Druid's Country Retirement

Chapter 414
In the morning in the countryside, the first ray of morning light shines through the mist, the sun rises from the mist, dewdrops are still hanging on the treetops and grass tips, and everything is enveloped in the soft morning light.

Whoa whoa! !

A colorful rooster in costume stood on the roof of the old house, holding its head high and crowing, announcing the arrival of the day.

Flappy!
The two owl brothers and their respective wives flew into the old house, landed on the branches of the oak tree, and made a cheerful cooing sound.

Followed by.

White-billed eagles, goshawks, great white cockatoos, and budgies flew in and also landed on the branches, greeting each other.

In the yard, the wolf dog, princess, bear cub, gold, and white lady were squatting neatly in the rice field, waiting quietly for Li Hongbing to appear.

Anna and Nanny were wearing beautiful new clothes, holding flowers picked from the meadow, and standing with the animals.

In the bedroom, the walls and wardrobe were hung with bright red characters "Happy", and even the bedding was replaced by a pair of mandarin ducks playing in the water.

Li Hongbing was wearing a dark red robe and mandarin jacket, standing in front of the mirror, looking at his groom's appearance in the mirror.

Although I have been married once, I am still a little inexplicably excited today.

My mother's urging voice sounded outside the window.

"San'er, come out quickly. After burning the paper for your grandparents, you have to pick up the bride."

"coming!"

Li Hongbing replied, checked his clothes again and walked out of the house quickly.

"Dad, you are so handsome!"

When Anna saw Li Hongbing, she threw herself into his arms and raised the flowers still stained with dew.

"Dad, this is for Mom Xing, will she like it?"

"Little flatterer, Myolie's mother will like whatever you give her." Li Hongbing raised his hand and scratched the bridge of Anna's nose.

tsk tsk!
"It's different when you become the groom's official. He's as handsome as me!" Brother Dalang also walked in wearing a red robe and mandarin jacket, but there was a mysterious best man beside him, which made him very curious.

Because Jay Chou also wore a groomsman outfit with a cool expression on his face.

"You help Xiaopai treat his illness, and I'll be your best man!"

"It's a deal." Li Hongbing nodded, and his Vajra fans would not die of envy if Jay Chou could be the best man.

"Come on, come on, let's eat glutinous rice balls, stop chatting, and don't check what time it is!" Mom and the second apprentice walked out of the kitchen with bowls in their hands.

Everyone ate glutinous rice balls.

Da Kui once again told everyone the rules of rural marriage.

The Li family took the offerings and climbed up Phoenix Slope, burned paper for their grandparents, and told them that new members of the family would be joining the ceremony.

After worshiping the ancestors, he hurried back to his old house.

Start preparing for the wedding.

The size of the wedding team in the forest area is regulated, usually an even number.

Generally speaking, among the people who welcome the bride, there are eight men and six women, or six men and six women. As the main candidates for the wedding, the men deal with the affairs, and the women take care of the bride and the female guests bringing her wedding.

The wedding team usually has a steward who speaks on behalf of the man and negotiates various matters with the woman, usually the groom's uncle.

There are some people who are not suitable to be the ones to welcome the bride, which is called the aunt not accepting the bride and the aunt not sending the bride off, which means that the aunt cannot receive the bride and the aunt cannot send the bride off.

Lao Li's family is very small. Apart from his father, mother, and Daddy Shan, there are only two sisters, two brothers-in-law, a silly boy and a blind man left.

It was difficult to gather eight boys and six girls, so Li Hongbing simply waved his hand and said that he would go wherever he wanted to meet the bride without talking about so many old rules. After hearing this, his mother shook her eyes and pinched his father fiercely, blaming him for not being able to sit straight down. crooked.

and so…

Blame me!
The father looked innocent, speechless, and helpless.

The open space outside the Li family's old house.

The ground was covered with red firecrackers, each one more than ten meters long, like countless red snakes entwined together.

Several instrumental groups hired from outside are ready.

In the wedding procession, Jinzi stood at the front with a big red flower hanging around his neck, head held high.

Behind them are four wolf dogs, also hanging with red silk flowers.

Behind him is Hei Feng, dressed in the same style. Behind him are seven horses and the huge Bull Demon King. In the middle of the horse group is a large sedan chair with eight carriages. Lao Gen, Tiezhu, Shui Sheng, Fu Sheng and several people from the village are standing there. Beside the sedan chair.

The eight-carrying sedan chair is called carrying a lady of the family, marrying a good matchmaker, and marrying a good wife and mother, which reflects the man's full sincerity.

Behind the sedan chair were some villagers who helped carry the ceremony.

The gifts usually prepared for carrying gifts are also in even numbers, divided into four-party gifts and eight major items. The four-party gifts include pork, carp, cakes, and noodles. The eight major gifts except the four-party gifts include big roosters, ducks, tea, tobacco and alcohol.

The Lao Li family is naturally not stingy. They have prepared a pig, two 10-jin red carp, six roosters, six ducks, one hundred catties of rice, and one hundred catties of noodles.

Yamaxing originally didn't want so many things, but Li Hongbing was very convincing. If he didn't give away enough, the villagers would say that the old Li family was stingy. Besides, if he gave it to his parents' house, he wouldn't get it back in the end. It would just mean an extra trip.

Although the words were reasonable, Shan Xing felt awkward and pinched the soft flesh of Li Hongbing's waist.

The guests watching the excitement outside the yard were all secretly dumbfounded. In the entire forest area, only Old Li's family had the financial resources to see this scene.

And those celebrities who came to watch have participated in many weddings.

I have seen overseas islands, five-star resorts, and high-end weddings.

Tigers and wolves can be used as a wedding team. This is indeed the first time I have seen this.

So the guests and celebrities watching the excitement took out their mobile phones to take pictures.

It's almost time to meet Zhike Dakui.

He took out a bunch of short firecrackers, lit the cigarette butts, and threw them into the sky.

Crackling!

"Welcome!"

The helpers who were waiting for news outside the yard heard the sound of firecrackers and quickly lit the long strings of firecrackers scattered on the ground.

boom!
In an instant, smoke filled the open space, and crackling firecrackers exploded. People watching the excitement covered their ears and looked for a safe place.

Li Hongbing walked out of the courtyard with Anna in his arms with a happy face, followed by a group of groomsmen, relatives and friends.

The eldest sister and the second sister were holding bamboo baskets, grabbing candies and red envelopes from them and scattering them with smiles on their faces.

The villagers and guests who were watching the excitement rushed to grab it, and even the celebrities put down their airs. No one here knew them anyway, so they felt happy to pick up a red envelope.

Li Hongbing turned over and mounted Heifeng, and the other groomsmen followed suit. Only Shawa happily mounted the Bull Demon King. His current weight was estimated to be only Black Feng, and only the Ox Demon King could carry him.

The melon-eating spectators around saw the silly boy riding a bull and burst into laughter. If they gave him a nine-tooth rake, he would be the reincarnation of Zhu Bajie.

at this time.

Whoa!
There were roars in the sky, like countless wings flapping together.

A group of red clouds covered the sky and flew from a distance.

"That is!"

Thousands of crows appeared in everyone's sight. Each crow held a red ribbon with its claws, and together they formed a red cloud.

What an old man.

People from other villages felt a little uncomfortable when they saw it.

Even if the old bird is holding on to the red ribbon, it is still an old bird.

After all, getting married is a festive event, and the old bird symbolizes disaster in the countryside. The presence of the old bird at a wedding has a somewhat ominous meaning.

The expressions of the villagers in Caogou Village were indifferent. These old birds were the birds of fortune. All the tourists who came to the village came for the old birds.

Moreover!
Uncle Hongbing is the reincarnation of the mountain god.

It doesn't matter if the old bird holds the red silk in its mouth.

But the guests and celebrities from the city almost jumped with excitement.

The sky is filled with red ribbons.

I have never seen such a shocking scene.

"So romantic!" Zhang Xiaopai, Xin Ling and other female celebrities looked at the sky with envy.The white-billed, goshawk, eagle owl, great white cockatoo, and budgerigar in the yard each grabbed a red ribbon and flew into the sky to join the crows.

Saw the groom mounting his horse.

Dakui ran up to the blowing team with a small bag in his arms and lifted up with both hands.

"Get up!"

A loud suona sounded, followed by other musical instruments.

The hundreds of birds approaching the phoenix correspond to the crows in the sky welcoming the bride, regardless of top or bottom.

"It's so handsome. It's the wedding of the century. Those big Internet celebrities have worked hard to make it popular. It's not as good as Brother Li who can just move his fingers and become a trending headline."

The camera crew led by Zhao Xiaoyong recorded this shocking scene with excitement.

As the suona sounded.

Eight people from Tiezhu carried the large sedan chair, and the villagers carrying gifts carried the gifts.

Jin Zi took the first step with a mighty and domineering step.

The whole wedding team started slowly and walked towards the village, followed by the crowd of people joining in the fun.

A flock of crows kept circling above the team's heads, and the red ribbon seemed to form a big happy word.

God seems to know that today is a good day, and he will not hesitate to shed light on it.

"Coming, coming." The children on guard at the village entrance saw the team's figure from a distance, and they quickly laughed and took out a bench covered with red cloth to block the entrance of the village tightly.

Jin Zi walked to the entrance of the village and saw that the road was blocked. He couldn't help but opened his mouth and roared, asking these idiots to get out of the way.

The children are not afraid either. There is nothing scary about Jin Zi. They can ride on Jin Zi’s back and run around even if they are given some food.

Tiedan smiled playfully and took out a greasy chicken leg from his pocket, "Jinzi, do you want to eat it? Lao Waiye's stewed vegetables."

Chicken legs!
Jin Zi focused his eyes on the chicken leg, drool dripped from the corner of his mouth, and his head nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.

Tie Dan threw the chicken leg into the air, and Jin Zi jumped up and swallowed it in one gulp. After landing, he narrowed his eyes and chewed carefully, for fear that he would eat it too fast and not have time to taste the fragrant braised chicken leg.

Woohoo!

Dahua stepped forward and glanced at Jin Zi with disdain, knowing that he couldn't count on this glutton.

In Caogou Village, children are not afraid of gold, nor are they afraid of two blacks, three grays, and little whites. They are only afraid of big flowers, because big flowers are most like Grandpa, even their eyes are similar.

But today is different. Tiedan and the others are holding Shang Fang's sword today. Not to mention Dahua, even Mr. Li has to be obedient.

"Dahua, my wife and grandma asked you not to meddle in your own business today."

Mrs. Grandma!

Dahua immediately thought of the old Buddha in Lao Li's family who listened to politics behind the curtain, and even his father did not dare to talk back when he got angry.

Can't afford to offend.

can afford to hide.

Dahua thought for a moment, and then hid obediently on the side of the road with her younger brothers and sisters.

Li Hongbing rode Heifeng forward and looked down at a circle of little kids with a serious face.

"What are you doing? Move the stool away quickly and be careful to beat you bastards."

Tiedan shrank his neck in fear, remembering what his wife and grandma said, he straightened his back and said with his neck stiffened.

"Master, my wife said, I planted this tree and drove this road. I want to pass by here and leave money to buy the road... No, leave a red envelope."

"..." Li Hongbing was frightened.

It seems that the mother doesn't want to make herself feel better. How can a biological mother torment her son like her mother's family?

Seeing that the grandpa was silent.

Zhike Dakui on the side took out a stack of red envelopes and accepted them. Tiedan immediately winked at the man next to him, who took out a red paper No. [-] Scholar hat.

"Master, if you take the lead, we will pass this test."

These little bastards still have a conscience.

There is no harm in eating flour or touching the ashes at the bottom of the pot.

Li Hongbing took the No. [-] Scholar's hat and put it directly on his head, not to mention that he did quite well.

"Get out!" Tiedan waved his arm and the other children moved stools to make way.

The wedding team continues to move forward.

Anna hid in Li Hongbing's arms and snickered, as if she knew Tiedan's tricks.

Sudden.

A gust of wind blows.

Just in time to blow off the paper hat on Li Hongbing's head, Li Hongbing didn't take it seriously at first and just dropped it, but Brother Dalang beside him exclaimed.

"Brother, what is that on your head?"

Something on your head?
Nothing.

Li Hongbing subconsciously reached out to touch his head, only to feel that his hair was pricking his hands, and it felt like it was covered with dense thorns.

I grabbed one hard and felt a pain in my scalp.

Look clearly at the spiked ball in your hand.

Li Hongbing was furious and turned around to look for the iron egg and the mangy man in the crowd.

Damn stuff.

Sticking cow lice in your hat is a lack of virtue.

Cattle lice are also called cockleburs in forest areas. Because they have hook-like barbs on the surface, they often stick to cattle and sheep. Like lice, they are difficult to remove, hence the name "cattle lice".

When Li Hongbing was a child, he often picked them for fun with his friends. You would throw them at me and I would throw them at you, especially girls. If he threw them into their hair, the children would burst into laughter. When they pulled them off, they would tear out all the hair. Therefore, there are also children who are beaten up by their parents.

In the past, when rural brides got married, it was inevitable to have "bridal chamber troubles".

The groom and the bride are of course the protagonists of people's "provoking".

To tease a newlywed couple, the commonly used "weapons" at that time were "pot ash" and "cow louse". "Pot ash" was mainly used on the groom, while "cow louse" was used specifically to deal with the bride.

Despite all the calculations, I still got tricked.

Unexpectedly, these bastards would use the same tricks they used against the bride on themselves.

Failed!
Li Hongbing's hair was covered with cockleburs and he couldn't pull them out. The pricks made his scalp painful and itchy.

This thing can only be picked slowly, otherwise it will become more and more confusing.

Seven or eight people were scratching at Li Hongbing's head, but none of them could be cleared out. Instead, they got tighter and tighter.

Li Hongbing rescued his head from the clutches and said angrily.

"Okay, I finally figured it out. You guys just wanted to laugh at me."

Hey!

The groomsmen headed by Brother Dalang smiled playfully.

"Stop packing and leave quickly. The time is almost up."

Therefore, Li Hongbing tilted his mouth and held a head of yellow cow lice. From a distance, he looked like a Buddha statue in a temple.

The groomsmen, relatives and friends who came together to receive the bride were all smiling from ear to ear.

You wait.

Don't get married if you have the right to do so. If you don't take revenge, you are not a villain.

After that, no one opened their eyes and stopped halfway to ask for red envelopes.

……

(End of this chapter)