August 15th is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the day when people and moon are reunited. It is also the day when Youzhou Shepherd Liu Yugong, Yan Hou Liu Lin, gets married. The date has been set before March, and there are a lot of procedures to go through.
There are even more. After all, Liu Lin is a descendant of the Han Dynasty clan and a Marquis of Yan. His father is the Taifu and Youzhou Mu. Although the woman's official position is not as good as that, her reputation is first-rate. She belongs to the family of Cai Yong, a famous Confucian in the Han Dynasty.
daughter Cai Yan.
Of course, Cai Yan's reputation came from the fact that after being plundered by the Huns, she married the Xiongnu King Zuoxian. After her bitter experience on the grassland, she made the very famous Eighteen Patterns of Hujia, and also had Wenji return to the Han Dynasty, which has been sung through the ages.
story.
Liu Yu and Cai Yong have always been good friends, and Liu Lin and Cai Yan have known each other since childhood and have a very good relationship, so of course all the weddings have to be grand. Jixian County, Youzhou started making preparations as early as half a month ago.
The streets were sprinkled with water, and the floors were paved with loess. Even the major shops and restaurants in Jixian County had new signboards and were hung with colorful ribbons. The main roads in Jixian County were filled with lanterns and lanterns, which were as lively as the Chinese New Year.
In addition, it is the Mid-Autumn Festival, so the entire Jixian County is in bloom.
Liu Lin belongs to the clan, and although it cannot be said that all the clan members surnamed Liu will come, at least the clan clans with whom they have good relations and close bloodline will come. Not only that, even the emperor who is far away in Luoyang must send a lieutenant to congratulate him.
This is what the clan should enjoy. In fact, starting from August 10th, people coming to attend the wedding have arrived in Jixian one after another. Of course, Liu Lin did not need to come forward for all this. Most of them were arranged by Liu Yu. Now Liu Yu doesn’t care.
State affairs, and of course Liu Yu took part in these matters. By August 14, basically all the guests from far away had arrived. There were about a thousand people. The better restaurants in Jixian were basically full. These
They are still distant guests. If you include the local guests in Youzhou, there will be about four to five thousand people.
To open such a large banquet, it is impossible to rely on the Liu family. All these must be organized by restaurants. This is of course a good deal, but for restaurants, no one has the strength to purchase so many banquets and hundreds of tables.
The banquet is already the limit of what can be arranged. Now the number of tables has increased tenfold, and there are so many dignitaries. Who can afford it? The difficulty is not only increased a hundred times? But this is not a request, but an order.
You have to do it if you want to, and you have to do it if you don’t want to! So Qi Zhou, the magistrate of Ji County, selected a few relatively strong restaurants to host this banquet. First there was the problem of the venue. There were nearly 800 banquet tables.
No one could open it, so they had to temporarily clear out the school grounds in Ji County and hold a banquet there... There was also a problem with tables and chairs. In the end, all the hotels in Ji County were vacated to raise seven to eight hundred sets.
After the tables, chairs, utensils, cups, and cooking spatulas were all prepared, we found that there were too few cooks. We had to invite more than a hundred cooks from four neighboring provinces, and also provided more than a thousand cooks.
The celebrity chef solved the manpower problem.
By the time the guests arrived on the morning of the 15th day of the 15th day of the lunar month, waiting for the court officials, the clan surnamed Liu, officials from the imperial court, local squires from Youzhou, and officials from various states to arrive, it was already noon, and the wedding banquet officially began.
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Liu Lin, the groom's official, has been like a puppet since the morning, wearing a bright red wedding robe, and following his father Liu Yu in a marquis uniform, he began to toast one by one. Of course, most of the drinking was done by the best man beside him.
It was Guo Jia who did it for him. Although he was not Liu Lin himself, it was already a huge honor for Liu Lin to come up and toast him in person. Besides, he was going to greet the bride soon, so he couldn’t get drunk, right?
Although he didn't need to drink, more than 800 tables were already exhausted. Liu Lin didn't have anything, but Liu Yu was basically pale, while Guo Jia looked natural, as if nothing was wrong, which made Liu Lin sigh.
This Guo Jia's drinking capacity has even begun to doubt his wine quality. After all, there are more than 800 tables. After one table, I don't know how many glasses there are!
Of course, Liu Lin didn't care to study whether Guo Jia was a good drinker or a bad drinker. It was almost an hour before dark, and it was time to set off to meet the bride.
The streets of Ji County have long been under martial law, but they are still crowded with people. Many people do not have the opportunity to go to the school grounds for a wedding banquet, but they still hope to witness this important event in Youzhou. Although the Imperial Guard is a newly established army, most of them are
They were elite forces drawn from the original army. Under the leadership of Zhang Liao and Gao Shun, they had already circled the crowd of onlookers in a designated area. Hundreds of Liu Lin's personal guards, led by Liu An, rode on tall horses.
Wearing armor, red tassels on his head, a red cloak, and red ribbons tied to his spears, he looked very cool.
Although it's not far from Zhou Mu's Mansion to Cai's Mansion, it's best to avoid turning back when getting married, so when you go out to meet him, you will definitely choose a different road than when you came back, so you have to go farther. By the time you arrive at Cai's Mansion, it's almost dark.
Already.
Cai Yan had already worshiped the ancestors of the Cai family under the leadership of Cai Yong, and then kowtowed to Cai Yong and his wife one by one. At this time, Mrs. Cai had already burst into tears, even though she and her daughter were both in Jixian County, and they were not here.
Far away, but as soon as her daughter gets married today, she becomes a member of another family. Even if she comes home, it is not that convenient. She must obtain the consent of her husband's family. And if she wants to see her daughter, she must obtain the consent of her husband's family.
It can be seen that this is the rule at this time. Mrs. Cai follows Cai Yong and knows a lot about these Confucian ethics. Besides, isn't she the same? In so many years, she has basically gone back twice, once to return home, and once to Cai Yong.
It was my mother who died!
Cai Yan's wedding ceremony had already been done. Now after paying homage to his ancestors and crying, he was about to put on his clothes. The maids who had been waiting nearby quickly put on Cai Yan's bridal clothes. There was no official order at this time.
Said, but Liu Lin is a marquis, so there is still a difference in Cai Yan's dress. The crown is decorated with heavy pearls, peony pearls, green clouds, green peony leaves, gold and silver treasure flowers, and all kinds of embellishments.
There are dozens of them, and just looking at them makes you feel dazzled. The long-sleeved dress is made of true red silk. The Xia Pei is embroidered with the Yunxia Yuanyang inscription, which is extremely gorgeous...
The maids who saw this trembled in their hearts, and at the same time they began to be jealous of the few accompanying girls who followed Cai Yan to the Liu Mansion. After all, the young lady is now the Marquis's wife, and she may be the princess in the future. Those accompanying girls
, isn’t it just chickens and dogs ascending to heaven? Jealousy is jealousy, who made me not have such a good life, not having a beautiful face, not having a good figure, and not being chosen by Mrs. Cai?