Princess Fuyao

Chapter 166 Exogenous Branches
Although he felt that this was a blow to Guo Bin, things had to be discussed first. He didn't think about Fuyao in his heart. After a while, he would be able to accept other good girls.

Then, it was an invitation to invite several elders in the capital to watch the ceremony, and at the same time hinted that they would bring their daughters and choose a suitable marriage partner for Guo Bin.

After several months of addition and training, the servants in the family have been able to perform their duties and conduct their own affairs, and there is no problem in holding a banquet.Xiao Changgui was exchanged from the restaurant by his master, and he knew that he thought he was not managing well, and felt very ashamed. This time, he got all the energy in his heart to hold the banquet in a decent manner.

Things went very smoothly, ten days passed in a blink of an eye, and the selected auspicious day arrived. The patriarch of the Liang family and the three elders had already been in the capital for three days. She put on a new shiny brocade dress, solemnly put on the small gift box with the wedding book, and accompanied Liang Mingrui to prepare for departure. Behind her, a servant carried the big gift box, which contained the engagement ceremony.

In the first gift box, put a young chicken, a fish, a piece of meat and a jar of rice wine, implying the meaning of starting a family, admonishing women's virtues, auspiciousness of the family, and expecting to be a good wife and mother.

The second is to carry incense, cannons, and candles in pairs of dragon and phoenix, which are used to pay respect to the ancestors, bless each other, auspicious and safe, add joy, couple marriage, and career prosperity.

The third carry is twelve catties of glutinous rice and three catties of two taels of white sugar. The Fuyao family will use these to make glutinous rice balls, which means reunion and happiness.

The fourth lift, face thread: symbolizes the marriage of two surnames, a happy marriage, long blessings, and endless happiness for children and grandchildren.Fuyuan is dried longan, which is used to bless the prosperity of children and grandchildren.

A few people, carrying a few gifts, can't show the auspicious color. The custom of the Yong Dynasty requires that there must be entertainers along the way, that is, those who play suona to accompany them.Go out and play a section, go to the busiest market and play a section, Fuyao’s house will play a section, enter the house, Fuyao’s father will pay homage to the ancestors, solemnly accept the marriage letter, expressing that the woman agrees to the marriage, and also play a section , and then, blowing and blowing back and forth, as lively as when they came here, Liang Mingrui put the marriage letter in front of the tablet of the ancestors of the Liang family, Suona will also play a celebration song, and the musicians' affairs are over. After the banquet begins, they will have some light meals , After taking the reward, he will leave.

Ji Zhenggang and Yaolan's wine shop was closed the day before. Although Ji's house does not hold banquets, but guests have come, tea and snacks need to be prepared. Yaoqian and Yaofang came to help two days ago, and Fuyao's shop delivered Several small snacks just baked, and as a result, the whole courtyard of Ji's family was shrouded in that sweet smell.

Hearing the sound of the suona outside, several women in the Ji family got busy, directing the servants around.

"Okay, okay, come and sit with me, it's just such a small matter, it seems that you are so nervous, the servant's legs are thin." Fuyao pulled his mother and sister to the flower hall in the inner courtyard to sit down: " Gu Ma can do it alone." Yaolan and Yaoqian were still a little worried, but they had no choice but to walk with their stomachs upright, it was really unbearable, so they had to let it go.

Neither Ji Zhenggang nor the Lu family had any relatives. Both the Lu family's cousin and Ji Zhenggang's cousin were here today.The aunt of the Lu family stood at the second door and took a look outside. Seeing that Liang Mingrui was well dressed and well-groomed, she was very envious. She regretted that she had engaged her daughter early, otherwise, she could have chosen a good marriage with the wind of Fuyao.

Aunt Ji's family has been doing business outside with the man for a few years, but she is well-informed, and she speaks and does things well. When visiting relatives, she is very particular about the gifts she brings and what she wears.

Fuyao prepared two sets of clothes for the Lu family's aunt to visit relatives. Naturally, there were also aunt and second sister Yaohua's clothes. Now, they are all brand new, and my aunt doesn't know where to put her hands and feet. Aunt and second sister, at the beginning There was also a little discomfort, and then he calmed down.

A few women sat and ate tea, and Juzi ran back and forth to inquire about the news.

When the little servant girl first followed Fuyao, she still had the stupid look of some little country girls who had never seen the world, but now she has completely adapted, and when she saw her walk through the second gate, she started running: "Come on, let's enter the gate."

Probe again, and report back: "The prince has saluted the master."

Then she went out, but there was no more news. Yao Lan's impatience was a bit impatient, and even Yao Qian, who had always been calm, changed her face: "Why is this orange, patronizing me to watch the fun, and forgot to send us a letter."

Youzi was ordered to call Tangerine, and the two ran back together, their faces pale: "It's not good, the prince found out that the wedding stickers were changed, so he went out on horseback!"

"What's going on?" The two pregnant women turned pale with fright, and the aunt was still holding Lu's hand tightly, Fuyao hurriedly comforted everyone: "If you're wrong, replace it with the right one, don't worry too much."

"I know, I know!" Yaolan said in her mouth, her eyes were still wide open looking at the orange, "What's going on?"

"Originally, the marriage certificate was taken out of the gift box, and the patriarch of the Liang family gave it to the master, and brought it into the ancestral hall to announce to the ancestors. I caught it in my hand, and everyone was lucky that it didn't fall to the ground, but the prince glanced at it and found that the words written on it were wrong, so he apologized to the master, and hurried away with the marriage certificate."

The women in the room were immediately worried, and Fuyao comforted him: "We don't know what went wrong. Since King Zhongren found out, he will definitely fix it. Don't worry."

About half an hour later, Juzi ran in panting again: "The lord is here, and the officials are here!" She couldn't tell what the officials were, but she turned around to look anyway, and came back after a while, "My lord is going to worship the ancestors!"

Because of the delay, the following process was speeded up. As soon as Ju Zi went out, he ran back again: "Please invite uncle and second grandma to the banquet."

"What happened just now? Daddy didn't explain it to us." Yaolan was impatient, and couldn't hold back any longer. Normally, not only Ji Zhenggang was going to Liang's house today, but Lu's should also go, but she couldn't help it. Out of tune, Yaoqian and Yaolan both had stomachs puffed out, only Lu's aunt and aunt went, but neither of them could take responsibility, so Yaolan and Yaoqian couldn't be more worried.

"I'll go and have a look." Fuyao said, ready to change clothes.

"Hey, how can you go?" Yaoqian hurriedly stopped her.

"Let her go, I'm worried to death." Yao Lan encouraged, anyway, my sister is different from others, no one will say that she deviates from the norm.

The sedan chair swung up to the gate of Prince Zhongren's mansion. Liang Mingrui smiled knowingly when he heard the report from the servants, and went out to pick it up in person.

"What happened just now?" Through the car curtain, Fu Yao asked in a low voice.

"Someone made trouble and changed the marriage certificate. What was written on it was not my horoscope or name. Fortunately, I discovered it in time."

"Who is playing tricks?"

"I haven't checked it out yet, don't worry, I'll go to the yamen specifically to file our marriage certificate. I'll see that the master book has been stamped and put into the account book cabinet. There will be no more mistakes."

Liang Mingrui had no elders, so he invited Marshal He's wife to take charge. Seeing Fuyao, Mrs. He was only a little surprised, but soon calmed down. She also heard that Fuyao's mother is not good enough, and her sisters are all pregnant, and the family is not close. female relatives.

Because Liang Mingrui also wanted to take this opportunity to let the female relatives of the capital visit Guo Bin, so there were more guests today, Zhao Yanran, the daughter of King Cheng, Yang Jinmei, the niece of the Minister of the Household Department, Shang Fengchun, the daughter of the four famous ladies, General Shang, There were a few more. I went to the garden, but Fuyao didn't see them.But the ones sitting in the flower hall are all outstanding in appearance and elegant in manner. In terms of appearance, they are relatively top-notch among women as big as the capital.

Seeing Fuyao, Shang Fengchun stood up and walked lightly with lotus steps, and greeted her with a smile: "Sister is here!" Mrs. Shang asked her daughter for advice from Nanny Xi, and in less than a month, Shang Fengchun's behavior happened. There have been earth-shaking changes.

"You came early!" Fu Yao smiled and greeted her softly.

Chang Yajun turned her head and just met Fuyao face to face, she got up calmly and saluted: "Hello, ma'am, the county mistress!"

Hao Ruomei was taken aback for a moment, and together with Lin Lanying and Li Mingxia who were behind her, hurriedly saluted, shaking their jaws to return the salute.This time, the women in the flower hall didn't reject Fuyao like they did at Shang's house, and no one spoke ill of her.

Because it was an engagement ceremony, these girls came with their elders, and Fuyao met them according to the ceremony. Mrs. Guo felt a little guilty about Chang Yajun's scheme behind Liang Mingrui, and pulled Fuyao to praise: "Look at this The child is just distressing, no wonder Prince Zhongren is determined to marry back."

Fuyao didn't know that those things were done by Chang Yajun behind his aunt's back, and he still thought of him as a prime minister who was able to afford and let go, broad-minded, and able to pull a boat in his belly.In less than a month, the boy I planned for my niece got engaged to another girl. Not only was she able to come, but she also came very calmly and openly. It was indeed not an ordinary woman.

All the female family members echoed and praised Fuyao, and Mrs. Xu exaggeratedly sighed loudly, saying that her son was not as lucky as Liang Mingrui and would not be able to marry Fuyao.

Mrs. Shang despised Mrs. Xu in her heart, but a family member of a fourth-rank official, relying on the aunt of the Xu family, was the wife of Prince Fu, and no one dared to provoke him in the circle of nobles in the capital. Now that King Fu has lost power, everyone has long stopped She took it seriously, she still felt good about herself, she still showed off and grabbed the topic, and she didn't even think about it, why would she marry Ji Fuyao, just that family matter?That dude son?

Mrs. Shang behaved very awkwardly today. In the past, she was Mrs. Guo's little follower.Just arrived in the capital, unaccompanied, Mrs. Guo was warm and generous, and she helped a lot, Mrs. Shang couldn't be more grateful.But last time, she was coerced into calculating Fuyao and Liang Mingrui, which made her feel very unhappy. Today, there is no intimacy in the past. Mrs. Guo knew that her niece had done something wrong by using her name, and she couldn't refute it for a while. , I could only endure the bitterness in my heart, and keep my face calm.

(End of this chapter)