Gu Qingqing moved Goudan's hand off her shoulder and said with disgust: "It's too heavy." She ran away and went to Gu Canyang's side.

Gu Qinglie didn't care and put his right hand on Chu Dai's shoulder. "Should we go separately to invite them or one family at a time? Grandpa said to invite people we know. We don't know many people in Dagouzi Village."

Gu Bao said, "There are quite a lot. Our village has more people, about 260 to 70 households. Dagouzi Village has about 240 to 50 households. Just because of your father, my eldest brother's status, he mobilizes the members to go up the mountains and down the rivers every day. When it's windy or rainy, he and Lao Xue carry ladders to run around to repair roofs. There are really not many people who are not familiar with our family."

There was a hint of happiness and worry in these words. The Gu family was well-known in the area for their good relationships with people. In addition, Gu Yin was a carpenter who would go out to travel when he was not working, so he had a long network of contacts.

They have a come-and-go culture here. Even if I haven't been to your house for a wine party before, and you suddenly come to my house for a wine party now, according to the favor log, I must go to your house next time for a wine party.

Gu Qingqing smacked her lips and followed her eldest brother: "What should we do? Third Uncle has ordered 62 tables of food, and everyone in our family has to sit at five or six tables."

There are too many Gu family members. Her grandfather Gu Tiezhu has five brothers, her grandmother Zhang Cuifen has several uncles, and there are also relatives from her grandparents' side and her two grandmothers' side.

There's nothing wrong with family members eating at a round table or in a crowded space.

"Villagers who are not relatives usually bring their own children to improve the group meal and share in the good fortune. There are eight adults and eight children at a table. We can't really visit more than 200 households in Dagouzi Village. Let's ask Uncle Qin." Gu Qinglie hasn't been in the village for several years. The people in Datunzi Village are okay, but he doesn't know at least half of the people in Dagouzi Village.

Gu Bao grinned: "Nephews, you guys don't take your uncle seriously, right? I estimated that there will be about 150 people from Dagouzi Village, so let's just count 20 tables for now."

Gu Qingqing couldn't help but remind her: "In Datunzi Village... every household might come."

Gu Qinglie couldn't help but frown, "Let's take a look first. Go back and check the number of people with Grandpa and the others. If there are not enough tables, we can only add more. Fortunately, all the young and strong are here. We have to borrow tables, chairs, benches, pots, bowls, and bowls from all over the village. Zhao Xiaoxu and the others will definitely not be able to move everything in one morning."

Chu Dai nodded, "We will try to invite everyone we know in Dagouzi Village to come this morning."

Gu Canyang said nothing, apparently agreeing.

The Gu family was very busy today. After Gu Cai made the banquet list, he went to buy dishes with the in-laws who had just put up the wedding characters. He had saved some meat coupons, and Chu Yuan also had quite a few. By the end of the year, the Gu family would get more than a pound of meat coupons.

Nowadays, having a meat dish on the table is already very good, and most of the dishes are vegetarian. Gu Cai took a pencil and made some sketches, and finally ordered three cold dishes, salted duck eggs, peanuts, and cold seaweed.

Chu Yuan and his friends came over and carried two sacks of dried kelp from the beach, but they haven't eaten much yet.

It is a little difficult for him to decide on hot dishes, as he needs to consider what dishes are available at home, especially pickled vegetables.

There are a lot of vegetables. The eggplant, cabbage, beetroot and Chinese cabbage are all delicious. They are sweet, crisp and tender after being frosted.

After thinking for a while, he wrote "Stir-fried pork with chili pepper" on an old newspaper. Half a minute later, he added a fried water chestnut and radish meatball and mixed it with the chopped meat.

We do have three fish left at home, but it’s not enough. When the boys come back in the afternoon, I’ll let them go fishing in the river and catch some snails.

It just so happened that there were still twenty or thirty strong young men in his uncle's family. After the rice was harvested and water was released in the fields, a lot of snails were washed out from the ditches. For the sake of their only sister, they must have been willing to do it.

We have to kill five or six ducks at home, and make stewed snails, duck and potatoes, which is just right. If you count the fried pork with peppers and water chestnut meatballs, there will be four dishes, and with the fish, there will be five.

His father Gu Tiezhu wanted to give his granddaughter a lively wedding, but his eldest brother's current position is quite sensitive, and Gu Cai has been in the city for too long and doesn't know why he can't be too ostentatious.

The tofu made on New Year's Eve has been eaten, so he has to grind the beans and make tofu all night long. Fortunately, his mother soaked the beans early in the morning.

It rained yesterday, so they went to the mountain to pick some mushrooms. The Shi family also brought back a basket, which was enough.

Finally, he decided on the menu.

Three cold dishes: peanuts, cold kelp shreds, and salted duck eggs.

Twelve hot dishes: water chestnut and radish meatballs, stir-fried meat with chili peppers, roasted duck with snails, stewed chicken with potatoes, braised fish, roasted eggplant, stir-fried cabbage, stir-fried beetroot, steamed taro with chopped chili peppers, stir-fried mushrooms, wild vegetable balls, and stewed tofu with pickled mustard greens.

A hot soup: seaweed, egg and minced meat soup.

The seaweed was also brought by Chu Yuan and his friends. Gu Cai still likes this kind of dried food very much. It is fresh and tastes good when soaked and cooked into soup.

After carefully checking the menu, he hesitated for a moment and changed the fried mushrooms and stewed chicken with potatoes to stewed chicken with mushrooms and shredded potatoes with green peppers.

Seeing that it was almost done, he folded the newspaper and prepared to go out to prepare the dishes.

All the meat tickets in the family were in his hands, as well as the five hundred yuan given by Chu Yuan.

This time I plan to buy 25 kilograms of meat and use up the quota of flour to see if I can make some more cakes.

Gu Tiezhu was more relaxed. He just ran around his brothers' houses and came back lazily with a cigarette in his mouth. When he saw the third son was about to go out, he asked his son, "Have you prepared the menu?"

"Yes, Dad," Gu Cai changed into a pair of shoes without any patches, and hooked his heels on the door panel, "Twelve hot dishes, three cold dishes and one soup."

"Tell me about it..."

After listening to him, Gu Tiezhu nodded and puffed on his cigarette: "Let's do this. Wait for your sister-in-law and daughter-in-law to come back and ask them to make wedding candies. Also, tell your two brothers not to use Maotai for the wine tomorrow. I guess the number of tables you calculated is not enough. I have made an agreement with your uncles and aunts that our family will eat last. Our family will drink Maotai, and the villagers can just have a bottle of Fenjiu or Zhuyeqing for each table."

"What about cigarettes? They're not good enough for Daqianmen either?" Gu Cai asked with a smile.

"Nine cents a pack of Qinjian cigarettes is good enough. You can keep the Daqianmen for yourself. Thirty-five cents is enough. How many packs of Qinjian can you exchange for!" Gu Tiezhu said, and then he thought that his nephew brought them to his granddaughter's family to show off. He choked on the smoke and coughed, "Let's give out the Daqianmen. Each man can have one. There are not many people in our family who smoke. There is no point in keeping them."

Gu Cai also changed his shoes and said, "Okay, I'll tell my elder and second brothers when they come back."

Gu Qingqing and the others went to Qin Wu's house and sat for a while. "Uncle Qin, you and Auntie must come tomorrow, as well as Brother Qin Hu and Sister Qin Li. My father specifically told us to invite your whole family over."

Qin Wu was suspicious: "Did your father really say that?" Why didn't he believe it?

"Yes." Gu Qingqing has already made plans to reduce obstacles for Qin Li and her uncle. "My father said that he was able to successfully dig reservoirs, build power stations, and grow cash crops in the production team thanks to your help. If it weren't for your partnership, he would definitely not be able to do it."

Qin Wu was slightly moved, and muttered, "This fool, I never hear him say this normally..."

"Uncle Qin?" Gu Qingqing put down her teacup and looked at him with a smile: "Remember to bring your whole family over tomorrow. I was also raised by you and Auntie. Brother Huzi and Sister Ali also treat me as their own sister. I will be joining the army soon, and I don't know when I will be back."

Qin Wu couldn't stand this. Originally, he thought that he could go alone. Although he had enough food now, there would definitely be a lot of people attending the wedding tomorrow. Why bother adding burden to Hanzi's family?

Now that Qingqing has said so, it would be unreasonable for the whole family not to go. He glanced at Chu Dai, who was standing upright beside him, with some admiration in his eyes: "Okay, uncle will definitely bring your aunt, brother Huzi, sister Ali and the whole family there tomorrow."

"It's settled then!"

After leaving Qin's house, Gu Bao turned back every few steps and talked to Qin Li with a playful smile. Because his parents were there, Qin Li felt embarrassed to pay attention to him.

Gu Qinglie directly pulled his uncle over and said, "Next one, hurry up, we have to go home for dinner."

The uncle and nephew are only three or four years apart in age, and have been treated as brothers since childhood, so there is not much to be said for them.

Gu Bao looked resentful: "Goudan, can you please not be so rough next time? My uncle's skin is too tender to stand your plucking."

"Look at Adai and Canyang, they never do anything to me!" As he said this, he made a comparison.

Gu Qinglie glanced at the two men next to the girl and raised his eyebrows: "Uncle, if they start fighting, you can't just stand here. Hurry up, the little food I had this morning will be gone in a few steps."

"Come on, come on, stop pulling my collar. It's just this nice piece of clothing." Gu Bao slapped his hand away, straightened the collar of his clothes, and walked ahead with a proud look on his face.

Gu Qinglie was amused by his expression and bumped the man's arm. "Old Chu, do you think your uncle looks like the big rooster that crows every morning? The one with the biggest and most beautiful comb and red hair?"

Chu Dai glanced at them, smiled, and said honestly, "Exactly the same."

Gu Qinglie laughed wildly, and felt uncomfortable if he didn't put his hands somewhere, so in the end he put them on Chu Dai's shoulders.

Fortunately, Chu Dai didn't despise him and let him go. Finally, as the two brothers were walking, Gu Qinglie pointed at the mountain over there and asked him, "How would you command a battle in this jungle?"

"Break up the whole into small units and fight guerrilla warfare." Chu Dai said without hesitation, "When you return to the Corps, find Feng Tianya's sand table to simulate combat. I estimate that in two months, the neighboring country will jump up and test again. If you can scare them away in one fell swoop, they will be quiet for half a year. Otherwise, they will provoke at the border every day."

"I understand. Just like fleas, they want to make you itch for no reason, but it's hard to catch them." Gu Qinglie shook his head and asked his older brother who was silent, "Brother, what would you do if you were airdropped into the jungle?"

"The jungle is rarely chosen as a pitching zone." Gu Canyang said in a faint voice.

Gu Qinglie scratched his head, "Yes, but can you who fly fighter planes also fly transport planes?"

"Yeah." Gu Canyang didn't want to pay attention to him.

Gu Qinglie seemed to be completely unable to understand what his elder brother meant and kept on asking questions. When he turned around, Gu Canyang had already strode into the Wu family's yard.

Gu Qingqing laughed out loud, "Stop talking nonsense. Aren't you in a hurry to go home for dinner? Let's go quickly. Chu Dai and I will go to the next one, and you and your uncle will go to the one in front."

Dispersion is most efficient.