The next day, Zhang Zhaohua forgot what he said at night, got up and washed, hurriedly drank a few mouthfuls of porridge and went to the treasure shop. The pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info was still tense and busy, Zhang Zhaohua handed over the jade card after entering, and the deacon took her to the room to check the dowry.

"This is a large piece," the deacon pulled out a red note to show her, and wrote all kinds of names on it: "Such things are distinguished from small pieces on the list, such as this large insert with red sandalwood carvings, which was split into twenty-eight lifts, dismantled, and then carried to the Yibin Mansion and reassembled. ”

"There is also such a large bottle of Longquan, like an open bottle of the kiln," the deacon explained one by one: "There is also this thick copper Han pot, which is more than four feet high, and there are no other large boxes, all of which are packed into a large carved cabinet, and don't forget to open the cabinet door when you count them." ”

The warehouse in front of me is indeed large, it is full of makeup tables, interstitial screens and other furniture, as well as bonsai and other ornaments, like the Longquan vase that the deacon just said is used to insert winter plums, but not to climb and break a plum blossom, but to cut down the plum blossoms of large branches. There is also the elegant art of flower arrangement in the north, but it is different from the south in that there are some taboos that "flowers are thinner than bottles", but they love the taboo "flowers" in the south.

Such a bottle is also used on the desk, but it is not as good as a crockpot, with a plum blossom in it, the so-called "Shanjia Chinese New Year's Eve has nothing else to do, and the plum blossom is inserted for the New Year." "I'm afraid this is the confession that the literati admire.

Zhang Zhaohua counted in a hurry, fortunately, there were two Zhan Mei and Cai Ping to help her, this is also Zhang Zhaohua's cleverness, the princess assigned such a major task to her, how could she take it over recklessly, there is always someone to mention someone to help, so she asked the princess for two palace maids to come down, just like the protector of the Dharma, with them there, Zhang Zhaohua can close his eyes and pretend to be a Buddha.

In fact, she also opened her eyes when she came back, and she clearly saw the utensils and furnishings of the Ming Dynasty, which really made her tsk. For example, the county lord of Yong'an also has an official suitcase, which seems to be smaller than Zhang Zhaohua, but the material of this official suitcase is far inferior to Zhang Zhaohua's, because this small box is made of ironwood.

Tieli wood, as soon as you hear the name, you will know that it is harder than iron and can bear loads, the texture is quite fine, strong and corrosion-resistant, it is not bad for thousands of years, when it is used as a utensil, because of its wetness, it is necessary to dye the wood three or four times with rouge water, and then use the raw essence produced in Zhejiang, and apply a thin layer on the surface of the wood, which is as bright as jade, and I think it is red sandalwood if I don't look closely, but the red sandalwood is only buried in the ground and immortal, and the iron power wood is immortal when it is put into the water.

In addition, "jade, porcelain, bronze, enamel, bamboo and wood are all kinds of skillfully made of large and small furnishings about 32 pieces", which is the only one in the entire makeup list that is relatively vague, and other items are recorded very clearly and in detail as the crown box attached to the crown hat and the purse attached to the jewelry. At first, Zhang Zhaohua found out about this, and thought that such small furnishings had not been determined when writing the list, but Zhan Mei told her that because thirty-two furnishings of this size could actually be counted as one, they were actually study utensils.

Zhang Zhaohua, who thought that the study utensils were the four treasures of the study, pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, was speechless after seeing the real thing, because she saw the things that she was familiar with and unfamiliar to name, and asked them one by one, only to know that the bamboo and wood furnishings were the boxes of the total Tibetan study utensils, with four compartments, with a rack, not inlaid or carved, very simple beauty.

The white jade utensils are the pen holder of the lying pen, which is in the shape of a small hill and can hold three pens.

The white porcelain utensils are pen screens, that is, the screen for inserting pens, it is said that according to the pen screen system handed down from the Song Dynasty, the square jade porcelain is a variety of exquisite mountain trees, birds and birds and even human figures.

As for the bronze furnishings, the name is called "Shuizhongcheng", in fact, it is a pen wash, as the name suggests, it is a tool used to wash the pen, and the copper water is a round belly and thin feet, and it is said that it was a burial vessel in the previous dynasty, but it is no longer taboo now.

In addition to these things, there are also book cases, cutters, paperweights, rulers, inkstones, water injections and other literary utensils, these things add up to a total of thirty-two items, and they have to occupy a full page when they are written, so they are simply written together and attached to the back of the list.

Zhang Zhaohua checked these things, they were intact and there were no omissions, and he put a checkmark behind one item. If there is a name that does not match, for example, it is clearly written on the list that "blue and white birthday round stick mallet bottle" has become "blue and white year cold three friends stick mallet bottle", this is doubtful, although it is all mallet bottles, but the patterns on it are different, which means that it is not the first time to procure things, like this Zhang Zhaohua put a question mark on it, indicating the two differences.

After reading it in the morning, there are not many mistakes, and the deacon of the treasure house has organized these things in an orderly manner, not to say that they are piled up randomly, which is even more troublesome. Zhang Zhaohua didn't know that it was not easy to take stock of the dowry before, but now that he finally knows, he admires the clan women even more.

In this way, in three or five days, Zhang Zhaohua took the apples Zhanmei and the three deacons, and finally finished counting the general items, seeing that this kind of thing was included in the dowry, Zhang Zhaohua said: "The wedding items, palace utensils, etc. are separated from the dowry, and these things are prepared as the dowry, and should not be included in the dowry list." ”

Zhang Zhaohua is talking about the pocket items used when the county lord and the guest of honor get married, rouge gouache and other things, such as four boxes of red cotton rouge, four boxes of eyebrow stones, four boxes of flower hand towels, four boxes of soap, two boxes of clean face goose oil pancreas, two boxes of silver tongue scraping toothbrushes, two boxes of tooth powder, two boxes of osmanthus oil and two boxes of fragrant cakes.

Here the conductor separates the petty items, and over there Zhang Zhaohua and Handong Hanshuang began to swing the pressure box, this pressure box has two meanings, one is what they are doing now, pressing hundreds of strings of money in the vertical cabinet, pressing a few ingots of silver in the furniture drawer, and stuffing cotton in the top cabinet. Han Dong opened the drawer, and Hanshuang pressed things inside, and Zhang Zhaohua and Zhan Mei recorded it in the same way, so that a total of 272 taels of silver were spent, and more than 1,900 pieces of small money.

There is also a pressure box related to the same thing that Zhang Zhaohua experienced before his wedding, that is, sexual enlightenment, education, books, pictures, and so on. This is a special dowry, in addition to the pictures of the spring palace painted on paper, there are also many pictures of the spring palace embroidered on the sachets, sachets or purses. There is also a kind of Zhang Zhaohua for the first time, made of ceramics to express the love of men and women in the shape of a small statue, this kind of thing is particularly cute, is made into a peach shape, there are two halves of the upper and lower halves, the upper half is the cover, remove the cover to see that there are two men and women hidden inside, is a pair of naked men and women in the form of copulation. This thing is placed at the bottom of the box to ward off evil spirits, and before marriage, the bride-to-be will be asked to lift the lid and let her experience the harmony of yin and yang.

This thing is really a good thing to ward off evil spirits, the princess handed over this jade porcelain doll to Yongan Yongping, and when Zhang Zhaohua came over to bring it the next day, the looks of the two county lords could simply make Zhang Zhaohua reminisce for a day.

After the work at the bottom of the box is done, it is almost time to prepare the makeup shop.

The shop room is also called the welcome makeup, that is, a few days before the wedding, the woman asked the woman to lay out the son-in-law's bedroom, which is called the shop room in the world.

Speaking of this, it is interesting, because the etiquette of the Han people is "dowry", that is, on the day of the dowry, the woman's family will place the dowry in the courtyard for people to watch. But Zhang Zhaohua knew that the etiquette of the Manchu Qing Dynasty seemed to be more interesting, called "carrying the dowry", that is, using a special person to carry the dowry, ushering in the delivery of the dowry on the road extending in all directions, playing drum music, hugging the front and back, extending the queue, and there was a special route, going back and forth, used to boast of the richness of the dowry. In this way, the momentum naturally increases, and it seems to be very lively.

Zhang Zhaohua just considered that if it was a dowry, in the county lord's mansion and the guest of honor, only high-ranking officials and nobles were allowed to watch the ceremony, and ordinary people could not see such a lively grand occasion. If the custom of raising the dowry is moved, Zhang Zhaohua can't pay attention to it, worried that King Yan and the princess will think it is too prosperous.

As a result, she asked the princess so carefully, the princess was very interested, and asked her if "carrying the dowry" was the custom of her hometown.

She got the princess's promise, and she made up her mind, so she simply planned with a few apples.