Chapter 346 Marriage Customs Combining Chinese and Western
It’s been a long time since I’ve done a full set of makeup on myself, and my hands are a little raw. When I finished the makeup, I looked at the time, okay, it’s almost half past seven.
No wonder her aunt woke her up so early. It can be seen that everyone who has been there knows it - the bride must be more ink on her wedding day.
"Well! Well!"
Little Baozi came in shouting all the way.
Mrs. Lu was here with her grandson last night, and she has to rush to her new house early this morning. Her silly son will be coming to welcome him soon, so I won't worry if I don't go and give him a few words of warning.
"Suisui is so beautiful today!"
In other families, it is the mother-in-law who looks at her son-in-law, and the more she looks at him, the more satisfied she becomes; in the Lu family, it is like the mother-in-law looking at her daughter-in-law, and the more she looks at her, the happier she becomes.
"Doudou, do you recognize this is your mother?" Mrs. Lu asked her grandson with a smile.
Little Baozi seemed a little confused. He probably had never seen Xu Suizhu wearing heavy makeup. But a child's sense of smell is more sensitive than an adult's, and he could recognize that this was his biological mother by smelling it.
He stretched out his little arms as if to throw himself into her arms.
Mrs. Lu quickly hugged him.
"Mom is so beautifully dressed, so we can't destroy it."
"Floating! Floating!"
Xu Suizhuquan thought her son was praising her, and pinched her son's pink face lovingly: "Doudou is also very cute today. He puts on a little suit and looks like a little gentleman."
The little bun seemed to understand the compliment, he puffed out his manly chest and smiled shyly.
"Yes, we Doudou have a mission today." Mrs. Lu winked at her daughter-in-law, "Your fifth aunt taught me a new way of blessing, asking the little flower boy to scatter flower petals when you get married. Don't worry, I will teach you.
Let's get over him. Let Cuicui and Zhuangzhuang take care of her later. It won't mess things up, it will only add happiness."
Xu Suizhu: Just be happy!
After that, Wu Meili took Little Baozi to have breakfast and played with Cuicui and Zhuangzhuang. Li Youguo also came to join in the fun with his daughter in his arms, and the laughter was endless.
Mrs. Lu took the opportunity to entrust some important matters to her best friend, Mrs. Lin, and then urged Comrade Lu back to the new house. If she didn't want to leave her grandson, she could only separate at this time. Welcoming a bride is much more important than giving away a wedding, and there can be no mistakes.
In fact, there is no need to give her instructions. Mr. Lu, don't be too active. Get up early and tidy yourself up: put some mousse on your hair. Although it looks old-fashioned, this is the popular hairstyle for wedding grooms at this time;
The groom's attire is a black Chinese tunic suit with a vertical collar that is custom-made to match the mother's red dress with dragon and phoenix gown.
"Come on, come on! Mom just picked this in the garden downstairs. Pin it on your chest. On special days, add more red to symbolize good luck." Mrs. Lu handed him a bright red rose.
Boss Lu: "..."
Asking a big man to give him a flower? Isn't this really a metaphor that he is a piece of cow dung?
Just when he was about to shake his head and refuse, he heard his mother say: "Doudou will scatter flower petals for you later to pray for blessings. As a father, can't you take the lead?"
Lu Chixiao couldn't laugh or cry: "Where did you get this strange custom? We have this in our country?"
"Your fifth aunt said that when you get married, sprinkle some flower petals to wish the newlyweds a long life together. Oh, it's auspicious anyway, so you can just do it, and I won't cut off your flesh."
Upon hearing that the meaning was so good, Lu Chixiao pinned the big red rose on his left chest that he had been disgusted with a few seconds ago without saying a word.
It's a bit earthy, but considering that the child's mother's dress is also bright red, my own black Chinese tunic suit and a red rose complement the child's mother, it's pretty good.
"Brother, you are so handsome."
As the best man, Young Master Fu also got up very early today, and as soon as he arrived, he blew a rainbow fart at Brother Xiao.
"Brother Xiao has always been so handsome." Not to be outdone, Li Tao immediately presented a congratulatory gift - Zhenxuan Pavilion's newly launched nine-piece set of pearls and jade. "Thanks to my sister-in-law, those few pearls from last time made Zhenxuan Pavilion a gift."
Now that I have become famous, the old man praised me for being discerning for the first time, which really made me feel relieved, haha!"
Lu Chixiao nodded and accepted it for the child's mother.
Why are my brothers so polite? Besides, they will get married and have children in the future, so there will be plenty of opportunities to return gifts.
In addition to the two of them, the groomsmen also included Ming Song, Wang Hu, Xiao Liu, Deng Zhijie and other young men, making up nine people, which symbolizes longevity.
Naturally, the number of bridesmaids on the woman's side is also the same.
Needless to say, Lin Yujuan and Xia Mingli made an appointment with them long ago to ask them to be bridesmaids on the wedding day.
Xia Mingli was very happy. Deng Zhijie was the best man on the man's side, and she was the main bridesmaid on the woman's side. The young couple also became the groomsmen and bridesmaids of the newlyweds. What an honor and auspiciousness!
When Lin Yujuan received the invitation, she doubted her life for a moment: Aren't she and Xu Suizhu rivals in love? Why did she agree to be her bridesmaid? What was the reason for the faint joy in her heart?
I couldn't figure it out, so I wrote to my best friend Feng Zhenzhen.
Feng Zhenzhen, who was drinking porridge at the time, spat out.
What's terrible is that sitting opposite her, her strict and rigid elder brother, had porridge sprayed all over his head and face...
A few seconds later, "Feng - Zhen - Zhen -" her elder brother's roar made her eardrums hurt.
I also saw that Lin Yujuan mentioned the fishing village in autumn more than once in her letter. Not only is the scenery beautiful, but the seafood is also abundant. When the blue crabs are at their fattest season, they are all full of oil. You can dig open the crab shells, scoop out some ginger vinegar, and sip...
saliva.
She simply took advantage of Xu Suizhu's wedding and skipped work all the way to join in the fun. At the same time, she could avoid her elder brother's thoughts.
Originally, all nine bridesmaids had been invited. Except for Lin Yujuan and Xia Mingli, the other bridesmaids included unmarried female teachers from the same school, girls who were related to the Xu and Lin families, and girls from the same village who had good friends.
Coincidentally, one of the girls from a distant relative ate a few more tender corns the day before because she was greedy. After eating, she followed her classmates to the county town for roller skating. She suddenly suffered from acute appendicitis and was sent to the hospital for intravenous fluids overnight. She cannot come today.
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Xu Xiuyuan is not very welcome to come. It is a once-in-a-lifetime wedding day for my niece. It is unlucky for someone suffering from an emergency to be the bridesmaid.
However, this distant relative is not kind in his work. The illness he suffered yesterday was not cured by Shi Shiran this morning. Is it possible that he planned to spend the night and his illness was relieved and he wanted to continue to earn this bridesmaid red envelope?
Xu Xiuyuan was so angry that her heart ached, but she couldn't scold her on the big day, so she could only endure it. Now she was worried about choosing the bridesmaid.
Seeing that the auspicious time was coming soon, he had no choice but to ask Wu Meili to go to the town to recruit an unmarried girl from a certain family to make up the number. There was nothing he could do if he was not familiar with it. There must be one missing.
At this moment, Feng Zhenzhen arrived, and as soon as she arrived, she was pulled by Lin Yujuan to fill the vacancy of bridesmaid.
Feng Zhenzhen: "..."
Who is she? Where is she? Didn’t she come to eat blue crabs and experience the local customs (in layman’s terms, just to watch the excitement)? How did she become the bride’s bridesmaid in the blink of an eye?
The confused expression really made everyone present laugh.