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Chapter 1053 Rarely Confused

The singers outside were still singing outside, and Li Liping and Liu Jingjing came downstairs accompanied by their godmothers. Today, Li Liping and Liu Jingjing gave people a very different feeling. They just went downstairs, Zhao Chaogang definitely felt It shines in front of my eyes.

Today's Pingping and Jingjing are so beautiful, if in the past, Pingping and Jingjing could score [-] points, today's Pingping and Jingjing can score [-] points in Zhao Chaogang's eyes.

It seems that Pingping and Jingjing are very concerned about this engagement.

"Pingping, Jingjing, you are so beautiful today, you really look like fairies in the sky, Pingping, Jingjing, are you willing to marry me?" Zhao Chaogang stepped forward and knelt in front of Li Liping and Liu Jingjing, with a sincere face Said.

Seeing Zhao Chaogang's sincerity, and Li Liping and Liu Jingjing looking forward to this moment, after looking at each other, Li Liping and Liu Jingjing said in unison: "Chao Gang, we are willing!"

Following Li Liping and Liu Jingjing's words of willingness, the sound of firecrackers in the yard of the godmother's house continued to sound again, and the relatives who followed Zhao Chaogang in the living room, as well as those from the godmother's house, all went up. Congratulations to Li Liping, Liu Jingjing, and Zhao Chaogang. Of course, when they congratulated Zhao Chaogang and the others, they would give each of Li Liping and Liu Jingjing a red envelope. This is the custom.

Of course, Li Liping and Liu Jingjing accepted the red envelopes given to them by Zhao Chaogang's relatives with a smile on their faces, and then the two parents, Li Bin and Liu Mingxin, took out the red envelopes and distributed them to those who carried the betrothal gifts and matchmakers. Bounties and matchmaker money.

After giving the red envelopes, the godmother and the others took out a large basket of rice incense. This is the custom in Zhao Chaogang's hometown. When the new son-in-law came to the house for the first time, the woman would take out rice incense to entertain the new son-in-law.

"Eat fragrant rice and marry a good son-in-law" actually means to hope that the daughter will be happier in the future.

Mixiang, also known as Mitong and Mifang (Hokkien: **i-phang), is a common snack and snack in southern China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Japan, India and many other parts of the world. It is similar to popcorn, but Usually the mixed syrup is cooled and made into cakes.

Mixiang can be made with other foods, such as: peanuts, sesame seeds, dried fish, pumpkin seeds, seaweed, raisins, etc. mixed with ingredients, and then poured with hot syrup.

The shape of rice incense depends on the mould. Since plate rice incense is easy to cut into long strips, it is usually cut into small cubes with a hob or kitchen knife, which is convenient for loading and eating. If it is round rice incense, it depends on the shape and size. As gift cakes, Xiao Ke can be used as desserts and snacks.

Rice incense is made of rice, which is put into a pressure furnace and heated by rolling the pressure furnace. During the ripening process, the rice grains will gradually expand. When the pressure furnace is opened, the pressure in the furnace will be released first, resulting in an explosion sound.

This phenomenon is that in Taiwan, hawkers who cook rice incense will shout with a Hokkien accent: "It's time to explode!" before the pressure furnace is turned on, so it is called popped rice incense (Hokkien: pong-bi-phang), or writing Pound Mifang, Pound Rice Flower.

If you choose cooked rice as the ingredient, because the rice grains of cooked rice contain water, in order to facilitate frying, it must be dehydrated first, and then deep-fried. This method is called fried rice fragrance.Whether the fried rice can heat the rice evenly depends on the degree of dehydration, which will also affect the frying time and taste; on the contrary, if the rice has moisture, it must be vaporized at high temperature. This method will cause the frying time to be too long. , causing the rice fragrance to burn and the taste to be firmer.

The main process of fried rice fragrance is: steaming of raw rice → dehydration → frying. Due to the different containers used in each step, the shape of each rice grain in the rice fragrance will be changed or broken, and the internal structure is relatively uneven, so after frying , Mixiang will have uneven small bubbles, and the surface is less complete and smooth.

Of course, at the wedding banquet, it is absolutely not allowed to use fried rice fragrance. The fried rice fragrance is not only incomplete, but also the surface is not smooth. It's an auspicious thing, so the rice incense that Zhao Chaogang's godmother and the others brought out is popped rice incense. This kind of rice incense is smooth and neat, which is definitely a good omen.

After finishing these things, the next step is to hand in the letter of appointment, which is the document for engagement.In Najib (a marriage contract between a man and a woman), the man's family handed over the letter to the woman's family.In the city, such things no longer exist, but in Zhao Chaogang's hometown, this custom is still preserved.

If there is no appointment letter from the man, Zhao Chaogang’s hometown will not recognize your mutual marriage. Even if you have gone to the Civil Affairs Bureau to register your marriage, your marriage is recognized by law. However, in Zhao Chaogang’s hometown, The wedding relationship between you is still not recognized, so the letter of appointment is very important in Zhao Chaogang's hometown.

Zhao Chaogang went forward and personally handed over the two letters of appointment to Liu Mingxin and Li Bin, and they accepted them with a smile on their faces. Zhao Chaogang had already told them about the customs in Zhao Chaogang's hometown a few days ago, so, This part went very smoothly.

After handing in the letter of appointment, this time the engagement ceremony is more than half done. Now it is time to start the ancestor worship ceremony, and report to my ancestors that I have made a marriage contract, hoping to ask for their blessings.

Of course, in the past, the scale of ancestor worship was very large and there were many routines, but now all these things have been simplified, so Zhao Chaogang, Li Liping, Liu Jingjing and the others just erected a few blocks in the yard of the godmother's house. The plaques of the ancestors, and then kneel in front of these plaques, kowtow to the ancestors a few times, then offer some offerings to the ancestors, burn some paper money, and set off some firecrackers at the same time, this is the end.

However, there is an important point here. When Zhao Chaogang and the others wanted to remove these altars, not only did the open flames in the iron basin for burning paper money be completely extinguished, but even before removing the altars, they had to lightly kick the altars. As a reminder, we are going to remove the altar.This is a courtesy to the ancestors, and the ancestors will bless you even more because of this.

After worshiping the ancestors, the entire engagement ceremony is over, and now only the woman's return gift and the engagement wedding banquet are saved.

Chinese people have always paid attention to "reciprocity". After the man's big gift, the woman will naturally return the gift. You can't let the man go away empty-handed.Since the Chinese pay attention to 'reciprocity', the woman's reciprocity will not be much worse than the man's.

Sweet tea, sweet glutinous rice balls, snacks, banquet for the man’s guests, five grain seeds, raw charcoal, wicks, cotton, bagged silk, brown sugar, lead money, lead powder, belly circumference, pomegranate, osmanthus potted plants, gifts for the man (leather shoes, belts, wallets, etc.), matchmaker ceremony, these things will not be missing.

After the engagement is over, the woman serves glutinous rice balls or snacks to entertain the man's relatives and friends, and then prepares a table for the man at home or goes to a restaurant for dinner.

This time the engagement banquet was not held in Anxi City, so Zhao Chaogang and the others put the engagement banquet in the village office of Zhaojia Village. One, Zhao Chaogang invited the whole village to the engagement banquet today, so the village office is the best place.

Although it is just an engagement, after these things are done, it will be almost 10:30 noon. In the rural areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, the general meal time is around [-] o'clock, so now is the time to go The village hall had an engagement banquet.

It will take about half an hour for all the villagers in Zhaojia Village to rush to the village office and sit down to eat. Therefore, it is just right for Zhao Chaogang and the others to rush to the village office now.

This time the engagement wedding banquet, Zhao Chaogang's arrangement is still very rich, not because Zhao Chaogang wants to show his wealth one by one, but because this is the most important time in Pingping and Jingjing's life after all, what Zhao Chaogang bought is no matter what The importance cannot be overstated, there is only one time like this in a lifetime, if it is wasted, it is wasted!

Just before eleven o'clock, something unexpected happened to Zhao Chaogang. Some high-end government vehicles appeared in Zhaojia Village. After seeing the people coming down from inside, Zhao Chaogang went up helplessly.

There's no way anyone can tell that today is his engagement wedding banquet, a happy event, Zhao Chaogang can't do anything to drive people away.What's more, people have gone out of their way to congratulate you, you can't refuse them with a sullen face, it's too rude.

"Chao Gang, you really didn't tell your Uncle Zheng about big things like engagement. If you, Uncle Shi, hadn't let you know, I really wouldn't know about it. Chao Gang, it's your fault this time. , Uncle Zheng, I won't let you off easily."

Zheng Qiushi, the leader of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, was walking towards him. In fact, Zheng Qiushi already knew about Zhao Chaogang's engagement. Well, it's normal for Zheng Qiushi to get some eyeliner in Zhaojiacun, so how could Zheng Qiushi not know about Zhao Chaogang's engagement.

Zheng Qiushi evaded and said that he knew about it from Shi Zhengming, which is actually a kind of cover-up, of course a good-intentioned cover-up. In this case, there will be no embarrassment for both parties.

After all, if Zheng Qiushi said that he had eyeliner in Zhaojia Village, Zhao Chaogang would definitely feel uncomfortable. At that time, there would be problems in the relationship between the two parties.

Zheng Qiushi attributed the reason to Shi Zhengming. Even if Zhao Chaogang knew that Zheng Qiushi might have set up eyeliner in Zhaojia Village, Zhao Chaogang would not have any lumps in his heart. Things that have not been proven will always be guess.

Zheng Banqiao wrote a sentence: It is rare to be confused!It's better for people to be confused sometimes, isn't it! (To be continued.)