0631 Heart-to-heart
Yu Wenyu's wedding came as scheduled, and the day was lively inside and outside the entire Taiwan government from dawn.
The Yuwen family also had happy events before, but they were all married daughters, and it was the first time to accept a new one. Huzhong Erlang married a wife, although he was only the eldest son, but Daxingtai was also very happy, and the object of his marriage was his Wuchuan Township Party friend Duguxin.
Aside from the son of Zhao Gui, who has a marriage contract but has not yet been married, this is the first time that Yuwentai has formed an in-law relationship with the Wuchuan Township Party, so this wedding also has extraordinary significance.
In order to reflect the importance attached to this wedding, Yuwentai, who has always been thrifty, also approved a considerable budget for this wedding. Although Li Tai, who is in charge of preparing for the wedding, is still a little tight, he also knows that it is a rare generosity compared to the urine sex that Daxingtai has always had.
With the process of wedding preparations, Li Tai gradually realized that Daxingtai appointed him to be in charge of this matter, I am afraid that it is not only to show the people of the time that he is still one of Daxingtai's most trusted henchmen, but also to fight the local tyrants in the autumn wind pit.
The budget given by Daxingtai is limited, but the personnel pomp required is huge. Although it is said that Zai Feng can make do with it, if the wedding is too simple, people will not think that it is caused by the stinginess of the big line, but will blame Li Tai for not doing things well.
So in the second half of the wedding preparations, Li Tai basically took money into it to do things, as if he was going to marry his daughter-in-law, and finally prepared the wedding properly.
On the day of the wedding, the guests came to Taiwan in an endless stream to congratulate them, and were arranged to feast and play between different halls, waiting for the evening to watch the ceremony.
Li Tai naturally has no time to sit down and drink and have fun, he needs to lead the staff to constantly patrol everywhere, so that he can appear and deal with accidents in time.
Especially in Kansai, the atmosphere is heroic, and those town soldiers don't care about anything after they go up, and they vent it first, so it is even more necessary to arrange some emergency measures, so as not to be messed up with this well-prepared wedding.
Yuwentai was happy to sit back and enjoy his success, and from early in the morning, he sat in the main hall of the inner house to accept the congratulations of the internal and external ministers, his face was full of red light, and he was in a very good mood, and the whole hall was reverberating with his hearty smile.
When Li Tai, who was busy and did not touch the ground, or when he passed by, when he saw several Zhuguo who accompanied Yuwentai in the hall to feast and chat, he couldn't help muttering: Keep it like this, you old guys just sit in the hall and drink tea, and leave all the foreign affairs to Lao Tzu, and when the time is ripe, bury you together!
Yu Wentai didn't know these sinister thoughts in Li Tai's mind, and in addition to enjoying his own success, he would occasionally express his gratitude and condolences to the busy Li Tai, and personally poured a glass of wine for Li Tai to drink, with a doting expression that was about to spoil you.
As everyone knows, Li Tai is not grateful for such care at all, and he picked up the wine glass in front of him and drank it all, even if he was about to walk down the hall quickly, he hurriedly went to another hall to persuade him to settle the matter and appease the masses.
Fortunately, now he is the first person below the pillar country in his position in the country, and his prestige is enough to be popular, and these internal and external masses are convinced or unconvinced, and they always have to give a few points of face. offended Daxingtai, Daxingtai may be magnanimous and inconsiderate. But if he offended General Li, Zhao Gui of Zhuguo was a living example, and he had to bow his head in the end after several years.
In this way, under Li Tai's serious maintenance, although it was lively throughout the day, there were no fights and riots. There were also those who drank too much and were very drunk, and all of them were arranged in the side rooms of the other hall, and even if they were drunk, it would not affect the wedding in the inner house.
Finally, in the evening, the greeting procession set off from the groom Guan Yu Wenyu from the Taiwan Mansion and went straight to Duguxin's residence in the south of the city. All the guests in Taiwan also suspended banquet games, sipped buttermilk, tea and other drinks to relieve their greasy, and waited for the ceremony to be watched later.
Nowadays, there is no custom of drinking tea in Guanzhong, even in Luoyang, which was more enlightened and tolerant in the Northern Wei Dynasty, tea drinking was still contemptuously called a tyrant. This is by no means an elegant name, but a contempt expressed by the Northern Koreans by belittling the eating habits of the Southerners.
Nowadays, Guanzhong is not completely free of tea drinking habits, but it is mainly concentrated among the temple monks and people who have lived in the Southern Dynasty and come from the north. Such as Li Tai, his cousin Lu Rou, etc., and even his son Li Xiao, although he is not addicted, occasionally likes to drink a little tea. Of course, this is just an example, and it is far from fashionable.
Li Tai knows that the market prospect and profit of tea, a daily drink, are very considerable, so he has been seizing the opportunity to promote the habit of drinking tea.
Of course, what he really values is not to make a profit, but to gradually bridge the gap between southerners and northerners through similar living and eating habits. Although the alienation between the north and the south caused by hundreds of years of division and turmoil is far from being bridged by a cup of tea, it is at least a point of convergence, and there is even money to be made without expense, so why not?
At Yuwenyu's wedding today, taking advantage of the gathering of the Western Wei magnates, Li Tai also regarded tea as a key promotion item.
Every two seats between the special case, and arrange a tea maid, large and small porcelain jars containing tea foam, orange peel, ginger garlic, pepper, sugar and other seasonings, a small red clay stove on the table, by the tea maid in turn into a variety of condiments, regardless of the taste of the drink, itself is already full of ritual, and the style is several times higher than the buttermilk of the big gulp.
Taking advantage of Li Tai's convenience of introducing tea in the inner house these days, Yu Wentai has gradually developed a penchant for this, and at this time he is incarnated as a little health care expert in the circle of friends, and said with a smile while holding tea: "Tea flourished in the south, but it was spread in the north but no one liked it, not because of poor physical properties, but because the predecessors could not drink it." Today, under the Fujiang Han, east of Huainan, west of Hubang, north of Jinshan, collect the Quartet, Jingxiang tea, Huainan orange, Western pepper, Jinshan milk, gathered into a precious drink, can the taste of the person not love this? ”
As he spoke, he took a sip of the warm and spicy tea soup, and then smacked and tasted it between his lips and teeth, and then swallowed it lightly, and exclaimed: "It's really fragrant!" ”
Seeing this, King Liang on the side seat also hurriedly lifted the sugar in the porcelain jar and said: "Although the nature of tea is not as sweet as buttermilk, if it is accompanied by frosted sugar and stone honey, it will be sweeter and sweeter for a long time!" ”
It's still difficult to get people to adopt a new diet in a short period of time, but it's okay to try something new.
In particular, the two highest-ranking people present all expressed their love for this, so the guests in the hall also tried it one after another, and then all kinds of admiration sounded one after another in the hall. This artistic conception is quite like the emperor's new clothes, even some people who can't adapt to this taste in a short period of time are embarrassed at this time.
Just as the masses were still tasting tea in the hall, the procession to welcome relatives had already returned to Taiwan. Duguxin's house was not far from Taifu, and it seemed that he didn't make much trouble for the welcoming team, so he welcomed the bride back so quickly.
Next, the guests moved to the felt tent outside the hall and waited for the auspicious time to salute. Li Tai was still idle at this time to come to the church, but took the inner government clerk to take stock of the bride's dowry to collect it in the inner treasury.
When Li Tai got married, his father-in-law prepared a lot of dowries for his little lady, including but not limited to all kinds of floating wealth, utensils, manors, slaves and maids, etc.
Originally, he was still secretly thinking that his father-in-law would have to break the bank this time, but when the inspector received those dowries, he was still quite surprised, although there were also dozens of large and small cage dowries, hundreds of silk and miscellaneous horses, dozens of various utensils such as copper and tin paint, ten male and female servants who accompanied the marriage, plus a garden on the outskirts of Huazhou covering several hectares, it was all the dowry.
Of course, it can't be said that this dowry is meager, it is still very considerable for ordinary people, enough for a destitute household to become a well-off family, but for a pillar country family like Dugu Xin, it is definitely not rich. Especially compared with when the eldest daughter got married, it can even be said to be shabby, and even Li Tai felt a little unhappy when he saw it.
But when I think of the fact that I also paid for Yu Wenyu to prepare for the wedding, it is definitely interesting enough as a brother-in-law, if Yu Wenyu is picky and dissatisfied with him because of this, then it will be a little ignorant.
Because of his own experience when he got married, Li Tai also told the servants in the inner government to carefully check all the makeup boxes and cages, so as not to have the farce of buy one get one free last time. Although he has a lot of sisters-in-law, he can't deliver them like this.
By the time he was busy here, the Qinglu had been completed, the guests returned to the hall to continue the feast, and the couple was sent into the cave room. Li Tai naturally didn't need to go to the cave room with him, and after handing over the books of all the matters he was responsible for to the inner government steward, his task was completed, and he could finally go to the hall and drink a glass of wine.
When he came to the hall, the guests were already drunk, Yuwentai was already drunk, saw Li Tai enter the hall and hurriedly beckoned him to come forward, then set up a seat on his side, and put the wine and food in front of him to Li Tai's case, and said with emotion: "Boshan is really my henchman, no matter public or private affairs, but Boshan is in charge, I don't have to worry!" ”
Li Tai avoided the table, held the wine glass in both hands, raised it high and replied: "The old Ben Meng Lang young apprentice, fortunately won the master's appreciation, conquered the mansion, diligent repair, generous and conniving, after pondering and becoming a talent, he has to put his heart in his heart, share the same taste, and the weight of the favor is the best of the best, dare not do his best to repay it?" ”