The first assistant of the poor family

Chapter 284

But after all, people's words are terrible, so Xu Guan urged Xie Shen to marry Qianqian as soon as possible and move out of the house to live alone.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a certain limit on the age of marriage for men and women, and it must be within a certain range to comply with the regulations.

If a man gets married before the age of 16, or a woman gets married before the age of 14, it is called Xianshi.And if a man is over 25 years old and a woman is over 20 years old but not married, it is called outdated.

There is a folk saying that those who are older are prone to premature death, and those who are outdated are prone to disease, and they cannot communicate with Yin and Yang in order to maintain harmony.

Of course, this was formulated in accordance with Zhu Xi's "Family Rituals" in the Song Dynasty, and not everywhere is strictly followed.

The Ming Dynasty has a vast territory, and the wedding customs are also very different from place to place.

Both Xie Shen and Xu Qianqian were from Zhejiang Province, but since they were going to get married in the capital, they naturally had to follow the etiquette of the capital.

The ceremony of the capital is relatively simple.

Specifically, choose the auspicious day of the zodiac first, and then leave a token for the blind date as a sign.Afterwards, a small tea ceremony and a soup and fruit plate were arranged.If it is a luxurious and wealthy family, a large tea ceremony will often be performed, accompanied by gold, stone and jade objects.

Xie Shen and Xu Qianqian had already made a marriage contract, Nacai, Wenming, Najib, and Nazheng were just a formality.

What really worried Xie Shen was the dowry.Xu Guan was the left servant of the Ministry of Industry anyway, so he was not disrespectful. The dowry was too light for such an old Taishan, but if it was too heavy, he would be annoyed.

In the end, Xie Shen dragged Wang Shouwen to arrange a set of dowry gifts to Xu's family using the usual etiquette of Gongqing's family.

In order to take into account Xu Qianqian's feelings of missing her father, the house Xie Shen bought was only two streets away from Xu's residence, so it only took half a cup of tea to send the betrothal gift from Xie's residence to Xu's house.

After the dowry is paid, the application period is over.After some divination, it was finally determined that September [-] was an auspicious day for marriage and marriage.Xie Shen asked the bookboy Chen Hu'er to take Dayan to Xu's house to ask for a date. He said it was a date, but in fact he told Mr. Xu the date of marriage.

The last step in this marriage is to welcome in person.

Since you want to welcome your relatives, you must have a best man.This made it difficult for Xie Shen, both Wang Shouwen and Xie Pi are very suitable to be the best man, and whoever he chooses seems to "offend" the other.

Fortunately, Xie Pi couldn't tell him off that day, which was equivalent to solving a difficult problem for Xie Shen. The best man was naturally Wang Shouwen.

But it was said that Xu Qianqian was carried to the gate of Xie's house in a colorful sedan chair. Before getting out of the sedan chair, Xie Shen threw a saddle on the ground and asked Qianqian to step over.This is a local custom, called 'asking for peace'.Although Xie Shen didn't really believe this, but as the saying goes, do as the Romans do, so he let it go.

With her head covered, Xu Qianqian struggled into Xie's house with the support of her personal maid, and was led to the hall that was used as a wedding banquet venue.

The hall was already full of guests.Miss Xu's parents, as well as some old friends of Xu Guan's, are on the woman's side.On the man's side are Xie Shen's eldest brother Xie Fang, his sister-in-law Xie Chen, and some officials from the Imperial Academy, as well as Xie Shen's fellow in the same year.In addition, many officials from the same province came to congratulate.

From this, we can see the good popularity between Xu Guan and Xie Shen.

Needless to say, Xu Guan is a representative of civil servants with a clean sleeve and has many admirers in the court.Xie Shen became famous because he urged the Hanlin Academy to punish Yang Peng and abolish the East Factory some time ago.

The so-called flower worship hall refers to the worship of the ancestors of the heaven and earth, the close relatives of the family, and the worship of husband and wife.It took more than a month from Lao Taishan to inform Xie Shen of his marriage until he decided on a wedding date. Xie Shen called Lu Zhongtian back to Yuyao to invite his eldest brother and sister-in-law to come when he heard the news. Finally, he waited for his elder brother and sister-in-law before the wedding date.

After a couple of new couples paid homage to their ancestors, Xu Guan and Xie Fang, and after paying homage to each other, it was time to host a banquet to entertain the guests, and the atmosphere was very lively and harmonious.

After that, Xu Qianqian and Xie Shen were surrounded by the best man Wang Shouwen and others to the well-furnished new house, but Xie Shen drank a lot of wine and was about to get drunk. Wang Shouwen laughed and said, "Brother Shenxian, we won't 'beat the man' anymore."

After speaking, he greeted a group of relatives and friends to leave the bridal chamber.

Xie Shen had heard about the wedding custom of having a bridal chamber a long time ago, and he was already prepared to 'see death as his home', but he never thought that it would be thunderous and rainy, and he was only given a few drinks, without any substantial 'threat'.

Although already slightly drunk, Xie Shen still felt very relieved.

Sure enough, the best man was chosen correctly, and Wang Shouwen was really interesting!
But if Xie Shen knew that the guests, headed by the best man Wang, were hiding outside the bridal chamber and preparing to watch the excitement of the bride and groom, he would definitely get angry.

Of course, this "evil deed" was finally discovered by Xie Shen before the wedding because a pig teammate from the Imperial Academy lost his voice, and Xie Shen called it dangerous.

After that, it was the part that moved Xie Shen's heart the most - drinking Hebei wine.

Use the two-valve gourd split into two gourds to drink three times, and the ceremony of joining the gourd is considered complete.

The two took off their robes respectively, Xie Shen took off the tassels from Qianqian's head with his own hands, and said softly, "You are finally my woman."

Xu Qianqian hummed shyly, leaning against Xie Shen's arms.

Xie Shen took a deep breath and blew out all the candles in the house.

The bridal chamber is full of candles, when the golden list is titled.

If he does two blissful things within a year, God will treat him well.

Nothing to say all night.However, Xie Shen and his wife performed the Dunlun ceremony last night, and their moods are quite different.

Xu Qianqian completed the transformation from a girl to a young woman, while Xie Shen grew from a boy to a man.

This transformation often takes place overnight.
The only thing that puzzled Xie Shen was that the maid Qianqian brought with her when she married into Xie's family didn't seem to have the intention of serving as a housemaid.Could it be that the customs here are slightly different?

Uh, thinking of this, Xie Shen still felt a little guilty.After all, he and Qianqian had just performed Zhou Gong's ceremony, and now he was eating from a bowl and thinking about what was in a pot, which was really inappropriate.

Taking concubines was not uncommon among scholar-bureaucrats in the Ming Dynasty, but it was not completely arbitrary.

Xie Shen thought of Shuiyun and Erya at this moment.This time the eldest brother and sister-in-law also brought two maidservants with them when they came to Beijing.

Erya is still young and can wait, but Shuiyun has been waiting for him for a long time, and if she waits any longer, she will be an old girl.

But now is obviously not a good time to propose concubine.No matter how magnanimous a woman is, she can't tolerate her husband's idea of ​​taking a concubine from the beginning of her marriage, right?
Xie Shen was helpless, he should have taken Shui Yun before getting married and cooked raw rice into rice
In the next few days, Xie Shen naturally sued Mr. Wang Hua for leave. Getting a wife is different from a concubine. Naturally, you can't neglect when you are newlywed.

Boss Wang Hua is also someone who has been here, so he naturally understands Long Live, and directly granted Xie Shen a three-day leave.

There was no marriage leave in the usual sense in the Ming Dynasty, so this was an extra favor from Wang Hua.

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