Jiang Xu raised the inventory in his hand and said with a wry smile: "The dowry given by the lord is simply an eye-opener, even if Boyo doesn't work in this life, he doesn't worry about food or clothing!" ”

Huang Zhong said: "Money is something outside the body, life does not bring death, I think this dowry is the most meaningful, or the lord Feng Boyu is the general of Suibian!" ”

Huang Zhong was also slightly surprised when he first saw this dowry, the dowry handled by Lu Bu was more than the dowry given to him by the Jiang family, and Lu Bu now lives in the second rank hussar general, can open up the shogunate, establish the government office and choose his own subordinates, he promised to make Jiang Wei the general of Suibian in the dowry, that is an ironclad thing, although the general of Suibian is only a mere five grades, and it is also the lowest five grades of miscellaneous numbers, but now Jiang Wei is only seventeen years old, and he was named a general at the age of seventeen, from ancient times to the present, there are very few.

Less, does not mean no, in the early two years of Yuan Hunt, nineteen-year-old Huo Qubing was named a hussar general by Emperor Wu, rank and Lu are the same generals, gold seal purple ribbon, and the same position as the third duke. However, Huo Quzhi is a genius, Jiang Wei naturally can't be compared with him, the reason why Huang Zhong compares Jiang Wei and Huo Quzhi is mainly to express that Jiang Wei is still young, and his future is limitless.

After discussing the dowry, Huang Zhong and Jiang Xu discussed some wedding procedures, and the two discussed for nearly three hours, and then Huang Zhong had a dinner in Jiang's mansion and rushed back to Longxian in the early morning of the second day.

From the day before the wedding, the city of Longxian City will gradually become lively, set off firecrackers one after another, the empty bamboo tube is put in the fire to burn, making a crisp cracking sound, driving away evil and filth, this kind of bamboo burning custom is indispensable in the festive days of the Central Plains.

At noon, with the appearance of the welcoming procession, the alleys of the people in Longxian County were empty. Almost everyone ran out into the streets, cheering the arrival of the procession.

The marriage of the Han Dynasty has always been known for its extravagance, and even ordinary families have ten cars each, riding slaves and serving servants, clamping hubs and festivals, and the trend of comparison is flourishing. After a marriage, there are countless bankrupt families, forcing a temporary face, but behind it is miserable, this kind of atmosphere to the time of Emperor Ling, due to the poverty of the people, can not afford the extravagance and consumption, has gradually begun to tend to be pragmatic, do what you can. Often, an ox cart follows three or five relatives to welcome them.

Cao Cao in the north also advocated simplicity and strictly prohibited luxury, which prompted the extravagant atmosphere of weddings in the north to gradually change.

But that was relative to the north, Xiliang under the rule of Lü Bu, after several effective reforms, the people's life gradually became richer, starting from the previous year. The land of the four counties was less affected by the war, and the people generally had savings. Therefore, the trend of wedding comparison in the four counties is still relatively serious, and in this regard, Lu Bu also specially emphasized that the decree prohibits extravagant wedding comparison, and he looks like he is working hard like Cao Cao.

So this time Jiang Xu got married, although the Jiang family also wanted to engage in pomp. has a long face, but Lu Bu has already issued an edict, so they don't dare to be too ostentatious, although everything is simple, but the Jiang family's welcoming team is still not small.

Huang Zhong married his daughter. Jiang Wei's marriage was a first-class event, and the children and women in the market stopped to watch and cheered.

In the cheers of all the people, a team of 50 ox carts slowly drove up, by more than 100 soldiers as honor guards, followed around the ox carts, a group of drums in front of the way, the drum music was noisy, lively and extraordinary.

Except for the first ox cart to welcome the bride with a brocade canopy, the rest of the ox carts are flat carts, which are full of all kinds of dowry gifts, cloth, silk, sheep, wine, geese, rice, etc. more than 30 kinds, and tied with red belts, and sealed with 'six rites', that is, all kinds of auspicious words.

The dowry has already been sent to the woman's house, just take it out again when welcoming the family, at the front of the team, the groom Jiang Xu is riding on a high-headed horse, he wears the groom's crown, wearing a red wedding robe, and a black leather belt around his waist, looking energetic, he bowed to the people around him with a smile on his face, ushering in a piece of cheers,

Frankly speaking, the welcoming team arranged by Huang Zhong and Jiang Xu is only comparable to that of the middle households, and it is slightly shabby compared with their identity, but this is a benchmark, they did so, and the officials of the four counties can not exceed their standards, and if the officials take the lead, the people will inevitably follow suit, or dare not trespass, the extravagance of the marriage in the four counties will naturally stop, and the thrifty wind in Jiangxia will rise, so the atmosphere in Jingzhou will gradually change, which is called the upward and downward effect, and there will be immediate results.

According to the rules, the man's family should also follow to welcome his relatives, but Jiang Wei's brother and father died in battle, and there were no other relatives in the family, so his brothers Jiang Wu and Jiang Wen accompanied Jiang Wei to Huangfu.

Huangfu is located in the west of Longxian County, is a small mansion covering an area of several acres, there are not many servants and maidservants, so in the past few days of the wedding, all the decorations are all handled by Yan Rui led by more than 100 servants and maidservants in the Lu Mansion.

In the room, Huang Wudie was wearing the bride's costume and had been sitting quietly for two hours, although Lu Bu advocated welcoming relatives and striving for simplicity, but Huang Wudie was Yan Rui and his daughter-in-law, and had lived with them since childhood, so some basic things could not be missing, in addition to the shocking so-called dowry, there was also the bride's outfit and real dowry.

There is no fixed dress for Han people to get married, all the costumes are set by each family, most of them are gorgeous, Cai Yong once described the bride's dress: 'beautiful women's ornaments, Ye is like Chunhua', the bride of the wealthy family is 'the skin of the raccoon dog, the road is worn by the road', and the ordinary bride is 'long skirt and hairpin'.

Huang Wudie, as Yan Rui's favorite little girl, naturally can't be shabby, I saw her combing her high bun, her head was decorated with pearls, and a jasper step was swayed and inserted in her hair, which looked pearlescent and bright, reflecting her face like the moon.

She wears a dark long skirt, a mink coat, a rare white fox skin around the collar, and deerskin boots with colorful belts on her feet.

Today is Huang Wudie's big day, her heart is full of excitement and expectation, and there is a kind of shyness of a young girl who is a new wife, in the room, in addition to the two personal maids, there are only Yan Rui, Lu Lingqi and Cai Yan.

Yan Rui looked at Huang Wudie carefully, and the sound of admiration sounded from Zhu's lips from time to time, and Cai Yan over there walked over. smiled and said to her, "Remember everything your mother told you last night!" ”

Huang Wudie nodded shyly, she remembered those things very clearly, it was going to happen tonight.

At this time, Yan Rui stepped forward with a silver plate, and there were two silk threads in the silver plate, Yan Rui sighed and said, "It should be that your mother should open the face for you, but your mother is not there." I'll do it. ”

The opening is when the girl gets married, pluck out some scattered hairs between the eyebrows and eyes, so that the face is more smooth, it is very important to distinguish between young women and girls, that is, to see if she is open, the opening is very simple, without tweezers, use two silk threads to twist off the hairs.

"Thank you, Mother!" When Huang Wudie heard this, she slowly raised her little face. At the same time, a certain string in her heart was also gently plucked, and a drop of clear tears fell like a pearl with a broken thread, ticking and dripping on the case.

Yan Rui smiled lovingly, and carefully plucked out a few scattered hairs between her eyebrows and eyes, and every time she plucked off a strand of hair, a tear would fall.

"What are you crying about, great day!"

Lu Lingqi saw her mother and sister burst into tears. Her tears also flowed down with a "whoosh", and she thought that she would never be able to stay with Huang Wudie in the future. Her heart twitched for a moment, and a sadness that had never been seen before filled her chest.

At this time, there was drum music in the distance, and a maid ran upstairs and shouted excitedly: "It's coming!" Here it comes! ”

Huang Wudie suddenly became nervous, and her heart was pounding. She took her eldest sister's hand and said timidly, "Mother! ”

Yan Rui first wiped Huang Wudie's tears, then gently patted her children's hands and said with a smile: "It's not that you don't know him, so what are familiar people afraid of?" ”

Cai Yan next to him also sighed a little: "It's like this for first-time women, but you don't have to serve your in-laws, it's your greatest luck." Many people envy that there is a small official in Lujiang, Jiao Zhongqing and his wife both committed suicide, because of the discord between their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, so far it is regrettable, second, I hope you can manage the family business, share worries for your husband, and give birth to heirs early. ”

Huang Wudie nodded silently in agreement, and she didn't know what mood she was in, whether she was happy or sad, happy or nervous, her heart became blank at this moment.

The welcome team does not stay in the bride's house for a long time, it is relatively short, the main activities are in the man's house, generally at noon, the woman's family prepares lunch for the welcome team, and at the same time to give everyone money, so today whether it is a soldier who serves as a guard of honor, or a drummer, it is their happiest day, Yan Rui gave each of them a piece of horseshoe gold, which was enough to make them so happy that they couldn't sleep at night.

In the inner hall, Jiang Wei sat in the middle, Huang Zhong in front, Lu Bu of his father-in-law on both sides, and Yan Rui, his mother-in-law, which is an important part of welcoming relatives.

"Die'er has been dancing with guns and sticks since she was a child, she is young and ignorant, she still doesn't understand the world, and I hope that my son-in-law will be more tolerant and tolerant, and I hope that you can love each other, share weal and woe, if there are difficulties, the old man will definitely help"

Jiang Wei kowtowed heavily, "Son-in-law remember!" ”

"Boyo, you know, what you care about most in this life is your relatives, Die'er is the righteous daughter of so-and-so, I don't need to say more!"

Jiang Wei's smiling face instantly became extremely positive, and he immediately kowtowed to Lu Bu and said, "Don't worry, my lord, Weiding lives up to his trust!" ”

When Lu Bu heard this, he raised his sword eyebrows, and his index finger kept tapping on the table, slightly displeased: "Lord, you call me Lord?" ”

Jiang Wei's expression froze, and he immediately panicked, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.

Yan Rui, who was still next to him, smiled and relieved him: "Child, if there are no outsiders in the future, you can call him his father-in-law and my mother-in-law with Die'er, come up!" ”

"Yes, stepmother!"

"The auspicious time has come, the newcomer departs!"

With the shouting of the maiden minister Liu Hu, the drums were played in unison, and the six maids held fans in front and back, left and right, covering the bride to come out, Yan Rui and Lu Lingqi left and right, helping the bride to walk slowly and get on the wide ox cart.

In the sound of drums, Jiang Wei took the lead in setting off, and the ox cart followed closely behind, and the ox cart behind was no longer a dowry, but a variety of dowries, colorful silk and satin, skirts and cages, and twenty Jiang family servants followed.

The convoy followed the original road and drove towards Jiang's mansion.

Jiang Xu has his own house in Longxian County, there are two streets across Lu Bu's house, it is a middle house covering an area of about 30 acres, the house is divided into three entrances, the outer house is for the servants to live, the middle hall is the place where the guests live, and the inner house is the master's private residence, there is an inner garden and a pond covering an area of three acres, fresh and elegant, step by step.

Today's wedding was held in the middle hall, the wedding banquet of the Han Dynasty was very grand, the bells and drums were five music, the number of songs and dances was Cao, although Jiang Xu responded to Lu Bu's call, and strived to be frugal, and removed the singing, dancing and music, but the necessary banquet was still indispensable.

From the bride entering the door to the chapel getting married, all kinds of etiquette are complicated and all kinds of rules are strict, so I won't describe them one by one here.

The bride Huang Wudie has been sitting in front of the bed and waiting for nearly an hour, the doors and windows in the cave room have long been closed, warm as spring, the inner and outer rooms are lit with happy candles, the wall is hung with the big word of happiness, the bed is covered with good brocade, the curtain is low, and the wine pot and cup are placed on the small table.

Jiang Xu closed the door, stepped forward with a smile, sat down next to Huang Wudie, and said apologetically: "I was caught by them, I had to force me to drink, drink a few more glasses, don't blame the lady." ”

Huang Wudie pursed her lips and laughed in a low voice: "Can you be scepter? ”

The cane groom is the most popular way of banter in Eastern Han Dynasty weddings, but overheating the cane often kills, and Huang Wudie is also a little worried.

Jiang Xu smiled, "I've been learning martial arts since I was a child, and I can marry you, even if I break an arm."

Huang Wudie smiled, took two wine cups, stretched out her Qianqian jade fingers coated with bright red cardamom, picked up the wine jug and poured two glasses of wine: "Mother said that you should drink wine when you are in a cave room." ”

Jiang Wei smiled: "I'll drink it in another way." ”

"What's the way?" Huang Wudie was puzzled.

"That's it!" Jiang Wei asked Huang Wudie to pick up the wine cup, and the two of them crossed their arms, Huang Wudie suddenly understood, her face was flushed, and she was infinitely shy and drank a glass of wine with her husband, these were all taught to her by her stepmother.

Jiang Wei put down the wine cup, stood up and hugged Tao Zhan into his arms, kissed her cherry lips, and said in a low voice: "After waiting for five years, I finally waited for you, are you excited?" ”

Huang Wudie nodded lightly, her eyes were hazy, Jiang Wei's intentions, she didn't understand anything, otherwise she wouldn't have hung the mutton fat jade that Jiang Wei gave her on her waist at any time.

Jiang Wei picked up the crook of her legs, hugged her horizontally in his arms, walked into the inner room quickly, and said with a smile: "The candle night in the cave room, we can't miss the time!" ”

Huang Wudie was suddenly ashamed to bury herself in his arms, and said in a low voice: "Put out the lamp!" ”

Jiang Wei hugged her, walked to the table and suddenly blew out the lamp and candle, Huang Wudie, who was lying in Jiang Wei's arms, bit her lip, thinking that she would get rid of Luo Skirt tonight and lie naked beside her husband, she was very shy, and thought of what Cai Yan said, her heart was even more nervous, she slowly lay down, closed her eyes, and waited for that moment to come.

Jiang Wei gently put her on the bed, then lay beside her, kissed her lips gently, gently untied her placket, and slowly probed her hand into her skirt, they have been in love for five years, this is the first time Jiang Wei has touched her incomparably smooth and delicate jade body, and he has never even touched his hands a few times before.

Thinking of this, Jiang Wei didn't hesitate, and suddenly the thin fir was messy, the hibiscus tent was warm, the cave room was full of flowers and candles, and the remnants were as red as plums, and the noble girl was delicate. (To be continued......)