Chapter 445 Sitting in the Singing Hall 2

Two girls holding silver lamps or candlesticks welcome the bride covered with a red veil into the main hall and sit her right above the square table. This is called "Yingdeng".

After the bride is seated, everyone sings a song together, which is called "opening the voice."

A girl leads the singing first, and this is called "starting the singing hall."

The bride's good sisters began to take turns singing. The content of the songs varied, including comforting the bride, praising the groom, scolding the matchmaker, and recalling how deep the sisterhood is.

When the sisters took turns singing, they would intersperse the singing with the bride crying. The people who cry for the bride include her parents, brother and sister-in-law, brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts. Even married aunts have to cry for them as well. (The crying here is not real crying, it is sung.)

And for those who were being cried for, the bride’s tears were not in vain. The relatives and friends have to pay money as a farewell gift for the bride, which is called "adding pressure box".

(The money will be placed in the four corners of the bride's dowry box. The next day, when the bride arrives at the groom's house, the groom's mother-in-law will open the box and look through the four corners of the bride's dowry box. The more money, the more respectable the bride will be. The groom's mother-in-law will also have to double the amount and add some more money.)

After the bride had finished crying in front of all her relatives, the matchmaker came on stage.

The matchmaker placed the singing gifts brought by the groom on the table and distributed them.

(The groom's song hall gift is usually candy, melon seeds and other things. The matchmaker distributes them to the people sitting in the song hall, and the rest is distributed by the bride's family to relatives and friends outside.)

At this time, the sisters in the singing hall will sing the wedding song of closing the singing hall, which is called "sending lanterns.

Nowadays, most people outside the mountains have cancelled the "sitting in the singing hall" when marrying off their daughters. This is mainly because candy is a precious commodity that cannot be bought even if one has money but no tickets, and most people have neither money nor tickets. But then I thought about how I had bought so many candies, melon seeds and other things, but instead of making it lively, I just distributed them casually, which made the atmosphere lack a bit.

Besides, she personally felt that it was not easy for girls in this era to work hard in their parents' home for more than ten or twenty years. Once they got married, it was like "a married daughter is like spilled water". They could no longer enjoy anything from their parents' home, but they still had to fulfill their obligations.

Yike thinks that the crying part in the singing hall is a very good one, as the bride can express her thoughts and feelings in the form of singing.

The last and most important reason is that sitting in the singing hall is a very interesting custom and we cannot let it disappear in the long river of history.

"Sister Yike, I called Sister Guihua." Li Xiaoying's voice arrived before she even showed up.

"Sister." Yike went out.

"Sister, you're back." Han Guihua said happily.

"I'm back. I have to attend my brother's wedding, so I have to come back no matter how far away it is." Yi Kexiao said.

"Yike, your healthy brother is blessed to have a sister like you in eight lifetimes." Wang Cuihua's voice came from outside.

Yi Ke grinned and ran happily towards Wang Cuihua, the last one standing. "Godmother, I have a godmother and godfather. This is also the blessing I have earned in eight lifetimes."

"Good boy, why are you coming out? It's cold outside. Don't come out after taking a shower. You may catch a cold easily." Wang Cuihua pushed Yi Ke into the room and closed the door of the main room, keeping the cold wind out.

"Godmother, the main wine ceremony will be tomorrow. Have the food and drink for the ceremonial dinner been prepared?" Yi Ke asked with concern.

"Everything is ready. Pork, chicken, duck, and rice. There's no noodles, so we'll use fine flour instead." Wang Cuihua took Yike to the guest room. There were several baskets in the room, and the baskets contained the gifts that Wang Cuihua mentioned.

"Wow, so many." Li Xiaoying exclaimed in surprise.

"Godmother, take down the flour. I bought some noodles." Yike said, "My mother asked me to buy this. She said she would use it for the betrothal gift, and she guessed it right."

"Is your mother back?"

"We are back, but when we saw the tiller plowing the land, we couldn't move anymore and just kept following it."

"They have never seen Iron Ox, so they are curious about it."

"That's right. Mother regretted leaving the mountain. She said that she felt sorry and regretful for not being able to see such an important event with her own eyes."

"Who regrets? What do you regret?"

Speak of the devil, and here he appears. Zhang Yuling and Li Haoran pushed the door open and heard Le Ke’s last words.

"Brother, Yuling, you are back." Wang Cuihua shouted in surprise.

"I'm back, Cuihua. Who said he regretted it just now? The bride?" Zhang Yuling said anxiously.

"You won't change your mind just when the wedding is about to start, right? That won't do." Li Haoran also said.

Wang Cuihua saw that the two had misunderstood, and hurriedly explained: "No, it's not what you think. It's just that you regretted coming out of the mountain after seeing Tie Niu."

"You said bad things about mother again. You deserve a beating." Zhang Yuling pretended to give Yike a slap on the face.

"Mom, I was wrong. Haha."

Yike can hide behind Han Guihua.

"Uncle Haoran, Aunt Yuling."

"Uncle Haoran, Aunt Yuling."

Han Guihua and Li Xiaoying both called out to people respectfully.

"Go and help move the things on the ox cart in." Li Haoran said.

Yike was the first to get out, saying behind his mother's back that she was caught, and then he worked actively to avoid being nagged by Zhang Yuling.

Du Jiankang came in with a bag of noodles, and Wang Cuihua immediately went to replace the flour in the basket. "Yuling, you are really thoughtful. Noodles are better than flour anyway."

"That's right, what does it look like to give flour as a gift of wine?"

The two of them had lived in the mountains for many years and had never been apart for such a long time. Once they started talking, they talked endlessly. After moving things, they went to do other things. They worked and talked together.

As soon as she saw that all the things had been moved, she pulled her sister to her bedroom to talk in private. Li Xiaoying was instructed by Zhang Yuling to go to the paradise to get things, and she left reluctantly.

"Sister, my brother-in-law asked me to bring something to you."

Yike took out five hundred yuan and handed it to Han Guihua, and also gave her a piece of cloth with a red background and white flowers.

"My brother-in-law said he would give Dani 66 yuan to buy a box, and this piece of cloth will be given to Dani as a dowry."

"There is a big package outside. It contains cotton and cloth. It is given to you by your brother-in-law. It is a big package. In addition to cloth, there are other things. You can take it back later."

"How much does all these things cost? And he brought money in. How can he make so much money outside? He didn't use the company's money as well, did he?"

"My brother-in-law probably isn't that bold, don't worry about that."

"That's good. Actually, our life is pretty good now. You should pay more attention to him when you are outside. Don't ask for things you shouldn't ask for, and don't take things you shouldn't take."

"Yes, I know."

"His cousin's wedding is such a big event, why doesn't he come in?"

"Well, Ziyi assigned him a new task, so he's busy."

First, it would be embarrassing to encourage them to expand their territory and reach other counties and cities, so Ma Youcai, Wang Feng, Dong Guoqing and Liu Bing are working hard to develop.