Chapter 1651: Gatekeeper
Mr. Bai did what he said. Early in the morning on the wedding day, he brought Qitou and Batou over, and put them on the wedding bed together with the three-year-old girl hired from the alley, and rolled around several times.
After the wedding bed was rolled into wrinkles, Mr. Bai was satisfied and carried the people down. He gave each of them a red envelope and asked the matchmaker to rearrange the bed sheets and scatter dates, peanuts and other messy things on the bed.
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang are watching the matchmaker dress up Bai Dalang. Don’t think that only women need to dress up for marriage, men need it too.
It’s just that in the past, people in the Zhou family didn’t have so many formalities when getting married.
The Bai family is very particular about this.
Not only was there a hairdresser who carefully tied Bai Dalang's hair and put a jade crown on him, but there was also a lady in charge of his appearance who applied facial mask and drew his eyebrows.
After all these operations, Bai Shan and Bai Erlang were speechless when they saw Bai Dalang, who looked so heroic, fair and handsome.
Bai Dalang was also stunned when he looked at himself in the bronze mirror.
After finishing her hair and makeup, the matchmaker asked someone to bring a bright red robe and put it on Bai Dalang. "After dinner, we will go out to welcome the bride at noon."
Some places pay attention to the wedding ceremony, that is, bringing the bride home before dusk, but here in Beijing, people prefer to use the horoscope to calculate the auspicious time for the newlyweds. It is considered auspicious if the couple goes out at an auspicious time and enters the house at an auspicious time.
This is somewhat different from Luojiang County, where the bride is brought home before noon.
However, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. The most important thing is that after Mr. Bai compared the horoscopes, he found that the auspicious time for the bride to enter the house was noon. This was similar to the customs of their Luojiang County, so they followed both sides.
I have no objection to starting a family.
As soon as Bai Dalang went out, his classmates and friends who he invited came in a hurry. They would go with him to welcome the bride soon.
Mr. Bai borrowed horses from three families just to make it look good. Soon, a row of young boys and young men rode horses through the street to welcome the bride. It was so beautiful.
At this time, the Zhou family looked completely different.
Manbao had also sent his eldest niece to get married, but the wedding of the second Miss Cheng was more grand. The guest house was busy early in the morning.
The people from the Zhou family naturally came along to help.
However, this matter had nothing to do with the three little girls, Manbao, Lijun and Liru. They didn't quite understand, and the adults didn't let them wave, but only asked them to go and talk to Miss Cheng Er.
The three of them sat next to Miss Cheng Er and watched the maids put on makeup for her. Many of the things were new to Manbao.
Seeing her interest, Miss Cheng Er took advantage of the moment to introduce her to the whitening cream, and then whispered, "The whitening cream you make is very effective. I was a little tanned when I came to Beijing before, but after using your cream, my skin became much whiter in just twenty days. I think it's even whiter than when I was in Mianzhou."
Manbao stared at her face, and after a while he thought, is this because she is covering her face to make it pale?
You know, she hardly went out in the past twenty days.
But Zhou Lijun didn't think so. She thought it was her whitening cream that was effective, so she happily said to Miss Cheng Er, "If you like it, I'll give you an extra bottle later."
When Miss Cheng Er heard this, she became happy and said, "Okay, thank you very much."
The two of them were so close to each other that Manbao couldn't stop looking at them.
Soon, the first sound of firecrackers was heard from the front. Manbao knew that the wedding procession was entering the street, and he immediately pulled everyone to the front to block the door.
By the time they ran to the front, Zhou Lixue and his team could no longer withstand the pressure and opened the door.
As soon as Manbao and the others arrived, several people immediately called out, "Little aunt, come quickly! Our questions won't be difficult for them."
Manbao immediately ran over to help them hold the gate. Seeing that they were still pushing, he shouted, "Why are you pushing? Marrying a wife requires a literary struggle, and you still want to fight with force."
The people outside started to jeer, "Wen Dou, why don't you give us some questions? We've already answered the first two you asked. If you don't give us another question, we'll consider you the loser. Open the door now."
Manbao used his shoulder to hold the door open and asked Zhou Lixue, "What questions did you come up with?"
"What else could it be? Of course it's the makeup poem, and there are also a few lines of poetry. But aunt, Brother Bai is a student of the Imperial Academy, much better than us. There are also my uncle and the others outside. Can the essay questions we come up with be difficult for them?"
Manbao thought about it and felt that it was really impossible, so he rolled his eyes and said, "Alright, answer two more questions and I'll let you in. Brother Bai, do you love Miss Chongcheng?"
Cheng Dalang, who was a little anxious, immediately calmed down when he heard this question.
The young men and boys who were waiting outside in a state of urgency immediately started to make a fuss when they heard the question. They pushed the groom, who had been hiding behind them to save his life, to the front and laughed, "Answer quickly, answer quickly, is love heavy?"
Bai Dalang's face flushed red, and he whispered back with a blush, "Of course I love you more."
Manbao put his ear to the door but couldn't hear anything, so he shouted, "Louder! I can't hear anything."
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang followed suit and shouted, "Brother, hurry up and shout louder."
Bai Shanle said, "It would be best if Miss Cheng could hear it too."
Bai Dalang glared at him and whispered, "Bai Shan, don't forget that you will get married one day."
Bai Shan said proudly: "I am not afraid of this difficulty."
Bai Dalang gritted his teeth and answered Zhou Man with a slightly raised voice, "Of course I love you."
Manbao was delighted and immediately asked, "How heavy is it?"
The young men outside who were originally Bai Dalang's allies laughed and asked, "Yes, how heavy is it?"
Bai Dalang's face flushed red, as if he were drunk, as he said, "Like a surging river."
Everyone laughed out loud, and Manbao shouted through the door, "Brother Bai, please remember this."
Then the door opened. As soon as it was ajar, everyone immediately squeezed in. Zhou Lixue remembered and shouted, "Oh no! I forgot to ask for the red envelope."
Manbao ran away, shouting, "Stupid! There are two more gates ahead. Let's block them..."
When Zhou Lixue and the others heard this, they immediately ran after him.
Cheng Dalang was inexperienced and was almost knocked down. However, since he was a member of the maternal family, Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang felt that they could not leave him behind, so they dragged him to the front and pushed him to the front door.
Manbao shouted, "This door won't be difficult for you, but you have to give enough red envelopes. Give them quickly."
Bai Shan said, "You are outside the door, I won't give it to you even if I give it to you."
Manbao pinched his waist and said, "If you don't give us red envelopes, don't even think about giving them to the people in our sect without us."
Fang and the others who were guarding the door laughed and said, "Yes, you have to give it to my aunt first, otherwise we won't open the door without a red envelope."
Bai Dalang and the others had no choice but to take out a handful of red envelopes to send Manbao and the others away first. Then they squeezed to the door and kept stuffing red envelopes in through the crack. Finally, while playing around, the other party accidentally opened the door a little wider. Bai Shan quickly pushed the door inwards, and Bai Erlang immediately followed. Then a large group of people pushed the door open at once. Everyone was delighted and immediately rushed in...
See you at 4 p.m.
(End of this chapter)
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