Harue Kagetsu

The ancestral land of Jingkou people mostly comes from the north, so the custom of welcoming relatives and getting married still retains the custom of the past in the north.

Li Mu Ying walked away the bride's elder brother and the ritual official who had arrived for the wedding, and the bride remained on the boat for a while for a short rest.

When it was auspicious time, a woman with seven or eight people boarded the boat with a smile on her face and welcomed Luoshen ashore.

This woman was twenty-seven or eighteen years old, with a beautiful and dignified face and a kind smile. She called herself Mrs. Shen, and was the wife of Li Mujie's righteous brother Jiang Tao. Li Mu usually called her sister-in-law.

The Li family was changed in the past, and now there is only one mother, the Lu family. According to the custom, the bride comes from a long distance, and when she arrives here, she must be picked up by a woman of the same age as the bridegroom. Shen shi naturally did his part, and brought these enthusiastic neighbors behind him who had frequent contacts with the Li family, and came to greet him.

After the accompanying women got on the boat, they saw that the boat that the bride was on looked bigger from the outside, but the cabin was extremely ornately decorated. They are also well-dressed and stylish, so they can't help being a little restrained. After getting on the boat, they didn't dare to speak at will, and they only followed Shen's actions.

Shen shi seemed to have seen the world. After getting on the boat, she didn't show any signs of dew. With a smile on her face, she greeted Aju for the hard work on the road. After greeting, she asked the bride if she could rest. Take her ashore.

The little lady who was born with a golden spoon, raised with brocade clothes and jade food, and was regarded as the jewel in the palm of the eldest princess and Gao Xianggong, is now forced to marry into such a place, to marry a military general of the common family who has never even heard of the name before. . How angry the eldest princess is, how sad Aju is.

In front of Luoshen and the servants, although she tried her best to restrain her emotions, she couldn't make a good face in the face of Shen shi who came to greet her relatives. She smiled lightly and asked Shen shi to wait. .

The Gao family, the nanny who accompanied the bride, was obviously not in a low position. A few of the women who came to greet the relatives felt her polite and distant attitude, and became more and more restrained. Standing in the cabin, not only did they not dare to say a single word of the festive words they had prepared earlier, they did not even move. Be active, lest one thing be wrong, and make the other party look down on you more and more.

However, Shen shi still smiled and nodded: "There is a working mother. The bride has a hard time on the road. If it is not appropriate, we will wait for it."

Aju turned around and entered the inner cabin.

Luoshen had already changed his clothes and was standing there, covered by the curtain from head to toe.

The voices of Ying relatives and A Ju outside came into her ears.

She looked at Aju through a layer of purple veil from the curtain.

Aju stopped in front of her, stared at her for a moment, reached out to her, and said softly, "Let's go."

Luoshen calmed down and followed Aju out of the inner cabin. Under the silent attention of Shen shi and the rest of the women, he walked out of the cabin door and onto the deck.

It was almost dusk, and the setting sun cast a golden light on the river surface and the boats in the river.

Although Gao's bride has been late to get out of the cabin and land, the number of onlookers on the dock not only did not decrease, but instead increased.

"Pick it up! Pick it up!"

Someone shouted loudly, and there was an immediate commotion on the shore.

The cabin door of the large ship carrying the bride opened, and under the guidance of a group of beautifully dressed servant girls, a pavilion figure appeared on the bow deck covered with the golden sunset.

Her whole body was covered by a layer of light purple curtain from head to toe, and she couldn't see what her face was like.

A gust of evening wind blew past and swept the layer of veil, only to see her skirt fluttering and her figure like a fairy.

But this is enough.

From the moment she appeared on the bow, everyone seemed to feel the beauty, nobility, and the kind of restraint that seemed to come from the bride Gao's daughter.

This lofty beauty is in stark contrast to the sturdy and roughness of Jingkou Town, and it is even out of tune.

The surroundings quickly quieted down.

The smiles on people's faces gradually disappeared, and no one spoke.

A moment ago, there was still a lot of noise here, and everyone was happily waiting to see the bride. When Luoshen came ashore, there was no noise at all, not even a cough.

Luoshen could even hear the slight rustling of the fabrics rubbing against the dozens of maidservants sent by his mother behind him.

She landed on the shore like this, and under the gaze of countless pairs of eyes, she stepped on the pre-paved floor mat and headed for a bullock cart parked on the shore.

"Bride! Bride!"

A little girl finally managed to get out of the crowd, happily ran to Luoshen, pointed at her, raised her head and shouted with a smile.

Before he could shout twice, he was dragged back by the mother behind him. With a "snack", his **** ate a lot.

Xiao Ya'er was beaten and hurt, and with a "wow", she cried out, and her cry was full of grievances and confusion.

Luoshen stopped in his footsteps and turned his head to take a look.

Aju kept her head down, and gave a wink to a servant girl behind her. The maid understood, took a sweet-scented osmanthus pine nut candy in a silk bag from the food box that the maid brought, walked over with a smile, and handed it to the little girl.

The little girl hugged the sugar bag tightly in her arms and smiled.

The woman had a nervous and happy expression on her face. She grabbed the little girl's arm tightly, and kept bowing and thanking her in a low voice.

Luoshen got on the decorated ox cart, and the accompanying servants and maids also shared the multipliers. Under the guidance of Shen shi, they headed towards Li's house near the Chenghuang Temple in Zhendong.

The bullock cart carrying her gradually went away, and the people behind her swarmed and continued to follow to watch the excitement.

It's just that he didn't dare to get too close, and there was a distance behind him, and there was a lot of discussion.

Some people marveled at the nobleness and demeanor of Gao's daughter, and some people began to worry about Li Mu. If he dared to marry such a woman, he was afraid that he would make a high offering like a fairy in the future?

"Do you think Li Langjun is the same as you? A woman, as soon as the door is closed, let her be a nine-day fairy, isn't it the same? If Li Langjun dares to marry, he dares to move. Look, it won't be long before the Li family baby Running all over the place!"

The daughter of the Gao family was gone, and the mouth of Guan Zhonghan, who had come from the north, came out of a local dialect.

This has some kind of vulgar slang that is imaginative and implied, and at the same time full of male provocation, which immediately resonated with men, but attracted the dissatisfaction of several savage women, so they laughed and cursed, laughing everywhere, just now The atmosphere that had been dignified by the appearance of Gao's daughter immediately became alive again.

Such is the day. As long as there are no soldiers and wars, no matter how difficult it is, you can still have fun and live well.

Luo Shen couldn't hear the discussions of the people behind him, and he didn't care about it.

She sat in the rickety car, looking through the gap in the curtain, looking out at this unfamiliar place outside the car.

To say that it is completely unfamiliar, it is not so.

Luoshen remembered that when he was a child, he once went to Guangling Yangzhou with his cousin. At that time, he passed by Jingkou and took a boat to cross the river.

It's just that at that time, she was only seven or eight years old, and she was passing by. The impression that Jingkou left her was that she was poor and chaotic, with wicked people everywhere, and she didn't like it.

And so many years have passed, and even the first impression left by him is now blurred.

Life really takes a turn for the worse.

When she was a little girl back then, when she passed by this place, how could she have thought that after many years, she would come here as a bride to face a strange man who will be called her "husband" in the future.

A Ju, who was beside her, seemed to sense her mood at the moment, and quietly reached out and held her hand hidden under the sleeves embroidered with beautiful patterns.

"Don't worry, little lady. The eldest princess said that if you are married now, you can divorce in the future."

Aju seemed to hesitate for a moment, then came over and whispered quietly.

Luoshen looked at Aju and saw her smiling at him.

As if to prove the existence of this hope, she squeezed her hand tightly, then released it, turned around to take the veil, and gently covered her head with infinite love.

"It's here. Little lady, don't be afraid. Aju is here."

The world in front of Luoshen was cut off by the gauze cover.

The car stopped slowly.

The surrounding cows and horses neighed and preached great works, and the road seemed to be filled with guests.

Luoshen was helped out of the car, continued to step on the floor mat under his feet, crossed a threshold, entered the door of the house, then passed a hanging flower door, and passed through the courtyard, which was the happy hall.

In the crowd of people around her, she heard the voices of her cousin Gao Yin and Feng Wei, who was entrusted to serve as a ceremonial officer.

The ceremonial officer sang the ceremony, and under the guidance of the people around her, she bowed to the person on the opposite side who could not be seen at all.

She bows first, then rises.

The man bowed after and got up first.

The etiquette is so. Even if she has a noble status, once she gets married, she can only do so.

Husband and wife are inferior, as if it is justified.

And only when they answer each other's prayers in this way can the ceremony be fulfilled.

From this moment, it means that she has become the wife of the Li family and the wife of Li Mu.

Luoshen had no joy or sorrow in his heart, and was manipulated by others, and finally completed the wedding ceremony, and entered the bridal chamber with the advocacy of another masterpiece.

There was originally a custom of teasing the bride in the house, but perhaps the daughter of the Gao family was too special, and no one dared to enter the new house to make trouble with her. After Luoshen entered, Aju and the servants distributed rich candy and joy to the neighborhood children who came in. Money, and soon, everyone went out, and the surroundings finally became quiet.

Luoshen took off the veil covering his head and face, and threw it aside.

In this step, the groom should wait for the groom to come in, and the groom will open it.

Aju took it down when she saw her, hesitated for a while, but didn't say anything, just stepped forward and asked her if she wanted to eat in a low voice.

Luo Shen shook his head.

She didn't want to eat and couldn't eat it, so she only looked at the house where she was.

There were red candles burning in the house, illuminating the whole place. The walls are freshly painted, the floor is flat and dry, the sofas, tables, and screens are all new. It can be seen that even the doors and windows should be new soon.

The most conspicuous object in the room is naturally the bed.

The style of the bed is not the delicate and delicate style that Luoshen is used to, but the traditional style of Beimin, whichever is sturdy and spacious, one bed can sleep for hundreds of years. A tent hung from the bed, and the tent door was hooked up to the left and right, revealing the brand-new quilt inside. On the head of the bed, there was a long pillow embroidered with mandarin ducks.

Aju had seen the Li family's house long ago. It was a three-spaced courtyard. For ordinary people, it was naturally spacious. But for Luoshen...

Aju whispered: "Little lady, if you are not used to living in this place, we will move to our own garden in two days."

Xiao Yongjia had already bought a manor for his daughter near Jingkou in the name of dowry.

Luoshen felt a little tired and sat there without saying a word.

Seeing her exhausted face, Aju came over and took off some heavy hair accessories on her head, took off her coat, took off her shoes, helped her lie down, and said softly, "There are many guests outside, Li Langjun will not come in. Morning. If you are tired, take a rest."

Luoshen lay sideways on the bed, curled up into a small ball, watched the maids of Aju and Qiongshu Cherry gently go out, stared at the red candle in front of him for a long time, and slowly closed his eyes.