"Okay." Jia Shi smiled and nodded, with a slight blush of shame on his face.

Yan Yuanwai looked at her and smiled slightly, looked left and right to see that no one was paying attention here, Sister Qiu and Xiao Xu and the two children were eating balls around a bowl, and the helpers were busy with their own work, so they stretched out their palms and touched Jia's flushed face, and retracted it as if they had been electrocuted, and their faces were also red.

Sister Qiu inadvertently raised her eyes to look at this scene between eating the balls, and when she saw that the two of them were six or 10 years old and innocent like middle school students, she almost burst out laughing at the balls in her mouth, oh no, all middle school students in the family are not like this now.

In less than a moment, Jia finished talking to Yan Yuanwai, and came over to lead Sister Qiu back to Qiuji's shop.

Before going to bed at night, Li Ailian dragged Jia Shi to the hospital to talk for a long time, and before Jia Shi came back, Sister Qiu fell asleep in a daze. Tomorrow is the day when Jia Shi takes her out of the pavilion, and she will immediately integrate into a new family, Sister Qiu's original self-consciousness will be very excited and very happy, but she didn't expect to sleep until dawn.

When I woke up, Jia's had already changed into the peach-colored dress of the new work, except for wearing gold earrings and golden hairpins, and a red flower was pinned to Jia's greasy hair, and in the morning sun, Jia's face was extraordinarily shy and bright.

"Awake? Get busy. Jia said with a smile and handed the clothes resting on the kang to Sister Qiu.

Sister Qiu and Xiaoxu's new clothes are all bright red, while the clothes of the real groom are cyan, and the clothes of the bride are peach. Sister Qiu got dressed and went out, the store and the courtyard were all pasted with big red happy words, Zhang Yuxiu was holding a bamboo basket to fill the fruit bowl with fried flowers and melon seeds, after looking at Sister Qiu, she couldn't help pinching Sister Qiu's face, and said with a smile: "I just told my mother about you, it's really a big thing, you can sleep until this moment!" ”

"Don't be in such a hurry, don't ...... so early," Jia said with a slightly embarrassed smile.

After eating the red eggs in sugar water, a few people just picked up the dishes, and there were people outside to congratulate them, all of them were the proprietors and mothers around the Qiu Ji shop, as well as a few vendors who had met when Jia Shi was setting up a stall on the street before, gathered in the store to talk and laugh, eat candy and flowers, and congratulate Jia on his good life.

After talking for a while, they listened to the sound of cannonballs coming from far and near on the street, clapped their hands and laughed, and said, "It's coming, it's coming!" Qi Shushu stood up and looked at the door.

Sister Qiu and Zhang Yuxiu stood in front of the crowd, and from a distance, they saw Yan Yuan's body being tall and full of energy, covered in green satin robes, with a big red flower hanging on his chest, leading a soft sedan chair and a few people to walk towards this side.

Jia Shi also walked to the door surrounded by all the women, blushing and not daring to raise his eyes to look at Yan Yuanwai.

Yan Yuanwai's always serious face was full of smiles, and his cheeks were slightly red, look

Jia Shi, who had already walked to the door, made a joke in front of everyone with difficulty, bent down and made a palm gesture of please, and said with a smile: "Madame, please get on the sedan chair." ”

Everyone laughed again, seeing Jia Shi blushing with shame, bowing his head and smiling on the soft sedan chair. Anzi hurriedly shouted: "The bride is on the sedan chair!" ”

The barmen shook the soft sedan chair on their shoulders twice, and Li Ailian, with a smile, ran over and stuffed a red envelope for the barmen, which is the rule in Huyang, the barmen want to make the bride bad, and the bride's family will give the barmen a red envelope in order to be stable on the road.

Anzi wore brand-new stone blue clothes, and held a heavy big cloth bag in his arms, and as soon as Jia got on the soft sedan chair, he grabbed it from the cloth bag and scattered it to the gathering place.

The crowd suddenly became confused, and the children outside the staff all smiled and rushed to pick up the things scattered on the ground, and many people who picked up the copper coins shouted happily: "I have found the money!" ”

There is such a custom when getting married in this area of Huyang, mixing copper coins, flowers and candy together, and spreading all the way on the road to welcome the bride home, the more people are fighting, the more festive the newlyweds will be, and the happier the main family will be.

Naturally, most of the people will only sprinkle flowers and candy, and there are not many people who can sprinkle copper coins, but Rao is like this, and there are many people who coax them, in the end, the candy and flowers are not snacks that can be eaten every day.

Sister Qiu figured out that if any family got married and had a happy event, no one would take away all the copper coins and flowers and candy, which shows how bad the family's character is......

Anzi is also very happy as a person who sprinkles candy, and the handsome young man scatters them to the places where there are many children, and looks at the children outside the staff competing for a ball, beaming with joy, accompanied by the sound of festive cannons, and the big guys are also happy.

It's just that Sister Qiu is a little regretful, Jia Shi didn't wear a red wedding dress like she watched on TV, and married Yan Yuanwai with a red hijab. In fact, she also came to the ancient times to know, in addition to the rich and noble families to get married have this kind of exquisiteness, the Zhuang family is not particular about this, some people cover the red hijab, and some people do not cover the red hijab, the new daughter-in-law wears a new red cotton jacket and red cotton pants, sitting on the board car by the groom to pull back to the husband's house is not a few. A second marriage like Jia's is full of low-key and unassuming, and he won't pay attention to this aspect.

Sister Qiu followed Li Ailian and Aunt Chunhua, and after Jia's got into the sedan chair, she locked the door of the store and followed the team to greet her relatives. Yan Yuanwai is not a very flamboyant person, ordinary people have to go around the streets of the town two or three times when they get married, Yan Yuanwai only walked around for a circle and led the team into the house.

Yan Yuanwai's home is even more lively, there are two wooden tables by the door, Mr. Long sits in front of the wooden table with a smile and is responsible for registering the gift list, Mrs. Long grinds the ink, and Lin Zhun sits next to him to count the gifts.

"Hello Mr. Long, hello Aunt Liu!" Sister Qiu smiled and saluted Mr. Long and Mrs. Long, then glanced at Lin Zhun and asked with a smile, "Brother Zhun, when are you coming?"

Target? ”

Lin Zhun smiled and said, "I came here early in the morning, and the master asked me to come early to help support it." "Now is the wheat harvest season, Lin Zhun and the Great Seal are all on vacation, Lin Zhun is wearing a clean and new green background dark striped robe, with a black belt around his waist, the little boy is tall, his wheat-colored face has a warm chuckle, and he is handsome in the golden bright sunlight in the morning.

Sister Qiu looked at Lin Zhun, the corners of her mouth bent unconsciously, and she felt more and more wise and decisive, and gave such a good boy early.

The courtyard was full of people, full of guests who came to congratulate them, most of them were all unknown to Sister Qiu, and Jia's soft sedan chair was still parked in the courtyard, and Yan Yuanwai was just in the middle of greeting the guests. The wooden table was filled with teacups of sugar flowers and raw melon seeds for guests to use, and helpers kept carrying large water stoves to add water to the teacups.

Sister Qiu looked at the place in the northeast corner of the courtyard with a lot of guests, on the wooden table made of several long boards, rows of bowls and plates were filled with dishes that had been prepared, and they were served on the table as soon as they were ready to open, and a large steamer higher than Sister Qiu was set up on the stove, and the aroma of dry food and meat was mixed together and scattered in the courtyard. A few guests gathered together and sighed, "It's Teacher Qu who is invited!" Teacher Qu didn't say anything about the wedding banquet! It's been several years since I've seen him come out to hold a wedding banquet for people, and Yan Yuanwai's face is different! ”

Here, Huyang calls the chef who makes the wedding banquet a teacher, and sometimes the master who repairs things is also called a teacher, not a "teacher" in the 21st century, but just a slightly respectful title for the artist.

"Sister Qiu!" Xiao Xu saw Sister Qiu and immediately pounced.

Sister Qiu caught him with a smile, and asked Lin Zhun quietly: "Why are there so many people?" She remembered that the Jia family and Yan Yuanwai had a total of 60 people invited, and all of them were guests outside Yan Yuanwai, except for Li Changjiao and Li Ailian's two relatives, the rest were villagers and friends like Aunt Chunhua, adding up to only 12 people, looking at the situation in the courtyard, there were more than 100 people coming, and there were many people waiting to enter the door with gifts to congratulate them.

"It's all about the town." Lin Zhun said softly, "I heard that Yan Yuanwai got married, and he came uninvited, before you came, many people put down their gifts and registered their names and left, and they didn't stay." ”

Sister Qiu nodded and asked, "What did Yan Yuanwai say?" ”

Lin Zhun said with a smile: "Everyone is here, and gifts are also given, so you can't push people out on a good day." Yan Yuanwai meant that he wanted us to take a look, if the gift was not valuable, he would accept it, and if it was valuable, he would put it aside for another registration, and he would think later. Those Xu people came and said that they were begging for a glass of wine and leaving, but they couldn't really ask people to eat a glass of wine and leave, and they also arranged to eat a wine feast on the table. Brother An Zige went to the town to buy vegetables, but the teacher said that there were too many people and there were not enough dishes to prepare. ”

"Is that too late?" Xiao Xu, who was listening to the two of them in Sister Qiu's arms, was a little worried, and the vegetarian food was okay to say, but

With freshly cooked, the meat and vegetables will be tired, all of them were made yesterday, and I am afraid that it will be too late to make them freshly.

Lin nodded on time, touched Xiao Xu's head, and said with a smile: "It's too late, today I sent 100 catties of water tofu with my father, which is enough to make a lot of dishes, and the teacher also said that there were many meat dishes made yesterday, and the plates were affordable. ”

Xiao Xu nodded like a small member, with a relieved face, "Well, then I will be at ease!" ”

The people around him laughed, and Mr. Long pinched Xiao Xu's fleshy face and quipped: "This grandfather, I am a married boy x heart!" ”

Mrs. Long, who was grinding ink on the side, smiled angrily, stretched out her palm and patted Mr. Long's ear, and said with a smile: "The old man is not serious, why don't you talk about four or six when you put the children in front of you!" ”

This is also a reason why Sister Qiu likes Mr. Long, if you don't say it, others will never be able to see it, love to laugh, love to play with children, Mr. Long, who has no half of the shelf, used to be a student, and his speech is easy to understand, never drop his bookbag in front of people to show off, thinking back to her old Xiucai father, but often hang it on the side of his lips, for fear that others don't know that he is a scholar.

Mr. Long didn't pay too much attention to his wife's training, and said with a smile to a few children: "Don't gather around me, I'm going to worship the church immediately, you guys hurry up and see the excitement!" Dazhun goes, too! ”

"Huh!" Lin Zhun responded with a smile, and dragged Sister Qiu and Xiaoxu to the courtyard.

The place in the courtyard has been cleaned up, because Yan Yuan's parents have all passed away, and the main seat is a yellow table paper with the names of the two old people written on it, and the master of ceremonies who presided over the wedding is a white-bearded old man wearing a green cloth robe, who is shouting at the moment: "The auspicious time has come, please the newlywed!" ”

"Sister Qiu, stand here!" The Great Seal, who had already taken a good position, saw them and beckoned to them with a smile.

After a few people passed, Sister Qiu saw the emcee clearly, and looked at the face that Jue didn't recognize, but Mr. Zeng and a few people standing behind the emcee she recognized, "Where is this person?" Sister Qiu asked.

Lin Zhun said softly: "It's the head of the academy, he is old, and he usually rarely comes out, and we rarely see him, but I didn't expect Yan Yuanwai to invite him to be the master of ceremonies." "It's really big enough.

During the speech, Yan Yuanwai took a red silk gathered into a big flower, handed one end to the soft sedan chair, pulled the other end to invite Jia out of the soft sedan chair, and walked to the empty ground, facing the yellow table tablet of Yan Yuanwai's parents.

After Jia Shi came out, someone immediately set off a string of cannonballs, and many young people who loved to play and make trouble shouted loudly, "The bride is so beautiful!" ”

"We're going to eat the bride's toast!"

Jia Shi didn't expect to come out and bumped into someone to make a joke, and immediately blushed, lowered his head and grabbed the red satin cloth in his hand, didn't even dare to raise his head, followed behind Yan Yuanwai, and walked to the tablet.

It is precisely because of this that the more she pays, the greater her expectations, and it is even more intolerable for someone to humiliate and slander her, this person is still Yan Yuanwai's original wife, Xiao Xu's biological mother.

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Shi suddenly felt that his face was wet, raised his palm and wiped it, only to realize that he had shed tears, and looked down, the big red brocade in his hand was extremely dazzling and ridiculous. Jia Shi let out a sigh, took out a silk handkerchief and wiped his face, lost the big red brocade in his hand, and walked to Sister Qiu's side, saying as he walked: "Sister Qiu, let's go!" ”

This time she is really dead, and she doesn't want these very superfluous things anymore in the future, and it is enough to raise Sister Qiu with all her heart, and watch her daughter get married and have children, and live a happy life.

Sister Qiu also wiped her face, responded, and was about to go over, when she saw Yan Yuanwai grab Jia's palm and wrist, and said hurriedly: "Don't go!" After a pause, he glanced at Ma Xuelan again, and said in disgust: "If you want to go, she will go!" ”

"Aoyama!" Ma Xuelan cried again, "Our husband and wife relationship for a few years is not compared to a foreign widow's family? Where's she going? Castle peak...... I'm Xiaoxu's mother! Isn't it better for me to take care of you two than an outsider? ”

Yan Yuanwai wiped his face, laughed sarcastically, and said: "I didn't think you would come back, before you died outside, but now that you are back, it just so happens that I will speak clearly." You're coming back? Ma Xuelan, you touch your conscience and ask, are you embarrassed to come back? At first, you thought I was just a petty official, I couldn't make money, I couldn't buy you jewelry and clothes, Xiaoxu was only two years old, I didn't want to beg you, I just knelt down for you, you still ran away with the people who came to the town to do business......" Yan Yuanwai's tears also flowed out, and he continued to speak: "I don't care about these Xu, who wants me Yan Qingshan to be unbearable!" You look good, and you love to dress up, I don't have the ability to support you, I don't deserve you! Let's go, let's live with a rich man. ”

"What do you mean by that? You married me at the beginning, and I gave birth to a boy for you, you, why don't you admit it? Qingshan, Xianggong! Xiaoxu is the son of the two of us, and our family of three will live a good life in the future, will it be successful? I...... I know it's wrong, I've been repenting every day for so many years! Every day, I think about you and Xiaoxu! I...... Qingshan, we are a family! I was wrong, forgive me! As she spoke, Ma Xuelan shaved her ears in the face, crisp and loud, obviously ruthless.

(End of chapter)