Chapter 30

Generally, after the ceremony, the bride can stay in the new house with her escort girl until the worship begins.

But Xu Wen is not an ordinary bride.

Her groom walked out in the middle of the wedding.

After Xu Wensong's walking expedition, he returned to the bedroom first, without seeing his daughter off.

The sister-in-law from my natal family was not Sang Xiaoqing, as Sang Xiaoqing was pregnant and they did not dare to let her get tired. It was another sister-in-law or aunt from my own family.

They wanted to say it was against the rules, but then they thought that Xu Wen's wedding had never been in accordance with the rules from beginning to end, so they left her alone.

Dongsheng stayed with Xu Wen all the time. Although he was very sad, he still tried his best to make Xu Wen happy.

Xu Wen held Dongsheng in his arms, "It's okay for me. But you, cry if you want to!"

Dongsheng shook his head, his voice choked, but his tears had not yet flowed, "Dad said that a real man bleeds, not tears."

"That's what a man should do. You're just a child. You can cry if you miss your dad."

"Really?"

"real!"

"Woo woo." Dongsheng hugged Xu Wen's waist, "I don't want my dad and uncles to go on missions. Every time they go out, there are always a few uncles missing when they come back. I'm afraid that dad won't come back one day."

Xu Wen felt nervous and rubbed Dongsheng's head gently, "No, your father will come back."

Everyone says Dongsheng is a child who knows nothing, but in fact, children are always more sensible than adults think.

There were two taps on the door and two women pushed it open and came in.

Dongsheng wiped away his tears and considerately introduced them to Xu Wen: "This is the eldest grandmother and the youngest grandmother."

Xu Wen's eyes fell on their corsages. One said "Auntie" and the other said "Auntie".

In Wei Zhuang, the identities of the guests can be distinguished, and the host family of the wedding will often prepare some red corsages. Literally, the palm-sized red brooch will be accompanied by a golden ribbon with the relationship with the groom or bride written on it.

For example, Zhu Meizhen's corsage has "Mother" written on it, which means the mother of the bride.

So these two should be Lu Yuanzheng's aunt and sister-in-law.

"Auntie, aunt." Xu Wen stood up and called for help while holding Dongsheng's hand.

"Wenwen, please sit down." The aunt came over and pushed Xu Wen back to the bed. "No matter how you look at it, it's Zhengzi who has let you down. As his aunt, I will apologize on his behalf."

Xu Wen smiled and said, "It's okay. There's nothing we can do about his job."

"That's right. From today on, we are a family. If you have anything to say, come and talk to your aunt."

The aunt also chimed in: "Yes, if you need anything, just come to us. Zhengzi is not at home all year round, and we ladies have to do some work at home. If you have anything to say, just tell us. If you don't want to cook, bring Dongsheng to my house for dinner."

Whether true or not, these words are very heartwarming, Xu Wen thanked him.

Perhaps the aunt and uncle were afraid that Xu Wen would feel even sadder if he were alone, so they pulled Xu Wen aside and started chatting about family matters until there was another knock on the door.

The person in charge is outside, and he comes to them to pay homage.

Xu Wen took Dongsheng by the hand and followed his aunt and aunt into the yard.

The piece of red cloth was still on the ground in the yard. My aunt and my aunt walked to the red cloth, knelt on it, and took the yellow paper and lit it.

The two men each held a wooden stick and picked up yellow paper to make the fire burn more vigorously while muttering to themselves.

"Ancestors of the Lu family, your grandson Lu Yuanzheng is getting married today. Please bless him..."

When Xu Wen got married, it was Zhu Meizhen who recited this passage. She thought it was too nonsense and didn't listen to it. But today she wanted to recite it too, hoping that the spirits of the Lu family's ancestors in heaven would really bless Lu Yuanzheng.

Who knew that the next second I would hear my aunt and aunt chanting: "Pull the scoop, give birth to a baby boy soon!"

This sentence is local dialect. The ladle refers to a water dipper. The steel water dipper is used to burn water in the fire.

This is not the point. The point is that Lu Yuanzheng is not at home, so who can she be with to give birth to a son?

Wish you a long journey to the grasslands of the head?

After my aunt and uncle finished talking, they seemed to have reacted. They looked at each other, skipped this part, put out the fire, and stood up.

After the worship comes thanksgiving.

The host will read out the amount of the gift according to the degree of relationship, and then the bride and groom will express their gratitude. Generally, the groom kowtows and the bride bows symbolically.

"Twenty bucks from his uncle!"

Xu Wen hesitated for a moment, not knowing whether he should bow or kowtow. Then Xiao Dongsheng knelt on the red cloth mat and kowtowed to the uncle pointed at by the person in charge.

Xu Wen quickly bent his head, and the discomfort caused by being watched by so many people was replaced by warmth.

"Twenty yuan from his second uncle."

Dongsheng, who had just stood up, knelt down again and kowtowed to his second uncle.

The onlookers began to applaud spontaneously.

Some people even cheered: "The father is a hero and the son is a hero! Look how sensible this child is at such a young age!"

"I've heard of sons paying off their father's debts, but this is the first time I've seen someone kowtow for his father!"

In fact, the kowtow is just a symbolic act of kowtow eight or ten times, and eventually people stop doing it.

But Dongsheng was young and didn't understand. After Xu Wen came here, he only watched once and missed this step, so he didn't understand either.

She didn't want to see it and didn't like it at the time. It turns out that the most important thing in a wedding is not the wedding ceremony but visiting the ancestors' graves and kowtowing to the people who bring gifts?

Isn't this putting the cart before the horse?

She didn't expect that it was her turn to be the protagonist now, and Lu Yuanzheng was not here, so she did whatever others said.

In the end, Dongsheng kowtowed about twenty times, and Xu Wen bowed about twenty times with him. But the person in charge couldn't stand it anymore and stopped Dongsheng from kowtow again.

After bowing, people will toast.

This time Dongsheng could not serve for Lu Yuanzheng. He held the plate and followed Xu Wen, who was holding the wine glass, to toast at each table.

There were more than twenty tables of guests spread across every room in the courtyard and the surrounding neighbors.

Probably everyone had heard that Lu Yuanzheng had temporarily left, and when they saw Xu Wen leading Dongsheng in a toast, no one asked or mentioned it, as if it was supposed to be so.

Xu Wen breathed a sigh of relief and felt grateful.

Only the Xu family's table was laughing with tears in their eyes.

Zhu Meizhen, in particular, looked even more like the one who was left behind than Xu Wen. She drank the wine that Xu Wen offered her while crying.

Xu Qiushi said, "I'm asking about a happy day. Don't keep crying! It's bad luck!"

However, after drinking the wine in the glass, his eyes turned red.

Who can understand the great truth?

Only when it was my turn did I realize how sad it was.

The groom's daughter, whom he held in the palm of his hand, got married, but he left before the wedding even started. It's unknown when he will come back, leaving behind this pair of mother and son.

Xu Wen's eyes turned red, he sniffed and said, "I'm sorry."

Xu Wang also came and touched Xu Wen on the head as if he were touching a child. He also had a pair of rabbit eyes and just sighed softly without saying anything.

Dongsheng put the tray on the table, took two steps back, knelt on the ground and kowtowed twice.

Xu Wen and Xu Wang, who was nearby, quickly helped Dongsheng up.

Xu Wen touched Dongsheng's red forehead with heartache, "Dongsheng, what are you doing?"

Dongsheng pushed away Xu Wen's hand and looked at the Xu family members at the table seriously, calling them one by one: "Great-grandma, grandma, grandma, uncle, aunt, uncle, and little uncle. My dad is not at home for the time being, but I'm still here." He patted his chest with his little hand, "Don't worry, I will take good care of Mom!"

The Xu family members immediately burst into laughter.

All the adults praised Dongsheng for being sensible.

Only Xu Qie despised him: "You little brat are not even as old as me, and you still take care of my sister?"

Dongsheng refused to give in: "You are so old but still don't understand. How dare you say that?"

Everyone at the table was so amused by the two children that they laughed till they fell backwards. The sad atmosphere was instantly swept away.

In addition to expressing gratitude to the guests who came to the wedding, toasting can also be used to receive red envelopes.

Guests with close relationships are given red envelopes after drinking.

Originally, it should have been the Lu family who gave the red envelope to Xu Wen, and the Xu family who gave the red envelope to Lu Yuanzheng.

Now all the red envelopes belong to Xuwen.

Dongsheng, who was originally in charge of serving wine, followed Xu Wen to toast the last round of wine, and only a pile of colorful banknotes were left on the tray.

The amount is not large, the smallest is five cents and the largest is a big group.

Xu Wen hadn't eaten a single bite from the time he woke up in the early morning until the moment he finished toasting.

She was fine, but seeing Dongsheng kept touching his belly, she let him sit next to Xu Qie and eat something to fill his stomach.

But she herself didn't have time to eat and had to see the guests off.

Some guests finished eating early and were waiting for the newlyweds to toast, so after Xu Wen finished his toast, some distant relatives began to say goodbye.

Xu Wen stood at the gate of the courtyard and greeted the departing guests, but in fact she didn't know most of them at all.

The Xu family knew that Xu Wen was busy today, so they didn't say much when she left. They just asked Xu Wen to pick her up tomorrow.

After seeing off the guests, there is still some finishing touches to be done.

The member in charge of registering the gifts handed the account book and money to Xu Wen, who thanked him and gave him cigarettes and wedding candies in return.

The other members who came to help knew that Xu Wen was new and knew nothing, so they spontaneously returned the pots, bowls, pans, tables, chairs and benches.

Finally, someone helped Xu Wen clean the yard and put the furniture that had been moved away for the banquet back in place.

Xu Wen distributed the leftover food in the kitchen to his neighbors.

Firstly, food cannot be stored in summer, and secondly, I would like to thank everyone for lending us tables, chairs, benches, etc.

By the time I was able to close the door and take a breath, it was already dusk.

Xu Wen ate a few mouthfuls of leftovers and began to tour his new home.

This courtyard is generally quite empty.

The two western rooms were empty, with only a bed in each.

One of the east rooms is a storage room and the other is a kitchen.

There are two kitchens, and there is another one in the east hall.

The east hall is a particularly large room used as a living room, so a partition was built inside. Behind the partition is the kitchen, and the other room is used to store kitchen sundries such as jars.

One of the rooms in the west wing had just been converted into a bathroom by Lu Yuanzheng, and it was obviously prepared for Xu Wen.

The south wing was also empty, and you could vaguely tell that they had just been cleaned out.

The living room was square, separated by a partition, and was filled with some newly made furniture, all tied with red ribbons.

There was a brand new radio on the chest of drawers. Xu Wen studied it carefully and found that it was the latest popular all-in-one radio.

In the corner stood a sewing machine.

The last bicycle that turned around was probably the one that Lu Yuanzheng rode to pick up his relatives today, and it was now parked in the gate.

Dongsheng is a child, and he has been yawning since the early morning.

Xu Wen took a large basin of warm water and helped Dongsheng take a bath, then carried him to his bed.

Dongsheng hugged her and asked with his eyes closed: "Mom, can I sleep with you? Just once."

"Okay." Xu Wen carried him back to the master bedroom, placed him on the inside of the bed, took a shower himself, and lay down too.

Just as she was about to lose consciousness and fall asleep, she heard a ding in her head and a prompt tone rang out.

"Congratulations, you have activated the stepmother system!"