Thirty-five, wedding night with flowers and candles (Part 1)
The crescent moon is like a beautiful woman's eyebrow, faintly shining in the western sky. Under the vast starry sky, Jiankang City is like a bureau, the Qinhuai River is like a belt, the Chen family residence on the riverside is brightly lit, the front yard is noisy, the back yard is quiet, and the east and west double corridors
At the intersection of the buildings, the maids of the Xie Mansion, led by Catkins and Yinfeng, and the maids of the Lu Mansion, led by Hoes and Hairpins, were waiting quietly. When they saw one of Chen Cao's steps into the inner courtyard, they all stepped forward.
After giving a salute, the person from the Lu family said: "Chen Langjun, please go to the west tower." The person from the Xie family said: "Chen Langjun, please go to the east tower." His voice was neat and clear, as if he was well-trained.
A double marriage is definitely going to be a bit more troublesome. Although Chen Caozhi had already anticipated the dilemma of the bridal chamber tonight, he had not thought of any good solution in advance. He could only adapt to the situation and act according to the situation. Chang'an, Ye
The city can be reached easily, and the east and west double-corridor towers are not the dragon's pond or the tiger's den. You can always find the best of both worlds——
Chen Zongzhi, Chen Runer and several other Chen children stood behind Chen Caozhi and watched the excitement. Runer's eyes were smiling like crescent moons, with a look of great interest——
Chen Caozhi asked the catkins and hoeers: "Did your wife ask you to welcome me?"
Liuxu was smart and said: "This is the etiquette of the maids towards the husband, and I have never heard of it." Liuxu took the matter on herself and could not let Daoyun's wife bear the reputation of competing for favor. Anyway, on the night of the wedding,
Everyone is their own master, and no one can blame them, the servants.
The same goes for the short hoe.
Chen Cao said: "Each of you go upstairs and ask your wives. The bridegroom is here. It is up to your wives to decide where to go."
The catkins and the short hoe all laughed, and went upstairs to ask their wives for instructions. They came back soon. The two maids' replies were almost the same: "My wife, please make your own decision. If you like, go to the east, and if you want to go to the west, go to the west."
Chen Caozhi sweated slightly on his forehead. It was a test. It was a severe test. This marriage was really not something ordinary people could bear. Two powerful men and two beautiful wives had to treat each other equally, be fair and just, get the best of both worlds, and make everyone happy. It was difficult, it was too difficult.
Do it, do it, you can do it!
Even though Chen Cao was very wise and kept motivating himself in his heart, he was still unable to do anything. At this time, his lovely niece gave him advice and said: "Uncle Chou, you can ask two difficult questions and let the two ugly aunts answer them. Who can answer them?"
For Uncle Chou, just go to that floor."
Willow catkins, Yin Feng was the first to agree, Mrs. Dao Yun is so proud of the world, how could Miss Lu be as good as her? If we compete with this, Mrs. Dao Yun will definitely win——
They are not to be outdone by the short hoe and the hairpin. In their eyes, the little lady Wei Rui is so beautiful and talented that they are afraid of anyone!
Chen Caozhi laughed. Run'er's method was not very appropriate. It was a bit disrespectful to Wei Rui and Dao Yun. Especially those who lost the answer would be very aggrieved. Moreover, this method was obviously unfair to Wei Rui. Wei Rui was not good at talent and learning.
Just like the weight of flowers cannot be compared with that of beautiful jade, but the method proposed by Run'er seems to be very feasible if it is reversed——
Run'er obviously realized this and changed his words: "There is something wrong with this method. Instead, the two ugly aunts can ask the questions and let my ugly uncle answer them. If you get the correct answer, you can go to whichever floor -"
Chen Caozhi had a smile on his face. Such a wedding night was very interesting and tasteful.
Liu Xu's mind was racing and she asked, "What if Mr. Chen gets all the answers right?"
Run'er said with a smile: "Then the question will be asked again. There will always be a time when my ugly uncle can't answer it." He thought to himself: "The two ugly aunts must have asked the easiest question for the ugly uncle to answer, and the ugly uncle will naturally answer it fluently."
, now there are questions and answers one after another. I don’t know when the answer will be. What will I do when it’s dawn? This should be the biggest problem that Uncle Chou has ever encountered in his life. Hehe, it’s so fun. Let’s wait and see.
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Short hoe saw that Chen Caozhi approved of this method, and said first: "My little maid, I will go and ask my little lady to come up with the question -" and flew away.
Liu Xu, Yin Feng and the two maids looked at each other and didn't move. They thought, let Mrs. Lu ask the question first. She is Mrs. Zuo. We here pay attention to the precautionary measures——
Short hoe gasped and went up to the second floor of Xishuanglang Building. The little girls asked her one by one: "Sister Short hoe, has Chen Langjun come to our place?"
Short hoe had no time to answer them and entered Lu Weirui's wedding room. He saw the red candles burning high and the decorations gorgeous. Lu Weirui was sitting motionless in front of the small case as before. After hearing what short hoe said, the corner of Lu Weirui's lips curled up and she said silently.
Laughing, I thought: "It's really hard for Chen Lang, so I'd better give in." Thinking of Chunyue and Chen Lang being in this west building, in this room last year, naked and entangled, and they were upside down, leaning forward and having fun.
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Lu Weirui stretched out her hand to caress her right ankle. The acacia knot of red silk ribbon was tied at the slender part above the ankle bone, and the red mole was faintly tattooed——
Short hoe saw the little lady Wei Rui thinking shyly, thinking that she was thinking about how to ask the question, and reminded: "Little lady, let's ask an easy question, just ask where does 'Guan Guan Sui Jiu, in He Zhizhou' come from?"
how?"
Lu Weirui came back to her senses from the charming past, with a little spring in her heart. She almost laughed out loud after hearing the short hoe's suggestion, and said coquettishly: "You think Chen Langjun is a three-year-old child, and such a question would make Xie's family unhappy."
People are laughing at us."
Short hoe didn't like reading. Since childhood, he only liked to follow Lu Weirui and tend flowers and plants. Hearing this, he said in surprise: "Then let's ask a slightly difficult question. Chen Langjun is talented and will definitely be able to answer it." He added: "But it can be answered."
Don’t make it too difficult, it would be bad if Mr. Chen can’t answer it!”
Lu Weirui smiled slightly and did not answer. Today was her twenty-first birthday and it was an auspicious time for a wedding. Of course she really wanted Chen Caozhi to spend the night with her, but since she wanted to serve the same husband with Sister Daoyun, of course
You must try your best to think about Chen Lang, and let Chen Lang and Sister Daoyun be harmonious tonight——
Lu Weirui thought for a moment, then opened the box with a short life hoe and took out the gilded nine-link ring, and said: "Duanxue, take this nine-link ring and let Chen Langjun solve it. You can untie it within a moment."
"Ah!" Short hoe was shocked. This kind of nine-link puzzle game is a pastime for women in the boudoir. It is extremely complicated and cannot be solved in a moment. Isn't this embarrassing Mr. Chen!
Lu Weirui saw that Duan was hesitant and said, "It's okay, go ahead. Chen Langjun knows what I mean."
Seeing Lu Weirui's determination, the short hoe thought: "The young lady must know that Chen Langjun is good at solving the Nine Links and that's why she came up with this problem. Then later, the Xie family will be too embarrassed to ask easy questions, so maybe she will ask Chen Lang
I'm confused." He immediately went downstairs happily.
Chen Caozhi was stunned when he saw the exquisitely made nine-ring gilded chain. People who don't know the solution to this nine-chain chain can't solve it for several days. Even those who know the solution can't make mistakes in every order.
You have to start over. It is said that there are hundreds of steps, and a quarter of an hour is not enough!
Chen Caozhi once read Zhuo Wenjun's "Poems of a Resentful Man" and said: "There is no heart to play the lyre, no eight-line script to pass down, the nine-stringed chain is broken in the middle, and the ten-mile long pavilion is full of eyes." He knew that the nine-stringed chain had been circulated in the Western Han Dynasty, and it was an aristocratic woman.
A game he likes, but he has never seen the Nine Links before. He has only seen the Five Links that Runer played a few years ago——
Run'er on the side also had eyes wide open. She never thought that Chou Aunt Lu would ask such a difficult question. There was no solution within a moment. Could Chou Uncle have any solution?
Chen Caozhi understood what Wei Rui meant, and it was clear that he wanted to push him towards Daoyun in the east building.
All the women were watching, silently.
Chen Caozhi carefully looked at the nine-ring gilt ring in his hand. When his hand shook slightly, the nine rings on the wishful-shaped frame made a "ding-dong" sound, which was very clear——
Chen Caozhi shook the nine-ring chain and listened to the sound. The maids in the Lu Mansion were anxious for him and wanted to remind him to quickly untie the chain. Unexpectedly, Chen Caozhi played with it for a while and said, "I can't solve it."
"Ah!" Short Hoe, Hairpin Hua and others were stunned, and all of them looked sad.
Liuxu and Yinfeng looked at each other and tried to hide their joy. Liuxu said: "Chen Langjun, it's my wife's turn to come up with the question."
Chen Caozhi nodded and said in his heart: "Come up with questions, come up with difficult problems, and embarrass me as much as you like."
Liuxu went up to the east building and happily told Xie Daoyun that Chen Caozhi could not solve the nine-link problem. Now as long as Mrs. Daoyun asks an easier question and Chen Langjun answers it, he can compete with Mrs. Daoyun.
The wedding room is in full bloom——
Xie Daoyun's eyebrows frowned slightly, and then her cheeks flushed. She knew that Lu Weirui was deliberately trying to get her to do this, but how could such a thing be so easily tolerated? How could she bear it so easily?
Xie Daoyun fell into deep thought...
At the entrance of the inner courtyard, Short Hoe, Hairpin Hua and others refused to disperse. Chen Caozhi did not answer Lu Weirui's question, but it represented Lu Weirui's failure. This really made Short Hoe and the others depressed and unwilling. They wanted to take a look.
If the question asked by Madam Xie was easy, they would definitely laugh at it to vent their anger——
After a while, Liu Catkin came and presented Chen Caozhi with a piece of vine-cornered paper, saying that this was a question written by Mrs. Dao Yun. Chen Caozhi looked at it under the lantern light and saw that it was Dao Yun's clear handwriting, and wrote:
"Today there are things whose number I don't know. When I count threes and threes, there are two left. When I count fives and fives, there are three left. When I count sevens and sevens, there are two left. What is the geometry of the object?"
Liu Xu added: "My lady said, there must be a clear solution, not just a number of answers is not enough."
Chen Caozhi shook his head repeatedly. He had already expected that the arrogant Dao Yun would not accept Wei Rui's concession. The problem that Dao Yun raised could be solved if there were no steps to solve it and he could just rely on stupid methods.
Yes, but it requires a step-by-step solution. This seems to be the remaining theorem of higher mathematics in later generations. Although Chen Caozhi is talented and works hard to learn, he is not an all-rounder after all. Therefore, he cannot solve the questions asked by Xie Daoyun!
Now all the maids and servants present, including Lu and Xie, were dumbfounded. The groom could not even enter the two bridal chambers!
Chen Caozhi looked up to the sky and sighed, and said: "That's it, that's all, I'll go back to my small building to sleep." He turned around and left. He had a small library in the south of the East Garden, with a study room and a bedroom--
Run'er saw that it was not good, Uncle Chou's bridal night was about to end unhappily, so he hurriedly returned to the "Shuixiang Pavilion" with his brother Chen Caozhi to report the matter to his mother. When Ding Youwei heard this, he became anxious. She was worried about her little one.
Lang couldn't handle this matter well, so he immediately went to East and West Shuanglanglou to coordinate——
