What is the shabbiest wedding you have ever seen?

The most shabby wedding I have ever seen was the one I saw in the village when I was a child.

The village is not big, with only twenty or thirty households in total. The living conditions in the village are relatively difficult, and there is no capable person in the whole village. The only person with high academic qualifications is a high school student. In such a remote and backward mountain village, weddings are also different from other places.

I witnessed a shabby wedding with my own eyes, and it is still fresh in my memory. It was a wedding without a master of ceremonies, no flowers, no salutes, and no wedding car. The only comfort is the enthusiasm of the whole village.

The bride and groom are from the same village. They are about the same size and have been in elementary school since childhood. The girl graduated from elementary school and knew a few words, while the boy went to junior high school, but dropped out before graduating and came down to farm.

People of that generation did not have the awareness to go out to work, and life at home was relatively difficult.

I clearly remember that we used a bicycle to welcome the bride.

The man’s family has several sisters, but they don’t have bicycles. It is said that the bicycle, which looks half-new but not old, was borrowed from another village.

The groom got on his bicycle to pick up the bride, and had to circle the village several times before finally stopping at the door of the bride's house. Afterwards, after the brief wedding ceremony, the groom got on the bicycle again, and the bride got on the seat behind. They circled the village a few times before returning to the groom's home.

There are also many sisters in the bride’s family. When she got married, her parents’ family didn’t send a lot of dowry as they do now. It wasn't that I was reluctant to accompany him, but I really had nothing to give him. The family at that time was too poor.

The wedding wine of that era was eagerly awaited by the villagers. Except for festivals and festivals, only wedding banquets can satisfy the appetite of the villagers.

That day was the most lively day in the village. Everyone helped welcome the bride into their home, and a group of young men helped with the wedding ceremony, and finally the wedding banquet came at the end.

It wasn’t really a wedding banquet at that time, because wedding banquets were not like going to high-end hotels like now, where you can eat, drink, and have people singing to entertain you. At that time, the whole village was dispersed to the homes of the bride and groom, or their relatives' homes. Because the village is relatively small, each family can only send one representative to drink.

After the wedding banquet, something went wrong.

Many people get food poisoning after a banquet, and the poisoning is not too serious. In short, some people take it for several days to recover.

Afterwards, many people discussed that it was caused by eating unclean things at the banquet.

Of course, at that time, there were no high-tech things like refrigerators in the village. In order to prepare for the wedding banquet, we had to go shopping early. Perhaps because I was too poor and wanted to save money, I bought cheap food, but this food was basically not fresh.

A wedding in the last century, the poverty and shabbyness of rural people at that time was fully exposed.

Nowadays, the new countryside has undergone earth-shaking changes, but the information about that generation, especially that shabby wedding, is still engraved in my mind and lingering.

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