Chapter 16 Hong Luan Jubilee

Two sisters from the Lou family, one named Erqiao and the other named Simei, went to Xiangyun Fashion Company to try on clothes.The day after tomorrow, when their eldest brother gets married, they will be the best bridesmaids.Er Qiao asked the clerk, "Is the bride here?" The clerk replied, "Here, she is in the small room inside." Simei pulled Er Qiao and said, "Second sister, look at the yellow piece hanging over there." , oblique." Erqiao said: "You already have one of the yellow ones." Simei smiled and said, "I'm not taking this opportunity to make two more, because my father is always embarrassed to lose his temper with others these two days." The two went over to rub the material of the dress, asked the price, and asked if the color would fade.

Er Qiao looked at the shoes on his feet and said, "I shouldn't be wearing these shoes. I'll try on the clothes later, but the height is wrong. "Simei said:" Which pair of shoes do you wear the day after tomorrow? "Er Qiao said:" Well, it's the same pair as you.Yuqing wants to wear flat heels, she is taller than her brother, so she can't make him look too short. "Simei said quietly: "Yuqing's body... Big brother didn't see what she looked like when she took off her clothes..." The two burst out laughing together.Er Qiao smiled and said, "Hush! Shh!"

Looking back.Simei said again: "She is so hard alone...it's like 'throwing the ground like a stone!'" Er Qiao laughed: "Where did you see this? It's so elegant. ——Really, if it wasn't for a piece I really don’t know. Poor brother, for the rest of my life..." Simei smiled and bent over: "Touch it, and the bones will crack. I probably can’t hear it when I dance with her. Let the music overwhelm me." Stopped. It’s strange, even if you’re skinny, how come you have bones all over your body?” Er Qiao said, “The bones are big.” Si Mei said, “It’s pretty white, but it’s a pity that it’s bones.” Er Qiao laughed and hit her She said at once: "Why?... Cough, poor brother, it's useless to tell him, it's now..."

Simei said: "I think she must be thirty years old." Erqiao said: "My brother is twenty-six, and she also said it was twenty-six." Simei said: "It's easy to find out. She still has so many people under her Brother and sister, she concealed her age, and she concealed her age one by one. The younger ones can be seen at the age of pushing the board." Er Qiao made a gesture and said: "Subtract one by one, it's like stacking dominoes one by one. One, push it, and the perdopedole will fall all the way back." The two laughed together.Er Qiao said again: "The youngest one was just born, there is no way to make him retract into the stomach." Simei smiled and said: "Tomorrow I will ask Tangqian Liqian in our school, It's Yuqing's cousin." Er Qiao said:

"Are you familiar with Tangqian and Liqian?" Simei said, "They often talk to me recently." Erqiao pointed at her and said, "You have to be careful. The eldest brother married Yuqing, and we have a third child in our family." Well, I’m afraid they fell in love with it! It’s no wonder they are hot-eyed. I didn’t say, what is Yuqing worthy of our elder brother? Yuqing’s relatives are even more difficult to mess with, and they are getting poorer than each other!” Qiu Yuqing stood with the mirror behind his back, and turned his head to look at the back.Yuqing is not as miserable as the two sister-in-laws said, at least, wearing a long skirt and long-sleeved silver wedding dress, it is very acceptable to dress up like this, the so-called "noble lady" in the newspaper advertisement; Compared with Er Qiao and Si Mei, she looks like a young lady of nouveau riche.Although Er Qiao Simi's father was a seed for studying, he only "prospered" in recent years.There was a fresh vulgar delight in the daughter's body.They greeted Yuqing, kicked the man out, and began to take off their clothes, struggling to get the cheongsam off their heads. Their puffy breasts could be seen in their petticoats.

Yuqing tugged at the skirt and asked, "Do you see anything that needs to be changed?" Er Qiao looked at it responsibly, and said, "It's very good!" Yuqing was still worried whether the back was too long, but Simei cried out, and found her own dress, the tired silk yarn on the upper part and the lower part The georgette dresses are two different shades of pink.Everyone thinks that they are the most important role in the day after tomorrow's wedding. For Erqiao and Simei, Yuqing is the last dazzling white word "End" on the screen, and they are the wonderful preview of the next best movie.

The clerk came in, and Erqiao Simei complained. The clerk lifted it up a little here and smoothed it out there, and said, "That's right. The measurements are all here; the waist is one foot nine, and the shoulders are one foot two and a half inches. One is one foot two, there is nothing wrong. If the color is wrong, you can change it, that’s ok! That’s it, wash the upper part, we have a kind of potion. If the color doesn’t fade enough, then dye the lower part. It’s ok. !" The clerk is a boy of fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing a gray patriotic cloth robe, and Xiaobai always has a smile on his face, and he is very patient. From his tone, he would never know that the dresses here are only temporarily rented to these two women.It is really hard to imagine what kind of talent a straight daffodil-like psychic child will be when he grows up.

The house of Xiangyun Company is in the so-called palace style, with small golden dragons protruding from the red mud walls. There is a long mirror embedded in the wall of the small room, and the photos of the bride are hung all over the place. Different heads and faces protrude from the same rented dress with smiles.There is a kind of indiscriminate, inhuman joy in Vermilion's cabin. Yuqing removed the messy cheongsams on the lake green stone drum, sat on the stone drum, leaned forward, resting her chin on one hand, and looked at her two bridesmaids dejectedly.Yuqing was very careful not to make herself look happy—she rejoiced to get married, as if she was a spinster.Yuqing's face was smooth and magnanimous, like a newly made bed; adding the weight of sorrow, it was like someone sat down on the bed.

Erqiao asked Yuqing, "Is the shopping done?" Yuqing frowned and said, "Where is it? I've been running all morning! It's like this when buying things now. If you look a little bit fancy, the price will be very impressive. If you don't buy it, you can buy it again." No, it has to go up in the future!" Er Qiao stretched out his hand and said: "I see the material you bought." Yuqing handed it to her and said, "This is linen mixed with silk." Er Qiao dug a small hole in the paper bag, put her face on it, as if sucking it from the hole Absorb all the contents inside, and it is like a mosquito biting an egg, and the yellow color will be scattered immediately; he said in his mouth: "Well, the flower head is good." Simei said: "I did it for a while last year." Er Qiao said: "But you need to It’s faded. I used to have one, and it’s washed out.” Yuqing blushed, grabbed the paper bag, and said, “They’re different. There’s the same pattern, but there’s also cheaper ones. That’s how I am. If you don’t wear it, you’d rather not buy it!”

Yuqing also bought soft satin embroidered pajamas, matching embroidered bathrobes, brocade silk cotton bathrobes, gold brocade slippers, gold enamel powder mirrors, and small goose skin powder mirrors with zippers; , had to use her rights as much as possible, so she bought what she saw and bought it too late, and she felt a desperate and sad feeling in her heart, so her sadness about dowry was not completely faked. However, it was a waste for her in-laws to look at her.Although she spent her own money, the two sisters-in-law still felt that they were not angry.Yuqing's family is a wealthy and downtrodden family. Her parents raised 50,000 yuan for her as a dowry, and she now spends all of this money on herself.Erqiao, Simei, and Sanduo (that's a little uncle), were discussing behind their backs.They found out that according to ancient Chinese etiquette, all the furnishings in the new house, except for a bed, should be bought by the woman; foreign customs are different, but women have to provide for the new house in addition to bringing a sum of money. Everything towels tablecloths meals sheets sheets.Anyway, whether it is the new pharaoh law, Yuqing's irresponsibility is always wrong.The parents-in-law don't talk when they suffer a loss, and the sister-in-law who suffers indirectly is not so self-cultivated.

Erqiao Simei checked the things Yu Qingqing bought, not only felt a kind of personal damage, even from the standpoint of an outsider, seeing such a stupid woman who can spend money but can't use it like this, feels infinite pain and regret. Smile or smile.Er Qiao smiled and asked: "After the salute, do you have any shoes to match that rose red cheongsam?" Yuqing said, "Didn't I tell you? It's so annoying, the color is so difficult to match. How many shoes have you gone to?" In the shop, the embroidered shoes only have bright red and red date red." Simei said: "You don't need to buy them, my mother is making them for you, I heard you can't buy them." Yuqing said: "Yo! That's really... and, how come it's too late? " Simei said: "Mom has such a temper! How many important things are waiting for no one to take care of her, and she is going to make shoes! There have been a lot of things at home these two days!" Er Qiao felt embarrassed—her mother—come It makes people feel embarrassed, and they have to defend her in front of outsiders, because they said: "Actually, there is a sewing lady at home, and there is nothing wrong with asking her to make a pair. Mom has this temper—even if she can't do it well. Well, she thinks it's her heart." Yuqing felt that she might be moved, so she was a little embarrassed, and said repeatedly: "That's really... that's really..." Then she hurriedly changed her clothes, and left alone, I dragged my tired hair to the barber shop.In my curls I felt the weariness of a rainy day—it would be better if it didn’t rain the day after tomorrow. Mrs. Lou was very happy to make flower shoes for her daughter-in-law, but it was because she was not good at all the things in front of her—even after twenty or thirty years of practice—as for sticking shoe uppers and drawing patterns, that was her daily homework when there were no drawings. .It is a pleasure to have the opportunity to hide in childhood memories.In fact, she is not very good at making shoes, but people nowadays don’t pay much attention to those things, and they don’t notice that even if the needle is thick and the thread is slightly tilted to one side, the sisters in the past would laugh at it. Toothless. Although they still frowned and looked helpless when they were making shoes, it seemed that the whole family had seen the flaw and knew that she was getting some kind of pleasure here, so they couldn't stand her. Her husband, Lou Xiaobo, came back very late from the bank as usual. When he came back, he was anxiously waiting for his aunt to fill him with water for a bath. He changed into his slippers first, rested on the sofa, and flipped through old "Master" magazines.Americans really know how to advertise.There is always such a light and sweet little white cloud floating on the roof of the car. "Four Roses" brand whiskey, crystal clear rice wine, and crystal glass placed on a bright brown-yellow table, with a few red roses scattered beside it—a glass of wine also makes it so elegant and majestic.Xiao Bo reached out to the round table beside the sofa to get his tea, and saw a rose-red shoe pressed under the glass on the table, flat gold flowers flashing under the light, and felt that his book and his wealth suddenly became one Yes, there is a kind of Tsinghua atmosphere, which is the success of scholars.Uncle Xiao has a degree in the United States and is the most authentic scholar, although his later success has nothing to do with his ten-year window. The other rosy upper was still in Mrs. Lou's hand.When Uncle Xiao saw it, he couldn't help but said, "There is still time in his busy schedule to get that! Don't do it, okay?" When he saw his wife, he could keep saying things like this: "Don't cut your hair like a duck's butt, okay? To save trouble, it’s better to shave your hair! Don’t wear snow-green socks, okay? Don’t roll your socks up to your knees, okay? Don’t show a piece of black Huasige trousers in the cheongsam, okay?” Anxious, but still discussing tone, because Uncle Xiao is famous for being a good husband.Except for him, no one could marry a woman like Mrs. Lou by a matchmaker. After returning from overseas, he had four children with her, and it has been like a day for thirty years.Mrs. Lou wears glasses, her horoscope eyebrows are wrinkled into adult characters, and she has a white face. She kneads the glutinous rice balls like a child imitating an adult. It's white. Lou Xiaobo also wears glasses and has a pale face. Contrary to his wife, he is a very capable person and is the best at perfunctory socializing.He is tall, and although he is wearing a suit, it reminds people of "long-sleeved dancers". His entertainment is actually a kind of dance, a dance that makes the audience dizzy and vomits. Mr. Lou and Mrs. Lou have mismatched husband and wife in this way, so many people feel wronged for Mr. Lou. Here, Mrs. Lou also knew that because of her anger, she deliberately bullied Mr. Lou in front of others, even though she was tolerant behind her back, to show that Mr. Lou loved and feared her, which was not what outsiders said.At this time, because there were two aunts in the room wrapping the wedding seal, Mrs. Lou couldn't bear the master's words, and immediately put down her face and said: "I'm making my shoes, so why bother you? You're nosy too!" Uncle Xiao didn't say anything further, in front of others, he always gave her three points.She just wants to spread the reputation of a fierce, and free her; anyway, he has already sacrificed so much, so he might as well be a good husband to the end.Today, however, he is a little impatient. The smooth and gorgeous advertisements in the magazines are completely divided from the wealth in front of him. Books belong to books, and home belongs to home.He said to his wife in his heart: "Don't be so stupid, okay?" It's still a restless discussion.Auntie asked him to take a bath, and he stood up, the magazines on his body fell to the ground, and he left without picking them up. Mrs. Lou also felt that Uncle Xiao was angry.It was all because there were people next to her, and she wanted to save face, which offended her husband.She has always disliked the existence of the people next to her, and she doesn't understand in her heart that if all the people she cared about are dead, and the neighbors are left alone with her and her husband, her husband will not talk to her anymore Who will be a conscientious husband?She knew she should be grateful to those around her, and hated them all the more. The clock struck nine.Erqiao Simei came back on a bicycle.First went to their brother-in-law's new house to help decorate the room, and brought gifts from relatives and friends, and brought back two handkerchief flower baskets. Things are simply tacky, and the new house is so small that there is no way to keep them from being seen.Just as they were talking, someone brought two handkerchief flower baskets, and Mrs. Lou and her two daughters distributed the rewards in a mess.Mrs. Lou's flat gold shoe was still reluctant to let go, with a thread and a needle pinned to the lapel.When Simei saw her, she suddenly thought of it and told her: "Mom, you don't need to make the shoes. Yuqing has already bought them." Mrs. Lou also heard that there was a kind of happy revenge in her daughter's casual words.Mrs. Lou also showed that she didn't mind, and said: "Oh, I bought it?" She took off the thread on the needle, and pressed the unrolled upper of the shoe on the table. under the glass. I also found out that an unfamiliar friend had sent a gift to him but hadn't given him an invitation, so I had to make up a post.Mrs. Lou asked Auntie to see if the young master was back. Auntie said he was back, and Mrs. Lou called him to write a post.Dalu is a head shorter than his father, with a sweet face and protruding ears. He looks like the mute in "Snow White", but he talks a lot, and he will pay for it when he comes.He himself was surprised that it took so much money to organize a small family.I rented two rooms at a friend’s house. The floor needs to be waxed, the bathtub needs to be cleaned of grime powder, the west-facing window needs bamboo curtains, and besides the curtains, air-raid curtains are required. The color cannot conflict with the carpet and chair covers; Lampshades and light bulbs, extra tablecloths and light bulbs for playing cards - Yuqing knows all about these things - two rooms plus a kitchen, one room needs a clock, if you want to live a clean and serious life.Continental felt he had no shame in spending some money from his parents, because he did not marry a woman of unknown origin.Yuqing's strength lies in giving people a noble feeling.She draws out the best in everyone.Like his father, as soon as he saw Yuqing, he couldn't help talking about the latest developments in the current situation. He talked for an hour or two, and then turned his face away and praised Yuqing to everyone, saying that it was rare to see such a knowledgeable and insightful woman. . The young couple are both knowledgeable. When buying things, they should buy trivial things first, and put the important ones at the end, and ask for them after the money is used up-for example, they have to buy a bed. Mrs. Lou cried out and said, "Look at you child who is so careless!" Feeling sorry for her son and money, she felt a tender pain in her heart, so she said, "Give me my bed, and I will use yours." The small bed is fine." Er Qiao, three, more, and four beauties objected in unison: "That's not good, there were two double beds side by side in Mom's room, and suddenly one was replaced by a small bed. There are so many customers that come here every day, people will look at it and say that marrying a daughter-in-law and tearing down a house is nothing, what is it? Dad is the first to save face." Just as he was talking, Uncle Xiao came out in his bathrobe, holding foggy glasses in his hand, pointing at Mrs. Lou with the tip of his glasses, and said, "That's how you guys are! You always get caught in a hurry! Last year I saw the auction house There are all the teak furniture in the hall, and I said I bought them for Dalu when he got married—you wouldn’t listen to me at that time!” Dalu laughed and said, “I didn’t know Yuqing at that time.” Xiao Bo glared When he glanced at him, he felt that his eyesight was not enough, so he put on his glasses and stared at him again.Mrs. Lou was afraid that his father and son would disagree, so she quickly said: "Really, I regretted not letting go. In fact, mainlanders will get married sooner or later, so it's always right to let go." Uncle Xiao stretched his chin forward and said, "These things are all Let me take care of it! What do you do? I have to do it even if the kids in the family write a note asking for leave!" These two sentences are not very important in themselves, but Mrs. Lou knew that Uncle Xiao had said the same thing more than once in front of relatives. If she complained, Mrs. Lou herself felt that she had wronged her husband, but she had nothing to say about the grievance in her heart.At this time, he rushed forward in one breath, and he was about to block him: "Don't come back if you are at home! It's not because you have another woman outside. When you come back, this is wrong, that is wrong, and you are looking for trouble. Wife!" Thinking about it again, I was about to become a mother-in-law... I swallowed the words again; with my chest up and belly, I walked into the bathroom with big strides, gargling loudly, croaking, and pouring water It gurgles in the throat, and spits it out.Whenever Mrs. Lou was angry and about to cry, she would escape into the thick house and throw everything away at once. The father and son continued to talk outside the bathroom.With a challenging tone, Uncle Xiao asked Dalu: "Who was the person who gave the gift just now? I don't know him?" Dalu said, "He's also an employee of our business." Everyone made up for the public share, but he showed up again to give gifts, and he had to be invited! Is it your wine and meat friend? "Dalu explained: "He is in the accounting department and is Mr. Feng's personal. "Xiao Bo just changed his tone and talked to Dalu about Mr. Feng, how the tabloids made a joke about Mr. Feng. Their father and son were always father and son, and Mrs. Lou felt lonely.Lou's family is big and small, beautiful, strong, her beloved, her husband, her children, Lianbang tries her best to test her all the time, and rediscovers her deficiencies time and time again.When her husband was poor, he loved face and was good at socializing. He put her in various embarrassing situations and discovered her shortcomings time and time again.Later, the family was prosperous, and it was said that she should live a happy life for two days, but she didn't expect that the scene would be big, and she would find that she was not enough. However, if you ask her to live another day, without the opportunity to dress up, visit guests, and pay homage, she will be unhappy and lose something.Prosperity, anger, embarrassment, this is life.Mrs. Lou felt another tender pang.Standing in front of the washbasin, facing the mirror, she felt an itchy little thing falling on the edge of her glasses, thinking it was a teardrop, she wrapped a handkerchief around her fingertips, and put it in to wipe it off, but it turned out to be a small caterpillar beating the lamp.Mrs. Lou took off her glasses, looked and looked, turned her eyelids over to examine, wondering if the little bug had gotten in; leaned close to the mirror, and almost pressed her face against the mirror, a piece of endless white cheeks; She has no expression - she can't express her sadness clearly to herself.The two eyebrows were tightly furrowed, permanently furrowed, expressing only "Trouble! Trouble!" rather than sadness. Although the husband and wife were a little bit annoyed, something unexpected happened the next day, and the wife still called Xiao Bo to discuss with him in his office.The original witness was the retired Minister of Communications. Although he was no longer an official, he was still elusive, like all officials, and quietly left Shanghai without saying hello.Lou Xiaobo couldn't think of another suitable person for a while, so he asked his wife to find a man surnamed Li, a hospital director, who was also a small celebrity.Mrs. Lou went by car in the rain. When she arrived at Li's house, she opened her umbrella and put it on the carpet in the living room. She took off her sky-blue raincoat, shook it by the collar, and then took out a handkerchief to dry the fur coat. splash of water.The fur coat was unbuttoned, and it was open all the way openly, with splayed feet underneath.Holding the raincoat in her hand, she looked around, put the raincoat still wet on the sofa, and sat down by herself.Dr. Li was not at home, and Mrs. Li came out to treat her.Mrs. Lou sent over a business card of "Uncle Lou" and said, "Uncle Lou and Dr. Li are very close friends." Not very clear.Fortunately, Mrs. Lou had absolute confidence in Uncle Xiao's reputation and status, so she still had a calm attitude and explained her intentions.Mrs. Li said: "I will tell him later and ask him to call and reply to your letter." Mrs. Lou handed over two more tubes of tea. After accepting it, his attitude became cold.Mrs. Lou felt that she had done something wrong again this time. However, supported by countless failures in the past thirty years, she was not afraid of anything and just sat there.When it was time to go, he stood up and put on his raincoat to say goodbye. When he reached the door, he found an umbrella left inside. Knowing that people would never stand her bowing. But Mrs. Lou felt a little flustered, and she put up her umbrella before going to the door, and when she went out, she couldn't make it through, so she closed the umbrella again and sprinkled the rain all over the floor again. Dean Li later called and agreed to be the witness. It was still raining on the wedding day, and the Lou family was worried at first, fearing that there would be too few guests, but that was an over worry, because in this day and age, those who gave gifts would never refuse to come and have a meal with them.Salute at 3:00 p.m., and at 2:30 p.m., there were already quite a few people in the auditorium, and they were naturally divided into two groups, with the men's guests on one side and the women's guests on the other side. Everyone smiled, chirped, and walked lightly. There are also those who pull out the chairs and sit down.In the vast hall stand big vermilion pillars and coiled green dragons; the black glass walls, the small golden Buddha sitting in the black glass alcove, and the oriental image of foreign old ladies are all here.There are also boundless Beijing carpets with dark flowers. When you step on it, you can't step on the flowers, as if there is a layer of something separated.The entire large room full of flowers is a glass ball with colorful floral patterns in the center of the ball.The guests are all flies crawling carefully along the surface of the sphere, unable to climb in. There are also two who are not willing to quietly rub their hands and feet outside the glass ball for a while, but try to walk into the luxurious center.Yuqing has five cousins, all led by their mother.The older one and the second one are all good girls, but as they get older, they are in a hurry and can't settle down.The second lady, Liqian, had newly made a proud green cheongsam. Unexpectedly, it had been raining for two days, the weather was extremely cold, and it was not yet the season for boiling water in the restaurant, so she couldn't take off her old coat. It's not that she can't stand the cold, it's that she can't stand people's concerned inquiries: "Isn't it cold?" Liqian is an unfortunate person by nature. Although she came early, she couldn't find a seat for some reason.She stood leaning against the pillar--she liked it, her pale tired face was a challenge, as if to say: "I'm world-weary, so even you and I hate--do you hate me?" Turn, especially provocative. Her sister Tangqian is not as tall as she is, and has a rounder face, so she looks younger than her at first glance.Tang Qian is lively, and she hasn't married after being lively all these years, which made her lose her self-esteem.Her round little soul was broken and filled with white porcelain, the whites of her eyes were white porcelain, and her white teeth were also white porcelain, slightly protruding, hard and cold, snow-white, ruthless, but she still smiled and became more lively.Seeing a cousin from afar, she stood up and greeted her, told her to come and sit down, and gave her the seat. She sat on the armrest, pointed, talked and laughed, and asked quietly, who was the waiter standing at the door? The groom's brother.Later, when I heard that he was a subordinate of Lou Xiaobo's bank, I lost interest.Later, more relatives came, and she exchanged greetings one by one and held hands affectionately.Tangqian's laughing voice seemed to have teeth. At the beginning, she bit you lightly as if joking, but after the bite, she felt unbearable pain. The band played the wedding march, and the splendid procession of the bride and groom entered.There was a kind, poetic feeling in that moment of breathless anticipation; the pink and light yellow bridesmaids looked like dawn clouds, and the men in black dresses were like the black shadows of swallows flying slowly in the clouds, half-closed The white-eyed bride is like a corpse that has not yet woken up in the morning of resurrection, with a restrained light.All this came together with the music played by Gao Sheng. However, after the bride and groom settled down, the witness gave a speech: "Brother. Today. Very.pleasure. "The atmosphere changed immediately. The witnesses talked about old morality, new thoughts, and the responsibilities of the people. I hope that the Xian couple will work hard to create small citizens in the future. Everyone laughed. Then the introducer gave a speech. The introducer does not have to maintain him like the witnesses. The dignity of human beings can be freely displayed. The central idea is: a man and a woman here will sleep together later. Let’s try to see them as much as possible now, and people are not allowed to see them later. The speaker suffers from not being able to directly express Fortunately, the audience understood his central idea, so they also knew how to laugh. But the speech was too long after all, and few people laughed after hearing it. The band played the march again.When the bride went out, her white dress seemed to be worn out, and her face looked old. The guests shouted and threw red and green confetti at them.The people behind threw the confetti all over the body and heads of the people in front.When saluting, Tang Qian didn't take a look at Lou Sanduo, who was the groomsman, the younger brother of the groom. At this moment, she let out a happy, wild cry, and threw the whole paper bag of red and green crumbs at him. Bride and groom bridesmaids go to photoshoot.He Ke went to the next room to have refreshments.Tang Qian was very lively, while Li Qian was indifferent, eating cake. Halfway through the meal, the bride and groom came back, the band played again, and the bride and groom were the first to dance in the pool.At this time, it is the world of young people, and those who are not dancing gather around to watch.The older ladies stood quietly in the back, smiling cautiously, as if, though pushed out of the circle of attention, they still had a negative importance, like a stamp stamped on a scroll, without which it would be impossible. top grade. No one asked Sister Tangqian and Liqian to dance.Tang Qian was still smiling, as if a large piece of white porcelain was embedded in her mouth, and she couldn't close it. Tang Qian and Li Qian thought about whether they should leave earlier, and left a glimpse of the impression before the crowd left, so that people could find out who the girl in blue was.Just as they were about to leave, a familiar lady came to their table and complained to their mother: "I don't know who is in charge here! There is almost nothing on our table—there should be someone in charge of each table." Just look at it!" Her mother hurriedly asked her to drink tea, and she sat down, not lively or indifferent, but devoured without emotion.Tang Qian and Li Qian could not express their disdain, but urged her mother to leave quickly. When they spotted Sanduo standing next to Mrs. Lou, they went up to say goodbye to Mrs. Lou.Mrs. Lou's confusion is like a new pair of glasses. She can't recognize who they are, and even if she recognizes them, she just frowned and said: "Why don't you sit down for a while?" Mrs. Lou is very busy today. Go, I think she can frown more confidently in the crowd. Because the Lou family is absolutely new, only a few close relatives are present for dinner at night, and there is no room trouble.The next day, the new couple came home to have lunch with their parents-in-law. The bride's parents and younger siblings also came, and the pictures they took were already taken.Yuqing took a picture alone. She stands there, her white dress is flat and stiff, and she leans forward without falling, like a paper doll with a cardboard behind her back.In the photo taken with Dalu, she pulled down the veil to cover her face, her face was blurred, and it seemed that the shadow of an unjust ghost was inadvertently photographed in the photo.Yuqing was very dissatisfied and decided to rent a dress for a reshoot in the future. After dinner, Uncle Xiao discussed international issues with himself, and when the situation changed, he stood up, gestured, and patted the table.Mrs. Lou sat side by side on the sofa with her in-laws and daughter-in-law, stretching out her legs calmly, looking at her snow-green socks rolled up to her knees.Later, she noticed that no one was there to listen, but she passed the wedding photos around endlessly, and occasionally turned her head to yawn.Mrs. Lou felt a sudden revulsion, she didn't know whether it was her husband's disgust or the people who watched their marriage. The wife in the family smoked a cigarette, and Mrs. Lou reached for a match. The midday sun shone on the glass tabletop, and the rose-red flat gold shoe under the glass shone brightly.Mrs. Lou's heart and hands rested on the light for a moment.Suddenly, she remembered that when she was a child, she stood at the gate to watch people greet their brides. In front of the bridal sedan chair, there was a hum, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. A row of lake green, a row of pink, a row of bright red, a row of natural fluctuations, making people dizzy and sober at noon, like realgar wine for the Dragon Boat Festival.Under the embroidered jacket, the bearer showed his patched blue shorts, with a yellow and slender neck protruding from it, and the sweat was glistening, like a meat worm poking its head out of a vat.Bear bearers and drummers walk by in groups, swaying beautifully along the way.The onlookers became one with them, and everyone was overwhelmed by a vast joy outside them, and their hearts were shaken. Mrs. Lou remembered after all these years that although she herself was married, and her eldest son was also married—she should have known that being married was not what it was.The wedding she saw that day had a consistent feel to it, but her son's wedding was in small pieces, for some reason. Her husband suddenly stopped reviewing current affairs, put one elbow on the stove, squinted at his daughter-in-law, and asked in the most chic and scientific new-style father's tone: "How do you feel about getting married? Do you still like it?" Yuqing hesitated for a moment, but with an extremely generous air, she replied: "Very good." After saying that, his face turned slightly red. Everyone in the room laughed, but they laughed a little uncertainly, not knowing whether they should laugh or not.Mrs. Lou only knew that her husband had told a joke but didn't hear it clearly, so she laughed the loudest. (May 1944)