Chapter 50: The High Gate
Since Ruan Yao came to Xingyang and stayed in the Zheng family for half a month, Zheng Han finally relented, and the marriage of Siniang Zheng Fan was decided, but the condition was that they must marry in Xingyang.
The Zong family did not raise any objections, and this family affair was so orally decided, and then, the two families began to follow the procedures of the wedding ceremony, in strict accordance with the "six rites", first Nacai, Qaming, Najib, and Nazheng......
Siniang Zheng Fan is fifteen years old, and he will not be married until August, and Zong Kan is nearly thirty years old, half older than Zheng Fan, therefore, the elders of the family hope to get married earlier, but the Zheng family wants to keep their daughter for a few more years, and the two families have negotiated several times to set the family affair in September of the next year.
Zheng Sui later heard that his mother Xiao Cui was almost blind from crying because of this.
The family is cold, going back to several generations without eunuchs, and the first thing to pay attention to marriage is the suitability of the eunuchs, since the death of the previous dynasty, the traditional family Gaomen has fallen into many contradictions, is it the crown of the world, or the Han and Wei traditions?
Leaving the old place of the world, most of the children of the high families who traveled to other places chose to re-crown the world and focus on immediate interests, such as the second uncle who was far away in Pingcheng, he had already married the Xianbei royal family, and for example, the fourth uncle who went south to Jingkou, although he married his wife Lujiang He's daughter, but there was a concubine under his knees, but he married a rich son as his wife, and asked for hundreds of thousands of dollars, when his great-grandfather Zheng Mu was still alive, for this matter, he almost had to break off the father-son relationship with the fourth uncle, and the fourth uncle was publicly expelled from the clan.
The fourth uncle was also ashamed of the times, and in the Jiankang court of the Southern Dynasty, because of the loss of marriage, he had been depressed and had not been promoted for ten years.
And still adhere to the Han and Wei traditions, most of the clansmen who stayed in the old land, Zheng Zong's two marriages, for several generations, the Zheng family in the old land of Xingyang, the first marriage of the eunuch is not suitable, and then up, that is, the great grandfather married his sister to the soldiers from the Han Army, which caused a sensation in the previous dynasty, including the great grandmother Li family, were strongly opposed.
Later, the soldier who started in the cold army died young, and the great-grandmother Li remarried her sister-in-law into the Li family, which also became a taboo for the Zheng family, and no one mentioned it again.
The high-ranking family, with marriage and marriage, has been married for generations, especially the sons and daughters of the family, since birth, they are destined to marry each other, and a qiē has been decided.
Liu Niang Zheng Mu was unwell and asked her aunt to send her to Lingyue Nunnery to recuperate.
Later, when Pingcheng Yihun's family came to Nacai to ask for a name, it was directly replaced by Banniang Zheng Jia, and it was at this time that Zheng Sui noticed that this Banniang had always been like an invisible person, however, Banniang's ups and downs of life also began from this, six marriages in his life, and he couldn't help it.
Decades later, when I reunited with the eighth sister in the middle of Chang'an Duzhong, Lumen Bamboo House, I found that the sisters in the family are the most knowledgeable and stoic, and they are about this eighth mother.
Although Liu Niang and Ba Niang are the same mother, however, the two have diametrically opposite temperaments, which seems to doom Liu Niang's early death.
Of course, that's all for later.
At this time, in Wangzheng Garden, Zheng Sui leaned on the beauty couch near the window, listening to Du Heng's chatter, playing a fan by Xin Yi, and he didn't know the future......
When I was about to take a nap, my sister-in-law's maid Shi Lan came over, and just as she went up the steps under the corridor, she heard Hua Fei's laughter, "Why is the girl here?"
"I heard that the little lady didn't go to the Silent Garden this morning, so the lady asked me to come and have a look. Shi Lan looked at Hua Fei's voice and did not deliberately lower it, thinking that Shi Niang should not have taken a nap yet.
Sure enough, I heard Cai Fu's voice, "Sister come in, the little lady hasn't rested yet." ”
When the words fell, the person had already lifted the bamboo curtain to welcome him, and the mother-in-law did not open the curtain.
Shi Lan smiled, entered the room, looked at Cai Fu and asked in a low voice, "The eldest lady is not at ease, let me come over and take a look, I don't know if the little lady's lunch is available?"
The weather was too hot, the little lady couldn't eat anything, and coaxed to drink half a bowl of minced porridge, and then the eldest lady sent someone to bring mung bean soup, but drank a bowl. "First, the Li family sent someone to invite Zheng Sui to come over for lunch, but Zheng Sui just hated the weather and was unwilling to go.
A few days ago, in the Shoujing Garden, every morning passed, it must be completely dark at night before coming back, today because Ruan Yao was in the Shoujing Garden, Zheng Sui did not pass, and stayed directly in Wangzheng Garden, but these days, the Li family helped the Zhuge family to entertain the people of the Zong family, and he was not allowed to take time to see Zheng Sui, and he was busy until lunch, so that he remembered that Zheng Sui was in Wangzheng Garden today.
Shi Lan listened to Cai Fu's words, nodded and smiled: "It's not worth anything, just tell the kitchen to send more." ”
Entering the house, Zheng Sui had already heard the movement, and leaned on the bamboo hidden sac before, but this time he had sat up straight, saw Shi Lan, and called out to his sister.
Shi Lan stepped forward to ask about living and eating, seeing that Zheng Sui's spirit was very good, and passed on Li's words before leaving.