Because there were suddenly many people in the house, Chen Xu simply separated the two bedrooms with bamboo and wooden, and made four bedrooms with bamboo ceilings. The kang was also modified, so that the house was more abundant and enough for the family to live. Wang Wu, Wang Qi and the other two guards still lived in thatched huts, but a kang was also built inside, so he was not afraid of the cold winter and could not fall asleep.

In order not to let these guards eat and drink for free, Chen Xu never let them idle.

After completing all the construction in front of and behind the house, they were arranged to go up the mountain to chop wood every day to prepare for the arrival of the real cold winter. The place where the wood was chopped is the hillside of the three big tea trees, cutting down all the thorns and miscellaneous trees around, leaving only three big tea trees and small tea trees.

Chen Xu went to see it once and planned to organize the villagers to repair the hillside into terraced fields and plant tea trees next to each other.

Because around the three big trees, at least hundreds of tea trees of varying sizes grew, the big ones were seven or eight meters, and the small ones were only half a foot, and there was a thick layer of tea tree fruit on the ground. After spring, dozens of acres of tea gardens can be created. In time, Xiaohe Village will have a long-term income out of thin air. If these tea trees are really unique, if the reputation of Ziyunxian Tea is spread, Xiaohe Village can enter a prosperous and well-off life with this tea garden alone.

There are more than ten days left to be the Cold Clothes Festival.

As long as the Cold Clothing Festival is over, it will basically enter the cold winter season.

Maybe after a night of north wind, a heavy snowfall would come and I would not be able to go out for a long time.

Because the snow melted very slowly in this mountain and it was impossible to travel far, so while the weather was still sunny, Chen Xu also went to Qinghe Town several times. Anyway, there were enough horses. While checking the construction progress of the kang, he also carried back a lot of grain, salt, horse materials, pottery basins, pottery jars, wine, vinegar, paper and ink, etc. Just like the New Year's goods in later generations, the home, the pergola, the kitchen, and the laboratory were already full of food and various things, enough for a large group of people to eat until the spring of next year.

Today is the day when Tian Erzhuang gets married.

All the villagers of Xiaohe Village put on clean clothes and led by Chen Xu to marry Yingzui Cliff Village, which is more than ten miles away.

Yingzui Cliff Village is closer to the depths of Funiu Mountain than Xiaohe Village, and the terrain is much higher. The entire village is on the hillside, so the mountain road is even more rugged and difficult to walk. However, Chen Xu is still familiar with this road. After becoming Lidian, he followed several pavilions and inspected the territory, but he only came once.

Because Wang Qingxiu and others came to Xiaohe Village, not only did a large group of people, but also brought more than ten horses, all of which were tall and strong northern horses. The furs were brightly colored and different from the Central Plains horses in the mountains and fields. They were extremely divine. Therefore, more than ten horses were walking on the mountain road, and there were 20 to 30 bride-welcoming teams, and the scene was very lively.

Tian Erzhuang was wearing a brand new gray-white fine linen cloth, brand new cloth shoes, and his hair was neatly combed and his bamboo crown. He sat on the first horse, and a half-red and half-yellow cloth flower with a bowl-sized mouth on his chest. He looked both excited and nervous, and he was at a loss when he pulled the reins. If the horse under his crotch had not been well-trained, he would have been taken into the ditch by him.

The cloth flowers were obtained by Chen Xu using fine linen cloth and then soaked in gardenia water. The color was orange, but in this era, it could only be settled, but even so, it looked much more festive.

Chen Xu and Yu Wuya were riding horses behind, and behind them were Ma Erbo and a large group of villagers. Anyway, the mountain roads were not fast, so they were talking and chatting while walking, all of them were loud and noisy, noisy and noisy. Some villagers who came and went with each other in nearby villages were frightened and stood on the side of the road to avoid them when they saw it.

"Send candy!" Whenever Chen Xu saw some villagers, he would happily give him a command. A villager quickly opened the bamboo tube and distributed wedding candy to these passing villagers.

"This... isn't this Little Lidian?" After a few big horses passed, the villagers who were staring blankly with candy woke up.

"They seem to be going to Eagle Beak Cliff, and it seems they are going to get married?"

"Is it because Lord Lidian wants to marry a wife?"

"Don't talk nonsense, it was our Murata Ni Zhuang who married his wife. Lord Lidian said that marrying a woman must be lively. Hehe, this show is lively enough!" A villager in the wedding party said proudly.

"Enough...lively enough!" Several villagers on the roadside felt their throats dry and nodded vigorously.

Although the wedding party walked slowly on more than ten miles of mountain road, it still arrived in less than an hour. So when I saw a row of extremely tall horses coming together, Yingzui Cliff Village was completely sensational.

From the village to the children, nearly a hundred people from Yingzui Cliff Village were welcomed out.

"I have met Lord Lidian!" Under the leadership of Muramasa, everyone saluted Chen Xu, and their expressions were quite awkward and nervous.

More than ten big horses, just like more than ten Qingyishui supercars in later generations, this momentum completely destroyed the entire Yingzui Cliff Village. I wonder why Lord Lidian wanted to marry a wife.

Chen Xu turned over and got off the horse and looked at the villagers who bowed and said with a smile: "There is no need to be too polite today. I am here to welcome the bride on behalf of Xiaohe Village. Where is the matchmaker? Where is the bride? Arrange to meet each other quickly. The groom candy is already eager to carry it back to make a baby! Hurry up and send wedding candy!"

"Ha ha……"

Whether it was a marriage or a villager in Yingzui Cliff Village, the villagers burst into laughter in an instant, and several villagers in Xiaohe Village quickly distributed a piece of fruit candy to Yingzui Cliff Village, both young and old. Suddenly, a group of children screamed excitedly. A trace of tension and uneasiness in the hearts of the villagers also disappeared. Under the greeting and arrangement of the village, they began to entertain the bride-welcoming team, and then headed towards a low thatched hut in the village.

Marriage was a major event in ancient times, and there were various regulations. The Three Books and Six Rites had already been customized and stated. The "Book of Rites" detailed the marriage charter. The Three Books are the Book of Appointments, the Book of Rites and the Book of Welcome. The Six Books are Nacai, Ask Names, Naji, Nazheng, and invites you to welcome the bride. Of course, as mentioned earlier, the Zhou rituals were ended with scholars. The etiquette in the Book of Rites was only aimed at nobles and gentry with surnames and clans, and there was no such requirement for the common people. However, with hundreds of years of war in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Zhou rituals collapsed and countless nobles became civilians. This marriage etiquette gradually became popular among the common people and followed the system of the Six Rites, but it was not so strict. The links of the Six Rites were greatly simplified and almost all rely on matchmakers to connect. If both parties were satisfied, even if the marriage was confirmed to be successful after the wedding, the processes of the Three Books and Six Rites would still be completed one after another.

Now Qin law has clear regulations on marriage, and it is also particularly emphasized that marriage must be certified by a matchmaker, and marriage cannot be completed without a matchmaker. The saying in "The Book of Songs: Wei Feng" refers to this. The government registration must also have a matchmaker to testify, otherwise the marriage will be invalid and called a private partner, and it will be stoned to death.

However, today's wedding was very grand. Chen Xu from Qinghe Town personally accompanied the bride to marry the bride, so this marriage is for sure.

Under the leadership of Tian Erzhuang, watching Chen Xu appear at his door, the bride's parents and an honest mountain couple were filled with tears of excitement. His daughter didn't know how many lifetimes she had achieved, but she actually had Lord Lidian to marry her. This face no one in the entire village of Qinghe Town has such a face.

However, when the bride's father choked and pulled Chen Xu's hand to thank him, he looked at a woman in the crowd behind Chen Xu with red eyes looking at him. He was stunned for a while before stammering: "Sister... sister... you... are here too!"

Although I haven't seen each other for more than ten years, the middle-aged man still recognizes his relatives who have grown up with him at a glance. This is not only a deep memory, but also a close connection of blood.

"Little brother~" Chen Jiangshi covered her mouth and exclaimed softly, and tears filled her eyes instantly. Although the two villages were close, her parents, brothers and sisters had not met for more than ten years. When she left, she was still a girl of fifteen or sixteen. When she returned, she was already a woman who was a mother in her thirties. This pain and loneliness were buried in her heart for sixteen years.

"Mom, is the bride's father my uncle?" Chen Xu was also stunned for a moment.

"Yeah~" Chen Jiang's tears slid down, and he nodded repeatedly while wiping his tears.

Damn it, I helped me marry a relative and got a relative. This time I pretended to have achieved the expected goal.

"Lidian...I...my sister is...yes..." The bride's father was completely confused, his tongue was completely knotted and could not speak.

"Haha, my uncle guessed it well. My mother is your sister and I am your nephew. It turns out that I don't know yet, but today I know that, and that cousin married into our village, you can rest assured in the future!" Chen Xu laughed, then waved his hand and said, "It is also a great joy to find my uncle today, and I will send wedding candy!"

So several villagers from Xiaohe Village began to give candy to the men, women, young and old, and the bride was Lidian's cousin, and the bride's parents were Lidian's uncle and uncle. This news made the entire Yingzui Cliff Village even more sensational, and everyone quarreled and spread the news quickly.

Chen Xu really didn't know about this. He was busy all the time. Chen Jiang never talked about anything about his parents' family. Moreover, because of the marriage between Chen Jiang and Chen Hu, the two villages were almost unfamiliar with each other. Although the relationship has improved slightly in the past two years, both parties are completely unfamiliar with each other. Almost no one in the two villages knew about them. Because Xiaohe Village had a Lidian from Qinghe Town, Yingzui Cliff Village completely changed its attitude. Wanting to marry the daughter of the village to Xiaohe Village is not only a form of clinging to the heart, but also a manifestation of goodwill. No one in Yingzui Cliff Village knew that Chen Xu was actually Chen Jiang's son, the son of the Jiang girl who had an affair with hunters who had been driven out by them at the time and had lost all their face.
Chapter completed!