Chapter 59: Cottage Celebrations
In a flash, the second year of Zhenghe was over.
The New Year's cottage has a long holiday, and each person will be rewarded with five times.
This year, Liangshan is a lot more lively, there are more than 500 villages in Dongshan, there are more than 3,000 people in the cottage Mabu Water Army, and the leaders of the cottage have added Zhu Gui, Shi Yong, Luda, Zhou Tong, Li Zhong, Lin Chong, and Cao Zheng.
After the beginning of spring, Liangshan ushered in the first happy event.
Ruan's old lady searched for a year in Dongshan Village, and chose two diligent and filial little ladies, although they are not as beautiful as Lin Chong's lady, but they are also handsome in the countryside.
Ruan Xiaowu took a look at it and felt that he liked it, so he asked the old lady to go to Zhang Luo.
Ruan Xiaoqi didn't even look at the little lady that the old lady chose for him, and only said that he didn't want to get married.
Shi Jin persuaded once, and Ruan Xiaoqi only relented and said that he would talk about it for two years.
Shi Jin couldn't force him to get married, so he had to tell his mother that after he saw that his two brothers were booed and asked for warmth, he would want to open it.
The old lady had no choice, so she had to show Ruan Xiaowu's family affairs first.
On this day, the entire Yangsan is lit up.
Shi Jin was in charge, and the cottage produced a hundred red satins, decorating Dazhai and Dongshan villages.
On this day, the cottage is also full of joy, no need to practice, whether it is the cottage soldiers and horses or Dongshan old and young can participate in the banquet.
In the pre-Qin period, it was important to pay attention to the wedding, and the wedding did not need to be musical, that is to say, there was no need to accompany the wedding or drum music.
However, in the Qin and Han dynasties, weddings began to move towards luxury, but all dynasties had documents prohibiting weddings from being extravagant.
Until the Song Dynasty, the imperial court clearly stipulated that weddings could be used for music, and wedding drum music was also popular among the people, and the world style became more and more extravagant.
Larger places have special teams to handle weddings and funerals, and as long as the host's family pays for it, these people will take care of everything.
Uncle He Jiu, the head of the group who organized the funeral for Wu Dalang in the Water Margin, was the one who relied on the funeral to eat, not a misunderstood act by some people.
Of course, Yanggu County also has a puppet, after Wu Song killed Wang Po, Pan Jinlian, and Ximen Qing, the magistrate asked the puppet to be a pedestrian to check the body.
Obviously, the head of the group is not the same as the pedestrian.
After various shops appeared in Dongshan, some people also set up a group to organize marriages.
After Shi Jin discussed with everyone, it was decided that the marriage of the leader of the cottage would be handled by the cottage, and the Huotou Army would be in charge of the banquet, but the drum music and the wedding still paid to hire a new group from Dongshan.
For this day, Cao Zheng was also busy for several days, I don't know how many animals he killed, and prepared meat.
The cottage also paid a thousand yuan to count the money of the whole mountain, and the owner of the cottage was forbidden to follow the gifts.
Only Shi Jinyinuo gave Ruan Xiaowuhun's family a golden hairpin and a pair of gold bracelets.
Ruan Xiaowu used all the money he had saved before as a bride price, and after getting this thousand, he could be regarded as having a good family foundation.
Ruan's old lady saw that another son had a family, and the cottage was so grand, she was also overjoyed, and said that the three sons were blessed with Shi Jin.
In March, another happy event was added to the cottage.
Lin Chong's lady is happy.
After the cottage doctor was diagnosed, Lin Chong and his wife were overjoyed.
They were married for three years when they were in Tokyo, and Zhang's belly has not moved, and both of them thought that Zhang could not give birth.
The Zhang family also persuaded Lin Chong to take a concubine, but Lin Chong refused.
Unexpectedly, after some hardships, Zhang had just recovered his body and came with good news.
The leopard's head also turned into a smiling tiger.
The Lin family finally has a queen.
After a few days of being a smiling tiger, Lin Chong turned back into a leopard's head.
After a period of time, it was actually rumored in Dongshan Village that the well water in Dazhai was a spiritual spring, and eating it could make a woman have children.
With the increasing population of the cottages, the water from the wells dug earlier was no longer enough, except for brewing, some of which were used in the courtyards of the chiefs, and all the water used in the canteen was changed to the water of the pori.
Lin Chong and Cao Zheng, who have become family members, are naturally cooking at home.
Ordinary people can't get well water, but they can eat the wine made from the cottage.
Fortunately, the vast majority of women do not have the trouble of giving birth, otherwise I am afraid that there will be a lot of alcoholic women in Dongshan.
When Liangshan was full of happy events, Yuncheng County also newly arrived in any county, and it was at that time that Wenbin, who was an upright official and honest in his work.
Shi Wenbin learned about the situation near Liangshan Shuibo, although he felt that it was inappropriate for Liangshan strongmen to gather the people's hearts, but he couldn't stop Liangshan soldiers and horses, so he had to acquiesce to the fact that Liangshan soldiers and horses were patrolling within a radius of dozens of miles.
Fortunately, in those places, under the deterrence of Liangshan soldiers and horses, there were few cases of Xing Prison.
The soldiers and horses of Liangshan did not prevent them from collecting taxes.
If you only look at the present, the appearance of Liangshan soldiers and horses will do more advantages than disadvantages to Yuncheng County.
In fact, it's not that Shi Jin doesn't want the people outside Shuibo to resist taxes, it's just that he knows that the people outside Shuibo won't listen to him.
The people outside dared to quietly go to the Li family crossing to receive some money and grain, but they would never dare to blatantly follow Liangshan to resist taxes.
If Liangshan really doesn't let the nearby people pay taxes, I'm afraid that the nearby people will flee one after another.
Early in the morning, there was a man from the rivers and lakes in Chaogai Village, who was the red-haired ghost Liu Tang.
Chao Gai also generally received Liu Tang.
Liu Tang told Liang Zhongshu about buying Shengchengang.
When Chao Gai heard that there was such ill-gotten gains, he also moved his heart, and immediately asked people to ask the same village to hand over Wu to use.
Wu Yong was teaching students in the study, and when he heard that Chao Gai was invited, he asked the students to study on their own, and followed Zhuang Ke to Chao Gai Zhuang.
Zhuang Kejing led Wu Yong to the depths of the back hall, Chao Gai and Liu Tang were talking about some things about the rivers and lakes, and when they saw Wu Yong coming, they got up and said: "I know you, this is a good man in the rivers and lakes, surnamed Liu, named Tang, and a native of Dongluzhou." This is the Zhiduoxing Wu Yong I told you. ”
After Wu Yong and Liu Tang met each other, Chao Gai invited the two to sit down.
Wu Yong asked, "My brother invited me to come, but I have something to discuss?" ”
Chao Gai nodded and said, "Brother Liu Tang has a set of wealth, and he has come to me." He said: "Liang Zhongshu, a famous man in Beijing, bought 100,000 pieces of gold and jewelry and sent them to Tokyo to celebrate his birthday with his father-in-law, Taishi Cai. In recent years, there are many people in the green forest in Hebei, and last year they robbed Liang Zhongshu's birthday. Most of this year will have to make a detour to Tokyo via Shandong, so there is no way to take such ill-gotten gains! He came at the right time for my dream. I dreamed last night that the Big Dipper fell straight on my roof, and there was another small star on the handle, which turned into white light. I want the stars to shine on my own family, and it is not good to be safe? So I would like to ask the professor to discuss, what about this matter? ”
Wu Yong said with a smile: "This thing is good, it's just one thing, there are too many people to do it, and few people can't do it." There are many bankers in the sky above the house, and none of them can be used. Now there are only three people, Baozheng, Brother Liu, and Xiaosheng, how can this matter be handled? Even Bao Zheng and Brother Liu are very good, and they can't bear it. It takes seven or eight good men to do this, and it's useless to have more. ”
Chao Gai said: "Do you have to respond to the number of stars in your dreams?" ”
Wu Yong said: "Brother's dream is not trivial, could it be that there are people in the north to help him?" ”