was invited to attend the wedding ceremony of the younger generations, and entered the luxurious banquet hall. After drinking the wedding, I sat in the colorfully decorated new house, said some blessings to the newlyweds, and listened to the beautiful and joyful music, I often remember the day I got married.
48 years ago, it was the fifth year that we had settled in the countryside. The opponent had five educated youth. Whenever the green and yellow are not in line, everyone will work together to find a way and can get something to stuff into their stomachs. From then on, three people left after joining relatives and friends, and Yunlan and I were the only ones left in the village. They dependent on each other and ate the same pot of rice (porridge, sweet potato soup, wild vegetables, etc.), lit the same lamp oil, spoke , Changsha dialect , and sang the song of educated youth together.
At this moment, Yunlan's parents carried Yunlan's enlarged photo and asked their relatives and friends to help their daughter. As a result, the workers in the factory, officers in the military camp, and train drivers on the railway were all attracted by Yunlan's pure and beautiful appearance and well-known worker family background in the photo, and sent many proposal letters that promised to jump from bran basket to rice basket.
After reading the letter, Yunlan handed it to me disapprovingly. I sat next to of the fire pit. On the one hand, I was happy that she had a way out. On the other hand, I thought of the only confidant in life, who longed to be his wife day and night, and immediately turned into a bird and flew away. Thinking of my loneliness, my pain, and my sorrow after she left, I could no longer stop the tears from flowing down my face like a collapsed dam.
Yunlan handed me a towel and said with a smile: "Habao, it's been five years, but you can't tell? Who does my heart belong to? You are like Liang Shanbo, who is only foolish and crying, so don't you have the courage to say a word?" Suddenly, a warm current of love surged throughout my mind and body.
The next day, we held hands, singing and laughing all the way, crossing mountains and ridges to the commune to register for marriage.
In the words of my master, Xiao Bao, the team leader of the production team, said that Guangsheng and Yunlan's marriage alliance was a matchmaker made by the great leader Chairman Mao. We poor and lower-middle peasants should make their happy events lively.
Team Committee decided: The whole team will have two days off. One day, the members were asked to pick up firewood to the county town and sell it to the money to give gifts; all the big and small matters involved in the wedding banquet were implemented on the person, and the team scored a unified work point.
team opened a warehouse and weighed 200 kilograms of grain, so they were decently allowed guests to have a meal with sweet potato shreds.
Master Xiao Bao and I took a basket of wooden barrels to the county meat station. With the marriage certificate and the letter of introduction from the county educated youth office, we sought the meat-selling leaders to support the educated youth to take root and bear fruit. We bought twelve pig heads, twelve pairs of lung leaves, forty-eight pig feet and pig blood intestines into the water (at that time, pig heads and pig feet were 200 cents per pound, and lung leaves were 100 cents per pound).
Master Xiaobao has long been blowing around: Those who drink wedding wine will give you a gift of one yuan. The five production teams under the brigade's jurisdiction made the land and the news was very controversial. Everyone's face was filled with smiles. Labor went to the county town to sell firewood. Those who cannot sell firewood can also try their best to prepare four red eggs or noodles kilograms. Let’s meet and come to drink our wedding wine.
On the wedding day, according to local customs: the bride and groom's hair should be combed with tea oil and the face should be soaked in water with red paper. I begged the "iron girls" who are bridesmaids and secretly gave them four candies each, so they agreed to avoid these fancy things.
I picked accented red and various wild flowers from the mountain, made a wreath, and wore it affectionately around Yunlan's neck. This is the thickest wedding necklace I gave to the bride.
Yunlan was wearing a blue spring and autumn shirt with three patches, her face was flushed, and she looked even more delicate and charming, charming. In my heart, she is the most beautiful bride in the world. I held her hand to every household, bowed and thanked my uncle and aunt who worked hard for our marriage, and accepted the good wishes from the simple mountain people.
is approaching the good times, and members and educated youth friends are flocking to each other. Many of them are "friends of friends" in the story of "Afanti". Although Master Xiaobao has presided over such a thing several times, he is so anxious that he scratches his cheeks and ears, walking back and forth, shouting back and forth.I had no choice but to whisper to him to give him a "Rabbit Soup".
The banquet officer looked at the sun shadow standing in the Hetang, and announced the good time. Suddenly, drums, music, firecrackers and cheers in the crowd. We did not follow the ancient marriage procedure of kneeling down and worshiping the oldest marriage procedure like Jiang Yong . Under the auspices of the marriage seeker Xiao Bao, Yunlan and I bowed devoutly to the statue of Chairman Mao, the great matchmaker, three times, wishing him a long life. Then, he bowed three times to the poor and lower-middle peasants in turn, three times to his master's wife, three times to his parents far away in Changsha, and finally the couple bowed each other. After that, I kissed one in public: I followed Zhu Bajie's appearance and walked around the crowd with Yunlan, and then carried it into the bridal chamber.
The members of the team were like their families marrying their daughters and taking their daughters-in-law. They moved out all the pots, bowls, chopsticks, tables, chairs, and benches, but they still could not solve the urgent need for the number of people attending the banquet.
I should announce in the name of the groom: Female guests eat first. This was not true of a thunder sound on the ground, which shocked Master Xiao Bao and the men and could hardly believe that my decision was true.
Jiangyong's traditional custom: Not to mention a festive wedding banquet, even if ordinary guests come to your home, even if they drink sweet potato soup , women can only stand by the table to serve and cannot eat together. Only educated youth dared to challenge the traditional customary forces that dominate the side, and the time and place were on their happy days.
The old and young men sighed with their necks and could only wait patiently. It made the mountain women who were bullied and abused cheer and sat on the wedding banquet of educated youth for the first time in their life to drink and eat. He looked proudly at the cowardly man who usually only cursed at himself and stomped his feet and now stood by the table and swallowed. Each face was filled with laughter that was liberated.
When the female guests are drunk and full, the male guests are on the table, it is already afternoon. There are many people who "combined two into one", who do not eat breakfast and have empty warehouses in their stomachs. People in the mountains all have a hot drink, especially when they are wedding wine. They must first have a "Four Happy Wealth (Four Cups) and Six Six Sutra (Six Cups)" when they serve. After a few cups of strong wine, they have already turned everyone down. Some people even lost their money for what they had innately eaten at night, as if they were mixed with sweating pills in the wine. Facing the long-lost pig heads, pig trotters and other good dishes, they could only stare at them.
Everyone understands that I am afraid of wine innately, and I get drunk when I smell it. But everyone knows that I am a "General Tang" with three loaches one scoop of water and five scoops of peppers. The official made three rules for the banquet: I asked me to hold a large bowl of radish soup in my hand, use soup instead of wine, and toast everyone with my wife on the table. If the guest drinks a glass of wine, I will drink a bowl of soup. I will drink ten bowls of soup for a meal. The table is full of fun, and laughter circling and floating among the peaks and valleys. After every meal, I would run into the cottage and pee.
Auntie, I sent us dates and peanuts, wishing us a happy child as soon as possible, and the husband and wife will be in love and grow old together.
Some of the educated youth friends gave us their own washbasins, bed sheets, soap, thermos, etc., saying: It’s like a home.
Some people suffer from the empty bag, so they bring a chicken and a duck. What's more, I brought a piece of clothing and a day's pants as a wedding gift to us.
Philosopher Wittgentan
