Shenyin Shanhaijing

At this time, Li Chenjun was still hesitating: "Do you want to visit the prefect?"

It stands to reason that this kind of matter should be taken the right way, dealt with openly and head-on. Weddings and funerals are human nature, and any thoughts should be expressed.

This was the era of the Five Hus and Sixteen Kingdoms, and there was no close contact between men and women. Something as ordinary as holding hands on a date would be said to be morally corrupt.

Ancient marriages, from the first step to the last step, were inseparable from the matchmaker. Therefore, when ancient people got married, they paid attention to marrying through a matchmaker.

Even if Li Chenjun is a captain, he can't directly come to ask Cui Ying to marry him. He needs to find a suitable matchmaker.

This step alone made him feel embarrassed.

Because he is an outsider, he has no background in this time and space, lacks family support, and does not know anyone of high moral standing. He has served in the military camp for several years. Although he has strong military force and good leadership, his status as a captain is low and he is not famous. The general will not be noticed by the Cui family.

Therefore, let alone that he could not find a suitable matchmaker, even if he found one, it would be of no use.

Li Chenjun sent people to watch every move in the prefect's mansion, trying to understand how far the marriage proposal had come.

Soon he knew that the marriage between the Cui family and the King of Zhongshan had been planned for a long time. Before he knew when, the first step of "accepting" and the second step of "asking for fame" had been completed!

Three letters and six etiquette are traditional marriage customs and etiquette. The "three letters" include the letter of appointment, the letter of ceremony and the letter of welcome. The six rites refer to Nacai, asking for names, Naji, Nazheng, asking for an appointment, and personally welcoming.

Nacai is the first of the six rites. When the groom's family accepts gifts, they need to give thirty kinds of gifts that symbolize auspiciousness to the woman's family.

The second of the six rites is asking for a name. After the girl's parents accept the proposal of marriage, the girl's family will bring her daughter's birth date back to the boy's family, so that the boy and girl can be matched and predict good or bad luck.

In other words, no matter Li Chenjun or Cui Ying, both of them are hindsight.

Cui Ying thought that the marriage proposal was being planned, but she didn't expect that before she was picked up, she actually completed the first two steps of the six rituals!

The third step of the six rites is Naji. Naji also said that after receiving the Geng Tie, he would place the Geng Tie in front of the gods or on the ancestor's table to ask for good or bad luck, to ensure that the two parties' years and Geng horoscopes do not conflict with each other. After learning that there was no conflict between the two parties, he prepared a gift and informed the woman's family that they had decided to get married.

When a marriage reaches this point, it is almost irreversible.

Therefore, Li Chenjun thought for several days and couldn't find a good solution: "Could it be that the only way left is 'elopement'?"

Elopement does great damage to a woman's reputation. According to traditional saying, if a married woman is married through a matchmaker and all six etiquettes are in place, then she is a legitimate wife; if she is married without a matchmaker and all six etiquettes are not prepared, then she is a concubine.

Therefore, it is very risky for Cui Ying to do this. If she chooses the wrong "beloved man", she will be ruined and can only live in the wilderness, without even a way home.

It stands to reason that Li Chenjun is a passerby sent by the Lu family to travel through time and space and experience life, so he does not need to think so much, but before he came, he listened carefully to the teachings of his ancestor Lu Yideng, tried his best to follow the etiquette of this time and space, and could not break the etiquette unscrupulously. So he is still hesitating.

Cui Ying waited for several days and saw no movement, and felt a little uneasy: "What's wrong with Li Langjun? Is he afraid of the power of the prefect's mansion and the King of Zhongshan and dare not take me away? He is a captain! He has five thousand soldiers under his command. If you want to rescue me, it shouldn't be difficult."

She didn't know that although Li Chenjun was a captain, he only mastered half of the military symbols. Without the other half of the military symbols, he could not use soldiers on a large scale.

The military combat instructions inherited from the Han Dynasty implemented the military symbol system.

The so-called military talismans are various animal military talismans produced by the Grand Sima Mansion of the central government. Different animal military talismans represent different military personnel. These military talismans are divided into two halves. On the left are the emperor and the Grand Sima. In the hand, the right hand is in the hands of the commanders of the armies. Officials who want to move an army of more than 50 people must obtain complete military symbols. Fortunately, this was not the Han Dynasty or the Three Kingdoms period, but the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty and the rise of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The whole north was in chaos, all regions were expanding their troops, and the military symbol system was not as strict as before.

The soldiers commanded by Li Chenjun belonged to the county soldiers, which were equivalent to the "provincial military districts" or local "garrisons" in later generations. The other half of the military symbols were controlled by Cui Yu, the prefect. So theoretically, he cannot easily raise troops to rebel.

He didn't want to rebel, because seeking hegemony was meaningless to him. If he had that kind of skill, he might as well find a place with beautiful scenery to practice. Anyway, he can only stay here for a period of time at most. When the time is up, no matter whether he is poor or rich, whether he has a huge family fortune or a saint in front of others, it will all be reduced to nothing.

On this day, the sun sets in the west and it becomes dusk.

Cui Ying wanted to sneak out of the house quietly, but as soon as she walked out of the room, she was stopped by the servant before she even approached the courtyard gate.

"Miss, you are grounded. The master has strict orders not to leave the yard."

Cui Ying turned around and saw the old man Cui Xinghe standing not far away. In addition to Cui Xinghe, there is also Xu Huan, the leader of the servants, guarding the gate.

So, she had no choice but to finish her meal and turn around to go back to the house.

She gritted her silver teeth and said to herself angrily: "This bad guy! Why is there no movement at all?"

As night fell, a swallow came through the window and landed on the windowsill, chirping non-stop.

Cui Ying reached out to catch it. The swallow flapped its wings, but did not fly away.

She held the swallow in her hand and saw a roll of paper tied to its leg. Then she felt moved, reached out and took off the roll, unfolded it and saw that it was a letter.

She felt happy after reading the letter and thought to herself: "Mr. Lang is really not simple. He actually has immortal-like methods to train swallows to become messengers."

Swallows are small and fly around without anyone paying attention. If they were pigeons, they would probably be stopped by Cui Xinghe.

Cui Ying hurriedly wrote a reply and tied it to the swallow's leg. She watched it fly away, feeling uneasy as she didn't know whether it could deliver the letter to Lang Jun.

Outside the Prefect's Mansion, less than three hundred meters away, at the corner of the street, Li Chenjun stood quietly in the darkness.

He once worked at a monster breeding base for a period of time. In order to better understand the dynamics of monsters, he specially learned the basic version of "The Secret of Controlling Beasts and Birds". Even ordinary monster birds and monsters can communicate with each other. With a little effort, you can control ordinary birds.

In addition to common birds such as swallows, he also has an obedient goshawk. After careful training, he has a trace of demonization and is much more powerful than an ordinary goshawk. Only the goshawk flying high in the sky for reconnaissance allowed him to control the army and win several beautiful battles.

The swallow's level is too low, so it is difficult to complete the first mission, but it becomes easy for it to perform the same mission the second and third time.

Ever since then, whenever night fell, there would be swallows flying around in front of Cui Ying's window.

With the news brought by Yanzi, Cui Ying's heart settled down.