Wind rises time and space gate

Chapter 393 Who gave you the courage?

Betrothal gifts like running water were sent to the Chiang mansion.

According to the laws of Daqi, when the royal family marries a daughter-in-law, she is given two thousand taels of gold, ten thousand taels of silver, a thousand bolts of silk and satin, twenty jades, a hundred pieces of gold, a hundred pieces of silver, four handles of Ruyi jade, and a gold, jade, and silver plate in the form of a dragon and a phoenix. One pair each, a royal mansion, and twenty horses.

There are also some calligraphy and paintings, cakes and fruits, some wine, tea and cakes, and some cattle and sheep. After the merging of the emperor, the brides and grooms of various palaces added makeup, and the betrothal gifts sent to the Jiang family totaled ninety-eight sets.

The procession of betrothal gifts was huge, the attendants were dressed in red and green, and the betrothal gifts were delivered to the Chiang mansion like water.

Mrs. Jiang, her daughter-in-law, the Deyang Princess who came to help, and the four Quanfu wives were busy arranging the betrothal gifts without even touching the ground.

Zhao Guangyuan followed the recruitment team to Jiang's house, and Jiang Xiang and his son, as relatives of the woman, entertained her in the main hall. As the chief official of the Yue Palace, Jiang Wentao had to help the Yue King prepare a betrothal gift to the woman.

This strange combination amused all the guests who came to watch the ceremony.

"Thank you all for taking the time to come and watch the ceremony. I will be getting married in eight days. I would also like to invite you to have a glass of wine at Prince Yue's Mansion."

"Thank you for the invitation, Your Majesty. I will definitely go and ask for a drink."

In addition to the officials from the Ministry of Rites, the eunuch Liu Qi, who was close to Emperor Zhengzheng, was also invited today. The guests watched him busy up and down with twinkling eyes.

Liu Qi is a popular figure around the emperor. Without the emperor's orders, would he dare to leave the palace?

After all, he is the legitimate son of Empress Yuan. It seems that the King of Yue still has a certain weight in the emperor's heart. Those who previously thought that the emperor was ignoring the king of Yue could not help but reconsider the relationship between father and son.

And now that the King of Yue has entered the court to take charge of politics, it seems that the emperor's attitude towards the King of Yue has softened a lot.

After all, it is his biological blood. But then I thought about what happened to the prince ten years ago. The emperor didn't even let go of his several-month-old grandson. He couldn't help but shudder again. It's better not to compare the royal father and son with the father and son of ordinary people. They are incomparable.

The female guests who came to watch the ceremony still had a lot of disdain for Princess Yue, a folk woman. But after seeing that the emperor actually sent Eunuch Liu Qi to offer the job, he didn't dare to say anything more.

The emperor valued this private princess so much, what else could they say. In a few days, she will be transformed into a princess. No one can make her salute except the queen. How dare they use her identity to make trouble?

Look at today's betrothal gift, which is like water. She originally thought that she would marry a prince who can't bear children, but she just has the title of princess and concubine, but she kept silent again.

No matter what, this folk princess is loved by the King of Yue, and now the emperor also values ​​her, and her life will be easy in the future. Look at them again. Whose family is not glamorous on the outside but full of chicken feathers on the inside?
Some people even envy this folk princess.

Lin Zhaoxia was accompanied by Deyang, a group of royal family members, the princess and the county magistrate and others in Qixia Courtyard, and did not go outside to watch the excitement.

Listening to the maids talking about how much the betrothal gift was and what they gave, they were tongue-tied. This royal bride-in-law is really grand. How many people can we marry?
Looking at the room, there are all royal relatives and nobles, each one more noble than the other.

This was also the first time Lin Zhaoxia, except Deyang, had such close contact with these royal family members. Of course, it was also the first time that these royal family members had such a close look at the private princess of the King of Yue.

Emperor Zheng had nine princesses, four of whom were married. Today they all came to add to their beauties.

The eldest Princess Zhaohua is one year older than Zhao Guangyuan. She is the daughter of Concubine Liu and has the same mother as Prince Jin. Today, she brought her sister-in-law Princess Jin and all the other princesses here to add makeup.

Princess Zhaohua looks very similar to Concubine Liu Guifei. Because she is the first princess, she has been favored by Emperor Zheng since she was born. The husband chosen for her is also from the Dingguo Palace of a famous and meritorious family. She married Dingguo Gong. His second son Zhanchi.

Princess Zhaohua has given birth to two daughters and one son in recent years. There are no other women in the consort's backyard except her, so she lives quite comfortably.

There is a bit of majesty on his face. A group of royal sisters were also vaguely headed by her.

"I heard that the seventh younger brother and sister are only two years younger than me. I really can't tell." Princess Zhaohua, who was dressed in rich and luxurious clothes, was sitting in the flower hall of Qixia Courtyard where guests were entertained, looking at Lin Zhaoxia.

The eldest princess's wanton gaze made Lin Zhaoxia feel a little uncomfortable, but as a modern person, she didn't have the fear of imperial power that ordinary people had, and she didn't have the concept of three, six, or nine.

"Yes, but you can't tell at all. I am already half an old lady. Compared with Princess Zhaohua, I am like the light and dust. In front of the princess, I pale in comparison and cannot stand."

Lin Zhaoxia didn't use any honorific or disrespectful words. After being taught by the two nuns Kong and Wei for so many days, she was still used to me coming and going, and she couldn't change it. Thinking that she was the princess anyway, and few people could jump over her or make her use honorifics, the two nuns Kong and Wei did not correct her harshly.

After Lin Zhaoxia finished speaking, the eyes of all the royal ladies in the room fell on her.

In fact, the eldest princess's words were an insinuation that she was old enough to fly up a branch and become a phoenix. But this woman from the common people didn't seem to understand it at all, and she was willing to devalue herself, saying that she was an old lady.

A MILF never says that she is a MILF. But she didn't seem to care at all.

In front of a room full of noble ladies, he didn't show any timidity. Is it because you are marrying the King of Yue? The courage the King of Yue gave her?

It wasn't the courage given by the King of Yue, nor the courage given by the man named Liang. It was because Lin Zhaoxia, as a modern person, had no sense of superiority or inferiority in his heart.

Besides, other people like to be happy, so laugh at yourself, if you can make others happy, stop suppressing yourself. If others are happy, you will be happy too, why not?
Why bother with these. A pound of meat is indispensable. Lin Zhaoxia didn't care about being shameless anyway.

The eldest princess is a little confused about this Lin's routine.

If her identity suppresses her, it's like she can't understand. If words suppress her, it's like she can't understand.

She thought she would be ashamed to marry the King of Yue at such an old age and let the King of Yue give up so many young ladies, and she was not afraid that others would say that she did not know how to show appreciation. Seeing so many high-status and young ladies now, I thought she would be so frightened that she couldn't even say anything.

But where did this generous and confident person come from?

"You have been waiting for my seventh brother for so many years. Aren't you worried that if he returns to Beijing, he will break his promise and refuse to take you back to Beijing, or just let you be his concubine?"

"Well, then there is nothing to worry about. Even though I have to marry a man to clothe and feed myself, I am not without hands or feet to support myself. Being a concubine is impossible, and it doesn't matter if I don't marry. I can always live on. . Besides, I believe in the King of Yue.”

Princess Zhaohua didn't understand where her confidence came from.

Does that mean you can marry the King of Yue if you can, but it doesn't matter if you don't marry? It seemed like he didn't take the royal family seriously. No one else can climb up, so she still doesn't care? Do you think the King of Yue can't have children, so the marriage is unnecessary? Princess Zhaohua frowned. The King of Yue cannot have any more children, which is not something ordinary people can imagine.

Princess Zhaohua stopped talking to Lin Zhaoxia and turned around to only joke with the other sisters beside her.

Seeing that Princess Zhaohua ignored the private princess, as if she was isolating her, the others followed suit and stopped talking to Lin Zhaoxia.

On the contrary, the fourth princess born to Concubine Hui had a few more words with Lin Zhaoxia.

At the first birthday banquet of the Crown Prince of Jin, the King of Yue was framed to harm His Highness the Sixteenth Prince, who was raised under the name of Concubine Hui. Later, the King of Yue was cleared of the crime, and the Sixteenth Prince was fine. I heard that he was becoming more and more dependent on the Seventh Emperor's brother, which also made Concubine Hui. The newly born Princess Zhaoxian developed a liking for the Seventh Emperor Brother whom she had not seen for a long time.

Naturally, she was a little more friendly to him, a princess from the common people.

"Sister-in-law of the Seventh Emperor, there is no need to be anxious. You are the princess, and few people can surpass you in status. Just do what you want."

Lin Zhaoxia breathed a sigh of relief, "The fourth princess said this, and I feel much relieved. I am afraid that I will say the wrong thing if I say anything more, and I dare not take another step."

Lin Zhaoxia immediately took a liking to this fourth princess who looked extremely docile. Sure enough, good words are more heart-warming than words with a gun and a stick. Thinking about the relationship between Beijing and China that Mrs. Jiang’s mother-in-law and daughter-in-law sorted out for her...

The fourth princess married the second son of General Zhennan's family. Now she has a son and a daughter, and she and her consort are living a happy life. And her younger sister, the fifth princess, was married to the second son of Dingbei Hou.

The two daughters born to Concubine Hui were assigned to the families of military generals by Emperor Zheng.

Let's look at the families chosen by other princesses. They are all families with long-established achievements in Daqi or those with military power. It seems that the royal family also relies on the marriage of children to consolidate relationships.

Today, the royal family presented the appointment, and all the female family members of the royal family came to watch the ceremony and put on makeup, which also allowed Lin Zhaoxia to get to know many royal ladies.

After the betrothal gift is given, the last of the six gifts is the "personal welcome". The wedding day is set for the tenth day of August. There are only a few days left, and the Jiang family is getting busier and busier. All the servants in the mansion combined would be too busy.

Zhao Guangyuan transferred half of the servants from Prince Yue's Mansion to help. Princess Lu also sent more than twenty servants to help.

After Prince Yue's Mansion transferred people, Prince Yue's Mansion also ran out of manpower, so they had to suspend the renovation of the restaurant. All the chefs and waiters hired by the restaurant were transferred to Prince Yue's Mansion to help. This was totally not enough, so more manpower was transferred from the Imperial Manor.

All the officials from the Sinong Department, seeing that the Shangguan was so busy that he couldn't even touch the ground, were so eager to help him that they also sent their servants and female relatives to help him.

Shangguan's wedding, can't he get some blessings and joy? Moreover, although the King of Yue was poor, he was very generous.

In the past few days when I was helping, the female relatives at home either came back with various kinds of cloths, or various kinds of pastries, snacks, fish, meat, wine and tea, filling the belly of the whole family. A poor official like Du Zhishu, who had been a poor farmer for eight generations and whose whole family had struggled to support him, was nothing in the capital city where nobles were everywhere.

A seventh-grade official received only a hundred or two taels of salary a year, and could not afford a house in the capital. The whole family rented a house and lived in the courtyard, crowded together, and there was nothing to be gained on weekdays. I don’t even want to cut off a few more pieces of clothing.

But these days, the cloth rewarded by the King of Yue alone is enough to clothe the family for a year.

This thigh must be held firmly.

Therefore, officials of all sizes in the Agriculture Department are not happy to send their families to the palace, even if they are very busy.

Zhao Guangyuan naturally saw it. They are both officials in the capital, but he is an official in the Agriculture Department. He is not an official, and he is not a citizen. I am afraid that life at home will be difficult.

There is little money to be made in the Sinong Division, and there are no rewards during the New Year. With that little salary, it is probably not easy to live in a place like the capital.

He wants to do something, at least to make the people who follow him no longer so poor. But these days, he is busy preparing for the wedding, and he is not worried about it. He just silently keeps it in his heart and wants to see if there is anything after the wedding. How can I get some money so that I can help you all?

In the blink of an eye, it was the eighth day of August, and Lin Zhaoxia was checking the dowry with Mrs. Jiang’s mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

All betrothal gifts sent from the palace must be used as dowry and sent to the Yue Prince's Mansion. Of course, if the woman's family members are all present, the entire bride price will not be used as the dowry, but in Lin Zhaoxia's situation, she cannot have contact with Lin Qiushan.

There is no need to withhold the betrothal gift.

The palace sent ninety-eight betrothal gifts, and there were no regulations on the dowry of the princess. However, for the princes of Jin, Wei, King Jing and other concubines who married, the dowries of the princesses were all one hundred and thirty-eight, and the dowries of the princesses of Jin were one hundred and fifty-eight. , only ten units less than the princess regulations.

As for the kings of Qin and Chu who got married before becoming kings, the dowry for their princesses also amounted to one hundred and twenty-eight sets. Although the King of Yue pretended to be poor in front of people, it was not good for Lin Zhaoxia to be criticized because the dowry was too low.

Zhao Guangyuan naturally did not want to wrong Lin Zhaoxia, so he brought most of the treasures in the treasury and searched them at Dongsheng Pawn Shop. They only found a lot more than 138 units.

"The dowry sent by the prince is too much. I'm afraid it will exceed the regulations."

Mrs. Jiang was a little worried. In addition to what the King of Yue sent, as a "clan" of the woman's family, the Jiang family also prepared a lot of dowry. If they were all put in a cage, it would probably exceed the regulations of the Crown Princess.

"Let's pretend it's one hundred and thirty-eight." Lin Zhaoxia looked dizzy looking at the long gift list.

The Jiang family was so kind that they couldn't refuse, so Lin Zhaoxia decided to keep it all and put it in her dowry, and would repay it with Jiang Wentao's marriage in the future. Although the ones sent by Zhao Guangyuan did not have any special marks and were pawned from a pawn shop, Lin Zhaoxia still did not plan to put them in the dowry just in case.

It is said that the King of Yue wants to pretend to be poor. According to her, just pretend to be one hundred and eighteen, which is slightly lower than other princesses. Doesn't it make him look poorer? With my status, it's not easy to pretend to be fat.

But neither Zhao Guangyuan nor Mrs. Jiang agreed. It's a lot more than just pretending.

"Mom, just follow what my sister said. We shouldn't be too high-profile. We don't live our lives for others to see." Wen persuaded Mrs. Jiang. She was a mother-in-law who wanted to marry off her daughter, and was afraid that Princess Yue would bring too little dowry and be looked down upon.

"Okay, then I'll regulate it."

If you can, stuff more into the box. An empty one hundred and thirty-eight is also a hundred and thirty-eight, and a full one and a hundred and thirty-eight is also a hundred and thirty-eight. Princess Yue is marrying from her own family, so people cannot underestimate the Jiang family.

Yu couldn't hold it in anymore, so after the wedding, he asked Wen Tao to quietly take him back to the palace.

While a group of people were busy with the dowry, Zhao Guangyuan came to the door. In addition to bringing wedding clothes from the palace, I also brought a person.