In short, everyone could only get married within eight days. The remaining eighty-two days of the ninety-day period were only suitable for ordinary people to get married. If you got married on those days, God would only bless your chickens to lay two more eggs in the future...
That's easy.
Although Lin Hai vaguely remembered that in his previous life, Beidou Pojunxing was the incarnation of Tianpeng Dayuanshuai Zhenjun, if there really were gods, according to Journey to the West, Tianpeng Dayuanshuai's blessing would at most allow you to eat a few more mouthfuls of food and digest it well...
But Lin Hai would not say it at this time.
So Lin Hai had to sigh. It was God's will, so let it be.
For four consecutive days, the four armies of Qinghe, from the First to the Fourth, held a collective wedding ceremony at the former Khmer Royal Palace. Then, for another four days, the four major departments of Internal Affairs, Intelligence, Production, and R&D also held collective weddings...
Furthermore, Lin Hai repeatedly requested that each department must have personnel staying behind and that they return to their posts immediately after attending the wedding...
Finally, the first large-scale government shutdown since Qinghe was established was avoided.
However, Lin Hai still underestimated the destructive power of eight consecutive days of group weddings.
The first is etiquette and law.
As the saying goes, etiquette cannot be abolished.
Although Lin Hai was not a particular person, he still agreed to follow the etiquette of this world as much as possible without increasing the budget. After all, the upper class's adherence to etiquette actually represented their willingness to abide by traditions and customary rules, which had a very positive effect on the stability of the entire society. In order to get the marriage done as soon as possible, Lin Hai had already destroyed too many traditions. It was not appropriate to uproot traditional etiquette at this time.
But the real question is, who knows what etiquette is like?
The forest I traveled through didn’t know.
Even the upper class of Qinghe, who came from humble beginnings, didn't know either.
The old eunuchs and maids who stayed in the Thai royal palace did know something, but they were all following orders and each was only responsible for a small part of the matter. When it came to how to hold a wedding that was in line with the status of an engaged couple, they knew nothing at all.
Besides, customs vary from place to place, and we can’t just follow Cambodian customs.
At this time, it is said that having an old person in the family is like having a treasure.
Who is the oldest? Bai Ang.
Seeing Bai Ang returning to Taijing with Gao Bin was like seeing a savior. Lin Hai didn't want to listen to Bai Ang's report or Gao Bin's loyalty at all. He just said, "I'll leave the wedding to you two. They were Liang people before, so it should be fine according to Liang customs. Besides, you have experience in marriage, so just follow your experience..."
After the two of them had retreated for a while, Lin Hai finally remembered that he hadn't heard what Gao Bin had said. He must have come to pledge his loyalty, right? He wouldn't have chosen the Liang Empire in the end, right?
Never mind, even if he wants to leave, even if he wants to die, he has to endure these eight days before dying...
Attending someone else's wedding is actually painful.
Especially you, like the newlyweds, are not allowed to take any time off and must attend the entire ceremony.
Lin Hai and Shi Zhen'er sat high up above, witnessing the entrance of groups of newlyweds like puppets. The ceremony began with the accompaniment of court music. They bowed first to heaven and earth, then to Lin Hai and Shi Zhen'er, and then the couple bowed to each other, and then served tea to Lin Hai and Shi Zhen'er.
The most important thing is that everyone wants to get Lin Hai's blessing. Lin Hai has to think of different blessings for each couple, and there can't be too many similar ones. After all, everyone is there, and everyone wants to hear something different. Just memorizing these blessings almost drives Lin Hai crazy.
Then there is the completely incomprehensible court dance and music.
Since Lin Hai had dismissed many of the young palace maids, the entire palace dance and music had to be performed by the elderly palace maids. From an artistic point of view, these palace maids, who had immersed themselves in palace dance for most of their lives, must have danced much better than the young ones. But Lin Hai didn't understand. When he watched people dance, he was purely to see the faces... breasts... legs... but now he could only appreciate the art...
Lin Hai doesn't want to appreciate art, he wants to be a vulgar person...
At this moment, he thought it would be a good idea to recall some dancers...
Then there were endless toasts.
Lin Hai will take the lead and have a drink with the newlyweds, and then the newlyweds will return the toast, and then everyone will start toasting Lin Hai...
Although Lin Hai had someone secretly add as much water as possible to the wine jug on his desk, it was still a torture for him to drink several jars of water every day.
In the end, he still had to control the group's plan to make trouble in the bridal chamber.
It would have been fine to disturb the bridal chamber of a civil official, but at that time there was a group of ignorant people who wanted to disturb the bridal chamber of a military general.
You should know that Cheng Guorong had been looking forward to getting married for a long time. In order to have a wedding night worth remembering, he even moved a powerful crossbow into the bridal chamber. If anyone dared to eavesdrop, General Cheng would raise his hand and shoot an arrow...
It is only at this time every day that Lin Hai can take a breath and rest...
Yes, when everything was done and everyone had gone into the bridal chamber, he had nothing to do.
Qinghebo is a very important figure in the entire wedding, but when it comes to entering the bridal chamber, everyone wants to handle it on their own, so he won't have to worry about it...
Wedding scene (this is not a photo taken at the time, this is an online photo, please be careful to identify it, after all, Qinghe did not have cameras at that time)
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