The bride can't enter the groom's house immediately after arriving. She has to wait until the auspicious time is chosen before she can enter. It's said to be the local custom. Song Zhuiyan, Song Tantan, and Ye Moxun didn't know what this custom was, but they had to do as the Romans do.

The two brides sat at the front gates of their respective grooms' homes. A large basket was placed at the gate, with a wooden stool in the middle of the basket. Xinliangzi sat in the basket, her head covered with a red veil, waiting for the auspicious time to enter the house.

Song Tantan found it fascinating and stood next to the bride, occasionally scattering wildflowers. Several children followed her, laughing and scattering flowers as they went.

When the auspicious hour arrived, the bride was welcomed into the house, and the wedding ceremony began. An older man called out in a drawn-out tone: "First bow to heaven and earth, second bow to the parents, husband and wife bow to each other, and then enter the bridal chamber."

After the bride was sent to the new house, everyone moved to the school to start cooking. The groom's family also had to set up a table, otherwise it would be too quiet and awkward. However, only the groom's close relatives from several branches of the family ate at home, while everyone else ate at the school.

Zhu Xiu and A Yu accompanied Xiao Yu and Xiao Mei respectively, while Song Zhuiyan and Song Tantan went to help out at the school. The two of them and Ye Moxun didn't really have much to do; their main responsibility was to give instructions.

Well, actually Lin Fuhai had arranged everything. The three of them were a bit bored, so they wandered around the school for a while and then went off to find something to do.

Song Tantan and Song Zhuiyan went to help pick vegetables, and Ye Moxun followed them. They couldn't get rid of him no matter what they asked him to do. They asked him to go to the kitchen to help prepare the vegetables, but he just wouldn't go.

"I'll just pick vegetables here, don't give me any instructions, I'm not going anywhere."

Song Tantan ignored him and whispered to her aunt, "You said you gave Xiaoyu and Xiaomei dowries, what are they?"

"We found several silver hairpins on the Hu people earlier, so I'll give one to Xiaoyu and one to Xiaomei," Song Zhuiyan said calmly.

"How come I didn't know?" Song Tantan's eyes widened, feeling that her aunt was no longer close to her and had kept so many silver hairpins hidden from her.

“Those hairpins were stained with blood back then. I washed them several times but they still smelled of blood, so I hid them without telling you. I originally planned to pawn them later to get money. We don’t have any money on us, how can we go out without money?”

She glanced at her niece, finding it amusing. A few silver hairpins weren't worth much. Back then, let alone silver, even gold was worthless. In those famine-stricken times, grain was the most valuable commodity. Everyone was concerned about having enough to eat, so who would care too much about silver?

"Don't you have silver and a few gold ingots?" These were all paid for by Ye Moxun when he bought her food.

"Only a dozen taels, not much at all." It feels like a small amount; you wouldn't even notice it in the storage space.

"Although the gold ingots are not large, only about ten taels, they are worth a lot of silver when exchanged." Ye Moxun explained when he saw her looking over.

Previously, one tael of gold could be exchanged for twelve taels of silver, but now the world is too chaotic, and no one knows how to exchange them outside. The price of gold has not decreased or increased; you have to go to a money exchange to find out.

“Xiaoyu and Xiaomei don’t have anything of value on them, and they don’t have any elders to worry about them. Women have it harder than men in any era, especially women in ancient times. I gave them the hairpin so that they would have some peace of mind. Life is still so long, and who knows what will happen in the future? Having something of value on them will always give them a little more security.”

Song Zhuiyan herself has been through it all. The hardships a young woman has to endure to support a family and raise her niece are unimaginable to outsiders. Was she born to be a farmer?

No, at first she almost couldn't handle it and went out to work, but then she thought about Tantan needing to go to school. At that time, she didn't have the ability to take Tantan to a big city to study, and she was even more worried about leaving her at home. Who would take care of her and leave her behind?

To better care for Tantan, she gritted her teeth and persevered. Raising pigs is a step-by-step process; not everyone is born knowing how to raise pigs. Raising one or two pigs is relatively easy, but raising over a hundred required a lot of hard work to make a profit. After several years of honing her skills, she got used to it.

Not only could she support Tantan and herself, but she could also save money to demolish the old house and build a new one. As her savings gradually increased, she felt more secure. Later, Tantan graduated from university and started earning money. She thought she could start living a life like she was in retirement.

After all, she felt she could manage with three acres of land and more than two hundred pigs. She was content with this regular life and never thought about changing it.

Then suddenly she was transported to another world, and everything had to start all over again. Sigh, she's just destined to be a busybody.

“Auntie, I was just asking because you're upset. I didn’t mean to blame you. Those hairpins were yours to begin with. It’s your right to give them to whomever you want, and no one can say anything about it.” Song Tantan put down the vegetables in her hand and reached out to hug her.

"It's nothing, Auntie is just a little homesick. Since coming here, I've become more and more sentimental. Before, I wouldn't shed a single tear even if those shrewish women in the village fought with me. I would try my best to win any argument with others and never wanted to admit defeat. But it's so hard here."

It was so damn tough. It took several hours to walk into the mountains, and you had to rely on your own two legs to get anywhere. I really miss her motorcycle and hand tractor. She was almost going to buy a pickup truck. After this time travel, all her vehicles disappeared. Yes, you can no longer find the motorcycle and hand tractor in the space.

What a rip-off! It's like they were afraid she'd bring all that high-tech stuff to ancient times, and then it just suddenly disappeared.

"During the time I transmigrated here, I was either killing people or running for my life. It scared me to death. I had nightmares for several days in a row. In my dreams, there were rivers of blood and dead people everywhere. I had killed them all. It was a gruesome sight." Song Zhuiyan lowered her voice and kept complaining.

Ye Moxun nodded vigorously in agreement. Back then, when he was on the run, he almost didn't want to live anymore. The broken system worried that he was going to die every day, and always nagged him to do ideological work and encourage him to live.

Fortunately, he met Song Tantan. She had a supermarket with lots of food and other delicious treats, as well as clothes to wear. If he hadn't met Song Tantan, he couldn't imagine whether he and his uncle would still be alive today. Even if they had managed to survive, they would probably be in a terrible state.

"Things are much better now than they were four years ago. At least we don't have to worry about being hunted down anymore." Song Tantan smiled optimistically. Her personality was quite different from her aunt's.

Perhaps because my aunt was under a lot of pressure and had a heavy burden on her shoulders, although she lived a very strong life, she was actually quite pessimistic inside. Otherwise, why would she rarely smile and always treat people coldly or even indifferently?

Although she lost her parents at a young age, she was loved by her maternal grandparents. After her grandparents passed away, her aunt also doted on her. She has always been happy, which is why she has retained her optimistic nature and smiles a lot.

Song Zhuiyan was thinking about the people in the forest, worried that outsiders would soon find Songlin Village and disrupt everyone's peaceful life. She felt inexplicably irritable.

However, considering that today was Xiaoyu and Xiaomei's big day, he didn't say much and told Song Tantan not to say anything more either, and to focus on his work.