Chapter 441 Sisters Fight
As the praise was being sung, the second princess led Xia Zihan and a group of people into the hall.
The order of appearance is also particular. The second princess came first, followed by Xia Zihan, and then Princess Qinghui. Liao Fangyi and Nuan Yu carried the tray with hairpins and hairpin crowns, and the three maids, Silk Grass, Herb and Chu Cong, Each person also carried a tray and walked at the end.
As soon as they entered, the guests who came to watch the ceremony fell silent, and the entire hall was extremely quiet.
Next, the hymn continued to sing, "The hair-hair ceremony begins, and the whole place is quiet. Heaven and earth created all things, and all things flourish forever... This is a special ceremony for the ceremony. The hair-hair ceremony for adults begins, and the music is played!"
After reciting for almost half a cup of tea, Xia Zihan heard the word "play music".
As the praises fell, cheerful music came from the back of the hall.
The music only lasted for half a minute. The music stopped and the praise continued: "I would like to invite the elders who have the hairpin."
This, girls from other families always ask their parents to sing, but neither Xia Zihan nor Zeng wanted to praise Xu, so they used the word "elder" instead.
Xia Shiming and Zeng came out. Under the singing of praise, they greeted each other and then sat down in their master's seat.
"Invite the guests to your seats." The praise chanted again.
Xia Shiming and Zeng, who had just sat down, quickly got up and bowed to each other with the guests, praisers and guests who came to watch the ceremony, and then took their places.
"The hairpin ceremony begins, please come out." After the host sits down, the praise is chanted again.
Xia Zihan took a step forward, praised and chanted, "Please wash your hands for the guest of honor, and ask the person who praised me to do the makeup for the person with hairpins."
Xia Zihan had already bathed in the room before. At this moment, all she needed to do was wash her face and hands. Silk Grass and Herb came over with warm water and a towel. Princess Zhengbin came forward, soaked the towel, and wiped Xia Zihan's hands and face with her own hands. .
The praiser, Princess Qinghui, stepped forward, untied Xia Zihan's previous bun, and gave her a new, popular bun.
Princess Qinghui, who had never combed her hair before, in order not to make a fool of herself today, specially learned how to comb her hair from the maid next to her at home. It took her three days of learning to learn some simple buns, and she also specially learned one. It took me two days to learn how to make a more difficult bun, and now I am finally able to do it easily without making any mistakes.
Picking up the hairpin from the tray in Liao Fangyi's hand, Princess Qinghui was about to insert it into Xia Zihan's head. Suddenly, a cold voice said, "I'll do it."
Chu Jingqi walked out from the guests, took the hairpin from Princess Qinghui, inserted it into Xia Zihan's bun, then picked up the hairpin crown, put it on Xia Zihan's head, and said with a gentle smile, " Ayu, congratulations, you are an adult.”
This bastard actually teased her in front of so many people. Who didn't know that she was already sixteen this year, and she got her hair extensions last year, and today's hair extensions ceremony was just a make-up.
He actually laughed at her for being an adult.
This guy... is really, so abominable.
Xia Zihan glared at him angrily, and then glanced at the stunned Princess Qinghui with an apologetic look.
This was what Princess Qinghui should have done, but Chu Jingqi took it away from her. Princess Qinghui was so angry.
But when she saw that Chu Jingqi liked Xia Zihan so much and even gave her a hairpin in public, silently announcing to everyone that Xia Zihan was his, Princess Qinghui was moved again.
If she gets haircut in time, will Bai Yuexi get haircut for her?
She was looking forward to it in her heart.
Next, he thanked his parents first. Xia Zihan had no mother, so he thanked Xia Shiming and Zeng, knelt down, kowtowed to them, and offered tea.
Then burn incense and kowtow to God.
Mrs. Zeng had already prepared it in the yard, setting up an incense table with dried fruits and melons, incense burners and candles.
Xia Zihan moved to the courtyard and knelt down in front of the incense table. Songs of praise began to sing. She followed the chants and kowtowed respectfully.
He stood up, took the lit incense candle from Mother Su, inserted it into the incense burner, and bowed three times.
The entire ceremony was solemn, solemn, clean and grand.
Next, it’s time to entertain the guests.
As the protagonist, Xia Zihan naturally had to greet everyone at each table. Fortunately, there were only a few relatives and friends of the Chu family, so they all came, so there were only three tables.
Everyone who was close to her came. People from the Dou family, people from the Liao family, including Liao Jingtang and Ao Tianchen originally wanted to come. However, when she got up in the morning, Princess Mingzhu, who was supposed to come too, suddenly said she felt sick in her stomach. After holding Ao Tianchen's feet, the young couple could not come.
Princess Mingzhu didn't feel sick to her stomach. She really didn't want Ao Tianchen to attend Xia Zihan's haircut ceremony, so she deliberately said she felt sick to her stomach. The second princess was nervous about her precious grandson. Although she saw that her daughter-in-law was acting, she still asked her son to stay with her daughter-in-law for the sake of her grandson.
Of course, the second princess had no shame to talk about this little trick going on in the second prince's palace. Later, Princess Qinghui told Xia Zihan, and Princess Qinghui looked down on Princess Mingzhu's behavior, "This It has been more than 10 years, and my brother Wang has shown concern for her. Be prepared, the good tonic soup every day does not cost money to replenish her body. Otherwise, how could she get pregnant so quickly? Brother Wang is so good to her, but she is not satisfied, and she is still guarding against you and Brother Wang. It's really Funny.”
"Besides, Brother Wang liked you before we got engaged to her. Did she not allow Brother Wang to fall in love with someone else before we got engaged to her?"
If her mother-in-law hadn't disagreed, maybe her sister-in-law Wang would be Chu Yu, and there would be no chance for Princess Mingzhu to make trouble here.
Princess Qinghui feels unfair for her brother Wang and despises Princess Mingzhu's behavior. However, she is also a woman and knows that Princess Mingzhu's worries are nothing more than fear that Ao Tianchen will focus on Xia Zihan again. They didn't dare to let Ao Tianchen and Xia Zihan get too close, so they resorted to various tricks.
During the banquet, there were only one table of male relatives, all of whom were accompanied by Bai Yuexi. Xia Shiming actively introduced him. In his words, it was revealed that Zeng wanted to adopt Bai Yuexi as his heir and grandson.
Mrs. Zeng was much more direct. She directly told the second princess Zhuo and others that she wanted to adopt Bai Yuexi as her heir and grandchild. She also planned to hold a special adoption ceremony. By then, there would definitely be more people invited than this.
Although Xia Zihan's haircut ceremony was grand, it was a woman's affair. Except for some of her close male relatives, most men would not come to join in the fun.
But Bai Yuexi's adoption ceremony was different.
The Chu family adopted him, and his surname was Chu. From now on, he will be the only man in the Chu family and the only heir of the Chu family. With the Chu family and the Second Prince's Mansion as his two backers, I believe there will be many male dependents who will come by then. .
Needless to say, Chu Xuanyu will definitely come back. The second prince owes the Chu family such a favor. For such a big thing as the Chu family's heirs and grandchildren, he will definitely show up in honor of Mrs. Chu.
As long as the Second Prince comes, I believe that officials who have had good relations with the Chu family in the past, as long as they are still alive, will come.
Just kidding, the Chu family has an heir, and they have climbed the two big trees of the Chu family and the Second Prince's Mansion. If they don't rush to curry favor at this time, it will be too late if they come back later.
After Xia Zihan's haircut ceremony was completed, Mrs. Zeng started to hold Bai Yuexi's adoption ceremony. She also specially sent people to publicize it in the capital, making Bai Yuexi's adoption ceremony super grand and grand.
After Xia Ziying got the news, she looked pityful, but in fact she was gloating in her heart and said, "Since the Chu family has adopted a grandchild, doesn't it mean that the Chu family's property does not belong to the second sister?"
Xia Zilan, who was instructing the maid to cut a big watermelon, raised her head and muttered, "We have adopted a heir and grandson. What else can happen to her? If the Chu family's money is given to her, then what will the heir and grandson eat and drink from the northwest?" Wind? ”
Having said that, when she thought that so much money was given to someone who had nothing to do with the Chu family and the Xia family, Xia Ziying felt gloating about the misfortune. There is a lot of heartache.
She said, "I heard that the Chu family has a lot of money. Mrs. Chu doesn't know what's going on. Is she an old fool? Otherwise, how could she think of having an heir or grandson? So much money is so cheap." Others.”
She always felt that the money from the Chu family should belong to her, but now it was given to Bai Yuexi in vain, as if it was gouging out her heart.
It made her reluctant to leave her, and she felt terribly distressed.
The watermelon was cut into eight pieces. Xia Zilan picked up one piece and couldn't help but take a bite.
After chewing half of the watermelon, she raised her head after hearing this and said in disapproval, "How could it be someone else? When the adoption is over, Doctor Bai will be the eldest young master of the Chu family and the grandson of Mrs. Chu. This How could it be someone else? ”
Seeing that the corners of her mouth and cheeks were covered with watermelon juice, a trace of disgust flashed in Xia Ziying's eyes, and she said to Xia Zilan's maid, "It's disgusting. Why are you serving the fourth girl? Why don't you dig out the watermelon sac for the fourth girl? Eat it with a toothpick? ”
"You don't have to blame them. I just like to eat it like this. To eat watermelon, you have to nibble it to get the flavor. If you prick it with a toothpick, the taste will become bland and unpalatable."
Xia Zilan swallowed a mouthful of watermelon sac in her mouth and spoke for her maid. She also didn't like Xia Ziying looking at her maid like she was looking at shit.
That was her maid. Her mother said that her maid represented her face. Xia Ziying actually looked at her face like she was looking at shit. Hum...
Xia Zilan said, "I know that the third sister is jealous of the second sister who has a lot of money. Now all that money has been given to Doctor Bai. The third sister is unwilling and jealous. Third sister, are you thinking in your heart, why don't you give that money to you?" , why give it to Doctor Bai for free?”
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Xia Ziying, who was told what was on her mind, became angry and glared at her, "You are not young now. Don't just say things all day long. If you are like this, who will dare to do it in the future?" Want you?”
"No one wants to marry me, and I won't go messing around in the woods with a man." Xia Zilan said bluntly.
Xia Ziying's face turned pale, and she suddenly grabbed a handful of Xia Zilan's clothes like crazy, with a ferocious look on her face, "What nonsense are you talking about? Where did you hear it? Are there any rumors outside?"
Could it be that what happened that day has still spread?
(End of chapter)