Since the Anning Yining brothers and sisters got married, no matter where they go to do business, the merchants in the capital have paid special attention to whether there are good things related to marriage. But whenever I encounter any excellent products, I will buy them without any worries about not being able to sell them. Because they all know that the Zhenguo Mansion and his in-laws are not bad for money!

In this way, the days passed day by day, and on the Qixi Festival of the year when Yining was nineteen years old, he married Xie Qingxue.

On this day, the Zhenguo Mansion was lit up inside and out. The Zhenguo Mansion, which has always been adhering to the low-key luxury and connotation, has let the world see what a trench is for the first time!

The osmanthus workshop, where the Zhenguo Mansion is located, is covered with a thick red carpet on the ground from the beginning of entering the archway. The osmanthus trees on both sides of the street are not yet in the flowering season, but the trees are decorated with red roses. If you look closely, you will find that they are extremely realistic silk flowers.

All the entrances in the workshop are hung with identical gilded red lanterns. On the walls between the portals, there are gilded characters, neatly arranged at a distance close to human height.

These are just the decorations outside the house, and the inside of the house is even more extravagant!

The red carpet was rolled all the way to the main courtyard and the new house, and all the tall trees were covered with red flowers. The difference is that both sides of this carpet are embroidered with gold thread. The stamens of safflower are woven with gold thread.

Under all the eaves and arches in the entire mansion, there are rows of fist-sized red lanterns. Each red lantern is made of large red silk yarn with water ripples, and the golden silk skeleton supported in the lantern faintly reveals golden light from the red yarn. The brocade tassels under the lanterns sway in the wind, and even the warm summer breeze fills the air with joy.

Entering the house, everything you see is so festive.

Early in the morning, Mingzhu and Wei Ci got up early, and Yining and An Ning also got ready.

As soon as the morning dawned, the whole family gathered at Rong'an Hall. Yining knelt down to his parents and Mrs. Tai according to the rules. No matter what era, after a man becomes a family, his parents will never treat him as a child again. At this moment, the family members naturally have their own feelings.

But I don't have the time to talk to you more, I can say whenever I want, but I'm very busy today. Everyone quickly divided their work and went about their own business.

Wei Wan and Mingzhu were responsible for receiving the ladies in the main courtyard, and Mrs. Tai still stayed in Rong'an Hall to prepare to receive the old sisters. Wei Ci and Wei Shu went to the outer courtyard to receive the male guests.

In a few moments, a large number of guests arrived. According to the usual custom of getting married to eunuchs, most of the people who arrive in advance are some close relatives or guests who like to watch the excitement when they are idle. But the happy event of the Zhenguo Mansion is naturally not ordinary, but all the invited guests will arrive as early as possible, and no one wants to see this excitement.

Fortunately, close friends like Nan Wanqing, Su Yuling, Su Yuquan and others came the earliest, and they also helped Mingzhu share a lot of hardship. Hai Lan and Hui Fang, the two grandmothers, also took the girls to keep their feet from touching the ground.

Soon the bride's dowry and companion room began to enter the door. Guests stood on both sides of the red carpet, waiting to see the bride show her dowry.

Marrying the prince of the Guogong Mansion will also be eligible for one hundred and twenty-eight dowries. The Xie family has a rich background, and since Mingzhu has spoken, he can bring a dowry casually, and the Xie family will naturally do his best. Therefore, when these dowries entered the door, before the dowry box was opened, the people began to exclaim.

The dowry is usually two boxes stacked in one stack, and two people carry them through the door. I saw that the two strong men of the Xie family carrying the dowry were already sweating profusely at this time, not to mention, the bamboo poles with thick arms used to carry the dowry were bent out of shape. This is clearly an underestimation of the weight of the dowry.

Sure enough, when the dowry entered the newlyweds' yard and opened the box, everyone found that the brocade boxes in the dowry box were almost impossible to insert into each other.

The first dowry was a sun-dried grange shop. According to the rules of the capital, one brick per acre. Looking at this box of small tiles two fingers wide, I am afraid that there must be two or three acres of land. (1 hectare = 100 acres) In another box, there are small flower tiles the size of a palm. This is something that symbolizes the shop, and there are about twenty or thirty pieces, that is, the appearance of twenty or thirty shops.

Of course, this amount is not surprising in the dowry of the daughters of the family. But it also depends on where the land is and where the shop is, right?! Some unfavored concubines get married, and there are so many on the big picture. But if you look closely, you will find that neither the land nor the shop knows which thing is in the corner.

Although everyone knows that Xie Qingxue's land and shops must be in a good location, either from Suzhou and Hangzhou or from the capital. But after all, I didn't see the deed and the title deed, so everyone didn't talk much about it.

The second dowry is a dragon and phoenix brocade quilt embroidered by the bride herself. The original meaning is to let the in-laws see the craftsmanship of the bride, but where do the daughters of their class still need to learn these things. If you need it, it's just to marry two more skilled needlework maids. Therefore, at this time, everyone is interested in the same thing and does not talk about the bride's embroidery skills. They have admired the exquisiteness and vividness of the Su embroidery pattern.

Starting from the third lift, the five consecutive lifts are all jewelry. The boxes for jewelry are all layered drawers, which are opened in a stepped shape, and there are layers of jewelry. Most of the ladies present to see the dowry were envious.

Unlike the craftsmen in the capital, who pay attention to complexity and gorgeousness, the craftsmanship of Jiangnan craftsmen is particularly delicate and delicate. Let's talk about the same filigree process, the enamel color made by the craftsmen of Beijing is the most exquisite, and the color is gorgeous and noble. But the craftsmen in Jiangnan are different, they draw the thin gold thread as thin as hair, and then neatly weave it into hollow flowers, birds, insects and fish, and then decorate it with fine jewelry particles. Each piece is brilliant and very smart.

The same is true of some jewelry carved out of jewelry. The craftsmen of Beijing pay more attention to the natural nature of gemstones, and when carving, they are as simple as possible to carve, carve their shapes, and carve their meanings. The craftsmen in the south of the Yangtze River are different, with a knife and a stroke, plants, trees, flowers and leaves, scales, armor and hairy whiskers, all of which are finely carved.

After that, there are twenty-four treasure ornaments, and their production process all continue the characteristics of Jiangnan craftsmanship. Exquisite.

Twelve carry clothes, each piece of ingenuity; 12 lifts of cloth, including almost all textile processes; 12 small things, purses, money, gold and silver, fan pendants, bead curtains...... All of them are exquisite; The twelve curtains, curtains, pillows, quilt covers, and tablecloths are all embroidered with Fulu Suki, and flowers of the four seasons......

Just as everyone was admiring the bride's dowry, it was almost noon, and there was a burst of music from the front yard, and the groom was about to leave to receive his kiss......

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