I followed people's eyes to look out of the door, and sure enough, I saw a large group of people walking in, and those people were surrounded by those people in the middle wearing a big red dress, and the one with a red hijab was the bride, all of them were silent and embraced the bride, and there was no trace of joy, all of them seemed unusually quiet, and the atmosphere of the general wedding was a little different, I watched the bride A group of people stopped at the door, and an older person walked out of the crowd and walked to the center of the ancestral hall, and all of them turned their eyes to him, I looked at him, he looked very old, his hair was all white, and he still had a big white beard on his chin, which looked very fairy-like.

I saw him walk in silence to the center of the ancestral hall, and then pick up the incense that was placed next to the row—these things are usually prepared in the ancestral hall for worship. I saw him light three sticks of incense and begin to worship respectfully.

I withdrew my gaze and looked at Xiaomei, who understood what I meant, pursed her lips, and told me: "He is our patriarch and Xiaoqing's father, wait a minute, he will hold the whole wedding." "So that's the case, no wonder the groom has no ability to resist, the bride's family is really very powerful in the village, I looked at Xiaomei dissatisfied: "Why didn't you tell me before." Xiaomei smiled awkwardly and explained to me: "Like the ancestral hall, the patriarch and the like are all old antiques, and I don't bother to do this outside, I just met you at that time, and I am embarrassed to talk about it." Her words sounded reasonable, and I didn't pester her anymore, but turned my eyes intently to watch the wedding go on.

I saw that the patriarch had completed the worship, only to see him only get up, glanced at the crowd, saw him look over, I quickly lowered my head, although it was above board to follow Xiaomei over, it was not a big deal to be seen by him, but I just felt a little weak inexplicably, fortunately, his purpose was not to look at people carefully, but like a deterrent, the people present were swept away by his gaze, and it was even more silent, seeing people's reactions, he seemed to be very satisfied, he nodded, and announced: "The wedding begins." After saying this, as soon as he waved his hand, a group of people in strange dresses came up, and then waved the magic weapon in their hands, and began to dance strangely, and I watched everything with great interest, and at the same time, the wedding dishes were served in turn.

The first dish that was served scared me, it was actually a complete pig's head, the pig's head was placed in a special red lacquer plate, with its eyes closed peacefully, looking like it was indisputable, I looked at this Zhu Tou, and suddenly felt that this scene was very similar to an occasion in my mind, but I just couldn't remember. The dishes that came up immediately were all fish, meat, and the like. I looked at these dishes, my stomach suddenly screamed, I glanced at Xiaomei in embarrassment, fortunately she didn't hear, but watched the performance of that group of strange people intently.

What's so nice about this, I muttered in my heart, I just hope that it can be finished quickly, let me eat something, finally, the group of people finally went down, I just picked up the chopsticks, and suddenly heard a full of anger from the ancestral hall: "The bride and groom are invited to enter." This sound attracted me, I raised my head, looked around, and found that the people around me did not move the chopsticks, but stared intently at the door, I thought about it, or follow the local customs, and put down the chopsticks.

Finally, the long-awaited bride was supported by two middle-aged women to enter, I thought in my heart, the posture is still very big, to so many people to hold, at the beginning of the bride came in, surrounded by that number of people, it is really not real, first when she approached, I looked at her carefully, sighed, it is really exactly the same as the dress in ancient times, heavy dress, phoenix crown, red hijab, and long skirt, the whole person covers her feet from head to foot, she can't see her appearance clearly at all, and the dress is so thick, Covering the curves of her figure tightly, I couldn't see the beauty and ugliness at all, I sighed, a little regretful, I came this far, and I couldn't even see the appearance of the bride.

Watching the bride in the two women with the support, took small steps to the front, I looked at her back, actually felt that her steps seemed very stiff, as if very reluctant, but was pulled forward by the two women, I used my heart to dig gossip guess, should not be the bride and unwilling to marry the groom, she was also forced, and then today to break free from the cage, the courage to resist, maybe today, I am lucky, in this poor country, can also see a marriage escape drama.

Thinking of me like this, I became extremely excited, Xiaomei looked at me strangely, couldn't help but pout, and said to me: "Sister Liu, can you let go of your hand, it hurts me to pinch." When she said this, I subconsciously looked, only to see that my hand was already on her thigh at some point, and my five fingers were picking at her leg, I moved my fingers stiffly, and then quickly took it away, and apologized to her: "Xiaomei, I'm sorry, I'm a little distracted for a while." Xiaomei cautiously looked at my expression, and then immediately said, "It's okay, but why are you so nervous?" Did you see something? "Is she testing me? I was puzzled, and quickly replied: "No, no, I was just a little excited to see this scene, after all, it is a person's lifelong event." ”

Just between my conversation with Xiaomei, the bride and groom have quickly completed the worship hall, and then left surrounded by a group of people, the whole wedding went very smoothly, there was no trace of waves, I didn't see the imaginary scene, I felt a little lost, the bride and groom left, people quickly became lively, everyone shouted loudly: "Eat quickly." Then it was in full swing, although I was hungry for a long time, but I didn't eat when I was the most hungry, and the whole wedding ended tastelessly, I became interested, and I had no appetite for looking for it, Xiaomei picked up the chopsticks and beckoned me to eat quickly, I nodded reluctantly, and perfunctorily took two chopsticks to eat.

At this time, two boys came over with wine, one was taller, one was shorter, one was fat and one was thin, their faces were all black, and there were a little traces of cracking, which was exactly what I met at the train station, and brought me to Xiaomei with two people, the two of them walked over, and they looked very happy I and Xiaomei said hello and sat down, I had a perfunctory conversation with them, and then I made excuses with Xiaomei, I covered my stomach and said to Xiaomei: "Oops, my stomach suddenly hurts a little." Xiaomei and them listened to me, quickly looked at me, and asked, "What's the matter?" Didn't you just eat it badly? I frowned, trying my best to pretend to be in pain, then nodded to her, and said in a weak voice: "It's possible, I'm a little unable to hold on, let's go back and rest first." Xiaomei listened to my words, stood up, helped me, and asked, "Shall I go back with you?" This was not my intention, I quickly waved my hand at her and said, "No need, no need, you can have a good talk, in fact, I don't have anything important, just go back and rest." I was afraid that my acting was too exaggerated and really attracted her, so I quickly restrained my expression, raised my waist slightly, and said to them: "You see that there is nothing wrong, I can go back by myself." "A few of them couldn't help me, and besides, they were chatting to the end, and it could be seen that with me here, they still had a lot of things to say, so they didn't insist, and agreed to let me go back first.

Seeing that they nodded, I immediately rushed to the door, at this time, Xiaomei suddenly called me, I was shocked, I couldn't see that I was lying to her, I reluctantly turned around to look at her with a smile, but the unexpected scene did not happen. She smiled at me, took off my little lantern and handed it to me, and told me, "Don't let the fire go out, if you come across anything on the way, don't care about anything, don't look at it, just take the lantern and go back the way you came." I was intrigued by her and asked, "What would happen if I saw it?" Is there something weird? Her face became embarrassed, but eventually she returned to normal: "Nothing. You can just go normally. I was afraid that if I asked her more, she would really change her mind and go back with me, so I hurriedly said goodbye and left directly.

Walking out of the ancestral hall, I began to walk down the mountain road, when I came, the mountains were full of red lantern light, and when I went back, I was the only one left, the whole mountain forest seemed silent, my palms couldn't help but a little cold sweat, and began to hurry along the way to Xiaomei's house.

I don't want to stay there, purely because it's boring, I don't want to waste time there, but as soon as I come out, I regret it a little, this is a wilderness-like place, I am the only one walking here, there is no sound of birds, plus the lantern I am carrying in my hand, I thought it was very interesting when I came, but now I see this lantern again, red, like blood, giving people an ominous feeling. Thinking about this wedding held at night, the whole person has a creepy feeling.

I was scared, so I sped up and tried my best to go down the mountain, and after turning a corner, I suddenly saw a faint row of red light in front of me, floating in the air, distributed quite neatly, like a formation, I suddenly realized that it was a group of people, like me, with red lanterns on the road.