Chapter 44 The Day Before the Banquet
People in the 1970s were simple and honest, but in a rural area so poor that people couldn't even afford an egg, a piece of meat could make even the simplest rural people change their faces.
The Lin family suddenly became rich, and who wouldn't want to have a sip of their soup?
Li Xiaojuan and her daughter's behavior seemed like that of scoundrels, but the villagers didn't think it was too much. Li Xiaojuan just did what they wanted to do, but they couldn't put down their pride and do it.
If the Lin family didn't have so many sons and didn't seem so bullying, there would be more such incidents in the future.
The Lin family had a happy lunch and were not affected at all by Li Xiaojuan's incident.
Lin Qingqing's wedding banquet is in two days, and there are still many things to prepare.
Everyone has things to do.
Although wedding banquets in the 1970s were simple, everything had to be borrowed.
Borrow pots, dishes, tables, chairs, benches...
In this era, no one had extra things, so everyone had to cobble together what they had.
After calculating everything, there were so many things to prepare that Lin's mother was worried about missing something. She only had one daughter, Lin Qingqing, and she wanted her wedding to be grand and splendid, with everything being the best for her.
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Time flies when the whole family is busy. Tomorrow is the day of the wedding banquet. Before dawn, all the Lin family members except Lin Qingqing are up.
The next day they had to go shopping for things for the wedding banquet. The six Lin brothers borrowed an ox cart from the village and went to the supply and marketing cooperative in the county town early to buy vegetables. Lin's mother had given the order, and the banquet had to be prepared and not to skimp on it.
The Lin family set a table with eight dishes and one soup, including three meat dishes: pork with vermicelli, pheasant with radish, and rabbit stewed with potatoes; three vegetarian dishes: fried tofu, stir-fried mixed vegetables, and stir-fried vegetables with dried bean curd; three cold dishes: cold vermicelli and smashed cucumber, and a bowl of winter melon and bone soup.
They are all real and delicious dishes. Even the captain's family can't afford such delicious dishes.
It didn't cost much when you calculated it. The chicken and rabbit were caught by Song Yiyuan in the mountains these two days, and the other vegetables were only a few cents per pound, so it didn't cost much.
In the morning, Lin's father and several brothers went out, and several daughters-in-law of the Lin family came home to clean the house.
The wedding banquet will be held in the yard. No matter how shabby the house is, it must be tidied up so that relatives and neighbors can come and see it.
Lin Qingqing had a few days off. Every day she went up the mountain to collect herbs and make more pills for her family. After the banquet, she had to leave. At night, she would lie in the gene chamber for a few hours, then get up to study the genetic data of people from the 1970s.
Song Yiyuan went up the mountain with Lin Qingqing these days. He just walked around the edge and hunted a lot of pheasants and rabbits, adding two more meat dishes to the banquet.
At lunchtime, the Lin brothers returned with a full cart of food and several barrels of wine.
As soon as the ox cart entered the village, it attracted a lot of onlookers.
"This whole truck is full of food? The Lin family has really made a fortune this time. How much does this truckload cost? I think it's all food for the banquet."
"That's right. They are all precious things. So many of them must cost a lot of money."
"I just heard from the Lin family this morning that tomorrow's banquet will have twelve dishes and six meat dishes. Oh my god, I was shocked. The Lin family is so generous in marrying off their daughter. The sons and daughters-in-law of the Lin family have no objections. I think it will cost more than two hundred yuan."
"The Lin family dotes on this daughter the most, and the sons love this sister even more. What opinions do they have? I even heard that the money for building this house was paid for by the Lin family's daughters."
"Nonsense, how could the Lin family's daughter have so much money? It's all given to her by her military boyfriend. The wool comes from the sheep."
The Lin brothers drove their ox carts all the way home, not caring what the villagers said. They said whatever they wanted, and their mouths were on others.
After returning home, they unloaded all the vegetables into the main hall, and then Boss Lin pulled the ox cart and brought in tables, chairs and benches.
After lunch, the Lin brothers set up a stove in the yard. This time, the Lin family wanted to set up more than ten tables, so they had to set up two stoves.
In the afternoon, Li Lanying worked hard to make clothes for the whole family so that everyone in the family could wear new clothes for the wedding banquet tomorrow.
She held a pile of clothes and handed them out to everyone, asking them to try them on first and make modifications if they didn't fit.
Lin Qingqing wore this dress on her wedding day. She was the first one to do it, and she had tried it before. The Lin family had seen it through, and there was no doubt that she received another wave of praise.
"Mom, have you lost weight from working so hard these days? Why is your waist so loose?"
Li Lanying measured each person before making clothes, and she could tell the difference at a glance.
Mother Lin looked down and was quite satisfied. "It's hot, so people tend to lose weight easily. Eating meat a few times will make it back. There's no need to fix this thing. It's a waste of fabric."
Lin's mother had been the busiest person these past two days, constantly on the go, trying to take care of everything. Preparing for a daughter's wedding took over two weeks, so two days was too short a timeframe. She was terrified something might go wrong and make her look ridiculous. It wasn't easy, and she had lost a bit of weight.
In the evening, Lin's father came in from outside. He went to the team leader and asked him to preside over the wedding tomorrow. The village had to invite a respected person to preside over the wedding of the villagers so that no one would cause trouble.
Now everything has been finalized, and we'll just have to wait until dinner to pack Lin Qingqing's things.
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