The countryside in winter is very depressing, although as far as the eye can see there are green wheat fields, and occasionally there are some Chinese medicinal plants that do not lose their leaves in winter.
But the big bare trees always give people a feeling of loneliness. Especially in the northern Anhui province, the air in winter is dry and cold, the kind of dry and cold that will cause your lips to crack if you don't protect them well, and your face will get frostbite if you don't protect your face well.
In this kind of environment, people don't seem to be that active. If there is sunny weather, squatting at the foot of a sunny wall and chatting with a group of people can kill the day.
However, compared to Yangjiacun in the past, which seemed to have become sluggish due to winter, Yangjiacun has been particularly lively these two days. It is not a festival, and a stage has been set up at the market in Yangjiacun. In addition to the stage, there are also A circus that is relatively rare in rural areas.
This is a preparation only made by some towns and cities on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, or on the second day of February when the dragon raises its head, such as when summits and gatherings are held.
And these two preparations were in place and other businessmen followed, such as those who set rings and used air guns to pop balloons during the summit.
Some stalls sell jade calligraphy and paintings, as well as various clothing and fabrics, not to mention snacks and fruits. Therefore, Yangjia Village is extremely lively these days, and everyone's face is filled with smiles, especially the shops and merchants on the street are smiling happily.
The time for the Yangjiacun Summit is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. This is the time set after the formation of the Yangjiacun Market. This date has been unshakable for decades. The summit times of other markets in the surrounding ten miles and eight towns will be staggered from this time. This is not true. Written understanding.
Therefore, according to the market situation in previous years, it is still some time before the Chinese New Year. It is still early to prepare New Year’s goods. The business in the market can only increase slightly. It will take some time to start buying various goods and make a profit at the end of the year. Time will do.
And Yang Dongjie's marriage directly brought this time forward. The business of two or three days in rushing for the convention is no less than what he earns from selling new year's goods at the end of the year.
What's especially important is that during the annual summit, the merchants on the street are easy to make money. Because whether you invite opera singers or invite people to the circus, you need money.
The money is given by the merchants on the street. Occasionally, wealthy residents in Yangjia Village also want to make their own markets more lively and take some money.
But this time it's different. This time, all the expenses are borne by the Yang family themselves. It's no wonder that I'm not happy because I can't pay a penny and I get a wave of bonuses.
However, the people who do business on the streets of Yangjia Village are very particular. While they are happy to eat the bonuses for free, they also want to go to the small table of Yang's house to collect gift money and take a share of the money.
After all, even if they don't have this free bonus to eat and have some relationship with the Yang family, these people are still willing to follow the gift.
However, following the ceremony, these people did not come all in one swarm, but a few people came first.
Seeing that the uncle and aunt were coming, they didn't want to take the extra money. After all, more than fifty tables had been opened just to entertain Yangjiacun's own family and other relatives and friends.
If merchants on the street come and accept gifts even if they offer them, they will not be able to stop fifty tables from being opened. I didn’t have such a budget when counting people before. Taking people’s money but not caring about the meal is a big deal in the countryside. It was a very unreasonable performance, and the Yang family could not afford to lose face like this.
But the people who followed the gift usually met each other with their heads down, and many of them even drank with my uncle at the wine table. Besides, it would be a bit unsightly to face such a happy event if someone came to the door with a smile on his face and greeted him with gifts.
After all, it’s not that the Yang family doesn’t have a banquet, and no one is invited. If you say no, you won’t accept it. You are a banquet, and there are several merchants on the street who are close to my uncle Shengli and they have already accepted the gifts. , you accept other people’s things, treat them differently and don’t accept other people’s things.
"Take it all." Looking at the hesitant uncle and aunt, Yang Dongxu said. They all live on the same street. Now that this person who doesn’t look up or down is here, it’s really not good not to accept the congratulations.
And these people who came to congratulate me were sincere and came one day in advance. Obviously, he also considered that if he came suddenly on the wedding day tomorrow, he would be causing trouble for the Yang family. This was not to congratulate him, but to find trouble.
Although time is a bit tight to congratulate the family a day in advance, with the energy of the Yang family, as long as they accept the gifts and arrange a meal, it will definitely be no problem.
Even a few people who opened restaurants on the street were prepared. If the Yang family really held a big banquet, they would help the Yang family support the banquet even if they did not have a prosperous business in the past two days.
"There are too many people to arrange." The aunt frowned. She was really happy that so many people came to congratulate her son on his marriage, but it was true that too many people would be troublesome.
"The weather will be good tomorrow, with no strong wind or rain. Let's arrange for these people to eat in the courtyard of the old house. It's not a problem to have a few tables in the house and dozens of tables in the yard." Yang Dongxu said.
Nowadays, most of the guests are arranged to have dinner at the aunt's home and the nearby neighbors' homes. This is also a common phenomenon at rural wedding banquets.
If there are too many guests to sit at home, a few tables will be set up in an open space in front of the home, or at a neighbor's house. It doesn't make sense for everyone to have guests like this.
Of course, some important guests, such as the natal family, or the elders, grandparents, uncles, etc. will definitely be arranged at the main table in the room, and everyone knows that they will not care about this.
Yang Dongjie is Yang Dongxu's cousin, so it's no problem to host the banquet in his yard, even though it's a little far away from my aunt's house. But the reason why so many people came to congratulate my aunt's family was because everyone knew whose face it was for.
Therefore, these people would be more happy to have this banquet at Yang Dongxu's residence, and they would definitely not feel unwelcome just because they were far away. The host's family did not make good arrangements for receiving gifts.
"Now that we've cooked and received the gifts from these people, there's no need to think that everyone else on the street will definitely come. There are quite a few of them."
"Some of the people offering gifts outside are those who own restaurants in the market. Usually, the gifts are given at ten or eleven o'clock. Now it's only nine o'clock and not long after the market opened, these people came. Obviously, if When we receive gifts and need to arrange a banquet tomorrow, they can help. Otherwise, they wouldn't be the first batch to come to give gifts, and they all came so suddenly. "
The uncle stretched his head outside and saw that it was true that the people who came now were basically the restaurant owners and the like who he usually went to the restaurant to drink when he had nothing to do.
And these people are very particular about what they do, or adults are very measured in what they do. When these people came, they went to the table where the gifts were received to pay the bills. Instead, they were smoking and chatting with Yang Rukun, the youngest son of the grandfather's family in the same house number as the Yang family, not far from the table.
Obviously they also knew that their arrival was a bit sudden. After all, although they usually drank with their uncle Shengli, there were so many people who drank with him. They were not even married to their uncle's son. Friends who want to give gifts.
So they didn't pay the bill directly, but talked and chatted first to give the Yang family time to discuss it. Otherwise, just go to the billing table and ask the person who paid the bill to collect it directly, or ask the owner before collecting it?
I asked the owner, and if the owner said he wouldn't accept it, it would be embarrassing for both parties.
Therefore, it is better to express your intention vaguely first and let the host have time to think about it. In this way, if the host family does not accept their gifts, then they are just here to smoke, chat and watch the fun, and no one will be embarrassed.
(End of chapter)
