This year's spring came very early, early spring and February have been in full bloom, and the willow trees on the bank of the river have budd early, hanging down thousands of green silks.

Next to the rockery of Liufu Garden, the spring flowers are already everywhere, two purple magnolias, full of flowers, plum blossoms, plum blossoms and peach blossoms are waiting to be released, Hong Ying's mood is as brilliant as these flowers.

On the first day of March, it was a good day for Dongmei to get married.

In the past few days, the Liu family in the water town in the south of the Yangtze River has been even busier. Liu Yong's eldest daughter is about to get married, and her mother-in-law's Jiang family is also a local family, so the marriage is particularly grand.

Some people are killing pigs, some people are moving stools and tables, four palace lamps are hanging high in the hall, and the candle sparks in the palace lamps are jumping in the breeze, exuding dazzling brilliance.

The busiest has to count Hong Ying, Dongmei is not her biological child, but after all, she brought it up, now that her daughter is married, there is one less speaker in the family, and there is inevitably a little sadness in the joy, thinking about it, sometimes I will secretly cry. Although she is a stepmother, marrying her daughter is also her decency. She was busy sewing quilts with red silk threads for a while, and invited neighbors' aunts and aunts to help make cakes, rice dumplings, regiments, and gardens, symbolizing the artistic conception of high school reunion. The girls were busy pasting big red happy characters on the doors and windows, and it was a lively and extraordinary scene.

The custom of marrying a daughter here in Nanxun, the night before the guests came from all directions, the main family dinner began to set up a feast, called the dinner table.

Song Hongsheng is a well-deserved uncle, his niece is going to get married, and the uncle is the eldest. Song Hongsheng specially customized a load of top cakes, and the top of the top cake was placed with cakes, rice dumplings, regiments, and gardens, symbolizing the artistic conception of high school reunion. Early in the morning, Liu Yong sent someone to Song's house to pick up the cake. The cake was brought back and placed in the center of the hall, with a big red word in the middle, all showing a grand and warm atmosphere.

Almost everyone in Nanxun came to congratulate and give gifts, and Qiu Xiancha also brought his wife and daughter Yanyan here.

Liu Yong saw Qiu Xiancha come in with his daughter, and said with both hands: Brother Lao is here.

Qiu Xiancha also smiled and said: My niece is overjoyed, how can I not be an uncle and congratulate her.

Liu Yong pointed at Yanyan again and said: This is Ling Ai Yanyan, I haven't seen her for a long time, and she has grown into a big girl. Hey, if my brother is willing to do it in the future, let's be my daughter-in-law.

Qiu Xiancha laughed and said: Your son is handsome, smart, talented and beautiful, plus your current family background, then I am Gao Pan.

Liu Yong said: Hey, what is your brother's words, the two of us grew up together with a bare buttocks, we quarreled when we saw it, we didn't see it and thought about it, and we were friends in trouble, the two reed mats were spread on the ground as flat, what was there to climb high and low, you can talk and count.

Qiu Xiancha smiled and said: Where does my Ah Liang speak that doesn't count?

Qiu Xiancha's wife Xu also smiled and said: That's all knowing the roots.

The three of them laughed loudly, but Yanyan was blushing when she said it, pulling her mother's arm and lowering her head.

When Hong Ying saw this, he came over and said, "Oh, you are a person, let them stand and talk to you, why don't you hurry up and let them sit in the house."

Several people entered the house at the same time.

The next day, at noon, at the mother's house banquet, called the dowry meal, the husband's sedan chair will not come to greet the relatives until the afternoon.

Dongmei opened her face by makeup, dressed up, and wore a treasure ring given by Hong Ying and a jade bracelet specially purchased this time; The red trimmed jacket, the embroidered red skirt, and the green jacket inside are all sewn by Hong Ying himself. Wearing a phoenix crown on his head is the biggest custom of the people of the water town.

Dongmei sat in the boudoir nervously, Qiumei accompanied her sister and sisters, and from now on she would have to leave the Liu family to go her own way, and it was inevitable that she would be reluctant.

After noon, firecrackers rang out outside the door, and the procession to welcome relatives had arrived, and Liu Yong instructed his family to set off eight firecrackers in a row to greet them.

Dongmei said goodbye to her grandmother, and bowed to her mother's tablet, and then was carried out of the boudoir by Liu Yong wearing only socks, and sat on a chair in the center of the hall, stepping on a pair of covered boxes, which were filled with all kinds of sweets, which meant that the days to come would be harmonious and sweet.

The hall was crowded with people watching the excitement, and at this time, the band sounded, and Liu Yong and Hong Ying stood on either side of Dongmei. Liu Yong took a pair of embroidered shoes brought by the man, lifted them three times on the flame of the red candle, and then put them on the ladder behind him step by step, which means that the days to come will rise step by step. After Liu Yong's set was completed, he handed it to Hong Ying, and after Hong Ying also completed this set, the two of them put on their shoes for Dongmei. It's called a dowry.

At the end of the wedding, Uncle Song Hongsheng took Dongmei out of the door, and the man's uncle took the bride from Hongsheng and sent her to the sedan chair. Dongmei has been unable to land on the sedan chair from the boudoir to the sedan chair, even if she has put on the shoes brought by her husband's family, which means that she can't bring the dust of her mother's house to her husband's house.

This was followed by the dowry.

Dozens of peers of the Liu family lined up in a line, handing things out, and the man came to pick them up outside the door. At the front, An Lan and An Jiang are carrying quilt bags respectively, which is called 'champion bag'.

Standing aside and pulling her mother to watch the lively Yanyan, looking at a handsome young man who walked in front, he often played with him when he was a child, he can be described as a childhood sweetheart, and now he is dignified. Thinking of the conversation between her parents and Uncle Liu yesterday, when she was in love, she couldn't help but thump the deer in her heart, and her face involuntarily turned red.

The dowry that the woman sends to the door is received by the man's peers.

Subsequently, it immediately aroused the amazement of the onlookers, a full set of mahogany boxes, cabinets, chairs and carved bed dressers, kitchen pots and pans and silver chopsticks, thirty-six beds of silk cotton satin quilts, sixteen boxes of clothes for the four seasons, two boxes of jewelry, rouge pollen are all in order, and four boxes of pressed box silver, almost all the food and drink expenses of Dongmei in her life have been married, together with the sandalwood crutches used when she is old, Hong Ying made a special trip to Suzhou to inquire about this ten miles of red makeup. The last eight nanmu of the same size are wrapped in red cloth, which will be married together with the old ones in the future.

All this made everyone who watched the excitement feel dumbfounded.

Some said: My family's belongings for eight lifetimes are not worth this.

There is also a way: these are the plucked hairs on the Liu family's bulls.

These dowries are on the surface, and there are also fields and shops purchased in Tongli in advance, and the meaning of ten miles of red makeup is to tell the husband's family, although my daughter marries into your family, she does not need you to raise her, so that she has confidence in her in-law's family.

Everything is ready, the makeup mother took care of Dongmei and sat firmly, grabbed both sides of the sedan chair with both hands, and supported it with both feet to avoid the sedan chair being unstable. Then he shouted: Get out of the car—

Then there was a suona sound, woo wow la; The sound of firecrackers and thunderbolts kept ringing. The gong in front of the gong opens the way, which is called passing the gong. It means to inform the road ahead, if there is an official sedan chair just coming over, no matter how big your official is, when you meet the bride's sedan chair coming, the official sedan chair must pull over and give way. Because, the official sits in a sedan chair every day, and the bride only sits in a sedan chair once in her life.

In front of the sedan and behind the sedan car, a pair of boys and girls carried red lanterns.

The makeup mother walked in front of the sedan chair with a copper foot stove in her hand, and sandalwood was constantly burning in the foot stove, symbolizing the bride's prosperous life after marriage.

The team was immense.

Both sides of the road were full of people watching the bustle, some running from far away, running out of breath.

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After the pick-up team left. Hong Ying hugged Qiu Mei and cried happily, Qiu Mei touched the scene, thinking that she would leave Liu's house in half a month, she was very sad, and stuck to Hong Ying every day, asking her to sleep with her.

On March 16, Qiu Mei got married, and the same was true of pomp and circumstance.