Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 96 The Dowry
After hearing Liu Mu's confident answer, Ying Dao clasped his fists together: "Let me take my leave and go reply to my wife."

After seeing off the Shadow Knife, Liu Mu returned to the workshop and began to try to assemble it for the first time, and then prepare for adjustment.

The old wolf also saw what was made, and sent three times more people, and the whole Jingyang Zhuangzi stepped up its guard.At midnight on the second day of the first lunar month, Liu Mu packed the finished things into boxes separately, then got into a carriage, and Lao Lang led 50 people to follow him, and went overnight to the main house of the Liu family in Chang'an in the south of Chang'an City.

At about four in the morning on the third day of the first lunar month, Qin Qiong, dressed in bright red, accompanied by Cheng Yaojin and other good brothers, also went to Liu's house in the south of the city.

The Liu family was busy all night, and it was a matter of great honor for the Liu family to have a good daughter marry the Duke.

The Liu family's second wife was like rain, but she kept watching outside the courtyard anxiously, because Liu Mu hadn't arrived yet.

The patriarch of the Liu family, Liu Chongchong, went outside the courtyard in person: "Er Niang."

"Grandpa." Liu Erniang has been learning etiquette for nearly two months like rain, and her posture is no different from that of ordinary wealthy people.

Liu Chongchong nodded his head as he accepted the gift, and then said: "Er Niang, I ordered my family to prepare two treasures as the officiant gift. Although Mu Ta's family has riches in recent months, I don't know if it is suitable for the officiant ceremony. Duke Yi is a duke, and my Liu family is also a big family."

"Grandpa, don't you say that his officiating ceremony will definitely surprise Chang'an, it is extremely strange, extremely expensive, extremely precious, and extremely blessed."

"In that case, wait a little longer."

Liu Chongchong was also a famous person in history. In the early years of Zhenguan, Liu Chongchong and his clansman Liu Fang invited many famous people to write "Datang Clan History" for several years according to the request of Tang Taizong. During this period, he also wrote [-] volumes of "The Records of Surnames in the Tang Dynasty".

At this time, Liumu arrived.

As a member of the Liu clan, even if I am just a countryman in the Liu family, I don't care if I don't stick to these celebrities and nobles.

"Mu, prepare the officiating ceremony, and let the old man watch."

"Grandfather, if you can't open it alone, then I don't think it's better for you not to look at it. You have good intentions, but others may not. Mu married sister, and everything needed was prepared by Mu, and the clansmen just climbed on the high branches like a tree. , but still a peasant. When my sister is famous all over the world, my uncles and brothers will look at my family squarely, and I will never go to the big family to apologize to you."

Liu Chong can understand Liu Mu's words.

Liu Mu's family was originally poor and lowly people, and most of the Liu family's names included famous people and dignitaries.

So Liu Mu wanted to fight for this breath, Liu Chongchong understood.

"Mu, Ke Zhiqiang?"

"Strong!" Liu Mu knew that his grandfather was asking himself if he had confidence.

"That's good, enter Chang'an and show the ceremony at the natal family's house in front of Duke Yi's mansion, everything is up to you." After Liu Chongchong said, he signaled Liu Mu and himself to go aside and have a chat alone.

Liu Mu followed suit.

When the old and the young arrived in a remote place, Liu Chongchong first said: "Your sister is already a village lord, and I have already warned everyone in the middle clan not to treat her with old-fashioned eyes. But the Liu clan is so big that all major clans in the world The ones recorded in the genealogy are the same, there are many choices. If you are expensive, you will get in, and if you are cheap, you will be light."

"Grandpa, I understand what you're saying. A commoner is a five-generation support house, and the sixth generation has no reputation at all. It is estimated that even the big clan will not be recorded in the genealogy. This time Mu married sister, the big clan has a lot of love for Mu. Mu is grateful for the help, but Mu still wants to fight for it."

"That's all." Liu Chongchong was only worried that Liumu's family was originally poor, and the Duke of the country married a wife, and it was a matchmaker's marriage, and the marriage was bestowed by a saint today. The officiant, let alone not precious enough, would make the whole of Chang'an laugh at him if it was ordinary.

For the big clan of the Liu clan, Liu Chongchong, the head of the clan, took out his treasures as the officiating ceremony.

Of course, there is another meaning.

Seeing Liu Mu's refusal, Liu Chong hesitated, whether to say the next thing or not.

Liu Mu stood aside with a smile, he firmly believed that there is no love without reason, and there is no hate without reason.No matter what the two treasure-level gifts from the Liu family are, such precious things cannot be given to him out of thin air.

Of course, Liu Mu will also think better of people.

One of them, after all, is that the Liu family has produced another nobleman, a royal wife, who has given a treasure as a gift.The other is for the face of the Liu family.

But Liu Mu didn't want to be so simple as to only think about the good.

Thinking of this, Liu Mu raised his hand and saluted: "Grandpa, the hour is almost here, please let Rong Mu leave."

"Here... let's go." Liu Chongchong waved his hand lightly.

After Liu Mu left, someone quietly walked to Liu Chongchong's side: "Uncle, this son is cautious."

"The main ingredients of incense washing come from Tongbai Mountain, but Tongbai Mountain stretches for more than two hundred miles and is surrounded by seven counties. No one knows what is the so-called main ingredient in incense washing? Just based on this rumor, what do you tell me to do?" Go ask, Mu didn't take a penny from the big clan, how do you let the old man speak."

"Someone from Xingyang has arrived in Chang'an."

Liu Chongchong didn't answer, but just waved his hands: "Go ahead, don't neglect the matter of giving the marriage, don't lose face to my Liu family, and don't let the people of the clan feel cold."

"Yes!" The man bowed his head and retreated.

It was dawn soon, and the team of Qin Qiong and others had already arrived outside the house of the Liu family in the south of Chang'an City. More than 100 soldiers were holding large baskets and scattering copper coins outside. The surrounding villagers and children of the Liu family They all came out to fight, it was very lively.

Entrance poems, makeup poems, and sedan chair poems.

There are eighteen scholars in the Qin Palace, and these poems are enough to be passed down for a hundred years.

After tossing for more than two hours, the bride went out.

The dowry that came with the car began to be placed on a carriage to go back to Chang'an with the welcome team.

The officiant has not yet appeared!

Just when Liu Chongchong was about to order the Liu family to carry out the officiant ceremony he had prepared, he saw many people coming out of the woods outside Liu's mansion.

These people wore blue and red gowns, and carried a large box in groups of eight, a total of four groups.

At the front of each group, there was one person holding a tight wooden sign wrapped in red cloth.

Liu Mu was riding a big maroon horse, pulling the reins and approaching slowly, and the four groups of people were about to be merged into the wedding procession.

Behind the bride's carriage, the wedding procession began to retreat to make room.

Liu Mu pointed forward with his whip, signaling these people to go in front of the bride's carriage.

The originally bustling send-off team fell silent in an instant.

Dowry officiating before the bridal frame?

Shock.

It is not against the rules for Liu Mu to do this. It is impossible for ordinary people to have a dowry in front of the bride's carriage. Among the new and old nobles here in Chang'an, there is an old man who said: "In the past 30 years, only the Qinghe Cui family has heard of it. The eldest daughter is married to Fan Yang Lu, the officiant is before the wedding frame."

(End of this chapter)