After the proposal of marriage and the payment of betrothal gifts, all the other helpers went back.
Knowing that Zhou Yang, Fan Debiao and others had not eaten yet after working so hard, Zhou Ping and Tana immediately took them to the cafeteria.
The mine's canteen is different from ordinary factories and enterprises. Under normal circumstances, it will be open until after ten o'clock in the evening.
After arriving at the cafeteria, Tana immediately asked the master chef inside and asked him to quickly make a few bowls of noodles, and then cut a large plate of beef.
Several people who had been hungry all afternoon were not polite and ate up a plate of beef without waiting for a note.
During the meal, Zhou Yang asked his eldest brother and sister-in-law to figure out who they would call for the wedding, and then prepare the banquet.
On this matter, the eldest brother Zhou Ping and his sister-in-law Tana had surprisingly unanimous opinions, that is, just hold one on a small scale.
In their words, everyone has known about their relationship in the past few years anyway, so there is no need to make a big fuss about it.
In addition, the mine has just experienced an earthquake and a mine accident, so it is not suitable for large-scale weddings.
For this reason, they pulled out an invitation list on the spot, which added up to less than twenty people.
Zhou Yang was actually not happy about this!
According to his idea, it would be best to invite all the relatives and friends of his brother and sister-in-law to witness their wedding and send blessings to them.
This is not just for fun, but more importantly to compensate my sister-in-law!
In fact, Zhou Yang could imagine that his sister-in-law must have been under a lot of pressure and lost a lot of face in the past few years.
Zhou Yang wanted to earn back face for his sister-in-law, whether it was a betrothal gift to 666 or a grand wedding.
Only in this way, the brother will feel less guilty, the sister-in-law will feel more comfortable, and the foundation of their marriage will be stronger and more reliable.
But unfortunately, his idea was rejected by his eldest brother and sister-in-law.
They are not the kind of people who are flamboyant. They feel very satisfied to be together, and everyone knows that they don't want to make trouble.
Seeing how insistent they were, Zhou Yang could only arrange it according to their wishes!
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In the blink of an eye, two days passed!
December 4th is the second day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, so it’s a good time to get married!
Early in the morning, Zhou Yang, Fan Debiao and others got up.
The two of them didn't have time to have breakfast, so they rushed to the small auditorium and called the eldest brother and several of his friends back to the wedding room.
The eldest brother has been living in the small hall with his coworkers for the past two days and has not returned to the new house. In his words, he will move into the new house with his sister-in-law.
After entering the house, everyone first lit the stove and started burning it!
Then start making Mongolian milk tea, which is a must-have for weddings. In Mongolian weddings, milk tea is much more important than spirits.
In addition, all kinds of food should be placed on the small square table that has been prepared long ago. The more food, the more abundant the family's family background.
Immediately afterwards, everyone started dressing up the eldest brother again. After all, he was the groom today!
At the same time, in the cadre dormitory, Su Rina, Uzhina and Qiqige were dressing up Tana!
After working on it until around nine o'clock in the morning, I was finally almost ready!
Now I am just waiting for someone to arrive, and the eldest brother can come to marry the bride.
At half past nine, as two military vehicles drove into Tuoshan Coal Mine, Tana and Qiqige's biological uncle, Uzhina's father, Bilige, finally arrived.
As the most senior elder in this wedding, only if he comes, other ceremonies can be carried out.
At the wedding room, after Zhou Ping learned the news, he immediately lined up his team and headed to the cadre dormitory not far away to marry his bride.
On the Mongolian grasslands, there are two ways of marrying a wife, one is that the groom comes to marry the bride, and the other is to welcome the bride.
The groom does not need to go to the bride's house to welcome the bride. He only needs to accompany his son-in-law and elders to marry him.
But the wedding currently taking place is obviously not suitable for the wedding method. After all, given the distance between the front and back rooms, getting married is obviously more suitable.
When Zhou Ping brought his brother Zhou Yang and others to the cadre dormitory, Tana's relatives, friends and best friends were already ready.
Uzhina's room had obviously been rearranged. When Zhou Ping and others were welcomed into the room, they saw a long table placed on the ground in the middle of the dormitory. There were various food items on the table, including Hand-made meat, fried rice, milk tea, dried meat, etc.
After entering the house, Zhou Yang, as an important representative of the male family, was seated, while the eldest brother Zhou Ping began to perform the Mongolian ceremony according to custom.
After the ceremony, before the eldest brother could take his seat, he saw Qiqige walking in carrying a wooden tray.
I saw a cooked lamb neck on the wooden plate!
After arriving at Zhou Ping's side, Qiqige said with a smile: "Brother-in-law, please break this sheep's neck open for everyone!"
Seeing this scene, everyone present couldn't help laughing.
This is the famous breaking of the sheep's neck in Mongolian weddings. It is a link that tests the groom's wisdom and strength. It is also a criterion for the elders to measure whether the groom is a good worker or a weakling.
In my native dialect, I just want to see if the new son-in-law is semen or sticky. This is also the most exciting thing in the process of marrying a wife.
Zhou Ping took the sheep neck sent by his sister-in-law and smiled confidently.
He knew that the lamb's neck had been tampered with by the chef, that is, the middle of the lamb's neck had actually been chopped off by the chef, but the muscles were still connected.
In order to ensure the integrity of the sheep's neck, the chef skillfully inserts a red willow stick into the bone marrow of the sheep's neck and then serves it up to tease people.
It would be a shame if the groom didn't get any guidance in advance and didn't know the secrets, and he couldn't break the sheep's neck no matter how hard he tried.
Such a groom is a favorite among the elders and will be laughed at.
But Zhou Ping had already received Tana's instructions in advance. He took the sheep's neck with both hands and stretched it hard on both sides. At this time, a gap was exposed in the sheep's neck. Then he broke it hard and broke the red willow stick in the middle. .
Bilige on the side couldn't help but nodded when he saw this scene.
He is a smart and intelligent man. No wonder his eldest niece stayed with him for five years.
After breaking off the sheep's neck, the next step is kneeling on bricks for tea, which is also a special feature of Mongolian weddings.
In fact, it is also a part of testing whether the groom has strength!
Since Zhou Ping had received instructions from his wife in advance, he took the brick tea handed over by Uzhina and placed a wooden stick directly on the ground.
Then he raised a corner of the brick tea, then knelt down hard on one knee to disconnect the brick tea.
Kneeling brick tea is usually the last entertainment item. After it was over, Zhou Ping drank a bowl of wine handed over by his uncle Bilige, then picked up the bride and walked towards the wedding room!
The wedding room was actually not far behind the cadre dormitory, and I came back within a few minutes.
After returning here, there was also a lot of excitement, such as blocking the door and so on!
It’s not over until almost twelve o’clock!
Due to the insistence of my brother and sister-in-law, the wedding was not large, only about twenty people in total.
So instead of holding it in the canteen, we chose to hold it in the wedding room.
Guessing that the banquet was about to begin, Zhou Yang immediately took Fan Debiao and others, borrowed two round tables and more than twenty stools from the canteen and placed them in the room.
Then he went to the canteen to send a message so that they could serve the food.
Soon, the prepared meals were delivered from the canteen.
When the guests saw the dishes served to them by the Zhou family, they were all stunned.
I saw a table full of meat, mostly meat.
In addition to stewed mutton, there are also braised beef with carrots, braised pork with potatoes, chicken nuggets with potatoes, braised carp, etc. On a large table, the only vegetarian dish is braised tofu.
At this meeting, even Bilige and the leaders of the mine were startled. They suddenly felt that the two yuan gift was a little short!
Normally, although there will be some meat at an ordinary wedding banquet, it is mainly stewed dishes.
How could the Zhou family have a table full of all kinds of meats?
Fortunately, there are only two tables, otherwise, I don’t know how much it would cost.
In fact, what they didn't know was that Zhou Yang, the younger brother, had also worked very hard to organize this wedding.
He also wanted to combine meat and vegetables, but when he went to Qili, he found out that except for potatoes, tofu, and carrots, there were no other vegetables in Eqi this season, not even the common Chinese cabbage in Yunshan County.
After asking around again, most of the weddings held in this place are smorgasbords.
Whether the host is sincere or not depends on whether there is a lot of meat in the stew.
In view of this, Zhou Yang simply bought dozens of kilograms of pork, a few chickens and fish, plus the beef and mutton he bought before, and prepared two large tables for a luxurious banquet.
There are only two tables anyway, so even if the specifications are higher, it won’t cost much more!
How can you get a wife without spending money?
