October 28th of the lunar calendar is an auspicious day. Early in the morning, after a simple meal, Zhang Pingping tied her hair up.
She put on some light makeup and a newly made red cotton-padded jacket, looking charming and attractive. She wore a big red flower on her chest and sat on the kang waiting for the groom to pick her up.
When the sounds of gongs, drums and suonas rang out, the entrance of the educated youth site became lively.
The educated youth and young people from the village, with red silk wrapped around their waists, performed a yangge dance in the open space.
Du Yueming was wearing a neat military uniform, looking handsome and heroic, with a big red flower on his chest. He came over standing on the tractor he had specially found.
Everyone worked together to lift Zhang Pingping's dowry onto the tractor.
Du Yueming went to the Youth League Home to pick up Zhang Pingping. The two of them got on a tractor and came to Du Yueming's home amid everyone's cheers.
The Du family posted red couplets and red wedding characters, creating a festive and lively scene.
Du Yueming jumped off the tractor first, then he carried Zhang Pingping off the tractor. The young man next to him shouted, "Give me a kiss...Du Yueming, Zhang Pingping...Give me a kiss...!"
Du Yueming joked, "I have to kiss my own beautiful wife secretly, why should I let you watch?"
But he still kissed Zhang Pingping on the cheek, and the young man next to him laughed happily.
When they got married, the bride and groom sang a piece of "The East is Red" together and recited two passages of the great leader's "highest instructions."
Zhang Pingping and Du Yueming first bowed to the great leader, then to the revolutionary masses, and finally to each other as a couple.
Chu Jingqiu and the other two were afraid that some people in the village who liked to make trouble for the bride would embarrass Zhang Pingping, so they followed Zhang Pingping on purpose, for fear that those who made too much trouble would embarrass Zhang Pingping.
It turned out that there really were people with such bad intentions. Chu Jingqiu had already noticed an elderly woman standing in the crowd with a look of disdain on her face.
Chu Jingqiu whispered to the aunt standing nearby, "Auntie, who is that old lady wearing a brown headscarf?"
The older woman rolled her eyes and said disdainfully, "Who else could it be? I can tell from her expression that it's Yue Hai's clueless mother-in-law, Ding Chouni."
When Zhang Pingping was about to bow, Du Yuehai's mother-in-law Ding Chouni suddenly squeezed to the front, smiled and pressed Zhang Pingping's neck hard, asking her to bow.
When Chu Jingqiu was about to take action, Du Yueming grabbed Ding Chouni's hand before her and pulled her aside.
Ding Chouni rolled her eyes and pouted, "You little bastard, you're so protective of your wife that you won't even let her make a fuss. You're really narrow-minded."
When the couple were bowing to each other, Ding Chouni took out a bag of things from her pocket and planned to throw it on Zhang Pingping's head. Chu Jingqiu quickly blocked it with his coat, and then threw it all on the old lady's head.
The old lady, covered in cockleburs, cursed, "You are a bunch of bastards who lack parental discipline. You won't even let me mess with the bride, and you even threw it all over my head.
Don’t you know that this thing is not easy to handle? You are really ignorant, a bunch of bastards.”
Gu Yufeng hurried over to help her mother pick the cockleburs off her hair, saying as she did so, "Chu Zhiqing, why are you so ignorant? Don't you know that this is a prank for your wife? Why did you get it on my mother's head? This is too inappropriate.
On such a happy day, I got this and can't even pick it off. What bad luck!"
Du Yueming said with a dark face: "Sister-in-law, you clearly know that it is not easy to get rid of cockleburs once they get on your head, but your family still plans to get it on Pingping's head.
Have you ever thought that if this happy day happened to Pingping, her only happy day in her life would be ruined by your family.
If your family comes here to drink a glass of wedding wine, I welcome it. But if you come here to cause trouble on this happy day, I'm sorry, but you are not welcome at my wedding."
The old Party Secretary Du Jianguo came over with a sullen face. He said in a cold tone, "Zhu Zi, go call Yue Hai over and ask him to take his wife and mother-in-law to his room. Don't let her embarrass herself here."
The old lady suddenly jumped up from the ground and started cursing, "What's going on, you bastards? You beat up my daughter and chased her to my house for so many days.
No one from your Du family went to call her. You are such a bunch of ungrateful people with black hearts.
If you don't give me Yufeng a new house, and you still want to get married happily, I tell you, it's impossible."
Relatives, friends and fellow villagers who came to attend the wedding were all pointing and talking.
"This family is so shameless. They come to ruin someone's wedding. If it were me, I would just kick them out."
"That's right, there's not a single person in this family who doesn't care about money. Everyone in the surrounding area knows about the Gu family. They're a family of greedy people who don't care about money."
Auntie San couldn't stand it any longer and shouted, "Yufeng's mother, when Yuehai and I went to your house to call Yufeng, you not only beat Yuehai up but also broke his nose.
They even pushed me and made me fall, breaking my arm. It still hurts! How can your family be so unreasonable? Do you have any shame?
Ding Chouni spitted out her mouth and said, "Why? You bought so many things for your youngest son's wedding, but your eldest son doesn't care. Why didn't he give my Yufeng so much dowry? This is how ignorant old people are.
If you don’t give me Yufeng an explanation today, I will lie on the ground and not get up!"
Du Jianguo scolded, "Today is Yueming's wedding day. For the sake of this happy event, I don't want to argue with you.
If you continue to act unreasonably and lose face, don't blame the Du family for being rude to you!"
The loud speaker nearby shouted disdainfully, "Yufeng's mother, it's fine if you just make trouble on a regular basis, but you're causing trouble at someone else's wedding too. You're doing this on purpose!
You always compare Yuehai's and Yueming's betrothal gifts. Why don't you compare your Yufeng's dowry with Pingping's?
Let me tell you, Pingping not only made so many quilts and two small cabinets, but also bought a watch for Yueming!
If the Du family hadn't bought you clothes, I think you would have let your daughter Yufeng get married naked!"
The villagers nearby smiled and said, "That's right! This is a Pixiu, it only goes in and never out!"
"It's still good that Yueming's wife is sensible. She brought so many things as a dowry, and the marriage went smoothly without making things difficult for Yueming.
Unlike the Gu family, when Yue Hai got married, Jian Jun and his wife were worried sick. The wedding really became a big deal, with a lot of things that required money.
Ding Chouni rolled her eyes. "We are all poor farmers. How can we compare with the wealthy daughters of the city? My family can't afford it."
Du Yueming was furious, "Ding Chouni, Pingping's family is from a working-class background, otherwise the army wouldn't have approved our marriage.
You are too shameless to put such a big hat on Pingping. You dare to smear the working class. I will report and criticize you."
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