When the convoy came back to pick up the bride.
A large group of people had gathered at the entrance of the courtyard.
Yan Bugui, Yan Jiecheng, Yan Jiefang, Aunt Liu, He Yuyu, Liu Haizhong, the second aunt... Even Jia Dongxu and Qin Huairu came to join in the fun.
When he saw that the person picking up the bride was a jeep, Jia Dongxu cursed and left.
Yan Jiecheng, who was in charge of setting off the firecrackers, lit the firecrackers again.
Amidst the crackling sound of firecrackers.
Li Aiguo and Chen Xueru slowly walked out of the jeep.
The red braji on Chen Xueru's body was reflected in Qin Huairu's eyes. She felt ashamed and turned away.
Xu Damao's eyes shone.
This red dress is similar to the wedding dress that big capitalists used to marry their daughters before liberation.
Others can't find faults, but Li Aiguo is really capable.
The young people in the compound rushed forward and helped carry the dowry to Li's house.
Seeing such a glamorous dowry, the residents all praised the Chen family for their generosity and envied Li Aiguo's good luck.
Chen Xueru entered Li's house and the ceremony officially began.
The young couple stood in the middle of the main room, surrounded by relatives and friends. Under the leadership of Cao Wenzhi, the whole room sang a popular song.
"The east is red, the sun is rising"
After the singing, Cao Wenzhi delivered a speech on behalf of the locomotive department, encouraging the two to work together to have more children and contribute to national construction after getting married.
After the speeches, Li Aiguo and Chen Xueru bowed three times to the photo frame on the wall, and the wedding ceremony officially ended.
As a new daughter-in-law, Chen Xueru was taken to the back room by He Yuyu to chat.
The groom's officer, Li Aiguo, brought out melon seeds and candies to entertain the residents who came to congratulate them.
There were bursts of laughter in the room.
I ate two pieces of candy in my bangs.
Remembering the Liu family's wedding banquet, I hurried back home.
At this time, two large cooking pots had been built outside the Liu family's house.
Chef Fatty took Liu Guangfu and the second aunt to work in front of the stove.
"Fat man, when you cook, put less oil in it. Oil is so expensive now!"
Liu Haizhong explained uneasily.
"Snapped!"
The kitchen knife fell on the chopping board, and the fat man said angrily: "Master Liu, if you do this, I won't be able to prepare for the feast today."
Fatty originally had high expectations for this extra money.
He wants to make a name for himself immediately and become a fool-like existence from now on, relying on extra money every month to be able to eat and drink enough.
but.
Today, when he came to Liu's house early in the morning, he realized that this was an impossible task.
The dishes prepared by the Liu family are all green vegetables such as cabbage and radish.
How can we make a feast if there is not even a trace of meat?
Under Liu Haizhong's strong request, Fatty showed off his special skills and planned several dishes.
Stir-fry Chinese cabbage with Chinese cabbage, stir-fry white radish with carrots, stir-fry Chinese cabbage with Chinese cabbage, stir-fry white radish with carrots, stir-fry Chinese cabbage with white radish.
Any students who are good at math can calculate how many dishes there are in total?
The dishes were already a hodgepodge of vegetables.
Now if we put less oil, wouldn’t it mean we can only feed animals?
Seeing that the fat man was not happy, Liu Haizhong made a serious face: "Fat Master, are you not going to ask for wages?"
Fatty: "."
There is no way, people under the eaves have to lower their heads.
The fat man decided to go against the decision of the ancestors of the chef world again.
Holding the fat man in his arms, Liu Haizhong came to Yi Zhonghai's house with his hands behind his back.
He had to ask Yi Zhonghai to set up a table at the gate and collect gifts from the residents.
Receiving gift money is an honorable job, so Yi Zhonghai agreed without saying a word.
The two lifted the table and walked out of the door.
Just walked to the front yard.
Liu Haizhong saw Yan Bugui and several residents unloading vegetables from Wang Dakui's flatbed truck.
Celery, Chinese cabbage, Chinese cabbage, and a dozen large carp.
Oops, that piece of fat weighs more than twenty kilograms, and there are all kinds of side dishes and seasonings.
The center of his bangs jumped, he frowned, stared at Yan Bugui and asked: "Old Yan, why did you buy so many vegetables?"
Yan Bugui didn't expect to touch Liu Haizhong at this moment. He rolled his eyes and said, "I didn't buy this, we all bought it together."
"That's okay." Liu Haizhong was about to leave, but suddenly stopped.
He asked, "Why are you guys buying groceries? Aren't you going to my house for lunch?"
Yan Bugui adjusted the frame of his glasses and said with a smile: "Old Liu, I forgot to tell you. The residents in our compound pooled money to hold a wedding banquet for Li Aiguo. I won't go to your house at noon."
"The residents pooled their money to hold a wedding banquet for Li Aiguo." Liu Haizhong's expression changed drastically.
Under the scorching sun, I was covered in cold sweat.
These days, he always felt that something was wrong.
The residents were so talkative that they all avoided him when they saw him.
Now that I think about it, these guys have been holding back their bad feelings for a long time!
"Lao Yan, what you're doing is unethical."
Yan Bugui also had a bad relationship with Liu Haizhong at this moment, and naturally he didn't feel embarrassed: "Old Liu, this time we raised money to hold the wedding banquet, it was supported by Director Wang of the Subdistrict Office. If you have any objections, you can go to Director Wang now."
Liu Haizhong's face turned red and he was speechless.
This was also the first time Yi Zhonghai heard about this.
He thought to himself: It’s not because you asked for two yuan as a gift that you frightened the residents!
He comforted him: "Old Liu, don't worry, you are still a second uncle, and Li Aiguo is just an ordinary resident. How can he compare to you?"
The dishes for the banquet have been prepared and the stoves have been set up. Liu Haizhong felt like he was being chased away from the shelves.
Even if you want to regret it, it's too late.
Liu Haizhong could only grit his teeth and said, "I don't believe it. I can't compare to Li Aiguo."
The two carried the table to the door. Yi Zhonghai sat in front of the table with a gift list placed on the table.
He took out two dollars and slapped it on the table angrily: "Old Liu, let me hand over the gift first."
This is tantamount to winning the jackpot.
Liu Haizhong was quite pleased.
Because the matter of hosting the wedding banquet has been completely exposed, the secret fight has turned into an open fight, and the residents are no longer secretive.
Yan Jiecheng took Yan Jiefang's half-year-old children and built two large cooking stoves at the door of Li's house.
Yan Bugui took on the honorable position of the wedding butler and went from house to house to inform the residents.
Xu Damao, Zhang Gangzhu, the Zhang family's daughter-in-law, the Liu family's aunt and other people moved chairs, tables, and benches from various houses and placed them at the door of Li's house.
The originally peaceful compound suddenly became boiling.
Since the Liu family and the Li family were both in the backyard, Liu Haizhong came back from the front yard and saw this lively scene, and his face turned dark.
Liu Guangqi also noticed something was wrong, walked over to him, and whispered: "Dad, can we still have a banquet?"
"Do it, why don't you do it! I'm not convinced anymore. Li Aiguo can win over all the residents of the courtyard." Liu Haizhong said through gritted teeth.
There was nothing Liu Guangqi could do.
I can only tell the fat man to be more serious when he is cooking, and to attract all the residents.
The fat man looked up at the chef opposite, curled his lips and almost cried.
That guy is Nan Yi, and his cooking skills are not inferior to Sha Zhu's at all.
Besides, they have chicken, duck, and fish across the street.
And he only has vegetables.
How to compare?
Li Aiguo's wedding banquet and Liu Haizhong's wedding banquet unknowingly entered into a fight.
The two families have distinct longitudes and latitudes, and the old camphor tree at the door of the deaf old lady's house is used as the boundary. No one goes to the other's territory.
Li Aiguo felt very comfortable now, sitting in the room chatting and drinking tea with a group of colleagues from the locomotive depot.
Xu Damao was moving tables outside. He was sweating profusely and panting from exhaustion.
Seeing Li Aiguo's carefree look, he was so angry that he threw the table to the ground.
"Li Aiguo is hosting a wedding banquet today, why should he be so leisurely and leisurely while I am as tired as my third grandson?"
Zhang Gangzhu frowned and glared at him: "If you want to go to the Liu family and pay a gift of two yuan, no one will stop you, just run away!"
Xu Damao shrank his neck and remained silent.
Two yuan as a gift is nothing, Damao is rich.
The key is that he was frightened and lost his appetite when he saw the pile of green stuff in the Liu family's big wok.
Take another look at the Li family’s pot, braised pork, mouth-watering chicken, and braised carp.
Tsk tsk, even in a big restaurant, the food you can eat is only of this level.
The key is that it only costs 3 cents.
Xu Damao is indeed bad, but he is not stupid.
How to choose, the decision is easy to make.
"Oh, I'm a little tired, it's okay!" Xu Damao laughed sarcastically and continued to move the table.
Zhang Gangzhu took the opportunity to teach him a lesson: "If it were Li Aiguo, we would all have to go to Liu's house to eat green vegetables. As a human being, you must know how to be grateful."
Xu Damao almost cried.
Helping others organize a wedding banquet, and doing some work along the way, and finally thanking Li Aiguo.
Damn, what is this?
The other residents in the compound were much more enlightened than Xu Damao, and they were all in high spirits. It only took a moment for all the tables and chairs to be placed in place.
Subsequently.
The second aunt then directed them to put bright red characters for happiness on each table, place tea bottles, and put fruit plates with melon seeds on them.
Even if you hold a wedding banquet in a big restaurant, you won't get this treatment.
Who asked the residents to live next to it?
The tea bottles and fruit plates were brought from home, and the melon seeds were bought with public funds.
Jia Zhang originally planned to have a wedding banquet at the Liu family, but smelled the aroma and touched the Li family's side.
Seeing that no one was paying attention, she sat down on the chair, grabbed a handful of melon seeds, and was about to poke them into her pocket.
"Jia Zhang, what the hell are you doing!" Xu Damao happened to see him and walked over with a dark face.
Mrs. Jia Zhang stiffened her neck in dissatisfaction, her triangular eyes squinted, and she stared at Xu Damao: "Xu Damao, this is not your family's wedding banquet, you can't take care of it!"
Xu Damao suddenly laughed: "Jia Zhang, what you said is wrong. I also collected money for these things. If you steal them, it is equivalent to stealing my things."
In the past, if Mrs. Jia Zhang acted recklessly, the residents would be afraid of her.
Even if Jia Zhang took advantage of her neighbor, she would not argue with her.
But Xu Damao's words woke them up.
"Yes, we paid for these things, why do you eat and drink for free?"
"Ms. Jia Zhang, do you still want to show off your shame?"
"If you want to eat, you can go to the third uncle's place first and pay your share."
Jia and Zhang wanted to pay their share.
But her family had already paid two yuan to Liu Haizhong's house. If she paid more, she would be taken advantage of.
Faced with the siege from the residents, Jia Zhang opened her mouth to curse, but then she remembered Yi Zhonghai's words.
He could only shrink his neck and swallow the dirty words in his stomach, just like a lost dog, slithering away with its tail between its legs.
The Jia Zhang family was once the invincible master of the courtyard house.
Now I don’t even dare to curse.
It’s frustrating!
(End of chapter)
