Return to the Red Chamber: Jia Min Xiuxian

Chapter 157 The rich dowry has far-reaching meaning (2)
Daiyu's last year in the Lin family is coming to an end soon, and everyone is still silent.half an hour.Lin Hai cleared his throat and said, "Everyone, don't be so unhappy! Dai'er is going to spend her last year at home, so be happy. Don't act like you're going to cry or not. If you don't want to, you'll have to look for it later. Four elder brothers a few times, I saw that he dared to bully our Dai'er! He cheered me up. There is still more than half a year before Dai'er gets married! This year is Dai'er's last year at home, so let's be more lively. Let's Come and drink."

Under Lin Hai's suggestion, everyone finally let go of their sadness for the time being. Everyone was lively and lively, and finally drew a successful conclusion to this New Year.

After the New Year, when the first month comes out, it will be the twelfth day of the second lunar month, the Flower Festival, and Daiyu's birthday.This time, even Qiongyu and Yinglian, who were officials in Suzhou, also came back.Yinglian's belly is already very big, sitting with the two pregnant women Kong Jiayi, their faces are full of maternal brilliance, looking extraordinarily holy.

This birthday is also Daiyu's last at home.Early in the morning, Jia Min got up and went to the kitchen. She wanted to make a birthday banquet for her daughter herself.Jia Daishan and the others also came over, everyone gathered together as if it was a festival, the bustling people were all their own people.

For this family banquet, all the dishes were prepared by Jia Min herself. She hoped that her daughter would remember the taste of home.When the banquet was about to begin, Yinzhen also came over.Although he and Daiyu couldn't meet each other, as long as they were in the same room and listened to Dai'er talking over there, he felt satisfied.

After birthday.Everyone returned to their respective places and returned to normal life.But it is also waiting for that day in September.

Daiyu's dowry has already been prepared.The furniture is all rosewood, from the tables and chairs to the Babu bed, all of which are made from the wood prepared in the early years by the best craftsmen.Not to mention in the capital, even in the entire Qing Dynasty, it is definitely the only one.

There are also six shops in the Lin family's Zhuangzi in Jiangnan, six Zhuangzi in Beijing, and six shops.In addition to all kinds of calligraphy and painting antiques, jewelry fabrics, and dowry gifts from the royal family, Jia Min estimated that there are about 120 sets that cannot be lifted.This is still a few Zhuangzi placed on a table. Others have a whole set of jewelry boxes, but Jia Min has a box divided into several layers, and each layer has a set.

I haven't prepared much fabric yet, because I am worried that some fabrics will not be bright after a while.The ones prepared are like mandarin duck brocade and Shu brocade, which are brighter and brighter, and the eyes are more beautiful. Even if there are not many such fabrics, they are all priceless.

In short, Daiyu's dowry will definitely blind everyone's eyes when the time comes.When Daiyu came over once, Jia Min was sorting out. She saw her mother adding all the good things at home to her dowry as if she didn’t want money. Several boxes, and those bracelets, South Sea pearls, corals, tourmalines, all kinds of things, one box is full of bracelets, if all of them are put on at once, her arm will be broken I can't bring it all.Extremely amazed but also moved.

Just like that, Daiyu talked too much, and Jia Min even said that she thought it was a bit worse, but she couldn't stop pretending.Simply wait and send it over slowly.There is also the silver at the bottom of the box, which will be given to her before marriage.

Just like this, the time passed very quickly.In previous years, summer was quite uncomfortable. Although Jia Min, Lin Hai and Daiyu were not afraid, the others still didn't like summer. They always felt that summer was too long and too hot.This year, it seems that I don't feel it, and the summer is over in a blink of an eye.It's time for Daiyu to get married.

The time of Daiyu's marriage was in September when "scent from the sky penetrates Chang'an, and the whole city is full of golden armour".In that golden season of chrysanthemums everywhere, Daiyu will usher in a turning point in the second half of her life.

By the way, in May, just after the Dragon Boat Festival, Kong Jiayi gave birth to the third generation heir of the Lin family, and Lin Hai named him Lin Ziyan.Within a month, Yinglian also gave birth to a daughter.Named Lin Ziyu.

A few days before the wedding day.Lin Hai solemnly held an ancestor worship ceremony to give Daiyu his name.Originally, the characters were taken by the elders when the girl was 15 years old, but Daiyu was not yet 15 years old, and she hadn't reached the ji, so naturally she didn't do the ji ceremony, but she was about to get married soon, so she had to hold a ceremony first , and gave Daiyu the word "Yao", which means beautiful jade, beautiful.

This word has a lot of meanings compared with Baoyu's casual "frowning" in the previous life.The characters used represent a kind of expectation and blessing from the elders to the younger generation, so they generally have a good meaning.Where is it like Baoyu said, just looking at Daiyu frowning, and then casually said "frowning"?

What's more, women usually get their characters from their parents or famous elders.At that time, Daiyu had just arrived in Jia's mansion. Although Lin Hai was far away in the south of the Yangtze River, he was still there, and he was a dignified Tanhualang, not more important than Baoyu's yellow-mouthed child?How could his daughter have someone else's turn to pick her characters?To be more serious, isn't that cursing Lin Hai to death?

It's just that Daiyu hasn't married Ji yet, let alone betrothed, so she hasn't taken a character yet. Even if Lin Hai is gone, and she hasn't had time to get a character for Daiyu, there will still be Daiyu's future husband!Where is his turn?

What's more, it is extremely inappropriate for him to ask Daiyu if she has any words.Generally, unmarried women are called Daizi boudoir.That is to say, the word has not yet been taken and has not been married.It is extremely rude for a foreigner to directly ask Daiyu if a girl has any characters. If Lin Hai were here, he would definitely slap him on the spot. Isn't this an insult to his daughter!
Even if these are not said.The word selection represents the hope for this person in the future.And what does it mean that Baoyu obtained that "frowning frown"?That meant frowning, did he want Daiyu to frown like this all her life and be unhappy?

However, in Jia's mansion, no one objected to this. One reason was that Jia's mansion had no rules at all under the joint suppression of Jia's mother and Wang's, and the girls in Yingchun probably didn't know these rules at all.The other one is that it reflects from the side how little Daiyu has status in Jia's mansion.No one would scold Baoyu for her, even though it was Baoyu's fault in the first place.

Every time Daiyu thinks of this, she feels a chilling pain.That was the time when she first entered Jia's mansion, and she was insulted like this but no one paid attention to it. It can be seen that her life in Jia's mansion will not be stable in the future.However, she had just lost her mother at that time, and she had no one to teach these secular rules. She didn't know that when she entered the mansion, she was insulted like this, and even cursed her father with red lips and white teeth.But I just suffered like that!
Fortunately, in this life, she is far away from Jia's mansion and Baoyu, and there will be no intersection in the future.Her character is "Yao" given by her father, which is a good hope for her.She is no longer a "twinkle", not a "twinkle", and she is no longer the poor orphan girl who was counted and bullied by her relatives in her previous life.

(End of this chapter)