On New Year's Day 1866, the wedding of Scrooge and Dorothea took place at a Baptist church in Long Beach, New York. To be honest, having a wedding in winter is a very annoying thing. Because the weather is too cold, if the bride and groom wear too much, they are dressed like the polar bear, which is not very good-looking. Wear less, well, although the wedding dresses of this era are still long-sleeved, and the off-the-shoulder and backless clothing of later generations is not popular, but in winter, it is too beautiful to let Dorothea wear a wedding dress.

However, there was always a solution to the problem, although there was no central air conditioning system at that time, and there was no heating system in winter. However, with Scrooge's financial resources, it is not particularly difficult to get this thing out of the cottage in several key places. Well, first, Scrooge donated a boiler heating system to the church, which is actually a boiler for boiling hot water, connected to many radiators. Relying on such a system, the whole church immediately became warm as spring, oh, warm as summer, and the inexperience of burning the boiler turned on the whole system at full power, and as a result, the temperature in the church rose to about 90 degrees (about 32 degrees Celsius) in one go. It made a large group of people who came to watch the ceremony start to sweat on their foreheads. The parish priest, who was dressed in a full set of ceremonial clothes, was almost overwhelmed, so he had to take advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention and called another monk.

"Anderson, go take a look, let those guys not burn too hard, and besides, have someone open the window......"

Scrooge and his best man, William, Rockefeller's younger brother, wait for Dorothea in the church. It was customary for Dorothea to be taken to the church by her father, who would then deliver Dorothea to Scrooge. However, Dorothea's father had died in the war, and Dorothea now has neither a father nor a brother. The older male relative closest to her is only a so-called uncle who has made a lot of turns, but he also has bad legs and feet. So, it really took Scrooge a bit of brains to find someone who could take Dorothea to the church and give her to Scrooge. Later, however, an old man of the South who had a position in the South stepped forward and offered to send her to church in the place of Dorothea's father. This person is Andrew?? President Johnson.

"Miss Dorothea, are you dressed?" Someone was already urging her. Dorothea looked at herself again in the dressing mirror.

"It's not badly dressed, the headdress is just right, and the other details are almost perfect." Dorothea thought so, and even she felt that she did have a little bit of a peerless beauty. It's just that Dorothea tried hard to straighten her chest, and then she had to admit, "But, but the breasts still look still, still too small, not as good as Catherine, and even less than Anna......"

President Andrew's reputation in the South was not good. It's normal, as a Southerner, a Democrat, not only did he not fight for the independence of the South, but he also ran to become Lincoln's vice president, which in the eyes of Southerners, is simply a betrayal. In the immediate aftermath of the war, the Southerners cursed not only Lincoln, but also the southern Judas. In the first unsuccessful assassination attempt against Lincoln, the same assassins counted Andrew on the list that had to be cleaned up.

However, after Lincoln's death, when Andrew became president, his series of actions made Southerners quickly forgive him. Although constrained by Republican cabinet members, the Republican-controlled Senate and House of Representatives, he nevertheless introduced a series of policies that favored the restoration of the South, especially the resurgence of the original slave owners in the South. Among them, there are some measures that are opposed by all the cabinet members. This approach certainly made Andrew scolded by the Republican Party's public opinion, but it also made Southerners change their views on him. Many Southerners now believe that Andrew is not a traitor, that he joined the North only to oppose secession, and hopes to better help the heroes of the South after the war. So when he said that he could come and serve as Dorothea's guardian temporarily, Dorothea's father's old friends also expressed their support.

According to the old custom, when a daughter gets married, it is best to wear the mother's wedding dress (in some Western countries, the wedding dress era is passed down from generation to generation, mainly because, as a general situation, a woman only wears clothes once in her life, if she uses it once, it will be useless, it is too wasteful). It's just that Dorothea's mother's wedding dress that year, although she hid in the cellar to escape the robbery of the northern soldiers, was taken out by Dorothea to exchange money not long after. Now it can't be found. So the first lady Eliza?? McArdle took out the wedding dress he had worn and handed it to Dorothea, just as Dorothea really was her daughter.

The sound of trumpets was heard outside, and the band played Mendelssohn's wedding march, which meant that the bride's guardian had arrived with the bride. If you want to say Western-style, the way the mother's family sends the bride to the church is really good, which is like China, and the groom has to come to the door to pick it up, and then he will definitely eat a closed-door soup, must stuff cigarettes, stuff red envelopes, and sign a lot of treaties to bring the bride out.

Scrooge and William greeted him, and Andrew handed Dorothea into Scrooge's hands like a father, and watched him lead Dorothea to the altar.

After that, the activities in the church were one qiē shun lì, under the auspices of the priest, the two newlyweds exchanged vows and exchanged rings. With the blessings of relatives and friends on both sides, the wedding was completed, which Mr. Lu Xun called the "** advertisement" ceremony. The people liked to hear it, and suddenly there was a Briggs (the lawyer in "Jane Eyre" who announced that Jane Eyre could not marry Rochester) or a story of Li Mochou coming out to prevent the wedding.

After the church ceremony, everyone left the church in a special carriage with a brazier and chimney and went to the Swan Castle, where the wedding feast was held. This will also be the first time that the castle has been made public in front of the public.

"William, your manor is completely inferior to this castle, isn't it?" Morgan smiled at William?? Vanderbilt said, "I don't know where Scrooge got such a good designer, but this castle is beautiful." If only he were willing to sell it to me. ”

"How is that possible?" William?? Vanderbilt said, "Scrooge wasn't short of money. Who would want to sell such a beautiful castle as a last resort? I hate to admit it, but, well, my family's Romanesque manor is a far cry from this castle. The only advantage is that it's much closer to the city. ”

As is customary, the bride's guardian will make a speech. Under normal circumstances, most of this kind of speech is a blessing to the daughter or something. However, President Andrew is not Dorothea's father, he is the current president of the United States, so of course his speech cannot be just such a regular content.

"Today, as the guardian of Miss Dorothea, I have the privilege of attending this meaningful wedding. I feel very honored......

Miss Dorothea's family suffered a great misfortune in the war, and it was not the misfortune of Miss Dorothea's family, nor the misfortune of a single state in Mississippi, nor even the misfortune of the South, it was the misfortune of the entire United States. But there will still be happiness behind the suffering, just like our Dorothea, who can now live happily with her prince. I believe that the people of the South, the people of the United States, can also come out of the misfortunes of the Civil War and reunite together for a better future!

Miss Dorothea was able to come together with Scrooge, which was a symbol. It symbolizes that despite all the hardships, the people of the South and the people of the North can finally unite and become a family. I also noticed that after the great devastation of the war in the South, their northern brothers, wanted Scrooge?? Brothers like Mr. MacDonald in the North are doing what they can to help them rebuild. I would say that we are an integral part of the United States, both in the North and in the South, and that we are all brothers and sisters, as a family. We will not ignore the difficulties of the South, and we will reach out to the South to help you rebuild a beautiful and rich new South......"

After President Andrew finished his speech, it was the best man's turn to talk about the groom's stinky things. However, with President Andrew's speech in the front, William, who was the best man, was made?? Rockefeller didn't want to be too foolish, and as a result, Carroll, who was full of revenge and compiled a lot of various black materials about Scrooge's childhood, was disappointed.

When the best man finishes teaching, the wedding banquet officially begins.

……

Anna hugged Donald and looked at Scrooge and Dorothea from a distance with Catherine, who were constantly greeting each other, and suddenly felt a little sour in her eyes.

"Don't look at it, Anna." Catherine said, "You should have been prepared for this situation a long time ago, didn't you?" ”

"Yes," said Anna, wiping her eyes with her hand, and smiling hard, "Actually, Miss Dorothea is more suitable for her, isn't she?" ”

At this time, Donald suddenly burst into tears. Anna hurriedly carried Donald to the next room, unbuttoned his shirt, and gave Donald a milk drink. At this time, large tears began to roll down her beautiful face......

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