Chapter 320: A Special Gift
Welcoming the daughter-in-law home, this wedding is naturally not over, and there are a lot of etiquette waiting for the chapel......
It wasn't until after a lot of etiquette tossing and turning that he finally heard the sound of the master of ceremonies shouting and sending him into the cave room, and Zhong Hao finally felt relieved. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
However, what Zhong Hao never expected was that when he returned to the cave room, there were still a lot of etiquette waiting for Zhong Hao and Fu Ruozhu to complete!
Finally waited until all the etiquette was completed, Zhong Hao couldn't help but smile bitterly, I used to hear people say that marriage costs people's lives, but now it seems to be true, this thing has been going on since ancient times, it might as well be!
Although Zhong Hao never got married in later generations, intuitively the etiquette of marriage in the Great Song Dynasty seems to be more cumbersome and tiring than in later generations.
When the women who pointed out the various marriage etiquette in the cave room went out, Zhong Hao couldn't help but mutter: "It is said that the candles in the cave room are one of the four joys in life, and I think it is one of the great sorrows. ”
"Zhong Lang is powerless in what he says!" Fu Ruozhu heard Zhong Hao muttering there, and couldn't help but ask.
Zhong Hao couldn't help but look up at his daughter-in-law! Fu Ruozhu was sitting on the wedding bed, her big red hijab had just been picked off by Zhong Hao, at this time, under the red curtain on the wedding bed, Fu Ruozhu looked bright and incomprehensible, and a pair of big eyes were looking at Zhong Hao. When Zhong Hao saw the appearance of the beauty, he couldn't help but feel a wave in his heart, for this beauty, it seems that no matter how tired he is, it is nothing!
Zhong Hao looked at Fu Ruozhu's shy appearance and was a little stupid for a while, and it took a long time before he remembered to answer Fu Ruozhu's words, and said: "Hehe, what is a little weak, when I saw my Ruozhu daughter-in-law, Zhong Lang I was full of strength!" ”
Immediately, Zhong Hao said affectionately: "Ruozhu, you are so beautiful today!" ”
When Fu Ruozhu heard Zhong Hao's affectionate praise, she couldn't help but feel a wave in her heart, seeing Zhong Hao looking straight at herself, Fu Ruozhu couldn't help but feel a little shy, she was not very suitable for the transformation of becoming a wife. However, when she thought of more than two years of waiting, the two were finally able to tie the knot today and achieve positive results, but she couldn't help but feel happy in her heart.
The two of them were in deep love, but there was a coaxing outside for Zhong Hao to drink, Zhong Hao and Fu Ruozhu glanced at each other, and they both smiled bitterly.
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There are many guests who come to Zhong Hao's house today, most of them are officials, friends or representatives of his sons and nephews who come to his Taishan father-in-law's face! Basically, Zhong Hao basically didn't know each other, and the only one he knew was Ouyang Xiu's second son Ouyang Yi, when Zhong Hao and Xu Feng went to visit Ouyang Xiu before, they had seen Ouyang Yi!
Except for some officials, friends or nephews who came to the face of his old father-in-law of Taishan, the rest were some of Zhong Hao's fellow jinshi. As long as it is the same year as the Jinshi who has not left Beijing, most of them have come.
Zhong Hao is also a leader in this batch of the same year, although he failed to enter the "Sanding Jia", but he is also one of the most promising A branch jinshi, and he is also the highest official position when this section is awarded, and the starting point is much higher than that of the same branch jinshi. And now she is married to a rich lady, and her future is even more promising. The friendship of this year is also an important officialdom resource, and Zhong Hao naturally wants to have a good relationship with him in these same years, so that Zhong Hao will be able to hug his thighs when he is developed in the future.
The eldest brother of the bride's rich Ruozhu was an official in a foreign country and could not come to see off his relatives, so the errand of sending relatives fell on the head of his eldest brother-in-law Feng Jing.
Feng Jing is also a well-known figure in Tokyo City, four years ago, he was a Lianzhong Sanyuan, famous in the Great Song Dynasty, and he is a family today, so he will inevitably become the object of other people's toasts.
Getting drunk with the woman's relatives is also a very important drama of today's wedding banquet.
The most enthusiastic people who went to pay tribute to Feng Jingjiu were naturally those new science and technology scholars, and they all respected this senior with a very reverent attitude. This year's new science champion Zheng Zheng also came today, and the two sat at a table, Zheng Zheng was the main escort of Feng Jing's table.
Feng Jing, the former champion, also instructed Zheng Zheng, the new champion, to write a thank you form at the ceremony, and Zheng Zheng is indispensable to thank Feng Jing! As for how to thank you, it is naturally a few more glasses of wine.
Most of the people who came to Zhong Hao's wedding banquet today were civil officials and scholars, and naturally those who chanted poems against each other, competed in literary style, and were vassals and elegant.
For a while, this wedding banquet was also very lively under the atmosphere driven by a group of new science and technology scholars.
Of course, there are also those who are not interested in this bard. The Pan family, the Yang family, the Di family and Zhong Hao's Jiangmen family, who are related, also sent people to congratulate them today. Pan Xu, Yang Huaiyu, Di Yong and others naturally didn't have much interest in these competitions. Today, they are all hiding in the corner, taking advantage of Zhong Hao's happy day, to open up and shout three and five to drink to their heart's content.
Zhong Hao looked around, but he didn't expect that today's wedding banquet was full of friends.
Many congratulatory guests came, Zhong Hao inevitably accompanied the wine and toasted, just turned a few tables, and heard the roll call at the door with a tremor and excited: "There is a guest coming to the door, Your Majesty sent an envoy to congratulate!" ”
When everyone heard that the official family had also sent someone to give Zhong Hao a gift today, they couldn't help but stop the cup in their hands and look at the person.
A eunuch dressed in a purple eunuch costume walked in under the guidance of the guest gatekeeper, and there were two small yellow doors behind him, one holding a banner and the other carrying a small gift box.
The eunuch Zhong Hao who came in knew that he was the eunuch in charge of the Forbidden Palace and the personal companion of the official's family. If it was before, Zhong Hao would definitely not know him, but since he became a jinshi, Zhong Hao has seen him several times, basically met the official family a few times, and met Wang gradually a few times. Every time the basic official family shows up, he is accompanied by this guy.
Of course, before he was a jinshi, Zhong Hao had actually seen him. During the palace examination, the official family had to review their own examination papers on the spot, and it was Wang Yan who went to collect Zhong Hao's examination papers.
As soon as Zhong Hao saw the king coming in, he hurriedly went over to salute him.
Wang gradually arched his hand and said with a smile: "Young Eunuch Zhong, our family has come to give you a gift for Your Majesty!" ”
When Zhong Hao heard the title of the young eunuch, why did he feel so awkward! But now that he is about to be a young eunuch, it seems that he should indeed be called so.
However, when he heard Wang gradually say that the official family had a reward, he didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly made a big gift again, and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty for the reward!" "Most of the time, the people of the Great Song Dynasty generally call the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty more affectionately as an official, but when it comes to more formal occasions or thanksgiving and the like, they still have to address Your Majesty.
Wang gradually turned sideways to accept Zhong Hao's great gift for the official family, and waved his hand to the small yellow door behind him: "Take Your Majesty's Mobao!" ”
The little yellow door came over with the banner and unfolded it carefully, and Zhong Hao saw that there were four big words written on it: "A match made in heaven".
This official ink treasure can be regarded as a treasure, Zhong Hao thought: Framed, the descendants of the future will be regarded as an heirloom! At the moment, I was very happy to ask a servant at home to take it over and ask him to send it to the backyard for Ke Yao to collect.
Everyone who came to the wedding banquet today couldn't help but be envious when they saw Zhong Hao's marriage, and they were rewarded by the official family. Of course, what they envy is not only this Mobao text panel, but more importantly, this Jane's honor in the emperor's heart, and everyone can't help but evaluate Zhong Hao at the moment, and it has been raised to a higher level.
Zhong Hao asked people to accept Mobao, and hurriedly beckoned Wang Yan and said, "Princess, please sit down!" ”
This Wang is now the head of the Great Interior, and he is also a figure in the Great Song Dynasty today, and Zhong Hao is naturally very polite to him. Wang gradually followed the official family since he was a child, and he can be regarded as calling for wind and rain in Da Nei.
Of course, Wang Jian was only very majestic in Da Nei, and naturally had no influence on the imperial court. The Wenchen of the Great Song Dynasty, in view of the experience of the division of feudal towns and the dictatorship of eunuchs in the former Tang Dynasty, not only suppressed the military generals, but also desperately guarded against the eunuchs. Whenever a eunuch dares to interfere in foreign affairs, he will immediately be sprayed into scum by civilian officials. Although this Wang gradually has a close relationship with the official family, he does not dare to say anything about foreign affairs. Even if this king is very authoritative in the Great Interior, he does not dare to easily provoke the bottom limit of civil officials.
But Rao is like this, Zhong Hao still has to be polite to this eunuch, this is because although Wang Jian can't deal with foreign affairs, he still has a very fatal dispatch, that is, the official affairs of the Imperial City Division, that is, he controls the largest spy agency of the Great Song Dynasty. If anyone offends him, he will arrange something for you and report it to the officials, I am afraid that there will be no good fruit to eat.
Wang gradually waved his hand and said with a smile: "Our family doesn't have this idle life, the official family is still waiting for our family to go back to serve!" ”
Zhong Hao said with a smile: "The prince is tired! ”
Wang gradually said that he was in a hurry to go back to serve the official's house and couldn't sit at the table, but he was not in a hurry to leave, he smiled at Zhong Hao with a very meaningful smile: "Hehe, groom official, let's take a step to talk!" ”
When Zhong Hao saw Wang Yan's expression, he couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive, what does this spy leader mean by borrowing a step to talk to him, he won't have any handle of his own, right? But then Zhong Hao denied it, he didn't seem to have done anything private over the years, and he shouldn't be caught by this spy leader.
At that time, Zhong Hao said: "Then please invite the prince to visit the wing!" As he spoke, he led the king to the side room.
Wang gradually followed Zhong Hao into the house, and then his face became a little ugly and said: "Little Liuzi, I have given the groom a gift to the eldest princess!" ”
The little yellow door behind Wang Yan who was carrying a delicate gift box immediately stepped forward and handed the gift box in his hand to Zhong Hao.
Zhong Hao originally thought that this gift box was a gift from the official family, but it turned out to be a gift from the princess. Then Zhong Hao thought: The girl I saw by the Bianhe River that day was really the eldest princess as I guessed. Otherwise, she has nothing to do with the eldest princess, why would she give herself a gift?!
But this matter is really a difficult thing to say, if outsiders know about it, they can't help but ask why the princess gave her a gift? I'm afraid there is something ambiguous ~ ambiguous in this! Zhong Hao felt that he should resolutely not admit that he had a relationship with the eldest princess!
So, Zhong Hao pretended to be a little flattered and took the gift box, and said: "Xiaguan thanked the eldest princess for the reward, the eldest princess is really benevolent, Xiaguan and the eldest princess have never met, and they can even get a gift from the eldest princess, I really can't afford it!" ”
Wang gradually looked at Zhong Hao for a long time before he said in a dark way: "Don't pretend in front of our family." You kid is not a fool, you must have guessed that the person you met by the Bianhe River that day was the eldest princess! Alas, you said, you kid is a person who is going to get married, why do you still provoke the eldest princess? ”
Wang gradually watched the eldest princess Zhao Jin grow up, and sometimes his relationship with Zhao Jin was closer than the relationship between the official father and Zhao Jin. After all, the official family has many national affairs to be busy every day, and it is difficult to pay attention to the thoughts of some young daughters.
So naturally, the official family didn't notice Zhao Jin's recent abnormality, but Wang gradually saw her thoughts! After he saw the princess's strange appearance, he called the two eunuchs he sent to protect the princess out of the palace that day and asked about the situation, and guessed that Zhao Jin was afraid that Zhao Jin had a love affair with Zhong Hao. Wang gradually treated the princess like his own daughter, and seeing that the princess had an impossible and fruitless affection for Zhong Hao, he naturally tried to help her cut it off.
As soon as Zhong Hao heard this, he naturally knew about the matter of flirting with ~ the eldest princess that day, and he was afraid that he would not be able to hide it from this spy leader. Zhong Hao couldn't afford to provoke the princess, so he quickly explained and clarified: "Xia Guan can't afford to say this to the princess, Xia Guan really didn't know that Miss Zhao was Her Royal Highness the princess that day." Xiaguan just ran into Miss Zhao's maid Zheng Xiaohe, and it happened to be Xiaguan's former old friend who casually talked a few words. Later, the princess heard that Xia Guan was quite good at poetry, so she discussed it with Xia Guan, and there was nothing else. "Regret, Zhong Hao now regrets the frivolity of that day. This spy leader still puts a lot of pressure on Zhong Hao.
Wang gradually also knew that this matter could not be easily explained, the princess had lived in the deep palace for a long time, and it was rare to see other men, and it was normal for her to be interested in a handsome and talented man like Zhong Hao. Fortunately, Zhong Hao is now married, and it is estimated that the princess should be able to forget this love soon.
At that moment, the king gradually put on a straight face, and scared Zhong Hao and said: "You kid be honest in the future, and let our family know that you provoked the eldest princess, and I will never spare you!" ”
Although Zhong Hao felt a little embarrassed by being scared by a eunuch! But who made the family not only the head of the spies, Zhong Hao was really afraid of him. Although he is not too small an official, if he is really targeted by such a spy leader, I am afraid that it will be really a little troublesome. Besides, I do have some reasons! It's like playing with the feelings of other girls and being approached by the girl's parents, and it's really hard to get angry.
Although Zhong Hao felt that he couldn't talk about playing with the feelings of other princesses, he did have some provocative feelings that day, and he couldn't face Wang gradually and confidently.
At that moment, Zhong Hao laughed with him, and said carelessly: "Don't worry, the prince has not provoked the lower officials before, and he will not be in the future!" ”
"Hmph, you can do it yourself, our family will keep an eye on you!"
"Certainly, certainly......"