Hearing Xiaomei walk lightly to the side of our bed, and then sit down, I pretended to be woken up by her, rubbed my eyes, then sat up, and said to her in surprise: "Xiaomei, are you back?" When she saw that I was awake, she said to me embarrassedly, "I'm sorry for waking you up." I quickly smiled at her and said, "It's okay, I've slept all afternoon, and I've slept enough." Then, I took her arm and said to her, "But I'm really bored to sleep at home alone, and my aunt said that you went to the bride's house to help, can you take me there tomorrow?" When I said this, she looked at me with some embarrassment, and then her face became solemn, and she said to me, "Actually, there is nothing fun, you can stay at home with my mother, and you remember not to ask more." ”

I asked, "Why?" Xiaomei looked distressed, and she said to me, "So that you can get out of this village safely, it's all my fault, I shouldn't have brought you in." ”

It seemed that her mother seemed to have said something to her, which caused her to be worried, so I quickly comforted her and said, "It's okay, I'm here myself, it's none of your business?" It's just that I said that I can't get out of this village safely, what's going on, is there anyone trying to harm me? ”

Xiaomei sighed and said to me: "As long as you don't care about anything, it's fine, don't worry, when the wedding is held the day after tomorrow, I will send you away immediately." I smiled and said to her, "You're so nice, thank you." Hearing my words, she frowned instead, and she said to me tentatively: "Sister Liu, although you are here to watch this wedding, but now, can you give up watching this wedding, if you want, I can send you away now." ”

It seems that there is some ulterior secret about this wedding, and I still want to figure out me, so I shook my head firmly at her, and said: "No, I came all the way here, but I can't just leave without seeing anything." Hearing my answer, she sighed and said to me, "Okay, then you will stay in my house for the next few days, waiting for the wedding." I nodded and said happily, "Okay." ”

The next time passed quickly, in a blink of an eye it was already the day of the wedding, early in the morning, when I thought of today's wedding, I was very excited, I grabbed Xiaomei and asked, "When will you take me to see the wedding." Xiaomei smiled at me and said, "The wedding is still early, I have to go to the bride's house today to help for a day, you wait for me to come back." Listening to her words, I wondered, "Isn't the wedding today?" Xiaomei's expression became a little strange, but she immediately pretended to be casual and said to me as lightly as possible: "The wedding is held at night. Listening to her words, I looked at her in surprise, the smile on her face was a little stiff, and she explained to me: "This is our custom here, and it is a little different from the outside. "Whatever weird things are, they always explain it by "local customs", really when I'm a fool?

But I didn't break it, and I said to her, "Your customs here are really interesting, go and get busy, and remember to come back and take me to the wedding in the evening." Xiaomei breathed a sigh of relief and quickly left, and it could be seen that she was very good at lying.

After Xiaomei left, I rolled around in bed bored, thinking about the wedding she said that night, I guessed in my heart that they would not be a wedding for two dead people, so I kept it secretive, but I quickly overturned my own thoughts, and I said to myself: "Your imagination is really rich, let's honestly wait for the wedding in the evening." After rolling on the bed for two more laps, I finally fell asleep, and then I was woken up by Xiaomei, hearing Xiaomei calling me, I opened my eyes and looked out the window in a daze, it was already dark, thinking of the long-awaited wedding, I quickly got up from the bed, I took Xiaomei's hand and asked, "Has the wedding started?" ”

Xiaomei looked at my eagerness and was amused by me, she said, "Not yet, now we are ready to take the seat." So saying, she handed me a small lantern and said, "Take it in your hand, don't let it go out, and bring it back when you come back." I picked up the lantern and looked left and right, the lantern was made of red paper, and there was a candle in it, which was also red, and it looked very festive, but I was curious why I had to take the lantern, Xiaomei was stunned, and then said to me: "Because it's dark now, you can light the way, and it's more festive to carry this." "Fortunately, she didn't say that it was their local customs, all their customs are so weird, I have never heard of it outside, but this lantern still looks very good, I am still very happy to go out with it, Xiaomei and her mother also carried an identical lantern, and then the three of us set off, as soon as I went out, I was shocked by the scene outside, at night in the countryside, people go to bed very early, and the lights go out early, so the night in the countryside is generally dark, except for the starlight in the sky, There was no extra light, but tonight, at a glance, the fields, the mountain roads, everywhere the light of lanterns, in the darkness to see so much light moving, it really brought me a great shock, it seems that the whole village is really out of action.

I carried the lantern and moved along the path with Xiaomei, but after walking for a while, I found that the road we took was not one of the ways to go to the house, I just wanted to ask her if she was wrong, but suddenly remembered to let Xiaomei know that she was here, so I endured it without asking, and followed her forward, but I felt that I was going further and further, and the house was completely the opposite route, was it to the groom's house, I guessed in my heart, so I asked Xiaomei: "Are we now in the groom's house?" Who knew that Mei said to me: "No, let's go directly to the ancestral hall, the wedding is held in the ancestral hall in the village." ”

Listening to her words, I sighed in my heart, I didn't expect that at this time, there was still an ancestral hall. After figuring it out, I stopped thinking about it, but concentrated on lighting the road with a lantern and following Xiaomei's footsteps to the ancestral hall where the wedding was held.

All the lanterns are gathered in this direction, and finally arrived at the ancestral hall, two big red lanterns were hung at the entrance of the ancestral hall, I looked at the ancestral hall by the light of the lanterns, from the outside, there is nothing special, it is nothing more than that the door is higher, larger, and similar to the costume TV series.

Seeing me at the door, Xiaomei gently pushed me and said in my ear, "Come in, everyone is almost here." I came back to my senses, smiled embarrassedly, laughed, and quickly walked in, as soon as I entered. I found that it was very spacious, almost the size of an ordinary person's house, there were no compartments at all, it was a large hall, full of tables, the hall was full of red lanterns, plastered with Xi characters, and red candlesticks, Xiaomei hung the lanterns in the ancestral hall, and I did as she did.

Suddenly I saw that in the middle of the ancestral hall, there was a large tablet, in the place where the wedding was held, it was still very infiltrating, I silently looked away, let Xiaomei pull me to the seat, I looked around on the seat, most of the people arrived, all the people have brought the lanterns in the ancestral hall, although it is not said that it is as bright as day, but the red light has shone on the entire ancestral hall, almost very bright.

The groom and his family are already waiting here, I look at the groom, tall and big, handsome, even if he is wearing a very bloated groom outfit, he still looks very handsome, it seems that Xiaomei and the others are right.

When the people came in, they all walked over to the bridegroom and said goodbye, but the bridegroom did not have a smile on his face, and it is not an exaggeration to say that his face was like ashes. It seems that it is indeed a forced marriage, no wonder he looks reluctant, which makes me even more curious, how ugly is the bride?

After almost all the people came, the ancestral hall became very lively, so everyone was chatting about all kinds of things, and everyone was talking, but I couldn't hear what anyone was saying, and I was bored waiting for the bride to arrive.

At this moment a man ran in and whispered a few words in the groom's ear, and the bridegroom's face turned pale at once, but he followed the man out, though he was very reluctant to see it.

All the people suddenly became quiet in an instant, the voice disappeared at once, the ancestral hall became silent, I was still a little uncomfortable, I looked at Xiaomei suspiciously, and asked, "What's wrong?" Why don't everyone speak? ”

Xiaomei looked at me and said to me, "The bride is here." ”