Chapter 676: Sending Relatives
As a figure with a head and face in Foshan, the pomp and circumstance of the Wu family's marriage is naturally extraordinary. Wu Mancheng is an enlightened squire, usually low-key, but his daughter's marriage cannot be neglected, otherwise he will always feel that he has mistreated his daughter, and it is easy to fall into the hands of others, so the pomp is very sufficient, the suona roars, the firecrackers shook the sky, and almost even the ten miles and eight towns were alarmed.
From high-ranking officials and nobles, down to porters and beggars, the characters of the three religions and nine streams surrounded the street three layers inside and three layers outside, one by one craned their necks and waited to witness the demeanor of the daughter of the Wu family, and if they were lucky, they might be able to grab a few copper dollars.
Feimas didn't want to huddle with these people, and he had to be on guard against being caught and stewed in the pot, so he jumped to the roof of a small two-room building with Lao Cha and Xinghai on his back, and looked down on the street from a high position.
Because Wu Ning is married far away, the wedding ceremony is not the same as the local wedding, and the social customs in the early Republic of China have changed greatly, especially in the southern coastal areas of Foshan, the form of the wedding is not as rigid as in the past.
In the dense sound of firecrackers, the suona cheeks are puffed up high, blowing the suona from far and near, a full twenty-four porters carry a dazzling dowry to swagger through the market, the beginning is a three-foot-high porcelain duster, used to insert the feather duster, the front of the bottle is pasted with red paper, and behind the duster is a pair of porcelain hat pen holders, also pasted with red paper. In addition, the dowry also included high-quality furniture with shiny paint, beautiful silk and satin, new household items, and even treasures and curios in gift boxes, none of which ordinary people could afford.
"Tsk! It's really a big family, it's so rich, you can't see the head at a glance......"
"That's right, this is how much blessing I accumulated in my previous life to be reincarnated in the family of such a big family......"
"Look at that red coral! It is said that the thousand-year-old coral is red for ten thousand years, this red coral is so big and red, it is so red that it is about to drip blood, it is about the same as a blood tree, how much is it worth?"
"No need to ask, it's absolutely priceless!"
"Look at that again, it's a grandfather clock imported from the West, don't mention how accurate it is when you leave, and it will tell the time on the hour! It is said that the Cixi Lafayette also had a statue of the same!"
The common people on the side of the road are envious and jealous, and they can't help but exaggerate. Some of the onlookers were blocked out, unable to get ahead, and could only hearsay to spread falsehoods, the more evil they became, the more the red coral was originally one foot high, and the one-foot-high red coral turned from the mouths of several people, and it became three feet high, and the Western table clock became dug out of the tomb of the Empress Dowager Cixi......
"It's just some pickled vulgar things, but it's ridiculous that these foolish people are still flocking to it!"
Among the onlookers, a group of poor scholars were obviously envious to death, and Wu Ning, the owner of the hated dowry, had no beads in his eyes, and did not choose himself as her husband, but on the surface, she looked light and light, shook the feather fan lacking hair in her hand, talked and laughed loudly, and disdained these treasures that exuded the smell of copper, hoping that her dusty demeanor could attract a glance from Miss Wu Jia, and maybe she would be able to climb the high branch and become a phoenix.
However, the dowry was not full of such mundane things, and the porter in the back carried a large cage full of books and pictures.
"What does that mean? Is it that the dowry is not enough, and you can make up the numbers with these broken books and rotten scrolls?" asked some people who could not read a few large characters.
"What do you know?" the others sneered, "This shows that the Wu family is a family of poetry and books, and it is comparable to the nouveau riche who is not gambling and lending, and the eldest lady of the Wu family is said to be a lady who is proficient in books, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting...... Even if you tell you that you don't understand, there are many proud works of famous calligraphers and painters in the previous dynasties in those rotten painting scrolls you said, and if you want to talk about the value, it is no less than the red coral and Western table clocks before. ”
"A few bad words, a few broken paintings, how much money is worth it?" The former was stunned and couldn't believe it.
"Don't believe it, pull it down. The latter didn't bother to argue, and stood on tiptoe to see if Miss Wu's sedan chair was coming.
Feimas stood on the roof of a nearby building, looking at the mighty family sending procession and secretly worried, even if it was not a Chinese dog, it still knew the truth that wealth was not exposed, and the Wu family made such a big pomp, maybe it would attract the covetousness of thieves, and the long road to Binhai Town might not be peaceful.
In a green building next to it, several bewitching girls with flowers and branches shook a handkerchief in one hand and knocked melon seeds in the other hand and looked into the distance by the railing.
"Hmph, sisters, I said how many women have we seen married on this street? It's much bigger than this show, so what? Look at how many women look ......like It's really hard for me to say a word, sister......" An older girl casually spit out a few melon seed shells, and her sarcastic tone contained deep jealousy, and she tried to find a balance in this regard because she was proud of her good looks.
The melon seed shell fell on the head of a young man downstairs, and when he looked up, he could see the faint scenery of the girls on the second floor from this angle, and he couldn't help but look stupid.
"That's right, sister!" another girl complimented, "According to the little sister, the appearance of this young lady of the Wu family is not bad if she can be a middle-aged person, how can she compare to my sister's national color and natural fragrance?" Maybe it's a big fat pig of 300 catties, these makeup gifts should be the money for the in-laws' side to raise pigs......
"Hahahaha!"
A burst of warbler sounds erupted from the green building.
In order to curry favor with the lottery, there was a housekeeper in front of the dowry team who sprinkled copper yuan, causing the people to rob.
The Wu family probably also knew that the huge dowry was eye-catching, and recruited a lot of village warriors as escorts, who were armed with sticks and hidden blades under their clothes, looking quite imposing.
The mighty dowry procession passed, and behind it was the family sending procession.
The onlookers watched more seriously, and they all wanted to see Miss Wu's demeanor.
The procession of sending off relatives included people in cars, horses and horses, and people on foot. Wu Mancheng rode a high-headed horse with him, and Wu Ning, who was the protagonist today, wore a gorgeous red suit, sitting in a sedan chair, and the tassels of the sedan chair window fluttered in the wind, making Wu Ning's appearance still hugging the pipa and half-covering his face.
Although the appearance is not clear for the time being, the girls in the Qinglou can at least confirm that the eldest lady of the Wu family is definitely not a 300-pound fat pig - on the contrary, she has a slender body and a fair complexion, even if she is in shape, she is not below them, not to mention that she is full of knowledge and a huge dowry.
Except for the night of the first encounter, Wu Ning was basically wearing men's clothes that were convenient for entering the mountains when she appeared in front of Pegasus, how could she ever dress up like this?
For a moment, Feimas couldn't be sure if this was Wu Ning, who often came to the valley to read books and newspapers to them......