The road from Africa to Europe

Chapter 1044 All kinds of life

As an outsider, Ling Xiao is still very curious about weddings in this era. Some things have disappeared with the passage of time, and future generations can only guess what happened from the records of the predecessors.Now that Ling Xiao has the opportunity to watch it up close, he naturally wants to take a good look at the wedding situation in this era, and he needs to have an extra experience anyway.

She told the Lin family's parents about her plan. The couple felt that Ling Xiao was too troublesome during this time, but they had to admit that without Ling Xiao, they would have suffered more, and naturally they had a better impression of Ling Xiao. Well, I wanted to do something for the other party, but I couldn't find what Ling Xiao needed for a while, so I dragged it down.

Now that Ling Xiao plans to see how the daughter of the Lin family gets married, she is naturally very happy. The two are not in the mood to participate in any wedding. Although the eldest daughter has died for several years, they have just learned the news, so it is naturally impossible to attend the wedding, even if The bride is a daughter of the Lin family who is somewhat close.

Originally, it was only intended to be brought by someone as a gift, but now I feel that it is just a matter of letting Ling Xiao go, which can be regarded as a representative of the family.They didn't think that because it was Ling Xiao who brought back the bones of their parents and daughters, they thought that the other party would also mourn with them, which was difficult for the strong.

Father Lin asked his familiar relatives to take Ling Xiao to a banquet, and introduced Ling Xiao to the other party, saying that he was a friend his daughter met in the New World. to the bride's house.

Ling Xiao went to see the bride first with some curiosity, and the Lin family didn't stop her, and saw the bride sitting quietly on the bed in a red dress, with a lot of powder on her face, as if she had knocked over her face bag, It was white and red, and Ling Xiao didn't think the whole outfit was very good-looking. Why did you say that?
Because the bride was born in the working people, although she may not be the master at home, it is absolutely impossible not to do any farm work. Naturally, it is impossible to make her skin as white as jade. The powder is white, but the bride's neck has not been treated in the same way, and the skin gap is relatively large.

But Ling Xiao naturally won't say it, the bride's dress is a normal dress, it can only be said that as a girl, the bride has no chance to dress up properly, and has no chance to improve her makeup level, oh!no!It should be an appreciation level.Also, it's hard to live, how can I have the opportunity to dress up?There is no time to dress up, and there is no money to supply and consume. Cosmetics have always been a big consumer, and they have no chance to improve their skills that seem unimportant in troubled times.

In fact, the bride is in her youthful stage. At this time, her skin is still in good condition. Coupled with the unique shyness bonus of the bride, she is still a beautiful bride. Others also say that she looks good.

Ling Xiao thought that the people who came to see the bride came with blessings, but someone knew that Ling Xiao was from a big city, and asked Ling Xiao if he thought the bride looked good?Is this really not provocative?Ling Xiao glanced at that person, obviously he was a person who was not very good at trouble.

The expressions of the people in the room can be described as the various states of life at the moment. Some people want to get an answer in a hurry, so they stare at Ling Xiao, with a bit of sarcasm in their frustration.There were also people who repeatedly tugged at that person, signaling not to overdo it.Some people were so angry after hearing this, they clenched their small fists tightly, wishing to come up and hit someone, while others gloated, while the bride was angry and angry, but she looked helpless and called 'cousin'.

Most of the people looked at Ling Xiao. They knew very well that most people in the city looked down on them village girls, so they wanted to see what Ling Xiao had to say. For a while, Ling Xiao felt really funny and angry. How unlucky, how come there is this cousin?

Thinking of this, she laughed aloud. Even if she thought the bride was not good-looking, she couldn't say that she was not a fool, and she was in trouble at the wedding.Besides, the bride is not bad, so Ling Xiao continued: "Of course the bride is beautiful!"

The bride breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this. At this time, someone took her cousin away. Only then did Ling Xiao notice that this young woman had a three-inch golden lotus, and she didn't know what to say for a while.

Before anyone else wanted to say anything, they saw a person in the room who specially combed the bride's hair. This is a blessed person specially invited by the woman's family. While combing her hair, she would say: comb to the end, lift The case is at the same level.Comb two combs to the end, and fly together.Comb three combs to the end, and wear with one heart forever.

Ling Xiao looked at this scene with a smile. This kind of auspicious words belonged to the blessings of the mother's family. There are similar customs in many places. Most of the newly married women of the Han family in Kyushu will receive this kind of blessing, hoping that the bride can stand in the husband's house in the future Keep your feet on the ground and live happily ever after.

The bride's face is full of shyness at the moment, and there is a bit of longing in her eyes. As an adult, she knows that she has started a new life and will have her own home in the future.At the same time, she was still a little terrified, because she was going to marry soon, her natal family was no longer her home, and she would be a guest when she came back, but she still didn't know whether she would live a good life in her husband's house, so she was still a little terrified.

After all this, the bride had to wait for the groom to pick her up. Ling Xiao took the opportunity to look around the room. The bride's house had prepared a dowry. As a farmer, she didn't have much valuable dowry, just some clothes and bedding, but This is already a good dowry in the village, and Ling Xiao found out that her feet were not bound.

Don't look at those talented people who drank foreign ink in the city and want to divorce their original wives with bound feet, but in the countryside there are still many women with bound feet since childhood. Still the custom was not forbidden.

The reason why the young women of the Lin family did not have their feet bound was thanks to Father Lin, who reminded the villagers that times had changed and women did not need to bind their feet at all. This really liberated most of the young girls in the Lin family.However, it also shows that the people of the Lin family are people who are more accepting of new things. You must know that many places still have their feet bound, and they don't care about the propaganda launched by the top.

The bride naturally felt Ling Xiao's gaze, her body seemed to stiffen, and she tried her best to cover her seemingly large feet with the hem of her skirt. You must know that there are still many girls in the nearby villages with small feet bound, because many men still use the skirt to cover their feet. The three-inch golden lotus is the most beautiful, which also causes many girls to still bind their feet, just like the cousin just now.

The reason why the cousin got angry just now was because the cousin's family took a fancy to her current husband's family and thought that the man's family conditions were good, so they wanted to marry their daughter. However, the man took a fancy to the Lin family's daughter and came to propose directly.

For this reason, the cousin feels that the cousin robbed her of her marriage, so she will look for trouble everywhere.The bride Nian had borne it for the sake of her relatives before, but she was a little upset by making trouble in front of foreigners. At this time, she felt that Ling Xiao was looking at her feet, so she hid herself.

Ling Xiao sensed the bride's discomfort, so he stretched out his feet with a smile, and said, "I'm also born with natural feet, why do women bind their feet? Have you ever seen the bound feet? It's really cruel. In fact, " The Book of Filial Piety·Kaizong Mingyi said: "The body is hair and skin, and the parents dare not damage it. This is the beginning of filial piety." The ancestors said that they dare not damage the body. The feet are also a part of the body. Deformed? It's better to be natural!"

Wow?All the women in the room looked at Ling Xiao dumbfounded. They didn't expect to have such a saying. Although they are natural enough, they are still somewhat influenced by the thoughts of the people around them, so many women still feel that in their hearts, Small feet are great, and some people even secretly think about making their feet smaller.

Naturally, I didn't expect that someone would blatantly promote Tianzu's goodness around the bride!Although they couldn't remember the filial piety scriptures that Ling Xiao said just now, they remembered those words more or less later, so they wanted Ling Xiao to write down what they just said.

Seeing those women who wanted to ask but dared not speak up, Ling Xiao said: "Actually, please remember one sentence, okay? To make your life more convenient, do you think it's better to work with your feet on the ground, or Is it better not to bind your feet? If you run into danger and need to run, will you run faster with your feet bound, or run faster without your feet bound?"

The women are silent, they know that state is more appropriate.It's just that they are in awe of this foreign woman, because she knows a lot of things that they don't understand at all. She and them seem to be people from two worlds. Even though the clothes they are wearing are not much different, but I don't know why Still not the same.So they were embarrassed to talk to this woman from the outside world, but they looked at each other with their friends, and just peeked at Ling Xiao shyly.

Some people realized something after listening to Ling Xiao's words, and the bride was the one who realized something, because she was somewhat inferior to her big feet before, but after Ling Xiao's preaching, she began to feel that her normal feet were very awkward. Well, no more bad-looking thoughts.

Ling Xiao remembered that he hadn't given a gift yet, which was a bit impolite. After thinking for a while, he took out two small gold coins with holes. The gold coins with holes can be made into earrings, and Ling Xiao made them with ear hooks. Earrings, but they don't have much weight, after all, they are not very big.

These two gold coins were received by Ling Xiao in this world, and the purity was not bad, so he gave them to the bride, "Bride, this is a small gift from me, I wish you a happy wedding and good health. "

"." The bride was stunned for a moment, because the sisters' gifts are very common, and they usually just give some small things. How could they give gold coins?After she regained her senses, she shook her hand and said, "How can this be, I can't want it."

"It's just two little gadgets, you just keep them. You can treat me as your cousin who is far away. This is a wedding gift from the older sister to your younger sister. Just take it. Remember: women live not only To live for your family, but also to live for yourself, don't just think about other people, and forget that you are also a person, with your own joys, sorrows, sorrows, and never abandon yourself first."

The reason why Ling Xiao said this was because of an intuition that this woman might be in a predicament. Ling Xiao hoped that this woman could get out of the predicament. Had a chance to meet this bride.

Speaking of which, Ling Xiao fixed the bride with his left hand, and then took off the silver lilac on the bride's ear piercing with his right hand, and hung the gold coin earrings on the bride. The whole room was silent, and everyone looked at it with envy. This is a great gift, bride.

The replaced silver lilac was conveniently placed in the bride's hand. The bride wanted to refuse, but the weight on her ears made her dare not move for a while. At this moment, she was full of indescribable happiness amidst the panic.You must know that the women in the village don't have much silver jewelry. This silver clove is still a dowry gift from her husband's family, and her natal family asked her to take it back. Gold is even rarer.

"Take it with you! It's really beautiful to be a happy bride!" After Ling Xiao finished speaking, he turned and left the bride's room. It happened that the groom came to pick up the bride. The bride had no time to call back Ling Xiao who had delivered the gift, holding a A pair of silver cloves left their natal family and started a new life of their own.

(End of this chapter)