Chapter 700: A Great Harvest
The two people who came were Li Yueying's master Ye Tianhan and Chai Xinyue's master Lan Aoshuang, and the disciples of the Wudang faction greeted the two one after another, and then stepped aside in turn.
The two of them dressed very differently from before, and it was no wonder that everyone couldn't recognize them for a while, especially Lan Aoshuang, who was already pretty, and at this time, she didn't look like a fifty-six-year-old woman, but like a middle-aged lady in her thirties and forties.
Ye Tianhan looked at the three brides in the hall, his face was extremely complicated, and he turned his face to Lan Aoshuang and said, "Senior sister's wish has come true, it's better for you to say it." Lan Aoshuang smiled and said, "You and I are the same, but you don't have to worry about this." Then he turned his head to Yan Xu, who was standing on the side, and said: "Xiao Han has no parents, and my sisters are shy for the time being, please ask Yan Ge Lao to continue to preside." ”
Tang Yue frowned at Yan Xu and said nothing, and hurriedly said: "The children of the rivers and lakes are not informal, and it is not good to have an empty high hall position, so according to what the two seniors said." As he spoke, he glanced at Yan Xu.
Yan Xu cleared his throat and said in a loud voice: "Second worship Gaotang." Xiao Han and the three brides bowed to the second elder at the same time, got up after bowing three times in a row, and said loudly: "Husband and wife bow to each other." ”
Xiao Han hurriedly turned to face the three wives, and there was a palace maid over there who helped the three of them to turn to Xiao Han. The four of them bowed face to face. The Wudang disciples shouted loudly, and the civil and military officials of the Southern Tang Dynasty were also full of laughter.
In fact, the real royal wedding is extremely complicated, which is naturally due to the fact that the identity of Xiao Hanjiang and the lake simplifies the ceremony, and Rao is still busy with the big and small people in the house. After all, there are so many high-ranking officials of the Southern Tang Dynasty attending the celebration, as well as the senior leaders of the various halls and departments of the Wudang faction and the heads of the original thirty-six factions, and it is a royal wedding, and the reception cannot be lowered.
Ye Zixuan was sweating profusely, and seeing that the newcomer was about to enter the cave room, he hurriedly turned around and ordered a banquet. As soon as he stepped out of the gate, he heard Yan Xu's trembling voice say, "Send it into the cave room." ”
The Wudang disciples and the generals applauded loudly, and their own palace maids helped the three brides back to the room, Xiao Han followed closely behind, and Xue Jian shouted: "After picking the hijab, I will accompany the old brother to have a few drinks." ”
As soon as he took the lead, all the generals shouted that Xiao Han must come to accompany the wine, Xiao Han waved his hand to everyone and smiled: "All the brothers eat and drink first, and the head of this family will come when he goes." ”
The generals laughed, and even the Wudang disciples couldn't help laughing, and laughed out of the hall to go to the banquet. Under the leadership of Yan Xu, a group of civil officials shook their heads and walked out of the hall, and their own special people led them to the back hall to attend the banquet.
The three brides were sent into three different wedding rooms in the backyard, and everything was arranged by Ye Zixuan in advance. Xiao Han stayed in the three rooms for half an hour in turn, and only when he saw that the sky was dark did he come out with a proud face, and was led by two Wudang disciples to the front hall to toast everyone.
The wedding banquet was held until three o'clock before it dispersed, and all the civil and military officers drank and staggered away one by one. The disciples of the Wudang faction are the same, Zhu Gaoyang drank so much that his stomach almost vomited, and Qi Xinyi was so angry that he wanted to die, but fortunately, Fu Qiuya went to the kitchen and boiled sobering soup for him.
The same is true of the heads of the various factions, who were successively taken back to rest by the disciples of Wudang. Ye Zixuan and Chu Tianshu watched as those palace maids and eunuchs sorted out everything before letting them go back to rest, and there were forbidden guards outside.
One night of spring was infinite, and when he got up early the next morning, Xiao Han took his three wives to the front hall to accept all the Wudang staff again.
First, the three brides jointly offered tea to the three elders of Wudang, and each of the three elders wrapped a red envelope for the three of them. Li Yueying immediately opened it and looked at it, and said to Sima An dissatisfiedly: "Just count your old slamming the door, so you can give such a little." ”
Everyone laughed, Sima An laughed: "Isn't it enough for the old madman to give you three a month for so little money?" Everyone laughed, and Ye Zixuan said dissatisfiedly: "Old man Sima, I gave you ten taels of silver the day before yesterday, don't say that the money is not enough." ”
Sima An's old face flushed and said, "It's none of your Ye girl's business, I still have the money." Someone shouted: "Old man Sima must have taken a fancy to which fan, and he wants to use money to help others redeem himself." The crowd laughed wildly, and the old madman was so ashamed that he blushed and hid away.
Follow the heads of the Wudang branches and the heads of the original 36 factions to meet the three ladies in turn. Li Yueying sat on the main seat, Murong Qiuyu on the left, and Chai Xinyue on the right. The house was full of joy, and the three of them prepared a large number of red envelopes and distributed them one by one.
After them, the five hall masters and rudder masters of the Wudang faction came forward to pay respects, and finally the seven sons of Wudang and Su Ruotong visited the three masters, and each of them was rewarded with a big red envelope. The three of them gave Su Ruotong a golden hairpin, a silver hairpin, and a jade hairpin.
This girl is also big now, no one took care of her before, but now she is mostly taken care of by Ye Zixuan and Hao Yufei on the mountain, and the two of them are also trying their best to dress her, but the people in Wudang have always been frugal and rarely dressed up so fancy.
The disciples of each hall of Wudang came up to worship in turn, and the chaos did not end until noon, and it was a big dinner at noon. Xiao Han re-arranged the wine and invited the leaders of each hall and department, and it was lively for another day.
On the third day, the three brides returned to the palace to save their relatives and did not return until the evening. Xiao Han entered the palace again the next day to thank him, and stayed until midnight before returning, I don't know what the two had talked about secretly.
Five days later, Xiao Han invited the Southern Tang Dynasty Wenwu one by one, and each of them gave a generous gift of thanks, which instantly improved the reputation and status of the Wudang faction in the hearts of the people in Jiangnan. In addition, the disciples of Wudang are really different from other sects, they have a good reputation outside, and there are many women from good families who have taken a fancy to several young disciples of Wudang and asked if they are married.
It was June 20 after everything was dealt with, Xiao Han had something in his heart, and remembered what Ye Tianhan and Lan Aoshuang had told him a few days ago, and immediately decided to set off.
All the people who accompanied them to Jinling went home except for the seven sons of Wudang, Su Ruotong, the five sisters and brothers of the Tianshan faction, Chu Tianshu, and Dizitang.
Ye Zixuan took Hao Yufei and hundreds of disciples of Xuanwu Hall to count the gifts in the past few days, and it took three days to calculate and understand clearly, and registered them one by one, and also sent them to Xiao Han to check at this time.
Xiao Han didn't bother to pay attention to these things now, and immediately handed the booklet to Murong Qiuyu, Murong Qiuyu flipped through it, and was suddenly dumbfounded: "So much?" Chai Xinyue was also a little curious, took it over and flipped a few pages, and said with a smile: "It's really a big deal." ”
Li Yueying rolled her eyes and said, "We are so helpful to Brother Seven, what is this money? According to me, we should order Minister Pan to give us 30,000 yuan in the treasury." ”
Everyone was startled, and Murong Qiuyu said softly: "Sister be cautious." Li Yueying knew that she was speechless, and hurriedly covered her mouth and said, "I said it casually, did you hear it?" Everyone laughed: "No." ”
There are only a few leaders in the house now, and everyone in each branch has gone back, all of them are their own people, Xiao Han smiled and said: "The money is collected anyway, how about letting Minister Ye report it?"
Sunan Xing's sisters and brothers were naturally present, and when they heard this, they were about to get up and avoid it, but they were stopped by Xiao Han waving his hand: "Don't see outside, let's listen together." Bai Haoming and Jiang Haoyu were playing with Fan Haochen and Wang Haozhen, Bai Haoming whispered a few words in Fan Haochen's ear, Fan Haochen nodded, and came to Li Yueying step by step and knelt down and said in a milky voice: "Master, I also want money." ”
Everyone laughed so hard that Li Yueying took him into her arms and nodded his little head and said, "Don't learn from your seventh brother, he's the worst here." Fan Haochen arched in her arms and said, "Seventh brother is the best." ”
Ye Zixuan wanted to go up and hug him, but was stopped by Xiao Han and said, "It's none of your business, you can report it directly." Ye Zixuan glanced at him dissatisfied, picked up the book and said: "After we counted, 317 counties in 82 prefectures in Jiangnan sent people to give gifts, collecting 30,000 taels of gold, 270,000 taels of silver, and 170 boxes of gold and jade jewelry, with a price of 800,000 yuan. ”
Everyone gasped, only Li Yueying and Chai Xinyue had normal faces. Both of them are of noble birth, Li Yueying's family has fallen, and her brother has also been sent to live in Fangzhou, although on the surface the Zhao family is not bad to her, but in fact, it is not what it used to be.
The reason why Li Congshan dared to make her a princess was that on the one hand, he provoked Zhao Song, on the other hand, he also curried favor with Xiao Han, and thirdly, he also had a pitiful heart.
Ye Zixuan glanced at everyone and continued: "There are seven hundred and twenty-three officials from the Tang Dynasty, with a total of seven thousand two hundred taels of gold and one hundred and thirty-three thousand two hundred and nine taels of silver. Four hundred and sixty-nine generals gave gifts of gold and silver, ninety-nine thousand six hundred silver. ”
The room was silent, and Ye Zixuan continued: "The emperor rewarded the three princesses with a dowry of 30,000 taels of gold, 150,000 taels of silver, 120 strings of pearls and agate and other jewelry, and 3,000 pieces of silk and satin from Western and Western Shu. She cleared her throat and said, "A total of 67,200 taels of gold, 433,002 taels of silver, and 900,000 taels of gold and jade jewelry." ”
This is not counting the gifts sent by the Wudang branches, Xiao Han stayed for a long time, seeing that everyone was like clay sculptures, he turned his head to Chu Tianshu and said, "What do you think, junior brother?"
Chu Tianshu stood up and said, "Naturally, part of this money will be allocated to allow each supermarket to expand its business scale, and the rest will be transported back to the faction for distribution." ”
Xiao Han shook his head and said nothing, turned to Li Yueying and said, "What do you mean?" Li Yueying waved her hand and said, "Don't ask me, ask the two of them." Chai Xinyue has never been in charge, and immediately shook her head and said: "Let the sister be the master." ”
Xiao Han said to Murong Qiuyu: "Sister, you say." Although the two are married, they are still used to being called before.
Murong Qiuyu smiled and said: "The matter of money has always been in charge of Minister Ye, and I don't know much about it, so let Minister Ye call the shots." ”
Xiao Han pondered: "Eating people with short mouths and short hands, my Wudang faction is actually not short of money. Everyone nodded together, and Xiao Han said to Ye Zixuan: "Although this money is a reward from the emperor, most of it is from generals at all levels. Now Jiangnan is not as good as before, I heard that the supervision is very strict, although the salary is not low, but there is no additional income, I mean that in addition to the emperor's reward, the rest of the rest will be returned. ”
Ye Zixuan jumped up and said: "No, we have already sent the gifts sent by the branches to the hundred officials in Jiangnan, wouldn't it be a loss to send them again?"
Hao Yufei was also dissatisfied: "It's not possible that we have to lose money on a trip to Jinling, right?"
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