Chapter 395 Lu Xiaolan's Wedding 2
The Lu family didn't know what the people watching the excitement outside were saying.
At this moment, everyone was already sitting in the living room, going through the marriage proposal process.
The marriage proposal gift was two cartons of Chinese cigarettes, two bottles of Moutai, two cans of premium Maojian, a box of biscuits (about ten pounds), six pounds of candy, and a large piece of pork that Ding Zhicheng had cut at the supply and marketing cooperative early in the morning.
And a TV, plus a 600 yuan betrothal gift.
After completing the process, everyone talked about setting up the wedding banquet, and the date was set for three days later, August 10th, the seventh day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar, the Chinese Valentine's Day, which was a good day for getting married.
"Brother Lu, please invite as many people as possible. However, you need to coordinate the tables, chairs and helpers."
"That's what I should do." Lu Qing'an said.
"Also, I would like to trouble Brother Lu to recommend me some food and vegetables from the brigade, as well as two sheep, 20 chickens and 50 kilograms of eggs for the banquet."
"Brother Zhang, you don't need to buy food and vegetables, I will prepare them." The other party has given their family dignity, so how can they let the other party pay for everything.
"It's not right for my son to ask his wife's family to pay for the food when he gets married. Brother Lu, we are the ones who are going to hold the wedding banquet here,
so we should pay for the food." "Brother Zhang, how can we not pay for anything when we are marrying a daughter-in-law? We don't have any decent dowry to give to the child, so we are still asked to pay for this little food."
"Brother Lu, this won't work, it doesn't make sense..."
Zhang Zhen bargained with Lu Qing'an, and finally Zhang Zhen convinced Lu Qing'an. After the discussion, Lu Qing'an took Zhang Zhen to the brigade to find the accountant to pay the money, write a note, and take back the food and eggs first.
The vegetables, sheep and chickens will be picked and killed on the day of the wedding banquet.
When members bought things from the brigade, they paid at the purchase price of the purchasing station, which was much cheaper than the supply and marketing cooperative.
Zhang Zhen bought 200 catties of rice and 200 catties of wheat, which cost him 45 yuan. Since it was such a big event, there was no need to save money on food, and all the food was fine grains.
Green vegetables cost 2 cents per catty, and Zhang Zhen ordered 200 catties, which cost 4 yuan.
50 catties of eggs, 34 yuan.
2 sheep, more than 150 catties, 60 yuan.
20 chickens, more than 100 catties, 65 yuan.
When the time comes, he can use his connections to buy half a pig and about 100 catties of fish, and the feast will be ready.
All in all, the banquet can be booked for just over 300 yuan.
The accountant who collected the money saw Zhang Zhen spend more than 200 yuan to buy things from the brigade without blinking an eye,
and he took a deep breath in his heart. Although their brigade's income is well-known in the surrounding area, and his family's annual dividend is also 200 to 300 yuan, he is reluctant to spend more than 200 yuan just to treat everyone to a banquet.
It seems that the conditions of the new in-laws of the branch secretary's family are not ordinary.
While Zhang Zhen and his friends were busy, Ding Zhicheng and Lu Xiaolan also installed the TV. Knowing that the voltage in the countryside is unstable and power outages are frequent, Ding Zhicheng was afraid that the TV would easily burn out, so he carefully bought a voltage stabilizer. After
the TV was installed, Lu Guoliang and Lu Guoqiang couldn't wait to watch TV. During the Chinese New Year, my younger brothers and sisters came back and talked about television. They had been dreaming about it for a long time, and thanks to my uncle, they finally got one.
Soon, the living room of the Lu family was crowded with children who came to watch TV.
The Lujia Village brigade had good income, and some wealthy families could actually afford to buy a TV. However, new production lines have not been introduced to the country yet, and the production of televisions is very limited. There are not enough in the city, and even less in the countryside.
Therefore, this is the first TV in Lujia Village.
That night, in addition to the children, many adults also came to watch TV. The Lu family living room could not accommodate so many people, so Lu Qingan moved the TV to the corridor and let everyone gather in the yard to watch.
Three days passed quickly in everyone's busy schedule, and it was August 10th in the blink of an eye.
No matter how simple Lu Qing'an and Lu Boying tried, they still had to invite 30 tables of guests. The Lu family didn't have that much space, so they simply borrowed the sun-drying field at the brigade headquarters.
Early in the morning, the people who came to help started to get busy, setting tables, washing vegetables, killing chickens and sheep, and they were very busy.
Everyone was very happy. The last time it was so lively was when Lu Changzheng and Su Mo got married.
Su Mo got up early in the morning and went to put beautiful makeup on Lu Xiaolan. Lu Xiaolan wore the red dress that Su Mo gave her today. This dress was brought back from Gangcheng by Su Mo at the request of Xu Qifa. It was not available in the country.
Lu Xiaolan looked at herself in the mirror, radiant and completely different, and suddenly choked up and said, "Third sister-in-law, thank you so much."
Su Mo patted her gently and smiled, "You can't cry on a happy day. Your third brother and I both hope you can be happy."
Although Su Mo is younger than Lu Xiaolan on the surface, in two lives, Su Mo is actually older than Lu Xiaolan, and she has always regarded her as her sister.
"Yes! I will!" Lu Xiaolan nodded.
At this time, Lele poked her head in from outside the door and said exaggeratedly, "When did a fairy come here? She looks familiar. Fairy sister, you look like my aunt."
The sadness in Lu Xiaolan's heart was instantly dissipated by Lele's words.
"You little brat, you're teasing me. You're sweating all over. Where did you go? Come over here and wipe your sweat." Lu Xiaolan said, picking up a towel beside her.
Lele walked in with a smile and let Lu Xiaolan wipe his sweat. "I ran over to see my uncle. Aunt, I tell you, my uncle is wearing a suit and a tie. He looks much better than before."
"Clothes really make the man!" Lele concluded.
After that, he ran out again, "Aunt, I'll go outside to watch for you. If my uncle comes over, I'll let you know."
Although Nan Fang was not here, they still decided to have a simple ceremony. When the time was about right, Ding Zhicheng came to pick up the bride. In the presence of relatives and friends, the two swore an oath in front of the portrait of the great man and bowed to the elders.
When it was almost lunchtime, the two of them went to the brigade headquarters to entertain guests.
The dishes were also very hard, including mutton soup, braised pork, braised pork ribs with potatoes, stewed chicken with mushrooms, braised fish with radish, scrambled eggs, and two large pots of fried vegetables with pork fat residue on each table. The staple food was white flour steamed buns and white rice.
All the guests who came to the banquet almost ate too much.
While everyone was having lunch, Yang Jingming was hiding on the side of the road at the entrance of the village, watching the excitement from afar. In
all these years, he hadn't heard that Lu Xiaolan had remarried, and he still had some expectations in his heart.
Now, it's completely gone!
She's getting better and better, but it seems that he will have to stay like this for the rest of his life.
Yang Jingming felt a little unwilling, but he was powerless. He was so angry that he wanted to rush over and destroy the excitement and decency.
Yang Jingming hesitated for a long time, but finally turned the car around and left in despair.