Chapter 163: One Hundred Firecrackers (Third Update)

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The villagers of Zhangjiagou are helping to prepare for tomorrow's father's wedding, and the process of tomorrow's wedding has already been decided. The pen %fun %pavilion www.biquge.info to welcome guests in the morning, because Zhang Chao said that it would be lively, so the banquet would be held for three days.

Tomorrow's wedding day, today will start to welcome guests. However, today is not the main banquet, mainly the villagers of Zhangjiagou come to eat, these are also important helpers at the wedding. Wait until tomorrow, it will be the main seat, and all three meals will be the main seat. At dusk, they go to greet their relatives, visit the church in the evening, and then the morning after tomorrow they are individual visitors, and the villagers who help will eat until the night after tomorrow, for three whole days.

There are many wedding customs in the Tang Dynasty, such as the day before the wedding, the woman will send a senior woman to the man's house to shop the room and show the dowry that the woman has given her.

Unless you are a woman with five surnames, or your family is much higher than that of the man, otherwise, you must have a sufficient dowry to marry a daughter, so that after arriving at the husband's house, the bride's life will be comfortable.

This is actually the same as the Tianzhu and Asans in later generations, when a woman gets married, she has to bring 20 years of living expenses. Otherwise, the husband's family will never give you a good face, and even many third daughters-in-law can't marry because the family can't get enough bride price. Some of them got married, but as a result, they were often abused by their in-laws or even disfigured by pouring sulfuric acid.

Although the Tang people are not so powerful, they also attach great importance to the dowry.

If the dowry is not rich, then the dowry is very embarrassing. In the future, the bride will have no status in her husband's family.

Uncle Lantian has a bunch of daughters, and he has been miserable with his dowry, and now there are three left who can't marry without a dowry, and they are making a fire girl in Zhang Chao's house to earn a dowry for themselves.

Qi Niang has no dowry, she is a widow to remarry, when she married to Zhao Zhuang, the family gave him ten acres of slope land, although it is not a good land, but this is also a dowry that the Zhuang family is very good at. The Zhao family has already returned the dowry of ten acres of land to Qi Niang, and the Zhao family has even added a lot of dowries such as silk clothes.

In fact, it was all given to the Zhao family by Zhang Chao, so that there would not be so few people from the Qi Niang family to make the bed.

Today's Zhang family is very rich, at least in Ba, it is a first-class family, and it is even a noble family. Qi Niang married her father, the real door is not right, but the father is happy, no one can have anything to say.

Zhang Chao, who is a son, doesn't care about that. Qi Niang is good, that's enough.

The Zhang family does not lack Qi Niang's dowry, the Zhao family is accompanied by a hundred acres of land, and the Zhang family is not lacking.

For the three-day flowing water banquet, Zhangjiagou was helping from top to bottom.

Kill pigs and sheep.

Everyone was busy and saying happy words, and many people were praising Qi Niang for being blessed.

Dad specially asked the housekeeper to go out in person today to cut his hair and trim his face.

"Dad, you're like this, you're more than ten years younger, and you don't look like you're forty." Zhang Chao stood and said with a smile.

Daddy's face flushed, "Don't come to make fun of me." ”

"Seriously, you're a lot younger today."

It is rare for the Tang people to wash their hair once, let alone trim their faces and cut their hair, just do it at will. The housekeeper has an unexpected ability, and he can even trim his hair, shave his face and trim his beard, and even pick out his ears and cut his nose hair.

"The house I used to be in, and the old owner liked me to help him get a haircut." The butler replied.

The hair was carefully trimmed and washed twice with soap, clean and straight, and tied in a bun on the head. The messy beard has also been carefully taken care of, although it is still a big beard, but it is very stylish and not messy. The face is also shaved clean, and the new clothes are changed, which is really tasteful, the taste of a calm man, even if he wears an eyepatch in one eye, he is still very attractive.

Actually, my dad is still very young, just over fifty. It's just that it was a little rough before, and it looked very downcast and old. Now that my father has been promoted to the rank of lord one after another, and now he is going to remarry for the second time, and the mental state of the whole person has also changed a lot. The joy from the inside to the inside made his whole person chic.

The fifty-year-old in the future is really still in his prime. Those celebrities and officials are in their fifties, and they even look like thirty-five or sixteen.

"The Ke family is going to come to shop for a while, you can entertain you." Dad was busy changing his face, so he arranged for Zhang Chao to receive him.

Zhang Chao smiled and agreed, and then went around to watch for a while.

It's very lively, very lively, killing pigs, killing sheep, killing fish, killing chickens, killing ducks, killing geese, in short, today's Zhang family is killing evil. All kinds of meat and vegetables are being processed, borrowing tables and stools, washing and chopping vegetables.

A group of children were playing and running around.

Zhang Chao's three little black dogs also ran wildly.

I like this way, I don't have to worry about three meals, my days are stable, and I don't have such a fast pace, so it's good to live like this.

"Firecrackers are burning, the Ke family has come to shop the house!"

Ke Wu roared from afar.

A large group of men from the Ke family were carrying boxes of dowries, and red cloth was still tied to the cages.

The cow veterinarian stood there with his hands in the cage, and the big cow and the second cow also followed.

"Two cowards, what are you still doing in a daze, go and get a bamboo pole to come over, and release the pole to welcome people." Lao Niu saw his two sons standing there stupidly and watching the excitement, and flew over angrily, and a shoe print fell on Erniu's big-mouth pants.

The Tang people did not have firecrackers, but there were firecrackers.

For real firecrackers, cut some mangosteens, cut them into sections, one section at a time, and keep the joints on both sides intact. Then when you use it, burn a fire, and then just throw the bamboo pipes into it.

When the bamboo pipe is heated, it will burst.

When many bamboo poles are blasted together, the momentum is very strong, as if putting two kicks.

For this wedding, the Zhang family had already prepared many firecrackers, and Da Niu and Er Niu carried two bundles over, and one bundle had 50 sticks.

"Let's go for a hundred rings!"

"It's all scattered, firecrackers!" The old cow stood in front of the burning fire and shouted several times in all directions.

Everyone covered their ears and stayed away, and some of the little children wanted to go forward, but they were immediately carried behind them by the adults next to them who twisted their ears and lifted their collars.

The queue of Ke's shop also stopped far away.

"Young owner, you can put this ring!" Lao Niu was very flattering, holding a mangosteen tube much thicker than his thumb and handing it to Zhang Chao.

The fire was burning brightly.

Zhang Chao took the bamboo pipe, feeling as if he had received the Olympic cauldron.

Approached the fire and threw the bamboo pole in.

"The young owner is coming back soon." Lao Niu saw that Zhang Chao was still standing there in a daze, and hurriedly shouted. The Zhang family uses extremely thick mangosteen pipes today, and the blasting power is extremely strong.

Zhang Chao looked at the sweat on the bamboo pole and stepped back with a smile.

It's just a bamboo pole, you haven't seen a real firecracker, although the one in front of you should be regarded as a 'real firecracker'.

But Zhang Chao thought about it, forget it, in order to be cool for a while, he made a black powder cannon battle, and when Li Shimin knew about it, he would definitely have to be cheated again. In case Li Shimin asked him to build a gunpowder workshop when he arrived, and even sent troops to surround him in the workshop on the grounds of secrecy, then he would not die himself.

Forget it, let's enjoy the Datang version of firecrackers.

Bang, it was really loud, and a group of little kids shouted along, excited. It's all a bunch of guys with 'explosive' tendencies.

Zhang Chao clicked, and then he was not interested.

The old cow took the big cow and the second cow and threw a bundle of bamboo poles into it, and the banging sound was endless.

After the hundred bamboo poles were exploded, the atmosphere at the door of Zhang's house also reached a climax.

Ke Wu brought the men of the Ke family over with their makeup.

The woman who came to make the bed today is Ke Wu's daughter-in-law, Wang Sanniang, who is also one of the more powerful ones in the Ke family in Zhangjiagou.

"It's done." The third lady shouted with a smile.

So the Zhang family opened the gate and welcomed the Ke family into the courtyard.

The third lady commanded the men of the Ke family to put out the dowry of Qi Niang in the same way and spread it in the courtyard.

From silk to cloth, to finished garments, quilts, etc., they were all placed there, and they were extremely beautiful, and everything was tied with a piece of red cloth.

In addition to silk, cloth, clothes, and quilts, there are many other uses. From spinning wheels to looms, there are iron pots, pottery pots, wooden bowls, steamed rice Zhen, etc., and finally there are many things to eat.

Rice, wheat, corn, beans, dates, etc., picked up a lot of burdens, in addition to chickens, ducks, geese, sheep, mules, horses.

The same things were laid out like mountains.

Although everyone knows that most of these things actually belong to the Zhang family, they just turned around and came back. But everyone was still amazed by the dowry that was placed there.

Usually, when ordinary people get married, they shop in the house, and at most there is a door panel, and the paving is almost finished.

It's like the Zhang family, this is all a yard.

In the end, the third lady took out a title deed, ten acres of sloping land.

This is actually Qi Niang's real dowry.

In the midst of everyone's praise, Daddy accepted it with a smile.

The shop ceremony is over, the Zhang family accepted the dowry, and tomorrow it will be the father's turn to greet the family.

Dad chose Ma Zhou to be his greeting minister, which means best man.

The best man is very important, and when you greet your relatives, you have to write hypnotic poems.

It is not because he can write poems because he chooses Ma Zhou, it is estimated that the people in Zhangjiagou don't know that this account office can make poems, and the father chose him purely because Ke Wu Keshan, the people who are more familiar with the father are the Ke family.

They are tomorrow the bride's family.

Ma Zhou was busy registering Qi Niang's dowry, Zhang Chao stood aside and said, "Have you thought about tomorrow's hypnotic poem?" ”

"Do you really want to make a poem?" Ma Zhou said with a smile.

"That's not a problem for you, it's just a hypnotic poem."

"I'll think about it tonight."

Zhang Chao knows that Ma Zhou is talented, but he has become a prime minister in history, and a hypnotic poem is not trivial.

"Remember to think of something better!"

Ma Zhou looked at Zhang Chao's departing back, and shook his head helplessly, he actually had to make poems for them as an account office for the Zhang family. But I don't know why, Ma Zhou felt that the time spent in Zhang's house was very good, and even made him have some thoughts of wanting to be a tent here for the rest of his life. What's wrong with me, how can I have this thought? (To be continued.) )