Gasp! She's a Time Traveler Using Modern Tech to Improve Ancient Life Chapter 363 - 360: It’s a Dusk Ceremony, Not a Wedding Cerem

After sharing so parent-child ti with little Qingyu on the bed, Lin Wanwan pulled her up.

Hearing the noise from inside the room, the voices of Hua Nong and Yun Shang sounded at the door: "Madam, are you up?"

"Yes, you can co in." Lin Wanwan walked to the door, pulled open the latch, and let them in.

Hua Nong, Yun Shang, and Hong Yan entered one by one, and attended to the two as they went to the small bathroom inside the room to freshen up.

After that, Lin Wanwan sat in front of the dressing table, listening to Yun Shang report on the events at ho during the four days she was away.

Actually, there wasn’t much going on; the days passed routinely, little Qingyu attended school, and they cleaned the house and looked after it.

However, sothing was happening within the Lin Family Manor today: Lin ngxing’s wedding was happening today.

July and August are off-peak for farming; besides fishing, there’s not much work in the fields, so weddings are generally held during these two months.

Lin Wanwan didn’t expect to return right on ti, and she was quite happy about it. She almost forgot about this event, but luckily she made it.

Last ti Lin ngxing’s family gave her Golden Cod Fish Roe, Lin Wanwan had thought about making a big cake for his wedding day long ago.

This would be the first local wedding she attended since coming to Great Tang, and she was quite interested in watching the fun.

"Is Lin ngxing’s house already lively now? Let’s hurry up and finish breakfast so we can go check it out."

Little Qingyu, with her keen ears, also heard and happily raised her head towards Lin Wanwan, saying, "Mother, I want to go, I want to go."

Lin Wanwan shook her head at her, saying, "Isn’t today a school day? You have to go to school."

Little Yu’er imdiately pouted, feeling unhappy, "Mother, why do kids have to go to school?"

Lin Wanwan laughed and replied, "Only learning can help you understand things. Without learning, you would beco a fool. Does little Yu’er want to be a fool? Then I’ll call you little fool, okay?"

"No, no, no!" Little Qingyu shouted, "I’m not a little fool!"

Although little Qingyu didn’t actually know what a ’little fool’ ant, it was the first ti she heard the term. But just from Lin Wanwan’s tone and expression, she could discern the aning’s good or bad.

Lin Wanwan gleefully said, "Alright, if you don’t want to be a little fool, you have to obediently go to school."

After getting dressed up, Lin Wanwan held little Qingyu’s hand and went downstairs together. Hua Nong brought their breakfast from the kitchen, which was delicious and nutritious bird’s nest lotus seed soup and sliced small stead buns.

Lin Wanwan hadn’t really enjoyed Hua Nong’s cooking for several days, and seeing the bird’s nest soup and small buns on the table made her appetite grow. Midway through the al, Lin Wanwan heard lively voices outside the courtyard wall.

"A lot of people outside, what are they doing?"

"Rongrong, go and take a look." Yun Shang instructed the little maid Rongrong to investigate.

Soon, Rongrong ran back, "Madam, many people are going to the ancestral hall to clean it."

Lin Wanwan understood, it’s preparation for the wedding ceremony, but why didn’t they do it earlier and wait until today? It’s puzzling.

As she was about to finish eating, Lin ngbo’s two kids from next door peeked around the door.

Lin Wanwan waved them over and fed them a small bun each, asking, "Have you had breakfast?"

The older girl nodded with a full mouth, "Yes, we ca to find little Qingyu to go to school together."

Though it’s just two steps away, the children still like to go to school in groups.

Lin Wanwan naturally wouldn’t stop them, smiling as she watched little Qingyu finish her breakfast in a few bites. She held the older girl’s hand with her left hand, linked arms with little Crab with her right, followed by little Rongrong, and then a line of attendant students, heading grandly towards the front courtyard school.

Even just going to school, the little ones managed to create a parade-like atmosphere as if they were going on a spring outing.

After breakfast, Lin Wanwan planned to go to Lin ngxing’s house to watch the fun.

Hong Yan laughed and said, "Madam, at this ti, the house will surely be busy. They might not have the ti to entertain you."

"I don’t need them to entertain , I just want to watch the fun."

Hong Yan said, "In the morning, they must be busy cleaning up. Guests usually arrive in the afternoon. Why not go in the afternoon? If you go now, their house would surely be in chaos."

Lin Wanwan wasn’t specifically inford about wedding customs in Great Tang, and curiously remarked, "Oh, guests co in the afternoon? Then does the bride also arrive in the afternoon?"

No need for Hong Yan to answer, Yun Shang smiled and chid in, "Madam, although I’ve never been to a wedding, I know weddings are held at dusk, and naturally, the bride is brought back at dusk."

Hong Yan curiously asked, "Madam, you lived in the mountains before. Don’t you know the customs down here?"

Lin Wanwan nodded along, "Yes. My master didn’t teach , so I truly don’t know. You tell ."

Since she heard the bride is picked up in the evening, Lin Wanwan wasn’t in a hurry to watch the fun. She leisurely went to the ear room, sat on the tatami, and prepared to listen to the two maids explain the customs of Great Tang.

As for Hua Nong, naturally, she carried the plate back to the kitchen to work.

Hong Yan sat kneeling below Lin Wanwan, explaining, "Families down here, when marrying off a daughter, the groom always arrives with brothers and male relatives before dusk to ’capture’ the bride."

"Why capture?"

"A custom, I suppose. For the fun of it, capturing and creating a commotion makes it more festive! When the groom arrives at the bride’s parent’s house, he has to overco several obstacles to take away the bride. In Qiantang County, grooms often prepare tons of poems to knock on doors, but I’m not sure if rural families do that."

"Surely, they don’t—I’ve never heard of ng Xing writing poems. He doesn’t even know a single character, how could he write poems?" Yun Shang remarked.

As the three of them chatted, Lin ngbo’s voice ca from the door, "Wan Wan, you’re back! I’ve brought so fresh sea cucumbers for you, found yesterday, and they’ve been nurturing in mud overnight."

Lin Wanwan welcod Lin ngbo inside, and Yun Shang went to get the fruit drink. Lin Wanwan seated him on the cushion and inquired, "Cousin ngbo, I’ve been aning to ask you, is cousin ng Xing going to ’capture’ today? Who is he preparing to go with? Can I go along?"

Lin ngbo chuckled, "Wan Wan, why do you want to follow along for the ’capture’? It’s quite chaotic. Plus, you’re a woman, I’ve never heard of anyone taking a female relative along for a capture, seems it’s not a custom, it’s all about the brothers going."

"Ah." Lin Wanwan was a bit disappointed; she really wanted to join the fun and see for herself, it was a lively marital history!

Lin ngbo saw her like this and said, "Wan Wan, if you’re truly eager to join, then go; it’s no big deal. Anyway, there’ll be over fifty brothers going with us, one more doesn’t matter."

"Ah, so many people going?"

Lin ngbo said matter-of-factly, "Of course, or how would it succeed. Besides, on the way back, there’ll be people blocking the path asking for money and gifts; how can we go without enough people to intimidate them? As long as we have plenty of brothers, those people won’t dare to cause trouble."

Lin Wanwan listening felt this was quite similar to the modern custom of blocking cars for wedding money! Turns out this tradition has been popular since the Great Tang!