Chapter 193 Guests The whole village attends Zhang Wenxin’s wedding banquet
"Sister-in-law, good afternoon." Qi Er greeted Yu Zhile.
Yu Zhile nodded and then rubbed Xiaobao's hair.
Chen Zhao brought stools for Qi Er and the girl, and Yu Chuyue went to pour water for them.
"Auntie received Wenxin's invitation, but she and uncle couldn't spare the time, and Yu Yue also had to go to the auto repair shop to study." Qi Er took the initiative to explain, "Xiaobao and I just finished filming our movie, so we rushed back to attend the wedding."
Then, he pointed to the girl next to him and introduced her, "This is my colleague Feng Yun, the director of the movie made for Second Aunt. She wanted to go to the countryside to collect folk songs, so she came with us to Haiyu Village."
After saying that, he took out several gifts from his luggage and told Zhang Wenxin which one was from whom.
"Happy wedding." Feng Yun also handed over a gift, his eyes wandering between Zhang Wenxin and Chen Zhao, "I wish you a long and happy marriage."
Zhang Wenxin smiled cheerfully: "Thanks, but he is not my fiancé."
Feng Yun looked embarrassed and apologized repeatedly.
"It's okay. Thanks to you. Normally, I'm not worthy of being the famous head of the sideline business group of Haiyu Village." Chen Zhao laughed to resolve her embarrassment.
Qi Er handed Feng Yun a pair of scissors, asked her to help, and chatted with others.
He was like a sponge, constantly absorbing what had happened in Haiyu Village in the past few months. The topic changed quickly, and everyone was busy dealing with him, and no longer had the mind to look at Fengyun.
The sight of the people on her body disappeared, Feng Yun breathed a sigh of relief, gradually relaxed her body, and picked up the scissors to cut paper-cuts. She had experience in this area, and the paper-cuts she cut were quite beautiful.
"Sister Yun doesn't like to talk." Xiaobao whispered in Yu Zhile's ear.
Afterwards, Yu Zhile inadvertently looked at her and found that she was indeed a little reserved. She just smiled and didn't take the initiative to talk to her. Sometimes she would help her divert other people's attention.
As the group chatted and laughed, Zhang Wenxin, the eldest brother, pushed a large bucket over and said in a loud voice, "Sister, the mung bean soup has cooled down in the well."
Zhang Wenxin hurried to greet him, asked everyone to take the cups of lemon tea from the food stall to drink, and thanked her friends for helping to prepare the things needed for the wedding banquet.
After drinking a cup of ice-cold mung bean soup, everyone felt that the heat was relieved a little and their appetite increased. After washing the cups, they prepared to go home and cook dinner.
As it was almost time for dinner, Yu Zhile only let Xiaobao drink half a cup. She helped pack up the things, then took Qi Er and Feng Yun home and arranged a place for them to stay.
Qi Er and Xiao Bao live in the same room, Feng Yun sleeps in Lan Yuanyuan's room, and Lan Yuanyuan sleeps with Yu Zhile.
It has been rare to have guests visiting recently, so Yu Zhile and Lan Yuanyuan prepared a sumptuous dinner to entertain Fengyun.
"Thank you, you said it better than Qi Yunjie and Xiaobao said." Feng Yun said.
Yu Zhile stopped turning to leave, looked at her clinging to the door frame of the bathroom, and said, "You're welcome. We're all friends. Don't take small things to heart."
Fengyun smiled shyly at her before closing the door and taking a shower.
At this time, Qi Er took out from his luggage the gift that Zhou Yuesheng asked him to bring back, as well as the gift that Qin Yunbai gave to Yu Chuyue.
Zhou Yuesheng also gave me a skirt, this time with a white background and light purple florals. The color combination was still very fresh and very suitable for summer.
The next day, Qi Er and Xiao Bao took her around the village. With the experience of the last time, Qi Er did not reveal Feng Yun's identity, only saying that she was a friend.
The three of them strolled to the riverside, heard cheers, and when they got closer they saw a group of young men with their upper bodies naked.
"I'm here, everyone get out of the way!" The tanned Yu Qi raised his hand and shouted, and the people gathered on the shore took the initiative to make way for him, "Three, two, one."
As soon as he finished speaking, he ran over from a distance, stepped on a big rock by the river, used the force to jump up, turned around in the air, and finally dived into the water.
The next second, he emerged from the water and showed his brothers a mouthful of big white teeth.
"Yu San, you're amazing!" a tall and thin man exclaimed, "It's only been a year, and you've turned so beautifully! Here comes another one!"
Others followed suit.
Yu Qi caught sight of Xiaobao, quickly climbed ashore, and waved his hand to refuse them.
"Xiaobao, you're back as expected. Did you miss your third brother?" He ran towards Xiaobao and the other two, and stopped half a meter away from them.
Xiaobao nodded and said, "I thought so. Third brother is really amazing."
Yu Qi smiled and scratched the back of his head, saying, "Third brother will show you a new trick. I have been practicing it for a long time without telling my eldest brother."
After saying that, he ran away again, found a new place, did somersaults without touching the ground, and finally dived into the water again.
Everyone applauded, including Xiaobao, but Fengyun looked the black boy up and down.
"You're not attracted to Xiao Qi, are you?" Qi Er asked in a questioning tone, but his tone was quite firm. "If you keep going like this, you can get Uncle Yu's whole family into the movie."
Feng Yun smiled and said just "again" before being interrupted.
"Yu Qi! How many times have I told you, just swim, don't do those fancy moves!" Yang Suyun said angrily.
Yu Qi held his breath and dived into the water to avoid her.
Unexpectedly, when Yang Suyun saw Feng Yun, she immediately forgot about him and warmly invited him: "Director Feng, come to my house for lunch at noon."
Feng Yun had been with her day and night for several months, so he was not shy in front of her and nodded with a smile. Thinking of her words of scolding Yu Qi, he did not finish his unfinished words.
A few days later, Ye Chengyu learned about Feng Yun's identity from a friend in the sideline group and invited her to a study session.
Fengyun hesitated about how to refuse.
Ye Chengyu saw through her thoughts and took the initiative to say that he had remembered the arrangements incorrectly and that he had no time for study sessions recently. He also invited her and Qi Er to attend the opening ceremony of the village primary school.
The day of the establishment ceremony was an auspicious day, and Haiyu Village had three good things coming together.
In the morning, the village primary school was established. Ye Chengyu and Yu Yang each took charge of a class, and the village was filled with the sound of reading. At noon, the people from the post office finally came to the village to install a telephone, and Haiyu Village became the first village in Hai County to have a telephone. In the evening, Yu Zhile received news that the factory in Jingshi had started construction.
To celebrate, the whole village turned on the lights together after nightfall, singing and dancing, and the whole village was surrounded by a joyful atmosphere.
Fengyun had seen brightly lit streets before, but he had never thought that turning on the lights would become a grand way of celebration. That night, he wrote this down in the notebook where he collected materials.
The next big happy event was the wedding banquet of Zhang Wenxin and Ge Tai, and the village specially moved the rest day to July 18th.
Ge Tai's parents died early, and there was no elder in the family to help with affairs, so everything was taken care of by Wen Rou and Zhang's father.
There were many people invited to the wedding banquet, so the banquet was arranged in the threshing ground. The villagers arrived early in the morning to help set up the tent and arrange the tables and chairs.
The children didn't have classes today, but they were not idle either. Led by Zhang Xiaoyun, they went to the hillside behind the mountain to pick flowers, saying that they wanted to decorate Zhang Wenxin's wedding room beautifully.
In Zhang Wenxin's room, Yu Zhile was putting makeup on Zhang Wenxin and said, "Look up, I'll put on some eyeliner."
Lan Yuanyuan prepared several rolls of tape in advance and took photos nearby, while Yu Chuyue helped her iron the skirt she was going to wear today.
"I'm a little nervous." Zhang Wenxin clenched his hands and kept adjusting his breathing.
Yu Chuyue tried to draw her attention to herself and joked, "Among the three of us, Lele was the first to get the marriage certificate, and you were the first to hold a wedding banquet. What else can I do first?"
Unexpectedly, Zhang Wenxin frowned and thought while feeling nervous.
Suddenly, Yu Zhile put a mirror in front of her and asked, "Do you like this makeup?"
Being interrupted by her, Zhang Wenxin shifted her gaze to the mirror, carefully examining her face, and forgot about her nervousness for a moment.
Yu Chuyue and Lan Yuanyuan quietly gave Yu Zhile a thumbs up.
After Zhang Wenxin put on her clothes after they were ironed, Yu Zhile helped her put on lipstick. The lipstick was a gift from Yu Wanqin, which made her look particularly energetic.
After applying, she took a look in the mirror and said with a choked voice: "The first time I put on lipstick in my life, you helped me put it on. When I got married, you also helped me put it on."
Yu Zhile rushed into the mirror, hugged her shoulders, and patted her to comfort her.
On the other hand, Lan Yuanyuan felt very moved and pressed the shutter button to capture the scene forever on film.
Although the Ge family was not far from the Zhang family, Ge Tai still borrowed a jeep from Ning Tan and drove slowly to pick up the people with the children following him.
Many guests came to the wedding banquet. Ning Tan, Secretary Liu, Hu Shuang and his daughter, and Hu Lan arrived very early. Du Nanzhi and Bai Qishan also brought several colorful flower baskets.
The threshing ground was bustling with activity until nightfall, and they even invited a film projection team to show a festive film.
After sending the newlyweds to the bridal chamber, Yu Zhile and the others went home together.
"It's the first time I see the whole village attending a wedding together. It's so lively," said Feng Yun.
At the same time, she recalled the entire process in her mind and engraved the local wedding customs deep in her mind.
Yu Zhile smiled and asked, "How long do you plan to stay? The mid-ripening varieties from Shantao Village will be picked soon, as will the green plums from Xishan Village. The scene will be quite lively then."
After living there for about ten days, Fengyun became much more familiar with them. He was no longer as reserved as he was at the beginning, and nodded like a chick pecking at rice.
The next day, Yu Zhile took her to see Aunt Zhang, asked about the special activities that would be held in various villages in Hai County during this period, and helped her arrange a field trip.
Ge Tai's wedding leave was five days, and it was rare for him to have such a long vacation. During these days, he was dragged by the villagers to eat and drink. It was not until he returned to the provincial capital that the pace of life in the village returned to normal.
In the next half month, Qi Er and Feng Yun took Xiao Bao out early and came back late. The three of them had darker skin, but the two directors' thick notebooks were full of material, and they were in a good mood every day.
At the beginning of August, the studio notified the two to go back to continue the post-production of the film. They had to leave, and many people came to the village entrance to see them off.
"Xiaobao, be good. Sister will go to Beijing to find you after the Mid-Autumn Festival." Yu Zhile touched Xiaobao's head.
Xiaobao nodded, got into the car obediently, and leaned out of the window to wave goodbye to her.
This time, he brought Papa and Moore back to Beijing. So Papa followed his example and stuck his head out of the other window, waving his front paws at everyone.
"Come on, bye, see you in Beijing." Yu Qi waved goodbye.
In the rearview mirror, his figure became smaller and smaller. Qi Er caught a glimpse of Feng Yun's somewhat lost expression and consoled him, "Your new play will not be released for a long time yet. Who knows, Second Aunt might change her mind by then."
"I hope so." Feng Yun responded and did not continue the topic.
During the one month she stayed in Haiyu Village, she didn't have much contact with Yang Suyun, but she could still clearly feel that she didn't want her children to have any dangerous thoughts, so she never mentioned her interest in Yu Qi as a martial arts actor.
As she thought about it, she recalled the painful experience of looking for actors everywhere at the end of last year, and her brows furrowed unconsciously.
Qi Er had the same experience and naturally knew the pain of not being able to find a suitable actor. So when he saw Xiao Bao in the back seat through the rearview mirror, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
On the other side, Yu Zhile opened the letter that Ning Tan brought to her in the courtyard of the sideline group.
"The progress in Beijing is very fast. We have been notified to start selecting people." She said to Zhang Wenxin and Yu Chuyue.
Zhang Wenxin and Yu Chuyue agreed. The former went to the brigade headquarters to start the broadcast, while the latter set up the table and stationery in the courtyard, preparing for registration.
"Attention everyone in Haiyu Village, attention everyone in Haiyu Village." Zhang Wenxin's distorted voice spread to every corner of the village in an instant. "From now on, people who are over 15 years old and willing to go to the Jingshi non-staple food processing factory can go to the small courtyard to register after work in the evening. The registration period is only five days. After five days, the sideline group will organize applicants to take an exam. Those who pass the exam will be moved to Jingshi in batches after the autumn harvest. That's it."
It was evening, and the villagers were taking a walk after dinner. When they heard the broadcast, they went to the courtyard of the sideline group to join in the fun.
The first person to sign up was Yang Suyun. When she heard the news, she immediately brought Yu Haizong with her. She asked Yu Chuyue to write her name, Yu Haizong's name, and Yu Qi's name.
"Yu Yang is not going?" Yu Chuyue confirmed again.
Yang Suyun also didn't want her family to be separated, but she couldn't change Yu Yang's mind and said, "He said he wanted to stay in the village to teach."
"Okay, I'll write it down." Yu Chuyue read it once, and then said loudly, "Next one."
Soon, a long line formed outside the courtyard of the sideline group, and many people stood by and watched.
The registration process lasted until dusk, and finally the last person was registered. Yu Chuyue breathed a sigh of relief and shook her sore right arm to relax.
At the same time, she looked at the book and silently counted the number of people who signed up today. After counting, she said, "Not many people, about 70."
Yu Zhile was handing out the exam papers and responded, "Not bad. There are more people who really want to go to Beijing than expected. Printing 500 copies of the exam papers will be enough."
For the next four days, Yu Chuyue sat at the small table every evening. The number of people on the second and third days was almost the same as the first day, but on the fourth day, the number dropped significantly. On the last day, the number of people queuing increased suddenly.
Yu Zhile finished making the test questions on the third day and asked Chen Zhao to deliver them to the printing factory personally. He then locked the printed papers in the cabinet in the reading corner.
Except for the management personnel who had already been confirmed, no one else had even seen the shadow of the test paper.
Soon, the day of the written test arrived and those who had registered were gathered at the threshing ground.
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