Chapter 193: The Temptation Comes
After the news of Li Mo's marriage reached the Red Mansion, this was the case.
Although for the sake of the family, the Hong family has always had a tradition of marrying their daughters high.
However, this does not mean that the Hong family treats their daughter as inferior. On the contrary, the daughter of the Hong family has the most noble status in the Hong family, and when she is at home, she enjoys the preferential treatment that the Hong family does her best. Not to mention the young lady who came out, even the concubine, no one will treat her lightly. The mother-in-law, the girl, and the degree of use are much stronger than several young masters in the family.
Moreover, even if it is for the sake of profit, the daughter of the Hong family needs to marry highly, but she will never deliberately be cheap.
They are all innocent people, that is, concubines, and they are all upright wives when they marry. No matter how noble a family is, if he asks to marry the daughter of the Hong family as a concubine, he will never agree.
A concubine is different from a wife, which is equivalent to goods and can be bought and sold.
With someone as a concubine, the family even has to write a deed of sale, from then on, even this body does not belong to their own, to beat or scold, all by people, even, if it is not good, the master mother called someone to kill it, sue to the government, it is just a matter of paying some silver.
The red family is pampered in every way, and the noble daughters are extremely noble, how can they let them go to other people's homes and let others abuse them?
This is something that is absolutely not allowed to happen.
Therefore, the daughter of the Hong family has never been a concubine.
However, because of a holy decree that Li Mo sought, Hong Qi, the most beautiful and noble woman of the Hong family's generation, is now in a lowly position. Moreover, the mistress is about to get started, and from then on, the fate will be unpredictable, and it is really worrying.
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On this day, the Zhenbei Palace, the Wutong Courtyard of the Red Seven is particularly lively.
Red three, red eight, and red nine are all here, red three and red seven are the best, what happened, she naturally wanted to come to explore red seven, so she mustered up the courage to tell the second wife about it, and the second wife agreed very happily.
It's not that these elders are not worried about Hongqi in their hearts, it's just that the elders also have the faces and shelves of the elders, and the threshold of the Zhenbei Wangfu is too high, and they don't want to come to the door to post this cold face. Hongsan is willing to go, so naturally it couldn't be better.
After Hongba heard about it, he also decided to come with Hongsan. Preparing for the spring banquet with Hong Qi, Hong Qi taught her a lot of things, and after getting along for a long time, her relationship was better than in the past. When you encounter such a thing, there is no way, and you should come and explore.
And although Red Nine and Red Seven are the same father, however, the sisterly relationship has always been cold, and in the face of Red Seven, Red Nine always felt awkward, and had no intention of joining in this fun. However, the fourth master personally opened his mouth, and the fourth wife also wanted her to come, but she couldn't refuse, so she came. However, the person stood slightly behind the red three and red eight.
"Seventh sister."
Hong San smiled and looked at Hong Qi with great concern, although he was still very thin, but compared to the last time he went home, he was just sick, but he was much better, and he also had some meat on his face, and he was no longer so thin that he could only see the bones.
That's great!
If Red San has a belly, he wants to talk to Red Seven, but because he came with Red Eight and Red Nine. In front of people, although Hong San is much better than before, and he is no longer so cold and arrogant and ignorant of people, but some masks have long been deeply rooted in the bone marrow, and they are not so easy to take off. But there are still not many words.
"Seventh Sister."
Hong Jiu simply said hello, thinking in her heart, this time she came to Kuanhong Qi's heart, her attitude should be more natural, more concerned, the corners of her mouth were slightly curved, but even she felt that this smile was very awkward.
Fortunately, there is still Red Eight here, and she has always spoken more than others.
At this point, there is a long list of questions.
"Okay, you seventh sister, tell me, how many days have you not been home? Have you forgotten about us? ”
Although it was a question, Hongba's face was a delicate expression, and his smile was also very bright.
Hong Qi is sitting in front of the desk drawing the design, it's time to prepare the new products for spring. Red Seven is ready to add elements of three-dimensional flowers to the new wedding dress. It's just that if it's white, no matter what color the flower is, it's very easy to match, don't think about it, Hong Qi has countless plans in his head, just see how to keep improving. But in ancient times, wedding dresses have always been red, and this custom cannot be changed lightly. "The First Marriage in the World" has just opened, and it should still be dominated by big red. This adds to the design difficulties. Add colorful colors to the bright red, and if you don't do it, it will become a mess.
There are currently two schemes for Red Seven, one is to use large red flowers at the back of the waist to set off the slender waist, and the large flowers are distinguished by different materials; There is also a plan, which is to make a fuss all over the body, covered with small red flowers. (.) Such a design will look a little more complicated in the spring, so the cut is simpler and can be made into a fishtail skirt. Hongqi is more optimistic about the previous plan, after all, the design of the puffy skirt is still more acceptable to people in this era. The mermaid skirt shows the body curves too much, and no one dares to wear it. However, combined with the delicate handiwork of this era, it should be beautiful to make. It's still very exciting for Hong Qi.
At this time, seeing that Hong San was coming, Hong Qi put down his pen and called with a smile: "Third sister, eighth sister, ninth sister, you are here." ”
There was no trace of gloom in Hong Qi's smile.
These days, immersed in the design, constantly revising the plan, and striving to do better, Hong Qi is busy, and she is all focused on this matter, what Li Mo's marriage, what the eldest grandson Piaoxue, has never entered her heart at all.
On the contrary, with the continuous revision of the design draft, the enthusiasm for design that I had in the past slowly returned, and because of the work, the person is also extraordinarily fulfilled, looking radiant, and his eyes are as bright as the stars in the sky. It made the mood of the Red Sans, who had to pretend to be smiling in front of Hong Qi these days because of their worries about Hong Qi and the downturn of the Hong family, so the mood of the Red San, who was a little reluctant, was much more relaxed, and the smiles on their faces were much more natural.
At this point, the atmosphere was getting better and better.
The bad thing is that Hong Qi went out of the study and called a few girls to serve tea.
"Third Miss."
"Miss Eight."
"Miss Nine."
In the past, it was not good in the house, Spring Breeze, Summer Creek, Autumn Frost, and Winter Snow served Red Qi, and her future was tied to her alone, so naturally she only had Red Seven in her heart, and although she respected the other young ladies, it was just that. But after staying in the Zhenbei Wangfu for a few months, when I saw the Red San, I suddenly felt completely different from before, and the attitude was a little closer than in the Red Mansion.
Dongxue, who has always been the most sentimental, saw them, and her eyes suddenly moistened slightly.
Although, these days, the people of Zhenbei Wangfu still have the same respectful attitude towards Wutong Courtyard, the prince is for the sake of Red Seven, and even the Prince of Dayan does not hesitate to compete, and on that day he personally rode a horse and came back with Red Seven. Even if he doesn't know why the prince has not stayed in Wutong Courtyard, no one dares to doubt the importance that the prince attaches to Red Qi. How dare you be disrespectful. In particular, even the eldest lady was grounded by the prince because of trespassing in Wutong Courtyard. Miss Yu is the most trusted subordinate of the prince, and she was also punished once, and she was a little more conscientious than before in the matter of the Wutong Courtyard.
However, despite this, for the upcoming wedding, the atmosphere of busy preparations up and down the house, as well as the countless things that were carried in and out, the replanted flowers and trees, and the dazzling and ubiquitous red, still put a lot of pressure on these girls who accompanied Hong Qi here.
No matter how confident they are in Red Qi, the concept of respect and inferiority that they have been taught since childhood, and the fear of power still make them nervous and worried about the future.
At this moment, seeing a few young ladies from the Hong family, I felt quite a kind of mood of seeing my mother's family with a married daughter, and it was sour.
Seeing them like this, the reddish eight misunderstood, and added fuel to the fire: "Why are your eyes red?" Useless things, the red family has less you eat and you wear less? How did Seventh Sister treat you, why did she still look like herself when she was at home, and she was so angry here? It's rubbish! Don't cry! Then he asked, "Which unsightly subordinate bullied you?" Tell me. Even if I can't help her here, I don't believe it, she won't be out of this town for the rest of her life? I don't believe it, her family is in this town Beiwangfu? It's just a mere subordinate, and she dares to bully my red family's head, and it's against her! ”
Hongba's eyebrows and eyes were furious, and he said hatefully.
It was not easy for the Hong family to be in the capital, especially at the beginning, they were almost rejected by the entire upper class circle in the capital. However, because of this, the already cohesive red family is even tighter together.
Especially Hongba's temperament was not willing to suffer, at this time, when he saw Dongxue and a few girls, he thought that the subordinates of Zhenbei Wangfu had done something to them, and suddenly had the idea of revenge.
It's not for the winter snow a few people out of the head reads;。
A few subordinates, who are not their own subordinates, are nothing in Hongba's heart.
Red Eight is to see the people of the Hong family being trampled under the feet of others, and they want to find the field.
However, when it fell on Dongxue's ears, it was very moving, where could the already fragile tear ducts withstand it, first Dongxue shed tears, and later, several other girls cried, as if they had really suffered some great grievances. Hong San looked at it, the girl was still with the master, this girl was wronged, is the master's life really good? Bihong Qi also hid all the grievances in his heart, and smiled so brightly at them that the eyes of several people couldn't help but turn red, and Hong San's tears fell out first, and Hong Eight and Hong Jiu didn't hold back in a whimper.
Hong Qi looked at the ocean and was dumbfounded.
Is this playing Meng Jiangnu?
As a result, in the end, Hong Qi, who was supposed to be the object of comfort, had to fold up all kinds of spirits to comfort this group of people, alas, women!
Even though Hong Qi was a woman herself, she couldn't help but secretly let out such a sigh.
finally talked about the matter, coaxed a group of women, and after eating, Hong Qi took out his new design draft and showed it to Red San. Of the two sets of plans, Red Seven designed several sets each, and asked them to help refer to the details. It is also to distract the attention of a few of them, so as not to make another situation, and Hong Qi really wants to cry.
A few people who came to comfort people but cried a lot were also annoyed in their hearts, and they urgently needed a topic, plus the woman was already interested in clothes, so they discussed it enthusiastically, some said that this set was good, and some said that it was good, to the surprise of Hongqi, several people were quite interested in the fishtail skirt, and they felt very chic, and they were a little eager to try. This made Red Seven a little unexpected, it seems that the acceptance of people in this era is more open than Red Seven thought. It's just that a few people have expressed their scruples about really wearing it out.
As he spoke, someone came to report that Master Jian of the wedding dress shop asked to see Hongqi.
Hong Qi thought that he was here to urge the design draft, but he didn't expect that Master Jian brought a news that the British government came to "the first marriage in the world" to engage the wedding dress, and designated that the young girl would personally design a new style of wedding dress for the British government.
"The British Duke? Isn't that just a design for the eldest grandson Piaoxue? "Red Three, Red Eight, and Red Nine were in an uproar. Chunfeng pursed her lips a few times.