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The bustle outside seemed to have nothing to do with her. She couldn't tell what she felt in her heart, but she was definitely not happy.
Now she was only thinking about when her eldest son would come back. She would live with him and help him take care of the children.
There was a simple banquet at noon, and a group of people were going to pick up the bride. Jiang Hongbing insisted on taking Jiang Song with him to pick up the bride, and said with regret: "It's a pity that Baizi is not here, otherwise it would be so face-saving to put Baizi there!"
Someone joked: "Don't you see how handsome Baizi is? With Baizi there, no one can see you?"
Everyone laughed.
I really didn't think about how Jiang Bai looked before. Everyone knew that Jiang Song from the Jiang family was good-looking. With that face, who in the whole village wouldn't say he was handsome?
But after they watched "The Commander of the Imperial Guards", the village elders and elders were amazed at how handsome Jiang Bo was when they saw him in the TV series.
Jiang Bo is now recognized as the most handsome man in the village!
Jiang Bo also misses home, Grandpa Jiang and Jiang Liu, but he is a very responsible person. In addition, there are so many young people like him in the crew, everyone is very friendly to him, and with Tong Jingang, the community leader, his life in the crew is extremely harmonious.
The role of Xu Xian does not require him to have good acting skills. The stylist put on Xu Xian's clothes and style, and when he walked out, he was exactly like Xu Xian in reality, fair-skinned, gentle, and naturally slow-tempered.
The director is also very good at training people. He made his temperament not similar to the cold-blooded boy in "The King's Guards" who was slaughtered and carried a blood feud.
Jiang Bai missed Grandpa Jiang and his family. Grandpa Jiang also sat on the high platform at the door of the old store at the entrance of the village with many old men, watching the lively scene on the high platform of his eldest son's house from a distance.
These waterproof platforms are all connected together. Today, all the platforms in Uncle Jiang's house are full of people. They picked up the bride in the afternoon and set up a banquet in the evening. They also need to set up several tables on the platform outside. Grandpa Jiang did not join in the fun, but stayed with his old friends, listening to their bragging.
Two old friends are gone this year, but the old men on the platform are already bragging loudly, and some old men who are ten years younger than them have joined. Everyone praises Grandpa Jiang for living a good life, living a younger life, and his gray hair is not as white as before.
Grandpa Jiang listens to their bragging with satisfaction. Now he doesn't need to brag anymore, others will help him brag.
But he still spoke in a Versailles way. He went to Tian'anmen, watched the national flag-raising ceremony, met Chairman Mao, went to Tiantan and the Forbidden City, and climbed the Great Wall. He said with a look of disdain: "Before I went there, I thought it was something, but it turned out to be just a city wall. There was nothing there, and I was exhausted! My eldest granddaughter and my eldest grandson-in-law accompanied me. I couldn't climb it, I really couldn't climb it. What's the point of climbing that thing! If I were younger then..."
The happiness of bragging and Versailles cannot be replaced by others. Speaking of his experience of going to the capital this year, Grandpa Jiang talked endlessly.
Someone asked him, "You went to Beijing, but did you go to Beijing University? Did you take the train? How many days did you take?"
Grandpa Jiang smiled so hard that his wrinkles deepened. "Why take a train? Take a plane! That's great, flying in the sky, rumbling!"
The old men around were all amazed when they heard this: "You even took a plane? How does it feel? It's high, right? Are you scared?"
"Don't be afraid! Who would be afraid of that thing? It's very stable! And high! There are clouds all around." Grandpa Jiang was sitting on a bench, surrounded by a group of old men who were listening to him bragging. "It's just that my ears are buzzing, as if they were blocked by mud. It will take a while to heal. My eldest granddaughter said it was caused by pressure difference!"
The old men around were stunned and looked at Grandpa Jiang as if they were looking at someone from another world. Look at the clothes he is wearing now, how nice they are. Unlike them, their clothes have been washed for many years and still have patched.
Grandpa Jiang's friend, Lao Zhonghua, also watched Grandpa Jiang bragging with a smile, and followed suit, saying: "My son also wants me to take a plane, saying that he wants my grandson to study abroad, and then he will take me to see the country." Jiang Guotai's father, Grandpa Lao Zhonghua, said with disgust: "I won't go. What's so good about going to that foreign devil's place?"
Everyone laughed and said enviously: "Your son has contracted three sand factories this year. Those big ships are running on the sand river every day. He is really rich!"
"Who would have thought that this sand can be sold for money? How desperate are the people outside? Sand is bought with money, isn't there sand everywhere on the beach?"
"Your son is smart. Who would think of contracting that? Only your son is smart and dares to contract it!"
"Ordinary people don't have that much money."
They knew that many people from all over the country went to work in the sand factory and could make money by selling sand, but they didn't know how much money they could make. They thought that a boatload of sand was only 20 or 30 yuan.
After all, sand is available everywhere. If it can be sold at a high price, who would buy it? Isn't it the same as gold?
Speaking of this, Lao Zhonghua just smiled and said nothing. He waved his hand and said, "I don't understand. Let the young people do it."
It happened that the wedding procession passed by their platform, and everyone looked at Jiang Hongbing and his friends to get married.
Jiang Xi was following the bride-picking team. When she saw Grandpa Jiang, she quickly looked up and shouted loudly: "Grandpa! First Grandpa, Second Grandpa, Third Grandpa, Youngest Grandpa..."
She did not let anyone go and greeted everyone she saw warmly. Everyone she called had a friendly smile on their face and looked at Grandpa Jiang with envy.
They didn't see the two tall men Jiang Song and Jiang Bai in the crowd, so they asked curiously, "Why don't we see your two grandsons? Songzi hasn't come back for several years, right? Where did he go? And why hasn't Baizi come back? Why didn't he come back when his cousin got married?"
Grandpa Jiang is no longer the Grandpa Jiang of the past. He is now a Grandpa Jiang who has seen the world. He smiled and said, "He is filming a movie. The crew won't let him come back. They said he can't leave until the filming is finished. Otherwise, he will burn a lot of money every day of filming!"
Jiang Xi had told Grandpa Jiang about CCTV's confidential matters before. Grandpa Jiang never spoke what he shouldn't say. It was difficult for others to hear a word from him. If they asked too many questions, he would just smile silently.
Everyone was also used to the silent old man's silence.
When everyone heard Grandpa Jiang say that Jiang Bai was filming and couldn't come back, they all understood.
These days, everyone still attaches great importance to work, especially Jiang Bai, who is still on TV. How important is that? Of course, work is more important.
What's the point of not coming back for the New Year? Jiang Guoan is like a live-in son-in-law, not coming back every year.
Didn't Jiang Song not come back for a few years?
And the young son of someone’s family, I heard that he didn’t make any money for a year, and he didn’t come back because he didn’t have the face to come back.
Most people only make a little over a thousand yuan a year, and the money that young people make is just enough for their own food and drink.
On the other hand, the girls in the village eat at the factory, and they only buy a set of clothes at the end of the year to celebrate the New Year, and bring back all the money they save.
Boys are at the age of growing up and playing, and the education environment in their families has been very relaxed since they were young, so they can eat and drink as much as they want when they make money outside. Besides, it doesn’t cost money to find a partner, right?
It doesn’t matter how much money you make, as long as you can bring a partner back, it’s better than anything else!
This is a common view among the villagers.
They asked Grandpa Jiang if Jiang Bai would come back for the New Year.
Grandpa Jiang, like Grandpa Lao Zhonghua, smiled and waved his hands: "Alas, I don't understand. How can I understand the affairs of young people like them?"
The old men thought, yes, they don't understand either!
They went to the other side by boat and then took a bus to the girl's house.
The girl was introduced by the family who built the house when Jiang Hongbing was a bricklayer. She was the aunt of the family whose house was being built. She thought that Jiang Hongbing was a hard-working young man and had the skills of a bricklayer.
As soon as Jiang Hongbing and his friends arrived, all the people from the bride's side came out. They didn't know the relationship between Jiang Bai and Jiang Hongbing, but they knew Jiang Xi. When they introduced the blind date, they mainly used Jiang Xi's fame, saying that he was Jiang Xi's cousin, so they got married without saying anything.
Otherwise, on the other side of the river, the road was blocked, and people on the other side of the river married outside, and no outsiders married people on the other side of the river. Many people's impression of the other side of the river is still primitive, backward, and poor.
These people all stared at Jiang Xi and watched him excitedly.
When the mother-in-law saw Jiang Xi, she smiled so enthusiastically, and immediately stuffed a red envelope into Jiang Xi's pocket, grabbed a handful of peanuts coated with red paint and gave them to Jiang Xi, and asked Jiang Xi to put them in his pocket as a snack.
Everyone's attention was on Jiang Xi, but they forgot about the groom Jiang Hongbing. As a result, they failed to block the door and even before they started asking for red envelopes, the groom had already entered the room, picked up the bride and walked out, scaring Jiang Xi so much that he was confused. The ladies who had just reacted shouted, "You can't walk like this. The bride needs to be carried out by her brothers. How can she walk out like this!"
A group of young girls pushed him outside, shouting, "Block the door, block the door! Red envelopes need to be given out. The bride won't be allowed to take her away without them!" The
person in charge of distributing red envelopes behind the groom was busy handing out the small red envelopes they had prepared in advance one by one. They all contained two cents in small amounts. No matter how many they gave out, it was not too much. Everyone just wanted to have fun.
Jiang Hongbing was holding the bride, but was pushed back again. He asked the bride's brother to carry her out of the house.
The originally happy scene immediately became sad with the crying bride. The moment the bride walked out of the door, she suddenly threw back a bunch of chopsticks in her hand, and the chopsticks scattered.
Jiang Xi didn't understand what this custom meant, but it didn't prevent her from feeling inexplicably sad in such a lively atmosphere. Jiang Xi's
relationship with the opposite sex was not very good in her previous life, but her relationship with the same sex was very good. There were many female comrades who were willing to open their hearts to her.
In her previous life, more than once, married women said to her: "After a woman becomes an adult, she has no home. Her parents' home is not her home, and her husband's home is not her home either." In
her parents' home, you are a married outsider, and in her husband's home, you are still an outsider.
At this moment, Jiang Xi is thinking about developing the local economy and improving the status of women. This is still a long way to go and requires many like-minded people to continue to speak out and work together.