Chapter Twenty-Three: The Uncle's Wedding
I ran to school just in time for the second class. At the end of school at noon, the teacher beat me severely, and I admitted my mistakes again and again with a very good attitude, and promised not to make mistakes again, so the teacher spared me.
I don't know how the adults discussed it later, anyway, a few days later, grandma called the sixth grandmother home, told the sixth grandmother about the matter, and said to the sixth grandmother: "Although it is said that they all live in the same village and know each other, but they can't lose their old reason, his sixth aunt, you have to take care of this matter and take care of Yan'er and Si'er's affairs from the beginning." ”
The sixth grandmother smiled and said: "Oh, daring is such a good thing, I knew that Si'er and Yan'er were so close, why should I be willing to ask Si'er everywhere, okay old sister-in-law, you just wait for Yan'er to enter the door, so close, it will be done in one day." ”
Later, my mother told me: That day your Aunt Yan left, your grandmother made a difficulty, your grandmother didn't like your Aunt Yan, I really think that our family has taken a big advantage in this matter, and a big girl like a flower marries your uncle, not a big loss. When your grandfather and your father came back to discuss together, and went to your Aunt Yan's house again, her family really did not object, and your grandmother said that she would also find a matchmaker to go to your Aunt Yan's house to propose marriage, and everything went according to the rules, which brought your uncle and Aunt Yan together.
As soon as this shocking news was publicized by the sixth grandmother, the people who heard it were shocked, and they all opened their mouths and said, "What? Si'er wants to marry Yan'er? really?" Everyone had a look of surprise and disbelief. Later, the more the story spread, the more mysterious it became, and it evolved into a love story of a blind man chasing a beautiful woman.
When the family heard it, they all scoffed, saying that it was all nonsense, and it was kindness, selflessness and sympathy that won the hearts of beauties.
On the day of the engagement, no one was invited, but the matchmaker called the two families and their main relatives together for dinner and drink, and the most prestigious village chief in the village called him to be a witness, and then the two families discussed the day of marriage.
On that day, everyone who knew in the village came to my house to ask for a glass of happy wine to drink, and if they didn't sit at the table, they just drank a glass of wine, said a few words of compliment, and left. There were so many people who came that there was almost not enough wine.
On that day, while the adults were not paying attention, each of us touched it like an adult with a full wine cup, and dried the wine in one gulp, sticking out our tongues with spicy eyes. It was the first time I drank baijiu.
After drinking, I thought to myself: Well, why didn't anyone thank me as a real matchmaker? On second thought, my 'conspiracy' was a success anyway.
Thinking of this, I secretly enjoyed myself in my heart.
In those days, I was so happy with the bastard, but the bastard actually publicly shouted: "In the future, you will call me uncle, and you can't mess up this time." Because I was happy, I obediently shouted uncle at the beginning, looked at his smug expression, and deliberately promised loudly, I didn't do it, and ran after him everywhere.
If you are engaged, you will be a family, and Aunt Yan can come to my house to help my uncle in a bright and bright manner, and Aunt Yan will come no less often than when she was at my house.
The wedding took place on a sunny early summer day, which happened to be a Sunday.
That day, my house was decorated with joy, two bright red flags were planted on both sides of the door, the big red word "happy half-meter-square" was pasted on the walls on both sides, and five or six ribbons were also pulled up in the yard, and the busy people shuttled back and forth, and the joyful atmosphere filled the entire courtyard.
The village chief is also dressed in a clean tunic suit. With a small red cloth strip hanging on his chest, he sat at the ceremonial table at the entrance of the courtyard and directed everyone's actions in an orderly manner, and looked at the 'Shanghai' brand watch on his wrist from time to time, he was waiting for the auspicious time when it was time to go out to pick up the bride.
I watched my father, second and third aunts help my uncle dress up in my uncle's house. The second aunt and the military brother came back the day before yesterday, and the second aunt said that the second aunt took the troops to the exercise and could not come back.
Uncle today is still dressed in the old-fashioned groom's attire, with a black robe and a red coat trimmed with colored edges, a black top hat on his head, two red feathers inserted on it, and black cloth shoes on his feet. The face was also lightly decorated with light powder by the third aunt with her own cosmetics, and she had a faint red cheek. Originally, he also put the third brother-in-law's toad sunglasses on the uncle, but the uncle took them off and put them on the kang himself.
Everything was ready, just waiting for the village chief's order.
The village chief saw that the time was up, and shouted that the boys who set off firecrackers outside set off their firecrackers and set off.
Suddenly, the sound of firecrackers, suona and gongs and drums outside rang out together, and the father and second aunt came out of the house and walked to the gate with their uncle in their arms. Standing at the door was a high-headed horse with a red red head that I didn't know where the village chief had borrowed, and the red horse was also covered in red and hung with a big red flower made of red satin tied to its forehead.
The first time the uncle rode a horse, the father and the two young men who helped carefully helped the uncle to the horse, the father held the reins of the horse in front, and the two stood on both sides of the uncle to protect.
In this way, the team of relatives set off, although the distance is very close, but according to the rules, there is no way back, you have to go along another road to Yangu's house first, and when you come back, you have to go around half of the village and take another road. This is all pre-arranged.
Blowing and blowing all the way, I soon came to Yan Gu's house, which was already bustling and crowded with villagers watching the excitement.
The uncle was led into Aunt Yan's house by his father to pick up his bride.
The first one to run out was the bastard, and when he saw me and the army waiting outside, he pulled us and ran inside.
The three children squeezed between the legs of the adults, and before they could reach the bride's eyes, they were pushed out by the adults on the shoulders, and the bride was about to get on the sedan chair.
I saw Aunt Yan wearing bright red bridal makeup, and the red dress was cut very well, which completely brought out her graceful and beautiful figure. The head is still covered with a red hijab, and I can't see my beautiful face at the moment.
Outside, there were more than a dozen loud 'two kicks', followed by the sound of popping beans, and all kinds of musical instruments echoed the sound.
When Yan Gu got on the sedan chair, the uncle was helped onto the horse, and the team set off slowly. The three of us ran in front of each other, stopping from time to time to look back.
On both sides of the road are the old and young villagers of the village, and they also slowly move forward with the procession, people are watching and laughing, and there is a sea of festivities along the way.
When we looked back at the uncle, the uncle still had the same expression as always, with a serious face, just riding on the horse upright, grasping the saddle with both hands, and shaking his body slightly with the footsteps of the red horse. There was no panic or uneasiness like the first time I rode a horse. It seems that he doesn't know that he is the protagonist of today, and it is a lifelong event for him to marry his daughter-in-law.
When he was still more than 100 meters away from home, a loud shout even drowned out the sound of musical instruments: "Look! Xiao Si laughed!" The crowd did not know who made it.
Everyone's eyes looked at the uncle's face, and even we heard the loud and surprising shout, and immediately looked back.
I saw that the uncle who was right away at this time pursed his mouth, the corners of his mouth rose by a full forty-five degrees, and his godless and empty eyes narrowed, no longer the imperceptible smile I found before. The uncle smiled, and a shallow dimple appeared on the right cheek, which was very good-looking.
This time it was a smile full of brightness, a smile from the bottom of his heart! Uncle has never had such a smile since he was poisoned, not to mention that I have never seen it, even the father who was holding the horse first looked at the uncle's smile in shock, and then he grinned out loud.
The crowd of onlookers immediately shouted, "Really, Xiao Si smiled, Xiao Si will laugh!" In the eyes of the villagers, Uncle Xiao always has a stunned expression, and when he sees Uncle Xiao's smile, no one is shocked or emotional. "Xiao Si knows that he has married a daughter-in-law!
I watched Uncle Ma smile happily, and knew that that smile contained a lot of content. I thought to myself: Uncle, you must know that you are going to get married! You must know that you are marrying Aunt Yan!
The sedan chair arrived at the door, and the family originally discussed that the uncle would not let the bride into the house, and Aunt Yan helped the uncle into the house, but that day the father insisted that the uncle try to carry Aunt Yan into the door, and the family did not stop the father's sudden idea.
The father helped the uncle to the sedan chair and told the Yan Gu in the sedan chair this idea, Yan Gu disagreed at first, and the father said, "It's okay, I'm here." ”
When Yan Gu climbed on the uncle's not sturdy back, the crowd suddenly erupted in joyful shouts and cheers, almost every one of them shouted loudly, as if they wanted to transmit this festive, happy, and excited voice into the uncle's silent world.
It was so loud that it completely drowned out all the sounds.
Both I and I saw that my father was bent slightly over my uncle's back when Aunt Yan successfully climbed onto my uncle's back, and strings of tears flowed down my father's face.
In the cheers of the people, the uncle carried his bride step by step to the house.
Just when everyone was paying attention to the uncle carrying Aunt Yan step by step towards his own happiness, I carefully looked at every relative: the tears in the eyes of grandpa and grandmother flashed, the second aunt covered her mouth with her hand to cry, the third aunt held the arm of the second aunt and buried her head in her sister's shoulder to hide her crying, and the not very sensible sister wiped the tears on her mother's face with her hands.
After years of suffering, I finally saw the dawn of my uncle!