Marriage events, three books and six ceremonies, are ancient systems that have been handed down since ancient times. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info the first five ceremonies, with Huang Zongxi, a big matchmaker, as well as the assistance of some staff members of the Zhou family, the Sun family and Chen Wen, and even the Confucian family of Quzhou sent people over. In terms of etiquette, there is not a single star that can be picked out by people who are not in the place, everything is done in accordance with the etiquette law.

Yesterday, the Zhou family found a few Quanfu people who were healthy, their parents were long-lived, their spouses were alive, and their children were both complete, and the beds were sprinkled with peanuts, longan, lotus seeds, dates and other preserved fruits.

The word "rite" is an extremely important thing in China, especially when it comes to marriage. After hearing what Sun Yu said, Chen Wen immediately stuffed the letter back into the envelope and threw it on the table.

In ancient times, ordinary people could not approach the study of the head of a large family at all, even the wife had to be allowed to enter, and the rules on Chen Wen's side were far less big, but it was only Sun Yu and some other cronies who had the right to enter. Now that the auspicious time has arrived, Chen Wen hurriedly left the study and followed Sun Yu to the lobby in a hurry.

Chen Wen's parents could not arrive, so he had to go to the temple on his own and report to the ancestors of the Chen family about marrying the bride. As soon as this ceremony was over, a spokesperson said loudly: "This generation of your father said: Bow to welcome the couple, and rule the house." ”

"Dare not obey orders." After that, Chen Wen retreated to his original position, bowed again, and then got up and went out, and went to Zhou's house under the leadership of Huang Zongxi.

On the Zhou family's side, the corresponding etiquette has also been completed, Chen Wen dismounted outside the gate, and Huang Zongxi entered to inform him, and then entered with the Zhou family's praisers.

The Zhou family was originally from Shaoxing Mansion, but it was moved to Jinhua during the Jiajing War, and it has been a hundred years, and it has been some years since the connection with the family in Shaoxing. However, in the Ming Dynasty, whether it was the imperial court, the local government, or the local gentry and people in Jinhua, they all regarded this family according to the outsiders from Shaoxing, and there was no reason not to admit it to the family in Shaoxing.

However, after moving to the local area for a hundred years, the Zhou family was originally a scholarly family, with a lot of land and industry, and almost every generation can produce a person, a member or something, and there has never been any loser's goods, that is, the family property lost a few years ago because of Ma Jinbao's greed and unscrupulousness, and it was also compensated in Chen Wen's aftermath loan, and it is still that rich family.

The big mansion of the Zhou family, Chen Wen had come before, and he came to the banquet at the invitation of the Zhou family's elders, but it was because of Zhou Jingting at that time, but he didn't expect to come again, but he was already a family.

When I entered the gate, I bypassed the wall, and it was already a festive color as if it was outside the door. When he saw his father-in-law, Lao Taishan, Chen Wen first saluted, and then was offered by a staff member of the celebrant, and then bowed before going out of the gate.

The name asking ceremony has passed, and Chen Wen already knows that the original name of the little sister of the Zhou family is Yue Ying, but this Yue Ying is not the other Yueying.

The word Ying, which can be sharp or smart, with the word Yue, Chen Wen suddenly thought after reading the post, but it reminded him of the bits and pieces between each other. Whether it is the courage and perseverance when rushing to Quzhou to report the news, or the calmness when facing Ni Liangxu; or borrowed the power to expel that He Gongzi, or the speed of understanding Chen Wen's ideas that transcended the times in Xifeng Temple, which really made him sigh a little.

At this moment, Chen Wen went out of the door, and Zhou Yueying's father also returned to the lobby and sat in the lobby with his wife.

"Bye, rejoice."

"Bye, rejoice."

"Bye, rejoice."

"Bye, rejoice."

"Flat."

As the salute was sung, Zhou Yueying bowed, got up, and went back and forth four times before standing up and listening to her parents' admonition.

"Marry in the past, take obedience as the right, and never forget to be respectful."

"You must be respectful and refrain, and do not disobey your aunt's orders."

The two parents said that it was her mother's turn to marry the girl, and now her mother.

"Listen to the admonitions, and don't be ashamed of your parents."

"Although you are not sensitive, you dare not obey your fate."

After answering, Zhou Yueying bowed four more times, and then the mother-in-law and maid who served in the past were led out to board the carriage with exquisite workmanship, carved with festive patterns such as the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea and the Qilin Sending Child, decorated with red and yellow satin and various ribbons.

The guard of honor is in front, and the greeter and send-off are in the back, which is the dowry, and it is also from the Zhou family to go out with the carriage, and the fields, real estate, shops, furniture, furnishings, rouge gouache, jewelry, calligraphy and painting, ancient books and scholars, and medicinal materials and spices, I don't know how long it has been to be regarded as an end.

The dowry is the private house of the woman after marriage, although the dignity of men and women has been determined, but in order to protect the rights and interests of women, ancient China has been in addition to the seven out of the rule of three do not go, that is, the dowry is also protected by the Ming law. In the case of divorce, the dowry can also be brought back by itself, except in some special circumstances, the husband's family cannot be encroached upon.

Chen Wen had already ridden back first, sitting in the car, Zhou Yueying knew that if she hadn't married Chen Wen, she would probably have to go to the Hou Mansion in a sedan chair.

According to the Zhou rites, the bride was married by car, even in the Sui and Tang dynasties. However, by the time of the Ming Dynasty, getting married by car was already a thing of the past, and it was replaced by a sedan chair.

It is said that when the Jin people searched the mountains and inspected the sea to arrest Zhao Gou, they once defeated Zhao Gou's guards in Mingzhou, which is now Ningbo Mansion, and Zhao Gou escaped the pursuit of Jin soldiers with the help of a Ningbo girl, and the girl also made a hot meal for Zhao Gou, who was already hungry and cold at that time. Later, Yue Fei and Han Shizhong defeated Jin Bing several times, and Zhao Gou ordered to find the girl after he sat back and relaxed, but after several unsuccessful attempts, he made an order to allow the Mingzhou girl to marry with four people.

It is said that this is the origin of the sedan chair for marriage. It's hard to say whether the story is really good, but it is true that the sedan chair began to prevail in the Southern Song Dynasty, and it is also mentioned in the Northern Song Dynasty's "Tokyo Menghualu", but it is not common.

It's just that Chen Wen is already a marquis, not a scholar, and this time there are quasi-Confucians like Huang Zongxi, as well as the family history of the Confucian family.

In the afternoon, the carriage to welcome the relatives arrived at the gate of the Hou Mansion. Zhou Yueying got out of the car, and the person who praised Chen Wen led Chen Wen out to greet him and walked in.

After worshipping heaven and earth and thanking the guests, it is a wedding feast. Unlike later generations, male and female guests cannot be in the same place, with men in the main hall and women in the back hall.

This time, Chen Wen became a family, and invited not only the civil and military officials who could come to the Ming Army in Zhejiang, but also some representatives of the common people in Siming Mountain and Tiantai Mountain, the six clans in Dongyang County and the Qijiajun family in Yiwu County who gave him great help when he first entered Jinhua, and then some influential gentry in the four provinces of Jinquyan, and members of the merchants who had business contacts with the Ming Army in Zhejiang. Even Yu Guowang's son and Wang Yi's daughter, who were inconvenient to come because their father had not been dead for a long time, sent people to send congratulatory gifts.

There were a lot of people who came to congratulate them, and they were full of them, even the newly expanded inner courtyard of the Hou Mansion only put female guests in, and all the male guests ate in the halls of the various departments and yamen that had been temporarily vacated. On the male guests' side, there were Sun Yu, Gu Shouli and others who instructed the subordinates of the Hou Mansion to help, and the female guests who accompanied them, as well as Sun Yu's wife, greeted the prefect's yamen and the maids of the Yi family, and finally the guests and hosts were happy.

According to the provisions of the "Daming Huidian", Chen Wen and Zhou Yueying have done the steps of the wedding step by step, only the noisy cave room and the people who listen to the door have been bombarded out by Chen Wen with a sentence of disagreement, as for what reason, anyway, in Zhejiang, now Chen Wen has the final say, who cares about this.

There are a lot of jokes about modern people making trouble in the cave room, and there were also people who made trouble in the cave room in ancient times, Chen Wen is now the supreme commander of the Ming Army in Zhejiang, and those who are qualified to come to the cave room are all his civil and military subordinates, they are restrained, and Chen Wen is not interested in wasting this time; As for listening to the door, I still can't adapt to it, and I want others to listen to the movement outside, how to think about it, how awkward, just take the right, and set up a broom at the door, and the right is listening.

The etiquette was all completed, and only Chen Wen and Zhou Yueying were left in the new house. Before the crossing, the concept of newlyweds was more about participating in other people's weddings, as well as the money for each time, after coming to this era, Chen Wen had participated in the weddings of some generals, but when it was his turn, it was a completely different matter. However, compared to Zhou Yueying, who lowered her head and looked sideways after the maids left, Chen Wen was always much stronger.

The haunted house itself is also to allow the newlyweds to change from a man and a woman to the role of husband and wife faster, but Chen Wen has already invited the people in the haunted house away, and he has to come to this by himself.

"Lady."

"Yes, husband."

Answering like a mosquito, shyly and shy, Zhou Yueying raised her head when she heard Chen Wen's call, but when she looked at each other for a moment, she still lowered her head.

Last night, her mother-in-law called her into the room, and blasted out all the maids who were waiting in the room, leaving only the mother and daughter, in order to give her some things that she should know as a bride. Of course, this is naturally indispensable to the treasure at the bottom of the box.

Although she is already double ten years old, she is no better than the women of later generations, she still has no understanding of the affairs of men and women, that is, reading, and she prefers the articles that are regarded as boring by other close friends in the boudoir, rather than the things between men and women. So much so that before yesterday, she just knew that when she got married and became someone's wife, she had to honor her in-laws, serve her husband well, and live in harmony with her husband's brothers and sisters, pass on the lineage to her husband, and be a good helper who would not let her husband worry about the things in the house, just like her mother, that's all.

But as for how to pass on the lineage, she didn't have a preliminary understanding until last night. But even so, it still made her almost unable to breathe in shame.

The previous etiquette has been completed, Chen Wen called her at this moment, thinking that it should be time to perform the ceremony of the Duke of Zhou, and she was thinking about whether to say the words such as serving her husband for the first time, the posture of a concubine, and looking at pity, but she found that Chen Wen's train of thought didn't know where to jump again.

"Lady, do you know, when I just drank Heyu wine, my husband suddenly remembered a story I had heard before, one of which was, I have worshiped my ancestor and drank Hejiu, and you are a member of my old Niu family."

"Huh?"

Zhou Yueying was stunned for a moment, then reacted from Chen Wen's cranky thoughts when he spoke just now, frowned, and then said: "In this story, Fujun, eighty percent of the people who said this are bandits who rob houses and houses. ”

As soon as the words came out, Zhou Yueying suddenly felt a little remorseful, her mother said last night that when she gets married, she is different from being at home, and she has to think twice before she speaks and does things, especially if she is still married to Chen Wen, who has a good future, even the prince of the country and the king of the county may not be able to be a big man, and it must be so in the inner house. Besides, as a wife, the husband is whatever she says, even if the husband says that the concubine is more beautiful than her, she must nod her head and say yes, and seriously echo the husband's words, and must not be dissatisfied, so as not to fall into a jealous reputation.

Seeing that Chen Wen was stunned for a moment, Zhou Yueying hurriedly wanted to say something to round it back, who knew that Chen Wen actually nodded and agreed with her opinion - the Bull Demon King robbed the Zixia Fairy as the lady of the village, not the bandits who robbed the house or the house, and it can even be said that most of the bandits are not like the Bull Demon King, at least there are no madmen among the bandits who eat monks in order to live forever.

Chen Wen only agreed with Zhou Yueying's answer according to his understanding of the story, but a feeling of happiness arose in Zhou Yueying's heart.

Her family is a scholarly family, and the rules in the family are strict, no more than ordinary people, men speak, and women rarely dare to interject. She is better, after all, she is a girl who has not left the cabinet, her mother, aunt, the wife of two cousins, the concubine, or the wife of her brother Zhou Jingting, unless her husband asks, they are all just listening from the sidelines, and rarely interject. Because they, even her, know that no matter what they say is right or wrong, interjecting may cause their husband's dissatisfaction, so they are cautious one by one, and they are rarely willing to cross this boundary.

Getting married is about getting married, but after reading Li Zhen's book, such days make her feel tired, even if she just thinks about it, let alone go there in person. Moreover, this is only a microcosm of it, more rules, rules for women abound in the home. She was born in such a family, and she can adapt to many of them, but she has been cautious and trembling all her life, and she is even unwilling to face a man she may not have seen and has a good impression of.

Originally, she thought that only people in this world who could write those opinions and ideas like Li Zhen would be able to really wait for him, or not despise him so much, and even she had already planned that if she couldn't meet such a man in her life, she would never marry. But who knows, over the years, she has been a little disheartened, but she found that there are really such people in this world.

Chen Wen, for the husband in front of her who is about to accompany her for life, Zhou Yueying's initial impression is just a good martial artist, brave and wise, and with the record of the Qi family's army in Zhejiang that year, Chen Wen played the banner of reconstruction, so she will have great confidence in this Ming army, especially Chen Wen.

However, this confidence is actually limited to the military, for herself, she never thought that there would be today, and even when Yi Qing mentioned it in front of her, even if she had already met Chen Wen at that time, she still didn't think that this would be a man worth her life.

But with several chance encounters, every time she deepened her understanding of Chen Wen, she would feel a little surprised, originally thinking that such accidents would accumulate again and again, or just an accident in her life. Who knows, that day, her brother was on duty, but secretly told her the news that Chen Wen wanted to make an appointment to meet.

What this means, but anyone with a discerning eye can see it, but at that time, she was only slightly better than ordinary people in her impression of Chen Wen, and she couldn't reach the point of promising each other with her body. But she didn't dare, she didn't dare not go. Chen Wen's current status and power, their Zhou family's position in the Zhejiang Ming Army, especially her brother has always treated her very kindly, if she doesn't go, she is afraid that it will cause the dissatisfaction of the Hou master, and it will be a tragic end to the family's ruin.

Several reciprocations, especially some of the things her brother mentioned on weekdays, made her believe that Chen Wen was not the kind of person who would anger others for the affairs of men and women, but if she really refused, she would not dare to take this risk. What's more, she also wanted to get the answer to the question she had asked before, so she had that private meeting.

Trembling into the main hall of Xifeng Temple, Chen Wen borrowed the story of the self-combing girl to interpret his concept of "the economic base determines the superstructure", which really opened Zhou Yueying's eyes. When the story of the Chinese ghost story is told, it is impossible for a ruthless person to remember such stories vividly, especially the thoughtfulness and warmth between her hands, the original impression of Chen Wen's cold martial artist in her heart began to crumble.

So much so that when Chen Wen personally asked her about her opinion on the matter of courtship, a heart-pounding feeling instantly overwhelmed her persistence.

If it weren't for Chen Wen's face-to-face inquiry, maybe she could have learned more, but the next day, the world-famous Yao Jiang Huang Xiaozi came to visit. acquiesced to the attitude of marriage, and for most of the month, she was still a little nervous, until the moment just now, Chen Wen's recognition of her views really made Zhou Yueying's heart have a trace of inexplicable joy and happiness.

"The husband told the story to the concubine, and if it can be written down by the husband, it won't be bad." She was still a little nervous about Zhou Gong's gift, since Chen Wen mentioned the story, let's listen to it first, I hope that after hearing it, it won't be like now.

The story is indeed a good story, and the touching thing is that A Chinese Ghost Story may not be comparable, but the ending of that story is also a lover who can't end up married, and it's really out of place on today's good day.

"That story is not very suitable for today's day, and I can't remember some details clearly, so let's do it another day." Chen Wen could see that Zhou Yueying was still a little nervous, and chatting was the best way to relieve tension, but in the current situation, it was best for him to blow away the fog between each other, after all, it was still a little unrealistic to expect a girl's family to take the initiative.

"I remember before I set off for the south, in the tea shop of Tianjin Wei, I heard a story told by a few fake Tartars who ate wine at the adjacent table, which was very interesting......

Chen Wen remembered that he had heard people mention it on the Internet before, saying that it was the emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty who turned over the brand to recruit concubines to sleep, and the eunuchs in the worship room had to make records and file them specially, and it was said that such bullying of eunuchs was actually the ancestral system of the Manchu Dynasty.

Whether it's true or not, Chen Wen doesn't know very well, and he hasn't checked it. But if you think about it carefully, when Nurhachi was alive, Dolgon's old lady and Daishan were not clear; Huang Taiji's aunt and niece eat it all; In order to recruit Hong Chengchou, Xiaozhuang was ordered to have a one-night stand with Hong Chengchou; After the death of Emperor Taiji, Dolgon climbed onto the dragon's bed again; Even a year or two later, even Shunzhi killed his younger brother Bomu Bogol and took possession of the concubine Dong E......

I have only three generations before and after the Qing Dynasty There have been so many "classic love stories" that have been sung by later generations of pigtail operas, and they are all based on official history or wild history, and now it seems that the joke of this eunuch writing a diary is not groundless, and it is even necessary.

"The next day, the Tartar Emperor asked, "How long did you stay under the bed last night?"

When the eunuch saw that his master had this question, he hurriedly replied that he would stay until the fifth watch.

On the fifth watch, when the Tartar Emperor heard it, he asked him what he had heard on the first watch?

The eunuch thought for a moment, and then replied, "The servant seemed to hear His Majesty and the Queen Mother drawing."

What do you mean by that?

When the slave heard this, His Majesty said to the queen mother, come and let me see the twin peaks......"

This meat joke is very famous in later generations, Chen Wen has seen others post it on the Internet more than once, and with the "ancestral system" of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he found that there was no sense of disobedience at all.

It's just that the beautiful woman in front of him lowered her head after she understood the first sentence, and when she looked at it, her face gradually unfolded with Chen Wen's jokes, from a little pink to a shy red and slippery, back and forth. However, the two of them are already husband and wife, and Zhou Yueying can't do it if she plugs her ears and doesn't listen to such a betrayal, so she can only sit next to Chen Wen and listen, and in the end, her beautiful and unparalleled face is as red as a ripe apple.

"The husband is used to playing with the concubine, the last time I told the story of the female ghost in Xifeng Temple, and insisted that it happened there, so that the concubine felt afraid when she returned home. Telling such a story again this time is clearly bullying people. ”

The meat joke was finally finished, Zhou Yueying raised her head, but the look of shame on her face was even more prevalent just now. Just looking at Chen Wen's eyes, it added a little color, making his throat a little dry, and the corners of his mouth even skimmed a smile.

"So, lady, do you think the husband should first check if there is a eunuch under the bed to take notes for our husband and wife?"

"The more the husband speaks, the more unspeakable it becomes, the eunuch is a servant of the royal family!"

As she spoke, Zhou Yueying's small mouth couldn't help but pout. Seeing this, Chen Wen, who was smiling, already knew that this nervousness had retreated a lot, and as soon as his butt moved, he immediately came to Zhou Yueying's side and held her in his arms.

"It doesn't matter who he is, the Spring Festival is worth a thousand gold, it's been a day's toss, lady, shouldn't we rest."

The joke just now was indeed not acceptable to her, but as the joke was finished, the original nervousness also retreated in shyness, turning into soft and delicate words to the extreme.

"The concubine, the concubine serves the husband for the first time, and the posture of the willow is still ...... hope that the husband will be pitied."

The bright and moving beauty in front of her looked like she was giving and taking, Chen Wen picked up the little face and gently touched it on the cherry lips. (To be continued.) )