Mr. Ling has married. The bride, as you can see, is the lovely Shu Shen. She is very pleasant and mild mannered, quite the match for Mr. Ling. The other man in the center is her escort Mr. Hui Peng. Mrs. Ling's father hired Mr. Peng to escort and protect his daughter on her journey to America. The orange container Mr. Peng is holding was a gift for the married couple from Shu Shen's father and mother, it's an incense burner. (part of their religion or something like that)The Elder Shen's also sent a box each of nuts, pears, and sweetcakes. They were lovely and served at the wedding feast.Mr. Ling closed his shop for the wedding and the couple took a short trip to visit with relatives and will be home this weekend. No photos were allowed at the wedding ceremony so these will have to do.
For those of you who have emailed me with offers to help find Mr. Ling a wife, we thank you. As you can see he's happy with his new bride and she is quite content with our Mr. Ling.
I'm hosting Mr. Peng until the newlyweds return. He's an interesting character, he's gone through four bags of rice and spits on the floor. (is spitting a custom in their country??)
He takes his job as escort and protector seriously. Yesterday at the market the produce man approached rather close to me and Mr. Peng went into warrior stance and gave the man the 'evil eye'. I felt quite safe. If I can just get him to stop spitting on the floor I might keep him around for trips to the big city.
Another interesting tidbit about Mr. Peng...he's as curious as a cat. Let me explain...He had never seen a gas stove before and and kept turning the burners on and off. He got so close to the flame the other day he burned off one side of his mustache. As you can see in the photo we had to shave the other half off as well. He was mortified to have his picture taken without his mustache. I really don't know why because it was a runty little thing.
Anyway, we're getting on famously (albeit, the spitting) and looking forward to the newlyweds arriving home.
Have a lovely evening wherever in the world you are.
4 comments:
Maybe you could send your warrior, Mr. Peng this way, the big city can be a dangerous place and having Mr. Peng by my side I would feel much safer :)
Love the story!
LIke your story I thought it was true that is how much I got into it I thought maybe a was getting a history lesson.
I finally got him a can and he is now broken from spitting on the floor. He's quite personable and fun to watch. I'll have to ask if he's up to a visit. I'm uncertain if he will stay with Mrs. Ling upon her return or if he will return to China. I'm thinking he will stay. He has been with the Shen family since Shu was a little girl.
Ok---I just could not comment sooner because I can't figure out which one the bride is!!!
I got the Mr. Peng figured out...and I will just give you a little warning after working with the elderly in LTC...check the corners, it is a hard habit to break! Sometimes I think they do it and plead the "I forgot" thing just to show us who is really in charge!
I was just curious. What did Mr. Peng think the first time that Dave came home?
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