The news that Wang Xu was going to get married soon reached the ears of the officials and generals under his command. And through the mouths of the guò people, this matter spread rapidly, and in less than three days, it was already known all over the city.

The General's Mansion, which had been quiet for a long time, became lively because of this, and there was an endless stream of officials and celebrities from all over the world who came to visit Daoxi. At the beginning, Wang Xu accompanied the smiling face to receive him personally, but as there were more and more people, he really couldn't stand it, so he directly released the rumor, saying that he had rushed to Jingbei for official business.

thought that this would calm down, but Wang Xu obviously underestimated the persistence of these people. On the occasion of marriage like this, it is a great opportunity to contact each other, how could those people let it go, and immediately inquired about the Wang family's foreign mansion, and turned to that side.

However, as long as they don't come to the General's Mansion, Wang Xu won't care. As for the family, they are fine now anyway, and they are idle and idle, so it's good to have a lively time.

At the same time, the invitations to the wedding banquet were sent out every day, and they were divided into three groups of people to write. The first group is headed by Wang Hao and Wang Yan, who are responsible for contacting the people who are good friends of the Wang family. And the second group is Wang Xu, mainly the seniors who were kind back then, and those who were good friends, such as Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Han Fu, etc., were all delivered. As for the third group, it was taken care of by Wang Xu Xinfu officials such as Tian Feng, Guo Jia, Huan Jie, Liu Xian, and Gong Qiu Cheng, and their targets were particularly prestigious families or individuals under Jing Nan's rule, and even Jing Bei also invited some of them.

In fact, most of these letters are just shows. Like Cao Cao, they are far away in Luoyang, and the DPRK and China are so turbulent at the moment, where can they come? There are even some people who are far away in Youzhou in the far north, and even if they send the letter quickly, it will take more than ten days, and they will not be able to catch up after half a month.

But this kind of thing takes a lot of time, busy recording the number of people, recalling people, and then writing letters, and uniformly arranging people who can pass by to deliver the letters, which is really busy. So many people did it, and it took two days of preparation to send out all the invitations.

And this is just the beginning, and then there are small officials from all over Jingnan, as well as some gentry and landlords who want to have a good relationship. Although they were not invited to a banquet, there was no need to say much about this kind of thing, they either came in person, or asked someone, in short, to deliver the gift.

But stretch out your hand and don't hit the smiling person, this kind of happy event, whether you are invited or not, as long as you come, you must always have an auspicious picture. Therefore, everyone also helped Wang Xu to receive him. Fortunately, these people are very sensible, and they gave gifts, didn't say much, and left with a polite sentence.

Of course, Wang Xu also attaches great importance to etiquette, and everyone who sends gifts instructs everyone to hand over invitations. To this end, he also prepared more than 200 invitations without his name, but in the end, it was far from enough.

When I asked the other party to wait for a while, saying that I was going to get the invitation, I suddenly found that it had run out. Wang Kaike, who was in charge of making the invitations, was in a hurry, and quickly called a few officials from the general's mansion and wrote them desperately. This kind of thing, but you can't go wrong, and you don't say anything if you offend anyone. Wang Xu, as the general of Zhengnan, the first leader in Jingnan, and the son of the wealthy Wang family, got married, but he didn't even send enough invitations, so if it was passed out, he would really be laughed at by the world.

It's Wang Xu who has always been happy, but secretly looks lively. Anyway, he didn't come forward, and he was also a new girl in the sedan chair, and he didn't understand anything for the first time.

However, when he watched it for two days, he felt that there was nothing to do, and he wanted to go north to Nanyang and talk to Yangxu. The other party's reply had already arrived, and he said that he would definitely come to Wang Xu's wedding banquet.

This is very unexpected, after all, although the ancestors of the Wang family and the Yang family have intersections, they are just ministers of the same dynasty, and there is no private friendship. However, after Wang Yan analyzed, he felt that the other party might see that Wang Xu had a bright future, so he also took this opportunity to get closer to the relationship between the two families.

Of course, this is the best, Liu Biao and Yang Xu can come at the same time, but it also saves Wang Xu the trouble of going north, and when both of them are there, it is more convenient to listen to things.

After that, Wang Xu himself was idle and had nothing to do, and when he saw everyone working hard for his marriage, he couldn't help but go. In the end, he reluctantly came out and began to participate in the preparation of his wedding.

And when he came out to do activities, coupled with the fact that he often ran around the general's mansion and the palace, he suddenly found out. It seems that the people in Quanling City, the county capital, have known about his marriage, and many of them have spontaneously hung red lanterns in front of their homes, and a few have written words to express their blessings. This simple behavior really moved Wang Xu for a long time,

Just when the entire Quanling was immersed in joy, half a month had passed in a hurry, and Wang Xu's wedding date had finally arrived.

Originally, according to the etiquette law, marrying a wife required three books and six rituals. It is necessary to prepare a letter of appointment for the marriage, a letter of honor for recording the list of dowry, and a letter of appointment for marriage, which are three books. The six rites are Nacai, asking for names, Najib, Nazheng, inviting dates, and welcoming in person.

Nacai is looking for a matchmaker to propose marriage.

After the other party agrees, the matchmaker asks the woman about her birthday to see if it fits.

After that, Najib, this is when the eight characters are compatible, the man gives a gift to the door and tells the woman the good news.

Then there is the levy, the dowry.

Then the date of the invitation is when the man goes to the woman's house to inform him of the date of the marriage.

Finally, there is the kiss, that is, the welcome.

However, because Wang Xu and Xu Shu are married, and their relationship is special. Therefore, after discussion, the three books were left with etiquette, but the four ceremonies of Nacai, asking for names, Najib, and inviting were abolished, and only the three ceremonies of accepting the levy and welcoming the last three were implemented, that is, only the dowry and the marriage were given.

For those cumbersome etiquette, Wang Xu is really worried, and he completely agrees with the deletion, and even the dowry is planned to be omitted. It's a pity that it was strongly opposed by Wang Yan and his uncle Wang Hao, saying that this could not be saved.

In the end, in desperation, Wang Xu could only prepare a lot of gold, silver and jewelry on the first day of marriage and send them to Xu Sheng's home. Because Xu Shu's father is a retainer and manages the entire palace, he lives in the palace, so it is impossible to send it to the palace! Doesn't that make people laugh out of their big teeth?

In fact, if it weren't for the insistence of his family, Tian Feng and the others also said that it should be so, Wang Xu really didn't want to do this. Because this is completely cheap Xu Sheng, it is impossible for Xu Rui to be rare with those gold, silver and jewelry, so he can only stay with Xu Sheng.

The most important thing is that Wang Yan spent all his family wealth to buy a horse for Wang Xu, and he didn't have much money at all, so all this money was given by Wang Xu. What the family doesn't know is that Wang Xu himself has no money, and the money is all earned by Xu Shu's workshop. In other words, Xu Shu paid for the dowry, and then asked Wang Xu to marry her......

For this matter, the guys in the army, as well as Tian Feng Guo Jia and several other close ministers, are very clear. Therefore, when everyone followed Wang Xu to give the dowry gift, they all held back their smiles. Especially Zhou Zhi's guy, from time to time he has to euphemistically lose two sentences, which makes people very unhappy.

Fortunately, they all knew that this kind of thing couldn't be spread, so they all kept their mouths shut. Xu Sheng, who received the bridal gift, pretended to be extremely solemn. But in fact, he was able to pick up a big bargain this time.

However, it is estimated that he will not be able to manage it for a few days, and seeing Zhou Zhi looking at the box containing the dowry from time to time, he can also know that when the wind passes, this group of bandits will definitely find Xu Sheng to share the spoils.

I finally survived this hurdle and was busy until late at night before I was able to rest. Before dawn the next day, Wang Xu's mother rushed to the general's mansion and pulled him up. Then it was very cumbersome to clean up and dress up, and I also told a lot of messes, which was annoying!

Then, it is to check the layout of the entire backyard of the General's Mansion again to see if there is anything missing or missing. Moreover, soon there will be guests arriving one after another, arranging receptions, and entertaining politely, which is a lot of things. Not only are the family busy, but even Wang Xu's cronies and civil and military forces are all in battle!

But even so, this trip to the east and west still made Wang Xu dizzy, and he almost couldn't find the north. However, I thought that Xu Shu had only done this once in her life, so although she complained a little about the cumbersome etiquette, she still prepared very seriously.

At noon, Wang Xu did not attend the pre-banquet, and his family and military generals helped to receive him. He just nibbled on a chicken leg in the kitchen and went back to get ready.

It wasn't until the afternoon that Tian Feng suddenly walked in to find him, and said hurriedly: "Lord, hurry!" It's time to get married. ”

"Oh! Good! Wang Xu wiped his sweat, he didn't have so many thoughts for a long time, and when he heard that he was finally going to get married, he immediately nodded. Then I'll go and prepare the horses now! ”

But as soon as he turned around, Tian Feng grabbed him and said hurriedly: "Oops! Lord, you have to go to the hall to perform the Jiaozi ceremony first! ”

"Jiao Zili? What is it? Wang Xu said with a puzzled face.

"Hey! It is to say goodbye to his parents in front of the guests, to show the grace of childbirth, and then to marry. Saying that, Tian Feng smiled helplessly.

"Oh!" smiled awkwardly, Wang Xu couldn't help it, he had seen many versions of the Book of Rites, but he hadn't read it at all, and he wasn't that interested. Moreover, he really has never attended anyone's wedding banquet in his life. When he was a child, he was too young and no one took him there, and when he grew up, he didn't want to go, and then he went to war......

Seeing Wang Xu's rare stupid face, Tian Feng also shook his head amusedly, but thinking that the time had come, he didn't dare to delay, and even pulled Wang Xu towards the hall that had been arranged.

In the laughing eyes of countless maids and servants, Wang Xu finally appeared in the eyes of everyone. Seeing the dense crowd of guests from a distance, Wang Xu couldn't help but be stunned: "Yuan Hao!" So many people? ”

"Huh! This shows the high reputation of the lord, which is a good thing! Tian Feng glanced at Wang Xu with a smile, and didn't say more, just walked quickly to the crowd.

As they gradually walked in, the voices of the guests became more and more noisy, and when they saw Wang Xu coming, they turned around one after another, and the sound of joy was endless. "Congratulations! Congratulations! ”

"Congratulations on General Wang's wedding!"

"Congratulations to the Governor!"

"Congratulations to the Marquis of Taoyang for getting a good wife!"

With everyone's congratulations, although most of Wang Xu didn't know each other, he was still smiling and kept arching his hands to both sides. "Thank you! Thanks a lot! Thank you very much for ......"

Following the passage made by the guests, Wang Xu soon came to the hall. When I came in and took a look, I realized that the outside was quite loose, and the inside was really crowded. The dining room, which used to feel big and empty, now feels so small that it is full of guests on the inside and outside of the three floors.

However, there were several empty VIP seats on both sides, and apparently, a few distinguished guests had not yet arrived. But this is not the time to care about this, Wang Xu immediately strode forward at the signal of Tian Feng and knelt at the feet of his parents and two aunts. "The child meets his father, mother, and aunt!"

Because of the large number of people, for convenience, Wang Xu did not choose a cloth cushion today, but prepared a red lacquered wooden chair a few days ago. This is a new product in Xu Shu's workshop, which is not only of good quality, but also beautiful and comfortable, and can show the atmosphere and festivity.

Hearing this, Wang Yan, who was sitting on the chair, suddenly smiled slightly, glanced at Wang Xu's mother and two aunts, and then slowly turned his head. And the guests inside and outside the hall also quieted down instantly, looking at Wang Xu with a smile on their faces.

Tian Feng served as the master of ceremonies for this wedding banquet. At this moment, he also walked up quickly, stood on Wang Xu's left side, and said in a long voice: "The groom bows and bows to thank you for the grace of birth and nourishment!" ”

At this moment, in front of so many people, Wang Xu did not dare to hesitate, even if he kowtowed respectfully.

Three times later, Tian Feng also knew that Wang Xu didn't know the rules, so he quickly interjected and interrupted: "Give wine, admonish!" ”

Wang Xu reacted quickly, and he was about to knock down, but he stopped his body in an instant and knelt firmly in place.

"Huh! My son is married today, and in the future, he should do a good job in the world and become a pillar of talent! Wang Yan was not verbose, he simply encouraged him, and it was over. It's just that with Wang Xu's achievements, there is really nothing to say.

At this time, Xiao Yu, who had already been standing quietly on the side, also moved the lotus step lightly, and slowly handed the tray in his hand to Wang Yan.

Wang Yan smiled slightly, reached out and picked up the bronze wine bottle on it, and handed it to Wang Xu: "Xu'er drinks this wine, and she can marry a wife and have children in the future!" ”

"No!" After speaking, Wang Xu immediately respectfully took the wine bottle with both hands and drank it all.

After slowly putting the empty wine bottle back on Xiaoyu's tray, there was no need for Wang Xu to worry, Tian Feng had already rushed to say: "The groom got up, said goodbye to his parents, and went to the woman's house to greet his relatives!" ”

Secretly complained in his heart that the etiquette was complicated, Wang Xu didn't dare to show it, and after getting up, he bowed his hands to his parents and two aunts: "Father, mother, aunt, you take a break, the child is gone." ”

"Hmm!" Several of them nodded with smiles on their faces.

Seeing this, Wang Xu couldn't help but glance at Tian Feng, saw that he didn't have any expression on his face, and kept silent. He turned around generously and walked out of the hall.

At this moment, outside the hall, Wang Kai's long voice suddenly came......