Double sleep

Li Lei and Han Meimei's wedding date has finally been set.

Ling Rusi received a wedding invitation from Han Meimei when she went back to her hometown during the Qingming Festival. Although sending wedding invitations on Qingming day was a bit weird, it was not a wedding banquet held during Qingming, so it had little impact.

Originally, the two planned to obtain the certificate first and then hold the wine. The wedding banquet was set on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year. I heard that Grandma Han Meimei checked the almanac and said that the sixth day of the Lunar New Year is an even number in the solar calendar, which is auspicious.

Probably it is too auspicious, auspicious to make an appointment for a wedding banquet in a larger hotel in a small town, and it is impossible to make an appointment for the entire first month.

As a result, the elders of the two parents calculated together on the left and the right, and directly postponed the wedding date for several months.

Li Lei and Han Meimei finally chose Arbor Day to receive their marriage certificate on the auspicious day agreed by the elders of both parties, and the wedding banquet was scheduled for April [-]th.Anyway, the juniors don't understand the taboos and that statement of the elders.

According to Han Meimei's own understanding, the Arbor Day is so meaningful, sow the seeds of hope in the spring, and reap the abundant fruits in the coming year.It symbolizes the love between her and Li Lei, sowing the seeds of love, and next year one will be crystallized, maybe it will be a string of human-shaped "fruits".

Probably they planted ginseng trees, which can bear ginseng fruit.

And the day of April [-], to put it bluntly, means to love even after death.

But their postponed wedding banquet made both Ling Rusi and unexpectedly feel very unhappy.

What Ling Rusi was upset about was that there was a week between Qingming and the wedding banquet, and she had to go back and forth between Tianshi and her hometown for two consecutive weeks.Now that the high-speed rail is not available, and even the trains have not appeared, it takes her nearly six hours to travel by bus, which is too hard.

Unlike later, the high-speed train can arrive in one and a half hours.It takes three hours to drive on the highway by myself.

What's really annoying is that Ling Rusi agreed to bring her to the wedding banquet that was originally scheduled for the winter vacation.Now it is changed to April [-]th. Although it is the weekend, it is Sunday. Ling Rusi refuses to take her with her on the grounds that she can't delay her study and ask for leave indiscriminately.

The two debated for a long time without reaching a conclusion.

Later, she actually agreed to go to class obediently and not ask for leave or engage in raids. The premise was that Ling Rusi had to agree to travel with her during the May Day holiday.

Dear friend, there were seven days of May Day holiday at that time!

Although it was a long time ago, so long that Ling Rusi almost forgot that there was a happy May Day.

On the day of Han Meimei's wedding, Ling Rusi got up at five o'clock in the morning and went to make up with the bride. She and Chen Yi were Han Meimei's bridesmaids.

This is Ling Rusi's first time as a bridesmaid, no matter before or now.

She hadn't attended Han Meimei and Chen Yi's wedding before.

Because of Han Meimei's complicated relationship with Ling Rusi and Li Lei, she felt that it was more appropriate to avoid suspicion.I chose to be courteous until the person arrives.

Chen Yi was completely accidental. She and she were on holiday in Melbourne at the time, but the flight they booked was delayed due to weather, and they waited at the airport for more than ten hours, so they completely missed Chen Yi's wedding.

However, when Chen Yi got married twice later, they both attended on time and prepared generous gifts each time.Every time Ling Rusi and he would think, there won't be a next time, right?

There is only one best man for Li Lei, and it turned out to be Li Fei, who had been rumored with him.

The opening time of the wedding banquet is set at [-]:[-] in the evening.The whole process of welcoming relatives before the wedding banquet is the highlight, and it is so tediously cumbersome.

All time points are agreed upon by the families of both parties in advance, including the number of red envelopes given in each link is also determined by consensus.

Ever since Han Meimei put on her make-up in the morning, she has been sitting in her boudoir, with her feet unable to touch the ground, sitting upright like a goddess of Guanyin, waiting for the arrival of the bridegroom reception team.The auspicious time was less than [-]:[-], the gate was not open, so we could only wait outside the gate.At [-]:[-], the wedding cannons were ignited, and the joy was so loud that the groom was allowed to enter the door with a bouquet of flowers.

After entering the gate, the door of the bride's boudoir was not so easy to knock open.Usually, the bridesmaids will devise countless ways to trick the groom, either by deceiving more red envelopes, or coaxing the groom to sign a contract of prostitution.

Chen Yi had a lot of ideas, and he had been gearing up as early as the night before, thinking of a hundred ways for the groom to die.

Surprisingly, the groom's reception team was too weak, except for the best man Li Fei and Li Lei's two cousins, there was no one else.The brothers and uncles of the bride couldn't see it, and voluntarily donated their heads to help the groom smash the door.

Packets of red envelopes were stuffed in through the crack of the door lively, and the more noisy Chen Yi became, the more excited he became.It wasn't until Ling Rusi saw that the time was about the same, and reminded her to accept it as soon as it was good, so as not to delay the auspicious time of the newcomer.She reluctantly opened the door.

After receiving Han Meimei, the bride's feet still couldn't touch the ground.Let her brother carry his back out of the boudoir and into the wedding car.Li Lei helped Han Meimei put on her wedding shoes by the side of the wedding car. The wedding car only carried Han Meimei, Chen Yi and Ling Rusi, the second car in all the wedding caravan.

The first one is wedding photography.

In the old days, married people used eight sedan chairs to cross bridges and alleys. Many customs and habits have been inherited from the past.A red envelope is given to the sedan chair, and a red envelope is given to the bridge crosser.Although the times have progressed, many common names have not changed.

Li Lei picked up Han Meimei, and he entered Li Lei's house at exactly the right time. With the sound of the loud firecrackers, he welcomed them into the house happily.

The newlyweds kneel down, kowtow, and offer tea to the elders.

From when Li Lei picked her up at Han Meimei's house, offered tea to the elders one by one, and when Han Meimei received Li Lei's house, they knelt and worshiped tea to all the elders one by one. .

The parents of both parties have the largest red envelopes, which are called red envelopes.

The hardest one was Han Meimei. Since she was taken to Li Lei's house, she could only stay in the wedding room and could not go to the hotel until the evening wedding banquet.

A pair of people greeted the guests at the door like the doormen, and took photos with the guests one by one.

During the dinner, a toast was made around the round table table by table.

These ceremonies are the most precious moments in the hearts of those who love each other, and they are for everyone to witness the promise of being a couple for a lifetime.

For the two people who have nothing to do with love, this ritual is no different from torture. They are hungry and physically and mentally exhausted all day long.

Ling Rusi suddenly remembered that she had sworn that there would never be a second wedding with her fake husband.

When she saw Han Meimei leaving home, she was crying with her parents, her makeup was all washed out, and her false eyelashes were once crumbling.Thinking that I walked out of the boudoir at that time, I didn't laugh or cry.

All she could hear was grandma and mother crying, relatives and friends around making noise, housekeepers urging her for fear of delaying the auspicious time, and the sound of gun salutes and thunder outside.

Boiling against the sky!

At that time, she had imagined more than once that the person walking towards her amidst the sound of gun salutes was actually, or pure clothes, or phoenix crowns and xiapei.

Compared with the cumbersome process of welcoming relatives, the wedding banquet is relatively simple.There is no noisy emcee, no relatives and friends speaking, and no newcomers reading the oath.

The firecrackers exploded, and the seats opened.

People who are not familiar with each other are arranged to sit around a table. They should eat and drink. After the presents are distributed and the bride and groom finish their toasts, it usually takes less than an hour before the people who come to the banquet will disperse. Mostly.

Most of the rest are close friends and relatives who have a close relationship, and there are always a few who grab the newcomer to drink and toss, and make noise in the bridal chamber after the feast.The most noisy one was Chen Yi, who would join in wherever there was excitement.As a result, when I was in my thirties, I joined the WeChat group of the aunts who danced in the small town square, and met with the aunts every day in the central square of the city. Scarves, silk fans, and oiled paper umbrellas, all of which are standard accessories for the aunts.

During the banquet, those who ate the most wine had drunk themselves happily. As a result, the voices that responded to Chen Yi's call became much weaker.

In the end, the trouble in the bridal chamber turned into playing mahjong in the living room of the new couple's house.Chen Yi, who was not reconciled, insisted on playing all night, and won all the red envelopes of the newcomers into his own pocket.

The four players participating in the poker game were Ling Rusi, Chen Yi, Li Fei, and Han Meimei. Li Lei moved a chair and sat between Li Fei and Han Meimei, watching the two of them play, adding some tea and cutting some fruit for everyone from time to time.

In the second half of the night, everyone except Chen Yi began to show fatigue, talked less and less, yawned one after another, and even the sound of mahjong falling on the card table became softer.

At the end of the round, Ling Rusi was really sleepy and said, "Let's break up, I'm too tired."

Before waiting for the rest of the people to respond, Chen Yi shouted at the top of his voice: "No, it's all night as agreed, and the bridal chamber is not allowed to make trouble, and the cards are not allowed to play?"

Ling Rusi asked diagonally to Li Lei for a cigarette, and Bai Chenyi glanced at him: "You're almost done, soon, have you ever seen a newlywed get married and rely on someone's house to let him play mahjong all night?"

Chen Yi opened his mouth and was about to argue, but Li Lei said softly beside him, "It's okay, it's rare for everyone to get together, it's good."

Ling Rusi stopped answering the phone, picked up the lighter beside the table, and went to the balcony to smoke to relieve fatigue.

The late-night spring breeze also carries the unique smell of moist vegetation in the forests of Xiaocheng Mountain, as well as a little bit of coolness like water.Ling Rusi took two puffs of cigarettes, inhaled the nicotine mixed in his lungs and mixed with the blood, and the evening wind blowing in made his sleepy brain much clearer.

The phone was lazily shaken in her pocket, she took it out and opened it and saw the text message: Teacher, haven't you come home yet?

Ling Rusi replied: Just go back, staying up so late?

Unexpectedly: I can't sleep, I miss you.Remember to tell me when you get home.

Just as Ling Rusi was about to reply, he heard footsteps behind him, turned around and saw Li Lei come out and took out a cigarette from the cigarette case, lit it, took a deep breath and looked at the silent night outside the balcony.

Ling Rusi pressed the cigarette into the ashtray placed on the balcony railing, ready to enter the house.Every time she sees Li Lei now, there is always an indescribable weirdness, just like someone you have known for many years, whose voice and appearance have not changed, but there is a kind of strangeness and discord from the pores and hair.

"Are you and you okay?" Just as he was about to lift his foot, he heard Li Lei suddenly say a word without beginning or end.

Ling Rusi turned her head to look at him, and saw that Li Lei's eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of fog, unable to see clearly in the night, she said lightly, "Mm, good."

Li Lei took a deep breath of his cigarette, and exhaled stacked smoke rings into the air: "Do you have any plans for the future?"

Ling Rusi was stunned for a moment, and realized that what Li Lei wanted to ask was whether she had thought about the future of He Ran.Reply: "No plan. When she is admitted to university or graduates from university, I will take her to see my parents. In a few years, I will earn more money, go abroad to get a certificate, and live step by step."

Li Lei's cigarette was almost burned to the end, he didn't seem to notice, the finger holding the cigarette was burned by the flame of the cigarette butt.With a jerk of his arm, he pressed the cigarette butt into the ashtray as if he had just woken up from a dream.

"Can your parents accept it? Can her parents accept it? You don't necessarily care about gossip outside, how can the elderly bear it." Li Lei paused for a moment, and continued: "Will this be too selfish?"

Li Lei's words sounded like accusations, but in fact they were more like doubts.

Ling Rusi looked at Li Lei with calm and clear eyes.After 2 minutes of silence, he opened his mouth and said, "Li Lei, it's inevitable that you and I will talk about our relationship today."

"But I still want to tell you that you should see the world and see the crowd. When you see the vastness of the world, you know that you are small. Life is too short, and those rumors and rumors are nothing more than yours, mine, and everyone's. A little imprint in life that is so shallow that it cannot be shallower."

"It's okay to say that you are selfish, because of grief, distress, depression, and fear, I prefer that the most in my short life is joy without regrets."