147 Festive
The wedding ceremony is in accordance with folk customs, but there are also variations.
Welcoming is a very common custom of folk marriage, but as the supreme emperor to welcome the bride, Piao Yi is a historical precedent.
Flowing and dressed in red, he got on a tall horse covered in red and green, the horse was snow-white, called Snow Marks, and followed him to fight for many years, quite spiritual, and ordinary people couldn't get close to it at all.
I saw Piao Yi riding up, and the snow marks snorted, as if congratulating the owner on his new marriage.
A large group of people welcoming relatives marched towards the county lord, and the people who watched the excitement were surrounded along the way, and they were all elated and even more excited.
Because today's emperor specially decreed, the people do not have to bow their heads and kneel like the emperor in the past, they finally saw the true face of the emperor's Lushan, the emperor is so tall, handsome and kind, his face is a spring breeze, and the smile is constant, when he still does not lose his noble and domineering, but the cold and ruthless legends seem to be floating clouds.
In addition to Xinlang, the most conspicuous in the welcoming procession, that is, the sedan chair, the folk marry wives regardless of the status of the eight-person sedan chair, but today the emperor marries the queen with a phoenix, and the emperor's royal chariot is generally the same, but on weekdays the imperial chariot is carried by thirty-two eunuchs, and the phoenix is carried by thirty-two beautiful palace maids.
Today, for the sake of safety, a lot of royal guards and secret guards were dispatched in the open and secret, including the thirty-two palace maids who carried the phoenix chariot were also strong in martial arts, and the streets were lively, but they were also in order.
After Yaxiang bathed, she had put on the bridal makeup, put on the phoenix crown, and put on the red bridal dress, which was made by thousands of embroidery girls for a month, the phoenix on the clothes was vivid, smart and compelling, and the embroidered shoes embroidered with the phoenix inlaid with pearls of the same color made Yaxiang more delicate, rich and powerful, and the dignity and body of the whole body.
"Glad sedan car has arrived." The protocol department sang like this, and the servants set off firecrackers to welcome the sedan chair, and for a while the gongs and drums were noisy, and the firecrackers rang out in unison, making the originally lively county lord even more lively.
The county lord was already crowded with people, and Xu Yuancong personally led the Royal Forest Army to escort him, although there were many people, there was no chaos.
The five brothers of the Zhou family and Yun Qing, as Yaxiang's maiden brothers, waited there early, welcoming the arrival of Xinlang, only to see Piao Yi get off the horse and stride into the county lord, but were stopped by several people.
A few brothers-in-law stopped the groom, one is to test the groom, the other is to ask for a red envelope, the test is just a formality, imagine who really dares to be embarrassed for the emperor, miss the auspicious time of the church? The main thing is to knock on the groom's bamboo pole, so when will you not knock today? It's a rare opportunity. Of course, Piao Yi also prepared a red envelope for his uncles early, and the red envelope was sealed with nine hundred and ninety-nine taels of silver tickets, and if it was silver, it would cost a lot.
The uncles took the test of a few pairs of Piaoyi, anagrams, and did not stump Piaoyi, just imagine that Piaoyi's talent is Bo Gu Tong Jin, how many people in the Celestial Empire can stump him?
There was laughter here, and Yaxiang was also full of praise there, and Mrs. Zhou's old lady Yu Furong quietly pulled Yaxiang and didn't know what she was instructing, which made Yaxiang blush.
Xiuzhen's eyes were full of blessings and reluctance, and Liu Bi was sincerely happy for her own young lady, and the young ladies of the Zhou family also surrounded Yaxiang and sent a gift of makeup prepared by them, although Yaxiang's dowry was countless, there were twenty lifts prepared by Yu Hibiscus for her, eighteen lifts prepared by Xiuzhen for her, and one hundred and eighty lifts prepared for her by Siming Palace in the name of Yun Zhongyao, as well as the dowry gifts sent by Piaoyi, and the dowry gifts sent by other princes and nobles, all of them made dowries, but after all, it was their intentions, Yaka thanked them one by one.
"The bride covers her head and says goodbye to the high hall." The celebrant sang loudly in the courtyard.
In an instant, the red hijab embroidered with a phoenix covered Yaxiang, making her feel that everything in front of her had turned into that festive red.