Chapter 1673 Wedding
Early in the morning, Manbao sat up from the bed. She sat down to calm herself down, and thought that not only was her sixth brother getting married today, but Mingda and Changyu were also coming out to play with her. She immediately threw off the quilt and got out of bed.
She took out the clothes she had found last night and put them on, then immediately went out to fetch water and wash up.
Before her, her brothers and sisters-in-law had already woken up and started working.
The same thing happened to the other servants in the mansion. When someone delivered food, they had to take it to the kitchen and prepare it.
The reception area in the front yard should also be equipped with tables and chairs, fruit plates, snacks, etc.
Holding a wedding in the capital is much more complicated than in the village. Even if Old Zhou is reluctant to spend money, with Qian's supervision, he has to follow the rules of the capital even for the sake of face for Manbao and other children.
Not to mention that Old Lady Liu and Mrs. Qian had hinted at it, the Zhou family also knew that they couldn't follow the village's example because Mr. Bai had already held a wedding.
Even Old Zhou, feeling sorry for the money, said, "The guests we invite are different, and the gifts they give are also different. We can't just let them eat at the village banquet, right?"
Therefore, this time, Zhou Wulang, like Mr. Bai, hired two chefs from outside to help at home.
In addition to the main dishes, some snacks are also indispensable at the banquet. Guests can't just sit and chat without eating anything, right?
Everyone was busy. After washing up, Manbao ran to the west yard to find Zhou Liulang. He saw that he had already put on his wedding clothes and was sitting in the house with some nervousness.
Seeing Manbao, he immediately waved, "Manbao, come here quickly."
Manbao ran forward, took a closer look at Zhou Liulang's face and said, "Sixth Brother, you look so handsome today."
Zhou Liulang lowered his head and smiled a little embarrassedly, then whispered to her, "The matchmaker wants to put powder on my face. I, I don't really want to put that on. I feel uncomfortable."
Manbao carefully recalled how Bai Dalang looked when he put on powder, and then said, "I think it looks good, it makes me look whiter."
Zhou Liulang reached out and touched his face and said, "I'm not dark now."
Yes, I don’t know if it’s because he often works in the kitchen, or because of the ointment given by Manbao, but Zhou Liulang is now much whiter than his brothers, and looks not much worse than the fourth brother who is the best looking.
After all, Fourth Brother is quite tanned now.
So Manbao said, "If you don't want to put it on, then don't put it on. The most important thing is to feel comfortable. But you can put some color on your lips, it will look better."
Zhou Liulang: ...
Bai Shan, Bai Erlang and others who came over to join in the fun agreed with him. Seeing that he didn't want the matchmaker to do it, Bai Shan rolled up his sleeves and did it himself, "Come, I'll help you color it."
Zhou Liulang's eyes widened. "How could you do this?"
Bai Shan said: "I saw my mother used it, and it was me who taught her how to use it."
Zhou Liulang didn't expect that the two of them would discuss such things, and he was speechless for a long time.
After Zhou Liulang was taken care of, everyone remembered one thing, "Oh, it seems that we haven't had breakfast yet."
Everyone turned their heads to look at Zhou Liulang's lips, speechless for a long time. It was all in vain...
The matchmaker standing by was laughing so hard. She had done makeup for so many couples, but she felt that doing makeup for the people in their family was the most fun.
Everyone had a noisy breakfast, and then sat together in the yard waiting for the auspicious time.
A group of teenagers sat in a row in the courtyard, chatting. Surrounded by busy adults, they looked completely detached. Zhou Lixue watched and sighed, "I've seen so many uncles get married, but my sixth uncle's was the easiest."
Zhou Liulang glanced at him and said, "You make it sound like you did something big when your uncles got married."
"Of course not, I have a lot to do," Zhou Lixue said. "I have to watch over the sugar cakes and snacks at home, and don't let anyone take too many. I also have to watch over the children who come to our house, and don't let them wander around. I'm so busy."
He looked at the servants walking back and forth and said, "It's good now. There's nothing to do. Just join in the fun."
Even Zhou Lijun, the accountant, was not very busy. Everything was taken over by Zhou Dalang and the two Bai families. What surprised them was that even Bai Dalang brought his wife Cheng with him, but they were very free.
Manbao stole half a day of leisure from his busy life and sat waiting happily, but the leisure time was limited.
A gong sounded up ahead, and Zhou Silang hurried in from the front and said, "The sedan chair and motorcade for the wedding are here. Liu Lang, hurry out."
So the young men cheered and surrounded Zhou Liulang and went out.
Old Zhou chose a docile tall horse, tied a red cloth on its chest, and then helped Zhou Liulang sit on it.
Manbao and the others also dressed in festive new clothes and jumped on their horses, shouting, "Let's go to welcome the bride——"
The wedding procession marched all the way to the outer city with drums and gongs. Mingda and Changyu, who had just left the palace and were strolling happily on the street, heard the sound of gongs and drums. They turned around and saw Manbao flying freely on his horse.
The two were startled and immediately waved and shouted: "Manbao, Manbao——"
Manbao heard this, nodded slightly to Baishan, and then pulled his horse aside. He then ran to Mingda and the others and asked directly from his horse, "Are you leaving the palace?"
Mingda looked at them curiously, "What are you doing?"
"Wedding reception."
Mingda immediately turned around and took his horse from the guards, saying happily, "I want to go too."
Manbao took the two of them to catch up with the wedding procession, and then got to the front.
The princess's attendants watched helplessly, and could only send two people to protect her closely, while the rest followed behind on horseback.
Everyone went to the outer city in a mighty manner. The Qiu family's house was in the outer city. It had only one entrance, but the yard was not small. At this time, the yard was also full of Qiu family's relatives and friends. Zhou Liulang and his wedding procession was not small, and it blocked the alley in an instant.
They couldn't come up with any questions to embarrass Zhou Liulang, so Manbao and the others just gave out red envelopes. They were very cunning. Seeing that the person inside was reluctant to open the door, they simply grabbed a handful of red envelopes and stuffed them in through the crack at the bottom of the door. However, only a little bit got in, and most of it was scattered outside the door.
The people inside the door could see it, so they opened a crack slightly to get the red envelopes. As soon as the crack was opened, Bai Shan immediately stuffed the red envelopes in. The people inside immediately reached out to take them, and everyone started scrambling for them. Manbao and Bai Erlang immediately pushed the door open and squeezed in.
It was the first time for Mingda and Changyu to do something like this. Regardless of whether they understood it or not, they were all excited and yelled "Oh!" and pushed the door open together...
Everyone rushed into the room laughing and seeing everyone throwing red envelopes to clear the way, Mingda looked around and was so happy that he took off all the jade cards on his body and was about to throw them away.
Bai Erlang happened to be pushed over and saw it with his sharp eyes and was grabbed.
He glanced at the jade token in his hand, quite speechless. He reached out and grabbed Princess Mingda and said, "You can't throw this thing away. There's only a few coins in this red envelope. If you throw this jade token away..."
Bai Erlang couldn't find the right words to describe it, so he just stuffed the jade token into her hand and said, "Anyway, you can't just throw it away."
See you at 9pm
(End of this chapter)
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