Peerless pastoral little green plum

Chapter 388 National Mourning
Fortunately, the pork knuckle rice was served in a short while, and the two chatted while eating. They were all about getting married, who should be invited over, how many tables should be held, and so on.

After the chat, Pei Baoshan hired an ox cart on the side of the road to take Yao Huahua back.

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Just when Yao Huahua thought she and Pei Baoshan would get married smoothly, bad news came out from the court at this moment: the queen mother passed away!
The Empress Dowager passed away half a month ago, but Shihua Town is located at the southernmost tip, and the transmission of news was slow in ancient times. When it reached Shihua Village, it was already more than ten days later.

That day, the village head beat the gong and went door to door in the village to publicize the incident. When he came to Yao's house, his eyes were obviously sympathetic: "Tieshu, Yao's second sister-in-law, the queen mother has passed away, you should be ready."

When Wang Mudan and Yao Tieshu heard this, they froze in place, and then stared blankly at Yao Huahua.

Yao Huahua didn't react at that time, so she just asked with a smile: "Father, mother, what's the matter with you? The queen mother died, what does it have to do with us? We don't know her."

"Hua'er, this, this has a lot to do with it," Yao Tieshu was so anxious that he was going to get angry: "The queen mother passed away, this is a national funeral, a national funeral!"

National mourning?

Yao Huahua realized it and was also dumbfounded.

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As soon as the news of the Queen Mother's death spread, the villagers became excited again.

They were all talking about which family's happy event in the village was about to end, including of course Pei Baoshan and Yao Huahua.

"Do you think Huahua will marry Baoshan?"

"It's hard to say, our Daqi Dynasty stipulates that the national mourning period is one year. During this period, fireworks and firecrackers are not allowed, and beating of gongs and drums is not allowed, and wedding banquets are not allowed. If they are banned, they will be beheaded. The two of them If you want to get married, you can only carry it on a sedan chair, but if you do this, you will become a concubine!"

"That's right, many people are worried about their daughter's loss, so they don't want to do this. They would rather postpone the wedding date. I don't know if Tieshu and his wife are willing to marry Hua'er just like that."

"Isn't Yao Jinpo's grandson, Yao Sanfu, going to marry a wife soon?"

"Who says no? According to me, it doesn't matter if Hua'er doesn't marry. She is only fifteen this year, and she will only be sixteen a year later. It will be miserable for the third rich. The third rich's daughter-in-law made an appointment three years ago." Yes, but it happened that my father-in-law passed away, didn’t I just observe three years of filial piety, and planned to get married in summer? Then I met the Empress Dowager and passed away.”

"..."

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The Yao family and Yao Huahua became anxious like ants on the hot pot.

"Mother, if you don't set off firecrackers, don't let them go. It doesn't matter if you don't beat the gongs and drums. It saves a lot of time if you don't hold a wedding banquet. You can just let me be carried in a sedan chair. I don't care!" After all, Yao Huahua used to be Modern people, she doesn't care about these etiquettes.

But Wang Mudan disagreed: "Hua'er, if you are married like this, then...then what is the difference between you and Li Ying'er?"

"Li Ying'er is a concubine. I was a wife in the past. Baoshan will never marry a second one. I trust him," Yao Huahua said with certainty.

"Hua'er, I know you like Baoshan, and Baoshan likes you very much now, but in this lifetime, no one can guarantee that there will be any changes in the future, and people's hearts will change!" Wang Mudan said earnestly:

"Did you know? My mother also experienced a national funeral when I was young. At that time, a sister of my neighbor married a young man in the village desperately. She also believed that the young man would not change his mind, but guess what? The sister gave birth consecutively. After two daughters, the younger generation became impatient and married another woman. The later married woman became a wife after giving birth to a son, and the older sister became a concubine instead. She went to cry and complain, but the younger generation said , you entered the house according to the rules of taking a concubine, if you are allowed to be a concubine, you must be one!"

Yao Huahua wanted to say something else, when someone called Wang Mudan in the yard.

The great aunt is here.

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(End of this chapter)