On the twenty-third day of the first month of 1938, people came and went in the peach garden, and it was not lively.

Today is the big day for Zou Wenfang and Chen Shilian, and relatives rushed to help early in the morning. Today, all the meals with a total of 30 tables are in charge of Zou Wenfang's uncle, and a large group of relatives help him.

The two newcomers are now separated, Zou Wenfang is in his own house, and Chen Shilian is arranged in the second aunt's house in the same village.

Chen Shilian has been dressed up. She was dressed in a festive red dress, slightly powdered, and her face suddenly became bright. Chen Shilian also involuntarily touched her beautiful face, thinking to herself, who is that, hum, you stinky boy is cheap.

As for Zou Wenfang, Zou Mu originally wanted to find someone to clean up for him, but he was unwilling to live or die. He said that it was too motherly to apply grease and powder like that, but he was a man who wanted to be a big husband, how could he apply those things. Zou Mu couldn't help it, so she let him go.

There were so many people who came to the wedding, and the children were crying endlessly. Zou Liangshi's connections are still very extensive in this small Sibao Township, and everyone gives him face. These nearly 300 people were arranged in the Zou family and the surrounding neighbors' houses, a total of 30 tables.

The wedding begins.

The groom picks up the bride. Zou Wenfang took eight sedan chairs to the second aunt's house to pick up relatives. If you want to pick up the bride, it naturally takes a lot of effort, but fortunately, they are all their own people, and the light cards set up are relatively simple. Those children are all here to make trouble with red envelopes, as long as the red envelopes are shot, they can say anything.

The last pass is the second aunt on behalf of Chen Shilian's parents, Zou Wenfang made a vow in front of Chen Shilian's parents: to care for his wife, take care of his wife, and accompany him for life.

After kowtowing, Zou Wenfang passed.

Zou Wenfang directly entered the new room and took Chen Shilian's hand. It was still the hands with rough palms, and he said: "Hold the hand of the son, grow old with the son." ”

Chen Shilian's body stiffened for a while, and after a while, she said: "Well, for a lifetime, together." ”

Zou Wenfang carried the bride to the sedan chair, not to mention, he performed very well today. His small body carried a bride who was much heavier than himself, and he was very stable.

Eight sedan chairs walked up, and a long red carpet was laid out at the entrance of Taoyuan, with a brazier at the front.

Zou Wenfang took Chen Shilian out of the sedan chair, and the two stepped over the brazier one after another, and then walked in together with the red silk of the big red flower.

"Worship heaven and earth!"

"Second worship high hall!"

"Husband and wife worship each other!"

"Licheng, send it to the cave room."

The custom here in Sibao is like this, pick an auspicious time to worship the church, and then the bride and groom are to toast together, and it is not so soon.

Both of them were holding a small teacup, taking a sip at one table, and it was completely fine after the thirty tables of toasting. This is really physical work, so many tables toast down, each table has to talk, and accept red envelopes. By the time they were all done, the banquet had almost dispersed, and both of them were dying of hunger.

However, the most terrible thing is still these from time to time, and the most fearful thing is the haunted cave room at night.

The people who come to the cave house at night are all young people from nearby families in the village, and they are trying their best to stump the newcomer and bargain with the newcomer to get more "red eggs".

In the past few days, the family has been preparing "red eggs", and nearly 600 of them were given out in today's return gift. A small bag of two "red eggs" plus peanuts, red dates, and longan per person. The remaining hundreds were for those in the cave room at night.

After dinner, the haunting room will begin.

A long set of tables was put together in the hall, and on both sides of it were filled with young people nearby, and an older middle-aged man sat up to join in the fun. The morning master of ceremonies continued to preside over the event.

A large string of firecrackers was set off in the hall to welcome the arrival of the bride and groom.

Zou Wenfang had never participated in these before, so he didn't know what he was going to do tonight, let alone Chen Shilian, a foreigner.

The old man of ceremonies said solemnly: "Okay, everyone be quiet. The custom of haunting the cave house has its own troubles in various places, and of course our four forts also have our own troubles. The bride and groom want to complete the problems raised by everyone here, and if they can't solve it, they will be fined for wine, and they will also give 'red eggs', as for how much wine to drink, how many "red eggs" to give, both parties can bargain. They are all uncles and nephews in the village, everyone has let go of their courage, tonight's 'red eggs' are enough, it depends on whether you have the ability or not. ”

Zou Wenfang and Chen Shilian are also young people, and the first time they encountered this, it felt very fresh. But the first question was stumped.

This is a married young man who is a generation younger than Zou Wenfang, and he just came up with a topic that everyone knows. He didn't mean to embarrass Zou Wenfang, after all, they were all hurt people, and he was embarrassed to hurt him, when would he get revenge? It's better not to hurt each other.

He took out a dry rice stalk, took out a narrow-mouthed sorghum wine bottle, and said, "Put this rice stalk in a bad bottle, and then lift this bottle." ”

After he finished speaking, he gave an ambiguous look, as if to say: Brother, I'm good enough for you. Such a simple question is known to three-year-olds.

But for this rookie is really difficult to climb to the sky, and that person's eyes become provocative eyes. Zou Wenfang and Chen Shilian looked at the rice stalk and wine bottle in a daze, no matter how they thought about it.

The two sides began to bargain, and the man thought that they all knew, so he naturally said the price of a "red egg" and half a bowl of wine.

Zou Wenfang originally thought that it was impossible to complete, but now he is more confident when he hears the offer of the other side. The same ambiguous look was sent back. Counteroffer: "Two bowls of wine, four 'red eggs'." ”

That person is also afraid of drinking, how would he be willing to drink so much wine for such a simple topic.

In the end, it was settled on a bowl of wine and two "red eggs".

Just when the conscience person said no, the person was stupid, this can't be? If I had known, I would have reported dozens, hundreds, alas, blessed are the people behind. It's all tears.

The man silently folded the stalk out two horns,

Seeing this, Zou Wenfang suddenly realized. The distance between the two corners is larger than the mouth of the bottle, smaller than the bottle body, is it not easy for this stem to enter the bottle? It's as simple as that?

It is not good to be a teacher, Zou Wenfang silently sent out two "red eggs", and drank a bowl of Hakka old rice wine, the sweet feeling is really good.

There is naturally no shortage of people in the back, so take this opportunity to catch more "red eggs" for the family to eat, after all, not everyone is as rich as Zou Wenfang's family. The middle-aged man who joined in the fun naturally thought like this, and did so.

His problem is: peel a "red egg" at random, count the number of eggshells, if it is an even number, it means to give two red eggs at once, and he drinks two bowls of wine. If it is singular, there is a "red egg" for an eggshell, and a "red egg" for him to drink a bowl of wine.

The two of them combined, this and this, it's hard to say about peeling eggs, sometimes you have to peel dozens of eggshells to peel out a one that is too ugly to see. It's all a matter of luck.

Today's luck was apparently stolen away by the newcomers. A random "red egg" is peeled by Chen Shilian, which is two eggshells, no more, no less, just right.

Whoever failed to succeed in his trick shook his head, directly accepted the two rewards, drank two bowls of old wine, and closed his eyes after drinking, and said "ha", which was very enjoyable.

After that, there were also some peanuts biting, and when the two kissed together, they saw that the young men were red-faced.

There is also the topic of biting apples, and this one gets the most "red eggs". The rule is to give a few kisses to a few times.

In the end, the two newcomers also integrated into the festive atmosphere, and they were also lively.

In the midst of everyone's coaxing, the two finally bit the apple. The man carrying the apple thread was also smiling, and he got more than 20 "red eggs", and he was satisfied, which was enough for the family to eat a few meals.

After these questions, Zou Wenfang was lucky, and of course he didn't drink much. After all, it is Hakka old rice wine, and the sweeter the wine, the higher the alcohol content.

After that, it was the guessing fist in the cave room and the drink.

This is the real sense of the hole room, a few guys shouted in the hole room to shake the earth, the hole room, the hole room, just to make trouble, the more trouble, the better.

"Sixty or six Shun!"

"Eight Immortals Across the Sea!"

"Full house!"

But the bridegroom could not guess the fist, so other voices sounded in the cave room.

"Rock-paper-scissors!"

"Rock-paper-scissors!"

"Rock-paper-scissors!"

Outside the cave room, everyone was also laughing.

Guess boxing Zou Wenfang is not their opponent, but this "rock-paper-scissors" he is lucky, with more wins and fewer losses. It lasted until twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, when everyone dispersed.

Zou Wenfang didn't feel anything just now, but at this time, the strength of the wine suddenly came.

On the night of the candle in the cave room, poor Zou Wenfang fell asleep directly.