Chapter 53 The Most Luxurious Wedding in the Village
The women in the yard were joking with each other, and hearty laughter could be heard from time to time.
"I said that at the time because I felt sorry for Xiao Mei. You said that Xiao Mei is so pretty, but marrying a cripple is like a blind man hitting his face, isn't it?"
Ye Xiaomei heard it and understood it very well in her heart. Now that she and Brother Ma had unexpectedly finally gotten married, naturally no one would say a bad word about it.
According to custom, the evening before the wedding banquet is the time when the groom sends someone to deliver the red dress that the bride will wear the next day. I wonder what Brother Ma is doing now, whether he is preparing for the wedding banquet.
Ma family.
Ma Qijun is checking the cement floor that was laid yesterday afternoon. The furniture will be delivered this afternoon.
His bed was covered with a bright red outfit: a suit collar, an over-the-knee fishtail skirt, red high-heeled leather sandals, and red glass stockings. He had thought about it and ordered it according to the wedding style in the city.
Ma Qijun thought about how beautiful this dress would look on Xiaomei.
He deliberately moved the two little red flowers on his chest together: bridegroom, bride. Ma Qijun touched the corner of his mouth and couldn't help laughing.
"Hey, I told you to slow down, look." Wang Lan's loud voice came from the yard:
"This is my daughter-in-law's dressing table. If it weren't for the upcoming wedding, I would have to return it."
Wang Lan touched the corner of the dressing table with pain. There was a large piece of paint that had been rubbed off, and it looked like a second-hand product.
"Congratulations, sister-in-law, you are so magnanimous. I will charge you ten yuan less when you pay the bill." The carpenter from the next village nodded and bowed with an apologetic smile.
Ma Qijun limped out and said, "Mom, it's okay. I'll add some paint later."
Wang Lan glanced at her son. His temper was different from hers. He didn't care about things that should be cared about. "Okay, you said you would save ten yuan. Don't forget it when the time comes. Here, wedding candy."
He turned around and grabbed a handful of wedding candy and gave it to the carpenter.
After this busy meal, the man's side has a side meal at noon. The dishes are naturally not that rich, and all the best dishes will be put on the main table for tomorrow's noon.
Ma Kaifa, the father of the Ma family, came the day before and planned in the evening to add a few more tables for the main meal tomorrow at noon, because he invited colleagues from the factory, and estimated that there would be more than 20 people.
"Then we have to add at least three tables, but Qijun's comrades are unwilling to notify him. Otherwise, fifty tables would be a bit tight." Wang Lan originally thought that she could have a big party.
As the saying goes, the more people come, the more it shows that the Ma family has a wide range of connections. Originally, fifty tables were prepared for the main banquet, which could stretch all the way from the yard to the village entrance. But now, Ma Qijun is unwilling to inform his comrades, so now there can only be thirty tables at most.
Taking advantage of the evening, Heizi drove ahead to lead the way, followed by a farm vehicle with new furniture in the carriage. Liang Hui followed behind in a tractor.
A large carp weighing more than 30 kilograms and half a pig with a wedding character stuck on it were hanging on the tractor and swaying. The vehicle was carrying a village band, playing gongs and drums, and was heading towards the Ye family.
From behind, we saw that about half of the villagers were following them enthusiastically, and the children were jogging to catch up, waiting for the man’s family to throw wedding candies.
This is the custom here. All the furniture and property must be brought to the girl's home for personal inspection. As for the custom of marrying far away, it is waived.
Ye Xiaomei heard the sounds of gongs and drums in the room. Her face turned red and she covered her face tightly. The Ma family really did everything according to their requirements.
Today, the Ma family gave her enough face, which showed that they valued her. In the future, Ye Xiaomei would definitely take good care of Big Brother Ma and be filial to her parents-in-law.
"Xiao Mei, Xiao Mei..." Zhao Mei had never been so panicked before, and suddenly opened the door:
"Xiao Mei, do you know that the Ma family also made a whole set of furniture, all painted red, and pasted with shiny wedding characters. It's so festive that three cars came."
"Really?" Ye Xiaomei didn't make this request and felt a little flattered for a moment.
He lowered his head and thought that Brother Ma must have come too: "I'll go take a look."
Zhao Mei quickly grabbed Ye Xiaomei and said, "You can't go out. If people see you, you'll be laughed at. The man's family is here to send you a red dress. Just wait here."
"This is also the rule." Ye Xiaomin pursed her lips tightly.
"Of course not. If you break the rules, people will laugh at you. For example, when the sedan chair arrives tomorrow, you can't let your feet touch the ground when you go out. You have to be carried out by your brothers."
"Can't touch the ground? And my brothers need to carry me out?" Ye Xiaomei was really dizzy. There were too many rules. She didn't have any brothers.
"Don't worry. Although Huzi and Qiangzi are not very friendly on weekdays, they are your cousins after all. They must play the role of taking care of things at home."
After explaining, Zhao Mei hurried out to greet people.
Heizi simply climbed onto the roof of the car and scattered candy everywhere, and children, adults and the elderly all swarmed over to grab it.
"Sister-in-law, your family is really proud this time. Look how generous the Ma family is. This is a complete set of furniture."
"That's right, Minzhi, you, as a middle-aged woman, will also be able to enjoy happiness with Xiaomei in the future."
Wang Minzhi at the door had an unpleasant expression on her face. She looked at the car full of furniture with her eyes almost bloodshot. Then she looked at the candies in her hands, all of which were good candies that ordinary people might not be able to afford during the Chinese New Year.
Moreover, no one in the whole village has ever heard of anyone making a complete set of furniture for a wedding. The most they would make is a table, benches and a bed.
Take the dressing table for example. Who has time to dress up when they are busy working in the fields all day? And there is such a big wardrobe that it can hold four seasons of clothes for the whole family. Even if the quilts are piled together, it may not be full.
But the Ma family took care of it.
Wang Minzhi gritted her teeth and cursed in her heart: This dead girl Xiaolin didn't listen to my advice at first. I told her that she was crippled and could just get married and have money to spend, but she just wouldn't listen. Now she's fine, and I heard that Ma Qijun can stand up again. The second brother's family is in the limelight this time.
Look, the wrinkles on Zhao Mei's face are all revealed when she smiles, and she is greeting the Ma couple enthusiastically.
A red box was carried into the yard.
Everyone loved to watch the excitement and gathered around the red box to ask for it to be opened and seen.
It is said to be a custom, but in fact it is just to let the woman's family check whether they are satisfied with the prepared things. If they are not satisfied, they have to give a red envelope at their discretion.
Naturally, the red envelopes are also prepared to guard against the girl's family deliberately finding fault. Of course, there are also cases where marriages are ruined because of these trivial matters.
Zhao Mei felt very confident. Ma Qijun had promised to buy cloth for his daughter to make a red dress, new socks, red shoes, and even furniture. The red dress was certainly no problem.
When it was opened, the red cloth was covered with a layer of red-dyed peanuts, dates, longans and cotton seeds, symbolizing the early birth of a son.
Unexpectedly, the people who gathered around were stunned and suddenly fell silent.
"My God, this Ma family is really particular."
"Yes, I saw this dress when I went to the city. It was very fashionable."
Someone in the crowd said something that broke the silence, but Zhao Mei had never seen any styles in the city, and she just thought Ma Jiabei's red dress was pretty, so she breathed a sigh of relief.
"These shoes are really nice." A hand reached in, grabbed the shoes and looked at them carefully: "They are high heels."
Ye Daxiong's original temper disappeared without a trace in just one hour. He no longer looked down on the cripple of the Ma family and no longer liked Xiao Mei, but what the Ma family did today gave him, the old father, enough face.
His old face flushed when his fellow villagers praised him so much.
"You really have never seen the world." A man squeezed into the crowd, snatched the red high-heeled shoes from the girl's hand, threw them into the box, hooked the lid of the box with his foot, bent down, picked them up and went into the west room.
"Hey, Xiaolin, you are being disrespectful. You can't even look at me."
"That's right." The villagers were unhappy.
When a girl from an ordinary family gets married, it's good enough for the man to tear off a piece of red cloth to make a new dress for her. What's wrong with such a beautiful red dress? You can't have a hole in it.
"I think this girl regrets it, otherwise the Ma family would have welcomed her."
"Now that you mention it, it's true." They whispered to each other.
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