The city keeper invited someone to combine the birthday of the two people in the bright moon of the city, and set the wedding day on the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month (the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar), a few days before the Chinese New Year.

After receiving the day sent by the matchmaker, Mingyue's family began to buy wood, asked the carpenter master, made a dowry, and painted a full set of wooden furniture such as beds, cabinets, tables, chairs, etc., painted with red lacquer, and painted with happy words and paintings to show joy.

I also went to pull the fabric, made a red wedding dress, red upper, and made red all over the body, and also made a red quilt cover, and asked the one who played cotton to make several large beds of cotton quilts, put them in the red cabinet, and on the day of the wedding, it was counted as a dowry, and they were picked up to the husband's house together.

When the day was approaching, the city guards sent people to pick up several loads of soju, pork, whole fish, steamed buns, wedding cakes, etc., for the woman's marriage.

The wedding cake here is called frosting cake, the bowl mouth is large, the filling is mainly white sugar, supplemented by sesame peanuts, etc., the outer skin is a thin dough cake, the front is printed, the middle is printed with the words "double happiness", baked to burnt yellow, the middle printing is red, beautiful and festive.

This kind of wedding cake, generally used as a return gift, there are relatives and friends to congratulate the joy, according to the price of the gift, the pen on the spot to take the cake in return, at least two, good things come in pairs.

This kind of cake, children eat one, almost full, the portion is very large, adults can not eat one, because it is too sweet, generally cut it, pick up a piece to taste the fresh fragrance, but also a little joy to draw auspicious.

On the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, Mingyue's family has invited the kitchen officer (cook), the help kitchen, the wine hall (running hall), chores, etc., and borrowed the tables, chairs, bowls and plates on the first day, and built a few large stoves, and the kitchen officer also made soup (broth), and helped the kitchen to wash and cut vegetables according to the instructions of the kitchen officer, and put them in different categories in case they were not needed.

On the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, early in the morning, the Wang family set off firecrackers, relatives and friends came in an endless stream to congratulate, Mingyue's parents dressed up and greeted guests, Mingcheng followed a few uncles, beaming, busy doing things.

Mingyue sat in the room, let a few mothers-in-law clean up, wash her hair, comb her hair and makeup, change into a brand-new red wedding dress, put on a phoenix crown, and was as handsome as she walked down the stage.

At noon, Mingcheng's father was afraid that he would snub the three dogs, so he specially pulled the three dogs to the upper seat and sat beside him, although he coped with round after round of toasts, Mingcheng's father still drank several large glasses of wine with the three dogs, and in the end, the two of them were actually drunk.

Not long after lunch, the gong and drum team outside began to beat the gongs and drums, and the relatives and friends who carried the dowry began to move out the dowry one by one, tie it up, and Mingyue's mother held new clothes, quilt sheets, shoes and socks, fabrics, etc., one by one into the boxes and cabinets, as well as the red envelopes at the bottom of the box.

The sedan chair is also ready, the firecrackers remember, urging the bride Mingyue to get on the sedan chair; Mingyue looked at the place where she was born, this place of attachment, and couldn't help but feel sad, looking at her mother, she didn't even call out a word of "mother", and she was already crying silently.

The mother is also mixed with joy and sorrow, I didn't know when I got married before, but now that I am a mother, I know how contradictory it is, not only happy for my daughter to find a good husband, but also sad for myself to lose this baby brought up since childhood.

Fortunately, this loss is only a temporary loss, this is not far from Mingyue's husband's house, and you can often visit your mother's house. In any case, in that situation, it will inevitably be uncomfortable; Crying and marrying, crying and marrying, they all have to cry and get married.

Mingyue also asked someone to find a three-dog mother, and she also hugged and cried, and the others who watched it sighed, thinking that Mingyue was very good, and even her godmother had to hug and cry, she was a loving girl.

In the end, Mingyue was carried by her brother Mingcheng, sent out the door, sent to the sedan chair, and sat down; Suddenly, firecrackers rang out in unison, gongs and drums were noisy, and the team of gongs and drums walked in the front, the sedan chair followed behind, and the matchmaker followed alongside, obeying the bride's call.

The dowry picker walked at the end, and there was also a boy from his own family, carrying a hundred son bucket (commode), in which some dates, peanuts, longan, and chickens were placed, which meant "early birth of a noble son".

Blowing and blowing, halfway through, these relatives and friends who carried the sedan chair and the dowry pretended to be tired and didn't leave, and the matchmaker told the bride that the bride took out some red envelopes and asked the matchmaker to send two each, and some wanted to have double, but where could the mouth say that the matchmaker's mouth was "scolded" back.

It's almost time to defend the city's house, not far away, the city guard is neatly dressed, heroic, riding a high-headed horse, leading a large team of people and horses, coming to greet the relatives, changing the sedan chair, carrying the dowry.

When I arrived at the entrance of the village, the firecrackers suddenly sounded, all the way to the door of the new house, and the firecrackers were put off for a long time, and when I arrived at the door, the bride Mingyue wearing a red turban, under the hand of the matchmaker, got off the sedan chair and handed it to the groom to guard the city, and the two held hands with the fire plate at the door of the house.

The two came to the middle of the hall and began to worship the hall, and the deacon and master of ceremonies shouted: Worship heaven and earth! Two worship the high hall (worship the city parents)! Husband and wife worship each other! Entrance to the Cave ——!

The two of them entered the cave room surrounded by everyone, Mingyue's headscarf could not be picked up, and they could only sit on the edge of the bed, unable to see what was going on outside, only hearing men, women and children constantly coming in to see, chattering non-stop.

The banquet has begun to be set up outside, relatives and friends have entered the table one after another, the woman carries the sedan chair and carries the dowry at a table, everyone has a bowl of longan stewed eggs, each bowl has three or four whole eggs beaten on the dried longan, stewed with water and rock sugar, it is a pre-dinner dessert to entertain distinguished guests.

Then the wine and food were like flowing water, served on the tray in the wine hall, and handed to each table one after another, everyone began to drink heartily, and the wine began to shout loudly, but this generally waited until the groom came to toast.

The groom guards the city with a wine glass in his hand, followed by a partner holding a wine bottle, starting from the table, all the way to toast, fortunately, the city is young, can carry the elders and peers of this table to persuade the wine, after a while, has already drunk a few bottles of wine.

People are in good spirits on happy occasions, and the amount of wine in Shoucheng has increased greatly today, but they have almost drunk, their faces are flushed, and they begin to walk a little like stepping on cotton, and they shake up a little, and the relatives and friends next to them stand up and say:

"I can't let him drink anymore, I have to go into the cave room tonight", causing everyone to burst into laughter......

The children finally stayed up until they finished drinking the wedding wine, and everyone rushed into the cave room, waiting for the new house, and the bride Mingyue removed the headscarf in order to eat dinner.

At this time, the master of ceremonies held a red candle in his hand and shouted "Applause in the cave room":

Happy! Holding a red candle to watch the New Year, a red flower on the head, a little red rouge on the mouth, and a hand like a winter bamboo shoot out of the mountains, like a fairy descending to the earth.

Happy! The bride and groom are smiling, the marriage is connected with the branches, the talented woman is a true match, and she is born a good couple.

Happy! The auspicious day and the good day are newly married, the marriage of the two surnames is determined, the ancestors are blessed, and the descendants of the Fulu Shouxi are passed on.

Happy! The golden chair is placed above, the tooth bone bed is placed below, the ayaluo tent is hung on the bed, and a pair of good mandarin ducks are placed in the tent.

Happy! A good son gives birth to five, and a good girl has a pair; The eldest prince is a product of the dynasty, the second son is a jinshi, the third son is connected for three years, the fourth son is a four-grade royal hall, and the fifth prince is young, and the emperor is named the inspection of money and grain; The eldest daughter, Miss Qianjin, and the second daughter, Zhenggong Niangniang.

After singing a colorful word, the master of ceremonies will encourage everyone to ask the bride for "rock candy" (before the bride gets married, the mother's family breaks up large pieces of rock candy and wraps many small packets in red paper, which is considered to be joy candy).

The bride Mingyue's face was blushing, in the candlelight, it was even more moving, everyone was stunned, and they forgot to ask the bride for candy, and under the reminder of the master of ceremonies again, everyone came back to their senses, and countless hands stretched out in front of the bride, begging for candy.

Mingyue opened the red basket beside her, grabbed a handful, and sprinkled it to everyone, just like returning to the house to grab steamed buns, the child tried hard to find it on the black ground, and found one that could be happy for a long time, this rock candy was so delicious, put it in your mouth, you can suck it for a long time.

Then the emcee will mobilize everyone to ask the bride for red envelopes and money, the bride must be unwilling at first, but under the constant cheers of the emcee, she is afraid of breaking the color head, and finally will take out some red envelopes of tobacco candy and share them with everyone.

Finally, the master of ceremonies will sing "Persuasion Color":

Happy! Looking at the bride with joy, the bride was born a good blessing, honored her in-laws and practiced women's ways, and lived side by side with brothers (妯娌).

Seeing that the time is almost up, the master of ceremonies finally came to a concluding sentence:

Happy! The big and small uncles are busy in the new house, and the time is twelve o'clock, and the bride and groom are going to bed.

After singing and cheering, the master of ceremonies announced the end of the cave room, and everyone withdrew, leaving the cave room for the bride and groom.

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