"Come and sit in Third Grandpa's room." Seeing Third Grandpa coming, Yang Dongxu quickly stood up and handed over the cigarette.
"I'm not going to sit down anymore. Where is your dad?"
"It should be at the pig farm. He was worried about the insulation that was done at the pig farm before it started snowing. He just said he would go check it out again. Is something wrong?"
"I want to ask your dad to come with me about the gift from Yinshan." Third Grandpa said after taking the cigarette and lighting it.
In rural areas, people usually go with relatives in the same village to give gifts. If they are well connected and have prestige in the village, they can also be called to support face. Father Yang naturally falls into the latter category.
Young people like Yinshan naturally want to ask college students like Yang Dongxu to support themselves, but people from the older generation like Third Grandpa obviously still feel that a person as prestigious as Father Yang, who is not young at a young age, can do things safely.
"It's definitely okay to go there tomorrow if my dad is fine, but let's just forget about driving under such heavy snow. If I accidentally slip into a ditch, I won't feel comfortable doing this happy event. If it's not far away, find a few more people. Just carry the betrothal gift and so on." Yang Dongxu said.
"That's the truth." He looked at Grandpa Daxue, who was falling behind him, and nodded.
"It would be a shame not to drive."
"It's a shame for me, not for you. How old are you?" The third grandfather glanced at his son.
Yinshan shrank his head and did not dare to speak.
"We are all fellow villagers, but we don't know each other. Even if we walk there, no one will look down on us from Yangjia Village. The reason for the lack of scene is that God doesn't give face due to the heavy snow. What can we do?"
If you feel that giving a gift is not enough, then choose a good day when you are welcoming the bride, drive a car there and find her back soon? Now that the New Year is almost here, it’s better to be safe. "Seeing that Yinshan was a little angry, Yang Dongxu tried to persuade him.
"That's right, it's good to be proud of something happy, but it's better to be on the safe side without getting into trouble, especially at the end of the year. He's such a big guy, and he doesn't know as much as your nephew. I should have pushed you to go to school when you were a child. "Having just finished speaking, the third grandfather's anger turned to his son again.
"Third Grandpa, what are you still missing? I have a lot of stuff at home, can I help you make up for it?" Seeing Yinshan shrinking his head and not speaking, Yang Dongxu was a little amused, but he didn't show it on his face.
"If you don't prepare everything, you won't be short of anything. The amount of three gold coins is sufficient, six pieces of good cigarettes, six boxes of good wine, and two big fish of twenty kilograms. In addition to asking your father to follow him and give him a gift, he also I need to pick a big pig from your pig farm and slaughter it. My pig is too thin and doesn’t have enough oil and water. No one can pick out half a fan of pork and take care of it." said the third grandpa’s face about the betrothal gift he had prepared. I couldn't help but feel a little proud.
Nowadays, wedding gifts in rural areas, not to mention three golds, and those who can buy cigarettes and alcohol in boxes and boxes are considered to be great people. Twenty pounds of pork is considered a wealthy household, and half a fan of pork is not necessarily so generous even if it is a gift from the city.
"This gift is generous." Yang Dongxu raised his thumb and praised: "Don't say that you can't drive there because of the snow. Even if you go naked, they still have to entertain you with good wine and food."
"That's necessary." Yinshan raised his neck and felt that with a family like his own, it would be a blessing for the other party to marry him. It's natural for the other party to be beautiful. How could he be worthy of him if he wasn't beautiful?
"You must be tall." The third grandfather slapped his son on the back of the head angrily: "How about you go naked tomorrow?"
After teaching his son a lesson, the third grandfather said to Yang Dongxu: "You are busy first. I will go to the pig farm to find your father to pick pigs. This snow is really not the right time. It can only fall two days later."
Obviously, even if he walked there, no one would think that he, Old Yang, was in trouble, but he couldn't drive a car there to show off. The third grandfather was indeed a little disappointed. After all, how can there be too much of a thing like face and money?
"I don't know yet. Who is your wife from?" Yang Dongxu asked Yinshan after seeing the third grandfather leaving.
"From Laozhou Village."
"That's really a bit far away. If there are too many people tomorrow and there aren't enough people, just give me a shout."
"That's for sure." Yinshan nodded, said a few more words before wrapping up his coat and leaving.
The next day Yang Dongxu did not follow him to salute.
There was too much snow on the road, and it was hard to tell where the trenches and the road were. The car was definitely not allowed to drive, but the car could be pulled. Several male laborers of Father Yang's generation were pulling a cart full of gifts. It was still a scene that no one could look down upon.
"If you get married in the future, you must choose a day without snow, otherwise it will be too troublesome to drive the car." Watching Yang's father and others leaving the village, Yang's mother and some women who were watching the excitement turned around and came back.
This sentence is not only said by Yang's mother, many people also think so. Although the Yinshan family's betrothal gift was sufficient and not embarrassing, it still felt like something was missing without driving.
"I'm still young, and it's still early to get married." Yang Dongxu didn't expect that his mother would think so early, and now she would start to give him wedding gifts.
"You are already 20, why are you so young? If you hadn't gone to school, you would have gone on a blind date this year. Daliang's marriage has already been arranged. He is two years younger than you."
"It's still early for me, it's still early." Yang Dongxu quickly changed the topic: "What should I do about my sister's wedding preparations?"
As the saying goes, dead Taoist friends will not die on the channel. He has helped his elder sister so much, and now it is time to let the two of them block his arrows.
"Your father and I haven't thought about this yet. The people in Leehom are nice, but why are they from Sichuan? It would be great if they were near us." Yang's mother also had a headache when she thought about her eldest daughter's marriage. The distance was too far for many things. It’s not even convenient to do.
"Why don't you let my brother-in-law call and ask his parents what they want? If they want to do it, according to our custom, the daughter will not hold a banquet until she returns to her parents' house three days after she gets married. Anyway, they are all held separately. It won’t affect anything. If it’s inconvenient for people from both sides to go back and forth by then, I’ll contact the airline to charter a plane.”
Although Yang Dongxu usually doesn't show much interest, he can eat in high-end Western restaurants and make skewers at roadside stalls. But there's nothing wrong with being high-profile for your sister's once-in-a-lifetime event.
"Charge a plane, why don't you hire a rocket to fly to the sky? You've only had money for a few years and you've been wasting your money like this?" Yang's mother glared at her son.
Although she has gradually accepted the fact that her son has made a lot of money doing business outside while going to school in the past few years, she doesn't know exactly how much money it is, she just knows that her son is rich.
Therefore, for someone like Yang Ma who has only taken trains, chartering a plane costs a lot of money for one ride. The cost of chartering a plane is simply an astronomical figure.
"No, not anymore. If they have a banquet then, let's go there in advance and find a hotel to stay at the head office, right?" Yang Dongxu said with a wry smile.
Although chartering a plane is quite expensive, it is really not a big deal for him. But I didn’t say the price, and my mother didn’t agree after thinking about it. It would be strange if Yang’s mother agreed after asking about the price, so this pretense was aborted before it even started.
"I'll let Leehom call me later and ask. Now that everything has been decided, let's choose the wedding date as soon as possible." In the past two days, she could see that her daughter was stubborn about right and wrong. This person is not married anymore.
In this case, the happy event should be done as soon as possible. Originally, she was a little unhappy about marrying out of town. If the two children couldn't control it and one of them got pregnant out of wedlock, her face would be really lost. So now that I have recognized this son-in-law, it would be safer to get things done as soon as possible.
"At that time, my brother-in-law and I talked about it, if we could arrange things at the beginning of the year, there are a lot of good days at the beginning of the year anyway. After visiting relatives, there is basically nothing to do, and the people who go out have not left yet, so what should I do? It’s also lively when there’s a happy event.”
"The beginning of the year is good." Yang Ma nodded: "But you and Leehom should discuss this carefully, so as not to make the other party think that our family is rushing to marry off our daughter."
"They can marry such a good daughter-in-law as my sister, but they haven't had enough time to have fun, so how can they have so many messy ideas." Yang Dongxu said with a smile.
He still knew his sister's parents-in-law well. He was a bit shady in his previous life and went to look for a job with his sister. My father-in-law and mother-in-law entertained me with delicious food and drinks for several months without saying a bad word.
There is nothing to say about his sister, but something similar to the Yang family is that Liu Leehom's grandparents are basically the same as his grandparents before the Yang family became rich, and they favored their youngest son to the ankles.
However, Liu Leehom's parents were also decisive, and in recent years it has been popular to work outside the home. They simply gave up their land and went out to look for work as a family. He pampered his sister in every way, but he never indulged his son. The family lived happily.
As the Spring Festival approaches, the countryside becomes more and more lively. People slaughter pigs and sheep to give New Year's gifts, but basically the sound of firecrackers in the village is never heard. After all, the boys in the village went to other villages to give New Year's gifts to their old Yue family. There were also many girls in Yangjiacun. Naturally, they also arranged for their uncles to come to Yangjiacun to give New Year's gifts. In addition, Yangjiacun was a market, so every day It's all lively.
In the early morning, there were several clean jars for pickling pickles in the Yang family's yard. Liu Leehom was busy in the kitchen wearing an apron, and Yang's mother and elder sister Hongying helped.
In rural areas, pickled vegetables are not missing even in later generations when they eat vegetables casually in winter. However, due to regional differences, pickled vegetables are different in different places.
For example, Chengwang City is located to the north of the Huaihe River Basin. The pickles that Yang Dongxu has eaten since he was a child are basically pimples, salted garlic cloves, salted duck eggs, soy beans, etc. As for pickles, they were only eaten after the great circulation of goods across the country after 2000. .
But with a brother-in-law from Sichuan, a mother who is also interested in pickles, and old man Xuan who is also good at cooking and eating, there will naturally be more kinds of pickles and enema at home this year.
After pouring water on the lid, Yang's mother asked curiously: "Now that it's sealed, how long will it take for this to be eaten?"
"It takes more than 20 days to make kimchi. Because it is winter, it may take a little longer. You have to wait a few more days. You can eat pickled beans and the like in seven days. You can eat radish strips if you make them tonight. But if you want If it tastes good enough, you can marinate it for a few more days to make it chewier." Liu Leehom said while helping to move the jar with vegetables into the house.
"So long." Yang's mother was a little disappointed when she heard that it would take so long. This was not because she was greedy, but mainly because it was her first time doing it. She couldn't wait to see how her results were.
"Hey, my brother-in-law has bought butter and all the spices. How do you stir-fry them?" With a brother-in-law who knows how to pickle vegetables, Sichuan hot pot is naturally indispensable.
Although every Sichuanese eats hot pot, not every Sichuanese knows how to cook hot pot. But I have a brother-in-law who has learned cooking skills in his hometown for several years, so basic operations such as hot pot are naturally not a problem.
