Chapter 152: The Twelve Rites
The Xie family is naturally satisfied with Rong Ci, aside from his temperament, he may be a little colder, and everything is not bad.
But even if it is a little colder, but he is also a calm and responsible person, this lady married home, that is, the relationship between husband and wife is not very good, but he will also protect it, and Leng Qing also has the advantage of being lonely, probably there will be no concubines.
The life of this husband and wife may be quieter, but they have status, power, wealth and wealth, and they can be regarded as peaceful and smooth for a lifetime.
There is a way to marry a man and marry a man to dress and eat, no matter if he is cold or wooden, he can't speak, as long as he is full and warm, he is not bullied, and there are no such things as a miasma, which is excellent.
As for those who love between men and women, it is all false, some men and women are as deep as the sea when they are young, and they are inseparable from life and death, but when they grow older, the woman's face is gone, and it is not a concubine room.
Mrs. Xie has seen a lot of these things.
And that's it at worst.
Mrs. Xie and Xie Yi'an glanced at each other, and then nodded: "Ninth Prince, we are naturally satisfied, I won't tell you, Yixiao can talk about this family business, and it is also her blessing." ”
Duchess Rong Guo smiled: "Being able to marry her into our Rong family is also the blessing of our Rong family, I don't hide it from the two, I also like this girl in your family the most." ”
"Duchess Rong Guo loves her, and it is also her blessing."
After a few back-and-forths, the Duchess of Cao Guo ordered someone to bring up the gift of proposing, and handed the gift list to the maid who was waiting on the side, and asked her to send it.
"These are the gifts prepared by the Rongguo Mansion, please take a look at the two of you."
Mrs. Xie took it and looked at it, and the Rongguo Mansion prepared twelve ceremonies, including six popular ceremonies, which are divided into ceremonial cakes, ceremonial incense and ceremonial candles, ceremonial fruits, ceremonial tea, ceremonial wine, and ceremonial sugar.
Two more ceremonies were added to the eight ceremonies, and two more were added: 'gift money' and 'dress'.
Among them, the gift money is to prepare a piece of jewelry for the girl, one is fine, one set is also appropriate, and the dress is to prepare cloth or clothes for the girl, and in the same way, a piece of clothing and cloth is also fine, and this set is also fine.
Therefore, ordinary people ask for marriage, mostly for six rites, some family members will give eight rites, if you want to give twelve rites, in addition to these eight things, others can be added at will, and you can make up enough for twelve rites.
The gifts given by the Rongguo Mansion, cakes, incense, candles, fruits, and sugars are all in accordance with conventions, and these things are just like that, and there is nothing extraordinary.
Licha gave a jar of Biyan fairy tea, which is the top tribute in the palace, belonging to the category of cloud tea, it is said that it is the only eighteen tea trees on the top of Biyan Mountain, there are clouds and mist every day, and the tea fragrance is better than the clouds.
It is also said that it is the tea planted by the immortals, so it is called Biyan fairy tea.
There is probably only so much tea in a year, and this is still snatched back by the Duchess of Rongguo.
Ritual wine is a good wine that has been placed in a jar for more than ten years, and the name of this wine is 'Songtao', also known as gentleman's wine.
The gift money is a set of white jade jewelry, including white hostas, a pair of white jade bracelets, gold-inlaid jade hairpins, ear bells, top hairpins, small crowns, etc., a total of 12 pieces, which add up to thousands of taels of silver.
The clothes were not ready-made, but eight pieces of cloth were given, and they were full of treasures and the price was very high.
In addition, there are four rites, which can be given to the girl or to the elders in the house.
Duchess Rong Guo saw that Xie Yixiao was almost done, so she prepared it for other people in the house, and gave Mrs. Xie a jade Ruyi, Xie Yi'an and his wife were a pair of jade treasure bottles, Xie Yizhen got a scroll of calligraphy and paintings from the previous dynasty, and Xie Yiling got an inkstone.
This gift can be regarded as a painstaking gift, even Xie Yiling has not been left behind, although Xie Yiling is still young, he is still Xie Yixiao's younger brother, but he and Xie Yi'an are also the same generation, and it is not good to have less, so they simply gave it away.
Mrs. Xie read the gift list, and her heart was very satisfied, just by stuffing so many things into this gift money, she knew how satisfied the Rongguo Mansion was with this family affair, and it also gave Xie Yixiao and the Xie family enough face.
Duchess Cao Guo smiled and asked, "I don't know what Mrs. Xie thinks?" If you feel that there is something lacking, please say it, and we will discuss it again. ”
Duchess Cao Guo also felt that these courtship gifts were too much, and the sincerity was also sufficient, not to mention anything else, that is, these two places of the gift and gold dress, if they were changed to someone else's, they would definitely have to be reduced.
It's not a serious job, is it?
It's okay to give the same gift money, it's good to make up three more, it's almost enough to make clothes for a piece of cloth for a dress, and the rest will be given when the dowry is over.
Mrs. Xie said with a smile: "Let Duchess Rongguo bother, these things are good, naturally there is nothing lacking, the Xie family is very satisfied." ”
Mrs. Xie asked people to accept the gift, since it was a gift, the family matter was preliminarily decided, and then just waited for the Rongguo Mansion to choose a good day to come to the door to get the Geng post, and the two families combined the eight characters, and then they could start to talk about the matter of hiring the family.
The ancients said that "if you hire a wife, you will be a concubine", it is not unreasonable, to marry a wife, you need to go through three books and six ceremonies, the number of ceremonies is cumbersome, it takes a long time, and it costs a lot of money.
There are three books and marriage books as evidence, and the world's etiquette and secular knowledge are husband and wife, which are naturally different.
Soon after, the news reached Qingshan Yuan, Xie Yixiao was in the house with her flower tea, now that the summer is hot, you need to make some fire tea to drink.
Xie Zhu was curious, but he didn't dare to go to the outer courtyard to check the situation, so he had to come to her.
She sat on the chair, looked at Xie Yixiao and kept busy, and couldn't help asking, "Little aunt, isn't it possible that you don't worry at all?" ”
Although Xie Yixiao also felt that there was nothing to worry about, after all, there could be no more accidents in this family matter, but in the end it was her own family matter, she couldn't help but be a little worried, and she felt a little uneasy when she sat down, so she looked for something to get busy.
Hearing this, she said: "There's nothing to worry about, is this family affair difficult or not?" ”
Xie Zhu thought about it and nodded: "That's what I said, but the little aunt wants to marry Rong Jiugongzi." ”
Xie Yixiao looked up at her: "How about marrying the ninth prince?" ”
Xie Zhu said: "You don't know, in the imperial city before, I don't know how many people want to marry him, especially Xu Huanting from the Xuanping Marquis Mansion, and the young master's family, which is Yue Qingshuang, who is known as the first talented woman." ”
"There were still bets before, in the end, who will marry the ninth prince, the first is Xu Huanting, and the second is this month Qingshuang."
Xie Yi smiled and nodded: "I know this." ”
It's not like she stays in the backyard of this mansion and doesn't care about anything, she also knows a lot about things outside.
However, in her opinion, she is about to get married, and she has His Majesty to marry, these are not to be afraid, even if she dares not to jump up and down in her face, she is just a clown jumping off the beam.