Chapter 44 Prepare for marriage

After the matchmaker Wang took over the draft post filled in by Qian, the marriage was half. And the matchmaker Wang rushed to the Yang family to ask for money, so she took the straw in her arms and hurriedly got up to say goodbye to Mrs. Qian. After leaving the Li family, she rushed to Xiaoqi Village.

After the matchmaker rushed to Xiaoqi Village to find the Yang family, as soon as she saw Yang Dazhu and Liu, she took out the five men and two women's flower strips in their arms. She smiled and handed them to Liu and said, "I have brought the draft post filled in by Mrs. Li's hand. After everything goes well with your marriage, I will take your family down. The master's straw post was sent to the Li family.

It usually takes three days to get married in southern Fujian, so after saying these words, Wang got some reward money and left first. Before leaving, she agreed with Liu that she would come back three days later to ask about the result of the marriage.

And Yuer felt a little strange about the word "marriage". After looking for an opportunity to ask Liu's family, Yu'er learned that the original "marriage" in southern Fujian was actually "Naji" in the three books and six ceremonies, also known as "Wenji", which was a necessary ceremony before marriage between men and women.

The specific ceremony of asking auspiciousness is that the man receives the woman's Geng post (cursive post) and puts it on the gods and ancestors' case. After divination, the woman's Geng post is placed under the incense burner for three days. During this period, if people and animals are safe and there is no quarrel, illness or breaking dishes, it can be said to be "three-day yen" or "three-day good".

After three days, the man will ask the fortune teller to "marry" again, and determine whether the two are suitable for marriage based on the date of birth of the man and the woman. If the two sides match the fate, the man will send his Geng Tie and prepare gifts, red envelopes and other things to the woman's house.

Although the fish did not agree with the superstitious customs of ancient marriage, the people in Xiaoqi Village were very superstitious, so Liu followed the rules that should be followed one by one. It was not until three days after Li Erniang's straw post was placed on the case of gods and ancestors that nothing bad or unlucky happened to the Yang family, and the Liu family took Li Erniang's straw post from the case with relief.

As soon as Li Erniang's sketch was taken down, Liu took the sketch and Yang Dalang's birthday, looking for a fortune teller in the village who had been marrying the newlyweds for many years to help see if Yang Dalang and Li Erniang's fate fit. It was not until the fortune teller said that Yang Dalang and Li Erniang were a match made in heaven that Liu Shi put down the caution of these days and showed his first smile in three days.

Since the fortune teller said that Yang Dalang and Li Erniang are a match made in heaven, this marriage is probably a certainty. Liu quickly asked someone to write Yang Dalang's straw posts, and then prepared gifts, red envelopes and other things. They put these things in two red-painted bamboo baskets, and Yang Erzhu, an uncle, rushed to Li's house in the city.

After Yang Erzhu picked up the red-painted bamboo basket with gift cakes and red envelopes and red envelopes to the Li family, he went straight to the hall from the door and put the red bamboo basket on the table where the Li family worshipped his ancestors before resting. In this way, he told the ancestors of the Li family that someone had proposed to his boudoir's descendants. After Mr. Li and Mrs. Qian worshiped their ancestors together, they opened Yang Dalang's draft post. Similarly, they also asked the fortune teller to marry Yang Dalang and Li Erniang again. The result of the marriage was also good...

And after the smooth exchange of Yang Dalang and Li Erniang's draft posts, the next step is to exchange the fixed posts. The exchange order of this post is exactly the opposite of the draft post, which needs to be issued by the man first. The man's fixed post should clearly write Yang Dalang's date of birth, his parents' official title, and the number of bride price.

The family background of the Yang family is known to the Li family in advance, so the Li family has already opened their words when the two families discussed marriage earlier, implying that the Yang family and the Li family do not care about Yang Dalang's fortune, but about Yang Dalang's character and future future.

Therefore, there was nothing to be embarrassed when the Yang family filled in the invitation. They filled in how many houses, how many acres of land and how many boats there were in the family, and then filled in the bride price column for Yang Dalang's wife early in the morning. Because the Li family is far better than the Yang family, and in order not to make Yang Dalang too embarrassed, Liu gathered the remaining money in the family and added some more money to the bride price of the Li family.

Fortunately, Liu asked someone to send more than 200 taels of silver to Yang Dalang for travel expenses. Yang Dalang has always been reluctant to spend money and break a copper plate into two flowers from time to time. Therefore, there is still more than half of the silver left after Yang Dalang returned home from high school...

Yang Dalang returned all the money to Liu, and after adding the money saved by Yang Dalang, Liu's marriage was much more generous. Coupled with some of the family's previous savings, the marriage was not too ugly.

And when the two sides have exchanged fixed posts, even the two families have begun to hold a happy event. Therefore, from this time until the marriage, the Yang family, the Li family and their relatives of both sides are not allowed to participate in the funeral, so as not to bring bad luck to the two families.

After filling in the fixed post, Liu, accompanied by the matchmaker Wang, sent the fixed post and various things as a bride price to the Li family on the auspicious day. In addition to silver, this betrothal gift also includes cloth, incense candles, rock sugar, noodles, orange cakes, lotus seeds, pork, gift cakes, peanut sugar, wine, etc. These things must be made into twelve pieces according to the wedding customs of southern Fujian.

And Liu and Wang's matchmaker sent a fixed post and various things to the Li family, and Li Erniang personally brought rock sugar tea and sugar glutinous rice porridge to entertain her future mother-in-law. When Liu received the sweet tea offered by Li Erniang, she smiled and sent a red envelope to Li Erniang as a "pressing tea" gift according to the rules. Li Erniang received the red envelope and kowtowed to Liu first.

When Liu left after sending the bride price, the Li family should give back two connected veils to the Yang family, which is also the wedding custom in southern Fujian. At the same time, the Yang family and the Li family will give gifts, wedding candies, etc. to their relatives and friends, telling them that the marriage has been confirmed and they will have a banquet on a day.

A few days after Liu sent Yang Dalang's fixed post and bride price, the Li family also asked Wang's matchmaker to send it to the Yang family. Then the Yang family began to prepare for the marriage, and soon walked through the remaining three books and six gifts. Naturally, the Li family began to actively prepare for Li Erniang's marriage and wait for the Yang family to prepare for the marriage.

Not long after the Yang family moved into the big room, the furniture in Yang Dalang's house was not added because of his previous absence. Now he can buy it together with his wedding. In Xiaoqi Village, when a man marries a wife and has a family, he usually asks the carpenter to make some brand-new furniture, and the most important thing is to make a new bed. Of course, if the people living on the boat save the task of hitting a new bed.

Because Li Erniang is the little woman married in the city, Liu specially discussed with Yang Dalang, who has been out and seen the world. After setting the style of the new bed and furniture, she invited a very skilled carpenter in the village and asked him to follow the example provided by the Yang family. Style, make new beds, tables, chairs, makeup tables and other furniture in Yang Dalang's room.

At first, Liu was worried about the style set by Yang Dalang. The master in Xiaoqi's village had never seen it and might not be able to type it out. Unexpectedly, after Liu called the carpenter home, he took out the drawing of the style for him. The carpenter patted his chest and said that he would print exactly the same as the drawing. Furniture, come.

After hearing this, Liu decided to use the carpenter on the spot. After negotiating the price with the carpenter, Liu asked him to come to work the next day and promised to provide the carpenter with two meals in addition to the wages, but the premise was that he had to work until he could not go back, because Yang Dalang was in a hurry to Beijing to get a messenger. This marriage has to be done quickly.

The carpenter hired by Liu's surname is Chen, and he didn't have any other work on hand at present, and the price offered by Liu was very fair, so Mr. Chen not only agreed to Liu's conditions, but also offered to work until Hai in the evening and try to get the new furniture needed by the Yang family as soon as possible.

Liu was very happy when he heard this, and felt that he was an honest person because Master Chen offered to rush to work. He was more relieved to hand over all the new furniture used by Yang Dalang for marriage to Master Chen.

Master Chen came to Yang's house early the next morning with tools, and the wood used to make new furniture was bought and pulled back by Yang Dazhu in the city a few days earlier, so Master Chen could start working as soon as he came to the house.

And Liu was busy with the trivial matters that Yang Dalang had not finished in a day of getting married, so she handed over to Yang Qiniang to take charge of eating, drinking water and other things in the middle of his work, and told Yang Qiniang to deliver food. After all, when Master Chen had to work until Xu, if the weight of the food was not enough, he would be quick. You will be hungry.

Yang Qiniang was very careful about this matter after getting Liu's advice. As soon as she saw that the water in the big bowl beside her hand was empty, she hurriedly added it. As soon as she arrived at the time to eat, she quickly packed the food and delivered it, and the weight was also full according to Liu's instructions.

Master Chen is also an honest man. Every time Yang Qiniang adds water and food to him, he will stop his work and thank her. After eating Yang Qiniang's cooking, he will sincerely praise her for her craftsmanship. Sometimes when he saw that the man of the Yang family was not there and Yang Qiniang had to carry heavy things alone, Master Chen would put down his work without saying a word and come forward to help.

After this, Yang Qiniang gradually became familiar with Master Chen. When she was free, Yang Qiniang would come to see Master Chen's work, while Master Chen would chat with Yang Qinianang while working, and tell her about some interesting things he encountered in different people's homes. The two honest people can really find common words. Let's talk about it together.

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