Had I know

Congratulations Episode 4

Mr Friday and his father had left to begin the preparation for the deal day, when Mrs Rosa and Osamagbe joined their father, Osamagbe the father called, you see the people that left a while ago,

? They are going to be your new family in three days time, your mother will prepare you for the day, Osamagbe was shocked and sad, she began to cry, i will not go she said to her father, You must go i will not allow you to bring shame and disgrace to this family, you have refuse to do any meaningful thing with your life, So go to your husbands house.

Mrs Rosa quietly took her daughter into her closet and began marriage lectures on her, when you go to your husbands house you must take his family as your own, love and respect your mother in law, respect your husband and be good to every one and remember to be very hard working,she instructed her daughter. Osamagbe is a good cook especially when it comes to her favourite rice and she is good with house chores but she does not like education or want to evolve in any trade and does not like farm work either this is why she must be married off now before is too late.

The appointed day arrived, The elders were seated waitting for the arrival of the groom to be kingsmen, Meanwhile Osamagbe is dressed up in a village wedding attires gracefully but tears wouldnt stop flowing down her beautiful face, her father came inside the room where she was and found her crying, He became emotional too but for the future he had seen he held on ,do not cry my child by this time tomorrow you will be in the city with your husband, so that no body will bother you for not going to farm again, she gave out a smile like the words soothes her a little not knowing whats is ahead of her.

It was time, the elders enacted the marriage vows between the two families, and the time had come for the bride to be giving to her new family Mr Fridays heart began to beat faster he can't wait for the final momentsHere comes the gougeous bride with her head bent down too shy to look any in the face, An uncle counted her on the lap of her father in law to be, for so it was in the tradition of Ukogbon to be counted on the lap of the father of the groom or any one representing the grooms father, They would count from number one to seven, the brides uncle will hold the bride by the shoulder while she sits on her father in laws lap, the uncle help her to raise up while the elders count each time so he raises till seven times , So it was that at the sevent count every body shout for joy and congratulates the new family.Osamagbe continues to cry but she had no choice than to go for she has been fully paid for, She now belong to another family.