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The custom of picking up relatives on the sandbar may be a little different from other places.

The team that picks up the marriage will come to the woman's house very early to pick up the marriage, and the speed of sending the marriage is also very fast. In name, the woman's family will prepare one or two tables of banquets for the team to enjoy.

Local customs are special because it is generally difficult for the family to pick up the family to enjoy those wines and dishes at the woman's mother's house.

The team members who pick up the relatives are often just warmly invited to sit down, and they are warmly called to drink and eat more vegetables, but...

Often, just after everyone's wine glasses are put up, before the wine reaches their mouths, someone from the woman's house sets off firecrackers outside the door.

The sound of crackling firecrackers exploded endlessly, it was the horn of the kiss!

It means the men who pick up the relatives, you can take the bride on the road, and what about eating? Why don't you put down your wine glass and go dowry?

Inexperienced men who are picking up relatives for the first time often can't help but want to scold their mother, because they have just picked up the wine glass, and the wine glass has not touched his lips!

The experienced ones are often invited to sit down to drink and eat vegetables, and they immediately pick up the bowls and chopsticks and put the vegetables in their mouths. As for the wine?

Before leaving, it was too late to just pick up the wine glass and pour it into your mouth.

Off topic.

The reason for introducing the custom of picking up relatives on Shazhou is to say that when Tongdao Xu came to Xi Dongyang's house, although it was only early 10 in the morning, the bride had already been picked up from the woman's mother's house by the pick-up team.

Xu Tongdao walked into the courtyard gate, surrounded by Tong Wen, Zheng Meng, Sun Aizi and others.

Many women and children in the yard crowded into the bride's room, and the voices of talking and booing could be heard incessantly.

There are children looking to the bride for candy.

A little girl stared at the Zhu Chai on the bride's head, hairpins, etc., staring without blinking, and whispered to the bride to ask for it.

The young young people who were still single, swarmed in the room, eager to move in front of the two pretty bridesmaids, their hands seemed to be itchy, always wanting to grab something.

This is also the custom of local marriage.

On the wedding day, single young people can wipe the bridesmaids, as long as it is not excessive,

Generally, everyone will just watch a piece of music, and no one will care too much.

Even the bridesmaids were already mentally prepared for this.

Of course, occasionally there will be saucy bridesmaids who will turn against people on the spot, making the young man who wiped her oil a big red face and can't get off the stage.

But such bridesmaids often end up miserably.

For example, a young man who was disgraced went into the kitchen, reached out and rubbed a handful of pot ashes from the bottom of the pot, and when he came back, while the bridesmaid was not paying attention, he suddenly reached out and smeared the pot ashes on the bridesmaid's face.

As we all know, pot ashes are difficult to clean.

Once applied to the skin, it cannot be washed off with soap for a while.

Another example: when serving the bridesmaid meal, add a handful of salt under the bridesmaid's meal. When the bridesmaid eats, if there is no precaution, half of the meal may be salt.

...

Tongdao Xu walked into the courtyard door, caught a glimpse of Xi Dongyang's bedroom crowded with people, saw and heard these playful scenes, and couldn't help showing a nostalgic smile on his lips.

He didn't mess with anyone like that.

But when I was a child, I saw some similar situations with my own eyes.

Everyone at the scene will be very happy, but the bridesmaids will be a bit miserable, and they will inevitably suffer some losses.

When Tongdao Xu stopped to watch this scene, Xi Dongyang received the news and was walking towards Tongdao Xu quickly, with a smile on his face and a half-bag of Huazi in his hand.

He took one from a distance and handed it to Tongdao Xu, Adao, come here! I took a cigarette, I thought you wouldn't arrive until noon, but I didn't expect you to come so early! Thank you!

Xi Dongyang's happy expression and tone made Xu Tongdao a little surprised.

Looking at Xi Dongyang, who was full of smiles and even his eyes were smiling in surprise, Tongdao Xu frowned and couldn't help but whispered, You...seem really happy today? You like this wife so much. ?

It stands to reason that on this day, he should not ask such a question.

but……

When he and Xi Dongyang were on the phone before, Xi Dongyang said that his grandmother chose the bride for him. His grandmother liked it, but he never said that he liked it himself.

Moreover, when he called Xu Tongdao last time, Xu Tongdao didn't feel the joy of getting married in his tone.

But today, Tongdao Xu felt that Xi Dongyang's happiness came from the heart.

Xi Dongyang laughed, lowered his head slightly embarrassedly, and lit a cigarette, his face was slightly red, his eyes swept around, and then he approached Xu Tongdao and whispered in Xu Tongdao's ear: My grandma is too accurate in seeing women. Her old man told me before that this woman has a big butt and must be easy to bear, but no, she will give me pregnancy.

After finishing speaking, Xi Dongyang shrank back and returned to the original distance.

Tongdao Xu looked at him in disbelief.

As if looking at a sharpshooter.

So fast? Really?

Xu Tongdao's mood at this time is complicated.

In his last life, his wife's stomach had never moved after he got married. In this life... Although Wei Chunlan was pregnant with his children before, and he was pregnant with two at the beginning, the whole pregnancy, and after giving birth, the situation was always very different. complicated and even dangerous.

He finally helped him give birth to a daughter, who was still 7 months premature. After giving birth, he stayed in the neonatal ICU for three and a half months before being discharged.

too difficult!

This birth left a shadow in Xu Tongdao's heart.

Can……

Xi Dongyang said in March that he was going to get married. In April, he said that he had found a partner and that the wedding date had been set. Now, on the day of his wedding in May, he even said that the bride was pregnant with his child...

Xi Dongyang's marriage, childbirth, everything seems to have pressed the fast-forward button.

Everything went unbelievably fast.

In the face of Xu Tongdao's suspicion, Xi Dongyang grinned, nodded affirmatively, and whispered: Really! I didn't expect it to be so fast, it seems that my grandma is right, this woman, if she has It's easy when you have a second child, really!

Tongdao Xu looked at him speechlessly, and suddenly didn't want to congratulate him.

So annoying.

At this moment, a familiar female voice came from the gate of the courtyard, Hey, how are you! Excuse me, is this Xi, Xi Xiaoqian's house? Did you order the roast duck? I'm here to deliver the roast duck. of.

Xi Dongyang, who was standing in front of Tongdao Xu, heard the words and hurried over to receive him, Yes, yes! This is Xi Xiaoqian's house. We ordered the roast duck. Please bring it to us. By the way, my sister gave it to me. Do you have any money? If not, I'll go in and get it for you...

Oh, the money is only 100 yuan deposit, you have to give me another 120.

Okay, then come in and have a cup of tea? I'll get you money!

Ah? Oh, no, no! I'm waiting for you here, go get it!

Okay, then wait a minute!

Xi Dongyang carried a few red-skinned roast ducks in red plastic bags and hurriedly entered the kitchen not far away. Tongdao Xu slowly turned his head and looked at the girl who had just delivered the roast ducks at the gate of the courtyard.

Xu Xiaoying...

His ex-wife in the previous life, she happened to come here to deliver roast duck today?

He actually saw her again.

Is Shazhou County already so small? This is too coincidental.