Chapter 4: Teng Yuan (Seven Up)

Although Hebei is the hinterland of the Central Plains, it has experienced the rotation of several dynasties such as Yan, Zhao, Wei, Zhou, and Sui for hundreds of years since the Jin Dynasty. The nation in power has also gone through several changes, and it has been changing like a marquee. Therefore, the folk customs are mixed with Hu and Han, and they are extremely trivial. And Zhang Jincheng and others deliberately wanted to show off Juluze's strength through a grand ceremony, so the wedding of Cheng Mingzhen and Du Juan was arranged more and more complicated.

After the bride entered the sedan chair, Duan Qing commanded a group of brothers, lifted the sedan chair and trotted in the sound of blessings, and arrived at the gate of the Jinzi camp in a blink of an eye. Out of this camp gate, the cuckoo officially left his home. Although they knew that they would have to return to the camp to preside over the overall situation after the wedding of the Seven Masters, the female and male soldiers of the Jinzi Battalion reluctantly pulled up red silk ribbons from the middle of the road, stumbling on the way of Duan Qing and the others, and sang in unison:

"Sister, sister, don't travel far! The willows in front of the door are green on the ground. Fold to send you, take the clothes and wrap them, the first seven and the next nine, the single line is only a shadow! ”

"Sister, sister, don't travel far! The cattle and sheep in the circle are singing and singing. Smoke to send you, pull the intestines and belly, Chongyang Shangyuan, Tianchang wine is cold! (Note 1)

Although the cuckoo is free and easy by nature, there is also a bit of attachment in his heart at this moment. Before I got married, I was taught how many times I was taught the words before I could memorize them, and my throat was already stalked.

Hearing the cuckoo's words, the female soldiers were even more reluctant. "Leave my sister!" The half-truths and half-truths of frolicking, the crowd swarmed up, and the sedan chair was surrounded. Pushing and shoving, he reached out and lifted the sedan curtain. If the sedan curtain is really lifted by them, the wedding steps that have been carried out from the morning to the present will have to be repeated. How could Duan Qing and the others suffer this loss, stretched out their arms, and wanted to hug them. Those female soldiers were the masters who didn't blink their eyes on the battlefield, not only were they not afraid of being taken advantage of, but they went straight into the arms of Duan Qing and the others. The embarrassed young boys can't hug or hide, and they are all red-faced.

At the critical moment, Wang Ermao stepped forward. I saw him reach out from behind the saddle and grab a blanket that had been prepared, and throw it into the air. At the same time, he sang loudly: "There is a jujube in front of the door, and I don't know how old I am." If grandma doesn't marry a daughter, she has to be hugged by her grandson! ”

In an instant, shiny copper coins, colorful silk threads, and boxes of rouge gouache rained down from the sky. When the male and female soldiers saw the copper coins and fruits and rouge gouache, they immediately forgot about their sisters, banged on the ground, and scattered and snatched them. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Wang Ermao shook the reins of the horse, bent down in front of the groom, and quickly cut down the horizontal knife. Cut off the sedan cords laid by the brothers of the Jinzi Camp one by one. The teenagers carrying the sedan chair suddenly accelerated and rushed out of the crowd with the sedan chair. The men and women chased after a few steps, pretending not to catch up, waving their hands, stepping on the song and saying: "Who can walk a woman, and her skirt is exposed behind her jacket." Born with men and women in the same place, I wish to have two women......"

got rid of the entanglement of Du Juan's family, and the team to welcome the relatives immediately came to the spirit. Eight strong sedan chair drivers grabbed the sedan pole with both hands and sang while throwing the sedan chair high.

"Green and yellow, finch stone decadent. Kill the buffalo with a mallet and slay the wild sheep. The first sheep to drive into the grain, from the sheep in front. The old woman does not marry, and she calls the heavens. ”

"Side force, Nian Jun Wuji. Pillow Lang's left arm, turn to the side with Lang. Rub the Lang beard and look at the color of the Lang. Lang doesn't miss women, you can't ...... with force"

This is a traditional sedan car trick, the more the bride is turned upside down, the more dizzy she is, the more obedient she will be in her husband's house in the future. The girl's family in the sedan chair couldn't bear it, and often begged her husband for mercy halfway through. At this moment, the husband has to be ruthless and turn a deaf ear to the woman's pleas. It wasn't until he begged for mercy again and again that the good brother called everyone's ears numb, and then ordered the male bridesmaid to take out the reward money, press the feet of the sedan chair drivers, and then beg them to spare the bride.

Du Juan is a martial arts practitioner, how can this little trick be rare for her. Whenever the sedan chair falls, immediately stomp down with both feet. After several times in a row, the wrist of the person carrying the sedan chair could not stand the strength at first. While shouting the trumpet, he joked with a smile: "If the seventh master stomps down again, this sedan chair will leak." If you don't beg for mercy, why don't you have to walk to your in-law's house? ”

"Give me a good walk, dare to play tricks again, and beware of seeing me again in the future!" The bride's response immediately came out of the palanquin, and everyone leaned back and laughed. Kankan suppressed Duan Qing and the others, and Du Juan gently knocked on the car wall with his fingers, and said to Cheng Mingzhen in a soft voice: "Little Brother Jiu, you can reward them with a few dollars." Nian on the fact that a few of them turned upside down here from the gate of the village, and there is no merit and hard work! ”

"Reward money, reward money. You shit! Take the money and go home to sell meat to make up for your body" Without waiting for Cheng Mingzhen to speak, Wang Ermao immediately grabbed a large amount of meat from the blanket and stuffed it into the arms of the sedan chair drivers. The teenagers who carried the sedan chair laughed again, and they didn't dare to play tricks on the cuckoo anymore, so they steadily put the sedan pole on their shoulders and strode forward.

In a blink of an eye, at the gate of Cheng Mingzhen's camp, there were already several younger sisters of Wang Ermao, leading a group of teenagers and girls to block the way. The boys wore three masks of green sheep, black chicken, and green ox, and jumped in front of the sedan chair. The girls chirped around Cheng Mingzhen, begging for candy and snacks. This problem could not be brought forward by Wang Ermao, and the cuckoo's personal guards, Hongling, Caixia and Zhou Ning, each carried a small wicker basket and scattered the grains, beans, money, dried fruits and other things contained in it. The boys played the three evils of blocking the door, green sheep, black chickens and green cows are under the blows of beans and rice, holding their heads and running away. The girls picked up money and candy, and then stood on the side of the road and chanted in unison, "Scatter beans and spread leaves." Sprinkle the seeds, and the ears are connected. Beans beans, ears and ears of 10,000 grains. Scattered leaves and branches, children and grandchildren are full of ......" sang all the way to the gate of the newcomer's courtyard, and the singing lingered.

When he arrived at Cheng's house, the sedan chair bearer had to stop. Wang Ermao raised his head and looked over, only to see three obese women with a body that was also four feet wide, standing side by side at the gate of the courtyard, blocking the way tightly. "Get out of the way!" The female general Hongling gave an order, and the female soldiers who were in charge of sending off their relatives swarmed up, pulling their hands and hugging their legs, and immediately lifted the woman who blocked the door that the Cheng family had spent a lot of money to pick up like a pig, and threw it in the grass outside the courtyard with a smile. Then stand in two rows along the doorway to protect the sedan chair's path.

"Hit" opened the only way to enter the hospital, and the sedan chair also arrived at its destination. The cuckoo was already sweating inside, but according to the rules, he couldn't come out in a hurry to get out to breathe. Between blowing and blowing, the guests invited by the Cheng family to help spread several pieces of colored linen cloth under the sedan chair one by one. The distance between each two pieces is just more than two feet, so that the bride's "lotus step" just can't step on the edge.

The guests waited to see the bride begging for mercy, but they didn't expect that this little trick couldn't help Julu Zeqi in charge, when Cheng's mother invited the "Quanfu people" just used chopsticks to open the sedan curtain, and chanted softly, she immediately jumped out of the sedan chair. Holding the wedding dress in both hands, the swallow swept over the linen cloth like water, and instead of being stained with a single cloud of dirt on the soles of his shoes, he volleyed over a number of pieces of cloth, and did not borrow any strength from them. (Note 2)

"Good!" The surrounding guests cheered. turned his head to look at the cuckoo again, but found that the bride who was still in a hurry just now was wearing a red mask on her head at the moment, holding a red silk silk in her hand, and the bird followed Cheng Mingzhen into the main hall.

The newlyweds entered the main hall, and the whole wedding reached the maximum. Zhang Jin, the big boss of Julu Ze, said that he wore a gilded embroidered python robe, with a high crown of black segments, smiling and singing, greeting husband and wife. Subsequently, the oldest one among the heroes was introduced, and he came forward to deliver a speech on behalf of Hebei's green forest colleagues. Then someone brought a pair of marigolds tied to a red rope, filled them with wine, and invited the husband and wife to drink together. (Note 3)

After drinking the wine, in the blessings of the guests, someone sent a long weighing rod, on which there were three stars of blessing, longevity and Lu made of pure gold. Cheng Mingzhen was already dizzy with happiness at the moment, like a shadow puppet in the hands of the Jianghu people, being swung around by everyone. Under the guidance of Zhang Jincheng, he lifted the scale pole and was just about to pick up the veil on the cuckoo's head, but the female soldiers who sent them off stopped him and asked to listen to the groom chant a "fan poem" on the spot before they would let go.

The guests who came to watch the ceremony were all outlaws who added blood to the knife, how could Cheng Mingzhen show off Sven. smiled, and said with a bit of smoke: "Sisters, spare me once, I'm really happy today, and I can't remember half of the poems I read!" ”

The heroes were amused and laughed, and they all felt that the young man was simply refreshing, and he was really a fellow believer. The girls refused to follow, and they had to show Cheng Mingzhen's unique skills. Seeing that the sun shadow outside had already reached the middle, and if it was delayed any longer, it would miss the banquet, Cheng Mingzhen hesitated for a moment and begged him, "Wen can't do it, can I come to Wu?" Anyway, playing with knives and guns is exactly what my generation does. ”

"Yes, yes, we are all martial arts practitioners, don't play with those vain things!" Zhang Jin said that he also had the intention to let Cheng Mingzhen give Julu Ze a long face in front of everyone, and help him with a smile.

For several days, Cheng Mingzhen has been appearing in the appearance of a Confucian crown robe. The Hebei heroes, who don't know Juluze, have long regarded them as military advisors like Zhuge Liang and Xie Xuan. I never thought that at the moment, this Sven groom official would still be able to get on the horse and fight with people. Hearing Zhang Jincheng say it, he immediately became interested. Chaotically coaxed on the side: "Yes, yes, stop chanting." We don't understand it. It's okay to be a little more realistic, it's okay to dance with a knife, or you can play with a stick. Let everyone open their eyes! ”

"That's fine, but you can't fool people with flower shelves anymore!" The female soldier didn't want to be too embarrassed for Cheng Mingzhen, so she smiled and chirped and agreed.

Knowing that Cheng Mingzhen's martial arts are mostly flowery, Du Juan couldn't help but be a little worried about him. While everyone was patronizing and laughing, no one was paying attention, he reached out and gently pinched his husband's fingers.

Feeling the wisps of tenderness between his fingers, Cheng Mingzhen's heart suddenly became arrogant. He grabbed the cuckoo's fingers and shook it, then slowly let go, clenched his fists and saluted the surroundings. "Then I'll be ugly today! Ermao, Duan Qing, you two help me. Take the big bow from Uncle Hao, and help me erect a target outside the door."

"Alas! Wang Ermao and Duan Qing had the most confidence in Cheng Mingzhen, so they agreed and walked out quickly. After a while, the two of them took a big bow for Cheng Mingzhen, and hung a money for archery practice on the treetops of more than 250 steps in the courtyard. (Note 5)

Cheng Ming shook his bow in his hand, separated the crowd, and strode out. I measured it with my eyes, and stood up about two hundred steps away from the money. Pick out a wolf's tooth arrow and slowly put on the bowstring.

The heroes saw the big bow sent by Hao Laodao yesterday, and they have always doubted the true power of this bow. Seeing that Cheng Mingzhen was preparing to test shoot in public, they were itchy and scratched, and they followed one after another.

When the lively people arrived, Cheng Mingzhen took a deep breath and said loudly: "Today, all the seniors came to attend Cheng's wedding, and Cheng has nothing to thank. Shoot an arrow at the money outside, and predict the future for everyone. If I can join hands to break out of the world in the future, this arrow will pass through the eyes of money, and it will be exactly the same! ”

The words fell, and the faces of the heroes changed color. People who roll with knives have always paid attention to lip dress, if this arrow doesn't hit the eye of money, everyone's trip to Julu Ze will be wasted. And if this arrow hits, it will naturally be a godsend for Zhang Jincheng. For the other heroes who are unwilling to succumb to Zhang Jincheng, it is very bad.

Just when everyone secretly regretted it, Cheng Mingzhen inhaled again, bending his bow like a full moon. "May God bless me, and I will have smooth sailing in the future, no difficulties and no disasters!" He prayed silently in his heart, watching the money in the distance grow bigger and clearer in his eyes little by little, and his fingers suddenly loosened.

Just listen to "Whoosh! With a bang, a three-foot-long carved feather swept through the space of two hundred paces, and it drilled through the eyes of money in a dignified manner.

Note 1: The seventh day of the first month and the ninth day of the second month are the rest days of women in ancient times. Chongyang and Shangyuan are days when animals are slaughtered and members are celebrated. This song is for the wedding brother. Express the attachment of siblings to the married woman.

Note 2: A blessed person is a person who has both children and both parents. At the wedding, he was responsible for lifting the sedan curtain. It is a metaphor that the newlyweds will be as blessed as he is.

Note 3: The marriage customs in this article are the marriage customs of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Unlike the Southern Dynasties. In addition, during the Tang and Song dynasties, there was no three-worship ceremony in the Central Plains. Meetings with in-laws should be held on the first day of marriage, not on the day of the wedding. The cup of wine and the fan are also in front of the guests, not in the cave room.

Note 5: Money. It is not a real copper coin, but a wooden painted gold coin, slightly smaller than an arrow target, but much larger than an ordinary copper coin. ，

Note 6: Most of the poems quoted in this article are from Yuefu of the Northern Dynasties, and some are apocryphal. Connoisseurs, don't laugh.