In the late summer and autumn solstice of 1988, the 22-year-old Wang Jiazi and the 22-year-old daughter of the Li family, a small county town deep in the Taihang Mountains, got married.

After waiting for a long time, Qiao Feng finally waited for today, and his parents got married.

He followed behind with a group of women, watching the uncles in front of him shaking the sedan chair vigorously, and the third and fourth uncles pushing the sedan chair hard, wanting the eldest sister inside to be less bumpy and less guilty.

After walking all the way, I finally arrived home after walking for almost two miles.

Gongs and drums are noisy and firecrackers are ringing in unison.

This is a big event like getting married, so there are a lot of firecrackers, otherwise the firecrackers on the fifteenth day of the New Year are all counted one by one.

As soon as the earth red with a hundred rings was unpacked, the thread was shaken open, and one by one it was put in the pocket, and it was all put away with a crackle.

Even if the wedding firecrackers are more luxurious than in the past, it is only a dozen or two kicks, and two hundred rings of earth red will be over.

After the firecrackers, the bride was also carried into the house without touching the ground, and then soon began to worship heaven and earth.

"Let's go in, go in and have a look." Ye Qianwen pulled Lin Qingxia and Zhong Chuhong with interest, and then turned her head to Qiao Feng and said.

"Go ahead." Qiao Feng waved his hand.

Qiao Feng didn't go to see the heaven and earth, and with his size, there was no need to go in to see it, he could see it outside the station.

He wandered around.

Full of memories, after entering the gate on the right is the north adobe house, not living in people, because the uncle was in the north room two years ago, plus the four big tile houses in the west room can live in people, the north room has become a utility room.

On the left hand side is the east house, at this time it is not a three-room tile house, but a two-room earthen embryo house, is the kitchen, next to a small horse shed, the family does not raise horses, so there are hoes, plows and other farm tools in it.

The south side is a coal shed, and occasionally cooks here in the summer.

But it is impossible to build a house on the south side, because the width of the main house is numerous, and if the foundation is less than half a wood wide, the house will be very narrow and not good-looking.

So for many years this south side was a coal shed, and twenty years later a small three-room house, narrow and low.

The west room is four large tiled houses, of which the two rooms on the north side are the main rooms, which are where the grandmother lives, and then the two rooms on the south side, that is, the wedding room for marriage.

This house, this house, next November, if nothing else, a little life will be born, and then grow, and when he is seven years old, he will add a sister, and then he will live with his grandmother, and he will live for a long, long time, ten years, twenty years.....

When everyone else was looking at heaven and earth, Qiao Feng came to the wedding room in the west room as if he was on a pilgrimage.

Familiar doors and windows, familiar paint, all chains are familiar, this lock will still be on this door twenty years later.

Hand on the pergola to look in, and it is a familiar yellow pattern cabinet, the same pattern and color of the writing desk.

There is also a sewing machine with a yellow wood shelf, a butterfly brand.

I remember that when I was a child, Qiao Feng always liked to play with the pedal below, and when he played, he would loosen the belt, and then he would be taught a lesson by his mother.

"It's older than you!" Mom always had a proud face when she talked about the sewing machine. Because this is the Butterfly brand, and the Butterfly brand is the best sewing machine at this time.

Butterfly sewing machine, the earliest can be traced back to 1919. Shanghai Xiechang Sewing Machine Factory, which produces butterfly sewing machines, was formerly just a small iron shop. Shen Yushan, a national capitalist, Gao Pinzhang and Zhang Mingsheng, employees of the American Singer Company, jointly ventured 105 silver dollars to open a shop in Zhengjiamuqiao, Shanghai, "Xiechang Iron Car Shop", which was mainly engaged in the business of buying and selling imported sewing machines and repairing them.

The name "Xiechang", meaning that the three people work together and have a prosperous career, in fact, the small iron car shop is as they imagined, the business is booming, and the Republic of China has developed into "Xiechang Sewing Machine Company" in the eleventh year.

At that time, Nanyang merchants had to purchase a large number of straw hats in China every year. Xiechang saw a business opportunity and decided not to resell foreign machines, but to delve into the development and production of Chinese's own sewing machines.

It was not until 1927 that China's first domestic industrial sewing machine was born, named "Golden Lion", and later renamed "Invincible". In 1966, in order to unify the Chinese and English trademarks in domestic and foreign trade, it was officially renamed "Butterfly", and the English trademark "Butterfly".

Since then, the final word has been made, and the "butterfly" has officially flown into the homes of ordinary people.

When it is most in demand, you have to go to the store to queue up and buy with tickets, and you often ask someone to find a relationship, and it is difficult to find a machine.

Not only is the supply in short supply in China, but the reputation of China's "butterfly" is also thunderous abroad, and many foreign guests come to China to visit the factory by name.

Getting married at this time, here in a small county, who can have a sewing machine is definitely a face-saving thing.

As far as Qiao Feng remembered when he was a child, his sewing machines were all in demand, and neighbors often borrowed them from his home.

Then the mother would lift the cover on the sewing machine, pick open the plank, pull out a "black head", and then thread the needle and thread, sit down carefully, "click, click, click......"

Mom got it for them personally, because she didn't want to give the butterfly sewing machine to others to touch, in case they wouldn't use it and break it, mom would always say to Qiao Feng when she could.

The sewing machine put together is a new TV, black and white, fourteen inches, this TV has been watched for more than ten years before it was replaced, or Qiao Feng owes it, and he can't put it back when he disassembles it, and then he installed the wrong thread and burned it.

The mixed doubles after the meal, the battle was so tragic and the pain was so painful, Qiao Feng still remembered it vividly.

At this time, it is also remarkable to talk about three major things, four major pieces, five big things, five big things with good conditions, and three big things with bad conditions.

The Wang family's family background is average, but the family is diligent, and the old lady is a face-saving person, so it is four major pieces, a sewing machine, a TV series, a bicycle, and a watch on the bride's hand.

Just when Qiao Feng was lying on the windowsill looking at the objects in his memory, he was patted on the shoulder.

"What, sit at the table, there's nothing to eat, you can eat whatever you want." It was Dad who shot him.

After turning his head, Qiao Feng found that the heaven and earth had finished worshipping, and the guests began to serve the table.

Because of Lin Qingxia, Ye Qianwen, Zhong Chuhong, they all squeezed into the small courtyard to see the worship of heaven and earth in the north, their trendy and beautiful unfamiliar faces, so that these men and women in the village who rarely see outsiders and have never seen the world are very unaccustomed to it, especially for their clean and expensive clothes, for fear that they will not be able to afford to pay for dirty.

As a result, there were eight or nine tables in the courtyard, and there were eighty or ninety people, but now there were only twenty people, and the others were all standing and watching, or simply running away to the neighbors who had pressed the tables.

Although the men and women in this line were not locals at first glance, and they scared everyone away, but in line with the idea that the visitors were guests, the kind father still happily invited Qiao Feng and them to the table.

"No, we're just passing by, we haven't seen it, so let's take a look. Qiao Feng smiled and waved his hand.

"Then there's no hurry."

"I really don't need to, I'm going to come back to the house again in the future and eat again."

Wanyan refused the invitation of simple hospitality, Qiao Feng called the girls who had seen the freshness to leave the small courtyard, the couple who were still toasting relatives, friends and neighbors, the familiar hometown, and their parents.

"Do you know them, are you here for their wedding?" Guan Zhilin asked curiously.

"No, I'm on the wrong track." Qiao Feng rubbed his eyes, then raised his head and said with a bright smile: "Let's go, go to Qi County, and tell you about the red lantern hanging high, this is the purpose of this time."