Chapter Ninety-Five: Greeting and Honoring Gifts
When it was about to get dark, I heard a loud noise outside the gate.
Ding Niangzi said to Guanyin, "The kiss is here."
Guanyin asked her, "Why is there any noise outside?"
Ding Niangzi looked at Guanyin and smiled, "This is called urging makeup, and what they shout is: The bride urges out." Is it urging you to get out quickly?"
Guanyin then asked, "Shall we go out now?"
Ding Niangzi joked about Guanyin,
"How can it? When the bride gets married, she has to put on a show and take a shelf."
"If you go out so quickly, others will say that you are in a hurry to go with Langzi."
"I'm going to have to wait a little longer, it feels like I've been waiting for a long time to come out."
Here, Ding Niangzi persuaded Guanyin to be stable.
In the inner courtyard, the ladies began to be eager to try.
One by one, they held sticks and brooms, rubbed their fists, laughed and prepared to beat Li Shimin.
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Outside the gate, the convoy of relatives has arrived.
There are two black calves with compartments parked side by side at the door, and fifty cars from behind, and the entire convoy is mighty, occupying most of the streets in Yongxingli.
Hundreds of people surrounded the van and shouted to the house, "The bride is urging out."
Wave after wave of shouting.
Li Shimin stood in front of the crowd wearing a knighthood, a black shirt on the top and a crimson bottom with black trim.
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The crowd shouted for a moment before the door of the house opened from the inside.
The eldest grandson, dressed in a black dress, walked out of the gate.
The make-up crowd stopped shouting.
Li Shimin hurriedly stepped forward and spoke loudly to the eldest grandson,
"Li Shimin, the Duke of Tang, in accordance with the order of the eldest grandson of your mansion Zuo Xiao Weilang, got married today, and came to meet his relatives in the future, please allow me."
The eldest grandson Chang asked, "The eldest grandson Chang has been waiting for a long time, Li Langjun, please follow him into the mansion."
The eldest grandson Chang and Li Shimin greeted each other, and then invited Li Shimin into the house.
The eldest grandson was open in front, and Li Shimin followed behind with a wild goose in his arms.
Among the six ceremonies of marriage, each step of the five requires the use of geese as a gift.
Because geese have only one mate in their life, they are the most affectionate birds.
The ancients used the habit of wild geese as a dowry, a metaphor for the husband and wife to grow old.
This is a beautiful metaphor, so it is in Chinese marriage customs, but it has been passed down from generation to generation.
Therefore, when welcoming relatives, Li Shimin hugged a wild goose.
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Li Shimin followed the eldest grandson Chang into the gate of the mansion and walked towards the second gate together.
The people who came to greet their relatives, and the servants of the Eldest Sun General's Mansion, saw Li Shimin and the eldest grandson Chang enter the mansion, and hurriedly began to get busy.
They were to load all the dowries onto the wedding vehicle in the shortest possible time.
Li Shimin followed the eldest grandson into the second gate.
The ladies in the house were already waiting with wooden sticks and brooms, and they chased after Li Shimin.
Those female dependents are all close relatives of Guanyin, where are they willing to really beat Li Shimin.
It's just a show, and the wooden stick hits the body like an itch.
Li Shimin only cared about moving forward, and did not avoid it, and walked straight to the front of the steps of the front hall of the inner courtyard.
Only then did the ladies stop chasing.
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The two stood in front of the steps, the eldest grandson facing west, and Li Shimin facing east
The eldest grandson Chang and Li Shimin wanted to give each other a salute again.
Then the eldest grandson Chang entered the front hall, and Li Shimin followed into the hall.
In the front hall, Guanyin stands facing south.
Ding Niangzi stood on the right side of Guanyin.
Serving books, playing chess, serving the piano and exhibiting paintings, four married maids stand behind Guanyin.
The eldest grandson stood facing west and stood on the east side, and Gao Qiuniang stood facing east on the west side.
Li Shimin entered the hall, put the geese on the ground, bowed twice facing the north, and kowtowed to the ground.
He didn't speak, then stood up and exited the antechamber and waited in the courtyard.
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The eldest grandson stepped forward and earnestly warned Guanyin,
"This is not more than the family, you should act cautiously, and sooner or later you must obey your aunt's orders."
Guanyin nodded frequently, respectfully saluting the eldest grandson.
He replied softly, "Uncle, don't worry, my maid has written it down."
After listening to her uncle's teachings, Guanyin was already teary-eyed, and turned to her mother to bow her knees.
Gao Qiuniang stepped forward to help Guanyin straighten her dress, knot a colorful silk rope for her, and tie a scarf.
Seeing that her daughter is about to get married, she will no longer be in front of her every day, and she has to take care of her own cold, hot and hungry, Gao Qiuniang is very reluctant in her heart.
But the daughter has grown up, and she can't always be kept by her side, and the mother and daughter are reluctant to separate, and there will be this day after all.
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Gao Qiuniang has a thousand words to say.
But his voice was choked, tears could not stop flowing, and no matter how many words he spoke, only one sentence came out:
"You remember to be diligent and cautious, and in the affairs of the family, sooner or later you will not disobey your husband's orders."
After saying this, Gao Qiuniang couldn't control it anymore, turned around, and no longer looked at Guanyin.
Sobbed, "You can go with confidence."
Guanyin had a saying of goodbye, but when she saw her mother turn around, she stood with tears in her eyes, unwilling to move her steps.
Ding Niangzi said to Guanyin, "Let's go."
Guanyin crossed her knees and bowed to Gao Qiuniang, holding back her sad farewell,
"Auntie, Auntie is gone."
Ding Niangzi helped Guanyin to the door of the front hall.
When she arrived at the door, Guanyin stopped again and looked back at her weeping mother.
She wanted to turn back to comfort Gao Qiuniang, but she was tightly pulled by Ding Niangzi and softly comforted,
"Let's go, your mother is happy for you, she is not crying for you."
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In the courtyard, Li Shimin was standing quietly waiting.
Ding Niangzi comforted Guanyin, "You see that the people of the world are waiting for you."
Guanyin glanced at Li Shimin, and then at her mother in the hall, and then reluctantly walked down the steps and walked beside Li Shimin.
Li Shimin saw Guanyin coming over, so he continued to walk forward.
Ding Niangzi supported Guanyin and followed behind.
Go out of the second gate, enter the outer courtyard, and finally walk out of the gate.
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Outside the gate, two identical black calves were waiting outside the door.
Li Shimin led Guanyin to a car.
Ding Niangzi put on a robe for Guanyin.
The two servants brought a low table and squatted down to support it.
Guanyin stepped on the low table and got into the wedding car.
Ding Niangzi, as a female teacher and a person who accompanied the marriage, followed Guanyin to the wedding car.
Li Shimin boarded the wheel, drove forward in person, and then handed the rope to the royal hand.
Get off again, board your own wedding car, lead the way in front, and drive out of the south gate of Yongxingli.
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At this time, it was completely dark and the moon had not yet risen.
The servants took up their lanterns and led the way.
The convoy stretched for more than a mile, moving slowly, through the streets and alleys to the Tang Guogong Mansion in Tongyili.
The wheels are rolling and the people are shouting.
Guanyin sat in the car, lifted the curtain and looked out.
It was dark outside, and I couldn't see the street or where I went.
She simply withdrew her hand and sat quietly.
I remembered the scene of saying goodbye to my mother again.
Is it that from today onwards, if you leave your mother, you will no longer have her care?
Before that, Guanyin just wanted to be with Li Shimin every day.
But I never thought about how it felt to be married to my mother?
She didn't think carefully about what kind of road she would take in the future after following Li Shimin.
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A few days ago, Guanyin had just passed her twelfth birthday.
She hadn't yet understood what marriage meant.
She didn't know that just today, just tonight, she would be at a fork in the road in her life.
After today, she will follow a new path and keep going.
Maybe it won't change again for the rest of your life.
Li Shimin is ignorant, and Guanyin's maid Tiankui has not arrived.
The next candle in the cave room is also an unpredictable suspense for the two of them.
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Guanyin sat in the car and thought wildly, and she didn't have a clear thought.
It is estimated that after half an hour, there was a loud noise outside, and the wedding car slowly stopped.
Guanyin thought about it, it should have been to the Tang State Mansion.
The car came to a stop, the door opened, and someone placed the low table behind the car.
Ding Niangzi helped Guanyin and stepped on a low table to get out of the wedding car.
Li Shimin was already standing behind the car and waiting, bowed deeply to Guanyin, and invited her to enter the mansion.
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The eldest grandson general's mansion is a married daughter.
The Tang Mansion is a wife.
The mood of the two families is different.
The Mansion of the Eldest Sun General is joyful and sad.
The Tang Mansion was completely happy.
Compared with the Changsun General's Mansion, the Tang State Mansion is much more lively.
The whole house is brightly lit, the guests and friends are like clouds, and there are people everywhere who are full of voices and joy.
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Guanyin didn't know anything about the rules of the wedding, so she had to take steps under the guidance of Ding Niangzi.
For the lively scene of the Tang State Mansion, she turned a deaf ear to it, and she had no intention of paying attention to these at all.
Under the guidance of Li Shimin, they came to the courtyard where the two newlyweds lived.
Next, under the auspices of the prime minister, a joint prison ceremony was held and the wine was drunk.
It took half an hour to go down one procedure after another.
The cumbersome rituals made Guanyin dizzy, like a wooden clay figure, at the mercy of others.
At the end of the ceremony, Guanyin's mind was blank, and she couldn't remember what she had done during this time.
Finally, the final ritual is completed, and it is sent to the cave room.
By the time the crowd had dispersed, it was late at night.
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Ding Niangzi, Fengshu and Zhiqi, as well as Li Shimin's maidservants Qin Lan and Hsinchu left last.
Fengshu and Qin Lan took off their dresses for Li Shimin and Guanyin and made the beds.
Then, looking at the two of them, he smiled slightly.
Guanyin felt uncomfortable, as if there was a special meaning in that smile.
Ding Niangzi smiled and told Li Shimin, "After we leave, you two should also rest early. You are older than Sanniang, you must know how to feel sorry for her."
Li Shimin seemed to understand what Ding Niangzi meant, and nodded again and again.
Guanyin was confused, but she didn't know what Ding Niangzi meant.
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During this day, there were too many things she couldn't understand, and she couldn't figure it out.
Guanyin simply stopped thinking about it, and no longer cared about what others said or did.
Qin Lan bowed to Guanyin and said:
"Fengshu and I are waiting outside the door, Sanniang has something to do, you can call the slave maid at any time."
Several other slaves and maids also bowed to Li Shimin and Guanyin.
Then, Ding Niangzi led the four maids to leave the new house, and closed the door before leaving.
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