66 Hired
The auspicious day of marriage has been agreed upon by the elders since ancient times, but in the case of the nowhere of the senior brother of the retreat of the Immortals, this major event naturally fell on the shoulders of the second senior brother Bai Yan.
Bai Er has lived for thousands of years, although he has also participated in several junior family affairs, but he often goes directly to the main seat on the same day to sit and be a faΓ§ade of the formation. Fortunately, there was also a Shen Wu who had become a relative, and the two of them stayed in the library for three days and three nights to look at the ancient books in front of their eyes, and finally made a decision and set the date on the ninth day of the next month.
Since the auspicious day is set, follow-up questions have followed-
Where is the wedding hall located?
What kind of wedding dress should be made for the newlyweds?
How many guests will you invite?
How many feet of red silk are ripped?
How many feet thick is the cloud brocade?
There are all kinds of things, and Bai Er and Shen Wu are very busy.
Early one morning, after Bai Er watered the few nine-spiced Linglong babies in his yard who were about to die at every turn, he made an early appointment with Shen Wu to go to the cave where the master was retreating.
The two of them bowed to the bare old locust tree outside the cave entrance a few times according to the etiquette, and then walked to a nearby camellia tree, untied the barrier above, and dug out a lacquer box buried at the bottom of the root.
Bai Er dusted off the dirt on the box and asked Shen Wu, "What did you think when you buried something?"
Shen Wu looked at the camellia tree in front of him that was growing extremely luxuriantly, and said lightly, "When I buried it, I never thought that I would dig it out again one day. β
Inside the lacquer box was a delicately carved bronze mirror, which Shen Wu held in the palm of his hand and wiped away the meager dust on the surface along the raised lines with his fingertips.
Bai Er didn't bother him to see things and think about people, so he only took out the only remaining jade plate from the lacquer box, he put a two-finger-wide piece of red silk on the jade plate, and then pressed two flower boxes with dense stitches on it, "Is this how to put it?"
"It's about ......" After more than a thousand years, Shen Wu was also a little unsure, he picked up the bronze mirror, hesitated and pinched one of the flower boxes, "Or do you want to change it to a gift list......?"
Bai Er said, "Since my brother and sister mentioned it, it should have his intentions, don't pinch it, Zhen Jiu is not easy to do this." β
"Hmm......" Shen Wu put down the flower box, held his chin and squinted for a while, and then looked up at Bai Er, "What do you say your brother and sister plan to put in this flower box?"
Bai Er guessed, "It's about the elixir?"
Shen Wu was curious, "What elixir can you take until the wedding day?"
Bai Er was asked, he had refined a lot of pills, and he had also collected many almost lost pills, but none of them really had to be used at such a time.
Shen Wu glanced at him with a sneer, "How can there be any elixir to be ...... on the wedding day" He was just halfway through his words, but his expression suddenly changed.
Bai Er was still inexplicable at first, but after seeing Shen Wu's eyes that were not quite right, he immediately understood.
Shen Wu coughed dryly, "Maybe we don't know if we want to go wrong." β
Bai Er also missed his eyes, "Naturally, naturally ......"
After the embarrassment, the two remembered that there was another important matter, so they asked Zhen Jiu to find Xu Yang, and several of them went to Shen Wu's residence together.
Shen Wu's residence was built in the mountains, not as simple and simple as Bai Er and Zhen Jiu, but a house and pavilion with both arches and foundations, hidden among the mountains and mountains, gorgeous but not extravagant.
Passing through the water pavilion, Xu Yang saw the two senior brothers sitting at the small table drinking tea.
Shen Wuzheng was talking to Bai Er, and when he saw Xu Yang coming, he took an empty cup on the table and poured it in front of him and handed it to him, "Come to Lao Ba, try Bai Er's tea making skills." β
Xu Yang sat down on the cushion next to the table, took the cup full of tea fragrance in Shen Wu's hand, and took a sip to find that the cup was not brewed in the cup that was once regarded as a treasure by the master.
"Did anyone go down the mountain to change tea again?"
Zhen Jiu brought a plate of sweet cakes out of nowhere, sat around the table and poured himself a cup, and replied as he drank, "Didn't you bring back the tea you made today?"
"I brought it last time?" Xu Yang recalled for a moment, only to remember that it was the last time Zou Yi heard that Master liked to drink tea, so he specially bought it for himself to bring back.
Bai Er took a sip of the hot tea in the cup and nodded comfortably, "I saw that the master had been in retreat, so I brought some to Shen Wu, but I didn't expect it to be very different from the master's, how did you find these good teas?"
Xu Yang smiled faintly, "It was Zou Yi who heard that I was going back to Shantuo to buy it early in the morning." β
Zhen Jiu stuffed a mouthful of sweet cakes made by Zou Yi in his mouth, and exclaimed, "Sister-in-law is really virtuous! I will marry a man like my sister-in-law in the future!"
Shen Wu helplessly curled his fingers and tapped his little junior brother's head, "What about the big demon?"
Zhen Jiu poured a cup of hot tea indifferently, "Xu Hachi is also a big demon, and I saw him being pressed by his sister-in-law that day-"
Xu Ba neatly pinched out a silence recipe and sealed it on Zhen Jiu's mouth, "The three hundred rules engraved on the stele seem to be a little blurry, please go and re-engrave it again." β
Zhen Jiu squeezed the cookies in his hand with tears in his eyes.
Bai Er raised his eyebrows gloatingly, and was glanced at by Xu Yang before coughing lightly and kicking Shen Wu on the opposite side with his foot.
Shen Wu was still shocked by the few words that Zhen Jiu confided, and he glanced at Xu Yang bitterly, "Didn't you read the picture book that Bai Er and I left for you?"
Xu Yang was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but think of the name he blurted out when he was emotional that day, and his expression instantly became a little unnatural, "That's ......"
Bai Er also recalled the embarrassing thing that happened by Xuyang's window that day, and hurriedly intercepted the conversation, "Let's not mention this matter for the time being, let's talk about the business first, the business is important!"
Shen Wu shook his head and sighed, took out the bronze mirror from his arms and put it on the table.
Bai Er said, "The day of your marriage is approaching, according to Shen Wu's rules at that time, you must personally hand over this bronze mirror to Zou Yi's hands, although we omitted the six rites, but this rule still has to be followed." β
He took out the lacquerware wooden box that had been covered with traces of time, put the bronze mirror back in, and handed it to Xuo.
Xu Yang took the wooden box painted with red ornamentation, Zhen Jiu took a sneak peek at the side, and also took out a piece of red brocade with embroidery thread sewn the corners from his sleeve and covered it in the center of the box.
Xu Yang looked at the embroidery on the brocade that was still a little rough, and a tenderness also melted between his eyebrows, "Senior brother has a heart......
On the way back to the small courtyard, Bai Er accompanied Xu Yang as an elder, and when he walked to the door, he suddenly paused, looked at his junior brother who was still plain white, and then lit a red Yingluo and pasted it on his eyebrows.
"Be festive. β
Xu Yang didn't pay much attention to it, stepped into the courtyard with a wooden box, and according to what Bai Er said, he directly called out in the courtyard, "Sumeng Mountain Shen Tu Xu Yang, come and hire." β
After a while, I saw the window being pushed open from the inside. Zou Yi stood by the window, still holding an unfinished book in his hand, and after seeing Xu Yang among the mottled shadows of the trees, he couldn't help but be attracted by the little cinnabar red between his eyebrows.
"Is this the dowry?" he leaned his arm on the edge of the window, looking at Xu Yang with a smile.
Xu Yang almost instinctively understood the man's words in an instant, and the tips of his ears couldn't help but flush a thin layer of red, and he suppressed the smile that bloomed at the corner of his lips, lowered his head and opened the wooden box, revealing the bronze mirror inside.
"That's the dowry. β
When Zou Yi saw Xu Yang's reaction, his heart felt as if he was gently scratched by the tip of a small claw, and it itched to his heart.
Bai Er on the side couldn't look at it, so he pulled Xu Yang and took him to the second floor of the small building.
Bai Er's status is now equivalent to that of the officiating elders, and when he saw that the two of them had completed the steps of the next hiring, he cleared his throat and said in a deep voice, "According to tradition, from the date of hiring, the newlyweds can no longer meet in private. Zou Yi stayed here for the time being during this period, and Xu Yang followed me to Shen Ming's residence to agree on the marriage arrangement. β
When Xu Yang Chu heard that there was such a rule, he felt really surprised, and he looked at Zou Yi with reassurance, "Can you adapt to being alone these days?"
On the contrary, Zou Yi accepted it very calmly, and he only replied to Xu Yang with a reassuring smile in a reserved manner, "No problem." β
Bai Er also found that he was like a shiny candlestick here, hindering the two of them from saying some last secret words before they got married, so after coughing twice, he flew into the courtyard first.
After Bai Er left, Xu Yang just wanted to say something to advise, but Zou Yi suddenly hugged his waist and pressed him on the bed, and then kissed his lips deeply.
"I've already started thinking about you before we separated. β
After finishing the lingering kiss, Zou Yi put his forehead against Xu Yang's chest and whispered.
Xu Yang smiled and ran his fingers through the man's black hair, "Didn't you just say that it was okay?"
Zou Yi buried his face in the clothes room in front of him and said in a muffled voice, "I changed my mind." β
Xu Yang didn't speak, he took off the plain ring on his knuckles, threaded it with a red rope, and tied it around the man's neck.
"Remember to return me on the day we got married. β
The man hugged his waist, and after a while, he replied in a muffled voice, "I'll give you back a pair when the time comes." β
Xu Yang didn't listen to it, but when the man agreed, he patted his arm, "Okay, the second senior brother is still waiting in the courtyard for me to go back together." β
Zou Yicai let go of his hand, but he still didn't stand up, and shouted softly on the clothes on Xu Yang's chest, "Daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law, ......"
Xu Yang let him shout several times, then closed his eyes and responded with great pampering, "Xianggong." β