10 Wedding Preparation (1/2)

A month after Yao Mama's arrival, a notification came from the Palace. My wedding date with Xiao Junwange was determined by Bixia, based on the calculation of the Palace astrologer. In the middle of autumn or a month later, the wedding will be held.

My father immediately held a meeting with members of the Yun family. They discuss what must be prepared in this very short time. We only have one month to prepare it. The time for preparing my wedding was shorter than the preparation time for Yun Jing Fei's wedding.

As a result of the meeting, they will make a simple party. This was determined by considering short preparation time. Since the meeting was over, every member of my family became busy.

My father started contacting his close colleague in the government. Uncle Chen contacted his trading business colleague. My mother contacted fabric and jewelry merchants. My aunt contacted a food dealer. Uncle Zixin contacted the Yun branch family members.

Not only my uncle, my aunt and my parents became busy. My younger brother became busy too. He has the duty to arrange the arrangement of the event and ensure security. He had to meet Eunuch Zhu several times to ask for advice on the rituals of imperial marriage.

Seeing their hard work and effort, I was touched. I have disappointed them with my previous actions. However, for this marriage, they sacrificed a lot of their strength and time for me.

Even though I wasn't enthusiastic, I finally got involved. At first I thought that the clothes for my wedding would be sewn by Royal tailor's. However, they refused. Huanghou (Empress) gave instructions that I have to sew my own wedding clothes for myself and for Xiao Junwangye.

Make two wedding clothes in one month? How can I do it in one month? The Royal Tailor must have difficulty for making wedding clothes in such a short time like that. Especially me!

Huanghou (Empress) seemsgive this instructions as her wayto punish me. Of course she was angry because I tried to curse his son and daughter-in-law with my suicide attempt before. If the dress isn't finished in one month, I'll be even more humiliated. That's punishment way sound great!

I think social sanctions such as humiliation, are more severe than physical sanctions. It's better to be beaten until you can't walk than to be humiliated by the society. However, I must not protest to Huanghou. I have to obey her words.

Finally, I asked Ling to help me sew and embroider my wedding clothes. Luckily my wedding clothes don't require a lot of embroidery.

The wedding dress in our dynasty is modesty and solemn. The color is different from ages. Black and light red is the main color in this dynasty, while the ages are bright red. Bridegroom's wedding dress called jue bian xuan duan and Bride wedding dress called chun yi xun ran.

To sew these two clothes, I lost my sleep time. Almost every night, I sleep in the middle of the night. Sometimes I sew it wrong so I have to repeat it again.

For the size of Xiao Junwangye's clothes, I sent a letter to Yao Mama to be able to meet Xiao Junwangye and measure his body. However, Yao Mama refused my request. She said Xiao Junwangye was busy and couldn't meet me. Instead it, she sent Xiao Junwangye's clothes.

Actually I'm upset about this refusal. What made the useless prince busy? As far as I know, he doesn't have an important role in the Palace. Bixia did not entrust a single task to his useless son. Is Xiao Junwangye busy playing with other women? That thought made me feel disgusted.

But on the one hand, I feel happy not to meet him. If I meet him, my mood must be bad. There are many bad rumors about him. If we meet, I can see the rumor is true, then I will fall into the abyss of sadness before we get married.

I have been saddened by the marriage decree and the sentence of sewing this wedding dress. I don't want to add to my sadness anymore.

Finally after three weeks of struggling to sew our wedding clothes, I sent bridegroom's wedding dress to Yao Mama. Yao Mama replied it by sending a small wooden box containing jewelry for the wedding. The jewelry sent by Yao Mama looks simple and the price seems cheaper than my own jewelry. Even though I was disappointed to see the mode, I was forced to accept it and wear it on my wedding day.

I can only accept to this situation.