Chapter 234 Before the Wedding
Jin Sui was originally looking for something to give as a return gift in the space, but after searching for a long time, he found that there was really nothing that could be given to Yan Jiu as a gift. So he simply made a set of glass tea sets by himself.
The rotating teapot and the kettle that automatically fills the pot are all small tricks that can be easily made in a space. It took me a whole day to make it on the second day of the Chinese New Year, and on the third day, it was just in time for Jinan to send it to the New Year's greetings.
Of course, there was also a New Year gift for Yan Shiyi, which was much more ordinary, a new set of polo equipment. There were also nutritional supplements for Yan Guanjia and others. When Grandpa and Jin'an lived in the Yan family before, they had caused a lot of trouble for them.
There weren't many families that Jin'an wanted to visit in person to wish a happy new year, except for the Yan family and the Cheng Yu family. Jin'an went to Li Heng's house only after Li Heng came to wish a happy new year to Grandpa Ling. He didn't stay for dinner and left early.
Grandpa Ling never left the house after he went to the refugee camp on the first day of the new year, because the Taoist temple was always crowded with cars and people.
Only Jinsui had the most free time. He spent an hour every day learning the rules from the nanny from the Ministry of Rites. Except for not going out, he didn't have to do anything else.
In fact, if she insists on going out, no one can stop her. If not, we can dress up as men again and no one will recognize us.
She just wanted to be lazy. After all, she no longer had the freedom to sleep in after getting married.
On the fourth day of the Chinese New Year, she received a letter from Gu Changxiao, which was very speechless. Gu Changxiao actually asked her where the tea set for Yan Jiu came from? Why had he never seen it before? He also wanted a New Year gift.
Jin Sui wrote back to him and said that the Yan family would soon start mass production, and then Yan Jiu would just have to pay tribute.
I don't understand why I should be jealous. Men are really strange creatures. Sometimes they are very generous, so generous that they can give anything to others, and so generous that they can not care about their own lives for a mission.
Sometimes, I can be extremely stingy, especially when it comes to my loved ones, and I will care about even the smallest details.
Jinsui really thought that the Yan family would soon mass-produce this kind of tea sets. After all, for tea lovers, spending dozens or even hundreds of taels of silver for a set of all kinds of beautiful and exquisite tea sets would be a piece of cake.
The porcelain kiln of the Yan family, whether it is producing porcelain or colored glaze, can become a best-seller. As a result, she heard that Yan Jiu treasured this set of tea sets and had no intention of producing them.
Well, one more thing I don't understand. It's too strange not to make money. Jin Sui felt that even though he had been pretending to be a man for so long, he still couldn't understand men's thoughts.
It is said that women's minds are hard to guess, and the same is true for men.
In fact, Jinsui prepared a New Year gift for Gu Changxiao, but if she didn't deliver the gift personally and explain it to him personally, I'm afraid Gu Changxiao would be confused when he received it.
Unfortunately, the two of them cannot meet now, and if this gift is given, they will get married on the Lantern Festival, and she will have to think of another wedding gift.
Giving gifts is so troublesome! Especially when giving gifts to an emperor, he has seen everything. For the rest of his life, I have to think of gifts for him every birthday, so the less I can give, the better.
Jin Sui decided to treat this gift as a New Year and wedding gift, and give it on the wedding night. He would keep it a secret for now and give Gu Changxiao a surprise.
The border town was extremely lively this year. After all, it was the capital. Even though it was still under construction, it did not affect the lively atmosphere of the capital.
Although Jin'an is still a child, he acts like an adult during the New Year. He is responsible for sacrifices, New Year greetings, and entertaining guests. He gets to sit at the table at every banquet he attends, but he is not allowed to drink alcohol. The host will even specially prepare a glass of juice for our future uncle-in-law.
Every time he came back from paying New Year's greetings, he would tell Jinsui about what he encountered, but this child was not the talkative type and would only speak when Jinsui guided or asked him questions.
On the first day of the new year, he went to the palace to pay New Year's greetings. When he came back, he first checked whether the maid from the Ministry of Rites was there. When he found that no one was there, he spoke freely: "Sister, the rules in the palace are so strict. I think you will not adapt well in the palace."
Jin Sui, who was hiding in the rocking chair and eating an ice pear, asked in surprise: "Why can't you adapt? Your sister has a strong ability to adapt."
Jin An frowned like an old man, looked at her and said, "It's fine for you to sit like this. There are censors and etiquette maids in the palace. If you sit like this, someone will come to remind you immediately.
You can’t eat too much, you can’t make loud noises when walking, and you can’t swing your hairpins. It’s so troublesome. How can you bear it?”
Jin Sui smiled and said, "It's okay, the rules are made by people, they can be changed!"
She enforces normal palace rules, but she doesn't care about torturing people! I am a living person, not made of rubber. Under the constraints of rules and regulations, good people are tortured into perverts.
Seeing Jin An hesitated to speak, Jin Sui asked with a smile: "Did you hear someone whispering? It's okay, tell me, I won't take it to heart no matter what it is."
"Yes, I heard them say in private that after you and His Majesty get married, His Majesty will hold a selection to choose a concubine."
Jin Sui sneered: "I said this on purpose for you to hear. Or rather, I wanted you to speak for me on purpose.
Your Majesty is unwilling to participate in the selection, and they cannot see me, so they have no choice but to use this method. Didn't you also say that only the queen can organize the selection, which shows the queen's wisdom and generosity?"
Jinan opened his eyes and said, "Yes! How did you know, sister?"
Jin Sui snorted, "You want to blackmail me morally? I don't want to be a virtuous queen! A virtuous queen is paired with a wise ruler. Our Majesty wants to be a tyrant, so how can I be a virtuous queen?
Xiao An, remember, you must not be morally kidnapped by others!"
Jinan seemed to understand: "Then what should we do?"
Jin Sui smiled: "If you have no morals, you won't be kidnapped! I'm ready to be called the evil queen, the poisonous queen, and the jealous queen by the powerful nobles!"
Anyway, it's OK as long as the people of the world don't scold me! With his previous experience as the King of Li, Jin Sui has already understood a truth.
If you want to win over a group of powerful people, you will inevitably offend another group. I might as well not care about offending all of them. I will only take care of the people under my command. Once I become powerful, those powerful people will immediately come to win over you.
What's so good about being a virtuous queen? I pick wheat and cut rice for show, is it more important than me cultivating high-yield grains? I provide the emperor with enough concubines in the three palaces and six courtyards, and manage the concubines to expand the royal family and fight to the death in the palace. Is it more important than me making money for the emperor to build a navy, promote maritime commerce and destroy Japan? I wear a skirt that shows my feet to promote frugality, is it more important than me making the people of the world wear warm clothes?
Is it more important for me to write a book for women to restrain women than to let all children in the world read and enlighten their minds?
When natural disasters and plagues occur, I come out to cry for the dead people. Is it important for me to train medical staff, develop drugs, and save the people affected by the disaster?
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So Jinsui didn't want to be a virtuous queen praised by all officials at all. She didn't care how history books wrote about her. The worst that could happen was that she would become a tyrant together with Gu Changxiao, and a queen who was even more cruel than a tyrant.
On the second day of the Chinese New Year, Jin'an went to Cheng Yu's home, and then went to the family quarters of Tuntianying to greet the old military families on behalf of Jinsui.
When he came back, he talked about a few interesting things, such as a new house was built in the military family area and the children in the youth camp all had new clothes, but these trivial things did not count.
A funny thing was that he and a group of kids went horseback riding to watch a hot air balloon flight, but none of them had ever ridden in a hot air balloon because children were not allowed to do so.
The only one who has ridden in a hot air balloon is Li Heng's youngest son, and everyone is very envious of him. Jin'an has requested to ride in a hot air balloon more than once, and Jinsui is going to fulfill his wish on his birthday.
Well, back to the topic, they went to see the hot air balloon today, and Yan Shiyi happened to bring a group of noblemen to ride it. As a result, one of the hot air balloons was operated improperly, and the rope fell off and flew away.
Jin Sui sat up straight instantly: "Is he okay?"
Jinan smiled and said, "It's OK. I flew over the pass to the pastoral area, and was caught up by a group of herdsmen on horseback and grabbed the rope. But the four people sitting on it were scared and shivering with cold."
Jin Sui frowned and asked, "Then does anyone dare to go on a hot air balloon ride?"
Jin An was surprised and asked, "Why not? Now everyone is asking for a rope to be released so they can fly by themselves. It doesn't matter where they land."
Jinsui laughed. It turned out that those who dared to play extreme sports in any era were just a group of rich and idle young men who had nothing better to do.
"They are still asking, when will the wings for flying be made? They want to fly with that on their backs."
Jin Sui laughed and said, "You wish! That thing was built for military use, how could we let them fly it for fun!"
On the third day of the Chinese New Year, Jin'an went to the Yan family to pay New Year's greetings, and also visited several of the noble families in Yanzhou City. Yan Jiu prepared a very grand banquet to entertain Jin'an, and all the noble families in Yanzhou came to accompany him.
Jinsui thought the scene was very funny: a group of young men or uncles came to entertain a ten-year-old child.
My Jin'an has also seen big scenes!
"What did they ask you?"
"I get asked a lot of questions, but I usually answer with "I'm not sure", "I don't know" and "I don't understand".
"Very good, you have mastered the essence of feasting."
"Ask me if I have heard about when Yanzhou will be incorporated into the capital? Will there be a tramway? Will Your Majesty allow some nobles to migrate? When will the maritime trade law be promulgated? Your Majesty has been recruiting new soldiers. Where are you going to fight?"
"These people are really weird. They don't even think about how I could know all this. I didn't even have enough food to eat. It was only when Brother Eleven secretly took me to the small hall that we had fish ball soup noodles together and finally we were full."
On the fifth day of the first lunar month, Gu Changxiao took the dignitaries on a long journey to the Jieshi Mountain where Qin Shihuang visited during his eastern tour. At this time, the Jieshi stone carvings were still well preserved, and Jinsui told Gu Changxiao in advance that he must preserve the stone tablets.
After a thousand years, it will be a national treasure. Gu Changxiao asked why? How to distinguish the value of cultural relics? Jin Sui smiled and said: "Depends on the inscriptions. Even a piece of stone with many inscriptions is a national treasure. No matter how gorgeous the gold, silver and jade are, they are not national treasures without inscriptions."
Gu Changxiao seemed to be thinking about something, but he didn't tell Jinsui at that time.
It was not until they returned from Jie Shi that Jin Sui learned that Gu Changxiao had ordered the Ministry of Works to carve several more stone tablets next to the stone tablet carved by the First Emperor, in which to record the affairs of the current dynasty.
It was also specially engraved that Emperor Jun Yanqing would get married this year and make Ling Jinsui the empress.
Jin Sui asked hurriedly: "Do the officials have any objection to leaving my name?" Yes, women's maiden names are rarely recorded in history books. They are all named "Ms. So-and-so" or given names.
Gu Changxiao said with a smile: "I just want to leave our names side by side on the stone. The stone will last for a thousand years, and my love for Sui Sui will also last for a thousand years."
After returning from Jie Shi, the wedding was about to begin. The whole city was decorated with lights and red lanterns were hung in the homes of the common people. All the street lamps were filled with gas, for fear that some of the lamps would not be lit when the wedding procession passed by.
Because the wedding was held in the evening, it was around 7pm when they arrived at the palace. When the emperor returned to his bridal chamber after the wedding banquet, it was just time for him to go to bed.
Well, the ancients really put a lot of thought into the wedding date! They were afraid that if the veil was lifted too early, someone on either side would regret it and escape the marriage during the day? On the thirteenth day, the grandfather held a wedding banquet for his daughter, no, it should be said that it was a wedding banquet for his granddaughter. It was held in the Taoist temple, but the ladies went to the college to add makeup for Jin Sui.
Even for the queen, the process of marriage was the same, and adding makeup was an important part. Chen Yunniang played the role of mother and sister. She entertained the female guests and arranged for the bride's mother-in-law to comb her hair.
Jinsui originally asked Chen Yunniang to comb her hair, but Chen Yunniang was unwilling to do so, saying that she was unlucky and it was unlucky to comb a bride's hair.
She said that she had no father or mother, her parents-in-law disliked her, and she had no children, so she had to find a happy wife to comb her hair.
Finally, he found an old princess from the royal family. A relative who could come from Chang'an to the border town must be someone Gu Changxiao trusted.
Anyone who had any distrust would stay in Chang'an and be under Han Xing's strict surveillance.
She is called an old princess, but she is only of a senior generation. She is actually only in her forties. She is very polite and has no airs at all. She sings "Comb it all the way to the white hair, comb it all the way to the eyebrows", ...
She opened Jinsui's face and combed her hair, said some auspicious words, and left with the jade ruyi given by Chen Yunniang.
Jin Sui sighed in her heart, being a full-time wife is really worthwhile, I will also comb the bride's hair and make a jade ruyi! Fortunately, she didn't say it, otherwise she would definitely be laughed at by Chen Yunniang.
The funniest thing was that night, Chen Yunniang blushed and asked even more shyly than the bride Jinsui: "Sui Sui, did the nanny teach you about the boudoir between husband and wife?"
Jin Sui quickly pulled out a picture book from the side and said, "How do couples treat each other? We have taught them, but not much. They both have no experience. Sister Chen, come and take a look. Are these all useful?"
Chen Yunniang stretched her head and looked. Wow, it was a set of lifelike fire avoidance pictures. Her face turned red, and then she looked at our bride-to-be, who remained calm and talked freely:
"Mammy said there are palace servants waiting outside the dragon bed to deliver water and change clothes. Hey, I must change this rule when I enter the palace!"
Chen Yunniang fled in panic: "Mammy taught you very well, there is no need for me to teach you."
Jin Sui laughed. She knew why Chen Yunniang told her this, because that silly girl, Shi Er Niang, wrote a letter to Chen Yunniang and told her about the funny thing that happened on her wedding night.
Specifically, Suisui, like her, has no mother and no female elders around her. Chen Yunniang can only teach her about this.
But the maids in the palace took this matter very seriously and treated it as a formal course. Jinsui was so shy at first.
I feel even more strange. The maids are all old maids who stayed in the palace. They have never experienced this in their lives. How can they know so much? I got used to it after hearing it many times. It should be very happy to do this with Gu Changxiao! After all, he has a good figure and has strong endurance after years of martial arts training.
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