"Let me tell you, our dear baby is better." Wu Guixiang said with a nonchalant expression, "Let me think about it, how do you eat this pheasant?"
Li Xiulian hurriedly said: "This chicken must be stewed to nourish the body."
Zhang Xinlan shook her head and said: "This kind of pheasant meat from the mountains is very chewy. It is better to eat it when stewed, and it is not as delicious as burning it."
Su Qingyun nodded in agreement. When it came to food, her second aunt had more say.
"Then let's burn it and eat it." Wu Guixiang made the final decision.
She asked Su Congwu to get rid of the chicken, and after looking at the beautiful feathers on the pheasant, Wu Guixiang said, "These feathers are quite pretty, my dear, do you want to keep them for you to make some shuttlecocks for you to play with?"
"Yes!" Su Qingyun replied quickly. There was a lack of entertainment options, and shuttlecock playing was one of them. The shuttlecock made of these feathers must be very beautiful.
After Su Congwu scalded the chicken feathers with hot water, Wu Guixiang took out two copper coins from the bottom of the box, wrapped them in thick rags, and sewed them carefully stitch by stitch, and a small and beautiful shuttlecock was ready. .
It is rare to see this kind of handmade shuttlecock in later generations. Su Qingyun couldn't put it down when she held it in her hand. Before eating, she and Wen Sisi were playing in the yard.
After a while, the two of them were exhausted and sweating profusely. Listening to the voices calling them to eat, the two girls entered the back room.
Dinner is basically the leftovers from lunch. Everyone knows that the main dishes will be at tomorrow's wedding banquet.
Because there were many things going on the next day, the Su family all went to bed early. Wen Sisi and Su Congjun were not married yet and could not sleep together, so she slept with Su Qingyun.
Li Xiulian was afraid that they would be cold, so she covered them with a quilt. The two girls were lying on the quilt, not sleepy. Su Qingyun was because it was too early, and Wen Sisi was nervous because she realized later that she was getting married tomorrow. The feeling came suddenly.
"Sister Sisi, we are getting married tomorrow. How do you feel now?" Su Qingyun asked curiously. She had never been in love, let alone the feeling of marriage. These were strange and distant to her.
Wen Si thought for a moment and said, "I feel nervous, expectant, and a little scared."
"Fear?"
"Because I think that after tomorrow, I will have other identities." Wen Sisi covered half of her face, "After tomorrow, I will no longer be just the daughter of the Wen family, I will still be the wife of Brother Congjun, and the granddaughter-in-law of the Su family , these all make me a little scared, if you get married in the future, you will also feel this way."
"But I know that I won't regret it, because brother Congjun is very good to me, and you are also very good to me." Wen Sisi said firmly. It was these things that made her feel that she would not marry the wrong person.
"That's great." Su Qingyun sighed.
Wen Sisi turned sideways to face her and teased, "What? You already have someone you like?"
"I don't." Su Qingyun lazily retorted, "I just see others being happy, and I feel happy myself."
"Yes, there will be such a day." Wen Sisi said firmly.
The two girls chatted and fell asleep.
The second day, November 15th, is a good and auspicious day for getting married.
Early in the morning, at just five o'clock, the family began to get busy. The women dressed the bride, cleaned up and down, and prepared the dishes for the noon wedding banquet.
The pot in the kitchen was not big enough to keep busy, so the men built a temporary stove in a corner of the yard and set it up with bricks. They then borrowed a large pot from the commune canteen before the brigade and washed it clean before they could start cooking.
In the room, Su Qingyun looked at Wen Sisi, who was wearing a new red dress and looked nervous and shy, and couldn't move her eyes away. "Now I understand why they say the bride is the most beautiful."
Wen Sisi smiled, "You are the only one with a sweet mouth."
Su Qingyun looked her up and down to see if there was anything wrong. Wen Sisi's face was very fair, and she had applied it specially today to make it even fairer. Her delicate eyebrows were curved, and there was nothing wrong with her, except...
"Sister Sisi, why don't you paint your lips a little red? That will definitely make you look better."
"Lips?" Wen Sisi touched her lips, "Do you have any red paper at home? Let me sip it."
"No need for that, just wait." Su Qingyun ran to her parents' room. She opened the drawer of the bedside cabinet, took out a small iron box, and ran to her mother to tell her.
Su Qingyun ran back to her eldest brother's room and showed Wen Sisi the iron box in her hand. The white box had an ancient lady pattern printed on it, which looked simple and delicate.
"What is this?" Wen Sisi asked curiously, it looks a bit like cream.
"My dad bought my mom the lip balm. The color is really nice." Su Qingyun said.
Su Aimin brought this to Qin Ying from the provincial capital last time. Although in this rural area, no one put on makeup or these things, but he thought other women had it, and his wife should also have it. After buying it, Qin Ying tried the color at home and never went out wearing it.
Su Qingyun unscrewed the lid and saw bright red grease. She stretched out a finger and rubbed it a little, then moved it to Wen Sisi's lips to smear the red grease on it.
"Sister Sisi, take a sip."
Wen Sisi pursed her lips as she was told, and the red lipstick spread out. The bright color made her eyebrows more attractive, and her slightly shy face was as bright as a peach and plum, which was really moving.
"It's so beautiful." Su Qingyun nodded with satisfaction.
"Okay, please stop praising me. I'll be embarrassed if you praise me any more." Wen Sisi smiled.
"Then Sister Sisi, just wait for your groom to come and greet you." Su Qingyun said with a smile.
While the two were talking, there was a noise outside. It was the Wen family's parents who arrived on the earliest train.
Li Xiulian hurriedly welcomed the people in, with a smile on her face, "Oh, Qin family, you are really early, sit down quickly."
Su Congjun, who was also wearing new clothes, took the things from Father Wen and Mother Wen. Today he was wearing a navy blue formal jacket, a white shirt underneath, and black pants underneath. He looked in high spirits, with joy on his face. .
Wen Kaifu smiled and said: "Gongjun is really energetic today."
Su Congjun scratched his head in embarrassment.
Mother Wen asked hurriedly: "Where is Sisi? Where is she?"
Li Xiulian pointed to Su Congjun's room, "It's in Congjun's room. Qingyun is with him. You go and have a look."
"Master, Master, I will take you there." Su Congjun volunteered.
"Hey, what are you going to do?" Li Xiulian quickly grabbed Su Congjun with quick eyes and hands, "I've told you several times that you can't see the bride before the auspicious time!"
"I forgot." Su Congjun indeed forgot about this incident.
"Let's go and see for ourselves."
Father Wen and Mother Wen walked into Su Congjun's room. They looked at the red color, the bright red quilt, the red words "happy" on the wall, and the red thermos on the floor. They nodded in their hearts. Although the Su family is a rural family, But he also meant it carefully and did not treat their daughter badly.
Su Qingyun immediately greeted, "Uncle, aunt, hello, come and sit down."
"Mom and Dad, are you here so early?" Wen Sisi turned around and said in surprise.
When Mother Wen saw her daughter who was shyly getting married in red, she burst into tears immediately after not sleeping all night.
"Sisi."
"Mom, don't cry." As soon as Wen Sisi saw her mother crying, she immediately panicked, and there were tears in her eyes that she couldn't shed.
Su Qingyun was anxious, "Sister Sisi, you can't cry, your makeup will be all gone after a while."
Wen Kaifu frowned, "It's my daughter's big day, why are you crying?"
"I'm so happy." Mother Wen wiped her face and touched her daughter's face, "Don't cry, neither of us will cry. Today is your big day, so you have to get married happily. "
In addition to happiness, her eyes were full of reluctance. The feeling of marrying a wife was never the same as marrying a daughter.
Afraid of getting more emotional standing here, Father Wen and Mother Wen went out after seeing their daughter and asked the Su family if there was anything they needed help with.
"No, you two just rest. There are so many people here." Li Xiulian said with a smile.
People from the Su family are not the only ones who are busy today. Getting married is now a big event in the village, and acquaintances have come to help. The tables, chairs, bowls and chopsticks for the noon wedding banquet were all borrowed from several companies. , otherwise it is simply not enough.
Seeing that the sun was already rising, Wu Guixiang asked Su Congwu to set up a table in the middle of the yard, and put the purchased candies, melon seeds, peanuts and other dried fruit snacks on the table for the guests who were waiting to arrive.
It didn't take long for the villagers to step into the Su family's courtyard one after another. Nowadays, they don't want to give any favors to the wedding banquet. Most of them bring some vegetables and some meat for the grander party, which can be regarded as adding to the wedding banquet at noon. Vegetables, and some with sweets, take whatever you have at home.
Everyone sat in the yard eating melon seeds and chatting.
"The Su family's happy events really come one after another."
"Who says it's not the case? You see, the He family from Changxiu Village came to make trouble before. It's only been a while since people who joined the army have gone straight to a girl from the city to get married. This is no better than that girl."
"Hey, I'm talking about you, why are you mentioning that girl on someone else's happy day? Isn't this intentional to cause trouble?"
"Oh, yes, yes, I shouldn't have said this. Do you think those sitting there are the other girl's parents?"
"It seems, I heard that the bride's father is a master in the army and an old worker in a steel factory."
"Isn't the man who joins the army also works in a steel factory? There are only two of the Su family working in the city, and they also have an in-law in the city. They are really lucky."
"What's the point? If you ask me, it's the little girl from the Su family who can do it. There are so many workers in the city, and you've seen a few like Qingyun who can be published in newspapers and praised by the whole province."
"That's right, I heard Wu Guixiang say a few days ago that Qingyun had received another letter of praise from the province, and he was so proud."
"The Su family has really never produced any bad guys. Wu Guixiang's three sons are also very good players. The family's good fortune is yet to come."
"Okay, let's stop talking. The banquet is about to start. I wonder how the Su family's wedding banquet will be like?"
The villagers looked at the smoking steamer in the yard, and the air was filled with the enticing fragrance, making everyone salivate.
