Chapter 51: Dressing Up the Bride
On the day of Momiji's wedding, it was even more lively.
The women's family is a morning visitor, and many of the people who come to help come from home without breakfast start to get busy.
Momiji got up at the beginning of the year and began to take a bath and get dressed. Originally, because Xiaohu's parents were not there, it was not easy for Erya to get to the bride, but the second aunt and eldest aunt had to let Erya comb and dress up the red leaves.
Momiji also said, "Brother-in-law! You are your own family, how can you have so many sermons? I might have to ask you to send me to my mother-in-law's house later! ”
"Huh?" Erya really didn't know that there was a custom of sending relatives to sisters-in-law or brothers-in-law.
When Erya didn't think about combing Momiji's hair before, she thought about teaching Xi Niang to braid Momiji's pipa head, because this hairstyle was suitable for the clothes she was going to wear today.
Since she combs her hair today, let her come completely.
When Erya made a headdress before, it was a peacock. Because he couldn't afford to buy all kinds of gems, Er Ya drew patterns and made a silver skeleton. The feathers after that are all patterns made of silk and sewn into them.
The peacock's head is on the top of the hair, raised high, made of sterling silver, at the place of the peacock's neck, is a comb, firmly tied to the hair on the top of the head, and then the wings on both sides are vertical and movable combs, and the two ends of the movable one are on the neck and one on the tail.
The two wings and tail were made of silk into small flowers of different colors, and then sewn one by one onto a silver shelf.
The tips of the feathers on both wings and the tips on the tail are all made of fiery red pomegranate flowers.
Of course, such a complicated thing was not made by Erya herself, but Erya sent the patterns and satin materials to his grandmother's house, which was made by Momiji and a few cousins.
Put on a headdress for Momiji, fold the excess of the long braid back from the inside, tie it tightly, and tie it to the end of the silver skeleton behind the flower with a red head rope.
Looking at the bride's head again, it looks like a proud peacock, proud of a qiē. Not much worse than that phoenix gem headdress!
Erya sighed secretly, "Hey! If nothing else, at least you don't have to use a phoenix headdress, it's safe! Who knows if there is any prohibition in this land? ”
Once you've combed your hair, it's time to put on makeup. The bride here can not wear powder, but she must blush her cheeks and lips.
There is no good powder, and there is no multi-colored colored powder. I can only paint a light makeup on the autumn leaves.
The eyebrows are roughly plucked with a few miscellaneous hairs, and the eyebrow shape is okay, and there is no need to repair it. Use cotton balls on the face and gently pat it with powder.
The middle line of the bridge of the nose is slightly heavier with white powder, which makes the nose look a little straight. In this way, the three-dimensional sense of the face is accentuated by the nose.
The cheeks are patted with a faint red, which is too thick to make people feel "this girl is so stupid".
Get everything done, and then put on a coat for Momiji. The whole person became estimated that even the second aunt couldn't recognize it.
The coat is worn on the inside side, and the outside is a face made of red satin and muslin cloth remade by Erya. The cuffs have rabbit fur in turn, the hem and placket have rabbit fur turned out of one side, and the hat is lined with red satin on the inside and rabbit fur on the outside. There is a tonal drawstring belt at the waist, and the buckle is a pin-back loop that can be turned up and down. It's simple, it looks really simple, but it's not simple, it really hurts Erya's brain.
The shoes are rabbit fur and mid-heel boots. Because of the calculation error, there are some pinched feet. Momiji was dressed just right, so he gave it to Momiji, and Momiji had to wear it on the day of marriage. She was reluctant to dye it red, so she brushed it on the side of the sole of her shoe with a circle of red.
Er Ya doesn't think so, the shoes of the next generation, there are too many beautiful, so, I look down on the things I make, but the red leaves are treated like a baby, and Er Ya is still very happy.
When Erya was still putting on makeup, there were already people coming one after another, like a marquee, going in and out of the room of the red leaves.
When Momiji got dressed and stood in the middle of the house, they all ran in to see what the finished product looked like.
A cousin-in-law shouted, "Ouch! I'm dripping my god too! Why has it changed so much? I really don't recognize this as a leaf. ”
"Roar! How is this tiara made? As he spoke, he wanted to touch it.
Someone next to him was busy stopping, "Huh! You can't touch it, if you get the flower to fall off, it's unlucky. ”
The man who wanted to touch it retracted his hand and said with a wry smile: "Yes, yes!" ”
There was another voice of surprise: "Ah! This clasp can't be gold, right? ”
Erya hurriedly replied: "It's gold, I went to the shop, I originally wanted to make copper, but people didn't fight." In order to match the color of the garment, it had to be made of gold. However, look at this, it's all buckles, and it doesn't take much gold. Even handmade together, two pairs are only one or two silver. ”
An old woman shook her head: "That's not cheap! And the ring around the waist is also of gold? ”
Erya looked at the belt buckle, but she didn't dare to say it, and hurriedly said: "It was gilded, and then I found a coppersmith to beat it, and I found someone to gild it." "Actually, it's gold.
While he was talking lively, Xiaolong ran in in a panic.
"Sister-in-law! Sister-in-law! They let my birds go! ”
Erya was surprised! It's okay if the harrier runs away, but don't hurt anyone. That thing looks like it's fierce!
Erya pulled Xiaolong to walk home, and asked, "Where is your brother?" ”
Xiaolong ran behind his sister-in-law, but his little arms and legs couldn't keep up with his sister-in-law, and he couldn't take care of his sister-in-law's words.
As soon as Er Ya turned around, he hugged Xiaolong's two armpits. Xiaolong can finally speak, "Brother is going to put the cannon on the tree, and he will set off the cannon in a while." ”
When the second girl arrived home, she saw that the dowry that was in the hall had been carried to the courtyard. The room where the harrier was locked is unknown.
She searched around the house but didn't find the harrier, and it was estimated that it had really flown out. So I searched around the yard again, but I still didn't find it, so Erya stopped looking for it.
Tell the man who is in the courtyard to look at the dowry: "Come! After a while, if the harrier flies back, tell the living who help carry the dowry not to catch it, lest it hurt anyone. ”
"Okay! I know, it's just sister-in-law, it's okay for you to let them come here, I'm so annoying to sit here stupidly alone! ”
"Don't worry, it is estimated that the person who picks up the kiss will be coming soon, or it won't take long for you."
Er Ya re-tidied up Xiaolong, patted the dust on the fur coat, and put on the pointed woolen hat.
On February days here, people are not like in Erya's original life, where they all take off their cotton jackets and put on woolen yarns and jackets.
People here are wearing hollow jackets, and if they take off their jackets, they are single clothes, and the people here especially adhere to the ancient saying "autumn should be frozen and spring should be burned". Therefore, it is normal to wear a coat or coat in February. "Twenty-eight days of disorderly dressing" is estimated to be spread in this area.
The second aunt was busy with Xiaolong at home, and the second aunt was nerve-wracking when she was at home to arrange for someone to send off her relatives.
"Sister-in-law! What do you say about Xiaohu's daughter-in-law? If you don't arrange for her to go, in our family, the daughter-in-law of Yezi's peers, she is the only one. Arrange to go, but the Zhuangzi of Ye Zi's mother-in-law and the nephew and daughter-in-law's Zhuangzi are next to each other! Their family must go to drink wine, and if they do, I'm afraid they won't be able to keep beating Xiaohu's daughter-in-law. ”
The eldest aunt lowered her head and thought about it, and said, "She can't go away!" Otherwise, Ye Zi's mother-in-law's family will say that the nephew and daughter-in-law look down on Ye. You greet your mother-in-law and protect your niece and daughter-in-law. It's really not good, as soon as the relatives arrive there, let the niece and daughter-in-law come back. ”
The second aunt nodded, "Then arrange it like this first!" I'll tell my daughter-in-law in a while, if she wants to go, forget it. ”
Erya doesn't have anything, she just doesn't know them, and she's afraid that something will go wrong. I'm not afraid that they will beat her.
The pick-up team is here when everyone is looking forward to it!
At the forefront are the matchmakers of both sides, the man's in front and the woman's in the back. Because whoever is in front will keep taking things and scattering people, so they all like to shrink back. At this time, it is often the man's matchmaker who is helpless in front.
Then there is the daughter-in-law of Quanfu invited by the man, carrying a bucket of rice wrapped in a red envelope in her right hand, and a red paper umbrella made of red lacquered paper in her left armpit.
Behind them were two teenage girls about the same age as Hongguo.
Then there are candy, pastries, red knife meat, and six tea ceremony picks.
The second girl was not happy when she saw the groom come to pick up the bridegroom in person. The second aunt saw it and asked her: "Little tiger daughter-in-law!" What's wrong? ”
"Why didn't the groom come to pick him up? The shelves are pretty big! ”
The second aunt laughed "snorted"! "No, it's not! Isn't this the case for regular kissing? You forgot? ”
"Huh?" Erya was a little stupid, and said secretly: 'Why am I stupid again?' ’
The second aunt seemed to come back to her senses again, "Oh! Do you think that when you got married, Xiaohu personally picked it up, that's good! ”
Erya turned her head in embarrassment, and didn't know what to say, so she simply didn't say anything and let the second aunt make up for it.
The door of the second aunt's house was blocked, and the people inside asked for red envelopes from the matchmakers on both sides, which was the same as they knew. Erya watched the excitement while contrasting.
The second aunt returned to the old family's kitchen and told the sister-in-law about the joke of the second girl.
"Ouch! Sister-in-law, I can see Xiaohu's daughter-in-law angry today. ”
The eldest aunt put down the work in her hand and asked very uncertainly, "What's wrong?" Who provoked her? ”
"Nope! It's her oops! It's really hard to explain. The second aunt suddenly felt that it was so difficult to explain this matter clearly.
"That's the case, today, Xiaohu's daughter-in-law didn't see the leaf boy coming to pick up her relatives, so she mistakenly thought it was a big shelf over there, and she was very angry!"
The eldest aunt sighed when she heard this, "Hey! It was also because we were too poor at that time to afford to hire anyone, so we let Xiaohu pick it up by himself, and my nephew and daughter-in-law can think like this, and I can still get some comfort in my heart. ”
"Hey! I always thought that Xiaohu's daughter-in-law didn't care about anything, but how do you know, she cares so much about this! ”
"That's so badly wounded by those blind people! By the way, how many tea ceremony pickers came? ”
The second aunt said proudly: "Six! ”
"Roar! How did it come so much? Doesn't it mean that the conditions of the men's family are not good? Did you ask people to come over and say hello? Say that our family's dowry? ”
The second aunt suddenly felt that she was at a loss, and defended in a low voice: "I didn't say anything else, I just brought a message to his family, asking them to vacate all the new houses and not put anything down." ”
The eldest uncle was so angry that she wanted to beat her brother-in-law and scolded: "You ignorant person, if Xiaohu gets married, his nephew and daughter-in-law will also come like this, do you think we will marry or not?" People can treat our family kindly, why don't you know that you are also kind to other people's families? ”
The second aunt shrunk her neck and said aggrievedly: "His family is always better than ours!" ”
The eldest aunt glanced at her brother-in-law, "Don't talk about those who don't have it, when they go back, they must let the four pickers bring them back, lest there be nothing in the return gift." ”
The second aunt pulled a long voice: "Got it!"
Then he made a strange face behind his sister-in-law's back, and the chef who helped saw it, and almost cut his hand with a knife.