sinovels Chapter 511 Wu Mingde Gets a Wife
Chapter 511 Wu Mingde Gets a Wife
After February [-], when the dragon raised its head and ate the pork head meat, Emperor Xianzong ordered people to rectify the atmosphere in Beijing and imprison the whole world.
But he didn't say the words of amnesty to the world.
In fact, some people suggested that the world should be amnesty. Emperor Xianzong also considered this matter, but what Wu Youwei said to the crown prince made Emperor Xianzong dispel this idea.
""Historical Records? The Benji of Xiaowu" contains the amnesty of the world, and the god of the palace of longevity. The most noble of the gods is Taiyi, and his assistant is said to be forbidden, and the subordinates of the order, all follow him. Problems, giving new opportunities to start over.But amnesty is a good thing for the prisoners, but it is not good news for the plaintiffs and their families. After struggling to bring the enemy to justice, the amnesty ended up being you. Do you feel good? "Wu Youwei had a class with His Royal Highness, and His Royal Highness said that someone suggested that he also write a letter to ask his father to forgive the world. After all, the celestial phenomena warn, this time it is the astrology.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince thought for a while: "What you said, Mr. Gu, almost wanted to ask Father for an amnesty for the world. Compared with amnesty for the world, it is more appropriate to convict him."
"That's right." Wu Youwei said: "Recruitment is a thorough investigation of whether there is wrongful wrongful imprisonment, and amnesty is a bit indiscriminate and releases people."
Of course, there is no difference, it just depends on the crime.
Because the amnesty of the world is generally for the purpose of praying for blessings and adding joy, and it is not generalized, such as political prisoners who rebelled, deceived the emperor, and resisted the imperial power.
In short, imperial criminals and state criminals are not included in the amnesty. There is another saying for this kind of crime, which is called "unforgivable without pardon".
At that time, they didn't know that Emperor Xianzong was just outside the door, separated by a window, and he heard their conversation.
Emperor Xianzong always liked to come to the East Palace to see his son quietly, and listen to the corner by the way. The people in the East Palace were fearful at first, but then gradually got used to it.
The most important thing is that the prince never asked them what the emperor had heard.
As long as they don't take the initiative to speak up, no one will bring this up.
After so many years, the father-son relationship between the emperor and the prince is still unbreakable.
The waiter was talking about Wu Mingde, and he also said: "I feel that instead of amnesty for the world, it is better to do more charity. The emperor has done a good job. Now the people say that the emperor is a generation of benevolent emperors. There are many Ming emperors in history, but they can be benevolent. The emperor is rare, the benevolent one is invincible; the benevolent one has no worries.”
He is praising Emperor Xianzong.
"Father is a benevolent emperor, and I have to learn a lot from him." His Royal Highness the Crown Prince nodded. He was very proud that he had a good father.
Emperor Xianzong is also very satisfied outside, his son will be proud of himself, this is the son.
Thinking of the eleven princes he met in the palace in the past few days, he frowned, waved his hands, and led the people out of the gate of Ciqing Palace. He turned around and asked the eunuch Wynn beside him: "Ten How did a prince meet me by chance?"
A chance encounter, once or twice, is still reasonable, but it is not right if the number of times is too many.
Where did so many encounters come from?
Every time I see him, it's always the eleventh prince's beautiful side, the one who recites poems and fights against each other, the one who plays boxing and martial arts, or the one who feeds a goldfish and still smiles with a sunny face.
"Empress Wang's natal family has been promoted, and there are several profitable shops in Nanjing. Maybe they want to supplement their daughter, so they sent a silver note of 1 taels to Empress Wang." Eunuch Huai En really said in front of Emperor Xianzong Answers every question: "The queen concubine Wang used these bank notes to buy some rough envoys and eunuchs. They didn't dare to covet the holy car, but just stared at the old slaves."
It is unrealistic to stare at the emperor, and it is easy to be cleaned up, but it is different to stare at the chief executive who is almost inseparable from the emperor.
Wherever he went, naturally, the emperor must be nearby, or even beside him.
As a result, the poor old eunuch Wynn was stared at, and the little eunuch even guarded the door for him when he made a congratulation...
"Hahahaha...!" Emperor Xianzong burst into laughter, and eunuch Huai En had a sad expression on his face: "This old slave is going to be annoying to death."
But it's so annoying, I can't help but follow, after all, the little eunuch is also here to make some money.
On February [-]th, the day Wu Mingde got married.
As early as the [-]th of February, people started arriving one after another. Fortunately, Mo Ling Villa was big enough, and Wujia Village could also entertain guests, so many people lived here.
Although Wu Youwei is low-key, there are not a few people who make friends with him. Wu Xiao has been in business for so many years, and he has a lot of connections. Although he is not married to his son, it is almost the same as his son. He is his nephew.
Wu Youwei's popularity is even better, Zhang Sheng and the others are his classmates, Luo Lun is a good friend, and even Master Ji Kong sent a congratulatory gift.
The master didn't come by himself, he was old, Zen master Fahai didn't dare to let him go out, so he could only send someone to send congratulatory gifts.
It is said that the monks in the temple gave congratulatory gifts to married people. Wu Youwei thought it was a bit strange, but he opened the congratulatory gift and laughed. It turned out that the congratulatory gift was a consecrated Avalokitesvara Guanyin who had been consecrated in their Fahai Zen Temple.
Avalokitesvara is carved from Xiuyu, which is natural milky white.
This is rare in Xiuyu, which is basically green and cyan.
On February [-]th, Wu Mingde took his little friends to greet the bride.
After leaving bustlingly, Mo Ling Villa hurriedly got ready and waited for the return of the welcoming team in the evening.
Because the ancestral hall is in Moling Mountain Villa, the place where they got married was in Moling Mountain Villa, not the Grand Scholars' Mansion.
The people in the second room can’t come back, and the second room’s sister-in-law is too old, so it’s impossible to let her go alone; Taking care of children, it is impossible for a woman to travel alone.
So during the Chinese New Year, Wu Qiong brought back a lot of presents, including two boxes of gold and one box of silver, which were marriage funds for his cousin.
Now Wu Qiong is not poor at all.
In the past, it was Wu Youwei who gave their second wife a share of the money to make ends meet, but now it was Wu Qiong who gave his uncle face.
The things Wu Qiong sent back, after calculation, the market price is at least tens of thousands of taels of silver.
Moreover, Wu Qiong's handling of this matter is very honest, because he did not come from corruption, but from the dividends from the development of Yunnan and the revitalization of state-owned enterprises.
Perfume workshops, flower cake factories, etc. in Yunnan have half of the shares and are owned by the royal family.
Emperor Xianzong accounted for [-]%, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince accounted for [-]%, and the clan mansion accounted for [-]%.
The remaining [-]% belong to those shareholders, but this has one advantage, that is, it has a wide network of contacts, and no one dares to embarrass it wherever it goes.
Wu Qiong can also be a human being. The taxes in these places are not bad, and the books are open and transparent.
There are also various fruit canneries. It takes ten days and a half a month for the navy to go to sea. At least this canned fruit and dried vegetables are necessary.
These have become the military's regular procurement supplies.
In addition, the fruits from the south can finally be transported to the north in the form of cans.
There are so many weird fruits that people don't know about, and many jokes are made when they eat them.
Some old people have never seen this kind of canned fruit, so they refuse to eat it!
For example, the pineapples from Taiwan were almost regarded as canned radishes. Li Ji wrote letters and memorials all the way, begging Wu Youwei for a good solution, and asking Emperor Xianzong to prove that we are not radishes!
On that day, Empress Dowager Zhou also ate canned pineapple. The old lady liked this kind of canned fruit. Wu Youwei remembered that pineapples are also called pineapple in later generations, so he suggested to Emperor Xianzong that the empress dowager Because of liking, I changed the name of Pineapple to Pineapple.
There are also many people who think that the in-laws of the Wu family may be a little weaker. Many people went there to give the old Yang family a boost, and they are ashamed to say that they are their mother's family.
There was a lot of makeup for Yang Liu, and the Wanxi family even went to the Yang family to help. After all, Yang Liu was married into a wealthy family, and the Yang family might not understand certain rules.
But the Wanxi family must understand!
They came up from the bottom, so they naturally know that they don't understand the feeling of being underestimated, which is really uncomfortable.
On February [-]th, the furniture was delivered, all of which were measured according to the size of the new house. Fortunately, the new house Wu Youwei prepared was Wu Mingde's own small yard in the backyard. In fact, Wu Youwei wanted them to get married in the main house at first. , but Wu Mingde said that the main house represents the head of the family, if so, he is the head of the house, and the room needs to be replaced with new furniture by Yang Liu, the wife of the head of the house, and the amount of work will be huge.
Besides, he thinks that his father has done a good job. When the time comes, he will be in the main hall with Uncle Wan and accept their kneeling and saluting. In this family, his father has the final say...
At the eighteenth, the dowry is given, and at the nineteenth, the dowry is displayed.
In fact, these dowries look like ten-mile red makeup, but in fact they are changed into dowry after the bride price has been changed.
Mr. Yang and his wife also knew that their daughter had married into an official family. They bought four shops and rented them out with the cash from the dowry half a year ago. The rent alone was half of the cost.
The money was used for the daughter to make the money at the bottom of the box. In addition, some good things that were brought as gifts during the New Year and festivals were also left for the daughter as a dowry.
However, Wu Mingde still bought two shops for Mr. Yang and Mrs. Yang in private. Together with the four shops for Yang Liu's dowry, they formed six shops, specializing in the wholesale of perfumes and essential oils from Yunnan.
This thing is in short supply in Beijing and China now, and it makes a lot of money. In half a year, it is enough for the old Yang family to earn 8000 taels of silver.
This money also allowed Lao Yang's family to marry off their daughter in a dignified way.
Of course, this kind of business cannot be done alone. It was agreed long ago that Wu Qiong would only give this cousin the agency right for one year. After one year, there would be four other firms in central Beijing that would also be agents for the sale of perfume and essential oils.
When posting the dowry, although everyone said that the bride's dowry was a red dowry, they all knew in their hearts that the Wu family's dowry was converted into a dowry, which showed how much the Wu family valued this bride.
In addition, the old couple of the Yang family are also sensible people, they didn't deduct their daughter's betrothal gift, and instead married them out as a dowry. Just this, it's admirable.
That was a priceless dowry gift.
During the day, everyone was waiting at home for the groom to pick up the bride, chatting by the way.
Wu Youwei's place is full of friends.
Half of the cabinet ministers came, and almost half of the six departments came. At first glance, half of the court came.
Wantong saw that there were so many people there, even most of the high-ranking officials from Jinyiwei were here. After thinking about it, he called Wan Xinpeng and the others over and gave some instructions.
Several of them were from Qianjinyiwei. If Wantong, they can get through with one click.
They went out separately and ordered some things to their subordinates.
They were all relatives of the Wu family, Wu Youwei's brother-in-law and son-in-law, their behavior did not attract the attention of the guests, because the Wu family was too small, they were only busy with Wu Mingde's marriage.
This is a critical moment, waiting to welcome the bride.
In the afternoon, the bride was welcomed back as expected.
Wu Mingde is the No. [-] man in the Six Poems. All the unmarried in his class followed him to greet their relatives.
It's just that after everyone entered the door, they were stunned for a moment, because the seats above the high hall are very special.
Wantong and Wu Youwei sat on the east side, with a table in the middle with wedding cakes and other things on it, but on the west side, Wang Qianqian sat.
She was wearing a deep red gown embroidered with gold peony flowers, and she wore a red gold headdress inlaid with pearls. She looked like the mistress of a wealthy family.
He was beaming and waiting for his son and daughter-in-law to bow down.
Everyone didn't know her, but looking at her like this, she should be the groom's biological mother.
Sure enough, after the master of ceremonies shouted "First worship to heaven and earth", when the second bow was at the high hall, the bride and groom knelt down to bow to the woman after bowing to their father.
Wang Qianqian didn't want to cry, but...she couldn't help the tears welling up in her eyes.
She can't afford her son to kneel down.
But the master still arranged this kneeling for her.
When Wu Mingde bowed down with his wife, she couldn't help sobbing.
After worshiping the heaven and the earth, it is natural to send it to the bridal chamber, and the feast will be held at Moling Villa.
Wu Xiao sent more than 20 chefs and more than 100 assistant cooks to set up flowing banquets in Moling Mountain Villa and Wujia Village. Apart from the distinguished guests, there were also those from nearby villages who came to congratulate them.
Yang Liu was very nervous all the time, and she didn't dare to move while sitting on the wedding bed. Although she was accompanied by maids, she had only been in contact with these maids for half a year, and they were not that familiar with each other.
Her little sisters couldn't come to such a portal to see off their relatives, they all sent her to the sedan chair at home.
When I was nervous, the door was pushed open, and a person came in. The maids saw this person when they were visiting the hall just now, and they all called her: "Madam."
But they remembered that the Wu family didn't seem to have a mistress?
"Yeah." Wang Qianqian nodded, and put the food box on the table: "I'm afraid the bride will be hungry, so I will use some cushions to pad my stomach first, you girls, go to the corner room on the west side two by two , use something, so as not to be hungry."
"Thank you ma'am." Of course the maids didn't want to go hungry.
It’s just that the lady can’t do without people here. A maid opened the food box and found that there were small and exquisite buns with elephant eyes inside. The maid was overjoyed and brought a small plate to the hijab: “Miss, eat some.”
After tossing and tossing for almost a day, Yang Liu was indeed hungry, so she picked up the buns and took a bite, and found that the buns were very small, one bite at a time, which would not spoil her makeup, nor would it be inconvenient to wear a hijab.
And this bun is made of mushrooms and cabbage, stuffed with vegetarian stuffing, without any peculiar smell.
The maids took turns to eat something, and of course they were refreshed with something in their stomachs.
The bustle lasted until night, and many people stayed here. Wu Youwei opened two tables alone, and invited those close to him to have a meal alone.
Zhang Sheng and the others were all present, and they rested after supper.
The next day, before breakfast, Yang Liu got up and began to make up, and then asked Wu Mingde to take her to greet her with a blushing face.
I have done my homework before getting married, and I know that rich and noble families will pay their respects sooner or later.
"Hello?" Wu Mingde yawned and looked at the sky outside: "It's not too late to go after breakfast."
"But..." Yang Liu said nervously, "Don't ask me...doesn't it make me look lazy?"
A new daughter-in-law, even in an ordinary family, has to wash her hands and make soup. When she marries into such a family, she probably won't be able to use her for cooking. If she doesn't behave diligently, she should be called a lazy woman .
Wu Mingde laughed loudly after hearing her thoughts, "Father won't get up so early. It won't be too late to go to say hello after the unitary hour. After seeing the ceremony, lunch should be at father's place."
willow:"......???"
It turned out that after You Hour passed, Wu Mingde took Yang Liu to pay his respects, but Wu Youwei hadn't washed yet.
The couple sat and waited in the lobby for about a quarter of an hour before Wu Youwei came late in a hurry and complained as soon as he entered the door: "What are you doing so early?"
"Waiting to greet you!" Wu Mingde was also very helpless, his new wife woke up early in the morning, sat dryly after getting dressed, looked at him pitifully, what could he do?
He could only bring it with him, and drank morning tea here. Fortunately, the morning tea was milk tea, and he also ate two mouthfuls of golden jujube cake to fill his stomach.
When everyone is here, it's time to say hello.
In fact, there are only three elders of the Wu family, Wu Youwei, Wantong, and Wang Qianqian.
Wang Qianqian and Yang Liu didn't know each other, but they knew that there was such a mother-in-law who was not a mother-in-law.
Xu Niang asked someone to put two futons embroidered with lotus flowers on the ground. Wu Mingde and Yang Liu both knelt there, holding tea bowls. The first person to offer tea was to Wu Youwei: "Father, drink tea."
Wu Youwei drank his daughter-in-law tea happily, and asked someone to give the two children a purse: "From now on, we will live together, don't quarrel, Yangliu, if Taining bullies you, just tell your father, I will take care of him." .”
"Thank you, father." Yang Liu shyly retorted, "He won't."
And the second person offering tea was Wantong.
Wantong just drank tea, gave a red envelope, and said a word: "Harmony and beauty."
"Thank you, Uncle Wan." Wu Mingde grinned.
The third person to offer tea is Wang Qianqian.
Yang Liu said naturally: "Mom, drink tea."
Wang Qianqian's eyes were red: "Hey, hey!"
Over the years, Wang Qianqian has saved 1 taels of silver and a lot of gold and silver jewelry.
She gave her daughter-in-law a set of gold inlaid jade head noodles worth more than 1000 taels, and gave her son 1 taels of private money.
"Live a good life..." Wang Qianqian couldn't continue after saying this, she was too excited.
"Okay, it's such a beautiful day, why are you crying?" Xu Niang stepped forward to support her: "Quickly wipe it off, all the happy ones are crying."
"Yes, yes, I am happy, happy." Wang Qianqian wiped away tears.
After the tea was served, we began to recognize people.
There are a lot of aunts, and each of them gave a very generous meeting gift. There are three sisters, two real sisters, and one cousin.
They are very kind, without the aloofness of rich and noble families.
Everyone had a reunion dinner together, and then everyone went back, because at the end of February, Wu Youwei planned to fill in the name of his daughter-in-law on the genealogy when he worshiped the ancestors during the Qingming Festival in March.
Then at dinner time, I told my son and daughter-in-law: "From now on, it's enough to greet you on the first and fifteenth day of the new year. If you have nothing to worry about, sleep more in the morning, it's better than anything else."