The custom of picking up relatives here on Shazhou may be a little different from other places.
The bride's family will arrive at the bride's house very early to pick up the bride, and the bride's family will arrange the wedding very quickly. In theory, the bride's family will prepare one or two banquets for the bride's family to enjoy.
The local custom is special - it is generally difficult for the wedding team to enjoy the food and wine at the bride's natal family.
Members of the team picking up relatives are often warmly invited to sit down, and they are enthusiastically told to drink wine and eat more food, but...
Often, as soon as everyone picks up the wine glasses and before the wine reaches their mouths, someone from the woman's house goes to set off firecrackers outside the door.
The crackling sound of firecrackers is endless, it is the clarion call for marriage!
It means that the men who are picking up the bride, you can take the bride on the road, but you still want to eat? Why don’t you put down the wine glass quickly and go to carry the dowry?
When it is the first time to help someone pick up a bride, inexperienced men often cannot help but want to curse because they have just picked up the wine glass and it has not even touched their lips!
As for experienced people, as soon as they are invited to sit down for a drink or a meal, they will immediately pick up their bowls and chopsticks, pick up the food and stuff it into their mouths. As for the wine?
Before leaving, it was okay to just pick up the wine glass and pour it into my mouth.
The topic has gone too far.
The reason why I introduce the wedding customs here in Shazhou is to say that when Comrade Xu came to Xi Dongyang's house, although it was only early 10 o'clock in the morning, the bride had already been picked up from the bride's natal home by the wedding team.
When Comrade Xu walked into the courtyard gate surrounded by Tong Wen, Zheng Meng, Sun Aizi and others.
Many women and children in the courtyard gathered in the bride's room, talking and making noises.
A child asked the bride for candy.
A little girl stared at the red hairpin on the bride's head, her hairpins, etc., staring at it without blinking, and asked the bride in a low voice to ask for it.
Young people who were still single were swarming in the room, eager to move towards the two pretty bridesmaids. Their hands seemed itchy, always wanting to grab something.
This is also the local wedding custom.
On the wedding day, single young people can take advantage of the bridesmaids. As long as it is not excessive, everyone will just watch it and no one will care too much.
Even the bridesmaids have already been mentally prepared for this.
Of course, occasionally there will be a shrewd bridesmaid who will fall out with someone on the spot, causing the young man who was squeezing her oil to blush and be unable to get off the stage.
But such bridesmaids often end up miserable.
For example: a young man who had been humiliated went into the kitchen and rubbed a handful of ashes from the bottom of a pot. When he came back, while the bridesmaid wasn't paying attention, he suddenly reached out and smeared the ashes on the bridesmaid's face.
As we all know, pot ash is difficult to clean.
Once applied to the skin, it cannot be washed away with soap.
Another example: when serving rice to the bridesmaid, add a handful of salt under the bridesmaid's rice. If the bridesmaid is not careful when eating, half of the rice in one mouthful may be salt.
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Comrade Xu walked into the courtyard and saw a crowd of people in Xi Dongyang's bedroom. Seeing and hearing these playful scenes, a nostalgic smile appeared on his lips.
He has never made trouble like this with anyone.
But when I was a kid, I saw some similar scenes with my own eyes.
Everyone at the scene will be very happy, but the bridesmaids will be a little miserable and will inevitably suffer some losses.
When Tongdao Xu stopped to watch this scene, Xi Dongyang received the news and was walking quickly towards Tongdao Xu, with a smile on his face and half a bag of Huazi in his hand.
He took out one from afar and handed it to Xu Tongdao, "Adao, come on! Let's have a celebratory cigarette. I thought you wouldn't arrive until noon, but I didn't expect you to come so early! Thank you!"
Comrade Xu was a little surprised by Xi Dongyang's happy expression and tone.
Looking at Xi Dongyang with a smile on his face and eyes in surprise, Tongdao Xu frowned slightly and couldn't help but asked in a low voice: "You... seem really happy today? Do you like this wife so much?"
?”
Logically speaking, he shouldn't ask such a question on this day.
but……
When he and Xi Dongyang talked on the phone before, Xi Dongyang said that his grandma helped him choose this bride and that his grandma liked it, but he never said that he liked it too.
Moreover, the last time he called Tongdao Xu, Tongdao Xu didn't feel the joy of getting married in his tone.
But today, Comrade Xu felt that the joy of Xi Dongyang came from the bottom of his heart.
Xi Dongyang laughed, lowered his head slightly in shock, and lit a cigarette. His face turned slightly red, and he glanced around. Then he came close to Xu Tongdao and whispered in Xu Tongdao's ear: "My grandma is very accurate in reading women.
! Her old man told me before that this woman has a big butt and must be easy to give birth to. No, she got pregnant by me. "
After saying that, Xi Dongyang retracted his head and returned to the original distance.
Xu Tongdao looked at him in disbelief.
It's like watching a sharpshooter.
"So fast? Is it true?"
Comrade Xu's mood at this time was complicated.
In his previous life, his wife's belly had been silent since they got married. In this life... Although Wei Chunlan was pregnant with his children before, and there were two at first, the situation had been very abnormal throughout the pregnancy, as well as after giving birth.
Complex, even dangerous.
Finally, he helped him give birth to a daughter, but she was born prematurely at 7 months. After the birth, she stayed in the neonatal ICU for three and a half months before being discharged.
It’s so difficult!
This birth left a shadow in Comrade Xu's heart.
Can……
Xi Dongyang said in March that he was getting married, in April he said that he had found a partner and the wedding date was set, and now on the day of his wedding in May, he actually said that the bride was pregnant with his child...
Playing on Dongyang's marriage and giving birth to a baby, everything seems to have been pressed on the fast forward button.
Everything goes incredibly fast.
Faced with Xu Tongdao's suspicion, Xi Dongyang grinned, nodded affirmatively, and whispered: "Really! I didn't expect it to be so soon. It seems that my grandma is right. This woman, if she had already
Once you have given birth to one child, it will be very easy when you have the second child, really!"
Comrade Xu looked at him speechlessly, suddenly not wanting to congratulate him.
So irritating.
At this moment, a female voice that was familiar to him came from the door of the courtyard, "Hey, hello! Excuse me, is this the opera, Xi Xiaoqian's house? Is this the roast duck your family ordered? I'm here to deliver the roast duck.
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Xi Dongyang, who was standing in front of Comrade Xu, heard this and hurriedly walked over to receive him, "Yes, yes! This is Xi Xiaoqian's house. The roast duck was ordered by our family. Please bring it to us. By the way, my sister has given it to us."
Do you have the money? If not, I will go in and get it for you..."
"Oh, I only gave you 100 yuan as a deposit, you have to give me another 120 yuan."
"Okay, why don't you come in and have a cup of tea? I'll get you some money!"
"Ah? Oh, no, no! I'm waiting for you here. Go get it quickly!"
"Okay, then wait a moment!"
Xi Dongyang carried several red-skinned roast ducks in red plastic bags and hurried into the kitchen not far away. Comrade Xu slowly turned back and looked at the girl who had just delivered the roast duck at the door of the courtyard.
Xu Xiaoying...
His ex-wife in his previous life, she happened to be here today to deliver roast duck?
He actually saw her again.
Is Shazhou County already this small? What a coincidence.