Chapter 10 Preparation for Marriage
After the decree of marriage came down, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Sibeile Mansion agreed that Huizhu would enter the Baylor Mansion again in October of the 43rd year of Kangxi.
Actually, Huizhu should have married in early September this year, but in order to avoid the New Year's side Fujin who was also married into the Fourth Elder Brother's Mansion in this year's draft. Therefore, Hui Zhu had to delay her entry into the Four Baylor Mansion for a month.
On the third day after the wedding date was confirmed, the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent a teacher to Niu Hulu Mansion to teach Huizhu the royal rules and taboos. And because Huizhu only married into the Sibeile Mansion as a Gege, after Ling Zhu gave some benefits, she was kind to teach Mama, and Huizhu spent a month of etiquette learning easily.
During this period, Huizhu was very satisfied with the fact that Yinzhen wanted to marry Fang Fujin, and she didn't have to marry into the Sibeile Mansion immediately. Let her have a month to buffer the fact that she is going to get married, and Huizhu feels that this is a blessing in misfortune. Thinking that her current body is still two months away from turning thirteen, and she is married to an adult man of twenty-six or seven, and this man is still the future Yongzheng, which requires a lot of mental construction.
But Zhang Jiashi didn't think like this, he only felt very wronged Huizhu, and often wiped his tears and said to Huizhu in private: "My son, you have been wronged before you get married." E-niang really can't wait for you, you weren't pointed out to the fourth elder brother. In this way, he can wear a red dress, sit in eight sedan chairs, and marry someone else to be the main room. I think it's going to be the Nian family of the side Fujin, but it's just a bag of clothes, why choose the embroidery together, and the marriage that was pointed out by the long-lived lord together, but you have to avoid her taboo and enter the house more than a month late. Every time Zhang Jiashi thought of this, he became more and more concerned about Huizhu's dowry, and prepared as many decent dowries as possible.
Since Huizhu was married to the prince as a Gege, the ancestral system stipulated that according to Huizhu's grade, the dowry could only be five sets of two boxes or six sets of boxes.
Zhang Jia's first choice was five sets and two boxes, but four large boxes were used for the clothes of the four seasons alone, and finally had to be changed to six sets and one box.
First of all, Zhang Jia's trustee or she bought the most suitable brocade satin for cheongsam: four pieces of flower soft satin, four pieces of plain soft satin, four pieces of brocade satin, and four pieces of ancient satin, to make four sets of clothes for the four seasons. And spent a lot of money to let the largest embroidery room in Beijing embroider a variety of different Beijing embroidery patterns on ten sets of cheongsams and embroider gorgeous and exquisite Suzhou embroidery flowers on the remaining six sets. At the same time, the neckline, sleeves, and placket of each cheongsam are inlaid with colored teeth and flower tapes of different colors. In addition, various cheongsams are also made into pipa placket, ruyi placket, diagonal placket, piping or trimming and other styles.
Secondly, I went to buy some precious spices and medicinal materials, and the medicinal herbs and spices that I had treasured before put together a box, one of which was formed, about six or seven hundred years old Changbai Mountain ginseng, which was extremely precious.
Then, Huizhen hand-embroidered a set of mandarin duck brocade quilts, a set of dragon and phoenix auspicious brocade quilts, two pairs of Beijing embroidered flat needle pillowcases, twelve purses, and then packed into a box. In fact, these could have been bought ready-made, but Zhang Jiashi felt that this could show Huizhu's virtuousness, good embroidery, and in the future, when he entered Baylor Mansion, he could also get some praise, so he didn't buy them. Fortunately, Huizhu usually loves to embroider something, so many of them are ready-made, only the mandarin duck brocade quilt and the dragon and phoenix Chengxiang brocade quilt need to be embroidered in a month, and the time is a little rushed.
The last box was filled with jewelry, and there were originally two boxes prepared, but now only one box can be contained. Zhang Jiashi asked the master carpenter to make another box, although the box looked about the same size as the original, but it contained much more things than the original. The box was stuffed with a box full of jewelry, and it almost overflowed.
The more common ones in the pack are half-dan pendant horns, hairpins, jade bracelets, collar pins, ring collars, white jade pendants, gold and silver holding boxes, and gold and silver mirrors. Slightly superior is made of several kinds of precious gold materials to dig the ear hairpin, bead hairpin, sideburns hairpin, crested hairpin, dragon head hairpin. Among them, there are nine kinds of high-quality treasures that Zhang Jia's previous dowry or newly purchased or usually collected: silver gold-plated jewel-inlaid jewels, gold-inlaid beaded flower manta hairpins, silver-gilded dotted emerald inlaid sapphire hairpins, silver-gilded jewel-inlaid jewels, gold-inlaid pearl emerald soft bracelets, gold-inlaid pearl dragon play bead pattern bracelets, gold-inlaid Dongzhu earrings, gold-inlaid emerald inlaid Dongzhu earrings, and gold-inlaid beaded emerald bat earrings. Of course, there are also few manchurian special tianzi, that is, Fengtian, Mandian, and Bandian.
However, even so, Zhang Jiashi still felt that it was not enough, and always felt a little guilty about Huizhu. Although these dowries are prepared, as an imperial brother, entering the mansion will never be underestimated. But when I thought that Huizhu could only wear a dark pink wedding dress, sit four Xiaojiao, a dowry girl and six boxes of dowry into Baylor's Mansion, I was very sad. I want her to send someone to inquire, when the clan entered the Sibeile Mansion this year, it was extremely extravagant, the gongs and drums shook the sky, and the Sibeile Mansion was full of dark red decorations; And there wasn't even a silver-red one in the clothes she prepared for Huizhu, just because the color was too close to red, and it wasn't something that Gege could wear.
A month has passed in a flash, and today is the day when Hye-jin marries into Sibeiler.
In the afternoon, Huizhu washed her face early, ate some snacks to make dinner, and began to dress up. Dressed in a dark pink flag suit embroidered with peach blossoms, two hairbrushes, beads and pink velvet flowers made of glass beads on the left sideburns, a small gold and silver butterfly hairpin inserted on the right sideburns, and a jade pendant in the ear.
Huizhu's face with a little baby fat is a delicate eyebrows, not too big but bright eyes, a slightly upturned round nose, small and ruddy lips, and a delicate and white face. Forced down the childishness on his face, adding three points of coquettishness and seven points of cuteness.
Zhang Jiashi looked at her delicate and lovely daughter, couldn't help moistening her eyes, and after retiring from the subordinates except for Xiao Zhao's mother, she put a bracelet inlaid with gold inlaid with Dongzhu on Huizhu's hand, and instructed: "After today, you are a royal person, a person of the fourth elder brother, you must abide by women's morality, and serve the fourth elder brother and the fourth blessing well...... After entering the four beylors, it is not better than at home, and everything should be thought twice...... The inside of this bracelet is empty, and it contains three thousand taels of silver tickets, and E-Niang has replaced them all with small denominations for your convenience. In addition, I also exchanged three hundred taels of broken silver and put it in Xiao Tao's place, which was used by you to reward the next person. ”
As he spoke, Zhang Jiashi turned around, his eyes swept sharply towards Xiao Zhao's grandmother, and then said: "Xiao Tao, you have taken care of Huizhu for eleven years, and now I will hand her over to you, so that you can continue to take care of and serve her in the Sibeile Mansion in the future." From now on, you are not Xiao Tao, nor Xiao Zhao, but the bridal girl of Niu Hulu Gege in the Sibeile Mansion - Su Xin. In the future, you will have to be like this name, with only one heart, and that is to be loyal to Huizhu, the master you have served since childhood. ”
Su Xin knelt on the ground with a bang, kowtowed to Zhang Jia's family, and sobbed: "Madam, please rest assured, the slave swears to this pair of heavens that she will be loyal to the girl in this life and this life, and if you violate this oath, you will go to hell." After speaking, he kowtowed to Huizhu again.
Zhang Jiashi looked at it for a while, and then he was satisfied with Su Xin.
At this time, someone came to report: "The fourth elder brother's mansion came to pick up people, and invited the girl to go out, don't miss the auspicious time." ”
Hearing this, Huizhu reluctantly glanced at Zhang Jia's family, called out to Eniang, knelt on the ground again, kowtowed deeply to Zhang Jia's family, and went out of the bedroom.
Then, under the service of the grandmother of Baylor Mansion, Huizhu sat in a pink sedan chair, walked out of Niu Hulu Mansion through the side door, and walked in the direction of Sibeile Mansion.
Zhang Jiashi and Ling Zhu also stood at the door, watching the team disappear around the corner......