Chapter 386: A Deserted Wedding
In the Xinyang Hou Mansion, at a glance, the eyes are shrouded in red, today is the great joy of the Xinyang Hou Mansion, after receiving the holy decree in the palace, the Xinyang Hou had grief and anger, but it was gone in a blink of an eye. The Marquis of Xinyang Mansion has not had a woman who has married into the royal family for decades, even if it is a side concubine, it is already a great honor, not to mention that a marriage is a holy marriage, the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty, and the family of the entire Handu, which family has such a good thing of honoring the ancestors.
Xinyang Hou has thought about it, his daughter is beautiful, empathetic, and gentle, which is very different from the difficult tigress of Princess Xiaoyang. Men, I like gentle and virtuous women the most, heroes are sad to pass the beauty pass, Princess Xiaoyang is beautiful, but she doesn't have the tenderness of her own daughter. After Yan Xiang enters the mansion, with Yan Xiang's means, he will definitely be able to get Prince Mu's favor, if he can give birth to the eldest son of the palace first, then the scenery will be infinite.
Yan Xiang, who was combing her hair in the boudoir, was pale, since she received the holy decree that she was reduced to a side concubine, Yan Xiang exuded a low pressure all over her body, no matter who mentioned this shameful marriage in front of her, she would be angry for no reason, and the maids in the house would be beaten and scolded if they were slightly unhappy, and they would be killed with a cane, which made everyone in the house panic.
Especially on the day of the wedding of Xiao Yang and Prince Mu, everyone in the entire Handu knew that the bride was Princess Xiao Yang of Qingyuetai, not her Yan Xiang. When His Majesty had just given her marriage, she had flaunted her in front of those who looked down on her, and after that grand wedding, she became a joke in the circle of the upper nobility.
Don't think she doesn't know, those self-proclaimed famous ladies must have sneered at her behind their backs, and they are all waiting to see their jokes, and the princess who is marrying from the Ming media has become a side concubine, a side concubine, it sounds good, no matter what, it shouldn't be a concubine.
"One comb to the end of the hair, two combs to the eyebrows of the white hair, three combs of children and grandchildren all over the ground, four combs of eternal harmony ......" for Yan Xiang's grandmother with a happy eyebrow, she is Yan Xiang's mother, seeing that Yan Xiang is about to get married, and it is married into a high gate, Mama is overjoyed.
Yan Xiang in the bronze mirror can't see the emotion, even if there is resentment in his heart, hearing his grandmother's words, where will the daughter's family have no vision, especially looking at the bride's dress in the mirror, more or less still have some expectations.
When Yan Xiang's reverie was about to overflow the sky, someone shattered her expectations heavily, and someone from Prince Mu's mansion came.
Hearing that Yan Xiang from Prince Mu's mansion came, his face finally changed, and he thought a few times in his heart, today is the day she entered the mansion, Prince Mu must have sent someone over for the marriage of the two, it seems that the prince is not without thoughts about himself.
"The old slave is Aunt Qin Fang next to the prince, and she has seen Miss Yan." Qin Fang was only slightly blessed, her expression was very cold, she called Yan Xiang or Miss Yan, and did not change her name to Concubine Yan.
Listening to Qin Fang's title, Yan Xiang only frowned slightly, she didn't like or want to hear others call herself a side concubine, but the people in the palace still called Miss Yan when they saw her, it seemed a little inappropriate, but thinking that she hadn't entered the mansion yet, she was still a girl from the Yan family, and there was nothing wrong with calling herself Miss Yan. After all, there are a lot of royal rules and etiquette, and it is better to be cautious.
"I wonder what happened to my aunt when she came to the house at this time?" Yan Xiang's delicate voice asked.
Seeing Yan Xiang's style, Aunt Qin Fang was glad that the person her prince married in the end was not Yan Xiang, and she spoke loudly and looked like a fox. But as a side concubine of Israel's servant, it doesn't matter.
The Empress Dowager remembered that today is the big day for the prince and Miss Yan, although Miss Yan is just a side concubine, but Miss Yan is a marriage gift from the emperor, which is naturally different from ordinary side concubines. The Empress Dowager has always valued the prince, Miss Yan is the side concubine personally selected by the emperor for the prince, and the Empress Dowager specially rewarded Miss Yan with a wedding dress, which Miss Yan cherished. Aunt Qin Fang handed over the burden in her hand to the grandmother behind Yan Xiang, and soon left the Xinyang Hou Mansion.
As soon as Qin Fang left, Yan Xiang's boudoir became lively, the wedding dress rewarded by the Empress Dowager, who can have the blessing to wear it, her own girl is really a blessing, and she has entered the eyes of the Empress Dowager.
"Girl, this is the only one in the world, the eldest princess of Shaoyang was married with her own embroidered wedding dress, I heard that two days ago, Princess Xiaoyang got married and wore a wedding dress brought from Tang Dusk, the queen mother not only did not officiate the wedding for the prince, but also did not say at all, only our girl has such a good fortune." Thinking that it was the wedding dress given by the Empress Dowager, Mama thought that her girl was wearing the Empress Dowager's reward to marry, and even the prince did not dare to look down on her own girl.
The rest of the people also echoed: "Girl, this is the Empress Dowager's favor to you, what about the one on the Qingyue Platform even if it is the concubine?" What if it's Princess Tang Dusk? It's not that she can't get the favor of the Queen Mother, I heard that when the one from the Qingyue Platform entered the palace and asked for peace to come out the day before yesterday, his whole face turned pale, which shows that the nobles in the palace don't like her at all. ”
Yan Xiang, who was said to be a little believed by the people around him, opened the burden with anticipation, and after seeing the color of the wedding dress clearly, his face turned pale instantly, it was pink, it was pink, whether it was a rich family or an ordinary family, only a concubine would use pink, Yan Xiang secretly hated the Empress Dowager for giving a pink wedding dress, didn't it just tell the world that she Yan Xiang was just a concubine?
The royal side concubine will also be on the royal jade butterfly, and she can also wear red when she gets married, as long as it is not red, if she really wears the wedding dress rewarded by the queen mother and enters the house, then what kind of side concubine is she. The Empress Dowager has always disliked herself, and even gave herself a wedding dress, and the people in the house thought that she was valued by the Empress Dowager, but it was just a joke.
Looking at the wedding dress in the baggage, the delicate pink is so dazzling, since she was a child, she has never suffered such a shame, but the reward of the Queen Mother, no matter how disgusted she is, she must wear this eye-catching wedding dress when she leaves the house.
When Yan Xiang appeared in front of the Xinyang Marquis Mansion in a pink wedding dress, a dark red sedan chair was already waiting in front of the door, and Yan Xiang under the hijab always felt that a lot of eyes fell on her body, falling on her pink wedding dress.
Leng Du didn't want to see Yan Xiang, and sent four people carrying sedan chairs at random, anyway, the rest of the people and the Xinyang Marquis Mansion would arrange it by themselves, so he wouldn't bother with that.
The deserted greeting procession passed through the city, the people of Handu looked happy, they had never seen such a shabby greeting procession, a dark red sedan chair, maids and servants followed behind the sedan chair, and the neat thirty-six dowries were carried out in a place where money was like dung, which could only be regarded as the dowry of a small family.
When someone in the crowd mentioned that the person in the sedan chair was the second lady of the Xinyang Hou Mansion, everyone's eyes changed, and the second miss of the Xinyang Hou Mansion was going to marry into Prince Mu's Mansion as a side concubine. is still so shabby, it can be seen that this Miss Yan Er is not only not valued in her mother's family, but also in her husband's family.
There are more and more onlookers, and some people even mention the eldest lady of the Xinyang Houfu who married three years ago, when the eldest lady Yan got married, it can be said that she had ten miles of red makeup, a full one hundred and twenty dowries, and the first few were all tiles and soil, which shows that there are countless shops and lands for the marriage. Now that the second lady of the Xinyang Hou Mansion is married, there is no such treatment, but it is worth 36 dowries, and people who have a little spare money can renovate 36 dowries for their daughters.
"Miss Yan's dowry is only thirty-six, I remember that when Miss Yan got married, she had ten miles of red makeup, and it was full of one hundred and twenty units!"
"You don't know this, can Miss Yan and Miss Yan Er? Miss Yan's mother comes from a famous family, and of course the dowry is rich, Miss Yan's mother is a stepfamily, from a small family, and she didn't have a few dowries when she got married, let alone her daughter. ”
"I see, this reincarnation is a good science!"
The discussion in the crowd did not shy away from it, anyway, no one knew who said it, and it would not offend anyone, Yan Xiang in the sedan chair heard the words that belittled her and raised Yan Jiao, and the fingernails under the wide sleeves sank deep into the delicate skin Li, how could she not hate, since she was a child, she thought that she lacked nothing more than Yan Jiao, and the dowry when Yan Jiao got married three years ago deeply hurt her eyes, and at that time she even thought how good it would be if those were all hers. Yesterday, when she was dragged by her mother to see the dowry, she saw the thirty-six dowries that were randomly stuffed, and she was so anxious that she almost fainted.
She never thought that she would marry so embarrassed, when she was in the Hou Mansion, her father and mother doted on her, and she had no brothers, Yan Xiang knew that she would not have a younger brother in her life, according to her thoughts, her father and mother should give her the entire property of the Hou Mansion for the sake of the Hou Mansion, so as not to fall into the hands of outsiders in the future.
Yan Xiang, who was full of thoughts, unconsciously arrived at Prince Mu's mansion, she didn't know that she was carried in from the side door in the sedan chair, and when she heard the discussion on the street on the day she returned to the door, she knew that she was so shameless to enter the mansion. The people who followed her to marry into the palace naturally didn't dare to mention that incident, and everyone knew her temper.
"Concubine Niangniang, you've arrived at the palace, it's time for you to get off the sedan chair." The festive voice of the Xi Po on the side of the sedan car sounded, and the sedan curtain was opened, and Yan Xiang's hand was lifted, and Tingting entered the new house that had been prepared.
When she arrived at the new house, Xi Po retreated, leaving Yan Xiang and the maid she brought, the whole yard was quiet, except for the sound of moving the dowry, as if it was isolated from the world, of course the maid who came all the way knew how to be so clean, but she didn't dare to mention it in her master's ear!
"Niangniang, are you hungry? The slave and maid will go and get you something to eat, you haven't eaten all day. "Hurry up and escape from this silent place, she is afraid that her master will suddenly ask about entering the mansion today.