Good farming at the foot of Changbai Mountain

Chapter 95 Zhixiang Gets Married
On the evening of the [-]th, the person who welcomes the bride has to stay at the bride's house for one night, and can only leave after picking up the bride the next morning.Zhixiang and the others were arranged to stay in Dongkuayuan for one night. This night, the Lu's house was brightly lit, and they were all busy seeing off their relatives tomorrow morning.

On the morning of the eighteenth, everyone got up early.After Zhixiang finished washing up, someone happened to set up breakfast at Dongkua Courtyard, and everyone ate some.Of course, this breakfast is dumplings. It is a rule to greet relatives with dumplings and send off noodles.

After eating the dumplings, the drummer went out first and started playing outside the door.Zhixiang came to the front yard, and the older brother of the bride came out with the bride on his back and put him in the sedan chair.Zhixiang got on the horse and led the sedan chair around the yard. After that, Zhixiang got off the horse and went into the house to kowtow to his father-in-law and mother-in-law.Come out again and get on the horse before you can go out.The trumpeter went first, the dowry carriage followed behind, and Zhixiang followed the dowry.Next is the bride's sedan chair, and then the bride's people sending off their relatives. Of course, these people are sitting in a separately prepared carriage.

A group of people set off from Lu's house in a mighty way, and walked out of the county town. The trumpeter still sat in the carriage, and everyone walked back all the way.When he was about to reach the town, the drummer came down and walked, blowing as he walked, all the way to the door of Xu's house.

Today, many people stood in front of Xu's house.Wen Han and Wen Cheng picked up a string of firecrackers with long wooden poles and waited there.Hearing the sound of blowing and beating from a distance, the two brothers got ready. When the procession of welcoming the bride approached, Wen Han lit the firecrackers just as the drummer in front arrived at the gate, and the sound was loud for a while.

Zhixiang came to the gate, took the bow and arrow from Wenchang's hand, and shot twice at the sedan chair.Then the matchmaker helped the bride get out of the car, and stepped on the red felt to the groom.The welcoming lady at the side handed over a piece of red silk, and the bride and groom each held one end, with the groom in front and the bride behind, and they walked into the yard.At the gate, there was a brazier. With the support of the bride-in-law, the bride stepped over the brazier, and then entered the yard.

From the gate to the living room in the front yard, all were covered with red felt, and the new couple stepped on the red felt and came into the house.The main room is a large living room, with an incense table in the north, and the old man and Mrs. Chen sitting next to it.

Someone shouted, "The auspicious time has come, the bride and groom are coming to worship."

Then Zhixiang and the bride worshiped heaven and earth, Gaotang, and then the husband and wife bowed to each other. After that, someone shouted, "Licheng, the bride and groom enter the bridal chamber."

Zhixiang led and pulled the red silk all the way to Dongkua Courtyard, which was their new house.After entering the house, the bride should step on the bricks wrapped in red paper to get on the kang, then sit on the kang, and the groom sits next to the bride.Zhixiang took the scale beam tied with red silk, and lifted the bride's red hijab.

Jinghan and the others followed into the new house, just to see what the bride looks like. Jinghan can squeeze, and she is in front, so she can see it most clearly.

I saw that the bride's eyebrows were like a crescent moon, her face was like a lotus, and she was dressed in red, making her skin white as snow, shy and charming.Jinghan praised secretly in her heart, indeed the bride is the most beautiful.

Everyone looked at the bride's appearance, and they all praised, "What a beautiful bride, so beautiful."

"That's right, even if you don't look at it, the groom is also a rare handsome man."

After hearing what everyone said, the bride was too ashamed to look up.Someone nearby brought Heji wine, the bride and groom drank Heji wine, and then someone brought a bowl of dumplings.Zhixiang picked up the dumpling and handed it to the bride's mouth.

The bride opened her mouth and took a bite of the dumpling. She was about to swallow it, but when she realized something was wrong, she quickly spit it out, "Raw?" the bride asked suspiciously.

When the people nearby heard it, they all shouted, "It's a baby, it's a baby, the bride said it was a baby."When the bride was called out by everyone, she became even more shy, and lowered her head, not daring to look at everyone anymore.

The matchmaker saw it and shouted, "Okay, the bride has also seen it, the banquet outside has already started, everyone hurry up and eat the banquet."

Everyone dispersed and went out to the banquet. Zhixiang looked at the bride and said softly, "You are waiting in the room now. I will accompany you when the banquet is over." After finishing speaking, he went out.

The bride and two dowry girls were left in the house, and Jing Han, Jing Ya, and Jing Wan also stayed in the new house to accompany the bride.Jinghan watched and went out, and after a while, she got some food and put it on the table. "Little aunt, hurry up and eat something. It's already noon, and you're probably hungry too. It will take some time after the banquet outside. You should eat something to fill your stomach first."

Jingya and the others helped to move the table closer to the Kang, and then everyone ate something together.Seeing that there were only a few little girls in the room, Lu Wanting felt a little more at ease, so she was no longer so shy and ate something.

After everyone finished eating, Jinghan asked her elder sister to stay here with her aunt, and then took out the food by herself.

The banquets outside are at their busiest time. Originally, the banquets should be held in the yard, but this winter, it is too difficult to be outside, so they are placed in various rooms.The living room in the front yard is the largest and can accommodate quite a few tables. In the other rooms, banquets are also set up to entertain the congratulatory guests.

Zhixin's table happened to be Yue Siyuan, Guanshi Sun and the others, as well as Lin Xing's family.Zixuan and Wenhanpengcheng both studied together and took the exam at the same time, so everyone is familiar with it.When everyone is together, it is inevitable to mention the children's study. "Xingjia, I think it's better to let Zixuan live in my house after the next year. As you can see, mine is also spacious, much better than Master's. We grew up together, and the children get along very well. Well, let them live together, so that it is convenient to study each other's homework and so on. What do you think?" Zhixin said to Xingjia.

"Brother, our brothers are not outsiders. Since you said it, I can't ask for it. To be honest, I am really worried that Zixuan is alone in the school. Your family Wenhan is good at studying. If you can be with Wenhan, of course it will be great." Yes." Lin Xing's family didn't see anyone, and agreed directly, the key is the friendship between the two families, there is no need to pretend.

Yue Siyuan on the side listened, and quit, "I said Brother Xu, why did you just let Zixuan come over? What about my Pengcheng?" He was joking.

"Brother is really good at joking, your house is in the town, and besides, I don't know how much older than mine, why do you still want to come to my house?" Zhixin also laughed.

"Didn't I see that the children can learn a lot when they are together? You don't know, Pengcheng went to your place last year, and came back to be more sensible. I really want them to get in touch with these little ones. "Yue Siyuan didn't know before that there was another Juren in the Xu family.What's more, this Juren turned out to be a relative of the Lu family in the county.Originally, Yue Siyuan had a good impression of the Xu family, but now he has to pay more attention to it. "Brother, what do you think of my Pengcheng family? How about our two families get married? You have so many girls in your family, any one is good. I actually fell in love with Jinghan, or we can get together What?" Yue Siyuan's words were half sincere and half probing.He wanted to get closer to the Xu family, and it would be better if he could form relatives. Not to mention anything else, Brother Wenhan's achievements in the future would not be lower, not to mention that eccentric Jinghan.The only downside is that Jing Han is slightly smaller.Pengcheng is one year older than Wenhan, and much older than Jinghan, and there is a big difference.

Zhixin was taken aback when he heard this, he had never thought about being able to climb up to the Yue family, and the girls in the family were still young, so he had never thought about talking about marriage. "Brother Yue, logically speaking, since you brought it up, brother, I can't refute your face. However, the children are still young, so it's better to talk about it in a year or two. Pengcheng's own meaning is also very important. If the two of us A reckless person made the marriage, and when Pengcheng had someone he liked again, didn't we do bad things with good intentions? We will often be in town in the future, and Pengcheng can come anytime, if the younger generation They see each other right, so we don't need to stop them. If they don't mean that, they can't be married. What does brother say?" The folk customs in the north are open, but they are not as strict as in the south.Therefore, ordinary men and women have a little contact, and no one will say anything.Since Wenhan and Pengcheng have a good relationship, it is inevitable that he will come here often, and he will naturally meet girls from the Xu family.As for whether they can take a fancy to it, it is not up to outsiders to decide.

Yue Siyuan nodded, secretly admired in his heart, if it was someone else, why not agree directly?Although he is optimistic about the potential of the Xu family, but judging from the current situation, of course the Yue family is many times better than the Xu family.With such in-laws, I am afraid that many people can't find a chance to get on the pole. "Brother is really transparent, okay, let's not mention this matter for now. Let them decide for themselves about the juniors, so as to save us from making mistakes and doing bad things."

The Xing family over there also smiled and said, "Brother Yue, thanks to Brother Xu for not agreeing to you, I was thinking of getting a girl from the Xu family to be my daughter-in-law. Unexpectedly, you came and snatched it from me." I watched the Xu family's girls grow up, and I was very satisfied with them, but Zixuan was still young, so I didn't mention it for a while.He didn't expect that there were quite a few people with the same vision as himself, so he was also anxious now.

Zhixin was stunned, what happened today?When did the girls from the Xu family become so popular?Zhixin was puzzled and didn't show it on the face, just smiled, "Today is a good day for Zhixiang, let's not talk about the younger generation, come, let's drink."

Over there, Steward Sun also said, "That's right, today is drinking, let's not talk about that. Come on, let's have a drink." Steward Sun raised his glass and toasted everyone.

Everyone put aside the topic just now, and just focused on drinking and eating.

(End of this chapter)