Lady of the Lord From the East

Wei Wei felt that Felix seemed to be hiding something from her.

Not only him, it should be said that the people in the Earl's House seem to be united to hide something from her, and of course not everyone, such as Dolores and their maids, who seem to be unaware.

This was not her illusion, even Dolores vaguely sensed it.

"I don't know what my brother is doing, it's mysterious."

The Prady Empire did not have the habit of celebrating the New Year. To be exact, there was no such custom in Europe at this time. Even in later generations, Europe celebrated Christmas Eve. Of course, before the nineteenth century, Christmas and Santa Claus But it doesn't matter, it's "Christ Mass" to celebrate the birth of Jesus.

Of course, whether **** was born on this day is not even recorded in the "Bible". The first day of December 25 was the Saturnalia Festival to welcome the New Year during the Roman Empire. Later, the popularity of religion evolved into Christmas, and this festival It appeared after absorbing Roman mythology.

So in this period, Christmas is not as important as the later generations. Many European regions are not able to celebrate this festival. At least the Prady Empire, which itself is not very friendly with the church, is one of them.

This was good for the whole empire, because if Christmas was going to happen, they had to fast for a month before Christmas.

The commoners are lucky to say that they can eat beans and barley all-you-can-eat in winter and are very happy. Meat is a luxury for them in this season, but the nobles can't stand it.

In the Prady Empire, especially in the capital, November and December were originally the "social season" when various **** and banquets were popular. Originally, because of various religious festivals, they often had to fast and could not eat for most of the year. Meat - although you can eat all kinds of "aquatic products", it is very painful for everyone to not eat other meats - if you have to fast at this time, what should the host of the banquet do? In their opinion, there is not enough variety of meat at the banquet, which is very rude.

So Christmas? However, we are not!

Of course, although the relationship with the church is not very good, on Christmas Eve on December 24th, everyone still wants to go to the church to attend the midnight mass, so this day has become a rare day in this period of time without invitations to banquets-because Everyone has to get enough sleep before they can get up and toss in the middle of the night.

Wei Wei and Dolores are just because today is Christmas Eve, so they can be free at home during the day and become female celebrities.

Dolores is embroidering. This is the first time she has done a large piece of embroidery. The one-meter-wide picture of a hundred flowers was drawn by Wei Wei, which was enough for her to toss for a year.

And Wei Wei is also making clothes, she is making her own wedding dress.

If it is according to the Chinese custom, Wei Wei should prepare a red wedding dress for herself. This period is almost the time when the phoenix crown and rosa became popular. In the future, when Chinese women get married, they will wear the phoenix crown and rosa.

Compared with wedding dresses, Wei Wei herself prefers Chinese wedding dresses. Of course, it is not the kind of phoenix crown and red hijab, but the style that was popular in the Han and Tang Dynasties earlier.

It's a pity that it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. The fabric of this kind of wedding dress is all silk, and Wei Wei can't get it at all. In addition, although the Prady Empire has a bad relationship with the church, when they get married, everyone defaults to only in It is legal to register marriage in the church. Thinking about that time, everyone wore European-style clothes, and they just wore a red wedding dress. No matter how she wanted to violate the peace, Wei Wei didn't force it at all, and finally decided to make a wedding dress.

At this time, European wedding dresses were very different from later generations. Before the 19th century, traditional wedding dresses had no special set specifications. They were basically made of whatever was popular at that time, and the colors were optional, such as blue, red, gold, green or Any other color of wedding dress can be used, as long as the decoration is luxurious enough to show the grandeur of the wedding.

And the wedding dress is not only worn once. After the wedding, the wedding dress becomes an ordinary dress, which can be worn when attending a banquet.

At this time, there was no concept of a wedding dress. The commonly used wedding dress fabrics in later generations could not be found at this time, and satin was only available in the East. Originally, she should not be able to make wedding dresses like that in later generations.

But Wei Wei has a lot of silk fabrics that he thought was useless.

It was the game costumes that were dismantled by the system as "the style is too revealing and not in line with the dress of this period" when she traveled through.

The fabrics of those game fashions are all high-end fabrics such as brocade and silk. Wei Wei has collected a lot of styles and quantities. Among them, white fashions are the mainstream. When these fabrics were dismantled by the system, she didn't know how to deal with them. Later, I found out that it is still possible to make a satin wedding dress.

In the era when silk is still a rare luxury in the eyes of Europeans, there is an era when a silk handkerchief can be talked about, a wedding dress made entirely of brocade, even without any decoration, can definitely let you see it The woman is crazy about it, and she has to take her own initiative as much as she can.

Putting such a skirt on the land of Europe, if she wants, she can even directly change it to a large piece of territory.

So having such a wedding dress will definitely make Wei Wei stand out, and at the same time let everyone know how wealthy her family is.

Originally, because Felix was in a hurry to get married, Wei Wei's own wedding dress style was relatively simple, mainly reflecting the tailoring and beautiful lines of the wedding dress, which was very modern.

So the whole wedding dress didn't take her too much time to make it.

But after the wedding dress was ready, the wedding was postponed. Wei Wei thought of the wedding dress she had left in Sardinson County, and she always felt as if something was wrong.

After thinking about it, she suddenly came over and found that she had forgotten the important accessory of the wedding dress - the veil.

So she's been busy making a veil recently.

Exactly, because her fashions are not formal Hanfu, they are all modified styles of art paintings. Some of the skirts have translucent gauze on the outside. She took a pure white set and removed it just to make a veil. .

There was no decoration on the gauze, and Wei Wei had to tear it apart and sew it up to avoid leaving traces. Seeing that it didn't look good, she simply took a shuttle to weave lace, and then sewed the lace up to cover it up.

In fact, there was no lace in this period. Lace in this period actually refers to ropes woven with threads, not the exquisite and ubiquitous lace in later generations.

But that was before, not to mention that Wei Wei started teaching Dolores this craft when she was in Sardinson, only that she had sewn a layer of lace on the dress Wei Wei gave to Queen Mirabelle Afterwards, people got the beauty of lace. No one can understand the overly complicated lace pattern for the time being, but the smart and skillful textile women have figured out how to weave the rope with fine linen thread and cotton thread in this short period of time. way to make a similar lace too.

Of course, they haven't found the most suitable tool for weaving. Wei Wei's shuttle was made by a carpenter. The prototype of this thing is the shuttle used for weaving, with only slight changes.

Wei Wei is currently weaving lace with cotton threads. The patterns she weaves are complex and gorgeous. The large flowers and branches will eventually become the outermost edge of the veil, and the middle strands of lace sewed to cover up the stitching marks. The patterns complement each other for a very stunning effect.

Hearing Dolores' complaint, her fingers were still moving fast, and she didn't fall off her work at all, and said relaxedly, "You also found out that he was doing something recently?"

Do something? This adjective is really apt.

Dolores nodded: "Last time I saw my brother and a lot of servants get together and whisper, but they dispersed as soon as I passed, Sister Weiwei, what do you think my brother is doing?"

"It's probably a surprise." Wei Wei wouldn't suspect that Felix was doing bad things behind her back. That guy had a happy look on his face recently. He liked to stick to her whenever he was free.

Especially since she just warned him.

"What will be the surprise, preparing for a banquet?" Dolores tilted her head: "But our house doesn't seem to be arranged."

"Who knows, but since it's a surprise, we'll just wait."

Felix came back in the evening, and we all had dinner together. Dolores was young, and because she often went out with Felix recently, the relationship between the two became a lot closer. At this moment, she couldn't help being curious and asked questions. .

Hearing this, Felix first glanced at Wei Wei, and saw that the latter was also looking at her, but his eyes were full of smiles, and he couldn't tell if he had found something, so he said nervously: "Wei Wei is right, since It's a surprise, of course I can't tell you now."

The girls looked at each other and, well, they didn't ask.

However, when she went to attend the midnight mass at night, Wei Wei accidentally discovered Felix's so-called surprise.

The midnight mass was held in the church. All the nobles came, including the king and queen. A large group of nobles gathered in the church to watch the ceremony. To be honest, the scene was very solemn, but as a person who wanted to believe and believed in Eastern gods, he came here. Said, Wei Wei listened to the greeting recited by the archbishop, and she could only hear it in her left ear and out in the right ear, she just wanted to doze off, but she had to look attentively with her eyes wide open.

God knows that she never stayed up all night since she came to this world. She should have slept first and then came out today, but Wei Wei thought that she was experienced in staying up late, and she was worried that she would not be able to fall asleep after getting up in the middle of the night. Now, I didn't sleep at all, at this moment I was so sleepy that I wanted to yawn.

It's really a failure.

After finally making it to the end of the mass, we can go back. They were about to get into the carriage, and some nobles did not let go of this time. They came to chat with Felix, and Wei Wei had to accompany him with a smile.

Then the noble who was talking to Felix accidentally missed something. Wei Wei didn't hear anything else, and heard a sentence: "Your wedding is also held here..."

Wei Wei was actually a little confused at this time, and she didn't understand the meaning of the words for a while, but she still looked at them with a stiff smile.

On the other hand, Felix immediately froze his smile, and the noble who spoke also realized that he had made a blunder, looked at them with embarrassment, and then left in a hurry.

After the people left, Wei Wei's mind turned, trying to understand the meaning of this sentence.

"Wedding?" She covered her yawning mouth, with tears in her eyes, "Is this the surprise you prepared?"

Felix almost thought she was crying, but he realized later that she was actually sleepy, and he didn't know how to express the complicated emotions that had been discovered in advance.

He put the man on the carriage and waited for the carriage to start before saying discouraged: "Since you found out, I won't hide it."

The plan to come to the capital disrupted Felix's wedding arrangements, especially because the invitations from other nobles after the Queen's birthday banquet could not be pushed back, so they had to postpone their return to Sardinson County, and the wedding could only be postponed. .

There was no way to do this, but Felix couldn't help complaining a few words when he went to Allen for a drink, and then the latter gave him a trick, so that he might as well have a wedding in the royal capital.

"How many guests can you invite for a wedding in Sardinson County? I'm afraid it's just a few lords nearby? Can it be compared to a wedding in the royal capital?"

And shouldn't their wedding guests be allowed to give gifts? With both pomp and extra gain, it's more cost-effective than a wedding in Sardinson.

"When you have your wedding in the capital, you can still celebrate when you go back."

Felix was convinced almost immediately.

The most exciting thing for Felix is ​​that when the wedding is held in the capital, their marriage can be witnessed by all the nobles, and it will also allow Wei Wei to gain a firm foothold in the noble circle. If the king can be invited to attend, then the wedding will be done. level is higher.

In particular, Felix is ​​very valued by the king now. If he wants to hold a wedding, the king must be willing to attend.

Then Allen also said that if he wants to get married, he can lend him the mansion of his mother's family to hold a banquet. He is going to inherit his mother's title. There are no other male members of his mother's family, so the house will naturally belong to him long ago, but Alan usually doesn't live there, so it's convenient to lend it to Felix.

The main reason is that the house that Felix bought himself is a bit small, and it's okay to hold small and medium-sized banquets. If he wants to invite all the powerful people in the capital, he still has to change to a bigger place.

Since the venue is also available, this matter is naturally settled.

So Felix wrote a letter and sent it back to Fort Sardinson, asking for their wedding dresses to be delivered, and began to prepare many things for the wedding, so that the wedding could be successfully held on January 1st.

This matter was decided shortly after they arrived in the capital. It was at the end of November, and now it was Christmas Day. In the middle of a month, there were knights who were good at riding day and night. Delivered in two days.

Originally, Felix wanted to tell Wei Wei to give her a surprise after the wedding dress was delivered, but now he was suddenly told, Felix was about to vomit.

Wei Wei was only surprised but not happy. She even gave Felix a roll of eyes: "What if the wedding dress is not delivered? If something goes wrong in this snowy day, the wedding dress may not be delivered in time, right?"

If it didn't come, what would she wear to the wedding?

Felix coughed: "Just in case, I ordered another wedding dress. You and I have both. It is guaranteed to be the most popular style right now."

Isn't the most popular style now the one she brought, can it be the same as her wedding dress?

In order to maintain a sense of mystery, Wei Wei's wedding dress is only seen by herself and the two maids around her, not even Dolores. If she can't wear it at the wedding, she will waste so much effort. .

"If we can't catch up, we will hold another wedding celebration when we go back, let everyone celebrate for us, and you can still wear it at that time."

Wei Weijing thanked Bumin: "It's okay to celebrate, but the wedding is avoided. I don't want to trouble again."

Although this is not uncommon in later generations, in the future, when a man and a woman get married, the husband's family will hold one, and the mother's family will hold one.

Felix knew that she had misunderstood, and he didn't plan to hold two ceremonies in the church, which was not a good sign. The celebration he said was really just a celebration, only the kind of banquet.

But at this time, he wouldn't argue with Wei Wei, because Wei Wei was a little unhappy, and he was too busy to coax him.

Wei Wei is not hypocritical, but her wedding dress has not been delivered, and her veil has not been completed. At this time, I told her that she will get married in a few days. This is not forcing her to work overtime while worrying about whether the wedding dress will be delivered. Add some rush work?

Also, Felix's groom's suit is also a black suit made by a tailor from her design draft. She doesn't know how it's done now. If that suit is not worn at the wedding, she doesn't think there is any chance to see it. When Felix wears a suit, isn't it a waste of her custom-made suit made of cashmere fabric known as "soft gold"?

Fortunately, this did not exceed Felix's expectations. Two days later, their wedding dress and matching shoes were delivered smoothly.

Wei Wei checked the two dresses for the first time. Her wedding dress was well preserved and there was no problem. The cashmere suit was also made exactly according to her requirements. The three-piece style was matched with a bow tie and although it was the best The basic model, but it is definitely the only one at this time.

The two dresses were spread out on the bed by her, one black and one white, and they couldn't match. This was what her ideal wedding dress should look like.

Wei Wei admired for a moment, put away her wedding dress, and only put the black suit there, waiting for Felix to come back and try it on.

Since Wei Wei discovered the secret, Felix didn't hide it anymore. He ran to Allen's house every day to do the final review in person. He even pushed the banquet these days. Some, plus the invitations have been sent out before, each family knows that they are going to get married on January 1, and their king will also attend at that time, so the others tacitly let that day out, so as not to appear An embarrassing situation where someone held a banquet that day, but not even an important guest would come.

After all, everyone knows the heart of the king. Since the king is going to the wedding of Earl Williams, of course they have to follow the king's lead.

Qin and Penny also knew that their master was going to hold a wedding in the capital, and these few days they could not take care of the children outside the city. They temporarily handed them over to the women who were temporary workers to take care of them, and went back to the earl together. The house serves its own mistress.

It was also with the help of Dolores and four maids that Wei Wei was able to get the veil ready in these few days, otherwise it would be too fly in the ointment.

Although Felix was busy outside, he heard that the wedding dress was finally delivered, so he rushed back as soon as possible. In fact, he was a little curious about what kind of wedding dress Wei Wei was hiding from him. Unfortunately, Wei Wei kept secrets in this regard. She did a good job, and the two maids around her were very loyal, and she was reluctant to disclose it to him.

And this curiosity is even more intensified when he sees his own groom's clothes.

"It looks so... peculiar."

Holding that suit, Felix wanted to say that it was strange. He had never seen such a style of clothes before. It seemed to be very close-fitting. He was very doubtful about whether he could wear it.

"You try it first, you can't wear it anymore." Although she said that, Wei Wei felt that as long as it was made according to the size, it was impossible to wear it. She could see clearly these days that Felix had lost a little weight because he was too busy. This dress was made according to the size he was two months ago, and it would only be too big to fit.

Although the style is very peculiar, the way of wearing it is not difficult to see. Felix studied the clothes and put them on by himself.

When he got dressed and opened the door to let Wei Wei come in to see it, he felt uncomfortably at the neckline that was buttoned to his throat: "This is really a bit restrictive, I don't think it's easy to move at all."

"But it's beautiful!" Wei Wei turned around Felix with bright eyes, not to mention, Felix, who is blond, blue-eyed and handsome, was originally in line with Wei Wei's aesthetics. She seems to be able to hold up her unspeakable male clothes. After putting on a suit, her whole body becomes more upright and her beauty has increased by 100%. Even Wei Wei has been stunned, not to mention the two behind her. The maid and Dolores who came to see the fun are gone.

How should I put it, there is a kind of **** that wants to take off his clothes and appreciate it.

"Well, my brother is so good-looking." Dolores covered her face, blushing, and she didn't know why she felt a little embarrassed when she saw such a brother.

Wei Wei stepped forward, helped him sort out the details, brought him the bow tie, and pushed the person to look in the mirror.

"Trust me, wearing this suit, you think he is the best looking groom." Wei Wei turned around him a little excitedly to see what needs to be modified, and said, "I'm a little reluctant to show it to others."

This is the first time Felix has seen a look of admiration and admiration from Wei Wei's eyes, especially when she praised herself, how comfortable it sounds, which made Felix not at all about the tight suit. Hi, he put it all behind him. He happily looked at his figure in the life-size metal mirror that was a little blurry in front of him. It is more stylish than other wedding dresses he has seen, even when he looks in the mirror, he can feel a special demeanor.

And who made his fiancee like it, since she likes it, even if this dress is not the traditional dress of the Prady Empire, he is willing to wear it to wait for his bride in the church.

The author has something to say: Felix: Don't delay, you must get married and go back!