The aristocratic weddings of the Zhou and Qin dynasties had a set of rules, such as Nacai, asking names, Najib, Nazheng, etc., these procedures have been completed by Heifu in the past few months: he invited the old general Wang Jian to speak for him, and the relationship between Wang and Heifu was not bad, and Wang Jian readily agreed.

But the next questioning of the name and Najib was a little embarrassing, after the Ye family agreed to the marriage, Wang Jian also asked the woman's eight characters and the date of birth for Heifu, and Heifu wanted to take the woman's name and eight characters to the ancestral temple for divination......

In this regard, the black man of the eight generations of poor peasants could only roll his eyes.

"Ancestral Temple, what's that?"

He can only rush to repair an ancestral temple in the new house to make up for the unmasked cheap father and ancestors of previous generations.

His cheap father's name was known, but the previous generations did not know what his name was, and his mother could not answer him, so Heifu could only make it up with his eyes closed.

So he wrote on the tablet with a stroke of his pen:

"My grandfather's name is eight, my great-grandfather's name is five-four, and my great-grandfather's name is the first ......"

In this way, at least four tablets have been put together, and they can cope with Najib's gift, but these weird famous generals Zhang Cang was stunned for a while, he remembered the "abacus" that Heifu asked the craftsman to make, and thought that this was the origin of family learning, and asked curiously:

"Your ancestor and father are both good at math?"

Heifu shook his head: "The family is poor and has no surname, and the name can be taken arbitrarily, or by the date of birth." ”

Zhang Han, Zhang Cang and the others looked at each other, a little wanted to laugh, but they couldn't laugh, and they felt more and more that it was not easy for Heifu to get to this position today......

At the same time, I feel that compared to the eighth day, fifth fourth and first day of junior high school, "Heifu" also sounds like an official name.

"In the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhou Huan Gong was still called Black Shoulder, and Jin Chenggong was still called Black Buttocks......" The erudite Zhang Cang took the test, and his fat face was full of seriousness.

According to the etiquette system, on the night of the wedding, the man's family should "summon the township party officials for wine and food", and the township party officials should come to congratulate them with gifts, and at the same time, they should also gather a carriage to help Heifu welcome his relatives.

Heifu today wears a knight, a tie robe, a reeling robe, and a tie, which is the groom's attire, and he himself rides in a black lacquered car, on which sits Zhang Cang, who is skilled in etiquette and acts as a "destroyer". There are two auxiliary cars in the back, which are driven by Zhang Han and Cheng Shang, who have a higher status. In addition, there are women's cars decorated with curtains, which are driven by surprise.

A group of people drove a high car, mighty and drove to the mansion of Nei Sten, at this time it was almost dusk, there was a torch in front of the guide, there was a drum and music behind, the people who walked around the market on the side of the road knew that there was a noble person to get married, and they stopped to congratulate.

Heifu did not strictly follow the etiquette of this era, he asked Gong Ao, Ji Ying and others to distribute paper-wrapped brown sugar to the people on the side of the road from the back car, thanking them for their support, and it should be a candy. This sparked a burst of cheers, and the children shouted candy in their mouths and happily followed the wedding car all the way to the outside of the Neishi Mansion......

Zhang Cang got out of the car to report, and after a while, Nei Shi Teng wore a Xuanduan dress and came to the outside of the gate.

Maybe it's because the only daughter is getting married, Nesten, who agreed to this marriage, looks in a bad mood and has a straight face, but according to etiquette, he said goodbye to the west, Heifu hurriedly got out of the car, and said goodbye to the east.

Just like this, step by step, and finally entered the gate of the Ye family's ancestral temple, Heifu offered himself a wild goose that he had hugged for a long time as a gift, and then worshiped the chief, which meant that he reported to the Ye ancestors that he was going to marry their daughter and grandson.

Ye Teng said slowly: "The Ye family is derived from the surname of Chu Guo, Zhuan is the distant ancestor, and Ye Gong Zhuliang in the Spring and Autumn Period is the ancestor. ”

"Everyone says that Ye Gong is a good dragon, and a good husband is like a dragon rather than a dragon."

"I admire your talents, but it is strange to think that you are going to marry my daughter...... I only hope you can be kind to her. ”

After sighing, Ye Teng got out of the way, revealing the bride who was standing outside the temple gate and waiting.

It is not the red costume that later generations liked, but the plain clothes corresponding to the black husband's Xuanyi, with a thin edge, wide sleeves and long pendants, and a maid behind him to help carry it, today Ye Zijin coiled the woman's hairstyle, her head was full of gold and jade jewelry, but her face was only a light makeup - after a few steps, Heifu could only see her face above the bridge of her nose, because the bride was holding a gorgeous "magpie fan" with a feather, covering her mouth and nose.

This magpie fan is equivalent to the red hijab of later generations, but fortunately, Heifu can see her eyes, wise and smart, and there is a trace of shyness when the four eyes are facing each other.

After another admonition from her father and mother, the bride saluted her parents and ancestors, followed behind the black husband, and walked out in unison.

Ye Teng didn't send it out, standing in the temple, a little stunned.

When my daughter leaves the house, she is someone else's family......

"The ancestors of the Ye family are on top, and I only hope that this decision I made is right!"

……

"The long night is not young, and the light of the court is burning. A gentleman of words, a man of his clothes. Bimei Meng Jiang, Luan Sheng will be. Yan is like Shunhua, like Qingyang. Holding the hand of the son, and the son ...... together"

The groom has welcomed the bride back to the mansion, and the melodious wedding music resounds inside and outside the mansion.

As an upstart in Xianyang, the marriage of the right concubine Heifu is very lively, although there are some ill-intentioned guests who want to see this poor boy make a fool of himself at the ceremony, but there is a skilled scholar Zhang Cang as a "guest" to help take care of it, but also this aristocratic wedding banquet is solemn and stylish, and no one can find fault with it.

The wedding ceremony is complicated, but every step is indispensable, because the gap with the future generations is not small, and Heifu also feels very novel.

For example, from the middle of the door of the black husband's house, into the main hall of the wedding banquet, the bride still does not say a word, holding a magpie fan, following behind the black husband, after arriving at the main hall, the black husband will turn around, bow to her, and the bride will return the gift.

This is arranged by Zhang Cang, "the woman is the first, the son-in-law is the woman to enter", every family gets married, the new husband first salutes the bride, and then enters the room to complete the ceremony.

The color of the wedding hall is mainly black and white, and a modern person who doesn't know the preferences of the Qin people will probably think that this is a funeral! The groom is dressed in black, the bride is plain, elegant and solemn, but a little bit of a suit and wedding dress, and they sit on the table together.

The first thing to start was the "but fan", the black husband invited the bride to sit, and by the way, he took the magpie fan that she had held in her hand for a long time, which was equivalent to the hijab in later generations.

Behind the colorful feathers was the face of a pretty girl, with the purity of a seventeen-year-old girl, and the woman's hair ornament made her charming.

Seeing this situation, the guests also praised the "talented woman", of course, whether anyone secretly scolded the "black arch white siren" is unknown, and the black man didn't care, and even a little impatient.

The waiter came over with a copper 匜 (yí) filled with clear water and gave the two of them wo 盥 (guàn), that is, to wash their hands.

The two hands reached in together, the black husband's hands were black, the leaves were white, the copper was not big, it was inevitable to touch each other, and when the skin touched, the black husband found that under the light of the lamp and candle, the bride's face was a little crimson......

After washing your hands, you will eat the sticky rice that has been cooked, then eat it together, cut a thin layer of roast pork, dip it in the sauce and smack, and then rinse your mouth with rice wine.

The gourd was divided into two, and the wine was served separately, and the two took it, and then faced each other for the first time, looking at each other, and did not hand over the cup like later generations, but just exchanged the wine in their hands and drank it all!

The taste buds tasted the bitterness, but after swallowing it, it was the sweetness of the aftertaste, the gourd is bitter, and it must be bitter wine when used to hold wine.

Heifu found that after the bride drank, her lips were moist, and there was still a little wine bead at the corner of her mouth, she licked it lightly and quietly, and found that Heifu was staring at her, smiled slightly, and returned to a quiet and solemn appearance.

After drinking, in the commotion of the guests, the bride and groom get up, the foreplay is over, and then only the "餕 (jùn) 余置袵 (rèn)" is left, which is commonly known as the bed ceremony, and they officially become husband and wife.

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The waiter went out with a candle, the door was gently closed, and when the snickering faded away, only two people were left in the room.

In the dormitory, there are food and drink utensils such as Ding and Zun, and dozens of incense candles with the thickness of an arm's arm are reflected in the bright room.

Heifu looked back at the bride sitting on the wedding couch, wringing her hands, silent, her "wedding dress", that is, the scenery clothes draped outside, had been taken off by the maids, leaving only the plain white tie clothes, in the candlelight, which made people's hearts move.

He also took off his heavy coat, walked over and said with a smile: "From the time I greeted you to the present, you haven't said a word, is it because you don't want to marry?" ”

"Not really."

Ye Zijin hurriedly explained: "It's just that I don't dare to say much during the wedding ceremony, for fear of being laughed at by the guests." ”

Then, perhaps to mediate the ambiguous and awkward atmosphere, she told a joke that was widely circulated in the Central Plains.

Wei Guo has someone to marry a new daughter-in-law. When the bride got into the car, she asked, "Whose horse is pulling the sleeve on both sides?" The coachman said, "Borrowed." The bride said to the coachman, "Strike the horses on both sides, not the horses in the middle." ”

When the car arrived at the door of the husband's house, the bride had just been helped out of the car and told the bridesmaids: "Go and put out the fire in the stove, and be careful of the fire." ”

When she went into the house, she saw a stone mortar on the ground, and said, "Move it out of the window, and put it here to prevent people from walking back and forth." ”

When the people in her husband's family heard this, they couldn't help laughing at her. There was nothing wrong with these three sentences, but they couldn't help but be laughed at, because the bride had not yet married into her husband's family, so she acted like a hostess and said something that she shouldn't have said.

"I don't think the bride is ridiculous."

Heifu sat down quietly beside the bride and said, "Or she loves her fiancé so much that she thinks of herself as a mistress before the wedding ceremony is completed." ”

"Beloved ......" The bride used this title for the first time, and she bowed her head and said: "The beloved seems to be very assertive, not like a woman who likes to talk a lot, and the concubine doesn't want to annoy the king." ”

"It depends on what you say, in the boudoir, I want to hear more from you."

Like brown sugar, Heifu, who is black on the outside and sweet on the inside, began to play his strengths, and he kept praising the bride's pleasant voice, and he never forgot it when he heard it for the first time, and praised her beautiful appearance as she grew up.

The bride's face became redder and redder, and the more the black man boasted, the more restless he became, or holding his little hand, or ruffling her hair, and getting closer and closer, and his breathing became more and more rapid, and then of course the last procedure was naturally completed.

Fear, worry, shyness, all kinds of emotions made the bride ghostly grab the hand that Heifu held at the waist and prevented him from making his next move.

"How?" Heifu was already embracing the beauty in his arms, and whispered in her ear: "Do you want me to blow out the lamp?" ”

"Don't ......" The bride was very nervous, but when she heard this, she couldn't help laughing, and she couldn't help but laugh in Heifu's arms for a long time.

"What are you laughing at?" Heifu was puzzled.

The girl raised her head and looked at his bronzed face, although Heifu was black, he was not ugly, but there was some masculine beauty that the Qin people appreciated.

She looked away: "It's too rude, the concubine doesn't dare to say it." ”

"Say it quickly." Heifu didn't spare her, and hugged her waist again, and he became more and more excited.

"If the concubine says it, I hope the lover will not blame her."

"It's not to blame, it's not strange, within the boudoir, between husband and wife, what can't be said?" Heifu likes the atmosphere.

After getting Heifu's assurance, Ye Zijin leaned into his ear and whispered a word.

"I'm afraid that if the lights and candles are extinguished, the room will be dusk, and I won't be able to see my beloved......"

Heifu was stunned for a moment, and then reacted.

"Okay!"

He got up and stared at the innocent-looking girl, looking at her narrow eyes, beautiful face, slender neck, and slender waist under the robe......

Heifu didn't come anywhere, didn't blow the lamp, pulled the curtain of the bed, pushed her weak shoulder, and pressed it on the couch.

Although his men were gentle, the words in their mouths were fierce:

"Dare to laugh at the black color of the husband, I will let you see today what is really black!"

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On the wedding night, the lights in the bedroom were on until dawn......