The Kaifeng Mansion in July of Mengqiu is naturally beautiful. Bianhe, Wuzhang River, Jinshui River rippling blue waves, from Xuande Gate to Nanxun Gate on both sides of the royal street, blue bricks and black tiles, willow green peach. The city's streets are bustling with people living in a peaceful and prosperous world, enjoying the good times before the Dark Ages.

Although in the history books of later generations, the era of the reign of Zhao Xu and the treacherous minister Zhang Xuan seems to be dark, and the root cause of Jingkang's shame and even the sinking of Huaxia Lu in the future is all because they broke the ancestral family law of the Great Song Dynasty.

However, for the Song people who lived in the second year of Yuanfu, there are many unsatisfactory places, and the local heroes are becoming more and more arrogant; The exorbitant taxes imposed by the government also made people feel heavy; Farmers who farm their land always have a hard time keeping their land; For those who live in Kaifeng Prefecture, housing prices are getting higher and higher, making it unaffordable. But there is still hope, because the war against the Western Xia seems to have come to an end for the time being with the entry of the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang of the Western Xia. And the Liao State in the north also seems to be very docile, and the alarm on the two roads of Hedong and Hebei has been completely lifted.

Now the world is really peaceful, there is no tug-of-war in the northwest, the north is safe and sound, the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes in the coming year can always be less, and the life of the common people will be much better, right?

By the way, just when Wu Haogu went to Yanggu County to greet Ximen Qing, the "Xiping Princess" Liang and her followers arrived at Kaifeng Mansion in a very low-key manner. After entering the palace to meet the official family and the queen mother, and getting a reward that she couldn't even think of, she went to the original Duting Xiyi, and now the Xiping palace is closed and secluded.

I don't know if it's because the Liang family is too low-key, or because Western Xia is too far away from Kaifeng Mansion, the first good place of the Great Song Dynasty. In short, by July, the great victory in the northwest had long since disappeared in Kaifeng Prefecture.

Now the most lively topic has become the imperial examination competition that will start next spring. More than 100 years after the Great Song Dynasty implemented the emphasis on literature and light on military force, the heroes and heroes in the eyes of the people are no longer in front of the Northwest Army, but those scholars and talents who can roll their names outside the Donghua Gate.

The dynasty is Tian Shelang, and the twilight is the highest embodiment of the Great Song Dynasty. And the period before the triennial imperial examination competition is the time when countless scholars and scholar families of the Great Song Dynasty dream of doing the most fragrant.

In the next few months, first the various state capitals of the Great Song Dynasty were released, and then tens of thousands of people gathered in Kaifeng Mansion from all over the country with the spirit of this subject. At that time, it will be full of talented people with higher aspirations than the sky, poetry meetings, literary meetings, and tea parties will come in succession, and all kinds of talented people will be staged again and again in the green building tiles everywhere.

In the spring of the third year of Yuanfu, the climax of the Great Song Dream will come as scheduled, first the Ministry of Rites test, then the palace test, and finally the title of the gold list, the climax of the roll call parade outside the Donghua Gate, and occasionally the eternal story of catching a son-in-law under the list. I don't know how many unknown talents from the bottom have become famous all over the world overnight, and have realized the dream of Diaosi's counterattack.

In the history of mankind, there are only about the four dynasties of Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing Dynasty in China (although the imperial examination appeared in the Sui Dynasty, the truly perfect and fair imperial examination began in the Tang Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty, which emphasized literature and light martial arts, surpassed the Tang Dynasty, and was the era that all scholars dreamed of), and there was a mechanism that allowed intellectuals at the bottom to pass fair examinations and become high-ranking officials in the imperial court in one step.

Don't underestimate the civil officials of the Song Dynasty from Jiupin, they are different from those who were admitted to the civil service examination in later generations, those entry-level civil servants were just officials in the Song Dynasty, and the county lieutenant who served as a civil official from Jiupin was a county public security bureau director in later generations! The police uncle of later generations will graduate from the police academy and become the director of the county public security bureau, how many years will he have to survive, and how many thieves will he have to arrest? And most of the Jinshi men on the side of the Song Dynasty have never even seen what thieves look like, and they don't need to make any sycophants, so they just go to be the director of the public security bureau...... And the director of the public security bureau is only the beginning of their career!

With such a degree of counterattack, how can you not make all the readers in the world have the same big song dream?

However, in this autumn, I have also read a lot of books, and I can probably be regarded as a scholar, but he is having another dream, a dream of rich wives and concubines in feudal society, enjoying the blessings of all people.

Pan Qiaolian and Ximen Qing married Wu Dalang together, and there were ink demon girls, Luo Han maids, and Du Wenyu waiting in line.

Thinking about it makes Wu Dalang laugh out loud in his dreams!

But this is a good day, and you have to wait patiently. Because the marriage process in the Song Dynasty was more complicated, there were more etiquette and customs. Moreover, the Wu family and the Pan family are both rich and eunuchs, so they can't be done so-so, it will be ridiculed.

The marriage between Wu Haogu and Pan Qiaolian is first of all the work of the matchmaker Gao Niangzi. Although Wu Haogu and Pan Qiaolian knew each other when they were still dolls. But if you want to get married, you have to pretend that you don't know each other, and you can communicate with the matchmaker's cursive post.

The grass posts passed each other as early as before Wu Haogu left Kaifeng Mansion to envoy Liao. After the two sides got the post, it was Guo Jing and Liu Wuji, the two gods, who came forward to ask divination and draw lots. The hexagram is naturally auspicious! The eight characters are even more compatible, and Pan Qiaolian is a first-class wangfu - just look at how prosperous Wu Haogu is now! If you don't get married, you're already prosperous, do you want to marry and pay it back?

The divination is completed, that is, the drafting of the detailed post, the detailed post is also called the fixed post, the post describes the three generations of the male family's official position, the name, the secret, the first few men and official positions, the year, the month and the day are auspicious, the parents are either in the hall, or not in the hall, and so on. Because Wu Haogu was promoted seven levels in a row after returning to Beijing, this man's post was changed once. The content of the woman's reply post is similar, but there is a list of various items for marriage, and it has been changed once, and a living creature has been added, which is Sister Ximen, whom Wu Haogu and Pan Qiaolian both like very much......

The next thing is a blind date and an appointment, although Wu Haogu and Pan Qiaolian have already met many times. However, the etiquette of blind date still cannot be saved.

The blind date ceremony was held after Wu Haogu returned to Kaifeng Mansion, borrowed Pan Jiayuan, and the two parents met each other. The male family has four glasses of wine, and the female family has two glasses, taking the meaning that the man is strong and the woman is weak, and the result is the preference of both parties.

After the blind date, the ceremony is decided. In later generations, the fixed ceremony and the dowry were combined into one, and in the Song Dynasty, it was set first and then hired, which were two rites. For ordinary people, the second appointment ceremony is not a small burden. However, for the wealthy people of Kaifeng Mansion like the Wu family, the beaded jewelry, gold and silver utensils, gowns and satin, tea cakes, gold bottle wine, silver Fangsheng and other objects are not very low, although the most expensive is chosen.

After the ceremony, it is time to send the appointment. Prepared with gold big sleeves Huang Luo, gold skirt section, red long skirt, or red Su Luo large sleeve section, as well as Zhu Cui group crown, four o'clock crown flowers, Zhu Cui ring and other jewelry, and on the fine color segment, boiled silk, plus flower tea, fruits, reunion cakes, sheep wine and other things, in addition to silver collars, said to be under the financial gifts. plus the letter of appointment and the letter of etiquette, they were sent to Pan's mansion together.

The Pan family thanked them with green violet horses, colorful duan horses, gold and jade study toys, pearls and emeralds, beards, female workers and other things.

The above series of wedding gifts have been completed before the arrival of July. On the seventh day of the seventh month of July, the samurai's flower buns, gold hijabs, five men and two women flower fans, pollen cups, washing items, painting colors, money, fruits and other things have been sent to Xiaopan Garden.

Looking at the flower bun and gold hijab placed in her boudoir, Pan Qiaolian looked at her good sister Ximen Qing with some apprehension.

"Sister Qing'er, can we really take care of Da Lang?"

In ten days, the two good sisters will marry into the martial family together. And the two women who are about to be wives and concubines have been plotting to control Wu Haogu for many days!

This is really a bit of a "big rebellion"! In case Wu Haogu does not obey the rules, what can he do if he wants to practice the family law? Pan Qiaolian glanced at Ximen Qing's increasingly bulging abdomen, and thought: Qing'er's sister is pregnant with Da Lang's flesh and blood, why can't she go to the house for herself, right? At least not before the child is born, is it difficult to suffer by yourself?

Ximen Qing smiled, took Pan Qiaolian's arm and said, "Eighteenth sister, as the saying goes, families have family rules, and the country has national laws. Since Da Lang is also a member of the family, how can he not be bound by the family rules? ”

That's right, too! Pan Qiaolian was told by Ximen Qingyi, and her heart was a lot more relaxed.

Ximen Qing continued: "And the family rules of the martial arts family also govern the two of us, whether it is a sister or a slave, as long as a mistake is made, the slave will be beaten, and he will not be able to escape." Da Lang doesn't have to be beaten if he makes a mistake, we just take care of his money bag. ”

"But, but......" Pan Qiaolian frowned again, "but what if he doesn't agree?" After all, Da Lang is the head of the family. ”

"Sister," Ximen Qing laughed, "This family is not counting aunts (referring to Wu Chengzhi and Feng Erniang) and uncles, in fact, it is our sisters and Dalang...... How could we two sisters not be able to control him alone? And there are a lot of things outside the big man, and he doesn't pay attention to family affairs, so I'm afraid he won't set the bottom family rules, and his sister is a big woman, so she should do it for her. Otherwise, a big family, don't mess up? ”

It turns out that Pan Qiaolian and Ximen Qing have nothing to do these days, and they are already discussing the formulation of the family rules of the martial arts! Family rules or something, there is actually no need for small doors, a total of two or three people, what are the rules? But Wu Haogu's family is different, the official eunuch family, the family wealth is innumerable, and the wives and concubines are in pairs, if there are no rules, won't it be messed up?

And Ximen Qing had already tried Wu Haogu and found that he didn't have this mind at all, so he discussed with Pan Qiaolian to do it for him. Since the rules of this family were drafted by Pan Qiaolian and Ximen Qing, it is impossible to restrict only the two women and their subordinates, as well as the unborn child.

Controlling the ancient martial arts is the key! We must put the "supreme" husband power in the hands of Wu Haogu into the cage of family rules and city building!