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The case of An Qingxu's injury was finally settled. An Qingzong wrote a letter to his father and ordered him to be sent to Youzhou immediately, explaining the whole story clearly and asking his father to strictly restrain his second brother and not allow him to come to Chang'an again.

In fact, An Lushan, who had already supported the army and stood on his own feet, did not care about such trivial matters at all. Even if he killed Yang Guozhong, it would not matter, let alone Yang Guozhong's son.

Ten days later, An Lushan named An Qingxu the general of the left and appointed him as the Lulong military envoy to command the 50,000-strong army of Lulong Jiedu Mansion.

Yang Guozhong had no choice but to grit his teeth, swallow it, and bury his hatred in his heart. Sooner or later, he would have to avenge his two sons who were killed by the An family.

The weather is getting colder and colder, the moon is getting rounder, and the sixteenth day of the first lunar month has finally arrived. On this day, both Dugu Mansion and Li Mansion are decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, and they are full of joy. Early in the morning, Pei Sanniang, Li Dai and a dozen servants all rushed there Xiaoyuanzhai, where the husband's family is hosting the wedding, also needs to make preparations.

The Dugu family and the Li family sent out thousands of invitations. The famous dignitaries and officials in Chang'an City received the invitations one after another. Many families set out for the garden in the morning. For many people, this is not as simple as a wedding, but a friendship. Excellent opportunity for networking.

According to custom, the Li family will provide a bowl of sweet-scented osmanthus dumpling soup at noon to give everyone a little tummy. The formal banquet starts in the afternoon and lasts for two hours, from about 3 pm to 7 pm. Fangmen is about 8 pm Closing left and right, the latest guests had an hour to get home.

It is precisely because the banquet time is relatively early and there is not much time for socializing, so most of the guests rush to the garden house in the morning.

The Li Mansion in Xuanpingfang is the exit, and Li Wei's family is preparing here. Today there will be two groomsmen, one is Li Xun and the other is Zhang Ping. According to current customs, the groomsmen are all unmarried young people, but Tang Tang The requirements for the court are not that high, they can be married young people, but there are special requirements, one of the groomsmen must be able to compose poetry, and the other of the groomsmen must be strong.

The leader and master of ceremonies is Li Wei, and there is also a bride-to-be from the groom's family, Li Xun's sister Li Xiaohe.

It's still early to welcome the bride, and everyone is patiently waiting for the time to go out. The time to go out and the time to welcome the bride are not fixed. The key is to choose an auspicious time, but most of them are in the afternoon.

At this time, the bride's family was also extremely busy. The bride, Dugu Xinyue, was still putting on makeup. Two famous female makeup artists from Chang'an were carefully applying makeup to the bride. Wang walked into the room. Through this wedding preparation, Wang and Dugu Xinyue's relationship has become much more harmonious, and Dugu Xinyue's previous rejection of her gradually disappeared.

In fact, the key is that Wang is good at being a good person. She has a relatively low background. She was born in poverty. She has been playing pipa since elementary school and worked as a female court musician in the palace for several years. She is not a humble person, but she is not very honorable either.

But she knows how to be a good person, keeps her attitude very low, and is very respectful to everyone in the Dugu family. She knows how to add both icing on the cake and help when needed, and she can speak and compliment people without leaving any trace. like her.

Even Dugu Lie loved her very much. After Dugu Xinyue's mother passed away, Dugu Lie helped her up, but Dugu Xinyue had always been relatively cold to her. Until these few months, when Wang was busy with her marriage, Dugu Xinyue saw it all, and the iceberg in her heart towards the Wang family began to melt.

Mrs. Wang walked into the room and said with a smile: "New wife, it's time to show off."

The appearance of the face is an important sign to distinguish a girl from a young woman. Whether she is married or not can be seen from her eyebrows. Many young women have to draw their eyebrows very thin. This is actually what young women do. Girls generally have natural eyebrows. Compared with It is loose, relatively thick, and it is not easy to draw eyebrows. Of course, if you follow the fashion and apply a smoky eye, that is another matter, but you can still tell that she is a girl because she does not open her face.

The facial opening is to use silk thread to pluck out the scattered eyebrows and thick hair on the face. The eyebrows look very thin and the face is clean. Usually the mother or aunt does the facial opening.

Mrs. Wang sat in front of Dugu Xinyue and said with a smile: "Don't move! I will slowly open your face, it will take some time."

Wang carefully took two silk threads, twisted them into individual eyebrows, and pulled them out.

"Xinyue, does it hurt?"

"Fortunately, it's a little itchy, like a mosquito bite."

"That's okay. Today is a good day for you. You will probably be very tired. You will need to eat something later."

"I really don't want to eat it."

"Then prepare some food and wine in the bridal chamber. This is usually the case. Most brides don't eat from morning to night, mainly because they can't eat because they wear makeup, but they must drink water."

Dugu Xinyue nodded lightly. At this time, Dugu Qiming sneaked in and said with a smile: "Sister, I heard from my aunt that they are going to ask the groom to write a poem, and he must write a unique poem before he can get in."

Dugu Xinyue's face sank, "No, Aye is not a poet. It would take several months to write a poem by chance. We can't embarrass people like this."

Mrs. Wang nodded, "I'll tell them later that the wedding is just a lively celebration, and it's not an imperial examination. It has to compete for literary talent."

"Auntie, don't splash water. I really don't like it and it will make me feel very uncomfortable."

The mother-in-law's scream made Wang's heart elated. She smiled happily and said, "Okay, I won't allow them to splash water."

When the bride goes out, the seven aunts and eight aunts will throw pots of water out of the house to represent the water thrown by the married daughter. Although this is a custom, many brides do not like it and cannot emotionally accept this kind of splashing. The feeling of going out.

But this custom is also dispensable. Since Dugu Xinyue doesn't like it, of course Wang will stop it.

In the afternoon, the groom's wedding fleet arrived. There were more than a dozen boats in total, all decorated with silks, satins and colorful flags. It was very festive. The first one was the clearing boat, which allowed the cargo ships in the river to pull over. Behind them were the drum boats and more than a dozen boats. A drummer played gongs and drums, and the suona blew loudly, and then came the congratulatory boat, which was to scatter money. Hundreds of copper coins were dropped, and two servants threw them to the shore one by one, attracting countless people to compete for the first place, which was quite lively. .

The fourth and sixth ships are escort ships. Forty guards are holding slingshots and whistle sticks and watching the two sides of the strait vigilantly. As wealthy families pick up and send off their relatives, escorts are very important. There are always some people with evil intentions or who have not received the benefits. Rogues, no matter whether it is a carriage or boat wedding, they will destroy it, throw a few bricks or splash some filth. Although it is not harmful, it is very disgusting and unlucky, and will make people crazy.

Today, all Li Ye's soldiers were dispatched. Some were guarding the ships at the front and rear, while others were following on the shore on horseback to closely protect the fleet.

The fifth boat is the bride's boat. The groom Li Ye is standing on the bow. He is wearing a red wedding robe and a gauze hat with a big silk red flower pinned to it. The two best ministers, Li Xun and Zhang Ping, are standing on the bow. Behind them, they were also wearing festive satin red robes, the style was different from that of the groom, and there were no flowers on their gauze hats.

With a smile on his face, Li Ye kept thanking the cheering crowds on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

Zhang Ping was very nervous and kept pinching his arm, as if preparing for a fight. Li Xun glanced at him and said with a smile, "What is Brother Zhang Xian doing?"

Zhang Ping sighed and said: "The door may hit you later, I have to be prepared!"

"Don't be stupid. We are just going through the motions. We really don't need to knock on the door. What if we injure an old man or a child? Wouldn't that be troublesome?"

Zhang Ping muttered, "That's not true! When I was going to get married, I spent a lot of effort to open the door and almost failed to get married!"

Li Ye smiled and said: "That's because your father-in-law is famous for being a tough guy! You must have not prepared enough gifts. How could he let you marry your daughter off so easily?"

"Brother is right, those guys are too snobbish. I prepared a hundred taels of silver gift money and put a hundred small cloth bags in it. Each person can get one tael of silver. They thought it was too little and refused to open the door."

Li Xun smiled and said: "So! No matter how strong your strength is, it is not as good as enough money. Money opens the way and is as powerful as breaking bamboo."

At this time, the sound of firecrackers sounded in front, and they finally arrived at Dugu Mansion.