Chapter 102: Big Wedding
Different from the situation in the north where the situation is changing and the land is full of chickens and feathers, thousands of miles away on Hainan Island, our Zhao Heng is preparing to marry his fiancée Zhang Side.
Weddings in the Ming Dynasty were held at dusk. In later generations, some places in the south also retained the custom of holding weddings in the evening. However, Zhao Heng still got up early because Haidian Island was not close to Gaopo Village outside Fucheng, so Zhao Heng had to get up early
I rushed over to pick him up.
The first step in welcoming a bride in the Ming Dynasty was to worship ancestors. They went to the ancestral hall to offer incense to their ancestors and tell them that another man from the Zhao family was getting married.
But the Zhao Heng family all came from time travel. Even if there are ancestors of the Zhao family in this era, they all live in Guangxi and have not yet crossed the sea to Hainan Island. There is no way to do this. We can only reduce the number of ancestor worship and change it to
Kowtow to grandpa Zhao Zhikuan.
After Zhao Heng finished preparations, he took his best man Zheng Song and left Haidian Island to welcome the bride. According to the tradition of the Ming Dynasty, the best man in the husband's family must be appointed by the elders of the family, such as uncles and aunts, but the Zhao family is here.
There are no elders in this era, so we have no choice but to invite Zheng Song. The bridesmaid who is also responsible for welcoming the bride can only ask Zheng Song’s wife to serve. Fortunately, Zheng Song has been engaged in dental work all year round, and his wife is also a well-known local matchmaker.
, it would be a good job to make a guest appearance now.
Zhao Fuxiang watched his son ride away. He still had a lot of things to prepare. Although the wedding was held in the evening, some of Zhao Fuxiang's good friends had already arrived early. Zhao Fuxiang was standing at the door to welcome and send him off.
As for today's mother-in-law Sun Jing, she is preparing a banquet for the evening with a group of temporarily hired peasant women. The friends Zhao Fuxiang came to are basically wealthy businessmen. Their banquets are prepared by chefs specially hired from Guangdong House, but Baisha Village
The villagers, the Zhao family's own employees, the old man Zhao Zhikuan and some students, there are hundreds of people in this group. It is not realistic for them to use Yuehailou for their banquet, so they still need to prepare it themselves.
The banquet prepared for these mud legs was set up in the open space next to Zhao Mansion. The weather was good today, so Sun Jing ordered his family to set up more than a hundred large round tables here. At the same time, he began to prepare chicken, duck and pork to prepare a banquet for the mud legs.
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Unlike the busy Zhao Fuxiang couple, Zhao Zhikuan and Ma Guilan, the parents of the Zhao family, have nothing to do. Ma Guilan is tinkering with potatoes in her experimental field. After more than two months of growth, the seven or eight potatoes that have traveled through time have multiplied.
The offspring weighed three to four hundred kilograms. In early March, Ma Guilan re-breeded the mature potatoes, cut them into pieces, and planted them in the ground. These second-generation potatoes have now sprouted. Ma Guilan has to spend time in the experimental field if nothing happens these days.
Spend a whole day guarding these time-travel artifacts.
Unlike his wife Ma Guilan, the old man Zhao Zhikuan has nothing to do today. Because his grandson is getting married, the factory has been on holiday except for the necessary workers to maintain production. Zhao Fuxiang, who has always been stingy, has become more generous this time. In addition to arranging a meal for these hard-working workers
In addition to the meal, each person was given one pound of salt and five pounds of rice, which was considered an extra bonus for these workers.
At this time, Zhao Heng took people to pick up the bride, Zhao Fuxiang entertained the guests outside the door, and Zhao Zhikuan hid in his house tinkering with the ore radio.
Zhao Zhikuan was one of the first batch of electrical college students after the resumption of the college entrance examination. His graduation project that year was an ore radio. This kind of radio has no power source as power and the principle is very simple. A pyrite crystal can be used as a detector to pick up neutral particles in the air.
Long wave signal. Of course, in this era, there are no other signals in the air except cosmic background noise. Zhao Zhikuan did this
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This thing isn't of much use.
However, Zhao Zhikuan knows that just because it is useless now does not mean it will be useless in the future. Zhao Zhikuan wants to build a long-distance long-wave radio station in his lifetime, which can carry out simple communication over long distances, so that the mineral radio in front of him that does not require electricity will be available.
usefulness.
Long waves refer to electromagnetic waves with frequencies lower than 30khz to 300khz. Because long waves can propagate along the earth's surface, they can propagate very far without being affected by the curvature of the earth's surface. As long as the antenna is tall and large enough, the transmission distance can even reach thousands or tens of thousands.
Kilometers. Unlike medium waves and short waves, long wave signals basically do not rely on ionospheric reflection to propagate signals, so they have the characteristics of all-weather broadcast and signal stability.
In order to maintain the transmission distance, long-wave antennas are built on high mountains and occupy a huge area. This is completely impossible for Zhao Zhikuan, who cannot even produce several kilograms of pig iron. However, if it cannot be done now, it does not mean that it will be done in the future.
If he doesn't come out, Zhao Zhikuan must make technical reserves for his children and grandchildren before he dies. After all, communication is the first problem to solve the stability of the great empire.
Unlike his family who are busy with their own affairs, Zhao Heng is now nervous and preparing to go to Gaopo Village. Although Haikou is quite far away from Gaopo Village, there is still a long way to go. At noon, the wedding team finally arrived at Gaopo Village.
In the village, the best man in charge of welcoming the bride saw the wedding team coming and quickly ordered to light firecrackers.
With the sound of firecrackers, the wedding team arrived at the door of Zhangjia. A group of children from Gaopo Village gathered in front of Zhao Heng, who was riding a tall horse, and shouted: "Groom, give me a reward!"
Zheng Song came from behind, smiled, took out a handful of copper coins from his arms and threw them on the ground. The group of children shouted and lay on the ground picking up the coins.
Zhao Heng got off the horse, straightened his clothes, saluted the groomsmen and said, "Uncle, my nephew is here to marry Miss Zhang!"
The best man in his family was Zhang Wenming's younger brother. He looked at the tall young man in front of him and said with a satisfied smile: "My dear nephew, please come in. My eldest brother and the others have been waiting for a long time!"
Zheng Song asked his men to move Liuli from the car, and Zhao Heng, led by the best man, walked into the Zhang family gate for the second time.
Arriving at the lobby of the Zhang family, Zhang Wenming and his wife Feng were already sitting there in formal attire. Zhang Side's biological mother, Qin, was originally not eligible to attend the wedding, but Zhang Wenming authorized her to attend today, so Qin also stood behind Feng in formal attire.
Because she was marrying her daughter today, Mrs. Qin was very excited. She secretly shed tears while looking at her new uncle Zhao Heng with relief.
Zhao Heng walked into the lobby and saw Zhang Wenming wearing strange clothes, a black felt hat with a dome and a wide brim on his head, and a dark blue straight? Zhao Heng did not know that this clothes was the clothes of the Ming Dynasty.
However, he did not dare to take a closer look. After entering the house, he quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed, saying, "My son-in-law pays homage to my father-in-law! My mother-in-law!"
Seeing Zhao Heng, Zhang Wenming nodded with satisfaction and said, "Zhao Heng, you will be my beloved guest from now on. You must uphold my family's motto and be loyal to the Ming Dynasty and the emperor. Do you understand?"
Zhao Heng quickly replied: "My son-in-law will obey my father-in-law's reprimand!"
At this time, Zhang Side, covered in scarves, walked out from behind with the support of a dowry maid and stood beside Zhao Heng. Seeing his daughter getting married, Zhang Wenming felt a little sad even though he could hold his nerve. He said: "Qiuniang
, you will be the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family from now on. When you marry, you must abide by the rules of a woman, take care of your husband and teach your children, respect your parents-in-law, and don't ruin the reputation of the Zhang family, do you understand?"
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Zhang Side was already crying. He knelt on the ground and said, "Father and mother, please rest assured! Please also ask father, mother and mother to take care of themselves. My daughter is gone!"
Zhang Side's biological mother, Mrs. Qin, could no longer control her feelings. She stepped forward to hug her daughter and cried, "Daughter, my mother can't bear to leave you!"
Zhang Side was made to burst into tears by Mrs. Qin. Finally, Mrs. Feng looked helpless and said, "Ms. Qin, don't miss Qiuniang's auspicious time!"
It was a big deal to delay the auspicious occasion of her daughter's wedding. After hearing this, Ms. Qin quickly let go of her daughter and let her and her son-in-law go out.
According to the wedding customs of the Ming Dynasty, the mother's family was not allowed to go to her husband's house, so Zhang Side took the dowry maid Xiaoyu, went out and got into the sedan chair, and left Gaopo Village accompanied by Zhao Heng.
Because of the cumbersome procedures, it was already past one o'clock in the afternoon when Zhao Heng left Zhang's house. Gaopo Village was more than ten miles away from Haidian Island. In order to return to Haidian Island before dusk, Zhao Heng had to leave Gaopo Village after
Let Zhang Side and Xiaoyu board the carriage. The Zhao family's carriage was equipped with shock absorbers, so it was very fast. This ensured that they could get back to Haidian Island before dusk.
Arriving at the newly built Zhao's house, Zhao Zhikuan and Zhao Fuxiang were already waiting here. After going through a series of tedious procedures, only the last item of worship was left.
In the lobby of the Zhao family, Zhao Zhikuan and Ma Guilan were in the middle as the parents, Zhao Fuxiang and Sun Jing were sitting on the side as the parents-in-law. Zhao Heng and Zhang Side, led by the best man Zheng Song, first worshiped the heaven and the earth, then worshiped their parents, and finally
The couple bows to each other and is sent to the bridal chamber, which completes the entire wedding process.
After entering the bridal chamber, Zhao Heng and his wife had nothing to do. There was no custom in the Ming Dynasty of having a wedding ceremony, so Zhao Fuxiang entertained relatives and friends who were attending the wedding outside to have a drink, while Zhao Heng and his wife sat in the new house in a daze.
No matter in his past or future life, this was the first time for Zhao Heng to attend a wedding. He was extremely tired on this day, especially because the outfit he wore was really not light. Zhao Heng sat for a while and said, "Madam, aren't you tired with all this?"
If not, let’s take off all this outfit!”
Zhao Heng's original intention was to change into some breezy clothes, but he didn't know that Zhang Side would have mistaken his intention and thought that his husband was going to have sex with him now. Although Zhang Side was wearing a hijab, his face was still red with embarrassment.
, she originally wanted to refuse, but thinking that they were already married, she just went with Zhao Heng's wish!
Zhang Side said in a very low voice: "Listen to your husband!"
After Zhao Heng took off the heavy groom's attire, he felt much more relaxed wearing a moon-white coat. He saw Zhang Side still sitting on the bed and asked, "Madam, why don't you take off your clothes?"
After Zhao Heng finished speaking, he remembered that there was another step in the process of lifting the hijab. Only by completing this could the wedding process be officially completed. Zhao Heng had no choice but to find a pick stick on the bed, and gently opened Zhang Side's hijab. A piece of powder-carved jade was revealed
The face appeared in front of Zhao Heng.
Zhao Heng had seen Zhang Side in men's clothing before, but this time it was women's makeup, especially since Zhang Side had specially dressed up. Zhao Heng was stunned for a moment when he saw such a beautiful Zhang Side.
Zhang Side saw Zhao Heng looking at him stupidly and said with a smile: "Husband, what are you looking at?"
Seeing how beautiful his wife was, Zhao Heng wished he could transform into a beast and put his wife in his arms to feel love and affection. Just when Zhao Heng was about to make a move, a burst of shouting suddenly came from outside. Zhao Heng thought at first that someone was outside.
Someone drank too much and caused trouble, but if you listened carefully, it was wrong. It was clearly the cry of a person before death.
Chapter completed!