After all, Huaxi Village is just a small mountain village. Even if there is a happy event, it is impossible for it to take a year or two to prepare like those wealthy families.
However, when holding weddings in the folk, people pay attention to the principle of "small but complete". Although the steps are kept simple, necessary parts cannot be omitted.
What's more, Su Guangfu and Yang really love their eldest daughter Su Qingluan. Moreover, because she was taken away by mistake before, this eldest daughter was turned from a noble lady from a wealthy family into a country girl in the mountains. Although Su Qingluan has said many times that such a life is more suitable for her than the boring life in those deep courtyards, Yang and Su Guangfu still feel very guilty.
So naturally, they felt that this "big event in their eldest daughter's life" could not be taken lightly. So, not only Yang, the mother, but even Su Guangfu was concerned about Su Qingluan's furniture every day. From the design drawings to the production, he personally handled every detail, fearing that he would buy defective products from outside or that they would not meet his daughter's preferences.
This is how wedding preparations work: the more detailed the preparations, the longer it takes.
Su Qingluan knew that this was not a real marriage and thought it would be enough to just show her respect. However, her parents were more serious than each other and wanted to give her the fairy clothes woven by the fairies in the sky and the carved bed used in the inner courtyard of the imperial palace as a dowry.
Before people in this era get married, they need to find a matchmaker, then go to a temple or ask a Feng Shui master to calculate whether the birth dates of both parties are compatible, and then they have to go through the wedding ceremony.
In fact, relatively few people know about these steps, and before the horoscopes are matched, the marriage may be called off at any time - after all, given the level of superstition among people in this era, there are marriages that are called off every year due to incompatible horoscopes and zodiac signs.
What's more, this also gives both parties a chance to buffer and let them secretly examine each other. If they suddenly change their minds, they can use the "incompatibility" to deal with it, without losing face or money, and can save the face of both families. Therefore, usually before this step, both parties will "proceed in secret" and not make too much noise.
But the next "gift-giving" part is not so simple. At this step, the man gives the betrothal gift to the woman. If it is more elaborate, a special band will be invited to play music and dance around the venue, and the entire gift-giving team will be seen by the elders from all over the place.
Of course, Su Qingluan had already discussed with Mu Xingzhi in advance to "keep everything simple", because just thinking about that scene made her feel dizzy.
However, no matter how simple the process was, the necessary procedures still had to be followed. Even if one traveled light, it would take more than a quarter of an hour to walk from the Su family's residence to Mu Xing's residence. Therefore, even if the "ceremonial procession" took the "shortest distance between two points" approach and went directly, it still took more than two quarters of an hour. Many people came to watch the excitement.
After all, this team came out of Mu Xingzhi's yard, and everyone was guessing whose daughter Mr. Mu was going to marry.
When the "gift-giving" procession filed into the courtyard of the Su family, the news that "Mr. Mu is going to marry the eldest daughter of Su the carpenter" spread throughout the entire Huaxi Village like shapeless wings. Even people in Lefeng Town who had some connections with the Su family heard that the eldest daughter of the Su family was engaged and was going to get married.
Originally, Su Qingluan wanted to keep everything simple. One important reason was that she didn't want to face a series of gossips from her aunts and uncles. However, she didn't expect that what was coming would still come, and she couldn't avoid it.
"Is it the man in the wheelchair?" Liu Yunniang grabbed Su Qingluan's hands, her eyes shining like searchlights. "You said it was nothing before, but now we are getting married, what did I say?"
Su Qingluan's mouth twitched. Actually, even two weeks ago, she hadn't imagined she'd end up marrying Mu Xingzhi. It was a shame that even if she told him such a ridiculous thing, no one would believe her. After all, in the eyes of others, she was always running to Mu Xingzhi's side. There were even gossipers in Huaxi Village gossiping about it.
However, Su Qingluan never took this matter to heart. Later, because Su Qingluan led the villagers to live a better life through "Su Ji", everyone's life became better, so they all remembered Su Qingluan's kindness, and no one would gossip behind her back.
Even as Su Qingluan's "prestige" in the village increased, there would be people who would take the initiative to stand up and defend her when someone said something bad about her.
There were people who complained sourly that the villagers were "Su family's lackeys", but they were retorted back, "When Su family's lackeys can eat well, dress warmly and live a good life, you can only be so angry that your stomach will explode."
But now that the two families have posted the invitation and paid the betrothal gift, even if the relationship is clear, no one will care about it even if Su Qingluan keeps running to Mu Xing's house.
After all, although there was no formal worship of heaven and earth, in everyone's mind, Su Qingluan was already considered the daughter-in-law of another family, and going to someone else's house was just "returning to her husband's home", which was a very normal thing.
Su Qingluan naturally dislikes the mainstream value that "women have no autonomy."
However, there was nothing she could do even if she didn't like it. She could do nothing to change this point of view except to get angry.
Now she can only make sure that she follows her heart in everything she does.
So looking at the teasing expression of Liu Yunniang opposite her, she did not explain too much.
Compared to Liu Yunniang's gossip, the other neighbors were very happy. After all, because of the competition between Mu Xingzhi and Master Zhou in Hongfulou, he was still regarded as a "very good scholar" in the eyes of quite a few elders in the town.
Therefore, when people like Manager Liang, Old Man Xu and even Xu Yuanwei knew about this, they all felt that although Mu Xingzhi was a little weak, he was "gentle and honest" and had a reputation. In addition, Su Qingluan was good at doing business and making money. If the two of them had two sons and raised them well, they might be able to pass the imperial examinations and become officials.
Su Qingluan listened to everyone's various "visions of the future" and couldn't help but cover her face and run away.
I can’t bear it. I can’t bear it.
There were generally two reactions among those around who heard about this marriage: either they treated it as gossip with great interest, or they offered their sincere blessings for Su Qingluan's happiness.
In this noisy and bustling atmosphere, a few months passed in the blink of an eye. It was almost July, the hottest time of the year. Su Qingluan was the type who could tolerate cold but suffered from summer heat, especially during the hottest one or two months of the year. He wished he could become a motionless rice bug every day, lying on the bamboo couch in the yard, motionless except when eating.
But the reality is that she has to go to work at Su Ji during the day, and after coming back she has to prepare her own dowry - sewing her wedding dress.
Su Qingluan's needlework was terrible. Now, whatever Su Xueyan sewed was better than her sister. There was even one time when Su Xuanhe suddenly wanted to learn embroidery, and the final product was even more neat than her sister Su Qingluan's - although it was not beautiful, it was already very good compared to Su Qingluan's unidentified object that was impossible to tell what it was.
And now, she even had to sew her wedding dress. Su Qingluan felt like God was going to kill her.
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