During the days of waiting to get married, Qiao Xiazhi had nothing to do.
Then every day I continued to read books and went up the mountain to dig herbs.
However, in order to avoid arousing suspicion, she cannot often dig up ginseng and ganoderma lucidum.
Before getting married, you can just dig some similar herbs every day and take them to the health center to exchange them for money.
Whenever her grandmother had time, she would prepare cloth shoes for her, which would be included in her dowry.
My mother and aunt are also helping to knit sweaters and trousers.
But I just find time to do it.
If you have something to do every day, time will pass quickly.
One day of reading passes by, and another day of going up the mountain to collect herbs passes by.
Soon it was July 8th, the day for Qiao Xiazhi's wedding.
Getting married was easy at that time.
On the night before a daughter's wedding, all the unmarried sisters in the family must come to give dowry, and a total of nine people must be present.
It means longevity, and if the bride is included, it makes ten, which means perfection.
If your own sisters are not enough, unmarried girls in the team can also be used.
This kind of food is girls' favorite.
What's more, it was Qiao Xiazhi's wedding, so everyone guessed that a lot of candies must have been prepared.
Naturally, this incident did not disappoint everyone.
Toffees, fructose, peanut candies, and brown sugar water to drink, it was simply too rich.
At night, the sisters who came with the dowry would sleep with Qiao Xiazhi for the whole night.
When the groom comes to pick up the bride, they will follow him.
Here, when a daughter gets married, her family members cannot go with her. Only the sisters who come as a dowry can go.
Jiang Yunchen got married and did not sleep the whole night. He got up in the middle of the night, arranged for someone to prepare two slabs of pork, and then set out to pick up the bride.
The betrothal gift and other things have already been given when proposing the marriage, so when picking up the bride, you only need to prepare pork, cigarettes and candy.
Those who have money can buy more, and those who don’t have money can buy less.
The pork is not used to exchange for the bride, it is just the custom in some places.
When a girl gets married, she has to treat the aunts in her family to a meal of meat, so the groom's side needs to make preparations when picking up the bride.
If you prepare a lot, distribute it; if you prepare a little, just fry it and serve it on the table.
Jiang Yunchen directly and domineeringly prepared a pig.
This move made Qiao Xiazhi's aunt very happy.
There is no custom of blocking the door when welcoming the bride here. On the contrary, the son-in-law has to be welcomed with good tea.
But as the new son-in-law, he also has to show his respect. Cigarettes have to be prepared, and all the cooks in the kitchen on my parents-in-law's side have to give out cigarettes.
Others only gave one, but Jiang Yunchen was so domineering that he gave everyone a pack. Even if it was the cheapest one, people had to buy a lot.
But he was willing to marry a wife and be happy about it.
The rest is just handing out wedding candies.
Jiang Yunchen couldn't tell the difference, so he just handed the prepared things to his elder and younger uncles to deal with.
It's no big ceremony. Once the things are handed over, the man takes his wife to offer tea to his parents-in-law, changes their words, burns incense to the ancestors, and then he can take his wife home.
The moment Jiang Yunchen picked up his wife and carried her horizontally, he was as happy as a child who had found a treasure, and the corners of his mouth almost stretched to the back of his head.
I carried my wife onto the vehicle and made sure that the team loading the dowry had loaded all of it onto the tractor, and nothing was left behind.
They can go home after the firecrackers sound.
The person driving today is Su Fang and the person sitting in the passenger seat is Dong Zhi.
Jiang Yunchen and Qiao Xiazhi sat in the second row.
The remaining sisters sat in the back of the tractor.
In order to coordinate with the tractor, the wedding car in front cannot drive too fast.
However, Jiang Yunchen arrived early, so he could have lunch when he got home.
There were only some friends and neighbors of Jiang Yunchen, as well as the sisters from Qiao Xiazhi's group who were there to send off the bride, and the drivers of the two tractors that were delivering the dowry, so there were exactly five tables sitting together.
There were few people, so their lunch was very sumptuous.
After lunch, the sisters who came to see the bride off could take the candy packets and red envelopes and follow the tractor back to the brigade.
However, Qiao Dongzhi, Qiao Moli, and Qiao Xiaohua were all on summer vacation. It was a rare opportunity for them to go to the city, so they all followed their brother-in-law's arrangements and stayed here for two days, waiting to go back with Qiao Xiazhi when he returned home on the third day.
This won't affect anything.
It was a nice occasion when a few kids came to the house and it was lively, and grandma was also happy.
After seeing off the guests, Qiao Xiazhi returned to the house to change out of her red wedding dress and to see how much dowry was contained in the thick red envelope given by her family.
If she guessed correctly, her family must have given her more than four hundred and sixty-eight, otherwise it wouldn't be that generous.
The envelope couldn’t hold the money, so grandma sewed a red envelope herself out of red cloth.
When Qiao Xiazhi opened the red envelope and counted it, he found that it was not 468 yuan, but 666 yuan.
It seems that the three hundred yuan that she got from selling ginseng was added to her dowry by her parents, grandparents and others.
Jiang Yunchen, who had just changed into a casual short-sleeved shirt, saw his wife staring at some red envelopes in a daze. He wanted to ask his wife if she looked good in the outfit, but the topic changed and he quickly started to care about his wife.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Yunchen asked.
Qiao Xiazhi looked at Jiang Yunchen, completely unaware of what he was wearing. He just felt his eyes sore and tears somehow flowed down his face.
Jiang Yunchen became anxious when he saw this, and he hugged Qiao Xiazhi in his arms and comforted her, "What's wrong? Are you missing your parents and grandparents? We will go back in two days, it's okay."
Qiao Xiazhi nodded and cried even harder while hugging Jiang Yunchen.
Before and after she got married, she really didn't feel sad at all.
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