After all, Huaxi Village is just a small mountain village. Even if there is a happy event, it is impossible to prepare for it for a year and a half like those wealthy families.
However, when weddings are held among the people, "a sparrow may be small but has all its five internal organs in place". Although all the steps are kept simple, the necessary ones cannot be omitted.
What's more, Su Guangfu and Yang really loved their eldest daughter, Su Qingluan, and because of the wrong relationship, the eldest daughter changed from a noble girl of a wealthy family to a village girl in the mountains. Although Su Qingluan said many things, This time, this kind of life was more suitable for her than the boring life in those deep houses and compounds, but Yang and Su Guangfu still felt very guilty.
Therefore, I naturally feel that I cannot be careless about this "big life event" of my eldest daughter. So let alone Yang, the mother-in-law, even Su Guangfu worries about Su Qingluan's various furniture every day. From the design drawings to the construction, he takes care of it bit by bit, lest he buys defective items from outside. It may not be in line with your daughter’s taste.
Preparing for a wedding is like this. The more careful the preparation, the longer it takes.
Su Qingluan knew that this was not a real marriage, so she thought it would be fine if it was just about the same meaning. However, her parents were more serious than the other, and they wished they could bring over the clothes woven by the fairies in the sky and the large carved bed used in the inner courtyard of the palace. She took it as a dowry.
Before people get married in this era, they need to find a matchmaker first, and then go to a temple or ask a Feng Shui master to calculate whether the birth dates of the two parties are compatible, and then make a big deal.
In fact, relatively few people know these steps, and before the zodiac signs are combined, the marriage may fall through at any time - after all, according to the level of superstition among people in this era, the marriage falls apart because of the incompatibility of the zodiac signs every year. All.
What's more, this can also be regarded as a buffer opportunity for both parties to examine each other secretly. If they regret it temporarily, they can use "incompatibility" to deal with it. Face will not be lost, and the face of both families can be saved, so Usually before this step, the two families will do it "secretly" without making too much publicity.
But the next step of "giving gifts" is not that simple. At this step, the man gives the woman a betrothal gift. For more elaborate ones, a special band will be asked to play and play around the venue, and the entire procession of giving gifts will be handed over to the elders from all over the country. It only counts if everyone sees it.
Of course, Su Qingluan had already discussed with Mu Xingzhi in advance to "keep everything simple", because thinking about that scene, she felt like her toes were on the ground.
However, no matter how simple we try, we still have to follow the procedures that need to be followed. It would take more than a quarter of an hour to go from Su's house to Mu Xing's house even if one person traveled lightly. Therefore, even if the "courtesy" team adopted the plan of "the shortest line segment between two points" and went directly there, it would still take more than a quarter of an hour. It's been more than two quarters of an hour, and there are many people coming to watch the excitement.
After all, this team came from Mu Xingzhi's yard, and everyone was guessing whose daughter Mr. Mu was going to marry.
When the "ceremony" team filed into the Su family's courtyard, the news that "Mr. Mu is going to marry the eldest daughter of the Su Carpenter family" was like having shapeless wings, instantly spreading throughout Huaxi Village, even Lefeng Everyone in the town who had some friendship with the Su family had vaguely heard that the eldest daughter of the Su family had made a promise and was getting married.
Originally, Su Qingluan wanted to keep everything simple. One of the very important reasons was that she didn't want to face a series of gossips about her seven aunts and eight aunts. She didn't expect that what was supposed to come would still come, and she couldn't hide from it.
"Is it the man in the wheelchair?" Liu Yunniang grabbed Su Qingluan's hands, her eyes shining like searchlights, "You said it was nothing before, but now we are getting married, what did I say?"
Su Qingluan's mouth twitched: Actually, half a month ago, she didn't expect that she would marry Mu Xingzhi. It's a pity that no one would believe such nonsense even if she said it. After all, in the eyes of others, he always ran to Mu Xingzhi's side, and there was even a talkative woman in Huaxi Village because of this incident.
However, Su Qingluan never took this matter to heart. Later, because Su Qingluan led the villagers to live a better life through "Su Ji", everyone's life became better, so they all missed Su Qingluan. It's good, so no one will talk behind your back.
Even as Su Qingluan's "prestige" in the village increased, some people would take the initiative to defend him when he said bad things.
It's true that some people complained bitterly that the villagers were "the losers of the Su family", but they were told back, "When the losers of the Su family can have good food, clothing, and warmth, you can only make your stomach explode with anger."
But now that the two families have passed the big post and paid the betrothal gift, even if they have passed the Ming Road, no matter how hard Su Qingluan runs to Mu Xing's house, no one will pay more attention to it.
After all, although there was no formal worship of heaven and earth, in everyone's mind, Su Qingluan was already regarded as another family's daughter-in-law, and running to other people's houses was just "returning to her husband's house", which was a normal thing.
Su Qingluan naturally dislikes the mainstream value of "women have no autonomy".
But there was nothing she could do about it if she didn't like it. She couldn't change anything about this view except getting angry.
Now she can only ensure that she follows her heart in whatever she does.
So looking at Liu Yunniang's teasing expression across from her, she didn't explain much.
Compared to Liu Yunniang's gossip, other neighbors were very happy. After all, Mu Xingzhi was considered a "very knowledgeable person" in the eyes of quite a few old people in the town because of his competition with Master Zhou in Hongfu Tower.
Therefore, when shopkeeper Liang, Mr. Xu and even Xu Yuanwei knew about this, everyone felt that although Mu Xingzhi was a little weaker, he was better because he was "gentle and honest", and he had fame, and Su Qingluan could do it. The business makes money, and if the two of them have two sons and raise them well, they might be able to gain fame and become officials.
Su Qingluan couldn't help but cover her face and run away after hearing everyone's "imaginations about the future".
Can't stand it, can't stand it.
People around him who heard about this marriage generally had two reactions: either they regarded it as gossip and were enthusiastic, or they expressed their sincere blessings for Su Qingluan's happiness.
With all this bustle and bustle, months passed in the blink of an eye, and it was now July, the hottest time of the year. Su Qingluan is the type who can withstand cold but bitter summer, especially during the hottest month or two of the year. He wishes he could turn into a motionless rice bug in the sky, lying in the yard except for eating. There was no movement on the bamboo couch inside.
But the reality is that she has to go to work in Su Ji during the day, and when she comes back she has to prepare her own dowry - sewing her wedding dress.
Su Qingluan's embroidery was terrible, and now Su Xueyan could sew anything better than her sister. Su Xuanhe even once had a whim to learn embroidery, and the final product was actually more finished than Su Qingluan's sister - although it was said that It's not very beautiful, but compared to Su Qingluan's unknown object that you can't tell what it is, it's pretty good.
But now, she actually had to sew a wedding dress, and Su Qingluan felt that God was going to kill her.
