Chapter 45: The Death of the Bride
The 28th was six days later, and it happened to be Saturday, and I was at home.
The two marriages were arranged very quickly, and before I could react, my grandmother warned me that my mother's hometown was from Shiliwan, and after my new mother came, don't bully her.
As soon as my grandmother told me that the bride was from Shiliwan, I immediately knew why the girl agreed to marry my father, that was because Shiliwan is a small place, and the girl's family was poor, and it was estimated that my grandmother gave more money, and I heard that the girls over there all hoped to marry into our town, and even if my family was in decline, but the standard of living in the town was still above average, so on this condition, the girls in the village generally refused very little, the only bad thing is that my father is thirty-six years old this year, and has died of his wife.
The girl didn't mind telling my grandmother this, as long as my dad was a decent man and didn't have those bad tempers, the rest would be acceptable. My dad didn't object to or agree to this marriage, according to my grandmother, the girl had come to our house two days ago, she had a melon seed face, and a beautiful mole on her lips, she was good-looking, tall and sturdy, and she couldn't even blush when she looked at my dad, and she was still an eighteen-year-old girl.
This girl is younger than my sister Xiuyun, and I thought to myself, she can call my dad daddy.
I don't have much opinion on my dad getting married, after all, he gives me less love, and I don't have the concept that he will snub me as soon as he gets married.
Looking at the decay of Bajin's face, I couldn't help but joke that I was about to get married, why did I still have such virtue? Bajin wanted to explain something, but sighed, patted my head with his hand, and told me that I was a child, and I didn't understand it.
Seeing Sister Xiuyun again today, her complexion is better than before, sitting on the bed, seeing me coming, beckoning me to come over, and then Bai Shou called Bajin to avoid it.
Good, Sister Xiuyun wants to ask you for a favor, okay?
Sister Xiuyun was polite to me, and I quickly nodded, saying that as long as Sister Xiuyun said I, I would definitely help.
Tomorrow Bajin and your father's daughter-in-law will meet on the stone lion bridge at the entrance of our town, and will stop, then you will find an opportunity to kidnap the bride, don't let the bride marry your father.
If it was an ordinary thing, it would be fine, but this is related to my father's marriage, and it can be seen that grandma attaches great importance to this marriage, if I really mess up this matter, grandma will beat me to death.
Sister Xiuyun saw that I was a little hesitant and a little anxious, and said to me that if I didn't help, a life would be lost! I asked Sister Xiuyun whose life was gone, was it the bride who married my father?
Sister Xiuyun didn't shake her head, nor did she nod, her eyes were extremely helpless and sad, and she reached out and touched my head: Good, you are still young, and you will know in the future.
Looking at Sister Xiuyun's pitiful look, I hesitated for a while, and I was willing to help Sister Xiuyun.
Sister Xiuyun immediately became happy, opened her hand and hugged me in her thin arms that could even touch the bones, and told me that she had arranged a qiē with the eight-catty bride, and the eight-catty wife's welcoming team would be blocked on the stone bridge, and then it would block our welcoming team, and I would take this opportunity to take the bride out and tell her to go back and hide for a few days and not come out again.
I nodded as if I didn't understand, and promised Sister Xiuyun that I would try my best to do a good job, Sister Xiuyun smiled at me, and took out a bunch of finished clothes from under the pillow, red, green, white, all of them, and told me that this is what she has helped me do in bed these days, if I don't grow too tall in the future, I can wear it until I graduate from junior high school, I looked at Sister Xiuyun's weak body, and looked at a large pile of clothes made for me next to her, tears couldn't help but flow down, and Sister Xiuyun said so many words to me, she was also tired, leaning on the edge of the bed and looking at me, I fell asleep when I watched it.
On the morning of welcoming the bride, my dad and I dressed up and went to Shiliwan to pick up the bride, according to our customs here, we have to use a sedan chair to greet us, and my dad did not ride the kind of high-headed horse on TV, and walked with the greeting team.
The suona sound in my ears blew ticking, I walked beside my dad, my dad didn't look like a person who was going to get married at all, there was no expression on his face at all, it was a virtue to grab medicine in the pharmacy, I said a few words to him, he also loved to answer, really, sometimes I suspect that I was not born to him, there is indeed this possibility, because no one has ever said that I look like my dad since I was a child.
The bride's house is about eight or nine miles away from my house, if you go fast, you can get there in about an hour, and on the way I also heard that the bride's surname is Zhao, called Zhao Sanmei.
As soon as I heard this name, I couldn't help but want to laugh, this name is really rustic.
The bride greeted us at the entrance of Shiliwan Village, and the bride stood in the middle of them, wearing a big red jacket and a hijab on her head, almost as tall as my father, and she couldn't see her face, and the only impression she gave me was that she was very strong and looked very good.
When the bride's family saw that our wedding team was coming, the people of their village immediately coaxed me to hug the bride, although my dad was tall, but thin, of course he couldn't hold such a big girl, and the girl also knew that my dad couldn't hold her, so she took my dad's hand and asked my dad to lead her into the sedan chair.
As soon as the bride sat on the sedan chair, the people around her suddenly started to coax, and the people who carried the sedan chair deliberately walked very fast, hoping to shake the sedan chair as violently as possible, so that the bride would shout in the sedan chair.
This is one of our wedding customs here, the bride shouts out, indicating that the bride is weak and sick, and wants to be sent back, if she does not shout, then she is healthy and strong. Of course, this is just a custom left over from the past, and now it has become a good trick for the bride to be teased by the person who greets the bride.
The sedan chair is carried by four tall men in the town, on weekdays they go to pick up other brides, that is the swaying sedan chair of the bride in the sedan chair crying dad and calling mother, but today, strange, obviously carrying the sedan chair can walk normally, a few men carrying the sedan chair actually used the strength to eat milk did not shake, the sedan chair is as stable as Mount Tai, but the weight of the sedan chair is not very heavy, why can't it be shaken, which makes a few big men carrying the sedan chair disappointed.
I was looking forward to getting to the Lion Bridge at the entrance of our town as soon as possible, and I even made up the reason for letting the bride and me come out, and said that I would let my new mother accompany me until the stone bridge was blocked and we were all there, and it was very boring, so that I could take the bride away very smoothly.
But when we approached the lion bridge at the entrance of the town, we didn't find that there was a team of eight catties on the lion bridge, I thought it hadn't come yet, and continued to walk towards the bridge, but we were all about to go to the bridge, and the eight catty family greeting team still didn't pass, and even the suona sound of his house couldn't hear the slightest.
Could it be that they left first? Or is it still on the way?
If that's the case, you'll have to enter the town after crossing the Lion Bridge, and if you don't call the third sister down now, you won't have time to enter the town!
Father! I want to go to the toilet. I told my dad.
My dad glared back at me, looked at the bushes around me, and planned to ask a man to accompany me, because there were wolves and the like in the mountains, and in addition to me, there was also a bride in the greeting procession.
Of course I didn't follow the man who accompanied me to the toilet, twisted beside my dad, and saw that my dad was about to get angry at me, so I asked the third sister to say in the sedan chair, I'll go with goodness.
After speaking, the curtain of the sedan chair was opened, and a ruddy and good-looking face came out, I was stunned, although this Zhao Sanmei said that she was sturdy, and she did not have a little bit of Sister Xiuyun's weak and cute appearance, but her face was really good-looking, her skin was very tender, her eyes were big, beautiful and aura, her lips were narrow, but thick, rubbing red lip grease, like holding a red cherry, she wanted to kiss her fiercely.
Before I could see enough, I saw a few people running over from a side road behind us: the big thing is bad, the big thing is not good, the eight-pound wife died in the sedan chair! The eight-pound wife died in a sedan chair!