Chapter 64: Chen Lin's wedding
In the blink of an eye, it has been three years since Guanghe in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it has been more than a year and nearly two years since Chen Lin left Anyang for the second time. During these days, in addition to Chen Lin's correspondence with Anyang's family, the caravans led by his uncle Lin De passed through Luoyang from time to time. Chen Li also wrote to Chen Lin that Miss Zhang was in the age of leaving the cabinet, and hoped that Chen Lin could marry Miss Zhang as soon as possible, so that Chen Li could hold his grandson as soon as possible.
Now it is the generous and gentle Liu Yu who is the captain of Sili, and the Emperor Ling killed a large number of loyal ministers like Yang Ball in a daze a few years ago, and Luoyang seems to be calm for a while. Cao Jie took the opportunity to use this as an excuse to deceive Emperor Ling, and Emperor Ling also felt that the previous gang had killed the right people, and even promoted Cao Jie, a eunuch, to Shangshu Ling, and Cao Jie was as safe as Mount Tai. There are also small eunuchs Lu Qiang and others who have formed a party with Zhang Rang Zhao Zhong and compete for favor with Cao Jie, and suddenly there is a strange phenomenon in the Han Dynasty, the court and the foreign minister are safe, but the eunuchs in the palace are fierce and abnormal.
On this day, Chen Lin returned to Chen's mansion, and Huang Yan came to say a letter from Anyang. Chen Lin opened it and looked at it, panicked, and shouted: "Grandpa is sick", it turned out that Chen Li's letter said that Mrs. Chen was getting thinner and thinner day by day after the New Year, and finally hoped that Chen Lin could rush back to see him. Chen Lin hurriedly turned around and went out, went to Yang Ci's mansion, went in to see Yang Ci and said that he wanted to take leave and go back to Anyang to visit his grandfather. Yang Ci saw Chen Lin like this, and greatly appreciated it in his heart, and called someone to give Chen Lin a hundred years of ginseng from Liaodong and a hundred taels of gold as a gift, and asked Chen Lin to bring it back. Chen Lin left Yang Ci and went to Liu Yu's place again, and he also got Liu Yu's consent, and he was willing to let Chen Lin take a leave of absence for three months to go back.
It was Chen Lin who took Huang Yan, Gao Shun and others to return to Anyang with horses, all the way anxious, non-stop, and the light horse galloped for more than 100 miles, and returned to Anyang County in a few days. Today's Anyang County has become one of the largest counties in Runan County and even in the Han Dynasty after several years of operation, with 8,000 households and more than 30,000 people, which is twice as much as in the Xiping period. Chen Lin didn't have the heart to appreciate the prosperity of Anyang, so he hurried to Chen's mansion, and he didn't have time to talk much when he met his playmates along the way. Chen Lin rushed into Chen's mansion and shouted: "So-and-so is back, is Grandpa in the county, or in the countryside?" ”
Hearing the shout, Chen Li and the other masters of the Chen family ran out together, happily pulled over Chen Lin, looked at Chen Lin all over his body, and saw that Chen Lin was a young man in his twenties, and his spirit was not reduced back then, but he was a little sharp. Chen Lin visited his parents and brothers, Chen Ze and Chen also hurriedly saw their brothers, and Chen Lin hurriedly asked: "Father, the letter said that Grandpa is sick, Grandpa is in the house?" "The old lady is in the mansion, and when the body is slightly unwell, the old lady will return to Anyang County from Chenjiabao, after all, the main members of the Chen Mansion are in the county.
Chen Lin ran to see the old lady, and the big housekeeper Chen Bao went into the house to report to the old lady when Chen Lin came back. As soon as Chen Lin entered the door, he saw that the old lady, who had always looked at Chen Lin with a kind face, was pale at this time, and was lying on Chen Linxian's tiger skin couch without standing upright. Chen Lin's heart was sour, choked up, rushed forward and knelt heavily in front of Grandpa's couch, holding Grandpa's skinny hand with both hands: "Grandpa, Bozhi came back to visit you when you are old." After speaking, he lowered his head and leaned on Grandpa's hand and cried, and the Chen family who followed behind him couldn't help but cry with a whin.
Suddenly, Chen Lin stood up abruptly and turned around and shouted: "Don't cry, Grandpa is here, it's a happy event for me to come back to visit today, cry a lot, go out, I talk to Grandpa, don't bother." Chen Lin shouted, scaring everyone in the Chen family, Chen Li looked at his son in surprise, and he didn't know where the majesty of the fight came from, he opened his mouth and couldn't speak, and the brothers of the Chen family in the 14th Five-Year Plan also looked at this big brother who was always smiling with a shocked face, what happened today.
The old lady on the couch coughed twice, and Chen Bao hurriedly stepped forward to support him, knowing that the old lady was going to sit up. Chen Lin also hurriedly turned around when he heard the sound and helped to help Grandpa pick up, and finally the old lady sat down. I saw the old lady speak: "Yishan and Bozhi stay, let's retreat." So Chen Li and the others hurriedly withdrew. The old lady struggled to open her eyes and look Chen Lin up and down, and after a while, she nodded with satisfaction: "Bo Zhi is becoming more and more superior."
Chen Lin hurriedly approached Grandpa and sat down, the old lady always seemed to have endless words when he saw Chen Lin: "Bozhi, Grandpa is old, Bozhi doesn't need to be sad, birth, old age, sickness and death, how can human power change it." Miss Zhang's family has reached the age of leaving the cabinet, and Grandpa hopes to see you two get married before she dies. Chen Lin heard the tears falling from his eyes, but he couldn't help but keep silent, and when he saw Grandpa asking, he hurriedly: "Well, okay, the matter is urgent, you can discuss with your father-in-law, and you can get married within seven days." ”
For half a day, as soon as Chen Lin returned to Anyang, he went to visit the old lady and did not come out for half a day, Lin walked around the hall in a hurry, and heard Huang Yan say that he had not eaten in the morning. At this time, Chen Lin finally came out, his face recovered a lot, and he no longer had a sad expression. Lin hurriedly instructed the servants to serve food, Chen Lin was probably also hungry, so he sat down and ate, Chen Li and the others only watched from the sidelines, and Lin looked at Chen Lin and cried.
After a meal, Chen Lin was finally able to talk to Chen Li and other family members, Chen Li asked some things about Luoyang, Chen Ze and Chen were so impatient to wait for Chen Li to finish asking, and hurriedly rushed over: "Big brother, what about Qianghu and horse thieves?" He paid special attention to Chen Lin's trip to the Hetao, and Chen Lin had to talk about it one by one. In the end, Chen Lin said to Chen Li: "Father, Grandpa wants Bo Zhi to marry Miss Zhang as soon as possible, if it takes three months according to the common etiquette, what can be done faster?" ”
Chen Li sighed: "Since ancient times, there has also been a saying that marriage is happy, and the Zhang family also knows about your grandfather, and the Zhang family must understand it." At that time, the greeting will be held in a grand manner, so that the Zhang family will not lose face. It just so happens that the three caravans are there, and the members of the Chen family are also all in Anyang, and today my father began to order people to buy goods, perform pre-wedding gifts, and post to invite friends of the Chen family. ”
Suddenly, the Chen family in Anyang County was overjoyed, and the matter of the eldest young master Chen Lin and Chen Bozhi marrying Miss Zhang Jia spread all over Runan County, and even a few people in Luoyang knew about it for the first time. After Chen Lin's teacher Yang Ci got the news, he sighed: "Bo Zhi is afraid that he will be happy with marriage." "Hurriedly ordered the servants to hurry to Anyang overnight to congratulate him, if he was not happy, he was afraid that he would not be able to catch up. Even He Jin, who had just been promoted to the servant, was also average, He Jin's sister had already been established as the queen, He Jin was rising, and his power rose sharply for a while.
In the past few days, the county town of Anyang has begun to be lively, and Chen Guo has dressed in gorgeous clothes and pretended to be a businessman on Savage Ridge, and he also wants to participate in Chen Lin's wedding. Everyone in the city rushed to tell each other, but the Chen family was very busy, and the tenant farmers of the Chen family each rewarded two catties of pork, and they were happy to praise the kindness of the eldest young master.
Finally came to the day of great joy, the morning of this day was bright, the Chen Mansion was all dressed in red and green, the team to welcome the relatives hurriedly gathered, Chen Lin was dressed in Shu brocade fresh clothes, stepped on the snow-white war horse, behind Chen Ze Chen to Lin An and others a team of young men Lang Jun, the servants of the Chen family were three hundred, and the shoulders were all wedding gifts. Chen Li and his wife stood in front of the mansion, Chen Li saw that he was almost ready, and said to Chen Lin: "Bozhi, go, don't miss the auspicious time." Chen Lin replied, waved his hand, and the gongs and drums sounded, resounding through half of Anyang County, and went to Zhang's house.
Chen and Zhang's two families are only half a street apart, as soon as Chen Lin's gongs and drums sounded, the Zhang family could hear it clearly, and the servants of the Zhang family standing at the door shouted and rushed in: "Master, here, here." Zhang Ting was also full of smiles, haha: "What's the noise, let's go and see how Miss dresses up?" At this time, Zhang Ba rushed out of the inner courtyard and shouted: "Coming? Chen Bozhi is here? Zhang Ting looked at it and shouted: "The top and bottom are frizzy, what kind of system." Zhang Ba stuck out his tongue at his mother, lowered his head and didn't dare to speak, Zhang Ba's mother was happy to see it.
Everything went according to plan, Chen Lin obediently accepted Zhang Ting's lecture, the matchmaker took Miss Zhang into the sedan chair, and the Zhang family accompanied dozens of cars of dowry, worshiped heaven and earth in the Chen family, and sent the bride into the cave room first. Until this time, Chen Lin couldn't see Miss Zhang's appearance clearly, and the red skull could only be removed tonight, but the bride saw Chen Lin really well. Miss Zhang has become Zhang's since then, and Zhang's is overjoyed to see Chen Lin's courteous, personable, handsome, and extraordinarily handsome, and the deer in his heart is rambling. The two slaves and maids of the Zhang family who accompanied the marriage were also ashamed to see their aunt so beautiful, and the slaves and maids who accompanied the marriage, if the uncle was in need, they also wanted to serve the pillow, if the uncle really took a fancy to him, he could also be a concubine, that is, he would become a master. Therefore, most of the people who marry are cronies of the people who are married.
At this time, outside the gate of the house, they also shouted one after another who came to congratulate and how many gifts were given, and this kind of scene of gifts was sung generously, so one was more atmospheric than the other, and he didn't want to lose face. Suddenly, there was a shout: "Han Situ, Lord Yang sent someone to congratulate him, congratulating Shu brocade 100 horses, 1,000 taels of gold, and a red rope." "There was a sensation in the hospital, the new Situ Yang Ci, what a big face Uncle Chen has. Chen Lin hurriedly went out to greet him, although he was only a housekeeper of the Yang family, he could represent a teacher. Chen Lin just took the housekeeper of the Yang Mansion and sat down, and sang loudly that made everyone change color: "Among the Han servants, Lord He sent someone to congratulate him, a hundred altars of congratulatory wine, five hundred taels of gold, and a horse." With the neighing sound of war horses, Chen Lin was happy to hear it, and he knew that it was a peerless horse. He Jin also came to congratulate him, which was unexpected by Chen Lin. For a while, Runan Taishou was no longer the highest official, which made Zhao Qian sigh, this Chen family is unlimited.
Chen Lin was outside to accept everyone's congratulations, and drank the wine again and again, and he could barely stand at this time. Staggered back to the room, Chen Lin drove away the servants, and even the maid who accompanied the marriage was blasted out. He bowed heavily to Zhang: "Bo Zhi has seen Madame." Zhang was slightly shocked, how could a man give a salute to a woman, and he was careful in his heart, this husband was very polite, not a person who showed nothing in vain, so he stepped forward to support Chen Lin: "Husband, the concubine is polite." ”
Chen Lin opened his head, only to see that the Zhang family was displaced, and his appearance was superb, and he was a little shy at this time, which made Chen Lin very moved, and a burst of enthusiasm was on fire. The little couple put down the curtain, a spring color, and a good scene.