According to Yingzi's calculations, today the head of the Nakamura family is looking for Taro Takenae to test it, Naohide's parents are not there, and the uncle can be half of the master, if everything goes well, ask Uncle Takemae to be the matchmaker for the two families.

Yingzi is eighteen years old this year, and she is already a big girl. The current life expectancy of the Fuso people is not very long - the average life expectancy of later generations is only forty years old, the girls of the common family are married at the age of fourteen, and the daughters of the samurai family marry a little later, but generally do not exceed the age of twenty.

According to the Nakamura family's plan, Yingzi should be in the Yuanfu this year, but Yingzi heard that Naoxiu said that he was going to study abroad this year, so she resolutely postponed the Yuanfu date to next year, so as not to make any stinky boy who doesn't open his eyes come to the door to propose.

can be calculated, but I didn't expect this group of people to leave after eating and drinking, and my father forgot about Yingzi and Zhixiu completely. Nakamura Masaichi saw Yingzi's aggrieved appearance when he came back from sending guests, and quickly patted his chest and promised to go to Takemae's house tomorrow to confirm.

The marriage process of the lower samurai now is no different from that of later generations, divided into three parts.

Whether it is introduced by the matchmaker, arranged by the parents or looking at the right eye by themselves, if both parties are interested, the parents take the parties to meet each other, and the later generations will arrange high-end restaurants, and now it is generally the man's home. After meeting, they got to know each other's family situation and let the two parties get acquainted with each other.

Returning to their respective homes to discuss the details carefully, sometimes through a third party. If both families agree, the second step can be carried out after the information is passed through the matchmaker.

The second step is to place a dowry gift, where the matchmaker sends the bride price and marriage letter to the woman's home, and the woman's family will hand over the reply letter to the matchmaker after receiving it. The bride price is generally singular, and the most complete is called "nine products", which includes cash, gifts with auspicious meanings such as early birth of a noble child, a marriage certificate and a list of the man's family members. After the woman accepts it, she will marry the official reply and the list of the woman's family members to the matchmaker and bring it back.

According to custom, women in the Kanto region will return half of the bride price, but in some areas in the Kansai region, they accept it all. The man will usually give the matchmaker a thank you gift equivalent to one-tenth of the bride price.

There are also more straightforward ones, which do not let the middleman "matchmaker" make the difference, and the man goes directly to the woman's home to give a dowry.

After the dowry is accepted, the families of both parties begin to prepare for the wedding, and the most important thing is to choose an "auspicious day of the zodiac".

Fusang's "lunar calendar" gives different taboos to different days, divided into six types, the first victory, the first induction, the first loss, the Buddha extinguished, Da'an and Chikou, the cycle is called "calendar note", for example, the wedding day is best chosen in Da'an, and the funeral should avoid the friend. The wedding day should not only be on Da'an Day, but also in autumn.

After choosing the date, the third step left is the wedding ceremony.

In later generations, the traditional wedding ceremony of Fuso was divided into four types, the pre-god style, the church style, the pre-Buddha style, and the pre-human style. Now the shogunate prohibits foreign missionary work, and there is no ecclesiastical style, only the pre-god style, the pre-Buddha style, and the pre-human style.

The god front style is generally the minister, and the senior samurai are generally the Buddha style - the Fuso samurai believe in Buddhism more, and there is a saying that "Rinzai general, Caodong natives", and the lower-level samurai and civilians are all "people in front of the people", that is, in front of relatives and friends, the young couple read the marriage contract together, let everyone testify that we are married, and then eat a big meal as a commemoration. The "man-front style" of the future is now called the "self-house style".

According to Yingzi's thoughts, at least you can rest assured that you can sign the marriage book, and you have a lot of dreams at night, and the "husband" who you fancy is running away.

Fusang does not have the names of "husband" and "wife", and "husband" is still gossip to them during the recess when Zhixiu teaches orchid studies to children, and it spreads because it is elegant and interesting.

Legend has it that there was a celebrity in the Tang Dynasty of China, Mai Aixin, he disliked his wife's old age and decrepitude, so he had bad thoughts, he wrote a pair of upper couplets because of what he wanted in his heart, "the lotus is ruined, and the fallen leaves return to the roots into old lotus roots", and the result was that his wife saw the follow-up of a pair of lower couplets: "He yellow rice is ripe, blowing chaff and seeing rice is now new grain", in which "new grain" and "bride" are homophonic. Mai Aixin read his wife's next couplet, felt that his mind was recognized, and was embarrassed to give up the idea of divorce from his wife. When his wife saw that he had a change of heart, she wrote a new couplet "My husband is very fair", and Mai Aixin also replied to the couplet, "My wife is a mother-in-law." The story quickly spread, and it became a good story from generation to generation, and since then there have been two nicknames between husband and wife, "husband" and "wife".

The next night, Naohide was called to his uncle's house for dinner, and during the dinner, Taro Takemae said, "Yingzi is a good girl, I think this matter is settled."

"I also think Yingzi is very good, but I'm afraid that Yingzi will regret it in the future", Naoxiu smiled bitterly.

"How can you regret it? You two children know the roots", Hanako's mother couldn't sit still when she heard it.

As a last resort, Naohide only revealed his plans a little, he said that because of the progress of agriculture, Mr. Egawa Tanan may ask the shogunate for a reward for him next year, plus his previous credit for treating Nishimaru-like (the shogun's son), the Hori family's family character is likely to improve, even if it can't be promoted to the flag, the royal family genealogy can still be expected.

Taro Takemae groaned slightly, "Although the marriage should be the right one, Yingzi is infatuated with you, not to mention that the neighbors are watching, if you don't have a better choice, you should marry Yingzi."

"You misunderstood me", as soon as I heard it, I knew that my uncle thought that he hated the poor and loved the rich, or wanted to climb the high branches. In fact, Naoxiu is worried: as his status improves, the things he encounters will become more and more complicated, and if Yingzi can't adapt, there will be more and more misunderstandings between husband and wife, and even the relationship may break down.

"Uncle, let me tell you a story about a deaf man and a rooster. Once upon a time there was an old man, he was very old, and he had bad ears, and one day he saw a rooster crowing, and then he said to others very strangely, "The way of the world now is different from the way of our past, and the rooster used to crow with sound, but now the rooster crows without sound." "If Yingzi is with me, she may have to do something she doesn't like now, say what she doesn't like to say now, this Yingzi is so prepared."

"Well, who can say for sure what will happen after this? As long as you and Yingzi are considerate of each other, it's better than finding a delicate lady", Taro Takemae scratched his head, he felt that the family was too troublesome to do, and he was a little puzzled.

Hanako's mother understood, and she told Naohide that she would spread the word to see what Yingzi's family thought.

The next day, Taro Takemae talked to Nakamura Masaichi, and the Nakamura family felt inexplicable, "Marry a chicken, marry a dog, marry a dog and drink cold water", what is there to scruple about? Immediately replied "no need to worry".

For example, on the first day of the first month, the Takemae family helped Naohide send the prepared "acceptance goods" to the Nakamura family, and the Nakamura family happily accepted it, and since then Takemae and Hori have been in-laws who share honor and disgrace, and the usually hearty Yingzi pretends to be a lady on the side, while Gakujiro is smirking on the side, and he feels that his waist pole has hardened in front of Naohide from then on.

The two families agreed to hold a wedding after the first month of next year, and this time was just right to clean up the house and prepare the dowry.

After confirming the relationship, Yingzi became shy, blushed when she saw Naoxiu, and the number of times she came to Naoxiu's house became less.

Fortunately, Katsugoro and Hayato were sent back by their families, and the Hori family was still very lively. Originally, Zhixiu wanted the two children to stay at home for a few more days, but both families felt that the children in Zhixiu were better than at home, eating well, dressing well and reading books, and they must not give up this great future.

In the first half of the month, Zhixiu's small days were very comfortable, he usually translated and translated orchid books, taught children orchid studies, took time to go to the countryside to guide the production of windmills, and had nothing to tease his fiancée, which was endlessly fun.

In the middle of the year, after the joint discussion of the Zaoya group, a young man named Kanta came out to do business, and with the help of Kijiro, two stores were opened in Uraga and Asakusa, with Uraga's store in charge of production and Asakusa's store in charge of sales. Everyone asked Naohide to choose an auspicious name for the store, and Naohide and Uncle Nakamura discussed it, and it was called "Happy Event", which means that good things come in pairs, and the meaning is "the owner is happy to see the customer, and the customer is happy to buy good things".

Naohide specially instructed Kuanta that there is no power in the Zaoya Group to be a privileged businessman, don't expect to become a wealthy businessman soon, you can only be a businessman who does things in a down-to-earth manner, and you have to work production and sales.

Today's Edo merchants are all sitting in the store, that is, waiting for customers to come to the door, of course, if there are new products and good things, they will take the initiative to recommend them to old customers, and large customers will also deliver to their homes, but they have not yet formed the habit of taking the initiative to deliver to their homes. Naohide and Kuanta said that we can hire a group of people to deliver directly to the door and buy and sell on the streets and alleys by the way.

"There are a lot of foot merchants now, and these foot merchants go to the store to get the goods and sell them in the towns of Edo, so why should we spend money on hiring people again, and it's okay to go through the foot merchants", Kanta made a lot of determination to give up the Miao character, he wanted to do a good job in business, but his business philosophy was to be honest, get up early and go to bed late, and welcome customers with a smile, and he hadn't thought too deeply.

Naohide told him that there were too many guilds in Edo, and that they had already controlled all the industries that could make money, so we had to find another way.

The businessman walks the streets and alleys to bear his own profits and losses, and the risk is very great, and the happy event is to directly employ these people, whether it is a burden or a good goods, they are all in the store, and then they can also give these people a monthly salary, provide a commission for selling goods, and usually can also ask for leave, and they can work for 20 days a month. There seems to be no difference between the two ways, but the control of people is absolutely different, the businessman can not do it if he doesn't do it, but the guys in the store do not have this convenience, and slowly many guests, especially the guests at home, will be accustomed to buying goods from the happy event house, as long as the end user business volume will be large, and the price of the wholesaler "asking the house" will be reduced.

Even we don't have to make money from the foot merchants, they sell more and earn more, we don't stretch out our hands for this part of the income, only make money from the price difference of a large number of purchases, ask the more sales of the house, the more profitable, the foot merchants don't have to pay their own money to press the goods, the only thing we have to be careful about is that the fresh goods can't be sold and rotten.

Kuanta was dizzy after hearing this, Naohide said You slowly expand the scale, and the proportions of it will naturally be understood, Nakamura Shoichi listened very attentively on the side - he is the supervisor elected by the Zaoya Group, on the surface, the happy event Shigeya has nothing to do with the Zaoya Group, in fact, major decisions must be agreed by Nakamura Shoichi.

Shigeya has a relationship with Riki Nakajima Saburosuke in Uraga and is taken care of by Koukou Nakajima Kuro of the Edo Town Office in Asakusa, and now the scale is small and there is not much risk. And Zhixiu expects that the happy event can go deep into the market, not seeking much strength, at least to be well-informed, yes, Zhixiu has decided that the future development will start from the lower route, the dust is a mountain, relying on everyone to run, relying on the mountains to fall, and the future cannot be pinned on a few adults.