Chapter 434: The Wedding Feast
As Zuo had heard, the eldest son of Li Inspector of the Chongtang Inspection Division, and Li Qi, the talented prince of the new department, married him, and the scene was indeed magnificent and grand. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The wedding held on the tenth day of October, until the two months before the old year, the entire Chongtang, and even Manlian Creek, the streets and alleys, the most enthusiastic and enduring topic of the common people, is the marriage of the Li family and the Qin family.
In fact, to tell the truth, Inspector Li's family married the eldest daughter-in-law, and this scene was not small.
After all, although the grade of Li Patrol Inspection is indeed not high, in the end, in Chongtang, an important fortress town and thoroughfare, he has not moved for nearly 20 years.
The iron-clad inspection department of the flowing county, the county government in Lianxi City, or the government office, is already like flowing water, not to mention the county and government that have changed the four, five, six, or seven stubbles, or promoted or degraded or leveled, only Li Patrol is not moving.
Little Lianxi City, big Chongtang County, it's not that no one doesn't want to touch him, it's just that no one can pull him off the horse, and there are many people who fold in front and back.
As for why Inspector Li doesn't want to move his nest, it can't be said that Inspector Li is not self-motivated, but he always has his own considerations, and there is also a plan for the future of the family.
So after so many years of operation, not to mention that Inspector Li has already managed the huge Chongtang Town like an iron bucket, and the authority is firmly held in the palm of his hand, Rao is in Lianxi City, the foundation is not weak, and he can speak.
However, touching his conscience, Li Patrol has indeed done a lot of practical and good things for Chongtang, for the people of Chongtang, and for Chongtang's business and trade exchanges.
At least Inspector Li was able to lead the people of Chongtang to defend Chongtang and keep Chongtang intact, which is already a great achievement, and it is completely worthy of the people of Chongtang to erect a monument for him.
His family wants to do something, isn't it Chongtang's top priority!
What's more, the older Inspector Li gets, the more he has a temperament, and there are indeed many people who have received his favor in the past who want to take such a rare opportunity to come over to repay the favor.
In this way, even if Inspector Li doesn't want to do a big deal, he can't accept the gifts of this family and not the gifts of that family, and everyone will be unhappy at that time!
So just after September 9, as Li Qi's wedding date approached, some merchants and gentry in Chongtang began to hear that the talented prince of the Li family was going to get married.
For a time, the silver buildings, embroidery shops, and even antique shops in Chongtang were crowded, with many female dependents and many male customers.
As for those who are in other places, they immediately sent their henchmen or shopkeepers to send gifts and congratulatory gifts......
In front of the gate of the Li family, which was already in the city, there was even more traffic, and everyone up and down was so busy that their feet did not touch the ground.
But it's not much.
In October, it seems that overnight, the shops and shops in the streets and alleys of Chongtang are on the signs, and the boats of all sizes are crowded on the port, and they begin to wear red and hanging silk, and the whole Chongtang is full of joy, just like a festival......
And then two, after all, the object of the Li family's marriage, the female family is still the upstart Qin family in the ascendant of Manchongtang, especially the bride is still the eldest daughter of the old man Qin Lianbao.
After the farming was busy, men, women and children, and the villagers of Shili and Eight Villages began to keep an eye on the movements of the Qin family, just to see the marriage of fennel.
Especially the women and Taoist families in Chongtang regard watching this can't be said to be the biggest pomp and circumstance in Chongtang as the top priority of this season.
As for the pomp on the day of the ceremony, speaking of which the Li family felt that the style was extraordinary, and the villagers were eye-opening and surprised.
As soon as the auspicious time arrived, the sixty-four full stacks of dowries that could not be inserted at all, and the mighty procession of all dressed people carried out the gate of the Qin family, and a group of round-eyed villagers only felt that as the dowry table was lifted one by one, their eyes were about to fly away.
As if a pot had exploded, the surrounding crowd was buzzing and talking, and the news, which had been directly exaggerated several times, flew everywhere as if it had grown wings......
Rao is Zuo is in the boudoir, and he has already heard of it.
Although the dowry of fennel is not very much red makeup, it is really not surprising in the eyes of Man Lianxi, but there should be, copper, tin, bamboo, silk, silk, gold, silver and gemstones, all kinds of decorations, furnishings, daily use, and even the fields, yards, and shops...... It's all colorful.
However, Zuo's front foot heard about this, and before she could digest it, gossip reached her ears in the rest of the back foot's house.
The words were subtle, only said that the Li family hired the eldest daughter-in-law this time, and the total price of the dowry alone exceeded 5,000 taels of silver, how did you know that the Qin family was also a face-saving person, and stood on tiptoe to buy a dowry of more than 5,000 taels of silver for the girl.
It is said that just a grange of more than 200 acres, a courtyard with two entrances and three rooms in Chongtang, and a shop upstairs and downstairs are worth more than 3,000 taels of silver.
Obediently, the Li family has gained face this time, and their luck is too good. Not only did he marry the girl of the Qin family, but perhaps half of the Qin family's furniture fell into the hands of the Li family......
But it knocked the Qin family and the Li family into a small ditch.
But such sour words are very intentional, Zuo, who is used to hearing these gossips, can say four, five or six, and he knows it, so he naturally won't take it to heart.
Eat as much as you want when you keep a bowl.
She had already calculated a clear account in her heart, and her current situation, when she was full of calculations, could only make up a thousand taels of silver to spend, in addition to the various expenses in the wedding, at most she could only move out half of the silver to buy her a dowry.
However, most of the gold and silver heads, fabrics, and fabrics that are really valuable in the Qin family's dowry can be sent to the Qin family as her dowry, which is not decent, but it is much better than she once imagined.
At least she's satisfied.
As for those who have the leisure time to guard those guys who are not afraid of the stage to chew their tongues, it is better to do two more stitches of work and get rid of the gifts given to the Qin family as soon as possible.
But the grandmother of the family has always eaten fasting and recited Buddha, and her father has a scholarly atmosphere, never looking at the copper smelling copper coins and silver in his eyes, but her mother is worried over and over again.
Manxin felt that she was already low-married, so don't let the people of the Qin family look down on her because of the dowry, gritted her teeth, and wanted to stand on tiptoe to buy her a dowry.
But the head of the family didn't have much input, and the east and west made up for it, and it was already Yin who ate the grain, and Rao was her mother who wanted to slap her swollen face to be fat, and stand on tiptoe to fill the eldest son, but it was difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and she didn't have the ability to turn into white silver.
After thinking about it, I remembered the antique calligraphy and paintings at the bottom of the box at home.
But she is also from a family of scholars, and she thinks that the most precious thing in the world is calligraphy and painting classics. It's those fallen scholarly families, it's not that life really can't go on, and there is anyone who is willing to pawn and sell calligraphy and paintings.
As for those antique furnishings, she was clear in her heart, there were not many pawns left in the warehouse, and it was barely enough for the daily furnishings in the main room.
What's more, the younger brother still has to study and marry, and the younger sister will also prepare for marriage, and there are a series of major events to be taken care of in the family, plus the grandmother is old, and the mother is weak and takes medicine all the year round, and the place where the family spends money is still behind......
And she could feel that the Qin family was not the kind of person who stared at people's makeup, and their family might not need to put the cart before the horse.
But with her hard persuasion, her mother always thought that she had wronged her, and she could no longer watch her suffer - her daughter's family was not valued by her in-laws, how could she live in the future, not to mention that when she went out, her mother's family wanted to help, and she didn't have the ability, so she had to save money to marry her.
Although her mother finally repelled her mind in the end, it was because her aunt and grandmother sent Mama Guo over and sent an inconspicuous cedar box.
Her heart was beating at that time, and sure enough, the box contained the land deeds of two small granges outside Lianxi City, as well as the title deeds of a small courtyard with two entrances and two exits in Lianxi.
According to today's market, it is even worth two or three thousand taels of silver......
There is no way to repay the great kindness, and all she can do is to do her best to live a good life!
But that's a long way off.
Let's get back to the chase, let's go back to the happy event of Li Qi and fennel.
In Zuo's view, if wealth and glory are the great blessings of life in the world and the realization of the dream of beauty in the red dust, then no matter whether it is Li Qi or fennel, this pair of children is already a blessing.
But after the whole marriage of their husband and wife, the most talked-about and tireless thing was not this great blessing, but the wedding banquet of the Li family.
From sunrise to sunset to sunrise, it is said that the flowing water mat is served for three whole days.
And most importantly, in addition to setting up a wedding banquet at home, the Li family also set up two additional feasts inside and outside Chongtang.
One is located on the pier of Shijia, and the other is specially set up in front of the baby care hall outside the town, which is specially used to entertain the villagers and elders in the countryside of Chongtang Town.
There is no threshold, and there is no need to be courteous at all, a table can be opened when it is full, and the fish, meat, tea and rice are enough......
Such an example, not to mention that the Zuo family has grown to such a big head and has heard of it, according to Mama Guo, Rao is in the entire Lianxi City, it is a unique thing.
There are many people who have wedding banquets and birthday banquets, but such a scene and such intentions have caused a sensation in the entire Lianxi City.
I can't help but feel that Zuo's aunt is curious and appreciative.
After all, according to Zuo's thoughts, whether it is makeup or a wedding banquet, in fact, all of this is just a foil for the daughter's family.
And the bride who can be matched with such a unique wedding is not so much due to the external factors of the lintel of the family lineage, but rather from the virtue of the daughter's family itself.
After all, the former can only help the daughter's family gain a foothold in the in-law's house, and only the latter can really let the daughter's family gain a firm foothold in the in-law's house and not be shaken easily......
Fennel can be so valued by the Li family, naturally there is a reason for her.
However, Zuo's family has never witnessed the grand scene of the flowing water seat, and all he knows is hearsay, so in fact, he does not know everything about this flowing water seat.
But the pepper has experienced this flowing water banquet, and he has a deep memory of everything on the feast.
Whether it is the Shijia Wharf or the entrance of the Baby's Chamber, these two places are regarded as the "branch venue" of the feast, and the pepper is begging the brothers to see it with their own eyes.
The inner courtyard and outer courtyard of the Li family have placed a hundred tables of wedding banquets that symbolize perfection and perfection, and they have also set up dozens of tables of banquets, and these two "branch venues" are almost the same as their own and the Li family.
Tables, chairs and benches borrowed from various merchants were also placed, although the table settings in these two "branch venues" were relatively simple, and there were no even tablecloths and table surrounds like the Li family's own, and the tableware and wine utensils used were also slightly inferior.
But there is a marquee hanging on each table, and on the top six sides, all of them are red and black, and the names of the dishes of the four cold meat and eight bowls are written one by one.
Four cold meats, eight big bowls, although the dishes on the flowing water banquet are slightly inferior to those of the Li family and the Qin family's banquet, and there are not those precious winged belly swallow abalone, but big fish, big meat, hot tea and hot rice, but there is everything, and it is enough.
It's just that Rao is like this, Manchongtang, and even in Lianxi, there is no restaurant that can undertake it, or Deyuelou unites the other three restaurants in Chongtang Town, with two melon and vegetable shops, five pier head shops, three fish shops, two poultry and egg shops, plus the great help of Chandlong, in order to have a thrilling and dangerous running water banquet.
Sichuan pepper has seen the kitchen shed used by the masters, and the stove is almost endless.
And in addition to the two-shift kitchen shed, the Li family also specially set up theater stages in three locations, hired opera troupes, drum-singing, storytelling, and juggling artists, and sang in three places in turn, and sang for three days and three nights......
Shengsheng turned the wedding wine that was originally just held to celebrate the wedding and Li Qide's middle school members into a banquet to thank his father and fellow villagers.
For three days and three nights, the whole Chongtang is like a festival, the voices of people are mixed, the laughter is noisy, the firecrackers are on fire, there is an endless stream, half of the adults in Thailand don't have to do things, most of the children don't have to study, from sunrise to sunset, just rush to the banquet, a large piece of meat and a big bowl of tea.
How can it not be remembered.
And what Hua Jiao also knows is that this unique flowing water banquet is actually Li Qi's idea.