Crepe flat. A garment shop.

Lin Zhiwu strode into the garment store, casually glanced at the cloth and clothes placed on the counter outside the store, then walked to the counter and asked the man in his forties who was standing behind the counter and was quickly dialing the abacus: "Are you the boss here?"

Hearing this, the man standing behind the counter and dialing the abacus immediately raised his head and looked at Lin Zhiwu with a smile: "Exactly!

"Made-to-order. Wedding dress and wedding dress!" Lin Zhiwu replied lightly.

"It's just a wedding dress, but you still have to make a wedding dress?" the man was a little surprised.

Liang customs, do not care about the craftsmanship, do not care about whether the wedding dress is beautiful, women have to sew their own wedding dresses when they get married, even if they are not good at women, even if they have never touched the needle and thread, they must sew the wedding dress by themselves.

If you don't embroider, it will only take three or four hours to simply sew a wedding dress, however, the first time Lin Zhiwu saw Leng Qing, he saw that Leng Qing's open palms and knuckles had obvious thin calluses on the palms and knuckles.

With such a pair of hands, it is not like an embroidery needle, to people like them who have been practicing martial arts and holding swords all year round. That's why Lin Zhiwu repeatedly objected to Zhu Zimo and brought Leng Qing back to Zhu's mansion!

Therefore, Lin Zhiwu could only make excuses: "Because the time is too rushed, it is too late to embroider the wedding dress by myself, so I can only make it customized." ”

Belch...... Counting on Miss Leng to embroider the wedding dress, this family affair probably doesn't have to end. Lin Zhiwu thought silently.

Crepe flat. Western. Market.

A few servants of the Zhu Mansion wearing dark green dresses and carrying vegetable baskets walked to a stall selling green vegetables.

One of the servants reached out and picked up a green vegetable from the stall, looked at it, then looked at the stall owner behind the stall, and asked, "Stallholder, are all these vegetables fresh?"

After the stall, the stall owner in his thirties replied with a smile: "Yes, yes, yes! These are just picked from his vegetable garden in the early morning, and you can tell if it is fresh just by looking at its leaves." ”

"Okay, I want all these greens for you. How much silver is there?" said the servant woman, putting the greens back on the stall.

As soon as he heard that the other party wanted to buy them all, the stall owner who sold the vegetables immediately smiled like a trumpet flower: "A total of fifty Wen." ”

The servant woman unhurriedly took out a money bag from her bosom, counted fifty cents and handed it to the hands that the stall owner who sold vegetables was impatient to stretch out to her, and then beckoned the other servants who came with her to fill the vegetable baskets they were carrying.

After loading the vegetables on the stall, the servant woman asked the stall owner who sold the vegetables, "Can you deliver vegetables to someone else's house?"

The stall owner smiled and replied, "I don't know which house you want to send to?"

"The Zhu Mansion on West Street in the West District. Ming'er will pick all the vegetables in your vegetable garden early in the morning and send them to the back door of Zhu's mansion, and someone will settle the money for you at that time. The servant woman laughed and shouted, and the other servants went away with baskets full of greens.

The other side......

In front of a shop selling cattle, sheep, and pork, several servants of the Zhu Mansion, who were also dressed in dark green dresses, stood there.

One of them reached out and poked a piece of pork on the board, picked up a piece of beef with blood on it, looked at it, and then asked the boss who was cutting the meat: "Boss, are your pigs and cattle just slaughtered?"

The boss lifted his meaty face and smiled at the servants, "That's for sure! If you buy more, I can slaughter it for you." ”

The servant woman withdrew her finger from poking the pork, and said to the boss who sold the pork with a smile: "Then please trouble the boss, you will slaughter a pig, cow, and sheep to the Zhu Mansion on West Street in the West District tomorrow morning! ”

……

More than halfway through. The warm sun hangs high.

The Yamen of the Ministry of Officials.

"My lord, this is an invitation just sent to the Ministry by the subordinates of your house, saying that it was sent to your lord by someone from the Zhu Mansion on West Street in the West District. A ministry official walked up to Ji Yun, who was sitting behind a pile of files behind the case, with a big red invitation card in his hand.

Ji Yun put down the file he was flipping through in his hand, reached out and took the big red invitation card handed to him by the official, and opened it.

After reading the contents of the invitation, Ji Yun put down the invitation and said to the official: "Are the subordinates in the official mansion still waiting outside?"

"In. The officer agreed.

"Let him go back to the house and say goodbye to the official's wife, and let the official's wife prepare a congratulatory gift. Don't be too heavy and not too light. Concisely instructed, Ji Yunfu picked up the previous file and flipped through it.

For Ji Yun at this time, there is nothing more important than this year's official assessment.

The military department is still in the house of Yue Qing.

"Dad, this is an invitation sent by Zhu Fushang on West Street in the West District early in the morning. Yue Qing, who had just returned home from the morning court, was stopped by Yue Quji, the only son who came later, as soon as he stepped into the main hall.

"Invitation??" stood still, and took the big red invitation from his son suspiciously, Yue Qing was stunned.

Knowing what his father thought, Yue Quji hurriedly explained: "It's the wedding banquet of Zhu Zimo, the son of the Zhu family, and the person who came to send the invitation said that Dad, when you were still serving as Jing Zhaoyin, you had a relationship with the deceased old lady of the Zhu family, so I hope you can go tomorrow evening." ”

Yue Qing had slowly walked to the main seat in the hall and sat down, looking at the invitation card in his hand without blinking.

The invitation card is written in neat letters with the date of the banquet, the invitee is Shang Shuyue of the Ministry of War, and the place and time of the banquet. The place where the payment is made is the four characters "Zhu Mansion Master".

The bridegroom does not need to say it, as for the bride......

Except for one name, there is no other detail.

At that end, Yue Quji finished explaining, but then changed his words and said: "Dad, since ancient times, farmers and businessmen, scholars are the first businessmen and last, and my son thinks that it is inappropriate for us to be officials and businessmen mixed together, if we are participated in by someone with a heart in front of the saint......"

As if he hadn't heard Yue Quji's words, Yue Qing asked casually, "Did they send you an invitation too?"

Yue Quji hurriedly took out the same big red invitation card from the hidden pocket in his sleeve, stepped forward and handed it to Yue Qing, and replied warmly, "It's sent." ”

Glancing at the invitation card that Yue Quji handed to him, Yue Qing stroked the small handful of goatee that he had under his chin.

Squinting his eyes, Yue Qing said in a flat tone: "Then let's go! My father did have a great friendship with Old Lady Zhu back then." Now the Zhu family is willing to invite us, whether it is for the sake of the face of the deceased old lady Zhu, or for the face of the head of the Zhu family, since we have been invited, then we will go! As for the side matter, there is no need for me to worry. Presumably, this invitation is not only received by our family, and the officials of the DPRK and China who were good friends with Mrs. Zhu back then were not the only ones who were father and me. Remember, the law is not accountable to the public. ”

"Yes. Taking a step back, Yue Qu responded respectfully, and asked again, "What about the congratulatory gift?"

Yue Qing thought for a while, this congratulatory gift is really a bit difficult to handle, it is not good to give it heavy, and it is shameful to give it lightly......

Putting the invitation card in his hand on the desk at hand, Yue Qing finally said: "Just take the pair of green ruyi that was given by Lord Chen, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites for his father's birthday at the beginning of this year!"

"Yes. The son obeyed. Yue Qu agreed unhurriedly, and then retreated.

The Ministry of Rites is still in the Chenyang Mansion.

"Master, this is an invitation sent by the Zhu family just now. As soon as Chen Yang, who had just returned home from the morning court, entered the door of the outer room of the bedroom, his wife Jiang greeted him.

Jiang also held a bright red invitation card in his hand.

"The invitation sent by the Zhu family??Which Zhu family??" Similarly, he was puzzled and took the invitation card handed over by the Jiang family, Chen Yang immediately opened the invitation without finding a place to sit down.

After reading the invitation, Chen Yang walked to the tea table and poured a cup of tea.

Holding the invitation card in one hand and the teacup in the other, Chen Yang said to himself while drinking tea: "It turned out that Brother Zhu's second grandson got married! Since Brother Zhu passed away, his husband has not seen that child for almost ten years, and it is hard to believe that he still remembers his husband!"

"Master, don't blame me for being a woman and a Taoist, this has been taboo for officials and businessmen since ancient times...... And this Zhufu concubine didn't send an invitation until the day before they got married, which is too ...... What do you mean, sir?" Jiang asked uncertainly.

Slowly closing the invitation card and placing it on the tea table beside him, Chen Yang took a sip of tea before saying, "You must go!" Although that child is only a second son, he is much stronger than his eldest brother, the eldest son, and he is a material that can be made. The husband remembered that the child had participated in the Autumn Festival back then, if it wasn't for the kid's escape, not to mention the champion, the list would have belonged to the child. Moreover, before Brother Zhu passed away, he told me to take care of his second grandson in the future, if I didn't even go to this child's wedding banquet, how could I be worthy of Brother Zhu's spirit in heaven? As for sending the invitation the day before marriage, the husband believes that there must be a reason for this, but there is no need to delve into it. ”

"What about congratulatory gifts?" Jiang asked again.

"The pair of dragon wind blood jade that the third child received when he got married last year is still there, right?" Chen Yang asked the Jiang family rhetorically.

Jiang nodded: "Yes, it's in the hall room in the backyard, I just opened it a few days ago to check it." ”

Putting down the teacup, Chen Yang said without blinking his eyelids: "Let's give that pair of dragon and phoenix blood jade to Brother Zhu's second grandson as a wedding gift!"

In the Tiancheng Continent, blood jade is a high-quality jade, if it is flawless, a small piece of palm-sized blood jade can even be worth a thousand gold. Conversely, the bigger the defect, the lower the price.

Compared with Yue Qing's hesitation, Chen Yangyu's congratulatory gift can be said to be a valuable gift.

It was only three hours before and after, and the news that the concubine of Zhu Mansion on West Street in the West District of Xuanping would get married tomorrow spread in Xuanping, and everyone was shocked when they heard it.

Since ancient times, the matter of marriage has been the top priority, but the marriage of the concubine of the Zhu Mansion, not to mention the process of directly omitting the process of accepting the lottery, asking the name, Najib, accepting the levy, and asking for the date, was actually made public only on the day before the marriage.