Early the next morning, Xu Ping was called up and Xiuxiu was serving her makeup. At this time, Lin Wensi was mostly preparing for the New Year in the capital. Xu Ping had the highest status in the village, and Lu Song had many things to do with Lu Song's wedding. Lu Song and Li Sisao both moved from other places and had no relatives locally. As the main family, Xu Ping wanted to host the wedding for them as their elders.

The team that welcomed the bride before dawn had already set off. Lu Song rode Xu Ping's horse and rented a sedan chair in Zhongmu County on the farm, and was carried by the patio to Baisha Town to welcome the bride. Because the four seasons of festivals were needed, there were various instruments of gongs, drums, suona on Xu Ping's village. Although it was not complete, a group of patio guests barely formed a band.

When the wedding team left, Xu Ping and Xu Chang arranged fireworks and firecrackers for the wedding in front of the village. Although the ideal explosion crisis had not yet been achieved, the firecrackers made in the village could also be heard at this time, but they had not made firecrackers, but a few big firecrackers were arranged in a row in front of the door. The fireworks were relatively simple, and they were all experimental items anyway, with more than twenty divided into rows and placed aside.

After packing up, Xiuxiu served her after having a meal. Xu Ping sat in the main hall and waited patiently.

This is a very wonderful experience. Xu Ping himself did not get married. It is said that he could not take the marriage to others, but in the countryside, all customs gave way to the authority of the owner. Fortunately, the wedding was simple, otherwise Xu Ping would have a headache.

As a widow, Li Sisao was not suitable for a grand ceremony for the second time. Everything was just a fun thing. According to the customs at this time, it was not difficult for widows to marry, and the second marriage would not be looked down upon. On the contrary, because she was a widow, the man received few betrothal gifts, and the woman had more dowry, and the simple wedding cost was less, and the widows were still popular among the people.

The customs of marriage in the Song Dynasty were still based on the ancient six rituals, but it has developed towards practicality. For example, a custom-made ritual is the so-called marriage letter in the secular world. The man will clearly list his own property on the post, and the woman’s reply will clearly list the dowry he brought when he married, which means notarization of Xu Ping’s pre-marriage property in his previous life. Once divorced in the future, the official so-called "harmony" at this time is to divide the property of both men and women according to this. Therefore, the greater the proportion of dowry in the common property of the couple after the husband and wife, the greater the right to speak, which is almost the same as that of later generations.

Just as Xu Ping drank two cups of tea in the hall and was a little anxious, the sound of gongs, drums and suona came from outside the door. The shopkeepers on the village heard the sound and rushed out, and Bian Xiuxiu also went to watch the fun. This wedding was different from the last Xu Chang's wedding. The wedding was organized by Xu Zheng and his wife, and for some special reasons, it was much more formal this time.

As the head of the family at this time, Xu Ping could not run around, so he had to sit alone in the hall waiting.

When the team arrived at the gate, Xu Chang directed the shopkeeper to light fireworks. Due to the poor proportion of gunpowder, the firecrackers only made a few dull noises, and the fireworks in broad daylight were much inferior.

But these are all things that people at this time have never seen before. They hear the sounds, look at the fireworks, and cheer together. They look up at the remaining smoke in the sky, and have endless aftertaste.

A mother-in-law helped Li Si's sister-in-law down from the sedan chair and said to her: "Sister-in-law, it's so lively! There is no other village within a hundred miles of the countryside as prosperous as Xujiazhuang. Your newly married man has a ministry in the village. From then on, you can live a good life with peace of mind."

Li Sisan smiled slightly and didn't say anything.

Because Lu Song was cautious in his work, although he did not become a lieutenant, he was also a leader in the village, and he paid fifty cents more than ordinary farmers in a month. Now the scale of the village is small and it is still impossible to tell. If the development continues at this rate, the village will develop in a few years, and Lu Song is a well-known figure, so the so-called rise and rise.

Seeing that Li Si's wife got out of the sedan chair, a group of merchants surrounded her and Lu Song and shouted to stop the money. At this time, it was the last step. It was not a stingy time. Lu Song took out two handfuls of copper coins and scattered them towards the crowd. The merchants all went to grab the copper coins together, and Lu Song led Li Si's wife into the village with her heart.

Xu Chang and his mother-in-law who was sending off the bride led the two relatives to the hall and praised the heaven and earth. According to the rules of this first worship, it should be to worship ancestors. Lu Song was a guest and had no ancestors to worship, so he had to use heaven and earth as his ancestors and barely counted. Then he led to Xu Ping, and the couple bowed to him. This worship was originally worshipping parents-in-law, but Lu Song did not, so he had to let Xu Ping, the master family, barely play this role. According to the law at this time, the master family was the head of the family, which was reasonable. After that, the newcomers would be the ritual.

This is a countryside, and nothing is paid attention to. Li Sishao is a second marriage, so she just needs to be simple, and all other red tape is saved.

After the ceremony, Lu Song led the bride back to the courtyard outside the village and let the bride rest there. There was originally a custom of placing tents, which was when the newlyweds showed off their dowry, and the new house was arranged by their mother's family to prevent others from entering. Li Si's wife's family was the only one in her family, and she had no elders, and had children and other juniors, so she was also spared.

Li Si's sister-in-law was sent back to her new house, and the two little girls Xiuxiu and Su'er were accompanied there. Lu Song returned to the courtyard and accompanied the farmers to drink and celebrate.

Although Lu Song had already started a house outside the manor, he was fundamentally a visitor to Xujiazhuang. He had a master and servant status with Xu Ping, so he was not considered a separation. At least in the legal sense, he lived with the Xu family and had no change of the document and established a new account. All ceremonies, including the celebration banquet, were still held in Xuping's manor.

Seeing Lu Song coming in, Sun Qilang jumped up from the stool and shouted: "Lu Song, from now on, you have been married and adult! Come here and have a bowl with us brothers!"

Xu Ping hurriedly stopped: "Don't rush to get the groom's wine! The wedding gifts are still here. You guys come over to toast them with a glass and thank them for sending the bride!"

Sun Qilang applauded and came to the main table with Lu Song on the left and right, toasting the person who gave the wedding.

Li Sisan had no relatives, and the two elders who came to see off her family were from her house. One was a grocery store, known as Zheng Guanren, and the other was Song Xuesan, who opened a book shop. The book shop was not a book seller, but wrote letters and various documents, which also served as notarization of various folk contracts. There was also a matchmaker and a dentist who were responsible for holding Li Sisan's sedan chair. These people were willing to come, one was that Li Sisan usually had a good reputation, and the other was that Xu Ping's farm had a good reputation around him at this time, and everyone was willing to make friends, not to mention that there were endless wines in the farm.

After exploring the wine, Xu Ping picked up the bowl and said, "A glass of thin wine will not be a respect. Thank you for your kindness between the two elders and mother-in-law, for your hard work along the way!"

After everyone had drunk the wine, the three little leaders from Xu Chang and Gao Daquan Sun Qilang also came up to worship, and then everyone started to eat and drink.

After three rounds of wine, Zheng Guanren, Song Xuejiao and his two mother-in-laws got up and said goodbye. According to the customs at this time, the woman's relatives had to drink two glasses of wine and had to go back, and they could not eat and drink at the man's house. Xu Ping did not leave much and asked Xu Chang to prepare a gift for each of them, which was nothing more than wine, meat, and so on. He sent these people out of the village and thanked them again and again.

In the countryside, if you want to be a well-known person, in addition to being a natural identity, you must either be a villain and make people afraid of you or be a good person to respect you. With Xu Ping's nature, he can't do evil, so he can work hard to be a good person and earn a good reputation among his neighbors.

When the people who sent the bride were sent away, there were no outsiders in the village, and the tourists from all over the village were willing to eat and drink. At this time, the end of the year was approaching, and the atmosphere of the festival became stronger and stronger, and everyone tasted even more careless.

Sun Qilang called Lu Song to the tables of himself, Gao Daquan and Xu Chang, pressed his head and poured three bowls of wine first, and said, "From tonight, someone will warm your bed, but we brothers still have to endure it! Not to mention it in the future, we must get you drunk tonight, so that you can't climb onto the bed of the wife, and also exudes the anger in our hearts!"

After drinking, Lu Song said to Sun Qilang: "Brother Qi, why don't you say that when you get married? Could it be that you bully me for honesty?"

Sun Qilang blushed: "You are the bird beak! You can compare with it? He is the master sent by Guanzhuang here, how about it? But we are usually brothers!"

Xu Chang smiled and said, "Qilang's words are confused! We are together for fate. What's the difference? You are full of nonsense, drink three bowls first to wake up and wake up!"

Several people were having fun together, but Xu Ping was a little bored while on the side.

He was there, and no matter how kind he was, he couldn't let go of others when he was with him. This was different from the identity of leaders and subordinates in his previous life. He was the master's family, and others were hired by him, and he was subject to etiquette and legal constraints. After barely drinking two bowls of wine, Xu Ping asked him to drink a little too much and returned to his yard to let the gangs of farmers enjoy themselves outside.

When he arrived in the yard, Xu Ping felt bored by listening to the noise outside. The entertainment was really scarce at this time, especially in the countryside, when the sun sets, there was nothing to do.

After sitting for a while, Xu Ping lit the lights and took out the book he brought with him to read.

This is a collection of imperial examination tutors he bought in the capital a few days ago. In addition to the scriptures, I read these imperial examination questions to pass the time.

At this time, the imperial examination system was also based on the Tang system, mainly using Fu to judge the quality of the grades. The other items were mainly based on the rules and not making mistakes, and it was difficult to distinguish between good and bad. Fu was both rhyme and verse, and could see the literary talent, and had a certain length, and could write certain content, which was just right.

The more I read these fu, the more I felt that this was somewhat similar to the material questions in the political class in my previous life. Although the questions I asked were ever-changing, no matter what, the central idea I attached was based on several major principles, and most of them did not come from the classical theories of Confucianism. Xu Ping's task was to summarize the commonly applicable ones from these real questions before the next imperial examination, as the central idea of ​​his future participation in the imperial examination. It was just like the dialectical method, contradiction theory, materialism, etc. in answering questions in previous life. No matter what questions were asked, the answers were always inseparable from these questions and could always be attached.

Although the imperial examinations in the Tang and Song dynasties were based on Confucianism, they were not absolute. There have been several other exam questions such as Taoist and Legalists' classics, and the effect of reading the scriptures is not very good. Moreover, there is also a question of solving the questions during the exam, that is, if the candidate feels that he has never seen the exam questions and does not know what classics it comes from, he can ask the examiner to solve the questions, explain the source and meaning of the questions, and then start the answer.

At this time, it is important to prepare for the imperial examination. It is useless to understand its spirit.

Before I knew it, late at night, the noise outside continued. Lu Song had already been drunk and was sent back to his new house.

Xiuxiu and Su'er came back, and they took advantage of the lights in the yard and lit and played with the immature fireworks made by Xu Ping.

Some of them couldn't light up, but they just walked around the ground twice. The two little girls laughed and cursed together, and went to click the next one.
Chapter completed!