The folk are happy with their father-in-law, also known as "making trouble". The origin of the term "ash picking" is unknown.

According to folk legend, there was a daughter-in-law who had not passed through the door to help her mother-in-law cook at her husband's house, and her father-in-law took advantage of the old woman's old woman to go to the yard to pick up firewood, and started the daughter-in-law's crooked idea. The daughter-in-law was honest and loyal, and it was inconvenient to accuse, so she casually smeared the ashes of the stove and smeared the ashes on her father-in-law's face, signaling that her father-in-law must keep to himself and not harbor bad intentions. In a quarrel, the old woman chirped about this matter, but she didn't know that it was heard by passers-by, and it was spread out ten, ten and hundred, and it became a well-known joke, which is to pick up ashes. However, time has passed, and the taste of the essence has changed, and more people have joked about picking ashes as a festive thing. On the day of the wedding, friends and relatives painted the face of the husband with ink or pot ash to make fun of him and hint that the father-in-law should not have any wrong thoughts.

Wang Lichang is a lively person in the village, with many good friends and many opponents, so it is natural to be picked up in ashes.

This trouble is still managed by the right branch of Daifuku.

Dafu sent someone to pull out Wang Lichang, press it on the bride's bed, use a urinal to hold water to help him wash his face, and then wipe the pot ash on his forehead, and finally dipped his eyes with a red pen dipped in ink to draw his eye circles and eyebrows. Wang Lichang was tossed and anxious, and he took the opportunity to run, but he was hugged by Dongfang Mubai's legs, and Dongfang Qingluo pulled his robe. Wang Li sighed in a long sigh, and had to obey. Daifuku blamed him for his slippery head and cheeky face, and the messenger wrote "pickpocket" on his left face and "ash" on his right face.

Wang Lichang was troubled with ashes, eating and drinking to smell the smell of ink and urine on his face, and he couldn't wash his face, if he washed it, he would be painted with ink and black ashes......

Picking up the ashes has brought a lot of fun, and they all praise Daifuku right than the old Chitose who is more disciplined and interesting.

Wang Dashi can also be regarded as a "famous" figure. At noon, the courtyard was crowded with people, some to see the bride, some to sit at the big banquet, and some to join in the fun...... Fox friends, dog friends, grass gangsters form a team of troublesome brides, waiting for the bride to be picked up, taking advantage of the crowd, stretching out their hands to touch the bride; when the trouble is vigorous, drilling the bride's skirt, rubbing the bride's face; will also use games to make monsters, take advantage. There are not many happy events in life, just this day, just this incense stick, it's just a matter of making a fuss in the past.

Just after noon, it was the auspicious time for marriage, and the sound of drums to send off relatives came from the bridge. Wang Dashi got ready to pack, rode on the red horse, and invited the sedan chair to welcome the arrival of the bride.

Before, Wang Lichang was always worried, feeling that Meixi had suffered a loss by matching his own child, and had been afraid of going on a business trip, but now the bride's team has been sent to Qiaotou, just waiting to bring the bride back. He sighed, cocked Erlang's legs, and hummed a little tune in his mouth.

As the drums stopped, eight shirtless men dropped the bride's palanquin on the bridge. The team that greeted Wang Dashi also landed at the bridgehead. According to the agreement, at this time, Wang Dashi needs to dismount and take the bride into the sedan chair from the sedan chair to greet her, but the bride does not show her face, does not get off the sedan chair, and cannot come to the bridge.

Wang Dashi called the matchmaker to ask for a reason, and it turned out that he was going to release a happy cannon.

The bride crosses the bridge to set off a wedding cannon, indicating that the future life is sweet and festive, hot and fierce - like the sound of the wedding cannon, booming, like the fiery fire of the wedding cannon, the fire is baking.

Daifuku right-hand man pulled a whip and picked it up at the bridge, and it exploded with a thunderbolt......

Seeing that the bride had not yet come out of the sedan chair, Wang Dashi asked Dafu to order the right to come to the whip and call the cannon, which exploded vigorously.

However, the bride still did not get out of the sedan chair.

Wang Dashi was anxious, and sent the matchmaker to ask for the reason.

It turned out that the bride begged for money to cross the bridge, but did not give money, and the bride did not get off the sedan chair, but not the bridge.

This matter was not mentioned at the time of marriage, but when it came to this hurdle, he could not lose his dignity, so Wang Dashi sent the small copper coins he had prepared.

Took the money and crossed the bridge. Just a few steps away, the bride's brother and brother each ran with a chicken, tied the legs of the rooster and the hen together, and put them into the gift box, saying that "the mandarin ducks play in the water, and the copper coins wrap the chicken legs!".

Wang Dashi had to arrange a handful of copper coins to divide it.

The bride Meixi lifted the sedan curtain and changed from the sedan chair to the sedan chair to welcome the relatives.

Along the way, Wang Dashi didn't dare to look at the bride more, for fear that he would be asked for his name and ask for money after taking a second look.

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The sedan chair finally stopped in front of the Wang family, a burst of firecrackers rang out, and a group of people came over, all wanting to see more about what kind of bride Wang Dashi, the groom, had married, but after waiting and waiting, the bride did not get off the sedan chair for a long time.

Without waiting for Wang Dashi's instructions and arrangements, the matchmaker stepped forward again to ask the reason, and it turned out that the bride was waiting for the sedan money.

Wang Dashi touched his pocket, and there was no penny, so he hurriedly ran to the side room to find Wang Lichang.

At this time, Wang Lichang was drinking a little wine, and after asking Wang Dashi's situation, he took out a handful of broken silver and handed it to him, and asked him to take care of the scene.

Wang Dashi answered, ran back, and handed the silver smash arrangement to the bride, but she didn't get out of the sedan chair yet.

However, the woman proposed to "six arts" at this time

The so-called "six arts" are the basic talents that Confucianism requires students to master: etiquette, music, archery, royalty, calligraphy, and mathematics, and the six arts. In the local area, young people should learn etiquette, know vocal music, be good at horseback riding and archery, write well, and be proficient in calculations.

When the young lady of a large family gets married, she is accompanied by a talented man, and the groom and the groom are on the six arts, and the groom loses an art to take out a string of copper coins to compensate, and some of them will deliberately lose to the groom in order to accept the scene, and even some of the accompanying people are ordinary people, deliberately to be inferior in front of the groom, in order to be secondary, showing the bride's vision is good, and the groom's talent. Although the "Six Arts" is lively, it is too cumbersome, often delays the business, and it is an old custom, so it has long been abandoned.

There will be no humility to the six arts here.

Wang Dashi can't study, has no skills, is honest, lacks communication, there must be a defect in etiquette, I heard that I want to "six arts", I panicked, and quickly went to find Wang Lichang.

Wang Li, who was sitting in the side room, poured down two bowls of wine and said to Wang Dashi: "I am ashamed of you, for you to welcome your daughter-in-law, I should give it!"

Wang Lichang rummaged through the cabinet and pulled six strings of copper coins for Wang Dashi, and said: "Wang Dashi, I will tell you something from the bottom of the pot, all this money is scraped together for your marriage, it is all here, and there is no more to ask for!"

Wang Dashi walked out of the side room and handed over one hundred and twenty copper coins to the bride, looking forward to her getting off the sedan chair.

The bride who accepted the money made another condition, saying that she could not get off the sedan chair in her mother's shoes and needed a new pair of shoes.

Some of the villagers present couldn't see it, and because of the wedding day, it was difficult to mix their mouths and hands.

Wang Dashi's sweat broke out, and he went to the side room to find Wang Lichang.

Wang Lichang drank three bowls of wine in a row, and gave Wang Dashi a new pair of shoes that he had personally received for his mute daughter-in-law more than ten years ago.

The bride stepped out of the sedan chair in her new shoes and stopped as she walked through the main hall. The woman's whole person dominates and says: "Step by step—raise the case and raise eyebrows—wealth and wealth—" It is necessary to spread money strings from the place where the bride is under her feet to the inner hall, and the bride steps on the money to worship heaven and earth in the inner hall.

Wang Dashi went to the side room again, Wang Lichang poured the wine on his body, took out a jade bracelet and handed it to Wang Dashi, and sighed: "This is an ancestral treasure, it can be worth a hundred strings of money, you can take it quickly!"

The bride put away the jade bracelet and walked towards the inner hall with her steps. At this time, the whole person put forward a request to "drag back the marriage".

The bride gets married, in order to fully express the parents' heart-to-heart, concern and reluctance, when the daughter gets on the sedan chair, the parents pull their daughter's hand three times and do not let them get on the sedan chair.

Wang Dashi didn't understand what "dragging marriage" was all about, but he heard the whole woman's whole person shouting loudly: "Drag into the inner hall to the groom, drag out the door and return to the mother!" This is very clear, if the bride is dragged to the inner hall, it will go to the groom's daughter-in-law, and if she is dragged out of the door, the bride will return to her parents' house. After the words were finished, the eight men and brothers who came with the woman suddenly appeared and dragged the bride back. Daifuku looked at the right and called out to the villagers to pull the bride to the inner hall.

There are many people at the head of the village, and the eight men are heavy, and the two sides are glued. At this time, the bride's brother tied the bride to the waist with a rope and tied it to the horse, but the stupid horse did not run. Unexpectedly, Dongfang Mubai and Dongfang Qingluo rushed from the entrance of the courtyard, alarmed the horse, and pulled the bride back outside the courtyard gate. The whole person, the eight big men, the brothers and the bride, ran back in embarrassment.

Wang Dashi was stunned.

This time, Wang Dashi failed to marry the bride home.

It really responds to the saying: the brine duck that reaches the mouth flies.

The bamboo basket is empty, and the cotton covered with tofu is busy.

Wang Dashi didn't understand the customs of the wedding, and he went to beg Meixi several times before and after, how could he still see her shadow? In this way, this is regarded as giving up money and losing dignity.

There has been no news of it.

Two months later, I heard that there was another marriage in the nearby Huoyao Village, and the woman also used tricks such as "accompanying chicken legs", "six arts", "step by step promotion", "dragging back marriage" and other tricks to cheat money and cheat marriage, and the scam was accidentally discovered, and the groom was single-minded, stimulated, and took out the carpenter's axe and cut off the bride's two calves, so that she would never marry out for the rest of her life, and never be abducted again for the rest of her life.

It's just that after the news of this incident came out, Wang Dashi and Wang Lichang inquired again and learned that this Meizhuang woman had changed her name and surname many times, and she had been married more than ten times with the gang's abduction, and it was this trick to cheat money for a living. Now, this retribution is only regarded as a crime deserved, and it can also be regarded as a manifestation of God in this world.

The scam was seen through and the bride's legs were cut off, which brought some comfort to Wang Lichang and Wang Dashi's psychology. ”

Wang Dashi learned from the pain......