Lucky husband

When preparing for the water banquet, there was an endless stream of people who came to Shanghe Village to give gifts.

Many wealthy families wanted to curry favor with these two newly-promoted Juren lords by pushing out their beautiful unmarried daughters.

People like Li Mingde who are already married and have children are slightly less inquired about. Bai Zhiwen, who is only engaged but not married, has become a favorite.

Many wealthy families in this county and even in Lin County asked him if he had any plans to regret the marriage, saying that their daughter was beautiful and well-educated, and their family had a stronger family background, which was much better than marrying a brother from the countryside. up.

There is one kind who sends his own daughter to be his wife, and there are more concubines or beautiful maids, not only Bai Zhiwen, but also Li Mingde.

The attitude of the two is very consistent - refused without pretense.

If those people didn't wink and kept talking, Li Mingde or Bai Zhiwen would ask people to leave directly, and spread the word to prevent that family from going to Shanghe Village to eat the flowing water banquet.

When Xiucai said this, those rich families would not take it seriously, and they might even trip up the people in Shanghe Village behind their backs, but if the master Juren said it, they would not dare to get angry, and could only flatter them cautiously. As soon as I came, there was no one to give away.

What the two of them did made the Bai people and the Li family very satisfied. The two families were related by marriage, and they didn't want any foreign vixen to spoil their children's marriage.

You can't give people to the two masters. Some people want to give heavy gifts. However, if the gifts are too expensive, Li Mingde and Bai Zhiwen personally refuse them. Only those gifts that are within the acceptable range will be accepted and recorded in the record. When there is a happy event, return the gift with the same standard, and the rules will not be exceeded.

Because of the name of the old man Juren, the preparations for a nine-day running water banquet were quickly completed. On the first day, the county magistrate came to give him enough face.

So far, the people of Shanghe Village have gone out and reported that they are more famous than the people in the county. Who told them that there were two masters in the village at a time, and the young wives who did not marry in Shanghe Village regretted it.

Nowadays, women in Shanghe Village seldom marry outsiders, and boys in Shanghe Village don't marry women from outside very often.

Therefore, whether it is marrying a woman from Shanghe Village or marrying into Shanghe Village, it is an honor for ordinary people in certain counties, unlike the past when they mentioned the countryside with contempt.

After the running water feast, the villagers then proposed to build an archway at the entrance of the village, but this move was stopped by Bai Zhiwen and Li Mingde together.

There are two kinds of memorial archways in the Dayu Dynasty. One is official repair. Today, the emperor speaks and the Ministry of Rites presides over it. It goes down to the local yamen. Big honor.

The other is self-repair by the people. Most of the folk self-cultivation archways are set up only after some major incidents.

Under their persuasion, the archway was not repaired in the end, and the village gradually settled down. Only then did Bai Zhiwen leave his body to prepare for his marriage with Li Mingjin.

Prior to this, Bai Zhiwen had asked Bai Mugen to make preparations. Erjin's small house was bought, and it was decorated with red lanterns, big red flowers and other objects in a particularly festive manner.

The horse to welcome the relatives arrived in Changping County, and Wan Rongtong came with him. This horse was lent to Bai Zhiwen by Wan Rongtong. Of course, he couldn't be absent when his friends got married.

The relatives and friends who went to welcome the relatives together, the people who played music behind the welcoming team, etc., Bai Zhiwen checked every link in person.

Seeing that he was more serious about this wedding banquet than the provincial examination, Wan Rongtong teased him: "Are you being eaten to death by your brother-in-law? It is rumored outside that the brother of the Li family has not married into the Bai family, so he will take care of it." The matter of Master Bai Juren is probably a fierce one."

Bai Zhiwen took the time to glance at Wan Rongtong: "Brother Jin is so good, so he deserves my wholehearted treatment. I can't bear to let outsiders hurt Fu Lang's heart."

From Bai Zhiwen and Li Mingde's point of view, there was nothing wrong with Wan Rongtong. The only problem was that besides the wife he was marrying, he also had a concubine and two concubines.

What puzzled the two of them the most was that Wan Rongtong's concubine's room and two rooms were found by his wife for him, neither Bai Ting nor Li Mingjin would do such a thing.

Perhaps for the sons of the aristocratic family, Wan Rongtong may have kept himself clean like this. After all, Wan Rongtong respected his wife and did not mess around outside.

But Bai Zhiwen felt awkward, he had pretended to be Brother Jin since he was a child, he liked Brother Jin, hoped to take care of Brother Jin for the rest of his life, and hoped that Brother Jin would have the same feelings for him.

In this way, of course, he would not allow other people to lie between the two of them. He thought that if one day he became famous and Brother Jin offered to take a concubine for him, it must be because he did not do well enough and made Brother Jin sad.

Not wanting to entangle Wan Rongtong on this issue, Bai Zhiwen asked him when he was going to leave for the capital.

On Wanjia's terms, Wan Rongtong had passed the provincial examination, so naturally he would not be kept and let him miss the provincial examination next year.

When the list was just released, Bai Zhiwen asked Wan Rongtong, and Wan Rongtong said that he hadn't set a time to set off. It's been a month now, so it should have been set.

"Hey, I got my parents to agree to let me go with you." Wan Rongtong acted as if he had done a lot of things.

The test will be held in March of the next year, and the arrangement of the Wan family's parents is that their youngest son will celebrate the new year at home, and then go to the capital in late January when the weather gets warmer.

The capital is located in the north, and the winter is longer. Starting from the original Han province, we walked slowly for a month. When we arrived in the capital, it was warmer there, and Wan Rongtong would suffer less.

Wan's family is rich, so when they arrive in the capital, they won't be able to stay in any inn with the money, so they don't worry that they won't have a place to stay if they go late.

Moreover, it was late February when he arrived in the capital, and he was in time to register for the examination in early March, and he had time to adjust his status, and wait until late March to participate in the examination.

The Wan family's father and mother had good ideas, but Wan Rongtong was not happy. He wanted to set off for the capital with his two friends.

Usually, because Bai Zhiwen and Li Mingde are brothers and sisters, and they also married women and brothers from the other clan as wives and husbands, Wan Rongtong felt that his relationship with them was not that close.

He wasn't jealous or anything, but he was envious of the good relationship between the two of them, and wanted to be familiar with them, so he wanted to be with them.

Besides, it is a long way from the original Han province to the capital, and according to the arrangement of his parents, he will leave at the end of January. If something happens to him on the way, he will arrive in a hurry before the exam. If he misses the registration or is in bad condition, it will affect the exam What to do.

The exam will be held once every three years. Wan Rongtong hopes that he will be able to win the promotion this year and become a Jinshi in the next year. By then, he will return to his hometown in good clothes and make the narrow-minded and jealous Shen die of anger.

At this time, Wan Rongtong followed Bai Zhiwen and the others to go to Beijing to rush for the exam with a little childishness in mind. When he really arrived in the capital, the general examination and palace examination were over, and he was very grateful to his naive self at this time.

Bai Zhiwen was quite surprised when he heard Wan Rongtong say that he was going to set off with them: "Rongtong, we have to go to the capital by water first, and then change to land. In order to reach the capital before the heavy snow falls, we must hurry. Can you take it?"

"Who do you look down on?" Wan Rongtong was angry, "Since I want to set off with you, I have naturally considered going on my way."

Wan Rongtong thought of the family affairs, and shook his head with a little complacency: "Both of you have to bring your family, and I am not behind, and my wife also wants to be with you. She is still packing her bags at home and waiting for you Before we get married, she will definitely go to Changping County, and then the three of us will start from Changping County together, and we will shine in the next year's fair!"

Don't be ashamed!

The corners of Bai Zhiwen's mouth twitched. When he was not familiar with him, he felt that Wan Rongtong was a man of aristocratic family, but after getting acquainted with him, he would find that this man would shine brightly with a little sunshine, very childish.

"All right, all right, you have to take good care of your sister-in-law on the way." Bai Zhiwen agreed, and drove Wan Rongtong to talk to Li Mingde, and he had to take a good inventory of the things on the day of the wedding banquet.

The marriage of the Master Juren has as much influence in Changping County as the magistrate marrying a wife. Other merchants and craftsmen dare not delay what he wants to do, and immediately start it, for fear that the slow action will make the Master Juren unhappy.

At this time, Bai Mugen was already able to take care of himself, so Bai Zhiwen didn't find another housekeeper or servant, and arranged everything for him, which was very worry-free.

A few days passed in a flash.

On October [-]th, it is advisable to marry, open a business, go to Liang, and travel.

The third bedroom of Li's family entered the small courtyard, and it was full of Li Mingjin's dowry. In addition to the Li family, there was also a mother of five blessings that Jiang Zhiyun specially found. Li Mingjin combed her hair.

Dressing, face twisting, makeup, and finally hair.

Mother Wufu is not young, with white hair but hale and hearty eyes.

She took a sandalwood comb exuding a faint fragrance, and slowly combed Li Mingjin's hair from the top to the end, and said in her mouth: "One comb to the end; two comb the white hair to match the eyebrows; three comb the children and grandchildren." The floor is full; four combs go out for good luck, and meet nobles; five combs and five sons come to accept the contract, five silver bamboo shoots and a hundred kinds; six combs relatives and friends come to celebrate, the boudoir is dyed rouge in front of the mirror; seven combs and seven sisters go down to earth to match Dong Yong, the magpie bridge elevated is light and level with each other; the eight combs and eight immortals come to celebrate their birthdays, and the precious duck travels through the lotus road; nine combs and nine sons have everything in a row; ten combs and couples will grow old."

Li Mingjin sat in front of the bronze mirror, the tiredness of getting up early gradually dissipated. He looked at himself in the mirror, which was blurred and clear, familiar and strange, and suddenly an inexplicable emotion filled his heart, making him feel sour and astringent.

The panic of marrying into another family spread all over her body, and the reluctance to leave her family welled up from the bottom of her heart. Unknowingly, Li Mingjin burst into tears.

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