Chapter 724 Cousin wants to marry (monthly ticket)
Chapter 724: My cousin is getting married (please vote for additional updates)
Author: Qingzhulin
In a blink of an eye, it was the eve of Xiao Xianghua's personal wedding.
Lin Wanwan spent a lot of time in Datang during this period. She only counted the time. After spending two days in Datang, she returned to modern times for a few minutes to read daily reports and reply to emails and messages to show that she had not disappeared from the world.
Most of the time, Lin Wanwan stayed in the Tang Dynasty, reciting poems, playing the piano, and painting with several sisters of the Xiao family. Occasionally, she would accompany Xiao Yixun to play poison and study drugs.
There is no separation between medicine and poison, but medicines all have three types of poison. Therefore, people with good medical skills and a relatively thorough understanding of medicinal materials are usually not too bad if they want to play with poison. But it is just a matter of dosage. If it is suitable, it can be a life-saving medicine.
, if inappropriate, it is a deadly poison.
In addition to playing poison with Xiao Yixun to improve her ability to use poison, Lin Wanwan also took the time to get a gun target and practice shooting.
Because the sound of gunfire is very loud, Lin Wanwan usually chooses to practice in the mountains, which scares countless birds.
She had basically finished shooting all the bullets Lu Shouyue gave her, that is, only the few bullets in the gun were left.
Her marksmanship has improved a bit, and she has the talent of a sharpshooter.
That afternoon, Xiao Xianghua sat in her yard and watched her mother, Mrs. Yuan, help her organize the dowry boxes.
I will leave the Xiao family in Qiantang tomorrow. There will be long mountains and rivers in the future, and it will not be easy to return to my parents' home again.
Even though Luan County is only a day's boat ride away from Qiantang, for the people of the Tang Dynasty, it was not that close to cross the ocean. Unlike modern times, it only takes more than two hours by car on the expressway.
But Lin Wanwan was quite happy. Xiao Xianghua married in Luang County and was close to her. It would be easy for them to visit frequently in the future.
There were three daughters in the Xiao family. The twin sisters were engaged earlier than Xiao Xianghua. However, the Tang Dynasty emphasized the order of elders and younger ones, so naturally the eldest daughter Xiao Xianghua got married first.
Lin Wanwan gave each of their sisters a glass mirror as their makeup gift, which was considered a very generous gesture. However, she has a good relationship with Xiao Xianghua. Among the sisters, she likes the elegant, dignified and polite Xiao Xianghua the most, so she naturally subsidizes her in private.
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Lin Wanwan not only brought back many precious Chinese herbal medicines from Chang'an, she also brought a lot of splendid silks and gave Xiao Xianghua several pieces as gifts.
She also gave Xiao Xianghua a few sets of ready-made clothes from her silk and satin shop, which made Xiao Xianghua reluctant to accept them.
For Lin Wanwan, the gift of a mirror was only a few hundred mirrors, and the silk and satin ones were also exchanged for pepper. Calculated at modern exchange rates, it didn't cost her much, and it didn't show her friendship with Xiao Xianghua.
But for Xiao Xianghua, the gifts Lin Wanwan gave her were almost more than the money in the bottom of her dowry, and she really deserved it.
There were a lot of people crowded here today at Xiao Xianghua, and several sisters came over to help Xiao Xianghua clean up.
Everyone's face was filled with joy, except for the bride-to-be, Xiao Xianghua, whose expression was the lightest.
While I was busy, the maid came to report that Xiao Xianghua's aunt and a distant cousin had arrived. These two people were both blessed, that is, they had a happy family, with both parents alive and children.
They are here to help make the bed in the boudoir where Xiao Xianghua is getting married. According to the custom in Qiantang and Luan County of the Tang Dynasty, the man's wedding bed is made by the man's Quanfu people from their side; the woman's boudoir has conditions and attention.
The daughter's family will naturally do the same thing.
As the de facto housewife of the Xiao family in Qiantang, Ms. Yuan naturally had to arrange everything properly when her legitimate daughter got married. Lest any omission might wrong her daughter, it would be impossible to skip the auspicious arrangements of making the bed.
Anyway, Xiao Xianghua just acted like a shy bride who quietly allowed herself to be arranged, letting her mother Yuan do whatever she wanted, and she just cooperated in the whole process.
Lin Wanwan watched from the side. The rules of the Tang Dynasty were much more cumbersome than those of modern times, and of course the sense of ritual was much stronger.
She is a person without a father and a mother, and she is the eldest child and unmarried, so she is the most unlucky person to be manipulated by the evil star. To allow her to stand in the boudoir of the bride to be married is because the Xiao family is enlightened and treats her as a guest.
In a more sophisticated family, someone like Lin Wanwan would not be allowed to get close to the bride.
Lin Wanwan also felt that there were many maids from the palace around her, and their rules were much stronger than those of the maids from the Xiao family branch. Naturally, the master she brought with her also seemed to know the etiquette.
Xiao Qingyu, like Lin Wanwan, was destined to be the lone star of the evil spirits. But the mother and daughter did not feel that they were suffering. They stood in the bride's boudoir and watched the excitement happily.
Today, all the mattresses are new, including cotton quilts from Linjiazhuang Workshop!
This was not a gift from Lin Wanwan, but a gift given to the Xiao family by Patriarch Lin on behalf of the Lin family.
The direct branch of the Lin family has been wiped out in the war, but the common branch hiding on the remote seaside is still there. This kind of gift was naturally taken over by them.
In the boudoir, Xiao Xianghua's sisters and cousins have already begun to discuss the questions they will take for the Wang family's husband exam tomorrow.
In addition to pairs and antiphonal songs, there are also various dancing, sword fighting and beating routines.
The evening ceremony of the Tang Dynasty was held at dusk, because the journey from Qiantang to Luan County required a day's journey, so the groom had to come early in the morning.
Bring your strong tribesmen, relatives and friends with you, go to the bride's house, go through five levels, kill six generals, snatch the bride away, and then quickly turn back to catch the auspicious time of dusk. Time is very tight.
Lin Wanwan will follow the wedding procession tomorrow, which means that she will return to Luang County by tomorrow evening at the latest!
She now has double expectations. One is looking forward to the wedding scene on the Tang Dynasty woman's side, and the other is looking forward to returning to her home.
On this day, time passed extremely fast.
The dinner was a dinner for the whole family, including relatives and friends who came to see off their relatives. There were all kinds of silk and bamboo songs and dances. People in the Tang Dynasty could not live without singing and dancing, which were more popular than poetry.
After all, there is a threshold for poetry, but there is no threshold for singing and dancing. No matter what the conditions are, if you let go of singing and dancing, everyone will be the same.
Lin Wanwan dragged Xiao Xianghua to join in the dance of the demons, while Xiao Yixun sat bored in the corner, drinking milk slowly by himself and watching others singing and dancing wildly.
Little Qingyu also walked in and out of adults' dance skirts with a few friends, sweating profusely and being very excited.
Lin Wanwan only took the time to sneak back to modern times for a few minutes, made a phone call with Lu Shouyue, and then returned to Datang.
Lu Shouyue had become accustomed to Lin Wanwan's frequent refusal to answer the phone. He tapped his fingers on the newly obtained box of ammunition, waiting to give it to her next time they met.
Because this kind of thing is hard to come by in China, Lu Shouyue would take some whenever he had the chance and let Lin Wanwan hoard them by herself.
Anyway, she hid thousands of years ago, and even the most powerful on-site investigation would not be able to catch her.
As for himself, if he couldn't handle such a small thing, he wouldn't be able to bring the auction house left to him by his grandfather to its current position.