Chapter 399: Feasting and Drinking Qiongqing

After the elaborate worship ceremony, two young women holding dragon and phoenix candles guide the way, and the groom holds a colorful ball ribbon to lead the bride into the cave room. Feet must step on the sack to walk, generally 5, there are 10 sacks, walk through one, the bride and so on passed in front of the paving in the road, which means "inheritance", "five generations meet".

After entering the cave room, there is another set of procedures.

The first is the sitting tent, also known as "sitting blessing", in which the bride and groom both sit on the edge of the kang or bed in the cave room, and the groom presses his left placket on the bride's right placket to indicate that the man should overwhelm the woman. Also sprinkle the happy fruit in the tent, called "sprinkle the tent", generally sprinkle the items have dates, chestnuts, peanuts, etc., the use of homophony to express "early lizi", "flowers are born".

The next show is to eat the children and grandchildren, and the children and grandchildren are brought from the woman's house by the mother. After eating the dumplings of the children and grandchildren, and eating longevity noodles, the longevity noodles are prepared by the male family, taking the meaning of "descendants for all generations, immortality". Then there is the "Hejia" wine, also known as the Jiaobei wine. With a red thread rope, tie a wine glass at each end, the bride and groom each drink half a glass, and then exchange cups to drink all the wine in the glass. The wine ceremony is held in the cave room, and then there is a table of wine in the hall, which is called "reunion dinner" as the saying goes, during which the bride and groom sit on the seat, and other relatives and guests sit with them, indicating that they have become a family with a surname.

This process does not need to have the best man and bridesmaids present, it is a matter of sending off the mother and welcoming the mother, Gu Xinci and Nalan Feiya are too lazy to pay attention to it, find a quiet corner of the banquet and sit down, after this toss, the sun has already set, and it is already time to come.

"You're a stupid bear, haven't you ever had a wedding feast? Sven ordered, "Everyone was hungry, and the big bear hula eaten, and Dugu Xinci hurriedly reprimanded."

"Eat when you're hungry, what are you talking about?" Nalan Feiya maintained.

"Then eat, eat and go to the cave room" Dugu Xinci hurriedly smiled and said.

"Shiro, what's the statute for the cave room later?" Zu Yongliulang at the other table next to him asked.

"A certain person is a Sven person, don't make trouble with the text," Dugu Xin said with a sneer.

The haunting room is also known as "teasing the daughter-in-law" and "arguing the room", which is carried out on the night of the wedding. The practice is to send the lamp by the sister-in-law first, and hold the children and grandchildren early. Send off the lights, regardless of the elders, peers, juniors, gather in the new house, congratulate the newcomers, the drama is abnormal, there are many taboos, there are "three days without size", "joy and joy, the more noisy the more happy" said.

"What is a civil and martial arts? What does a haunted house do? "Little Du Fu still doesn't understand.

"Ah, the cave room? That's to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters. According to legend, a long time ago, Tai Bai Xing went down to earth one day, and met a woman wearing linen and filial piety on the road, and followed behind a group of wedding greeting procession, he saw that this was the devil waiting for an opportunity to do evil, so he followed to the groom's house, only to see that the woman had arrived first, and hid in the cave room. When the bridegroom and bride were about to enter the cave after worshipping heaven and earth, Tai Bai Xing guarded the door and did not let them in, saying that there was a devil hidden inside. When they asked him for advice on how to get rid of the devil, he suggested: The devil is most afraid of many people, and if there are many people, the devil will not dare to do evil. So the bridegroom invited the guests to play and laugh in the cave room, and used the laughter to drive away evil spirits; Sure enough, at the fifth watch, the devil finally fled. It can be seen that the purpose of making a house is to drive away evil spirits and avoid disasters. Dugu Xinci thought about it and said nonsense.

"Don't listen to Master Ru, it's fun to make a hole in the room, but it's fun, Du Fu, you stay in the room tonight?" Zu Yong, who was not much older than Du Fu, instigated.

"Listen to the room, listen to what room?" The little lady of the witch spirit dance also came to be interested.

"Is it okay for you to wait for the little lady to be reserved? What is the listening room? Is it that you hide under the bed or in the cabinet and listen to what the two husbands and wives have said tonight, and tomorrow you will listen to them, and they will also learn from them? Dugu Xinci smiled.

"Do you talk nonsense? Don't listen to them for evil, they are all teasing you? Nalan Feiya hurriedly stopped a few curious teenagers.

"It's obviously a new room, so how can you call it a cave room?" Wu Lingwu asked again.

"Uh, you come on" Nalan Feiya was asked, and pulled Dugu Xinci hatefully.

"Cave room? You know that this house did not exist before, in ancient times, the ancestors of a certain class were cave dwellers, that is, they lived in caves and tree holes, and that kind of house was naturally called a cave house," Dugu Xinci explained.

"How is that possible?" The people did not believe.

"Then where do you live when you say you don't have a house? Many people in the Far East and the Silent Snow Plains now live in caves made of ice and snow, and aren't there tree houses in the 100,000 mountains where you are also there? Build a wooden house on a tree or build a bed in the tree hole, there are also many caves in Wuwei, which are all serious people who are not poor and have no money to build a house; In fact, there is another layer of meaning in the haunted cave room, isn't it the life of the parents of the fashionable matchmaker? Many newlyweds have never met before, and they are still strangers before entering the cave room, and some people make trouble in the cave room, so that the two can get used to it, so that they can be harmonious here" Dugu Xinci disagreed.

"Thou hast said it rightly; But you still have something difficult to do, your best man needs to block the wine for the groom's official, don't you get drunk before the groom's official? Nalan Fei glanced at him and teased.

"So many concubines, are you afraid that they won't succeed?" It doesn't matter if you are alone.

In front of the haunted cave room, you have to drink Helang wine, tonight is the day when the man marries, the bride can not see the guests at the moment, only the groom comes out to thank the guests, at this time there are relatives and friends to pour the groom's wine, at this time the best man is needed to solve the problem.

"Shiro, this is the time for you to show your talents, and some of them are not strong enough to drink" Wang Wei shirked his responsibility.

"Right? With Ru Shiro out of the horse, wouldn't it be poured down? "Zu Yong is also a little weak, these few of them can be better than Wei Erlang and Dugu Shilang's drinking, and so far they have not seen Dugu Xinci drunk.

"Afraid of what? You can't be a deserter, you want to ensure that Erlang won't get drunk and fall asleep in the cave room tonight, and the beautiful scenery of the newlywed birthday can't be wasted.

"Listen to you," Wen Yu nodded.

"Well, there are hundreds of people in a certain group of ministers? Wait to listen to a certain order, a certain first to see which table of the enemy situation how to arrange, if there is no wine, throw you and wait for the horse to go out, if there is a good amount of wine, let Yan Ran A Quan Ah Shuang and them go out, and a certain rotation to rest, each of them to save their strength to deal with it" Dugu Xinci arranged while arranged, he and his eldest disciple had all the right to grow up in the wine jar.

After a while, the steward will come to invite them to a group of male bridesmaids, and He Lang will have a banquet.

The groom's seat is in the lobby, accompanied by the Wei brothers, and the woman has sent her relatives to the banquet, and they have returned home.

The groom's official Wei Bin first toasted the eldest brother and sister-in-law Wei Zhi and his wife, this is a due gift, Wei's room is their brother, his parents died early, although Wei Zhi is pompous and romantic, but he has nothing to say to his second brother.

After giving a few more cousins a drink, the groom began the arduous road of toasting tonight.

There are also Wei Kang and other Wei relatives in the hall, which is easy to say, and no one is responsible for a glass of wine at every table, and they all know that the ordeal of the groom official has begun, and there are countless screaming guests outside, all ready to pour the groom's wine.

Eight glasses of wine went down, and the groom blushed a little.

Dugu Xinci took Wen Yu, Wang Wei and others to the left wing room first, here are a group of senior members of the court, accompanied by Wei Kang, the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, and all the members of the six Shangshu were present, and the black-faced Song Jing also had to give Wei's face, and his wife was also Cui's daughter, who was considered a member of the five surnames and seven families.

The five surnames and seven families of Yan and Tang refer to several great families today, who enjoy high prestige and status in the Yan and Tang dynasties. Of all the noble families, five are the most noble. That is, Longxi Yan, Zhaojun Yan, Boling Cui, Qinghe Cui, Fanyang Lu, Xingyang Zheng, and Taiyuan Wang. Among them, the Yan family and the Cui family each have two county wangs. Therefore, it is called five surnames and seven wangs, or five surnames and seven families.

The Wei family is not five surnames and seven families, but there is also a sentence called Chengnan Wei Du, go to Tianqi Five, which is about the prestige of Wei and Du, although Wei was suppressed in the previous dynasty due to the matter of Wei Hou and Princess Anle, but Wei Zhi Wei Bin and their father Wei Anshi is the minister of the dragon of today's sage, and he also does the position of the left servant of Shangshu, as well as Wei Humility of Jingzhaofang, Uncle Wei Xia, Wei Jiansu, etc., are all members of the three grades, and Wei Kang of Puzhou Fang is also a secretary of the Criminal Department.

Therefore, the Wei family and the Du family are no worse than the five surnames and seven families, and the Wei family marries the five surnames and the seven families and the senior members of the DPRK and the central government are all present to congratulate.

"Huh, Zhu Zi is full of halls? Zhang Xianggong, come, start with you? The groom's official took a sip of a cup of Rulai, "The best man Dugu Xinci began to fulfill his duties.

"That's not good, the feelings are deep, this is your words, a certain cup, two cups of the groom's official" Zhang said that he didn't do it.

"Who has a deep affection for you? The object of people's tenderness and affection is the bride, and the prime minister of Yantang is not allowed to rob the heart of the bride."

"Your tongue is really vicious, you can have a deep friendship with Wei Erlang, and you should drink two cups," Zhang Shuo also smiled.

"Thou hast said the wrong thing again, just said that thy feelings are deep, and thou hast changed thy verbal affection, how can the bridegroom have two cups with thee? How many drinks will you have with the bride? Punish wine, hurry up, the dignified Prime Minister Yan Tang can't speak? Punish yourself for three cups and then speak," Dugu Xinci grabbed the words and stirred up.

"How did so-and-so say the wrong thing? Let's have a double drink here, and I'll go into the cave room and drink a few drinks with them," Yan Tang Zhongshu made Zhang very depressed.

"Zhang Xianggong, Yuan Xianggong, Du Xianggong, Yuwen Xianggong, you and others gave comments, did Zhang Xianggong say the wrong thing? There is no size for the newlywed banquet for three days? You are at the wedding banquet in Weifu today, you are not a Chinese book order, hurry up and drink, don't let people see the joke, "Dugu Xinci is not easy to fool."

"Okay, I'll punish myself with one cup, and then drink three more glasses with the groom," Zhang said, and drank it all.

"Pour wine and pour wine, it's Zhang Xianggong's turn" Dugu Xinci instructed the groom official Wei Erlang to pour wine, but looked at Zhang Jiazhen in the waiter.

"You haven't drunk with the groom yet?" Zhang said quickly.

"What did you just drink?" Dugu Xinci asked.

"A self-imposed drink?"

"Yes, you've already drunk? What else to drink? Tonight's good night is short, hurry up and let the groom finish the toast, and then go to the cave room."

"Haven't you drunk with the groom yet? He Lang Wine, He Lang Wine, must also congratulate the groom on his new marriage? ”

"Well, your heart groom has received it, three cups, right? Change the big cup," Dugu said with a smile.

"What do you do with a big cup?" Zhang said that it felt a little bad.

"Embodying your heart? Zhang Xianggong, how much wine is full? Come on, come on, these three cups are yours, these three cups are so-and-so" Dugu Xinci took three large bowls and poured them full of wine.

Zhang said that he looked a little weak, and he was afraid that there would be two or three taels of wine in this bowl.

"How is it you? Drinking with the groom? Zhang shouted.

"What is the identity of a certain person today? is Wei Erlang's best man, what's wrong if you haven't been married? The groomsman's duty is to substitute wine for the groom's official top jar, and when you get married, you drink the wine by yourself? Dugu Xinci also shouted.

Everyone laughed, they all knew that the prime minister Zhang said that he was pitted by the best man Dugu Xinci, and the best man substituted wine is the rule of He Lang wine, which has nothing to say, Zhang said that the prime minister forgot for a while, and just wanted to play tricks on the groom official, and forgot the best man who was eyeing him.

This best man is not an ordinary best man, this full hall of Zhu Zi ministers has drunk with him, that is a wine barrel wine altar wine fairy, a thousand cups of not drunk lord.

"Zhang Xianggong, can't you coward? The wine you want is drunk, and you have to drink it," Dugu Xinci picked up a bowl of wine and drank it all, and turned the bowl over without dripping wine.

"Drink it, drink it, and you want to be the same as so-and-so?" Zhang said gritted his teeth, drank a bowl and said to a table of colleagues.

"Zhang Xianggong, this is not a political hall, what you said today doesn't count" Dugu Xinci grunted two bowls of wine, his face was not red and his heart was not beating.

Zhang said that he was also old, and three bowls of wine burned nearly half a catty of knives in his stomach, and his stomach was burning like fire, and his face was red when he sat down, and he couldn't speak for a long time.

Zhang Jiazhen is much more elegant, and said two words of blessing, so that the groom can drink it all by himself.

Wei Erlang's wine glass was touched to his lips, and Wen Yu Dalang accompanied Zhang Xiang to drink.

The remaining ministers are honest, Wei Erlang has not touched a drop of wine at this table, and Wang Wei and Yang Qiuzu Yong each drink a glass of wine.

When he arrived at the Shangshu seat, Song Jing, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was not embarrassed, Dugu Xinci personally accompanied him for a drink, smiling, and seemed to have no mind about the fact that they had been emptying themselves in Changcong Suwei a few days ago and mobilizing the subordinate officials of Wannian County.

It was the turn of Wang Hui, the secretary of the ministry, to rely on the old and sell the old, so he had to touch the groom's joy and clink glasses with the groom's officials.

"Lao Wang, can you pay attention to your bones? Drinking is not a problem, let's talk about nagging, and it seems that there is no resignation for a certain one? Hurry up? A certain resigned from the county order of Wannian County and went to beg for relatives, next time it is your turn to drink a certain wedding wine, will you come when the time comes? If you come, drink a ninety-nine-eighty-one cup," Dugu Xinci will continue to talk nonsense unceremoniously.

"As long as you invite, of course you want to drink your favorite wine, if you don't invite you, you will scold the king of Liaoyang County, today you are drinking with Wei Erlang, don't talk about something that you don't have" Wang Hui ignored him.

"Well, you want to be groomed, aren't you? Are you ready to take a concubine? Preparing a pear flower pressed begonia? Your heart is not small, huh? Can you stand it with your body and bones? The old sister-in-law can know, and you are going to be uneven, you don't approve this concubine, don't forget that it is still the county order of Wannian County, and when you resign, you will take a concubine, and you will not want to take a concubine for a day in Wannian County, and you will be sentenced to the crime of human trafficking if you accept it, and you will be sentenced to the crime of human trafficking, and you will be told to hide the hidden household, Yuwen Xianggong can not find a chance to go under the knife? You just hit him on the head of the knife, "Dugu Xinci Hu stirred up the kung fu that was not covered.

The feast is drunk and Qiongqing, and the head of the Huaguo building is Luan Fengxiang, which confirms the concentric Linqi Pavilion, and the shadow is passed on to smile and kiss the Lan room;

(End of chapter)