Crossing the famine, I am a poor fish, and my descendants have to work hard

On the fifth day of the New Year, the exterior of Chengyuan Mansion began to be decorated.

First the red carpet was rolled out, followed by lantern skirts, red flags, ribbons and balloons placed one by one.

From a distance, you can see the entrance of Chengyuan, which is full of joy.

We plan to pave the road to the old tutor’s mansion later so as not to affect traffic and to avoid getting lost.

In Cheng Garden, the only thing left to be set up is the stage.

This one also has colorful flags, balloons and lanterns hanging on it.

There are lantern walls on both sides.

The performances on this stage are from Zhao Yuanzhen's own beauty salon and the opera troupe hired by her.

Zhao Yuanzhen specially invited a relatively famous opera troupe, and interspersed some musicians trained by herself, so the program for tomorrow's day is settled.

Musicians now know how to play many instruments, such as playing, singing, dancing, sword dancing and so on.

All great.

These people too, just come back tomorrow.

After lunch, I took a short rest and then started to prepare to decorate the bridal chamber and prepare everything necessary for the wedding.

When decorating the new house, although Zhao Yuanzhen had already thought about decorating the rooms of her three sons, the first one to be decorated was Zhang Xinshu's.

Zhang Xinshu was in the room, feeling a little embarrassed.

"Xin Shu, go and do your work outside. We are here."

Seeing that he felt embarrassed, Qian Xiaohui came to his rescue and asked him to leave.

"Okay, thank you for your help, mother, sister-in-law and aunts."

"It's okay, go get busy."

Only after Zhang Xinshuo left did the women start laughing.

"Hahaha. Third brother is very shy."

"Yes, I saw him walking around, feeling very embarrassed."

"It's a major life event after all."

Zhao Yuanzhen expressed her understanding.

Although he was joking, his hands moved quickly.

According to the drawings given by Zhao Yuanzhen, window paper-cuts, bed curtains, couplets, wedding banners, balloons, various decorations, large three-dimensional Chinese characters for "囍", and various ornaments were all arranged in an orderly manner.

All four sets of bedding were replaced with new ones.

Everything is neatly arranged, with two newlywed dolls.

They are both Q version, one boy doll represents Zhang Xinshuo, and one girl doll represents Fan Qingqiu.

It took less than an hour to finish the new house.

Zhao Yuanzhen took the pictures and compared them, but there was no difference.

OK, one finished!

Let’s go to the next one.

"Mom, how come there are still so many materials left?"

Qian Xiaohui discovered that there were actually a lot left. Maybe her mother bought too much.

"Not many. There are two sets left. You and Zhijuan will each have one set in their rooms."

"Mom, we don't need it. We have been married for many years. We don't need this anymore."

"Yes, mother, we don't need it, we don't need it!"

The two daughters-in-law refused embarrassedly. What kind of thing was this? My younger brother was getting married, and why were they decorating the wedding room?

"Oh, it's okay. I just thought it looked good. I bought too much. I'll give them to you two too. Otherwise, what will we do with the rest? Let's go, let's go. Just tell the servants not to go out and say anything."

Zhao Yuanzhen knew that the two daughters-in-law were afraid of gossip. Qiuya is getting married, why are you jumping up and down here?

"Mom, this is not good."

"Yes!"

"It's alright, just listen to me. If anyone dares to spread rumors, I'll have him sold out by human traffickers. Besides, your third brother is getting married, and the whole mansion has posted messages about it. You, as the brother and sister-in-law, can't leave your courtyard too deserted!"

Generally, they will also paste red flowers, couplets, wedding symbols, etc. in their yards.

When the two of them heard this, they thought it made sense, so they stopped resisting and followed him to their yard.

Zhao Yuanzhen bought three different wedding room decorations, each one is different.

With the proficiency of Zhang Xinshu's room, it only took me 2 hours to finish pasting the two rooms, which was a lot faster.

After the stickers were pasted, all the doors were locked, including Zhang Xinshu's room, to prevent anyone from damaging it.

Seeing that it was almost evening, Zhao Yuanzhen and her family began to arrange people to pick up the bride.

They asked someone to calculate the auspicious time and set out from Chengyuan at around 3 a.m. and returned from the Taifu Mansion to pick up the bride at 6 a.m. the next morning.

The people who came to pick up the bride were Yue Hongmian and Qian Xiaohui.

A matchmaker aunt and a sister-in-law.

There were also two boys and girls. Because they were going to go to the old tutor's house with them, Zhao Yuanzhen chose the older ones, Zhang Ziyu and Zhang Zipei.

They are both seven years old this year. They are old enough to be sensible and will not cause any trouble.

There were also two little maids who were supposed to follow the sedan chair, scattering flowers as they walked, and there were also two wedding grannies.

He is responsible for spreading money and saying auspicious words.

The bridal sedan was specially ordered by Zhao Yuanzhen and was carried by eight people.

I used to always hear people talk about a sedan chair carried by eight people.

I thought there were eight sedan chairs, but later I found out that there was only one sedan chair that was so big that it required eight people to carry it.

Zhao Yuanzhen thought that she must pamper her daughter-in-law, so she directly ordered a large sedan chair that had to be carried by eight people.

The sedan is mainly red and gold in color, and the entire theme is red silk cloth. The outside is decorated with gold ornaments and some large red flowers.

The sedan chair was also incredibly beautiful.

In Zhang Xinshu's room, at night, two children, a boy and a girl, would press down on the bed, meaning that the bride and groom would have a son soon.

This means sleeping, lying or sitting on the wedding bed.

Zhao Yuanzhen arranged Zhang Zitian and Zhang Zian.

As for Zhang Zijin, the oldest of our grandchildren, Zhao Yuanzhen arranged for him to always accompany his uncle.

This saves my uncle from being too nervous.

When it was just getting dark, Zhao Yuanzhen ordered everyone in the mansion to light all the lanterns and candlesticks.

There are also different responsibility areas, with each person guarding one area to ensure there is no fire.

There were so many lanterns that the whole mansion was bright and not dark at all.

The festive atmosphere keeps overflowing.

Looks like everyone is almost busy.

Zhao Yuanzhen asked Zhang Xinshuo, Qian Xiaohui, Li Zhijuan, Zhang Xinbai and others to go and have a rest.

If I don't rest today, I will have another busy day and night tomorrow.

Several people also knew about this and went to rest obediently.

Zhao Yuanzhen took Yue Hongmian back to rest.

Zhao Yuanlan is not here tonight. He has to attend the morning court tomorrow and will come over tomorrow.

Zhao Yuanzhen and Yue Hongmian slept for a while in a daze, and the system woke her up according to the alarm time set by Zhao Yuanzhen.

It's two o'clock, and it's time for Zhang Xinshu to go and pick up the bride.

Wake up Yue Hongmian first, let her wash up and wake up.

Then she changed into the clothes she was going to wear for the wedding, and Zhao Yuanzhen also helped her put on some makeup.

The two of them went to Zhang Xinsu's yard.

Qian Xiaohui and the others also came.

Zhang Xinshu also got up, washed, and packed up.

Zhao Yuanzhen helped to tidy up her clothes and hair.

Seeing that the time is almost up, I called out to go out.

As they walked, the servants were shouting.

"The groom is going to pick up the bride!"

"The groom is going to pick up the bride!"

Zhang Xinshu was going to go on horseback, and he would be accompanied by a guard of honor and a sedan chair.

Following behind were four sedan chairs carrying Yue Hongmian, Qian Xiaohui, Zhang Zipei and Zhang Ziyu.

As we walked out of the gate of Chengyuan, firecrackers were lit with a crackling sound.

This is the first firecracker, the wedding firecracker.

Zhang Xinshuo rode a tall horse, looking handsome and tall, and headed towards the Taifu Mansion.

After watching them leave, Zhao Yuanzhen yawned and called on everyone to go to bed and get up after five o'clock.

She is an old person and can't afford to be bothered.

Then he went back to sleep.

Zhang Xinshu and his friends went to the old tutor's residence by walking along the streets and alleys on the north side.

When you come back, go back along the streets and alleys in the south. This is called not going back.

They walked for more than half an hour and arrived at the old tutor's mansion.

Sure enough, the lights were on in front of the old tutor’s mansion, and many people were looking and waiting.

Seeing the groom's wedding party coming, the servant hurriedly shouted.

"My uncle is here!"

"The wedding party is coming!"

As soon as the shouting came from this side, firecrackers started to pop over there.

Zhang Xinshu arrived at the gate of the mansion, dismounted, and looked at Fan Qingqiu's uncle, second uncle, eldest cousin, second cousin, third cousin, and eleventh cousin standing at the gate. He felt dizzy for a while.

Today, I’m afraid it’s difficult to enter this door.

"Hello, uncles, second uncles, and cousins. Xin Shu is here to greet you."

"Xin Shu, if you want to marry our sister, you have to get through us first!"

Before, Zhang Xinshu was their junior master, a generation older than them, so they felt embarrassed to mess with him.

Now I don’t care at all, he is my brother-in-law now.

"Of course it is, Zijin!"

Zhang Xinshu called Zijin to bring his things over.

Zhang Xinshu had already prepared a large bag for the wedding.

This will be carried down by Zhang Zijin.

He opened the bundle and began to take out things, all wrapped in wedding cloth.

Take out one, look at the mark, and hand it out.

First it was my eldest uncle’s, then my second uncle’s, and then my eleven cousins’.

"It's just a small gift, not a token of respect, but I hope you uncles and cousins ​​like it. Let me, your brother-in-law, pass."

These gifts were prepared by Zhang Xinshu according to the hobbies of these people.

And I asked for them all from my mother.

Whether it is the exquisiteness, rarity, or value of the item.

That is certain.

At first, a few people were dismissive.

Nothing can bribe them; they won't let him in easily today.

As a result, the gift was opened.

Everyone showed an expression of surprise.

I've known for a long time that Zhang Xinshu's family is rich, but I didn't expect that he is so rich.

This is too arrogant.

Really like.

While looking at the gift, he moved aside.

Well, it’s not that they don’t love their sister and won’t block it, it’s just that the other party is too cunning and gave too much.

Even veteran cadres can't stand this test!

Besides, they are just the first gatekeepers, and there are several more behind them.

It's okay, it's okay.

Come on, those behind.

Just like that, a big gift package directly bribed the first batch of the most difficult gatekeepers.

Zhang Xinshuo took his aunt and sister-in-law and started walking forward.

The second batch was a little trickier.

These are married sisters-in-law and sisters.

Ah, this.