lazy and greedy daughter-in-law like her still lives with her mother-in-law?

Zuo Xi shivered, feeling that the atmosphere had dropped 2000 meters.

Holding the hand warmer, Zuo Xi walked around the room dozens of times, and just before turning himself dizzy, he finally thought of a solution that was not a solution.

Those who can't afford it will confess.

How?

Zuo Xi patted the table with firm eyes - she wanted to build a grand view garden for her mother-in-law.

The land in the city is too expensive, and there is not such a big place to build a garden.In addition, she and Shiyi both like to live in Xiaotangshan Bieyuan, even if they get married, they will always live there.The son lives outside the city, so there is no reason to leave his mother alone in the city.Of course, even if the garden is built outside the city, it cannot be too close to the other courtyard where they live.After all, it was too close, and it was her fault that she didn't wake up in the morning and evening.

The garden was built not far from the gate of the capital, almost in the middle of Xiaotangshan Bieyuan and the capital's elder brother's mansion.In this way, whether returning to the city or going to Xiaotangshan, you can go there to rest...

The Imperial Garden is small and unattractive, and the Yikun Palace is also a well-organized palace.I heard that the current Changchun Garden is very well built, but the problem is that no matter how good it is, it is not my own.When the new emperor ascends the throne, these concubines will not even have the qualifications to live in it.

Earlier everyone said that the Grand View Garden of the Jia family was very well built. She built a nursing home for her mother-in-law according to the specifications of the Grand View Garden. Why not do it?

Counting the days, if there were no Tyrannosaurus rex wings, it would be several years before her mother-in-law moved out of the palace.She can buy the land first, then plant flowers and trees, and then build a little bit a year, and build it slowly for a few years, and give it to her mother-in-law in the name of a birthday gift after completion.

Women, you still need your own real estate.She didn't believe that Guo Guiren would live with them in Xiaotangshan with such a beautiful and large garden.

And with this garden, Mrs. Guo can also take over Concubine Yi. The two sisters have lived together for most of their lives, and they are separated suddenly. Maybe they are not used to it.Concubine Yi took the daughters of the fifth and ninth masters to live in the garden, and it was lively and festive.Wouldn't it be more comfortable to live with her and Shiyi and live a desolate life?

Before getting married, Zuo Xi was thinking about how to arrange for her mother-in-law after her father-in-law died, but there was no one left.But Zuo Xi's temperament is there, and she has been used to being free and easy for many years. After that, you ask her to live with her mother-in-law. The final result of the Shura Field may send away the fragile Eleven in advance.

After all, splint gas is not something everyone can bear.

Anyway, Zuo Xi doesn't want to think that Guo Guiren is the kind of woman who can't live in her own garden villa, insists on living with her son, and spends her days grinding her teeth with her daughter-in-law.

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This time back to the city, Zuo Xi took a look at the furniture and dowry that Xue's house had prepared for her, Zuo Xi went to Lin's house again, and spent most of the day with Daiyu laughing and cursing, before taking a carriage back to Xiaotangshan the next day.

When he went to Lin's house, Zuo Xi heard that Baoyu had been rescued, and all the wedding invitations for his marriage with Xiren were sent to Lin's house.

By the way, Baoyu didn't come back alone, he also brought back a pretty girl who was said to be very weak, pitiful and helpless.

When Baoyu was taken away by the rebellious party, at least he was wearing the name of the third prince Zhu.Coupled with Baoyu's crying and whining, he was afraid of this and that, and he needed someone to accompany him even if he slept.

Baoyu is good-looking, grew up eating jade and swallowing jade, moving from place to place to support his body, and the demeanor of a wealthy son is more popular with girls than rebels.Coupled with the fact that he has poems and books in his belly, some allusions he fabricated, as well as his unlimited tenderness and tolerance for the beautiful girl, it didn't take long for Baoyu to quickly attack the defense of this beautiful girl.

In addition, Baoyu got through the personnel affairs, and the rebellious party sent this girl here with the intention of serving her bed. The two of them rolled on the bed, and after having a skin-to-skin relationship, the relationship became a little closer.

When the army of the imperial court came to rescue Baoyu, the girl was determined to go back to the capital with Baoyu to enjoy the blessings.

Baoyu came back from the catastrophe, and brought back news of a beautiful girl. At the same time, news spread to the Rongguo Mansion, who was taught all kinds of rules by the mother-in-law and Mrs. Wang. , and then looked at the girl quietly standing beside Baoyu, her eyes darkened, and she almost passed out.

There are wolves in the front and tigers in the back, why is she so unlucky~

As for the girl brought back by Baoyu, when she looked at Xiren who was not as good-looking as her and only dressed better than her, she smiled brightly and was determined to win.

Mei Xiang is a servant, and she is a slave.My treasure two. Grandma, we still have a long life in the future.

On the 22nd of the twelfth lunar month, I left Xiaotangshan and returned to the city to celebrate the New Year.Zuo Xi came back with Eleven.After entering the city, Zuo Xi went back to Xue's house, and went back to Eleven Brother's house on the eleventh.

If it was in previous years, it would be fine if you don't go back to the city for the New Year's Eve.But next April will be the wedding date for him and Zuo Xi, and his body is not as fragile as in previous years, especially in his heart, he is still thinking about going to Xue's house to pick up the bride on the wedding day, knowing that Zuo Xi is going to return to Xue's house for the new year , Then he went back to the city along the way.

Tomorrow is the new year, and the streets in the capital are even more lively and festive.The carriage drove past the bustling street, just passing Jiuye's Medicinal Food Building.When Tian Guo was sitting in the carriage, chattering to Eleven about how miraculous the medicinal cuisine in the Medicinal Cuisine Building was, Eleven opened the curtains of the carriage and looked out with some interest. A very familiar woman came out from inside.

Why is the fourth brother here?

On eleventh, he looked at the medicinal food building behind fourth master, and at the woman beside fourth master.Squinting his eyes, he took a closer look at Fourth Master and the woman, then lowered the curtains thoughtfully.