Sir, can you marry me?

Chapter 402

After the two guards left, the female family members of the Hou Mansion rushed to make thick winter clothes and cotton boots and socks day and night.Xiao Wenqing sits in the study and paints hard.Because the wives of the guards gradually knew that Mrs. Hou could draw portraits, they all asked Mrs. Hou to help draw a copy for her children, so that they could be sent to the northwest to show to their husbands.Xiao Wenqing would not refuse to agree to such a request, so he painted a portrait after handling the affairs of the mansion.

At present, the three children in the mansion are connected to her and there are a total of [-]. Hou's mansion is well-nourished, and the children are basically white and fat. Their facial features are all round faces, big eyes, big eyes, and plump cheeks. Xiao Wenqing thinks that she can draw it. It was also difficult for the guards to find their own children in a pile of portraits of children under the age of two, so they simply drew pictures of mother and child, not omitting those wives of the guards who were just pregnant before the expedition and now have a big belly.

For more than ten days in a row, Xiao Wenqing painted portraits of the three brothers, Xiaoxiao, Lang, Lang, Kangkang, and the wives and children of the guards. They wrapped these portraits repeatedly in tarpaulins, and attached three carts of winter clothes and shoes, and three carts of herbs to drive away the cold. The wound medicine was sent to the northwest side together.

Qin Fang was old and strong, and said that he wanted to visit the Northwest again, so he recommended himself to be the leader of the carriage, and set off with a dozen young guards.Of course, he came back with two cartloads full of gifts from men for their wives and children.

In the lunar calendar of October in early winter, Xiao Wenqing sits in the room and checks Xiaoxiao's homework, Xiaoxiao stands in front of her and listens to the teaching, Lang Lang and Kangkang sit on the thick carpet and play happily with their puppy.

All of a sudden, they heard a loud and loud bell ringing from outside.

Xiao Wenqing raised his head and looked outside with surprise on his face.If the bells sounded in a large area of ​​the capital, either the huge bell in the palace was ringing, or the bells were ringing in several large monasteries in the capital.The bells of the imperial palace and the great monastery are rung on time, and only when important events happen in the palace or the temple holds a large-scale Buddhist meeting will it ring at other times.

Xiao Wenqing got up and walked out of the house, listening to the bell, and felt that it sounded like it was coming from the direction of the palace, and suddenly felt uneasy. "Come here, go out and ask, what happened outside?" She quickly ordered a maid beside her.The emperor is in his seventies this year, and the palace examination in early March was presided over by the prince...

The maid bowed and left, trotting all the way to the front yard to find Manager Zhou.The servants in the back house are not allowed to leave the Marquis Mansion casually, and they can only ask the servants in the front yard for help.

"Xiaoxiao, your mother has almost finished reading your homework, you take the general to run, and then come back to squat." Xiao Wenqing told Xiaoxiao who followed her out.

"Yes, mother." Xiaoxiao immediately said, ran into her room, began to take off her outer clothes, and then took the general who had been waiting for a long time to run outside Hongyunyuan.

The two servants who served the young master were ready and ran behind Xiaoxiao.The two of them sometimes lamented that they were unlucky and were transferred to serve the young master, not only to play with him but also to run with him.The young master is still young, and in another three to five years, he will be more active. They must have practiced very good running skills even if they have not practiced martial arts.

Xiao Wenqing went back to the house to accompany her two young sons.After a long time, the servant girl she sent hurried in and said out of breath, "Ma'am, the empress is dead. The palace has sent someone over and ordered you to enter the palace in plain clothes tomorrow morning to give the big ceremony."

Xiao Wenqing was startled suddenly, "Is the empress dead?" Immediately afterwards, she sighed heavily again.

Xiao Wenqing didn't have much contact with people in the palace. She only knew that the empress had recuperated in Zhaoyang Palace since October last year when the emperor established the crown prince, and all internal affairs of the harem were managed by Concubine Cui.Xiao Wenqing didn't care whether the empress's illness was real or fake, because it was a matter for the royal family, and too much attention from outsiders would cause trouble for the upper body.The empress has been recuperating for a year and now she is dead. This may be a relief for her whose expectations have been dashed and her own son was ordered to go to fiefdom.

The queen is the mother of a country. According to the Daqing ancestral system, the wives of civil and military officials of the first to third ranks in Beijing all enter the palace in plain clothes in the morning of the day after the funeral, wear mourning clothes for three days, replace the moon with the sky, and observe mourning in plain clothes for 27 days.When the queen goes to the funeral, all the wives are ordered to hold sacrifices along the way in order to send the queen off for the last time.

The day after the empress's wedding, Xiao Wenqing got up early and asked her maid to wash herself up.The royal family has strict regulations on funeral ceremonies. During the period of mourning and filial piety, women are not allowed to paint or wear gold, pearl, silver and emerald jewelry.Xiao Wenqing used white hair ropes and three light brown wooden hairpins today, and then put on milky white pearl earrings, and wore white inside and out, and put on a white silk cloak after a hasty breakfast, which will come in handy during special times The blue and white two-color second-rank female official sedan chair goes to Xihuamen in the capital.

It wasn't too early for her to come, a dozen blue and white or blue and white female official sedan chairs had already parked outside the Xihua Gate, and more than a dozen noble ladies of the third rank or above in white robes were standing solemnly with plain faces.There are new arrivals, they also bow to each other according to their ranks, and then walk into the circle of wives they are familiar with.Xiao Wenqing took the initiative to go to Mrs. Minister of the Ministry of War and stood beside her.

Madam Gaoming in plain clothes came to the Xihua Gate one after another, and they were almost all there before the Xihua Gate opened.The Xihua Gate opened, and ordered the wives to line up to go in according to the order of rank. Under the guidance of the eunuch master of ceremonies, they went down to the Wan'an Hall where the Queen's Empress Zi Palace was parked, and stood outside the Wan'an Dian to wait for arrangements.

White flowers hang everywhere inside and outside the main hall, and everyone looks sad.Rows of maids came from other places empty-handed or carrying linen mourning gowns, and stood in front of the imperial wives one by one, wearing linen veils, linen skirts, and shoes for the imperial wives.

The wives, dressed in linen and filial piety, obeyed the command of the master of ceremonies, walked into the Wan'an Hall, knelt down, got up and knelt down, bowed their heads and wept.The wives of the first rank to the third rank have to do this ceremony in the morning and afternoon for three consecutive days, and then remove the mourning clothes, and then follow the instructions when various ceremonies such as Xiaoxiang and Daxiang are held in the palace to come and cry in plain clothes.

(End of this chapter)