Ling Xiao's side was deserted, with only Shiba Niang following him.
She didn't mind the cold reception at all, but she didn't think about clinging to anyone either.
Just standing there is not particularly eye-catching. After all, there is an eye-catching eighteenth lady.
But others will also be able to see her. Although she doesn't intend to make friends, many people will see her.
Most of the people who can participate in this haircut ceremony are upper-class dignitaries, and they can see Ling Xiao's character.
Some people feel that Ling Xiao doesn't care about other people's looks or cold treatment, and is relatively strong psychologically.
After reading this, some smart people decided to tell their friends that they don’t need to make friends with Ling Xiao, but don’t step on her. She is someone who knows what she wants.
There are also some people who are not very smart and wonder why such a poor person is here. If they had not thought that this was not their home, they would have kicked Ling Xiao out.
Ling Xiao completely ignored those cold and bored looks. After traveling through time, she was not afraid of any powerful person in this world, not even the emperor, so she was afraid of these female relatives?
She was watching the process of the Twelfth Mother and Hairpin Ceremony. She was quite happy to watch the original ceremony of the Hairpin Ceremony at such a close distance. This was a long experience. She even did some secret filming work. This is a relatively precious historical material. Maybe
I will have the opportunity to keep it as a memory in the future.
During the whole process, I watched Twelve Niangs complete a series of actions: first prayer, first prayer, second prayer, second prayer, third prayer, third prayer, and also taking the words. This represents the transformation of Twelve Niangs from a child into a real one.
Adults who have entered the society, that is to say, those who have passed the hairpin ceremony can get married.
During this period, the Twelve Mothers changed into three different clothes. The last one was a long-sleeved dress with a hairpin crown on her head. She stood tall and graceful, which made Madam Hou very happy after seeing it.
Ling Xiao looked at it with admiration. You must know that Twelve Niang's clothes are very gorgeous, and the jewelry she wears is also very exquisite and beautiful.
It's not a waste of time to come here, it's good to experience such an authentic hairpin ceremony, especially the hairpin ceremony in such a powerful family, it is a rare opportunity.
After this close encounter, Ling Xiao saw that Twelve Niang was very interested in the original owner and wanted to get up close and personal with Ling Xiao, a girl from a down-and-out family.
But because she belongs to a noble family, she is naturally very busy. In ancient times, ladies did not just need to eat and drink.
A large part of the ladies have to go to school, which of course does not include mathematics, physics and chemistry, but mainly liberal arts and other skills.
There are many things they need to learn, such as playing piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, as well as other skills such as female celebrity housekeepers.
It takes a lot of time to master the required skills, and many skills require daily practice.
It can be seen that Twelve Niang has been strictly brought up, and every step she takes during the hair extension ceremony is very standard.
Even the curve of her lips when smiling is about the same, which she needs special training for.
In the future, she will marry into the right family and become a well-rounded mistress.
In this situation, the people in the Hou Mansion will not allow Twelve Niangs to have much contact with Ling Xiao.
Because it was too uneconomical, there was not much contact between the Hou Mansion and the Tao family.
Now the Tao family is basically finished and will not be able to recover completely within a few decades.
The person Twelve Niang likes is not only the eldest daughter who has lost her father and mother, but also has a damaged face.
This situation completely eliminated any possibility of marrying into a wealthy family, and no one even wanted to be a concubine.
To break through the sky is to marry a child from a poor family. How can a mere child from a poor family rise to prominence?
Even if she can come out, it will be more than twenty years later, and the people in the Hou Mansion will still be very good at that time.
No matter how you look at it, Twelfth Mother doesn't need to be too nice to the Tao girl, because the Tao girl's future is uncertain, but her daughter is interested.
Mrs. Hou decided not to explicitly forbid her daughter from contacting the Tao girl. As long as the twelve mothers were busy, she would not take care of the Tao girl.
Anyway, the daughter of the Tao family should be grateful to her daughter for allowing Poshu to participate in her hair-raising ceremony. It is a great kindness to the daughter of the Tao family.
Ling Xiao naturally saw that Twelve Niang didn't want to tell the truth to her, so he didn't think about asking. On the one hand, there was no chance, and Twelfth Niang was very busy.
Moreover, when the two people confronted each other over this issue, Ling Xiao was definitely a white-eyed wolf in the eyes of others, so she was too lazy to think about Twelve Niang's real thoughts now.
What is the reason that makes Twelve Niang pay attention to her all the time? If she can know, she will know. If she can't know, it won't be in the way. Anyway, she won't deal with Twelve Niang for the time being.
It's normal for her to have her own thoughts, and it's normal for everyone to want to live a good life, as long as they don't blame themselves. But if Ling Xiao is involved, Ling Xiao will fight back.
After the hair-raising ceremony, everyone went to see Mrs. Hou and the female relatives of the Hou Mansion. Ling Xiao's appearance surprised those who did not know her identity, because she had a very good demeanor.
Wearing a mask, she attracted a lot of attention during the hairpin ceremony. Some people thought that the injury on her face should not be serious, otherwise how would she dare to come out as a guest.
Most of the women with damaged faces stayed at home and did not dare to come out, but Ling Xiao always stood up straight without any trace of depression or fear.
However, people who think they are well-educated will not directly ask Ling Xiao about the damage to his face. They will just ask each other and whisper.
Among the guests, there were some ladies who knew nothing. They wanted to go on a blind date, and there were many girls who showed up at the haircut ceremony.
"Come on, whose little lady are you?" There was an old lady who kept looking at Ling Xiao, feeling that she should be beautiful.
She had always wanted to find a wife who could control her precious grandson, and this time she fell in love with Twelve Niangs during the wedding ceremony.
You must know that the Twelve Mothers are beautiful and have a high status. They belong to the noble daughter of the Hou Mansion. The Weiyuan Hou Mansion can be regarded as a Hou Mansion with real power.
But she suffered several blows because of her grandson's marriage, so she still had some brains and knew that it was impossible to succeed.
In her eyes, her grandson is really good. Not long ago, she wished she could find a princess to marry her grandson.
You must know that her daughter is a queen, and those in Duke Chengen's Mansion are serious relatives of the emperor.
She happily ran to the palace and told her daughter that the palace would be better this way.
It's a pity that the current queen and her daughter scolded her own mother when she found out and said it was impossible.
You must know that the emperor has many sons, but there is only one princess in the palace, the newly adult Princess Chang'an.
After having more sons, the emperor became less interested in the princes, and instead liked the princesses who did not threaten his throne.
The princess was given a title early and was also given a very wealthy fief. The princess was also very smart and very good at pleasing the emperor.
Compared with Princess Chang'an, the other Princess Yun, who was much older, was not very lovable at all and was driven directly to the fief by the emperor.
Princess Chang'an became the emperor's favorite child. She seemed very ordinary. She was not overly arrogant, but rather well-behaved.
The emperor had long told the queen about the criteria for a prince-in-law. He must be handsome, preferably at the level of Pan An and Pan Zidu, and he must also be culturally competent, which means he must be educated.
In addition to these two standards, people are also required to be polite and courteous. Oh! After marrying the princess, you must not take concubines. There is another requirement, because the princess likes to play the piano, so the prince-in-law must be able to play the piano.
After the queen told her the relevant conditions, she said angrily: "Which one of them can Jiulang achieve? Do you still want to marry the princess? You don't want to see if you have any qualifications?"
She was really angry this time. As the person involved, she knew that she was not the emperor's beloved concubine, and she had never given birth. It was really difficult to live in the palace.
At many times, she must forget that she is also a woman and needs the care of others, suppress all emotions, and confront the emperor in everything she does not agree with.
As soon as the emperor told her the criteria for a prince-in-law, his mother-in-law came to the palace. After hearing her mother-in-law's thoughts, the queen almost exploded with anger.
Over the years, she had been thinking about favoring the prince in front of the emperor, but in the end, her mother actually set her sights on the princess.
But you really dare to think about it, and you don’t even look at what Kuro is? A dandy who can’t do anything and marries a princess?
She wouldn't be happy if it were her, not to mention that the emperor wouldn't agree at all. Is it easy for her to live?
The old lady was so frightened by the queen's outburst that she fell to her knees on the ground.
The queen looked at her own mother and didn't recognize her very well. Is this her own mother?
She does not ask her own mother to be able to help her, but she must not hold her back.
In the middle of losing her temper, she looked at the kneeling person and had no intention of caring about her mother.
They have a biological mother-daughter relationship, and the queen will not make it difficult for her own mother in many cases.
Even if the queen is furious if her mother makes a mistake, she will soon get up. She is always her daughter.
But now the queen's attack has made her mother understand one thing: being the queen of a country and her mother are not ordinary mother and daughter.
When there was a dispute between the two of them, it was probably the lady of the country who gave in. In addition to being mother and daughter, they also had a relationship between a king and a minister.
Even if the lady is the queen's biological mother, she still has to kneel down and worship the queen. Today, the queen seems to be a different person, and she plans to make her biological mother remember the difference between a monarch and a minister.
He didn't immediately ask the old Lady Guo to stand up, and then said: "Since Lady Guo thinks that Jiulang is suitable for the princess, can you tell me which condition he can meet now?"
The queen looked at Mrs. Guo, but found that her mother still didn't notice the problem, which made her feel that she had indulged her mother too much before. Once the emperor wanted to rectify the palace, the palace would be doomed if there was such a mistress.
Mrs. Guo was naturally unconvinced. In her eyes, her grandsons were all good, not to mention the royal princesses, even the fairies in the sky. She had the heart to argue: "..."
But before the queen could speak, she opened her mouth and asked: "Is Jiulang beautiful?" There is no doubt that Jiulang is not beautiful.
Madam Guo opened her mouth, the Queen's family, including the Queen, were not the kind of beautiful people. Their innate conditions restricted them and they were not beauties.
The queen was chosen because she belonged to a family with a good background. Later, she was chosen by the late emperor to become the crown princess because of her relatively well-known moral character.
There is no beauty in Duke Cheng'en's mansion at all. The beauty gene is there, but it has been improved for several generations, and in the end it is just a middle-to-upper-class appearance.
"Look, mother also knows that Jiulang's appearance is not extraordinary at all, and his appearance cannot meet His Majesty's requirements."
"To put it another way, what abilities does Jiulang have? As far as I know, Jiulang has not even passed the examination as a scholar."
Speaking of this, the queen was so angry that when her grandfather was still here, she could make the people in the palace stand upright and walk out.
After my grandfather passed away, none of the people in the house had any great potential. They were just a bunch of losers.
There is only the title of Duke Chengen, but what is the use of the title? It is basically a gift.
In the early years, the queen had trouble thinking about it and wanted to cheer up her parents' family again.
But now it seems that this is not bad, at least it won't cause any big trouble.
The only problem is that without the suppression of the elders, the mother becomes bloated.
From the Queen's point of view, this is definitely a disaster rather than a blessing. She still wants to let Jiulang marry Princess Chang'an?
She didn't even look in the mirror to see what she was capable of. The queen became very angry when she thought of this.
She had a dream one night. After waking up from the dream, she suddenly understood many things and realized that she was very lucky.
First of all, since she has no son, there is no team problem in Cheng'en Palace. She is the legitimate mother anyway and will always be the empress dowager.
There is a saying that goes like this: Without desire, you will be strong. After thinking clearly, the queen planned to communicate with the people in the palace, but her mother came for Jiulang.
The queen felt uncomfortable after meeting her own mother. After she never gave birth to a child, she once talked with Mrs. Guo.
Instead, the lady of the country complained, saying that the queen herself had no ability as a woman and could not capture her husband's heart. She also planned to ask the queen to send a beauty to the emperor so that he could have a child.
The queen was so angry that she was the most beautiful person in the palace. Although some people said that you don’t need to look at the beauty to look at a woman, but the heart.
But the emperor cannot be such a man. You have to know that there are many beauties in the palace, and the emperor needs to review memorials every day. So he naturally thinks about how to have a good time, and then he will not understand deeply at all. What he is looking at is
Appearance.
But the beautiful queen and the beautiful concubine are naturally more pleasing to the eye than the beautiful ones. The queen once asked herself that if she was with ordinary people, she would indeed prefer the beautiful ones. The queen complained a little about her mother.
, why don’t you make yourself more beautiful?
In fact, the emperor came to the queen's place to spend the night, usually just to rest. As a queen of a country, it was impossible to rush there and want to communicate more with the emperor. As a result, she had no chance of getting pregnant. Without the emperor's cooperation, she would naturally
If she can't conceive a child, what can she do?
The only thing she could show was that she had good moral character, and she always carried her face. This made the emperor stay away from her even more. If he didn't need to take a rest alone later, he would basically not come to the queen's place to take a rest.
The queen saw the reality clearly and knew that it was impossible to give birth to a child, but she did not want to adopt a prince. She was aware of the chaos, and she did not tell anyone after she found out.
Especially since the emperor would never say that she had seen that the emperor had a rather fucked-up trait: he was usually crazy about love and would die when he hated him.