Chapter Twenty-Nine: Welcoming the Beauty with Red Makeup and Sending Ten Thousand Gold to Marry
"Miss! The sour branch beauty couch and the huanghuali begonia flower enclosure bed have arrived in the warehouse, please go over and inspect the goods."
"Miss Furong, a few men in your shop have sent a few boxes of brocade satin and cloud brocade shoes, and they are looking for you everywhere."
"Miss, you ordered the little guys in the village outside the city to beat several big boxes, and they have all brought them."
"The enamel plate and jade Ruyi from Ruyizhuang have also been delivered, and they are now waiting in line at the gatehouse."
The marriage customs of the Dayu Dynasty are very cumbersome, first ask the man to give the dowry to the woman's family, and then prepare a lengthy dowry list after the woman carefully counts, usually including wood and jade, dowry shops, gold and silver jewelry, cloth and clothing, even ordinary people are inevitably this link, but the number of dowry and dowry is different.
The dowries of the girls of large families are to be made and beaten, so usually a whole year will be set aside from the engagement to the completion of the marriage, leaving the newlyweds to buy a new house, weave wedding dresses, and customize the dowry. It is also necessary to choose a bride and a husband.
And Ming Peili and Mingyu's wedding date was set too hastily, and there was only less than five months from the engagement to the completion of the marriage, so An Xi, who volunteered to be the mother of the ceremony, has been busy these days. In the past few months, she usually has to settle the details of the ceramic production in the morning, rush to supervise the production of the wedding dress before she has time to eat a bite at noon, and return home in the evening to accept the dazzling array of freshly made jewelry.
Even Li Furong from the hibiscus shop was invited to come over as a helper, and she was busy counting the dowry with An Xi and a few others.
"Tell them not to rush! If you urge Miss Ben again, she'll go out and beat people!" An Xi, who could not bear the torture, roared angrily, and the little guy who came to pass the word hurriedly took the order and went out. She is really tired to death, she will come to greet her relatives tomorrow, and her dowry has not been counted yet, and it seems that she will have to stay up late and work overtime tonight.
"Slow down," Li Furong stopped the little guy who was about to go out and threw him a small money bag, "Just say that Miss An invites everyone to drink tea, so that they can rest easy."
"You're always so grumpy." Seeing that the little servant was ordered to leave, Li Furong frowned lightly and complained to An Xi, who was sitting cross-legged between a pile of jewelry and satin, with an impatient face.
An Xi raised her arm and rubbed her eyes, and the red wide sleeves embroidered with gold thread slid down with her movements, revealing a white and tender lotus root, which made the vermilion palace sand even more bewitching.
"Sister fairy, don't blame me, people are really tired..." An Xi faced the mature, stable and beautiful big sister Li Furong and naturally brought a coquettish tone.
Helplessly, she stretched out her hand and gently rubbed An Xi's somewhat messy head, Li Furong spread a square scarf, and sat down next to An Xi.
The two heads leaned together, greedily enjoying this hard-won moment of leisure.
An Yongmeng seemed to be able to understand the mood of the master, and gently slid slowly on An Xi's left arm, like a coquette, as if he was massaged. An Xi noticed the movements of the brave little baby, and gently stroked the snake's head covered with silver scales.
Should I say it or not, although Yu Yi'an's personality is a little dark and paranoid, the little snake he brought with him seems to have learned Anxi's living habits within a few days, and has become lazy and scoundrel, often pestering himself to find small fish to eat.
Li Furong on the side is no longer surprised by the interaction between one person and one snake, what strange things have she not seen in the past two or three months in the Prime Minister's Mansion? first found that the two girls Xiaonan and Xiaobei didn't seem to have any rules to get along with their masters, and then saw the burned Miss Qin family "come back from the dead", and went to her store every day to sew wedding dresses, and even witnessed the cold noodles of the Seven Princes eating closed-door soup.
She already thinks that raising snakes is an extremely ordinary thing.
"Ann!" Just as the two of them were shaking their heads, a blue figure delicately crossed the big red boxes that were placed on the ground and rushed straight towards the two.
The person who came was Mingyu, who would be a bride tomorrow. Although the custom dowry, counting, dowry, and arrangement of the honor guard were all left to An Xi, although Mingyu's own work was not complicated, it was indeed not easy - she needed to stand on the platform in Li Furong's shop day after day, and let those experienced embroiderers sew her wedding dress. Usually at the end of the day, my arms and legs are sore.
An Xi chose a complex style of wedding dress for her, and the choice of the best tulle material, which needs to be superimposed layer by layer to show the most moving effect, but this material is difficult to sew, more than a dozen embroiderers hurried to hurry up and finally made the whole wedding dress in the evening before the wedding.
Mingyu was holding a delicate red box at this time, presumably containing her delicate and gorgeous wedding dress and pearl-embellished embroidered shoes.
An Xi smiled after seeing the comer, stood up and walked forward quickly, and reached out with a smile to grab the box to take a look, but was dodged by Mingyu in a flash, "Good, I'll surprise you tomorrow!"
An Xi had no choice but to unhappily withdraw his claws that wanted to do nonsense, and secretly put on a stinky face and returned to the pile of jewelry to continue his work. Seeing her cute appearance, Mingyu finally couldn't help but tease her.
"Xiaoshuang~Do you want to see it~" Mingyu squatted down beside An Xi with the box, a pair of eyes smiling like a crooked crescent moon, and his cunning eyes obviously had the intention of teasing An Xi.
An Xi was also pretending to have a tense face, but now when she heard Mingyu ask, she hurriedly put on her cute eyes of pleading and looked forward to watching Mingyu's box gradually be opened a crack, and under the illumination of the lanterns in the courtyard, it seemed that she could glimpse the world slightly, as if something was refracting the light, shining strongly.
Before An Xi could understand, Mingyu closed the box with a "snap", and jumped away from An Xi's angry pursuit.
Li Furong, who was wearing a milky white long gauze skirt, stood not far away with a long list of dowries with a helpless face, watching the two little girls playing around all over the yard, jumping around like two wild boys in the dowry sorted into boxes, with shallow tenderness in her eyes.
Different from An Xi's situation where he was in a hurry and could still rest for a while, Ming Peili's side can be said to be a real foot that does not touch the ground, he has not slept well for several months, not only the business of the newly opened Mingyu Rouge Building is too hot and needs to be checked, he also opened up the third floor of the Mingyu Building as a wedding room, in order to give Mingyu the best room, he often has to personally supervise the work until late at night.
Mingyulou covers a large area, and it is the largest store in Anxi's hands at the beginning, so it is the busiest to decorate.
In addition, Ming Peili also bought a small house in the suburbs of Beijing, no matter how big Rao is Mingyu Building, there is no idle place to install the many dowries given by An Xi, not to mention that if you have children in the future, you can't live in a shop.
The decoration of the two houses made Ming Peili's eyes hang bright black marks, but the smile on his face was always hanging.
An Xi knew that Ming Peili's move to marry Mingyu not only meant that the two tied the knot, but also meant Ming Peili's final position - he didn't plan to go back.
The two traversers knew that there must have been some extraordinary encounter that caused the two of them to come here, and they could go back if they could. Although I knew that the odds were slim, no one actually gave up.
Ming Peili's marriage to Mingyu means that he has given up modern life, and he wants to marry and have children with Mingyu in ancient times and spaces in unknown time and space, spend his life together, and forget the past.
An Xi couldn't persuade him to change anything, it was his personal choice, she was just surprised that Ming Peili had deep feelings for Mingyu.
If she is replaced, she will definitely choose to find a way to return to her time and space for the rest of her life, and will not choose a certain man to bind her life.
The early morning came in everyone's expectation, and Anxi rarely got up early in the morning without being shouted, and took Xiaobei Xiaonan and a group of makeup girls to dress up for today's protagonist.
Let the bride grasp her face and gently draw her eyebrows and apply makeup. Mingyu's nose was sour, and she suddenly burst into tears, and she was so anxious that Xi Niang shouted, "Girl, don't cry, the eye makeup that has just been drawn has been spent!"
An Xi stepped forward and grabbed Mingyu's small palm amid the exclamation of Xi Niang, and drew a circle in her hand as if comforting, "What's wrong Mingyu? What are you crying about?" Li Furong also put off her red wedding dress, stood up from the soft couch, and looked at this side worriedly.
"I just... I just suddenly feel like crying.... You're so good to meβ" Mingyu's eyes became more and more red and swollen, and she choked up when she spoke.
An Xi let go of her heart hanging high, took Li Furong and Mingyu's hands and folded them together, didn't say anything, the three of them just held each other's hands tightly, knowing that Xi Niang began to urge before letting go.
finally relieved Mingyu's excited mood and handed her back to the waiting Xi Niang, and An Xi found that her eyes were also a little moist.
The bride tinkered with the makeup that was washed away by tears, and finally presented a delicate and gorgeous Mingyu to everyone. In the past two years, Mingyu has always kept a vigil for Ming Peili, and when Ming Peili made a marriage contract with her, although she changed back to the green clothes she has always loved, she no longer painted the same makeup as Anxi as before, and became only fond of light-colored lipstick and eyebrows, which are very light.
Mingyu, who is a bride today, has a not too thick fat powder on her face, and the inky blue snail Dai outlines a pair of delicate distant mountain eyebrows, and a dignified flower is pasted in the middle of the eyebrows, and the eyebrows and eyes are finely outlined, making it seem that the cardamom girl is extremely beautiful, and the lips that are not thick enough are very attractive against the background of the red lipstick.
An Xi was really stunned, although she often attended Chinese weddings in modern times, but this was the first time she had seen a real classical wedding. At this time, a woman with a somewhat fat figure walked out of the crowd of happy girls, with a rich and noble face, and she was a happy person at first glance.
Xi Niang picked up the small gold comb that An Xi prepared on the table, walked behind Mingyu, who looked nervous, and began to comb the salute.
"Comb to the end."
"The second comb girl has white hair and eyebrows."
"The three-comb girl is full of children and grandchildren."
"The four combs have good luck, and the way out is to meet the nobles."
"Five combs and five sons come to receive the deed, and the five silver shoots are all in kind."
"Six combs of relatives and friends came to help celebrate, and the boudoir dyed red in the mirror."
"Seven combs are matched with Dong Yong, and the Queqiao Elevated Highway is light and flat with each other."
"Eight combs and eight immortals come to celebrate birthdays, and the treasure duck travels through the lotus road."
"Nine combs and nine sons are in a row, and ten combs are old enough for the husband and wife."
With the lyrics of the bride, the golden comb is gently combed from the top of Mingyu's head to the end of the hair, which means that there is a head and a tail, wealth and auspiciousness.
Mingyu listened to the warm voice of the bride, and smiled sweetly at herself in the mirror, as if she had thought of a happy life with Ming Peili in the future from the lyrics.
An Xi bit her lower lip tightly, she didn't cry just now, but she couldn't help but reddened her eyes after hearing the lyrics of Comli, she and Yu Yi'an probably won't have such a grand wedding in their lives, and she won't have the opportunity to hear the lyrics sung to herself.
Li Furong noticed the strangeness of An Xi's mood, pulled An Xi out of the inner room, and came to the table outside the house to wait quietly for Mingyu, who needed to change clothes and coil her hair after applying makeup.
Li Furong just sat quietly, squeezing An Xi's hand, even if she was curious, she didn't ask much, which made An Xi very relieved.
In the middle of the night, there was a noise outside the courtyard wall, and a black-clothed Yu walked in with a big stride of An Fengchen, with new injuries on his face and hands that looked like they had not healed soon, An Xi thought of his thoughts just now and was nervous, and "Teng" stood up all of a sudden, looking at the person in front of him with a strange face.
Yu Yi'an saw that An Xi was emotional for herself, and thought that An Xi was worried about her wounds, so she hurriedly tried to cover up her old wounds, and her heart was full of joy.
An Xi noticed that his behavior was abnormal, and was about to divert Yu Yi'an's attention, when he happened to see the injury on his face, he pretended to be nervous and concerned and went to get the medicine box to give Yu Yi'an a dressing.
Yu Yi'an was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, as if those hideous wounds were not his.
A few months ago, he suddenly received news that a hidden rebel army that he had been looking for had a whereabouts, so he entered the palace overnight to ask his father for orders to quell the rebellion, and before leaving, he only had time to say hello to An Xi and took his light horse to the Xuzhou territory, suffered a lot of injuries and suffered a lot of crimes, but fortunately he came back before the wedding of the two Ming.
Otherwise, Anxi of his family would definitely blame him.
Yu Yi'an asked Li Furong for a set of black embroidered gold clothes, and he couldn't wear the clothes worn by the marching army mixed with holes and blood stains to attend the wedding.
When Yu Yi'an went to the ear room to bathe and change clothes, Mingyu finally changed into her wedding dress and head, and slowly walked out of the inner room.
I saw Mingyu's three thousand green silk coiled into a delicate Lingyun bun under the skillful hands of Xi Niang, which was decorated with a set of pure gold and a little emerald's head, several gold hairpins were obliquely inserted in the hair bag, and the pearls hanging down from the gold hairpin were connected into a string, shaking with Mingyu's pace.
The red wedding dress is made of light gauze material, and the layers on the body not only do not look heavy, but also increase the lightness and agility, and the skirt gently sways with Mingyu's smile and smile, and the fairy spirit is fluttering. The inner layer of the wedding dress is a light gauze skirt, but the outer layer is a heavy red shawl, which is decorated with many small pearls and diamonds according to the meaning of Anxi, a little rich woman, dazzling in the sun.
A pair of cloud brocade shoes loom under the gauze skirt. Mingyu's whole person is like a brilliant and dazzling big diamond, shining brightly in the big yard.
An Xi took the red hijab handed over by Xi Niang, put it on Mingyu's head, took her hand and walked out slowly.
Mingyu has no father and mother, and after experiencing the accident, she has no relatives, and An Xi and Li Furong are her only remaining family members in this world as sisters.
An Xi and Li Furong held Mingyu's hand left and right, and walked slowly on the corridor, and Yu Yi, who had changed his clothes, followed quietly behind. The prime minister and his wife naturally knew the cause and effect for a long time, but they had to stand far away on the other side of the pond to avoid suspicion. The two of them specially wore red clothes together to show good luck.
A servant ran into the corridor and reported to An Xiyu, "Miss, Qin Gongzi is waiting for you at the side door... He said he had something important."
An Xi reflexively pinched Mingyu's hand, and after seeing that Mingyu was not wrong, she handed over the arduous task of sending Mingyu to Li Furong, and followed the little girl to the side door of the house.
Qin Ayang waited anxiously, and as soon as he saw An Xi, he stepped forward, and he didn't seem to dare to say what he wanted to say, and An Xi didn't bother with him when he saw this, "Why did Gongzi Qin come to disturb me on the big day when my maid got married?"
Anxi is aggressive.
Qin Ayang unexpectedly didn't bother much, took out a box from his arms and handed it to An Xi.
"She's good, she's fine."
After that, without further words, he took his leave and turned and left the alley.
An Xi knew that Qin Ayang had reached a consensus with her: there was no more Miss Qin in General Qin's mansion.
An Xi finally rushed to Mingyu Tower before the banquet began, and sat down at the front table with Yu Yi'an, looking at the toast of the pair of wall people table by table, An Xi couldn't help laughing.
This must be taught by Ming Peili, otherwise according to the customs of the Dayu Dynasty, the bride should be the husband who will enter the cave room after worshipping the hall and wait for the husband who has sent off the guests, and only modern people will toast the guests together with the husband and wife.
The fact that the prime minister's concubine and the seventh prince attended the wedding of a commoner couple soon spread among the people, and Mingyulou became famous, and there was an endless stream of guests every day.
An Xi's congratulatory gifts were delivered to Ming Peili and Ming Yu's private house after the wedding banquet, and four large boxes half a person high were pulled by several small servants and put in the warehouse.
The seal on the box reads, "Ten thousand taels of gold for jade".