Chapter 9 Changes
Zaoerzhuang is in Daxing, not too far from the capital, and the sedan chair entered the city with the beating of the welcoming procession all the way.
Lin Shuang was held by a mother and sat in a sedan chair, with a hijab on her head, and Lin Shuang tried to lift the hijab several times but was stopped by her mother.
"Flower Mother ......"
"Grandma, the slave's surname is Qiu, and Mother Hua follows in a sedan chair. What does Grandma command? ”
Lin Shuang couldn't tell which of the two mothers had the surname Qiu and which was Hua, she only recognized the rectangular face holding her, with deep nasolabial folds and a more serious look. The other has a round face, fatter, red all day long, and is beaming.
But she was a child, so she didn't care if she made a mistake, and apologized to Qiu's mother. She was actually fine, but she was uncomfortable being shaken by the sedan chair.
"Can you take off the hijab first, and then cover it when you get to the ground."
Mother Qiu wanted to persuade again, Lin Shuang said: "I'm out of breath, I'm going to vomit." ”
Mother Qiu had to take off the hijab for her, the hijab was inlaid with a hundred child patterns with gold threads, and there were tassels falling on the side, the weight was very heavy, as soon as she took it off, Lin Shuang only felt that the whole person was as easy as breaking free from the thick quilt, and exhaled several times in a row.
The sedan chair shook for another two or three quarters of an hour, and it was estimated that it had entered the city gate, and when it arrived at the commercial street, there was a lot of people outside, and the voices of all kinds of cars and horses were endless. The procession walked down the street for a while, and the drums suddenly stopped, and the sedan chair stopped moving.
Mother Qiu waited with her neck on her back, and when she saw that the sedan chair had stopped, she knocked on the window lattice on the side of the sedan chair. A little girl holding a sedan chair asked outside, "Mom, what's the matter with you?" ”
Mother Qiu asked, "Why did the sedan chair stop?" ”
The little girl replied: "I heard that it was Changxing Hou Ye who married, and the uncle sent someone to instruct us to stop our sedan chair first, and wait for Changxing Hou Ye's sedan chair to pass before we left." ”
As he was talking, a procession of relatives came from another street, and for a moment the gongs and drums were noisy, and the street seemed to be boiling.
After waiting for a while, the sound of gongs and drums had not yet arrived, and bursts of cheers and laughter came from behind. Mother Qiu knocked on the window again, and the little girl asked outside, "Mom, what do you command?" ”
Mother Qiu said: "Changxinghou's sedan chair hasn't arrived yet?" ”
The little girl smiled: "Lord Yue led someone to stop the sedan chair to rob the bride, and he was making trouble." ”
A child's voice outside said, "He won't be able to leave for a while, let's go first." ”
Someone replied: "Young Master Cousin, I can't help it, if I collide with the Marquis of Changxing, the uncle will be to blame." ”
The boy said: "So many people can't walk around him in the dark, let's go ahead first and don't get in the way, Uncle wants to blame Young Master Ben for having something to say, get up in the sedan chair!" ”
Everyone was busy appeasing him, and there was another chaos.
Lin Shuang was hungry and had no strength, so she touched the paper bag given by Lin Xia in her hand, and quietly opened the paper bag in her sleeve while Mother Qiu tilted her head to listen to the movement outside. Lin Shuang touched it, and there were peanuts, jujubes, longan, wedding cakes, etc. in the paper bag, which should have been taken by Lin Xia from the table.
Lin Shuang pinched a jujube and was about to put it in her mouth, when a sudden scream came from behind, which frightened her hand, and the jujube fell onto her clothes and rolled out of the sedan chair. As soon as the scream fell, more people began to cry, and then the screams and shouts of horses neighed, and some people shouted as they ran: "The thieves have entered the city, the thieves have entered the city!" ”
Lin Shuang didn't care about anything else, lifted the curtains and looked out, only to see that the whole street was full of pedestrians running, and the marriage team of Changxinghou stopped not far behind, and the people who were watching the excitement ran around one after another.
Yingcheng Bofu's greeting team because to avoid the greeting team of Changxinghou, stopped at the mouth of an alley on the side of the street, the accident came too quickly, this team of people was frightened stupid, crowded in a group of stupid people running and running for their lives on the street, a group of people behind them tied with white cloth belts on their sleeves, holding a big knife in their hands, chasing people and chopping, the street was crying and screaming for a while.
Someone in the team shouted: "Quick, retreat into the alley and hide." ”
At this time, everyone was in danger, who still took care of the sedan chair, and for a while the sedan chair drivers around the sedan chair retreated cleanly.