Chapter 142 The Big Wedding
Chapter 142 The Big Wedding
The wedding date soon arrived, and Xu Qing first returned to Jiangning Prefecture to prepare for the bride-picking and "setting up the bed."
When we returned to the Xu mansion, the Jieyuan archway had already been completed and the door lintel looked brand new.
In his previous life, Xu Qing was not really interested in this kind of thing, as he thought it was a bit ostentatious and superficial.
When he was studying, his favorite sentence in the book was "The Master said: How virtuous is Hui? He has only a bowl of rice and a jug of water, and people cannot bear the worry, but Hui does not change his joy."
The richness of a person's inner world is much more interesting and fulfilling than material satisfaction.
Well, that’s because he was never wealthy in his previous life.
Now he is rich in both spiritual and material aspects, and he wants both!
When he arrived at Li Yuan's residence, Xu Qing went to see his aunt first.
He was actually a little sad because after he got married, his aunt and uncle moved out completely.
This is not only a problem of how Feng Wu will get along with her uncle and aunt in the future, but also that her aunt and uncle will soon have children of their own, and it will inevitably be inappropriate for them to live with Xu Qing.
After all, my uncle is also an official. As an official, who doesn’t want to live comfortably in his own home?
Otherwise, I would have to entertain guests during the day and be careful with my nephew when I go home at night. Life would be boring.
The relationship between ruler and subject, between father and son.
It is indeed the same thing.
When the son becomes independent, he no longer wants to listen to his father or king.
"Qing'er, 15:30 is the auspicious time to set up the bed."
"Ah."
In fact, it has been said in the letter that Zhou tried his best to be thorough and said it again.
She happily pulled Xu Qing to see the newlyweds' bed.
This weighs at least a thousand pounds and costs a lot of money.
It is elegant and luxurious, with countless fine carvings on it.
Xu Qing had never seen such a big bed.
Zhou said, "I didn't want to build such a big one, but Mr. Hu and his family insisted on raising money, and asked me to find someone to build the most luxurious bed in Jiangning Mansion."
The wood is rosewood.
How big is the bed?
Let me put it this way, this bed can even be divided into two rooms, the inner room is a small couch for sleeping, the outer room can be used for changing clothes, and there is also a small couch for the maid to sleep on.
Unfortunately, Feng Wu did not have a maid as a dowry, but she did have a little cousin who was three years younger than her at her uncle's house.
While explaining to Xu Qing the purpose of the big bed and the meaning of the various carvings, Zhou sighed in her heart that if it were two years ago, she would never have dared to imagine that she would be as rich and prosperous as she is today.
It's like a dream.
She had forgotten what Qing'er was like before he fell seriously ill.
Before, she had been whispering with Lao Li, wondering if Qingge'er had been contaminated by something ominous and had become a different person after waking up.
Now I sometimes think about it, how could it be like this? Even if something possessed me, it must be the stars from the sky that have descended to earth, or the awakening of wisdom from the previous life.
The aunt and nephew were chatting while Lao Li was in charge of the wedding banquet.
He knew that his wife was pregnant, so he did as much as he could. If he didn't know how to do it, he would try to find someone else to do it. In any case, he tried his best not to let Zhou work too hard.
However, Zhou was only responsible for supervising people to work. She was in high spirits all day long and heard nothing but flattery, so she didn't feel tired at all.
In her words, since she married into the Li family, every day in the past few years has been much more tiring than it is now.
Now this is called sweetness after bitterness.
Xu Qing and Zhou were chatting until the auspicious time arrived.
A circle of people stood around the bed, and it took great effort to move the bed to a good location.
Xu Qing did not take any action.
But it can also be seen that the quality of this bed is indeed very good, and it should be enough to last for a long time after marriage.
He is a martial arts master now. If he gets too excited while playing and forgets to control his strength, an ordinary bed might be broken.
My aunt is really far-sighted.
After the bed is placed in the auspicious position, it is time to make the bed. A dragon and phoenix quilt is placed on it, and then longans, lotus seeds and other auspicious fruits are scattered around, and then the children roll around on the bed.
This is Jie Yuanlang’s wedding bed. Any child who can roll on it can get the blessing of Master Xingxiu.
After all, in the eyes of the world, if the champion of Nanzhili is not a star descending to earth, then what else could it be?
He didn't directly say that it was Wenquxing, that was to give face to the top scholar.
However, in the eyes of the villagers, the top scholar in Nanzhili is definitely no worse than the top scholar.
If Xu Jieyuan fails to become the top scholar in the future, it will naturally be a problem of vision of the officials in the court.
What's more, Yingtian Prefecture is the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, and it is quite prestigious.
In fact, the people of Southern Zhili have always had some opinions about Northern Zhili, believing that the imperial court should not move its capital to the north. Moreover, they have been relying on taxes and money from the southeast for support.
What we eat and drink is the blood of Nanzhili.
Even southerners, because they were good at studying, often had a huge advantage at the beginning of the dynasty, so northerners were dissatisfied and set up a north-south list.
As for those knowledgeable people who believe that the North is the barrier of the South and that it is only natural for the South to provide blood transfusions to the North, the Southerners do not quite buy it because they still have the Yangtze River as a natural barrier.
Although in history, those who lived in peace in the south could not escape destruction in the end, didn’t Taizu of our dynasty succeed?
Furthermore, the gentry in the south envied the policy of the previous dynasty the most, which was the tax-farming system.
The central government set the tax amount, and after the gentry paid the full amount, it became theirs.
It is not much more generous than our dynasty.
They have clearly given privileges to the gentry, but our dynasty has been stingy and now even wants to survey the land.
Therefore, as the Wen Xiang Sect gradually revived, some local gentry said strange things, saying that it would have been better if the Wen Xiang Sect uprising had been successful back then, so that everyone could become a incense master or hall master and engage in local self-government.
As for ordinary people, they don’t understand any of this at all.
It was already very difficult for them to know who the emperor was.
This is because the current emperor has been in power for a long enough time. If he had been in power for a short time, the common people in some remote areas might not even know that an emperor had been replaced.
The wedding date soon arrived.
Pick up the bride, get married, it's a lively scene.
Xu Qing could certainly drink a lot without getting drunk, but he still showed signs of exhaustion early on at the wedding banquet so that he could go back to the same room early.
When they arrived at the room, the maid Qiuxiang stopped them and refused to open the door.
"Master, the lady said that she will not let you in until you write a poem that satisfies her."
Xu Qing's face twitched: "Qiuxiang, you are the master's person."
Qiuxiang laughed inside and said, "Master, you said that from now on, Madam will be the one making the decisions in the inner house. We dare not disobey Madam."
Xu Qing had no choice but to copy a poem that fits the occasion:
"A lifetime of love, a life of love,
Lovesickness meets each other without blind date, who is spring for the sky.
The pulp is easy to beg to the Lanqiao, and the medicine becomes the blue sea.
If you would allow me to visit you in Oxford, we would forget our poverty.”
As soon as he finished chanting, the door opened.
Qiuxiang looked innocent. If she didn't open the door, she would be considered the villain who prevented the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl from meeting each other.
Xu Qing walked in slowly and then lifted Feng Wu's veil.
Feng Wu looked at him smilingly.
What followed was naturally a night of ups and downs.
Xu Qing and Feng Wu tested the quality of the Qianjin bed and found it was indeed very good.
Xu Jieyuan also checked the progress of Feng Wu's Tiger Demon Bone Refining Fist, which was satisfactory.
As a single guy, I can’t imagine what the scene in the bridal chamber is like, so just bear with me. I really had to grit my teeth and write this chapter.
(End of this chapter)