Chapter 484: Preparing the Dowry
In order to highlight his "generosity", Long Xingche deliberately explained: "As far as I know, no one has ever won this honor since the founding of the Chen Kingdom, or in all dynasties, only your senior brother. ”
"Really? Unexpectedly, the emperor set a special precedent for the senior brother, and the concubines were deeply admired! The concubine is here to thank the emperor for his senior brother. After Fu Wenjing finished speaking, she blessed Long Xingche.
After Long Xingche saw Fu Wenjing saluting him, he frowned in displeasure: "I don't want you to be grateful to me when I named your senior brother as a waiter, but I just want you to know that I don't mean to be unfavorable to your senior brother in my heart. Can you understand my intentions? ”
After Fu Wenjing stood up, she said calmly: "The concubine can understand what the emperor means, the emperor, this matter is over, let's stop talking about senior brother, who makes us sensitive to each other, okay?" ”
Long Xingche echoed: "Okay, since you said so, why should I mention it again!" When I came in, I saw a lot of things outside, can you tell me what it is? ”
Fu Wenjing sat down on the soft couch, helped Long Xingche pour a cup of dew tea, and put it in front of him.
"The emperor still remembers Princess Zhaoyang's marriage delayed due to the death of the Jade Concubine, Princess Zhaoyang is not small, I found someone to calculate, the eighth day of the first month of next month is a very good day, why don't we hurry up and arrange Princess Zhaoyang's marriage!"
"Yes, the queen mother asked me when she saw me a few days ago! The queen mother has already handed over the matter of Zhaoyang's marriage to you, and you have the final say in this matter. ”
After Long Xingche finished speaking, he blew the tea leaves on it, and then tasted the tea that Fu Wenjing had made for her after collecting the dew and boiling it.
"Today's dew tea, your brew is extraordinarily delicious! It's often like this, it's really hard for you to make dew tea for me! ”
"The emperor just drinks well, and it is not in vain for the concubines to collect dew!" The corners of Fu Wenjing's mouth curved, and she also took a sip, and the fragrance of the petals in the tea also lingered in her mouth.
When Fu Wenjing collects the dew, most of it is collected from the flowers, and the fragrance of the petals is on it.
In ancient times, there was no pollution, and the dew on the petals was cleaner than ordinary water. It's still good to use it to make tea.
In addition, in ancient times, it was more healthy to use dew to make tea, especially for the elderly, who paid attention to health preservation, and the ancient water was not treated, so compared to other waters, dew was relatively clean.
Dew tea tastes good, but the process of collecting dew is tedious, and it is difficult to collect it if you are not patient.
Collecting dew is to get up very early and go to the garden or the field to collect it before the sun comes out, but most people do not think of collecting dew, and only some literati and artists will do such a thing, in addition to wanting to use dew to make tea, but also for more fun.
Fu Wenjing used to love to lie in bed very much, but after discovering that Long Xingche liked to drink dew tea, she couldn't help but have the habit of getting up early, and got up with Long Xingche every day when he went to court.
Long Xingche went to the court, and he took Jing Xuanxuan's people to the imperial garden to collect dew. By the time the sun rises, the dew is basically gone, so they try to collect as much dew as possible to make tea before the sun comes out.
Fu Wenjing has always been a person who sleeps a lot, because she will not get enough sleep when she gets up early, and she has to take a "lunch break" at noon every day to make up for the missing sleep......
Long Xingche didn't have much to do today, so he stayed in Jingxuan Hall for a while, and when he went to the backyard to walk, he found that the corn they planted was about to ripen, so he discussed the marriage with Fu Wenjing and other princesses of Zhaoyang, and went to the field to harvest corn.
Although Long Xingche and Fu Wenjing do not have any children of their own now, because of Princess Yaoyuan, there are more bonds between him and Fu Wenjing. often holds Princess Yaoyuan in the courtyard of the Jingxuan Palace to play and amuse.
Regarding Princess Zhaoyang's marriage, Fu Wenjing has never dared to slack off, and since he got Long Xingche's permission, he has hurried to get busy.
Fu Wenjing once asked Dandan to join him in the marriage of Princess Luo Zhaoyang, so now Yu Dandan is basically a frequent visitor in the Jingxuan Palace.
Yu Dandan and Fu Wenjing were so close, which also caused Concubine Ying's dissatisfaction, and Long Xingche also told Concubine Ying that Yu Dandan was going to Jingxuan Hall to help Fu Wenjing prepare Princess Zhaoyang's dowry together.
But now Concubine Ying, who is full of power, thinks that Yu Dandan and Fu Wenjing are conspiring together again, so she also comes to Jingxuan Hall from time to time to "take a look" at the preparations for Princess Zhaoyang's dowry.
In fact, in fact, Fu Wenjing and Yu Dandan were together to prepare a dowry for Princess Zhaoyang, and they really didn't have time to conspire with anything like Concubine Ying thought.
Because no matter which dynasty the princesses are loved by the royal family, their role can consolidate the position of the emperor and strengthen the ties between countries, so the marriage of the princess is a major event in the court, whether it is a marriage or a marriage to a nobleman in the country.
If the royal family marries a daughter, then the dowry must be dozens of times that of ordinary people's families.
There are many kinds of dowries for princesses, and it is relatively complicated to prepare, before the death of the jade concubine, Fu Wenjing had prepared some, but the remaining ones were also more difficult to prepare dowries.
The dowry prepared by Fu Wenjing for Princess Zhaoyang was divided into clothing, gold and silver jewelry, precious books, pens, ink, pianos and chess. and a lot of money.
Fu Wenjing also chose some smart and clever palace maids as dowries. All of them were personally selected by Fu Wenjing one by one, and they were also people she trusted very much.
Gold, silver, jewelry, and money have been sorted out, and in terms of jewelry, Fu Wenjing has collected some jewels such as jade pendants, court offerings, jadeite, rings, bracelets, etc., all of which are the best, just to prove the special identity of the princess.
The princesses in ancient times were basically proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, although Princess Zhaoyang was not very familiar with these aspects. But Fu Wenjing still prepared for her according to the rules, and also found the best she could find and put it in the princess's dowry.
Now, in about half a month, Princess Zhaoyang's wedding date will arrive, and Fu Wenjing and Yu Dandan are sorting out Princess Zhaoyang's dowry day by day, and they are busy.
But because Concubine Ying was operating in the dark, a voice of doubt also came.
It turned out that in addition to going to Jingxuan Hall almost every day to see what Fu Wenjing and Yu Dandan were doing, Concubine Ying also understood the dowry prepared by Fu Wenjing for Princess Zhaoyang.
Originally, according to normal terms, Fu Wenjing prepared a dowry for Princess Zhaoyang, and the more she prepared, the better, because it could prove that the royal family attached great importance to Princess Zhaoyang.
But there is a key problem, that is, the person Princess Zhaoyang married is Fu Wenjing's third brother Fu Wenxi, in this case, the meaning is different!
Concubine Ying is secretly looking for someone, and has been spreading the news in the palace that Fu Wenjing scavenged money from the treasury to her mother's house.