The sky in May has always been bright very early, in fact, the sky is already bright before the end of the day, but now Wang Ze can't even sleep peacefully, because Wang Ze's wedding is approaching, and the old lady Xi Wenying is getting more and more excited.

The one who sleeps last every night must be her, and then the one who wakes up first before dawn is also her, and she has to participate in every step of the wedding, what makes Wang Ze feel the most painful is the high-pitched and loud voice of the old lady, so that Wang Ze wakes up with him every day before dawn.

"Little Wu, a few of you help pack up the things over there, don't let it rain!" "Alas, alas, I said Lao Zhou, don't be idle, I'll listen to the flock of geese in the backyard call again, please see if it's time to feed, and I'll help Da Lang catch two in a while!"

The genius was bright, and the voice of the old lady came from the courtyard, and the voices of many generals in the army who came to help could be heard during the process, because these people did not understand the etiquette system, so they could only work here every day, hoping to help a little and something.

Wang Ze covered his head with a sigh, it seems that today's laziness has run away again, I don't know what the arrangement that the old lady prepared for herself today is, is there such a hard old lady to torture her son in the whole world? Looks like I picked it up in the mountains!

Just when Wang Ze couldn't stop complaining in his heart, he heard Gongxi Wenqi shouting loudly: "Da Lang is up?" Immediately followed by the footsteps of the second brother Wang Hui and the third brother Wang Yu, Wang Ze slammed open the door and urged loudly, "Hurry up, I am the best old tailor personally invited from Sanqi!" ”

Because of the needs of the wedding, according to the etiquette procedures jointly formulated by Liu Xin and Yang Ku, Wang Ze, Cheng Xueyan and Zhu Qingqing each need at least ten sets of costumes, especially Wang Ze needs the most costumes because he has more activities to participate in.

Wang Ze admitted that the old tailor's craftsmanship was indeed exquisite, but to make more than a dozen clothes in a row was to destroy Wang Ze, although Pingyang City in May was still very cool, but Wang Ze felt that he was going to be tortured and crazy.

I still remember that in later generations, he participated in the role of best man when several colleagues got married, and those colleagues complained that they were too tired to get married.

But now Wang Ze understands that compared with the wedding etiquette in ancient times, the so-called marriage in later generations is simply not even a grass platform team, if possible, he really wants those who are worried about marriage in later generations to feel their own sin.

China has attached great importance to marriage since ancient times, and the "Book of Rites" says that "those who marry will be good with the two surnames, and the upper will be the temple, and the lower will be the successor of the future generations, so the gentleman is important!" “

It is precisely because marriage has an important impact on the ancestors, the whole family, and even the descendants of future generations, so the ancients never simply engaged in marriage when they got married, and Wang Ze, as the eldest son and eldest grandson of the Wang family, is about to be called the king of the system, and it is inevitable that he will have to do a lot of things.

Wang Yong and his wife, especially Gongxi Wenyi, attach great importance to Wang Ze's wedding, but although Wang Yong has also read for a few years, he is from a family of thieves after all, and Gongxi Wenqi was just a merchant family before, and he is not clear about the etiquette of these court princes.

Of course, it doesn't matter if Wang Yong and Gongxi Wenyu don't know these etiquettes, anyway, they have Liu Xin and Yang Ku around them, and the two old gentlemen are also quite interested in being able to undertake the heavy responsibility of hosting Wang Ze's wedding, so after studying the scriptures, they formulated a set of procedures.

When Wang Ze looked through the whole set of etiquette formulated by the two old gentlemen, he was almost frightened to death by the cumbersome wedding ceremony, and immediately objected, but this greatly attracted the curiosity of Gongxi, and after reading it, he only felt very satisfied.

In her opinion, such a set of etiquette for the princes to welcome their relatives according to the Zhou rites is too grand, just matching her baby son, as for this wedding process, it will take more than ten days to complete, during which Wang Ze and everyone will be tossed and tired, which is not within her scope of consideration.

In this way, Wang Ze's wedding ceremony began with Wang Ze's opposition, Gongxi's appreciation, and Wang Yong didn't know what was going on.

According to the etiquette system that has existed since the Western Zhou Dynasty, Nacai, asking for names, naji, nazheng, inviting dates, and welcoming are the basic procedures necessary for the establishment of marriage in ancient rites, which are called "six rites".

"Nacai", that is, through the matchmaker to the woman to convey the intention of marrying, after seeking the woman's consent, the man will send the gift, the woman accepts.

However, Wang Ze is the lord of a country after all, and his identity is different from that of ordinary people, so the etiquette is also different.

It is said that this kind of thing is the most suitable for Zhu Bofu and Cheng Hu to go out, but Wang Ze was originally married to their sister and sister, these two are authentic mothers' families, how can they replace Wang Ze to do these things.

However, Xu Zheng and Zhou Baolai are both old departments that have followed Wang Yong's father and ancestors for several generations, and they have also been familiar with Cheng Xueyan, Zhu Qingqing and others since childhood, so they are also more suitable for doing this kind of thing. 27KK

After He Bo understood the meaning as a matchmaker, Zhou Baolai and Xu Zheng each set off with a wild goose captured by Zhao Qin in the Tongjiang River basin in their arms.

These geese were all rushed from Zhenhai, and in order to ensure that all the wild geese were alive after they arrived, Zhao Qin sent hundreds of them in one go, among which these two were the most beautiful and the most beautiful, so they were personally picked out by Wang Ze.

Of course, there will be no accidents for the two young men with heavy responsibilities, even if they come to the door of the house where Zhu Qingqing and Cheng Xueyan temporarily live, they are only slightly blocked for a moment, and then they are warmly welcomed in by Cheng Hu and Zhu Bofu, who are guarding the gate.

Because Wang Ze is going to marry two wives at a time, in order not to have the embarrassing situation of who to marry first and who to marry later, Gongxi Wenqi simply arranged them to live in a big house, anyway, they have lived together for so many years, and there is not too much embarrassment.

After "Nacai", it is "asking the name", that is, asking the woman's name, birthday, and going back to divination. It is not suitable for two teenagers to do this, so the dean of the medical school, Chen Fuzi, took on this important responsibility, because of the good maintenance of the body, Chen Fuzi is still walking like a fly even if he is nearly seventy years old.

Accompanied by Xu Zheng and Zhou Baolai, Chen Fuzi completed the task very smoothly, seeing that Xiao Langjun at the beginning, entering the country actually created such a foundation in just a few years, and now he has grown up and married two brides, (although Chen Fuzi felt weird) happy red face.

"Asking for a name" is followed by "Najib", that is, after receiving an auspicious omen, the marriage is decided.

This time, the hundred-year-old immortal Liu Qing personally went out to the horse, personally invited the Haotian Shenhui to descend the blessing of heaven, and then said to the outside world that the little marquis is the person of the mandate of heaven, and now that he has grown up, he is married to the newlywed, and the yin and yang are in tune with the mandate of heaven, which is auspicious.

Although everyone has long known that there must be no problem with the old fairy coming forward for divination, but before the news came out, everyone was still nervous, and now after hearing Liu Qing's explanation, they all cheered, and even Wang Ze breathed a sigh of relief, I don't want to do this again.

After the first three ceremonies, the next three ceremonies need to be attended by Wang Ze in person, on the day of "Nazheng", Wang Ze wore auspicious clothes, and three hundred soldiers of the Chinese Protector Army who were also dressed in festive costumes before and after guarded the surroundings, and then escorted a large number of dowry gifts to the house where the two daughters were.

Because of the marriage customs at this time, Wang Ze knew very well the habits of his second uncle Cheng and third aunt Zhu, so he simply knocked the two unconscious with money and food in one go, and the dowry gift sent out was very rich.

You must know that at that time, even the dowry of the royal family was not necessarily too rich, such as Cao Wei's regulations: the princes married their concubines with leather horses as the court, and Dazhang, the king married the concubine, and the princess married 190 silk horses; In the Jin Dynasty, it was only increased to 300 horses of silk on the basis of the original.

Wang Ze sent out two swords (for warding off evil spirits) that Cao blacksmith later made, 20 Khitan horses, 100 horses of other types, 200 ploughing cattle, 10 calves, 100 sheep, 10 lambs under 3 months old, 300 silk, silk, cloth, and silk.

In addition, there are 200 jars of good liquor from Lingnan, 10 quintals of millet, millet, rice, rice, noodles and other grains, 50 quintals of tea, silver coins from Iwami Ginzan, 1,000 gold coins from Yizhou and Hidden Kirishima, and even more surprising is that there are 20 cans of pure natural melon seeds.

That's not all, Wang Ze's dowry also included eight high-grade four-wheeled carriages recently produced by the Pingyang City Workshop, and there were thousands of people in the entourage who carried the gifts, and the grand scene simply stunned the onlookers of the East China Sea, until many years later, people here were talking about Wang Ze's wedding.

Although Liu Xin had also considered whether Wang Ze's luxurious wedding would cause a certain amount of extravagance for the East China Sea, considering the good legal concept of the East China Sea and referring to the practice of Guan Zhong's "The Biography of the Goods and Colonies", he knew that the king could promote the social economy by spending his own legal money.

So Liu Xin didn't have the worries he had before, but now he was about to start taking on a heavy responsibility, that is, accompanying Wang Ze's parents, Wang Yong and Gongxi Wenyang went to the woman to agree on the final date of the wedding.

Even if the husband and wife of Second Uncle Cheng and Third Uncle Zhu had long wished that Wang Ze would marry their daughter immediately, but at this critical time, as the woman's parents, they had to be reserved after all, so they still pretended to sit down and talk with Wang Yong and Gongxi Wenqi for a long time.

At that time, Wang Ze waited for a lot of time at his home, and later learned that not long after Wang Yong arrived there, he left Liu Xin behind and drank with Cheng Chong and Zhu Rui.

And Gongxi Wenqi also didn't take much effort to follow the two aunts to play a round of horse hanging, and finally spent on the etiquette of "invitation", at most no more than a stick of incense, but it made Liu Xin, who followed him, extremely depressed, I knew what I was going to do?

No matter how many sins Wang Ze, Liu Xin and others have suffered, and how many grievances they have in their hearts, the six wedding ceremonies have finally completed the first five steps, and now they are just one "kiss" to marry two wives in one go, and then Wang Ze will finally become a married old man.