Chapter 1026: A Strange Half-Time Wedding (Part II)

Su Shi knew about this habit, but Zhao Xing didn't know, however, both of them were people who didn't care about worldly bad habits, so the welcoming team played music, gongs and drums circled around Cheng's family and stopped at the door of Cheng Laoqi's house.

The mother's family, who had been waiting there for a long time, welcomed the procession, and the musicians, singers, and others who greeted their relatives were treated with wine, tea, and gifts such as colored silk and trinkets. After eating and drinking, the musicians began to play the tune, which was urging the bride to hurry up and get into the sedan chair.

As the music sounded, Cheng Azhu began to leave, and her aunt, aunt, sister-in-law, and sister sent her to the door of the inner house, once again arranged her skirt, and painstakingly repeated the teachings of emphasizing her parents: "Listen to your parents' words. Sleepless nights. ”

These seven aunts and eight tables led Cheng Azhu to the door, stood still, and sang a song to ask the groom for reward: "The bride leads the door, and it is good to have many gifts." This is no more than normal trading. 100,000, tied together is enough. ”

Zhao Xing sang back according to the form: "Since ancient times, gentlemen do not carry gold. ”

As soon as the words fell, Pan Dalin, who was beside him, scattered a few red envelopes in front of the horse according to the rules, and each red envelope contained a few small coins, but the children did not come forward to rob them like usual weddings, and they looked at the teacher timidly. Zhao Xing waved his horsewhip, and the show returned to normal......

This Song Dynasty wedding is not simpler than a modern wedding, and it is even more noisy and cumbersome. Zhao Xing was dizzy in the end, so he had to be completely at the mercy of Pan Dalin, and when he completed all the rituals, he was already dizzy and dizzy under the toast of the villagers, and only vomiting was left in his heart.

Su Shi was supposed to preside over the next ceremony, but the great poet was so famous that the mountain people in the countryside were proud to invite him into their homes - the first honor belonged to the patriarch Cheng Tong, who took his son to toast frequently, and then the villagers took turns to fight, and after a while, Su Shi couldn't cover it, and he fainted. Cheng Tong was fast, and immediately instructed his son and son-in-law to carry the slightly drunk Su Shi back to his house, and the villagers who were slow to start had to rob Pan Dalin. Before Su Shi was drunk, he wanted to say something, he thought that the wedding seemed to have only gone on in the first half, but how could the villagers only remember to pour wine on him......

At night, in the new room, the bride wore a red hijab and sat quietly on the bed. Zhao Xing stretched out his hand in the air, hesitated for a long time before falling, and he gently lifted Cheng Azhu's hijab.

The newlywed woman is the most beautiful moment of her life, and at this moment, all the colors of her life bloom in an instant, and the beauty is breathtaking...... However, Cheng Azhu is still a child, only 14 years old.

Su Dongpo's concubine Chaoyun is only fourteen years old now, this year she gave birth to Su Dun, originally Su Dun would fall ill before he was one year old, among them, the main reason is that Chaoyun is too young, resulting in the child's body is too weak.

Su Shi's mother, Mrs. Cheng, was not very old when she got married, and she gave birth to six sons, who grew up to be Su Shi and his brother Su Zhe. The survival rate of children is only one-third, and if you add daughters who die young, the survival rate is not even a quarter.

Zhao Xing is not a hard-hearted person, he feels that if he allows himself to witness the death of his child and experience a life and death parting, he is afraid that he will not be able to bear this pain. Therefore, although he did not object to marrying Ah Zhu at such a young age according to the custom of this era, he did not want to cross that dangerous line and expose himself to possible emotional torture.

These were planned for him before he got married, but he couldn't preach them to the people of Cheng Jiaao, because these truths transcended the traditional concepts they knew.

Zhao Xing's hesitation just now was to explain to Cheng Azhu, but he thought about it: Who wants to publicize the things in the couple's room. Cheng Azhu was young, so he pretended to be vague, could this little girl notice something abnormal.

You will find that the peak of Yumin education is not in the Song Dynasty, although there are doctoral students who do not understand the affairs between husband and wife in modern times, but in the Song Dynasty, teaching the bride to understand the "Gift of Zhou Gong" happens to be a program of weddings.

Zhao Xing didn't know this, he hugged Cheng Azhu, like his own sister, and fell into a deep sleep purely, but Cheng Azhu writhed in his arms, both excited and uneasy.

On the second day of the wedding, the bride has an "unpacking ceremony" (also known as a "meeting ceremony"). That is, to the people who attended the wedding, show her pre-wedding hand-cut cuts, embroidery paper-cut makeup, embroidery and other female red gifts, relatives should take this opportunity to appreciate the bride's ingenuity, hoping to let the groom know: what a clever wife he married.

The custom of paper-cutting began to flourish in the Song Dynasty, and the northern folk proverbs: "give birth to a woman to be skillful, pomegranate peony is hinged", "a pair of scissors on the kang, a shovel on the lower kang", is the standard for evaluating a clever woman. The wedding ceremony and makeup ceremony must be pasted with paper-cutting, and the paper-cut flowers in the cave room have become an opportunity for male and female in-laws to communicate, compete and exhibit.

As soon as the morning dawned, Cheng Jiaao's relatives came to visit according to etiquette, and the women all went into the backyard to admire Cheng Azhu's paper-cutting skills, while the male relatives stayed in the front hall to chat with the groom.

Su Shi didn't come, he couldn't come forward on this occasion, so as soon as the morning dawned, he simply took Cheng Xia, carried the cane and knife given to him by Zhao Xing, put on a robe, and went into the mountain with a few hunters to see the scenery.

Patriarch Cheng Tong is not suitable to come forward at this time, the leader of the Cheng clan is Cheng Lao Er, who has just rushed back from Hangzhou, and now the Cheng family recognizes their ancestors and returns to their ancestors, and their generation also has a generation ranking, Cheng Lao Er should be called Cheng Budo, and Cheng Tong's official name is Cheng different.

It's really different, the change of name made Cheng Lao Er have a bit of an extraneous temperament, he sat on the first seat, pretending to be an elder, looking at the smiling faces of the children below.

How dare the children make too much trouble in front of Zhao Xing, at most they ask the teacher for some gifts, and then sit down obediently, which makes the scene in the room a little deserted.

Zhao Xing didn't care about this kind of coldness, he still had something to do, and he took this opportunity to deal with some family affairs, so he raised his head and ordered Cheng Xun: "Go, call Ah Gong." ”

Cheng Tong is not a corner who is called to come, but Zhao Xing's call he can't help but come, sitting on the first seat that Cheng Budo gave up, he split his head and asked: "Virtuous son-in-law, I heard the second child say, the manor you built in Hangzhou is very large, and you have bought 6,000 acres of land by the river, after getting married, do you plan to move to Hangzhou?" ”

It seems that he has long had doubts, but he has never had a chance to say it.

Zhao Xing skipped his question and asked directly: "Ah Gong, how is the wine sales this year?" ”

Cheng Lao Er hurriedly replied: "Yes, yes, this year's wine will be empty in two months, and the mountain goods will only take a month.

I heard that you bought the brewing method of Pansheng liquor again, do you plan to do it next year? Then we want more people to collect more mountain fruits next year...... Ah, prepare early! ”

Cheng Laoer's questioning was actually turning a corner and asking Zhao Xing if he could leave. But how did Zhao Xing speak.

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