Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 395 Wedding (Part [-])

Standing in his yard, Wang Xichen couldn't help nodding his head to show his appreciation when he heard the sound of drum music coming from the northwest.This voice sounded peaceful and dignified, truly worthy of the name "Jin Sheng Yu Zhen", and he had never heard it before as a low-level official in the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

But thinking of his daughter, Wang Xichen really has a headache.

Wang Zhenyi went to the library of the primary school with her book bag early this morning, and Wang Xichen, who knew her daughter's personality well, had already understood her daughter's thoughts.Don't look at him studying medical skills in the hospital all day long, but the rumors have more or less spread into his ears.

After coming to Beihai Town for so many days, Wang Xichen understands that if there is anyone in this world who can tolerate Wang Zhenyi, give her understanding and support, and give her an environment where she can fully study astronomy, calendar and arithmetic, it is only Zhao Xin.

Only in Beihai Town, an environment where men are superior to women and women are not suppressed by common etiquette, can my daughter live a carefree life.

Not to mention anything else, when we met in Guangzhou, Zhao Xin wrote the calculation drafts for Wang Zhenyi, and my daughter regarded them as treasures.When she occasionally took it out to look through it, there was always the shyness and smile of her daughter's family on her face.

Thinking of this, Wang Xichen couldn't help but heaved a long sigh, wishing to see her when she was still married!
At the same time, Shen Xuan, who is one of today's protagonists, also started the ritual ceremony in the second courtyard of the Shen family on the west side of Beihai Town Square.It's just that Shen Jingdan and his wife were not the ones she wanted to worship first.

Shen Jingdan's family almost didn't sleep all night, not only them, but also the other Shen clan's relatives seemed to have been beaten to death.It is said that in order to prevent Qianlong's narrow-minded revenge, more than 100 people from Shen Jingdan's three clans all moved to Beihai Town at the beginning of the year.And now that Shen Xuan is finally going to marry Zhao Xin, the big rock in these people's hearts has finally landed.

In their view, it was not in vain to travel thousands of miles north.After becoming in-laws with King Zhao, it would be a fool's joke if the Shen family didn't develop well!

At this moment, in the newly completed ancestral hall of the Shen family, the tablets of dozens of members of the Shen family who were ordered to be executed by the Qing court in the "Dongtai One Pillar Building" case have been placed in it, and the black spiritual tablets are filled with layers. The entire wall looked extremely gloomy and depressing, but it formed a strong contrast with the Shen family courtyard covered in red and green outside the ancestral hall.

On the incense table, all kinds of sacrifices have already been placed, and a futon has been placed there.Facing the futon are the spirit tablets of Shen Xuan's biological parents.

Shen Xuan, who was wearing the Yanju crown dress, was supported by A Miao and accompanied by Shen Jingdan and his wife, walked slowly into the ancestral hall, knelt down on the futon, and prepared to salute, drink wine and read the blessings to the ancestors.

Shen Xuan's younger sister, Ayu, was originally assigned to help, but yesterday Ayu felt very scared when she saw the spiritual places in the room, and dared not go in without saying anything.So Shen Xuan asked A Miao to accompany her in. The Shen family was concerned about her relationship with Zhao Xin, so no one dared to speak out against it.

At this moment, Shen Xuan is wearing a six-dragon and three-phoenix crown Yanju crown, a round-necked Juyi inside, a bright yellow shirt outside, and two Xiapei embroidered with dragon patterns and embellished with pearls on the outside.With this solemn attire coupled with Shen Xuan's stunningly beautiful appearance, not to mention the other people outside the door, even the old eunuch who was invited to sing the ceremony was stunned.

He entered the palace since he was a child, and stayed in the Forbidden City for at least 40 years before he was exiled. He actually saw a lot of empresses, noble concubines and outstanding concubines, even the fragrant concubine.But when it comes to the beauty in the world, those ladies are not even a little bit worse than this one.

Little A Miao, who was standing by the side, was also brightly dressed today.The original hair was combed into a stacked bun, and she wore a satin-fronted cloak with a plain color base and embroidered with light gold threads, an off-white horse-face skirt woven with golden cloud brocade, and a heavy sheen on her wrist. Xuan gave her a mutton fat jade bracelet, and a pair of jadeite drip earrings hung on her earlobes.

At this time, the relatives of the Shen family standing outside the courtyard of the ancestral hall did not even dare to breathe out, listening to the old eunuch's rhythmic singing of the salute.

"Xing~~"

"Kneel~~"

"Bye~~"

And when Shen Jingdan replaced Shen Xuan's father and began to read the letter of congratulations, Shen Xuan thought that she had been hiding in Tibet and wandering all these years, and she was the only one left in the family of dozens of people. All crying.

After the ceremony, Shen Xuan returned to her boudoir with the support of A Miao and A Yu.Taking advantage of this spare time, even if she wants to touch up her makeup, she also needs to eat something to pad her stomach, otherwise she will have to wait until night if she wants to eat any more this day!

After Shen Xuan has eaten, he can move on to the next item.Shen Jingdan and his wife first came to the main hall and sat on the chairs in the middle to wait.Then Shen Xuan was supported by the relatives of the Shen family who had been trained and acted as deacons to the main hall, and bowed four times to Shen Jingdan and his wife respectively.

Although Shen Jingdan and his wife had a smile on their faces at this time, their eyes were red with emotion.For Shen Jingdan, after ten years, he finally had an explanation to Shen Xuan's biological father who had been acquainted with the president!

Recalling that in order to keep the only descendant of the Shen family in Dongtai, Shen Jingdan has been trembling all these years.In order to avoid Wang Jinglong's entanglement, he took Shen Xuan to Nagasaki again.If I hadn't met Zhao Xin, I really don't know what would have happened to this poor child.

The female family member of the Shen family who was the deacon saw that Shen Jingdan was deep in thought and said nothing, and immediately winked at Mrs. Shen to remind her.Mrs. Shen quickly coughed twice, and Shen Jingdan came back to his senses.Then he said according to the admonition he had memorized before: "You are a princess, you should be diligent day and night, and you must be filial."

Mrs. Shen wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, choked with sobs and said, "Your father has taught you, and you should respect it."

At this time, Shen Xuan's tears fell again, biting her lip and trying not to cry out.When Madam Shen saw it, she couldn't care less about the ceremony, she leaned forward slightly and said, "Ah Quan, you should be happy on a big day."

After hearing what her adoptive mother said, Shen Xuan, who was kneeling, replied: "No. I'm afraid that I will be embarrassed, and I dare not forget my life."

According to the rules of the sacrificial ceremony, he should stand up right now, and then salute the other elders of the Shen family.But Shen Xuan was still stubborn and kowtowed to Shen Jingdan and his wife respectively, then got up and went back to the room to change clothes and wait for the wedding.

On the side of the Shen family, the sacrificial precepts were successfully completed, but on the other side of the Mingtang, from the beginning of the song, Cai Jigong from the Li Dynasty suddenly became nervous.

The complacent group of time-travelers still don't know what kind of joke they made in front of the ancients.In fact, thanks to the fact that there are not so many well-educated people among the crowd who came to watch the ceremony today, otherwise it would definitely cause an uproar.

However, Wang Zhong, who was the appraiser, understood. He saw the movement of Li Chao's mission under the steps, and his heart was clear, but his face remained calm, as if nothing happened.

The Confucian group represented by Liu Yong is right to despise it. The high-level officials in Beihai Town are a group of barbarians who wear Han clothes but have no culture!

What is Zhonghe Shaole?To put it bluntly, it can only be used on formal occasions involving "state affairs", and it belongs to the emperor's exclusive use!

Neutralization will only be played in ceremonies such as court congratulations, ascending to the pole, ceremonies, shangzunhao, shanghuihao, imperial edicts, emperor's concubine's ceremony, crown prince's concubine's ceremony, Jin Shilu, empress's ceremony, and crown prince's ceremonies. Shao Le.

According to the "Daming Jili" formulated during Zhu Yuanzhang's time, the prince's wedding should use the ceremonial great music, not the neutral and Shao music.The so-called "honorary music" is divided into the front part and the back part. The front part is advocating music composed of percussion instruments and wind instruments, and the rear part is in the form of "big music".The "Dayue" instruments used are the same as those used in Danbi Dayue, but the number is different due to the grade.

For example, the "advocacy" musical instruments in the front of the emperor and the crown prince have gold and golden dragon painted horns, the prince's ceremonial guards have no gold, and the painted horns have no golden dragon decorations, and gongs should be added to the prince's ceremonial guard instruments; The type used by the emperor and the crown prince is the same, and the quantity used by the prince is slightly different.

Although I don't know how to play the ceremonial music, but Cai Jigong has been an official for many years and has participated in countless ceremonies, people will listen to it!Cai Jigong sincerely said, why don't you ask us if you don't understand?What our king follows is the proper etiquette of the Prince of Ming Dynasty!

Well, it is estimated that even if Zhao Wang temporarily occupies the position of prince, he will become emperor sooner or later with this momentum.And today there are foreign vassals coming to congratulate, so even if there is some violation of the ritual system, it can still be tolerated.

It's also thanks to Beihai Town not having arranged for the "Civil and Military Bayi" to dance on the spot, otherwise it would have really become "Bayi dancing in court, which is tolerable, which one cannot be tolerated", and Cai Jigong would definitely jump out on the spot to criticize.

As for those border residents and Ainu people from various tribes, all of them were beaming at this moment, or they were listless and demented.It's not my fault, after living for so many years, who has heard or seen this scene!Even the Huo Jihuns who went to Beijing to beg a bannerman woman to be their wives never had the chance to meet them.

These people think that King Zhao is really giving face!After returning home, some of them blew.

Most of the three waves of people from the island country were warriors. Some people have only seen such things as Ming and Qing Yale in books, and have never heard of them.The Gagaku played at the imperial court celebration in Kyoto is completely different from this.Thinking about it, the poor man only has [-] shi left, how could he afford such a huge team of musicians.

Katsuyama Denzo and Murata Jiro Youhei walking behind Ishikawa Murumi and Shibata Kakuzo all looked satisfied, their faces were smiling like chrysanthemums, and they thought it was a worthwhile trip!
When Zhao Xin came out after kowtowing, everyone was about to leave. Only then did Cai Jigong realize that the word "heaven and earth" was enshrined in the hall, not the tablet of Zhu Ming's royal family. He stomped his feet and sighed angrily: "This, this It's totally unbecoming!"

Kong Xiaoyuan, a Confucian scholar behind him, also sighed: "It's really unheard of not to worship the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, but to use the word "heaven and earth!"

In the eyes of Cai Jigong and others, if Zhao Xin does not worship Zhu Ming's ancestor, that is unfilial.The rules of etiquette are random, and filial piety is not followed. What kind of benevolence, righteousness and legal system are you talking about?At any rate, the Tartars were still wearing a cloak of Confucianism and ethics, but Beihai Town didn't even want this cloak.This is a regime that is even more unpredictable than the Manchu and Qing Tartars!

It was from this time that Cai Jigong aroused deep doubts about Zhao Xin's statement that he claimed to be "the queen of Zhu Ming Zhao".Not only that, but he is also more worried about how the Li Dynasty will get along with such a powerful multi-ethnic force in the future.

Let's talk about the French.A painter in the expedition team used charcoal strips to depict the whole process of the ceremony. The Mingtang with a mixed structure of steel and wood was painted by this person with a magnificent momentum. Until Zhao Xin came out and walked up the corridor, the painter was still observing him. The ribbons and jade ornaments on the waist can be displayed in the picture without any omission.

The Count La Perouse thought that his adventure diary had added another legendary experience that would make him write a book.It turns out that the people of Seris are not only far ahead of Europe in science and technology, but the wedding ceremony of their nobles and princes is so complicated and solemn.In contrast, the wedding ceremonies performed by European aristocrats in churches are really lackluster.

But the biggest question in the hearts of those who came to watch the ceremony today is that the sound of the music is bright and clear, but why didn't they see the band?Where are those people hiding?

Before noon, the canteen in Beihai Town was fully fired, and the seven or eight Yangzhou and Nanjing cooks who had been frying big pot dishes finally had a place to use.They started preparations half a month ago, with more than 300 people doing odd jobs and helping the kitchen, and they have only shown eighteen martial arts until today.

Beihai Town in winter is not short of vegetables, but also all kinds of meat and dried seafood.Even for the lack of green vegetables, "Mr. Zhao" made a special trip to another time and space twice to make up for it all.

According to different levels, the local residents of Beihai Town mainly eat the eight big bowls of Suzhou, which have been improved, including Wansan hoof, three-flavored balls, roasted prawns, braised sea cucumbers, braised pork, braised salmon, gluten Stuffed meat, braised eel and other dishes are served with white wine, pastries and three snacks.

However, the meals of the cross-travel audience and the audience from all over the country are much more high-end. Today's banquet adopts the popular "Xiaoman Hanxi" in Yangzhou.In addition to Huaiyang dishes such as abalone stewed with pearls, mussels and shrimp soup, shark fin and crab soup, chicken stewed with mushrooms, ham stewed with fish maw, shark skin chicken soup and other Huaiyang dishes, there are also pigeon ducks and pigs that are suitable for the tastes of the people in the outer and northeastern regions. Miscellaneous, Haggis, Singed Pork and Mutton, Boiled Pork and Mutton, Steamed Piglet, Lamb, Chicken, Duck and Goose, Steamed Deer Tail, Sliced ​​Pheasant Soup, Sliced ​​Pig, Sliced ​​Sheep, Dried Rabbit, First Grade Soup Rice, white flour pastry rolls, etc.There are a total of [-] hot dishes and [-] cold dishes in large and small dishes, which is simply dizzying.

Such a sumptuous banquet made the audiences who came to participate in the banquet dumbfounded, and their saliva wished to flow into a river and go straight to the sea.

There was no room for so many people in the dining hall of the National People's Congress. The construction team built a large steel-frame shed on the street outside more than ten days in advance, and then demolished it after the wedding ceremony, without delaying traffic at all.

Although the weather was cold, the oily flowers condensed within a short time after taking the dishes outside, but the common people still ate happily, with their mouths full of oil.Even though life is better now, the many disasters in ancient times made the farmers still maintain a thrifty living habit; how could they be willing to eat such a table of noodles on weekdays.Now that Zhao Xin is treating guests, why not shake off his cheeks and rub his cheeks wildly!

The noise outside was almost upside down, and Zhao Xin, who had returned to his new house, lost all the solemn appearance just now.

In the warm room, this guy was wearing a middle single and his own black overcoat, smoking a cigarette while beating his sore waist.At this moment, the door curtain swayed, and Zhi Nai walked in with Chef Hu Fugui, who was still holding a large jar in his hand.

As soon as he entered the door, Chef Hu put the jar on the table, and said to Zhao Xin with a smile: "My lord, the Buddha has jumped the wall, do you want to have a bowl first while it's hot?"

"Okay, okay~~"

When Chef Hu opened the mud seal of the jar, an extremely complex aroma wafted out instantly. Except for Chef Hu, everyone present could not help but swallow their saliva.

Unexpectedly, Chef Hu had just poured all the contents into the big basin, and before the dishes were placed, a few more came in from outside the door. They were Deng Fei, Ding Guofeng and a group of foodies who smelled the smell.

Deng Fei shrugged his nose and praised: "It smells so good!"

"Okay! How dare you secretly eat alone! Fortunately, I haven't gone to the banquet yet." Ding Guofeng laughed, reached out to take the bowls and chopsticks from the table, and went straight to the biggest abalone, about to strike.

Zhao Xin saw that the exclusive enjoyment was over, and hurriedly said loudly: "Chun Lai, hurry up and serve me a bowl first!"

(End of this chapter)