Chapter 1305: Big Wedding
The sisters reunite, and it goes without saying that the three girls were extremely ecstatic, and the others were happy for them. Xu Hao laughed loudly and immediately ordered a few banquets. He simply sent someone to bring Zhang Lianyi, Mu Lanxiang, Zhu sisters and others.
After talking during the meal, everyone realized that Mu Lingxia was actually Gu Meixian’s clan girl, and they all happily congratulated her.
This incident quickly spread to the Xu Mansion, and the whole mansion was a good story.
The next day, the grandmother Xiao sent someone to bring Zhu Mingzhi and Gu Meixian over and asked about the details of the reunion of the sisters. The wives of the wives of each room took turns to hold banquets to celebrate the sisters. To put it bluntly, they took the opportunity to be lively.
Xu Yu seemed very enthusiastic, which was the first adventure he encountered in his life. In addition to being happy with Zhu Mingzhi, he regretted that he should not have speculated rashly the year before, saying that Gu Yinglian was dead, which made Mr. Sheng heartbroken and ill for half a year.
Fortunately, Mr. Sheng did not die of illness. If someone died, wouldn’t he have to compensate Gu Yinglian, Mr. Sheng? In short, he made him feel itchy and wanted to write a letter to inform Mr. Sheng of good news immediately, but he thought that everything was a matter of fate. Back then, he lost his conscience and married a virtuous wife. Later, he learned that Gu Yinglian was dying in a foreign land, so he searched everywhere with guilt, but in fact he had left it behind.
What's the point of telling him now that Gu Yinglian is not dead? Can he still take the daughter of the Hou as a concubine? It only increases his worries. When he knows, he is upset and he will pass if he doesn't know, so he doesn't need to tell him. As he thinks, he puts this matter aside.
Besides, Mr. Sheng guessed from Xu Yu's tone that year that Ying Lian was really dead, and he had been sick for several months. Last year, Boci Ke was ordered to Hanlin, and whenever he thought of Ying Lian, he would feel sad, writing poems and lyrics to sacrifice to her.
His wife Leng is not only virtuous but also has intelligence to understand the world. She knows that her husband will never forget Gu Yinglian. First, the things she can't get are always the best, and second, it is just that she never forgets Gu Yinglian's appearance and talent. There is no need to worry about a dead person and choose to be patient.
On this day, Mr. Sheng remembered Gu Yinglian again and ran to the bank of Qinhuai River to burn incense and worship. Because he was confused, he couldn't write articles, so he asked someone to find a friend Zhu Hao to help him do it.
Zhu Hao, who returned to his hometown to marry, unfortunately died of illness. This year he married a new wife, Ru. Both of them committed the so-called crime of loving love, and the two nerds can be said to be sympathetic.
In this way, you wrote a parallel prose for me, and I wrote one for you. While missing the beauty, the crying songs on the Qinhuai River caused a sensation in Jinling. Everyone said that these two talented men became fools.
This matter was reviewed by the Censor. The Ministry of Personnel issued a punishment under the pretext of being unruly and ordered to return to his hometown to think about it for two years.
Originally, Mr. Sheng and Zhu Hao were preparing to participate in the next year's imperial examination, but this was delayed. Xu Xu was very dissatisfied when he learned about it. Xu Youzhen, who was at this age, was still impulsive and started a crazy start in the Imperial College, saying that when he was employed today, these pedantic officials ruined the future of two good people for no reason. So what else should I take? What official? He even wrote a memorial to his elders and asked someone to send it to the Ministry of Personnel.
It just so happened that Mr. Sheng and Zhu Hao also applied for leave. The Ministry of Personnel approved it. The three of them thanked him and laughed in front of the yamen. They claimed that from now on, the three of us brothers were the first to be loyal and could go back to our hometown and have a leisurely and leisurely life.
In April, the day before the three of them took their families to set off, they made an appointment to talk about poetry and drink on the Qinhuai River.
Halfway through the wine, Xu Xu pulled down the scholar's scarf on his head, threw it on the deck and stepped on it, and then threw it into the water, saying disdainfully: "From the future, I won't have to do this."
The half-drunk Mr. Sheng and Zhu Hao laughed loudly, and the three of them continued to drink. Xu Feng became more and more slutty. He stood at the bow of the boat and smiled at the sky, as if there were only three of them in the whole world, and they were all free and happy people. The rest were like mediocre ants in the mortal world. In fact, he had already regretted it.
Suddenly Xu Feng wiped his eyes, pointed to the shore and said, "Look, why are there people there?"
Mr. Sheng and Xu Feng walked over and looked around. Sure enough, the entire street on the shore was filled with people, crowded with people, and they didn't know what they were looking at. They ordered the boatman to lean over and saw that it seemed like a great wedding. One-on-one deacons beat him by.
After looking at it dazzled for a while, the green dragon and phoenix carriage carried by eight people slowly came over. It seemed that there was no one sitting inside, and knew that it was going to welcome the bride. Then a team of deacons walked over and came over again, and there was no one sitting.
Because the three of them were frustrated in their careers, they lingered in the mountains and rivers of Jinling for a while and were unwilling to provoke friends such as Xu Yu, so they knew nothing about the news in the city.
"Strange!" Xu Xu said.
It was still a deacon behind him, and there was no one sitting in the goose yellow carriage. It seemed that the whole team was together. The three of them couldn't understand it. I wonder if it was a wedding reception?
Waiting for the colorful carriage to pass by, two eunuchs came over with a pair of yellow cards, saying that they had finished their marriage and followed by four imperial edict pavilions.
The three of them understood this situation. Looking back, they saw a team of guards with distinct armor holding a sweat-blooded horse. The one sitting on it was nothing but Xu Yu.
The three of them laughed at the same time, and saw Xu Yu wearing a lucky dress today, wearing a big red bead on his left shoulder, looking shy, and his eyes swept over, smiling at Mr. Sheng, blushed and lowered his head.
He followed dozens of good horses, and a group of young men from wealthy families were sitting.
Mr. Sheng smiled and said, "It's interesting and interesting. Marrying four beauties together is really the first joy in life."
"It's so hateful. I won't invite us to have a wedding banquet for such a big event." Xu Xu said dissatisfied.
Zhu Hao said: "We will thank the guests in a closed door, who can we blame?"
Mr. Sheng smiled and said, "Let's continue to find a place to drink. When you get drunk, you will break in to make a wedding chamber at night, okay?"
"Okay!" Xu Xu clapped his hands to agree.
At that moment, the three of them paid ashore and found a tavern. Seeing the sign saying "Not as good as the building", Zhu Hao smiled, and Xu Xu said, "Okay, this name is good, everything is worse than a cup in hand."
After going up the second floor, I chose a seat by the window and sat down. The bartender ran up and asked, "Three masters, what wine do you want?"
Xu Xu learned from Shandong people's accent and said, "I want to drink a burning knife."
Mr. Sheng and Zhu Hao laughed and said, "What are the things that Liangshanbury says?"
"Haha." Xu Xu laughed, and the bartender also found it funny.
"Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" was later praised as one of the four major love stories among the Han people. The other three are "The Legend of White Snake", "Meng Jiangnu Crying the Great Wall" and "Cowherd and Weaver Girl". Among them, "Legend of Liang Zhu" is the most charming love legend in China that has been circulated among the people for more than a thousand years since the Western Jin Dynasty.
The "Ten Ways and Four Fans" in the early Tang Dynasty recorded: "The righteous woman Zhu Yingtai and Liang Shanbo's tomb are the same thing as hers."
Until the Song Dynasty, the "Xianchun Piling Zhi" recorded: "Zhu Yingtai's reading house was named 'Bixian'. There is a poem saying: 'Butterflies are flying all over the garden. Bixian has a reading world.' It is said that a woman from Yingtai learned with Liang Shanbo at the young age and then turned into a butterfly."
The story of Liang Zhu is still circulated abroad, and later generations have discovered that the earliest related records belong to Goryeo. However, the story of love that truly made it a household name was originated from the novelist who became a prosperous Ming Dynasty.
Like the four great classics, "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" is a writer who borrowed the various story versions that have been circulated by the people for a long time, and sorted them out and reprocessed them in art. It is not that before Journey to the West, there were no stories about Monkey King, there were no heroes of Liangshan, and there were no three charity of Taoyuan.
With just one Liang Zhu, there are Shangyu versions, Hangzhou versions, Yixing versions, Weishan versions and other versions among the people. The relatively complete story was formed in the Tang Dynasty. It was sung by artists in the Song Dynasty. It was created into folk art in the Yuan Dynasty and spread more widely. It was then included in the "Ancient and Modern Novels" by Ming Dynasty novelists such as Feng Menglong.
Mr. Sheng said to the smiling bartender: "Three pots of old wine."
"What's the food?" asked the bartender.
Xu Xu said, "Just just saw a few baskets of shrimps outside. I was going to live with drunk shrimps."
The bartender asked again, "What other food do you want?"
Mr. Sheng said: "We don't need anything else. Just bring more drunk shrimps and three more plates of bamboo shoots. It's best to eat with wine."
"Okay!"
The bartender turned around and ran down, and soon came up with three pots of old wine, filled the guests, and ran downstairs again. This time, he came up with a bowl of vegetables. The shrimp inside was jumping around and deliberately covered a big sea bowl because they were lively.
The half-drunk Xu Xu reached out and lifted the bowl. In an instant, dozens of big prawns jumped out, jumping around the table. Mr. Sheng smiled and avoided, while Xu Xu had already caught one and put it in his mouth and chewed it. Another one caught another and let the shrimps jump around.
He picked up the wine pot with one hand and sucked shrimps in the basin with the other hand, letting the shrimps jump all over the table and the ground.
Drunk shrimps are not only wine, but also ingredients such as scallion, coriander, and Zhu Hao didn't have time to avoid it. There was a lot of soy sauce on his face and stood in a distance and cursed: "It's true that the Ministry of Personnel said you were boring at all. How could you, a mean ghost, eat this way?"
Xu Yan smiled and said nothing, and suddenly hit the drunk shrimp in his hand. Zhu Hao avoided it and hit Mr. Sheng in the face.
Mr. Sheng was shocked and then laughed and scolded: "I'm rebellious, even the shrimp dares to rebel."
He called the bartender and asked him to sweep the shrimps on the table and the ground. Then he saw that there was no shrimp left in the basin and the wine pot was empty.
"Give it up with wine and vegetables quickly." Zhu Hao shouted.
Unexpectedly, Xu Xu slapped the table, stood up and said, "I'm ready to drink, I'm leaving."
Zhu Hao didn't know that he was in a bad mood, so he forced the person down and cursed with a smile: "Are you going to commit suicide? You are like a evil god. You will leave after a meal. Be careful to hit the real evil god and catch you as a drunk shrimp."
"Good scolding!"
Mr. Sheng was so happy that his waist bent. Xu Feng laughed at this and stopped leaving. He called for food and drinks again. The three of them ate and chatted. In the blink of an eye, they drank another pot of old wine.
Xu Feng was going to call for wine, and Mr. Sheng hurriedly said, "You can't eat it anymore. If you eat it again, you will be really drunk. When you go back to the Xu Mansion, you will be hated by others."
"Then forget it." Xu Xu nodded. Seeing that it was getting late, he wanted to go to Xu's mansion.
As soon as the person stood up, he suddenly saw the whole room in chaos and ran out one after another. Xu Feng was thinking about something and hurriedly looked out the window. It turned out that Xu Yu's wedding team had returned.
The wedding party was invisible at first sight. Xu Feng was unconscious to watch and turned his head and urged: "Let's go, let's go now."
"No hurry." Mr. Sheng was still as moving as a mountain. "It's useless to go at this time, and he still has to pay a visit."
Xu Xu said, "Let's walk over and we're here, and we're probably finished worshiping. Don't sit down, otherwise Brother Xu will blame us for being rude."
Mr. Sheng thought it was the same, and he settled the bill now. He didn't sit in a sedan chair, nor did he take a servant, nor did he buy gifts. He just went straight to Xu's mansion with no hands.
After walking for a long time, the housekeeper of the Xu family said that he had already made a gift, so the three of them went to congratulate Xu Hao first. Xu Hao smiled and said a few polite words.
Chapter completed!