"Xia Weng, Daoyuan has gone to the woman's house to pick up the bride, let me come back and ask, have all the invited guests arrived?"
Ren Hong wanted to take the bride around in Shangguan, and Yang Yun, who was his man's guest, rushed back one step in advance.Although he is illiterate, he can eat in Chang'an and Dunhuang for decades, and has his own set of tricks.He calculated in his heart, and asked Lu Duowei to come over with the list, and said with some worry: "Almost all the guests in Shangguan have arrived, but the family of General Sima did not send anyone to come, and only ordered his family to come to congratulate 100,000 yuan. ”Xia Dingmao is now weak when he mentions the Huo family, just because after Ren Hong refused to marry half a year ago, Mrs.
Huo hated the house and Wu, and hated everything that had anything to do with the Xi'an Hou Mansion, and even threw away the cumin, the Huo family's favorite food.He also said that the people in the house were sick by eating this thing, and they also ate a slave to death!
Although he failed to tarnish the reputation of cumin, Lao Xia thought that what he had done was exposed, and he was worried for many days.The matter was finally settled, but he also paid attention to the Huo family's every move from then on, for fear that something would happen again.Yang Yun didn't know the twists and turns, and felt that Xia Dingmao didn't have to worry, and said with a smile: "Maybe the general knows what kind of virtue his family is, and he is afraid that they will repeat the mistake of the bush husband who made a big fuss about the wedding banquet of Wu'an Hou Tianwei, so he only sent servants to congratulate the money, and it would be a good thing not to come." ”Yang Yun knew about this in the Taishi Gongshu left by his maternal grandfather, in the early years of Emperor Xiaowu, as the emperor's uncle, Hou Tian Wei of Wu'an married the daughter of King Yan as his wife, and his sister Queen Mother loved this half-brother, and the clan of the Marquis of Zhao went to celebrate, and the wedding banquet of the Marquis of Wu'an was unprecedented.The queen mother couldn't help but give face, so even Dou Ying and Dou Fu, who had a holiday with Tian Wei before, went.As a result, the reckless husband was drunk at the banquet, and he was upset for Dou Ying to be treated coldly by the guests, so he made a big wedding banquet, offending Tian Wei, Cheng Buzhi and other people who could be offended, which triggered a political struggle.In the end, it led to the extinction of the Guan clan, and the Marquis of Wei Qi, Dou Ying, was beheaded.Hearing what Yang Yun said, Xia Dingmao also bowed his head: "Yang Jun is right, it's best not to come, as long as you have good guests and friends with the gentleman." ”At this moment, the guests inside and outside the gate erupted in cheers."
The new son-in-law and bride have arrived!""
The etiquette of the liehou is much more complicated than that of the scholars, and today there is a long way to go."
A person who is dizzy and the car is unstable, but the bystanders can gloat.As an invited guest, sitting in the courtyard, watching the liveliness of the Xi'an Hou Mansion, Liu Yi, who was several years younger than Ren Hong, showed a smile.He heard that the rule in ancient times was "no congratulations at the wedding", and there was a tradition that the house of the bride did not extinguish the candle for three nights, and the house of the bride did not have fun for three days.But in the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty wedding changed from the desertion of the pre-Qin wedding and became extremely lively.The variety and quantity of gifts have greatly increased, with an endless stream of carriages and horses, cows and horses neighing outside the door, and many servants, maidservants, and children leading the way in front of the carriage of the new husband and bride.The host entertained the guests with a feast, and the guests drank and laughed, and their words and deeds were unscrupulous, and even men and women were not allowed to sit together.As a young person, I like this kind of occasion when I can't help drinking, and Liu Yi has been mixing in the wedding banquet for many years to feel the lively atmosphere.However, among the people, some local officials who are stupid in reading Confucian scriptures will still follow the ancient system and prohibit the people from marrying and congratulating.In the spring of this year, when Liu Ai had made an appointment with Ren Hong to visit Wuling, he met such an official in Yangling."
The wedding ceremony is a major human event, and it is also a rare wine and food meeting for the people to get together.But those officials who want to follow the ancient system, forbidding the people to marry and not drinking and eating to congratulate each other, it is a gift to abolish the township party, so that the people have no joy of having fun. ”Ren Hong summed up a wonderful sentence: "The high-ranking officials and nobles in Chang'an City can't help but congratulate each other when they get married, if you want to talk about extravagance, it is a hundred times better than the people, why should you only ban it and can't help it."
This is simply that only the county officials are allowed to set fires, and the people are not allowed to light lamps. ”"Only the county officials are allowed to set fires, and the people are not allowed to light lamps, this sentence is wonderful."
Thinking of this, and then look at the scene of the guest party in the Xi'an Hou Mansion, praying for the gathering of clouds, the car serving Xilu, and dancing like a dance, Liu Yi no longer smiled.No matter how big the wedding of a "common people" like him is, it can't compare to the liehous after all.What's more, Liu Yi has a special identity, and he is simple and low-key on the day of his wedding.The residents of Shangguanli were also very evasive, and almost no one went to congratulate each other except for a few friends of Liu Aiji.Even today, Liu Ai has refused Ren Hong's invitation to say that he must sit at the table, and took his wife to sit in a corner, almost hiding in the shadow of the inner wall.Xu Pingjun found that her husband didn't speak, and when she saw his thoughtful expression, she said in a low voice: "Isn't the lover envious of the full house of guests and friends when Xi'an Hou got married?"
The concubine felt that the marriage custom was not in the excitement and complexity, but in the love of the husband and wife. ”Just like their simple wedding.Xu Pingjun gently stroked her bulging abdomen, and in a few months, she would be able to give birth to a baby in Liu's home, so that the courtyard that seemed to her to be large would be completely filled."
Yes, yes."
Liu Ai has already bowed his head, but this wife who knows him best guessed wrong this time.He was envious of Ren Hong, but he was not envious of the liveliness of the wedding, but envious of another thing.Liu Yi had already looked at Xia Dingmao, who was busy before and after, and said in his heart: "Daoyuan's life experience is somewhat similar to mine, and he also became an orphan in the witch curse, and his clan was destroyed. ”"I spent five years in the county prison and almost died, which is why I got sick.According to Daoyuan, he was only three or four years old when he was emigrated to the border of Dunhuang, his parents died, and he barely survived. ”As for the right or wrong grievances between Prince Wei and Ren An back then, if Ren An helped Prince Wei, whether he could rewrite the ending of the witch curse, Liu Yi didn't dare to think about it, because it was meaningless.The catastrophe more than ten years ago, the trouble brought to the two orphans is still continuing, Ren Hong has been imprisoned for three generations and cannot be trapped by the elders, and Liu's life experience has made him even more dilemma.But Daoyuan did not feel sorry for himself, but with his own strength, as a fighting official, he made immortal achievements in the Western Regions, entered the dynasty and became a marquis, and his fame chased after Bowang and Yiyang.Although the witch Gu did not overturn the case, but Ren's stigma was almost swept away by him, and decades later, the world may not know who Ren An is, but he will know the name of Xi'an Hou Renhong. ”Liu Yi had already scanned the courtyard, the dignitaries and dignitaries in Shangguan, those who had not appeared at his wedding banquet, from the imperial doctor to the princes of Jiuqing, all who should have come.Today's excitement is not shaded by his parents at all, and this face is all earned by Ren Hong's own ability.Looking at Ren Hong's high spirits, and thinking about his own situation, Liu Yi is inevitably a little uneven.Liu Yi already looks luckier than Ren Hong, he doesn't need to work hard, there are Zhang He and others to take care of him, and he got the clan membership, and even the emperor will ask with concern, give him a mansion when he gets married, and maybe he can get the marquis of Guannei in the future, everything is smooth.But few people can know the boredom and unwillingness in Liu Ai's heart.Because of this identity, the big people have to deliberately keep a distance from him, and Zhang He's brother Zhang Anshi is the same.can not shy away from the emperor's great-grandson status, and he is called a brother and brother of the two thousand stones, only Ren Hong, Liu Yi has cherished this friendship in his heart, and it is inevitable to compare himself with it.He is only seventeen years old, it is the age of hot-blooded Fang Gang, he likes to be righteous and righteous, likes to listen to the heroic stories of Wei Huo Zhang Qian, and knows the size of the world from Ren Hong's map, not only Jingzhao Chang'an.But the confinement imposed on the emperor's great-grandson by the witch curse is far heavier than Ren Hong, and Ren Hong can still try to cheer up, but Liu Ying has even been deprived of the right to do things."
The court decree said that I must achieve nothing in this life in order to be safe, otherwise the more I act, the more difficult it will be to move an inch, and even invite death."
A seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man must suppress the reverie of dreaming in the Tianshan Mountains, stay in Chang'an honestly, and do those things that do not attract the attention of the big people.He is not the master of Wang Fengguang's cockfighting addiction, playing for a month is still fresh and interesting, but after a year, this kind of life of eating and waiting for death, Liu Yi is already a little tired.Although Zhang He comforted him, this is the life that the emperor's great-grandson should live, and he has no worries about food and clothing, what else do you lack?
Of course, there is a lack of recognition, a lack of career, a lack of dreams that an eighteen-year-old boy needs, and a lack of hope that one day he can be stigmatized by the family."
Am I going to die like this in Jingzhao in this life?"
Liu Yi had already remembered that when he was about to leave Weiyang Palace last year, the emperor issued an edict allowing him to go to Weiyang Stable to pick a good horse.Those horses are either from Hexi, or from Henan, and even Wusun Xiji horses, all of which are proud of the cattle and nobles among the animals, and have good qualities, enough to carry the general to gallop across the field.But after being locked up in the stable for a long time, trapped in a small world, living in a pampered environment, but grinding out their talents.Most of the horses munched on fine alfalfa beans, lazily kicked their hooves, sneezed delicately, and occasionally ran around the stable.The horses, which were still thinking about the endless grassland, became unhappy, as if they were sick, and lost their original fierce spirit and abundant vitality.The most pitiful thing is that the offspring they gave birth to in the stable, who could not see the vast world outside all their lives, ate royal forage, raised fat and thick meat, and finally died of old age in the stable, but could not run to their heart's content.From them, Liu Yi seemed to see his own future, and shuddered.He finally picked a little black horse that had been squeezed out by his companions, and shrunk in a corner of the circle, his head hanging down, but his eyes were looking at the blue sky outside the stable, and his nose twitched slightly, as if he smelled the breath of freedom.The eyes that were still eager to run touched him, and Liu Yi had seen the indelible wildness in them.Now, like a horse trapped in the stable, he seems to be able to roam freely in Jingzhao, but in fact there are railing walls everywhere.Liu Ai had also stared at the high wall for a long time, he was not convinced, and sometimes he wanted to hit it headlong and slip away under a different name.The great husband should walk in the world with a sword, and go to live that free and happy life, so that he can be a livestock to be raised.But he finally lowered his head and turned around in resignation.Liu Yi is no longer alone, and now that his wife is pregnant, she must not be asked to find out this kind of thought.The most important thing now is to accompany Xu Pingjun and let his child be born safely.He knows the pain of growing up alone, and he will never let his children experience it again.The desire for freedom is hidden in the heart, and the responsibility of husband and father is on the shoulders, if you can understand this, you will no longer be a small man, but a real husband."
It's coming, it's coming!"
A cheerful voice sounded, interrupting Liu's musings, and as the people stood up and cheered one after another, the new son-in-law had already brought the bride into the door.He had to bow to the bride first, invite her into the courtyard, and both of them came to the door of the dormitory, and the new son-in-law invited her into the courtyard before he could go up the west steps.When turning to lead the way.On Ren Hong's face, there was a smile that couldn't be hidden.On this night, there will be many similar battles and confrontations, and the wedding night is very costly.The emperor's great-grandson forgot Fang Cai's troubles, and once again showed a happy smile, pointing at Ren Hong and ridiculing: "Daoyuan, this guy, has always been unfathomable on weekdays, pretending to be old, but today, he is also laughing so stupidly, like a vulgar fool in the middle of the road." ”Xu Pingjun looked at Liu Yi's happy expression and breathed a sigh of relief, but secretly said in his heart: "One hundred steps and fifty steps, on the day we got married, in the eyes of the concubine, you laughed even more stupidly and stupidly than him" PS: Chapter 2 is at noon, Chapter 3 is at night.