This wedding banquet was definitely the most sumptuous wedding banquet that the staff of the Fourth Hospital had ever had in their lives.
When other people hold wedding banquets, they usually only invite three or four tables of their closest relatives and colleagues. It's not that they are stingy, but they really don't have money or food coupons. If the family has many brothers, they don't even have a wedding room. They just build a nest with two pieces of wood together and get married.
Even for families with better conditions, all the food coupons, meat coupons and cash that the whole family had saved for several years would be almost all gone, and most families would still be in debt when they got married.
Therefore, the food at wedding banquets is usually not very sumptuous.
In later generations, if you didn’t have more than 24 dishes at a wedding, you would be embarrassed to greet people. In 1982, if you got married, you would be considered considerate if you served 10 dishes.
Chen Xia's wedding banquet had 65 tables in the Fourth Hospital alone, and all the staff of the hospital attended.
At this time, no matter whether there is a grudge or not, since you have been invited, if you don't come, you will be alienated from the people. For example, Yang Jingye and Lou Jianling both came to the wedding with a smile on their faces, but only they know what they were cursing in their hearts.
The most exaggerated thing today is the food and wine. There is plenty of beer, rice wine and drinks, and there are 26 cold and hot dishes.
Have you ever seen a lobster this big? Have you ever eaten a crab this big? Forget about wild boar, rabbit, pheasant, or old valley chicken.
This time, there were not 5 or 10 meat dishes, but 18 in total.
Not only the staff at the Fourth Hospital, but even Li Bingquan was taken aback, thinking this guy was truly arrogant. Officials didn't like to be too high-profile, but considering that he only got married once in his life, he might as well be arrogant for once.
Even though Yang Jingye and Lou Jianling were enjoying the meal, they were secretly planning to investigate the accounts of the dean and the General Affairs Department. Otherwise, how could this father-in-law and son-in-law get the money to hold such a luxurious wedding banquet?
When it comes to political opponents, the only choice is life or death. Never think about repaying evil with kindness or moving them with true feelings.
If someone stabs you at a critical moment, you shouldn't hesitate. Logically, you should also fire a few shots if you have the chance.
Whoever is naive is the ultimate fool.
Do you think that's the end? No, there's something even more daring to come. Chen Xia has invited all the famous actors from the local Yuezhou opera world.
A stage was set up in the center of the large playground of the Fourth Academy, and excerpts from Yue Opera, Shao Opera, Lianhua Opera, and Parrot Opera were all performed.
When the opening gongs and drums sounded, not only the doctors and nurses, but even the patients in the inpatient department all rushed to watch the show, leaning on crutches, pushing wheelchairs, and hanging saline solutions.
Many years later, everyone realized that Chen Xia’s wedding was the last glorious moment in the hospital’s decades-long history. When recalling it, everyone couldn’t help but sigh.
After toasting 65 tables of brides and grooms, they returned to the Plum Garden and lay on the bed motionless.
The two of them looked at each other, and suddenly burst out laughing.
Gu Lin looked at her real husband, blinked her big eyes and asked, "Chen Lao Er, will you treat me well for the rest of your life?"
Chen Xia touched her face and said, "You promised me that you would give me three children."
"Yes, I promised."
Chen Xia smiled, a happy smile. At this moment, he truly let go of his wife from his previous life and sealed her in the deepest part of his memory.
"Come on, bride, let's get started on making love."
Gu Lin blushed and slowly turned off the light...
That night, Chen, an experienced driver with more than ten years of driving experience, and Gu, a novice passenger, had sex seven times in one night, and finally fell into a deep sleep together exhausted.
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On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Dean Gu and his mother, along with their entire family, appeared at the provincial capital airport.
The eldest son and the youngest son only had 15 days of vacation, and it would be too late to take the train back to their hometown in Northeast China. So Dean Gu asked Li Suji for help and bought several tickets in the name of Yuezhou Prefectural Committee to fly directly to Huanglong Airport in Lingji Province.
Yes, it is the Huanglong City where we “attack Huanglong directly”, the capital of Lingji Province. Dean Gu’s hometown is at the foot of Changbai Mountain. This group of people took planes, trains and cars, and it would take at least three days on the road.
This is also the reason why Comrade Lao Gu has not been home for more than ten years. One reason is that he is too busy with work, and the other is that if he takes the train, it will take half a month to go back and forth.
It is still a rare thing to fly on a plane these days. Gu Zhongjun is better off because he is in the Air Force and flies planes.
But starting from Dean Gu, to Gu's mother, Gu Lin, Gu Zhongguo, and Ma Huixia, it was the first time for them to take a plane, so they were particularly excited.
There was another person who was not excited. Chen Xia was worried about the safety of the An-24 small plane on the apron in the distance.
This type of aircraft was imported from the Russians and is a propeller type with a very low safety factor and a very high accident rate.
Chen Xia is now a millionaire after all, and he has a lot of emerald yellow croakers. It would be really unwilling for him to die in the winter of 1982.
Seeing that his new brother-in-law looked unhappy, Gu Zhongjun thought he was a little scared of flying for the first time, so he comforted him:
"Brother-in-law, it's okay. Airplanes are the safest means of transportation in the world."
Chen Xia said with a bitter face, "It's also the means of transportation with the lowest accident survival rate."
When Gu Zhongjun heard this, he burst into laughter.
It is really not easy to take a plane nowadays. In later generations, you can place an order on your mobile phone with just a few clicks. A celebrity can fly to London to feed pigeons with just his ID card and leave at any time.
Now, to take a plane, first of all, you have to be a leader of a certain level, and secondly, you have to get a certificate issued by your unit and the higher authorities.
Secondly, you can’t buy it directly with cash, you have to use a company check.
Dean Gu is at the county level and has met the minimum standard for flying, but the rest of the family members are not at that level.
If Li Bingquan had not come forward to help, the family would have had to take a three-day and three-night train to the capital, then a two-day and two-night train to Huanglong City, then a one-day and one-night train to Tonghua, and then a one-day bus ride to Fusong County.
Adding the waiting time for transfers, it will take at least 7 or 8 days, which is absolutely torturous and absolutely stressful.
However, there was one advantage to flying at that time: you could smoke and drink Maotai on the plane, and people would give you souvenirs when you got off the plane. The service was only better than in later times.
Lin'an Airport is about the same size as an ordinary county-level city bus station in later generations. There are only a few passenger flights taking off and landing a day, so there are not many passengers.
Chen Xia took his camera and took pictures all the way, taking pictures of his newlywed wife, his mother-in-law, and his entire family. In short, he made the plane ride feel like being on a tour group.
When we got on the plane, we found that the 48-seat aircraft was only half full of passengers.
Chen Xia watched the propeller spinning rapidly and accelerating into the air, and in his heart he kept praying to the gods and Buddhas in the sky to bless him and ensure a safe landing.
On the contrary, Gu Lin didn't feel scared at all. This silly woman, next time I take her to bungee jumping, I will ask her if she is afraid.
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