Chapter 510 - 0510: Mother and Son Journeying Westward 2_1
Every household has its difficulties and remains free from competitiveness. Coupled with the nation’s calls for frugality, urban weddings basically require no cost as wedding ceremonies and materials are contributions from kind neighbors, friends, and relatives. However, those who can afford it would still prepare the traditional gifts of ’Three Turns, One Echo’, either with thirty-six or seventy-two legs included.
What others do is none of Shen Feihong’s business. He, for one, was fully committed to preparing for his wedding.
A clean courtyard, a main house with three rooms, and two rooms each in the east and west wings are his brick-wood structures. A pomegranate tree, many years old, stood in his courtyard, with fruits whose mouths exposed the red seeds within.
Early in the morning, Feng Qingxue, cradling Xibao, entered the house where sugar cubes and melon seeds were placed on the table and guests started to arrive one after another.
Each also brought their own gifts.
Hot water pots, enamel basins, enamel tanks, red head scarves, combs, cleansing cream, towels, soap, sewing kits... all sorts of daily necessities were among the gifts. Those closer relations brought larger items, while those less acquainted brought smaller ones. Everyone brought something.
Shen Feihong and Zhou Yulan were both dressed in new clothes, the stitchwork revealing Zhou Yulan’s handiwork.
The groom wore a navy woolen coat, the bride a black and red plaid woolen coat— the former handsome and energetic, the latter pretty and shy, forming a truly matrimonial picture.
Rarely seen, both were adorned with a red flower that accentuated their radiant faces.
"May the bride and groom grow old together, and have children soon!" Feng Qingxue said with a smile. She then tried to take the parcel Xibao was clutching tightly.
Knowing about Xibao’s nature, Chen Xueniang tempted him with a piece of milk candy, "Xibao, give the parcel to me and I’ll give you some candy."