Chapter 7: We Are Married
Everything is happily busy according to the plan, and according to the agreement of our two parents in advance, we are scheduled to get married on National Day.
Mother always said that the day of Liang's marriage is the day of the bride, and the day of marriage is the day of the groom. We have a tradition here, that is, on the day before the wedding, it is the day of the woman's family to get married, on that day the woman's family will invite many guests to come to the house to celebrate, this day is also the time for the woman's family to show their strength, the woman's parents will move their dowry for their baby daughter to the middle of the yard, so that the relatives and friends who come to the wedding banquet to visit one by one, so as to show their strength, show their love for their baby daughter. However, on the day of Ye Erliang's wedding, there were a lot of guests at home, but there was no dowry.
Because when it was agreed in advance, Ye'er's mother said that she could marry Ye'er home in a beautiful way, but the dowry was nothing. With Ye'er, I don't need anything else! Before the marriage, my parents asked me to prepare 3,000 yuan for Ye'er's parents, which was not a formal dowry, but only to buy some new clothes and necessary supplies for Ye'er's marriage, such as lamps and mirrors. I have already bought Ye'er's jewelry in advance, at that time, diamond rings and platinum were not popular, and there was no special demand, because everyone's income was not high at that time, I helped Ye'er buy a pair of gold studs and a gold ring. I remember that the price of gold at that time was exactly 100 yuan a gram, and it was said that gold would maintain its value and gold would not depreciate.
At that time, my monthly salary was about 300, and gold jewelry was 100 yuan a gram, if the value of gold was maintained, according to the original salary income, the price of gold should be at least 3,000 yuan a gram, but the current price of gold jewelry is only about 500 yuan a gram, and I don't know if my inference method is right. The world is really wonderful, the original color TV set is simply sky-high, without eating or drinking, it also takes my salary income for nearly a year to buy a color TV, but now, the color TV has become the price of cabbage, and now my monthly salary can buy ten or eight color TVs.
On the day Ye Erliang got married, the rain was surprisingly heavy, and his parents said that they had not seen such a heavy rain at this time for many years, and it was from morning to night, and the rain kept falling, as if it was falling from the sky, and there was no intention to stop for a moment.
The next day, the National Day, was the day when Ye'er and I got married, and it was also the day of the groom as my mother said, the weather suddenly cleared, the warm sun rose from the horizon, with a glow, everything in the world seemed to be covered with a golden, fiery red glow, accompanied by the freshness of early autumn, it looked extraordinarily vigorous and gorgeous, everything was so beautiful.
At that time, it was not popular to wear wedding dresses, nor was it popular to hold weddings in restaurants, but generally at home, invited a chef, vacated the relevant rooms in the house, and placed the Eight Immortals table, and then the flowing water banquet. I woke up early, in fact, I didn't sleep at all the night before, and I was always silently thinking about the things I needed to pay attention to the next day, especially the relevant etiquette that I needed to pay attention to when getting married. Although the wedding at that time was relatively simple, there was no etiquette or anything like that, but the relevant wedding etiquette left by the ancestors still had to be fulfilled.
Because our wedding was so simple at that time, I really can't remember what the specific etiquette was. I just remember that day I took several of my elementary school classmates in two cars, and the car I asked my friend to find was the most beautiful and dazzling. A friend's brother-in-law was the vice president of a local Taiwanese-owned real estate company, and he had two cars that were very tall at the time, one was a Toyota bullet car and the other was a Toyota van.
Everything went well, Ye Er was wearing a red tweed shirt at the time, with the same tweed long skirt, and a big red flower on her head, which looked very much like the bride in the TV series, and happiness came like this.