A gift for making-up is the last step in a gift for the money. It is usually given to the woman three days before marriage, urging the woman to put on makeup quickly and prepare to get out of the house.

Gifts for makeup are usually given flowers, gold veils, five men and two women's flower fans, pollen robe, shampoo, colored fruits, etc. At the same time, the woman's family also needs to return gifts, usually gold and silver, Luohua buckle, green robe, boots and other things.

Zhu Yuanfu came outside the mansion and the gift was Fan Ning's second uncle Fan Tiege. He was eloquent and good at dealing with people, so he was basically responsible for the external dealings during Fan Ning's wedding.

Fan Tiege wore a Chu red official outfit, wearing a flat scarf, and a smiling expression on his white and fat face. When he saw Zhu Yuanfu coming out, he hurried forward and bowed and smiled: "Master, Tiegete is here to give a makeup gift!"

After saying that, he turned around and waved his hand. Two handsome servants carried the gold-painted box cage, with green silk ribbons on it.

Zhu Yuanfu smiled and nodded repeatedly, "Okay! OK! Mr. Fan might as well go in and have a cup of tea!"

"According to the rules of our hometown, I really can't go in."

According to the customs of Pingjiang Mansion, after giving the final makeup gift, the next step is to marry. During this period, the man's family can no longer step into the threshold of the woman's family. Only when the marriage is done, the groom will step into the woman's family. If the man's family enters the woman's family but does not marry him during this period, this is called a breaking happiness, which is a bit unlucky and should be avoided as much as possible.

Zhu Yuanfu laughed and said, "I haven't received the gift yet. It's okay for Mr. Zhu to go in. But if I don't accept the gift for a long time, Mr. Fan will be so anxious that he will jump. Well! I have time to drink tea in the future."

He ordered his side and left, "Please carry the courtesy into the mansion!"

Two family members came up and carried the gift of makeup into Zhu's mansion. Then they gave the gift of Zhu's family. They were also two nanmu boxes with gold and silver edges, with red silk ribbons on them.

Fan Tiege smiled and bowed, "The new house, bed, mat, table and chairs are ready, we are all looking forward to the Zhu family coming!"

"Don't worry! It will arrive early tomorrow morning."

Giving a makeup gift is the last step for the man’s family before marrying, but the woman’s family is not. The woman’s family has another step before getting married, that is, making the bed.

During the wedding, the man’s family pays for various ceremonies and banquets, and the man provides the bridal chamber. However, since the woman’s family is important to be of equal importance, the woman’s family must also contribute to the wedding. The woman is responsible for the arrangement of the wedding. If it is a small family and the financial resources are limited, then the woman’s family will be enough to arrange the bridal chamber. If both parties are wealthy families, then the entire lobby and wedding room must be arranged to show the guests the financial resources of the woman’s family.

I know that this custom is still preserved now. For example, the dozens of satin patterns in the new house are provided by the woman. For example, the man and the woman buy a house and get married, the man pays the down payment, and the woman offers the decoration, which is also similar.

The arrangement of a wedding room is called "making a bed", which is a variety of silk, satin, various bedding, curtains, various utensils, various decorations, jewelry, etc., which properly arranges all the wedding room, on the one hand, helps the newlyweds to be suitable for the room and home, and on the other hand, it also shows the financial resources of the woman's family.

The girl made the bed and the aunt waited for the girl to clean up. Of course, the female elders in wealthy families would not do it themselves, and would usually bring a large number of maids and maids.

This time Fanning got married, the man spent about 10,000 yuan on his money, including gifts, banquets, ceremonies, etc., so the woman's bed making expenses will generally be equivalent to this amount.

As for dowry, it is property given to your daughter. Even after marriage, it is dominated by the daughter. The man’s family generally does not use it. Many times, the daughter’s status in the man’s family is generally determined by the amount of dowry.

In the marriage of ordinary people, property issues are extremely important, and it can be said that they are the top priority. Both love and affection are secondary.

The most typical example is Su Liang and Cheng Yuanyuan. They are in love with each other, but the Cheng family's attitude is destined to fail this marriage.

The Cheng family is a wealthy family in Yangzhou and has some foundation, but they want to leave their foundation to their son and are unwilling to pay for their daughter's marriage. Of course, the Su family will never accept it. Su Liang passed the Boy Certificate and was awarded the Jinshi. The two families are already in a bad state. The Cheng family is still unwilling to give their daughter a generous dowry. How could this marriage be successful?

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Zhu Xiaoyun took three days off because of his daughter's marriage. Zhu Xiaoyun was generally satisfied with Fan Ning's son-in-law, but satisfaction was relatively unparalleled as his father's satisfaction with Fan Ning. I can only say that he was satisfied with him.

There are two reasons why Zhu Yuanfu's love for Fan Ning is not at the height of Zhu Yuanfu's love for Fan Ning. One is that Fan Ning is too strong, making him, his father-in-law, unable to control him, and even feels a little ashamed of himself.

In fact, Zhu Xiaoyun prefers a son-in-law like Liu Ran. He has a good starting point and is also given a Jinshi. He also has to look up to him. In front of such a son-in-law, he has a full sense of superiority.

But since the second uncle and his father broke up, Liu Ran had no hope. After all, the father was the one who decided this family, and it was far from his turn. Zhu Xiaoyun could only accept his father's choice and recognized Fan Ning as his son-in-law.

Of course, as a senior official of the fourth-rank court, Zhu Xiaoyun also knew the political background hidden behind this marriage. For decades, the Zhu family has been a centrist, neither a conservative nor a reformist, and the Liu family is also a centrist. With the failure of the Qingli reform, the dispute between conservatives and reformist factions gradually evolved into a struggle for the throne. Is it the adopted son Zhao Zongshi who supported Empress Cao, or Zhao Wenyun who supported Concubine Zhang?

As the struggle becomes more and more intense, the centrists can no longer continue and must make choices for the interests of the family.

The Liu family resolutely chose to support Concubine Zhang a few years ago, and there was also a route dispute in the Zhu family. The second uncle wanted to hold Zhang Yaozuo's thigh through the Liu family, but his father supported Zhao Zongshi and gave Zhao Zongshi a total of the members from the strange stone hall, which was a statement from his father.

This is the root of the division between the Zhu family. The father and the second uncle chose different routes. The separation of ways was the inevitable result. Marrying granddaughter Zhu Pei to Fan Ning was a choice for the grandfather to squeeze into Zhao Zongshi's inner circle.

Another reason why Zhu Xiaoyun felt less frivolous about Fan Ning was his relationship with his daughter Zhu Pei. His daughter Zhu Pei has lived with her grandfather since she was a child, and she has been together with her parents for a long time. Her daughter is already seventeen years old, and she may have been with her parents for less than five years.

Sometimes, Zhu Xiaoyun actually forgot that he had a daughter.

If you have a dull relationship with your daughter, you will naturally not be too concerned about your son-in-law.

But no matter what, his daughter got married, so Zhu Xiaoyun took three days off to concentrate on preparing for his daughter's marriage.

After dinner, Zhu Xiaoyun and his wife Wang discussed their daughter's dowry and bed making in the room.

Zhu Xiaoyun sighed and said, "I really didn't expect my father to give Pei'er the dowry to his twelve money shops in the capital. If this matter spreads, there will definitely be disputes within the family, and I'm afraid Yi'er won't be happy either."

Zhu Xiaoyun's second son Zhu Yi got married two years ago. His father gave him only 200,000 yuan to a house in the capital, while the Gu family married a house in Changzhou County and two thousand acres of land.

In contrast, his daughter Zhu Pei is much richer when she gets married.

However, his wife Wang looked at the problem more carefully than Zhu Xiaoyun. Although there are factors that the mother loves her daughter, there are other aspects.

She advised her husband: "The property in Mudu Town is not worth much, at most 20,000 guan. As for 5,000 acres of land, it is only 20,000 to 30,000 guan. Yi'er got 200,000 guan and a ten-acre house in the capital. He is not losing."

Zhu Xiaoyun smiled bitterly, "The key is the twelve money shops in the capital!"

Wang did not object to her husband's concerns. After all, she was her own daughter. If she didn't give it to Pei'er, it would be the second or third family who took it away. Why would the eldest brother suffer a loss?

"Official, you have to think about Zhe'er. If we are gone in the future, who will take care of Zhe'er? Do you think Yi'er will take care of him?"

This is what Wang is most worried about. What will her eldest son do in the future?

Yi'er has despised her brother since she was a child, and she is even more indifferent to him when she grows up. In the future, she and her husband are gone, and Yi'er will never take on the responsibility of taking care of her brother. Wang knows this very well.

On the contrary, the daughter felt sorry for her brother and kept taking care of him. If she and her husband were gone in the future, the burden of taking care of Zhe'er would definitely fall on her daughter. With this, Wang fully supported giving her daughter a heavy dowry, so she would not care about what the other brothers would think.

Zhu Xiaoyun thought of his eldest son and sighed, "You are right, only Pei'er will take care of her brother."

After understanding this, Zhu Xiaoyun didn't care about his father's bias. He said to his wife again: "I will start making beds tomorrow morning, so I'll trouble you about this."
Chapter completed!