Wei and Jin cooks

Aunt Zhong chased her son out of the house with a stick. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her son being held up. "Thanks to the county gentleman, otherwise he would have broken it again. This kid is very naughty. He will go to the house without being beaten for a day." Jiewa, he has damaged all the happy words I bought from outside."

Aunt Zhong stretched out her hand, and Zhao Erlang handed the child to him, and then looked at what he was holding.

A piece of red paper with the inscription "Double Happiness" that was very familiar to him.

This character is complicated, but it has a structure. Zhao Erlang didn't recognize it at first, but anyone who saw it every day would recognize it after seeing it for several months.

It can be said that the recognition rate of this double happiness character is the highest among the people of Luoyang City, no less than the word "Luoyang".

The reason why this happened was all because of an idea that Zhao Hanzhang gave Zhao Zheng.

The county government promotes marriage and childbirth. It not only introduces partners to single soldiers in the military camp, but also often organizes blind dates for single young people in the city.

As long as it works, the county government will give you something.

At the beginning, Zhao Erlang was very generous in giving them a pair of towels, wooden basins, wooden barrels and other things.

After forming a new family, all these things need to be purchased again. The county government gave them to them, which reduced their consumption after marriage. Even for the pair of wooden basins and barrels, everyone had to work hard to achieve success and get married.

But later on, finances were tight, and coupled with the popularity effect brought about by Zhao Hanzhang's announcement of his wedding date, more and more people chose to start a family before the year, so much so that the Luoyang County government could not even give away a pair of scarves.

What has been promised, not to mention the stubborn Zhao Erlang, even Zhao Zheng is not willing to break his promise. He said that as long as the county government will give him something as a gift, he must come up with something and cannot break his promise to the people.

Because Zhao Erlang thought about it day and night, after having to worry outside, he had to take his worries home. He had no choice but to rack his brains with them, thinking of how to give the newlyweds a gift that would save money and be happy at the same time. Gift.

Finally, when she saw the wedding prepared for her by Wang, Ji Yuan, and others, she realized that in this era, it was not popular to post the words "double happiness" when getting married.

So Zhao Hanzhang wrote a double happiness letter to Zhao Zheng with one stroke of his pen.

From then on, the officials in Luoyang County who were good at writing the word "Double Happiness" had an additional task: to write two words of "Double Happiness" to the newlyweds who came to register for marriage.

This has nothing to do with Zhao Erlang. He will never be able to enter this ranks if he lives another hundred years, so he happily became the hands-off shopkeeper.

But how can two words of double happiness be enough?

Because of Zhao's Paper Factory, paper is not expensive now, even red paper, ordinary people can afford it.

Spend two cents to buy a large piece of red paper, cut it into sixteen sheets, and then spend twenty cents to have someone with good calligraphy write the word "Double Happiness" on it. If you don't care about these things, it would be cheaper.

Bring the cut red paper, squat in front of the school, find a student who looks very smart, stuff it with two eggs or a few pancakes, and ask them to write sixteen double happiness words.

If you don't want to prepare these things, then spending three to five cents is cheaper than asking your husband to write an inscription.

As soon as this became popular, vendors immediately set up stalls to sell the characters Double Happiness. They were very smart. They not only sold the characters Double Happiness, but also the characters Fu. Not bad, actually cheaper than buying red paper yourself and asking someone to write on it.

So many newlyweds will buy them and paste them all over their homes together with the double happiness words given by the county government. Even a ventilated thatched house will be more joyful because of the red happy words posted on them.

Nowadays, as long as you see double happiness posted on someone's home, you will know that something happy is coming.

So when Zhao Erlang saw the red paper in Fang Dalang's hand, he asked, "Sister-in-law Zhong, is there a happy event in your family? Are you going to remarry?"

Mrs. Zhong opened her mouth wide.

The government servants behind Zhao Erlang immediately rushed up and said in a flurry: "Sister-in-law, don't be angry, our county magistrate is just curious. It's not that you and Brother Fang are not getting along well, but your three children are all small. I can neither take a wife nor get married, so why should I put a happy message on it?"

Sister-in-law Zhong also knew that their county magistrate was different from ordinary people, so she was just surprised and ignored it, explaining: "The general is getting married. This is a great event, so I put up a few happy cards at home to celebrate the occasion."

Like Mrs. Zhong, she simply responded to the occasion. Some merchants and wealthy people in the city not only specially made red lanterns and hung them in front of their homes or shops, but also hung them with red silk on the side of the door. They were very heroic.

Most people buy some red cloth, red paper-cuts, and stick red happy words on them.

With Zhao Zhai as the center, the city of Luoyang began to be decorated at an extremely fast speed, with red everywhere, and you could feel the joy wherever you went.

In the countryside where Zhao Erlang couldn't see, they started decorating earlier, and even the big trees at the entrance of the village were tied with red cloth strips.

There are rumors in the countryside that Zhao Hanzhang looks great in red, just like the mysterious goddess from the Nine Heavens descending to earth, so she loves red very much, so in order to express their love and blessings for her, the villagers will cut a piece of red cloth and tie it on a tree or under the eaves.

At this time, Zhao Hanzhang, who was unaware of the rumors, was trying on his wedding clothes.

The style and color of her wedding dress were not decided by herself. In other words, because she has reached this position today, her wedding is no longer just her wedding to Fu Tinghan.

This wedding dress was decided upon after a game between the Wang and Zhao clans and the court officials.

In recent years, due to wars, white wedding clothes have become popular in some places to pray for peace and stability.

Ms. Wang had seen it and thought the white color looked good, mainly because it had a good meaning. She hoped that her daughter would have a peaceful life in the future, so she was the first to propose a white wedding dress.

Influenced by later generations, Zhao Hanzhang felt that red also looked good, but if her mother liked her to wear white, she wouldn't mind.

She felt that neither she nor Fu Tinghan cared much about this, so she mentioned it to Fu Tinghan.

Who would have thought that Fu Tinghan, who had always let her make the decision, suddenly said: "You should wear black and black clothes, which is also in line with traditional wedding clothes."

Zhao Hanzhang looked at him in surprise, "But my mother wants me to wear white."

Fu Tinghan gave a rare insistence, "You look better in black."

He paused and said, "I also wear black."

Mentioning this, there seemed to be light in his eyes, "I've asked before, and the main color of wedding clothes is still black. It's not forbidden for us to wear black."

It was rare for Professor Fu to insist on something, so Zhao Hanzhang naturally wanted to support him, so she wanted to wear traditional wedding clothes.

Wang struggled for a while, but finally agreed to her daughter.

But Ji Yuan and her close ministers did not agree.

They believe that traditional wedding clothes are not enough to express Zhao Hanzhang's current status, so they need to change it.

This change, then that change, the wedding clothes that came out looked more and more familiar. Zhao Song couldn't sit still and jumped out, refusing to agree to change. If the changes continue, will Zhao Hanzhang and Fu Tinghan wear wedding clothes and ascend the throne?

That wedding dress is just like the little emperor's crown dress. Are you going to be Sima Zhao?