History of Struggle of Salted Fish

The swan geese went from south to north, and they didn't realize how old they were, and it was ten years in Yong'an in a blink of an eye.

In March, Mr. Yu Wenchuan, Minister of Rites of Shangjing City, has two big weddings to be done in Mr. Yu's residence.

The first one is that Mrs. Yu, who has been widowed for three years, is going to marry Yang Xueying, a concubine from the Bowling Marquis Yang's residence.

The second thing is that Yu Xiangqing, the 16-year-old eldest daughter of the Yu family, is about to leave the court. She is marrying Shang Zihuan, the only son of the official businessman of the Imperial Academy, who was also last year's number one scholar.

The choice of continuation is at the beginning of the month, and the marriage is at the end of the month, which is also particular.In this dynasty, when men and women get married, the bride must be Gaotang alive, and the family harmony will be regarded as a "blessed woman". Miss Yu has lost her mother for many years, so she is naturally not included in this list, but her stepmother is also considered a mother.

Master Yu loves his daughter very much, and also needs his successor wife to take over the housework after her daughter gets married, so he decided to marry first and then marry later, taking all the etiquette into account.

The future Mrs. Xu Xian, the current Miss Yang of the Hou Mansion is 19 years old this year, and she is considered an old lady in this dynasty.

Miss Yang's grandfather, Old Hou Ye Yang, is seventy-two years old this year. He is well-known in the capital as a man of good fortune and longevity. I have enjoyed the blessings of Qi people in my life, and I have married four in succession in the wife's house alone, and the number of concubines is innumerable. There are more than 20 grandchildren.Without a decent background, the whole family gradually struggled to make ends meet.

Yang Xueying is the eighth at home, she is a master who does not love her father or mother.A few years ago, because of a serious illness, and catching up with the filial piety for the aunt, it has been delayed until now.Although she was born in the Hou's Mansion, she is also a high-ranking man to be able to fill in the house for the current minister of rites, Mr. Zhou.

The night before Yang's entry, she was very nervous in her boudoir.And Yu Xiangqing, the eldest daughter of the Yu family, was also tossing and turning.

Tomorrow when the new bride enters the house, the surname of the matriarch of the Yu Mansion will be Yang, not Fan, and she has to call a stranger who is only three years older than her mother.

Xiang Wan knew that her sister was feeling uncomfortable, so she slept with her tonight.

"Wan'er, do you think father is happy at this moment?"

"Father is not a fool who is getting married for the first time. Sister, don't think too much, the newcomer will enter the door tomorrow, and some are in a hurry."

"Ah."

"elder sister?"

"what happened?"

"My sister is going out at the end of the month, are you afraid?"

"I'm afraid, but I'm looking forward to it, like waiting for Master Zhang's comment with an embroidered crabapple."

"If you feel scared at all, then Miss Yang will feel even more disturbed. Her embroidery is not as good as yours."

"Yeah, I have nothing to be afraid of. Whether the merchant likes it or not, I'm not afraid anymore."

On the third day of March, the new wife entered the door, first paid homage to the memorial tablet of the first wife Fan, and was helped back to the main courtyard by the maid.

Early the next morning, Xiang Qing took her 6-year-old brother Rui Ge to the upper room to meet the new wife, and then Xie brought Lin's Su and Xie Wenchuan's new aunt Liu to visit the mistress.

Yang's meeting ceremony was quite satisfactory, just like her, it didn't surprise people too much, but there was nothing wrong with it.

I don't know how Yang's got Yu Wenchuan's approval, Master Yu decided to hold a banquet in the main hall at noon, the whole family had dinner together, and made an exception to reserve seats for several concubines.

"I just returned home today, Master Meng did not give up, and sat in the main seat of the main house. I am really grateful. I am not familiar with everything in the house now, and I will ask you to be kind in the future. After drinking this cup, I will never forget it." It's a family."

"What madam said is that when Qing'er goes out in a few days, the burden of the inner palace will inevitably fall on you. For my husband, I will also toast my wife." Yu Wenchuan was really willing to praise her.

Xiang Qing couldn't help sneering in his heart, the tea was going to be cold before this man left, but he could only hold a glass of wine to celebrate together.

After the banquet, Xiang Wan took her sister back to her west building, but it was because the stuffing ceremony she had prepared for Xiang Qing yesterday was finally ready.

Xiang Qing knew that her younger sister was always thoughtful, so she was also very curious about this gift.

When Xiang Qing opened the brocade box, she found a scroll inside, and thought it was a calligraphy and painting.When I opened the scroll and laid it flat on the desk, I immediately felt that I couldn't put it down.

This is an embroidery, framed in the way of a painting, of course, this is not surprising, there are also several high-quality embroidery paintings at home.

The woman in the center of the painting is half turned sideways. She has a kind face at the moment, and she is smiling and looking out of the window. Through the window, two little girls in light yellow clothes can be vaguely seen walking on the outdoor corridor with a vase in their hands. The girl is waving to the woman in the window.The layout of the whole picture is ingenious, there is a scene in the picture, and there is a picture in the scene.

The woman in the embroidery painting is Fan's, and the little girl is of course the two sisters. No matter in terms of appearance or demeanor, they are embroidered vividly and vividly.Embroidered in the painting is the late spring of the sixth year of Yong'an, when the sisters folded flower branches and gave them to Fan's greenhouse. It was also the most carefree time in Xiang Qing's life.

In order to complete this gift, Xiang Wan almost tried her best.

First, the characters are outlined with the combination of fine brushwork and line drawing, and then colored.After it dries, it is then spread on silk embroidery pieces. Silk is the most difficult to color. I don’t know how many paintings and embroidery pieces were wasted in the process.

When the rubbings were obtained, it was embroidered stitch by stitch. Xiang Wan's skills were limited, so she found a female red master at home to grab the knife, and of course she was limited to embroidering Fan's facial features and expressions.For the rest, Xiang Wan embroidered for almost half a year.

"My sister doesn't talk, she must have disliked the shabby gift I gave you." Xiang Wan said deliberately aggrieved.

"No, I like it too much. This is the best gift I've ever received. I thought, I thought, I was the only one in this house who still missed my mother." Xiang Qing's voice was a little choked up.

"That's our mother." Xiang Wan hugged Xiang Qing who was in the pain of losing her mother, hoping to give her some strength.

"Yes, our mother."

"Speaking of which, sister, you must keep this embroidery well. This is probably the last embroidery I will give you."

"Is that what you said?"

"Sister, look, my fingers are almost poking into a hornet's nest. I decided this is my work to seal the mountain, and I will never touch embroidery needles again." Xiang Wan deliberately teased Xiang Qing with a bitter face.

"That's a good relationship. When you get married, go out wearing a red cloth." Nowadays, the bride embroiders the hijab for marriage.If you have that kind of craftsmanship, you still need to embroider a whole set of quilt covers.

"Forehead......"

When Aunt Xie went upstairs, she heard the laughter of the two sisters coming from the study.

"Why is Auntie here? Come and see the makeup I gave my sister."

"You cheapskate, why don't you just give this to your sister? In my opinion, the usual monthly routine has been replaced by soup and snacks. You know you are poor at this time." Embroidery is a gift of friendship, and it is really not worth much money. Of course, these are not what the three of them value.

"My aunt knows how to arrange me. My sister makes the decisions for me."

"Well, you have gained a lot of weight recently."

"Forehead......"

"Focused on joking, but forgot about business. Is Missy free right now?"

"Auntie, please tell me."

"I was thinking, the new wife came in, and the eldest lady is about to go out again. Should I also be relieved of my job as an assistant housekeeper?" After Yang entered the house, the responsibility of housekeeping will naturally be handed over to her, but when will it be handed over? , How to deal with it really needs to be discussed with the eldest lady.Moreover, Yu Xiangqing is the lady in charge, and her name is justified.As a concubine, she would be an eyesore if she kept holding on to the housekeeper's power.

"It's because I didn't think about it. I thought that it would be some time before I go out. Besides, the new wife is new here, and she is inevitably unfamiliar, so I didn't rush to hand over the handover. I think the new wife has a certain amount of advance and retreat at the family banquet at noon today. Qiu He, my daughter who is about to go out is not easy to be disliked by others, I might as well hand over the bill after she returns home, and let my aunt live in peace earlier." That is to say, Xiang Qing was going to leave the house. The Xie family has also fulfilled its historical mission and can retreat to the second line.

"I know my aunt has worked hard these past few years, why don't we take advantage of tomorrow and let the three of us tidy up the table and mats to make them loose. After tomorrow, I'm afraid we won't be able to manipulate people if we want to." Tomorrow It was the day when Mrs. Yang returned home.Xiang Qing wanted to repay Mrs. Xie for her years of hard work.

"Then I'd rather be respectful than obedient, and I'll go there tomorrow morning with the evening."

"You don't have to come early in the morning, you just wait in the house, I still have some things to send to you."

"Sister is so secretive, what the hell are you trying to do?" Xiang Qing knew that Xiang Wan was not used to it, so she knocked her on the head casually.

"I think you are the one who likes to make trouble."

In the early morning of the second day, Yu Wenchuan accompanied his bride to Guining. Xiang Qing sent someone to open the warehouse behind the building early in the morning, and carried a dozen mahogany boxes all the way to the entrance of Xiang Wan's west building. Was taken aback.Xiang Qing said yesterday that she would send something over. She thought it was at most old things from her sister's boudoir that her sister would not use after she got married.

At this moment, Yu Xiangqing was checking her dowry list calmly.Although it has been verified several times by the people below, she still has to palm the eye again.The things needed for the wedding have been prepared long ago, the dowry is locked in the warehouse, and the dowry has also been selected, just waiting for the wedding.In addition to the land and pavement house left by her mother Fan and the 20 taels of silver notes, she has used her future prospects to buy several properties in Shanghai. Now that she is sixteen, she has already passed those 16 properties to herself. What surprised her the most was that her aunt gave her another shop and a farmland when she was old, saying that it was left by the Fan family back then.However, Xiang Qing understood that if this was the case, Fan would have to explain it before she was alive. This is the kindness of her aunt.

Compared with Fan's back then, Xiang Qing's dowry is already comparable. There are 22 properties alone, and the bank notes in her hand are close to 30 taels. The dowry items are purchased by Yu's father-in-law, added by her aunt, and left by her mother. Yes, and the ones she bought herself in the past two years.Of course, she didn't intend to take away all the old things left by her mother. On the day she received the embroidery, she carefully selected dozens of Fan's relics and packed them in a dozen boxes. They sent them to Xiang Wan and Aunt Xie.

When Xiang Wan and Aunt Xie found out that it was Fan's old thing, they didn't insist on giving it up. Xiang Wan knew that it must have been Fan's confession before his death.

When Mr. Yu returned home with his bride in the afternoon, the sisters of the Yu family and Aunt Xie were already drinking in the east building, and the maids hurriedly brought over hangover soup.The reason why the servants around her didn't stop her was because they knew that the eldest lady was going to get married, and I'm afraid this kind of situation will disappear in the future.

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