Wei and Jin Cooks

  Chapter 1060 A happy event for all

Aunt Zhong chased her out of the house with a stick and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her son being held up, "Thanks to the county magistrate, otherwise he would have broken down again. This kid is very skinny, and he will go to the room if he doesn't beat him for a day." Jiewa, all the happy characters I bought from outside have been pasted badly by him.”

   Aunt Zhong stretched out her hand, and Zhao Erlang handed the child to him, before looking at what he was holding.

  A piece of red paper with his super-familiar Double Happiness inscribed on it.

   This character is complicated but has a structure. Zhao Erlang didn't recognize it at first, but anyone who sees it every day will recognize it after several months.

   It can be said that the recognition rate of this double happiness character is the highest among the common people in Luoyang City, no less than the word "Luoyang".

  The reason for this is all because Zhao Hanzhang gave Zhao Zheng an idea.

  The county government advocates marriage and childbirth. It not only introduces partners to single soldiers in the military camp, but also often organizes blind dates for single school-age youths in the city.

  As long as it is successful, the county government will send things.

  At the beginning, Zhao Erlang was very generous and gave them a pair of towels, wooden basins, wooden barrels and other things.

   To form a new family, these things need to be repurchased. The county government gave them away, reducing their consumption after marriage. Even for the pair of wooden basins and barrels, everyone must work hard to achieve success and get married.

  But then the finances became tight, and Zhao Hanzhang’s announcement of the wedding date brought about the chasing effect. More and more people chose to start a family before the year, so that the Luoyang County Government couldn’t even deliver a pair of towels.

   What has been promised, not to mention the stubborn Zhao Erlang, even Zhao Zheng is unwilling to break his promise. He said that as long as they get married, the county government will have something to give, so they have to come up with something, so as not to break the promise of the people.

Because Zhao Erlang also thinks day and night, and after being bored outside, he has to take his troubles home. But, Zhao Hanzhang can only rack his brains with them, thinking about how to give the new couple a money-saving and happy wedding. Gift.

  Finally, when she saw the wedding prepared for her by Mrs. Wang, Ji Yuan, etc., she realized that it is not popular to post double happiness in this era.

  So Zhao Hanzhang wrote a double happiness letter to Zhao Zheng with a swipe of his pen.

  From then on, officials in the Luoyang County government office who wrote well have an extra task to write two double-happiness characters for couples who come to register for marriage.

   This has nothing to do with Zhao Erlang, and he will not be able to enter this rank if he lives another hundred years, so he happily became the shopkeeper.

   But how can two double happiness characters be enough?

  Because of Zhao's Paper Workshop, paper is not expensive now, even if it is red paper, ordinary people can afford it.

   Spend two pennies to buy a large sheet of red paper, then cut it into sixteen sheets, and then spend twenty pennies to ask someone who is good at calligraphy to inscribe Double Happiness. If you don’t care about these things, it’s even cheaper.

  Take the cut red paper and squat in front of the school, find a student who looks very smart, stuff two eggs or a few pancakes, and ask them to kick sixteen double happiness characters.

  If you don’t want to prepare these things, then spend three to five pennies, which is cheaper than asking Mr. for an inscription.

As soon as this became popular, some vendors set up stalls to sell Double Happiness characters. They were very smart, and they could not only sell Double Happiness characters, but also Fu characters. It's not bad, it's actually cheaper than buying red paper yourself and asking someone to write it.

  So many newcomers will buy them, and paste them all over the house together with the double happiness characters given by the county government. Even a drafty thatched cottage will be more happy because of the red happy characters.

  Now, as long as someone sees double happiness posted on someone's home, he knows that a happy event is coming.

  So when he saw the red paper in Fang Dalang's hand, Zhao Erlang had a question in his head, "Sister-in-law Zhong, is there a happy event in your family too? Could it be that you want to remarry?"

  Sister-in-law Zhong opened her mouth wide.

The yamen servants behind Zhao Erlang rushed up immediately, and said in a hurry: "Sister-in-law, don't be angry, our county lord is just curious, not to say that you and Brother Fang are not doing well, but your three children are all young. You can neither marry a wife nor a man, so why should you post happy words?"

  Sister-in-law Zhong also knew that their county magistrate was different from ordinary people, she just skipped it after being surprised, and explained: "The general is getting married, this is a great event, so I also posted a few happy words at home to meet the occasion."

   It is a simple occasion like Sister Zhong. Some merchants and wealthy people in the city not only specially made red lanterns and hung them in front of their own doors or shops, but also hung them with red silk by the door, which can be described as heroic.

   And most people buy some red cloth, red paper-cut, and red happy words pasted.

  With Zhao's house as the center, Luoyang City began to be decorated at an extremely fast speed, with red everywhere, and no matter where you go, you can feel the joy.

  In the rural areas that Zhao Erlang couldn't see, they put up their makeup earlier, and even the big trees at the entrance of the village were tied with red cloth strips.

  There are rumors in the countryside that Zhao Hanzhang looks great in red, like a nine-day goddess descending to earth, so she loves red very much, so in order to express her love and blessings, the villagers will cut off a red cloth and tie it on the tree or under the eaves.

  At this time, Zhao Hanzhang, who did not know the rumors, was trying on his wedding dress.

  The style and color of her wedding dress were not decided by herself, or in other words, because she has come to this position, her wedding is no longer just a wedding between her and Fu Tinghan.

   This wedding dress was decided after a game between members of the Wang and Zhao clans and courtiers.

  In recent years, due to wars, white wedding dresses are popular in some places in order to pray for peace and stability.

  Ms. Wang has seen it, and thinks that white is also very good-looking, mainly because it has a good meaning. She hopes that her daughter will have a peaceful life in the future, so she was the first to propose a white wedding dress.

   Zhao Hanzhang is influenced by later generations, and thinks red is also good-looking, but if her mother likes her to wear white, she doesn't mind.

  She felt that neither she nor Fu Tinghan cared much about this, so she raised a question with Fu Tinghan.

   Who knew that Fu Tinghan, who always followed her to make decisions, suddenly said: "You should wear black, black clothes, which are also in line with traditional wedding clothes."

  Zhao Hanzhang looked at him in surprise, "But my mother wants me to wear white."

  Fu Tinghan insisted in a rare way, "You look better in black."

  He paused and said, "I also wear black."

  When he mentioned this, his eyes seemed to light up, "I asked, the current wedding dress is still mainly black, and it is not forbidden for us to wear black."

  Professor Fu rarely insisted on something, Zhao Hanzhang naturally wanted to support him, so she had to wear a traditional wedding dress.

   After struggling for a while, Mrs. Wang agreed to her daughter.

  But Ji Yuan and her confidant ministers did not agree.

  They think that the traditional wedding dress is not enough to express Zhao Hanzhang's current status, so they need to change it.

  Change this, change that, the wedding dress that came out became more and more familiar, Zhao Song couldn't sit still, jumped out, refused to change, and if the change continues, will Zhao Hanzhang and Fu Tinghan wear the wedding dress and ascend the throne in place?

  The wedding dress is like the little emperor's crown dress. Are you going to be Sima Zhao?

  (end of this chapter)