Chapter 400: new house
The Xu family accompanied them with four beds and four covers of luggage, two beds of blankets, a pair of flower and willow boxes, a pair of suitcases, a color TV, a washing machine, and a tape recorder.
In addition, the clothes of the four seasons, as well as various door curtains, curtains, curtains, pillow skins, etc. embroidered by Xu Shiqin at home were packed in the box.
Zhou Guilan put a lot of money in the four corners of the box, all wrapped in red paper.
The Li Niang meat, vermicelli, Mingzi, and scallions brought by the Han family to welcome the relatives are all double portions.
The Xu family kept half of it, and put the rest in a red enamel basin with the pattern of double happiness and mandarin ducks playing in water, and took them back.
The small dowries were carried or carried by the Xu family, and the large ones were put directly on the light truck at the back, which was later called a half-truck.
A few boys jumped onto the car and held the box to prevent the road from being too bumpy and knocking things over.
The number of people from the Han family who came to welcome their relatives was not too many, but there were quite a few people from the Xu family who came to see their relatives off.
It has been agreed that the two families will treat guests together, but it is not good to divide them into two groups.
The natal relatives who sent off their relatives in the front took a jeep, and the neighbors who came to catch the gift came later.
If you can squeeze into the driver\'s building, you can squeeze in. If you can\'t squeeze in, you can only stand in the back of the car.
Guo Shouye and Chen Jianzhang both came by car, and several people can fit in their car, anyway, the last squeeze is almost enough.
The car in front honked its horn, and the cars in the back honked one by one to respond. When the last car was reached, it gave a long press to indicate that the arrangements behind it had been made.
So the driver in front started the car and drove south, and the cars behind followed one after another.
When the girl is out of the house, her parents can\'t see her off.
Xu Chenghou and Zhou Guilan stood at the gate of their house, watching the convoy slowly leave.
At this moment, Zhou Guilan couldn\'t bear it anymore, tears kept falling down.
"Hey, look at you, it\'s a good thing for a daughter to marry, why are you still crying?"
Xu Chenghou felt uncomfortable seeing his old wife like this.
But he is a big man, how can he cry along with him? Instead of crying, Zhou Guilan had to be persuaded.
"Liwei is not bad, do you see the scene today? I feel that he should have made meritorious service this time, and the credit may not be small.
If he said that, he would not be able to change jobs and come back. He would definitely stay in the army, and he might be able to rise up.
I remember that he was at the deputy battalion level before, but I don’t know how many levels he can advance this time? Doesn\'t the lowest minimum have to be the regular camp? "
Men, after all, they should be more rational. What Xu Chenghou cares most about is his daughter\'s life after her marriage.
"If it\'s a regular business, even if you change jobs and come back, you\'re on the same level as Secretary Chen, right?
Whoops, that\'s pretty cool, sure to get a good job.
If this was a few years ago, when we were still in a big house, would we dare to think about it?
Who would have thought that our daughter could be cured of her illness and find such a good uncle as Li Wei. "
Xu Chenghou was also feeling empty and uncomfortable. He said this to comfort Zhou Guilan, so why not comfort himself?
The old couple stood outside and watched until the convoy was far away and the shadows were gone, then they turned and went back to the house.
When the Han family came to pick up their relatives, they took the east-west road behind Xu\'s house.
Pick up the newcomers and go back, then go south, turn east when you reach the village head of Donggang Village below, and turn north when you reach the village head of Dongshen Village, which is equivalent to the convoy going around Donggang.
This is not to show off on purpose, the main reason is to be particular about welcoming relatives, and not to go back, but in any village or town, you have to go around if you can.
Such a long line of cars, most of them are tied with big red flowers in front, which looks like they are used for weddings.
Running on the road, no matter who saw it, their eyes widened in surprise.
"Oh my God, whose family is this getting married? Are they all cars?"
"Look at the back, oops, how many things must this be a dowry? My God, what\'s in the cardboard box above?"
Many people happened to meet when they were going out, and they all stopped to watch.
I don’t know who it is, but the marriage is so ostentatious? I don\'t know which girl from that family brought so much dowry when she got married.
"You don\'t know yet? The old Xu\'s family in front of the martyrs\' tomb, his daughter went out today, and married someone who attended."
If anyone knows the details, he will explain it to those around him.
"Oh, old Xu\'s family, when you talk about his family, who doesn\'t know? Their family is now very powerful and rich.
The third son of the old Xu family is capable, so it doesn’t count that he went to work in the field by himself, and made both his sisters-in-law into workers in the field, and even found a partner in the field.
Didn’t expect the girl from the old Xu’s family to marry to participate? Oops, this can really work.
If you don\'t say it, there don\'t need to be many promising children, one can bring the whole family together.
Don\'t you see that the old Xu\'s family is like this? Their family is all rich with the third son. "
Everyone who saw the convoy along the road had to talk about it, but as for the people in the car, they didn\'t care at all.
Others can say whatever they want, as long as they live their own lives.
Cars are much faster than horse-drawn carriages and bicycles. After going around half a circle, head east, and go straight to the Han’s house at the east end of the venue.
The Han family is also very lively.
Han Wenzhong is an old man participating in the field. Both father and son of the Han family work in the field, and they are very generous.
Most of the workers in the field have contacts with the Han family, so of course they have to come to help and follow the ceremony at this time.
The Han family is in the tight east end of the venue, which can be regarded as the outermost area, and the space here is spacious.
Han Liwei got engaged to Xu Shiqin in the winter of last year and got the certificate. Last summer, the Han family took over three more houses in the east.
At that time, I thought about it. Han Liwei had been in the organization for several years.
There are six houses in the family, and there is no place for Han Liwei to get married when he comes back, so he took another three and reserved them for Han Liwei\'s wedding.
Last autumn and winter, the house was tidied up, and all the necessary furniture was done, and we were just waiting for the wedding in the spring of this year.
Who would have imagined it? Han Liwei was suddenly transferred to the southwest border, and the marriage was not consummated.
Now that he finally came back whole, and got married quickly, the family felt relieved.
The subsequent houses, regardless of those old principles, just happen to live in new people in the new house.
The house here is neatly tidied up, with white-ash walls, concrete floors, cement window sills, and double-glazed windows inside, clean and bright.
All kinds of furniture in the house are also very complete, and there is nothing missing.
On the windows, on the door, and on the wall of the kang head in the east room, there are large-scale happy characters, and around the happy characters are cut out patterns of dragon and phoenix showing auspiciousness.
Even the roof of the shed is pasted with bright red happy character flowers. The decoration of the whole house makes it even more festive.
The convoy stopped outside the gate of Han’s house. Before the bride got off the car, the firecrackers at the gate were lit first.
There was a burst of crackling firecrackers, red confetti flying all over the sky, and the smell of gunpowder in the air, which added a bit of festiveness and excitement to today\'s wedding.
There are people inside and outside the courtyard, everyone has a smile on their faces, and everyone looks at the first car.
"The bride is out, the bride is out, look, it\'s so beautiful."
(end of this chapter)