At this time, Li Chenjun was still hesitating: "Do you want to visit the prefect?"
Logically speaking, this kind of matter should be taken the right way, dealt with openly and head-on. Weddings and funerals are human nature, and any thoughts should be expressed.
This was the era of the Five Hus and Sixteen Kingdoms, where men and women were not allowed to have close contact. Ordinary things like holding hands on a date would be considered morally corrupt.
Ancient marriages, from the first step to the last step, were inseparable from the matchmaker. Therefore, when ancient people got married, they paid attention to marrying through a matchmaker.
Even if Li Chenjun is a captain, he cannot directly come to ask Cui Ying to marry him. He needs to find a suitable matchmaker.
This step alone made him feel embarrassed.
Because he is an outsider, he has no background in this time and space, lacks family support, and does not know anyone of high moral standing. He has served in the military camp for several years. Although he has strong military force and good leadership, his status as a captain is low and he is not famous.
The general will not be noticed by the Cui family.
Therefore, let alone that he could not find a suitable matchmaker, even if he found one, it would be of no use.
Li Chenjun sent people to watch every move in the prefect's mansion, trying to understand how far the marriage proposal had come.
Soon he knew that the marriage between the Cui family and the King of Zhongshan had been planned for a long time. Before he knew when, the first step of "accepting" and the second step of "asking for fame" had been completed!
Three letters and six rites are traditional marriage customs and etiquette. The "three letters" include the letter of appointment, the letter of etiquette and the letter of welcome. The six rites refer to the acceptance letter, the name request, the acceptance letter, the acceptance letter, the date request, and the personal greeting letter.
Nacai is the first of the six rituals. When the man's family is doing Nacai, he must give thirty kinds of gifts that symbolize auspiciousness to the woman's family.
The second of the six rites is asking for a name. After the girl's parents accept the proposal of marriage, the girl's family will bring the daughter's birth date back to the boy's family so that the boy and girl can be matched and predict good or bad luck.
In other words, no matter whether Li Chenjun or Cui Ying, both of them are hindsight.
Cui Ying thought that the marriage proposal was being planned, but she didn't expect that before she was picked up, she actually completed the first two steps of the six rituals!
The third step of the six rituals is Naji. Naji is also called Wending. After receiving the Geng Tie, the Geng Tie will be placed in front of the gods or on the ancestor's table to ask for good or bad luck, to ensure that the two parties' years and Geng horoscopes do not conflict with each other. When knowing
After there was no sign of conflict between the two parties, they prepared a formal notification to the woman's family and decided to enter into marriage.
When a marriage reaches this point, it is almost irreversible.
Therefore, Li Chenjun thought for several days and could not find a good solution: "Could it be said that the only way left is 'elopement'?"
Elopement can do great damage to a woman's reputation. According to traditional saying, if she marries a woman through a matchmaker and all six etiquettes are in place, then she is a legitimate wife; if she marries without a matchmaker and all six etiquettes are not prepared, then she is a concubine.
Therefore, doing this is very risky for Cui Ying. If she chooses the wrong "beloved man", her reputation will be ruined and she will have to live in the wilderness without even a way home.
It stands to reason that Li Chenjun is a passerby sent by the Lu family to travel through time and space and experience life, so he does not need to think so much, but before he came, he listened carefully to the teachings of his ancestor Lu Yideng, tried his best to follow the etiquette of this time and space, and could not break the etiquette unscrupulously. So.
He was still hesitating.
Cui Ying waited for several days and saw no movement, and felt a little uneasy: "What's wrong with Li Langjun? Is he afraid of the power of the prefect's mansion and the King of Zhongshan and dare not take me away? He is a captain! He has five thousand soldiers under his command.
If you want to rescue me, it shouldn't be difficult."
She didn't know that although Li Chenjun was a captain, he only mastered half of the military symbols. Without the other half of the military symbols, he couldn't use soldiers on a large scale.
The military combat instructions inherited from the Han Dynasty implemented the military symbol system.
The so-called military symbols are various animal military symbols produced by the Grand Sima Mansion of the central government. Different animal military symbols represent different military personnel. These military symbols are divided into two halves. On the left are the emperor and the Grand Sima.
The right hand is in the hands of each army commander. Officials must obtain complete military symbols if they want to move an army of more than 50 people.
Fortunately, this was not the Han Dynasty or the Three Kingdoms period, but the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty and the rise of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The whole north was in chaos, all regions were expanding their troops, and the military talisman system was not as strict as before.
The soldiers commanded by Li Chenjun belonged to the county soldiers, which were equivalent to the "provincial military districts" or local "garrisons" in later generations. The other half of the military symbols were controlled by Cui Yu, the prefect. So in theory, he could not easily raise his troops to rebel.
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He didn't want to rebel, because it was meaningless to him to be king and hegemon. If he had that kind of skill, he might as well find a place with beautiful scenery to practice. Anyway, he could only stay here for a period at most. When the time is up, no matter how poor he is,
Whether it is wealth or honor, whether it is a huge family fortune, or a saintly appearance in front of others, they will all be reduced to nothing.
On this day, the sun sets in the west and it becomes dusk.
Cui Ying wanted to sneak out of the house quietly, but as soon as she walked out of the room, she was stopped by the servant before she even approached the courtyard gate.
"Miss, you are grounded. The master has strictly ordered that you are not allowed to leave the yard."
Cui Ying turned around and saw the old man Cui Xinghe standing not far away. In addition to Cui Xinghe, there was also Xu Huan, the leader of the servants, guarding the gate.
So, she had no choice but to finish her meal and turn around to go back to the house.
She gritted her silver teeth and said to herself angrily: "This bad guy! Why is there no movement at all?"
As night fell, a swallow came through the window and landed on the windowsill, chirping non-stop.
Cui Ying reached out to catch it. The swallow flapped its wings but did not fly away.
She held the swallow in her palm and saw a roll of paper tied to its leg. Then she felt moved, reached out and took off the roll, unfolded it and saw that it was a letter.
She felt happy after reading the letter and thought to herself: "Mr. Lang is really not that simple. He actually has immortal-like methods to train swallows to become messengers."
Swallows are small and fly around without anyone paying attention. If they were pigeons, they would probably be stopped by Cui Xinghe.
Cui Ying hurriedly wrote a reply and tied it to the swallow's leg. She watched it fly away, feeling anxious as she didn't know if it could deliver the letter to her husband.
Outside the Prefect's Mansion, less than three hundred meters away, at the corner of the street, Li Chenjun stood quietly in the darkness.
He once worked at a monster breeding base for a period of time. In order to better understand the dynamics of monsters, he specially learned the basic version of "The Secret of Controlling Beasts and Birds". Even ordinary monster birds and monsters can communicate with each other.
With a little effort, you can control ordinary birds.
In addition to common birds such as swallows, he also has an obedient goshawk. After careful training, he has a trace of demonization and is much more dangerous than an ordinary goshawk. Only a goshawk flying high in the sky for reconnaissance allowed him to
Controlled the army and won several beautiful battles.
The swallow's level is too low, so it's a little difficult to complete the first mission, but it becomes very easy for it to perform the same mission the second and third time.
So, from then on, whenever night fell, there would be swallows flying around in front of Cui Ying's window.
With the news brought by Yanzi, Cui Ying's heart calmed down.