Chapter 60: The Great Wedding
September 21 is an auspicious day of the zodiac, and it is the most suitable day for marriage. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Gu Juan stayed in this Pan family for a few days, and he was finally about to achieve a positive result.
But I don't know what this fruit will grow.
There are a lot of folk customs in Shaoxing, and there are many etiquettes for marriage alone, although this is a complication, but Pan Yun is quite favored at home, and naturally many guests were invited, and the man's guests were only Xu Wenchang's adoptive mother. His brother said that he had something important, so he did not come to the ceremony.
On the groom's side, there are only two friends of Xu Wenchang.
One of them, Gu Juan, also knows, it is Zhang Tianfu, and most of the people who are good friends with Xu Wenchang are Shaoxing talents, which also shows that Xu Wenchang's talent is indeed real, but the imperial examination is like this, regardless of talent, the format of the eight-strand essay is strict, and it is not allowed to have any of his own thoughts.
Thinking of this, Zhang Tianfu seemed to see Gu Juan, so he nodded at Gu Juan.
The wedding banquet was placed on the water pavilion, at this time the moonlight was blurred, the red gauze was long, the maids who came and went were good, Pan Yu'an, who had drunk a few glasses of wine, began to be dishonest, and was about to step forward to talk with a beautiful maid's hand, but was pulled back by Gu Juan's hand.
"Take Young Master An down to sober up. ”
Pan Yu'an looked at Gu Juan drunken eyes, and then said, "I'm not drunk, you don't want to take me away." ”
"Don't take it away yet. ”
After listening to this, the little girl hurriedly pulled Pan Yu'an away, but at this moment, a chubby little doll ran in this direction, and a little fat hand touched the thighs of a group of maids, and for a while the women screamed.
In the midst of chaos.
Gu Juan picked up the little doll.
"Why are you again?"
The little doll was about to cry loudly, but Gu Juan sneered, "If you dare to cry, believe it or not, I threw you into this lake?"
The little doll swallowed and squeezed back the tears.
"Why don't you pretend to be overboard this time?"
"It's so deep that you're going to drown. The little doll's voice was glutinous, revealing a milky air, obviously younger than Gu Juan imagined.
"Then you're not afraid of being beaten to death by this group of beautiful sisters as disciples?"
"No, I'm young. ”
"You little doll is really true, whose child are you, see if I don't sue your mother. ”
The little doll had big eyes and tears, and when she was about to speak, she was stopped by someone.
It is rare that Pan Qiming does not have a scroll in his hand.
"Little four, come down quickly. ”
At this time, the little doll was already lying in Gu Juan's arms, and she was comfortably holding Xiangxiang's sister, but she was dragged down by Pan Qiming.
The little doll raised her head and wanted to call her brother, but she seemed to think of something, so she had to run away without speaking.
Gu Juan looked at the figure of the little doll in the distance, and felt a little strange in his heart.
It's just that at this wedding banquet, it is natural to drink, but women's drinking is regarded as improper, Gu Juan felt a little unhappy, and thought it was too boring in the women's seat, so he walked to the men's table with a wine glass, and sat directly at Xu Wenchang's seat, for a while, everyone looked sideways, Gu Juan held the wine glass and red lips lightly smiled and said: "In ancient times, men and women did not sit at the same table, but I don't know where the rules were broken, there are only two people at the Wenchang table, I will sit here and give him a rush of popularity, do you have any opinions?"
Everyone saw that this woman was beautiful, but her eyes were extremely sharp, and she was by no means an ordinary woman.
At this time, Master Pan, who was sitting on top of the chairman, said with a smile: "Naturally, there is no opinion, it is a family, so there is no need to be so restrained." ”
Gu Juan smiled slightly, picked up the wine glass and drank it all, and then said to Xu Wenchang, who was sitting silently on the side: "Wenchang doesn't have to be so disappointed, I heard that you have a good amount of wine, I respect you." ”
Originally, if it was a normal marriage, the man should have toasted on behalf of the bride, but if it was rich, it was not the case.
At this time, Xu Wenchang was depressed, but he was also excusable.
I saw Xu Wenchang directly pouring wine with the tea bowl he was drinking, but one bowl was the enemy of three glasses of wine.
"That's a lot of alcohol. ”
Zhang Tianfu, who was sitting on the side at this time, said to Gu Juan: "I haven't introduced it to the lady yet, this is a great coming." ”
Zhang Tianfu was beside a good-looking man, Gu Juan smiled slightly, he said hello, but Xu Wenchang still drank alone without saying a word.
"Wen Chang went back yesterday, but he thought clearly, what is the imperial examination, what is fame?"
Xu Wen let out a long sigh and said: "I can't see it clearly, my life experience is like this, only by fighting hard can I see the moon through the clouds." ”
Gu Juan picked up the wine glass, took a sip, and then said, "Wen Chang still doesn't understand what I mean. ”
"What the lady said yesterday is not to learn to sell to the heavenly family with true talent, and only write out the text that the heavenly family wants to see. But if that's the case, what's the point of my generation of scholars reading?"
After Xu Wenchang finished speaking, Zhang Tianfu and the others felt strange in their hearts.
This lady is really not simple.
"I want to ask Wen Chang a question, is it this country or His Majesty the Emperor that you want to be loyal to when you study?"
"What's the difference?"
"The imperial power does not represent the state, if you have to say that it represents, it can only represent the violent side of the country, the emperor is a person, and the state is a huge machine. ”
Gu Juan picked up the wine glass and put it on the table, and said to these people who had read poetry and books: "The state is a huge machine that never stops, and it is not the emperor himself who pushes this huge machine forward, he can't even direct the direction of the country's progress, so he needs an equally huge bureaucratic system to help him, and everything that makes the system must have rules." The imperial examination standard is the most important of these rules, and if you want to enter the system, you must follow this rule, learn to use the rules, and make it work for you, not try to break it. Truly successful officials often have to choose allegiance to the bureaucracy, not His Majesty. ”
Gu Juan smiled and said, "The dishes have passed five flavors, and the wine has passed three rounds, and I will leave first." ”
After Gu Juan finished speaking, the three of them were silent for a long time, and Zhang Tianfu said softly: "This remark is unheard of, when is this world not Your Majesty's world?"
In the middle of the moon, the sheng flutes were all scattered, Gu Juan was a little tired, so he went back to rest with Ren Xuan'er, but he suddenly met the little doll on the road.
The little doll didn't know why she had another body of water on her body, and she looked pitiful.
"Why is it that you little doll again, no one cares about you?" Ren Xuan'er walked over and wiped her face for the little doll.
The little doll touched her face and said, "No one cares about me, no one cares about me at home, aunt, my brother said that you are a very powerful person, you can help me." ”
The little doll looked pitiful, Gu Juan squatted down, looked at the little doll's eyes like glass beads, and asked softly, "Then tell me, what is my brother's name?"
"Pan Qiming. ”