Chapter 516: Becoming a Matchmaker
Ding stayed in his room, routinely studying his daily homework. He practiced and delved into several exercises and techniques he had acquired step by step every day, just like the students in later generations who attended classes on time, switching between learning different contents at different times.
When he saw the Iron Hammer Girl and Fan Sanpang coming to his room with the Iron Official Seal, he couldn't help but be stunned. He hadn't gone out today, and he didn't know what was going on in the courtroom. I also didn't know that Fan Sanpang and the Iron Hammer Girl used extraordinary means to obtain the confession of the landlord Pang, and they had already saved Tie Guanyin from prison.
After Fan Sanpang and Hammer Girl told Xiao Ding about what happened, Xiao Ding suddenly woke up.
The purpose of the Iron Hammer Girl and Tie Guanyin coming to Xiao Ding is to thank Xiao Ding for his help and care for the Iron Hammer Girl during this time, and secondly, they came to bid farewell to Xiao Ding, since Tie Guanyin has been acquitted, they should also return to Majiatuozi Town as soon as possible. Hammergirl's wife is still waiting for news at home.
Fan Sanpang on the side, when he heard the hammer girl say that her father and daughter were going to rush back to Majiatuozi Town as soon as possible, she was not calm immediately. After she said that she would help her rescue her father, she would agree to marry herself. Why are you leaving without saying a word now? It can't be a reversal, right?
So, Fan Sanpang hurriedly interjected and said, "Mother Black ......, uh, ......, Hammer Girl, you won't forget the good things we said before, right?" He was in a hurry, and just wanted to blurt out calling Hammer Girl a female black bear, but fortunately he reacted in time and changed his words.
The hammer girl turned her head, looked at Fan Sanpang, and asked, "What is the good thing?" What did I forget? ”
When Fan Sanpang saw the breezy expression of the hammer girl, he became angry in his heart, and said in his heart, you have forgotten everything, and I will help you make a confession in the middle of the night. Your dad was able to be released today, and it wasn't because of me? If I hadn't come up with this idea, would you have come up with this with your own iron head? Now that they've been released, do you want to pretend to forget? Want to unload the mill and kill the donkey?
Therefore, Fan Sanpang said directly: "Didn't you say before, if I can help you rescue your father, will you agree to marry me?" ”
When the hammer girl heard this, her black face flushed slightly, she did not deny it directly, but said: "I just said it casually, a lifelong event, I still have to listen to my parents' orders, how can I take it as a joke?" ”
When Fan Sanpang heard this, he immediately became anxious, and he immediately pointed at the hammer girl and shouted, "You female black bear!" You deceive me with your words, you are simply disgusting! ”
When the hammer girl heard this, she immediately glared at her and said, "Bow tank, who do you say is the female black bear?" Try it again, and see if I don't smash you with a hammer! ”
Xiao Ding on the side, when he saw these two people, he just said a few words, and he was about to fight again, he hurriedly stopped the two and said, "Okay, okay, let's say a few words." Brother Fan, I think you misunderstood the hammer girl, and the hammer girl didn't directly refuse you? People just said that they should listen to their parents' orders and matchmakers. You're too reckless. ”
When Fan Sanpang heard this, he felt that what Xiao Ding said seemed to be very reasonable, so he snorted angrily and hugged his fist at the hammer girl and said, "It's me who is reckless, count me wrong, okay!" ”
The hammer girl gave Fan Sanpang a blank look, snorted, turned her face away, and no longer looked at Fan Sanpang.
Xiao Ding continued: "Brother Fan, you are a very smart person, how can you do things in a mess? What do you think, after all, the hammer girl is a girl's family, how can she talk about marriage openly with a man in person, she said that the words of the matchmaker of her parents' order are actually implying that you have to find a matchmaker to bring a gift and officially come to the door to propose. Why can't you even see this? ”
Fan Sanpang listened to Xiao Ding's explanation, and his brain immediately turned around. I blamed myself in my heart, it was indeed that I was too reckless, and I didn't understand the true meaning of what the hammer girl said.
So he had no choice but to ask Xiao Ding for help and said: "Brother Xiao Ding, thank you for the reminder, it's all because I was confused for a while and almost missed a big thing." Brother Xiaoding, as the saying goes, send the Buddha to the west. Let's see if you can help my brother again, how about helping me to be a matchmaker? ”
Although this Fan Sanfat is a snake beater, Xiao Ding doesn't mind, he originally intended to match the two of them, but he doesn't know much about some wedding customs and etiquette in this era. So, he nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll be a matchmaker for the two of you." ”
After saying that, he deliberately looked at Hammer Girl to see how she would react.
When the hammer girl saw Xiao Ding say that she wanted to be a matchmaker for the two of them, her face was also rosy, and she whispered: "My marriage is all up to my father." ”
Xiao Ding didn't expect that Hammer Girl, such a tough girl, actually had the side of her little daughter's family. When it comes to marriage, there will also be a shyness. It's just that her shy picture is a little difficult to see!
Xiao Ding saw that Tie Guanyin was listening to it in a fog, and he didn't understand what was going on at all. Then he opened his mouth and told Tie Guanyin on the spot about the conditions that the Iron Hammer girl had proposed before, and the fact that Fan Sanpang had come up with a way to achieve her conditions.
Tieguanyin's old couple have been worried about their daughter's marriage, other people's daughters, usually thirteen or fourteen years old, there will be a matchmaker to say goodbye, and at the age of fifteen or sixteen, they have already married into their in-laws' family, and their daughters are twenty-eight, and they are still in the boudoir, not to mention that in this era, even in later generations, twenty-eight-year-old girls are already close to the ranks of older leftover women.
As soon as he heard that he was kissing his daughter, Tie Guanyin was immediately happy, not to mention that he was able to be released from prison smoothly thanks to the Humpty Dumpty man in front of him. Although this short and fat man is a little different in appearance, his daughter is not very good-looking.
Tie Guanyin looked Fan Sanpang up and down several times, and the only thing he felt a little regretful was that he felt that Fan Sanpang was too short. You must know that the people of their Iron Family are all tall and big, including the mother of the Iron Hammer Girl, who is also a tall woman. That's why Hammer Girl inherited her parents' genes to be so tall and mighty.
However, since it was his daughter who had agreed with this Humpty Dumpty before, looking at his daughter's appearance, it seemed that he did not explicitly object, so Tie Guanyin agreed to the marriage on the spot.
Xiao Ding was a matchmaker at the beginning of his life, and he didn't understand anything, so he had to ask Tie Guanyin for advice, what etiquette and process are needed if he is married.
Tieguanyin laughed and said, "It seems that you young people haven't experienced it yet. Lord Tian, you are a matchmaker, and you proposed marriage to me just now, and I agreed, which can be regarded as a family matter. In general, the normal procedure, when proposing, it is necessary for both men and women to exchange Geng posts, and then ask Mr. Feng Shui to read the eight characters of the birthday before deciding whether to agree to the marriage. Today I saw that both of them had thoughts about each other, so I agreed to their marriage without reading Geng Ti. Next, when the marriage is decided, the man also needs to come to my house with a small gift to discuss the dowry when the marriage is married. Our daughter will also give you a small gift in return. However, this is a long way from my house, and I think this step can also be omitted, so it is better for the two of you to exchange a token, and it will be regarded as a small gift. Tie Guanyin looked at Fan Sanpang and the hammer girl and said.
Xiao Ding also hurriedly reminded Fan Sanpang on the side to find a token and exchange it.
Fan Sanpang searched for a long time on his body, and only found a bag of unknown spices. This was a packet of spices he bought from a merchant in the Western Regions when he went out shopping a few days ago. He smelled very good and thought it was a spice that could be used for stir-frying, but the merchant said that it was not for stir-frying. Although he was a little disappointed, out of curiosity, Fan Sanpang finally bought the packet of spices.
In the same way, the hammer girl searched for a long time and did not find anything that could be handled, she was not like other girls, she knew needlework, embroidery, and carried purses, handkerchiefs and the like. She doesn't know any of this at all, she only knows to follow her father in the blacksmith shop every day to make iron and pick a sledgehammer.
Therefore, she touched her body for a long time, and only found a shiny stone. This is a piece of iron ore containing iron, because the shape is a little like a small person, the hammer girl thought it was funny, so she took this stone into her arms.
Fan Sanpang held the bag of spices very apologetically and said, "I'm really sorry, I only have this bag of spices on me, and I hope the hammer girl won't dislike it." ”
The hammer girl is not as polite as Fan Sanfat. She snatched the bag of spices, put it under her nose and sniffed it, and said, "This smell is very fragrant, not bad, you don't have to apologize, I don't have anything good to give you, ah, this stone villain, I picked it up in the iron ore pile, so I'll give it to you." ”
Xiao Ding also felt very funny when he saw the tokens exchanged between the two, and he also raised his nose and smelled the smell of the bag of spices in the hands of the hammer girl, some of the fragrance of lavender in later generations, Xiao Ding guessed that the spice might be extracted from lavender by people from those countries in the Western Regions. In this era, there was no lavender plant in the Great Song Kingdom, so Fan Sanpang and others could not recognize this bag of spices.
The two simply exchanged tokens, even if they gave the family affair. According to Tie Guanyin, the next step is to talk about the dowry, agree on the date of marriage, and wait for the marriage.
The dowry is easy to say, Xiaoding is not short of money, as long as he spends money to buy a gift to hire on the day of his wedding according to the customs of this era.
The date of marriage can not be determined for the time being, and the people of this era are superstitious, so they must ask a feng shui gentleman to choose a good day before they can get married.
As for the banquet and other things on the day of marriage, it can only be said after the date is set. Now they live in the governor's mansion, so they can't hold a wedding in someone's governor's mansion. Besides, Hammer Girl still needs to go home and discuss it with Hammer Girl. This kind of major event related to her daughter's marriage, and the iron official seal is not easy to say.
Even so, Fan Sanpang was still very happy. I'm about to become a woman with a mother-in-law. No longer have to watch others go in and out in pairs, as you did before.
was able to settle the relationship between the two of them, and Xiao Ding was also relieved. Bringing the two older young people together, he felt that he had done a very honorable thing.