The next day, the hour.

A couple of newlyweds came out of the tent of the new house surrounded by slaves and maids, and turned back to the Chenghe Courtyard where Xiao Cong lived.

Xiao Cong's cough was unbearable, and there were buildings in the courtyard like the mansion in Lanling Lane, Jiankang Mansion. On weekdays, Xiao Cong's living is upstairs in the outer courtyard, and the main house of the newlyweds is placed upstairs in the inner courtyard.

The newlyweds go back to the main house to change their clothes. On the first day, they had to say goodbye to their parents, and both of them wore the traditional "scholar's clothes" that had been passed down by the scholar family for hundreds of years. Xiao Cong is a big-sleeved wide-shirted shirt and belt suit of the scholar Langjun, handsome and elegant, and spacious. Shen Qingyi is a scholar girl's hanging dress, the edge of the dress is embroidered, the red belt hangs down the waist, the temperament is elegant, but the eyebrows reveal a cold Qinghua, which is awe-inspiring.

Shen Qingyi pushed Xiao Cong downstairs.

The staircase is in the shape of a swirl, with a gentle slope, covered with red lichen, and the wheelchair walks on it silently.

Eight male and female servants respectfully followed behind Lang Jun and Jun Jun.

Go down the inner building along the cloister to the south, pass the middle gate, and enter the vestibule corridor.

The morning light shines through the blue veil on the window into the main hall of the front yard, and the room is bright.

Hezhou is located in the west of the big river and Huolan Mountain, the weather in February is still a little precipitous, and the northeast corner of the hall burns a purple copper Rui beast charcoal tripod.

Seats have been placed on the north and east and west sides of the hall, the main seat on the north side is Liang Guogong and Princess Anping and his wife, and the Langjun girls in the house sit on the side seats on both sides, and behind each of them are kneeling slaves and maids to serve.

Xiao Yun, the Duke of Liang Guo, who was sitting on the main seat in the north, wore a curly beam crown, a large-sleeved wide shirt with black gold and red inlay, and a silk woven mud gold belt at the waist, and his bearing was extremely elegant. The patriarch of the Xiao clan in Lanling, the governor of Hexi, who commanded 100,000 soldiers and horses, has entered the age of not being confused, and he is still handsome, and his face does not have many marks like a knife, but he is full of mature and elegant charm, such as the slender and charming eyes under the ink eyebrows, and as dark and unknown as a deep pool, and the complexion is the fairness that the scholar family is used to maintaining, but it is not the pale of Xiao Cong who does not see the sun, but is as smooth as fat jade.

The noble lady who sat beside Xiao Yu and was as beautiful as a peony was the Duchess of the Kingdom and Princess Anping. She wore the princess's Zhai dress, revealing the importance she attached to the bride, and when she saw Xiao Cong being pushed in by Shen Qingyi herself, her eyes showed two points of satisfaction.

As soon as the newlyweds entered the room, seven or eight eyes immediately shot out on the side seats on both sides, some curious and scrutinizing, and some presumptuous and scrutinizing.

Shen Qingyi's gait was calm, his expression was cold and calm, and he walked with the bearing of a girl from a family.

Princess Anping nodded secretly, feeling a little more satisfied.

According to the ceremony, the newlyweds should be in the main hall where their parents live the next day after marriage, but Xiao Yu and his wife took pity on Xiao Cong's frailty, so they arranged it in the nearest Chenghe Hospital.

Xiao Cong got up from the wheelchair, kowtowed and said, "The child thanks his parents for their kindness in educating adults." ”

Shen Qingyi then kowtowed and said, "The bride bows to her parents for the grace of raising her husband!" ”

"Up." Xiao Yu and his wife smiled.

A waiter stepped forward to help Xiao Cong and sat back in the wheelchair.

Shen Qingyi straightened up and still knelt on the brocade cushion.

Xiao Yu took out a jade jade and said to Shen Qingyi: "You are a smart child. With you by Shiro's side, you will be relieved to be a father. ”

Shen Qingyi listened to the two sentences of "smart child" and "dedication", lowered his eyebrows and respectfully accepted the jade, and his heart was as bright as a mirror.

The jade in her hand is of excellent quality, the color is like the blue sky, and the shape is elegant and beautiful.

But the most important thing is that "瑗" leads to "aid".

Xiao Yu is reminding her that she and Xiao Cong are both prosperous and loss-making.

Shen Qingyi kowtowed, "A woman is the wife of her husband, and she should do her best." ”

"Good!" Xiao Yu laughed and nodded.

"It's such a good boy, it's like it when you look at it." Princess Anping also smiled and gave her a piece of jade, a piece of white jade goose pattern with a skirt.

The jade is the West Kunlun seed jade, the jade quality is white and lush, the front relief spreads its wings and raises its head of the wild goose, it is realistic like life, it is lined with entwined lotus flowers, it is exquisitely carved, and it is not ordinary.

This jade is the meaning of "good and harmonious geese".

Shen Qingyi knew it in his heart, took it with both hands, and bowed and thanked him.

Princess Anping smiled: "Shiro will be handed over to you in the future, and we will have to relax." ”

If she can't cure Xiao Cong, there will be nothing to do next-Shen Qingyi's cold eyes fell, and her voice was clear and quiet, "The daughter-in-law will definitely live up to her mother's trust." ”

After bowing to his parents, he greeted a group of uncles and sisters-in-law.

At the head of the western seat was Liang Guogong's eldest son, Xiao Zhang, who was the second of Siao's siblings of the same grandfather.

Shen Qingyi stepped forward and saluted, "My brother-in-law has seen my second uncle. ”

Xiao Zhang is only one year older than Xiao Cong, but he entered the Hexi Army at the age of fifteen, and has been in the army for seven years. ”

Shen Qingyi owed. body, the voice said quietly: "Taking care of the husband is a matter of the younger brother's wife, and I dare not thank the second uncle." ”

Xiao Zhang's eyes sank, and he turned to Xiao Cong and said with a smile: "The fourth brother married a virtuous woman, what a blessing." ”

Xiao Cong coughed and smiled back, "The second sister-in-law is also a virtuous woman. ”

Xiao Zhang's eyes sank again, although his wife was also from the Jiangdong Shi clan, she was not the descendant of the Sun clan of Wu County, and her temperament was also quite arrogant, isn't this "virtuous woman" sarcastic to him?

He raised his face and sighed, "It's a pity that your second sister-in-law has not recovered from her illness, otherwise she would have been happy to hear the praise of the fourth brother." ”

Xiao Cong only smiled slightly.

He and Shen Qingyi returned to the east seat and sat down, waiting for the younger brothers and sisters below to come up to greet them.

First of all, the third child, Xiao Cheng, who ranked fourteenth among the siblings of the same ancestor, stepped forward.

Xiao Cheng is also from Princess Anping, and Xiao Cong is a mother's compatriot, and the fourth sister-in-law of this in-law is gone, with a flick of her wide sleeves, and a big salute, "The fourteenth brother Ah Cheng has seen the fourth sister-in-law." Without waiting for Shen Qingyi to return the gift, he smiled again and said, "The fourth sister-in-law is really good-looking, much better than the second sister-in-law." ”

The smile on Xiao Zhang's face froze, and his fist under his wide sleeves clenched slightly.

Xiao Congjun's eyebrows furrowed.

Xiao Jue, who was sitting at Xiao Zhang's table, sneered coldly, "The fourth sister-in-law is good-looking, it's your business!" ”

Xiao Cheng turned around angrily, "I'm talking about your!" ”

Xiao Jue sneered "idiot", and without waiting for Xiao Cheng to return to the table, he stepped forward directly, and threw his big sleeves to Shen Qingyi and saluted, "Nineteenth brother Ah Jue has seen the fourth sister-in-law. ”

Shen Qingyi glanced at Xiao Cheng, his eyes as cold as snow made Xiao Cheng stunned, and he couldn't help but be annoyed when he came back to his senses, but Shen Qingyi had already skimmed his eyes and bowed straight to Xiao Ying in return.

Xiao Cheng glared at Xiao Ying angrily, and raised his eyebrows at Shen Qingyi threateningly, and when he saw his father's powerful gaze coming over, he didn't dare to be presumptuous anymore, and returned to the table stupidly.

The three sisters-in-law stepped forward in order to greet the new sister-in-law.

"Sixteenth sister Ake has seen the fourth sister-in-law."

Liang Guogong's eldest daughter Xiao Ke, ranked sixteenth among her cousins and sisters, and Xiao Zhang was born from the side room Lu, and also had a pair of slender phoenix eyes unique to the Xiao family, with a generous demeanor, beautiful description, and graceful eyebrows with a bookish atmosphere.

Xiao Ke is twelve years old this year, two years older than his youngest brother, Xiao Jue. According to the rules of the Xiao family's personal salute only in order of teeth, regardless of men and women, as a sister, she should have done a personal salute before him, but Xiao Jue was angry, and Xiao Ke usually let this younger brother only give a personal salute, and he didn't need to care.

Then the second sister-in-law Xiao Se was greeted, "The twenty-first sister Arthur has seen the fourth sister-in-law. ”

Xiao Se was born by the concubine Liu, and his expression was indifferent

Unlike a nine-year-old girl, her voice is as light as cool water on an autumn night.

Shen Qingyi couldn't help but glance at her more.

"Twenty-five sister Ah Long has seen the fourth sister-in-law." Liang Guogong's youngest daughter Xiao Long is from the concubine Gao, only five years old, but her delicate eyebrows have already shown a stunning appearance in the future, she has a lively temperament, and she smiled crisply while saluting, saying, "The fourth sister-in-law is so good-looking!" "The fourth sister-in-law's skirt is also beautiful!" "The embroidered flowers on the skirt of the fourth sister-in-law are also beautiful!" ……

A string of children's words came down with a crisp sound, and the audience was full, and even Liang Guogong and his wife couldn't help laughing.

The atmosphere in the hall was relaxed.

The juniors stepped forward in order to salute.

The juniors at the table are all Xiao Zhang's children, sitting behind his seat.

"Nephew Hong visits the fourth aunt." Xiao Zhang's eldest son is a grandson, born with red lips and white teeth, beautiful eyebrows, seven years old, but he has begun to have the elegant demeanor of a family gentleman, and his speech is also clear, not slow or slow, and he seems steady.

"My nephew is here to see my fourth aunt." Xiao Zhang's second son, who is five years old, is also polite and generous.

"My niece would rather visit the fourth aunt." Xiao Zhang's eldest daughter, Xiao Ning, who is four years old this year, kneeling on the brocade mat and saluting, looked up at Shen Qingyi curiously after kowtowing, and was shocked by the cold eyes like snow, and said in her heart: This fourth aunt is so cold!

"Niece Mi visits the fourth aunt." Xiao Mi is Xiao Zhang's daughter-in-law, she is only three years old this year, but she walks with her head held high, her chin raised, she shows the demeanor of a noble girl at such a young age, and she must be an imposing noble girl when she grows up.

Shen Qingyi thought of Xiao Long, the same flamboyant sister-in-law, and felt that the Lanling Xiao clan was very different from the Wuxing Shen clan in educating their daughters, or compared with most of the Jiangnan clans, they had more of the demeanor of the empire's powerful and flamboyant manners, rather than continuing the demeanor of the Wei and Jin clans like the girls of the Jiangnan family.

"My nephew is here to see my fourth aunt." Xiao Zhang's third son is only one year old, and he has to be supported by his nursing mother to salute, and his voice is milky, but he also speaks clearly.

Xiao Zhang's eyebrows and eyes were filled with pride, his sons are all good, and the important thing is that he already has three sons! He glanced at Xiao Cong and snorted proudly in his heart.

Shen Qingyi gave the five juniors a personal salute as usual, with a faint smile on his lips, but his eyes were cold and bottomless.

After seeing the ceremony, on the first day of the newlyweds, parents and children eat together.

Twenty or thirty slaves and maids rushed in, and brought the food table to the hall, including soup cakes, mutton, Hu Pao meat, and calf sticks from the land of Hexi, as well as purple rice soup, fish soup, and soup from the south, with duck soup, roasted porpoise, roasted mountain boar, fish gizzard, fungus pheasant, fried spring bamboo shoots, exquisite tofu and other cooked meat and vegetables, and there are roe crispy preserved meat, baked pith cake, white sheep crisp, 100-year-old crisp, five kernel buns, shepherd's cabbage spring cake, pear blossom cake and other northern and southern dim sum, and there are beef and goat milk, orange peel soup and other northern and southern special pulp drinks...... There are no less than twenty or thirty kinds of food on each table, all of which are filled with Xingbai porcelain dishes that are as clear as ice, clear glass bowls, or silver flat with foot plates, and white bamboo cages that are only produced in Yuezhou Yanxi.

The Lanling Xiao clan is indeed much more expensive than the Wuxing Shen clan.

Shen Qingyi's cold eyes drooped slightly.

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