Chapter 3 third quarter

The day the little snake came in, it was Xiaoxue. The sky is cloudy like a curtain, and the ground is as thin as frost. The snow melts as soon as it hits the ground, and the road is extremely slippery.The withered willows and willows in the garden of the Lu Mansion are covered with snow particles everywhere, gray and cold, looking like spirit banners from a distance, making people feel heavy. The Lu family's gardening is excellent, but winter is winter, and there is light snow, even if there are a few holly plants, they are listless.The guests couldn't get excited, they didn't say anything, but they all murmured in their hearts: Why did President Lu choose such a day to take a concubine?The newcomers don't know it, but the old relatives of the Lu family for many years know that the Lu family takes concubines once every five years. Welcome the new year, the most auspicious.But this time, they rushed to do it on Xiaoxue's day, as if they couldn't wait.And the last time Luhu's riot in Juhualou to marry Fengqin was spread all over Qingtong County. At that time, Master Lu swore that this was the last time and he would never take concubines again.It's been less than three years since the incident, why did you talk back?Then why did Lu Hu agree?Seeing Luhu's Zhang Luojin going in and out, he really doesn't look jealous, which makes this concubine all the more weird.

There are ten tables in the banquet, and the three tables in the hall are all relatives and dignitaries, who burn incense and burn the stove, which is comfortable; the seven tables in the courtyard are all neighbors and friends, but they are suffering. From time to time, the light snow and the wind blow on people for a while, and they are hungry, and they are completely cold inside and out.Before the banquet was opened, the wine was served first, so from time to time some guests shouted: "Boil the pot of wine, serve it hot!" For the wedding, the young master Lu Changshan, who was teaching in the provincial capital, and the married young lady, Ya Shi, rushed back, and led their servants to meet the sedan chair outside the county gate early in the morning; Rarely got up early in the morning, took the housekeeper A Fuli to greet him, ordered the servants to burn the stove more vigorously, and delivered the wine more diligently, and acted as if he was the second generation of the Lu family; The third miss is still young and can't help much. She is led by the teacher and sits quietly in the corner waiting for the banquet to start. She is very well-behaved; the servants come to report every half an hour: the sedan chair is outside the gate. Yes, the sedan chair has stopped at the county monument, and the bride is about to worship the memorial archway, but the bride slipped when she got on the sedan chair again...

Lu Hu's face dropped.Wrestling in front of the archway is a very taboo thing. Does it mean that the bride is doomed to ruin the lintel and break the family rules? The "Xiaozhen Jielie Archway" in front of the county chronicle is the only archway in Qingtong County. It has four columns and three rooms, and the columns are connected by three architraves.There are carvings floating on the forehead, and you can still vaguely see the pattern of double dragons playing with pearls, but the word boards have long been weathered by wind and rain, and are mottled and unclear.The owner of the archway is no longer available, and I don’t know what year or generation it came from. Once when Lu Siye was drinking with foreigners, he made a nonsense while drunk.After waking up, the more I thought about it, the more possible it became, and I felt proud.Later, I not only talked about it when I was drunk, but also talked about it when I was sober.Everyone knows that President Lu's words are false, so who dares to tell the truth?What's more, it is true that no one can tell which dynasty, which emperor, or which emperor bestowed the title on which family's ancestor. If the Lu family wants to claim it, they can claim it.So gradually, Chairman Lu even believed himself, believing that the memorial archway really belonged to the Lu family, and since then established a rule that newcomers must first bow in front of the memorial archway when entering Lu's house, to show that they have inherited the virtues of their ancestors, and they will do the same in the future. A chaste woman like the owner of the torii.

The Hu family and Huici who were the first ones failed to catch up - at that time, the fourth master was not so prestigious that he regarded the banners of the entire county as his family's genealogy - the third aunt Pingting, the fourth aunt Hehua, and even Fifth Aunt Fengqin has all paid homage to the archway.When the lotus flower worshiped the memorial archway, it once aroused people's discussion, saying that asking a bitch to worship the chastity archway is not a bit of that.But President Lu waved his hand and said that no matter what Fengqin's background was in the past, if she entered the Lu family, she would be a member of the Lu family. The more humble you should worship, then no one speaks.

Regardless of whether they visited the archway or not, the four aunts of Chairman Lu were all nervous when they heard the news of the bride's wrestling, for fear that the old man would be angry and blame themselves.However, taking a peek, fourth master's face was calm, as if he didn't care too much.The aunts felt relieved again, put on smiling faces again, and greeted the guests with brocade robes and satin sleeves, and flowers and willows, and accepted everyone's calm comments-these guests were kind when they were straight. He looked serious, turned his face and winked and whispered compliments.The aunts can't guess what they are talking about, and they can't wait to get angry, so they have to keep their faces and walks straight, want to smile, but smile without showing their teeth, want to do it, but they can't skirt.

The only one who was really excited was the second young master Lu Shirt, who was already half drunk before the banquet started, and at the moment he was yelling and punching with a group of cronies on the side seats, his eyes were all around, paying attention to the beautiful female relatives among the guests, When I had free time, I twisted and touched the girl's buttocks, and no one dared to make serious troubles on the big day, so I just went along with my heart - the master is still taking concubines at the age of sixty, and I am two or three years old. In the tenth year, is it still a thing to be romantic?

However, the maid Qiu Ju was ignorant, and the second young master suddenly yelled when she added wine and pinched her tits for the third time, and even spilled the wine pot.Moreover, without waiting for the eldest wife Lu Hu's interrogation, she directly resorted to it: "Second young master touched me." While doing the trick, her hands were still pressed on her chest, her face was so red that she couldn't even ask the eldest wife to pretend not to hear.The man in the short shirt came up, and without waiting for Mrs. Hu to speak, he raised his hand and slapped Qiu Ju, cursing: "I was just cold and my hands were stiff, and I accidentally touched you, and you falsely accused the young master of touching you." You don’t even piss and take pictures, but you look like a reed stick, what’s worth letting me touch you? When the girl from Juhualou sees the young master, who doesn’t rush to line up for me to touch? Touch you? I don't even look at you naked."

One sentence annoyed Fengqin, since she became a good girl, she hated the fact that she was born in Juhualou the most in her life, and even more hated that he looked down on Juhualou, so she said sourly: "It's just a girl, just say and do wrong What, it is the day of the master's great joy, the second young master should also forgive others wherever he goes, why is it worth it?" At this time, a gust of wind blew up, the snow suddenly fell hard, and there was a sound of Jiao Lei out of thin air, which made Hu tremble in fright, and swallowed back the curse word that was forced to his lips, but unexpectedly, he didn't attack it. , and only waited for the wind to pass before he calmly said to Qiu Ju: "The fifth aunt is right, today is a good day for the master, don't cry and make noise, why don't you wash your face soon?" Turning around again Instructing Ah Fu to take care of the lanterns that were blown crooked by the wind, and confused the scene.

All the guests originally planned to watch a good show, but they were also blown away by the wind, so they all picked up the conversation just now and continued chatting casually. Divorce, the first feat of divorce for a concubine in the Qing Dynasty, Empress Wanrong made dirty smells from her hind feet. The three palaces and six courts are not willing to settle down. I dare not be the emperor, right?" The other said: "The emperor's old man My son is now nestled in the 'Jingyuan' in Xiechang, Tianjin, so to speak, it's rest, but at worst it's 'house arrest', it's soft, and it's inevitable that it will soften down below." Everyone showed their yellow teeth and giggled.

Fourth master couldn't hear the words "it's too late" and "we're soft" the most.Just when I was bored, I heard the sound of drum music from a distance, and then a servant shouted outside the door: "The newcomer is here!" Then the firecrackers started, and everyone rushed out to see the bride. The sedan chair was carried in through the side door, and then circled back to the screen wall at the main entrance. Xi Niang kicked the red carpet away, and Fourth Master Lu clasped his hands and smiled to greet him. After Xi Niang asked for a gift, he sang and opened the curtains. All the guests in the hall were suddenly silent, and they all looked at the bride and became dumbfounded.

The bride is not necessarily so dazzlingly beautiful, she is just exquisite.The kind of delicate makeup.The vivid face and rigid eyes make her different from all the beauties competing with her, adding a kind of almost desperate nobility and dignity to her weakness, as if silently proving that she is qualified to walk into a deep house and be a wife It's Mrs. Six.It was her deep and desperate dignity that captivated people. No one in the courtyard noticed that the bride did not have a veil—I heard later that the veil wrestled in the bridal archway. When it fell to the ground, it was covered with mud and could not be covered. Fourth Master Lu himself saw the bride for the first time. Before that, he had only heard from the matchmaker that this girl was a snake. She was fourteen years old and her name was Little Snake.In the photo, it just looks like a well-groomed facial features, and she doesn’t look very good. In the end, she was selected because of the key sentence of the matchmaker: Don’t look like a poor family, but the real three-inch golden lotus, I measured it with my own hands. of.Fourth master thought about this, and his eyes slipped to the bride's feet.There was something that Xi Niang didn't understand. While shouting "Bride get off the sedan chair", she deliberately lifted the corner of the bride's skirt to show her feet while she was being supported. She was wearing a pair of red embroidered shoes, really exquisite and exquisite.Fourth Master felt melancholy again. A pair of little feet wearing Ximei embroidered shoes landed firmly on the ground. Strange to say, the moment the bride, little snake, stepped out of the sedan chair and landed on the red carpet, the cloudy sky suddenly cleared up, and the sun shone through the gaps in the clouds, jumping on the bride's phoenix crown and Xiapei. It is clear to the eye—it is a full embroidered gown skirt weighing ten catties, full of flowers, with thousands of stitches and threads that are airtight, all of which are real gold and silver.Gold and silver threads danced on her body with the vitality of the sun, and the cumbersome ring bracelets shone with strange brilliance. The eyes of those present were suddenly blinded.More than half of the male guests unconsciously took a standing posture, while the eyes of the women shot out jealousy and envy in an instant—they didn’t know that those were just props, temporarily borrowed by the bride to fill the scene. When removing makeup, she would remove them from her head, neck, and wrists one by one, put them in a gold-painted box, and return them to the eldest wife. But at this moment, those bracelets and pendants belong to her, those lights belong to her, and those favors and attentions also belong to her. Putting on airs, without saying a word or moving, she greeted the life of the sixth aunt of the Lu Mansion with a strange calmness, the greed of men and the suspicion of women, and the sunshine that was getting fresher and brighter—in such a brilliant day. Under the light, even Lu Hu's mood improved, and he forgot about the bad luck that the new aunt fell in front of the archway on the way here. The firecrackers and gongs and drums became lively again, and the family surrounded the fourth master and the new aunt and stood still before the ceremony, and the salute officially began.All the guests in the hall have been a little dazed since the bride entered the door, dazedly watching the bride get out of the sedan chair, dazedly watching Lu Siye holding the hand of the newcomer, dazedly watching the bride and groom worship the heaven and the ancestor tablet and pay homage to each other Goodbye again, watching the bride and groom being brought into the new house—until the corners of the bride's dress and skirt could not be seen at all, then they all let out a long breath and came back to their senses.At that moment, he started talking about congratulations, grabbing Fourth Master Lu half-truths and toasting desperately, one was getting married, and the other was that he wanted to make a fool of himself because he wanted to get drunk. Fourth Master Lu is not afraid of drinking, he is not up to date, but he can drink well, he will not refuse anyone who comes, and he is happy.The drinking was not over until the sun went down. It's time to light the lanterns to see off the guests.The moon is all over the place.Fourth Master, with the spirit of drinking, pushed away the servants to support him and went to the new house alone, thinking to himself: Maybe I will be happy once again, maybe I will be fine?Uneven. While thinking about it, there was some movement down below. The fourth master was overjoyed. He walked more and more anxiously, and the harder he walked, he entered the room. Before he could close the door, he groped for the bed. , Look closely, the little snake shrank into a ball, but hid in the foot of the bed and trembled, really like a coiled little snake.The fourth master was burning with desire. He was happy that he had regained his glory, but he was also worried that it would not last long. He pulled his trousers with one hand—right on the knife edge, he suddenly heard a mournful scream from across the courtyard outside the door: Come on, Qiu Ju has hanged herself! Fourth Master only felt that he brushed the floor, and his crotch was wet.