Chapter 169: Red Sleeves and Fragrance (11)
Ji Ranjia's little face was solemn and put on a deferential look, she never underestimated others, at least after suffering such a big loss in her previous life, she lived cautiously and secretly lived a leisure life.
Everyone has their own wisdom, just like Yu Yuan, a woman who lives in the countryside, what she says and does is not comparable to some aristocratic ladies and ladies in Kyoto. Yu Yuanming understands the world, she is also open-minded, if she is a man, maybe she can also take the road of the imperial examination.
Yu Yuan smiled and carefully taught her sister-in-law what her aunt told her before she got married, including not only how to get along with her in-laws, how to tame her husband, how to have confidence in her in-laws' family, and of course, the husband and wife's room and affairs.
Ji Ranjia's face became redder and redder, almost condensing and dripping blood, she listened hard and remembered it seriously. When she was asked to leave by the third prince in the palace, except for a few good little sisters and little eunuchs who sent her, where did anyone teach these things so seriously?
Fortunately, God treated her well and gave her a chance to do it again.
"Sister-in-law, thank you," Ji Ranjia held Yu Yuan's hand tightly, her eyes red and said solemnly.
"I, your eldest brother, second brother, younger siblings, nephews and nieces will always be here, tired and homesick, and will come back. Don't be wronged and swallow it in your own stomach, the way you want to solve it, one road doesn't lead to the other, there will always be one that can be smooth. ”
She nodded heavily.
After setting the date, the Ji family began to get busy, not only did she want to get married, but Ji Weihu also had to marry a wife, the two happy events were superimposed, and there were a lot of things that needed to be purchased.
Ji Weihai was afraid that his sister would be looked down upon when she got married, so he doubled the dowry left by his father, full of sixteen large boxes and sixteen small boxes, from a needle and a thread to a handkerchief, pancreatic clothes, bedding to a wooden basin, a wooden barrel, a dresser, and a wardrobe, all of which are ready.
On the day of the service, except for Yu Yuan and Nini, who were not out of confinement, they went to the grave of Ji's father and Ji's mother, burned paper, and put fruits, snacks, chicken, duck, and fish on the table. Ji Weihai poured wine on their graves, and it was Ji's father who specially buried his daughter Red for Ji Ranjia when he was alive.
They chattered about the changes in their families, and suddenly remembered that although the family was hard when they were children, they were very upright in one day, and they didn't feel sad. They can still giggle heartlessly, and the powerlessness of wanting to raise but not waiting for their relatives turns into useless tears poured on the loess.
After three years of filial piety, the Ji family began to clean it from the inside out, hung red silk, pasted double happiness everywhere, and there were red stripes of green dragons and white tigers in the corner of the door. The days of joy urging are getting faster and faster, Ji Weihu married his daughter-in-law, and as soon as he returned to the door, it was the day Ji Ranjia got married.
In the past two months, in addition to giving the bride price, Gu Sifan came to visit in person, and before he saw Ji Ranjia hiding in the house, there were only two descendants named Lin Xiaowu and Zhang Han and their daughter-in-law to help Zhang Luo go back and forth. The rest of the Gu family did not appear, Yu Yuan was a little worried, but the matter had already been negotiated, and there was no room for regret.
The night before Ji Ranjia got married, Yu Yuan pulled her and said a lot of things, "Our family has a good relationship with Gu Jieyuan, but my sister-in-law didn't even show up when she saw that the rest of the Gu family didn't even come out, and it was the other two family members who helped her." I'm afraid that Gu Jieyuan's relationship with his family is a little stiff, or their family is not easy to get along with, so they don't even care about such a big thing as Xie Yuan's wife, and they don't care about their own face.
Sister, when you get there, you have to explore Gu Jieyuan's attitude first, and then decide how to treat his family. My sister-in-law remembered the first time Ma matchmaker came to the door, mentioned this matter, and also talked about separation.
Gu Xie Yuan is going to take a career in office, we can't make too much trouble like the countrymen in many things, just endure it if we can, and close our lives by ourselves when we divide the house. They have deceived people so much that you have stumbled them in a crooked way, so that they will not be able to speak of their suffering, and they will no longer dare to worry about you. ”
Ji Ranjia nodded again and again, if she can't bear it, she will make a big plan, she understands this truth, and believes that Gu Sifan, who is a high-ranking and powerful person in the future, should be able to easily solve it for her, right?
On the sixteenth, the sun was shining, and the autumn tiger had not left for a long time, and he was riding his majesty. Gu Sifan was wearing Ji Ranjia's embroidered wedding robe, because the time was too tight and she didn't need to be too grand in the countryside, she only used white and blue threads to show off a circle of auspicious clouds, and on her chest was a lifelike long-necked swan, a simple style, but she was exquisitely tailored, and the man on the tall horse was handsome and strong, not thin under the spacious and shapeless robe in the past.
The coldness on the man's face was much lightened by the red, dyed with a lot of joy, the corners of his lips were slightly raised, and he greeted people politely.
Ji Ranjia's wedding dress is also very simple, the same style as him, but there is an extra Xia cloak decorated with golden tassels. She held her hair in a bun high, brought a set of red jade inlaid gold and rich flowers sent by Gu Sifan, her small face was plain and white, she lightly brushed her eyebrows, swept the rouge, and her lips were slightly pursed on the red paper, and the person in the mirror came out of the ink painting, with a sparkling beauty.
Yu Yuan and Ji Xiaoye were both in tears, and when they heard the sound of firecrackers outside, they stuffed a red apple in her hand, covered her with a red hijab, and handed her over to Xi Niang.
A piece of fiery red, that is the most beautiful expectation in every woman's heart.
In her previous life, she was just wearing a pink skirt with a silver hairpin on her head, and she sat in a small sedan chair and entered the mansion through the side door. Now everything is different, she is a wife who wants to sleep with her husband, she doesn't need to serve others with trepidation, she doesn't have to be wary of others, and she doesn't have to toss so many things to conceive a child.
In a staggering manner, she was taken to the Gu family. What you can see under the red hijab is a red mattress sprinkled with a lot of peanuts and red dates. Resisting her curiosity, she sat with the apple in her hand, listening to the movement outside.
"Hungry, huh? The fourth brother asked me to send you something to eat, I am the second oldest in the family, called Gu Erxi, you can call me second sister. A hearty voice came with the sound of pushing the door, and a few steps came to her, handing over some small mung bean cakes.
"Although I am married to this village, but the man works as a carpenter in Linzhen, I took a few babies with me. I just got free yesterday, brother and sister, don't take it to heart. ”
Ji Ranjia shook her head with a smile, stretched out her hand and took a mung bean cake and bit it carefully.
Gu Erxi looked at her white and tender hands and slender wrists with pink jade, and couldn't help but exclaim: "Good guy, I said why did the fourth brother keep refusing to talk about relatives at home, it turned out that he had been thinking about your brother and sister." Just by this fine skin and tender meat, you know that you must look like a peugeot, like the daughter of an official family. ”
Saying that, she handed over the bowl again, which was warm brown sugar water, and Gu Erxi took out a very thin bamboo tube with a treasure, "The fourth brother is afraid that it will be inconvenient for you to drink, so I specially found it for you." ”
Ji Ranjia felt a warm feeling in her heart, and she took it with a smile on the corner of her lips, she had almost not eaten a drop of water from last night to now, she would be hungry and thirsty. She had only taken a few sips to moisten her throat at the moment.
When twilight came, the two huge red candles in the room dimly appeared, Gu Erxi accompanied her to talk all the time, talking about how many people there were in the Gu family, what is everyone's character, maybe Gu Sifan has explained, Gu Erxi is not taboo anything, what to say.
Unlike the Ji family, the ancient family has deep roots in Xiahe Village, and each family has a slight relationship. Gu Father is very old-fashioned and stubborn, he is the biggest in the family, and he is not allowed to have any behavior that is refuted and despised, that is, eating, if he does not come or do not move the chopsticks, the adults and children in the family are not allowed to serve on the table, let alone the men and women are divided into seats, and the women are nested in the kitchen to eat.
Gu's mother was very afraid of Gu's father, but without him, she was a female tiger who had been suppressed for a long time and roared and enslaved her daughters-in-law, typical of the arrogance of a mother-in-law who became a daughter-in-law. She is also very eccentric, and she loves the third child the most, that is, Gu Sifan, who was admitted to Xie Yuan, has to stand aside.
The boss of the Gu family, Gu Yifang, is a man who eats in the field, and his temper is very similar to that of his father, don't look at the taciturn on weekdays, but when his temper comes, it is sparse and ordinary to beat women and children.
Gu Erxi was tormented by his patriarchal parents, and he pulled his younger brothers to work with the adults at home and abroad, until he was twenty years old, and his parents used three taels of silver to marry Hou Qing, the second eldest of the Hou family, who was lame and his father did not hurt his mother. Fortunately, Hou Qing's legs are lame, he is still honest and motivated, he has been an apprentice for several years, and now he has rented a store in Linxian County to take a small job, and his life can be regarded as living.
Gu Erxi looked hearty and generous, but she still remembered the ruthlessness of her parents, and she usually almost broke off walking with her mother's family, if it weren't for Gu Sifan's marriage this time, she wouldn't have said anything. After all, every time she came over with hope, what she got was not the warm hospitality and care of her family, but the cold words of thinking of the law to let her subsidize her mother's family.
Her money is not blown by the wind, but earned by men who work non-stop in black and white, there are many children in the family, they spend more, where is the spare energy to feed the white-eyed wolf?
Lao Sangu Santai is a peddler who walks the streets and alleys, looks like a thief, has a face full of calculations, and his mouth is especially good at talking, coaxing people to buy his things at a high price and think that he is taking advantage of them, and he has become a frequent customer. His daughter-in-law was a concubine who was also half-coaxed and half-deceived by him.
At that time, in order to marry Zhu Chunjiao, the Gu family was almost wiped out. This matter was not often taken out by Ma Lanmei, who was an old family, but what about it, the old lady was partial to the third child, and even loved this young lady from a foreign family. She was proud of her third son's ability to marry a young lady all day long, as if she forgot that she was Xie Yuanniang's capital that she could show off.
"Brother and sister, the fourth brother told me, when you return to the door, you will live with him in the small courtyard behind Qin Feng Academy. I go home twice a month, so I don't have to suffer from my mother all day. ”