Carrying the wrong sedan chair to marry the wrong wife

On the second day of the Shen family's betrothal ceremony, Shen Wenchang made an appointment with Lin Yunsheng. Shen Wenchang told Lin Yunsheng about the wrong promotion plan under the tree behind the Yuelao Temple.

After hearing this, Lin Yunsheng squatted down, picked up branches and drew the road to Sanqiao, and finally marked the four families of Shen Lin, Lu and Yuan and said: "On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, you walked from home to Yuan's house within three streets, and then from Yuan's house It takes at most half a stick of incense to get to the Marriage Bridge, and I have to go through a county from home to Lu's house, and pick up the bride to cross the four streets of Marriage Bridge, so we won't run into each other."

"It's simple. Marriage is such a big happy event. I can walk around Sanqiao on the way to meet the bride. After welcoming the bride, I don't need to take this shortcut. If you get married, walk a few more streets, sprinkle some coins, and be lively. "Shen Wenchang squatted aside and said.

"In this way, we have to practice for a while, otherwise we will really be considered inferior to the sky." Lin Yunsheng felt that if the road was too fast or too slow, he might not be able to touch it.

"Well, so, let's go back and buy the sedan chair according to the pattern they gave us. On the third day of the new year, we will take the sedan chair from home on time, and go to Yuan's and Lu's houses to stop for a stick of incense, and then go to the Marriage Bridge. How much time do we have before and after, and then we will book a route and go until we can meet."

"That's the only way to go." Lin Yunsheng threw away the branch, stood up, clapped his hands and smiled, "Then let's go back and prepare separately, I really don't see how lucky you are to be in Miss Lu's eyes. "

"Hey." Shen Wenchang was amused, and then looked at Lin Yunsheng suspiciously, "Why, after hearing what you said, you also want to catch her eyes?"

"Don't worry too much, I have Ruilan, and Ruilan is no worse than Miss Lu." Lin Yunsheng cupped his hands and said, "May we all get what we wish, goodbye, and see you again on the third day of the Lunar New Year."

Hearing the words, Shen Wenchang bowed his hand in return, watched Lin Yunsheng leave, and then went to Tang Hongfei's house. Lin Yunsheng's concerns were very important, and the route and time must be carefully planned. Just in case, she needed the help of a sworn brother. Following Lin Yunsheng, the two ran around passing messages, if Lin Yunsheng was fast on the day of marriage, she would speed up, if Lin Yunsheng was slow, she would delay for a while, this time I have to fight for my life with God.

When they arrived at Tang Hongfei's house, the five brothers gathered together. Cheng Yi drew a map of Nantong with fine brushwork. The four families of Shen Lin, Lu Yuan and the surrounding street paintings leading to the Marriage Bridge were very detailed.

Several people each drew up a few routes, and finally calculated the time roughly, discarded four routes, and finally left five routes.

"Go through all five of them, enough for us to go from morning to night." Xu Jinwen said while lying on the table.

"You can't walk all day, people come and go, not to mention the Shen Lin family, people on the street will find it strange." Cheng Yi stood up while talking, put his hands on the table and said: "The most important thing is The relatives go out at Chenshi. Since we want to experiment, we should also go out at Chenshi. Only the results of the experiment at the same time will be the closest. After all, the morning market is not over at this time of the day. If the experiment is done in the afternoon, it must be faster than Chenshi .”

"Isn't that going to take five days?" Zhu Fugui asked.

Cheng Yi heard the words and said: "It shouldn't be necessary. We can roughly know which street will take us to walk for two days. Let's analyze it once we walk. It's better to walk once."

"Touch, touch, touch!" At this moment, the door rang.

Tang Hongfei walked to the door and asked in a low voice, "Who?"

"Young master, there is a book seller outside the door, and he said that the book that the young master entrusted him to buy has arrived."

Hearing the words, Tang Hongfei looked back at the few people, and said with his lips: "Miss Xiaorou is here." Then he turned and opened the door and said to his servant: "Oh, please come in, I have to inspect the goods in person before I can pay."

"Yes, young master." Upon hearing this, the young servant of the Tang family turned around and ran outside.

After a while, Xiao Rou came to Tang Hongfei's small study behind the young servant of the Tang family.

Shen Wenchang was stunned for a long while, and walked around Xiaorou for a long time.

Xiao Rou was annoyed, and glared: "Mr. Shen, what are you staring at me for?"

"Don't be annoyed, I just think Miss Xiaorou's outfit looks much better today than before." Shen Wenchang laughed, and the two mustaches were very happy.

Xiaorou was furious, if it wasn't for her own lady, how could she act like this?Shen Wenchang not only didn't miss her, but also made fun of her, you can't be angry.

"Mr. Shen, my lady asked me to listen to the plan." Xiaorou gritted her teeth.

"Oh, oh." Shen Wenchang heard that Xiaorou's tone was wrong, realized that she had gone too far, and said with a smile: "Sit down and listen, sit down and listen. By the way, I went to look for your lady last night, why didn't your lady open the window? "

While sitting down, Xiaorou took a look at Shen Wenchang and said, "Young Master Shen, you really don't know why?"

"I've been thinking about it all night and I still haven't figured it out. As for what your lady said about getting married and not being able to meet each other, it's obviously just prevarication."

"Well, my lady is prevaricating you." Xiaorou picked up the map in front of her and said while looking at it.

As soon as the words fell, Shen Wenchang's smiling cheeks froze immediately, could you be more tactful?Talking nonsense in front of everyone!

"Ahem, please ask Miss Rou, why?" Shen Wenchang approached and asked.

Xiaorou turned her head and smiled, "My lady said she would tell you why on the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month."

Shen Wenchang touched his nose, looking at Xiaorou's appearance, why was he gloating?

"Mr. Shen, let's get down to business. Please tell me your strategy. Miss is still waiting for my reply!" Xiao Rou spread the map on the table and said.

Shen Wenchang cleared his throat, pointed to the map and began to talk: "We plan to change sedan chairs on the Marriage Bridge. Currently, we have planned five routes. Look here..."

During half a cup of tea, Xiao Rou understood clearly, got up to say goodbye, and before leaving, she said: "By the way, Mr. Shen, my lady said that you should not come again before you get married. She can't open the window or the door. Shen The young master can only run for nothing, and maybe he will be found and taken to the court to beat the board."

Shen Wenchang leaned on the door frame with folded arms, watched Xiao Rou leave, and caught a glimpse of a group of people in the room looking at her jokingly, cleared his throat and said, "Look at what I'm doing, I really didn't do anything?"

"Then why did Mr. Lu treat you like this?" Xu Jinwen narrowed his eyes, "It must be something you did!"

"Don't blame me, God can testify, I didn't do anything." Shen Wenchang put down his arms, walked out and said: "I won't talk to you anymore, I have to go home, there are a lot of things waiting for me, I will come back next year Looking for you, let's go, see you later."

Shen Wenchang hurried home and found a carpenter to start making the sedan chair. The size and handle of the sedan chair were all made according to Lu Qingyi's instructions, and he also found an embroiderer to embroider the sedan chair curtain.

Being so busy and caring about it made Shen Zhongnan suspicious, so he came to his son's courtyard in person, looked at it for a long time and asked, "What is this for?"

Shen Wenchang shook his body, implying that he should not panic, turned around and said respectfully: "Father, you are making a sedan chair!"

"Just hire one." Shen Zhongnan said with his hands behind his back.

"It turned out that the butler was hired at will, but I heard people say that the Lin family paid a high price to make sedan chairs, saying that they wanted to marry a wife in a beautiful way. I thought, if we get married on the same day, the neighbors must go to the streets to watch the excitement. Our Shen family will not be able to compete." Shen Wenchang wiped his robe with his right hand, feeling really nervous.

"Well, you're right. We can't be compared, let them do it." Shen Zhongnan originally wanted to make things better than the Lu family, but after hearing what his son said, he was very satisfied, so he turned around and left.

Shen Wenchang supervised the construction of the sedan chair, which took six days to complete. During this period, workers were paid ten times the price to catch up with the work on New Year's Eve. After they were completed, they were placed in Shen Wenchang's courtyard to dry the red paint.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Shen Wenchang followed his father and stepmother to each family to pay New Year's greetings, and sent wedding invitations by the way.The group first went to the Wang family's grandfather's office, then went to the nearby Xu's house, stopped by to visit the business partner, and then went to the Peng's house.

Peng Yi was full of joy. Although he was engaged at the beginning of the year, the wedding date was in June, later than Shen Wenchang.

"I didn't expect you to be married to brother Wei early." In the warm pavilion of Peng's house, Peng Yi smiled and patted Shen Wenchang on the shoulder.

"It's a pity that Sister Yuan married Cousin Shen." Peng Xin said while kneading sunflower seeds, she didn't like Cousin Shen's frizz, and it just so happened that Cousin Shen was unreliable and didn't go to the suburbs to pick her up , I made another note of this unreliable cousin in my heart.

Shen Wenchang pouted, wondering if this girl was her sister.

Peng Xiner leisurely knocked on the sunflower seeds, knocking off the skin, but she didn't eat the seeds, and put them one by one into a small dish.

"Xin'er, am I that bad?" Shen Wenchang sat down nearby. She felt sorry for not picking up this little ancestor that day, but she never thought about it, and completely forgot about it.

Peng Xin'er gave her cousin a look when she heard the words, but before she could speak, she caught a glimpse of the servant girl walking over holding Qiu'er's hand, and hurriedly came forward with a small dish, squatted down in front of Qiu'er with a smile, and poked Qiu'er's face with her hand .

"Qiu'er, do you eat sunflower seeds?" Qiu'er asked with a smile.

"Eat." Qiu'er nodded, and stretched out her little hand on the plate.

Peng Xiner quickly put the plate back and said, "Little heartless, ask your cousin if I'm alright?"

Qiu'er heard the words and quickly cupped her hands and said, "Happy Chinese New Year, cousin, here's a silver coin for the new year."

"Who did you learn this from?" Peng Xin'er said, seeing Qiu'er's bulging pocket, she reached out to touch it, "You have learned a lot from this."

Peng Xin'er said so, but took a small ingot of silver from her sachet and put it in Qiu'er's pocket, and handed the sunflower seeds to Qiu'er to eat.

"Let's go, my cousin will take you to play." Peng Xin'er took Qiu'er's hand, ignored Shen Wenchang, and went straight out of the greenhouse.

Shen Wenchang was not welcome at Peng Xiner's place, so she went to the racecourse after lunch, how could she not ride a horse when she was married, she took out the peach blossom horse and practiced.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Shen Wenchang and Lin Yun set off from home on time for their birthdays, tried out one route after another, and changed the route again and again until the route was finalized on the [-]th day of the first lunar month.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Shen Wenchang was awakened by the nanny on the fourth watch, and the nanny combed Shen Wenchang's hair and said, "Master, will the plan succeed?"

"Nurse, don't worry, yesterday was quite successful, besides, Hongfei and the others are helping to keep an eye on it today, so nothing will go wrong." Shen Wenchang yawned. He went to bed so early yesterday and was still sleepy today. I hope the wind blows on the road and he can be more energetic. Well, today is the most important day in her life, so she must keep her spirits up.

The nanny was afraid, but she didn't dare to tell others. At this moment, she hoped that Miss Lu's family would marry in. After all, she already knew the identity of the young master, and the two of them were in adversity. It was better than Miss Yuan's family marrying and suffering.

After combing her hair and tying the red hairband, Shen Wenchang stood up, took the auspicious clothes and put them on, touched the pattern on the left cuff, the clothes were not good for women, only the half of the pattern on the left cuff was the clothes Embroidered by hand, the embroidery work is poor, but Shen Wenchang was very happy when he touched it.

That's right, Lu Qingyi asked the embroiderer to sew her auspicious clothes according to Shen Wenchang's size. For the sake of meaning, she pinched a needle and embroidered a few stitches on the left cuff according to the occasion. The auspicious clothes were sent to the Lin family through the matchmaker. On the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, Shen Wenchang and Lin Yunsheng secretly switched over.

The nanny fastened Shen Wenchang's belt with trembling hands.

"It's been so many years in a blink of an eye, young master, young master, I hope God obeys people's wishes." The nanny said with emotion.

"Nurse, you have worked hard these years." Shen Wenchang said and bowed to the nanny. In her heart, the nanny has always been her closest and most trusted person. Now that she is married, although she cannot kneel down to the nanny, she still has to bow. Thank you for your care over the years.

"Master, you can't do it, you can't do it." The nanny couldn't help crying as she spoke, "Young Master, it's fine."

"Nurse, don't cry, today is my big day, let's go, let's go to the front and set off firecrackers!"