Chapter 243: Lonely
Yesterday, Ye Ran and Han Ning also got engaged.
According to custom, the wedding is held at the woman's side, and friends and relatives from both families are invited to the banquet.
The Ye family has always attached great importance to this event. They notified relatives and friends early on, invited many people from the village, and prepared about five tables.
The Ye family already has five tables. Considering that Han Ning is in the city and there aren't many people coming from far away, three tables should be enough.
There were eight tables of people in total. In order to make it seem grand, the Ye family hired a chef and ordered 100 kilograms of pork from a butcher.
The Ye family was fully prepared, but who knew that on the day of the engagement, only six tables of people showed up.
All the relatives and friends invited by the Ye family came, except for the few families invited from the village, who only came and sent representatives. There were about four and a half tables in total.
This is fine, it's a little more relaxed and everyone can eat more comfortably.
But things were a bit awkward for Han Ning, as there were only eight people there in total.
The protagonist Han Ning came, accompanied by his mother, as well as Han’s two sisters and a brother-in-law, who brought a three-year-old baby, and then there was Liao Chuandong and his wife from the town.
The man's guests were not satisfied with the entire table. What kind of engagement was this? The faces of the Ye family members turned extremely ugly. Han's mother smiled and explained that Han Ning's father had to go to work and had taken too many days off this month. It was not easy to take more. His second brother-in-law was in the army and could not leave casually. As for other relatives, they were all busy and could not leave.
Others couldn't leave, but the Ye family didn't even do business, and everyone came back.
Comparing the two, one can only say that Han Ning did not take this marriage seriously and handled it perfunctorily.
But at the beginning, Ye Ran was obsessed with Han Ning. Wasn't it because he was a city dweller, ate commercial grain and had a job?
Things have come to this point, what else can be done? The Ye family can only endure it and continue to hold this engagement party.
Seeing that there was an empty seat, Ye Pingshun asked his son to go to the village to call someone. Since everything was ready anyway, and things wouldn't last long in such a hot day, it would be better to invite people to come and sit, and he would also have to do them a favor.
It’s just that Ye Feng went out for a walk and didn’t invite anyone back.
Those who are going to come have already come, and those who are not going to come will refuse if you ask them to.
The Ye family has recently started a pharmacy business, which is doing quite well.
But their business only recruits people with medical skills, and they don’t need help from others to move goods.
In the past, if a family could make money, there would be people who would curry favor with them. After all, every family has difficulties, and borrowing money or something like that requires connections and relationships.
But now, with the Meng family's factory, who would want to curry favor with the Ye family?
Wouldn't it be better if you could find a job and earn money instead of borrowing from others?
The relationship between the Meng and Ye families in the same village is obvious to everyone, so stay away from them if possible.
Moreover, the time chosen by the Ye family was too delicate. They wanted to get engaged suddenly, and they had to do it before the Meng family.
Everyone was worried and didn't want to go, for fear of offending the Meng family and ending up in a thankless situation.
The wedding of the Ye and Han families was held in a quiet and cold manner.
The Han family only had one person coming, and they didn't bring anything with them. They didn't say a word when they got here, and just sat there and drank tea after they were full.
Ye Ran did buy a pair of leather shoes for Han Ning, but Han Ning came empty-handed and she couldn't bring herself to take them out, for fear of being looked down upon and felt cheap.
The two families just watched helplessly as the engagement was arranged.
In such an atmosphere, all the guests who came to the banquet felt awkward.
At the banquet, anyone with a discerning eye could tell that the man was not satisfied with this marriage and was feeling very angry.
Those who don’t know about Ye Ran and Han Ning are still a little confused. How can they get married if they don’t want to be engaged?
Those who knew the situation shook their heads secretly. It would be strange if the man was satisfied if the marriage was obtained by threatening to report the case to the police and arrest someone.
A forced melon is not sweet. They both deserve it.
The marriage between the Ye and Han families was thus arranged.
Not long after lunch, the two families discussed the wedding date, and the Han family left without mentioning anything about the bride price.
The wedding date has been set, but the bride price has not been mentioned. This is not in accordance with the rules.
However, in front of everyone, Ye Pingshun did not argue with the man. He nodded with a smile and said that it was okay to discuss it later.
Ye Pingshun has his own ideas. Han Ning still gets a share of the profits from him every month, so he has the final say on how much the bride price is.
Because there is only one bus from the town to the city, the Han family did not leave yesterday. Some of them stayed at Liao Chuandong's house, and some lived in the backyard of the pharmacy in the town. They all rested here.
Today, those people returned to the city early in the morning. Ye Feng also had to go back to open the store, so he acted as the representative of the woman and saw them off all the way.
Ye Feng went to town early in the morning, but soon he sent someone back with a letter. The other members of the Han family had left, but Han Ning was still lying in the backyard of the pharmacy. He also said that he had something to do and would be back two days later.
Han Ning didn't leave, so Ye Ran wanted to go over and take a look.
Now Liao Chuandong has ignored Han Ning and he has nowhere to go in town.
Ye Ran is going to the town to find her fiancé, and Ye Pingshun is going too, but not to find Han Ning, but to attend the Meng family's banquet in the town.
Yesterday, the Ye family was holding a wedding but he was too embarrassed to invite the Meng family to attend. But today, he shamelessly went to the Meng family’s wedding.
There was no way he couldn't go. The leaders of the commune and the town had to go. As the village chief, how could he be absent? If he didn't go, the following work would be difficult to carry out. If everyone knew that he had a bad relationship with the Meng family, he would probably be finished as the village chief.
Of course, Ye Pingshun was also aware that he was being shameless and was embarrassed to go to the town with the main force. He could only follow behind them, slowly and dusty.
Arriving in the town, Ye Ran got out of the car holding an umbrella, intending to go to the pharmacy.
Ye Pingshun wanted to find a place to park his car, so he went to the Meng family factory.
When they were about to separate, Ye Pingshun said to his daughter, "You have to ask him clearly this time what he is thinking about in the future and which path he wants to take. You can't just live in confusion like you do now."
Han Ning has remained silent about future development and direction of efforts.
The Han family was disappointed with their son and did not agree on the succession issue. They just said that the two elders still had the energy to work for two more years and they would talk about it then.
How can he be without anything to do at such a young age? I didn’t mention it before, but now that he is his son-in-law, Ye Pingshun will not spoil him.
Ye Ran nodded, "Dad, I understand."
She always remembered what Meng Shulan had told her before, that Han Ning had other businesses.
Although I don’t know what kind of business it is, now that I failed the exam, I have to tell you.
Ye Ran is still secretly holding back a strong desire in her heart, wanting to soar to the sky and surpass Meng Shulan.
Just as I was thinking this, a bicycle came towards us on the street not far away, and the person on the bicycle was shouting, "Quick, get out of the way, the notice has arrived, the notice has arrived."
Notice! Hearing this word, the expressions of the two people in the Ye family were a little gloomy.
This direction and this notice, there is no doubt that they all belong to Meng Shulan.
(End of this chapter)
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