Chapter 148 Sister's Marriage 6
In the evening, Yike accompanied his uncle and aunt's family to chat in the main hall, and Zhong Tongxin and her daughter also came to join in the fun.
Liu Baoer did not go to the groom's house today. She was very curious and pestered Yi Ke to describe the wedding process.
My uncle's youngest son is the bride's escort boy today, and he is also the one who has reaped the most benefits today. He is still excited. So he didn't wait for a moment to speak, and he poured out everything he saw, along with his thoughts, like dumping garbage:
"Sister Baoer, it's a pity that you didn't go to see it. You don't know that when those people saw the dowry being carried to Sister Guihua's house, their eyes were so bright that they wanted to put their eyes on the dowry."
"Oh! Those people are jealous of your sister Guihua's good dowry." Liu Baoer echoed.
"Yes! Yes! Sister Baoer, you are right. I heard those people say that Sister Guihua's dowry is good and large, and it is the only one in the area." The little cousin said with his face raised proudly, as if those people were praising him.
In the new house, the bride's dowry was placed in its proper place, and one could see that in addition to the dowry there was also a large wardrobe. I guess the groom didn't know that the bride had a wardrobe, so he bought a new big wardrobe himself. The new bed was also a large wooden bed. Judging from its condition, it should have been bought by Ma Youcai from a landlord’s house, as the wood of the bed was huanghuali.
There was a red dowry quilt and pillow on the bed, but no bedspread, just a bamboo mat. While Yike was still wondering whether there were peanuts, longans, red dates or the like under the bamboo mat, an older woman walked in with a boy.
The aunt first spread a new quilt on the bed, and then let the boy climb onto the bed and roll around a few times, well, from the head of the bed to the foot of the bed, and then from the foot of the bed to the head of the bed. The auntie was still muttering:
A roll of gold and silver all over the ground
Two rolls, a son and a daughter
Three rolls for peace and health
Four rolling dragons and phoenixes bring good luck
Five rolls of good luck
Six rolls for good luck
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The boy who rolled on the bed got off the bed, and his sister Guihua quickly took out fifty cents and gave it to the boy, and then took out sixty cents and gave it to the aunt. The boy and the aunt left, and then another aunt came in with a plate filled with peanuts, longans, red dates, etc. The aunt scattered all these on the bed in front of the bride. The bride and Yi Ke looked at each other, thinking at the same time: "Isn't this going to be placed behind the bride's back?"
Later, a young girl brought in a basin of water for washing face. There was a towel in the water. The young girl said with a smile: "Do you want to wash it or not?"
The bride reached out to take the wash basin and replied, "Wash (happiness)."
The bride washed her hands with a towel, washed her face briefly, then put the towel down, took out sixty cents and gave it to the girl. The girl walked away with the water, smiling.
At noon, the wedding banquet began. The people who came to send off the bride sat at the same table with the bride. The groom asked Tang Jianguo, Wang Feng, and Wang Hongjun to sit at the same table with the bride's family members who came to send off the bride. Together with the groom, there were exactly ten people at one table.
The rural banquets of this era are not as sumptuous as those in the previous life. Nowadays, every family is not able to get enough to eat, and being able to cook a few dishes is already very sumptuous.
The first thing served on the table was a large bowl of five-fingered ginseng bone soup. The bones and five-fingered ginseng were brought out by Ma Youcai and his companions when they went out of the mountains this time. After selling the pork and wolf meat last time, there were a lot of bones left.
The five-fingered ginseng was picked when everyone saw it while hunting, so that everyone could take some out. When there was no meat to eat, they would have bone soup to satisfy their cravings, and it was also nutritious. Unexpectedly, it came in handy.
Because a lot of bones are used, the bone soup is thick and fragrant. Customers pick up their bowls and drink it in one breath and then go for more scoops. Several large wooden barrels of soup were simply taken out from the kitchen, allowing those who liked to eat to scoop it out themselves. Some families haven't eaten meat for half a year, and some poor families who can't even get enough food haven't smelled the smell of oil for a year. These buckets of bone soup are nothing more than oil poured on dry firewood. They will catch fire at any time.
Yike stared in amazement at the people scrambling to scoop up the soup, and felt that the soup in the bowl was not fragrant at all.
The staple food is corn buns, two per person. There were six dishes, two or three more than at other people's weddings.
The pork is stewed with pickles, and there are more pickles. There are only five or six pieces of pork in a plate, and they are small pieces at most.
A plate of fragrant, sweet and glutinous stir-fried sweet potato cubes. Sweet potatoes are the most abundant item in Ma Youcai's home, and they are also carried back from the mountains.
Stir-fried pork slices with bamboo shoots was quickly eaten up as soon as it was served. Each person could get two slices of pork, which was more meat than in the pork stewed with sauerkraut.
Stir-fried black fungus is also a product from the mountains.
Stir-fried green beans with garlic and stir-fried bok choy were vegetables that the brothers bought from various production teams.
Although the portions were not very large, the farmers could not get full with just the vegetables, but everyone drank several large bowls of soup and were still full.
After the banquet, I could see that everyone had smiles on their faces, and they must be very satisfied. Some members also came to greet the bride's family, praising the bride's beauty and even saying that she looked like a good daughter-in-law who was thrifty and managed the household well.
After lunch, the bride's family members who came to see her off will go back. They are not allowed to watch the lively scene in the bridal chamber at night.
When going back, Ziyi carried Yike on a bicycle again, and on the front bumper of the bicycle was a boy who was accompanying the bride - his uncle's youngest son. My uncle rode a bicycle to take my aunt with him.
Tang Jianguo and his group of brothers wanted to stay and make trouble in the bridal chamber.
Before dark, Ziyi and his group finally returned to their home in the city. There were only Zhong Tongxin and her daughter Liu Baoer at home. They knew Yike would be back in the evening, so they cooked food in advance and had dinner after Yike came back and washed up.
After dinner, everyone sat in the main room and chatted about what happened today after the bride passed away.
Liu Baoer felt the same way and said proudly, "That's right. Look who prepared this dowry. The dowry that our sister Yi Ke gave to her sister is not only unique in the whole area, but also in the whole county."
Zhong Tongxin also agreed with her daughter: "As far as I know, even those who have jobs and earn wages don't have such a generous dowry when they get married. The better ones have bicycles, but it's hard to have cabinets and boxes, not to mention eight sets of clothes. This is almost as much as the dowry of the daughters of landlords in the past."
"Her aunt is right. I've seen landlords marry their daughters off before. They had eight beddings and eight quilts, and twelve sets of clothes, one set for each month. Our Guihua also has two beddings and two quilts, and eight sets of clothes, just a little bit away from twelve." The aunt was also happy for her niece.
The little cousin was a little unhappy. He still had a lot to say. Liu Baoer seemed to know what he was thinking and said loudly to everyone, "Stop for a moment and listen to the speech of the boy who is escorting the bride today."
Everyone fell silent, and everyone looked at the boy who was escorting the bride. This made the little cousin who was accompanying the bride feel embarrassed.
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