Chapter 302: The Day of Joy 3

1.

The return journey became slower, and in addition to following the photographer's instructions to cooperate with his shooting, the bride's wedding car had to make a detour. Because according to the customs passed down from the elders, even if the married couple is from the same village, they cannot go back and forth when they get married, and this is also the origin of wishing the newlyweds not to take the "road back". Therefore, after the spring wedding car drove out of the streets of Hushan Town, it had to take a detour to Shimengouzi Village, which was almost a dozen miles away.

More than 40 minutes later, the car slowly approached Shimengouzi Village, and the Wangfeng people who were arranged to be three miles away had already run home on motorcycles to report the news. As a result, Lao Chun's family began to get busy again.

The wedding car just approached the big locust tree at the entrance of the village, and the deafening sound of firecrackers rang out one after another, guiding the wedding car all the way to the door of the house. Thick smoke shrouded the surroundings of the wedding car, blocking the driver's vision, the driver could only rely on the feeling to let the car move forward little by little, from the village entrance to the door of the house of this more than 1,000 meters, the wedding car actually walked for half an hour.

Although it is the busy season of the autumn harvest, many villagers still put down their work and poured back to Shimengouzi Village from the fields in all directions, they want to see what kind of daughter-in-law the son of the Chunshu family marries back, and what kind of wedding the Lao Chun family has organized.

2.

The wedding car stopped at the door of Spring's house, but Spring and Xu Dan couldn't get off, they had to wait for the family to move all the dowry from Xu Dan's wedding into the house and settle it before they could get off.

The driver and bridesmaid Wang Li had already gotten out of the car to help, only Spring and Xu Dan were left in the car, and the two didn't talk to each other, Xu Dan kept hanging her head with a red hijab, looking at her nose and nose, and she didn't know what she was thinking. There were a few naughty children lying on the car window and making cute faces at Xu Dan, and Xu Dan didn't even look at it.

Xu Dan's dowry items aroused the discussion and envy of the onlookers, so many things to marry at one time, this is a big deal in Shimengouzi Village, in the villagers' "tsk" admiration, the spring also secretly calculated an account for Xu Dan, just those few large household appliances, almost 10,000 yuan, Lao Chun's family "sent the day" in the past 4,000 yuan is far from enough. It seems that in the marriage of the two people, Xu Dan "posted" a lot this time.

Because Xu Dan had too many things to marry, five or six people moved back and forth for more than ten minutes before they could finish moving. In the spring, I felt that these ten minutes had become very long, and I also felt that the air in the car was getting more and more dull, and my mood was becoming more and more depressed.

Finally, at the signal of the cameraman, Spring stepped out of the car door, and then according to the cameraman's command, he took Xu Dan's hand and invited her out of the carriage, and lifted the wedding dress hijab on Xu Dan's head, Wang Li was busy arranging the skirt of the wedding dress for her behind Xu Dan, and Wu Xiao stood by Spring's side with a smile. Then, Spring took Xu Dan's right hand, and under the guidance of the cameraman's gestures, he slowly walked towards the courtyard, Wu Xiao and Wang Li faithfully fulfilled the obligations of the best man and bridesmaid, and followed closely behind Spring and Xu Dan. Seeing the lively villagers, the water inside and outside the courtyard had already been drained, and the Chunshu family had to arrange for two sturdy young men to open the way for the two of them in front of Chun and Xu Dan.

On one side of the courtyard there was already a square table with pink colored paper on the table, two stacks of five steamed buns with big red characters on it, and incense burners and candlesticks on the table, where Spring and Xu Dan were going to hold a ritual of worshipping heaven and earth.

Under the command of the spring calligrapher, Chun's father, Chunshuli, first offered incense and kowtowed in front of the offering stage, indicating the happy event of informing the gods and ancestors of the old spring family. After Chun Shuli finished offering incense, he and his wife Zhang Xiuli sat side by side on the two chairs on the side of the altar, waiting to accept the kneeling ceremony of his son and daughter-in-law later. After the incense is completed, the next is the bride and groom's worship ceremony, under the shouting of the spring book, spring and Xu Dan carried out three bows according to the custom, respectively, worship heaven and earth, worship parents and husband and wife.

With the last sentence of Chun Shujia's "send into the cave room", Spring took Xu Dan's hand and walked towards the hall, at the door of the hall, the second aunt handed Xu Dan an axe wrapped in red cloth, meaning that the bride entered the door with "Fu", Xu Dan hurriedly reached out and took it. Coming to the door of the wedding room, Wu Xiao and Wang Li hurriedly ran forward, opened the big red curtain embroidered with the word Xi and mandarin ducks, and Spring and Xu Dan entered back and forth.

Entering the wedding room, the next step is for the bride and groom to "sit on the marriage bed". There is a particular thing about sitting on the marriage bed, one is to choose the auspicious time of the zodiac, and the other is that the newlyweds must step on the red bricks wrapped in red paper placed under the marriage bed before they can go to bed, which means to climb high step by step.

While the bride and groom were sitting on the marriage bed, the second aunt was busy in the kitchen with a few women, and they were cooking dumplings for the bride and groom and the groom's parents. This kind of wedding dumplings are much smaller than the dumplings eaten on weekdays, with half or one-third the size of the dumplings on weekdays. Dumplings are generally boiled in three bowls, the groom's parents each have a bowl, the groom and the bride eat a bowl together, the number of dumplings in the bowl is not too much, there are only a dozen, but it must be an even number, in order to show auspiciousness. When the newlyweds eat dumplings, they should use two pairs of chopsticks, one of them will be fed to the other party, and the other party will have the rest to eat after eating. In the spring, I fed Xu Dan a few dumplings, and I ate a few myself, but the dumplings in this bowl can't all be eaten, a few must be left in the bowl, and they must be even numbers, which means that they are born early.

Chun Shuli and Zhang Xiuli were eating dumplings in their bedrooms, and the two of them were sitting on the kang on both sides, eating sweet and delicious dumplings, facing the camera lens, Chun Shuli couldn't help but shed tears of excitement. This marriage event broke his heart's son, and today he finally married his daughter-in-law home, removing one of his biggest heart problems, at this moment, Chun Shuli's heart is full of mixed feelings.

After the bride and groom finish their dumplings, the next highlight is the groom's game of throwing chestnuts, dates and peanuts, which is also the funniest part of the whole wedding ceremony. Under the arrangement of the photographer, Xu Dan turned around and sat facing the window, a piece of red paper had already been pasted on the window, and in the spring, he had to run out of the window, and shot through the red paper with the red dates and chestnuts in his hand and threw them into Xu Dan's arms. Because there were too many onlookers in the courtyard, many of them were students from the village in Spring, and these students had been coaxing in the crowd, which made Spring feel a little embarrassed, so he hurriedly grabbed a handful of peanuts, red dates and chestnuts, threw them through the red paper, and quickly turned around and ran back to the house, causing the onlookers to laugh.

3.

After these procedures are completed, the whole wedding ceremony is over.

At this time, the master of ceremonies, Chun Shujia, brought out several plates of candy, peanuts, cigarettes and other items from the house, and threw them at the crowd of onlookers, attracting the villagers to rob. This is also the custom of the Toyama area, where people loot these things just to get a little bit of the joy of the lord's family, and it is said that eating these things such as candy and cigarettes will bring good luck to themselves.

After snatching the candy thrown by the spring book, the onlookers slowly dispersed, after all, there was still a lot of farm work to be done in the field. And those greedy children were reluctant to leave for a long time, and after eating the candy they grabbed in their hands, they gathered at the door and probed their brains into the yard.