Chapter 30: Wedding Facts
April 18, 2nd year of Chuping, Hedong, Anyi.
Early in the morning, the whole city of Anyi was filled with a cheerful atmosphere, in order to celebrate his wedding, Chen Mo has ordered Anyi to be tax-free fifty percent this year, and almost all the fields near Anyi are Chen Mo's, but he did not hire tenant farmers on these lands, but leased them to the people to plant, and the grain obtained was paid as rent and taxes, and now it is directly tax-free fifty percent, which is equivalent to only paying one percent tax this year.
This is not Chen Mo's idea alone, but the result of discussion with the Anyi gentry, the Anyi gentry is naturally also exempt, but this tax, the Anyi gentry are not eye-catching, the reason why they really support this matter is that Chen Mo's tax exemption is not only agricultural tax, but also commercial tax, which can be regarded as a disguised encouragement of more prosperity of commerce, and at the same time, as a county governance, Anyi is the core city of the entire Hedong, after this incident, it will attract more retail investors to move here or come here to do business.
You must know that Chen Mo's wedding, the princes of the Quartet, including Dong Zhuo, sent people to celebrate, and at the same time, they also brought a lot of merchants from all over the world, which is equivalent to further publicizing these people, and the wealth and opportunities brought by it are difficult to estimate.
It is precisely because of this that most of the people in the city are happy about Chen Mo's wedding, and in the troubled times, it is not many people who can feel this kind of emotion from the people at the bottom.
"It's a little tight." Chen Mo reached out and grabbed the hand that was helping him tie his shirt, frowned and twisted his neck, this wedding dress was not only complicated, but also a little uncomfortable to wear.
"It's pretty." Yun Si smiled while helping Chen Mo tidy up his clothes.
"What? Am I not good-looking enough? Chen Mo glanced at Yun Si and asked.
"My husband is naturally good-looking." Yun Si chuckled and said, Chen Mo is seventeen this year, if you count October in the mother's womb, he will be eighteen, it is the age of heroism, eight feet tall, because of the perennial martial arts, although he looks polite, his body is not as thin as that of ordinary scribes, and when he gets close, he will give people an inexplicable sense of oppression, sword eyebrows and starry eyes, his nose is like a gall, his complexion is not white, wheat-colored, but it adds a bit of masculinity.
This appearance, coupled with being in a high position for a long time, has gradually cultivated a sense of might, and now Chen Mo feels gentle and elegant when he is not smiling, but if he laughs, even if he is already familiar with Yun Si, who is no longer familiar with him, he will have a feeling of heartbeat and red face.
"But this marriage is a major event for the husband, and it can be better, so it is naturally the best." Yun Si smiled.
Now Chen Mo is not a small family, but he is still married to the daughter of the great Confucian in the world, this etiquette is complicated, even if Chen Mo has learned about it from the book, but when he really experiences it himself, he really has a sense of doubting life.
Since the third watch, it has not stopped, until now, when the sun came out, Chen Mo was able to wash and dress neatly, and the belt around his waist was under the efforts of Yun Si and Juan'er, Chen Mo was obviously very hungry when he saw the food, but he couldn't eat it, so he could only let Dian Wei drag him away.
"Wait, I'll loosen my belt!" Chen Mo carried a pastry and said to Dian Wei, this thing doesn't want to starve himself, right?
"The lord has no time, hurry up and get on the horse, it's not good to miss the auspicious time!" Dian Wei dragged it very hard, so he simply picked up Chen Mo and threw him on horseback, thanks to Chen Mo's superb riding skills, otherwise I am afraid that this marriage will not be able to be completed today.
"You get out of the way, call Manchu to come, Xu Huang is okay, don't scare people for a while!" Chen Mo stared at Dian Wei with a somewhat ugly expression.
"Lord, the last general doesn't want to, Bo Ning is in charge of things in Cai's mansion, Gongming went out early in the morning to greet the guests and arrange patrols, and now I have nothing to do in the whole mansion." Dian Wei was a little aggrieved.
"What about Uncle Wang?" Chen Mo gritted his teeth and said.
"Lao Wang and Lao Zheng have been sent by the old lady to do things, don't worry, I have picked more than a dozen white ones from the army to support the faΓ§ade." Dian Wei pointed around as he led his horse, and sixteen handsome soldiers selected from the army were waiting around.
"I'll do it myself!" Chen Mo wanted to get the reins back.
"How can a bridegroom lead his own horse?" Dian Wei said while dragging Chen Mo's horse: "Don't worry, my lord, you see me fighting on the battlefield......
"Stop, I'm going to greet my relatives today, not to go to the battlefield, what are you doing with two iron halberds?" Only then did Chen Mo find that Dian Wei's waist was bulging, and he glared.
"I'm afraid someone will assassinate you!" Dian Wei Dao.
"This is Anyi!" Chen Mo glared at Dian Wei and said, "Give me the weapon and leave before leaving." β
Chen Mo's wedding, there will definitely be chaos in public security, and assassination is naturally possible, but before Chen Mo returned to the city, Anyi had already issued a ban on swords and weapons, and now there are 3,000 soldiers and horses patrolling around Anyi City, and Chen Mo has arranged manpower in various places conducive to assassination, even if someone really mixes in, it is difficult to get close to the honor guard.
"Whoa!" Dian Wei couldn't do it, so he had to hand over the two iron halberds to the guards and lead Chen Mo to lead the war horse out.
Naturally, there were a lot of people watching the excitement along the way, but the assassination was not enough, firstly, Chen Mo did not have many enemies now, and secondly, he and the Hedong gentry were now in a mutually beneficial stage, and these people had no reason to assassinate him.
went all the way to Cai's mansion, and it was a red tape, Chen Mo always felt that welcoming relatives was no different from his original concubine, at most it was more etiquette, but today he really saw it, after entering Cai's mansion, he felt that marrying a bride was more tiring than fighting a war by himself, at least there was a clear goal and plan for fighting, and it was okay to destroy the enemy or turn the enemy into his own person, but these things obviously do not apply here, let alone eliminate, everyone here are relatives and friends, who will be eliminated?
It wasn't until Cai's mansion came out that Chen Mo welcomed the bride into the wedding sedan chair before he breathed a sigh of relief, but thinking that he would have to come like this after going back, Chen Mo had a feeling that he wanted to go down this road all the time.
"Huh~" Dian Wei bent down and dragged the reins, glanced at Cai Fu with palpitations, and said, "Lord, those girls are crazy, right?" β
"It's because you're too scary, I told you that you don't need to go in, and you still don't listen." Chen Mo sat on the back of the horse a little weakly.
"I often go to this ordinary family's wedding, but the wedding banquet of a big man like the lord, Lao Dian is also the first time to see it, don't you want to go and see it?" Dian Wei said with a palpitating face.
"How does it feel?" Chen Mo looked at Dian Wei's appearance and asked with a smile.
"It's not good, lord, why do you want to do all this red tape?" Dian Wei wondered.
"This is a rite, how can man be distinguished from all things? Etiquette is one of them. Chen Mo sat on horseback, never bored with the people around him asking questions, and would explain when he had the opportunity.
"Don't say it, my lord!" Chen Mo quoted from the side, and the records about weddings in many classics were not finished, and Dian Wei was already a little big: "If you keep talking, I'm afraid that Lao Dian won't be able to go back!" β
There was a chuckle from the sedan chair, Chen Mo turned his head, hugged his fists at the sedan chair and said, "Madame, don't laugh, Dian Wei is a martial artist, sometimes I don't know how to learn." β
"If the husband wants this general to learn, it is better to let the general do it directly, my father said, some people seem to be born with some resistance to reading books, but these people are generally quite active, the truth in the book, in fact, is also the sage to understand the time and all things, let the general directly experience, that may be faster." Cai Yan said softly in the sedan chair.
"That's a good idea." Chen Mo nodded and turned his head to look at Dian Wei.
"What do you think I have done, my lord?" Dian Wei felt bad in his heart, and his back was a little cold.
"It's nothing, you only need to write one sentence every day in the future, and you can read it, and I won't force the rest." Chen Mo smiled.
"Don't carry it?" Dian Wei wondered.
"No, just recite, but if you do something wrong or say the wrong thing, you will be punished." Chen Mo smiled.
"Don't worry, lord, don't you know this mouth?" Dian Wei patted his chest and smiled: "Who in this army doesn't know that Lao Dian is the best to speak." β
Looking at Dian Wei's complacent expression, Chen Mo suddenly didn't know what to say.
Cai's Mansion is not far from Chen's Mansion, but according to custom, he didn't go back directly, but went around the city before returning to the mansion.
Here to worship the parents of heaven and earth, Chen Mo lost his father when he was young, but Zang Hong was here, so he accepted Chen Mo's worship as an elder.
Then worship the ancestors, thank relatives and friends, Cai Yan was sent back to the cave room, Chen Mo has to accompany the guests to drink, from the morning to the present, basically has not eaten, was poured a stomach of wine, finally stayed up until nightfall, about to enter the cave room, Chen Mo even if he took it and drank seven points drunk, but he had not yet rested, and he had to make trouble in the cave room.
The custom of this haunted cave house began in the Han Dynasty. Zeng Ziwen said in "The House of Married Daughters, the candles do not stop for three days, and the thoughts are separated; Marry and return to the house, three days without fun, thinking of heirs. It was only after the Qin and Han dynasties that these customs began to change, and they began to operate on a large scale, and there were corresponding etiquette, and this haunted cave house was one of them.
However, Chen Mo is a county Taishou after all, and he is also married to the daughter of Cai Yong, a great Confucian in the world.
However, Chen Mo didn't say that he had learned from the past and the present, but he had learned so much in his chest that few people in the world could match, at least these people still couldn't ask him, and finally Chen Mo smiled and said: "Do you know why this haunted cave room came from?" β
"Why?" Tang Yuan said curiously.
"Legend has it that a long time ago, the fairy Zi Weixing descended to earth, and met a group of relatives on the road, and a woman wearing linen and filial piety followed. Zi Weixing saw that the evil ghost wanted to wait for the opportunity to do evil, so Zi Weixing followed the wedding party all the way to the groom's house, but found that the evil ghost had already arrived at the groom's house first and hid in the cave room. After the wedding ceremony of the newlyweds, when they were about to enter the cave room, Zi Weixing informed the newlyweds that there were evil ghosts hidden in the cave room. Everyone was at a loss, so they asked Zi Weixing for guidance. Zi Weixing told everyone that this evil ghost has the most people, and the many people are powerful, so the evil ghost will not dare to do evil. So all the guests at the wedding followed the newlyweds into the cave room to talk and laugh, and sure enough, they used laughter to drive away evil spirits. β
Everyone suddenly felt a little chill in this originally festive room.
"Okay, now that it's been a long time, even if there are evil ghosts, they have already been scared away, it's not too early, everyone should go and rest." Chen Mo smiled and waved his hand.
When everyone heard this, they left suspiciously.
Chen Mo untied his belt a little tiredly, relaxed, came to the table and twisted a few pastries to eat.
"Where did these allusions come from?" Cai Yan said curiously.
"Country miscellaneous books, don't be serious, madam." Chen Mo ate a few bites, got up, and in Cai Yan's somewhat overwhelmed expression, he helped her remove her coat and smiled: "On this night in the cave room, I won't mention this, I should do something else." β
"What else?" Cai Yan looked at Chen Mo curiously, although she had been married once, Wei Zhongdao was weak all the year round, and she was no longer able to work, plus her mother died early, although someone told her some strange things, but she didn't understand it too much.
"It's hard to explain, why don't I teach Madame?" Looking at his wife's face up close, Chen Mo smiled.
"Removing your clothes?"
"This is a must, and then I will leave it to my husband." β¦β¦