sbdcsierra Chapter 1611 Unwrapping Red Envelopes
Chapter 1611 Unwrapping Red Envelopes
Chapter 1611 Unwrapping Red Envelopes
The ceremony in the room was completed under the arrangement of a group of women. Sister-in-law Ye also told the new bride to rest in the room for a while and to call her when the wedding ceremony was to take place, as it was still early.
They also had to get busy with the preparations for the upcoming wedding ceremony.
The dowry items were brought over and placed at home yesterday, but the valuable items haven't been brought out yet. They will be displayed after the wedding ceremony to prevent them from being lost amidst the comings and goings of people.
Actually, there's no such custom. In rural areas, weddings don't involve such a large dowry. It's just some bedding and other necessary items for the wedding that are sent to the groom's family.
It's just that Ah Hai's wife brought a lot of things, and his family and his brothers-in-law wanted to show them off, so they put them out.
When the bride arrived yesterday, everyone saw the car was full of things and thought that was all there was, but they didn't expect there was more.
Everyone gathered around the table in front of the red silk backdrop, watching them set out the dragon and phoenix candles, other items needed for the wedding ceremony, and then watching the bride's brothers-in-law display the bride's dowry gold jewelry.
Then he unfolded the 1800 yuan gift money he had brought, which consisted of 18 hundred-yuan bills, and some miscellaneous wedding supplies.
The group was in an uproar.
"Wow...so many...!"
"These are all part of the dowry? You brought so much with you?"
"Has Ah Hai married a golden goose?"
"There are 18 of these 100-yuan notes. Did you bring them all back?"
"Is this still a wedding for a daughter? Giving so much?"
"What a great wife! Her family is rich. They gave her so much. Ah Hai is really lucky."
"This is the first time in my life I've seen a new bride come with such a large dowry..."
"My goodness, that gold alone must cost several hundred dollars, and that washing machine next to it must cost several hundred or even a thousand dollars, right?"
"Isn't the bride's family incredibly wealthy?"
"His father is the director of a shipyard. He's been doing it for decades, so of course he's rich. I've heard that his brothers and sisters are all cadres or employees of their work units."
"Unbelievable... I didn't expect all the money I spent to come back, and there's even more left over. I've married a good wife..."
The room was packed with people, buzzing with excitement as everyone chatted excitedly, and some even tried to squeeze in through the doorway to get a peek.
Sister-in-law Ye was beaming with pride; her smile stretched all the way to her ears.
Ye Yaopeng, too, smiled broadly and offered a few words in response to everyone.
Mr. and Mrs. Ye also felt very proud.
"You can proceed with the wedding ceremony now. After that, you can take your seats at the banquet..."
Sister-in-law Ye hurriedly went upstairs to call the bride down to perform the wedding ceremony.
Although it's called a wedding ceremony, it's really just the newlyweds serving tea to their parents and changing their address to them. Then Ye Yaopeng and his wife each give them a red envelope, and that's considered the ceremony complete.
After the wedding ceremony, the onlookers went to their seats one after another. The bride put away the wedding gifts and kept all the gold jewelry with her. Later, during the banquet, the couple would go from table to table to toast and then kneel down to each elder to receive red envelopes. The bride would serve tea and the groom would kneel down to the elders.
The bride serves tea to recognize the groom, and the groom kneels to the elders because the elders watched him grow up; naturally, the bride doesn't need to kneel as well.
A red envelope is given to each person at each table. When the bride toasts, most people will give her the red envelope from the table as payment for the tea.
Of course, there are also some stingy people who will take the red envelopes on the table, then put a little less money in the envelope as tea money, and still make a little profit.
Then, the elders' kneeling and bowing red envelopes are given to the groom in addition to the tea money, and the closer the relationship is, the larger the red envelope.
The current custom is to give a few yuan in red envelopes, with close relatives giving 10 or 20 yuan, or even 30 yuan. However, the red envelopes prepared by Ye Yaodong and Lin Xiuqing were naturally not small. They gave the bride and groom 200 yuan each, which may be even larger than the red envelopes given by the newlyweds when they kneel before their parents.
However, they certainly wouldn't know how big the red envelope was on the spot, since 200 yuan is just two 100-yuan bills, which feels quite light.
But after the wedding, the first thing the couple did when they sat on the bed that night was to open the red envelopes.
This is also the happiest thing. The bride received hundreds of red envelopes just from toasting. However, generally speaking, the red envelopes given by the groom when kneeling to the elders are larger.
The couple poured out the red envelopes they had received onto the bed, covering it with bright red envelopes. Overjoyed, they pounced on them and hugged them tightly.
"I'm rich! Hahahaha!"
"Haha~ Would you say we've become rich overnight?"
"I received the most red envelopes in my entire life at my wedding, hahaha... what a pity..."
"What's a pity?"
Ye Chenghai chuckled, "It's a pity that you can only get married once and receive a red envelope once."
Bai Xiaoqin glared at him speechlessly, "Then you should get married a few more times."
"How could that be? I've already fallen into a paradise, don't even think about kicking me out."
"Quickly open the red envelope and see how much money you received."
"Take it apart!"
Should we give these red envelopes to our parents?
"No need. My mother knows I'm poor. She told me long ago that I should keep the red envelopes myself."
Bai Xiaoqin beamed with joy, "That's wonderful! I was worried because my family bought a big boat before the New Year, and then my two brothers got married one after the New Year, which would be a big burden on the family."
“It’s okay. Ever since we stopped going to school and started earning money, we’ve been earning our own money and spending it ourselves. My brother has earned a lot of money, but he hasn’t given any to our mother. Our mother doesn’t even know how much money he’s made. This red envelope we received originally belonged to us.”
"Ugh, okay... Ah! 200!!!"
As she spoke, she opened the red envelopes. Suddenly, she opened one with 200 yuan and exclaimed in surprise. All the ones she had opened before were 2 yuan. These were the red envelopes on the table.
Ye Chenghai stared in disbelief, then his heart settled. "The tea ceremony red envelope from my parents, right?"
"No, I already put away the red envelopes from my parents for the tea ceremony in a drawer. Each red envelope contained 100 yuan. This one wasn't given by them."
"That must have come from my third uncle. He's rich. If such a big bag wasn't from my parents, then it must be from my third uncle. My grandparents wouldn't have given that much. They all contributed money when my father got his new boat, and they also gave my parents a big red envelope when Chenghe and I got married."
"Try taking it apart again."
Ye Chenghai soon unpacked a 200-yuan item and exclaimed in delight, "I got one too!"
"Another one! I've dismantled another 200!"
The newlyweds exclaimed with delight one after another.
“That means Uncle and Aunt will each give 200! Your tea ceremony red envelope is 200, and mine is also 200. Let's see if I can open another 200.”
Ye Chenghai quickly opened the red envelopes. He found some with two yuan, some with five, ten, or twenty yuan, and even one with fifty yuan. He guessed it was from his second uncle. Sure enough, a little while later he opened another one with twenty yuan.
"I have two 200s, and you have two 200s too, that's 800 yuan in total. Damn, Uncle and Aunt are so rich and generous. The red envelopes they gave me are enough for me to marry another wife."
"Then you should marry another one."
"Haha, how could that be? I was just giving a random example. When Chenghe's girlfriend was discussing the bride price two years ago, she only had 800. But when she saw that your side was offering 1800, she went to discuss it with them before the new year, and they offered the same amount."
"Ah? There's this thing too."
"Of course, I'm just worried that you two sisters-in-law will compare and have something to say, so I wanted to give you the same thing, so that you won't cause any trouble after the wedding."
"That's right. We entered the door one after the other, but the difference was so huge. I'll definitely remember this for a lifetime and can bring it up anytime."
"That's why I said I've had enough and I could marry another one."
"My third uncle is really rich!"
"Of course, you probably can't find many people in the whole town who are richer than him. What you're seeing now is just the tip of the iceberg. He hasn't brought back many of his ships yet, and several shipyards still have orders for him on the books."
"awesome."
The couple happily continued opening the red envelopes.
Ye Yaodong and his wife were also talking about red envelopes while lying in bed.
“We gave Ah Hai and his wife a total of 800 yuan. Cheng He is getting married in a few days, and we have to give them the same amount.”
"Okay, just give the same one."
"Sister-in-law, you're thinking of borrowing a car when Chenghe gets married in a few days. Is it convenient to borrow one then?"
“I already said it was fine. We can’t favor one over the other. Either we get both, or we get neither.”
"That's good. Ah Hai's wife also received a lot as dowry. I wonder if Cheng He's wife will receive something similar."
Ye Yaodong was very tired, but before he could finish speaking, he closed his eyes and replied, "It's impossible. Her family isn't well-off either. They can't possibly give all of it to their married daughter. It would be good enough if they could bring some back."
“The villagers have plenty of examples to share.”
"If they're far apart, they naturally won't hear it. The older one can take his wife directly to the provincial capital, and the younger one can take her to Zhoushan. They're going in completely opposite directions, so they won't stay at home. That'll just make them smelly."
"That's actually good, there won't be any conflicts, we'll only see each other a few times a year."
The couple chatted quietly for a while before going to sleep.
The next day, Ye Chenghai had to take his new wife back to her parents' home. Because it was far away, they went straight to their new home in the provincial capital that night and did not return to the village.
After all, it's too far away. The house they just bought in the provincial capital is also their home. After returning to their parents' home, they have to go back to their own home on the same day, and then come back to the village on the third day to help with Ye Chenghe's wedding arrangements.
The brothers were getting married only a week apart, so the rented items didn't need to be returned; they were simply cleaned, tidied up, and piled up in a corner, to be reused when the wedding day arrived.
When Ahai returned to his parents' home, his family members were also busy finishing up the remaining work and settling their wages.
Ye Chenghe also took advantage of the time before the wedding to sneak into the city and secretly buy a color TV. He was actually worried about being compared to others. Getting married is a joyous occasion, and he didn't want people to talk about it and belittle him.
The cost of a color TV is nothing to him. Spending a little money can make his wedding more perfect and prevent people from gossiping about him later. He wants to make it as perfect as possible.
P.S.: I really didn't want to write today, I really wanted to give up, but I didn't dare to take a break without a reason. Sigh, I forced myself to write again at midnight. I think I should finish this. I'll add another chapter tomorrow during the day. I almost fell asleep while writing just now. (This part is free)