readx; In July, the weather is getting cooler. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Zhao Xiu sent away her friend Cao Luo, and she was still a little melancholy in her heart.

This era is not comparable to the 21st century, and wherever you want to go, the train and plane are just a few hours away. This era is separated by hundreds of miles, and it may take several years to see each other. See Cao Luo next time, I don't know when it will be. She inevitably sighed a few times in her heart, and also admired Cao Luo's decisiveness. The daughter of the boudoir who has never left the capital since she was a child, actually said that she would go to Liaodong if she went to Liaodong, and she did not hesitate at all.

However, Zhao Xiu just sighed a few times, and soon stopped thinking about it. There was also news from Fang Renzhu's side, saying that the Shang family had set a wedding date for her and Shang Qiong, just after she and Lu next year. Shang Qiong is already an "older" young man in his early twenties, and it is impossible for the Shang family to delay his marriage any longer. The Fang family solved the marriage of the eldest daughter, and now Master Fang's career is gradually smoothing, not as depressed as a few years ago, and he is happy to marry the second daughter. It is said that Mrs. Fang is now preparing for her daughter's marriage at home.

The Fang family, who has been scholarly for generations, wants to marry the daughter of the long house, and the dowry is prepared, and the degree of meticulousness is not lost to Zhao Xiu. Mrs. Fang had already come to Jiannanhou Mansion to beg the Zhang family, and wanted to buy a few rare goods from the foreign goods store.

Zhang readily agreed to her, but her granddaughter-in-law Mi Yingzhi was secretly happy. Fortunately, the dowry of the sister-in-law Zhao Xiu has already been prepared, otherwise wouldn't this son have to fight with the Fang family? Although Wales & Co. often has good goods, there are only a few really good things. What if it is given to Fang Renzhu and called Zhao Xiu? Mi Yingzhi was in the palm of her hand, and the first major thing in the cooking was her sister-in-law's marriage, so she didn't dare to miss a little.

Zhao Xiu didn't know what her sister-in-law was rejoicing about. Her dowry, she has personally passed the purpose, and the selection is also her favorite things, especially Western goods, not what is valuable, but what she really likes, rare only picked. Sometimes people don't know their value, and she wants to come. On the contrary, those precious things such as self-striking bells and music boxes inlaid with gold and jewels, she only needed two meanings. And they are all dignified and simple styles, and there are not too many treasures on the top at all, even Zhang's feels too plain when she sees it, but she doesn't care. Mrs. Fang liked this style. Zhao Xiu didn't fancy a self-striking bell, so he asked her to beg for it.

Zhao Xiu personally counted his dowry, made a book the same, copied it in triplicate, and left one copy in the Zhao family. One was prepared to give the dowry and was taken to the Quang Binh Palace, and the other was kept for daily inventory. But all the small items for the wedding, whether it is clothes, jewelry or cultural ornaments, she personally brings people to pack the box, and is careful not to have an ignorant little girl get dirty and damaged.

She originally wanted to ask Mi Yingzhi to be a witness, but also to let her mother's housewife know what she had taken away, so as not to be unclear in the future. Mi Yingzhi said that the housekeeper was busy and didn't come - in fact, it also meant to avoid suspicion. What dowry Zhao Xiu brought with him, that was the decision of the Zhang family and Zhao Wei. Mi Yingzhi will not be distressed by the little family. When she married into the Jiannan Hou Mansion, her parents also gave her a lot of things, which can be said to have cut off half of the family's property. Now it is not as good as in the past, she still has her brother and sister, but her parents always feel sorry for her eldest daughter, and would rather give up half of her wealth. The Mi clan has something to say, and the capital of Mi Province is blocked back. Her parents can feel so sorry for her, how could she not understand the intentions of Zhang and Zhao Wei?

Zhao Xiu packed and locked his dowry, and sealed the room where the dowry box was placed. Turning around and walking down the steps, Mi Yingzhi sent a girl to find her. Zhang is discussing with his daughter-in-law which guests to invite to the wedding banquet, and let her go over to see it in detail, which is also the meaning of practice - wait for Zhao Xiu to marry into the Guangping Palace. I have to take up the royal palace immediately.

Zhao Xiu hurriedly went to Zhang's courtyard, and saw that in the main house, on the Luohan bed, on the big round table, and on the coffee table and chair, there were lists full of words written everywhere, which startled her: "What are these?" ”

Mi Yingzhi looked up and saw that she was coming, and hurriedly beckoned her to come over: "Come and take a look." My grandmother and I were discussing which guests to invite to the house on the day of my sister's wedding, and when I thought of a person, I would remember a name. ”

Zhao Xiu was bored: "Do we have so many relatives and friends in our family?" We just have to think about the guest list for this wedding party, right? We don't have anything to do with the palace. ”

Zhang angrily scolded her and said: "This is naturally the person who our family banquet guests want to invite, where is the turn of the guests of the palace to be invited to our family?" If it is a relative or friend shared by the two families, they will only come to our house to have a good time, and they have to rush to the palace for a banquet. The people I think of, all of them have a relationship with our family, and it's not good to miss anyone, but please all of them, and it's inevitable that there are too many, so I'm annoyed. Your sister-in-law and I have been thinking about it for a long time, but I don't know how to reduce it. Now there are only a few dozen students on the side of the library, because the relationship is lighter, and they are foreign men, and few of them have seen you or talked to you, so I took the initiative to cut people off the list. On that day, just ask your brother and sister-in-law to send a few tables to the library. ”

Zhao Xiu was stunned: "Even they have to be counted?" "But it's right to think about it, when Zhao Wei got married, they all came to help, and they also had a good relationship with Zhao Wei on weekdays. Besides, this is a force with great potential for development, and if Zhao Wei can get along well with them, he will also benefit in the future.

She picked up the list written by her grandmother and sister-in-law, and saw that the guests they were intended to be, in addition to the Zhao family, there were also people from the Mi family. A nephew of Zhang's mother's family has also recently gone to Beijing to study in the country, he is the grandson of Zhang's uncle, and he is married to Sister Qing, the eldest daughter of Zhao Jing, the patriarch of the Zhao family, and the young couple will naturally be counted. And Zhao Jing's wife Shen's maiden family, Songjiang Shen, has someone who is an official in Beijing, although he is a relative who is cornering, but he can't leave anyone behind......

In this way, there are dozens of relatives and friends who can be counted alone. If you invite anyone and don't invite anyone, it's hard to explain.

In addition to relatives, there are also friends. The list is even longer. Cao family, Fang family, Jiang family, Li family, Shang family...... But all the ancestors and grandchildren of the Zhao family who are good friends on weekdays have to send invitations. Among them, Cao Luo, the daughter of the Cao family, married into the Xie family of Qushui Bofu, so the Xie family should also be counted. Zhao Wei's mentor Li Guangdi's family, as well as the Liu family, the Feng family, and other daughters who have dealings with Zhao Xiu on weekdays, have to send an invitation as usual. It's just that whether the person receiving the post will come to the door to drink the wedding wine, that's someone else's business.

The Hu family, which was reattached not long ago, and the old departments of the other county grandfathers, the Wang family, which is still faint but has returned to normal contact, the Fan Benzhang family, who had contact with each other, and the Zheng family, the in-laws of the Hu family...... As for Zhao Weijingwei's colleagues in commanding the envoy and the people he met in the old days of the Criminal Department, he could not be slackened off in accordance with the rules. If we talk about the officials they once knew when they were in Jiangnan, and so on. That's more.

Coupled with the scholars who knew the library, Master Yi and Bachelor Zeng, who contributed to the library......

Zhao Xiu counted back and forth twice, and couldn't help but be speechless: "It turns out that our family has already made friends with so many people?" When my brother got married before, it didn't seem that much? ”

Mi Yingzhi smiled: "Hou Ye said. Some of them only moved around again later, such as the old department of the Jingwei Command Envoy and the county lord, etc. Others have also been courteous before, but they may not have come to the door to drink the wedding wine. Recently, there are many people who have come to Beijing, but many of them are recognized by our family. ”

Zhao Xiu suddenly said, yes. The king of Jinyang had something wrong, his comrades were arrested, and there were many vacancies in Beijing. Some of the more important positions, the emperor did not intend to let the officials find a random person to take over, so he selected trustworthy officials from all over the country to take over. These officials basically arrived in the capital one after another in the past two months. Because of the relationship between the Marquis of Jiannan and the Hou Mansion to assist in quelling the rebellion, he is now extremely trusted by the emperor, and the officials who are in contact with his family have also gained a lot of benefits. Of course, there are also some of them who happen to know each other and have rarely interacted with in the past. But now they're all moving around again.

Mi Yingzhi also has a list there, which is written about the stewards and shopkeepers who work in the industries under the name of Jiannan Hou Mansion. They're more than the average guy. It's more decent, but it's worse than the guests outside. Therefore, Mi Yingzhi planned to choose another location for a banquet and let Zhao You greet him. This is also something that cannot be ignored, some people want to follow Zhao Xiu directly into the palace.

Zhao Xiu looked at the list and couldn't help laughing, she said to Zhang: "Grandmother, think about it when we first returned to Fengxian, where did we recognize so many relatives and friends?" Deserted, that is, the New Year's holidays. The clansmen can still be lively in one place, and occasionally the second uncle will bring the juniors to come over to greet you. But that's a big change now. Looking back, it's like a dream. ”

Zhang smiled: "Don't worry about dreaming first, I still have people here." Those old sisters who are good friends with me on weekdays. Although not everyone has seen you, they are all your elders. They have been reading this for a long time, and I can't help but give them a post. ”

Zhao Xiu was really dizzy this time: "What? Grandmother is going to invite even the old ladies and old commanders? I thought you were just an amateur matchmaker league, but that's how it is? ”

Zhang glared at her and said to Mi Yingzhi: "Last time, Brother Wei married you, and I didn't invite them. They complained about me for a long time, and this time I can't forget it anymore. Let's send the post as it is, it depends on their happiness whether they come or not. It's just that before the wedding feast, I asked them if they would come. If they don't come, they don't need their seats. ”

Mi Yingzhi hurriedly responded, recounted the roster, and gasped: "There are almost two hundred people, and there are nearly a hundred female dependents alone!" ”

Zhao Xiu always felt a little unreliable, and she looked at the list again: "Do you really want to invite all of them over?" When I get married, is it necessary to invite so many relatives who don't actually know me? It's people who know the library, I don't think they should be invited. I sent another table to the past, as if I had a treat with the housekeepers, and I was inevitably lazy. ”

Zhang said: "Then set up a banquet for the stewards in the back hall of the shop, knowing that the students of the library have fame, they will officially invite them to sit in the next post, and those who have no fame will find a good restaurant to entertain." Order more good food and wine, and don't be lazy. They also have a heart, and they even asked Yi Erlang to send a congratulatory gift. ”

"Congratulatory gifts?" Zhao Xiu was curious, "What congratulatory gifts will they give me?" ”

Mi Yingzhi hurriedly asked someone to bring things up, but it was a set of books, neatly decorated, and there were carefully printed books inside. Zhao Xiu flipped through it and was very surprised, it turned out that this set of books was not collected by other people's works, but all the Western books she translated, including economics, poetry and drama, and some language miscellaneous and other things, which were classified and organized in an orderly manner. The words and sentences in the book have all been re-proof-proofed, and there are some mistakes and omissions, and I don't know who they found to help, re-fill them, and then find a printing workshop to print the book. Flipping through these new books that still exude the scent of ink, as well as the signature of "Master of Mingzhitang" written on the cover of the book, Zhao Xiu suddenly felt that his nose was a little sour.

Originally...... She has been translating and copying books anonymously, knowing that the students in the library are looking at it. They were never quiet, but this set of books also represented their recognition of her.

Although it is not her own work, Zhao Xiu's heart is still full of a sense of achievement. Perhaps a few hundred years later, her name will also be printed in the history books, which is recorded like this: Zhao Xiu (born and died), the master of Mingzhitang, a famous female translator and bibliophile of the Chu Dynasty......

Thinking about it like this, Zhao Xiu's heart couldn't help but feel beautiful. (To be continued.) )