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Chapter 226 Children are the debt of parents (2)
Mrs. Lu and Mrs. Lu exchanged pleasantries with everyone, and Nanny Zhang said: "The auspicious time has come for the ceremony!"

As soon as the voice fell, there was the sound of bamboo and bamboo, Lu Mingfeng walked slowly to the main hall accompanied by the sound of bamboo and bamboo, and bowed to the guests who came to watch the ceremony three times in a row, and then the sound of bamboo and bamboo stopped, Mrs. Lu Slowly said: "Thank you all distinguished guests for coming to my daughter's Jiji ceremony. The Dingguo Palace and my mother and daughter are very honored." Then announced the formal start of the Jiji ceremony.

Lu Mingfeng waited for Mrs. Lu to finish speaking, and then she knelt westward gracefully on a five-foot-square snow-white rattan mat in the center of the hall.

Then today's praiser, the third lady of Duke Anguo's mansion, who is also the future second concubine, walked behind Lu Mingfeng with a solemn expression, picked up a comb, and slowly combed her hair, and waited for Miss Xu to put down the comb. , today's secretary, the second lady of Sheng Guogong's mansion, came forward with a carved red lacquer tray containing a suet jade five-bat hairpin.

The guest of honor was Princess Fuhui. She cleaned her hands first, and was about to pick up the hairpin on the tray to perform the first ceremony for Lu Mingfeng, when a woman hurried in and said, "Eunuch Li from the empress's palace is here." !"

Except for Mrs. Lu and Lu Mingfeng's mother and daughter, all the people in the room couldn't help but look surprised when they heard the words. Didn't Empress Xu's phoenix body not "healed" so far, and she didn't even show up on such a big festival as the Mid-Autumn Festival? Have you kept a low profile these days, why are you so high profile today to make a face for your future daughter-in-law?

Empress Xu only "cured" last night, so the news of this moment has not yet spread outside the palace.

But it was only for a moment, everyone had already restrained their minds, Madam Lu told the woman: "Please!"

Then Li Manshou, the chief eunuch in charge of Fengyi Palace, walked in beaming in a bright red official uniform, and everyone in the hall stood up hurriedly.

Li Manshou stood still in the middle of the hall, and then said: "The empress congratulates Miss Lu and Ji Li, and bestows a white jade hairpin on the phoenix wearing peony and mutton fat!"

Mrs. Lu and Mrs. Lu hurriedly led Lu Mingfeng to thank him, and invited Eunuch Li to attend the ceremony. After cleaning her hands again, Princess Fuhui took the hairpin that Empress Xu had just given to Lu Mingfeng. Now, as for the hairpin prepared before, it is naturally discarded.

At the end of the ceremony, Mrs. Lu and Mrs. Lu first sent off Eunuch Li who was in a hurry to return to Empress Xu, and then returned to the hall, inviting everyone to sit at the water pavilion to watch the play.

After returning to the Kongcui Pavilion in the evening, Lu Mingfu couldn't help sighing with Lu Mingxuan: "The elder girl's wedding ceremony today can be regarded as grand and beautiful. The honorable guest is the eldest princess, and the praiser is the future prince and concubine. , even the secretary is the eldest daughter of the Duke's Mansion, so only she can be treated like this!"

Lu Mingxuan heard envy in her tone, and knew that she had no other intentions, but a bit of instinctive envy, so she said perfunctorily: "Maybe we see the beauty of the big girl, but she doesn't necessarily like the beauty in her heart. ? But like a person who drinks water, he knows whether it’s warm or not.”

But I was thinking in my heart, now that Empress Xu has gained power again, is it still far from the day when the first prince will be freed from the confinement, and I don't know what tricks their mother and son used?Looking at their mother and son, they are not so generous and kind, but more like a generation who will take revenge. I also know that they will not let me go easily, and I have to keep vigilance all the time in the future!
Since Mrs. Lu already knew about Empress Xu's "healing", how could she not tell the guests a thing or two and feel elated, so Lu Mingxuan naturally knew about it.

But worrying is all about worrying, Lu Mingxuan's mentality is much better than before, last time it was on Empress Xu's own territory in the palace, she couldn't do anything to her in the end, so she will encounter similar situations in the future , she believed that she would also be able to make good fortune in the event of a disaster, and turn the calamity into good luck!
Compared with the grand scene of Lu Mingfeng and Ji Li, the scene of Lu Mingya leaving the cabinet in December seemed a little shabby. A dowry of 3000 taels of silver would be decent enough for an ordinary family, but it would be in a place like Dingguo's mansion. The home of the honored nobles who were waiting was so shabby that it was unbearable to witness.

Besides, with the old man's attitude first, and Lu Mingya's own rude words, Mrs. Lu and Mrs. Lu were so happy that they didn't even bother to have sex with her. , should also add a generous amount of makeup, but now they only send a few ordinary gold and silver jewelry to each person.

The mother-in-laws on the upper two levels already have this attitude, Grandma Lu is naturally not too enthusiastic, she also has a few ordinary jewelry, not to mention the sisters Lu Mingfeng, although being a girl is noble, she has nothing to do with spare money. It's not easy to be a daughter-in-law, and secondly, it's not easy for them to destroy the order of elders and elder sisters-in-law, right?So there are only a few small things.

Mrs. Pian Lu herself is not well-off. If she asked Hui's mother to sell the shop and land in advance, she only collected 6000 taels of silver, and she couldn't buy all the money and add things to Lu Mingya's dowry. The money given out is more than that of the father-in-law. Isn't this a slap in the face of the in-laws and brother-in-law?What's more, she also has her own thoughts, if she buys her private house with Lu Mingya as a dowry and carries it to the second prince's mansion in a dignified manner, on the surface, her daughter will be beautiful, but because those belongings have passed through the clear road, once in the future What life-or-death situation does your daughter encounter, can't she even come up with a life-saving money?

So he only took 1000 taels of silver to buy things with Lu Mingya, and the other thousands of taels were all used as money for the box.

In this way, when putting on makeup the day before leaving the pavilion, Lu Mingya's dowry that was carried out from Duke Dingguo's mansion was only a mere 36 dowry, so there were still a lot of dowries that were fake. But it’s poisonous, just looking at the posture of the porter, you can tell whether the things carried inside are fake or real, and you can roughly know how Dingguo Mansion treats your new concubine concubine, especially after After seeing or inquiring about the dowry of the other two concubines who are going to get married tomorrow.

The old man and Lu Zhongmian are determined to be pure ministers, but others may not think so, so the dowries prepared by the Right Minister of the Ministry of Rites and the Marquis of Changxing for their own daughters are each 64 liters, which is almost more than Lu Mingya's. Half, not to mention the quality, if it wasn't for the fact that the main concubine hadn't entered the house yet, it would be hard to beat the order of the main concubine, I'm afraid the two families would have to marry more.

The dowry is already shabby than others. It’s not 01:30, not to mention the scene of going out of the pavilion the next day. There are only fifteen tables in the inner and outer courts of Duke Ding’s mansion. When the auspicious time is set, the person who carries Lu Mingya into the sedan chair is not Lu Wenting This is the eldest son of the Duke's Mansion, and the second is Lu Wenyuan, the second son who is nothing. One can imagine how angry Lu Mingya was. If she didn't think that today was her wedding, it wouldn't look good if something happened. It was unlucky, and she was going to get mad on the spot. Anyway, she had no hope for anyone in her natal family, including her own mother!

(End of this chapter)