Time flies, a month passed in the blink of an eye, and the wedding schedule was quickly brought forward.
After they met secretly that day, Mo Xiaobao went home with the red cloth without any hesitation, and happily began to make wedding clothes for himself and Pei Shaorong, thinking that at most he could work harder after getting married and open up a few more acres of land to save some money.
Old Man Mo really wanted to steal his red cloth, but this time Mo Xiaobao learned his lesson and locked himself in the room to cut the two pieces of cloth before starting to sew.
After the cloth was cut, Old Man Mo had no way to sell it for silver, so he kept scolding him for being a traitor and shameless person who was trying to get away with it.
Mo Xiaobao was used to being scolded by his father, but he was not angry. After finishing his work every day, he would stay in the room to embroider wedding clothes, thinking, how can a month be so long...
As for Pei Shaorong, he had already prepared all the things needed for the wedding and the banquet, and he even asked Aunt Qin to help with the cooking.
Pei Shaorong had also prepared the dishes for the banquet according to the customs of the village. He bought a lot of sauerkraut in the town. The main dish was going to be sauerkraut and pork dumplings. In addition to sauerkraut, he had pork in his own space and did not need to spend money. The coarse flour for making dumplings was not expensive either.
In addition, Pei Shaorong planned to use the chestnuts he collected in the mountains to make a chestnut meat dish. This thing is not rare, it is everywhere in the mountains, and it doesn't cost any money.
A pair of sauerkraut pork dumplings and a pair of braised pork with chestnuts are both common stews in the village banquets. When the time comes, these two dishes, plus a few stir-fried or cold vegetarian dishes and a pot of steamed buns, are considered a very sumptuous banquet in the village.
The whole village knew that they were poor, and Pei Shaorong didn't want to show off too much. In that era, every household in the countryside was not rich, and on ordinary days, when someone held a banquet, they would go there on an empty stomach and eat a big meal.
If he shows off too much, forget it, as soon as the wedding is over, people will come to his house every few days to ask for money!
Pei Shaorong thought about it carefully and decided not to show off too much. It would be enough to just meet the village standards. Instead of showing off the money, he might as well keep the money to buy more clothes and things for Abao.
Pei Shaorong prepared the wedding dishes two days in advance and went to the village chief's house to hire a donkey. Although Mo Xiaobao didn't say it, he knew that the little girl was quite eager to wear a bright red wedding dress and ride a donkey to get married.
He had secretly inquired about all these with his good friend Brother Lin. Abao's favorite foods are meat and snacks; Abao's favorite color is blue; and what Abao wants to do most is to go to the county town to see the world.
And Abao's biggest wish is to find a man who likes her and doesn't despise her, wear a bright red wedding dress, ride on a donkey to get married in a grand ceremony, make the villagers stop gossiping about her, and then have a chubby, white baby to live with!
Two days before the wedding, Aunt Qin dragged Uncle Qin to Pei Shaorong's yard. She really treated Pei Shaorong as her own junior.
Getting married is a big and happy event. Pei Shaorong is the only young man in his family and there is no elder to help him. She was worried that Pei Shaorong, a grown man, might be careless and not understand the customs of their village, so she wanted to come and take a look.
When I entered the yard, I nodded when I saw the house that had been obviously cleaned and tidied up. I thought Pei Shaorong was quite careful and kept his house presentable, unlike the messy homes of those single men and bachelors in the village.
When he saw that Pei Shaorong had specially gone to the mountain to find some beautiful flowers and plants to transplant into the yard in order to make the yard beautiful, as well as the meat and vegetables for the banquet, his eyes widened immediately.
"Oh my big brother, is this the meat and dishes you're going to use for the banquet?" Aunt Qin stared at Pei Shaorong with an expression that showed she didn't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are.
"It doesn't have to be so good, brother. Forget about the vegetables. Auntie told you to use only half of the pork. You're wasting it. Why didn't you ask Auntie when you bought the meat? The pork seller must have heard you were talking about getting married and deliberately tricked you into buying so much..."
Pei Shaorong heard from Aunt Qin that the best banquet in this village would consist of two large dishes of stewed meat and a few vegetarian dishes, so he wanted to follow the standards here.
But he had only been in this ancient time for a short time, and had never seen what wedding banquets were like. According to his standards, the two pots of stewed meat dishes should be mainly meat, so of course meat should not be less.
But now, after listening to Aunt Qin's nagging, Pei Shaorong finally understood that the stewed meat dishes used in the village banquets were completely different from what he thought!
Aunt Qin stared at the several hundred kilograms of pork piled in the corner with distress, and then said, "Brother, listen to me, use half of the meat, and pickle the rest for later. Oh, how much money will it cost to buy so much meat..."
"And big brother, why are you planting these wild flowers in your yard? Pull them out and plant some onions, garlic and vegetables instead!"
After looking at the meat dishes prepared by Pei Shaorong, Aunt Qin saw the donkey that Pei Shaorong had hired in advance from the village chief's house. She wanted to continue nagging her, but when she saw Pei Shaorong's confused and depressed look, she changed her words in a funny way.
"Come on, big brother, don't complain about your aunt's nagging. Everyone knows that your family is not rich. No one will say anything about you even if the banquet is not good. The most important thing is that you and Abao live a good life from now on... By the way, is this donkey borrowed from the village chief for Abao to ride?"
"Yeah..." Pei Shaorong smiled and nodded honestly.
"…It's good to have a donkey to pick up Po. It will be glorious for him. In the future, the villagers who despise Po will envy him. Brother, you are really thoughtful!"
Aunt Qin nodded with satisfaction, thinking that she had not made a mistake in choosing the right person. The elder brother was a good person, honest and careful.
Most of the girls and boys in the village get married by walking, or the groom himself pulls a cart. It is quite glorious to get married riding on an animal.
After talking to Pei Shaorong for a while and reminding him of some things to pay attention to when getting married, Aunt Qin took Uncle Qin away.
On the day before the wedding, Pei Shaorong cleaned the house thoroughly and replaced all the beds and bedding with new ones from the space.
The windows and doors were also covered with big red wedding characters, making the house look extremely festive before going to bed early to get enough rest to welcome the most important day of my life…
On the day of his wedding, Pei Shaorong got up before dawn, tidied the house, changed into his wedding clothes, and paced around the house nervously to calm himself down.
Finally, when Aunt Qin and a few maids who helped with cooking and greeting arrived, Pei Shaorong excitedly led the donkey with a big red flower to the Mo family to welcome the bride...
At the Mo family.
Mo Xiaobao also got up early. In fact, he didn't sleep for long last night. He was so excited that he fell asleep most of the night. He woke up early again in the morning.
Accompanied by Aunt Mo, Mo Xiaobao happily changed into his wedding dress, sat in front of the bronze mirror and had his mother help him comb his hair, his face full of sweetness.
Seeing Mo Xiaobao's happy look, Aunt Mo felt indescribable feelings in her heart. She closed the door to block Old Man Mo's sight, and secretly took out a purse from her bosom and stuffed it into Mo Xiaobao's hand.
"Xiaobao, mother is useless and can't beat your father. This is what mother secretly saved, just as a dowry for you. How can you get married without a dowry? Your husband's family will look down on you..."
Aunt Mo wiped the tears from her eyes while speaking, "Xiaobao, don't blame your father for being partial. It's because mother didn't give birth to a son for the Mo family, so the Mo family has no incense..."
"After you marry into the Pei family, serve your man well. While he likes you now, try to give him a fat boy. Don't follow your mother's old path!"
Aunt Mo's private money is not much, just a few dozen cents, and it is not easy to get it from Old Man Mo.
Mo Xiaobao also felt unhappy. His mother was soft-hearted and never dared to speak loudly to his father, let alone resist his father's decisions. From childhood to adulthood, in his impression, his mother was always timid.
She didn't dare to say anything after being scolded by her father. She could only secretly bring him food and apply medicine and cry afterwards.
At that time, he always thought that his mother didn't like him either, but when he grew up, he realized that his mother had a hard time too, after all, she dared to talk back to his father.
His mother only dared to cry behind his father's back because he didn't give birth to a son. Everyone inside and outside the house criticized his mother.
These days, if a woman doesn't give birth to a son, it's her fault. There's no reason. It's just the sad system of this era.
Seeing his mother, Mo Xiaobao suddenly became a little worried about what would happen if he didn't give Brother Pei a son in the future?
Will Brother Pei dislike him? After all, it’s not easy for a guy to even give birth to a baby, so how can he tell for sure whether it will be a boy or a girl?
However, whenever he thought of Pei Shaorong hugging him gently, Mo Xiaobao felt inexplicably at ease, as if all his worries disappeared at once.
It has to be said that when Pei Shaorong met Mo Xiaobao, he lost the indifference he had in the end of the world, and Mo Xiaobao also fell into the blindness of love.
After Aunt Mo finished combing Mo Xiaobao's hair and whispered to her, Pei Shaorong also led the donkey and knocked on the Mo family's door.
Seeing Pei Shaorong coming with a donkey to pick up the bride today, it was rare for Old Man Mo not to look at him with disdain.
Old Man Mo smiled and greeted them with his pipe in hand, shouting into the house, "Someone is coming, mother of the child, bring Xiaobao out quickly..."
Hearing the sound in the room, Aunt Mo quickly helped Mo Xiaobao tidy up his clothes, and then walked out holding the hand of Mo Xiaobao, who had a sweet look on his face.
"Abao, I'm here to marry you..."
Pei Shaorong stood at the door of the Mo family, wearing a bright red wedding dress, holding a small donkey in his hand, staring at Mo Xiaobao who walked out of the house, and his eyes were full of the figure of this young man.
When meeting his gaze, Mo Xiaobao's breathing almost stopped, his heart pounding wildly, happily announcing his joy, and he couldn't wait to walk towards Pei Shaorong.
He didn't have the reserved demeanor of a village boy at all, which made Old Man Mo feel very disappointed. He quickly reached out to grab the man and stuffed a cloth bag filled with things at his feet into Mo Xiaobao's hands.
"Well, Daddy doesn't have any money to give you as a dowry, so take this bag of grain. Change your bad temper and open up two acres of wasteland with your husband to live a good life..."
After saying that, Old Man Mo, holding his pipe in one hand and holding Mo Xiaobao's hand in the other, walked to the door and put Mo Xiaobao's hand in Pei Shaorong's.
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