Chapter 123: Banquet at the County Hotel
Did the Shen family really abandon Xia Pinghai's family and switch to Xia Pingshan's family?
It’s no wonder that the villagers of Shifeng Village are gossipy.
It was really because when the Chen and Xia families got engaged, Li Lihe made a big fuss.
This incident kept the villagers busy for half a month.
Shen Laosan came back from the army to get married, and Xia Pingshan's daughter also announced that she would hold a wedding banquet, which inevitably led to misunderstanding.
But the Xia family said nothing, and the Shen family also kept silent.
Xia Kexin was so angry that she almost died. "Sister, do you think Xia Feifei did this on purpose?"
"Is she crazy? I never heard her say she had a boyfriend before? But you and my brother-in-law are going to have a wedding banquet, and she wants to have one too?"
"Isn't this a problem?"
Xia Keqing's birthday is the ninth day of the first lunar month.
Under normal circumstances, the ID card registration date is the Gregorian calendar. The corresponding solar calendar date for the year she was born is February 13th.
But I didn't register correctly.
In that era, the elders basically dictated the information and the registrars wrote it down by hand, so mistakes were inevitable.
So the birthday on Xia Keqing’s ID card is January 9th.
In fact, it was more than a month earlier than her real Gregorian birthday.
Therefore, there is no need to wait until February 13th, Xia Keqing’s birthday on her ID card is already 20 years old.
The Shen family asked someone to calculate the date and they said that the eighth day was a good day, so the two decided to hold the wedding banquet on that day.
With so many people in the Shen family, the two newlyweds certainly don't have to worry about the banquet. Shen's father and mother meant that on the eighth day of the first lunar month, Shen Jichuan would take Xia Keqing to the county marriage registration office to get the marriage certificate.
Shen Jichuan had no objection, and neither did Xia Keqing.
So far, there has not been a strong external factor that made Xia Keqing give up Shen Jichuan, a suitable marriage partner.
Get married first.
We’ll talk about any subsequent changes when the time comes.
But the two families had just agreed on the marriage on the sixth day of the first lunar month, and Uncle Xia and his wife announced that their daughter would hold the wedding banquet on the seventh day.
And the wedding banquet was held at Dongfeng Hotel, the largest hotel in the county!
What?
Did you hear that right?
A certain city and county in Jiangxi Province has always been inconspicuous and its economy is relatively backward.
But the Dongfeng Hotel in the county is the first four-star hotel in the county.
The four-star rating of the eighties was something to be proud of.
It is also the most upscale hotel in the entire county.
The Xia family was actually willing to hold a banquet there?
This isn't just catching an ordinary rich son-in-law!
Shifeng Village is not a big village. Including the households that were just divided out this year, there are about eighty households.
In this era, people value having many children and more blessings, so every household, including the elderly, has at least six people, so the entire village has at least four or five hundred people.
It’s not a small amount.
If there are ten people at a table, we need to set up more than fifty tables!
Are Xia Pingshan and his wife so generous?
You have to know that after several generations of reproduction, everyone in the village is more or less related to each other, not to mention that they are all neighbors. If you have a happy event in your family and don't invite your neighbors, it would be inappropriate to tell others about it.
Unless you don’t live in the village and don’t meet the villagers anymore.
Uncle Xia’s family will suffer a heavy loss this time!
This would be unacceptable if she hadn't found a rich husband!
Even the Shen family didn't plan to hold the wedding banquet in the county hotel, and your Xia family is so generous. Isn't this stealing their limelight?
Originally, the Chen and Xia families were planning to hold a big party in the village, so that they could save the money for the hotel and prepare more delicious dishes. But after what Xia Pingshan and his wife did, it seemed that the Chen and Xia families were nothing special.
Originally, the marriage of the daughter of the Xia family is a happy event, but the way you do it makes it seem a bit disgusting.
Anyone with the slightest bit of ambition would be pissed off to death!
No wonder Xia Kexin was so angry.
Xia Keqing comforted her instead, "Xia Feifei found a good family and invited the whole village to dinner. Isn't this a good thing?"
"Speaking of which, is the Dongfeng Hotel in the county really a four-star hotel? I haven't been there yet!"
Xia Kexin was speechless. "Sister, it's already this time, are you still in the mood to joke?"
Xia Keqing: "I'm not kidding, let's go over there and broaden our horizons with the help of Xia Feifei!"
Xia Kexin: ...
She looked carefully at her sister's eyes and saw that she really wasn't angry.
She was confused.
Is it really not right to be angry when encountering such a thing?
The little girl was stunned.
"Why?"
Xia Keqing burst out laughing. She was already past the age where she could act on impulse. Could face be used to make a living?
Of course, we should save face when it is necessary, but not when it is not necessary.
She didn't care whether Uncle Xia's family chose to hold the wedding banquet a day earlier than hers and specially held it in a star-rated hotel in the county town just to disgust her.
Anyway, Uncle Xia invited me, didn’t he?
You can also go see the world and see what a four-star hotel is like in this era.
"You should do as much as you can. Since my uncle's family dares to be so extravagant, it means that the husband Xia Feifei found has the capital to do so. What does this have to do with us?"
"Shouldn't we be secretly happy that we got the upper hand?"
Xia Kexin: "But, they deliberately..."
Xia Keqing interrupted her sister, "You can't let your brother-in-law and I go to the hotel to hold a wedding banquet just to compare with her, emptying our family's savings. How are we going to live in the future?"
Xia Kexin still pouted, but finally stopped talking.
My sister still has a good attitude!
In fact, even if they held a banquet in a big hotel like Uncle Xia's family did, it would not empty her and Shen Jichuan's family assets.
At this time, the salaries of military cadres were based on rank. Shen Jichuan was at the regimental level, which was about the fifteenth-level salary.
Xia Keqing remembered that he mentioned it, but she couldn't remember the exact number, but it was about 130 yuan per month, plus various allowances, so it was not less.
Not to mention, Xia Keqing's store has made so much money in the past few months.
It's not a problem to hold a banquet in a star-rated hotel.
But it is impossible to waste what is wasted.
It is impossible for two people in a military marriage to advocate waste.
So Xia Keqing felt nothing at all.
I'm just a little curious about what kind of person Xia Feifei found, and why this person is willing to spend so much money on Xia Feifei.
But don't think too much, you'll see it tomorrow.
That night, Xia Kexin still ran to her sister's bed. The two sisters talked for a while, and then Xia Kexin hugged her sister and fell asleep. Xia Keqing was not sleepy yet. She glanced at the clock on the wall. It was only nine o'clock in the evening.
The small village was immersed in silence.
Suddenly, Xia Keqing heard a rustling sound.
At first she thought she had heard it wrong, but unexpectedly there was a figure standing outside the window.
She immediately got out of bed, picked up the badminton racket beside the bed, and quickly stood behind the door.
"It's me!"
Xia Keqing was slightly stunned and put the badminton racket on the stool behind the door, feeling a little amused.
She put on her coat and opened the door.
Shen Jichuan stood at the door.
Xia Keqing patted her chest lightly and said, "I was so scared. I thought there was a thief in my house."
Shen Jichuan frowned and said nothing, but looked down at his little girl, his eyes softened unconsciously, "Well, come and see you."
The little girl in front of me was wearing a thick furry coat, which made her fair face look even smaller.
Only a pair of bright eyes stood out.
Shen Jichuan pursed his lips, thinking of his parents' words, but he didn't know what to say.
The two were silent for a moment.
Xia Keqing thought about it and guessed the old man's purpose in coming to see her. It couldn't be that he was missing her so much that he couldn't sleep, right?
Probably not.
Based on her understanding of the old man, this man is introverted and would not come to her house so late at night if he didn't have something to do.
Most likely there is something that is not convenient to talk about openly, and he wants to ask her opinion in private.
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