Chapter 224: Family Recognition Ceremony

After returning to the room, Ruoqiao learned more details about the past few days from Li Hanwen's narration.

Especially regarding the family recognition banquet.

This was the biggest happy event in more than 20 years, and the old man originally thought he would leave with regrets.

Unexpectedly, when I got older, things took a turn for the better and gave me a double surprise.

Not only did my grandson come back, but he also started his own business and now there is a fourth generation. It is simply double happiness.

Even though the old man never liked crowds and tried to save money on many things, he was definitely in favor of making a big fuss about this matter.

However, this grand event also has its own rules.

After all, the Li family is a military family, and their current status is also high, so they tend to attract more attention.

In addition, with the addition of a heavyweight scientific researcher like Li Hanwen, people will naturally be more wary.

Therefore, this grand ceremony was to demonstrate the importance the Li family attached to Li Hanwen and his wife and children.

But you can't be too ostentatious and give people something to talk about.

So far, we haven't come up with a complete plan.

Originally, I was thinking of holding the wedding for both of us together to add to the joy.

But now that the wedding cannot be held, we return to the original topic: how to organize it.

After listening to this, Ruoqiao was also helpless. There were indeed too many rules and regulations.

The family didn't want to spoil the old man's fun, but also wanted to give Li Hanwen the best possible appearance, yet they couldn't leave the family short. It was indeed not easy.

Ruoqiao paced back and forth, thinking carefully for a while.

Suddenly there was a clap of hands.

"How about this, we don't hold a banquet, but focus on the process of recognition."

Li Hanwen was puzzled, "How do you say that?"

"For example, didn't ancient people have many ceremonies like ancestral hall celebrations? We can learn from them, but we don't want to use feudal superstitions. We can just have a few steps that everyone can accept, such as serving tea and giving gifts. We need to look up some etiquette books to see if there is anything we can learn from. Then we can invite guests to watch the ceremony, and at the end, we can give everyone a souvenir. We need to put a lot of effort into this souvenir. I thought, how about a pager? It's a new thing, and it can be used. It will be on the shelves soon, and it's not a luxury item."

When Li Hanwen heard this, he also thought it was a good idea.

Now their thinking is limited to entertaining guests at banquets. If there is no banquet but they can still have a reason to invite guests to the banquet, that's enough.

The next day, the two briefly discussed this idea with everyone.

After listening to it, everyone thought it was okay, except that the process of recognizing relatives needed further study.

It cannot be too complicated, cannot be feudal and superstitious, and must be grand.

So in the afternoon, after dinner, the younger generation was rushed to the library to read ancient books.

After watching it for several days, everyone discussed it again and again and finally decided on all the procedures of the whole recognition ceremony.

Once it’s decided, the next step is naturally preparation.

Both families were mobilized to purchase things and arrange the venue.

Mr. Li would take his beloved great-grandson to the study every day to practice calligraphy and write invitations.

Although the invitations have not been sent out yet, there is no way that the movements of the two families can be avoided from the people who have been paying attention to them.

Soon the news spread throughout the compound, and the Li family prepared to hold a family recognition banquet.

Then they started discussing what the Li family would do.

And some people, after learning about it, began to make moves.

A few days later, hundreds of invitations were sent out one by one.

The recognition ceremony is tentatively scheduled for the fifth day of March, which is about half a month away.

The location is a courtyard house in the eastern suburbs.

The Siheyuan was bought by Mr. Li himself. It used to be the farm of a wealthy businessman, but was later used as a slum.

After the purchase, Li Ruoqiao gave the blueprints and the Li family invited an experienced craftsman to start the repair and reconstruction work, which would take at least ten days.

During this period, Li Hanwen and Ruoqiao went back to Nanshi to attend classes.

After all, it is impossible for two people to take such a long vacation at once.