Chapter 5 Preparing for Marriage

Hong Sheng's time to stay in the capital is limited, even if the Holy Grace is open, it is only extended for two months, and it just happens to be Susu and Lu. So Hong Sheng quickly invited the official media and Mama Wei to come to the door to discuss the marriage date with Mrs. Song.

He wanted to marry the little lady into the door, and he was not alone during the Chinese New Year, but he didn't dare to say this, not Su Su, even Mrs. Song wouldn't do it. Finally, the sixteenth day of the first month was decided, which is the so-called dowry gift.

Su Su is not easy to participate in these things, so she returned to Zhuangzi first after the little lady's baptism. Just because she has to move again. This time she is going to move to the dowry house given to her by the old lady, this house is in the capital, whether she runs to the house or Hong Sheng gives a dowry, it is very convenient than in Zhuangzi.

The most important thing is that this winter is very cold, there is a snow disaster in several cities in the north, and the displaced people are flocking to the capital in groups.

Su Su originally wanted to ask someone to clean up the house and send the people who didn't like it to see the house over. This is also trouble-free, she moved over and asked people to look at Zhuangzi directly.

So just in time for the year ago, Su Su moved and invited the old lady and the daughters of the Song family and Yang Liu to have a housewarming banquet, and Hong Sheng also sent a housewarming gift. The things he sent before startled Su Su, in addition to some gorgeous jewelry and gemstones, there were actually a few scrolls of precious calligraphy and paintings, and a box of ancient book fragments, no matter how rich the Song family was, these things were rare, Su Su didn't dare to estimate them, and was busy asking him to take them back.

Only Hong Sheng obviously didn't care too much, and said: "These are the trophies of the past two years, a group of big-headed soldiers, they know that real money is good, and they are a little knowledgeable, but these things are not easy to sell in the northwest, and they can't be sold at any price." I wanted it because I knew you liked it, and I wouldn't keep it, and a few of the books were rotten. ”

When Su Su heard this, he didn't care about inking with him, so he hurriedly opened the box to check, and when he saw that it was just a little damp, he put his mind at ease. Looking up and seeing Hong Sheng looking at himself with a smile, Su Su blushed unconsciously and said: "These are all lonely books, and they can't be obtained in the next place, and they will only leave a box of this for future generations in the future, which is enough for them to eat and drink." ”

When Hong Sheng heard this, he didn't know what could not be described, and his face also brought out a little flush, but his face was black, which was not obvious.

Su Su finally has her own home, which belongs to her, and it is still in the capital and the fourth ring road. If it were in the later generations, such a set of three-entry mansions would be the ten rings from the capital, and Su Su would not dare to think of it.

Foreigners will not understand the Chinese people's attachment to the house, and those who have a house cannot understand the sadness of the houseless family, especially Su Su, who is alone in the "stranger of a different world", is to have a thatched house that shelters from the wind and rain, as long as it belongs to her, she is also happy.

When he lived in Zhuangzi, Su Su didn't have this kind of experience, but when he entered a new home, Su Su felt that he had finally taken root in Dachu. So on the New Year, Su Su politely refused the old lady's kindness to ask her to return to her home for the New Year, and spent Chinese New Year's Eve with the next people in her own home, especially when the pocket watch was about to reach twelve o'clock at midnight, Hong Sheng waited for the wind and snow to appear.

At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, the sky above the palace lit up with brilliant fireworks, and it was set off for half an hour, Su Su and Hong Sheng stayed in the snow in the night sky, quietly watching the bright fireworks explode in the sky, and listening to the big ben bell of the city gate tower ringing the first bell of the new year, neither of them spoke.

But at that moment, Hong Sheng quietly held Su Su's hand, and Su Su did not refuse. Su Su made the first wish of the year to the gods and Buddhas in his heart: May three lives and three lives and ten miles of peach blossoms......

Hehe, what the hell is going on? No, re-pose: I hope that the years will be quiet and live up to my life.

After the New Year, will the sixteenth day of the first lunar month be far away? Of course, it will be there soon.

Su Su has no father or mother, and there are no elders in the family, and the number of wedding ceremonies is handled by the old lady as the head of the family.

At more than ten o'clock in the morning, Hong Sheng took the lead, followed by a group of northwest sergeants who had not yet returned, and they actually carried the dowry and came from the sound of drums.

As I said earlier, these men from the northwest were able to enter Beijing after a fierce competition, and they were naturally very imposing and very capable of doing it. Before entering the alley of Lifang, it attracted onlookers from neighbors.

The neighbors only knew that this house had a master some time ago, and they moved a lot of things into the door, and at first glance, they saw that they had some family wealth, and they were all waiting for the lord's family to come to visit, which has always been the rule among neighbors.

It's just that they don't know that Su Su will get married in March if she lives here, and with her face, they don't want to attract attention, so naturally they don't want to move around with the neighbors more. Those neighbors waited for a few days and didn't see the main family come to the door, so they only sent a mother-in-law to deliver a box of snacks and finished the matter, and they were a little embarrassed.

As the saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, that is, you have money, but if you really have to meet something, sometimes money may not be good. You must know that the people who live in this land are not bad for money, although they are far inferior to the Song family, some of them are still old residents of the capital, real land snakes.

I only inquired for a long time, and I only knew that this was a house bought by a wealthy family from Yangzhou, so there were people with bad mouths, and some bastard words such as "outer house" and "second room" were passed into the ears of the people in the Su house, and they almost died of anger.

Su Su didn't care, and the right and wrong that might be caused by meeting the neighbors must have been a few words, and there would be no less meat to ask people to say a few words, and it would not be a few days before Hong Sheng gave the dowry, and it would not be a "slap in the face" by then.

Sure enough, those neighbors in the neighborhood saw Hong Sheng's pair, and they really felt "face pain", who put the "outer room" and gave a dowry gift, and look at the 20 or so half-person high dowry boxes, not to mention what is in them, only these 20 or so mahogany boxes ordinary people can't afford to buy.

Moreover, in this winter, the young man who looked at the head was the main master, and he was carrying a pair of live geese in his hands, and he really didn't know how much effort had been wasted.

On this day, the Su Mansion finally opened the door that had been closed, and welcomed Hong Sheng and others into the door, and the official media entered the inner courtyard and handed over the dowry list and the big red wedding letter.

Needless to say in the inner courtyard, what is on the dowry list, the old lady and Su Su have long known, and it is not an exaggeration for Hong Sheng to marry his daughter-in-law that he is really "bankrupt", and the bride price alone is six hundred taels of gold.

And the most precious nature is the two boxes of things that are rewarded by the saint today, one of which is a pair of jade jade Ruyi with the label of the imperial gift, and it is a great dignity to only offer it at home in the future.

Then it was prepared by Hong Sheng himself, all of which were collected by his friends from Yang Wei's dart bureau who ran everywhere, including Shu brocade in Shudi, Yunjin in Nanjing, silk in Dingzhou, Hebei, cotton cloth in Songjiang and other 66 silk satins; It is also related to foreign furs, jade from Xinjiang, spices from the Western Regions, and imported goods from the sea.

There are also eight sets of gold and silver heads inlaid with gemstones, pearls and jade, four sets of gold and silver heads and faces with tired silk and filigree technology, two pairs of jasper bracelets, two pairs of mutton fat jade bracelets, and two boxes of other fragmentary jewelry.

As for the hired cakes, seafood, three animals, fish, wine, tea and fruit, post boxes, incense cannon bracelets, and a lot of gold, the old lady met it before and said to Su Su in private that Hong Sheng had broken the bill. Only Su Su secretly sighed: What a murder and arson gold belt!

In the outer courtyard, Song Qinghe, the prince of Shun'an Bofu, happened to be resting, so he brought the sixth young master who wanted to join in the fun with the old lady, and happened to entertain Hong Sheng and others as a "mother's family".

Salute each other, these sergeants are all good friends with Hong Sheng, and they are used to seeing rough men in the northwest, and suddenly a family son came, but they were very surprised, they only knew that Hong Sheng's daughter-in-law who had not passed the door was originally a maid of a large family, this is Hong Sheng was afraid that they would hear some rumors and misunderstanding Su Su when they arrived in the capital, so they gave them a preventive injection in advance.

These individuals don't care much about the background of Mrs. (younger brother and sister), just seeing that Hong Sheng is so attentive, and even most of his body is not distressed at all as a dowry, they know that it is also a good thing to think about, you must know that Hong Sheng is also famous for his divine power and powerful eyes in the army.

This is not to praise his eyesight, but this person has just arrived in the army, and within two days, he found out the traitor who had been lurking in the Hami Guard for two years, otherwise how could he be a hairy boy and quickly gain a firm foothold in the army, and no one dared to rob him of his military merits?

Even if there is the support of King Ke, it can't be said on the bright side, Hong Sheng's current position wants to rise like a rocket, not without reason.

When I saw Song Qinghe at this time, I realized that Boss Hong's daughter-in-law was actually the eldest maid who was favored by the old lady of Shun'an Bofu, a new upstart in the capital, and she could ask the prince of Bofu to come over and act as a "mother's family", which was not just favored.

Taking advantage of Song Qinghe's outing to change clothes, several soldiers set up Hong Sheng and asked him to recruit him from the truth, Hong Sheng had to tell him and Su Su and the old lady about the "life-saving grace", and said: "At that time, she was only seven years old, and the old lady thanked her for her loyalty and brought her to raise her personally. "A group of GIs haven't heard of this yet, but they just feel like it's sung in the play.

After the levy, the date of the invitation is to be made, and the wedding date is set on the sixth day of the third month after Su Su and Lu, and the time is really tight. Fortunately, Su Su's wedding dress was made by the old lady a long time ago, but because she didn't know Su Su's official position when she got married, the phoenix on the wedding dress was not embroidered, and now as long as the five-tailed phoenix is embroidered. (Su Su only knew that there was still such an operation!) )

The old lady had already prepared a dowry for her, and Su Su took it out when she left the house, which was a large piece of furniture, and the old lady asked Grandpa Qiao to buy it for her when Yang Liu got married, but it was too conspicuous, and it was only when Su Su left the house that she asked someone to send it directly to Zhuangzi.

In addition to a complete set of red acid branch furniture, there are also a pair of red sandalwood kang tables, a screen framed by nanmu, a dresser with yellow pear, four pairs of boxes with black lacquer inlaid luodian, and a pair of boxwood carved four-door wardrobes, all of which are meticulously crafted. Not to mention that the furniture in the main house of Zhuangzi was originally new, if it was also counted in the dowry, Su Suguang's furniture accounted for twenty lifts.

Su Su has no family elders, and in addition to some food, the dowry gift sent by Hong Sheng was naturally added to Su Su's dowry. When Su Su personally transcribed the dowry list, she found that there were too many things, she was just a maid, and what the old lady gave was decent enough, if she added her own accumulation and the makeup gifts sent from everywhere, it would be a little too eye-catching.

Su Su thought about it, and removed half of her things, and the seventh sister secretly hid everything she gave her and couldn't register it, so she was afraid that she would have to carry a hundred, but Su Su had already thought about it.

The dowry of the whole lift is sixty-four lifts, not to mention the small family, the four, six, and eight lifts, that is, the average rich family, and it is already very decent to marry a daughter to have thirty-two dowry. The sixty-four dowry is the common dowry when the fourth or fifth official marries his daughter, and she also sets it to sixty-four, and if she doesn't look at it, it won't make Hong Sheng lose face, just right.

Nowadays, there are too many things, and the space can only be used as much as possible, two boxes of jewelry are squeezed into one box, how much fabric was originally put in one box is now doubled, medicinal supplements are put together, and those that can be packed into the dowry box are full, and clothes and bedding can be put into the cabinet first.

The subordinates of the Su Mansion were blinded by their own girl's actions, I have heard that the dowry boxes are looser, and there are more good-looking boxes, but I have never heard that even the accompanying furniture is full, try to squeeze out space to make room, what kind of player is this!

Su Su doesn't care what kind of mentality her subordinates have, anyway, what she has to do is to be "decent"!

When Mrs. Song was not at ease, she called Mama Qin over to come and see, and after hearing Mama Qin crying and laughing about it, the old lady shook her head and said, "Ah Xiang, Su Su is a smart child." Life is your own life, and you can get benefits by yourself, so why do you care what others say? ”

On the third day of the first month of March, it is also the birthday of Su Su's life, this year is her fifteenth birthday, called it "and Lu" in ancient times, on this day Su House held a large-scale and Lu ceremony, the old lady personally inserted a precious golden hairpin for Su Su, and also took the word for Su Su - Yi'an, IKEA and Yi'an, safe and healthy An.

After the time, three days later it will be the day of Su Su's marriage.

When it was time to send the dowry to make the bed the day before the wedding, the old lady specially invited the future mother-in-law of the three girls, Mrs. Sun, to be the Quanfu person to make the bed for Su Su, and Aunt Qiao, the mother of Yang Liu, followed.

Sixty-four carried the heavy dowry out of the Su house, which made the surrounding neighbors look dumbfounded, and the sharp-eyed self-seeing that these dowry boxes were not false and unreal, and they didn't see that each dowry was four strong laborers, and even the flat burden was bent.

The daughters of the Song family did not hide their entry and exit from the Su house, and they let people see the right ones, and they had seen Mrs. Song's wife and grandmother from afar, so they knew that the old lady of Shun'an Bofu lived here. Looking at other people's dowries, it has set off a wave of "I'd rather marry everyone's maids than take small family girls" in a small area of the capital.