Chapter 143 [Entering the bridal chamber]
As a result, there are also rituals of the same prison, rituals of the same ceremonies, and tributes of the three chapels, which are all essential.
The ceremony of serving Wei Yan and Huang Yueying was to eat cooked rice, meat, vegetables and vegetarian dishes together, meaning "Newcomers and newcomers will be together from now on."
The ceremony of the merging is to drink sweet wine and bitter wine together, "The newcomer will share the joys and sorrows from now on."
The three-chapel hall is to worship the heaven and earth, worship the high hall, and the couple worship each other.
Hearing the praises of the rituals, Wang Can sang the rituals, Wei Yan breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and helped Huang Yueying up, bowed to the guests, and then took Huang Yueying's hand and left the wedding scene.
Wei Yan felt that Huang Yueying's palms were full of sweat, and he was sweating all over himself. He got married in August, and it was a Chinese-style wedding, which was really painful and happy.
At this time, Zanli said his congratulations: "Hold your hand and grow old with me. The husband and wife will be in love and be united forever!"
Then there is the wedding banquet that the guests have been looking forward to for a long time, commonly known as having wedding wine.
Wei Yan became the general of Pingnan and the prefect of Runan. In addition to the generals of a certain level in the army, officials, Cao Cao, Liu Biao, Zhang Xiu, and Liu Bei's envoys and figures of the aristocratic family, the aristocratic families occupied by Wei Yan also sent people to attend, so that more than a thousand people attended the wedding.
Wei Yan's five hundred guards pretended to be servants of the Wei family, defending inside, Chen Dao and Wen Yang led two thousand people, defending outside. At the same time, each city gate was closely guarded, and there were still patrolling people to prevent accidents.
Wei Yan held the wine glass and toasted one table after another, accompanied by the emcee of Hu Ji.
The generals and officials in the army were easy to deal with, and everyone was acquaintance. They raised the wine bottle and said auspicious words. Wei Yan touched the wine bottle with them and touched the wine bottle slightly. But because there were too many people, it took Wei Yan an hour to toast the guests at each table.
The most difficult thing to pass was the envoys sent by Cao Cao and other forces. They all had the idea of pulling Wei Yan as their allies to consolidate their power, and the gifts they sent were also very rich. In order to express their gratitude to these princes, Wei Yan naturally could not stop it and drink all the wine in the wine bottle.
If all the guests were toasted, Wei Yan would definitely be drunk, and he would not be able to enjoy the wedding night tonight. Fortunately, Wei Yan was prepared. The wine pot on the wine table held by the host Hu Ji was divided into two parts. It was filled with clear water and wine. Hu Ji acted at Wei Yan's eyes. He treated Cao Cao and Zhang Xiu's envoy, and Wei Yan drank the memorable wine. When he treated Liu Biao and Liu Bei's envoy, Hu Ji received Wei Yan's eyes and pressed the switch of the wine pot and poured out clear water. Because the wine bottle itself smelled alcohol, and the clear water was mixed with some wine. The smell of wine was stronger than the light wine that was common before, so none of these people noticed the trick.
When Wei Yan came to the seat of the general under his command, a Qu Junhou drank a few more bottles of wine, his tongue became bigger and his courage became bigger, and he said to Wei Yan: "Master, you promised us before that you would find a wife for us. Now, lord, you have married a wife, so happy, but your brothers are all lonely and lonely!"
Wei Yan narrowed his eyes and looked at the rude guy carefully. It turned out to be a Yellow Turban thief. After surrendering to Wei Yan, he was promoted to Qujunhou because he had no bad records before and had some ability.
Before Wei Yan could speak, Guan Hai stepped forward and slapped him hard: "Zhang Lu, he said something stupid after drinking too much, and he was so rude to his lord! This is the lord's wedding banquet. If he were replaced by the military camp, he would have been as rude as you, he would have been beheaded!"
Wei Yan knew that Zhang Lu was Guan Hai's subordinate. The reason why Guan Hai slapped Zhang Lu was actually because he wanted to save Zhang Lu's life. Otherwise, when Wei Yan was sent, it would not be possible to eliminate Wei Yan's anger by just one slap.
Guan Hai raised his arm high again, wanting to slap Zhang Lu again.
Wei Yan stretched out his hand to hold him back: "He was right. Before that, I promised everyone that everyone would have a wife within three years. Now it seems that three years have been too long!"
He raised the wine bottle and shouted to the more than 300 generals under his command at the scene: "Don't worry, I, Wei Yan, are definitely not a person who can only be in trouble and not wealth. I, Wei Yan, have a good meal and wear, and will never let my brothers be frozen and hungry. I have a beautiful wife in my family, so I will never let my brothers be lonely and helpless! I announced that from now until the end of this year, we will solve the marriage problem of 10,000 soldiers first, starting with you generals! Let's start tomorrow! After you get married, you will reward the land according to your military achievements!"
The reason why Wei Yan so decisively announced the reward of women and land was all the highlights of his virtuous wife Huang Yueying.
A few days ago, Huang Yueying sent someone to give him a copy of "Mencius". At that time, a line of characters was marked with a key mark, which was "The people are the way of doing things. Those who have constant property have perseverance, and those who have no permanent property have no perseverance."
At that time, Wei Yan was enlightened and suddenly realized that the Yellow Turban Army and the later bandits could not gain the world, and the stingy Xiang Yu could not gain the world, because their subordinates did not obtain permanent property and had no fighting spirit to defend their own property.
From a human perspective, everyone has the fighting spirit to defend their property from being taken away by others, but not everyone has the fighting spirit to seize property from others. Giving these subordinates women and land to have warm families and abundant property, they will consciously and automatically fight to defend their family and property!
After Wei Yan announced, everyone cheered.
There were many aristocratic figures at the scene. When they heard the cheers of Wei generals, they all said helplessly: "Wei Yan is buying the morale of the army again!"
After the wedding banquet, Wei Yan and Huang Yueying would continue to hold gifts, also known as the ceremonies of the bed, commonly known as the bridal chamber.
Wei Yan held Huang Yueying's hand and entered the bridal chamber full of red paper-cuts and stickers, and red candles hung high in joyful bridal chamber.
In this era, red is popular, and the red is dark red. Unlike the bright reds in later generations, Wei Yan couldn't stand it and replaced them all with the bright reds in later generations, which looked festive and not as gloomy as red.
This period is also different from later generations, that is, the bride did not have a big red veil, which only started to exist during the Northern Qi Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
According to the provisions of the bed-to-bed ceremony, the bride takes off her clothes and the maid will accept her clothes, the groom takes off her clothes and the male will accept her, and then the waiter will come out with a candle.
Wei Yan took off his big red dress and handed it to the male servant to take it away. Then Huang Yueying took off his big red dress and handed it to the maid to take it away. Both of them were wearing close-fitting clothes.
At this moment, a maid came in and wanted to come out with a candle, but was stopped by Wei Yan.
Wei Yan looked at the shy Huang Yueying and smiled wickedly: "Madam, it's dark, what's the point? I want to see you!"
Huang Yueying shook her head gently: "But this is etiquette and cannot be violated. If we hold candles all night here, we may be criticized by outsiders!"
Wei Yan smiled and said, "Then take away the big red candle and replace it with a smaller candle. Madam, I have to take a good look at you tonight!"
The maid took away the big red candle and brought another small candle. It was flickering and not very bright, but it also allowed Wei Yan to see Huang Yueying's beauty clearly.
Chapter completed!