With Chen Jinhua's compromise, the matter was settled. Jiang Sui was married to Xiao Hechuan for a dowry of five taels of silver.
The old village chief was invited to testify, and Chen Jinhua took out Jiang Sui's household registration documents and gave them to Xiao's mother, as well as her birth date.
When Jiang Dayong picked up Jiang Sui, her birth date and horoscope were placed in her cradle. It was clear that she had been abandoned on purpose.
On the spot, the village lawyer compared the two people's horoscopes. He was shocked when he compared them. When Jiang Sui and Xiao Hechuan's horoscopes were put together, they were truly a match made in heaven. The lawyer said frankly that he had not seen such a compatible horoscope for many years.
After hearing this, Xiao's mother was so happy that she could hardly close her eyes from laughing.
The next day, Xiao's father took Jiang Sui and Xiao Hechuan's household registration documents to the county to register. After the two of them passed the official documents, they became husband and wife. Jiang Sui would then be Xiao Jiang and a member of the Xiao family.
Three days later was an excellent day. The Xiao family was afraid that good things would take time, so they chose to set up a few simple banquets on this day to liven things up.
Jiang Sui got up early in the morning before daybreak. Chen Jinhua cooked a bowl of noodles for her and even put an egg in it, which was unprecedented.
She took out a red dress with several patches on it from somewhere and threw it to Jiang Sui. The fabric of the red dress was a little brittle and faded due to its age.
However, Chen Jinhua was still as sarcastic as ever and said a lot of sarcastic remarks. Jiang Sui was used to it and was too lazy to refute her.
It was a wedding day after all, but Jiang Sui still wore this shabby and ill-fitting wedding dress.
She is just an ordinary girl in modern times. Her ultimate dream is to save more money when she is young, so that she can be a salted fish when she is old, with no worries about food and drink and travel everywhere.
Now that she has traveled through time and space into the book, it is still the same. In such an era, women are walking on thin ice. Just because of a sentence in the book that says that the top scholar Xiao Hechuan has excellent moral character, is gentle and elegant, and is extremely filial, Jiang Sui is ready to take a gamble, betting that he will not abandon his wife even when he becomes rich. She does not ask him to love her more, but only hopes that she can live a simple life in the future.
Jiang Sui had just arrived and she got married off like this.
She brought nothing with her but her few sets of tattered clothes and entered the Xiao family.
The moment the Xiao family saw Jiang Sui enter the Xiao family yard alone, everyone had different thoughts in their hearts.
It was just daybreak at this time, and the neighbors who came to the Xiao family to help had not arrived yet, only the Xiao family members were left.
When Xiao's mother saw the thin Jiang Sui standing there in the ill-fitting, shabby wedding dress, her nose felt sore and she thought, this child is also a pitiful one.
Several sons of the Xiao family were there, as was the youngest daughter, but Xiao Hechuan was the only one missing.
The second sister-in-law Zhou and the third sister-in-law Liu looked at each other and looked at Jiang Sui's shabby appearance. The former didn't show any expression with a faint smile on her face, while the latter pouted her lips and seemed to be unhappy.
Xiao's mother came over first, took Jiang Sui's hand, and led her into the house. When she looked down, she found that the girl's shoes were so torn that her toes were exposed.
Her heart ached again and she took the man to her youngest daughter's room. Seeing this, her youngest daughter, Xiao Lanlan, hurriedly followed him in.
Liu also wanted to join in the fun and see what her mother-in-law was up to. But when the bride arrived, she did not go to her brother-in-law's room, but to her sister-in-law's room instead. As a result, before she even stepped over the threshold, Xiao's mother closed the door and stopped her outside, and she almost hit her nose.
Liu snorted and rolled her eyes, but she was not going to leave after being turned away. She wanted to eavesdrop on the conversation. It was not enough for her to listen alone, so she asked her second sister-in-law Zhou to come and listen.
Zhou was peeling cabbage. She glanced at her and shook her head.
Inside the house, Xiao's mother tenderly pulled Jiang Sui to sit on a chair, her face full of love as she smiled. Her sister-in-law Xiao Lanlan also looked at Jiang Sui with a smile.
Jiang Sui felt kindness from the mother and daughter.
"Lanlan, go get the new pair of shoes your mother made for you and give them to your fourth sister-in-law to wear first. I will make you a new pair tomorrow." Xiao's mother said to her daughter.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Lanlan nodded vigorously, and then generously took out the new pair of cloth shoes from her small closet and gave them to Jiang Sui. The shoe uppers were pink, and there were two small flowers embroidered on them.
"Fourth sister-in-law, here, change it quickly!"
Xiao Lanlan stuffed the shoes into Jiang Sui's arms. Jiang Sui looked at the brand new cloth shoes in his arms, then looked at the tattered cloth shoes on his feet, feeling a little embarrassed.
"You two are of similar age, and I estimate your feet are about the same size. Today is a happy day, and everyone will come to join in the fun and see the bride. We can't let you lose face, right? Girl, hurry up and change. Wait here, mother will be back soon." Xiao's mother was a quick-tempered person. After she finished speaking, she opened the door and went out.
As soon as she opened the door, she found her third daughter-in-law, Liu, lying on the door and eavesdropping. After being discovered by her, she immediately pretended nothing happened and called herself "mother" guiltily.
Mother Xiao sighed helplessly. This was the personality of her third daughter-in-law. She had long been accustomed to it. She didn't care too much and went straight back to her room. She rummaged through the drawers and found a red dress from the bottom of the drawer.
This red dress and pants were also made when she got married. They were made of cotton cloth. Although the color was no longer as bright as it was at the beginning, it had no patches because it was properly preserved. It was better to wear than the big and loose old wedding dress that Jiang Sui was wearing.
Mother Xiao came back with clothes in her arms, closed the door again, put the clothes on the kang, and asked Jiang Sui to change into them together:
"Girl, don't despise me. This is the wedding dress that mother wore when she married your father. Although it is old, it is more decent than what you are wearing. Don't think too much. We are not afraid that others will see the excitement of our Xiao family. I am afraid that you will be laughed at by others. Today you are the bride, you should be happy and decent, right?"
Xiao's mother was afraid that Jiang Sui would think too much, so she hurried to explain everything to her, fearing that she would misunderstand her and think that she did this because she was afraid that she would bring shame to the family.
To be honest, Jiang Sui would be lying if she said she wasn't touched when she saw Xiao's mother thinking about her as soon as she arrived. She could feel that Xiao's mother was sincere.
Jiang Sui's eyes turned red and he nodded vigorously:
"thank you!"
In fact, she knew very well that she would be laughed at if she got married dressed like this, but there was no other way. This was her best option at the moment.
As long as the Xiao family treats her well, she is willing to be of one mind with the Xiao family.
"What are you thanking me for? We are one family, why are you talking so differently? Change quickly. We'll be waiting for you outside." Mother Xiao said as she took her little daughter out to wait.
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