Chapter 2011 Welcoming the Bride

The people waiting to see the bride in front of the village office building all smiled when they heard someone asking Zhang about his proposal to marry Granny Cao’s daughter.

"Humph." Grandma Zhang was angry because she didn't understand what the person meant by asking that, so she snorted from her nose and admitted it.

“You probably don’t know yet, but the wife Zhou Xialong is marrying home today is Li Chunxiu, the girl that Granny Cao picked up by the cross well.”

It’s not too hard to watch the excitement. The man who caused the big deal finally revealed the answer to the mystery.

Grandma Zhang’s mind felt as if it had been washed away by a flood. She was blank for a moment. She came back to her senses after a while, gasping and asked: “Tell me again, who is Zhou Xialong’s new wife?”

"It won't change if I say it again. Zhou Xialong's new wife is the girl of Granny Cao by the cross well."

"Grandma Cao married a daughter. I heard that the Cao family has a shared legacy. The whole family has gone, and today there are several tables of people bringing weddings to the Zhou family, which is quite honorable."

"Although Grandma Cao's daughter was picked up, she has become a member of the Cao family. She is marrying Zhou Xialong again, how can the Cao family not give her dignity?"

"My opponent, from now on the Cao family will be the mother-in-law of Zhou Xialong. If they don't give Grandma Cao's daughter dignity today, they won't want it in the future. Give face to the Zhou family."

The villagers talked a lot about it, but the Cao family is quite upright. No matter what their attitude was in the past, they are now going to support Granny Cao's family, and only in the future will they do so. Since she is Li Chunxiu's mother-in-law, the Zhou family will naturally be a bit polite to the Cao family.

Listening to the villagers’ comments, Grandma Zhang’s heart rushed up to her head, and then rushed down and stayed in her heart. She was so suffocated that her chest felt like a huge boulder weighing on her chest, and she could hardly keep up. Get angry.

She had said before that if Zhou Xialong wanted to marry again, he could only marry a blind, lame or stupid woman, but then someone else told her that the one Zhou Xialong wanted to marry was Granny Cao’s daughter!

She knew that Granny Cao had secretly gone to see the daughter she had picked up many times. When she heard that the woman had not been sterilized, she went to arrange a marriage and wanted to marry her back to Zhang Ke as his wife.

I thought it would definitely work. After all, the woman was picked up. If she didn’t find a man quickly, could she wait to be kicked out by the Cao family?

However, Granny Cao refused, and the woman also refused her family’s proposal of marriage.

She didn’t give up and went there once in the first half of the year, but was also rejected. The woman said she would not marry and would stay at home to support Granny Cao in her old age.

As a result, now I want to marry Zhou Xialong!

Grandma Zhang was so angry that her heart felt like countless fires were burning., listening to the villagers talking happily, I couldn't stay any longer and left quickly.

She rushed home carrying her things, and met several people on the way. They were all waiting to see the bride at the village office building. They even asked her to go, which made her so angry that she almost vomited blood.

Grandma Zhang, who was angry even to the hair, returned home and saw that the door of her house was locked. She opened the door and slammed it shut. She pulled a chair in the main room and sat down, gasping for breath.

She felt that she should not come back!

Also, why did the person who told them about Zhou Xialong's divorce not tell them that Zhou Xialong was getting married again? What kind of peace of mind did he have?

Thinking of Li Chunxiu, who she and her son Zhang Ke failed to marry but was easily married by Zhou Xialong, Grandma Zhang became even more angry. If that woman didn’t marry anyone, how could she still respect her? A man who turned around and married Zhou Xialong was obviously a bitch who flattered others and suppressed others.

She decided that she must tell Zhang Ke that a better woman than Li Chunxiu would come back so that Li Chunxiu would regret going.

Feeling angry and unable to stay at home, Grandma Zhang put down her things and went to the village office. She wanted to see what benefits the Zhou family had promised Li Chunxiu to make the woman willing to marry Zhou Xialong.

Everyone Zhang happily returned to the village to see the excitement of Zhou Xialong, but the excitement made her angry. She left angrily, and no one was waiting in the village office building to see the excitement. To care.

When the bride of the Zhang family came again, no one in the villagers laughed at her. They secretly waited to see what the expression of the Zhang family would be when the bride entered the village.

Brother Zhou didn’t know that Mrs. Zhang Ke had come back to see his excitement. He led the team through the rural street, and when they were about to leave the village, they entered a fork in the road, and then took a big turn. Then we drove to Granny Cao’s house.

Granny Cao’s house is not far from the street, but there is only a small alley leading to Xiangxiang Street, which cannot be passed by cars, so the Zhou family can only take a long way to pick up their relatives.

The people of the Cao family were waiting as if they were looking through the water. Seeing the Zhou family's motorcade, especially the bridal car, they knew that the Zhou family was very concerned about the marriage, which made them feel more proud.

The young men of the Cao family guided the car to turn around and park properly on the bluestone road next to the well hole and in front of the neighbor's house.

The convoy did not set off firecrackers on the way to the bride’s house. When the car was parked, the young man in charge of setting off firecrackers strung two strings of thousand-ring firecrackers together at the door of Grandma Cao’s house, and then lit them. lead.

With the sound of firecrackers, the leaders from left to right came out to watch the fun.

The people who picked up the bride unloaded the baskets from the car and carried them into Grandma Cao’s house one load after another, including meat, rice, wine, candies, etc.

The elders of the Cao family are in Granny CaoThe family is waiting in the main room. When the wedding team arrives, some people accompany the bride-to-be and sit down in the main room to drink tea and eat fruits. A few older female elders direct the young people to open the baskets brought by the groom's family.

The husband’s family gave the Cao family a decent face, including all the necessary items for a wedding reception in the countryside, four nines of red envelopes, and filial piety gifts for Granny Cao and Granny Cao’s male cousins-in-law.

After reviewing the wedding gift from the groom’s family in public, the Cao family’s elders directed people to carry the basket into Granny Cao’s bedroom, and then sorted it out. Some of the things were left behind, and some were kept to press the basket. , We can’t let the man’s family carry back the empty basket.

The male elders of the Cao family sat with the people who came to welcome the bride for a while, setting the table and serving food and drinks. The Cao family drank with the welcoming procession.

That was not lunch, but a banquet for the bride’s family to entertain the groom’s family. It was a ceremonial banquet, not a formal meal. The formal banquet for the guests should be at least until eleven o’clock. back.

The wedding team has to go back, drive, and don’t drink. The Cao family doesn’t persuade them to drink. Just give it a try and let it go.

After the banquet was over, we sat for a while. After 10:30, the groom’s family came to welcome the bride, Mrs. Xi, also known as Quanfu’s mother-in-law, and asked the bride’s family to dress up the bride, which is what the ancients said. 'make-up'.

The Quanfu mother-in-law invited by the Zhou family is Grandma Zhang San. Zhang Laosan and his wife have sons and daughters, and their sons and daughters also have sons and daughters. The old people are in good health, and their children and grandchildren are all in order. Grandma Zhang San has a good life and good fortune. Generally, the Zhang family wants to marry her, and most of them are willing to ask Grandma Zhang San to be their nuptial mother-in-law.

The Cao family invited an elderly mother-in-law with both children and grandchildren to be the Quanfu mother-in-law. The groom's family invited the bride to dress up, and the Quanfu mother-in-law went into the bride's room to put on the bride's makeup.

The bride Li Chunxiu and her two children have not shown up yet. They have packed up their clothes and combed their hair, except for the headdress sent by the husband’s family.

Mother-in-law Quanfu used a comb to comb the bride's hair, while singing a hair-combing song, combed her hair a few times, and then inserted the two silver and gem-set hairpins sent by the groom's family into the bun. Then put on lipstick and put on makeup.

The bride’s makeup was done, and Granny Quanfu delivered a letter to the outside.

When Grandma Xipo Zhang San received the letter, she once again urged the bride to come out of the palace according to etiquette. The young people welcoming the bride were already ready. When Xipo asked the bride to come out of the palace again, firecrackers were set off outside.

Firecrackers went off three times in a row. The elders of the Cao family got up and placed mats and two new quilts in front of the hall. The old ladies entered the bride's room and helped the bride up.

The wedding team gathered around the groom and waited outside the bride's room. When the door opened, Xi Po handed one end of the big red flower to the groom and the other to the bride. She sang a local rural wedding song.

Po Xi urges the bride to leave the court, Grandma CaoTears flowed down, and several sisters-in-law of the Cao family sang songs to marry girls.

Yes, it’s better not to sing. When she sang, Mrs. Cao’s mother-in-law, Ms. Li, burst into tears. Cao Qingyue and Cao Bingyue also burst into tears when they saw their grandma and mother crying.

A rural saying goes that when a woman gets married, she will not cry until she gets married.

"If you don't cry, you won't prosper." Firstly, it means that if the bride does not cry when she gets married, it means that her marriage will not go well. If it does not go well, she will not get rich or prosperous. Secondly, it means that the bride does not cry when she gets married. , the bride's family will not let the bride out of the palace until she cries.

The Cao family’s sisters-in-law sang a song for the married girl. The married girl was supposed to sing the song “Thanks to Parents” to thank her parents for raising her. Ms. Li is from another province and cannot sing the local tunes.

Then, the umbrella girl Chen Xiaozhu came on stage and sang a song of thanks to her parents on behalf of the bride.

At the end of the song, the Cao family’s sister-in-law sang a song to encourage women on behalf of Granny Cao, and the clan members sang the “Song of Leaving Mother.”

Next, the men of the Cao family sang the song "Thank you for the guest".

The thank you guests sang for the second time, the wedding team thanked each other, and the sound of firecrackers continued outside. The firecrackers went off and then stopped, and then went off again, three times in a row.

Firecrackers urged her out of the pavilion three times. Granny Cao and the sisters-in-law of the Cao family hugged the bride out of the room and took the newlyweds to the hall to bid farewell to the ancestors of the Cao family.

The newlyweds thanked their ancestors, the Cao family placed a chair in front of the incense table, and Grandma Cao sat down to accept the tea ceremony from the newlyweds.

Granny Cao was happy that she was marrying a daughter, but she couldn’t help but cry and couldn’t say anything. She only told the couple to be diligent, to discuss everything, and not to interfere with each other. Idle spirit.

I only said a few words but couldn’t continue, so I kept wiping away my tears.

Cao Qingyue and Cao Bingyue quickly persuaded her grandma.

The two sisters also wore retro Tang suits and coats and skirts, mainly in gold and red colors, with double buns on their heads. Cao Bingyue also had two strings of silver bells tied to her little knot, which jingled and swayed, making it particularly special. cute.

The newlyweds bid farewell to Granny Cao, bowed in all directions, and bid farewell to the elders of the Cao family. They were led out by Granny Xi. The girl holding the umbrella raised the umbrella above the bride's head when she stepped out of the threshold. He Xipo leads the newlyweds to the wedding car to board the car.

The elders of the Cao family gathered behind the newlyweds, while the young people carried the wedding baskets from the groom’s family and the bride’s dowry behind them.

The sound of firecrackers went off one after another. The groom led the bride to the float, helped the bride into the car, and then got on the car.

Zhou Tianlan was still sitting in the passenger seat, holding Cao Bingyue in her arms. The girl holding the umbrella also sat in the wedding car, next to the bride. When the float went out, it was single, but when it came back, it was in pairs.

　The wedding team arranged for the bridegrooms of the Cao family to take vans and electric tricycles. Cao Qingyue also took the wedding party. She and several elders of the Cao family sat in the van with Xi Po, while some younger members of the Cao family took the motorcycles of the wedding team. .