Chapter 276 Life Events

1.

In the blink of an eye, the summer vacation of 1996 began, and in the spring, I was still busy in the school's art tutoring class as always, occasionally taking time to go to the county seat to find Sun Li or Liu Xiangyang and a few other friends to get drunk.

Liu Xiangyang did not listen to his family's arrangement of "entering politics", but still adhered to his original intention of teaching, and has been engaged in art teaching in Huxian Normal School with peace of mind, engaging in a little artistic creation in his spare time, submitting articles to newspapers or participating in art exhibitions in some provinces, cities and regions, and has repeatedly made some achievements, and has become a well-known figure in Huxian art circles.

With the full support of Spring and Liu Xiangyang's funds, Sun Li's "Vigorous Decoration Company" has been successfully opened, and quickly occupied a small share of the Huxian indoor and outdoor decoration market and 100% of the market of "three-dimensional plane schematic diagram" at the fastest speed. Sun Li's father also disregarded the previous suspicions, let go of the mustard between the father and son caused by Sun Li's secret resignation, and used his relationship in the officialdom to raise funds, pull projects, and pave the way for the development of Sun Li's decoration company.

In addition to their heartfelt blessings, spring is more from Sun Li and Liu Xiangyang to see a spirit, a kind of hard work, tenacious struggle to be the will and spirit of the times. This spirit has also been inspiring Spring, inspiring him to dedicate himself to the cause of education he loves, to the development of education in Hushan Town, and to the social and economic development of Hushan.

2.

Xu Dan is still busy between Hushan Middle School and Shimengouzi Village as always, and he has to go to Hushan Middle School and Shimengouzi Village almost every week, enjoying the treatment of ice and fire. For the love and love of the spring family, Xu Dan treats him with sincerity. As for the indifference and ignorance of spring, Xu Dan didn't think about it at all, he should send delicious food, he should wash his clothes, and he didn't say much, he always wanted to warm his cold heart with his meticulous care and care for spring.

In the face of Xu Dan's considerate care and perseverance, the only thing left in spring is helplessness. The old people of Lao Chun's family seem to have decided that Xu Dan is Spring's destined fiancée, ignoring Spring's wishes and demands at all, and are discussing with Xu Dan's parents about "marrying" and "sending a date" to Spring and Xu Dan to prepare for marriage.

In previous years, the "fixation" and "sending the day" in the Toyama area were not done together, but the "fixing the family" came first, and the "sending the day" came later. "Marriage" is to choose a date to set the marriage, which is a verbal agreement, but there must be a form, generally the elders of the two families get together for a drink, which is equivalent to the parents of both sides "recognizing" each other, and it can be regarded as the parents of both sides acquiescing to the interaction between the two young people. According to the convention, the man's parents find the old man who will check the day according to the birth date of the man and the woman to check the date of the marriage, and then the man prepares a gift box and sends it to the woman in the form of written words. After the woman receives the gift, she also returns the gift, and then both parties prepare all the items they need for marriage.

In recent years, the marriage customs in the Hushan area have changed slightly, and many people are troublesome, and they all do it together with "fixing marriage" and "sending days", collectively referred to as "sending days".

"Sending the day", also known as looking at the day, the mother-in-law's post, the next dowry, in ancient times called the "invitation period", is the marriage custom that has been passed down for thousands of years in the Hushan area and continues to this day. "Sending the date" was originally only the date chosen by the man to hold the wedding, and the woman was asked to agree, and in the Toyama area, the man also had to give the dowry at the same time.

In the past, the wedding gift was mostly the red shirt, jacket, ring, pendant, etc., which were given by the man to the woman, wrapped in red envelopes, and planted cypress branches, taking the meaning of "longevity and 100 years old". With the development of society, the items of the dowry have also been changed, and now most of the men buy a new set of ready-to-wear pants, new leather shoes, and new satchels for the woman, and those who are particular about it also buy a valuable women's watch for the woman. In addition, according to the woman's requirements, 20 to 40 large steamed buns, commonly known as "Shangtou Dumplings", for the woman to distribute to her relatives and friends, indicating that the family should prepare to marry the daughter, so that relatives and friends can start to send wedding gifts. In addition to these, the man also has to prepare gifts for "sending the day", which is nothing more than "a knife of meat, a pair of chickens, a pair of fish" and the like, anyway, they must be paired in pairs to show auspiciousness and wishes. In addition to these items, the man should also give the woman "paving money" according to his own economic situation and the woman's requirements, and the money for the woman's dowry ranges from two or three thousand to ten thousand.

3.

The parents of Chun and Xu Dan, in order to promote the marriage of the two as soon as possible, agreed that all the ceremonies should be simple, and Xu Dan's family did not put forward any requirements for the standard of the dowry, but only gave a reply with the word "casual".

The woman said casually, but Lao Chun's family couldn't be casual, so they still prepared all kinds of dowry gifts according to the customs of Hushan Town, and all the chicken, duck and fish were prepared. "Gift meat" is even more unexpected to invite Chunshu Wu to slaughter a domestic fat pig, remove the head and hooves and water, and use the rest as a dowry, which is definitely the first in Hushan Town. "Paving money" Chun Shuli wrapped 4,000 yuan in red paper according to his family's economic situation, although it is not too much, but it will definitely not lose the face of Lao Chun's family. As for the clothes, leather shoes, satchels and other things for the woman, they were also bought by the second aunt of the spring with Xu Dan and the two of them to go to the county seat together. The "welcome post" (commonly known as the "head post") to be used on the day of the "sending day", and the post of the precautions for the bride's dress, open face, dressing, direction and time of getting on and off the sedan chair, etc., because no one in the village can write, after Chun Shuli and Xu Dan's father said hello to many times, he also omitted the procedure of "greeting the kiss".

On July 31, 1996, the sixteenth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, Chun Shuwu drove his own agricultural tricycle, carrying Chun Shuli, Chun Shujia and a car full of dowry gifts, and went to Xu Dan's house to hold a ceremony of "sending the day".

Although Chun Shuli repeatedly asked that he must be present on the day of the spring "sending day", Chun still used the excuse that he wanted to go to the Education Bureau for a meeting, entrusted the students of the art tutoring class to Wu Xiao to take care of them, took a car to the county seat alone, ran to Sun Li's office and hid for two days, and got drunk a few times in depression.