Chapter 187: Harmony
The seventh day of the winter month is the fifteenth birthday of Diancui, and the ceremony is held.
The mother-in-law and maid in the courtyard were busy early in the morning, and Aunt Xing made silver silk noodles, and when they came, Qiuyue and Dongxue had already dressed and combed their hair for Diancui.
"Oh, why are you dressed so grandly?" Aunt Xing put down the dishes and chopsticks, looked at the Hangzhou silk red sprinkling flower jacket on Diancui's body, and the pearl cui on her head, and couldn't cry or laugh.
"Today is a big day for Miss and Lu, so naturally you have to dress up more grandly." Qiu Yue was puzzled.
Aunt Xing patted her head and said with annoyance, blaming me for being busy these days and forgetting to make it clear to you.
In this and the ceremony, it is necessary to change clothes and hair accessories three times, the first time is the most plain, and then gradually add clothes and hairpin crowns to complete.
"It's so cumbersome?" Diancui is not only an exit road.
"My young lady, where is this called cumbersome, in our capital, all the ladies and ladies of big families do this, you must not be annoyed." Aunt Xing said bitterly.
When a few maids heard this, they immediately took off their makeup and hair for Diancui, changed into plain shirts, short lining of Jing Tiantian, a silver-white vertical collar with royal blue edges, a lilac-colored Hunan skirt, and a monochrome soft deerskin cotton boots on their feet. The belt was made of a plain blue muslin belt. The hair was originally black and black like a black waterfall, only slightly combed and scattered.
The makeup on her face was also removed, but fortunately, her skin was like clotted fat without flaws, her eyebrows were like distant mountains without variegation, her eyes were black and bright like cats, her smile was bent like the crescent moon on the horizon, and her cherry lips were not dotted and her vermilion was glamorous.
It's simple, it's slim, it's clear and beautiful, it covers up a bit of her original softness, Aunt Xing has seen it several times and is satisfied.
Diancui ate the noodles, Qiuyue took a thick fox fur, and before leaving, Aunt Xing stuffed a soup woman in her hand, and everything was ready before going to the main courtyard.
In the main courtyard, people come and go, so it's not lively.
In the outer hall, there were male guests sitting in the inner room, including those from Nanyang County, Uncle Diancui's uncle, the Lu family, the colleagues of the third master in the officialdom, and the seven members of the Guozi Prison...... The third master was greeting with a smile on his face. Seeing his daughter coming slim and graceful, the third master stroked his beard and smiled, quite a sense of pride that my family has a woman who has just grown up.
Diancui is led by my father, and I want to say hello to all uncles and brothers.
"Fourth sister, I haven't seen you grow up again in less than a year," Gui Yinan is the same age as Diancui, and now he is about the same height as Diancui, and he couldn't help sighing: "You have finally grown up, but I am still ...... early"
As soon as he said this, everyone laughed. A woman is considered an adult when she is fifteen and a man, but a man has to wait until he reaches adulthood with a weak crown of twenty squares. It is not bad for him to say this.
"Can the eagle caught in the spring be trained?" Diancui pursed her lips and asked.
As soon as Gui Yinan heard that someone asked about his eagle, he immediately became more energetic, and he was trained well, and now he can patrol in the county! Better than the guards.
"Fourth sister, the second brother is now majestic, every day there is a mighty eagle standing on the head of the city on his shoulder, but it is very majestic, and even the thieves in the county are less!" Gui Yixuan is really envious, but the second brother of the eagle is very baby, and he doesn't let him play at all.
No wonder I didn't see Gui Yinan on the day I returned to my hometown to worship my ancestors after the stove meeting, so I took the eagle to patrol the city again.
"Fourth sister, let's go catch eagles and rabbits again this winter!" Gui Yixuan said with anticipation on his face.
Before Diancui could speak, a little girl came out of the house, it turned out to be the fourth master's Gui Chuchu, and said with a smile, "It's not good, now our fourth sister and sister are adults, and they should be stable, how can they chase rabbits and eagles with you in the snow like that child, besides, ......"
Besides, the fourth sister has already made a promise, how can that Yuan Gongzi allow the fourth sister to mess around.
"This ......" and Lu is grown up, hey, Diancui scratched his head, and happened to meet Yuan Zhiheng listening to their cousins and brothers.
"If you like it, chase rabbits and eagles, climb the wall and yard, regardless of age, as long as you want to go at any time." Yuan Zhiheng said with a smile.
After he finished speaking, several juniors gathered around suddenly exploded.
Gui Chuchu blushed for the first time, she grew so big, although she could see that her father and mother had a good relationship, except in the book, but she had never said such a love story.
"Oh, hey, the fourth sister can chase rabbits and eagles and climb the wall and yard in the future!" Gui Yixuan clapped his hands and ran around the hall, shouting loudly.
Everywhere he went, he was laughing. Rao is a little cheeky, and he can't help but blush. Yuan Zhiheng stood with his hands crossed, not caring at all, as if everyone was laughing at him not as well.
"Here you go."
After everyone finished laughing, Dian Cui also finished talking to everyone in the hall one by one. Yuan Zhiheng walked towards her and stretched out a hand in front of him.
"What?" The flush on Dian Cui's face had not yet faded, and the closer he got at this time, Dian Cui only felt that his cheeks were like soju on the small red clay stove, gurgling and steaming.
"Tim Woo." Yuan Zhiheng looked at her red cheeks, was in a good mood, and couldn't help but smile.
Diancui reached out and took it from his palm.
It is a jasper hairpin, the color is not the upper name, the workmanship is also a little rough, the hairpin head is a cute sitting cat licking its paws, it is very cute.
What kind of hairpin is this, I have seen so many hairpins, but I have never seen a carved cat. Besides, looking at the craft, it should be done by a beginner.
"It's quaint and fun, and I love it." Although Diancui blushed, he didn't forget to pat a few sycophants.
Besides, she really likes it, as the saying goes, cats have nine lives, and she has one more life for others. The cat and her kind of caution.
"I did it."
"The teacher did it! Do it yourself? Diancui's eyes widened.
Yuan Zhiheng smiled slightly and nodded. Since Qixi Festival, he has looked for Guo Lao, so that Guo Lao is willing to call him a few days, it can be seen that he refuses to follow the routine, and insists on carving a good piece of jade into a cat. Guo is old and doesn't teach anymore, but fortunately, he is smarter than ordinary people, and he has been thinking about it for many days, and he has become it.
"How did you become a cat?" People's hairpins are all flowers, birds, fish and insects, and the teacher has never been different, Diancui asked in his mouth, secretly happy in his heart.
"Like you." Yuan Zhiheng said with a smile.
Sometimes he is cute and cute, sometimes he is cunning and willful, some are clever and some are petty tempered, but most of the time he is well-behaved and docile.
"Why are you still talking here, mother and they are waiting!" Gui Bonian couldn't help but feel a little helpless when he saw his sister-in-law eating and laughing here and whispering to Yuan Zhiheng.
"Let's go." Yuan Zhiheng said.
"Oh yes, here it is." Diancui clenched the cat's hosta tightly and followed the eldest brother into the house.
"It's here, it's here, the fourth lady has arrived." Grandma Lu shouted.
Diancui entered the room and greeted the grandmother Gui Old Lady, Master Guo Lao, mother Wu, second aunt Lian, fourth aunt Wang, and all the uncles and aunts of the Wu family, and all the sisters and sisters.
Mrs. Gui and Mr. Guo sat on the top, and the aunt of the Wu family and the Wu family were next to them.
Lian stood up gently, smiled on his face, and said "Father".
The third master got up, cleared his throat, and said: Today is the gift of the little girl's green and hairy, thank you for coming to the cold house! Gui is not very grateful for the honor, and the ceremony officially begins!
Lian got up again, cleaned his hands with dew on the early morning flowers and leaves in the silver basin, took an ivory comb, and this side of the dot cui was helped out by Gui Chuyu and Gui Chuchu, facing the south side, bowing to the guests again, and then kneeling down, and Lian combing her hair.
The eldest lady of the Wu family and the Wu family looked at each other, and then got up, and cleaned their hands with the water of the deep valley stream in the golden basin, and the Lian family offered Luo Pa and silver silk buns, and the Wu family's aunt pulled up her long hair for Dian Cui, wrapped Luo Pa, and combed her hair.
After pulling his hair, Diancui bowed to everyone.
The old lady got up and chanted a greeting in a solemn voice: Lingyue is an auspicious day, and the first Canadian yuan is served. Abandon your young ambitions, and become virtuous. Shou Kao Weiqi, Jieer Jingfu.
The first addition is done.
Mrs. Wu cleaned her hands with the spring water of the golden basin again, and went to a white hosta with a crystal clear body, and wanted to put it on her.
"Auntie, let's change it to this." Diancui was close to her aunt and whispered in her ear.
Mrs. Wu was stunned for a moment, but she was indeed a person who was used to seeing big scenes, so she quietly took the cat hosta in Diancui's hand, put the original one in her sleeve, and put it on her hairpin unhurriedly and smoothly, and went to Luopa and Fa Lu at the same time. This small action can be regarded as hiding from everyone.
"Thank you, aunt." Diancui said with a lip in cheek.
The eldest lady of the Wu family glanced at her, no wonder before she came, Wu Shiqian told her to ask her to hold on to it, this Sister Cui changed her hairpin so suddenly, which made her almost stunned and made people laugh.
After the hairpin was completed, the old lady said again: auspicious moon Lingchen, Nashen Erfu. Respect for the majesty, the grace of the soot. Eyebrows live for 10,000 years, and will always be blessed by Hu.
After adding a hairpin and changing her skirt, Diancui was helped into the inner room by two cousins and two maids, Qiuyue and Dongxue, and changed into a plain undergarment. Put on the Feiquan blue mirror flower silk curl deep coat, Kou Shao begonia pattern placket.
When he came out, he bowed to the guests.
This is a two-plus hairpin.
Three plus crowns, the eldest lady of the Wu family returned to the seat, and the old lady got up and cleaned her hands with alpine snow water in the jade basin.
Lian's presented the red gold inlaid treasure lychee pattern blessing word to wear the peony luan bird head crown, and the old lady and the dot cui put it on.
Diancui went to change clothes again, this time wearing a long-sleeved dress with makeup flowers and mallows, a vertical collar with brocade inlaid with gold wire, gold buttons with lily of the valley flowers, a long and wide skirt, a gold-edged skirt embroidered with Wei Zi peony, and the shoes were also replaced with high-soled shoes embroidered with parrots and gemstone pearls in royal blue satin.
The golden crown of the hair is pulled up in a high bun, revealing a smooth forehead, a clean beauty point, a pair of black and watery eyes under the eyebrows of the distant mountains, small and thick cherry lips, no one can say that it is cheesy and charming, at this time it is slightly pursed, and the bearing is extraordinary and radiant.
The old lady sang: With the right of the year, with the order of the month, the salty gar is served. Brothers are there, in order to become a virtue. The astragalus is boundless, and it is celebrated by the sky.
Diancui bowed to the guests again, and the young ones bowed back, and the ceremony was counted.
The ceremony is cumbersome like a wedding, and the last life is neither a cumbersome ceremony for marriage, nor such a grand ceremony.
Secretly touched the cat hosta on his head, and smiled secretly, it's really good to have one more life.
The ceremony is really grand, and there are as many as a few boxes of gifts received.
The father and mother gave the best head in the workshop over the years, and the twelve pieces of heavy gold and jade jewelry are neat and tidy, plus jade rings, waist pendants, gold and jade buttons, etc.; The eldest brother and sister-in-law are all elegant people, and they give a white jade crown and a simple agarwood tiger hairpin; The second brother Gui Zhongqing sent a lot of strange things, such as such large pearls like pigeon eggs, glittering exotic gems, all of which are inlaid on the head, and even some jewelry that has never been seen before from overseas aliens, only dazzling...... The seven members of the Guozijian were also solemn, and each gave a different hairpin.
The Wu family carried three large boxes, and the Wu family opened them and looked at them, crying and laughing, a box of gold pieces, a box of chalcedony, and a box of cat's eye gems and pearls.
"If you want to say that the hairpin is the best in the capital, it's my sister's house, so I simply sent these materials here, and I like to do whatever style I like." Mrs. Wu said.
The Wu family is an imperial businessman, and the Wu family has three brothers and a younger sister, except for the younger sister Wu, who gave birth to a little cui, and all the people next to him are sons.
It is because there is no shortage of sons in their family, and there is no shortage of gold and silver, but what is lacking is a good daughter-in-law, Mrs. Wu looked at the Diancui who was standing there with a smile, and couldn't help sighing.
Why didn't I think of the trick of finger finger marriage back then, poor Brother An, as the most beautiful man in the capital, refuses to marry now...... A good matter of children's relatives, was snatched by the kid surnamed Yuan.
Let's go!