Chapter 374: What's the matter
"The emperor has arrived! The Queen Mother has arrived! The Queen Mother has arrived! ”
With a long series of singing, everyone stopped greeting, then got up and tidied up their clothes, and bowed to the gate to pick up the car.
Xiao Yulin hurriedly greeted him.
Xiao Yuhong walked in first, Meng Yunting helped the Empress Dowager Zhao to follow behind, and a group of palace maids and eunuchs followed closely behind.
Walking to the first seat, Xiao Yuhong asked the Empress Dowager Zhao to sit in the upper right seat first, and then she sat in the upper left seat, and Meng Yunting sat in the next class position on the left.
Then everyone bowed in unison.
"See the Emperor! The Queen Mother! Queen Mother! ”
Xiao Yuhong raised his hand and said, "No courtesy!" Flat! ”
"Emperor Xie!"
Xiao Yuhong said: "Today is the day of the great joy of King Rui, you are all relatives of the emperor and your own family, you don't have to be more formal!" Sit it all! ”
"Emperor Xie!"
The crowd took their seats.
Xiao Yulin stood in front and said, "It's just a side concubine, and I actually have to work for the queen mother, the royal brother, and the imperial sister-in-law to come over!" ”
Empress Dowager Zhao said with a smile: "After all, it is a newcomer to your house, and this concubine is not an ordinary person, the mourning family wants to come and see, and she is happy!" ”
Xiao Yuhong said to Meng Yunting: "Princess Rui is inconvenient, and there is no one to entertain the female guests of King Rui's Mansion, so you can go to the middle courtyard to entertain Princess Rui!" ”
Meng Yunting stood up and said with a smile: "The concubine obeys the order!" ”
Xiao Yulin bowed his hand to Meng Yunting again: "I'm tired of the imperial sister-in-law!" ”
Meng Yunting smiled again and said to Xiao Yulin: "King Rui is polite! It just so happens that it is more convenient for you to talk here, and it is good for the palace to go to the middle courtyard and talk to those ladies and ladies! ”
After speaking, Meng Yunting took the palace people to the back.
Empress Dowager Zhao asked Xiao Yulin to sit again, and Xiao Yulin sat in Meng Yunting's position just now, and several people gossiped again.
After a long while, Zhao Zeyun came to Xiao Yulin and said, "Lord Qiqi, the bride's palanquin is about to arrive at the gate." ”
Xiao Yulin said lightly: "Got it! You arrange for someone to welcome Concubine Zhang to the South Courtyard. ”
"Yes!"
Zhao Zeyun left in a hurry.
Xiao Yuhong said to Xiao Yulin: "You are the groom official today, why didn't you go out to greet you in person?" ”
Xiao Yulin said: "She is a side concubine, not a wife, so she asked her brother to go out to greet her in person, what does that look like?" ”
Empress Dowager Zhao also echoed and said, "That's it! Your Majesty, the mourning family knows that you value the Zhang family, but you can't break the rules too much, right? Originally, Lin'er was just newly married, and it was out of place to accept a side concubine. Now that you have asked him to pick up people at the gate in person and spread the word, isn't that even more of a joke for others? ”
Xiao Yuhong didn't say anything more, and he didn't want to say anything, so he just smiled faintly and said, "The queen mother is right!" ”
At the gate of King Rui's Mansion, a four-carrying big sedan chair fell, and the matchmaker supported Zhang Ruliu, who was in a red wedding dress and a red hijab, to get off the sedan chair, step over the brazier from the side of the gate, and then entered the house.
The bride maid of Zhang's mansion followed in, followed by the servants of Zhang's mansion carrying the dowry.
Yu Huizhi led the way in front and led everyone to the South Courtyard.
Previously, when the Rui Wangfu gave the dowry, he had already informed the Zhang Mansion that Zhang Ruliu would live in the South Courtyard after passing the Mansion, and the people in the South Courtyard were determined by Zhang Ruliu himself. If there are not enough people, then add some people from the Rui Wang's Mansion to enter.
Zhang Jinhua, a bride-in-law of Zhang's house, is the son of the Zhang family, the closest person to Zhang Ruliu, and Zhang Ruliu ordered her to be the housekeeper of the South Courtyard. The other people who served were all brought by Zhang Ruliu, so they also felt at ease and trouble-free.
On the way to the South Courtyard, Zhang Jinhua told Yu Huizhi the identities and names of these people, and also vaguely explained that the South Courtyard did not need other people to serve.
Yu Huizhi didn't say much, she coped politely, and after sending the person to the South Courtyard, she went to the Middle Courtyard on the grounds of entertaining guests on behalf of the princess.
Only then did the people in Zhang's Mansion know that this Yu Huizhi represented Princess Rui today, and personally welcomed them into the Southern Courtyard, which was equivalent to Princess Rui welcoming them into the Southern Courtyard, and her face was very proud.
Everyone in Zhang's Mansion knows that this Princess Rui is a down-and-out lady from a small place in the south, and now her mother's family has no one, and she has no power or power, and she is sitting in the seat of Princess Rui because of the favor of Prince Rui. If it weren't for her, the young lady of their Zhang family would be Princess Rui now.
The people in Zhang's mansion also heard that Princess Rui was a soft person, and she usually knew how to use silver money to curry favor with the people in the mansion. Isn't it because he has no power or power that he has to entrap the people of Rui Wangfu like this?
It's like their Zhang family, the Zhang family is the emperor's most valued family, and their young lady is still the Zhang family's favorite lady, who can sing and dance, and is quite talented, and can crush Princess Narui at any point.
Therefore, although the southern courtyard said in advance that there was no need for people to serve them, at this time, those mothers-in-law and maids also shouted at the people of Rui Wangfu to do this and that.
For example, the servant who carried the dowry was tired, and asked the people of the Rui Wangfu to prepare tea and snacks and wait. This was originally a way of hospitality, and the people of Rui Wangfu dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, so they had to do it.
For another example, Zhang Jinhua thought that the dim sum and wine prepared in the house were not fresh, and called the mother-in-law and maids of Rui Wangfu to scold them, saying that they looked down on Concubine Zhang, deliberately embarrassed Concubine Zhang, and shouted that they wanted to go to the front yard to complain to the emperor.
The people of Ruiwangfu couldn't afford this title, so they had to apologize to Zhang Ruliu, and hurriedly asked someone to prepare again.
For another example, Zhang Jinhua thinks that the things in the South Courtyard are not good, if it weren't for the fact that today is a happy day, she would immediately ask everyone to change it. Therefore, Zhang Jinhua lectured the people of Ruiwangfu again, but he didn't move anywhere.
Anyway, Zhang Jinhua was disgusted in various ways, and the number of people in the Ruiwang Mansion fell for a long time.
In the end, Zhang Jinhua asked the people of the Rui Wangfu to send the servants of the Zhang family who carried the dowry out of the house, and also asked the Rui Wangfu to send those servants ten taels of silver each, which means perfect.
Ruiwangfu is not bad for money, this money is still a trivial matter. It's just that this side concubine has only been in the mansion on the first day, and she has tossed the southern courtyard like this, how can this Ruiwang Mansion be in the future?
Helplessly, today is a big day, there are still so many guests outside, especially those in the palace, the people in the Ruiwang Mansion have to swallow their anger. Because Zhong Yuqi was pregnant, they didn't dare to complain to Zhong Yuqi, so they had to complain to Yu Huizhi.
Yu Huizhi had been prompted by Zhong Yuqi before, saying that if Concubine Zhang wanted to make trouble, she would only let them make trouble. If Concubine Zhang knows each other and settles down a little, it would be the best.
When Zhong Yuqi said this, she was in a very calm tone, and Yu Huizhi seemed to have guessed Zhong Yuqi's thoughts. Therefore, Yu Huizhi had no choice but to comfort them a few words and send them a little reward.
Everyone thanked them happily again, and while scolding and saying that the south courtyard was not, they left one after another.