Chapter 1674 Going Out
Seeing that she seemed to want to throw something, Bai Erlang dug in his sleeves and pulled out a dozen red envelopes, stuffing them into her hands. "Okay, I'll give them to you."
Mingda was so surprised holding the red envelopes that he asked, "Why did you bring so many red envelopes?"
Bai Erlang chuckled and said, "I caught it. How can you knock on my door without a red envelope?"
Anyway, there is not much money in the red envelope, either one or two cents, so just throw it out in handfuls and grab it at will.
Of course, Bai Erlang didn't care much about this little money, but Old Zhou did.
Their Qili Village does not have the custom of giving out so many red envelopes, but when in Rome, do as the Romans do. After all, Lao Liu got married in the capital.
After Mingda received the red envelope, she was considered a member of the man's family. Bai Erlang led her forward, using the red envelopes to clear the way, and rushed to the main hall, where they met the Qiu couple.
Zhou Liulang was surrounded by people and walked forward. He was so excited and nervous that he bowed to the couple repeatedly but could not say a word.
Zhou Silang and Zhou Wulang, who had brought him to the wedding, saw that Lao Liu had finally come to his senses. The two brothers immediately helped him speak, teaching him sentence by sentence, "Call your father-in-law and mother-in-law quickly."
Zhou Liulang bowed deeply and called out, "Father-in-law, mother-in-law..."
Zhou Wulang on the side said, "Call dad and mom again."
Zhou Liulang bowed again, "Dad, Mom——"
The Qiu family was also marrying off their daughter for the first time, and they were equally excited. They nodded repeatedly and said "yes", then turned to look at their relatives and friends and said, "Go and help our eldest sister out."
Qiu Pei was waiting in the boudoir. As soon as the conversation started, she heard it. The matchmaker she had invited immediately helped her out with her cousin.
As soon as she entered the door, she looked up and met Zhou Liulang's gaze. Seeing that Zhou Liulang was more handsome today than before, she couldn't help blushing.
Zhou Liulang also looked at Qiu Pei with a red face, unable to recover for a long time.
Zhou Wulang looked at him and smiled, feeling satisfied, so he poked him, signaling him to come back to his senses.
Zhou Liulang came back to his senses with a red face, and knelt down with Qiu Pei to pay his respects to the Qiu couple.
Mingda and Changyu finally distributed all the red envelopes and squeezed in from outside to watch the fun. They heard Mother Qiu holding Qiu Pei's hand and giving him a lot of instructions, and then she told Zhou Liulang to be more tolerant in the future. Only then did they take the tea they offered and drink it.
After drinking tea and giving the red envelope, Zhou Liulang stood up, helped Qiu Pei up and turned around together.
Qiu Pei had no brothers, so she was supposed to be carried out by her cousins, but the Jia family had too many demands and Old Man Qiu failed to reach an agreement with them.
When Old Zhou and Qian went to the Qiu family to discuss the wedding, Old Man Qiu was very anxious and couldn't help but tell them about the Jia family's conditions.
When Old Zhou heard that the Jia family was asking for a huge sum of money in a red envelope just for carrying the child for such a short distance, he immediately refused.
Even if the money is to be paid by future in-laws, it won’t work.
The Qiu family has only one daughter, so won’t all this money belong to his grandchildren in the future?
So he gave Old Man Qiu a crooked idea, "Our two families' situations are different. Your daughter is married, but not really married. In the future, their second child will have the Qiu family surname. So, I think we should just let her walk out on her own and get into the sedan chair on her own."
Old man Qiu opened his mouth wide at the time, and Mother Qiu still thought it was inappropriate.
The more Old Zhou talked, the better his idea became. He added, "When the Sixth Brother comes home, do I have to ask his brothers to carry him out when he goes out? That's definitely not possible. Since both of them are getting married in a special way, there's no need to follow these old customs."
The bride was carried out on her back by her brothers, which was originally meant to imply that she had brothers to rely on. But since Qiu Pei didn't have any, why bother to spend money to create this illusion?
Old Man Qiu was convinced, so he gritted his teeth and decided on it.
At this time, the veil on Qiu Pei's head was taken off, and then she was led out by Zhou Liulang and Xi Po.
Everyone started to make a fuss and moved to the sides. Qiu Pei stepped out of the threshold of the main hall as the crowd retreated. It turned out that someone had thrown a tattered piece of clothing outside the door. The crowd had dispersed and no one was paying attention. She stepped on it and almost fell down.
The matchmaker held one of her arms and stepped out. When she saw it, she kicked it to the side, but the bride still stepped on it.
The matchmaker frowned, thinking about whether to squat down and pull the torn dress out from under the bride's feet and throw it away, when Manbao, who was joining in the fun, shouted, "Sixth brother, carry the bride out..."
Bai Shan also followed suit, "Carry him out, carry him out, from now on, Sixth Brother will be Sixth Sister-in-law's support, hurry up and carry him."
Bai Erlang and Zhou Lixue immediately followed suit, "Hurry up and hug him, hurry up and hug him..."
Mingda, Changyu and the others thought this was a custom from Luojiang County and thought it was quite amusing, so they also joined in the fun, "Hurry up and hug him, hurry up and hug him."
Zhou Liulang glanced at his fourth and fifth brothers, and seeing that they had no objection, he walked up to Qiu Pei with a red face and picked him up.
The crowd watching didn't know what was going on, they just started yelling "ooh ooh" as if they were given an injection of chicken blood, and they just joined in the fun.
Everyone gathered around the newlyweds as they walked through the courtyard and out the gate, watching the bride and groom get into the bridal sedan with laughter. Then everyone showered them with compliments like "May you live together till old age, have a happy marriage, have a son soon, and be prosperous..."
I have said everything that can be said.
The relatives and friends of the Qiu family lit firecrackers and sent the wedding procession away.
Manbao and others jumped on their horses after Zhou Liulang did. Mingda and Changyu followed Manbao and the others in the front.
Because only two horses were allowed to ride together on one side of the road, Manbao and Baishan walked together. Mingda rode up to stand alongside Bai Erlang and turned to ask him, "Does the groom carry the bride when he goes out in Luojiang County?"
Bai Erlang shook his head, but seeing that there were many people around him, he didn't want to embarrass the bride by telling the truth, so he said vaguely, "That's fine too."
Mingda laughed and said, "It's really fun."
Everyone returned to Zhou's house with banging and banging, and the Zhou family opened the door to welcome the bride.
Most of the invited guests have arrived. Zhao Liulang and his friends have also come, so they can watch the bride and groom get married.
Mingda finally watched a complete folk wedding. You know, her sisters' weddings and her brothers' marriages were very complicated, with many rituals. She was weak before and could hardly follow the whole process.
She thinks folk weddings are quite interesting.
Manbao led a group of good friends to send the bride to the bridal chamber. He wanted to take the opportunity to tease the Sixth Sister-in-law, but was chased out by the Fifth Sister-in-law who was guarding here. "Hurry up and eat in the front. Don't disturb the bride here."
Everyone could only leave reluctantly.
See you at ten o'clock
(End of this chapter)
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