Chapter 288: Soviet-Style Wedding

The bride's family has already arrived from other places, and now they are waiting in the dormitory with the happy bride, and when Fekochinov's group of people finally entered the room like "passing five levels and killing six generals", the heavy responsibility fell on Lin Jun again. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

According to the pre-revolutionary custom, the following will be the most painful moment for the bridegroom - "ransom" the bride with money from his father-in-law, which was a lot of money in the past, but this habit has basically been lost in the past 20 years.

Fekochinov honestly applied to his father-in-law, hoping to take the bride away with his permission - find a son-in-law who is a young general, what else is there to dislike about your father-in-law?!

The bridegroom was soon allowed to take the bride away from his parents-in-law, who said, "You can take our daughter." Everyone cheered for Fekochinov, especially the officers who came to greet him, and the cheers were loud!

It's not easy! Landscoch, who served as the bridesmaid, felt the deepest: there are not many cases where he can say good things with a smiling face! Besides, the opportunity to serve as a brother's bridesmaid was really hard-won, and it was only after drawing lots with Snornik that he got the position (there is only one bridesmaid and only one bridesmaid in Russia's central wedding, and the rest of (her) friends can only be regarded as having fun. )

The newlyweds were dressed in military uniforms, and the bride Kurkina did not wear the traditional white dress - after going to the registry office, she would follow her husband's surname: Fecochinona. A group of people hugged the newcomer and hurried downstairs, lest the parents-in-law "regret it", and besides, there are a lot of places to go today, so you have to hurry up!

Lin Jun took his wife's hand and complained as he went downstairs: "Kaya, are those blockades your idea?" ”

Vukinskaya laughed vigorously: "It's too easy for you to succeed when you marry me!" ”

Lin Jun also smiled, his wife was using Fekochinov's wedding to embarrass himself as a witness, and by the way, he told himself: It's not easy to get a wife!

Downstairs, the cars are lined up in the open space, and the first of them are two "brightly lit" GAZ-MI bulletproof sedans, and the boys and girls on both sides get into the cars according to their respective camps - in addition to the bride and groom, six more are crammed into each side: the GAZ-MI car plus the driver has 8 seats.

Fekochinov is also a general, with a large number of friends and comrades, and there are hundreds of officers alone, and according to custom, a large part of them need to participate in the reception. In order to avoid the appearance of the convoy being too exaggerated (anyway, this is also in Moscow), Lin Jun helped find a few buses to load people.

Witnesses are busy today and take the bride's family and friends into the car before they can think about themselves.

Finally, he and his wife got into the GAS-A car driven by Leonov, and poked their heads out and gave the order: "Go!" Goal Happiness Palace! ”

Although it was a sunny day today, the temperature was still low enough to freeze people to death, but through the glass window, Lin Jun could still hear the laughter and singing from other cars in the team, and he was deeply touched for a while: "Kaya, I feel a little old." ”

"Hehe, you're old-hearted. How? Want to do it again? "Vukinskaya rarely jokes with her husband.

Lin Jun immediately felt that the atmosphere in the car had become strange - Leonov, who was driving, and Gusev, who was in the passenger seat, were sitting a little stiff.

"You two, if you're right, I'll just say you! Learn from Fekochinov and quickly find yourself a wife, so that you don't have nothing to do all day long! ”

Lin Jun is called unreasonable, and the two staff officers have to be a stuffy gourd - they can block bullets for the chief, and they are afraid that Lin Jun will let him turn the topic away? !

"You can also give me more staff officers to think of a way, all of them are not small, and you have many female comrades, so you can help introduce them."

"It's up to them to do it, not just me. Leonov, Gusev, the girls who accompanied the bride today are not anyone, don't miss the opportunity! Vuginskaya "gave orders" to her husband's two staff officers.

The two in front of them just nodded mechanically, and Lin Jun decided to tease them again: "These two boys plus Landscoch have long known it, you see, one is more handsome than the other, and they have been preparing for today for several days, and Gusev also went to buy new boots, saying that their hair is not bright enough!" ”

The two pairs of eyes in front of them have a signal in their eyes: Really?!

"By the way, Andrey, where did you get the bouquet that Fekochinov gave to the bride?"

"The fake flowers you prepared are not good-looking, ask the comrades of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences for help, their flower research institute has a large greenhouse, there are flowers all year round, you can't let the bride hold paper flowers into the happiness palace, right?"

"You're thoughtful."

It is not easy to find some flowers in Moscow at the end of January, but Lin Jun has a way, although there are not many at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, but there is still a bouquet of flowers, and Lin Jun also asked people to prepare two bouquets of flowers of different colors, which will be used later.

The Palace of Happiness of the Moscow City Government, like all Soviet cities, has a well-decorated and elegant Palace of Happiness - a place for official registration and marriage ceremonies. With the exception of the 13th, almost every good day of the Russian calendar has more than one wedding couple. Alexander and a number of officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs had been waiting at the entrance for a long time and greeted the convoy when it arrived.

Alexander was obviously nervous, he was also a big girl in the sedan chair - the first time!

"Comrades, everything is ready, and the ceremony will begin immediately."

"Alexander, why are you so nervous, it's rare!" Today, only Lin Jun dared to ridicule the "marriage registrar".

Alexander couldn't, and explained: "We only have 20 minutes, and there will be a few new couples to register later, and I have to return the place to people." ”

Lin Jun didn't talk much nonsense, and turned his head to organize the team.

To the melody of Mendelssohn's beautiful and joyful "Wedding March", Fekochinov is surrounded by the bride in his hand, and led by the wedding celebrant Alexander, to the hall of the Palace of Happiness on the red carpet, with a huge statue of Lenin on the wall in front of him.

All the people who participated in the ceremony formed a semicircle, the host and the bride and groom were in the center, and Lin Jun was the most advanced except for the male and female bridesmaids.

All smiles were on their faces, and when the music stopped, Alexander announced the beginning of the ceremony: as was customary, asking a few questions, such as whether you really love each other and whether you would like to get married.

The answer, of course, was yes, and then the bride and groom signed the marriage certificate at Alexander's signal.

The male and female bridesmaids handed over the wedding rings, and Lin Jun felt that Landscoch was handing over the small ring with all his attention, not daring to be careless at all, and even the smile on his face was gone: although some old customs and stereotypes have been abandoned, there are still many traditions that have been preserved - the ring must never be dropped, whether it is the custodian or the newcomer, if the ring is accidentally dropped on the ground, it will be an extremely unlucky sign.

It is said that when Pushkin was married to Natalia Goncharova, his ring fell to the ground, Pushkin's face turned pale, and the guests present began to whisper that it was a bad omen. This omen was indeed "fulfilled": a few years later, the Frenchman Dantes intervened in Pushkin's marriage, and Pushkin duel with Dantès to defend his dignity, but was seriously wounded and died soon after. This statement has survived to the present day, and as a result, the Russians' perception of this bad omen has also been preserved.

The bridegroom dared to calmly deal with the thousands of troops of the enemy, and today he became cautious about a small ring, and his expression was both happy and serious. All the guests waited quietly, and the audience burst into applause when they saw the bride and groom wearing each other's wedding rings firmly on each other's fingers.

Fekochinov first shook hands tightly with Alexander opposite, and then turned to Lin Jun: "Thank you, Comrade Marshal!" ”

"Congratulations, the Soviets have one more happy family!"

Everyone congratulated the newlyweds, but unfortunately there were some flowers missing - it didn't matter, although gifts for newlyweds usually only required a bouquet of flowers, but now no one except Lin Jun could get flowers, and other gifts that everyone gave to the newlyweds had long been piled up in the newlyweds' new home.

The motorcade rushed to Red Square, where Fekochinov and his wife presented a bouquet of pink and a bouquet of flowers respectively at Lenin's tomb, all according to tradition.

The newlyweds' new home was in a residential area of the Ministry of Internal Affairs compound, and the new home could not fit so many people in any way, so Alexander put out the Great Hall as a place for the wedding reception.

The busiest person now is Lin Jun, as a witness he has to run back and forth, and then there is a strange scene: a marshal comrade is greeting a bunch of ordinary officers. Fortunately, it was just for show, and soon the staff officers let Lin Jun be laid off: the convention just became a meaning, do you really want an air marshal doorman to welcome everyone.

The feast will last for a long time, with singing and dancing, and the most "unlucky" will be the newlyweds - at the beginning of the feast, the bride and groom will first drink a pair of wine glasses tied together with red ribbons, and then break the glasses in public and kiss them deeply, breaking the glasses to symbolize their marriage for the rest of their life. After that, the wedding banquet officially began, and after a while, someone would surely shout "Bitter!" Bitter! Whenever someone takes the lead in shouting, everyone present will echo in unison, and then the bride and groom will stand up and kiss affectionately in public. After a few minutes, someone shouted "bitterness", and the bride and groom stood up again and used sweet kisses again to calm the crying of relatives and friends...... Such a "procedure" must be repeated at least a dozen times at the wedding banquet before relatives and friends stop.

The wine is bitter and not good, and it should be sweetened with the kiss of the newlyweds.

Before the bride and groom had begun to exchange a glass of wine, Snornik walked quickly to Lin Jun and Alexander: "Comrade Stalin has arrived. ”

Stalin's uninvited arrival surprised all the guests, especially the people of the bride's family: Comrade Stalin personally came to congratulate him, and it was an incomparable honor!

"Marriage is the most beautiful thing, and I'm here." Stalin's words to Lin Jun were extremely simple.

In the evening, the wedding banquet ended, which lasted more than 4 hours. And a week later, Fekochinov will say goodbye to his wife and take command of the troops to Riga. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )