Chapter 43: Big Brother's Wedding
The author said: (Thank you to the dear ones who have given me tickets these days, thank you for the two chapters today.) (Chapter 44 has meat) I don't know if what I wrote (meat) will be banned, so hurry up and read it!)
As the old saying goes, "If you have money, if you don't have money, it's better to marry a daughter-in-law for the New Year." ”
The day after receiving the food money, Uncle Zhou sent back the 600 yuan he took from Zhou Shujie when he was the first gift.
After that, it entered the intense wedding preparation period, and there was still half a month left to get to the right day.
In this era, tidying up the wedding room is not as laborious as in later generations.
Buy some newspapers, paste the walls and ceiling of the house, and paste a layer of newly bought newspapers, and the house will look bright as soon as the paste is finished.
Sprinkle some water on the ground in the house, and when he gets wet, use a hammer to hammer it down, so that the ground is not easy to dust every time he sweeps the floor, and it is smoother.
Leaning against the wall, put on the 50 cm high wooden shelves that Guo Sange and they gave them, this wooden shelf is used to place the cabinets, and the cabinets will be accompanied by the bride's maiden family.
The house is now cleaned up.
The kitchen in the outhouse was better cleaned up, and the freshly made shelves were painted and left outside to dry before being brought back, and placed against the north wall against the wall.
Next to the bowl shelf is a panel, a vegetable mound, and a kang table for eating.
This is quite well prepared, and most people marry their daughters-in-law to eat with their mothers-in-law, and they will not prepare pots, bowls, scoops, pots or anything for others.
Uncle Zhou's family listened to Mr. Zhou's arrangement, and after marrying him, he planned to divide it out and make a single order, so that he would be so well prepared.
The last thing to clean up was the window, the glass on the new installation, Zhou Shujie helped Uncle Zhou together, and wiped the glass to be brilliant up close, and as if nothing was there from afar.
The new house has been cleaned up, and it is time to clean up the groom.
Uncle Zhou originally planned to make a new dress for Brother Zhou, but when she went to the public sales agency to buy fabrics, she was told that there were no more, saying that because she got married a lot in the autumn, all the fabrics were sold, and the rest was not enough to make a dress.
Zhou Shujie thought about it, and there seemed to be a set of new military uniforms in his box, which the pillar took back.
I said to the eldest uncle: "Auntie, don't worry, I still have a new military uniform of pillars at home, I'll go and see if the eldest brother can wear it." ”
"If this can be used, I will thank you, auntie. ”
"Thank you for your family, I'll go home and pick it up now. ”
I found it from home and sent it to the eldest brother, and Brother Zhou put it on to see that it was fat and thin, but the eldest brother did not have a pillar to grow tall, and his trouser legs were a little long.
asked the eldest brother to take it off again, and Uncle Zhou took the needle and thread to nest the trouser leg together, and sewed a section densely, this time it was just right to wear it.
Brother Zhou looked at the military uniform he was wearing, and his hand stroking the cuffs trembled a little excitedly.
He thought that the conscription had not been conscripted for his whole life, and he was insulated from the green military uniform, but he didn't expect to be able to wear this dress that he had always wanted to wear when he got married.
The wedding date is set for October 16.
It was October 15 on the woman's side.
On the 14th day of October, the woman's family will have a brother to give a dowry, and on this day the man's family will cook a table of dishes for the woman's people to entertain them.
Today is October 13, and tomorrow is the day when the mother's family comes to give the dowry.
Today, Uncle Zhou invited a few people, found a pig killer, and killed his own more than 300 catties of fat pigs.
The uncle's pig is a pig that has been raised for a year and a half, and the pork fat has four and a half fingers.
Uncle Zhou replied with a smile: "Don't sell it first, and after the happy event, if there is more left, sell it." ”
When the villagers left, they said, "If you want to sell it, you have to keep my share, and I can say hello to you!"
Uncle Zhou responded happily: "Okay! Okay, it must be!"
During the meal, I found the village chief, the secretary, and the master who helped kill the pig and the master who was in charge of tomorrow, and had a meal of killing pigs.
After they finished drinking and helped clean up, Zhou Shujie helped prepare the dishes to be used tomorrow.
Only then did I take some vegetables and meat home for my mother-in-law to eat, and I have been busy helping my aunt during this time, and I have to feed the child and run back and forth many times a day.
Fortunately, her mother-in-law can now help Zhou Shujie take care of the children, as long as Zhou Shujie is not at home, she will watch the two children in the house, and she will not go outside to sit under the tree.
October 14 at 8:40 a.m
The carriage in which the mother's family came to send the wedding arrived, and it was the aunt of the bride, with the bride's brother and the children of six relatives, who drove the carriage and pulled half a cart of things.
Uncle Zhou and Uncle Zhou stood at the door, smiling and letting their mother's family into the courtyard, and the things were placed in the new house.
This dowry is really a lot, a pair of red paint on copper rings, copper locks, wrapped with copper edges, and the front is also painted with a rich box.
One red and one green, two pairs of bedding, and a pair of pillows.
The two red lacquer basins are printed with mandarin ducks, and there are washbasins with the word Xi on the outside of the basins, and there are also some toothpaste, toothbrushes, combs, soap dispensers, and other small things are of course in pairs.
The bride's aunt is still holding a pair of bamboo-woven pots with red words in her arms.
Put these dowries with the big red word "happiness" on the table, and the originally empty new house suddenly looks new and full of joy.
At noon, there are six plates, six bowls, 12 dishes on the dining table of the mother's family, the latest is the kelp stewed dried tofu and potato chips, the mother's family tastes and says that this dish is fresh, but the most affordable is the sharp fat slices on that large plate, the mother's family is satisfied with the food and was sent away.
October 15th
Today is the woman's day, and the man can't be idle, so he set up a shed in the yard and invited the master.
That's really, frying, stir-frying, cooking, frying, slipping, steaming, stuffy, the master has exhausted all his skills, and has used eighteen kinds of martial arts, just waiting for tomorrow to show his skills in front of all the villagers.
October 16th
You may know that today is a festive day, and even the sun is much warmer than every day.
At four o'clock, he began to get up and get busy, picked out the four-walled jujube red horses from the brigade headquarters, brushed them clean, fed them, tied them with big red flowers on their heads, put on the four carriages that were cleaned up, and waited to pick up their relatives and leave.
The groom and Guan'er Zhou Quan also got up early at four o'clock, began to take a bath and put on the green military uniform, ate something to pad his stomach, wore a big red flower on his chest, and led a group of brothers to pick up relatives.
The team to pick up the relatives at five o'clock set off, the bride's house is more than 60 miles away from here, and she can't come back at noon if she goes late.
I sent the relatives away, and the family started to get busy.
He cut and washed, set up tables and stools, and washed all the dishes and bowls he had borrowed from each house, and kept them for a while.
The master also stood aside, rolled up his sleeves and instructed how to cut the fish with a knife, smeared with salty salt and salted to taste it.
According to the calculation time, the kiss can be returned at about ten o'clock, and the ceremony will be completed and the banquet will begin.
The master master began to cook at nine o'clock, stewed everything that should be stewed, and fried the same as the same to the fry, and when the two dishes were not fried, the carriage that picked up the relatives came back.