Spring Drunk Chang'an

The Song family went into the backyard and chatted with the ladies, exchanging hypocritical pleasantries. After about an hour, it was gradually getting dark.

The sky was dyed red.

It's almost dark.

wedding!

wedding!

Naturally, the ceremony was held at dusk. According to aristocratic customs, a man would take a concubine during the day and marry a wife in the evening. While Song and others were negotiating with Old Lady Lai, Liu Wenbai had already ridden on two tall horses and headed to the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion to marry her.

At that time, Xiao Chuo gave him face and went with him, and...

I successfully saw Xu Yuan, dressed in plain clothes, in the wedding procession of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion.

He dressed up as a porter carrying a sedan chair.

Xu Ruyi was the only legitimate daughter of the Zhenguo Duke's mansion. Even though the Zhenguo Duke and his wife had accused her of incest and having an affair with her brother, ever since she had given Hongdou and contacted Xu Yuan, Xu Ruyi changed her strategy, pretending to be 'afraid to accept her fate'. She obediently admitted her mistakes to her parents, kowtowed with tears in her eyes, and repeatedly assured them, "I understand your painstaking efforts!"

"My daughter is wrong!"

"Wuwuwu, my daughter really knows she is wrong. Please forgive me this time, Dad and Mom. I will marry obediently and live a good life with Master Liu in the future!"

She cried hard.

After all, she was their biological daughter. Seeing her bowing her head, the Duke of Zhenguo and his wife softened their hearts. Even though they were not completely reassured, they eventually released her from the ancestral temple.

Xu Yuan took the opportunity to meet her secretly, but the Zhenguo Mansion was heavily guarded, and Xu Yuan had no way to sneak her out. The two of them still agreed to escape on the wedding night.

Moreover, if the two of them ran away this time, it would definitely cause a big incident. The Duke of Zhenguo and his wife would not forgive them easily, and they also needed to be on guard against the Duke of Ningguo's Mansion. Therefore, Xu Ruyi could get enough money by escaping on the wedding day.

Xu Yuan disguised himself and ran back to the capital, carrying only a few hundred taels of silver notes. For ordinary farmers, a few hundred taels might be the money they had saved in their entire lives, but for the young masters and young ladies of the Duke's Mansion, it only meant a jade bracelet and a pair of jade pendants.

A few hundred taels is not enough for them to spend for two months.

Elopement—they need money.

The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo promised her daughter that she would give her 20,000 taels of silver as a dowry when she got married.

This is the future "living expenses" for Xu Ruyi and her lover.

For the money, she obediently dressed up, applied powder to her face, put on her wedding dress, put on her veil, and held a big apple in her hand, a symbol of peace and good fortune. She listened to the noisy and bustling voices in the courtyard.

Liu Wenbai is writing a poem to urge her to get ready.

The wedding procession is coming!

The bridesmaid urged him to get out of bed, and the eldest brother carried her out of the hospital.

She got into the bridal sedan.

The sedan chair, carried by eight men, swayed unsteadily out of the gate of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion. She could faintly hear her mother's cry of relief and her father's sigh!

Xu Ruyi sat in the sedan chair, squeezing the red apple in her hand until it was bumpy. She listened to the loud music outside the sedan chair and couldn't help but pull off her veil and secretly lifted the curtain to look outside.

Liu Wenbai was wearing a red wedding dress with a big flower on his chest, riding a tall horse, and looking very energetic.

His fair face, facing the afterglow of the setting sun, looked so handsome and majestic.

however……

Xu Ruyi's attention was not on him at all. Her beautiful eyes were fixed on the figure in front of the bridal sedan carrying the betrothal gifts.

The dowry of the Duke's daughter was exactly one hundred and eight loads.

There was a long line stretching from one end of the alley to the other. Xu Yuan, her second brother, her lover, was standing closest to the bridal sedan, carrying her betrothal gifts with difficulty.

From the angle of the wedding sedan curtain, she could only see half of her second brother's body, and that was only his back; she couldn't even see his face. However, Xu Ruyi stared at the figure and felt a deep happiness in her heart.

She looked at me with a dreamy look in her eyes, and murmured, "Second brother, today, Ruyi just thinks that she is marrying you!"

“This is our wedding~~”

Her subtle voice startled the bridesmaid walking beside the sedan chair. She was horrified. In her life of arranging weddings, she had never seen a bride in a sedan chair lift her veil and stick her head out!

"Go back, girl, please go back quickly. If someone sees you, this, this, this..."

How embarrassing.

A girl from a Duke's mansion would be criticized for not knowing etiquette.

"Hurry up and put on the veil! Don't take it off!"

The bridesmaid quickly reached out and gently pushed Xu Ruyi's shoulder, lowering the wedding curtain again and whispering, "Don't come out again, it's unlucky!"

Xu Ruyi sat back obediently without saying a word, but her mind was still filled with the image of her second brother.

Soon, soon!

She and her second brother will be reunited soon.

They will stay together forever!

With this belief, Xu Ruyi sat quietly. The wedding procession circled the inner city for half a circle and arrived at the gate of Ningguo Mansion after about an hour.

Liu Zhi and Liu Wenrui personally opened the gate of the mansion to welcome the future mistress.

The sedan chair was carried in and headed straight for the second gate.

The porters also carried the dowry and went directly to Jishan Hall, where Old Lady Lai had arrived with the female guests. They were waiting for the bride to come after the ceremony.

Of course, let’s also take a look at the dowry.

The amount of the dowry shows how much the girl's family values ​​her, and also represents whether the girl can hold her head high in her husband's family in the future.

The porters lined up in a long queue and placed the dowry in the yard.

There were exactly one hundred and eight loads, packed so full that there was almost no room left. The wedding procession from the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion opened all the lids of the dowry.

The guests began to offer their usual compliments.

Of course, it was also sincere. After all, Xu Ruyi's dowry was indeed quite decent.

"What a lucky old lady!"

"Now that my granddaughter-in-law is married, and she's from such a respectable family, I'm afraid I'll be able to hold my great-grandson in my arms soon!"

"Congratulations, congratulations!"

With the congratulations coming one after another, old lady Mei Lai smiled widely, forgetting her regret about Song's departure. Her face began to turn red and she kept comforting herself in her heart!

Without Qu Qiutong, there wouldn’t be such an outstanding grandson like Wen Bo!

Without Wenbo, she would not have been able to marry into the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion, and she would not have had Xu Ruyi, a decent granddaughter-in-law, and such a large dowry.

Although it was a pity that she lost the Song family and the Cheng'en Mansion that she relied on, now she had Xu Ruyi and the Zhenguo Mansion, so it should be about the same. She would be treated the same as before when she went out in the future, and would not be ridiculed or looked down upon. However, there was still an eyesore like Qu Qiutong!

If, if Qu Qiutong could be eliminated and Song could come back to be her daughter-in-law, then everything would be perfect.

Old Lady Lai was daydreaming, her old eyes flickered slightly, and she looked deeply at Song, but she said nothing, just smiled and said: "Everyone, we have finished looking at the dowry, and the ceremony is about to begin. Everyone, follow me to the front hall, and let's go watch the ceremony."