Sir, can you marry me?

Chapter 83

'Although everyone respectfully addresses the wives of the officials as their wives, their titles and status levels are still strictly used when exchanging letters or visiting the queen in the harem.In the Daqing Dynasty, the title levels for the mothers and wives of officials were: first-rank and second-rank officials were named Mrs., third-rank officials were named Shuren, fourth-rank Feng Gongren, fifth-rank Feng Yiren, and sixth-rank Feng An People, Feng Ruren of the seventh rank and below the first rank, and the common people are a certain family and a certain woman.Mrs. He Yushi used to be a third-rank gentleman, but now He Yushi has been demoted to be a doctor of the Department of Household Affairs. '

Xiao Wenqing sat in the last small sedan chair with a serious expression, constantly encouraging herself in her heart.There will be many wives of officials and daughters of aristocratic families appearing today, and she will be introduced to some people by Mrs. Liu.Those people might not care about her, and might take her as a topic, how should she deal with it?Although Yuxuan said that he would "knock" Mrs. He and Mrs. He and the others, if Mrs. He got angry with her in her heart and said in public that she had been a maid, how would she respond?Hope to see Miss Chun Li today.Sister Chun Li is Mrs. He's personal servant girl, she should serve Mrs. He at such a time, right?
The small sedan swayed gently through the streets and alleys, and finally came to a stop. Xiao Wenqing, who was sitting inside, heard unusually lively sounds outside.

"Miss Xiao, the Minister of Military Affairs has arrived." Jing Jing, who had been walking beside Xiao Wenqing's sedan chair, said, stretched out her hand to lift the thick sedan chair curtain, and stretched out her hand towards Xiao Wenqing.

Xiao Wenqing put her hand on Crystal's arm and walked out of the sedan chair calmly and gracefully, and walked to Mrs. Liu who also stepped out of the sedan chair.She raised her head slightly and looked carefully, and saw two stone lions as tall as a person, with red silk hydrangeas tied around the necks of the stone lions, the gate of Shangshu Mansion was much taller than the gate of Hanlin Mansion, and there were big golden characters written on the tall black plaque : Exhibition House.There was already a lot of traffic in front of the gate of Zhanfu, and the official sedan chairs stopped for seven or eight times. A group of servants in Tsing Yi and a middle-aged man who looked like a butler were constantly warmly greeting the guests who came to the door.

"Mrs. Liu, you are here. I haven't seen your second and third girls for a long time. They are getting more and more white and tender. Huh, who is this girl? She looks so pretty." A middle-aged man got off the sedan chair from the other side of Shangshu's mansion. Mrs. Nian came over with her two daughters, and when she saw Mrs. Liu, she immediately came over to greet her.

"Mrs. Liu is well." The two daughters brought by the middle-aged lady stepped forward two steps towards Mrs. Liu.

"Miss Ning and Miss Ning are free. Madam Ning, I haven't seen you recently, you look very good." Madam Liu asked the two girls of the Ning family to excuse her, and then gave the middle-aged lady a slight courtesy, and then told Liu Ziyuan Liu Ziling said, "I still don't pay my respects to Mrs. Ning and the two elder sisters of the Ning family." The other party's status is two ranks lower than hers, even if she didn't return a half-respect, no one said she was impolite, at most they said she was not gracious enough.

Liu Ziyuan knew this lady and her two daughters, and immediately stepped forward and said, "Ziyuan has met Mrs. Ning and the two sisters." After all, Liu Ziling was young and was rarely brought out by her mother. The three of them didn't know each other very well, so they learned how to do it after seeing how their sister did it.

"Sisters don't need to be too polite." The two girls of the Ning family said while returning the courtesy.The etiquette of the aristocratic family is cumbersome, and they will be criticized by their mother after they go back if they do not do everything well or make mistakes.

Mrs. Liu motioned Xiao Wenqing to come closer to her, and introduced with a smile: "Mrs. Ning, this girl is surnamed Xiao. She is the daughter of an old friend of my master. She lives in my house temporarily." She then said to Xiao Wenqing: "Wenqing, this girl It's Mrs. Ning, the head of the Ministry of War, and that's her eldest daughter and second daughter." When the wives socialize formally, they will only bring their prostitutes with them.As for the concubines, the aunts who are kind-hearted will stay with them for a year or so after they talk about others.That belt, that is, let the concubine learn housekeeping and etiquette with him at home, and will not be brought into the circle of noble ladies.If you take a concubine out to meet guests and socialize, others will feel that the person looks down on them and will be angry.

"Wenqing pays homage to Mrs. Ning." Xiao Wenqing immediately said in a clear and gentle manner, and saluted Mrs. Ning.

Mrs. Ning stretched out her hand to help Xiao Wenqing up, and after looking at her, she praised: "What a beautiful and intelligent girl. Tsk tsk tsk, this appearance, this temperament, you can tell that she is from a good family." Since it is the girl brought by Mrs. Liu Hanlin , must also be the daughter of a rich official family.

"Mrs. Ning, you are too praised, Wenqing is ashamed of it." Xiao Wenqing lowered her head slightly, with just the right amount of shyness on the corner of her mouth.

"This is my eldest daughter, Qiuyue, and this is my second daughter, Xinyue." Mrs. Ning asked enthusiastically, "How old is Miss Wenqing?"

Xiao Wenqing replied politely: "Wenqing is sixteen this year."

Mrs. Ning immediately said, "My Qiuyue is 17 years old, and Xinyue is 15 years old."

"Sister Xiao, 'sister'." Ning Qiuyue in light yellow clothes and Ning Xinyue in pink blue clothes immediately blessed Xiao Wenqing.

Xiao Wenqing immediately returned the salute with a blessing, saying: "Sister Ning, Sister Ning."

After hearing this, Liu Ziyuan pouted her mouth in dissatisfaction.She and her younger sister were told by their mother to address Xiao Wenqing as "Aunt". Now that the two sisters of the Ning family and Aunt Xiao are called as equals, shouldn't the sisters call the two older sisters of the Ning family "Aunt"?Mother, the seniority is messed up.

Mrs. Zhao waited for them all to see the ceremony, and then said, "Let's go in, I think the old birthday star is already talking with the wives in the back hall."

"Yes, yes, let's go meet today's old birthday star." Madam Ning smiled immediately, stretched out her hand, and slightly bowed to invite Madam Zhao to go first.Liu Shaohan, a Hanlin scholar, is a fourth-rank official, and Mrs. Liu is a fourth-rank respected person by the imperial court. Her husband and son-in-law are only the head of the sixth-rank military department, so she, a sixth-rank security person, must be courteous to Mrs. Liu in every way.

Mrs. Zhao nodded her head in thanks, and then led Ziyuan Ziling and Xiao Wenqing up the steps of the Minister's House of the Ministry of War.

(End of this chapter)