Wearing a red woolen skirt, with red flowers on her head and chest, and delicate eyebrows, the bride is dignified and beautiful.
The groom, who was wearing a grass green uniform, tall, handsome and upright, carefully helped him out of the car.
On the Han family's side, Li Yuexiu came to the door surrounded by everyone. With a smile on her face, she took the enamel basin wrapped in a red baggage from her daughter-in-law.
There is something special about this basin, it is called a cornucopia.
The past two years are no longer the same. Many old rules have begun to rear their ugly head again, and weddings have become more particular.
Li Yuexiu took the basin over, and Xu Shiqin took out a red flower from the basin, put it directly on her mother-in-law's temples, and called her mother with a smile.
"Hey." Li Yuexiu was so happy that she didn't know why. She quickly took out a red envelope from her pocket and stuffed it into her daughter-in-law's hand.
Then Han Liwei protected Xu Shiqin and walked into the yard surrounded by everyone.
The courtyard of the Han family was full of people, including many young men, who were holding grains and grains in their hands and kept throwing them at the newlyweds.
This aspect later evolved into targeting newcomers.
If it's just wrapped with rice and beans, it won't hurt too much if you hit it.
The key is that some people are too bad, mix rocks into it, and just throw it at the newcomers. Who can stand it?
Fortunately, it wasn't too much at the moment, so Han Liwei and Xu Shiqin walked through the door smoothly.
All the cars were lined up in front of the Han family's gate, and all those picking up and seeing off the bride got out of the car.
In the car at the back, the young man was carrying down the large dowry items, while the older girl and the younger daughter-in-law in the front were carrying bedding, luggage and other things, walking into the house chatting and laughing.
The first couple entered the house, and Xu Shiqin stepped on the bricks wrapped in red paper placed in front of the kang.
Sitting on a quilt with peanuts, chestnuts, dates and other nuts on the bottom.
Under the quilt, there is an ax wrapped in red paper, which is called Zuofu.
The longer the couple stays in blessing, the richer their blessing will be.
The youngest son of Han Lixin's family was picked up and rolled around on the bed. This is called rolling on the bed.
While the child was rolling, there were people over there mumbling some auspicious words anyway.
When the children finish rolling on the kang, they should give them a red envelope as a sign of appreciation.
The newlyweds went to the Kang to sit in bed, while Su Anhua and the other eldest girls hurriedly put together all the dowry items. Curtains, door curtains, and all kinds of curtains all had to be hung up, so that people could see Xu Shiqin's craftsmanship.
This item will slowly disappear over time.
From then on, more and more girls stopped learning needlework, and no one embroidered curtains or door curtains.
Not to mention the curtains, you can just go to a fabric store and you will find them all, so you don’t even need to embroider them yourself.
Su Anying and other sisters-in-law put the dowry quilts, blankets, etc. into the kangqin at the end of the kang.
The locals also call it the quilt case, but it’s the same thing anyway.
The quilt prepared by the Han family has two layers, as high as one person, with a quilt on top.
There are four doors at the bottom, where you can store clothes, and there are two drawers below, where you can store some needles and thread.
The ash used for the front of the quilt is painted with a layer of light red paint on the outside of the finished furniture, and then two layers of clear oil, instead of painting directly.
In this way, the texture of the wood is clearly visible, and the color is slightly reddish. It looks a bit like the mahogany furniture in the south. It is considered to be the most popular way of making furniture in recent years.
Whether it's quilts, cabinets, desks, or boxes, most of them are handled this way.
In another two years, this kind of furniture will be obsolete.
People began to like pure white or off-white furniture, and various patterns would be branded on the cabinet doors with things like soldering irons.
Then in a few years, it will be the kind of modular furniture with decorative panels, and most of them are Shanghai brands.
Others unpacked the color TV, washing machine, tape recorder and other large items that were brought as part of the dowry and put them in appropriate places.
The Han family had this in mind when they were making furniture. A set of cabinets on the floor were all empty and could hold a TV and a tape recorder.
There is a place in the corner of the West House where you can put a washing machine.
The Xu family didn't send a refrigerator, mainly because they thought it was useless.
Besides, I still don’t know where Han Liwei will be next. It would be troublesome to send too many things, so I might as well just buy them slowly in the future.
Anyway, as long as you have money, it is not difficult to buy anything you want.
The bride and groom are sitting on the Kang, and the young men attending the ceremony are bound to come up with some bad ideas to tease the newlyweds.
Xu Shiqin was thin-skinned and his face turned red when teased by these people.
They say that there is no big or small time in the first three days of a wedding, anyone can come and make trouble, but no one can fall out.
Fortunately, people were pretty nice at this time, and it was just a harmless little joke, just to make everyone laugh.
The room was full of laughter and celebration, when suddenly I heard the sound of gongs and drums outside.
The sound was quite loud, and it was obviously right in front of Han's house.
People inside and outside the house were stunned and didn't understand what was going on. Immediately, a young man with fast legs ran out to check, and then ran back again.
"Outside, there are several cars coming outside, not only jeeps, but also the kind that lie on both ends.
There was also a big car following behind, and someone in the car was playing gongs and drums, and I don’t know what they were doing.”
Field secretary Lin Qiyue and deputy director Li Bingzhuo are both at the Han family.
As soon as he heard the descriptions of those people, Lin Qiyue immediately felt that the cars lying on both ends seemed to be small cars.
"Secretary Chen, Field Director, Shi Yan, let's go and have a look. Where is the leader here?"
Nowadays, most county leaders can only ride in cars, while ordinary township leaders can only ride in jeeps.
Han Liwei got married, and all the county leaders came? What's going on?
At this time, Han Liwei couldn't do anything anymore, so he quickly put on his shoes and went to the ground, and followed the others out.
Although Xu Shiyan was from his mother's family, he couldn't be left behind on this occasion, so he went out with her.
When they got outside, the people in the car had already got out.
Guan Enxue and Chang Hongfa were known to Xu Shiyan, and there was also a man in a grass-green uniform who seemed to be from the People's Armed Forces Department.
Xu Shiyan didn't recognize the rest.
"Hey, Secretary Guan, Secretary Chang, why are you here?"
Lin Qiyue and Chen Jianzhang know these people who are not recognized by others. The first and second leaders in the county are here, followed by the Minister of Human Resources and Military Affairs. What is going on?
"I just received a document from my superiors and learned that Comrade Han Liwei was awarded the honorary title of Heroic Model.
This is an honor our county has never had before, and a few of us came here to congratulate us."
When Guan Enxue saw Lin Qiyue and Xu Shiyan, he laughed and hurriedly explained.
When everyone heard about the title of "hero model", some of them didn't quite understand it, and they were all confused.
But Lin Qiyue, Chen Jianzhang and others, who were also soldiers, changed their expressions in an instant.
The honorary title is higher than first-class merit. He is a legendary figure, and there may not be one in many years.
"Liwei, how much contribution have you made?" Lin Qiyue couldn't hold back and asked.