At this time, in Lin Hongxia and Li Xiangdong's new house, in addition to Li Xiangdong's parents and relatives and friends, Xu Zhengyang's family of four were also waiting here.
Because Jingzhou has the custom of having children sit on the bed, which means that the couple will have many children and grandchildren after marriage, but Li Xiangdong's family does not have children of the right age, so the two families finally discussed and decided to arrange Xu Nuo and Xu Yan, two little guys who are less than one year old, to complete this difficult and great task.
In addition to sitting on the bed, the bride's family also has the custom of having the bride's brother nail the door curtain. Lin Hongxia has no brother, so this task was given to Comrade Xu Ping'an.
Don't underestimate these two tasks. If you complete them well, your in-laws will give you red envelopes.
On the way to the new house, Lin Hongtao, as the eldest uncle, naturally took on the task of escorting the car.
The so-called car escort means riding in the same car with the bride and groom and escorting them to the bridal chamber.
In 1993, it was not impossible to find six Santanas as wedding cars at one time, but it was still relatively rare.
Of course, there has never been a shortage of rich people in Jingzhou City since ancient times. With the advent of reform and opening up, more and more smart and courageous people have become rich first.
Therefore, on auspicious days, wedding processions can often be seen on the streets of Jingzhou.
Those who want to show off a little more will choose imported cars such as Mercedes-Benz and Lincoln as the lead car, while those who want to show off a little less will usually choose Audi 100 or Toyota Crown.
With the current energy of Xu Jianguo and Lin Hongtao, it would not be easy for them to find dozens of cars of this level to form a wedding car fleet.
However, considering the status of several people in the family and the fact that the young couple are teachers, they chose the most common Santana as their wedding car.
This way they can demonstrate their strength without being too high-profile, which just meets their needs.
It took more than twenty minutes on the road for the convoy to arrive at the new house.
Because there is a saying that the bride's feet should not touch the ground, Li Xiangdong carried Lin Hongxia all the way into the bridal chamber.
After the young couple had settled down, the master of ceremonies in charge of arranging the wedding began to direct the ceremony according to various old customs.
The whole process of serving tea, changing the words, the two little ones sitting on the bed, making peace, closing the door curtain, and giving out red envelopes was completed in one go.
Li Xiangdong's parents were naturally 100% satisfied with their daughter-in-law Lin Hongxia, so when they gave her the money for changing her name, they each gave her a huge red envelope of one thousand and one yuan.
This is because Li Xiangdong's family conditions are good. If it were an ordinary family, they really couldn't afford it. However, this also indirectly confirms the importance the old couple attaches to their daughter-in-law.
Some people may think that one thousand and one yuan is too little for changing one's name, but don't forget that it is only 1993. In this era when people with an annual income of ten thousand yuan are still the envy of everyone, receiving a one-time fee of more than two thousand yuan for changing one's name is already a lot.
What's more, before this, the Li family gave the Lin family a considerable betrothal gift.
However, neither Lin Hongtao nor Daya took the money. Instead, they gave it directly to Lin Hongxia and took it back together with the dowry.
In addition to traditional items such as bed sheets, quilts, and washbasins, Lin Hongtao and Daya prepared a dowry for Lin Hongxia, including a brand new bright red two-box Xiali sedan at a huge expense, which shocked all the in-laws, including Li's parents and relatives and friends.
Li Xiangdong's father is a director-level official in the Chaoyang District Government of Jingzhou, and his mother is a doctor at Jingzhou Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital.
Normally speaking, with their careers and the fact that their son is a graduate student from Jingzhou Normal University, they are definitely considered a well-off family in Jingzhou City.
It was also because of this that some relatives of the Li family felt that Lin Hongxia, a girl without parents, was marrying up to the level of the Li family.
Until the two got married, there were still people gossiping about them, but no matter what these people said, Li Xiangdong's parents acted as if they didn't hear anything. Since the first time they met Lin Hongxia, they completely fell in love with this girl, and they also decided that she was their daughter-in-law, and no one else could replace her.
After everyone in the Li family saw the brand new Xiali sedan, it was as if someone had pressed the pause switch and they all shut their mouths obediently.
There was no other reason, it was just because they knew that with the strength of Lin Hongxia's brother and sister-in-law, they definitely could not afford to provoke them. In order to avoid being rejected when they asked for help in the future, these egoists changed their attitude towards Lin Hongxia.
During the years that Lin Hongxia was in college, she always lived in Xu Jianguo's home. Everyone in the family was extraordinary, so she learned a lot of ways and methods of dealing with people from them.
So she naturally saw all the expressions of some relatives of the Li family, but the relationship between her and Li Xiangdong was stronger than gold, and she was also very much loved by her parents-in-law, so she had no intention of arguing with those people.
Anyway, just live your own life behind closed doors. We are not on the same path, so there is no need to make things difficult for yourself.
After all the customs were successfully completed, everyone left the bridal chamber by car and headed to the Shenzhou Hotel on the edge of the East Third Ring Road.
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Just like that, with the end of the wedding banquet, the wedding of Lin Hongxia and Li Xiangdong also came to an end.
From today on, the two of them officially ushered in a new life that belonged to them.
September 22, 1993 was the first birthday of Xu Nuo and Xu Yan, the third generation of the Xu family.
At this time, the two little ones can already speak some simple words. Since the birth of the two little ones, Xu Jianguo and Wen Sitian have had a new pleasure after returning home from get off work, which is to take care of their grandchildren.
Whenever the two of them came home and heard the two little ones playing on the mat calling out "Grandpa" and "Grandma", they immediately felt that all their worries were gone.
On the second night of the two little ones’ birthday, after the whole family had dinner, Wen Sitian and Xu Jianguo looked at each other and announced a piece of news to everyone.
That is Comrade Zhao Xiangsi (Erya), who has formally submitted her resignation to the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Commerce of Longxia Country. After handing over her work before the beginning of next month, she will officially leave the Ministry of Commerce.
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