The famous book tour starting from the Red House

Chapter 161 Dazzling
Hearing Mu Xu's return, the girls in the room also stopped their conversation and stood up to greet her. Seeing this, Mu Xu immediately said, "Just keep talking, don't worry about me."

After several people went back to sit down again, Daiyu asked, "The palace sent you a message early in the morning, so is it necessary to send you another errand?"

Mu Xu said with a big head, "I'm just going to ask you, who knows the etiquette of the emperor's wedding, tell me quickly, I was appointed by the palace as the deputy envoy of the wedding today. I don't care about those etiquettes. With a smear of darkness in front of my eyes, I'm afraid I'm going to make a fool of myself."

Daiyu can be regarded as a well-read book, and Baochai is also very knowledgeable, but the books they read on weekdays are all related to piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and they really haven't read books on this subject.At this time, they were unable to answer Mu Xu's question.Seeing this, Mu Xu could only sigh, "Come on, I'll go find a book of rites."

But Baochai called to him, and advised him, "Where is the need to turn over the book, the son will find a small official in the Ministry of Rites and ask him. Do they still dare to hide it?"

"Hey, why didn't I think of that." Mu Xu immediately realized that he was deluded by the authorities, and immediately went to the Ministry of Rites to inquire.

Seeing that he was about to leave, Daiyu quickly got up and grabbed him, and said angrily, "How do you say that the wind is the rain? Let me ask you, when will the emperor get married?"

"After seven days."

"Then it's over. It's not too late for you to go tomorrow. It's already noon. Let's eat lunch first. Didn't you say you didn't eat in the morning?"

After listening to Daiyu's words, Mu Xu thought about it. There was really no need to rush this moment, so she turned around and sat down next to Baochai, took the tea that Yinglian brought her, and asked what they were talking about so lively just now. .

Daiyu replied, "I was talking to Sister Bao about our house's internal affairs, and I want her to help me."

Baochai didn't know Mu Xu's attitude, so she didn't agree just now, but when Daiyu brought it up again, she was afraid that Mu Xu would misunderstand, so she quickly expressed her opinion, "This matter can't be done, how can I let the side room housekeeper know, let outsiders know, It will definitely be said that I have overstepped my authority."

But Mu Xu waved his hand and said, "Why are you so particular about it? Since Yu'er is too lazy to take care of it, you can work harder. If Yinglian is bored, she can also take care of some things."

Seeing Mu Xu's resolute attitude, the two hesitated for a while and nodded in agreement, and then they had dinner with Mu Xu before leaving together.

The next day, Mu Xu came to the yamen of the Ministry of Rites early, and happened to meet Huang Mingguang, the Minister of Rites of the Shang Yamen, and when he heard his question, Mu Xu said it directly.It's also a coincidence that Huang Mingguang is the envoy of the wedding.

Huang Mingguang had no disagreement with Mu Xu, but because he was able to voluntarily refuse the emperor's reward before, he had a good impression of him, so he didn't embarrass Mu Xu at all.

Inviting Mu Xu to the inner hall of the Ministry of Rituals, Huang Mingguang called for Honglu officer and asked him to explain the wedding process in detail. Mu Xu was dizzy after listening to the detailed steps of , notice, and personal welcome, the etiquette of concubine concubine conferment, and the third trial method of Xinna palace maid at the same time.

It was only then that Mu Xu knew that apart from Tu Zhen's big wedding, he had to select some court ladies to enter the palace.As for the selection process, it is even more intense and strict than going to Beijing to rush for the exam.

When the eunuchs treated the selected girls, they not only had to observe their appearance and listen to their voices, but also sent palace maids to carefully examine their hair, facial features, and bodies. If there was one object that was not pleasing to the eye, they were all unqualified. The waist, legs and figure are not standard and well-proportioned.

When it comes to the third trial, the female officer in the palace will take off her clothes and examine it. What kind of smell, skin, or even a scar on the body is not acceptable. On this basis, the demeanor and manners will be checked. During this process, a large number of those who slept in an indecent position were sent back, and the remaining elites were selected by the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Nei Ke Mansion.

Mu Xu was stunned when he heard that, this is much stricter than the beauty pageant in later generations, how beautiful the woman is.He couldn't help but blurted out, "Hasn't the queen candidate been chosen now?"

Officer Honglu and You Rongyan smiled and said, "Yes, now the empress dowager has selected the eldest daughter of Lord Cao Tai, the servant of the Ministry of Rites, as the queen, and also the daughters of two officials in Beijing as concubines. They also want to enter the palace together. By the way, tomorrow the son will go to Na Cai with the lower officials to ask for his name, the adults must not be familiar with these etiquettes, you can take this book back and have a look."

Mu Xu took over the two thick piles of things, and couldn't help but stare straight in his eyes and said, "This...is this all the content of the great gift I remembered?"

Official Honglu replied, "Yes, it contains content related to your responsibility, my son, you must be careful, as an envoy of the emperor, don't lose your etiquette."

Mu Xu swallowed his saliva, walked out of the gate of the Ministry of Rites with a bunch of things in his arms, and rode back to the mansion.He came to the study and sat down, flipping through it casually.These two piles of things are all about the details of acceptance, asking names, acceptance, and deadlines, when each event will be held, how many eunuchs, how many guards of honor will be required, who will hold the ceremony and who will hold the festival for the chief envoy and deputy envoy. Chaos and other trivial matters dazzled him and made his forehead ache.

He sighed, rubbed his temples, and rested for a while, thinking that it would be useful tomorrow, he had to look down again.Fortunately, after researching for half a day, he finally came to the conclusion that there are actually not many things that need his attention. It should be much simpler if he only extracts the places he needs to use.So he picked up the two stacks of documents and went out to find Daiyu and the others.

When he came to the outside room, he saw Mei Jian and Qing Wen talking in the courtyard from a distance, so he asked loudly, "Mei Jian, are you in the room?"

Mei Jian ran up to him holding the hem of her skirt, and replied, "My lord, my concubine is going to teach Mrs. Zhen how to compose poetry."

After hearing this, Mu Xu nodded to her, and walked quickly through the porch, out of the Moon Gate, and came to Yinglian's courtyard.

As soon as they entered the door, they saw Daiyu and Yinglian sitting at the table, writing something with their heads down, while Baochai was sitting on the embroidery couch not far away, doing needlework.Hearing the sound of footsteps, Baochai looked up and found that it was Mu Xu who had come. He hurriedly put aside the needle and thread, got up and asked, "Didn't you say you went to the Ministry of Rites? Why did you come back so soon?"

Daiyu and Yinglian were also startled by Baochai's voice, and looked at Mu Xu together.Mu Xu took out two stacks of documents from his bosom and patted them, "See, these are all the etiquettes for a big wedding, they are all in there, and they will be used tomorrow, I really have a headache reading them by myself, so I just If you want to ask some female Bodhisattvas to help you, please do so."

Daiyu scolded with a smile, "You still have time to joke around, if you haven't brought it over, let us see how we can help you."

Mu Xu handed the things over, and at the same time said what he thought, and the three girls all felt that his idea was good.

Afterwards, Daiyu took the initiative to divide the things into three parts, and the three of them read them together, and by the way, they extracted the places that Mu Xu needed to use.

Seeing them busy, Mu Xu immediately felt relaxed, so he got up and sat down on the embroidered couch, and picked up the needlework that Baochai had just done for a closer look. It turned out that it was a half-finished mandarin duck playing in the water.

Baochai, who was looking at the information at the table, had been paying attention to Mu Xu from the corner of her eye. Seeing his actions at this time, she was immediately ashamed, and gave him a hard look with her almond eyes.

Mu Xuruo felt it, and gave Baochai a sly smile, and hurriedly pressed the bellyband under the thin quilt on the couch.Then he pretended nothing happened and lay down on the couch, closed his eyes and fell asleep, but in fact he began to observe the orb.

After an unknown amount of time, he felt someone shaking his shoulders before he opened his eyes, only to see Daiyu standing in front of the couch looking at him helplessly.

Seeing that Mu Xu woke up, she complained to Baochai and Yinglian who were beside her, "The three of us are so busy that we don't even have time to drink, this old man is still asleep."

After hearing Daiyu's complaint, Baochai and Yinglian condemned Mu Xu.Mu Xu quickly stood up and sat up, bowing to the three with a smile, "Xiaosheng is very grateful to the three ladies. Today's kindness will definitely be repaid."

Daiyu pretended to be majestic and asked, "Then how are you going to repay us? Let's talk about it and let us see if you are sincere."

"Why don't you let me make a promise first?"

"Shameless", "Dengtuzi", and "Bah", the three girls immediately refused to follow.

(End of this chapter)