Chapter 279 Wedding Banquet
Yue Ning and Zhao Xiru accompanied Cui Huiyi upstairs, waited for Cui Huiwen to come up, and helped Cui Huiyi put on the dragon and phoenix dress.
"Huiyi, you and Mr. Qiao have known each other since you were wearing open-crotch pants. It's a bit late for you two to get married today." Zhao Xiru said.
Cui Huiyi rolled her eyes: "If I marry him now, he will think that I have been thinking about him since I was 20 years old, and he keeps saying nice things to me every day. If I had married him earlier, he would have thought that I had been attracted to him since I was young."
Cui Huiyi did not hide her feelings in front of her best friends. When she talked about Qiao Junshen's speechless behavior, she even laughed at herself in the end: "Anyway, this is a problem that has been passed down from their ancestors. If you don't believe me, ask Ningning."
Zhao Xiru looked at Yue Ning, and Yue Ning nodded: "Yeah."
"No way? Ningning, Junxian is like this too?" Cui Huiwen was a little unconvinced. After all, Qiao Junxian was a well-mannered child. He wouldn't be so narcissistic, right?
"Not only that! He also has evidence. After all, I went on the show and said that I fell in love with him at first sight." Yue Ning helped Cui Huiyi tidy up her skirt.
Zhao Xiru asked: "What will you do then?"
Cui Huiyi laughed: "What else can we do? Just like my aunt, we can only let him think so. When he is annoyed, tell him to go away."
Cui Huiyi sat down and Zhao Xiru personally put makeup on Cui Huiyi.
"I'm different. If he wants to listen, I'll let him listen as much as he wants. Didn't I sing "The Moon Over the West Tower" at the freshman party? He said I didn't sing it to him first, so he was unhappy and asked those questions." Yue Ning boasted, "Sweet talk? I say it the most, just out of my mouth. I told him that when I saw him, it was like Brother Bao seeing Sister Lin. It felt like we'd met before, and when we met for the first time, we'd miss each other..."
The sisters all looked at her in shock. Yue Ning's words became more and more disgusting. When everyone was about to lose patience, she said, "He seemed very happy at first, but then he covered my mouth and stopped me from speaking. He said I wasn't sincere at all."
The other three were laughing so hard that they couldn't even stand up straight. Zhao Xiru had to tell Cui Huiyi, "Don't laugh, or your makeup will come off."
"I'll try it next time." Cui Huiyi said.
Zhao Xiru's stylist and makeup artist arrived, and Yue Ning also started to put on makeup and change into her dress.
The sisters group also had two sets of dresses, which Zhao Xiru prepared for everyone: a pea green knee-length dress in the morning and a goose yellow long dress in the evening.
Yue Ning is young, and she looks cute and lovely in the little dress.
The makeup was done and the wedding procession arrived.
Zhao Xiru and her sisters blocked the door.
Cai Zhiyuan saw Zhao Xiru pushing Yue Ning out, and he shouted, "You guys are such a jerk! You agreed not to let Yue Ning come out to block the door, why are you letting her out now?"
"We won't fight with weapons, we'll fight with words. For a long time, we have prepared nine questions, and Ningning will be responsible for the first and ninth." Zhao Xiru explained.
Cai Zhiyuan looked at Yue Ning and pulled Qiao Junxian over: "I leave it to you."
Yue Ning said: "When the golden wind and jade dew meet, the next sentence."
"It's better than anything else in the world." Qiao Junxian stuffed a red envelope into her hand.
"No way! It's that simple." Cai Zhiyuan came over immediately, "I'll take the second question."
Zhao Xiru chuckled: "When is Huiyi's birthday? Multiply it by Junshen's birthday, and divide it by the date of their first date, and you get the number '8'!"
Cai Zhiyuan's face changed: "Zhao Xiru, you are amazing."
He raised the corner of his mouth: "9999998888. I wish Jun Shen and Hui Yi a long and happy life together, and good fortune all the way."
He took the red envelope from Qiao Junxian, stuffed it into Zhao Xiru's hand, and said proudly, "Right?"
Zhao Xiru glared at him and let him in.
After finishing all the questions, Qiao Junshen, wearing a black jacket embroidered with golden dragons and a red gown, arrived at the door.
Cui Jiachang supported himself with a crutch in one hand and held his daughter in the other, handing her over to Qiao Junshen.
The couple offered tea to Cui Jiachang, who drank the tea and told Qiao Junshen, "May you live happily together forever, and take good care of Huiyi in the future."
As he spoke, he actually shed tears.
Cui Jiachang forced himself to watch the convoy leave, his mind full of the little girl in the puffy skirt calling him "Dad". In the blink of an eye, the child was married.
Seeing this, Cui Huiwen said in a joking tone: "Dad, what are you doing? When grandpa passed away, Huiyi was still young, and you never came home. Later, you found Yu Wanmei and gave birth to Huishu. You didn't come home for a month or two. When you came back, it was to quarrel with mom. Huiyi said that after grandpa died, she even lost her father."
Cui Jiachang looked up at his eldest daughter, and Cui Huiwen smiled: "I have more feelings for you. What were you doing when I got married?"
Cui Jiachang recalled the scene of his eldest daughter's wedding. He was furious because his daughter did not allow Cui Huishu to see her off, and his face was dark throughout the whole process.
He looked at his daughter in astonishment, and Cui Huiwen said indifferently, "It's almost good enough."
She was not sad. The port city was so small that she could even hear the firecrackers from the Qiao family.
On the Qiao family's side, Qiao Qiming and Qiao Jiahe were both wearing long gowns and mandarin jackets, while Old Lady Qiao, Qiao Ye Yingyi, and even Qiao's eldest aunt, Cai Qiao Shuyi, were all wearing gowns and skirts embroidered with dragons and phoenixes in gold and silver threads.
Old Mrs. Qiao, holding the arm of an old lady in cheongsam, watched Yue Ning and Cui Huiyi get off the car, and said with emotion: "Sister-in-law, we were like Huiyi and Ningning back then."
This old lady is Qiao Qiming's eldest sister-in-law. Qiao Qiming's generation also has two brothers, just like Qiao Junshen and Qiao Junxian. Qiao Qiming's elder brother Qiao Qihui was placed with high hopes since childhood, while Qiao Qiming was much more casual. When they reached the age of marriage, Qiao Qihui married a lady from a famous family, while Qiao Qiming married the younger sister he had chosen.
Old Mrs. Qiao recalled that she was only eighteen years old when she entered the Qiao family. She told her sister-in-law everything, just like a real sister. But then the world changed... She became sad when she thought about it.
At this time, a chubby little boy ran over, looked up and said, "Madam, madam, I want to eat cake. Mom said to ask madam."
This is the great-grandson of the eldest lady of the Qiao family. The eldest lady of the Qiao family said, "You, don't think about those things, just wait to be called Madam!"
The Qiao family's eldest lady was dragged away by her great-grandson. A woman with a simple and honest air asked the Qiao family's eldest lady in a low voice. The eldest lady smiled and took the child in one hand and the woman in the other hand and walked into the garden living room.
Old Mrs. Qiao turned her head and watched her granddaughter-in-law come in. She walked into the house with Qiao Qiming.
Yue Ning stood next to Qiao Junxian, listened to the aunt who was leading the wedding say auspicious words about having more children and more wealth, and watched the couple offer tea to Qiao's grandparents, father and mother.
After serving tea, Yue Ning escorted the bride into the bridal chamber.
When Yue Ning went downstairs, Zhuang Baoru was chatting with the sisters of the Ye family. Ye Yingyi had many brothers and sisters. In addition to the many concubines and children that her grandfather had married, there were also several who were adopted by the Ye family like her eldest mother, or adopted for various reasons.
Yue Ning chatted with his aunts for a while and then went to take a look at the garden living room.
Tonight's wedding was held at a golf club run by Hong An. Those who came to the family were all very close relatives. Lunch was at Qiao Garden. For this meal, the Qiao family asked the chef of Baohualou to come and prepare a buffet that combines Chinese and Western cuisine.
The Qiao family's garden living room is no less elegant than the hotel's banquet hall. Three Baroque crystal chandeliers hang high in the dome of the banquet hall, the lower half of the wall is dark brown walnut wainscoting, and eight floor-to-ceiling windows open to the garden. The long table in the banquet hall is covered with ivory lace tablecloths, and next to each set of tableware is a small bouquet of pink roses tied with a ribbon.
"Ningning." The person checking the table setting in the banquet hall was Ning Yan's front office manager on duty.
Only snacks were served in the dining area. Yue Ning saw a chubby little boy coming in with a plate, so he bent down and asked in his not-so-fluent Shanghainese: "Junjun, what do you want to eat?"
"Little Auntie, I want that one." The little fat boy pointed at the egg tart and said. This little guy is the great-grandson of Qiao Junxian's great grandfather. Yue Ning and Qiao Junxian have not married yet, so the family asked the little guy to call her "Little Auntie".
Yue Ning took away his dirty plate, helped him get a new plate, and picked up an egg tart. The little guy said, "I want some from Mommy, Grandma, and Madam."
"Okay." Yue Ning was about to help him get it when he heard a loud voice: "Don't listen to his nonsense. He has already eaten a lot. He won't be able to eat later."
The visitor was the granddaughter-in-law of Qiao Junxian's great grandfather. His great grandfather's cousin had been sent to a remote rural area and lived next door to someone else. The family did not mind that the eldest cousin was a capitalist, so they married their daughter to him.
Later, my eldest cousin returned to the city and found a way to bring the mother and son back to Shanghai.
I heard that my eldest cousin's wife was afraid of embarrassing my eldest cousin, so she didn't want to come to Hong Kong City. It was my great grandfather's family who told her, "Junxian's girlfriend is from the northwest!"
When she arrived, she found that Yue Ning, a girl from the Northwest, was more fashionable than girls from Shanghai. She said on the spot that everyone was lying to her, which made everyone laugh.
"Mom said Junjun can't eat anymore." Yue Ning said to the children.
The eldest cousin's wife looked fierce and said, "If you eat it again, I will make you eat with a cane."
The child looked at his mother, then at the door: "Dad." He ran over, and a man with a frosted face bent down and picked up the child. The child said to him: "Dad, Mom told me to eat the cane."
Yue Ning called out, "Brother."
"Hey." The eldest cousin saw that there was already an egg tart on Yue Ning's plate, so he took the plate and asked the kid, "Junjun, do you want more?"
"Yes." Dad is here, and the little guy has someone to support him.
The eldest cousin handed the egg tart to his wife's mouth and said, "Eat half." The eldest sister-in-law took a bite, and the child opened his mouth wide: "Ahh..." and waited for his father to feed him the remaining half.
I saw my eldest cousin eat the remaining half of the egg tart. The child's eyes widened, staring at his father's mouth, watching his father finish the remaining half of the egg tart.
The eldest sister-in-law's face suddenly turned red, and the eldest cousin said nonchalantly: "If Junjun doesn't eat, Mom won't beat Junjun. Dad helped Junjun, is Dad okay?"
The child didn't understand at once, and after a while he said, "Hello, Dad."
Yue Ning was also amazed by his cousin's ability to coax children.
"Ningning, when we have dinner later, your sister-in-law and I will come to discuss something with you." The eldest cousin said to her.
Yue Ning knew that his eldest cousin was working in a state-owned switch factory in Shanghai. He came to Qiao Junxian to consult on how to expand the market. He also knew that Yue Ning had a close relationship with the Guangdong Trade Fair. The Autumn Trade Fair would start in two days, and he probably wanted to ask these questions.
"become."
The couple turned around with the child, and Yue Ning saw the eldest sister-in-law pinching the eldest cousin, and the eldest cousin whispered something. The eldest sister-in-law took two steps forward in anger, and the eldest cousin chased after her with the child.
Yue Ning smiled and went to the kitchen. Lu Peide led the team in the kitchen. In addition to Fan Xiuqin and two other apprentices, Nicholas also followed. Nicholas was fascinated by the fried noodles made by Fan Xiuqin. After learning how to make fried noodles, he found that the steamed buns made by Fan Xiuqin were also delicious. Now, he wanted to learn how to make noodles from Fan Xiuqin. There are many kinds of noodles in China. Fan Xiuqin has only learned to make flowers in the past few years since she entered the State Guesthouse. With Nicholas's learning method, Yue Ning suspected that he was still learning the basics of noodles after studying here for a year.
Nicholas saw Yue Ning coming in and grabbed a handful of hand-rolled noodles: "Ning, my hand-rolled noodles, Xiuqin said they are 'good'."
Fan Xiuqin, who was making cream mushroom chicken, didn't understand English very well. When she heard the word "good", she gave Nicholas a thumbs up and said, "You are great!"
"Xiuqin, cream." In a short period of time, Nicholas was able to utter a few words, and with a Beijing accent, which shows how deeply influenced by Fan Xiuqin.
Fan Xiuqin poured whipped cream into the pot and stirred it, and suddenly a word came out of her mouth.
"right."
Yue Ning saw Fan Xiuqin pour a large bowl of diced chicken thighs into the pot and stir it.
Nicholas took a look and said, "OK."
Food is a universal language, and this is especially true for Fan Xiuqin and Nicholas. They don't need a translator, one speaks Chinese, the other speaks French, and with hand gestures, they can communicate. After two days, the translator is no longer very useful. Nicholas brought a plate of shaved black truffle slices, Fan Xiuqin scooped cream mushroom chicken into a small soup bowl, and Nicholas put black truffle slices on top. It's a perfect match, very smooth.
Yue Ning walked to Lu Peide's side. Lu Peide opened the lid of the pot, which contained eel stewed with mutton. When he opened the lid of the pot, the rich aroma of fish and mutton wafted out.
Behind her, a cook was putting two large plates of king crabs into the steamer. Next to it was a plate of king crab roe mixed with eggs, which was placed directly in the eggshell and topped with a piece of foie gras to make steamed eggs. The dish would be garnished with caviar before being served.
Yue Ning turned around and when she came back, Nicholas and Fan Xiuqin had already covered the small stew pot with puff pastry and brushed it with egg liquid.
Nicholas turned around and opened the oven, and a large plate of Beef Wellington came out of the oven. The steak had to be left to rise for fifteen minutes, just in time to put the chicken pie into the oven.
Lu Peide reminded everyone: "Prepare the dishes."
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