Reborn under the White Mountain

Chapter 25
It was only then that Yu Xian figured out that the Luo family was born and raised locally.The aborigines in the Changbai Mountain area were called Sushen people in the past, and they were also called Wuji people later. They were the predecessors of the later Manchus. This period should be called Jurchen.However, due to the emergence of the Huaxia Dynasty, the history was disturbed. These aborigines were also influenced by the Han people. They changed their surnames to Han and spoke Chinese. They only partially retained their own customs. Most of the residents in Daying Village are aborigines.There are three upper rooms in Luo’s house, one on the east side opens the door, and as soon as you enter the door is the kitchen, which has two stoves in the north and south. Today’s breakfast is placed in the kitchen and the east anteroom.The kitchen and the west room are separated by a wall, with a door in the middle, and one enters the west room, and there are large kangs on the north and south sides.The south is big, and today Xiaojuan is a newlywed, so she naturally sits on the south kang.She was dressed in brand new red home clothes, her face was like a hibiscus, her eyebrows were like a crescent moon, her mouth was small, her eyes were shy, and her red clothes made her even more charming, she really was a great beauty.Seeing everyone entering the house, just about to get up and go down to the ground to salute, Tong Shiwang's wife, Tong Lishi hurriedly said: "You are a newlywed, you can't go down to the ground today, please sit down." Xiaojuan sat down again.

Everyone brought out makeup items one after another, nothing more than rulers and the like, and some added a hairpin or earrings, all of which were silver.When Fang Shi arrived, Fang took out a twisted silver bracelet from his bosom. It was finely crafted and not light in weight.

"Oh, sister-in-law, you took out this bracelet, but you can compare us people, how can we take it out?" Zhou shouted there.Everyone wanted to see what Liu and Zhou brought out, but what Liu brought out was a pair of silver ear pendants, and what Zhou brought out was a silver hairpin.It is said that Yunlian's natal younger siblings have prepared such a heavy gift for Changlian, and Qin Shi nodded happily when she saw it.After putting on makeup, the elders sat and chatted with Xiaojuan on the kang, and Mrs. Fang and others also went out to help.The children went to play everywhere. On such a day, no one would take care of them. Yuxian and her brothers also ran to the small river in the middle of the village to play.

A lot of people came outside one after another. Tong Yunlian has been entertaining outside. Everyone helped to cook the lunch. The rule here is that the evening is the main table, and the dishes at night are to be prepared by the invited chef. .

In Shen Shizhong, people from the Sun family came to welcome the bride. The groom was riding on a big bay red horse with red flowers on its head.The groom is dressed in red groom's official clothes, with a red cross and a big red flower on his chest.Followed by a sedan chair, if the road is far away, it is usually a sedan chair, that is, a carriage, covered in red and colorful.Sun's family was in the middle of the village, so it was very convenient to get there, so they used sedan chairs to welcome their relatives.The groom rode to the gate, but did not dismount.At this time, Luo Yongxiang stepped forward to lead the groom's horse. Xiaojuan's father, Luo Chengliang, stepped forward and put a pocket money on the groom's waist, and the groom got off the horse.After getting off the horse and entering the courtyard, all the accompanying brides also entered the courtyard, a matchmaker, two married women, a boy holding a sedan chair, and the groom is an odd number.This side hastened to bring the bridegroom to the East Wing, and sent someone to talk with the bridegroom. The bride and groom could not see each other on this day.

At the beginning of Youshi, the banquet was set up in the yard, and everyone was seated. The groom sat at a table with several uncles. Today, the uncle wants to toast his nephew and son-in-law with wine. This wine is exactly the old wine that the man sent over. Before the wedding, the man will send a jar of old wine and a pig as the woman's hospitality.Fang Shi and the others accompanied the bride-in-law and matchmaker, and the banquet would last until very late.In the evening, a house should be arranged for the groom alone, and several young boys will accompany the groom to stay.

Luo's house was brightly lit tonight, and Xiaojuan was arranged to live in the west wing, so she had to rest well, and she had to get up early to get dressed tomorrow morning.The female relatives all make dumplings in the main room, and it is a rule to eat dumplings when sending relatives off, so tonight they must make dumplings for tomorrow morning.The female relatives were chatting and making dumplings. They were so busy that they didn't finish making dumplings until the beginning of Haishi.Everyone went to rest in a hurry, there were too many people, and they could only squeeze in for a night.

The next morning, at the beginning of Mao Shi, the yard became busy, and a grooming bride came to dress the bride.The dowry was ready to be boxed and placed in the yard for someone to watch.Someone had built a fire in the kitchen and boiled the dumplings. By the end of the Mao hour, the dumplings had been cooked and everyone ate them.The groom in the East Wing also got up early, and at this time the trumpeter began to play, which meant that it was time for the bride to get on the sedan chair.

In the upper room, Xiaojuan finished dressing and changed her wedding dress, and Xi Niang covered her red hijab.The bride cannot touch the land of her mother's family, so the bride's brother is required to carry it on the sedan chair.Luo Yongfu entered the house, carried his sister on his back and walked out. When he reached the sedan chair, the woman who received the marriage handed Luo Yongfu a red envelope, and then Luo Yongfu put the girl in the sedan chair, and then the boy who pressed the sedan chair also got on the sedan chair.At this time, the groom has already got on his horse, and he rides the horse around the yard for a circle, followed by the sedan chair. After a circle, the groom dismounts and enters the house to bid farewell to the elders.Tong Yunlian's husband, Luo Chengliang, is an only son, and his parents have long since passed away, so the groom only worshiped his father-in-law and his mother-in-law, and then went out to get on the horse.

The trumpeters go first, then the Luo family's dowry team, then the groom's officer, and finally the bride and her natal family.In the local customs, only the uncles and uncles of the bride and a few female relatives will be sent to the bride, and the rest will not be sent to the bride, and the bride is an odd number when she goes, and it becomes an even number when she returns.As soon as the bride's sedan chair was lifted away, Luo Chengliang took the water basin where his daughter was dressing, and poured a basin of water on the place where the sedan chair was parked, to show the water poured out by the married daughter.

At this point, the process of marrying off a daughter has been completely completed, and the sender will not come back until after worshiping heaven and earth and having a banquet, and the family members can go home separately.Because Fang was pregnant, naturally she couldn't send her off for marriage, otherwise the bride would not be able to have a child for six years, so she led Da Lang Yuxian and the others to wait for Yun Song to come back at Yunlian's house. The Qin family will take care of the children of the two families.It wasn't until noon that the people who sent off the bride came back, and the people from Tong's family went back.Mr. Tong and Mrs. Qin were left behind by Tong Yunlian, and they will return to Tong's house after Xiaojuan returns home.

The group returned to Tong's house in a mighty way. After arriving home, Fang lay on the kang and didn't want to get up. Ever since she was pregnant, she always felt tired and didn't want to move.In the past two days at Luo's house, she couldn't lie down casually, which really made her terribly tired, lying on the kang, she fell asleep without much effort.Yuxian was also a little tired, and fell asleep after lying down with her mother. She couldn't sleep well at her aunt's house.Tong Yunsong saw that his wife was always lacking energy these days, so he wanted to get some delicious supplements for his daughter-in-law, and went into the mountain with a bow and arrow.

When it was almost evening, Tong Yunsong came back from the outside, carrying two pheasants in his hands, and when he entered the courtyard, he shouted: "Ms. Yuxian, let's see what good things I have brought back." When he came out, he saw that Tong Yunsong was carrying a big stick with a big snake wrapped around it. Dalang and the others were surprised to see his father bring back such a thick snake, which was thicker than an adult's arm. Watch there.The big snake was already dead, Tong Yunsong hung the snake up and began to peel the skin, the yard was filled with a fishy smell, Fang couldn't stand the smell, squatted at the base of the wall and vomited.Yuxian hurriedly took some sour plums for her mother to swallow, which made her feel better.

After a while, Tong Yunsong peeled off the big snake. The snake's skin was very complete. Tong Yunsong found a stick, turned the snake's skin over and put it on to dry.The snake gallbladder was also very big, about the size of an egg. Tong Yunsong just wanted to put it up to dry, but Yuxian asked her father to take it. "Daddy, give me the snake gall, I'm useful." He took the snake gall from Tong Yunsong's hand and ran out holding Da Lang's hand. "Father, mother, I'll go out for a while, and I'll be back in a while."

Yuxian dragged Dalang to the south of the village, and arrived at the door of Mrs. Zhao, who was delivering the baby. Dalang went up and knocked on the door. Someone inside agreed, and after a while, it was Mrs. Zhao's son who came out to open the door.

"Uncle, are Grandpa Zhao and Grandma Zhao at home?" Yuxian asked.

"Yes, come in quickly." The son of the Zhao family turned around and shouted into the house: "Father, mother, it's Brother Tong's child who is here." Then he led Yu Xian and the others into the house.

In the room, Mrs. Zhao and the old man were sitting on the kang.The old man's trouser legs were rolled up, revealing that the knees were swollen on both sides, and the flesh was rotten inside, giving off a foul smell. "Grandma, we are here to see Grandpa's legs." Yuxian said.

"It's rare that you still think that he took this medicine, but it just doesn't work." Mrs. Zhao sighed.

"Auntie, please bring me a piece of clean cloth and some salt water." Yuxian said to Mrs. Zhao's daughter-in-law.The daughter-in-law looked at her mother-in-law and went out to get her things.After a while, salt water and cloth strips were brought. "Grandpa, bear with the pain." As Yuxian said, she used a cloth dipped in salt water to clean both ends of the old man's fistula. After cleaning the outside, she rolled up the cloth and washed it along the eye. grit your teeth.Finally cleaned the inside and outside, the carrion inside was almost clear, Yu Xian took out the snake gall, pricked a small hole in it with a needle, and let the bile stay in the fistula's eye.When one side was full, I switched to the other, until both sides were filled with snake bile, and then took a piece of cloth to wrap around the old man's legs. "Okay, let's untie it in two days and see how it goes." Yuxian said to Mrs. Zhao: "Grandma, you can fill this half of the snake gall with cold water and put it in a cool place for about two days. Come back the day after tomorrow." Change it for grandpa. Try it, I can’t guarantee it will work.”

Mrs. Zhao is very grateful, she also knows some medicine, this snake gallbladder should be effective in clearing away heat and detoxifying. "It will be effective. It's rare that you can still think about it. Where did you get the snake gall? It's big enough."

"It was my father who came across a big snake in the mountains today and brought it back. I remember seeing snake gallbladder used to treat fistula sores, so I brought my brother here. Try it first, I hope it will be useful. Grandma, let's go back first, and I'll come back the day after tomorrow." Yuxian said goodbye and walked out.

Mrs. Zhao wanted to keep the siblings here for dinner, and Yuxian quickly thanked her: "Grandma, no need. My mother is not feeling well today, so I have to go back and have a look. If grandpa recovers from illness some other day, I will definitely have dinner at your house." Mrs. Zhao It is not forced to stay.

(End of this chapter)