My aunt laughed, my uncle made trouble, and the girls in the courtyard covered their faces and laughed.
New white clothes, red lanterns, red and white alternately covered with frost."
The sound of singing was far away in the alley, but I could hear it clearly. Several children were singing happily.
It’s just that the lyrics talk about mourning but not mourning, and talking about mourning but not mourning.
It makes people's heads tingle when they hear it, and it's indescribably weird.
He lifted up the sedan curtain with his hand, and through a small gap, he saw a huge house standing in an alley in front of him.
In front of a large house with white walls and black tiles.
On the two big red lanterns, there is a big "囍" written in white letters.
Under the lantern, I could only see people moving around, but if I looked carefully, I couldn't tell whether there was anyone there.
On the other hand, there were two doormen, a man and a woman, in front of the door. They made greetings with their hands and were happy to see everyone.
However, the faces of the two doormen seemed to be covered with a thick layer of white frost, and there were large patches of red on their cheeks.
The texture of paint applied layer by layer.
It feels like you can pull off a large piece with just a slight push of your fingers.
Ding Xiaoyi glanced at it, and then at the pastry placed in front of his feet, and instantly felt that this thing was disgusting to look at.
"It's cool, it's cool, Master, we have been snatched away to be the village's mistress!"
Wangcai wailed on his thumb in despair.
When Ding Xiaoyi heard this, he immediately cursed: "What are you afraid of? We haven't reached the end yet!"
Although he said the words harshly, his hands still quickly awakened the meat ball, asking him to take out his Xuantong bracelet and put it on himself first.
Maybe it's because of the connection with the same energy, or maybe it's the material of the tortoise shell.
It wasn't until I put on the Xuantong bracelet that I felt that the coldness on my body had subsided a lot.
It's just a trance effect.
When he came to his senses, he realized that he was no longer in the passenger seat, but sitting on the sedan chair.
There is a piece of silk on the chest, and in the middle of the silk, there is a white flower as big as a basin tied with white paper.
He thought about rushing out.
However, when I tried to sit up from the chair, I realized that I couldn't stand up, as if a force was holding me firmly on the chair.
After trying a few times, I gave up.
It doesn't work at all.
There was a snail that made the meatball vomit out [Acacia snail], and tried to call for help from the old man, but he shouted for a long time and there was no response.
In the end, he had no choice but to accept the fact that he was trapped in the sedan.
Seeing the house in front of him getting closer and closer, Ding Xiaoyi finally felt a little nervous.
"Master, it looks like we are still a big family. If you want to think about it, you are already a grown man..."
At this time, Wangcai seemed to have no choice but to accept this bad fact and thought about how to overcome the difficulty.
"Go away, believe it or not, I will throw you into the pit!"
Ding Xiaoyi cursed and took off the [Wu Qianmian] from his face, wondering whether he should burn another ghost note.
But considering the performance of the taxi driver just now, I'm afraid it will be useless to burn two more.
Just when he was thinking about how to escape and leave.
The sedan chair had already been carried into the gate of the mansion.
"Bang, bang, bang..."
I heard a burst of slaps and laughter around the sedan, but when I lifted the curtain of the sedan and looked out carefully, there was not a single shadow around the sedan.
"Uncle, it's time to cover the sedan chair!"
There was a strange voice outside the sedan, and with a slight pull through the sedan curtain, the curtain was opened.
An old woman who looks to be in her fifties, with a hairband on her head (Note 1)
There is a black plum blossom embroidered on it.
A colorful coat, I don’t know what era it is from.
Coupled with the bright blush on her face, she poked her head into the sedan chair and grinned, not to mention how scary it was.
Ding Xiaoyi frowned as he watched.
"Uncle, we have arrived at the place. It is time for you to get off the sedan chair and pay your respects."
The old woman glanced up and down at Ding Xiaoyi, her face becoming more and more satisfied.
I felt uncomfortable being looked at by this old guy. If my legs hadn't been weak, I would have wanted to kick him when I saw this face.
But when people are under the eaves, they have to bow their heads.
At this time, Ding Xiaoyi took out his wallet from his pocket, took out a piece of money and waved it in front of the old woman.
The golden banknote has the figure of 10,000 yuan.
Sure enough, the magic of money is always so irresistible.
The old woman's eyes suddenly seemed to be glued to it, and their eyes followed the money in Ding Xiaoyi's hand.
Seeing this, Ding Xiaoyi asked with a smile: "What do you call the old man?"
"Old man, aren't you making fun of me? Just call me matchmaker Banniang. If I have any instructions, please tell me and Banniang will do my best for you!"
Banniang??
There is always a feeling that I am being taken advantage of.
But at this time, he endured it and continued to maintain a professional smile and asked: "Haha, you are always mistaken, I am just passing by, what kind of uncle, it has nothing to do with me, otherwise you just look at it
Help me, I'd be very grateful!"
After hearing Ding Xiaoyi's words, the matchmaker's face suddenly changed slightly, and she shook her head and said: "Uncle, how could such a thing be so wrong? We are going to get married. Are you trying to escape from the marriage now?"
At the end of the story, the matchmaker's eyes became cold and unkind.
Ding Xiaoyi quickly took out another piece of money from his wallet.
The two pieces of money fell together, and in an instant, the matchmaker's face suddenly became friendly again.
The speed of this face change can be called textbook naturalness.
Ding Xiaoyi thought for a while, the smile on his face became brighter and his tone became more friendly.
"But this is too sudden. I have never seen the bride, and I am not prepared.
How about you go and tell me first and let me go home and prepare for it in two days?"
At the moment, we can only think of ways to delay and ask the matchmaker about the situation. It would be best if we could bribe the matchmaker directly.
"Hey, what are you still thinking about? Just listen to me singing to you~~"
After hearing what the matchmaker said, she actually started to sing, but the tune was strange and I had never heard it before.
It's a bit like the so-called opera lyrics that the old man took me to the Alliance Folk Art Museum when I was a child.
"What makes you look good is that you are rich and noble.
From now on, you will only enjoy glory and will not suffer from poverty~~
You can’t finish the delicacies of the Chai family, and you can’t wear enough silk and satin, which guarantees the rest of your life~~ah~~ah~~”
"Don't~ don't~ don't~ don't, aunt, please stop singing. I'm afraid I'll die if you sing again. I just want to ask you one thing, can you let me go!"
Ding Xiaoyi couldn't stand this weird tone, so he quickly took out another piece of money in his hand.
The matchmaker was just thinking that she was about to sing a high C when she was suddenly interrupted by Ding Xiaoyi. She immediately felt overwhelmed and unspeakably uncomfortable.
But three golden notes were shaking in Ding Xiaoyi's hand.
That shiny sheen is like invisible magic, always able to heal any dissatisfaction in your heart.
His expression softened and he said earnestly: "Uncle, just accept your fate. This three hundred miles radius is all the land of the Chai family. That means you didn't catch up with the good times. If it had been a few hundred years earlier, you wouldn't be here now."
He is a prince consort, what a blessing!"
After saying that, seeing Ding Xiaoyi's confused face, Matchmaker's heart moved, and she changed her voice and said, "It's just..."
"Nothing!"
Ding Xiaoyi's eyes flashed and he asked hurriedly.
"But..." Matchmaker Ba Niang repeated these three words again, still pronouncing the last word very long, but she never continued.
With this expression, how could I not understand what others meant?
He took out the last money note from his wallet and put it in his hand. Suddenly, he had four shiny gold money notes in his hand.
As he moved his fingers, the firm texture of the four notes, like a fan, fanned a cool breeze on the matchmaker's face.
"call!!"
As the saying goes, a breath of fresh air blows in your face, and the wind is filled with the fragrance of ink.
The matchmaker closed her eyes slightly, took a deep breath, and felt refreshed.
Yes, this is what money smells like.
"However, uncle, don't be discouraged. This is a good saying. A moment is worth a thousand pieces of gold. The eldest girl of the Chai family is famous for her beauty. You have got a big deal this time!"
As she spoke, the matchmaker's skinny palm reached out and entered the sedan chair.
"Oh, that's how it is!"
Seeing that he was so weak, Ding Xiaoyi suddenly turned serious and without any politeness, he took the four banknotes in his hand and stuffed them back into his wallet.
The matchmaker was stunned: "Uncle, you..."
"What, can't I take a look at my own private money?"
After talking nicely to each other for a long time, this old woman refused to take any of her advice, so she might as well keep the money for herself.
"you!!"
Suddenly the matchmaker's eyes widened and she pointed at Ding Xiaoyi: "You!! You!!"
"What's the matter, you still want to be hard? Come on, come on, let's talk about it."
Ding Xiaoyi curled his lips and raised his fingers to signal the matchmaker to come in and talk.
At the same time, he was already prepared in his heart that as long as this old woman stepped in with one foot, he would chop off her head with a knife.
However, to his own disappointment, the matchmaker gritted her teeth in a girlish manner, but always kept her professional ethics in mind.
"shameless!"
The matchmaker's nose was so angry that she stomped her feet fiercely, turned around and shouted angrily: "Play music, pay homage, and send him off the sedan chair!"
There was a sound of gongs and drums.
The white flower on his chest began to sway, and an invisible force suddenly seemed to wrap around his body, causing him to sit up from the chair stiffly.
There are two boys in front of the sedan, one on the left and one on the right, holding a lantern in their hands.
I saw the boy gently placing the lantern on the sedan curtain.
Only then did I see that there was a special hook on the lantern pole, which just opened the sedan curtain from the middle.
"The newlyweds get off the sedan!"
The matchmaker shouted at the top of her voice.
Suddenly, Ding Xiaoyi realized that he didn't need to move at all. The force dragged him to a height of about a foot above the ground. He pulled himself out of the sedan and floated forward.
There are lanterns and colorful decorations in front of the eyes, white lanterns are hung with red tassels, and the white wall is pasted with black curtains.
In front of the square courtyard, there are twelve large tables on the left and right, filled with chicken, duck and fish.
But the strange thing is that except for the old woman in front of me, I didn't see a single person in this courtyard.
In the big room of the main house.
Two white candles illuminated the big word "Dian" hanging on the table in the main hall.
How is this a marriage?
Isn’t this a burial??
He tried hard to twist his neck, trying to see his surroundings clearly, but the force tightly bound him, preventing him from moving.
At this moment, I heard the voice of the matchmaker next to me suddenly increase in pitch.
"The bride is here!!!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a fragrant breeze hit him, the hundred flowers on his chest tightened, and a black shadow fell next to him.
I heard a faint voice in my ears, a soft and shy voice: "Chai Rong has seen the official!"