Chapter 224

The bustle outside seemed to have nothing to do with her, and she couldn't tell what she felt in her heart, but she was definitely not happy.

Now she is only thinking about when her eldest son will come back, and she will live with him and help him take care of the children.

A simple banquet was held at noon, and a group of people were going to pick up the bride. Jiang Hongbing insisted on taking Jiang Ning with him to pick up the bride, and said regretfully: "It's a pity that Baizi is not here, otherwise it would be so prestigious if we put Baizi there!"

Someone joked, "Don't you see how handsome Baizi is? With Baizi around, how can anyone see you?"

It made everyone laugh.

I really didn’t think much about Jiang Bai’s appearance before. We all knew that Jiang Song from the Jiang family was good-looking. With that face, who in the surrounding area wouldn’t say he was handsome?

But ever since they watched "The Commander of the Imperial Guards", wow, the uncles and aunts in the village were amazed at how Jiang Bai looked so handsome in the TV series.

Jiang Bai is now recognized as the most handsome guy in their village and the most handsome man in the village!

Jiang Bai also missed home, Grandpa Jiang and Jiang Ning, but he was a very serious and responsible person. Plus, there were so many young people like him in the crew, everyone was very friendly to him, and with Tong Jingang, the community leader, his life in the crew was extremely harmonious.

The role of Xu Xian did not require him to have great acting skills. The stylist changed his clothes and style into Xu Xian, and when he walked out, it was exactly like Xu Xian walked into reality, fair-skinned, gentle, and naturally slow-tempered.

The director is also very good at training people. He managed to make his temperament not have anything in common with the cold-blooded young man in "The King's Guards" whose entire family was slaughtered and who was burdened with a blood feud.

Jiang Bai missed Grandpa Jiang and his family. Grandpa Jiang, together with many old men, sat on the high platform in front of the old store at the entrance of the village, watching from afar the lively scene on the high platform of his eldest son's house.

These waterproof platforms are all connected together. Today, all the platforms in Uncle Jiang's house are full of people. They picked up the bride in the afternoon and will have a banquet in the evening. They will also set up several tables on the platform outside. Grandpa Jiang did not join in the fun, but stayed with his old friends, listening to them bragging.

Two old friends passed away this year, but the old men on the platform were already having a great time. Some old men who were ten years younger than them joined in. They all praised Grandpa Jiang for living a good life and living young. His gray hair was not as white as before.

Grandpa Jiang listened to their praises with satisfaction. Now he no longer needed to brag because others would help him do it.

But he still spoke in a Versailles way. He went to Tian'anmen, watched the flag-raising ceremony, met Chairman Mao, went to the Temple of Heaven and the Forbidden City, and climbed the Great Wall. He said with a look of disgust: "Before I went there, I thought it was something else, but it turned out to be just a city wall. There was nothing there, and I was exhausted! My eldest granddaughter and her husband accompanied me, but we couldn't climb it. We really couldn't climb it. What's so good about that thing? If I were younger then..."

The joy of bragging and Versailles cannot be replaced by others. When talking about his experience of going to the capital this year, Grandpa Jiang talked endlessly.

Someone else asked him, "You went to Beijing, but did you go to Beijing University? Did you go there by train? How many days did you take?"

Grandpa Jiang's face was wrinkled with laughter. "Why take a train? Take a plane! That's great, it flies in the sky, rumbling!"

The old men around were all amazed when they heard this: "You even got on a plane? What does it feel like? It's high, right? Are you scared?"

"No! Who's afraid of that? It's very stable! High! There are clouds all around." Grandpa Jiang sat on a bench, surrounded by a group of old men who listened to his bragging. "It's just that my ears are buzzing, as if they were clogged with mud. It will take a while to heal. My eldest granddaughter said it was caused by the pressure difference!"

The old men around were stunned when they heard this. They looked at Grandpa Jiang as if they were looking at someone from another world. Look at the clothes he is wearing now, how nice they are. Unlike them, their clothes have been washed for many years and still have patches on them.

Grandpa Jiang's friend, Lao Zhonghua, also watched Grandpa Jiang bragging with a smile, and followed suit, saying, "My son also wants me to take a plane, saying that he wants my eldest grandson to study abroad, and he will take me abroad to see the world when the time comes." Jiang Guotai's father, Grandpa Lao Zhonghua, said with disdain, "I won't go. What's so good about going to that foreign devil's place?"

Everyone laughed and said enviously, "Your son has contracted three sand factories this year. He has big ships sailing on the Sand River every day. He is really rich!"

"Who would have thought that this sand could be sold for money? You think people out there must be very short of money to burn? If you can buy sand with money, then there's plenty of it on the riverbank, right?"

"Your son is smart. Who would have thought of contracting that? Your son is smart. He dared to contract it!"

“Most people don’t have that kind of money.”

They all knew that many people from the surrounding area went to work in the sand factory and could make money by selling sand, but they actually didn't know how much money they could make. They thought a boatload of sand was only worth twenty or thirty yuan.

After all, sand is everywhere. If it can be sold at a high price, will anyone buy it? Isn't that the same as gold?

When it comes to this, Lao Zhonghua just smiled and said nothing, waving his hand and saying: "I don't understand, let the young people do it."

Just then, the wedding procession passed by their platform, and everyone watched Jiang Hongbing and his family get married.

Jiang Ning followed the bride-picking team. When she saw Grandpa Jiang, she looked up and shouted, "Grandpa! Great Grandpa, Second Grandpa, Third Grandpa, Little Grandpa..."

She didn't let anyone go and greeted everyone she saw warmly. Everyone she called had a kind smile on their face and looked at Grandpa Jiang with envy.

They didn't see the two tall men Jiang Song and Jiang Bai in the crowd, so they asked curiously, "Why don't we see your two grandsons? Songzi hasn't been home for several years, right? Where did he go? And why didn't Baizi come back? Why didn't he come back when his cousin got married?"

Grandpa Jiang is not the same Grandpa Jiang as before. He is now a worldly-wise Grandpa Jiang. He smiled and said, "He is filming and the crew won't let him come back. They said he can't leave until the filming is finished. Otherwise, he will burn a lot of money every day of filming!"

Jiang Ning had previously told Grandpa Jiang about CCTV's confidential matters. Grandpa Jiang never spoke about things that he shouldn't say, and it was difficult for others to hear a word from him. If asked too many questions, he would just smile silently.

Everyone has gotten used to this silent old man.

When everyone heard Grandpa Jiang say that Jiang Bai was filming on the set and couldn't come back, they all understood.

Nowadays, everyone still takes work very seriously. Especially Jiang Bai, who is going to be on TV. It’s such a important thing. Of course, work is important.

What’s the point of not coming back for the New Year? Jiang Guoan is just like a live-in son-in-law who never comes back every year.

Hasn’t Jiang Song come back for a few years?

And the youngest son of so-and-so, I heard he didn’t make any money for a year, and had no money for the trip, so he didn’t come back, saying he was too embarrassed to come back.

Most people only earn about a thousand yuan a year, and the money young people earn is just enough for their food and drink.

However, the girls in the village, who worked for the factory, would only buy themselves a set of good clothes at the end of the year to celebrate the New Year, and they would bring back all the money they saved.

Boys are at the age when they are growing up and want to have fun. The educational environment at home is very relaxed for them since childhood, so they should eat and drink as much as they can with the money they earn outside. Besides, doesn’t dating require money?

It doesn’t matter how much money you make, being able to bring a partner back is better than anything else!

This is a common idea among villagers.

They also asked Grandpa Jiang whether Jiang Bai would come back for the New Year.

Grandpa Jiang, like Grandpa Zhonghua, smiled and waved his hand: "Alas, I don't understand. How can I understand the affairs of these young people?"

The old men thought about it and said, yeah, they don’t understand either!

They took a boat to the other side and then took a bus to the girl's home.

This girl was introduced by the family who was building the house where Jiang Hongbing worked as a bricklayer. She was the aunt of the family whose house was being built. She thought that Jiang Hongbing was a hard-working young man and had the skills of a bricklayer.

As soon as Jiang Hongbing and his friends arrived, all the people from the girl's side came out. They didn't know the relationship between Jiang Bai and Jiang Hongbing, but they knew Jiang Ning. When they introduced them to each other for a blind date, they mainly used Jiang Ning's fame and said that he was Jiang Ning's cousin, so they agreed to get married without saying a word.

Otherwise, what about the other side of the river? The road is blocked, so people from the other side of the river marry people from outside the river, and no one from outside the river marries people from the other side of the river. Many people's impression of the other side of the river is still that it is primitive, backward, and poor in the mountains.

These people all stared at Jiang Ning and watched the fun.

When the mother-in-law saw Jiang Ning, she smiled so warmly. She came up to Jiang Ning and stuffed a red envelope into his hand. She also grabbed a handful of peanuts painted with red paint and gave them to Jiang Ning, asking Jiang Ning to put them in her pocket as a snack.

Everyone's attention was on Jiang Ning, and they forgot about the groom Jiang Hongbing. As a result, before they blocked the door or asked for red envelopes, the groom had already entered the room, picked up the bride and walked out. Jiang Ning was so scared that she was confused. The ladies who just reacted shouted, "You can't walk like this. The bride's brother should carry her out. How can you walk out like this!"

A group of young girls pushed him outside, shouting, "Hurry up and block the door! Hurry up and block the door! You need to give out red envelopes. If you don't have a red envelope, the bride won't let you go!"

The person in charge of distributing red envelopes behind the groom was busy handing out the small red envelopes they had prepared in advance one by one. Each of them contained a small amount of two cents. No matter how much they gave out, it was not too much. Everyone just wanted to have fun.

Jiang Hongbing was holding the bride, but was pushed back again. He asked the bride's brother to carry her out.

The originally joyous scene immediately turned sad with the crying. The moment the bride walked out of the door, she threw back a handful of chopsticks in her hand, and the chopsticks scattered.

Jiang Ning didn't understand what this custom meant, but it didn't stop her from feeling inexplicably sad in such a lively atmosphere.

Jiang Ning's popularity with the opposite sex was not very good in her previous life, but her popularity with the same sex was very good, and there were many lesbians who were willing to open their hearts to her.

In her previous life, married women told her more than once: "Once a woman becomes an adult, she has no home. Her parents' home is not her home, and her husband's home is not her home either."

In your parents' home, you are a married outsider, and in your husband's home, you are still an outsider.

At this moment, Jiang Ning was thinking about developing the local economy and improving the status of women. This is still a long way to go and requires many like-minded people to continue to speak out and work together.