Medicine in Song Dynasty

Chapter 163
The Song family in Qingzhou is not a small family, and his family should not marry too casually.

Su Tong couldn't help but feel relieved that one of the group of girls she raised was finally able to get married in a serious manner, and she found it the most troublesome one. Although the wedding date is set in October, which is still very early, getting married is a big event and cannot be sloppy. .

Xiao Yao's dowry is a bit troublesome. It is said that the money she has accumulated now is not bad even if she marries into an official family, but the dowry gift from the Song family is too heavy.

These days, if a woman wants to have the confidence to marry, the dowry must not be too thin. Besides, every woman is married at this time, and the dowry is extremely generous. There are even families who cannot afford to marry their daughters because the dowry is too thick. Su Tong thinks At least one hundred thousand dowry must be prepared for Xiao Yao.

This amount, relying on Xiao Yao alone, can earn back in about three to five years, but her marriage obviously cannot wait that long.

Su Tong, A Xia and the others discussed these matters, and A Xia loved Xiao Yao as her own sister. The girls came from trouble together, and after supporting each other for such a long time, they are no worse than their own sisters. Of course, I wanted her to marry well, so that for a while, the girls who were not interested in doing business and just passed the time, all kinds of ghost ideas emerged one after another, and the development of new products in Mingyuefang suddenly stepped up to a higher level.

Especially A Xia, who accidentally heard a few words about the cosmetic box from Su Tong, it really made her come up with a very popular new product, the cosmetic box.

The finely carved wooden box is inlaid with a small glass mirror, which contains all kinds of cosmetics, eyebrow pencil, nail clipper, eyebrow clip, blush, powder, lipstick, eye shadow, especially colored eye shadow and lipstick, and more It was the first time it appeared. For these two things, Axia dragged Su Tong to hold back in the laboratory for more than half a month. Although the final product was not satisfactory, it was finally usable.

A makeup box, accompanied by a set of makeup diagrams drawn by Gongbihua, to teach those women how to put on makeup, Mingyuefang even opened two private rooms for this purpose, and trained a group of makeup artists, only for the nobles in Qingzhou. Ladies serve, not to mention, the makeup box is troublesome to make and the output is still small, so it can only be used as a luxury item. Not many people can buy it, but there are countless women who come to Mingyuefang to make up, and they have to make an appointment in advance.

Although Xiao Yao, who was preparing to marry, was aware of all of this, she didn't bother to ask. She was busy with embroidering the dowry. The wedding dress was too complicated, and the time was short. She couldn't embroider it by herself. out, but always need to embroider some purses, pillowcases and other small things, it takes a lot of work.

Xiao Yao didn't want to delay her homework, she had to study and learn every day, the time was really tight.

Here in Qingzhou, Miss Su Tong and Miss Su devoted themselves to preparing for Xiao Yao's marriage, and didn't care about other things for a while, but Zhao Wanrong didn't forget her. Recently, letters have been exchanged frequently. In each letter, He didn't say anything serious, but mostly talked about recent gossip in the capital. It seemed that Zhao Wanrong was getting older and becoming more and more nagging.

After reading Zhao Wanrong's letter, there was a strange smell between the lines in it, as if vaguely implying that the queen mother who had been in power for more than ten years was finally showing signs of decline.

On the surface, Su Tong was calm and composed, as if he didn't take it seriously, but he couldn't help muttering in his heart.

It's just that Su Wencheng is far away in Qingzhou now, and the chaos and changes in the capital have nothing to do with them after all - but the unclear relationship between Su Tong and Zhao Wanrong exists after all, and it is impossible to seriously ignore it.

tokyo, imperial palace

Although it was early spring, it was still cold and the palace was as quiet as ever. The first thing the little eunuchs and maids learned after entering the palace was how to keep themselves quiet.

"Empress Dowager, do you really eat pork today?"

The palace maid Ayue was a little worried. Pork is something that ordinary people can eat, but it is not so easy for the empress dowager to eat it.

"If you want to eat meat today, why don't you ask someone to cut some mutton slices for you, eat in a pot, and then boil some tofu and vegetables. There are a lot of vegetables outside. It's so cold, and you can still eat green vegetables, but it's not easy Woolen cloth."

It's not that there are no green vegetables to eat in winter in previous years, but there are not many green vegetables produced in the hot spring village, and the officials are considerate of the servants.

Liu E looked at the new shoots emerging from the tree, leaned on the soft couch, held a Buddhist scripture in his hand, squinted his eyes half-closed, half-reading, and said in a gentle tone: "Boil me a pig's trotter, Mao Fade clean, stew a little bit, this tooth is not good."

I remember that she loved to eat pork when she was young, but meat was not cheap at that time, and she had to use it to refine oil. I still remember that the happiest time for her was every Chinese New Year, when A Niang finished refining the oil that she ate, leaving some oil residue, Bake a thick dough cake, dipped in oil residue and cut into slices for her to eat.

That kind of fragrance has left her with endless aftertaste.

Liu E sighed. She hadn't eaten pork for many years. It seemed that after marrying Gong Mei, she seldom ate pork, let alone entered the palace.

Ah Yue wanted to persuade her again, but after seeing Liu E's face, she was speechless.

After entering the imperial dining room, a group of young eunuchs came over to wait on them. The two young eunuchs held Ayue's shoulders carefully, smiling all over their faces: "Why do you come here in person? What's your order? Let the little ones go for a while." That is, why bother you?"

Ah Yue is Liu E's personal maid, she has been serving her for 20 years, she is only 35 years old this year, she has never been married, although she is not too old, but the gang of young eunuchs have to treat her as an ancestor.

This group of little eunuchs flattered her, but Ah Yue didn't play tricks. She has been able to serve in the palace for so many years and has been a confidant of the Queen Mother. Eunuch Gao is here, if he is, please think of a way."

After she finished speaking, she left, not taking the bomb she dropped seriously, the group of small people in the imperial dining room were suddenly dumbfounded, and Gao Chang, the eunuch in charge of the imperial dining room, was also worried.

The imperial kitchen has always only used mutton and pig meat, which are not elegant, so how can the empress dowager eat them?Besides, if the empress dowager wants to use it, they must have it!
The Imperial Dining Room is an important place in the palace, and idlers are not even allowed to approach it. All kinds of vegetables, vegetables and meat purchased are specially supplied by special personnel. If you recklessly add something, if the nobleman eats something wrong, it will be killed. The serious crime of the head, the benevolence of the officials, the capital punishment has always been seldom used, but the eunuchs and maids in the palace, every year, throw a straw mat and throw it out of the palace gate, there are still as many as crossing the river. This place does not allow any Mistakes.

(End of this chapter)