Wei Jincheng and his friends arrived after eight, preceded by a military vehicle festooned with red ropes on both sides.
Four sat inside the vehicle, and another three or four followed on bicycles, all clad in green military uniforms.
"Here they come, they're coming in a car."
Xue Jianian also curiously peered out from the window and remarked, "Why did they bring a car?"
Lu Jingqiu said, "If not in a car, then what?"
"He said he'd come to pick me up on a bicycle."
Lu Jingqiu didn't know that it was only last night when Jiang Nanzhou went to Wei Jincheng's place that he found out he was planning to arrive on a bicycle to fetch the bride.
It was then he remembered he needed to change out of his clothes, after all, he was to be the best man.
So he rode back to the military unit with Wei Jincheng and borrowed a vehicle.