Chapter 58: Wedding Preparations
After the great cold, there were three days of heavy snowfall.
Since the beginning of winter this year, there have been three such snowstorms, each time for several days, and when the goose feather snows heavily, the snow on the ground is two or three feet deep, which is rare in later generations.
In the later generations of global warming, it is rare to see goose feathers and heavy snow in the south.
Even in Jingxiang, the snow rarely reaches a depth of two or three feet.
The heavens and the earth are covered with snow, and the old farmers are cowering at home, but they are worried about the snow in the harvest year.
The so-called Ruixue Mega Year.
There have already been three snowstorms this year, and it is foreseeable that the coming year will be a good year.
I dare not say that there is no other harvest, but at least wheat can be harvested.
The weather was cold and everything was depressed, Zhuge Liang did not go out, but stayed at home to prepare for the wedding.
It is now the lunar month, and it is less than two months before the second day of February of the next year.
This era is not as convenient as later generations. The wedding of the next generation, even the day before the wedding, still has time to be organized. But in this era, materials are scarce, transportation is inconvenient, and a wedding has to be prepared a month or two in advance, to say the least.
The wedding invitation, Zhuge Liang has already distributed it.
However, asking himself, Zhuge Liang felt that when the wedding was held, he was afraid that there would not be many guests.
Their Zhuge family is in the middle of the road, and there are not many guests.
After the invitation, Zhuge Liang went to the eldest sister's house, and while visiting the eldest sister, he also sent a wedding invitation.
It's just that in February of the next year, the eldest sister and the second sister will be even more inconvenient to travel, and when the time comes, it will be the eldest brother-in-law and the second brother-in-law who will come.
Uncle Pang Degong, who also has the responsibility of a matchmaker, he is also bound to come. As a friend, Pang Tong is also a must-come, and then there are Meng Gongwei, Shi Guangyuan, and Cui Zhouping, they are also bound to come.
And the teacher, when the time comes, there will be a congratulatory gift, and it will also be represented by Meng Gongwei, right?
As for the presence of the elders of the sect, it is definitely impossible.
Even, even Master Sima Hui may not necessarily come to his Zhuge Liang's wedding.
In this era, transportation and communication are very tricky, Master Sima Hui doesn't know where Yun You's gone, and invitations can't be delivered to him, how can he know Zhuge Liang's wedding date?
Of course, Sima Hui's inability to attend his disciple's wedding must be more than that.
Zhuge Liang can only speculate.
The male guests, in addition to these few, there are only Wen Ping and Zhang Zhongjing.
The invitation of Wen Hire, when he was in Chuyang, Zhuge Liang gave it to him. Zhang Zhongjing's invitation, but after returning home, Zhuge Liang asked Uncle Niu to go to Nieyang and send it directly to Zhang Zhongjing's house.
After crossing + being reborn, outside the relationship network of the original owner, Zhuge Liang only made friends with these two.
However, according to Zhuge Liang's own estimates, it is probably impossible for these two to come in person.
Wen Ping was stationed in Zhuyang City, and he couldn't leave the station without permission, and when the time came, it was about his wife, who came with his teenage son. Zhang Zhongjing and his eldest son Zhang Yuan are practicing medicine outside, and their whereabouts are uncertain, and most of them are also accompanied by his wife and younger son.
In this way, there are only about a dozen male guests.
And the female guests, there may be even less.
In fact, the Huang family has many relatives and friends, and they are also a little involved with the big families in Jingxiang. But now that Zhuge Liang is married, and after Huang Yueying gets married, Huang Chengyan's branch can be regarded as withering; Therefore, most of the relatives and friends of the Huang family will not come, at most they will send a congratulatory gift.
It's my maternal uncle, Cai Mao can't leave Nanjun without permission, maybe she won't come; But Uncle Erniang and Uncle Sanniang are possible. They are Huang Yueying's maternal uncle, even if their conscience is sagging, their six relatives do not recognize them, and their nieces and daughters get married, they always have to be present.
As for Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao, he will not come.
Who has ever seen a high-ranking local official who is the commander-in-chief of a military region go to the wedding of a poor relative in the countryside?
It's Mrs. Cai, who may come.
Zhuge Liang is now famous, Wolong and Phoenix Chicks are not boasting in vain, for the sake of Liu Cong, Mrs. Cai will definitely come to pull the relationship.
It must be known that Liu Biao is now fifty-six years old, which is already considered a long life.
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Zhuge Liang was full of calculations, and when he got married, there were only less than twenty people who came to congratulate him.
This is in the Hereafter, that is, a matter of two tables of wine.
But in this era, it was all divided into seats, and twenty people got twenty seats. If you are a little stingy, two people will have to sit at the same table, and you will have ten tables.
When Zhuge Liang entertains relatives and friends on weekdays, the three or five dishes are casual. But on the day of the wedding, each table had six dishes, three meats, two vegetables and one soup, which was the rule. And, of course, add a jug of wine.
The six dishes of the wedding, three meats, two vegetables and one soup, are actually not mandatory.
The three meats, those that fly in the sky, those that swim in the water, and those that run on the ground, are for the three meats.
According to the ancient rites, geese are used to fly in the sky, three-foot-long koi are needed to swim in the water, and half-year-old deer are running on the ground, all of which need to be roasted and served whole.
With the development of the times, young deer, koi and geese are naturally unaffordable for the people.
At this time, according to the family's financial affordability, these three meat dishes are adjusted.
If you fly in the sky, you can replace it with a domestic chicken, and no matter how poor the family is, you can just put a piece of chicken; If you swim in the water, you can do it with any fish; Those who run on the ground can use beef for those who are rich, and pork for those who are poor.
In this era, pork and dog meat were originally not available at the table.
Otherwise, there would not be a legend that dog meat could not be served on the table, and it has been passed down to future generations.
However, it is difficult for poor families to eat meat, and pork is just pork.
Two vegetarian dishes, depending on the season, just two plates of vegetables.
As for a soup, this can't be changed, it has to be a lotus seed soup, and no matter how poor the family is, it has to have a lotus root soup.
After the invitation, Zhuge Liang was preparing for the wedding.
Needless to say, Zhuge wine has been stored in more than 30 jars.
During this period of time, Zhuge Liang also asked Uncle Niu to pull more than ten jars of Zhuge wine and sell them in the bazaar of Xiangyang City, with a very high price and a lot of gains. Zhuge Liang's money for preparing for the wedding was contributed by these more than ten jars of Zhuge wine.
The lotus seeds have already been collected and purchased for more than ten catties, and Zhuge Liang has also purchased more than ten catties of white fungus.
When the time comes, a bowl of fungus lotus seed soup with white sugar is added, and the guests like it very much.
Anyway, Zhuge Liang has already made this soup once, and his fiancée likes to drink it very much.
In terms of two vegetarians, at this time, there are only radishes and wead.
However, Zhuge Liang found another way and made a little salted dried radish and salted cabbage, which his fiancée loved to eat; When the time comes, it will not be bad to use these two pickles to make the two vegetarian dishes at the wedding.
It must be known that in this era, pickles have not yet been developed!
There are three meats, but koi fish do not have, but sweet and sour fish does; There are no young deer, and there is also braised beef; There are no geese, but roast chickens do. These three dishes are also unseen in this era. During this time, his fiancée Huang Yatou and two younger brothers, plus Lu Qiling, were conquered by these dishes.
During this period of time, Zhuge Liang has taught Aunt Niu all the preparation of these dishes.
The chef on the wedding day is none other than Aunt Niu!