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The next morning.

After the banquet, Deng Changmei got married under the escort of her relatives and the matchmaker Deng Shirong.

When saying goodbye to her parents, Deng Changmei also shed tears.

As parents, Deng Yunjin and his wife also had tears in their eyes.

It took nearly an hour and a half to walk from Naye Village to Changtian Village. Deng Changmei, escorted by matchmakers and bridegrooms, stopped when she reached the fork between Changtian Village and Darongshu Village.

The "scouts" sent by the man's family kept an eye on the woman's itinerary. When they saw that the woman had stopped, they rushed back to report the incident to the man's family.

Then, the groom, Zhang Kangmei, set out with the wedding party, and within ten minutes he saw the bride and her party.

After the two parties greeted each other, Zhang Kangmei took out the red envelope he had prepared and gave it to Deng Changmei.

Deng Changmei didn't mean to make things difficult for the other party. She took the red envelope according to the rules and continued her journey under the escort of the escort, without even looking at how much money was in the red envelope.

The marriage process is basically the same, so I won’t repeat it again.

After the grandpa came back, relatives and friends of the Zhang family gathered around and asked the bride to open the dowry box with a smile to see how many good things were in the box and how much money the bride's parents had given her.

In this regard, Deng Changmei was quite confident, so she opened the dowry box generously and showed the contents one by one to relatives and friends of the Zhang family.

"Oh my God, there are so many good cloths."

"Oh, this woman's dowry is really quite large!"

"Not bad, not bad. I actually have two hundred and eighty yuan as a deposit. It seems that the bride was quite favored when she was at her parents' house!"

"..."

After seeing the bride's dowry and the money in the box, relatives and friends of the Zhang family all praised her, which put a smile on Deng Changmei's face.

After completing the wedding process, the Zhang family started the wedding on time before twelve o'clock.

As the matchmaker, Deng Shirong sat at the same table as the wedding guest.

In this era, wedding guests and matchmakers are the most distinguished guests at wedding banquets.

Unlike in later generations, leaders or prominent figures are the most distinguished guests at a wedding banquet, and wedding guests and matchmakers have to stand aside.

Three generations of the Zhang family are carpenters, and their economic conditions are among the best in the countryside. There are eight tables in total, and the dishes at the banquet are also sumptuous. In addition to the three must-have dishes of meatballs, egg rolls, and braised pork, there are also White-cut chicken, pork stir-fried with celery and garlic, bamboo shoot threads, sweet lotus root, peanut candy, sauerkraut and pickled garlic sprouts, stir-fried hot pot vegetables, stir-fried cold potatoes and a pork bone stewed lotus root soup.

This is naturally not comparable to the banquet when Deng Yuntai and Zhang Xiuping got married, but in this day and age, the food and wine are already very good.

Therefore, relatives and friends of the Zhang family all praised it while eating.

At around one o'clock in the afternoon, except for a few drinking guests, the other guests had eaten and drank enough and began to say goodbye to the host's house.

After the other guests had almost left, the wedding guest also came to say goodbye to Deng Changmei.

"Amei, it's getting late, we have to go back!"

"Amei, live a good life here. We will pick you up in three days."

"Amei, from today on, you are my daughter-in-law. You can't do things as casually as you did in your natal family. You have to learn to get along with your parents-in-law, your sister-in-law, and your sister-in-law..."

"Amei..."

Following the instructions from her parents, Deng Changmei's eyes slowly turned red.

In this era, brides usually shed three tears when they get married:

The first time was the night before my wedding. When I was talking to my relatives about the topic of my wedding tomorrow, I got so emotional that it was easy for me to shed tears collectively.

The second time is to bid farewell to their parents before getting married. At that moment most brides will cry.

The third time is when the wedding guests say goodbye...

In addition to being a matchmaker, Deng Shirong can also be regarded as a member of his mother's family. He waited for Deng Changmei's relatives to talk about it before he stepped forward and said: "Amei, this will be your home from now on. Live a good life with your husband. If you are wronged, Just come back and tell Jiu Gong, Jiu Gong will make the decision for you."

Deng Changmei wiped her eyes and said with a smile: "I know Jiu Gong."

Later, Deng Shirong and others went to greet the Zhang family one by one, and then drifted away under Deng Changmei's reluctant eyes.

…

It was already three o'clock in the afternoon when Deng Shirong returned home. About half an hour later, the groom's family sent someone to deliver a matchmaking gift.

Not counting his son and daughter-in-law, among the three couples that Deng Shirong matched, Zhang Kangmei's family undoubtedly had the best financial conditions.

When Deng Shirong was making furniture before, he specially invited three generations of the Zhang family to come over and help him, and paid him enough wages. Because of this friendship, and the Zhang family was very satisfied with the marriage, they gave him a matchmaker gift. Naturally, it's a big deal.

The red envelope alone gave me a full 38 yuan.

Then, a pig butt weighing about twelve pounds, a full twenty pounds of pork belly, a five-flavor bag of about two pounds, two packs of cigarettes, two bottles of wine, two packs of tea, sandworms, candy cakes, sticky rice, Two pounds each of glutinous rice, wheat, noodles, sesame seeds, peanuts, black beans, soybeans, red beans, and mung beans.

Zhang Xiuping was stunned when she saw so many gifts.

She did a rough calculation and found that pork butt and five flavors cost about fourteen yuan, pork butt cost more than twenty yuan, sandworms cost about seven yuan, tobacco, wine and tea also cost a few yuan. Although the rest of the items were not very valuable, But it adds up to ten or eight yuan.

Calculated in this way, plus the thirty-eight yuan in cash from the red envelope, it is more than ninety yuan. Even if her calculated price is different, it should not be less than ninety yuan.

To give so many matchmaking gifts was simply unbelievable to her.

After the gift-giver left, Zhang Xiuping couldn't help but ask: "Dad, does the groom's family have to give so many gifts to thank the matchmaker?"

Deng Shirong smiled and said: "Of course not. According to the current market of matchmaking, a matchmaking gift that is half of this is already pretty good. I guess there are several reasons why the Zhang family's matchmaking gift is so heavy."

Deng Yunzhen interrupted and asked: "Dad, what are the reasons?"

Deng Shirong guessed: “First of all, the economic conditions of the Zhang family are relatively good.

Secondly, when I invited the three generations of the Zhang family to come over to help build furniture, I paid them enough wages, so now that they are thanking the matchmaker for the generous gift, they must have the intention of reciprocating the favor.

Furthermore, the Zhang family must be very satisfied with this marriage.

Also, our family is not bad now. The Zhang family probably did this to strengthen their relationship with our family.

The combination of these factors led to the Zhang family giving such a heavy gift to thank the matchmaker.

Of course, these are just my personal guesses. Only the Zhang family will know whether this is the case. "

Zhang Xiuping said with deep understanding: "Dad, I think your guess is very reasonable. I guess the Zhang family really thinks so."

Deng Yunzhen echoed: "I also think what you said makes sense, Dad."

Deng Shirong smiled and said: "No matter what the reason is, since I have sent you a gift to thank the matchmaker, let's just keep it!"