After the porcelain basin became fine, I was sent to the wild to do infrastructure construction

"You made this carriage?"

After being helped onto the four-wheeled carriage, Xia Ning used the limited perspective of the red hijab to see the shape of the carriage clearly. She was very surprised!

She didn't expect that she would also enjoy the treatment of a British aristocrat in a carriage. In her mind, such a carriage was a scene that could only be found in fairy tales. It was a beautiful scene belonging to the prince and princess.

Using such a four-wheeled carriage as their main wedding car is very chic and unique. Of course, it is also very stylish and ostentatious.

"This is not difficult. Now the machinery factory can produce some basic parts and equipment, and it is much easier to assemble." Song Shaoqin said proudly. Now the mechanical productivity of their base has been greatly improved, and it can be said that it has been achieved. Semi-industrialized model.

In fact, they could have driven back directly, but considering that today was a traditional Chinese wedding, if they drove a car, it would be a bit of a style change.

On the contrary, such a four-wheeled carriage is more suitable for today’s Chinese weddings.

Their wedding today was a bit special because it was not held in their own compound, so the bride had to go back again after the ceremony.

Song Shaoqin was naturally reluctant to let his bride walk back to the Song family compound like this. His Ning Ning was dressed so beautifully today, and it always felt like a kind of blasphemy for her to walk back with her skirt in hand.

Since the wedding ceremony could be held with great splendor, of course he would also let her enter the Song family's gate in a dignified way on the way back.

This sedan chair cannot be used for a second time, and Song Shaoqin's health is indeed much better now, but he is not strong enough to carry Xia Ning all the way back to the Song family compound.

Hence this carefully modified wagon.

"Wow~ There is such a carriage?"

"It's so beautiful."

"Yes, the car is covered with flowers, it's so beautiful~"

"Such a carriage must be very stable to ride on."

"It's hard to get an eight-carriage sedan, but you can buy a carriage like this when the time comes."

"That's right, even if it's not used for weddings, it's majestic to have such a carriage on weekdays."

Seeing such a beautiful and majestic carriage, everyone in the base was filled with exclamations and envy!

So, under everyone's envious eyes, the newlyweds sat on a carriage decorated with flowers and slowly returned to the Song family compound.

However, when getting off the carriage, Song Shaoqin did not lead Xia Ning out of the carriage, but directly carried the princess into their new house.

Nowadays, the new house is spacious and comfortable, and all the necessary home furnishings are fully equipped. Now there are many festive red paper-cuts pasted in the house, including double happiness characters, mandarin ducks playing in the water, auspicious clouds, lucky dolls, parallel lotus flowers, and peonies.
In short, they are all pictures with good wishes and good omens.

When he saw the newlyweds sitting peacefully on the wedding bed, Quanfu stepped forward appropriately and started shouting.

"Please ask the groom to lift the bride's red hijab."

In the custom of getting married, the groom uses a scale stalk to pick out the bride's red hijab, and the scale is homophoned as "wei", which means contentment.

Hearing this, Song Shaoqin picked up the scale beam from the tray he was holding skillfully, hooked the head of the scale beam directly on the corner of the red hijab, and slowly lifted the red hijab.

Immediately, a beautiful and delicate face was revealed in front of his eyes.

At this moment, Xia Ning felt a little shy for some reason. She lowered her eyes slightly but raised the corners of her mouth slightly.

"Please invite the newlyweds to perform a wedding ceremony." Song Shaoqin and Xia Ning each picked up a wine glass, hooked each other's arm and took a sip.

Hexin means getting married.

And 庺 represents a kind of gourd, which is bitter and inedible. It is commonly known as bitter gourd and is mostly used to make scoops. Earlier, on the day of marriage, couples would cut a gourd into two scoops and connect them with threads. handle.

The bride and groom each take a ladle of wine and drink a cup together, which symbolizes that marriage connects the two as one, and the husband and wife will become one and never be separated. It also means that the husband and wife share joys and sorrows, and share weal and woe.

But later on, the world began to become more and more particular, especially for wealthy families, drinking from gourds was not very aesthetically pleasing, so they were replaced by wine glasses. Therefore, this Hexin wine is also called Jiaobei wine.

"Then the ceremony of tying the bun is done."

The ceremony of bun-tying is to cut a strand of hair from each couple's bun, tie their hair together with red thread, and then put it into a brocade bag and put it away, which symbolizes the two people. Let's grow old together and never be separated.

This brocade bag is also regarded as a token between husband and wife. Gradually, because of this practice, the world calls the original couple a married couple.

So, Quan Fu took a pair of gold scissors, cut off a strand of hair at the ends of their hair, and put it into a brocade bag. This was considered a ceremony.

"Come, treat our bride to some descendant dumplings."

This can be said to be a very important part of the wedding ceremony. In ancient times, the day before the wedding, the man would send a food box to the woman’s family, which contained rice, noodles, meat, snacks, etc., for the mother’s family to send Make dumplings with the things that come, and then take the wrapped dumplings to the man's side.

Quanfuren held an undercooked dumpling and handed it to Xia Ning's mouth. While feeding it, he asked, "Is it raw or not?"

Hearing this, Xia Ning's cheeks turned slightly red, but she also knew the meaning of this link, so she had no choice but to open her mouth and take a bite of the half-cooked dumpling, and responded with a smile.

"pregnancy."

Although this question and answer is a bit embarrassing, customs dictate that the bride must answer it herself. This is called asking for luck, and it is a good sign that the bride can give birth to a child soon.

Song Shaoqin on the side looked at his newlywed wife eating the dumplings with a smile on her face, her eyes and brows filled with unconcealable tenderness and love.

"Okay, you can put down the tent~"

Quanfu gave the order, and the surrounding relatives and friends immediately scattered the prepared happy fruits into the bride's arms, onto the Xianghehuan bed behind the couple, and even into every corner of the bridal chamber.

The so-called happy fruits are actually common red dates, chestnuts, peanuts, etc., using homophonic pronunciation to mean "Zaolizi", boys and girls.

'Flowers grow together'.

For a time, the whole new house was filled with laughter and excitement.

"Okay, the ceremony is done! Let's all go out." Quanfu happily waved the handkerchief in his hand and waved the women and children who were watching and joining in the fun to leave.

So, the group of people quickly walked out of the new house, leaving only the newlyweds sitting on the wedding bed.

Seeing that the room was finally quiet, Xia Ning couldn't help but exhale. It was over. This series of etiquette rules was quite tiring.

Song Shaoqin stood up and said, "Daughter-in-law, please rest in your room first. I have to go to the village committee compound for a walk. I have already told Granny Ding that she will bring you some hot food later. You go first." Eat something to cushion your stomach, don't sit and wait rigidly, just take a rest when you're tired."

"Okay, I understand, go ahead." (End of Chapter)