Chapter 90: The Wedding (2)
When bidding farewell to the elders at the door, Zhihua did not have the kind of reluctance to her younger brother just now, the old lady, Lu Zhenyuan and the eldest lady's routine advice, she listened to it with her left ear, and her right ear leaked out. Finally waiting for a few people to finish speaking, Shen Ze helped her to kneel down and bowed three times to thank her parents for their nurturing grace.
After saying goodbye, Lu Yan personally put his sister on the sedan chair. The newcomer who was named "Sending Books" by him cleverly brought a brown horse, Lu Yan turned over and rode up, and slowly walked towards the Guogong Mansion with his sister's sedan chair.
Most of the people outside the door did not move with the bride, and they all craned their necks to see the bride's dowry. Maybe it's because of the rumor earlier, most of these people are girls who want to see the bride's jokes.
"Look, the dowry is starting to come out!" I don't know who shouted, which caused everyone who had been waiting for a long time to lift their spirits and look at each other.
The first is the emperor's dowry, the first to be lifted out is a rosewood cage representing a complete set of furniture, followed by a pair of half-person-high blue and white porcelain ancient vases, famous calligraphy and paintings. Most of the people who watched the ceremony were ordinary people, and they didn't understand the value of the three lifts at the beginning, and the reaction was not very great. But then, his eyes were almost dazzled—he saw twelve seasons clothes refined by the court, dozens of silk satins that were listed as tributes, and four types of jewelry, pearls, jade, agate, and opal.
Before he had time to sigh, the makeup given by the Queen Mother immediately afterwards opened everyone's eyes. A pair of white marble Ruyi, a pair of ice spring with colorful dragon and phoenix bracelets, ten sets of emerald gold heads, although the number is not much, but all of them are boutiques.
The royal makeup was all tied with golden ribbons, and after the sharp-eyed man saw that the dowry he brought out next was tied with red silk, he raised his voice and reminded: "The palace reward is finished!" ”
With this reminder, the girls whose eyes were still glued to the glittering jewelry turned their heads in unison, and their faces gradually changed from the initial implicit anticipation and schadenfreude to surprise and surprise. When the ten lifts representing the loess blocks of the field, the ten lifts representing the large abacus of the shop, and the five lifts representing the small wooden house models of farms and courtyards came out of the Lu family, everyone was stunned and couldn't believe their eyes.
Ten miles of red makeup, endless, when the first lift followed a pair of newcomers, bypassing half of the capital and sent to the Guogong Mansion, the last lift had just come out of the Lu Mansion. Along the way, everyone talked about it.
"Oh my God, such a big clod of earth, it should be an acre when you lift it, right? Tsk tsk, ten acres of land, even if most of them are middle and lower-class, it's scary enough. The peasant women's attention was all on the land, and the eyes of the merchant ladies were focused on the countless jewels, brocade furs, and the scribes who looked like scholars, and they were judging the many antiques, calligraphy and paintings. Most of the people were amazed, greedy, and there were a few discordant voices.
"Hmph, didn't you say that Miss Lu donated all her private property? How can there be so many dowries? "It's a girl who doesn't see it as a bride's joke questioning angrily.
"What does the little girl's family know, the Lu family has received so many dowries from the prince, how dare they not give their daughter enough dowry? Don't look at what kind of family the Shen family is! This is a middle-aged man dressed as a bookkeeper next to her, expressing his unique opinion.
All kinds of envious and jealous eyes shot straight in all directions, but the bride sitting in the sedan chair couldn't feel it. She clutched the red apple in her hand tightly, gently shook her neck, which was a little sore from the heavy phoenix crown, and wailed in her heart countless times - why it hadn't arrived yet.
Perhaps because of the hearts of the lovers, the bridegroom gradually quickened his pace, and returned to the house a quarter of an hour earlier than expected.
Lu Yan turned over and dismounted with his brother-in-law, and watched his sister walk out of the sedan chair after he shot the sedan curtain. She was stuffed with a red silk rope in her hand, and under the traction of her brother-in-law, she stepped over the brazier and slowly walked into the main gate of the Weiguo Mansion.
Close your eyes and savor the flavors of your heart. After four months of disaster relief and seeing all kinds of human suffering, Lu Yan has always had layers of inexplicable shackles in his heart, like a fish in his throat. But at the moment when he witnessed his sister's marriage, and realized that he would have to face all the wind and rain alone from now on, he finally broke free from this invisible shackle and matured instantly.
When I opened my eyes again, I was still the same person, but my temperament had changed dramatically. The childishness of the past has faded away, and the apricot eyes that are the same as Zhihua's are full of perseverance and calmness. Shaking off the sorrow of being lost, he secretly strengthened his determination to protect his sister, and he strode towards the Guogong Mansion.
Because of the sudden advance of the wedding date, Wei Guogong and his wife, who are still in Yaowang Valley for treatment, failed to rush back. Therefore, on the seats in the high hall of the wedding, a thick ancestral motto and the tablet of Shen Ze's biological mother were placed respectively. The identity of Xiao Fei's stepfamily was revealed to the world, and many guests who learned the truth for the first time exchanged their heads and whispered.
But no matter what they said, the wedding went on.
"Worship Heaven and Earth"
"Two Worship Halls"
"Husband and Wife Worship"
A pair of newlyweds finished the ceremony seriously and reverently, surrounded by many guests, Shen Ze led his bride, walked out of the auditorium, and slowly walked towards the new house.
All the way to the red carpet, Zhihua clutched the red line in her hand, bowed her head and followed the red carpet all the way forward. On the way through, Shen Ze's thoughtful and gentle reminders could be heard in his ears from time to time: "Be careful, there are steps here." "Slow down, this is a cobblestone path." Even though she couldn't see the surrounding scenery, she was full of peace of mind.
The Weiguo Mansion was very large, and although Shen Ze took great pains to pick the nearest road, he still walked through two small gardens, crossed a water promenade across the small lake in the mansion, and walked through a long bamboo forest path paved with cobblestones. Many guests stepped into the Weiguo Mansion for the first time, and walked through the flowery and beautiful gardens as the newlyweds walked through; Carved dragons and phoenixes, exquisite and gorgeous water pavilions; The winding path is secluded, and the bamboo forest with unique elegance is all admired.
Walking to the new house, the male guests were blocked from the courtyard, and they were not angry, and there was a pavilion dedicated to them in the bamboo forest. Sitting inside, smelling the bamboo fragrance of the heart, tasting the rare wine outside, and getting used to the cool breeze to dispel the heat just walked, it was very comfortable.
The ladies were fortunate to step into the new house to continue the ceremony, but the eyes of many young ladies were always glued to the handsome groom, and few people paid attention to the decoration of the new house.
"Newcomer Credit"
Zhihua followed Shen Ze, walked through the main hall and side room, stepped into the inner room, sat on the edge of the marriage bed, and the red hijab that had been covering her head all day was about to be lifted, and somehow she suddenly became a little nervous and cramped. In the weather of June, wearing a thick wedding dress, completing a whole set of tedious and complicated etiquette, and walking such a long way, Zhihua had already sweated a lot. Thinking that the makeup on his face was likely to be washed away by sweat, his neck, which had already been overwhelmed by the phoenix crown, lowered by two inches, and secretly made up his mind that he would never raise his head after lifting his hijab for a while.
"The bridegroom picks the cover"
I couldn't see the surrounding environment, but I could feel that Shen Ze next to him got up to say hello, and Zhihua couldn't help but tense up. She lowered her head, and clearly saw the scale rod out of sight, and with a slight lift, the feeling of being shrouded in hijab just now was swept away. (To be continued.) )