Chapter 525: Makeup (1)
The day for Prince Rui’s wedding has come, but Prince Rui is still on the way.
In the palace, the imperial kitchen was very worried, and today's dinner was removed from the original state. The Queen only barely drank half a bowl of porridge and couldn't eat it.
According to the news just heard back yesterday, the three princes were still thousands of miles away from the capital, and they would not be able to get back no matter what.
The queen complained: "Why didn't Your Majesty give Xiao Qi one of the sweat-blooded horses I paid for the last time? The sweat-blooded horse traveled thousands of miles a day and eight hundred miles a day. If Your Majesty gave Xiao Qi the horse, he would definitely be able to come back before the wedding."
The emperor liked horses, and he raised many good horses. King Duan and Chai Yan both asked for many horses from him, and there were good horses in their mansion.
As for the sweat-blooded BMW, there was only one, and the emperor himself hadn't had enough fun.
So in the face of the queen's complaints, the emperor had to pretend that he had not heard it. Eunuch Bao rescued the scene in time: "Your Majesty, the cabinet is still waiting for you to review the memorandum I handed over yesterday."
The emperor looked at the queen with a embarrassed look. Look, it’s not my problem. It’s because the state is heavy. It should have been shared by the prince, but the princess is about to give birth to it. I can’t continue to exploit the prince.
The queen has been a couple for more than 30 years, and the emperor's tricks have long been used to it.
The queen was thinking about Chai Yan. She had already made up her mind. When Xiaoqi came back to marry, she comforted her ancestors. The Crown Princess gave birth to a grandson or granddaughter safely. She took Xiaoqi and Xiaoqi's wife to the palace. Princess Duan played well in polo, took her with her, and took her with her children. The Crown Princess had just given birth, so she would not take her. Besides, someone in the palace would also have to preside over the presidency.
Thinking of this, the queen had a sudden inspiration. If she wanted to take more people, she would pick up a few ladies whom she was satisfied with, and then bring King Zhuang with her. Maybe she could continue to marry her daughter-in-law when she came back from the palace.
The queen was suddenly energetic, but in a blink of an eye, she lost her energy again. Xiaoqi from this palace was afraid that she could not catch up with her wedding.
In the Duke's Mansion, Li Qiniang looked at the delicious table she made, and had no appetite. She put down her chopsticks and stared blankly.
Qi Wei took advantage of her wandering around the sky and took the plate in front of Xiaoman and quickly moved the dishes into his bowl.
Yan Xuehuai looked at them and said with a chubby voice. When Li Qiniang heard the sound, she hurriedly looked at her: "Sister Huai, where are you feeling uncomfortable?"
Yan Xuehuai smiled and said, "I remembered that Zhenzhu went to the official office to get the letter. I went back to Haitangyuan and waited while eating. I asked someone to put the food in a food box and take it back for food."
Li Qiniang wanted to speak but stopped. Her daughter felt uncomfortable and didn't want her to worry with her, so she simply hid back to the yard.
Yan Xuehuai had asked the maid to put the dish cloth for her into the food box together, saluted Li Qiniang and Qi Wei, and then hurried away.
Li Qiniang felt sad inside, sighed, and saw that Xiaoman's plate and bowl were empty, and asked, "Are you going to add another bowl?"
Xiaoman shook his head: "My son is already full, and he wants to go and see his sister."
Li Qiniang felt warm, and her son and daughter were all sensible: "Go, you have read a lot of books, so please advise your sister."
"My son knows, father and mother use it slowly, and my son will leave."
Xiaoman glanced at Qi Wei and turned around and left. Li Qiniang didn't pay attention, and of course she wouldn't know. Xiaoman looked at Qi Wei with sympathy.
When he arrived at Haitangyuan, the maid had already put the food brought from the big kitchen on the table, and the sauce elbows sent by Qianweiju.
Xiaoman sighed: "My cousin is still far-sighted. Today I went to Qingping Lane. The meal made by Sister Xia Er is quite delicious now."
"Hmph, if you have the ability, say it in front of our mother. Don't think I didn't see your little moves." Yan Xuehuai was disdainful.
Xiaoman immediately changed into an innocent smile: "Dad and I can't blame it. Sister, you ran back to Haitangyuan, too. Our mother was worried about your marriage. She put salt in a dish several times and used vinegar as soy sauce. I am still growing and can't eat too much. My father said, "You can't let my mother know that the dishes she cooked are not delicious. Mom is a chef and she will lose confidence in herself."
So Qi Fu could not grow up, and Qi Fu Fu would make Li Qi Niang feel confident, so all the food on this table was left to Qi Fu.
Because of Chai Yan's affairs, Li Qiniang has no appetite these days. She just drank white porridge and ate pickles at a glance with the queen. Sometimes she was hungry and could eat a piece of snack to satisfy her hunger.
But she felt sorry for her daughter, so she cooked the dinner for the past two days by herself. Yesterday's dinner was undescribable. Zhou Wanqian found an excuse to escape to Qingping Lane. Yan Xuehuai could not go anywhere, so she could only stay in the mansion with Xiaoman to enjoy maternal love.
Compared with the Queen and Li Qiniang, Yan Xuehuai, the person involved, is really heartless.
She really didn't take it seriously. Anyway, Chai Yan was lively and he just couldn't come back in time on the wedding day. Compared to holding a big rooster to the house or entering the door with a tablet, she was nothing. At most, there was no groom to pick her up and she had to be carried into Prince Rui's mansion in a sedan chair.
As a time traveler, Yan Xuehuai cannot empathize with Li Qiniang's anxiety, but she is grateful. In this world, there is someone who feels more sorry for herself than herself. This is a blessing that she has only cultivated in two lifetimes.
Of course, if Li Qiniang can maintain her original level of cooking, she is willing to eat with Li Qiniang every day before the wedding.
According to the rules of the royal family of the Great Wei Dynasty, the day before the wedding, the prince would come to the Duke's Mansion to worship Yue, but Chai Yan did not come back, so he would not have the opportunity to worship Yue.
There were eight marriage masters sent by the royal family, one of which was Chai Jing, the general of the Supplementary State. Chai Jing was eighteen years old. He was with Chai Yan. Although their family lived in the royal camp, they had nothing but a kind of elegance. But he was handsome and was rarely as good as Chai Yan. The emperor pulled him out among the many royal children. For this reason, he specially found a reason to give him a title of the General of the Supplementary State.
The second one is Chai Wei, the third prince of Prince Qing’s mansion. King Rui was married. King Qing sent two sons to the capital to congratulate him. King Qing had four sons, only two survived, one was the crown prince and the other was Chai Wei. There were many daughters, only eight were the princesses, and four were still young and had no titles.
The third one is Mr. Zou San, the younger brother of the son-in-law. He and Chai Yan were his companions who grew up together. Now he serves in the Ministry of Personnel and is a popular young master in the capital.
The fourth one is Lu Jinxing, who is Chai Yan's companion and the second son of the Lu family. He is a marriage master for King Rui, and his identity is enough.
The other four are also emperors and princes, carefully selected from famous children in the capital. They are not only noble in status, but also good-looking.
Eight young and handsome young men got off the horse in front of the Duke's Mansion, which immediately attracted a lot of cheers. It's okay for others to come to Beijing. This was the first time Chai Wei entered Beijing. The customs of the capital were very different from the fiefdom. It was the first time he knew that there was the custom of holding weddings and watching the wedding masters.
In fact, this custom has always been there, but the King Qing family has not returned to the capital for many years, and their children are all born in fiefdoms, so they don’t know this custom.
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What Chai Wei didn't even know was that before he arrived in the capital, the emperor asked the clan's people about his appearance, and by the way, he also asked about his height. He was required by the queen, and no short ones could do.
Miss Lu Si begged for a long time, and Lu Jinxing finally agreed and stuffed her into Yan Xuehuai's little sisters. So the two days after urging makeup to greet her, Miss Lu Si accompanied Zhou Wanqian and Lu Ying'er to accompany Yan Xuehuai.
Zhou Wanqian is Yan Xuehuai's cousin, and Lu Ying'er is Li Qiniang's apprentice, and is in love with Yan Xuehuai. In addition to these three, Yan Xuehuai also invited the ninth girl of the Wu family. When she was at the residence of Wu Lord Wu, she saw Miss Wu Jiu when she learned that Mrs. Su had no unmarried daughter, so she asked Mrs. Su to call Miss Wu Jiu over. For this reason, the old lady of the Wu family was very pleased, thinking that no wonder Su praised this qualifying princess.
The Duke Dingguo’s mansion married his daughter, and the old ladies with great reputation in the capital would come over. With Princess Rui’s praise, Miss Wu Jiu would definitely have a good marriage.
In addition to these four little girls, Li Yunpan, the old girl, is also in Haitangyuan.
She is also Yunying unmarried.
But she only stayed for half an hour and then went somewhere else.
She was an elder, Miss Lu Si and Miss Wu Jiu, and also called her aunt with Yan Xuehuai. Li Yunpan immediately felt that she was ten years older.
These days, Li Yunpan and Mr. Lu have made a lot of money in business. She usually has to take care of the affairs of the gang, and Mr. Lu is the one who manages the business. After Mr. Li Yun has released the ship and money, he becomes the boss. What is rare is that Mr. Lu has made his business prosperous and both of them have made a fortune.
Therefore, Li Yunpan had enough money, so he bought a opera troupe from Yuhang and brought it to the capital. He originally wanted to take advantage of the two days of liveliness to let the opera troupe come and speak loudly, but was scolded by Zhou Dazhuo. How could he marry his daughter and want to sing opera? He wanted to sing opera until Yan Xuehuai came back and stayed to Yue before talking about it.
At this moment, Li Yunpan was bored and went to find his elder sister Li Yunzhu. Since giving birth to a daughter, Li Yunzhu has been in poor health. She handed over all the docks she had in charge of her early years to her husband Yan Pei. She stayed in and dived out on weekdays and rarely went out. If Yan Xuehuai had not married this time, Li Yunzhu would not have come to the capital.
Li Yunpan hasn't seen Li Yunzhu for some days. When he saw him yesterday, he felt that Li Yunzhu's complexion was worse than before.
Isn’t it just a baby? The doctor said at the beginning that it was not a serious illness, just take good care of it. Why did it take almost two years to raise it, but the health became worse and worse?
Because Li Yunzhu was in poor health, Li Qiniang was afraid that she would be tired, so she packed out three guest rooms for her to rest.
Li Yunzhu's daughter was born on July 7th, so her nickname was Qiaoqiao. When Li Yun looked over, Qiaoqiao was crawling around on the bed. Her wet nurse and maid stood in front of the bed and reached out to block Qiaoqiao to prevent Qiaoqiao from falling off the bed.
Li Yunzhu's face was dark, her hair was sparse, and the deep and shallow lines on her forehead were visible. She was only thirty-four years old, but she looked like a woman in her fifties.
Seeing that Li Yunpan was coming, Li Yunzhu reached out and held the little sister's hand, and the wrist exposed in her sleeve was as thin as a piece of skinny wrist.
"Sister, why are you so thin? What did the doctor say?" Li Yunpan said with heartache.
Li Yunzhu smiled: "It's still an old problem. The doctor said it's better to take good care of it. It's okay. I just have a bad sleep and a bad appetite, so I'm so thin."
"Is the doctor reliable? Why don't you go back this time? Let's invite a doctor with good medical skills to take a good look for you." Li Yunpan said.
"Today is a happy day. Don't always talk about hiring a doctor. I have said that I am either sick or a loss in my body. I need to take care of myself slowly." Li Yunzhu said half-resentful and half-dolled.
Li Yunpan no longer talked about looking at the doctor, but made up his mind that when tomorrow passed, no matter what method he used, he would keep his elder sister in the capital.
"Will anyone with the surname Yan treat you well?" Li Yunpan asked.
"What's the surname Yan? He is your brother-in-law." Li Yunzhu said angrily.
"It's just a marriage into the family."
Li Yunpan really looked down on this brother-in-law. Li Yunzhu wanted to get married when she was not married. Later, Li Yunzhu saved Yan Pei, who fled. Yan Pei was a scholar and was very capable of making suggestions. In times of trouble, Li Yunzhu saw that he had nowhere to go and was indeed capable, so she let him do things under her command. In less than a year, Yan Pei became Li Yunzhu's son-in-law.
According to the Great Wei household rules, son-in-law cannot be admitted to the imperial examination. Therefore, scholars will not be able to be son-in-law even if they have a bowl of rice at home.
李云盼游戏人间,什么男人没见过,她对严培没有好印像,得知严培想入赘之后,她便让人揍了严培一顿,把严培打个半死,可惜不但没能中止这件事,反而让严培多了一个在李云珠面前卖惨的机会.
It is precisely because of these reasons that since Li Yunzhu got married with Yan Pei, Li Yunpan has rarely interacted with his elder sister.
Li Yunzhu knew that her younger sister had prejudice against Yan Pei, but on one side was her husband and on the other side was her sister. Her palms and backs were full of flesh, so she could not make any choices, so she could only mix in the middle.
She was about to speak when a maid ran in outside: "Grandma, aunt, the marriage master is here, it's so beautiful. You two, come and take a look."
Li Yunpan felt energetic as soon as he heard this, "Marry Master," the emperor's family's marriage master, I don't know how he looks."
Li Yunzhu lacked interest. She smiled and said to her younger sister: "Go quickly. I am so old that I won't join in the fun with you young people."
Li Yunpan was afraid of missing the opportunity to see a handsome man, so he said to Li Yunzhu: "I'll come to see you again after I finish the makeup."
After saying that, he hurriedly followed the maid to the front yard.
The ladies who came here today would not go to watch the excitement. Even the younger daughter-in-law was embarrassed to pass by because of her mother-in-law.
Li Qiniang was talking to her wives in a mess, but it was nothing more than anecdotes about each family getting married. At this moment, a maid came in, but it was dill beside Yan Xuehuai.
When Li Qiniang saw dill, she was slightly stunned. At this time, shouldn’t dill be by Yan Xuehuai’s side? Could it be that something is wrong?
Dill gave a gift to Li Qiniang and also to the ladies present. Then he said to Li Qiniang with a smile: "Madam, Mrs. Ye from Pingcheng has someone to send a gift, and my uncle said, please come over and take a look."
Li Qiniang felt aroused. Mrs. Ye asked the escort agency to give Yan Xuehuai a makeup early in the morning. Besides, the uncle-in-law Dill mentioned was Zhou Dazhen, and when did Zhou Dazhen have taken care of these trivial matters?
Li Qiniang vaguely felt that there must be something that could not be explained clearly, so that her daughter would send Dill to her over.
Chapter completed!