The Ming Dynasty began from Sarhu

Chapter 153 A Thread of Love Enters the Soul
To the east of Kaiyuan City, there is the Korean Yuhe Guild Hall.

Jin Yuji wore the wedding attire of the Ming dynasty, a phoenix crown and a bridal robe, stunningly beautiful. She wore a two-dragon and three-phoenix crown on her head, a bright red long-sleeved qilin robe, a bridal robe embroidered with gold clouds and peacock patterns, an official green skirt with a gold-woven pattern of eight treasures and a running rabbit, and a pair of red brocade high-heeled phoenix-toed shoes.

Yang Qing'er stared at the Korean beauty, exclaiming in amazement.

"So there are such beautiful ladies in Korea. With your phoenix crown and bridal robe, you look even more beautiful than the nine-day fairies in the Niangniang Temple."

Jin Yu Ji knew that she was joking, but she didn't care. She carefully counted the gems on the phoenix crown in front of the mirror, and thought to herself: With so many gems and jades, I wonder how much silver the master spent?
"Sister Yang, when the master marries you, he will give you a crown of twelve dragons and nine phoenixes."

"By then, Sister Yang will be even more regal than the Empress! With her hair in clouds and her face in bloom, and her golden hairpins, she will spend the night in the warmth of a hibiscus tent."

Yang Qing'er pursed her lips and smiled. Jin Yuji usually read a lot of idle books, and she could easily come up with obscene words and phrases.

Bumbutai clapped her hands and said, "Great! Sister is like a fairy. Seeing her makes me want to get married too."

"Marry you!"

Yang Qing'er pointed at Bumbutai:
"You've been hanging out with your sister Jin all day, and you're not serious at all. Go get the little bamboo basket in the inner room."

In order to marry a beautiful Korean girl, Liu Zhaosun disregarded etiquette and married her in a formal ceremony.

The three gifts and six betrothal gifts were all presented without missing a single one.

The imperial court regulations stipulated that for women of the second rank and above, the shawl should be embroidered with gold-embroidered cloud and phoenix patterns; for women of the third and fourth ranks, the shawl should be embroidered with gold-embroidered cloud and peacock patterns; for women of the fifth rank, the shawl should be embroidered with cloud and mandarin duck patterns; for women of the sixth and seventh ranks, the shawl should be embroidered with cloud and

However, Liu Zhaosun gave Jin Yuji the dragon and phoenix crown that was only for the royal family, and the shawl was embroidered with peacock clouds that was only for the first-rank imperial ladies.

Yang Qing'er was secretly shocked when she saw this. If the emperor knew about this, she didn't know what a serious crime it would be.

Fortunately, all his subordinates were determined to be loyal ministers and turned a blind eye to these acts of usurpation.

Thinking about how much her husband had paid for this Korean concubine, Yang Qing'er couldn't help but feel jealous.

There are only two hours left in the bridal chamber.

Yang Qing'er remembered that she hadn't put on makeup yet, let alone combed her hair.

"Hurry up and wash your face, it's too late."

Bumbutai brought a small bamboo basket containing tweezers, silk thread and coins.

Jin Yuji sat facing east and west, facing the direction of the God of Joy, full of anticipation.

Although the Ming Dynasty wedding etiquette that Jin Yuji had witnessed in the past few days was cumbersome and complicated, it opened her eyes.

Everything was new and surprising, everything was heartwarming. Thinking of becoming the real Mrs. Jin in the future, she felt as if she were in a dream.

Yang Qing'er picked up a red silk thread with her delicate hands, tied the two ends together, and tied a heart knot. She twisted it around and crossed it several times, and the red thread formed a pair of scissors.

"After opening her face, she's no longer a yellow-haired girl."

Jin Yuji's face flushed, thinking that Lady Gaoming was going to say something vicious again.

The so-called "yellow-haired girl" refers to an unmarried girl, while a married woman has nothing to do with "yellow-haired girl".

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a difference between married and unmarried women based on whether they had had their faces opened.

"Did the official really not touch you?"

Yang Qing'er tightened her index finger and thumb and couldn't help asking.

Jin Yuji had long considered Yang Qing'er her own sister. Seeing that she was still struggling with this matter, she chuckled and said,
"Did he touch you?"

Yang Qing'er lost interest and shook her head.

Jin Yuji murmured, "He is a man like Liu Xiahui, one in a million. I am so lucky to have met him!"

Yang Qing'er insisted, "On the night before the New Year, you..."

There was light in Jin Yuji's eyes.

"No, he said that he was cold and indifferent in his previous life and didn't want to let me down in this life, so he had to wait until today..."

Yang Qing'er smiled knowingly and asked no more questions.

Shaoyao stepped forward and flicked the long line three times on the upper, middle and lower sides.

Yang Qing'er's face was filled with happiness as she prayed for Jin Yuji:

"Respect heaven and earth as parents, wish husband and wife a harmonious life, and have many children and grandchildren."

"The left shot gives birth to a son early, the middle shot makes the family frugal, and the right shot leads to a long life together."

After doing all this, Yang Qing'er bit one end of the thread with her teeth, pressed the thread against Jin Yuji's face, stretched out her hands and mouth at the same time, and slowly wrung out the sweat hairs on her face.

The face-opening ceremony was completed, and Yang Qing'er clapped her hands and smiled:
"Good, good, good! This delicate skin is so tender and tender, it's like a lotus flower emerging from the water. You, a yellow-haired girl, have really become a young wife!"

Then she combed her hair, and Yang Qing'er said:

Comb it all the way to the end.

Comb twice until the white hair reaches the eyebrows.

Comb your hair three times and you will have children and grandchildren all over the house.

Jin Yuji listened to the prayer and looked up at herself in the mirror. She was bright and beautiful, and her beauty was breathtaking. The haze that rose in front of the Yalu River that day disappeared completely.

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After washing and dressing up, she went to the main hall to pay her respects to her parents. When her parents were no longer there, she went to pay her respects to her elder brother.

Jin Dajiu looked at his sister, dressed in a phoenix crown and a red robe, and felt a lot of emotion. His father was murdered, and his sister had a tragic fate. His eyes were slightly red, and he helped Jin Yuji, who was kneeling on the ground, to his feet:
"Go to your husband's house and take good care of him and raise your children. Although we are subjects of a small country, we must know the etiquette and laws of the Celestial Empire and not let the Ming people laugh at us. Go."

Jin Yuji's eyes were shining. She stood up to bid farewell to her brother, put on her veil, and slowly left the house.

~~~~~
Liu Zhaosun rode a tall horse, wearing flowers and a red robe, to welcome Jin Yuji to the general's mansion.

The master of ceremonies, Kang Yingqian, went out to welcome the groom into the hall.

Lao Kang was holding a wild goose in each hand.

The wild geese cooed and pecked at General Kang, making Kang Yinggan so anxious that he blew his beard and glared.

The wild goose was brought to the Joseon Guildhall by Liu Zhaosun as a gift to Jin Yuji as a betrothal gift. Then it was brought back by the two men and handed over to the officiant of the wedding.

This is the famous ceremony of laying down the wild geese in Han Chinese weddings.

Geese are animals that are very loyal in love.

I ask the world, what is love, that makes people pledge to be together through life and death? Two travelers fly together from north to south, their old wings have experienced many winters and summers.

If misfortune befalls one of a pair of geese first, the other will also die wailing.

The Ming people used geese as betrothal gifts to symbolize loyalty.

In this era, wooden geese were usually used instead of wooden geese in the ceremony, but for Ping Liaohou, catching two live geese was not a difficult task.

Upon hearing that Marquis Ping Liao was going to marry a beautiful Korean girl, the people around Kaiyuan prepared wild geese as a gift.

Ping Liaohou accepted the gift and paid the visitor some silver.

He instructed Kang Yingqian to release the geese after the ceremony.

The wild goose screamed loudly and suddenly bit Lao Kang. Kang Yinggan grimaced in pain and quickly took a pill of Vajra Powder to calm himself down. Then he turned around and handed the wild goose to Wu Xiao, asking him to take it out and release it.

Then, the officiant brought the groom to the ancestral hall of the general's mansion.

Liu Zhaosun knelt three times in front of the tablet of his adoptive father enshrined in the center of the ancestral hall, took the incense from Kang Yingqian and inserted it into the incense burner.

Kang Yingqian looked at Liu Zhaosun's pious expression, stroked his beard and nodded slightly.

Next came the part where the bride and groom bowed to each other.

After Liu Zhaosun finished paying respects at the ancestral hall, he waited in the main hall for Jin Yuji to enter. A few minutes later, Jin Yuji, dressed in a red robe and phoenix crown, arrived at the main hall of the General's Mansion, led by the Imperial Madam.

The time traveler is like in a dream.

Hardships, separations of life and death, joys and sorrows, bitterness and sweetness.

Scenes from the past appeared before his eyes.

Looking at this beautiful woman again, his heart began to pound, as if he had returned to his first love in his previous life.

Kang Yingqian coughed lightly, signaling to start the next step quickly.

Liu Zhaosun hurriedly helped Jin Yuji to the incense table, and Kang Yingqian shouted:
"Bow to each other!"

The two of them turned sideways in front of the incense table and candlelight, kneeling to each other. Liu Zhaosun helped Jin Yuji to stand up, and out of the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of the cat's eye on her phoenix crown, which was extremely dazzling.

"Couple in Prison Together Ceremony!"

Liu Zhaosun trembled as he took off the veil. Beneath the phoenix crown, Jin Yuji's eyes were shy and charming, with bright eyes and white teeth. She was a beauty from the north, stunning the whole city.

On the incense table are placed sacrificial offerings such as sheep heads and pig heads. The couple sits next to each other and eats the sacrificial meat together to show that the couple is one, regardless of status, and love each other.

Just as Ping Liaohou picked up a piece of pig's ear and was about to put it in his mouth, he heard Kang Yingqian say:

"Wedding Ceremony!"

Liu Zhaosun swallowed his saliva, put down his chopsticks angrily, and cursed in his heart. He had been busy with the wedding from morning until 9 o'clock in the evening, and he hadn't eaten a single bite of food yet.

Like her husband, Jin Yuji had not eaten anything for a whole day and had been performing various sacrifices and kneeling for the entire day.

I was also very hungry at this moment, thinking that the Ming Dynasty wedding was indeed complicated.

Liu Zhaosun shrugged and whispered, "Don't be afraid. I've hidden some chicken breast and rice balls. We'll eat them in the bridal chamber later. Let's drink first!"

The wedding ceremony is the drinking of wine from the same cup.

Shaoyao was holding a tray with a split gourd on it.

The gourd symbolizes the unity of husband and wife. The husband treats his wife with sincerity, and the wife treats her husband with respect. This is the great meaning of husband and wife.

Liu Zhaosun and Jin Yuji each took half of the gourd, and Shaoyao picked up a Sikkim wine pot and poured wine into the gourd ladle.

Jin Yuji quickly winked at the maid, asking her to pour less.

She knew that Liu Zhaosun had a low alcohol tolerance and would pass out after three cups, and she was afraid that her husband would fall asleep as soon as they entered the bridal chamber.

Shaoyao raised her head to look at the groom, not noticing that the bride's eyebrows were upside down, and she gulped down the gourd ladle to fill it up.

According to the wedding ceremony, the newlyweds first drink half of the wine in the coconut ladle, then exchange cups and drink it all.

Jin Yuji groaned inwardly, suspecting that Yang Qing'er was behind this, deliberately instigating the maid to get her husband drunk, thus preventing him from having his wedding night. Kang Yingqian looked at the two of them, still wearing a sly smile.

Liu Zhaosun, however, acted as if nothing had happened. He picked up the half-broken gourd ladle and drank it all in one gulp.

Jin Yuji looked affectionate and when she saw her husband finish drinking, she also picked up the gourd and drank from it.

Next is the hair-tying ceremony.

The hair-tying ceremony refers to the bride and groom's hair being tied together and placed in a hair bag. This is how the saying "tied couple" came about.

After the bloody battle at Hunhe, Liu Zhaosun carried Jin Yuji on his back for five or six miles along a mountain road before returning to the main camp. Both of them were bleeding profusely, and the dried blood on their mandarin duck jackets had become so clung to each other that they could not be separated.

Finally, Old Song had no choice but to cut open his jacket with scissors...
The relationship between the two is beyond the description of a married couple.

Jin Yuji carefully cut off a lock of her husband's long hair, tied it with her own black hair, and put it in a sachet.

……

This Ming Dynasty wedding took two hours, so the ceremony ended on the seventh day of the second lunar month, at the first quarter of the night.

Although there was a charcoal fire in the hall for heating, it was February in Liaodong and the outside was three feet frozen.

Qiao Dazui was injured and couldn't stay up all night, so Liu Zhaosun thanked everyone and asked them to go back and rest.

A group of confidants congratulated the newlyweds. They had been busy for several days and were extremely tired. After offering a few blessings, they dispersed.

Kang Yingqian was walking at the end. He forced himself to cheer up, grinned foolishly at General Liu, and kept reaching into his sleeves to feel around.

When Liu Zhaosun saw this action, he knew that he was taking out the Vajra Powder.

"Leave it for yourself, General Kang. It's getting late, go back and get some rest. We still have to plan for the Korean affairs tomorrow."

"Marquis Ping Liao, a night of spring is worth a thousand gold. Instead of spending time with your beauty, you're discussing matters with an old man like me? We'll talk about the Korean issue in a few days!"

Liu Zhaosun smiled and personally escorted him out of the General's Mansion. He then arranged for Wu Xiao and Lin Yu to escort Kang Yingqian and Qiao Yiqi back to the Military Preparations Office.

Ever since Qiao Yiqi was assassinated last time, General Liu began to pay attention to strengthening the protection of his civil servants.

Kaiyuan's power is expanding rapidly, and more and more people are being offended. Assassinations may become the norm, so it's always better to be more cautious.

After seeing everyone off and returning to the main hall, only Jin Yuji and her maid Shaoyao were left in the room. The little maid Bumbutai had gone back to the side room to sleep with Yang Qing'er early.

Liu Zhaosun asked Shaoyao to go to the kitchen to heat up some food.

After sending Shaoyao away, Liu Zhaosun and Jin Yuji smiled at each other and went into the bedroom.

The bedroom was newly decorated by Shaoyao and Yang Qing'er. Lanterns were hung on the walls, and wedding characters were pasted all over the window frames, tables and chairs.

A pair of red dragon and phoenix candles were placed on the incense table by the window, casting a dim light on the bedroom.

None of the candles in the lanterns were lit.

Liu Zhaosun could not sense the romantic atmosphere. He only felt that the light in the room was dim and unreal. He muttered:
"They say the bridal chamber should be bright with candles, but how can there be only two candles?"

After saying that, he blew into the fire stick and lit the incense and candles on the desk one by one.

Suddenly the lights came on brightly.

Jin Yu Ji is like a bright lotus, full of affection.

Liu Zhaosun thought she was hungry, so he took out a cake from his sleeve, touched it with his hand, and found it was still warm, so he handed it to her.

"I don't eat bread."

"Didn't you just say you were very hungry?"

Seeing that Jin Yuji didn't eat it, Liu Zhaosun took a bite himself.

After being hungry for a day, this ordinary meat pie tasted like delicacies from the mountains and the sea.

"If you don't want cake, what do you want to eat? I'll ask Shaoyao to get it from the kitchen."

Jin Yuji took off the Phoenix Coronet, placed it on her knees, looked up at her husband, and said softly:

"Eat...you..."

Liu Zhaosun ignored her and ate the cake.

Suddenly I felt thirsty, my heart was beating fast, and I felt a little dizzy.

Thinking of Kang Yingqian's evil smile before he left, he suddenly realized:
"I didn't expect that someone around me would drug me."

Liu Zhaosun felt hot all over and couldn't help wanting to take off the robe with the crane patch.

At this time, there was a heavy knock on the door outside. Shaoyao pushed open the half-closed door, brought in a bowl of hot porridge and a roast chicken, and replaced the burnt agarwood on the bedside with new incense.

Liu Zhaosun wanted to ask her what medicine she had given him, but Shaoyao smiled and walked out.

He brought the steaming porridge to Jin Yuji.

"I haven't eaten for a day. I've just recovered. I need to fill my stomach quickly."

"My husband, come and eat too."

The newlyweds sat side by side at the table and had a midnight snack.

Liu Zhaosun kept picking up food for her.

Jin Yuji laughed angrily: "Why don't you eat, my husband?"

"I have pox and can't eat meat. It will take a few days to recover. Come drink with me later and play drinking games."

"You can drink so much that you'll get drunk after three cups. Drinking games are boring. Let's try something else."

Liu Zhaosun is at the age when acne occurs. He has been busy these days and stays up late every day until midnight, so two pimples have appeared on his cheeks.

Suddenly, I felt a strange fragrance coming from afar, which seemed to be there and not there, but it continued to linger and the smell moved me.

The aphrodisiac incense that Peony just changed into was probably ambergris.

He stood up, broke the incense sticks, threw them out the door, and said to Jin Yuji with a smile:

"The people below are really lawless. I'll give them a good beating tomorrow!"

Jin Yuji chuckled, put down her chopsticks, and used a toothbrush (Note 1) to mix some Sophora flavescens powder, green salt, and Suhe ointment, and washed herself in front of the window.

She rinsed her mouth and washed off all the rouge and powder on her face.

Liu Zhaosun looked at the beauty before him, his heart fluttering. Beneath the bright red, long-sleeved Qilin robe, he wore a short, square-collared, winter jacket.

"It's cold in the room, you,"

When he looked again, Jin Yuji was only wearing a cross-collared shirt, revealing her peach-colored waist.

Her shoulders seemed to be cut into pieces, and her slender waist was as slender as a water snake, charming and attractive.

Liu Zhaosun hurriedly put the crane robe on her.

"Do you want to play drinking games again?"

"No, don't get cold, go to sleep."

Liu Zhaosun was afraid that Jin Yuji would catch a cold, so he gently embraced her and said affectionately:

"My lady, do you know where I came from?"

Jin Yuji murmured in a low voice, not understanding what her husband said. Liu Zhaosun put his hand on her hair and said it again.

"Sir, you came from Hunjiang and Sarhu. When I saw you in the military camp that night, you were a great hero."

Liu Zhaosun smiled.

"I'm not a hero. I was brought here by a bouquet of flowers, flowers that fell from the sky."

Jin Yuji was tickled and giggled.

Recalling the dream she had on the bank of Hunjiang River.

"Master was hit by a flower, so he came here. I already knew all this."

Liu Zhaosun was shocked. He had never told anyone about his time travel, so how did Jin Yuji know about it?

Seeing his expression, Jin Yuji suppressed her laughter and said:

"That day, the sky was filled with petals, and we got married beneath them. This is what I dreamed of. And you defeated the Jiannu, divided the land and became a marquis. Everything I dreamed of came true. Hey, have you ever really been hit by a flower?"

"It's not petals, it's a bouquet of flowers. I wonder which idiot threw it from a high place..."

"I don't belong here. I'm so tired these days. So tired."

Liu Zhaosun fell in love and no longer hid his feelings. He wanted to tell Jin Yuji about his past and present life.

Regardless of whether she can understand it or not.

The memories of the beginning of the time travel became particularly clear.

"That night when I attacked the Bordered Blue Banner, I was determined to die. I hated the Ming Dynasty, I hated that bouquet of roses, I hated it for bringing me into this world, and I just wanted to leave. But now, I don't want to go back."

Liu Zhaosun whispered about his past.

He never mentioned these secrets to anyone, so even the author of this book does not know them.

He thought that by dying he could return to the 996 world that belonged to him.

Who would have thought that the tiny moth that flew into the fire on the battlefield of Sarhu would, in less than a year, have met the right people and soared into the sky to become the Kunpeng in the sky, swallowing up mountains and rivers and sweeping across the universe.

Jin Yuji smiled sweetly, stood up and hugged her husband.

"That day under the big pine tree, we said we would never part. I don't care where you're from, or who you were before. In my eyes, you're a hero. I want to be like those wild geese, flying together across the world, never leaving each other for the rest of my life."

The city's defenses were overwhelmed, and the towering Leifeng Pagoda collapsed. Monk Fahai's spells, along with all the rules and regulations, vanished at midnight on this snowy night.

The second-grade robe with the crane patch on Jin Yuji slipped off silently. When Liu Zhaosun saw the beauty's charm, he felt a thread of love that shook his soul.

His heart was pounding as he picked up Jin Yuji and carried her into the tent. The lights were dim and he didn't know it was already dawn in the east.

Note:
1. In the eighth volume of Feng Menglong's "Childhood Foolishness" in the Ming Dynasty, it says: "Eat a mirror to make eyes, weave a basket without collecting dust, and the toothbrush is waiting for you to speak..." It can be seen that toothbrushes were widely used in the Ming Dynasty and were called toothbrushes at that time.

(End of this chapter)