On weekends, in the courtyard house at No. 95 Nanluogu Lane.
Today is particularly festive, with the sound of firecrackers and shouts coming and going. It is Liu Guangqi's wedding day.
"Lao Liu has spent a lot of money this time. I heard from Nanyi that there are fish and ducks, and the banquet is very rich." Yan Bugui swallowed as he said that he was responsible for remembering the gifts today.
"Yes, I saw that the second uncle prepared a large wooden bed, a large wooden table, a large wardrobe, a table, etc. for Liu Guangqi, which was enough for 36 legs."
"And a watch."
"I also bought a bicycle."
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Neighbors in the courtyard are talking about the generous Liu Haizhong.
"Putting one's face on one's face and pretending to be fat will make Fatty Liu a poor man after Liu Guangqi got married." Silly Zhu mocked.
"Yes, the second uncle did spend a lot of money, but if people are happy with the flowers, they have a place to go. Unlike some people, who can only give flowers to widows, and it's still a razor-sharp job." Xu Damao said angrily.
"Xu Damao, I'll fuck you, uncle, do you want to practice again?" Silly Zhu scolded with a red face when someone told him something important.
"Shut up, both of you. Today is a big day for everyone. Do you want to steal the limelight or do you have a problem with the second uncle's family?" Zhang Zhifei stopped the two of them from acting like monsters in time.
"I listen to you, I don't have the same experience as you." Xu Damao said contemptuously, looking at Si Zhu with itchy teeth. If it weren't for the wrong occasion, Zhang Zhifei would have probably started practicing together.
Xu Damao is also a rookie, a typical rookie who also loves to play. He always likes to provoke fools and ends up being beaten.
"Da Mao, help me greet the leaders from the steel rolling mill later. I don't know who the second uncle has invited." Zhang Zhifei said.
"No problem. What kind of leaders can the second uncle invite? It's probably some group leaders and section leaders, or at most a workshop director or something." Xu Damao replied with a smile.
Zhang Zhifei thought the same thing. With Liu Haizhong's low emotional intelligence, no big leaders would come to attend his son's wedding.
At about 11 o'clock in the morning, people attending the wedding came one after another. Zhang Zhifei saw that many of the people coming from the steel rolling mill were the bosses of the workshop. There was only one workshop director, Li Jun, who he had seen when he was promoting the process.
Most people in the steel rolling mill wrote down 1 yuan. The workshop director wrote down 2 yuan, and Zhang Zhifei also wrote down 2 yuan.
After Liu Guangqi picked up the bride, the wedding was about to begin.
Zhang Zhifei first delivered a speech, wishing the two of them happiness and a revolutionary family.
Then the two bowed to the leader's portrait and made their pledges, and the wedding was completed.
After the wedding is over, the wedding banquet can begin, which is what most people present are looking forward to.
Nan Yi's cooking skills were really good, and Liu Haizhong prepared a lot of ingredients. Everyone's mouths were full of oil, and all the food on the table was wiped out.
The only one who was a little embarrassed was Mrs. Jia Zhang. I don’t know if she was addicted to acting. She pretended to be a shrew and she really became a shrew. Every dish was served and she put it in her own basin before anyone could eat it.
Fortunately, the people invited today are all men from various families, and there are not many female comrades. Everyone feels embarrassed and does not want to argue with Jia Zhang, otherwise something might happen.
In the end, the second aunt couldn't stand it anymore, so she drove away Jia Zhang and refunded her 2 cents as a gift. Jia Zhang didn't give up a dime and left with half a pot of vegetables.
Everyone also looked at each other in shock. Jia Zhang was completely shameless.
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"Huairu, get the bowls and chopsticks quickly," Jia Zhang ordered.
Qin Huairu took out the freshly steamed Erhe noodle buns from the pot and took the bowl and chopsticks. The family ate deliciously.
"Mom, are you going to offend everyone in the courtyard by doing this?" Qin Huairu asked hesitantly.
"It's okay. After the wedding banquet is over, you take your sticks and tricks and go door to door to apologize. Say I'm old and confused and apologize for me.
When they see this situation, they will only think that your life is miserable and scold me behind my back. They will not say that you are not at all wrong. They will only think that you are a good daughter-in-law who is filial to her mother-in-law. "Jia Zhang said without raising her head while eating the food.
"Well, I understand."
"Come on, eat more Banggeng. I'm a half-year-old and a poor man. Banggeng is becoming more and more edible." Mrs. Jia Zhang said dotingly.
"Huai Ru, you should eat more, you need to nurse the baby."
"Well, Xiaodang, you can eat too." Qin Huairu gave Xiaodang a piece of meat.
If Zhang Zhifei and others saw this scene, their jaws would definitely drop. They would never have thought that the Jia family would be so harmonious, and Jia Zhang was not just an old woman who only knew how to behave and roll around.
Zhang Zhifei sat at the same table with the workshop director, Xu Damao, Liu Guangqi and other leaders, and did not see Jia Zhang's performance.
Liu Haizhong definitely thinks highly of Liu Guangqi. Not to mention such a big occasion today, he is in a good mood. He is willing to accept toasts and is so drunk that he falls unconscious before the wedding banquet is over.
After the wedding banquet, Zhang Zhifei directed everyone to clean up, return all the furniture, tables, chairs and benches from each house, and pack everything up before returning home.
On the first day after the wedding, Liu Guangqi and his wife came to Liu Haizhong and made tea for his second aunt and said thank you.
But on the morning of the second day of the wedding, when Liu Haizhong's family was waiting for Liu Guangqi and his wife to have dinner, they couldn't wait, so they arranged for the youngest Liu Guangfu to call.
Liu Guangfu knocked on the door but received no response, so he pushed the door open and went in. He found that his brother, sister-in-law and bicycle were missing. There was a note on the table. When he picked it up and read the contents of the note, he felt secretly happy.
At that moment, he held the note in his hand and ran home, shouting: "My brother and sister-in-law have run away..." If you listen carefully to Liu Guangfu's words, you can still tell that there is a little joy in his words.
"What are you talking about?" Liu Haizhong said angrily, and he was about to pick up a stick and beat Liu Guangfu.
"Dad, I'm not talking nonsense. This is the note left by my eldest brother."
Liu Haizhong took a look at the note and almost lost his temper. It turned out that the note read: "Mom, Dad, my wife and I signed up for the construction aid work and went to Shijiazhuang. We don't want to continue living in this big city." I don’t want my child to be born in this hospital, and I don’t want my child to be born in this environment full of violence..."
It was a small note without much content, but Liu Haizhong read it over and over again. He really couldn't believe that his eldest son would run away from this home.
For a long time, Liu Haizhong still couldn't accept the fact that Liu Guangqi betrayed him and ran to Shijiazhuang.
He couldn't take a breath and passed out.
The second aunt was so frightened that she shouted for help. Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu stayed aside and made no attempt to rescue her at all.
Everyone in the compound heard the second aunt's cry for help and walked to the backyard in unison, Zhang Zhifei was no exception.
Pushing aside the crowd, Zhang Zhifei walked up to Liu Haizhong. One look at his face and he basically concluded that he fainted due to emotional excitement.
He said to the people gathered in front of him: "Don't crowd together, let the air flow." Then he lowered his head and pinched Liu Haizhong's middle, and rolled the whites of his eyes.
Seeing Liu Haizhong's eyes beating, Zhang Zhifei guessed that Liu Haizhong was awake, but he just didn't know how to face his neighbors and was embarrassed to wake up.
This time he was embarrassed and generous. The good boy he had trained for many years went to Shijiazhuang, which was a big blow to him.
Someone with good intentions had sneaked up to brothers Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu to inquire about the situation. These two people did not have any good impressions of his father and his brother, so naturally they would not help hide it, so they immediately told the story about his brother sneaking away to Shijiazhuang. Again.
After everyone in the courtyard heard this, many people began to gloat. Liu Haizhong originally had three sons, the eldest of whom was still in a technical secondary school. He had always been the envy of others. This time he was finally able to laugh at him.
Silly Zhu was even more direct. He said carelessly: "Second uncle, I said you can't pretend to be fat, but now you see, you are called a meat bun beating a dog, and you will never come back."
Zhang Zhifei glanced at him and said nothing, because Zhu Zhu would be beaten to death sooner or later because of his bad mouth. That bad mouth was so mean.
"Guangtian, Guangfu, lift you onto the bed." Zhang Zhifei directed the two brothers.
The two brothers Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu were obviously reluctant. Zhang Zhifei shook his head at Liu Haizhong Anan. His education was a complete failure.
Lifting Liu Haizhong to the bed, Zhang Zhifei said to the second aunt: "The second uncle is fainted from anger. Give him some water and he will wake up in a while. Everyone, please go out and don't crowd around other people's homes."
After sending everyone away, Zhang Zhifei looked at Liu Haizhong and knew that he didn't want to see anyone, so he left without saying anything.
Liu Haizhong has been greatly embarrassed this time. It is expected that he and his family Liu Guangqi will be the talk of others for a long time in the future.
