Yoshida Mii

Chapter 226 Li Shi's Wedding

The breakfast was made by Aunt Qiuxia. She cooked more than a dozen poached eggs in sugar water. Two of them were placed in a bowl, and they came in with a large wooden tray. Each of them shared a bowl of steaming brown sugar eggs, and urged happily: "Eat quickly, Master Yan should be here in a while!"

"Don't be in such a hurry, it's not that early..." Li Shi smiled embarrassedly.

After eating the eggs in sugar water, and just as they cleared away the bowls and chopsticks, there were people outside to congratulate them. They were all the proprietresses around the Baoji shop, and some stall owners that Li had known when setting up stalls on the street. Gathered in the shop talking and laughing, eating peanuts with wedding candy, congratulating Mrs. Li on her good day.

After chatting for a while, everyone heard the sound of firecrackers starting to sound from far to near in the street. They clapped their hands and laughed, "Here we are, it must be here!" They all stood up and looked at the door.

Dong Bao and Zhang Xiuyu stood at the front of the crowd. From a distance, they could see Mr. Yan tall and straight, full of energy, dressed in a blue silk robe, with a big red flower on his chest, and a collar. The sedan chair and a few people walked towards this side, and the drum team followed behind the sedan chair, playing and beating all the way, it was festive and lively.

Surrounded by all the female relatives, Mrs. Li walked to the door, blushing, not daring to look up at Mr. Yan.

Master Yan's always serious face was full of smiles, and his cheeks were slightly red. Looking at Mrs. Li who had already walked to the door, he made a rare joke in front of everyone, bent down and made a gesture of invitation, and said with a smile: "Ma'am, please get on the sedan chair."

There was another burst of laughter from the crowd, watching as Li blushed, lowered his head and sat on the sedan chair with a smile.Liang Zi hurriedly shouted loudly: "The bride is on the sedan chair!"

The bearers shook the sedan chair on their shoulders meaningfully, and Li Hongqin ran over with a smile and stuffed a red envelope into each of the bearers. The child's family will give red envelopes to the bearers in order to be safe on the road.

Liang Zi was wearing a brand-new stone-blue dress, and held a heavy cloth bag in his arms. As soon as Li Shi got into the sedan chair, he grabbed a handful from the cloth bag and threw them at the gathering place of the crowd.

The crowd suddenly panicked, adults and children all rushed to pick up the scattered things on the ground with smiles on their faces. Many people who picked up copper coins shouted happily: "I found the money!"

There is such a custom in Anzhou area when they get married. They mix copper coins, peanuts and wedding candies together, and sprinkle them on the way to welcome the bride back home. The more people vying for it, it means that the newlyweds will have more festive days in the future. The happier you are.

Of course, most people can only sprinkle peanuts and wedding candies, and there are not many people who can afford to sprinkle copper coins, but even so, there are many people who rob them. After all, wedding candies and peanuts are not snacks that can be eaten every day. , when I was in Tagouji, Quanzi liked to watch the fun and grab this, and I would give it to Dongbao to eat together when I came back.

Dong Bao pondered, if any family had a wedding, no one would snatch copper coins and peanut wedding candies, which shows how poor the family's character is...

Liang Zi was also very happy as the person who sprinkled the candies. The handsome young man sprinkled the candies in places where there were many children. He watched the adults and children scrambling for a ball, beaming with joy. Accompanied by the sound of festive firecrackers, everyone was also happy.

It's just that Dongbao is a little regretful that Mrs. Li didn't marry Lord Yan in a red wedding dress and a red hijab like she saw on TV.In fact, she didn’t know until ancient times that, except for rich families who pay attention to getting married, peasant families don’t pay attention to this. Some people wear red hijab, and some don’t. The new daughter-in-law wears a newly made red cotton jacket and red cotton trousers There are not a few people who sit on the cart and are taken back to the husband's house by the groom.A second marriage like Li's wants to be low-key and unassuming, let alone pay attention to this aspect.

Dong Bao, followed by Li Hongqin and Aunt Qiuxia, locked the door of the shop after Mrs. Li got into the sedan chair, and followed the welcoming procession.Mr. Yan is not a showy person either. Most people would walk around the streets of the town two or three times to get married. Mr. Yan only walked around once before leading the team into the house.

Mrs. Yan's house was even more lively, two tables were set up at the door, Mrs. Liu sat in front of the table with a smile and was in charge of registering the gift list, Mrs. Liu was grinding ink, and Lin Shi was sitting beside her to count the gifts.

"Hello, Mrs. Liu, and hello, Aunt Liu!" Dong Bao greeted Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Liu with a smile, then looked at Lin Shi, and asked with a smile, "Brother Dashi, when did you come?"

Lin Shi smiled and said: "I came here early in the morning, Master asked me to come early to help support." Now it is the wheat harvest season, Lin Shi and Quan Zi are both on vacation, Lin Shi is wearing a clean and brand-new dark-patterned robe with a blue background. Wearing a black belt, the boy was tall and straight, with a warm smile on his wheat-colored face, and he was extremely handsome in the bright golden morning sun.

Dong Bao looked at Lin Shi, the corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously, and he felt more and more wise and decisive that he had decided on such a good boy early.

The courtyard was full of voices, and it was full of guests who came to congratulate her, most of whom Dong Bao didn't recognize, Li's sedan chair was still parked in the courtyard, and Master Yan was in the middle of greeting the guests.The prepared table is filled with teacups with wedding candy, peanuts and melon seeds for the guests to use, and helpers are constantly carrying large kettles to add water to the teacups.

Dong Bao saw many guests looking at the northeast corner of the courtyard. On the table made of several long chopping boards, rows of bowls and plates were filled with ready-made dishes, ready to be served as soon as the table started. A large steamer taller than Dongbao was erected on the stage, steaming, and the aroma of steamed buns and meat mixed together and wafted into the yard.A few guests gathered together and sighed: "Teacher Qu is invited! It's no surprise that Teacher Qu has a wedding banquet! It's been several years since I saw him come out to hold a wedding banquet for someone. Lord Yan's face is just different!"

In Anzhou, the cook who cooks the wedding banquet is called the teacher, and sometimes the master who repairs things is also called the teacher. It is not a "teacher" in the modern sense, but a slightly respectful title for the craftsman.

"Sister Dongbao!" Xiaoxu saw Dongbao and rushed over immediately.

Dong Bao caught him with a smile, and asked Lin Shi in a low voice, "Why are there so many people here?" She remembered that Mrs. Li and Mr. Yan had combined, and only fifty or sixty people were invited, and most of them were Yan. The guests on the lord's side, apart from Li Changfeng and Li Hongqin's relatives, the rest on Li's side are friends from the same village as Aunt Qiuxia. The total number is only twelve or three people. Looking at the situation in the yard, there are 100 people. There are many people, and there are still many people at the door carrying gifts waiting to enter the door to congratulate.

"They are all businessmen in the town." Lin Shi whispered, "I heard that Master Yan got married and came here uninvited. come down."

Dong Bao nodded and asked, "What did Lord Yan say?"

Lin Shi smiled and said: "People are coming, and gifts are being given. You can't drive people out on a good day. Mr. Yan means that we should be more careful. If the gift is not expensive, we will accept it. If it is expensive, we will accept it." Let’s leave it alone for another registration, and he will think of a way later. Those people come and say they want a wedding drink and leave, but they can’t really let people drink a glass of wine and leave, and they have to arrange a table for a banquet. Brother Liang Zi went to the town I went to buy vegetables, but the teacher said that there are too many people here, and there are not enough dishes prepared."

"Will it be too late?" Xiao Xu, who was obediently nestling in Dong Bao's arms and listening to the two of them, was a little worried. Vegetarian dishes are easy to talk about, but meat dishes are troublesome. They were all cooked yesterday, and it may be too late to make them now.

Lin Shi nodded, patted Xiaoxu's head, and said with a smile: "It's too late, today I brought a hundred catties of tofu to my father, which is enough to make a lot of dishes. The teacher also said that the meat made yesterday There are a lot of dishes, and the plates are affordable, and some meat dishes are enough for each plate."

Xiao Xu nodded like a grown-up, with a look of relief on his face, "Well, then I can rest assured!"

Those words made everyone around laugh, Master Liu pinched Xiao Xu's chubby face and jokingly said, "I'm worried about my son getting married!"

Mrs. Liu, who was rubbing ink next to her, laughed angrily, stretched out her hand and slapped Mrs. Liu, and scolded with a smile: "You are not serious, what are you talking about in front of the children!"

This is also one of the reasons why Dongbao likes Liu Fuzi. If you don't say it, others will never see it. He loves to joke and play with children. Liu Fuzi, who has no airs, used to be a Jinshi, and his speech is easy to understand. He has never been in front of others. Dropping the book bag to show off, thinking back to her talented father, but he often talked about him, for fear that others would not know that he was a scholar.

Master Liu didn't take his wife's scolding seriously, and smiled at the children: "Don't surround me, I'm going to worship soon, you hurry up and watch the fun! Dashi, you too!"

"Hey!" Lin Shi responded with a smile, and dragged Dong Bao and Xiao Xu to the yard.

The place in the middle of the courtyard has been cleaned up, because Mr. Yan’s parents have both passed away, and the yellow paper with the names of the two old people is placed on the main seat, and the master of ceremonies who presides over the wedding is a man in a green cloth robe. The old man with the white beard was shouting at the moment: "The auspicious time has come, invite newcomers!"

"Sister Dongbao, stand here!" Quanzi, who had already grabbed a good seat, saw them and waved to them with a smile.

After a few people passed by, Dong Bao had a good look at the master of ceremonies, and looked unfamiliar, but she recognized Mrs. Chen standing behind the master of ceremonies, "Who is this person?" Dong Bao asked.

Lin Shi whispered: "It's the dean of the academy, he's getting old, and he rarely comes out, and we rarely see him. I didn't expect Master Yan to invite him to be the emcee."

While speaking, Mr. Yan took a red silk that was gathered into a big flower, handed one end of it into the sedan chair, pulled the other end and invited Mrs. Li out of the sedan chair, and walked to the open space, facing Mr. Yan Parent's yellow watch card slot.

Immediately after Mrs. Li came out, someone set off a string of firecrackers, and many young people who loved to play and play loudly shouted, "The bride is so beautiful!"

"We want to drink the wine toasted by the bride!"

Li Shi didn't expect to be teased when she came out, and immediately blushed, lowered her head and clutched the red silk cloth in her hand, not even daring to lift her head, followed Lord Yan, and walked to the memorial tablet.

(End of this chapter)