Chapter 75 Engagement 1
The next day, the Lin family all put on their best clothes. Lin Dashan even took out the filter cigarettes that Gu Jiu gave him. Each son was given a pack. When the guests come later, they can pass cigarettes to the smoking guests.
After Lin Shu got up, he saw the clothes worn by his family, then looked down at his own clothes, and when he looked up, he met Liu Xiao'e's disapproving eyes.
"You kid, today is your good day, why are you still wearing such old clothes? I didn't ask you to make a red dress, why are you not wearing it?"
Lin Shulu He rolled up his sleeves and prepared to help wash the vegetables: "Mom, it's still early. It won't be too late to change after breakfast. Now I have to wash the vegetables."
"Okay, you can wash and cut the dried bamboo shoots that have been soaked in the wooden basin. You don't need to touch the rest."
The dried vegetables to be used today are not only dried bamboo shoots, but also soaked in another Dried mushrooms in a pot.
But before the bamboo shoots were washed, Lin Xue and his wife came in with Deng Bing.
"Mom, Yinhua, little sister, we are back."
"Sister, brother-in-law, Bingbing, you are here so early, come in and sit down." Lin Shu stood up , shook the water on his hand.
"Auntie, second aunt." Deng Bing smiled shyly.
Lin Xue sat in the room and drank a cup of tea, exchanged a few words with Liu Xiaoe and then walked out, "Little sister, you don't have to work today. You go change your clothes and get dressed up. The work here is Leave it to me."
"Sister, it's still early, it won't be too late to change after breakfast." Lin Shu felt that several women in the family were more nervous than her client.
"Oh, you go and get ready first. If your partner and the others arrive early, it would be rude to see you dressed like this." Lin Xue couldn't help but pull her up and push her into the house.
Lin Shu had no choice but to go into the house. In the main room, several children were playing around her brother-in-law Deng Cai.
Tofu is being fried in the kitchen, and the smell coming out is so appetizing.
For this engagement banquet, luckily the system mall provided grain, sugar and eggs. Otherwise, it would be impossible to hold a decent banquet when supplies are scarce. " Okay." Lin Shu covered her hungry belly, the smell from the kitchen just now made her want to die.
On the eighth day of August, the weather was sunny and cloudless.
Gu Jiu and Wang Suzhen got up early. Just after breakfast, a car horn sounded outside the door.
Gu Jiu opened the door and let Xu Ming and others in.
“Have you had breakfast?”
Xu Ming said with a smile: “I came here early in the morning and haven’t eaten yet. We are going to buy some big meat buns when we pass by the state-owned restaurant. It’s rare that you get engaged today, so I have to be happy with you.”
Gu Jiu nodded and asked them to come in and load the sewing machine, bicycle, radio, and two loads of wedding candies, cakes, and cloth into the car.
Li Yuanchao and Tang Jianjun saw Wang Suzhen coming out and called auntie.
Wang Suzhen smiled and nodded to them, and each gave them a pack of Double Happiness and a red envelope.
“I’ve heard Brother Jiu talk about you guys a long time ago. This time I finally have the opportunity to meet. Come on, one pack for each of us. It’s going to be hard for you to help us today.”
“It’s not hard, we will He and Gu Jiu are both brothers, so it’s okay for brothers to help, and it should be done." Li Yuanchao laughed and took it, then turned around and gave one to each of the brothers.
If Wang Suzhen did not come today, they were going to ride bicycles to the Xiaohe Production Team, but Wang Suzhen came and borrowed a Dongfeng brand car from a state-owned unit in her name.
Xu Ming also carefully pasted a red word "Happy" on the front cover of the car.
It's just a bumpy road, and the dirt road is probably not easy to walk on.
The engagement ceremony was all moved onto the carriage, and Xu Ming, Li Yuanchao and Tang Jianjun climbed into the carriage behind.
Gu Jiu and Wang Suzhen got into the cab in front and sat in the passenger seat.
Wang Suzhen took another pack of cigarettes and a red envelope and handed them to the driver: "Comrade, you have to go on a trip with us after hard work today."
"It's not hard." The driver didn't expect to receive a red envelope, so he smiled so hard that he couldn't even see his eyes.
The car drove out of several main streets. On the roadside out of the city were low houses and vegetable fields.
“I haven’t been back for many years. The changes in the county seem to have hit the pause button. There has been no change for more than ten years.” Wang Suzhen said with emotion as she looked at the retrograde scenery.
Gu Jiu: "The pace of life in the county is slow. How much change can there be? It will gradually get better in the future."
Wang Suzhen glanced at him and said with a smile: "I didn't expect you to be there. You can live in a small county town, and you even found a girl from the countryside. Are you really not interested in any of the girls who used to hang around you in the provincial capital? "Or are you used to the western-style girls in the city and like the simple ones? Country girl?
"Mom, why are you asking these questions now?"
Wang Suzhen looked at her son who instantly raised his spikes, angry and funny: "Bad boy, I don't mean anything, I just don't understand. I want to ask clearly."
Gu Jiu looked at the elegant old lady, trying hard to hold on to the armrest to stabilize her body because of the bumps in the car. He couldn't say what he wanted to say to her.
“You don’t need a reason to like someone.”
Wang Suzhen raised her eyebrows in surprise. It was rare for a brat to explain to her.
Although we set off very early, we hurriedly hurriedly took our time, and it was already half past ten when we arrived at the Xiaohe production team.
As soon as the car appeared at the entrance of the village, I saw a few children happily running towards them on the roadside from a distance.
Gu Jiu smiled and said to Wang Suzhen: "Look, my nephews and nieces have come to pick me up."
He signaled the driver to pay attention to the child.
Good thing the kids know to stand on the side of the road.
Gu Jiu rolled down the car window and waved to the children: "Zhuangzhuang, Xiaojun, Xiaoshuang, Xiaoyu, don't get close to the car, stay away."
See the car coming in After entering the village, many children in the village also ran out.
The driver parked the car at the grain drying field at the entrance of the village. Gu Jiu jumped out of the car first and took out a lot of candies from his Shanghai brand leather bag. All the children who came to greet him shared a few candies.
The children in the village all smiled and narrowed their eyes when they got the candies, one for each of Uncle Gu, Uncle Gu and Uncle Gu.
Wang Suzhen, who had just gotten off the bus, couldn't help but laugh after hearing this.
Xu Ming and others laughed without any scruples, "Gu Jiu, I didn't expect that you have become a grandfather."
Gu Jiu didn't care about his brother's ridicule at all. All the children who came here were given a few wedding candies.
Lin Dongfa hurried over with a bunch of firecrackers, "Little uncle."
"Hey, Dongfa, you are welcome to see me, come and eat the wedding candies."
Lin Dongfa took the candy and said thank you. Seeing that Wang Suzhen must be Gu Jiu's mother, he showed her a kind smile and shouted: "Hello, grandma."
Wang Suzhen looked around with a smile. This strong young man : "Okay, okay, Brother Jiu, is this your eldest nephew too?"
"Yes, he is the eldest, his name is Lin Dongfa."
Xu Ming and the other three moved all the engagement gifts on the car body. When he got down, Lin Dongfa lit firecrackers and threw them on the roadside.
With the crackling of firecrackers, many villagers in the village were attracted to watch the fun.
Everyone was amazed when they saw various engagement gifts such as bicycles with big red flowers, sewing machines, radios, and two loads of wedding cakes and candies carried on their shoulders.
“I heard that the man would get three rings and one ring for the engagement, but I didn’t expect that he actually got it.”
“Look at the wedding burdens they picked, and with these two burdens, the wedding ceremony was made. You can marry a wife in the countryside.”
“City people are very particular, Lin Shuna. The girl is also a lucky one. You see how much the man values her.”
“It’s no wonder she canceled the marriage between the Jie family and the second wife. Apart from a small amount of wedding cakes and candies, she only had two pieces of cloth. And a watch, which is incomparable to the people in the city.”
"Didn't the Lin family just buy a sewing machine some time ago, and with this one, wouldn't their family already have two?"
"You are wrong, this is a betrothal gift, and when you get married, you will have to give it to the man as a dowry. "How can it be considered as belonging to the Lin family?"
Gu Jiu ignored the villagers' comments. He and Wang Suzhen walked in front, followed by the Lin family brothers and Xu Ming, who were carrying sewing machines, carrying wedding burdens, and pushing bicycles all the way. Go to Lin's house.
Any villager who shows kindness to him will be given a few candies or two filter cigarettes.
Wang Suzhen walked beside him. From the initial shock to the later numbness, she had never seen this side of his son. He used to ignore everyone in the provincial capital.
Unexpectedly, he could go to the extreme in a betrothal ceremony. She must discuss this matter with Lao Gu carefully when she returns.
(End of this chapter)