Every household has its difficulties and remains free from competitiveness. Coupled with the nation's calls for frugality, urban weddings basically require no cost as wedding ceremonies and materials are contributions from kind neighbors, friends, and relatives. However, those who can afford it would still prepare the traditional gifts of 'Three Turns, One Echo', either with thirty-six or seventy-two legs included.
What others do is none of Shen Feihong's business. He, for one, was fully committed to preparing for his wedding.
A clean courtyard, a main house with three rooms, and two rooms each in the east and west wings are his brick-wood structures. A pomegranate tree, many years old, stood in his courtyard, with fruits whose mouths exposed the red seeds within.
Early in the morning, Feng Qingxue, cradling Xibao, entered the house where sugar cubes and melon seeds were placed on the table and guests started to arrive one after another.
Each also brought their own gifts.
