I admire more and more gold diggers like Wei Ergou, who came out to venture out, they are all poor counties in Guangxi, and it takes great courage and courage to come to distant Africa to pan for gold. The conditions in the gold mine are so difficult, disease, robbery, and all kinds of black government personnel extort and so on, all say that gold mining makes money quickly, who knows the hard work and sadness behind the gold mining.

Wei Ergou returned to the rich man and has been sitting at the head of the bed smoking, one after another, two years younger than me, but looking twenty years older than me, a lot of hair has turned white, dark face and thin body, frowning, he is anxious for the matter of the mine, if he can't enter the field and set up a tent this month, when the rainy season comes, it will waste several months, I deeply understand Wei Ergou's mood and anxiety now, he is worried that the chief will still not see him, or there is no good result.

Wei Yiyun also saw that our mood was not high after we came back, and it seemed that the progress was not very smooth, seeing Wei Ergou alone in the room and sullen, he was also pacing around alone in the corridor, pushed open my door and asked me how I was doing now, I told him that the landlord did not see us and Huang Jianjun Jianjian and we went to the landlord's daughter's wedding the day after tomorrow. Wei Yiyun's eyes widened and he looked at me and said, "Thousands of high-rise buildings rise from the ground, who to rely on is better than yourself!" Xiaosheng, do you think there is any etiquette for black people to get married? “

"Etiquette, I really don't know." I scratched my head and looked at Wei Yiyun, he said very reasonably, the day after tomorrow we are going to attend the wedding of the local chief, we need to understand their wedding customs, so that we can be recognized by others, otherwise if we don't understand the rules and violate other people's customs, it will be bad, Wei Yiyun is very thoughtful.

"Xiaosheng, you speak good English, why don't you ask your black friends if they have any rules for weddings, you can also ask your whiteness, she may also know something, anyway, I think it's good to know more." Wei Yiyun said to me lightly, like a teacher who teaches earnestly, "Between what can be met and what can be sought, it seems that there is a gap between the sea and the mulberry field, but if you want to take it seriously, or it may be a coincidence." Customs and etiquette are like underwear, invisible but important! ”

The philosopher-like Wei Yiyun appeared again, I looked at him, he looked at me, and we smiled tacitly at each other.

On the day of the wedding, Wei Yiyun and I, Wei Ergou and I all wore Ghanaian traditional clothes, milky white and lilac, which Wei Yiyun and I rushed to Kumasi City to buy overnight and brought it back, it was a grass green with a bright yellow pattern, if in China, I am afraid that no one would dare to wear this kind of dazzling clothes, but I heard that blacks and white-skinned Ghanaians like it very much, perhaps because they have a black background, which can light up the overall tone. The three of us also wore local gold necklaces and wooden bracelets, and like other locals, we wore white shawls, which is probably taboo for domestic weddings, but here it is the local rule.

The wedding was held in the largest church in the east, and the courtyard of the church was decorated with wedding cakes, balloons and flowers, still in milky white and light purple against each other, and the whole courtyard was decorated in a beautiful way. Ghanaians have a well-developed artistic cell, and they can always match things and colors beautifully. We received a six-page wedding brochure at the door of the church, with the names of the bride and groom on the cover, and the details of the wedding on the inside, like a program trailer. Church ceremonies are divided into prayers, chants, hymns, Bible verses, admonitions, oaths, sermons, registrations, collection of offerings, blessings, etc. This is the first time I have entered the church in a serious way, and I feel fresh and curious, but also a little nervous. When I was a child, I felt that the wedding customs in China were very cumbersome, but I didn't expect that black weddings were more cumbersome than ours.

The three of us were stupid, others sang and we hummed, others bowed their heads and prayed and we looked down at the back of the chair in front of us, others circled around the fund-raising basin and we followed along, and only after the turn did someone whisper to us that it was church fundraising.

The church service is also interspersed with band performances and singers, and the singers sing very well. After the church ceremony, the next part is the photo of the newlyweds with the guests, in the wedding booklet there is the order of the photo: clergy, choir, groom's parents, groom's relatives, bride's parents, bride's relatives, groom's friends, bride's friends. We didn't know whether to join the photo team on the side, the chief sat in the middle to take pictures, saw us three Chinese, also recognized Wei Ergou, saw us seriously dressed up in Ghanaian costumes, he smiled and beckoned us to stand next to his daughter and son-in-law to take a group photo together, the three of us hid our inner excitement, small steps walked to the chief's daughter and son-in-law and took a photo together, the other guests around also looked at us, we were like monkeys in clothes to attract everyone's eyes to look at us.

After taking the photo, Wei Yiyun and Wei Ergou ran out of the church, I saw the opportunity to walk to the chief, knelt down on one knee and took his right hand and kissed it, then stood up and said to him, "Dear chief, congratulations on your beautiful daughter and handsome son-in-law on their wedding today, as a guest from afar and abroad, I have a gift for your daughter and son-in-law." "Because I spoke English with a Chinese accent and spoke slowly, the guests around me watched me in this strange way, and the bride and groom came over and stood next to the chief and looked at me. Wei Yiyun and Wei Ergou came in with a Taishi rattan chair, which we bought from the China Mall when we went to Kumasi, and we put the rattan chair in front of the chief in the middle of the church, and everyone came over to look at this chair, although the chair was made of rattan chair, but it was made of special golden paint, shiny, and this was a rattan chair for two people.

The chief gave us three thumbs up, and the audience applauded us along with the chief, and the chief asked the bride and groom to sit on our wicker chairs, and the audience burst into applause and laughter. The chief pulled us over to the pastor and said to the guests, "This is my good friend, my good friend from China, thank them for sending such a chair with Chinese characteristics to my daughter and son-in-law, and we Ghanaians thank our good friends for respecting our culture." "The audience applauded us again.

The wedding went ahead with several more parts, and we also wrapped 3,000 Sadie in a white envelope and handed it to the church bookkeeping registry. White is the color of their wedding, and the stool is the most noble gift for their wedding, all of which Bai Ying told me on the phone, and she also consulted the local personnel manager of their shipping company.

Later, there was a long list of ceremonies such as eating snacks, praying, singing, cutting cakes, eating, opening champagne, toasting, dancing together for the first time after marriage, and the host's speech

After the housekeeper walked away, the three of us were very excited, shouting and yelling, this effort was really not in vain, there is no hurdle in this world that cannot be passed, only the sincerity that cannot be paid!