Chapter 1184: Marriage (I)
On the day of the wedding, Xie Yinghui got up early in the morning. She was surrounded by Wen with two concubines and a large number of maidens and mothers-in-law, and dressed up in the boudoir. By the time she was dressed, it was almost noon, and the little she had eaten in the morning had long since been exhausted, and she was so hungry that her stomach growled. But when she saw her beautiful appearance in the mirror, she was reluctant to do anything that might damage her makeup.
Fortunately, Xie Mulin discussed with Xie Yingfen and Yang Yuan early in the morning, and made sesame peanut glutinous rice balls the size of longan, with sugar added to them, just one bite at a time, and they would not touch the lip grease on Xie Yinghui's lips at all. The fragrant nut sugar filling has a filling effect, Xie Yinghui ate seven or eight in one go, and then used a clean reed pole as a straw, drank a small half of lotus seed soup, and was completely full. The nut and sugar filling left over from making glutinous rice balls was also made into smaller balls by Xie Mulin and Xie Yingfen, dried and stuffed into a purse, and handed over to Lu Qi to carry with him, so as to prevent Xie Yinghui from being hungry again after arriving at Huang's house, and she could take them out at any time to satisfy her hunger.
On this day's lunch, the Xie family didn't eat well, and everyone simply dealt with it. In the afternoon, it was the time for the Huang family to come to greet their relatives, and the banquet was held at dusk. The bride who had been dressed up was not so idle, the neighbors and the subordinate officials of the political envoy Yamen all came to congratulate them with their families, and the female dependents who had always had a good relationship with the Wen family had to go into the inner courtyard to see the bride. Xie Yinghui also has to agree with each other, and by the way, recognize people again. It's just that most of the time, it is the Wen family, Aunt Dajin, and Wanqin who are talking, and occasionally two younger sisters help to answer a few words, and she, the bride, only needs to make a shy appearance, sit with her head down and smile, and that's it.
There were a lot of people coming, and Xie Yinghui's courtyard was like a cloud of guests for the first time, and in the end, even Xie Yingrong had to come forward to help the female guests. She may still be a little unhappy, and asked Xie Mulin privately, why didn't she see the ladies of the Yan Wang's Mansion or the Eldest Princess's Mansion or the Ma family?
Of course, the ladies of these two families will not come to the Xie family today to congratulate them. First, the family affairs of the Xie Ma family have not yet been agreed, and the eldest princess of Yongning has a noble status, so she will not go to the house of an irrelevant outsider to eat and drink, and yesterday she could let her daughter-in-law and daughter come to add makeup, which has already given Xie Yinghui a lot of face. The Queen Mother is not in good health, and she is busy moving to Zizhu Courtyard to escape the summer recently? The eldest prince mainly accompanies the queen mother, how can he be separated? Second, the identity of the groom Huang Yan is not enough for that weight? At most, how many young masters of the Ma family? Will it be on the personal relationship between the two parties? Take your wife to Huang's house to congratulate. The Xie family is a female family, and there is no serious wedding banquet, so of course Princess Yan and Princess Yongning will not come.
Xie Yingrong was a little disappointed when he heard it? Can only barely keep up the spirits? Help entertain the female guests who came to congratulate them. Although she is not interested in most of the family members of officials with low status, there is still Mrs. Wan's family, and she can show Mrs. Wan how dignified and polite she is, and how good she is at dancing with long sleeves? After entering the door, you can help Mrs. Wan a lot!
Mrs. Wan didn't pay much attention to her at all? Attention is on others. Wan Long and Xie Yingrong's family affair has been decided? Can a duck fly away from its beak? This family business is not as good for her children as she imagined? The concubine Wan Long instead relied on the Yue family to get into trouble. She feels breathless when she thinks about it? Is it enough to do superficial work in front of Wen? Who has the time to pay attention to how good the concubine and daughter-in-law are?! She still wished that Xie Yingrong couldn't get on the stage!
After the female guests in Xie Yinghui's courtyard said their joy, they were slowly led by the Wen family with their two concubines to sit down slowly on the banquet in the main courtyard outside. As the sun turned westward and the auspicious time was approaching, Xie Huizhi, who was guarding the gate outside, hurriedly rushed in and reported: "I saw the people from the Huang family who came to greet them!" "The people in the courtyard slammed? Suddenly busy again? Did you check Xie Yinghui's makeup and hair? Did someone put a hijab on her? and went to check the dress of all the girls in the house, and everyone was busy.
Xie Mulin saw that Xie Yinghui's cheeks were red, and the whole person was visibly nervous? smiled and shook her hand: "Relax, eldest sister, this is something you have been looking forward to for a long time, you should be happy, what is there to be nervous about?" Quick, take a few deep breaths, and don't affect your beauty because you are nervous! Isn't it a pity that the eldest brother-in-law picked up the hijab and was not shocked by your beauty? Xie Yinghui glared at her with disgust, but she still obediently took a deep breath as she said.
Next, the people in the house really heard the loud drum music, many people laughed and ran, and came to the inner courtyard to report to Xie Yinghui, and some people urged Wen to go back to the main courtyard, waiting for the groom to come and kowtow. The female guests who had stayed behind all followed Wen's, and the inner courtyard finally calmed down a little.
There was also Mrs. Xie, dressed in a newly made brocade dress and wearing her gold ornaments on her head, and walked into the courtyard of her eldest granddaughter.
She should have stayed in her yard today, her son and daughter-in-law had already served a table of wine, and specially hired two female ancestors for her to talk and be funny, and there were two familiar ladies from the staff family to talk to her, she didn't have to come out to socialize, and she could live happily - I heard that the second room concubine Song family was also treated equally, but the escort was replaced by two Song clan daughters who had just arrived from the Song family in Changping, and Mrs. Xie didn't need to run out to do something in order to compare the concubine.
But Mrs. Xie still came.
Xie Yinghui has really not liked her much in recent years, but she is the eldest granddaughter she has loved for more than ten years. She was originally not very satisfied with Huang Yan, and she suspected that her family background was not prominent enough - this was judged by the most beautiful years of the Xie family. But now that Huang Yan has become a new science and technology scholar, he has entered the Hanlin Academy, and he has also made friends with the sons of the eldest princess's family, and it sounds like a young talent with a great future, Xie Pu has repeatedly had a high opinion of this eldest son-in-law, and Mrs. Xie is no longer silent.
Today, when the eldest granddaughter gets married, how can she, as her own grandmother, not come forward?
Mrs. Xie entered Xie Yinghui's house, looked at the eldest granddaughter in front of her, who was ten times more beautiful than usual, and was in a trance, as if she remembered the luxurious makeup of the eldest lady in Cao Shuqing's mother's Chengenhou Mansion when the Xie family was at its most beautiful in the past, especially the golden silk phoenix on her head, she remembered that the ladies of the Cao family had it.
Mrs. Xie calmed down, looked at Xie Yinghui, sighed, and stuffed the jade bracelet tightly wrapped with a silk handkerchief in her hand: "Good boy, when you get out of the pavilion, let's live a good life!" ”