Chapter 64: The Wedding I
On the second day of the second month of February, the dragon raises its head, and it is suitable for marriage, crowning and flute.
The spring snow has long since melted, everything is recovering, and winter wheat is the time to go crazy. At the foot of Wollongong, the wheat field of Zhuge is lush and green, and the wheat seedlings are already a few feet taller, which makes the guests who came to congratulate them very surprised.
In this era, even if it is a real family, there are many fertile fields in the family.
Ask yourself, the wheat seedlings in your own field are not as strong as the wheat seedlings of the Zhuge family!
In their hearts, many people are thinking about finding an opportunity to ask Zhuge Kongming what tricks he has to do if his family's wheat grows so well. After all, the people live on food, and who doesn't want to collect an extra one or two percent of the grain?
However, today is Zhuge Kongming's wedding day, but it is not good to ask today.
Kong Ming's wedding, the guests who should come are basically here, some sit in the grass hall and drink tea, some walk around in front of the house and behind the house, enjoying the spring scenery, and some go directly to the vicinity of the farmland to observe the growth of Zhuge family's wheat seedlings closely.
At the foot of the mountain, eighteen ox carts stopped, but the first one was a big red wedding cart.
Sitting in the wedding car was the bride Huang Yueying.
The personal maid eldest girl and the little girl, Ben also followed their young lady to sit in the wedding car, but they were about to get home, so they stopped the wedding car, and the two little girls were dressed up in new clothes, and they stayed with the wedding car after getting off.
Zhuge Liang was dressed in a big red robe, riding a big red horse, and waited in front of the wedding car.
Yesterday afternoon, Zhuge Liang went to Chuyang to pick up his relatives, and today he took the team back with the team. After all, Weiyang is more than 100 miles away from Longzhong, and a round trip, even if the horse is fast and does not care about the horsepower, it will take five or six hours to say the least.
The wedding car stopped, just to wait for the two little girls to get out of the car and stay on both sides of the wedding car.
At the same time, the servants who drove the ox cart also followed closely to check the ox cart to see if any items had been dropped. The road was more than 100 miles in a hurry, and the road was bumpy along the way, but I didn't dare to leave the dowry.
Yes, and what was on board these eighteen ox carts was the dowry.
When the old man married his daughter, he couldn't wait to even move the land of his family to make a dowry, and the eighty hectares of fertile land in Chuyang naturally became a dowry.
After a while, a steward stepped forward and reported: "Uncle, eighteen ox carts have not been missed. ”
Zhuge Liang bowed: "This is very good, take a break, let's hurry up the mountain, don't delay the hour." ”
The auspicious time for the wedding was set at noon, but it was already the end of the hour, and there were still two miles of land on the mountain road.
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Wollongong, in the thatched hall, is also busy.
The maids and servants borrowed from the Pang family wore in and out, adding tea and pouring water for the guests from time to time, or serving some melons and fruits.
Fortunately, there are not many guests in the Zhuge family, and Pang Min is still open, and he is not anxious.
At this time, Zhuge Dan, who was waiting on the mountainside, was waiting for Zhuge Dan of the greeting team, and ran in happily and shouted: "Come back, come back, the second brother is back." ”
Hearing the sound, all the guests quickly gathered, exchanged greetings at the door of the cottage for a while, and then entered the main house.
Later, after the newcomers come in, they will worship heaven and earth in the main house. After the couple is sent into the cave room, the guests will go to the guest hall to take their seats. Then, when the bridegroom comes out, the table can be opened.
The thatched cottage of the Zhuge family is very spacious, and there are not many guests who come today, and the main house can still accommodate it.
After everyone was in place, Pang Min hurriedly asked people to put a pot of charcoal fire at the door of the main house.
Later, before the bride enters the house to worship heaven and earth, she must step over this pot of coals. Before the bride arrived, others could not disturb the sacredness of this pot of coals.
Leaning slightly, the kissing team went up the hill and stopped near the left side of the cottage.
Uncle Niu took more than a dozen servants, together with the servants of the Huang family, and began to move the things on the ox cart. These dowries, which have not had time to be counted for the time being, are directly put into the treasury. After Zhuge Liang gets married, these will be handed over to his wife Huang Yueying to take charge of the inventory.
Zhuge Liang jumped off the big red horse, and with the support of two personal maids, Huang Yueying also stepped out of the wedding car.
There is no such thing as an eight-lift sedan car. Before the Sui and Tang dynasties, when the new husband got married, he used the wedding car to pick up the bride. The wedding carriage can make a horse-drawn carriage or an ox cart, all of which are dressed up in red and festive.
From the eldest girl's hand, taking Huang Yueying's little hand, Zhuge Liang led her to the main house.
Although he was walking, Zhuge Liang could feel a slight tremor in the girl's hand. After all, it is a girl, although they were not limited by the defense of men and women before, but they have never been on a blind date, at first glance by the man holding hands, the girl's heart is like a deer.
The girl's head was covered with a red veil for the bride, and her face could not be seen clearly.
But Zhuge Liang felt that she was only afraid of her face turning crimson at this time, right?
Three lives, two marriages, and experience, Zhuge Liang is calm. Holding his wife's hand, he led her across the brazier at the door, and stepped into the main room under the watchful eyes of all the guests.
Zhuge Liang was already handsome and chic, and at this time he was wearing a big red blessing, which added to his style.
Among the guests, Zhang Zhongjing's wife held her youngest son's hand and sighed in her heart: "It's a pity that my family doesn't have a daughter!" ”
The implication is that if her family has a daughter, with the relationship between her husband Zhang Zhongjing and Zhuge Xuan, I am afraid that she will be able to circle Zhuge Kongming's son-in-law a long time ago, so why bother to cheapen the girl of the Huang family today.
After meeting Zhuge Liang, Mrs. Zhang actually wanted to circle him as her son-in-law, but unfortunately their family had no daughter.
This is like many enthusiastic aunts and sisters in later generations, who are keen to introduce girlfriends to their favorite young men.
Among the guests present, Mrs. Zhang was naturally not the only one with such thoughts.
Liu Jingzhou's wife, Cai, also had a flickering look in her eyes at this time. Although she doesn't have a daughter, she still has a niece in her mother's family, doesn't she?
It's just that now that she is married to Zhuge Kongming, she is also her niece, and it is difficult for Mrs. Cai to snatch her son-in-law.
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Zhuge Liang didn't know what the guests were thinking, and led the girl to the main house.
At this time, there is a table in the middle of the main room, on which incense is burned; There is a cushion on the left and right sides; The old man, Huang Chengyan, had already arrived, and was sitting cross-legged on the cushion on the right side of the table; The cushion on the left is empty.
Later, when I worship heaven and earth, the second of these bows is to worship the high hall, that is, to worship my parents. On the right are the woman's parents, and on the left are the man's parents; The parents of both men and women are so-called high halls, and when the newlyweds worship heaven and earth, both parents have to worship.
This is not like the later generations, engaging in a nondescript worship of heaven and earth, only the man's parents are worshipped.
Zhuge Liang's parents died early, and the seat on the left could only be vacant.
Actually, if Master Sima Hui comes, this left side represents the seat of Zhuge Liang's parents, and Sima Hui can sit down.
A teacher for one day, a father for life!
It's a pity that Master Sima Hui doesn't know where he has traveled now, so it is naturally impossible to come to the wedding.