Lu Yingyan easily took her eyes off the portrait, she glanced at the beautiful bride slightly, and then focused on the text under the portrait.

Under the portrait of the groom, the name written is "Lin Yiqing", an instructor at the Satsuma Naval Academy in Japan; The bride's name is He Yunqing, and she is the younger sister of He Ruzhang, the minister of the Qianguo State to Japan.

She looked at the text of the report again, although it was all about the wedding, but Lu Yingyan looked very attentive.

At this moment, she seemed to be back in her own wedding, immersed in the joy of being newly married......

"Shoot! Open the way to welcome your relatives! ”

On this day, the streets of Kagoshima Prefecture suddenly heard the sound of firecrackers.

Amid the curious eyes of a group of Japanese residents, a mighty procession of Qianguo greeting relatives appeared on the streets of Kagoshima Prefecture. A Qianguo man dressed in a splendid official uniform rode on a horse, and a sedan chair with red and colorful colors followed closely behind, and walked towards the consulate of Qianguo where the bride was located. The wedding soon became a sensation throughout the city, attracting a large number of tourists and residents.

Soon, people learned from the news reporter that the groom of this wedding was called Lin Yiqing, an instructor at the Satsuma Naval Academy, and the most important person for General Saigo Takamori; The bride's name is He Yunqing, and she is the sister of He Ruzhang Hanlin, the minister of the Qianguo State to Japan. As soon as the groom returned from the Qianguo, he held this grand traditional Qianguo wedding in Kagoshima Prefecture.

People saw that in front of the procession, an official dressed in the uniform of the civil officials of the Qianguo State rode a horse, led a big red sedan chair with eight lifts, and opened the way with a golden boy and a jade girl, a "birthday star" followed closely with a big red firecracker, four servants carried a red double happiness plaque, 18 "colorful girls" dressed in the traditional costumes of the Qianguo country stepped on embroidered shoes and walked slowly, the "chicken car" was loaded with jujubes, longan, walnuts, peanuts and grains, and the golden dragon dancing wildly and the lion rolling hydrangea accompanied them all the way, blowing and blowing and walking on the streets.

This kind of jubilant and folk wedding scene surprised and puzzled many foreign reporters and Japanese residents, and after a while, the bride in a red dress and a big red hijab appeared, and a group of Japanese girls were attracted and unconsciously followed behind the bride procession, enviously following this wedding full of dry national flavor.

Lin Yiqing first sent a ceremonial officer to perform the Nacai ceremony, and according to the regulations of the Qianguo dynasty, he sent three satin clothes and two satin mattresses. He was dressed in auspicious clothes, and ordered his children to be envoys, and he brought gifts to women's houses. To the door, He Ruzhang Jifu welcomes in, the servant will display the gift in the hall, the messenger explains the intention of Nacai, He Ruzhang happily accepts, and burns incense to the ancestors. On the day before the wedding, the He family sent Miss He's dowry to Lin Yiqing's residence and displayed it in the hall (to show the rich marriage of the female family). On the day of the wedding, Lin Yiqing prepared a banquet for guests and friends, set up a guard of honor, prepared a sedan chair and a welcoming team, and went to the woman's house under the leadership of the messenger to marry the bride (the groom is waiting at home, no need to greet in person). Early in the morning, the bride dressed up and waited for the car to greet her relatives.

Not long after, the procession to greet the relatives arrived, the envoy and He Ruzhang saluted, the firecrackers rang out again, and the entire Qianguo consulate was full of joy. Seeing his sister wearing a red hijab boarding the sedan chair, He Ruzhang actually shed tears (I don't know whether it was joy or sadness, or it could be relief after liberation).

The welcoming party arrived at Lin Yiqing's residence at the Satsuma Naval Academy, and at this moment this small courtyard was decorated with lights, and many guests came and went, many of them wearing Qianguo costumes, although many of them were not actually Qianguo, but Japanese.

The bride's sedan chair was tightly covered. He Yunqing, who was sitting inside, couldn't see the situation on the street at all, and he didn't know where people were carrying him, and no one on the street could see the bride.

She didn't know that at this moment, everyone was waiting in the front hall for the arrival of the bridal sedan chair. The room was crowded with female guests dressed in gorgeous costumes, some of whom were the daughters of local samurai families, and some were family members of overseas Chinese merchants of the Qianguo Kingdom.

The guard of honor came, and in front of them were the drummers. Firecrackers immediately went off. The band inside the gate immediately began to blow. A long red cloth three feet wide was spread from the gate through the courtyard to the steps outside the hall, which was for the bride to walk. At this time, people did not see the bride, only the red sedan chair embroidered with gold thread.

The sedan chair was carried into the yard, and the sedan chair driver first lowered the sedan chair, pulled out the two long sedan poles, and replaced them with two short ones. At this time, the bride was still hiding in the black sedan chair, He Yunqing felt a little hot, her head was a little dizzy, and she didn't know where she was.

At the beginning of the recital, Zanli wore a black gauze hat with gold leaves and red flowers, recited four lines of poetry aloud, and then sang: "The bride gets off the sedan chair and rises step by step!" Please! ”

As soon as the salute is finished, the bridesmaids walk to the sedan chair, open the curtain of the sedan chair, and take down the horizontal board in the sedan chair where the arms rest, and go to pick up the bride. At this time, the red hood was still covered on her face, and she still couldn't see anything. Letting the bridesmaids hold her left and right, she slowly got out of the sedan chair with her head down.

She was led up the stone steps. At this time, the music sounded, and the firecrackers were lit and crackled.

Lin Yiqing approached, lifted a corner of her big red hood, held a new scale wrapped in red paper in his hand, and used the end of the scale rod to remove the veil from her face. This is done with a scale hung on a weighing stone for auspiciousness, because it means "satisfying", "satisfying", and "all the best". Although the audience was large, it was silent, and immediately a low voice of admiration was heard, like a delicate and perfect marble statue unveiling the curtain.

The bride's beauty is indeed amazing.

He Yunqing kept her head down, moving forward mechanically, and acted under the instructions of others. The salute is sung: "Kneel - one prostration, prostration, prostration, three prostrations, up!" Kneel again - one prostrate - prostrate again - three prostrations - salute! Her knees couldn't help but bend down, but her eyes were always unconsciously looking for him.

At this time, two chairs were placed in the middle of the hall, and the parents of the bride were invited to take their seats on them to accept the bride's prostration, but now one could only be empty, and the other sat He Ruzhang, the so-called "eldest brother is the father", and that was it. Next to these two chairs, the seats of the groom's parents are also empty there.

He Ruzhang wore a formal official uniform, an official hat, and official boots, looking burly and solemn, smiling, and singing loudly about the bride and groom kneeling and kowtowing, He Yunqing then knelt down and kowtowed with Lin Yiqing, and stood up as ordered.

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