Sunday, July 31, 2022.

Today is the wedding day of Li Xingwen and Zhang Qiulan.

In our country, weddings and funerals are very particular, and the customs and habits are different in each place.

In Qinghe Town, there is a rule that weddings should not be held after noon, which means that the groom should not pick up the bride after 12 noon, otherwise it will be unlucky. At the same time, firecrackers must not be set off when the bride leaves the house, and firecrackers can only be set off when the bride is picked up.

This is mainly to distinguish it from funerals, because in Qinghe Town, the time for sending the dead up the mountain is in the afternoon, and firecrackers are set off as soon as the coffin is carried. Even wherever the coffin arrives, neighbors who have been prepared will set off firecrackers to send it off.

Because of the rule that the bride cannot stay before noon, if a man in Qinghe Town marries a wife who lives far away, he has to take the bride to a hotel in the county or town one day in advance, and then pick her up on the wedding day.

Of course, Li Xingwen and Zhang Qiulan are from neighboring towns, so they are not bothered by this rule.

Both the Li family and the Zhang family have assets worth millions and are well-known figures in their respective villages. Now that the two families have joined forces to become in-laws, the wedding banquet was naturally grand, with more than a hundred tables, which is a rare grand occasion in recent years.

On a makeshift stage.

The groom, Li Xingwen, was holding the microphone and giving his wedding speech:

"Dear friends and relatives, handsome men and beautiful women, thank you for coming here on this beautiful day to bear witness to the love between me and Zhang Qiulan.

Without you, there would be no unforgettable wedding for us.

The first person we want to thank is our parents who raised us with all the hard work.

We were born from the moment you have all the love for us, teaching to speak, teach to walk, to teach knowledge, teach a man ... ... This is the untold, endless fatherly and motherly love that cannot be expressed in words.

Parents, please rest assured that we will be the happiest family in the world."

Having said that, Li Xingwen took Zhang Qiulan's hand and bowed deeply to both sets of parents.

Li Mingcheng and his wife as well as Zhang Jinsong and his wife, who were also standing on the stage, all smiled when they saw this. They were extremely satisfied with this marriage, and their faces were almost stiff from smiling all day.

Li Xingwen continued, "The second person I want to thank is our matchmaker, Master Jiang."

Hearing Li Xingwen mention him, Jiang Feng, who was standing under the stage, immediately smiled and waved.

Li Xingwen spared no effort to flatter him, saying: "My dear friends, our matchmaker Master Jiang is really not an ordinary person. He can predict a person's marital status based on his face. He only needs to take a look at the other person to know whether the other person's marriage is happy or not. It is really amazing.

Here, I would like to strongly recommend Master Jiang to all my friends and relatives who are not married yet. You deserve such a great matchmaker with unique vision and extraordinary ability. "

Except for those close friends and relatives, none of the guests present knew that the matchmaker who brought Li Xingwen and Zhang Qiulan together was so awesome.

There was a lot of discussion for a while.

Li Xingwen smiled and said, "Friends and relatives who are interested in getting married can ask me about this privately. Anyway, without Master Jiang, there would be no Li Xingwen today."

Having said that, Li Xingwen took Zhang Qiulan's hand and they bowed deeply to Jiang Feng together.

At this moment, Jiang Feng felt a sense of satisfaction in his heart. It felt really good to be appreciated by others.

"The third person I want to thank is this beautiful lady next to me. In my opinion, she is the most beautiful woman in the world!"

Li Xingwen said affectionately: "Thank you, my dear, thank you for agreeing to marry me. Maybe I can't make you the richest woman in the world in my lifetime, but I will use my life to make you the happiest woman in the world."

As he spoke, Li Xingwen also bowed to Zhang Qiulan.

Zhang Qiulan's heart was filled with happiness, and she looked at him lovingly. Their eyes met, and everything was said without words.

Li Xingwen concluded: "Finally, I would like to thank all the guests again! Please enjoy your simple meal. I wish you all the best and may all your wishes come true!"

There is no need to go into details about the food and drinks that followed.

At this wedding banquet, Jiang Feng once again gained more than a hundred WeChat friends, all of whom were potential customers.

…

The next day.

The four members of the Li family brought a huge red envelope and a lot of gifts to thank the matchmaker. The commotion was much louder than when the Zhu family came to thank the matchmaker the day before, and it directly alarmed the Jiang family's neighbors.

There is no doubt that the arrival of the Li family was warmly received by Jiang's father and mother.

"Master Jiang, I was really inadequate at yesterday's wedding banquet. Today, I would like to offer you a toast and thank you again for introducing such a good girl to me as my wife."

"Master Jiang, I'll toast you again. I know how difficult it is to find a satisfactory partner in this impetuous era. Many of my friends have messed up their lives because they haven't found the right person. I'm lucky enough to marry such a good wife with the help of Master Jiang. I will never forget your kindness in my life!"

"Master Jiang, this glass of wine is for you on behalf of my wife. It is my honor to marry her, and it is her luck to marry me. All this is thanks to you, Master Jiang."

"Master Jiang, I must toast you again..."

Li Xingwen is indeed a severe patient of social compulsion. As soon as he sat at the table, he started to toast without any hesitation. In just a few minutes, he toasted Jiang Feng three or four glasses of wine.

Fortunately, Jiang Feng was drinking beer, otherwise he wouldn’t have to eat and could go straight upstairs to sleep.

Seeing Li Xingwen picking up the wine glass again, Jiang Feng quickly stopped him and said, "Okay, Brother Wen, stop toasting me. I can't drink as much as you can. If you keep drinking one glass after another like this, you'll make a fool of yourself in a while."

Li Xingwen laughed and said, "Master Jiang, I still want to toast you, but I'll drink it, so please do as you please."

Jiang Feng raised his glass and clinked it with his, then said with a smile: "Brother Wen, please stop saying 'you' and 'you'. It sounds so strange!"

Li Xingwen said: "Okay, I'll listen to you!"

On the other side of the table, Jiang's father and Li Mingcheng were frequently clinking their glasses. The two men of similar age were praising each other's sons and had a very pleasant chat.

Jiang's mother and Li's mother also chatted about family matters, and they took a sip of glutinous rice wine from time to time. The atmosphere was quite harmonious.

As for Zhang Qiulan, she couldn't drink alcohol because she had to be a driver, so she sat next to her husband with a smile on her face, helping to pour wine or handing him tissues from time to time.

Naturally, both the host and the guests enjoyed the meal very much. It lasted from noon to around two in the afternoon, when the Li family members, with their faces flushed from drinking, said goodbye and left.

After the Li family left, Jiang's mother began the part she was most looking forward to - taking stock of the harvest.

The first thing that attracted much attention was the huge red envelope.

Jiang's mother's hands were shaking with excitement when she opened the red envelope.

After opening the red envelope, Jiang's mother took out four stacks of old man's heads from it, three of which were stamped with bank seals worth ten thousand yuan, but the original white seals were painted red for festive occasion.

There is also a stack of slightly thinner ones, which are surrounded by a rubber ring.

Father Jiang's eyes widened.

Jiang Feng took a look and said, "You don't need to count the three stacks to know that they are 30,000 yuan. The thickness of the other stack should be about 7,000 or 8,000 yuan. The lucky number is 38,000 yuan."

At this moment, both Jiang's father and mother were shocked.

Especially Jiang's father. In the past, he worked very hard for a year, and his income, including from the family orchard, was only about 40,000 to 50,000 yuan.

Now, the money his youngest son has received from acting as a matchmaker for two companies has easily exceeded this figure, which makes him feel mixed emotions and he cannot describe how he feels.

In order to get the exact number, Jiang's mother took the trouble to count the money again. Her youngest son guessed it right again: it was indeed 38,000 yuan.

After counting the money, Jiang's mother asked again, "Xiao Feng, have you estimated the value of those gifts?"

Jiang Feng nodded and said, "After a rough estimate, the most valuable items should be the two bottles of Moutai. I remember that they cost more than 3,000 yuan each. The other gifts combined are probably worth as much as a bottle of Moutai. The total value is nearly 10,000 yuan."

Jiang's father and mother were shocked again when they heard this. This was truly a grand deal!

Jiang's mother couldn't help but calculate: "When the Li family came to ask for a matchmaker, the red envelope and gifts were worth about one thousand. Later, you received another two thousand red envelopes for blind dates and housekeeping. Yesterday, you went to attend someone's wedding. Not only did they return the red envelope you gave, they also gave you an extra eight hundred. This adds up to three thousand eight hundred.

3,800 plus today's, wouldn't the total be over 50,000, reaching over 51,000?"

Having come to this point, Jiang's mother and father couldn't help but look at each other in amazement. They were truly eye-opening today.