Reflecting the snow, it emits a crystal-white halo.
There was silence between heaven and earth.
Because they had no intention of sleeping, Xiao Yi and Jiang Qingyi walked side by side on the snowy mountain village path.
Away from the hustle and bustle of big cities, the small mountain village is very quiet, and there are no unnecessary night activities. Every household has already closed the door and gone to sleep.
Only the sound of dogs barking could be heard from time to time.
There are not many households in the small mountain village. There are only twenty or thirty families in total, and most of them are left-behind women, children and young children.
The footsteps made a crunching sound on the snow.
Xiao Yi also learned about her grandmother’s story from her senior sister.
My grandmother’s surname is Zhao and Wenyue. Just by hearing her name, she has the air of a lady.
In fact, as her name suggests, my grandmother was born in the 1940s and was a well-known cultural person in all parts of the country.
In addition, she was good-looking, but before she reached adulthood, the doorstep of her family was trampled down by a matchmaker who proposed marriage.
It's a pity that grandma has high vision, or she hasn't met the man she likes, so she has put her marriage on hold.
At that time, it was very important to follow the advice of the parents to appoint a matchmaker, but my grandmother's parents were also liberal people and did not interfere too much in their daughter's marriage and listened to her opinions.
At that time, the village was not as depressed as it is now. The village was very large and had a special school. My grandmother became a female teacher in the village school.
Later, with the reform and opening up, educated youths went to the countryside.
Grandma met grandpa.
The two fell in love at first sight and held a wedding in the village. Grandpa never returned to the city. The two ran the primary school in the village.
He has devoted his whole life to the cause of education.
The days are peaceful and harmonious, and the love is abundant.
Whenever people in the village encounter something, they will go to their grandparents to solve it. After all, they are both educated people and cannot be compared with illiterate people like them.
Therefore, my grandparents’ prestige in the village has always been very high.
Later, they had a daughter, who was the senior's mother.
Later, I caught up with the trend of going to the sea.
In response to the development, the young people in the village have left this small mountain village and gone to work in big cities.
Over time, more and more households moved out of this small mountain village, leaving only the twenty or so households now.
Later, when my daughter grew up and had her own significant other, the school at that time was also demolished.
After all, this kind of education school, which can be regarded as a private school, is not recognized in the new era, and all the children in the family are sent to public schools.
Grandma and grandpa were already old at that time and no longer had the energy to teach and educate people, so their lives became leisurely.
Ten years ago, my grandpa passed away due to illness, leaving grandma alone in Nuo Da's village.
And now.
In that loving and happy family, the only relative left was my senior sister.
As the old saying goes, you will know your destiny after you are fifty.
But my grandma lived a long life without saying a word. God didn't seem to miss this old man very much, and only left her with the wind and frost on her temples.
The first half of my life was busy and dedicated to education, and the second half of my life should have been an age of happiness.
But things in the world are unpredictable and fate has its way with people.
First, my lover died of illness, and then I experienced a white-haired person giving away a black-haired person.
In fact, she had already looked away and knew her end was approaching.
But now the only one she can't let go of is her senior sister, her only granddaughter.
She was afraid that after her soul returned to Jiuquan, there would no longer be a relative in the world who could stay with her granddaughter.
None of the woman's elders could attend her wedding.
That's why Xiao Yi could see her grandma writing the marriage letter carefully, stroke by stroke, under the dim light of the oil lamp.
so.
Even if no one shows up in the future.
It can be regarded as a witness for my granddaughter.
After listening to the senior sister's murmur, Xiao Yi's nose felt a little sore.
He couldn't empathize with her, but he could also hear the sadness contained in this simple description.
The world is silent.
The wind howled.
Jiang Qingyi was wrapped in her coat and stood quietly on a small bump looking at the small village in the snow.
Suddenly, Xiao Yi opened his mouth and said.
"Qingyi, shall we get married?"
"ah!"
Hearing this, Jiang Qingyi turned around with a surprised look on her face. She suspected that she had heard wrongly.
"Qingyi, shall we get married? Let's hold a wedding in the village, make the village lively and lively, and let grandma be our officiant."
Xiao Yi repeated it again.
It's loud and clear.
With mist in her eyes, Jiang Qingyi looked at the serious Xiao Yi with burning eyes, and then said softly.
"Are you serious?"
"Seriously, I've never been so serious!"
Xiao Yi took her senior sister's hand and hugged her in her arms.
"It's just a marriage certificate..."
Before he finished speaking, Jiang Qingyi reached out and covered Xiao Yi's mouth.
"enough."
"I'm already very satisfied~"
She is indeed satisfied to have a wedding, and she has never asked for anything extravagant.
She always knew that she was a latecomer, and her junior classmate never belonged to her alone.
If you actually go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get a marriage certificate, then you are a husband and wife in the legal sense of the country.
Jiang Qingyi knows.
It didn't belong to her, and she had never expected it. It should belong to Yunqing.
So when Xiao Yi proposed this wedding proposal, everyone was completely surprised.
if.
If we could hold a wedding in front of grandma, no matter how simple and shabby it was, it would be such a happy thing.
Looking at each other in silence.
Only in the cold night wind, the two warm bodies came closer and closer.
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New Year's Day.
Early in the morning, Xiao Yi and Jiang Qingyi got up early and started cleaning the house.
After cleaning the house, Xiao Yi took out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone she bought yesterday and started writing Spring Festival couplets.
The senior sister went to the kitchen to cook.
Usually grandma does this kind of thing alone.
But this year, with a man like him here, Xiao Yi naturally does his part to do this kind of thing.
Not long after, Xiaoxiao yawned and walked to the living room, squinting his sleepy eyes and saying hello.
"Happy New Year, brother."
"You too, Happy New Year, come here and give me a hand."
Just when the two of them were busy, grandma put on the new clothes bought for her by her senior sister and walked out of the room.
Xiao Yi and Xiao Yi hurriedly said something when they saw this.
"Happy New Year, grandma."
"Happy New Year to you too."
A smile spread across her wrinkled face. Grandma couldn't help but nodded when she saw Xiao Yi writing good calligraphy.
The senior sister made breakfast at this time, and the whole family had breakfast happily.
After that, we posted couplets and were busy with lunch. Everyone had their own things to do.
Jiang Qingyi was also in the kitchen telling her grandmother about her plans to hold a wedding with Xiao Yi in the village after the new year.
Grandma was a little surprised at first, but looking at the expression on her granddaughter's face, she understood what she was thinking.
Grandma didn't say anything, just hunched over and sighed softly.
"OK."
………
After everything was prepared, Xiao Yi and her senior discussed the matter of getting married.
However, neither of them had much experience and didn't know what to prepare.
For example, what are the taboos, things you need to pay attention to, wedding preparations, dress selection, etc.
Seeing the confused eyes of her younger brother, Jiang Qingyi smiled happily, then took Xiao Yi's hand and walked into her grandmother's back room.
The house is not big, but very clean.
The red wedding paper from decades ago is still posted on the old bedside, but it is now a little yellowed.
Grandma glanced at Xiao Yi with a smile, then walked to the wooden cabinet and carefully took out two sets of clothes from it.
The two wedding dresses were well preserved and looked like brand new.
Red wedding dress and black wedding dress.
"This is the dress I wore when your grandpa and I got married. I've only worn it once in my life. Xiao Yi, if you don't mind it, just wear this?"
Staring at the dress in her hand with kind eyes, and carefully stroking the patterns on it with her dry palms, grandma seemed to be recalling her youthful days.
There was a hint of relief and longing in his cloudy eyes.
There is nothing happier in this world than watching your granddaughter put on the wedding dress of her youth and walk into the wedding banquet hall with another sweetheart hand in hand.
(It’s not too much of a gift to vote for a monthly ticket, right?)