The Xu family's disturbance didn't end until curfew.
Led by Xu Bai, Zhang's cousins put on a lot of little shows for Xu Di and his new bride. It was lively and not annoying. In the end, it was Granny Lu who grabbed Xu Bai's collar and said, "My Seventh Young Master, that's enough, that's enough. A moment of spring night is worth a thousand pieces of gold. This is your brother and sister-in-law's wedding night. It's getting late."
Xu Bai glanced at the drain and said, "Brothers, let's all go home and find our mothers. Let's save some time for my brother and sister-in-law."
The room erupted in laughter. Ning was laughing so hard that tears streamed down her face. She wiped her eyes with a handkerchief and said, "Alright, alright, you're your sister-in-law's own brother-in-law. No one has made as much noise as you all night."
Xu Bai said with a smile, "Auntie, it's not fun without a little commotion. We're not the kind of people who don't know how to read the room. It's getting late, let's go now."
The Zhang family's children had already made arrangements to stay in Xu Bai and Xu Di's old courtyard that night. Tomorrow, they would also be joining the family reunion. These children usually either study with their teachers or practice martial arts with their masters, and rarely have such a relaxing time. Since the family gave them two days off for Xu Di's wedding, they naturally wanted to have as much fun as possible.
After making sure all the children were settled, Zhang Zhaoci returned to the courtyard of the new house, where the lights were already off. Only then did she rub her aching back and go back to her own courtyard.
Xu Rao had already seen off the people who were supposed to attend the wedding banquet that evening in the front yard. Now she was lying on the kang (a heated brick bed) with her body tilted to one side. When she saw Zhang Zhaoci return, she sighed and said, "No wonder when we got married, Mom said that she and Dad were so tired that they had to lie in bed for three days."
Zhang Zhaoci said, "This is only because the family has so much help. If it were really the two of us to arrange a wedding, I feel like I wouldn't be able to rest for five days straight. Do you even need to take a bath?"
Xu Rao said, "I'm not washing anymore, I'm too tired, and I have to get up very early tomorrow morning."
Zhang Zhaoci said, "Tomorrow morning, after the family reunion, I also have to take Xu Di and his wife to the ancestral hall."
The Xu family lived far from their ancestral home, so they built an ancestral hall in their backyard to enshrine the ancestral tablets of several generations of the Xu family.
Xu Rao said, "I've prepared a few silver notes. Could you help me put them in a purse? I'll give them to Xu Di's wife tomorrow."
Zhang Zhaoci flipped through the silver notes that Xu Rao had taken out of his sleeve pocket, totaling six thousand taels, and said, "You gave Yuexi a bit too much in front of the relatives. How about this, keep one note for one thousand taels, and give the rest to her separately when our family has dinner tonight."
Xu Rao said, "I'll do as you say."
Zhang Zhaoci took out a set of ruby jewelry he had prepared, wiped each piece with a velvet cloth, and said, "If you give too much, it will make it difficult for others to reciprocate. They might even think we're using this as a gift to make money. We're family with Di Ge'er. If the gifts are valuable, others will naturally want to give more to save face. I don't care about those little things; we can return them when something happens to their families. But will they feel comfortable taking them? Especially since some of them are from our hometown. Life there isn't as wealthy as in our mansion. If we make them give more for these few silver notes, I'm afraid people will have opinions."
Xu Rao said, "You can handle these things yourself. I'm a grown man, and I'm not very good at dealing with the intricacies of the inner quarters. Oh dear, in another ten years or so, once we've arranged Bai Ge'er's marriage and married Xiao Jiu off, we'll have completed our mission."
Zhang Zhaoci found a purse for Xu Rao, put in two five-hundred-tael silver notes, and then put the rest of the silver notes away. After changing his clothes and washing up briefly, he and Xu Rao lay on the kang (a heated brick bed). It was already past midnight, and they would have to get up at dawn, so they would just rest like this for a while.
Just as Zhang Zhaoci fell asleep, she was woken up. Looking outside, it was still pitch black. She glanced at the clock in her room; it was almost five in the morning. She quickly got up and saw that Xu Rao was already up. She yawned and said, "Let's get ready and go to Grandma's courtyard. Yesterday, Grandma said we'd have breakfast there this morning, and then we'd meet our relatives in the flower hall in Grandma's courtyard. It's spacious there."
Xu Rao agreed and went to the bathroom next to the bedroom. After washing her face and brushing her teeth, she changed into a crimson straight dress and put the purse containing the silver notes that Zhang Zhaoci had prepared for her into her sleeve pocket. After Zhang Zhaoci changed her clothes and combed her hair, they went to the old lady's courtyard together.
The old lady's courtyard was already quite lively. After the head kitchen prepared breakfast, it was delivered directly to the old lady's courtyard. Everyone ate breakfast in a lively atmosphere and then moved to the flower hall to wait for the newlyweds to come and kowtow to each other.
Ning brought Xu Di and Li Yuexi in, and then led them to the old lady. Ning smiled and said, "Grandmother, this is Di-ge's wife. Look at her, isn't she as beautiful as a fairy?"
The old lady held Li Yuexi's hand and said with a smile, "She is indeed a fairy. Di Ge's daughter-in-law, this is your home from now on. Live a good life with Di Ge."
Li Yuexi and Xu Di kowtowed to the old lady. Granny Shen brought out a nanmu box carved with intertwined flowers from behind. After opening it, she presented it to the old lady. The old lady took Li Yuexi's hand and said, "These are all things that my grandmother used before. My grandmother is old now, so she gave them to you younger generation. Here, take them."
Inside the box was a set of jewelry made of high-quality jade. When Li Yuexi saw it, she looked at Xu Di. Xu Di naturally knew what his little wife meant and said with a smile, "Grandmother, my wife is shy, so I will thank you properly on her behalf."
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