Male Wife - Chapter 13
Madam Lin is sitting on a warm kang, wearing a rich and noble updo, leaning back on a soft pillow, with a fragrant tea on her left hand, while the maidservant dyeing her nail on the right, relaxing and lazing around.
Feeling that time has passed a lot, she yawned lazily: “It’s almost time, right?”
Wang momo is also waiting to watch the fun, not daring to show it, but looked out the window from time to time. Hearing her master mentioned it, she smiled immediately: “Counting the time, it should be. I don’t know what kind of commotion that cheap w̲h̲o̲r̲e̲ will make, madam don’t be anxious this old slave will ask the maid from Chu family and will inform madam right away!”
Without waiting for Wang Momo to check, someone came in and reported: “. . .The Second young master has entered the manor smoothly and went to pay respect to the Chu Family”
“Snapped—“
Madam Lin’s tea cup fall down to the ground immediately, shuttered to pieces: “What did you say?”
The man knelt on the ground and did not dare to lift his head: “The second young master’s sedan followed the Chu family’s eldest young master into the manor. When the auspicious time arrive. . . he will pay his respects.”
Touching her forehead, Madam Lin suddenly felt dizzy.
What did she hear? Is it a conspiracy?!
Wang momo was also taken aback, staring at the kneeling man, her eyes were sharp and gloomy: “Did you see clearly? If you dare lie, the family law will show no mercy!”
“This slave saw it with his own eyes,” the man took a deep breath and responds carefully, “The sedan chair stopped at the door, and mother Xi Niang of the Chu family stuffed six red seal with her hands, that’s when the second young master got off the sedan and was taken in by the Chu family eldest master”
Madam Lin was enrage, but since she was always pretending she didn’t lash out immediately, after she shooed the person she lift the small table and smashed the things inside the room.
“Impossible! A frivolous w̲h̲o̲r̲e̲! Married as the main wife? If you serve as concubine, you would at least get a lot of benefits from the old woman, she wasn’t even born as a girl!”
(T/N: base on what I read, ancient Chinese wedding let their main wife enter the main door, concubines or secondary wives can’t enter the main door)
Wang Momo carefully persuaded: “But it’s not. . . even if that cheap w̲h̲o̲r̲e̲ is proud now, it can only be proud for a while…”
Madam Lin’s face distorted, her eyes are almost spitting fire: “What about Ma San! What is he doing!? I didn’t give him the money to play around but to do his job!”
“This old slave will check it immediately!”
Wang momo found her reason to run away, she hurriedly went out, leaving the room and breath a sigh of relief.
Madam Lin’s nails were tightly clasped into her flesh but feels no pain, she looked down the window and looked towards the distant sky and then looked at the Chu family’s direction and suddenly sneered: “Do you think you’re so impressive? You can avoid this time, but you can’t avoid the next time, you can’t avoid me, and you can’t avoid the others!”
“Why did the Chu family really wanted to marry you?”
Madam Lin is not assured about this marriage, and if she’s not proud Xie Tignyue can’t also be proud.
Unfortunately, this time he was destined to disappoint her, and Xie Tingyue passed smoothly.
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Of course there are unexpected events happens in a ceremony.
Marriage is a big thing in life, every process needs communication, so you have talk about it, you also have to be auspicious, you have to wait for the auspicious time, and you can’t let auspicious time wait for you. For example, for newlyweds, when the auspicious time is almost over you have to catch up before it ends. Even if there is a long time for the auspicious hour, but there is pick up time, and then parading slowly on a long road which consumes time.
The newlywed’s ceremony cannot hasten, they will also encounter these event. Before the ceremony, there is also a ‘new couple’s sitting’ etiquette, the length of time can be adjusted by oneself.
The unforeseen event happened at this time.
There will be also the “crossing brazier” ceremony, which basically a customary rite, everyone who’s marries had done this. It signifies: avoiding misfortunes, away from ominousness, more prosperity. The high-ranking families like Chu family certainly have different specifics, for example the pots should be golden pots, which will burn daylilies and the finest silver cypress charcoal, so that they will be more prosperous, wealthy and have many descendants.
But these ingredients, the daylilies is missing, the ones that are put aside suddenly disappeared, no one knows who picked them. The charcoal that was prepared was also dampen, two people bumped into each other, the one who was hit happened to be holding a pot of teas which led in pouring the tea directly to the cypress charcoal, the people were very busy walking back and forth which could be result of these accident.
The silver cypress charcoal can be used after drying, and it’s not a bad thing but these are the best charcoal, there are also some in the house that they can used as replacement but this cypress charcoal are special, its expensive, you even need to book if you wanted a new one. Then you have to go through all the process in ordering a new batch of cypress charcoal but there is no time to do that, when you get it according to process the auspicious time will definitely be over!
At this time the butler of the mansion is also missing, he could not be found anywhere. The old matriarch took the main wife and the second wife in welcoming the guest.
Good things don’t make any difference and disasters don’t come alone. At this time a white dumpling jumped off the wall.
The little white dumpling has snow white fur with round, fluffy body, and chubby paws. The white cat’s tail is tied with a blue satin bow that is the same color of its round and cute eyes. It walks gracefully and raises its chin and looks at the people with disdain, looking all proud.
In an instant everyone seemed to freeze and the scene suddenly became quiet.