"Ordered, General—" Liu Dawei and Dai Daniu responded.

So, the soldiers stepped forward and stripped off the clothes of the dead officials, county magistrates Lin Cong, and master Yang Da, tied them to trees, mixed honey with water, dipped the leaves in diluted honey, and smeared them on their bodies before they stopped.

When the honey was finished, it soon attracted a swarm of butterflies and bees, and these little elves crawled around on the stripped "villains", making them tickle all over their bodies, and let them cry out and ignore them.

Only the self-righteous county commander Lin Cong shouted at Gong Jichang: "I am the county commander of Shizhu County, and the official of the imperial court, you dare to tie up this official, you are bold enough!" You bandits, don't let us go! ”

"As a parent official, you don't obey the law, but rob the people's daughters, this is your punishment!" Gong Jichang grabbed a handful of blades of grass and plugged Lin Cong's mouth.

"Woo woo woo-" Lin Cong couldn't scream.

Gong Jichang walked to Yang Da's side again, and said with a smile: "You are the dog-headed master, right?" ”

"It's not...... I am the county ...... "Yang Da is hesitant."

"General, he is our master, he came up with the idea today, and the master often takes us to various villages to rob the people'......s girls," a servant hurriedly replied.

"Is there such a thing?" When Gong Jichang heard this, he immediately gave Yang Da a mouthful, "This general hates being a bandit for officials the most in his life, you fish and flesh the people, you should really be cut with a thousand knives!" ”

Unexpectedly, Master Yang Da didn't take this seriously at all, and smiled shamelessly: "I have the right not to use it, and it will be invalid when it expires." Your Jingnan army is no better, where you fight, where you grab. Last year, he defeated the stone city of the blue wolf country, and took all the blue wolf army and daughters there as his own, why don't you take care of them? ”

"Oh, you're justified, aren't you? According to what you said, shouldn't General Ben care about you lawless civilians? Gong Jichang looked serious.

"That's right! You don't have this power, we break the law, and it's all dealt with by the Criminal Department......" Yang Da raised his head.

"Then I'll cut you down now, and then play the court!" Gong Jichang took out the Lock Dragon Divine Sword and put it on Yang Da's neck.

"Although I, Yang Da, am an official who is not in the stream, I am also holding the court's money. Luo Chengzhang, the governor of Jingnan County, is my father-in-law, if you want to move me, I'm afraid that the top on my head will not be protected! Yang Da said proudly.

Gong Changyu said with a smile: "The governor of Jingnan is a bird, Lao Tzu is the chief soldier, the official is the second grade, and the governor and the soldier are at the same level as the general." You use the governor to pressure me, today I don't recognize this reason, first put you on the spot to correct the Fa! ”

"Don't forget, the governor is the commander of the army!" Yang Da is still arrogant.

"Scared, you, the dog-headed military division, still know how to do it, but don't forget, the governor has no right to mobilize the general's soldiers and horses. If General Ben hadn't been in a hurry to go home, he would have been able to unload eight pieces today, and feed the wild dogs in this deep mountain and old forest. Gong Jichang twisted Yang Da's face full of meat and said.

"Hey, hey-" Yang Da shouted, "Hey, you said that you are the chief soldier, leave a name, so that this official can go to Tanzhou one day to join you!" ”

"You're big!" As soon as Gong Jichang raised his hand and slammed his palm on the back of Yang Da's neck, the guy immediately fainted.

Gong Jichang put away the sword and clapped his hands: "Damn, the governor is your father-in-law." The Queen Mother is still good-looking! ”

"Big brother, should we take the prey they hunted?" Gong Tianyuan asked, carrying the wings of a pheasant.

"Take half and keep half." Gong Changyu said with a smile.

"Big brother, these people are tied up like this, those bears are coming, they won't be eaten, right?" Gong Tianyuan looked at the servants who were tied up by hemp rattan.

"It's better to come, let the bears hug them, and see if they dare to do anything wrong in the future!" Gong Changyu smiled, "Smear some honey on them." ”

"Okay. Eldest brother. ”

Gong Tianyuan led the soldiers and smeared the remaining honey water on the ground on the body of the villains again. After smearing, the group quickly left the meadow.

Hongsangping Gong Jichang and his entourage rescued more than a dozen Miao girls such as Fan Liping and You Xinyan, and punished the county commander Lin Cong and others very gently, which can be regarded as a good deed. The villains were bitten by bees and ants and their whole bodies were red and swollen, and since then, they have never dared to go to the village to rob women.

Fan Liping offered to marry the person who saved her, which surprised Gong Jichang, he discussed with Ran Jiufeng, and decided to marry these two Miao sisters to Hao Nan and Gong Tianyuan, because neither of them had married a wife yet.

Men should get married, women should get married, and most of the young men and women in Miao Village determine their sweethearts through "songs to the mountains". Hao Nan and Gong Tianyuan can't sing mountain songs, and there may not be a next time for the beautiful things that are actively sent to the door, so they happily agreed.

Seeing that Gong Jichang had brought two girls back from Shizhu County, Zhu Qi, the young owner of Maosheng Xiangqian Village, thought that the situation was serious, and that this matter would damage the prestige of Jingyi Camp, and warned Gong Jichang in a serious voice: "Marriage is a happy event, and the matter has come to this point, and I can't object to it." The eldest husband must be above board and upright, and the marriage should be justified. ”

"Uncle, these two girls were originally my daughter-in-law's ......," Gong Jichang smiled.

"Gong Jichang, what did you say?" Feng Jiao'er came out with tea.

"Master, what are you nervous about, I married them to Hao Nan and Gong Tianyuan." Gong Jichang added. He knows his uncle Zhu Qi's personality very well, and he will believe what he says and what he does.

Zhu Qimur said: "Send the girls back to Shizhu County quickly." I'll give you a marriage affair. ”

"No problem, we'll send someone to take them home right away." Gong Jichang responded.

Seeing this, Hao Nan and Gong Tianyuan hurriedly took Fan Liping and You Xinyan to bow to Zhu Qi's room: "Thank you, Uncle Zhu!" ”

……

Ding Yichang and Wei Chaohui had never seen the scene of the Miao family's daughter crying and marrying, so they specially asked Zhu Rongchu for the details of the crying marriage.

Zhu Rongchu replied without thinking: "The house of the married girl, the candle will not be extinguished for three nights, and the lovesickness will be separated." The house of the married woman is not happy for three days, and she thinks about her heirs. ”

Crying marriage, one of the Miao family's wedding customs. In the Miao people's settlement, before the girl gets married, she mostly sings to express her gratitude to her parents and brothers.

There is also a habit of crying and marrying instead of singing. In the month before the Miao girl got married, most of the sisters in the village consciously came to accompany her. They helped make clothes and learned Miao songs from each other so that they could sing duets with others at weddings. Before the new girl gets married, she has to cry and marry, at least three nights, and at most half a month.

"What's the difference between the relatives and the Han Chinese?" Ding Yichang asked.

"After my daughter was fifteen years old, someone (mostly a full-time matchmaker) came to the door to propose marriage. The matchmaker was asked by the man to pay attention to the girls in the nearby villages. The man took a fancy to it, so he asked the matchmaker to say goodbye. Once the family affairs are decided, the mother will be 'busy marrying' for the daughter. ”

"How do you get married?" Ding Yichang's face was black.

Zhu Rongchu said: "My mother works in the fields during the day, and at night she is busy with the dowry for her daughter, and sometimes she is busy until the middle of the night. Every new clothes, embroidered new shoes, spring, summer, autumn and winter, sunny and dry, wet and rainy, a few sets of several bodies. I also have to go to the market to make new cotton wool, make new quilts, spread a few covers, and change the pulp. The printing cover should be twisted with edge flowers, the lining should be velvet, and the face should be coarse. ”

Ding Yichang nodded slightly: "It's hard enough to be a mother." ”

Zhu Rongchu continued: "Mother still has to go to the hemp garden to cut hemp and put it in the stream. The twine should be hammered thousands of times, and it should be exposed to the sun in June to be white, and the stitches of the twine soles should be durable. The awl often pierced the mother's fingertips, and the bright red blood stained the daughter's shoes......"

Fan Liping and You Xinyan were escorted back to the cottage on the other side of Hongsangping by the family members of the Zhu family's compound. Fan Liping's mother, Wu Shi, was overjoyed to see that her daughter came back safe and sound.

You Xinyan is Fan Liping's cousin, her parents died when she was a child, and she was raised by her uncle (Fan Liping's father).

The young owner of "Mao Shengxiang" Qian Zhuang came to the matchmaker in person, and he was even more happy. Fan Liping's mother, Wu Shi, is radiant, and she is really in good spirits on happy occasions.

Now that her daughters Fan Liping and You Xinyan have grown up and are about to get married, her mother taught her daughter to cry and get married, why didn't her daughter cry? I'm going to get married tomorrow, why don't you cry tonight?

Parents have the grace to give birth, so they usually cry goodbye to their parents first...... The two sisters took this program to heart.

The relatives and neighbors of Shili and Eight Villages came to the village to give gifts, and visited Fan Liping and You Xinyan, who cried as a courtesy of thanks.

From the night before the wedding season to the next day, the time period of getting on the sedan chair the next day, crying and marrying is the most exciting. During this time, crying and singing must be carried out according to traditional etiquette, and no random crying is allowed. repay

At night, the lights in Hongsangping Miao Village are bright and crowded. Fan Liping and You Xinyan cried and sang with emotion-

Father, mother, you treat your daughter as a flower and raise her one foot five inches. After spending money to bother, my daughter couldn't bear to leave home. Father, mother, look up at the starry sky, and look down to think of your parents. How much money did you spend for your son, and how much effort did you spend for your son......

Parting, love, joy, and excitement are intertwined, and the song is sent by love, the love starts with the song, and the tears flow with the song, which is euphemistic and moving.

Gong Tianyuan wanted to cry when he saw such a scene for the first time, but he couldn't cry to get married, so he had to watch Fan Liping cry and marry alone, and he couldn't help anything. Because Fan Liping told him that whoever can't cry will be ridiculed and even discriminated against by others.

The girls in the village who are good with Fan Liping's two sisters all come to cry and cry to each other, with "crying parents", "crying and eating away from the mother's meal", "crying and planting flowers", "crying from the boudoir", "scolding the matchmaker" and other tracks.

In the village, the singing is sad and tactful, such as flowing clouds and water, the spring breeze blows, this natural sound, Dai Da Niu in the greeting team is completely drunk, thinking, next time I will marry a Miao girl.