The two were relatively speechless, staring at each other for a long time, their hearts were interconnected, and one more sentence was redundant.

After a while, Liu Zhicai said, "Yan'er, do you know what I said to my mother before?" ”

Zhao Yan was also curious, and said, "Yes, what did you say to Mrs., why was Mrs. so kind to me today, asking me about my food and clothing preferences?" ”

But seeing Liu Zhi said proudly, "Why are you still called 'madam', haven't you changed your words?" I said to my mother, 'Today's Cold Food Festival, I asked my mother for a good daughter-in-law, but is it still filial?' ’”

"You're not serious, I'm ...... I won't pay attention to you......" Zhao Yan snorted lightly, but her face was full of delicate redness, and she understood a little in her heart, "It turns out that he told his mother about us, no wonder Mrs. is ...... like this"

"I've paid a big salute to 'Old Taishan', you can't rely on it!" Liu Zhi still said with a smile.

"What 'Old Tarzan'?" Zhao Yanqi said, "Ah! You said Uncle Xiahou...... "The red on his face just receded, and then it came up again.

saw Liu Zhi standing up, holding a pair of Zhao Yan's small hands with both hands, staring at Zhao Yan's eyes, "Yan'er, I mean really, let's get married this month!" I just went to my mother to ask for the auspicious day, and my mother said that the eighteenth day of this month is the auspicious day, and we will get married in this Hou Mansion! I can't live without you anymore! We're not going to be separated again! Liu Zhi's voice was excited, and it was difficult to control himself.

Zhao Yan opened her mouth slightly, stunned aside, although the two were in love and experienced life and death together, unless God did not allow it, that is, anyone would not be able to separate or dissolve the two, but they never thought that they would marry Liu Zhi so soon. Fang Cai Liu Zhidan's song "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix", he promised that he was willing to marry, but since the Zhou Dynasty, marriage must have "the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker." ”

"Yan'er has no parents, and she has no 'parents' life, but 'eldest brother is like a father', but how can I tell my brother about Brother Zhi. Aunt Fan, Uncle Xiahou! They treat me like a daughter, it turns out that Brother Zhi hid such selfish intentions when he gave that salute to Uncle Xiahou before, he is really cunning! Thinking of this, my heart moved again.

And Zhao Yan remembered that when she was leaving, Xiahou An said that the two of her were "little couple", obviously they had verbally promised the two, although it was a joke, this "parents' order" was so-so, but what about this "matchmaker's words"? Thinking about it, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded, "Brother Zhi is the emperor, how can a matchmaker dare to put me, a poor girl, on the red line with the emperor in such a bad household?" And I, a girl in the village, have no money to hire a matchmaker, even if I have a thousand dollars to give, the matchmaker does not dare to go to the palace to propose. If you can't invite a matchmaker, why do you need a matchmaker. ”

Thinking of this, Zhao Yan also looked at Liu Zhi affectionately, her thin lips opened slightly, and she said, "Okay!" The words are crisp and delicate, and when they reach Liu Zhi's ears, they are really as beautiful as fairy music, and he feels that there is no more pleasant sound in his life.

Liu Zhi wrapped his arms around Zhao Yan, and his heart was already ecstatic, lifting her feet in the air, and laughing loudly, Zhao Yan was also laughing happily in mid-air.

But suddenly Liu Zhi seemed to think of something, his face suddenly became miserable, and the laughter stopped, Zhao Yan was also in a hurry, and hurriedly asked Liu Zhi how he was, but he heard Liu Zhi frown slightly, sighed and said, "Mother is right, it's really hard for you, I can't imagine that you suffered before you saw me, and even more sad after seeing me!" ”

"Although I am the emperor, I am not as good as a common man, they can marry the person they love sincerely, but I can't...... If you are brought into the palace, you will be poisoned by that slut! I can only sneak around in this Hou Mansion, I ...... I'd rather not be this emperor! Liu Zhi was sad and helpless.

It turned out that Liu Zhi looked at Zhao Yan with such a happy expression, and couldn't help but imagine how beautiful she was when she was wearing a phoenix crown. But suddenly remembered that three years ago, when Liang Ji's sister married herself, the Queen Mother Liang Yan made Liu Zhishi enter the levy according to the courtesy, and according to the story of Emperor Xiaohui's acceptance, she hired 20,000 catties of gold, and collected geese, bi, horses, and silks, just like the old classics.

That is to say, at that time, Liu Zhi married Liang Nuying, the sister of Liang Yan, as his wife, and he needed to pay the coins on time, all in accordance with the regulations when Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty married the queen Zhang Yan, and the dowry was 20,000 catties of gold, and the bride price was wild geese, jade, horses, silk silk, and the old classics. According to the history books, Zhang Yanyan is peerless.

"Queen Zhang Yan and Yan'er both have the word 'Yan', Yan'er is also so beautiful, and only this kind of appearance can be worthy of such etiquette, that slut, why!" The more Liu Zhi thought about it, the more angry he became, but Zhao Yan's heart ached even more, why did she suffer so much, how unfair God was!

But Zhao Yan held Liu Zhi's hands and said softly, "Brother Zhi, I can meet you, my previous suffering is not suffering, after meeting you, suffering is not suffering, where does suffering come from?" ”

Liu Zhi heard such empathetic words, but his heart ached even more, and he said sadly, "Yan'er, according to "Zhou Li", the six ceremonies of the big wedding need to be 'Nacai', 'Asking for a name', 'Naji', 'Nazheng', 'Announcing the date', and 'Greeting'. ”

This "Nacai" refers to the preparation of gifts by the man's family, such as wine and meat, wild geese, which are always in pairs with wings, implying the single-mindedness of love, inviting the matchmaker to go to the woman's house to propose, and the woman's family accepts the courtesy, and then the marriage is initially agreed;

"Asking the name" means that after the marriage is discussed, the man will write his birthday as "Gengshu" and send it to the woman's house and ask the woman "Gengshu", and then find a Xiangshi to calculate the fate of the two after returning to the book.

"Najib" is a match between the two sides, the male family sends a "letter of appointment" to ask the matchmaker to go to the woman's house to ask for marriage, and the woman's family needs to return the letter to the man's family if she accepts the letter of appointment;

"Nazheng" is when the man's family receives the letter of return and goes to the woman's house with the dowry to officially engage, and the woman hands over the hand-sewn embroidered handkerchief to the man as a token;

If the woman's family agrees on the "petition", the two families discuss the bride price and other matters, and the man's family sends the bride price and attaches the "gift book", and the woman returns to the "letter of appointment" to inform the dowry.

"Welcome" is the completion of the marriage, the two families in the wedding period put up lanterns, banquet guests, the male family to the female family to greet the relatives, in the male family worship heaven and earth, ancestors, parents and sent into the cave room.

This is considered "rite of passage", and men and women are officially married.

"If you are the queen in the future, how can these gifts be few, alas! I was so messing around, I jumped directly to the 'invitation period', and I couldn't go directly to Cao's Mansion to pick up my relatives, the first four ceremonies were solemn and serious, the more the male family valued the more noble the woman, and it was hard to find a daughter, but I despised you so much, I can't even give you a name! ”

Liu Zhi knew that if Zhao Yan was given a name, he would let Zhao Yan lose his life, and if the two wanted to live for a long time, they could only cut off their name for the time being. The fire in his heart is even more blazing, and he will eradicate the Liang family one day, so that Zhao Yan will be beautiful and beautiful.

"Although the Empress Dowager Liang has returned to the west in the Liang family, Liang Ji is still in charge of the government, and Liang Nuying is in charge of the harem, how can I ......?" Liu Zhi was suddenly ecstatic, grabbed Zhao Yan's hand with both hands, and shouted, "Yan'er! Pregnant! We'll be together forever! ”

Zhao Yan heard Liu Zhi's grief just now, but at this time he was so overjoyed, he just thought that he was too sad and lost his mind, and hurriedly asked, "Brother Zhi, what's wrong with you?" ”

"Yan'er, who am I?" Liu Zhi asked.

"Huh? Brother Zhi, are you really sick? Don't even recognize yourself? As he spoke, he reached out and touched Liu Zhi's forehead.

Liu Zhi only smiled and said, "I am the emperor, who is my mother?" ”

Zhao Yan said, "That's Madame!" A pair of eyes were wide open, and my heart was even more puzzled.

"My mother should have been the queen mother, but the Empress Dowager Liang was not allowed to be promoted during her reign, and I had already honored my father as the emperor of filial piety, but my mother missed the old and still wanted to live in this Liwu Marquis's mansion, and it was time to respect my mother as the queen of filial piety! Put your mother in the palace, and you will stay in your mother's palace, and then we will see each other every day! At this time, Liu Zhi was also overjoyed.

Only then did Zhao Yan understand what Liu Zhi's intentions were, and she was so happy that she clapped her hands again and again, thinking of the future of the two, she couldn't help but be full of hope.

Just as the two of them were rejoicing, they heard someone screaming outside the door, "The time has come, please return to the palace for Your Majesty!" At this time, it was the beginning of the hour, that is, when Liu Zhi made an appointment to return to the palace, the two were reluctant to say goodbye, and agreed to discuss the marriage when they met again on the fifteenth, Liu Zhi asked Aunt Mingfang to send Zhao Yan back to Cao's mansion, and then got on the sedan chair to return to the palace......

On the second day, Qingming, Zhao Zhong and Zhao Yan did not eat grain rice in the morning, dressed in Xuan clothes, and carried two baskets full of fruits, wine, incense, and sacrificial paper to the hillock outside the city. After cleaning up the surrounding weeds, he respectfully stood in the soil with the wooden plaque of Zhao Yan's parents' names written in advance, and according to the elder and younger, Zhao Zhong had to pay tribute and bow first, and Zhao Yan knelt behind Zhao Zhong.

After Zhao Zhong kowtowed, he could only hear Zhao Zhong whispering and whimpering. said that the brother and sister missed their father and mother a lot, and the child was not filial and could not return to his hometown to worship, and said that his brother and sister dug weeds and eats tree bark after leaving their hometown, begging all the way; Yan'er caught a cold and fell ill on the way, Zhao Zhong hid in front of the pharmacy and eavesdropped on someone to grab the medicine, the shopkeeper just wrapped a package of medicine for the cold, and was robbed by Zhao Zhong and ran away, and stole a broken pottery pot, scooped the stream water by the stream and made a fire to Zhao Yan to decoct the medicine......

Hardships along the way, Zhao Yan was also in trouble, felt something, couldn't help but tears, and said sadly in his heart, "Brother, you treat Yan'er so well, but Yan'er wants to leave you......" The more I thought about it, the more sad I became, Zhao Zhong said that since he met Cao Teng in Caofu, how to make a worry-free livelihood in Cao's mansion, his brother and sister also want to repay Caofu's great kindness in this life, but Zhao Yan on the side is ashamed, and tears flow into a thread......

Zhao Zhong heard Zhao Yan crying sadly beside him, so he asked Zhao Yan to come over to worship, Zhao Yan choked up and said, "Brother...... Yan'er wants to say a few words to her father and mother alone, you ...... You stay away from me......" After saying this, he also felt that this was rude, and his voice became smaller and smaller. Zhao Zhong has been following this girl since he was a child, but he didn't know what Zhao Yan wanted, but he still scratched his head and walked into the distance, and said secretly in his heart, "I don't know what the sister whispered to my mother, and I won't even tell ......."

"Mother! Yan'er is not filial! That's why I'm here to pay my respects to you, how are you doing over there? Have you ever met your father, Yan'er, Yan'er can't remember what her father looks like...... My brother told you that in the past year, Uncle Cao has treated my brother and sister very well, but Yan'er ...... Yan'er wants to leave them, but also to leave her brother, you have taught Yan'er to repay her kindness since she was a child, but this Yan'er can only ......repay it in the future."

"Just because Yan'er met him, the fate of the previous life, Yan'er was not filial, and she promised herself to Brother Zhi without telling her father and mother first, Brother Zhi loves me, and Yan'er loves him even more, mother! Are you also happy for Yan'er? …… But I will go with him into the palace...... But he couldn't tell his brother...... I want to be separated from my brother......" At this time, he was even more heartbroken and cried loudly......

Zhao Zhong, who was standing in the distance, was shocked, because some of Zhao Yan's fragmentary words had drifted into Zhao Zhong's ears with the wind.