Chapter 164: Elements of the Cities
Happy times always pass quickly, and I just feel that in the blink of an eye, both parties who are busy with happy events from the inside out have ushered in a big day. In contrast, the waiting time is always long, because of customs, within a few days before marriage, the two parties cannot meet, which makes Zhou Chen and Zhen Ying, who have just been immersed in sweet love, feel extremely tormented.
The entire Jiedu Mansion has been vacated, temporarily used as the mansion for Zhou Chen's marriage, and the plaque is also newly made, but it is not much different from the original, just because the newlywed is happy, which is also auspicious. In the past few days, Zhou Chen has been really busy enough, because of Tang Xizong's words, so the hundred officials have to give enough face, visit the mansion one by one, and give gifts to talk about their hearts, and then there is boundless nonsense. In a few days, Zhou Chen, who was already almost lovesick, lost weight. Even so, the tired and slightly depressed face couldn't hide the excitement at all, especially after meeting Lin Feng, Li Xiaofeng and other acquaintances, it was even more dazzling, and the joy on his face could completely cover up the tired body and mind, and he was alive like a lion in estrus.
In contrast, Zhen Ying, as a woman, is much more reserved, and under the service of the maids and maids around her every day, although she often shows a shy look, she can't suppress the joy and excitement in her heart at all. I haven't had a good night's sleep for a few days, but despite this, I'm still in good spirits.
I'm afraid that if it weren't for so many customs and subordinates staring at each other, the two would have rushed out of their respective places of residence to go on a private date a long time ago!
But fortunately, God's heart is better, and the two of them did not suffer for a long time, because the sixth day after Tang Xizong's decree was the auspicious day of the zodiac, which was calculated by a group of old guys from the Ministry of Rites who didn't know how to pinch their fingers.
Because the Jiedu Mansion and the State Guest Post House are both in the east city, if you greet the relatives directly, the way to welcome the relatives is too close, and most of the people in the city can't see it, so no matter how big the pomp is, it is useless. Therefore, under the unanimous proposal of everyone, starting from the Jiedu Mansion in Dongcheng, the welcoming procession will pass through the four cities of the entire Chengdu Mansion, and then return to Dongcheng to welcome the bride Zhen Ying back to the State Guest House.
In charge of the order in the city that day, it was thousands of Feng family soldiers led by Zhou Chen's personal soldiers, and the guards were hundreds of Lin Feng and Li Xiaofeng's personal soldiers.
Because of Zhou Chen's special status in the Feng family army, when the welcoming team was about to leave Dongcheng, it encountered the 'roadblock' of Yin Bo, Tang Yi and other middle and high-level generals of the Feng family army.
After arriving in Nancheng, he encountered the 'roadblocker' again, the gentry in the city mostly lived in Nancheng, after the attack on Chengdu Mansion that day, Zhou Chen had ordered at the first time to send an elite army from his command to enter Nancheng, which also led to the fact that these gentry and tyrants who lived in Nancheng for generations were not harassed by the remnants of the rebels. Therefore, taking this opportunity, everyone also wanted to express their hearts, and on both sides of the main street in Nancheng, a kilometer-long flowing water feast was placed!
Although Zhou Chen wanted to hurry up to the end of the parade to marry the bride and rush into the cave house, after all, this flowing water banquet was the intention of the local upper-class people in Chengdu Mansion, and it was not easy to refute face. In the end, he had to turn over and dismount, take a group of entourage, eat from beginning to end, eat meat in large pieces, and drink a lot of wine, but basically they are all replaced by entourages and henchmen, and Zhou Chen himself is mostly to the gentry and local tyrants who came to congratulate him, and he agreed with a smile.
Finally got rid of these people and left Nancheng, and just turned into Xicheng, I saw a group of people in front of me, and at a glance, I thought that this Xicheng, which was extremely chaotic, was 'illegally assembling'. Without waiting for the welcoming team to make any reaction, the crowd in front of them separated into a road several meters wide, from back to front, from far to near, and more than ten large boxes were carried by a group of strong men on both sides of the welcoming team.
It turned out that this was the 'big guys' in Xicheng who had a long memory, and just heard that the deputy commander of the Feng family's army was going to get married, such a happy event, how could everyone let go of such a good opportunity? At the suggestion of a few highly respected 'old men', everyone began to make up a fairly good 'share of money' according to their own strength, thousands of taels of gold and 50,000 taels of silver.
In the face of such a big 'element', even if Zhou Chen has prejudices against these people in front of him, it is not good to investigate more at this time. After personally dismounting and being polite, he sent out invitations to several representatives of the 'big shots' unanimously elected by the people of Xicheng. Although these 'big shots' usually think that they are high, but after meeting the real 'big guys' at this time, especially when they heard that the other party invited them to participate in the wedding banquet, they were even more flattered.
In this regard, Zhou Chen just laughed, after all, today is his own big day, the more people there are, the more lively they are, the more they are happy, and the more happy they are, the more they have face. After the 'elements' of Xicheng were included in the team, the greeting team grew again. At the same time, the guys who were responsible for distributing the candy copper coins were also tired enough in Xicheng, because the living standards of the residents of Xicheng were slightly lower than those of the other three cities, so there were also a lot of people competing for the candy copper coins, in order to avoid trampling accidents, Lin Feng, who was following the team, had to order his men to let go of their hands to scatter copper coins.
Therefore, the delay of the welcoming team in the west city was slightly more than that in the south city, and when they arrived in the north city, the most lively moment had just arrived. In contrast, the people of Beicheng are more than enough than the above, but after Tang Xizong settled in Chengdu Mansion, the people of Beicheng have completely jumped to the upper class in a short period of time because of the migration of the country.
As the commercial street of the entire Chengdu Prefecture, the business of the shopkeepers in Beicheng is not less taken care of by the Feng Family, and today is the day of the deputy commander of the Feng Family's Army, so under the joint discussion of the shopkeepers of several local large commercial banks and large stores, they jointly raised money to invite the best and largest lion dance team, and there are hundreds of flying dragons and lions in the celebration on the streets of nearly a kilometer.
On both sides of the street, there are also countless troupes and storytellers, who will hurriedly follow the procession as soon as they pass by. This is also a little bit of the shopkeeper's heart, ready to send these people to perform their own specialties in the various military camps of the Feng family army after the wedding banquet is completed.
Even the most famous 'heaven and earth' located in the north city of Chengdu Prefecture, the boss also dispatched nearly 100 fireworks women to show the 'glamorous dance' performance on the street, which made the onlookers salivate again and again, and they almost pounced on the spot and hugged the one in the photo.