Chapter 134: A Great Marriage
Besides, Wang Wu has been sailing from the Xinjiang River to Yangzhou for many years, and since that time he saw the delicate woman scrubbing her clothes on the river, he was thrilled, and at the instigation of the boatmen, he teased her with love songs.
Who knew that this was still self-reliant, this singing, Wang Wu's three souls and six spirits were all taken away by this delicate woman.
After Wang Wu returned home by boat, all day long, thinking about the delicate and watery woman who sang to him, he didn't think about tea and dinner, but he actually committed lovesickness, and the whole person lost weight.
Wang Wu's mother saw her son sailing back, unusually, somehow. Under the repeated questioning of his mother, Wang Wu told his mother the truth.
It is normal for men to marry and women to get married. Wang Wu and his mother asked the matchmaker to say a few relatives for her son, and the woman saw that Wang Wu's family was good and she had a talent, so she was very willing to marry Wang Wu. However, Wang Wu is only infatuated with the person who sings, and she will not marry.
didn't think about it, after Wang Wu and his mother inquired about the woman's situation, they asked the matchmaker to go to the marriage.
The delicate and delicate woman, the Hakka family of Jinzhutan Village, Zhaozhou, surnamed Su, the second sister, the eldest sister married the Zhang family in the neighboring village a year ago, and she is also a Hakka, and there are still parents and a younger brother at home.
In fact, the delicate and delicate woman, at first sight, saw Wang Wusheng as a talent, and the mountain songs she sang were very beautiful, and she also had love in her heart.
At that time, Su Ermei was singing a duet in a mountain song, and she used songs to convey love and hint at love. But when I think of meeting in Pingshui, I don't know the details of the other party, plus the women in their villages, most of them intermarry with men from neighboring villages, and the Hakka people basically marry (marry) the Hakka people. Therefore, when Wang Wu couldn't hold back the passion that surged all over her body, threw away the penny and jumped into the water, wanting to chase her, she had no choice but to turn around, tenderly brushed a wisp of soft hair beside her face, and insincerely sang "Youlang Woman Brother Mo Lian ......", and then hurriedly left.
Su Ermei's father is also quite literate, born in a scholarly family, has studied with her grandfather since she was a child, is familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, and likes to chant poems against her. He has a criterion for choosing a son-in-law, whether rich or poor, as long as he can answer his poems or couplets, he can become his son-in-law. The eldest son-in-law was chosen through this form.
When the matchmaker Ba Po came to the door to propose, Su Ermei's father told the Ba Po about his request to choose a son-in-law, and made an appointment to call Wang Wu to come three days later.
The matchmaker went back to Wang Wu and his mother to convey the request of Su's second sister Ya Daddy, and after Wang Wu heard it, he immediately changed his illness and became energetic.
Three days later, Wang Wu was in good spirits, and traveled 300 miles by boat to Jinzhutan Village as promised.
As soon as the news came out that Su's second sister Ya Dad was going to choose a son-in-law for her second daughter, two offspring also came to try their luck. One of them is a showman, and the other is a son of a wealthy family with a land.
Su's second sister Ya Dad came up with a poem: with "a little red, like a curved bow, zero dingling, dark and hazy" twelve words are hidden in four lines of poetry, whoever writes a good poem will choose whoever is a son-in-law.
Xiucai was confident that he had a splendid chest, so he preemptively chanted:
The sunrise is a little red in the east,
The winding moon is like a bow.
The sky is full of stars and zero dingling,
White clouds obscure the darkness.
The son of this honest family did not show weakness, and then chanted:
A little red when the tomatoes are ripe,
The beans are like a bent bow,
Dwarf melon knots are hung with zero dingling,
The foliage obscures the darkness.
The two post-born boys had just finished groaning, and at this time, the second sister came out in a white robe to peek at the appearance of the post-born boys. Wang Wu saw it at a glance, touched the spiritual wit, and also stepped forward and continued:
The young lady is a little red on her mouth,
The two eyebrows are like bows,
Two earrings with zero dingling,
The white robe hides the darkness.
After hearing this, Second Sister Su retreated into the back hall with a smile. After hearing this, Su's second sister Ya Dad applauded loudly. Seeing that Wang Wusheng was clear-eyed, burly and handsome, he decided to marry his daughter to him, and achieved a good marriage.
Wang Wu's family lived on a small hill in Liantang Village, and they climbed a gentle slope from the side of their ancestor's old house, and then climbed two sections of bluestone steps with nine steps, and then they could enter his family's courtyard.
The steps are deliberately built into "Double Nine", which naturally means that the owner can "climb the heights of Ninety-Nine" and become rich and noble. Both sides of the stairs and the courtyard dam are planted with orchid plants, and when the orchids are open, the courtyard exudes a faint fragrance. Of course, there are also many lotus flowers, which are said to be planted to ward off snakes.
The orchid was planted by Wang Wu's wife, Su Ermei, and this girl naturally loves all flowers and plants, especially orchids. Su Ermei is not only in the courtyard, but also likes to put a few pots of orchids on the windowsill and desk. The house in the courtyard was built by Wang Wu's father in his early years, and it is a hanging wooden house with one floor and one bottom, five pillars and seven melons. The house faces east and west, with a green tile roof, and the beams and pillars are made of a kind of red hardwood that is more than a foot in size.
The upstairs and downstairs siding of the house and the floor slabs above and below are neatly decorated, and the lighting conditions of the doors and windows are good. Living in the house is warm in winter and cool in summer, and there are few mosquito bites in summer. In the middle hall of the house, there is a shrine platform inside, and a six-fold door is installed outside. There is a tablet of the ancestors of the royal family carved from Nan wood on the altar, and there is an incense burner with blue glaze made in the Sui and Tang dynasties in front of the tablet. There is a table of eight immortals under the stage, and a set of wooden chairs with a total of eight beds is placed next to the table.
There are many plant patterns carved around the altar and tables and chairs, and it seems that they are all old goods. When receiving guests, Wang Wujia used to invite people to sit on both sides of the Eight Immortals Table in the middle hall, and the hostess served a pot of tea, and then the host and guest drank tea while discussing affairs.
In the late Tang Dynasty, Wang Wujia fell in the middle of the road, and could no longer put the stinky score of the rich in the past, and the reception of visitors could only be changed to: invited to the courtyard in the summer under the grapefruit tree around the rock baba trough, that is, after the glutinous rice was played a year ago, people moved the rock baba trough to the grapefruit tree and threw it down and put it aside, to the usual time the host borrowed this rock cake trough, borrowed its bottom as a platform for placing tea, and sat down with the guests to talk about related affairs.
In winter, the host invites guests into the house, sits around the fire pit, and smokes slowly. Naturally, Wang Wu, who has always been hospitable, often brings a plate of dim sum or burns a few bowls of sweet wine to entertain guests. Now, although the old tables and chairs in the central hall have no practical role and are just a kind of decoration, the hostess still polishes them every day. On the Liuhe door outside the middle hall and the windows on both sides of the sun, there are hollow patterns such as flowers, birds, insects and fish.
The new river flows from the south and passes away to the north. According to the theory of Feng Shui, water is the source of wealth, and the new rivers come with wealth. The people of Liantang Village build houses, they are accustomed to sitting in the east and south by the mountains and rivers, and most people pay attention to the front of the main house in the north with one or two side rooms, so as to block the wealth of the family from flowing out, so there is also a wing room in front of the main house of Wang Wu's family.