The singers outside are still singing outside, Li Liping and Liu Jingjing went downstairs accompanied by their godmothers, today's Li Liping and Liu Jingjing feel very different, they just went downstairs, Zhao Chaogang definitely felt that his eyes lit up.

Today's Pingping and Jingjing are really beautiful, if in the past, Pingping and Jingjing could score 90 points, today's Pingping and Jingjing can score 100 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 a fairy in the sky, Pingping, Jingjing, are you willing to marry me?" Zhao Chaogang stepped forward and knelt down on one knee in front of Li Liping and Liu Jingjing, and said with a sincere face.

Looking at Zhao Chaogang's sincerity, coupled with the fact that Li Liping and Liu Jingjing had long been looking forward to this moment, Li Liping and Liu Jingjing said in unison after looking at each other: "Chaogang, we are willing!"

As Li Liping and Liu Jingjing said this willing word, the sound of firecrackers in the courtyard of the godmother's house continued to sound again, and the relatives who came with Zhao Chaogang in the living room, as well as those from the godmother's house, all stepped forward to congratulate Li Liping, Liu Jingjing, and Zhao Chaogang, of course, when they congratulated Zhao Chaogang and them, they would give Li Liping, and Liu Jingjing each had a red envelope, which was a custom.

Of course, Li Liping and Liu Jingjing also accepted the red envelopes given to them by Zhao Chaogang's relatives with a smile on their faces, and then Li Bin and Liu Mingxin and their two parents took out the red envelopes and distributed them to those who carried the dowry and the matchmaker, which was regarded as a reward and matchmaker's money.

After giving the red envelope. Godmother They took out a big basket of rice incense, this is the custom of Zhao Chaogang's hometown, when the new aunt came to the door for the first time. The woman wants to take out the rice incense to entertain the new aunt.

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

Rice fragrant, also known as Mi Tong or Mi Fang (Hokkien: Bí-phang), is a common snack and snack in southern China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Japan, India, and many other parts of the world.

Rice flavor can be used with other foods to make zuò. Examples: peanuts, sesame seeds, dried fish, pumpkin seeds, seaweed, raisins...... Wait for the ingredients to mix in, and then drizzle with hot syrup.

The shape of the rice depends on the mold. Since the plate-shaped rice flavor is easy to cut into long strips, it is usually cut into small squares with a hob or kitchen knife, which is convenient for loading and eating, and if it is a round rice flavor. It depends on the size of the shape of what to do: it can be given as a gift cake. It can be used as desserts and snacks.

The rice is made of rice, which is placed in a pressure furnace and heated by rolling the pressure furnace, and during the maturation process, the rice grains gradually expand, and when the pressure furnace is opened, the pressure in the furnace is discharged, so there is an explosion sound.

This phenomenon is a hawker who cooks rice fragrant in Taiwan. Before the pressure furnace is turned on, it will shout in a Hokkien accent: "It's going to explode!". Therefore, it is called popcorn (Hokkien: pōng-bí-phang), or written as Bang Rice Fang, 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, you have to dehydrate first, and then fry it, this method is called fried rice fragrant. Whether the fried rice can make the rice grains evenly heated depends on the dehydration process, and will also affect the frying time and taste. On the other hand, if there is water in the rice grains, it is necessary to use high temperature to vaporize the water, which will cause the rice to burn and have a harder taste due to the long frying time.

The main process of frying rice fragrant is: raw rice cooking→ dehydration → frying, due to the different containers used in each step, the shape of each rice grain in the rice fragrant will be changed or broken, and the internal structure is uneven, so after frying, the rice fragrant will appear uneven small bubbles, and the surface is not complete and smooth.

Of course, when the engagement banquet is held, it is absolutely impossible to use fried rice, which is not only incomplete, but also has a smooth surface, in that case, it will be unlucky, and in such a big event as the engagement banquet, of course, you can't use such an unlucky thing, so Zhao Chaogang's godmother The rice fragrance they took out is popcorn incense, which is smooth and neat, and the omen is absolutely good.

After doing these things, the next step is to submit the letter of appointment, the letter of appointment: that is, the document of engagement. In Najib (a marriage contract between a man and a woman), the man gives the woman a letter of letters. In the city, there is no such thing, but in Zhao Chaogang's hometown, such customs are still preserved.

If there is no letter of appointment from the man, Zhao Chaogang's hometown will not recognize your marriage with each other, even if you have gone to the Civil Affairs Bureau to register your marriage, your marriage is recognized by law, but in Zhao Chaogang's hometown, the wedding relationship between you is still not recognized, so the letter of appointment is very important here in Zhao Chaogang's hometown.

Zhao Chaogang stepped forward and personally handed over the two letters of appointment to Liu Mingxin and Li Bin, and they also accepted them with a smile, the customs of Zhao Chaogang's hometown A few days ago, Zhao Chaogang had already told them, so this link was very smooth.

After handing in the letter of appointment, this engagement ceremony is more than half of the way, and now I have to start the ancestor worship ceremony, and tell my ancestors about the marriage contract I have made, hoping to ask for the blessing of my ancestors.

Of course, in the past, the scale of ancestor worship was very large, and there were many routines, but now these things have all been simplified, so Zhao Chaogang, Li Liping, and Liu Jingjing are just in the courtyard of the godmother's house, erect a few plaques of their ancestors, and then kneel in front of these plaques, kowtow to the ancestors a few times, and then give the ancestors a little worship, burn a little paper money, and put some firecrackers at the same time, this is the end.

However, there is a key point in this, when Zhao Chaogang and they wanted to remove these tables, not only did the open flame in the iron basin where the paper money was burned completely extinguished, but even before removing the table, they had to gently kick the table legs to remind them that we were going to remove the table. This is a courtesy to your ancestors, and your ancestors will bless you even more because of it.

After worshipping the ancestors, the whole engagement ceremony is over, and now only the woman's return gift is saved, and there is also the engagement banquet.

Chinese have always paid attention to "courtesy exchanges", after the man has passed the big gift, the woman naturally has to prepare a gift in return, but the man can not be allowed to return empty-handed. Since the Chinese pay attention to 'courtesy and exchange', the woman's return will not be much worse than the man's.

Sweet tea, sweet rice balls, dim sum, banquets for the man's guests, grain seeds, charcoal, wicks, cotton, bag silk, brown sugar, lead money, lead powder, belly circumference, pomegranates, osmanthus potted plants, gifts for the man (leather shoes, belts, wallets, etc.), matchmaker gifts, these things will not be missing.

After the engagement, the woman serves dumplings or snacks to the man's relatives and friends, and then prepares a banquet at home for the man or transfers to the restaurant for a banquet.

This time it was not an engagement banquet in Anxi City, so this time the engagement banquet was put in the village office of Zhaojia Village by Zhao Chaogang, which was very spacious and flat, and it used to be one of the places where Zhaojia Village held a happy event, and today Zhao Chaogang invited the whole village to eat the engagement banquet, so the village office is the best place.

Although it was just an engagement, when these things were done, it was already nearly half past ten o'clock at noon, and in the countryside of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, the general meal time was around eleven o'clock, so it was time to go to the village office to eat the engagement banquet.

All the villagers of Zhaojia Village rushed to the village office and sat down to eat, no matter what, it would take about half an hour, so Zhao Chaogang and they rushed to the village office now.

This engagement banquet, Zhao Chaogang is still very rich, not that Zhao Chaogang wants to show his magnanimity in turn, but because this is the most important time in Pingping and Jingjing's life after all, Zhao Chaogang's purchase is not too important, there is only such one time in a lifetime, wasted, wasted!

When it was close to eleven o'clock, something unexpected happened to Zhao Chaogang, and some high-end government cars appeared in Zhaojia Village.

There is no way who calls today his engagement banquet, it is a happy event, and Zhao Chaogang can't do anything to drive people away. What's more, people have come to you to say goodbye, you can't refuse them with a dark face, it's too rude.

"Chao Gang, you are really, I don't say a word to you Uncle Zheng about such a big thing as an engagement, if it weren't for your Uncle Shi showing his mouth, I really don't know, Chao Gang, this time it's your fault, this time, Uncle Zheng, I won't spare you lightly. ”

In fact, Zheng Qiushi, the leader of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province, has already known about such a major event as Zhao Chaogang's engagement, after all, Zhao Chaogang did not hide much about his engagement, and since he knew that Zhao Chaogang's hometown was in Zhaojia Village, it was normal for Zheng Qiushi to get a few eyeliner in Zhaojia Village, so how could Zheng Qiushi not know about Zhao Chaogang's engagement.

Zheng Qiushi prevaricated that he knew it from Shi Zhengming, but in fact, it was also a cover-up, of course, a well-intentioned cover-up, so that the two sides would not be embarrassed.

After all, if Zheng Qiushi said that he had eyeliner or something in Zhaojia Village, Zhao Chaogang would definitely feel uncomfortable in his heart, and 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 arranged eyeliner in Zhaojia Village, but Zhao Chaogang would not have any pimples in his heart, and things that were not confirmed were always speculation.

Zheng Banqiao once wrote a picture: It's rare to be confused! People are sometimes confused, isn't it!(To be continued......)

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