pastoral fragrance

Chapter 292 The Big Sister Gets Married
Soon, the dawn on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month came with the long and short crowing of cocks in the farmyard.The day was still dim, and Mrs. Han started to get up to cook breakfast for everyone.In Qiuyue's wing room, several women dressed in red and green had already welcomed them in, and they hurriedly began to wash Qiuyue's face, thrush her eyebrows, apply rouge, and comb her bride's hair.Immediately afterwards, more people came in one after another. Qiulin helped Mei Xiang, who was more than five months pregnant, also entered the room.

At this moment, those people have already put on makeup for Qiuyue and put on the phoenix coronet and Xiapei in a hurry, and an old woman with silver hair is pulling her hair.Qiuyue, who had put on makeup, was a little more charming than usual, her usual sharpness and heroic spirit were covered up a bit, and there was a shyness of being a bride-to-be between her delicate eyebrows.Looking at it like this, it looks like a beautiful rhododendron flower, swaying with its unique grace, waiting for someone to pick it.

After tidying up for Qiuyue, the rest of the aunts and mothers-in-law left the house. The matchmaker who was the matchmaker for Zhang's family wandered around in the wing room, looking at the situation outside from the half-open window from time to time.Han's Qiulin and the others were talking with Qiuyue for a while. In fact, everyone was still smiling, but hearing the sound of gongs and drums getting closer and closer, the smiles on everyone's faces were unconscious. It has been changed to crying.With the loud sound of gongs and drums, the reluctance in everyone's hearts became stronger, and the crying sound was replaced by crying.

"Here we come!" The matchmaker heard the sound of gongs and drums getting closer, and hopped over to order others to cover Qiuyue with a veil.Turning her head to the side, she saw the bride was crying, and the freshly made rouge flowers were sticking to Qiuyue's cheeks in white patches.The matchmaker yelled exaggeratedly: "Oh my god, why does this face look like this? Stop crying, go and get some help, wash the bride's face and reapply rouge. How can you get married with such a gaudy..." I thought to myself The bridal sedan chair is almost here, why is there such a mess?So he hurriedly coaxed and sent people to fetch water.

After redressing Qiuyue, the sedan chair just stopped outside the courtyard of Qiulin's house.A burst of loud gongs and drums exploded in front of everyone's ears, and the outside of the house was full of joy.At this moment, Qiuyue was helped up by the matchmaker, and when she looked at her relatives who had lived together for 20 years, Qiuyue's tears were about to fall.

The matchmaker hurriedly yelled, "Oh, my aunt, please don't cry. Come on, put on the hijab." The matchmaker pulled off the mandarin ducks playing in the water and put it on top of Qiuyue's head.In a hurry, two people were called to help the bride out of the door.

At the door of the main room, Qiu Song had been guarding there early, and now seeing the elder sister wearing a phoenix crown and xia cloak, she said in a low voice: "Elder sister, I will carry you on the sedan chair." Sedan.

Qiuyue, who was covered by the red hijab, heard the voice and knew it was her second brother.She nodded slightly twice, and with the support of others, she climbed onto Qiu Song's back.When Qiu Song didn't go abroad to study, he was used to doing farm work at home.Seeing that although he is a white and clean scholar, his strength is not small.He carried Qiuyue on his back, and carried it lightly to the side of the sedan chair, the matchmaker followed behind step by step, and now helped Qiuyue up into the sedan chair.

Qiuyue supported Mrs. Han and the second sister-in-law out of the wing room, and everyone went to the yard, looking at the big red sedan chair and weeping.Qiu Song and Qiu He were also affected by it, and tears welled up in their eyes.Xu Nanshan, who was a father, was not much better, he was almost in tears on the spot.

After the bride got on the sedan chair, the dowry placed in the yard was also moved box by box to the ox cart behind.Seeing the boxes moved one by one to the ox cart, there were eight boxes in total, the villagers who came to watch the excitement couldn't help but envy.These eight boxes can't possibly be empty boxes, there must be something in them.Seeing the heavy weight of the last two boxes, four gong beaters came over to carry them, and finally moved the boxes to the ox cart.

Of course, everyone would never guess that the most valuable dowry is not the daily necessities in the box, but the 2000 taels of silver bills that are placed in the bride's pocket!

After the bride's dowry was installed, the leader ordered everyone to carry the sedan chair, to play the gongs and drums, and to go out of the village in a lively manner.Before leaving, the leader suddenly turned his head and swept towards Qiu Lin who was standing in the yard.Qiu Lin's eyes collided with his, and the man quickly moved his eyes away, and hurriedly led the greeters away.

After the bride's arrival, the welcoming team moved very fast. If you don't hurry, you have to go to worship the heaven and the earth. It's not good to delay the auspicious time!
Until the welcoming team had gone far away, the deafening sound of beating gongs and drums gradually faded in my ears.Qiulin thought of the leader just now, and vaguely felt a little familiar.Hey, isn't that the Zhang Aniu who was pushed into the water by her in Haitang Village that winter?No wonder the look in her eyes is somewhat sinister!
Compared to the bustle and bustle of marrying a daughter-in-law, the marriage of Xu's daughter is deserted.As soon as the gongs and drums left, a sense of desolation and discomfort wrapped around everyone's hearts like a poisonous snake.Hey, once a daughter is married, she belongs to someone else's family.The water thrown by the married daughter!Both Xu Nanshan and Han sighed, the feeling of marrying a daughter is really uncomfortable.It's no wonder that many households have that kind of patriarchal thinking.

Once the chatty eldest sister Qiuyue left, the house seemed deserted.Coupled with the fact that Qiusong and his wife went to Meixiang's mother's house for dinner after they just came back, the house became even more deserted.Everyone's desire to eat was gone, so Balabala ate something casually to fill her stomach, and then put down the bowls and chopsticks and went to the table.

After eating, Qiulin went to the yard to relax.Suddenly, he found that the neighbor's promise was standing outside his yard in despair.Qiulin was startled, and hurriedly opened the bamboo door and leaned over, "Brother Xu Nuo, why are you here? You have eaten before, why don't you just eat at my house, and I'll warm it up for you?" , Qiulin also roughly guessed what it was for.It's not just a matter of a day or two for him to be interested in his eldest sister.Now seeing his eldest sister getting married, he definitely feels uncomfortable.But he should also be able to understand that it is impossible for the two of them, the eldest sister is married to Brother Ah Cheng.I believe that after a long time, he will be able to get out of here.

Xu Nuo heard the human voice, raised his eyes blankly, and looked at Qiu Lin blankly.There was neither sadness nor joy in those deep black pupils, and his face with Chinese characters was expressionless, as if he wouldn't even roll his eyeballs.

(End of this chapter)