583 Prepare for the wedding feast
Bai Zhi followed Du Yingqiu to learn framing.
When the third wife, He Shi, heard about Du Yingqiu, she laughed and scolded behind her back: "Learn from me, I want to be a good wife and mother, look at her like that, can you learn it?" It's really virtuous, and he wouldn't have been given a break by the Hu family earlier......"
Although Du Yingqiu did not learn ten percent of the mounting techniques, he also learned eight or ninety percent, which was better than He's.
In the evening of the eighth day of the lunar month, there was a vigorous goose feather snow in the imperial city, and after nightfall, the winter snow flew in a row.
In this cold night, Su Yan used the twilight food, and thought about painting "Three Friends of the Year and the Cold" for a while in her heart, secretly pondered for a while, and sketched the first attempt on the paper, and had some outlines in her heart, so she depicted it carefully, plum blossoms, orchids, green bamboos, no more, no less, no more and no less jumped on the paper, every flower, every leaf, are skillful.
After the painting was finished, it was already the fourth watch. Fang entered the hibiscus tent and lay down, listening to the wind and snow in his ears, all the silence was silent, and he entered the dream in a daze.
When I woke up the next morning, I was white everywhere I looked. The imperial city has been completely renewed, the windows are bright and clean, the Qiongting is lonely, the golden tiles are covered with snow, and the cold is pressing.
Today is the ninth day of the lunar month, early in the morning, Shen's, Murong and other wives gathered the girls and mothers-in-law of each room to clean the courtyard, and even the snow in the back garden was swept into a mountain, piled up in the flower and tree gardening field, like a small snow mountain.
Qi Jun and Chuanjian, Xiaoba and others playfully played a snowball fight in the garden, and Xiao Jiu, who had been lying in the house for a long time, sat on the wheel and watched with a smile, and saw that Chuanjian hit Xiaoba, and shouted in a hurry: "Brother, fight Seventh Brother, Beat Seventh Brother!" ”
Because of the cold weather, the twelfth day of the lunar month is the day when Su Yan leaves the pavilion, and after cleaning up the snow, she has to start building a wedding shed in the back garden, and she has to put a small red clay stove in each wedding shed.
Li Biling looked at the busy subordinates in the back garden. "It's too cold this day, even if you put a silver charcoal stove, you won't be able to use it. It is better to pick two other courtyards and one to entertain male guests. One place to entertain female guests. There are four or five tables in the big room, and two or three tables in the small room. Swing according to size. ”
It was too cold for a wine feast in the Tent. No matter how cold it is outside, it will be cold in the shed, even if there is a silver charcoal stove, but the chill still penetrates into the shed, and a few people are stunned in the shed, only shivering from the cold.
Shen looked at Zhang Shuangshuang with disappointment. This should have been said by Zhang Shuangshuang, the people in the big house didn't see the problem, but Li Biling took the first step to see it.
Du Yingqiu felt that Li Biling's suggestion was good, "Gather in the living room and clean up the meeting room, side hall, and all of them." Only the rest room is left for the guests to talk and sit. The room over there was large, and it was appropriate to set up fifteen or sixteen tables for a feast. ”
Although Du Yingqiu is a newcomer, the Jiang family does not mention that she married earlier and was abandoned, although the He family is quite right, they dare not mention it in front of her. Du Yingqiu didn't care. It was a fact that she had married once before, but she did her best to do her part, and Su Yan was the only daughter of the Jiang family, and the whole family treated it as a major event, and Jiang Shuqi also advised. The wedding feast for Su Yan out of the pavilion must be done properly and successfully.
The people in each room, the efforts of the efforts, the suggestions of the suggestions, all of them have used 10% of their hearts.
The Shen family loves face the most, and everything wants to show the style and decency of the long house, but this time Li Biling thought of a way, but I was afraid that my face was a little unbearable.
He Shi looked a little lively, "How do sister-in-law and grandmother do things, causing us to be busy for most of the hour, but if we don't build a wedding shed, I said earlier, the girl is not in your house, I really don't know how distressed I ......"
Shen glared angrily.
Since Jiang Shupeng got the title of "Jiaxing Uncle" third-class lord, He has become more and more proud, putting "I am Mrs. Fate" in front of outsiders, and in front of his own family, he said a few cool words from time to time. At this moment, the He family put on a very distressed appearance, and complained about the Shen family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law first.
Although Shen didn't open her mouth to reproach Zhang Shuangshuang, just a look was enough to make Zhang Shuangshuang unhappy, and she said sharply: "The third aunt doesn't want to take a hand, just take your people back to the third room to rest." ”
He raised his eyebrows, "The third master is just this precious sister, how can I not help as a sister-in-law." He glared back at Zhang Shuangshuang, tilted his head, how to look at Zhang Shuangshuang, how unpleasant.
Seeing that Murong said this, he wanted to be sad, and said with a smile: "Don't say a few words, it's good to settle things quickly, it's the ninth day of the lunar month today, and I'm afraid there are a lot of grandmothers and young ladies who add makeup to Ming'er." The county lord is a warm-hearted person, but whenever the young lady she knows goes out of the cabinet, she adds makeup, and if she is not ready, the old lady will turn around and have a seizure, and no one can afford it. ”
Shen sighed, "The male guests are placed in the Juyou Hall, the female guests go to Qingzhuyuan, and the Qingyin Dock is also cleaned up, and the male guests are willing to enjoy the plum blossoms in the back garden, but they can go there to rest ......" At the end, she said to He Shi with a fierce expression: "You don't want to take a hit, just go back, don't complain here." ”
He twisted his waist, looked dissatisfied, and led the subordinates of the third room: "Go to Qingzhuyuan to clean up." ”
Shen said: "The big room will clean up the men's guest house, and the second room will take someone to clean up the women's guest house." Temporarily move all the things you don't need in the house to the nearest yard and put them aside. It's just a few days, and after being busy, it's back to the original. ”
He looked at the people in the big house, how to look at it and how it was not pleasing to the eye.
Shen has been putting up with He, and he can't see the way she speaks, seizing the opportunity, He will sneer a few words, no matter how good the temperament is, he can be angry with He.
The Shen family took two daughters-in-law, and the fifth wife, Du Yingqiu, brought people to follow.
Murong and Li Biling, together with He and Liu Feifei, took people to Qingzhuyuan to clean and prepare.
As he walked, He muttered, "How do you do the big house?" On such a cold day, I called everyone to the back garden to clean up, and I was busy for a long time, but I couldn't say that I had to go to the house instead. Is it worthy of my sister-in-law? I didn't get it done well for several days to do such a thing, and it was also a shame that my sister-in-law favored their big house and the big inn in the Western Vegetable Market to her. Such a big inn, even if you buy it from the upper family, you will have to pay more than 10,000 taels of silver...... The big house said that it helped the five rooms out of silver, but the big house was affordable and famous......"
He said this deliberately to Li Biling's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. The people in both rooms have paid for it, but they have a big inn in the big room, and the people in the second room should be dissatisfied.
Li Biling heard that Su Yan gave the second room grange in private, and the second room didn't suffer much loss, looking at it, the grange was no worse than the inn in the big house, and she didn't hear it.
But the He family didn't know what to do, and Su Yan also gave the Murong family a grange in private, and even the Yu family knew about it, and only hid it from the He family.
Murong didn't hear it, his expression was pale, and he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him.
Li Biling pursed her lips because she knew what was going on, and shrunk her neck because of the cold weather.
Liu Feifei knew that He liked to chatter, his left ear went in, and his right ear went out, but he didn't hear it. secretly said in his heart: I'm afraid that she won't get any benefits, and there will be a wave of anger in her stomach, and she will not stop until she has a seizure.
The He family chattered into the Qingzhu Garden alone, and said to the Murong family: "I heard that the big house has prepared a grange for the sister-in-law, and another shop has added makeup, and another 20,000 taels of silver. He asked again: "How does the second sister-in-law plan to add makeup?" ”
The foundation of the second room is thin, but there is a lot of silver.
Murong was stunned for a moment, thinking that his two sons and one daughter were married, and Su Yan gave them good things, or calligraphy and paintings, or jewelry, and everyone could do well in the boudoir. She is the second sister-in-law, and the eldest sister of the union, this gift is naturally heavier than the big house, "I don't have a grange, I don't have a shop, so I put three sets of good head jewelry, and prepare another 50,000 taels of silver tickets." ”
In this way, it is more decent than the addition of a big house.
He was a little flustered, how good is the second room with makeup, how good is the third room, and said with a smile: "This should be, my sister-in-law can favor your second room, the auction house is so good for business, and I persuaded my mother-in-law to give you the shop of the auction house, no matter how much it should be." She turned back to Liu Feifei and asked, "What about you?" When you and Lao Liu got married, did your sister-in-law give you good things? ”
Liu Feifei thought that the big room and the second room had to add makeup, and he didn't have any bottom at all. The six rooms are not as good as the big house and the second room, the children are all older, and the foundation of the family is also thick, so I was stunned for a while, and said, "I ...... I still have good head and face jewelry, and some calligraphy and paintings that the queen mother gave me at the beginning, I picked out good ones and added them all. ”
Su Yan treats her well, and she chooses the best one for Su Yan.
He sighed, thinking of this, he was really a little embarrassed, "As far as a few rooms are concerned, my sister-in-law treats each room well, but compared with you, our three rooms are worse than yours, each of them has their own courtesy, so I will put two sets of jewelry." My sister-in-law likes Zhenfei's calligraphy, so I asked him to write a few more pieces and add them all to it......"
Li Biling looked at Liu Feifei, twisted her face and smiled secretly.
Murong was afraid that Li Biling couldn't help it, so he pulled He to the house.
Seeing them enter the house, Li Biling whispered: "What is she trying to do with you?" My mother and you are both real, and they both told her. When she heard that you all added good things, she couldn't take them out, so she said that she would use the calligraphy of the third uncle to add makeup. ”
Liu Feifei also came back to his senses at this time, and scolded: "How is it more and more like the previous Wen family, but he is not called poor, but he is a door-picker." ”
Li Biling said with a smile: "I can't complain about her, you look at her children, when they grow up in the future, the dowry alone is a lot." Not to mention, if the uncles have a few more aunts, the old lady will save up the dowry for thirty years, but I am afraid that it will not be enough. The third wife gave birth to three daughters, but I am afraid that she will have another daughter? ”
Jiang Shuncheng and his wife only have one daughter, and the Yu family has to give her all the good things they have saved for decades. If there are more daughters, no matter how many good things the mother saves, there will not be much to distribute to everyone.
Liu Feifei looked stunned, "How do you know Lu Dao?" ”
Li Biling said that Su Yan said that Jiang Shupeng's daughter had more than his son. Although there is only one sentence, Li Biling analyzed it well, "Three uncles, three daughters and two sons, the next one is a son, and it is much different, the next child must be a daughter, and the next child is a son, so that there are more sons than daughters......"