Verse 179: Welcome your relatives into the door

Cai Fu was also lighting up at this time, and Cai Yong was dressed in a black satin dress, standing at the gate with a happy face.

Watching Guan Yan slowly drive the horse with the welcoming team, Cai Yong was even more happy.

The old friends around congratulated one after another: "Cai Weng has this good son-in-law, congratulations!" ”

Cai Yong laughed: "Rejoice and rejoice!" ”

Lord Taishan is at the moment, how dare Guan Yan sit on his horse, hurriedly turn over and dismount and bow: "Meet Cai Weng!" ”

Huangfu Song took three steps and made two steps, and slapped Guan Yan on the back of the head: "Stinky boy, what else is it called Cai Weng?" ”

Guan Yan understood, and hurriedly changed his words: "Meet Lord Yue!" ”

Cai Yong's face was a little better: "Virtuous son-in-law, please get up!" ”

Guan Yan stood up, glanced behind Cai Yong secretly, and asked cautiously, "Lord Taishan, Zhao Ji ...... she?"

Cai Yong's white beard curled, and he replied softly angrily: "Look at your worthless thing!" You're all asked to come to greet you, will there be fewer people? ”

As he spoke, Cai Yong turned to one side, and saw a Miaoman figure slowly walking from behind the stone screen surrounded by everyone under a red arch.

Although he was wearing a red hijab, Guan Yan seemed to be able to feel the shyness between his eyebrows under the hijab through the red cloth.

Guan Yan looked stupid for a while, stunned there, as if time had frozen at this moment.

"Huh!" Although it is a good thing that the son-in-law is obsessed with his daughter, Guan Yan's stupidity is really not good-looking in front of everyone. Cai Yong coughed heavily before he woke up Guan Yan.

Guan Yan hurriedly relaxed his mind and stood sideways.

According to etiquette, when the bride leaves her mother's house to get on the sedan chair, her brother should carry it out and send it to the sedan chair. But Cai Yan is Cai Yong's only daughter, so she can only let Cai Yong's nephew, Cai Zhe, do it for her.

Cai Yan was slim, and Cai Zhe carried Cai Yan into the sedan chair without much effort.

After Cai Yan sat down, the master of ceremonies raised his voice and shouted: "Get up the sedan chair and play music!" ”

Gongs and drums, suona, and sheng flutes instantly rang out in unison, and the scene suddenly became lively. Guan Yan saluted Cai Yong and his party: "Lord Yue, my son-in-law will take the first step and wait for Mount Tai!" ”

Cai Yong nodded, Guan Yan couldn't wait to get back on his horse, and led the welcoming team to his mansion.

The situation of going back is much more than when I came, under Guan Yan's generous honorarium, the ceremonial musicians are blowing hard, and the entire Suzaku Street is full of joy and excitement.

The door of Guan Yan's mansion is not far from Cai's mansion, and although the greeting team is not fast, it has faintly seen the eaves of Guan Mansion in less than two hours.

After turning another alleyway, he could see the gate of his house, and Guan Yan couldn't help but kick the horse's belly lightly and speed forward.

Guan Yan, who was full of joy, just turned the corner of the alley, and a burst of sky-high fire came into view, and a heat wave came to his face.

Even though the red rabbit horse under the crotch is a peerless horse, it is a beast after all. All animals except humans are more afraid of fire. The waves of fire rushed in, and the red rabbit horse neighed in surprise and retreated again and again. Guan Yan wasted a lot of strength to appease the red rabbit horse.

Looking up, the fire had basically covered the door of the house, and the accumulation of firewood under the flames could be faintly seen.

Guan Yan's first reaction was: Who came to my house to set fire? If someone sets a fire, why don't you see who is going to put out the fire?

Guan Yan turned over and dismounted, and walked quickly to see what was going on.

At this moment, a man flashed out from behind the fire, dancing and shouting, "Yes, yes, it has to be so big!" How festive this is! Hahaha~~~"

As soon as he heard this urn and laughed, a square-faced Zhou Cang appeared in Guan Yan's mind.

"Old Zhou, what are you doing?" Guan Yan asked.

When Zhou Cang heard this, he turned around and looked at it, and hurriedly ran in front of Guan Yan: "Lord, what you told me to do, it's done!" ”

Saying that, Zhou Cang shook his arm, and he seemed to point to the fire behind him.

Guan Yan looked at the fire that was burning more and more, and then looked at Zhou Cang's expectant and praising eyes, and asked puzzledly, "What did I tell you?" ”

Zhou Cangqi said: "When the lord left today, he asked me to set up a brazier in front of the mansion, and the lord forgot?" ”

In the ancient rite of newlyweds, there is a saying that the bride sits in a sedan chair over the charcoal brazier, and this etiquette is still followed by newlyweds even in modern times, but it is usually the bride who directly crosses under the support of the matchmaker.

Guan Yan also agreed with the etiquette of crossing the brazier, and before going out, Guan Yan specially instructed Zhou Cang to light a brazier in front of the mansion. Due to the hurry, Guan Yan did not have time to explain specifically, and Zhou Cang thought that Guan Yan meant to light a bonfire to increase the festive atmosphere.

Thus, this "masterpiece" was completed.

Guan Yan looked up at the raging fire, if he carried the sedan chair from here, it is estimated that Cai Yan would be scorched!

Guan Yanqiang held back the anger in his heart, and grinned at Zhou Cang: "Good job!" ”

Zhou Cang didn't see the anger in Guan Yan's eyes that wanted to kill at all, and when he heard Guan Yan's praise, Zhou Cang hugged his fists and said happily: "Thank you for your appreciation!" ”

If it had been normal, Guan Yan would have scolded a long time ago, but today is the day of Guan Yan's wedding, Guan Yan can only endure the evil anger in his heart, and gently pat Zhou Cang's square face: "No thanks!" Remove this fire! The bride is coming in! ”

"Whoa!" Zhou Cang clenched his fists, turned around and shouted: "Don't add firewood, withdraw, withdraw, withdraw the joy!" ”

The fire was quickly withdrawn, and several guards "drew wages from the bottom of the kettle" and pumped out the firewood lined up below one by one, and the fire was gradually extinguished.

Guan Yan sighed, got back on his horse, and when he saw the sedan chair behind him, Guan Yan couldn't help but smile sincerely.

Although the fire was extinguished, the ground was already burning, and when passing through the burned blackened slate ground, the boiling heat still made people feel uncomfortable, much hotter than the brazier.

I don't know how many brides' sedan chairs have been carried by the four sedan chair men, but they have never seen such a brazier. The four of them couldn't help but think: Dongxiang Hou is not an ordinary person after all, this brazier is different!

After the brazier, Guan Yan dismounted and stood in front of the mansion gate, and everyone stood on both sides, only Cai Yan's sedan chair was still parked outside the mansion gate.

Before the bride gets off the sedan chair, the groom has to draw his bow and shoot three red arrows at the door of the sedan chair to drive away the joy that the bride may be contaminated all the way.

As the master of ceremonies shouted, Chen Deng presented a longbow and three arrows. A longbow is just an ordinary bow, but with a red cloth wrapped around it to show festivity. The arrows of these arrows have been shaved off, and only the shafts of the arrows are painted, and even the feathers on the tail are festive red.

Guan Yan bent his bow and arrows, and under the gaze of everyone, the first happy arrow came out in response, hitting the center of the sedan door, and everyone cheered loudly.

The second and third were shot out one after another, and the arrows all hit the car door, and everyone applauded.

Seeing this, the master of ceremonies shouted at the top of his voice: "The bride is coming in~~"

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