While wedding expenditures are less these days, the celebration was no less boisterous than those of the twenty-first century. Even people from the neighboring village came to join in the revelry, awaiting the bridal sedan chair and ready to pick up thrown candies.
About a hundred or two men, women, and children joined the procession around the village. By the time the sedan chair arrived at Si Family's house, the small dwelling was so packed that there wasn't room for anyone more. Amid the uproarious laughter, Si Boyi red-facedly carried Zhang Lijuan from the bridal sedan chair into the house. It was only after the youngsters made a spectacle of themselves, and were sent away under Lin Fengying's insistence, that things quieted down.