Having seen enough excitement, Su Qingluan also put her head back slightly - after all, it would be a bit outrageous for others to find out that she had been watching the workers' jokes below.
However, Su Qingluan's intuition was that even if she wanted to treat this matter as if she hadn't seen it, she didn't know, according to Sister-in-law Zheng's character of never giving up until she took advantage, being unreasonable and cunning, even if others had already turned this matter over. Pian'er had settled the matter, but she had "suffered a big loss" this time, so she would never let it go.
However, Su Qingluan is still busy with things at hand. She stopped her gossiping thoughts and wrote hard for a long time.
After she had written six or seven pages, her wrists were a little sore, and her back and neck had become a little stiff, she finally put down the last stroke.
Therefore, she concentrated on maintaining one posture for a long time. When Su Qingluan suddenly came back to her senses, she realized that her whole body had become stiff, and even her legs were starting to feel numb.
Looking up at the sun outside, it was already noon.
"It's been so long without realizing it?" Su Qingluan muttered in surprise, carefully stretched her stiff body, and planned to go downstairs to the door to get some fresh air.
After getting up and carefully hammering her numb thighs and stamping her feet, Su Qingluan locked her door and came to the corridor on the second floor of the shop.
Smiling and nodding with the person in charge of sweeping the house, Su Qingluan came to a position near the main entrance and looked at the pedestrians coming and going and the occasional fleet of horse-drawn carriages and donkey carts passing by.
In fact, in addition to horse carts, donkey carts, mule carts, and in rare cases, sheep carts.
However, these common sheep are not particularly large sheep. Their size is usually smaller than livestock such as cattle, horses, and donkeys. Considering that mutton is one of the main sources of meat in this era, Su Qingluan I can’t help but feel a little emotional. These sheep are used as hard labor animals when they are alive, and they end up in people’s stomachs when they die. It’s really... so delicious!
Thinking of this, tears of dissatisfaction almost flowed from his mouth. Su Qingluan couldn't help but think about whether to get some mutton to eat at night.
At this moment, the originally busy but relatively calm flow of people became noisy. They looked at each other and then pulled each other: "Hey, let's give way."
"Yes, it's a big day, let's make it convenient for others."
"That's right, we don't care if it's more or less."
Pedestrians discussed carefully and slowly moved away from both sides of the road. Almost at the same time, Su Qingluan heard the sound of suonas and the faint sound of gongs and drums coming from far and near.
There is a saying that "when the suona sounds, life or death is difficult to determine." Although it is a joke, it also illustrates the penetrating sound of the suona. In comparison, percussion instruments such as gongs and drums are much inferior.
At first, Su Qingluan couldn't tell whether the sound of the suona was joyful or mournful - after all, to her ears, the birds paying homage to the phoenix was quite festive, but for the first time she asked, "This song is quite festive. What is it called?" " was the only time I was almost beaten.
Later she found out that this piece of music was played at funerals when a senior citizen passed away in the family. Although it is called "happy and mourning", it is not really a happy event after all, so the word "celebrating" is not so appropriate.
However, since time travel, Su Qingluan has seen dozens of weddings, funerals, and funeral processions in the village or county. Now she can more or less tell which kind they are. Team.
Even though the procession wasn't in front of us yet, looking at the way people on both sides stretched their necks to look while discussing, they knew it was a procession to send off a bride. On the contrary, if it is a funeral procession, although everyone will still give way in a "humane manner" at this time, some people with a glass heart can't help but curse in a low voice, "What bad luck", and even quickly turn their faces to the city walls or vendors on both sides. , pretend not to see it.
Sure enough, after about another stick of incense, the sound of the suona got closer and closer, and Su Qingluan saw a dazzling red slowly moving towards his door.
The reason why it is "slow" is that this is a small county, and even the most prosperous road sections are not very spacious, so they can only accommodate each other slowly;
Secondly, there are usually a lot of people in the procession for sending off a bride, and the procession can be tens of meters long. If there are too many people, if you want to avoid being dragged down, you have to wait in front;
The third point is the most fundamental point. Except for the bridegroom official or the person sending the bride off, the procession basically walks on two legs. Not only that, they also have to carry various dowries on their hands, or they also have to carry a sedan chair and sit inside. With the bride in mind, "moving forward with a heavy burden" cannot be done too quickly.
Su Qingluan watched the person clearing the way pass first, then the band playing wind instruments, and then two more people carrying two...couldn't see clearly, but they seemed to be two birds. The bodies of the two birds It is larger than a domestic duck, but it is wrapped in red silk and tied with a knot, so it is not clear what kind of bird it is. However, the bird is still struggling slightly, so it is probably still alive.
"Is it common to eat birds when getting married here?" After muttering this, Su Qingluan vaguely remembered that there seemed to be a poem describing love as strong as gold, called "I wish to be a winged bird in the sky." It is estimated that these two are " Birds of a feather".
At this time, Su Qingluan saw the eight-carrying sedan that the bride was sitting in - but there were four people carrying the sedan, two at the front and two at the front. The sedan was also bumping up and down slightly with the very rhythmic footsteps of the four people. The shaking made Su Qingluan feel that the bride, whose vestibular system was a little weak, might vomit when she sat down.
At this time, Su Qingluan's eyes paused - looking at the man riding next to the sedan.
This man looked familiar, but because he did not wear the red flower that marked the bridegroom's official status on his chest, and he was not wearing wedding clothes, he was obviously not the groom's official. From this look, he must be the bridegroom's family.
Thinking like this, the man seemed to notice Su Qingluan's gaze, and turned to look at Su Qingluan. Then he raised a big smile, made a hand-over salute to Su Qingluan, and faced her on horseback. He bent slightly.
Su Qingluan then remembered - wasn't this the young man who hurried to find his father to repair the screen just before closing time?
So, this is his sister's farewell party? Only then did Su Qingluan suddenly remember: It had been three days since that day, and because of her menstruation and being worried about recruiting a younger brother, she had already forgotten about it in Java.
Looking at the young man's bright smile, Su Qingluan understood without asking that his father must have repaired the screen to everyone's satisfaction. Thinking of this, Su Qingluan decided to reward his father by cooking some of his favorite dishes tonight.
While I was thinking about this matter, I heard the voice of Sister-in-law Zheng singing three sighs from behind: "Shopkeeper Su, Shopkeeper Su, I have finally found you, you have to make the decision for me!"
Su Qingluan's heart moved: Sure enough, he is here.
