Chapter 354: The Great Army Begins
The two of them did all this without saying a word, and then withdrew without saying a word. Zhang Zheng turned his gaze to Qinghe, quietly waiting for her explanation.
Because Zhang Zheng did not see these two people in the crowd of people who accompanied the marriage today.
"One of them is my personal maid Hanxiang, who was arranged by my father to take care of my daily life, and will also be my husband's maid in the future. The other is Granny Rong sent by the queen mother to protect me, she is a backing woman, so you can't bully me in the future, because you can't beat Granny Rong. Qinghe smiled and explained the identities of the two to Zhang Zheng.
Then Zhang Zheng understood, no wonder he didn't see these two people in the wedding team, they were originally from the princess's mansion.
The maid in the room, this is very easy to understand, in this era, it is extremely normal for a big family to marry a daughter to marry a maid in the house.
The role of the maid in the room, firstly, can replace the hostess to serve the male host when it is inconvenient for the hostess, and secondly, when the male and female hosts are there, they can act as service personnel such as wiping sweat and pushing backs.
And the most important one, if one day the daughter of a big family marries dies in some accident, the maid will be straightened by the male owner's family, so as to ensure that the relationship between the two families will not be severed.
As for the backing woman, this one is amazing. The term "backing woman" first originated in the founding period of the Han Dynasty.
In folklore, the hero who made the greatest contribution to the founding of the Han Dynasty, the soldier Han Xin, once agreed with Liu Bang that he would not kill when he saw the sky, the ground, or the iron.
But Han Xin's credit was too great, and in the end, it still aroused the jealousy of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty. Because of the previous agreement, Liu Bang was not easy to attack Han Xin directly.
So Liu Bang's queen Lu Pheasant came up with a solution, since Han Xin couldn't kill him when he saw the sky, couldn't kill him when he saw the ground, and couldn't kill him when he saw iron.
Then cover Han Xin with a cloth bag, tie it to the beam of the bell room, and stab him to death with a bamboo stick. And the palace maid who executed Han Xin at that time was a well-known backing woman.
Many people think that since the demise of the Han Dynasty, the backer woman has ceased to exist, but in fact it is not. Emperors of all dynasties would raise some women, and special talents would teach them martial arts and imprison their thoughts.
Turn them into a horde of humanoid killing machines, following only royal orders.
"I see, the princess can rest assured, although I am a gentleman, I don't bully women." Zhang Zheng nodded matterfully and replied to Qinghe, attracting a pair of shy eyes from Qinghe.
When you are full of wine and food, someone will clean up the mess on the table later. Next up is the main event, drinking the wine.
Marriage means marriage. It is a kind of gourd, which is bitter and inedible, commonly known as bitter gourd, and is mostly used to make scoops.
Heyu, which began in the Zhou Dynasty, was a ceremony for couples to get married in the old days. In the ceremony, a gourd is cut into two scoops, and the handle is connected by a thread, and the bride and groom each take a scoop and drink together, symbolizing marriage to connect the two into one.
The wine not only conveys the meaning that the husband and wife will never be separated, but also has a deeper meaning.
In ancient times, liquor was made from home-grown grains, with a very low alcohol content and a sweet and delicious taste, similar to drinks such as sake brewing and mash.
The sweet wine brewed by the parents of the newlyweds is poured into the two bitter gourd scoops, implying that the husband and wife will share weal and woe together.
Zhang Zheng and Qinghe are not only a married couple in law, but also a couple of newcomers who Li Shimin personally decreed to the world.
This also means that even if the husband and wife of the two will not live in harmony in the future, because of the existence of that holy decree, it is a luxury for the two to want to reconcile.
When Zhang Zheng and Qinghe were worshipping in the high hall, their mother Yuan personally cut off a strand of their hair and wrapped it together in red paper and entered the ancestral hall.
The name of Li Jing, the princess of Qinghe, was also written into the family tree by the elders of the Zhang clan who came from Shazhou. It's because the two of them are now close to the same wine.
A touch of flying light appeared on the surface of the Qing River, and he took two ladles from the plate that served rice jade Ruyi on the side.
Then he poured the wine into it, handed one to Zhang Zheng, and the two wrapped their arms around and drank the wine in the scoop.
Then Qinghe blew out the candle and climbed into a new bed. Zhang Zheng looked at this posture, and knew that he could only sleep with Qinghe tonight.
He took off his thick clothes, climbed onto the new bed and lay down silently. Both of them had been tossed for a day, and they were already extremely tired, and after a while, the sound of the two of them snoring evenly came from the new house.
…… Early in the morning, Zhang Zheng was the first to wake up, and Qinghe wrapped around Zhang Zheng in a strange posture like an octopus.
I don't know when the auspicious clothes on my body were taken off, and only a close-fitting coat was left on my body. Zhang Zheng hurriedly pulled open the quilt and checked it, and saw that his underwear was wearing it properly, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, I was glad that I didn't do anything excessive to this eleven-year-old girl last night.
It seemed that he noticed that Zhang Zheng lifted the quilt, Qinghe subconsciously drilled into Zhang Zheng's arms, and then fell asleep again.
Zhang Zheng lightly pulled the leg of Qinghe's arm on his body, and then got up and put on a short shirt.
The sky is not yet bright, but Zhang Zheng knows that today's Chang'an is destined to be unusual.
"Donkey, the slave maid cleans your body and face...... "Hanxiang, who lives outside, doesn't know if she hasn't slept all night or got up early, Zhang Zheng walked out of the outside, and saw that Hanxiang had prepared the washing utensils.
"Not for the time being, I'll go out and have a look first, don't wake up the princess." Zhang Zheng nodded lightly at Hanxiang, then gently pushed open the door and walked out.
Coming to the highest attic of the county uncle's mansion, Zhang Zheng looked into the northwest direction, although the sky was not yet dawn, but Zhang Zheng seemed to see the people in the north of Chang'an.
Today is the day when the Tang Dynasty sent troops, Duan Zhixuan moved to the post of General Zuo Xiaowei, led Zuo Xiaowei's 20,000 elite soldiers, and requisitioned 30,000 people, a total of 50,000 people, known as the 100,000 army to ask Gu Hun for guilt.
Bofu in Weinan County is a hundred miles away from the camp of the North Church, and of course Zhang Zheng can't see anything. But Zhang Zheng's eyes kept staring at the northwest direction.
Daddy said that His Majesty did intend to let himself go with the army. And now that Duan Zhixuan's army has been mobilized, the holy decree given to him by Li Shimin has still not arrived.
It seems that he is following Li Jing's army. Everyone knows that Duan Zhixuan's 20,000 men were mainly to understand the siege of Shazhou, the real battle to destroy the country, or the army that Li Jing was preparing to go out in December.
As long as Li Jing makes a move, it will be a battle to destroy the country, which is already the consensus of all people of insight in the Tang Dynasty.