Years: Salted fish life since going to the countryside.

Chapter 987 The Wedding Day
The old man was going to tell about something that happened in a village in Changping, north of the old city.

In any era, it is a very common phenomenon for women to ask for a bride price. Families with good financial conditions and open minds will turn the bride price into their daughter's dowry.

However, in this era, there are not many wealthy and open-minded families. First of all, there is a lack of entertainment. After dark, they have nothing to do and just have children, which also leads to a large population in the family.

The large population has also caused family difficulties, especially for families with many sons. They will ask for a dowry when marrying their daughters, and this money will then become the dowry when their sons get married.

However, there are rules for the bride price in many places. For example, it is 180 yuan in Dawangzhuang this year, and 190 yuan in Lijiazhuang this year, and so on. Everyone will abide by these rules.

Some very poor families are too embarrassed to break the village custom of asking for a bride price when they marry off their daughters.

But it is very difficult. Without more money, it would be difficult for one's own son to find a wife.

So these people added the term "milk money" to the bride price. This money can be food, cash, watches, bicycles, sewing machines, etc. In short, this "milk money" cannot be less.

The reason is that one cannot raise a girl in vain and cannot let her become a "money-losing commodity", which is also a disguised way of circumventing the local rules.

When people in the village know about this, they won’t say anything. After all, their family is really in financial difficulty.

The old man was going to tell about something that happened in a village in Changping, north of the old city.

There is a strange couple in this village. They have four daughters, each of them is very beautiful, so many people come to propose marriage to them.

But the conditions set by these weird parents are very high. Three turns and one ring are required, and the man must provide corresponding things according to different seasons and situations.

For example, the employees of the Sijiucheng unit would be given hairtail every winter. If you wanted to marry their daughter at this time, you would have to have extra hairtail. No job? Then you could go to the black market to buy it.

If the man comes to visit during the autumn harvest, he must bring extra soybeans, peanuts and other items.

If it happens to be summer or autumn, the man will not only have to bring the corresponding things, but also compensate their daughter for the work points she lost this year.

These are not the main points. The main thing is this pair of weird parents. They set the price based on quality and time according to the situations of their four daughters. The better the appearance and the better the figure, the higher the bride price.

At first, the couple were very proud of this, but a few days ago, their second daughter and her boyfriend, because their parents could not agree on the issue of bride price, broke the ice of the Ming Tombs Reservoir and jumped in holding hands.

Han Li and the others felt uncomfortable immediately when they heard this. Tomorrow is their brother's big wedding day, and you, an old fellow, are here whinning nonsense. The group of people pushed and retorted back.
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Han Li and his friends also did not sleep when they returned that night. A group of people lit the stove in the tent and put tables together to play cards.

The year of Wuwu, the month of Yichou, the day of Xinsi, January 14th, the 16th day of the twelfth lunar month, Sunday.

Today is Han Li's wedding day. At around four in the morning, Han's father and his family returned from Houhaizi.

A little after five o'clock, Chef Liang's team came over and started to get busy.

Before six o'clock, most of the people who came to help had arrived at Mianhua Hutong in the dark, and the area around Han Li's home became lively again.

At around 6:30, ten cars sent by the elders, including a three-wheeled car specially used for setting off firecrackers, arrived with Zhang Hailin and the other half-grown children.

Around seven o'clock, Han Li had breakfast with everyone, a bowl of rich mixed vegetables and two steamed buns.

Then Han Li changed into a new set of clothes with the help of the three sisters of the Han family, He Mi and others. At about 8:30, Han Li got on the car to welcome the bride amid the cheers, blessings, instructions and firecrackers of the crowd.

The general manager of the male side of the Han family's wedding is the director of the street office and the manager of the bus company, and the wife of the bride is the director of the Women's Federation of the street office who has two children.

However, the Han family and the Yun family had already discussed it, and their people following them would only appear to be polite and considerate, but would basically not play any role.

Accompanying Han Li to welcome the bride were his childhood friend Daqiang, the oldest of his junior fellow apprentices Shu Yongjie and Mai Zhijun, Zhang Yaozu who came from afar, as well as Zhang Linhai, Hou Huidong, Song Guanghui and Liu Zhongcheng.

The girls include He Mi, Ding Yulan, Liu Zhongxin, Zhang Ling, Hou Liru, as well as the daughters of several colleagues of Han's father and mother.

The wedding procession must have an even number of men and women, and the same applies to the vehicles.

A convoy of twelve motor vehicles, including ten cars, a three-wheeled truck used for setting off firecrackers, and the jeep that Han Li had driven back long ago, slowly left Mianhua Hutong.

The Han family's wedding procession arrived at the Yun family. After some polite exchanges, Han Li, the steward, and the bride's wife were pulled into the house and warmly entertained with wine and food.

All the girls rushed into Yun Yingying's wedding room, where there were melon seeds, peanuts and candies for them to eat while chatting.

The other boys who came with them were setting off firecrackers outside, and the people from the Yun family who were helping were scattering cigarettes nearby.

Although the relatives and friends of the Yun family did not make any requests, Yun Yingying's female classmates often harassed Han Li. However, most of them just gave some small questions that made everyone laugh and then passed the time.

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In addition, the saying that a grown-up girl takes her time getting into the sedan chair is really true.

Han Li and his group arrived at the Yun family at nine o'clock, and by the time everything was ready to set off, it was already after half past ten.

The rest is simple. There are no fancy tricks these days and no one dares to do anything fancy.

After Han Li brought the bride back, he first sent her into the house to clean her face. The men from the Yun family who came to send the bride off were taken to the wedding tent to rest for a while, and the women were taken to the warmer tent built by Hou Huidong.

However, no matter which table in the two wedding tents, the manager arranged the relatives to sit at each table according to seven people, and the other empty seat was reserved for the service and drinking companions.

After Yun Yingying had simply tidied up, the two of them, under everyone's gaze, first bowed to the two great men, then turned around and bowed to their parents, which basically completed the wedding process.

The next step is to serve the dishes and wine, so that relatives and friends can eat and drink well.

At that time, there were rules for the dishes at wedding banquets in Sijiu City. First of all, there were cold dishes, and the emphasis was on five meat dishes and four vegetable dishes. Of course, these five meat dishes and four vegetable dishes were not designated dishes, as long as there were five meat dishes and four vegetable dishes, it would be fine.

Secondly, when placing these cold dishes on the table, the best meat dish should be placed in the middle, the four cold dishes should be placed in the four corners, and the other cold dishes should fill the gaps between the five dishes evenly. The final arrangement should be in the shape of three vertical and three horizontal.

When the cold dishes start to be served, the hostesses at each table will also come on stage.

They have to help arrange the dishes and scatter the chopsticks, and after the cold dishes are served, they will start to urge people to drink when the head table gives the order.

When people started eating and drinking in the wedding tent, both the Han family and the people who came to help basically all relaxed. Only the chefs began to prepare the hot dishes that were to be served.

There are also rules for serving this hot dish in Sijiu City.
(End of this chapter)