48. Tanabata Festival (I)
It's a pity that Wang Siniang has no evidence, so this is just a guess, but she said it with absolutely ill intentions.
"Shen Cui's idiot, I will naturally clean it up, my sister will help me, right?" Wang Yueniang came to Wang Siniang and said coquettishly.
Wang Siniang's phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, nodded Wang Yueniang's forehead and said: "If you really want to clean them up, don't be soft-hearted, you will be killed at one time, if you can't die, wait for them to bite you back, you will die." ”
Wang Yueniang nodded, "I won't be soft-hearted." ”
"That's good. Do you still want to participate in the Zhongtan performance? Wang Siniang asked again.
"Is the fourth sister saying that it will be next year?" Wang Yueniang asked puzzled.
"Stupid, do you need to ask next year?" Wang Siniang said.
Wang Yueniang's eyes lit up, "What can the fourth sister do?" ”
Wang Siniang raised her hand to cut Wang Yueniang's forehead, and said gently: "You said that if Shen Cui is ugly, she can't raise her head in front of people anymore, does she still have the face to perform in the middle altar?" ”
Wang Yueniang frowned and thought for a while, "But what is a big fool?" ”
Wang Siniang said: "Do you remember the matter of the eldest girl of the Xiang family?" ”
Xiang family girl?! Wang Yueniang was shocked, although the matter of the eldest girl of the Xiang family was tried to hide it from the Xiang family at the beginning, some people still knew about it, and it was often used by adults to warn their own girls.
More than ten years ago, the Xiang family was really a wealthy and noble family, and the prince and the prince of the old man's official residence won the emperor's trust. The eldest girl of the Xiang family is naturally the first of the young ladies of the family.
But it's such a person, when he went out to put the lights on Qixi Festival, he was robbed by gangsters and sold into the green \ building, and when Xiangjia found her, she had already been defiled, and the eldest girl of the Xiangjia family committed suicide on the spot, and there was such a scandal Xiangjia naturally tried his best to hide it, and even dared to chase the murderer with great fanfare, and in the end, everyone didn't know whether Xiangjia had found out the mastermind behind the scenes.
Poor that the eldest girl of the Xiang family couldn't even enter the cemetery of the Xiang family after her death.
Although Daqin has encouraged widows to remarry and widowers to remarry since the founding of the country, and Taizu has set an example by marrying a widow himself, this widow is the famous Empress Xiaoyi, and her son is Emperor Taizong who revitalized Daqin, and even in order to encourage marriage, Empress Xiaoyi also abolished the bad habit of the unwritten cave house inspection Yuanpa, but the encounter of the eldest girl of the Xiang family who was sold into the Qinglou still cannot be accepted.
Speaking of which, Great Qin is really different from the previous dynasty. At the beginning, the Hu people went south, messed up our Central Plains, burned, killed and looted all kinds of evil, and even crossed the Yangtze River for a time, and drove directly to the granary of the former dynasty.
At the beginning of the founding of the dynasty, the mountains and rivers were broken, the eyes were desolate, the population was withered, the old had nothing to support, the young had nowhere to rely on, the women lost their husbands, the men lost their wives, and the Hu people invaded, many women suffered abuse \ humiliation, in order to encourage marriage, Taizu ordered that men and women who have reached the age of sixteen and are not married will be forced to labor, so who can care about your chastity or not, marry first.
But there are still some bad habits left in the previous dynasty, such as the inspection of Yuanpa, etc., because of the woman's unchastity, and the mother-in-law forced her son to divorce his wife, Queen Xiaoyi said after knowing that marriage is a good marriage between two surnames, not for enmity, so please abolish this bad habit, and the women who have gone through the troubled times are grateful to Queen Xiaoyi for this move.
As a result, the folk customs of Daqin gradually became civilized.
However, no matter how civilized she is, the ladies of the family will be in the dust, and she will no longer be able to raise her head.
Wang Yueniang said hesitantly: "This, I'm afraid it's not suitable, right?" "She and Shen Cui are fighting for will, if you want to say that there is any life and grudge, but there is no knot, so Wang Yueniang never thought of such a ruthless method.
Wang Siniang glanced at Wang Yueniang and stopped talking. A fool is a fool, just complaining about people, and when he really wants to do something, he looks forward and backwards, hesitates, and deserves to be bullied.
Wang Yueniang really didn't want to use such ruthless means to clean up Shen Cui and Ji Cheng.
It's just that the first day of July coincides with the birthday of Du Lao Taijun of the Pingwu Hou family, and Wang Yueniang and Shen Cui naturally inevitably met again.
Though people are the same, everything is as new. In the past, the Wang sisters were all stars holding the moon everywhere they went, and everyone knew Wang Yueniang's little nature, so they were all used to her, but this time Shen Cui made a big splash, and all the little girls gathered around her to ask long and short questions.
Some asked Su Celadon about it, some asked Shen Cui who she learned to sing with, and some asked her how to practice her voice, in short, Wang Yueniang felt that she was left out.
Wang Yueniang hated in her heart, glared at Shen Cui, and went to see Ji Cheng again. This is a big look, Ji Cheng prefers plain and elegant clothes, but the tailoring is not sloppy at all.
Because although it has entered July and the autumn has risen, the summer heat is still there, and the strength of the autumn tiger is not lost in the middle of summer, so Ji Cheng wore a light smoke blue and a folded yarn skirt with clear snow yarn.
But all gauze skirts are very expensive because of the fine yarn, which is labor-intensive to weave, and if there is a broken thread in the middle, it can be seen at a glance, so it is very expensive, and Qingxue yarn is one of the best. Because of the sunny name, it means that it looks like a little golden sand in the sun, low-key and gorgeous.
Ji Cheng's skirt is very chic, the neckline is slightly open to reveal a small piece of collarbone, the sleeves are retro wide sleeves, and she walks elegantly, the most special thing is that she does not use silk on her waist, but uses gold to make a thin begonia flower hanging down her waist, and it is impossible to remove people's eyes from her slender waist when shaking.
Even those Jingshi nobles who disdained to talk to Ji Cheng also softened their bodies at this moment and asked her which clothing shop made it.
Wang Yueniang looked at Ji Cheng with snowy skin, only to feel that her skin was so white that it was dazzling, as if there was a strong light reflecting, she secretly scolded "fox" in her heart, only felt that her neckline was too open, it was shameless.
In fact, Wang Yueniang really only allowed the governor to set fire, if she looked down at herself, she would find that not only was her neckline wider than Ji Cheng's, but even her chest was half lower.
Originally, where the dynasty was founded, the clothes of the girl's family were still very reserved, but because of the eastward trend of the Hu wind, the Hu girl gradually came into people's eyes, although the family lady disdained the bearded girl with plump breasts and fat buttocks, but the men seemed to be very welcome, and gradually there was a trend that the collar of the Central Plains girl was getting bigger and bigger, of course, this atmosphere was first transmitted from the palace.
The ancestors of the royal family accepted Hu Nu as a concubine, and the concubines saw that she was favored, so they followed the trend to learn her dress, and some people felt that the Hu concubine was favored is not the two lumps of flesh on the chest, so they also pulled their neckline down, in order to beat the emperor's eyeballs, once the wind is opened, it can no longer be stopped, and the neckline is also lower and lower.
Ji Cheng's dress is really trivial, those married noblewomen, the neckline is even more terrifying, the people seem to be beautiful in the past, they used to only apply fat powder on their faces when they went out, but now they have to powder on their necks and a large section of their breasts to whiten them.
Wang Yueniang saw Ji Cheng, only to see her once, this person was "foxy" to the next level, and the disgust for her in her heart added another layer, and then went to see her cousin Shen Cui, Wang Yueniang's evil thoughts in her heart couldn't be contained, thinking that since she likes foxes so much, it is better to send them to the kiln to be foxy.
Since Wang Yueniang has such evil intentions, she naturally has to plan well, and she has to beg her omnipotent fourth sister again.
Wang Siniang put up a score, squinted her eyes and said, "Didn't you say no?" ”
"Fourth sister, you also saw Ji Cheng's appearance today, right? Xiao Xiao is very charming, if she stays in the Shen family, she is only afraid of ......" Wang Yueniang bit her lip, although the latter words were not said, but the meaning was clear, I was afraid that the second son of the Shen family would be tempted by the beauty.
Wang Siniang snorted coldly in her heart, if it weren't for this, would she be guilty of pleading Wang Yueniang out of the pot?
"With her background, how can the second son look at it, it's just a plaything." Wang Siniang didn't accept Wang Yueniang's recruitment.
Wang Yueniang had no choice but to beg cheekily: "Good sister, can you help me?" ”
Wang Siniang said: "What can I do to help you?" Don't you have a cousin Bin there? ”
Chen Bin is the nephew of Wang Yueniang's mother, and he followed Wang Yueniang's ass when he was a child, and he couldn't walk when he saw Wang Yueniang.
"Him?" Wang Yueniang was impatient when she thought of Chen Bin, this person was too cheeky, Wang Yueniang had been avoiding him, for fear that one day he would really say that the elders in the family would marry her to him.
But Wang Yueniang also had to admit that perhaps only Chen Bin could help herself in this matter, and only by letting Chen Bin do it could she feel at ease.
However, Wang Yueniang was still a little worried, biting her lip and said, "Fourth sister, you said that if this matter happens, the Shen family, the Shen family's side ......."
Wang Siniang smiled: "You still don't admit that you are stupid, what is Ji Cheng's background?" Who will sin against us for her? is to add a Shen Cui, there is such a big ugly thing, her mother can't cover it up, otherwise once it explodes, Mrs. Ji will have no face to see the nobles in Beijing. ”
Wang Yueniang was originally quite nervous, but she was relieved when Wang Siniang said this, Ji Lan was the most face-saving person, and she would definitely not dare to make a big fuss if Shen Cui was ugly.
The days are like flowing water, and soon it is the day of Qixi Festival, the legend of the meeting between the cowherd and the niece Queqiao has been passed down for thousands of years, and everyone is still keen to retell this legend constantly.
On this night, the bustle of Jingshi is no less than the Lantern Festival in the first month, and every household in the Lantern Festival has to hang out lanterns to compare the beauty, and Qixi Festival is an annual lantern day in Daqin.
(Corrected typo)