At midnight, we set off a roll of red firecrackers at our doorstep, which means that in the new year, life will be prosperous.

Amid the sound of firecrackers, we smiled and fell asleep.

The new year has begun, and the roads of the rivers and lakes are dangerous. I don’t know what will happen in the new year?

But no matter what, I am still full of expectations for the new year.

When Lei Zi arrived at my house it was the third day of the Chinese New Year, he pulled Ku Junwei to drink all day.

The next night, on the fourth night of the New Year, Leizi and Ku Junwei followed us to attend Sun Shepherd's wedding.

Because it is a ghost marriage, the wedding is held in the evening.

If it is daytime, it is a bit inappropriate.

Although this is just a ghost marriage, the scene is quite grand.

Many people who work outside have gone home for the New Year these days, and the village is very full of people. Sun Shepherd almost invited everyone in the village to the wedding banquet site, and set up eighty or ninety tables, which made Sun Shepherd's home in a mess.

Because of that aspect, Sun Shepherd was cowardly for most of his life and had enough of people's criticism and ridicule, so he spent all his money this time to prove himself in the eyes of the villagers.

My name Xiao Jiuye is naturally very famous in Shuiwa Village, so I am also a "respected" person. I sit at the innermost table with Village Chief Ma and others, sitting at the door of the Sun's yard, and the wedding stage is close to me.

In this type of area, only relatives are usually qualified to sit in.

Sun Shepherd's wedding was very lively, and the villagers entered the venue one after another.

It was already dark, and Sun Shepherd's house was decorated with lights and surrounded the yard, and was covered with big red lanterns. The lanterns were covered with gold-plated "囍", which looked very happy.

Four bonfires were lit around, and the flames rose, illuminating half of the night sky in Shuipu Village.

Sun Shepherd also spent money to invite a country singing and dancing troupe to cheer up the wedding.

This kind of singing and dancing troupe that travels to the countryside is more common here. Whenever there are weddings, weddings, funerals, birthdays, festivals, I like to invite such a rural singing and dancing troupe to help you liven up, sing a few songs, dance a few songs, and occasionally perform some little magic, acrobatics, etc. to set off the atmosphere on the scene.

We ate melon seeds and peeled peanuts, and watched the performance of the country song and dance troupe with great interest.

Various rich dishes were transported up like running water and the tables were soon filled.

Among the dozen dishes, the most conspicuous one is the roasted lamb in the center. It is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, with oil on the skin and an attractive golden color. When the knife is gently cut, it is steaming inside, exuding a tender mutton aroma, which makes people's index fingers move.

When the singing and dancing troupe retreated, someone shouted: "The auspicious time has come, and the newcomers are here!"

The audience burst into applause, and Sun Shepherd walked out of the house with a happy look on his face.

Today, the Shepherd Sun dressed up in an extremely energetic manner, wearing a retro Chinese groom suit, picked up his fists, and bowed to the guests and friends from all directions.

Sun Shepherd was about fifty years old. Because he had been grazing sheep on the mountain all year round, the wind and sun were exposed, so his skin was a little dark and looked older. Today, his face was covered with powder, which made him look a little whiter. His cheeks were very thin, and he had a troubling of goatee on his chin, and his iconic identity as a "shepherd".

Sun Shepherd looked excited and held a glass of wine. He said aloud: "Thank you all relatives and friends, thank you all the fellow villagers, thank you for taking the time to attend my Sun's wedding in his busy schedule. I wish you all this!"

The Shepherd Sun raised his wine glass, and the guests also raised his wine glass.

"Done!" Sun Shepherd raised his neck and drank the white wine in his glass in one go.

"Okay!" The guests applauded and followed them to kill the wine in the glass.

"Now, invite the beautiful bride!" A man similar to the host stood under the stage, shouting there with a sharp voice.

Immediately afterwards, four strong young men, with red ribbons on their waists, took neat steps, and walked out of the inner room, walked all the way to the center of the stage, carefully placed them in front of Sun Shepherd.

It was a brand new black lacquer coffin, with a large character "囍" posted with red paper cut flowers on the coffin, and a red flower was tied with a red ribbon on it.

There are big red flowers on the coffin, which looks a bit awkward and looks particularly dazzling in the dark.

The most strange thing is that there is a flower hen on the coffin.

The furs of the hen were combed with oily shinyness, and there was a small red flower on the chicken's head, so it was almost not covered with lipstick.

This old hen symbolizes the "bride". Because it is impossible to open the coffin at this time, it is possible to replace the bride with a hen. Ceremonies such as chapel marriage will be completed by the groom and the flower hen.

This matter sounds a bit funny, but this is the custom passed down by the Chinese nation over thousands of years.

If you want to be funny, you can only blame the ancestors for creating so many strange customs and etiquettes.

Perhaps to the eyes of the city people, this is simply incredible.

Why did a groom and a coffin appear on the wedding stage? This style is really strange.

If someone who does not understand or does not know the custom of ghost marriage, he will definitely feel creepy when he sees this scene.

Although it was the first time I participated in a ghost marriage, I knew the customs of ghost marriage and I had dealt with dead people all day long, so I didn’t think there was any incongruity in this picture. At most, I just felt curious and watched the wedding ceremony of ghost marriage with interest while eating roasted lamb.

The host shouted below: "Worship the heaven and earth!"

Sun Shepherd lifted up a ribbon from the coffin, held it in his hand, and bowed to the sky.

The host shouted again: "Pretty two to the high hall!"

Sun Shepherd did not have parents either. Strangely, the woman's parents did not attend either, so Sun Shepherd just bowed to all the guests and friends.

Finally, the host's voice raised octave: "Honey, husband and wife!"

Shepherd Sun turned around and bowed to the coffin.

In fact, the Shepherd Sun did not show the husband-wife ceremony to the coffin, but to the flower hen.

After worshiping, the guests below started to cheer: "Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!!!"

Sun Shepherd was shy and looked very embarrassed.

When I saw the old man blushing and looking shy, I had to believe that Sun Shepherd did have some problems in that aspect and could not secrete male hormones. So over time, he became a little feminine!

The host also shouted in a sharp voice: "Kiss! Lao Sun, don't be shy, please listen to the voices of the masses!"

The Shepherd Sun picked up the flower hen, pursed his lips, and quickly kissed the flower hen's head.

The guests below cheered and shouted: "Not count! No count! Kiss! Kiss!!"

The host said: "Lao Sun, have you heard that you asked you to kiss the bride's mouth? Who told you to kiss the bride's head?"

The bride is a flower hen. Isn’t the bride’s mouth a chicken beak?

If you kiss this, what if the hen pecks at it, your lips will not be covered with skin?

The guests obviously teased Sun Shepherd, but Sun Shepherd knew he was teased, and there was no way to go. The wedding was about to start, so there was a lively atmosphere!

The Shepherd Sun picked up the flower hen and kept shouting "baby" one after another.

"Baby, my husband kisses you now, don't peck me!"

Sun Shepherd slowly leaned over his lips and quickly kissed him on the chicken beak.

The host said: "I kissed too quickly and it doesn't count. Are you right?"

"Yes! We kissed too quickly and had not deep feelings! We have to kiss our tongue!" The guests below the stage shouted loudly.

When everyone heard the tongue kiss, they kept laughing. If it were really a tongue kiss, shepherd Sun's tongue would probably be pecked out of a hole, right?

"Forget it, just kiss the tongue!" The host quickly stood up to smooth things over: "Let's not make things too difficult for the groom, just let them have a glass of wine. What do you think?"

"Okay! Guests! Guests' shouts were surprisingly neat, and they even beat rhythmically, just like slogans, and the shouts echoed over the Shuipu Village. It was a lively night.

The person below poured two glasses of white wine, and the host walked onto the stage with the white wine and handed it to the Shepherd Sun.

The Shepherd Sun picked up the flower hen with one hand and held the wine glass with the other. The wine glass stretched out from under the wings of the flower hen, making a gesture of drinking wine with a glass of wine, and drank the white wine in the glass in one sip.

"The bride still hasn't drunk [       www.biquger.me]!"

"That's right, the bride drinks!"

The guests below are simply savages, who specialize in tricking the grandson Shepherd.

The bride is a flower hen, how can she drink?

Shepherd Sun was not stupid, and he smiled with a glass of wine, "The bride is so powerful, I'll help her drink this glass of wine!"

As he said that, the Shepherd Sun drank the other glass of white wine in one go.

The guests refused to give in: "No! How can anyone help with drinking? It doesn't count!"

"Come on, you guys!" The host smiled and said, "The bride cannot drink. If she gets drunk, will our groom have nothing to do tonight?"

Sun Shepherd picked up a glass of wine again: "Dear friends and relatives, neighbors and neighbors, I will give you another glass of wine. Today, I, Lao Sun, are very happy. Everyone must eat and drink well, and they will not return without getting drunk!"

The guests below started to eat and drink, and then they ate until midnight, and the eighty and ninety tables left one after another.

Our table is a "heavyweight guest". Sun Shepherd took us to drink all the time. It was Leizi and I who helped carry him into the inner room.

The inner room is also decorated like a wedding room, with the big red rumor on the edge of the window, red ribbons hanging, and a piece of lights and decorations.

Especially the bed, covered with a big red quilt with lifelike mandarin ducks embroidered on it. This is called a mandarin duck brocade quilt. On the wedding night, you have to sleep with such a quilt.

I pulled Leizi and said, "Let's go, what are you thinking?"

Lei Zi touched his chin and said, "I'm thinking of a question!"

"What's the question?" I asked.

Lei Zi smiled, his smile was very lewd: "This Shepherd Sun will not rape the corpse tonight, right?"

"Get out!" I knocked a thunderous thunder on Lei Zi's head: "What kind of yellow waste do you have in your brain all day long!"

Lei Zi grinned and said, "I'm just curious!"
Chapter completed!