Chapter 292: The secret fight turned into an open fight, and Jia and Zhang were defeated
When the convoy came back to pick up the bride.
A large group of people have gathered at the entrance of the courtyard.
Yan Bugui, Yan Jiecheng, Yan Jiefang, Aunt Liu, He Yuyu, Liu Haizhong, Er 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 left cursing.
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 fault, but Li Aiguo is really capable.
The young people in the compound rushed forward and helped carry the dowry to the Li family.
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 the Li family 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 rises"
As the song fell, Cao Wenzhi delivered a speech on behalf of the locomotive department, encouraging the two to work together after getting married, have more children, and contribute to national construction.
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.
Bang Haizhong ate two pieces of candy.
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.
"Pa!"
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 do this feast today."< br>
Fatty originally had high expectations for this extra money.
He wants to make a name for himself immediately and become a fool-like existence. He can eat and drink enough with extra money every month.
But.
When he came to Liu's house early this 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 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?
These dishes are already a jumble of vegetables.
Now if we put less oil, wouldn’t it mean we can only feed livestock?
Seeing that the fat man was not happy, Liu Haizhong made a serious face: "Fat Master, are you not going to ask for wages?"
The fat man: "."
No way , people under the eaves have to bow their heads.
The fat man decided to go against the decision of the ancestors of the chef world again.
Hold the fat man, 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, and Yi Zhonghai agreed without saying a word.
The two of them 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, a dozen large carp.
Oh, that piece of fat weighs more than twenty kilograms, and there are various 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 this. When he met Liu Haizhong, 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 buying vegetables? Aren't you coming to my house for lunch at noon?"
Yan Bugui adjusted his glasses frame and said with a smile: "Old Liu, I forgot to tell you that the residents in our compound raised money to throw a wedding banquet for Li Aiguo. I won’t go to your house at noon.”
“The residents pooled money to throw a wedding banquet for Li Aiguo.” Liu Haizhong’s expression changed greatly.
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!
"Old Yan, what you are doing is not authentic."
Yan Bugui was also at odds with Liu Haizhong at this moment, so naturally he was not embarrassed: "Old Liu, please collect the money this time The wedding banquet is 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.
Yi Zhonghai also heard about this for the first time.
He thought: It’s not because you asked for two yuan as a gift that you scared the residents! He comforted: "Old Liu, don't worry, you are the second uncle after all, and Li Aiguo is just an ordinary householder, how can he compare to you?"
The dishes for the banquet have been prepared. , the cooking stove has also been put up, and Liu Haizhong is like being chased to the shelf.
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 of them carried the table to the door. Yi Zhonghai sat in front of the table. Put a gift list on the table.
He took out two dollars and slapped it on the table angrily: "Old Liu, I will hand over the gift first."
This was 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 pots and stoves at the door of Li's house.
Yan Bugui took on the honorable position of butler of the wedding banquet and went door to door to inform the residents.
A group of people, including Xu Damao, Zhang Gangzhu, the Zhang family's daughter-in-law, Liu family's aunt, etc., 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 our banquet be held?"
"Yes, why not! I will If you are not convinced, Li Aiguo can win over all the residents of the courtyard." Liu Haizhong said through gritted teeth.
Liu Guangqi had nothing to do.
I can only tell the fat man to be more serious when he learns to cook, and to attract all the residents.
The fat man looked up at the chef opposite, curled his lips and almost cried.
That fellow is Nan Yi, and his cooking skills are not inferior to those of Silly Zhu 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 in front of the deaf old lady's house is used as the boundary. No one goes to the other's territory.
Li Aiguo feels 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, sweating profusely and panting from exhaustion.
Seeing a glimpse of Li Aiguo's carefree look, he was so angry that he threw the table to the ground.
"Li Aiguo is hosting the wedding banquet today. Why is he so leisurely and leisurely while I am as tired as my third grandson?"
Zhang Gangzhu frowned and glared at him: "You want to go to Liu's house? Pay a gift of two yuan, and no one will stop you, just run away!"
Xu Damao shrank his neck and said nothing.
Two yuan as a gift is nothing, Damao is rich.
The key is that when he saw the pile of green stuff in the Liu family's big wok, he felt frightened and lost his appetite.
Look at the Li family's pot, braised pork, saliva chicken, braised carp.
Tsk, tsk, even in a big restaurant, the dishes you can eat are only of this level. .
The key is that it only costs 30 cents.
Xu Damao is indeed bad, but he is not stupid.
How to choose, it is easy to make a decision.
"Oh, I'm a little tired, it's okay!" Xu Damao laughed twice 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 vegetables. As a human being, you must know how to be grateful."
Xu Damao almost cried.
He helped others organize a wedding banquet, and had to do some work along the way. In the end, he had to thank 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. In just a moment, all the tables and chairs were put in place.
Later.
The second aunt then directed them to put bright red characters for happiness on each table, place tea bottles, and put a fruit plate with melon seeds on it.
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 go to the Liu family for a wedding banquet, 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.
Jia Zhang stiffened her neck unconvinced, her triangular eyes squinted, and she stared at Xu Damao: "Xu Damao, this is not your family's wedding banquet, what do you care about!"
Xu Damao suddenly laughed: "Jia Zhang Shi, what you said is wrong. I also paid 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."
"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 Zhang wanted to pay his 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.
You can only shrink your neck and swallow the curse words in your stomach, just like a lost dog, slithering away with its tail between its legs.
The Jia and Zhang family were once invincible in the courtyard.
Now I don’t even dare to curse.
It’s so frustrating!
(End of this chapter)