"I was told, our sweet boy is the most capable." Wu Guixiang said with a look of astonishment, "Let me think, how do we eat this pheasant?"
Li Xiulian said hurriedly: "This chicken must be stewed to nourish the body."
Zhang Xinlan shook her head and said, "This kind of wild pheasant meat is very chewy. It's too tough to stew, so it's better to roast it."
Su Qingyun nodded in agreement. When it came to food, her second aunt had more say.
"Then cook it and eat it." Wu Guixiang made the final decision.
She asked Su Congwu to prepare the chicken. After looking at the beautiful feathers on the pheasant, Wu Guixiang said, "These feathers are quite beautiful, my dear. Do you want me to keep them and make you some shuttlecocks to play with?"
"Yes!" Su Qingyun answered quickly. There was a lack of entertainment options, and kicking shuttlecock was one of them. These shuttlecocks made of feathers must look great.
After Su Congwu used hot water to burn off the chicken feathers, Wu Guixiang took out two copper coins from the bottom of the box from somewhere, wrapped them in thick rags, and sewed them together stitch by stitch. A small and beautiful shuttlecock was made.
This kind of handmade shuttlecock is rarely seen in later generations. Su Qingyun couldn't let it go when he held it in his hand. Before dinner, he kicked it with Wen Sisi in the yard.
After a while, the two were exhausted and sweating. Hearing the voices calling them to eat, the two girls went into the inner room.
Dinner basically consists of leftovers from lunch. Everyone knows that the main course will be at the wedding banquet tomorrow.
Because there were a lot of things to do the next day, the Su family went to bed early. Wen Sisi and Su Congjun were not married yet, so they could not sleep together, so she slept with Su Qingyun.
Li Xiu Lian was afraid that they would be cold, so she covered each of them with a quilt. The two girls lay in the quilt, unable to sleep at all. Su Qingyun was nervous because it was too early, and Wen Sisi realized belatedly that she was going to get married the next day, and she suddenly felt nervous.
"Sister Sisi, you are getting married tomorrow. How do you feel now?" Su Qingyun asked curiously. She had never been in love, let alone the feeling of getting married. These were both strange and distant to her.
Wen Sisi thought for a moment and said, "I feel nervous, excited, and a little scared."
"Fear?"
"Because I think about the other identities I'll have after tomorrow." Wen Sisi covered half of her face. "After tomorrow, I'm no longer just the daughter of the Wen family. I'm also Brother Congjun's wife, and the granddaughter-in-law of the Su family. All of this makes me a little scared. If you get married in the future, you'll feel the same way."
"But I know I won't regret it, because Brother Congjun is very good to me, and you are also very good to me." Wen Sisi said firmly. It was these things that made her feel that she would not marry the wrong person.
"That's great." Su Qingyun sighed.
Wen Sisi turned sideways to face her and teased, "What? Yunyun also has someone she likes?"
"I don't." Su Qingyun retorted lazily, "I just feel happy when I see others happy."
"Yes, Yunyun will have such a day too." Wen Sisi said firmly.
The two girls chatted and fell asleep in a daze.
The second day, November 15th, is an auspicious day for marriage.
Early in the morning, just before five o'clock, the family members began to get busy. The women dressed up the bride, cleaned the house, and prepared dishes for the wedding banquet at noon.
The pot in the kitchen was not big enough to handle the cooking, so the men built a temporary stove in a corner of the yard with bricks, and then borrowed a big pot from the brigade's former commune canteen, washed it clean, and then started cooking.
Inside the house, Su Qingyun looked at Wen Sisi, who was wearing a new red dress and looked nervous and shy. She couldn't take her eyes off her. "Now I understand why they say the bride is the most beautiful."
Wen Sisi smiled, "You are the only one who has a sweet mouth."
Su Qingyun looked her up and down, looking for anything wrong. Wen Sisi's face was very fair, and she had put on makeup today, which made it look even whiter. Her eyebrows were beautifully curved, and there was nothing wrong with her, except...
"Sister Sisi, why don't you paint your lips a little redder? That will definitely make you look better."
"Lips?" Wen Sisi touched her lips. "Do you have red paper at home? Let me lick it."
"No need for that, just wait." Su Qingyun ran to her parents' room. She opened the drawer of the bedside cabinet, took out a small iron box, and ran to her mother to tell her.
Su Qingyun ran back to her eldest brother's room and showed Wen Sisi the iron box in her hand. There was an ancient lady pattern printed on the white box, which looked simple and exquisite.
"What is this?" Wen Sisi asked curiously. It looked a bit like vanishing cream.
"My father bought lip balm for my mother. The color is so beautiful." Su Qingyun said.
This was what Su Aimin brought back for Qin Ying from the provincial capital last time. Although no one in this rural area wears makeup or applies these things, he thought that if other women have them, his wife should have them too. After buying it, Qin Ying tried the colors at home and never wore it out.
Su Qingyun unscrewed the lid, revealing bright red lipstick. She stretched out a finger, rubbed a little, then moved it to Wen Sisi's lips and stained them with the red lipstick.
"Sister Sisi, take a sip."
Wen Sisi pursed her lips as she was told, and the blush spread across her face. The bright color made her eyes and eyebrows more charming, and her slightly shy face was as beautiful as a peach or plum, very attractive.
"It looks really good." Su Qingyun nodded with satisfaction.
"Okay, stop praising me. I'll feel embarrassed if you continue praising me." Wen Sisi said with a smile.
"Then Sister Sisi, just wait for your groom to come and pick you up." Su Qingyun said with a smile.
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