In fact, the host family does not need to worry about organizing this kind of birthday banquet. There are certain rules for such things in the village.
The old man didn't want to make a fuss. Firstly, he had been a farmer all his life and he wasn't used to it. Secondly, he didn't want to stand out too much, so he just followed the old rules.
The food, tobacco and wine are just one level higher than others, not showy, but decent.
It stands to reason that since my uncle opens a big hotel in the city, the old man's birthday banquet should be hosted by a chef in the city.
But Zhang's mother refused to do this.
Everything is in accordance with the rules of the village. The brother who holds the banquet in the clan is invited to serve. According to seniority, Zhang Yuanjun has to call him second uncle.
Zhang Yuanjun didn't understand this. He gave gifts to follow the crowd in order to take care of other families, but the specifications of the banquet were so high. Since his own family had the conditions, why didn't he do it in a grand manner?
"I would say you are too young, and you only think about the scenery and don't care about anything else." Zhang's mother gave a folk lesson to a pair of children, "Of course you can make better food by hiring a cook from outside, but what will your second uncle and the others think? For more than ten years, the same family has prepared the banquets for weddings and funerals in the village. Now our family is hosting a birthday banquet and inviting outsiders? Your second uncle will definitely think that he is a brother of the same family, and he doesn't show any favors. The money that should be earned must be earned by others.”
"The taste of the banquet in the village is just average." Zhang Yuanying said.
“It can’t be compared to a restaurant, but that’s how wine is served in a village. The ingredients we use are all good and they won’t taste bad.
In the afternoon, Zhang Leping, the eldest son of the Zhang family, arrived home. He had not seen him for more than a year and he had lost a lot of weight.
"Is this how American beef is raised for you?" Zhang Yuanjun said the first thing Zhang Leping said when he walked in.
"I knew I wouldn't have studied for a PhD. It would have been too tiring."
"Do you weigh 150 pounds now?" The eldest brother is 187cm, and Zhang Yuanying always underestimated it.
Zhang Leping shook his head: "A few pounds of 140, not even 150."
This height and weight are within a medically healthy range, but in reality, she looks thin.
"Okay, go home and eat more for a few days to make up for it." I forgot to ask, "How many days will you stay at home?"
"Ten days, where is the second child?"
"I only asked for a week." Zhang Yuanying said.
"Don't look at me," Zhang Yuanjun said, warming himself up by the fire, "I'll only leave for three days, and I'll leave early the day after tomorrow. You can go and do it next week."
The old rule is to sweep the tomb twice in spring and winter, once before Tomb Sweeping Day and once before Winter Solstice, usually not on the same day.
This winter solstice grave sweeping will be next Sunday, so Zhang Yuanjun will definitely not be able to go.
"Okay, I'll go."
After cleaning up, Boss Zhang asked: "Which one did you finish filming first?"
"'No. 1 in the world'." Zhang Yuanying added.
"Ah, yes, "No. 1 in the World", when will it be broadcast? I boasted to you in the circle of Chinese international students in the United States, saying that my third child became an actor and acted in a martial arts TV series."
"Thank you." Zhang Laosan didn't know what to say.
"I also promoted it to you in France." Zhang Yuanying added, "I want them all to see it. Will they be able to receive it by then?"
"I don't know." He really doesn't know whether the United States and France can receive domestic TV programs. "The film has been sold. It will be premiered on Bay Island China Television and the mainland will be premiered on Jiangcheng TV. Can you receive these two channels? ?”
"can not receive."
"That's nonsense." He still expected them to contribute some overseas ratings, "I can't expect anything."
"Then you return the 1 million from me and the boss." Zhang Yuanjun still thinks that they paid for the attack on Wang Jing.
"Having said that," Zhang Yuanjun had no intention of returning the favor, "They are all born to the same mother. What is yours and mine? It would hurt the feelings of brothers to be so clear about it."
"Now I know how to talk about brotherhood. Yesterday, you beat me."
"Didn't I beat you as well? I also gave you a hot water bottle to warm your bed."
"Where is the hot water bottle? Why didn't I see it?" Zhang Yuanying would not recognize it.
Seeing that the two were about to quarrel again, Zhang Leping refused to dissuade him and grabbed a handful of melon seeds and cracked them to watch the show.
The quarrel between the siblings ended with Zhang Yuanying picking up a poker and chasing Zhang Yuanjun, and Zhang Yuanjun fled out the door.
"I'll beat you to death!" Zhang Yuanying cursed at Zhang Yuanjun's fleeing back.
Zhang Leping sat in front of the TV: "Fight him. You can't fight him in a few years. In a few years, when the third child falls in love and gets married, you won't be able to fight him."
"Hmph," Zhang Yuanying disagreed, "I can beat him anytime I want. If he talks about a girlfriend, I will join his girlfriend to beat him together. Huh?" Zhang Yuanying felt something was wrong, "You are not even married, how can he be married? marriage."
"Just wait and see, the third child will definitely get married early." Zhang Leping seemed to have known it for a long time.
"Then do you believe what the fairy said?" This summer, my mother asked someone to calculate the birth dates of her three children and said that Zhang Yuanjun, the third child, would get married early. Mother Zhang told the eldest child and second child this statement.
"You have to believe the letter." The boss has his own opinions on this matter. "When I went abroad, I didn't even think that I could read a lot of books. I said I could study for a Ph.D."
"Then when I went abroad, she also said that I would find the right relationship. I have been in France for three years and I haven't found anything."
"If you want to find a good match, ask me. There are many handsome guys in the entertainment industry." Zhang Yuanjun appeared at the right time.
"You really want me to find a boyfriend, right?"
"Yeah, hurry up and ask someone to take it away. My ears are clean and no one has hit me yet. Also, when you get married, your room will be mine." Zhang Yuanying's room is the largest among the three siblings, and there is also a individual washroom.
Zhang Leping stood aside and said, "If you speak less in the future, you will be beaten more easily."
But Zhang Yuanying doesn't want to hit anyone now: "That's right, can you find a girlfriend by talking like this? What kind of girl would be so blind as to fall in love with you."
"You are wrong. Your brother is the school boy of Beidian, the little prince of Xitucheng Road."
"Ugh~ Are you still the school idol like this? Your school is just average." Just as the younger brother never thought his older sister was good-looking, the older sister would never think her younger brother was handsome.
"I don't know the goods." Zhang Yuanjun said.
Mom is not at home. She has gone back to the countryside to prepare for the birthday banquet and will not come back in the evening.
None of the three siblings knew how to cook, so at dinner time, the three of them heated up the leftovers from lunch and ate them.
After dinner, the eldest child asked the second child to wash the dishes because she was a girl and had to learn to do housework. The second child asked the third child to wash the dishes because the youngest had to be obedient.
The third child...the third child had no one to call him, so he could only wash the dishes obediently.
While the dishes were being washed, the eldest and the second child disappeared. They drove away and went to who knows where.
Zhang Yuanjun finished cleaning up alone and comforted himself: "What will this family do without me?"
Afterwards he also went out for a walk.
Zhang Laosan was the last to go out, but the first to come back.
At nine o'clock, he went home.
At eleven o'clock, the boss comes back.
At 11:30, the second child came back and blamed the eldest brother for not picking her up.
The three brothers and sisters slept until dawn. At eight o'clock in the morning, the eldest brother woke up his younger sister and younger brother one by one: "Get up quickly, my mother called. We will go early today. Get dressed quickly."
