Seeing Xiao Tang staring fixedly at her, the blush on Tang Peng's pretty face spread, as red as a ripe apple, and she was so embarrassed that she didn't know where to put her little hands.
Xiao Tang took another two steps forward and said, "Sister Peng Xiu, there are a lot of things that need to be taken care of during this period, but I'm so sorry for neglecting you."
Tang Pengxiu was startled, and then a sweet smile appeared on her face. When Xiao Tang was busy day and night and couldn't get along with her, this young girl with budding love felt confused and disappointed. But when she heard that Xiao Tang still missed her,
The sorrow and confusion in her heart suddenly disappeared. She shook her head gently and said: "It doesn't matter, I know you are busy with big things. Not only do you want to save people from danger, but now the people in Bianjing City are also busy.
I'm thinking of you, so how can I hold you back now?"
But as soon as Tang Pengxiu said these words, he suddenly felt regretful: It's not right to say so... This stinky guy always has something to do. If it drags on for a long time, I don't know how long it will take. I don't know why I still have to give him such a hint.
...
Thinking of this, Tang Pengxiu pursed her lips, suddenly flashed a pair of big black eyes, and weakly asked Xiao Tang: "Recently...you don't have so much to worry about, right?..."
Xiao Tang couldn't help but feel funny when he saw Tang Pengxiu's slightly aggrieved look. He walked forward and grabbed her small waist. Tang Pengxiu squeaked, she was embarrassed by Xiao Tang's sudden intimate action.
His face turned red, and he almost wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl under.
"Hey! Let go! If someone sees it, I will be ashamed to death!" Tang Pengxiu, who was ashamed and embarrassed, waved her pink fist and protested coquettishly while beating Xiao Tang.
"What are you afraid of? I love my wife, can others take care of me?" Xiao Tang hugged Tang Pengxiu and chuckled, and then he said: "Pengxiu... I have already made plans. We will get married soon.
Bar."
"Huh!?..." Tang Pengxiu's pair of small pink fists that were beating randomly stopped suddenly. The happiness came a little too fast, making her unable to react for a while. After a moment, joy and sweetness filled Tang Pengxiu's body.
In her heart, her face was flushed, and when her bright eyes looked longingly at Xiao Tang, her eyes were already full of love as sweet as glue. Thinking of the various things that had happened between the two of them before, Tang Pengxiu, with her persistence and perseverance, was finally able to be with the man who fell in love with her.
Let’s talk together.
Suddenly Tang Pengxiu wrinkled Xiaoyao's nose and snorted softly: "Smelly beauty...who would want to marry you..." But even though she said so, her delicate body became more like...
As big as a bone, she nestled tightly in Xiao Tang's arms, curled up like a little cat and refusing to move.
Xiao Tang gently stroked Tang Pengxiu's strands of black hair, and then said: "Even though I think so, I still have concerns..."
When Tang Pengxiu, who had been quiet and gentle in Xiao Tang's arms, heard this, she suddenly stood up and looked like a lazy little tabby cat whose tail had been stepped on. She put on a fierce look and raised her head.
He protested loudly: "Xiao Tang! You big bad guy! What are you doing!? I can let you go if you have big things to do, but what reason do you have to delay it now!? You say it, you say it!"
It was the first time that Xiao Tang saw Tang Pengxiu's power. He was so frightened that he stood there with his mouth wide open for a moment. Under the angry Tang Pengxiu's repeated questioning, Xiao Tang scratched his head and said with a wry smile: "Actually... ....Although you and I will not be wives and concubines in the house after we get married, after all, you have been wronged and lost a status... Even if my uncle promised our marriage, it would make Zu Shen Yuan Gong highly respected. A famous doctor, I think such a big thing requires his consent..."
Still coming? Still waiting!? After my father’s test, there is also my grandfather. Do you still want to ask all the three aunts, six mothers and eight aunts of our Tang family? Tang Pengxiu jumped anxiously and said: "Which one wants you to go? Question? My mother has written a letter to my grandfather about our relationship. My grandfather loves me the most, so he will definitely agree to our marriage!"
"But...after all, when it comes to marriage, I have to visit the elders of your family first, right?"
"You are already married to Sister Jinniang first, so there is no need for you to make an appointment! Besides, my parents are all far away in Bashu, so I just need to make up for the betrothal gift afterwards!"
"Oh...but since you said your ancestor loves you very much, how can you not invite him when you get married?"
"My grandfather likes to be quiet but not active, and he is not a person who adheres to secular etiquette! Back then, the imperial minister You Cheng asked him to be an official, but my grandfather declined. Bian Jing Tai Hospital invited him many times, but he was unwilling to travel far. , Otherwise, how could my parents and I move to the capital on his behalf? After we get married, wouldn’t it be enough if I go back to see him from time to time? He will definitely be considerate and understanding!"
"Oh... Since I'm so tired, I have no doubts anymore."
Tang Pengxiu saw Xiao Tang's surprised expression slowly turning into amusement, and looked at herself with a smile. Only then did she realize that she was in a hurry, and seemed to be forcing Xiao Tang to marry her quickly, which made her stomp her feet heavily in shame. , turned around and was about to escape, but Xiao Tang grabbed her little hand.
Xiao Tang stroked Tang Pengxiu's little hand and said warmly: "As long as your family has no objections, then we can get married. Besides, you and I have waited long enough..."
After hearing this, Tang Pengxiu lowered her little head, and suddenly she also smiled, her smile was cunning and charming, like a little fox that had just caught a chicken.
When the auspicious day was chosen, the marriage between Xiao Tang and Tang Pengxiu was not arranged according to the time when the wife was married. They also had to invite the street secretary and the oiran according to the time, scatter red and silver bouquets, and then take a sedan chair to the house at the auspicious time. As complicated as it was, but with the same roar of gongs and drums, and the same joyous mood, Xiao Tang and Tang Pengxiu, who were wearing embroidered red robes, presented tea and gifts to Tang's mother, just like when they married their first wife, they did not neglect Tang Pengxiu and her family at all. . On the contrary, precisely because all the wedding customs in the Song Dynasty were simplified, it made both parties feel the joy of the wedding.
In the Song Dynasty, although large families could take concubines at will, they could only have one main wife. Taking concubines was acceptable, but marrying another wife would also violate the state law (many provisions on marriage law in the "Song Xingtong" of the Song Dynasty were followed from the "Tang Laws and Household Marriage"). Anyone who has a wife and takes a new wife will live for one year, and the girl's family will be reduced by one rank. If she marries someone who is deceived, the wife will live for one and a half years, and the girl's family will not sit in the house, but they will leave each other."), so it is common for wealthy merchants to take concubines. Basically, he doesn't know how to make a fuss about it, and if Xiao Tang beats the gongs and drums to welcome Tang Pengxiu, who is wearing rosy clouds and red clothes, to come to the door, it is actually very easy for him to be talked about.
However, Xiao Tang was also aware of this difference in etiquette and customs, and even Gao Qiu, who had always intended to punish him, would not regard this as a lever that could be used. How could he not know that Zhao Ji, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, was the emperor of Menglang? What's more, although the ceremony was solemn,
, Xiao Tang was indeed just "taking a concubine" in name. Zhao Ji, who had always been romantic and absurd, would just laugh it off even if he knew about it.
Xiao Tang's emphasis on this wedding also showed his attitude to Tang Pengxiu and her parents: his family would not wrongfully neglect Tang Pengxiu because of the secular separation of wives and concubines.
There is another advantage to this arrangement. No one who has business dealings with Xiao Tang in Bianjing or has not been on good terms with each other in the officialdom will come to attend the wedding of Xiao Tang and Tang Pengxiu. To outsiders, Xiao Tang is just a concubine.
For most people, it is not as good as asking them to go to a banquet and give gifts when marrying a real wife. Otherwise, wouldn't it be a loss of one's own face and worth?
In addition to the close brothers in the mansion, Wang Huan, Han Cunbao, Li Gong and other elders in Bianjing who had a good relationship with Xiao Tang only sent someone to inform him of the date of Tang Pengxiu's visit, and there was no invitation to invite them.
Come to the banquet, whether you come or not is entirely up to your own will. Among them, those who have very little regard for secular etiquette are such as the old romantic Wang Huan who fell in love with the prostitute He Lian Lian at first sight, and the one who was born in the green forest and has a bold temperament.
Uninhibited Zhang Kai and others not only came to celebrate, but also came with extremely expensive gifts, just like Xiao Tang was getting married in Daming Mansion.
Therefore, those present were all close friends who shared similar interests with Xiao Tang.
Without the usual fussy and conciliatory dealings, all the guests took advantage of Xiao Tang's happy day to drink happily. Hua Xiaomei and Jin'er were sitting together, and the two little girls were chirping and they didn't know what they were talking about; over there Wang Huan
He opened the cup and smiled, telling the story of the turbulent years on the battlefield; Hua Rong also picked up the wine bowl and was about to have a drink with Zheng Tianshou and others. As for Shi Qian, Hou Jian and others who were less able to drink, here
I was so drunk that I fell under the table and couldn't sleep...
Even Xu Guanzhong, who had always been gentle and elegant, was half drunk and sang loudly: "The wine is so good that the chest is still full of courage! There is a little frost on the temples, so what's the problem? In the cloud of integrity, when will Feng Tang be sent? He can draw an eagle bow like an eagle.
Full moon, look northwest, shoot the Sirius!", while pushing the glasses, he was about to have another drink with Xiao Jiasui and Yang Xu who shook their heads and chuckled.
After Xiao Tang went around and drank several bowls of wine with all the close friends present, he was already a little dizzy and staggered. Peng Xiu was still waiting in the boudoir, and it was time to go to the back house to meet her...
.. Unexpectedly, when Xiao Tang was about to say goodbye to everyone, he saw that Shi Jin, who had recently joined Xiao Mansion, was very enthusiastic. He opened his clothes, held a bowl of wine, and walked directly in front of Xiao Tang, saying with a smile: "Brother Xiao Tang.
Where to go? My little brother has encountered such a great happy event soon after his arrival! I must have a good drink with my brother!"
You Shi Dalang can drink heavily any day, but the most important thing now is drinking? Xiao Tang grinned, but it was hard to explain to this reckless and arrogant Shi Jin that it was almost done. There was a girl waiting for me behind.
Woolen cloth.
"You have no rules! You want to leave while we brothers are left hanging here!?" At this time, Zhang Kai also stood up, arguing and saying: "Your wife can't go anywhere."
, let’s have a drink with me again!”
Shi Jin, after opening his mouth, many of the brothers who were having a good time also started to make noises. Looking at the posture, I am afraid that they will not only drink for one or two more rounds... Xiao Tang was dumbfounded, and he turned to the side.
Shi Xiu winked. Unexpectedly, Shi Xiu chuckled, picked up a bowl of wine, and said to Xiao Tang: "Brother and Miss Tang have been together for many years, why can't they wait for this moment? Brother Xiao Tang, when you got married
When the brothers were trying to stop you from drinking, they were all so drunk with Brother Lu and Brother Wu that they couldn't get out of bed. We brothers are already loyal enough, so I should be considerate of my brothers today, right?"