The singers outside were still singing the sings outside. Li Liping and Liu Jingjing came downstairs with their godmothers and others. Today, Li Liping and Liu Jingjing gave people a very different feeling. They had just gone downstairs, and Zhao Chaogangjue felt his eyes lit up.

Pingping and Jingjing today are so beautiful. If Pingping and Jingjing could score 90 points in the past, Pingping and Jingjing today would 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, really 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, and said sincerely.

Looking at Zhao Chaogang's sincere face, and Li Liping and Liu Jingjing had long been looking forward to this moment, so after Li Liping and Liu Jingjing looked at each other, they said in unison: "Chaogang, we are willing!"

As Li Liping and Liu Jingjing said this willing word, the sound of firecrackers in the godmother's yard continued to ring again. In the living room, relatives who followed Zhao Chaogang and the people from the godmother's family all came forward to congratulate Li Liping, Liu Jingjing, and Zhao Chaogang. Of course, when they congratulate Zhao Chaogang and others, they would give Li Liping and Liu Jingjing a red envelope each. This is 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. Then Li Bin and Liu Mingxin and the two parents took out the red envelopes and distributed them to those who carried the betrothal gifts and matchmakers, which were considered rewards and matchmakers.

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

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

Mixiang, also known as Mitong, Mifang (Minnan: pheng), 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 it is usually made into a cake shape with mixed syrup and cooled.

Rice fragrance can be made with other foods. For example, peanuts, sesame, dried fish, pumpkin seeds, seaweed, raisins, etc., and after completion, pour hot syrup.

The shape of rice fragrance depends on the mold. Since plate-shaped rice fragrance is easy to cut into long strips, it is usually cut into small squares with a hob or kitchen knife, which is conducive to filling and eating. If it is round rice fragrance, it depends on the appearance size and what is the purpose: it can be given as a gift cake. It can be used as a dessert or snacks.

The material of rice fragrance is rice. It is placed in a pressure furnace and heated in a rolling pressure furnace. During the maturation process, the rice grains gradually expand. Before the pressure furnace is opened, the pressure in the furnace will be released first, thus causing an explosion.

This phenomenon is called popcorn (Pong-pang) or writing a pong milf, pounding rice flowers before the pressure stove is turned on.

If you choose cooked rice as the ingredient, since the rice grains of cooked rice contain moisture, to facilitate frying, you must first dehydrate and then fry. This method is called fried rice aroma. Whether fried rice aroma can heat the rice particles evenly depends on the degree of dehydration, and it will also affect the frying time and taste. On the contrary, if the rice particles have moisture, you must use high temperature to vaporize the water. This method will cause the rice aroma to burn and have a hard and solid taste because the frying time is too long.

The main process of fried rice aroma is: steaming raw rice → dehydrating → frying. Due to the different containers used in each step, the shape of each rice particle in the rice aroma is changed or broken. In addition, the internal structure is relatively uneven. Therefore, after frying, the rice aroma will have uneven small bubbles and the surface is less complete and smooth.

Of course, it is absolutely impossible to use fried rice fragrance during the engagement and wedding banquet. The fried rice fragrance is not only incomplete, but also the surface is not smooth. In that case, it will be unlucky. Of course, such unlucky things cannot be used for grand wedding events such as the engagement and wedding banquet. Therefore, the rice fragrance brought out by Zhao Chaogang’s godmother is pop-up rice fragrance. Such rice fragrance is both smooth and neat, and the omen is absolutely good.

After doing these things, the next step is to submit the letter of appointment, namely the document of engagement. When Najib (a man and a woman enter into a marriage contract), the man handed over the letter of the woman to the book of the woman. In the city, such things are gone, but in Zhao Chaogang's hometown, such customs are still preserved.

If there is no man's letter of appointment, Zhao Chaogang's hometown will not recognize your marriage. Even if you have already registered for marriage at the Civil Affairs Bureau, your marriage will be recognized by law. However, in Zhao Chaogang's hometown, your marriage relationship will not be recognized. Therefore, the letter of appointment is very important in Zhao Chaogang's hometown.

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

After handing over the letter of appointment, the engagement ceremony this time was mostly held. Now we will start the ancestor worship ceremony and report to our ancestors about the matter that we have already made a marriage contract, hoping to get the blessing of our ancestors.

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. Therefore, Zhao Chaogang, Li Liping, and Liu Jingjing just erected a few plaques of ancestors in the yard of the godmother's house, and then knelt in front of these plaques, kowtowed a few times to the ancestors, then offered some offerings to the ancestors, burned some paper money, and set off some firecrackers. This is all.

However, there is a key point here. When Zhao Chaogang and the others want to remove these altars, not only will the open fire in the iron basin that burns paper money be completely extinguished, but even before removing the altar, they have to gently kick the foot of the table to remind us that we are going to remove the altar. This is a politeness to our ancestors, and our ancestors will bless you even more.

After worshiping our ancestors, the entire engagement ceremony was over. Now we only save the woman’s return gift and the engagement wedding banquet.

Chinese people have always paid attention to "recitation and exchanges". After the man gives a big gift, the woman naturally has to prepare a return gift, and the man cannot return empty-handed. Since Chinese people pay attention to "recitation and exchanges", the woman's return gift will not be much worse than that of the man.

Sweet tea, sweet dumplings, desserts, banquets for entertaining the male guests, grain seeds, raw charcoal, wicks, cotton, silk bags, brown sugar, lead money, lead powder, belly circumference, pomegranate, and osmanthus potted plants, and gifts from the male (leather shoes, belts, wallets, etc.), matchmaker gifts, these things will not be missing.

After the engagement is over, the woman brings out glutinous rice balls or snacks to entertain the man’s relatives and friends, and then prepares a seat at home to entertain the man or transfers to the restaurant to have a banquet.

This time it was not an engagement wedding banquet held in Anxi City, so this time the engagement wedding banquet was placed in the village office of Zhao Chaogang and others. It was very spacious and flat. It used to be one of the places for the wedding ceremony in Zhaojia Village. Today, Zhao Chaogang invited people from all over the village to have the engagement wedding banquet, so the village office is the best place.

Although it was just an engagement, it was almost 10:30 noon after these things were done. In rural areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province, the meal time was usually around 11:00, so it was time to go to the village office for an engagement banquet.

All the villagers in Zhaojia Village rushed to the village office and sat down to have a meal. It would take about half an hour no matter how much, so it was just right for Zhao Chaogang and the others to rush to the village office now.

Zhao Chaogang held this engagement wedding banquet very richly. It was not that Zhao Chaogang wanted to show his luxury in turn, but because this was the most important time in Pingping and Jingjing's life after all. It was not too much that Zhao Chaogang held. There was only one such thing in his life. If it was wasted, it would be wasted!

As eleven o'clock approached, something unexpected happened to Zhao Chaogang. Some high-end government-specific cars appeared in Zhaojia Village. After seeing the people coming out, Zhao Chaogang was helpless to meet them.

There is no way, anyone said that today is his engagement banquet, it is a wedding event, and Zhao Chaogang can't do anything to drive people away. What's more, people come to congratulate you without any worries. You can't refuse them with a slight face, it's too rude.

"Chao Gang, you are so yes. You don't even tell your Uncle Zheng about such a big thing as engagement. If you weren't for your Uncle Shi, I wouldn't know. Chao Gang, this time it's your wrong thing. This time, Uncle Zheng, I won't spare you easily."

What came towards him was Zheng Qiushi, the top leader of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province. In fact, Zheng Qiushi had already known about the major matter of Zhao Chaogang's engagement. After all, Zhao Chaogang did not hide much about his engagement. Moreover, since he knew that Zhao Chaogang's hometown was in Zhaojia Village, it was normal for Zheng Qiushi to get a few spies in Zhaojia Village. So, how could Zheng Qiushi not know about Zhao Chaogang's engagement?

Zheng Qiushi denied that he knew it from Shi Zhengming, which was actually a kind of cover-up, and of course it was a kind of cover-up. In this case, both sides would not be embarrassed.

After all, if Zheng Qiushi said that he had suspicion in Zhaojia Village, Zhao Chaogang would definitely feel uncomfortable. At that time, there would be problems with 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 a suspicion in Zhaojia Village, Zhao Chaogang would not have any knots in his heart. Things that were not proven will always be speculations.

Zheng Banqiao wrote a poem: It’s rare to be confused! Sometimes people are better off being confused, right? (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!