Chapter 407 White Horse Wedding, Chinese Wedding
In the next few days, Lin Wanxia stayed at home most of the time.
Sometimes she would take the two children to the county town or the city.
Whether to go out depends on whether Jiang Sinian wants to use the car.
The Jiang family has been in dire straits this month.
On the one hand, they have to deal with the wedding of Jiang Sinian and Lin Wanxia.
On the other hand, they have to deal with the divorce of the third sister and the third brother-in-law.
Although the Zuo family said that they would talk about the divorce after the New Year, there is already a trend of separation.
Before the marriage, the third sister moved to the Zuo family in advance, and before the divorce, it was the third brother-in-law who separated from the third sister in advance.
No matter how interesting the gossip is, it is only fresh at first. After that moment, Lin Wanxia didn't want to go to Jiang's house to listen to her third sister crying and Jiang's mother swearing.
Anyway, she had a ready-made reason to avoid it, get ready to get married!
Originally, Lin Wanxia was very perfunctory about this wedding.
But Jiang Sinian said that since he had agreed, he should do it well. In fact, this was his real formal marriage to her.
The first time was a fake marriage.
The two had their own thoughts.
Lin Wanxia wanted business capital, and Jiang Sinian wanted an undercover opportunity.
Both of them achieved their goals.
Lin Wanxia started her entrepreneurial journey with a few hundred yuan from the wedding.
Jiang Sinian went undercover for a month and caught more than 80% of the spies in the island city.
The second wedding was held in the army.
It was a ceremony that pleased both of them, with the blessings of Jiang Sinian's comrades.
This was the third wedding.
Like all ordinary people's weddings, there was a matchmaker.
Of course, the matchmaker was only invited to go through the motions.
They also invited a respected elder in the village to match their horoscopes and write a marriage certificate.
According to the customs of Qianyu Village, folk ceremonies such as exchanging handkerchiefs and engagement were performed.
Exchanging handkerchiefs is a big meeting. According to the normal process, the parents and relatives of the man and woman get together to express their respective attitudes.
The man brought all kinds of miscellaneous things, the most important of which was the betrothal gift.
According to the customs of Qianyu Village, the husband's family needs to give the woman so many kilograms of cotton and so many feet of cloth. According to the
local customs, bedding is the woman's dowry, but the materials are bought by the man.
Of course, Lin Wanxia and Jiang Sinian do not live here permanently, so these are skipped.
The betrothal gift is just a formality in public.
One thousand and one yuan.
Jiang Sinian took out the money and handed it to Lin Wanxia.
It was like the left hand going into the right hand, the ceremony was more important than the content.
But, for Jiang Sinian, no matter how simple the process was, it was also his true experience of marrying Lin Wanxia in front of his parents, elders, relatives and friends, with three matchmakers, six betrothals, and eight sedan chairs.
Jiang Sinian made serious preparations, and Lin Wanxia also took it to heart.
In 1986, the countryside was still not open to wedding dresses, so Lin Wanxia decided to prepare a Chinese-style wedding.
She married from the house in the town to the Jiang family, the distance was not far, and the sedan chair could really be carried over.
Of course, the sedan chair had to be made on the spot.
There was no shortage of carpenters in the village, Jiang Sinian bought the wood, and all he had to do was wait.
What Lin Wanxia cared about most was the bridal tiara and bridal robe.
It would definitely be too late to make it from scratch, so Lin Wanxia found a shop that made costumes.
Some costumes are very delicately made, with good fabrics, and with a little modification they are much more beautiful than ordinary Xiuhe costumes.
Although many shops are about to close due to the Chinese New Year, money talks.
Lin Wanxia still found an embroidery shop and chose a red costume.
The owner praised Lin Wanxia for her good figure, and the scope of modification was small, so it was relatively simple.
First of all, it had to be suitable for marriage, and then the long sleeves used on the stage had to be changed to something suitable for modern times.
There were also some other details.
Including the headdress, the owner still asked friends in the same industry to help work overtime to deliver it before the wedding date.
Jiang Sinian was not idle during this period.
After all, only a few families have telephones, so people need to go door to door to deliver invitations.
Some places that are close are fine, but some places that are far away require driving.
In the blink of an eye, it was the twenty-fifth day of the Ramadan.
On this day, the groom needs to knock on the door according to the ritual.
Knocking on the door means going door to door with the host of the wedding to congratulate in the atmosphere of the gong and drum team.
It is mainly for the relatives on the groom's side.
Jiang Sinian needs to kowtow to the relatives according to the closeness of the relationship.
Of course, the kowtow is not in vain, and basically a red envelope will be given.
Jiang Sinian is not looking for red envelopes, but this is the custom.
He is not immune to it.
Lin Wanxia has nothing to do, so she mixed in the crowd and followed the two children to watch the excitement.
There is no entertainment in the village now, and the biggest excitement is when there is a wedding or funeral in someone's home. Some people
either take the initiative to go to the door to help or just follow to watch the excitement.
Lin Wanxia also specially changed into the kind of cotton-padded clothes in the village, which were made by her fourth sister-in-law, just to blend in with the crowd without being out of place.
Of course, changing clothes alone was not enough, she also put on some chapped face makeup.
Ordinary people now have no concept of skin care, and when blown by the northwest wind, their faces are more or less red from the plateau.
Lin Wanxia painted her skin tan and mixed blush to apply it.
Don't say, it looks quite like that.
Lin Wanxia thought she dressed up well, and the villagers didn't pay much attention to her.
After all, she was a stranger, but people still looked at her.
But she followed Xiaoliu, and when people asked Xiaoliu, she said she was the fourth sister-in-law's sister, and others would not say anything.
However, Jiang Sinian recognized Lin Wanxia at first sight.
Seeing Jiang Sinian looking at her, Lin Wanxia wanted to pretend she didn't know him, but when she saw Jiang Sinian's expression, she was so surprised that she couldn't help laughing and finally turned her head away while holding back her laughter. Lin
Wanxia: "..."
She touched her face and asked Xiaoliu, "Dongxue, am I ugly?"
Xiaoliu shook his head, "No? You are also very beautiful like this." Xingxing
sneered: "What does makeup like this have to do with being beautiful?"
Lin Wanxia: "..."
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That night, Lin Wanxia lived separately from Jiang Sinian.
The two children were also separated.
Xingxing lived with Jiang Sinian in the Jiang family.
Because Xingxing was to be the concubine.
Early the next morning, Lin Wanxia dressed up in a modified phoenix crown and bridal robe and waited for Jiang Sinian to come.
Xiao Yueyue was watched by Xiaoliu in a bright red ancient costume.
Soon, Jiang Sinian arrived.
Lin Wanxia didn't have her family members blocking the door, so some procedures were simplified.
Jiang Sinian was dressed in red with a huge red sash hanging on his chest, like a top scholar who had just passed the imperial examination.
He carried Lin Wanxia downstairs and put her on the sedan chair.
The sedan chair pullers were eight strong men from the village, and the sedan chair was a standard eight-lift sedan chair.
Jiang Sinian rode on a white horse with a red sash tied on its forehead.
The white horse was borrowed. It was the horse of the production team when it was still a production team. Later, when the land was contracted to households, it was bought back by a family.
This was originally a plowing horse and was not good at feeding people, so the horse breeder had to walk beside it holding the reins.
Just like that, the wedding procession rushed to the Jiang family.
It was the most complete wedding of Jiang Sinian and Lin Wanxia.
It was also the most lively one.
Lin Wanxia quietly opened the curtain of the sedan door to reveal a gap and looked at the tall horse in front.
The person on the white horse seemed to have noticed something and turned around.
The two looked at each other.