Chapter 143 He Really Helps When There Is Something
At this moment, the main hall of the Zhang family was decorated with lights and colorful decorations.
The groom borrowed a radio from someone and was playing passionate songs. The children in the village were running around in the crowd with fruit candies in their hands, creating a very festive atmosphere in the groom's house.
The dowry that the men carried from the Zhu family was temporarily parked on the road outside the Zhang family's gate, like a festive ribbon.
The bride Zhu Yan and her brother and sister-in-law who came to see her off stood inside the Zhang family's embankment, waiting for the chief steward to finish preparing the ceremony in the main hall. Then the sister-in-law who was to marry would take her into the house for the ceremony.
In the main hall, Zhang Kang was still discussing the details of the wedding ceremony with the chief steward. Hearing that a distinguished guest in a jeep had come to his house, he was full of suspicion, "I didn't invite friends from the county town. Could it be that Captain Tang stopped by to attend the wedding?"
When I went into the city to borrow a bicycle yesterday, I clearly saw Captain Tang was very busy. He had been going to various towns to look for local soldiers who were returning to their hometowns to visit their relatives.
If he wanted to give the Zhang family a surprise, that would make sense.
Zhang Kang hurried out of the main room and saw a military green jeep slowly driving on the road outside the door. The license plate was not a military license plate of the county armed forces, but the license plates of these two jeeps were not simple either...
"Groom, go and meet the guest. He must be a distinguished guest from your family." A man from the local family shouted with joy on his face.
It just so happened that at this time, Zhai Ximo was relieving himself in the toilet.
I heard the villagers outside making loud noises, as if they were enthusiastically discussing that the Zhang family had a distinguished guest who was coming to the wedding in a jeep.
He hurried out of the toilet.
On that day, Zhang Kang was wearing a brand new military uniform and looked very impressive.
The fat figure strode onto the road and looked at the oncoming jeep.
The next moment, he saw the rear window lowered and a face that surprised him poked out of the window.
"Wow! The Zhang family's wedding is quite lively." Wang Zonghao put one hand on the car window. At first glance, people who didn't know him would have thought he was some dandy young man in the city.
When Zhang Kang saw that bastard Wang Zonghao sitting in the car, his fat face suddenly sank and he clenched his fists.
This bastard borrowed a jeep from somewhere and deliberately drove it to the Zhang family's door to show off.
Zhu Yan also saw clearly that the person sitting in the jeep was Wang Zonghao, and she also vaguely saw the bride Chen Pingping sitting in the car with him.
"Eh? Brother-in-law, why are you also attending a wedding banquet here?"
Wang Zonghao finally saw his brother-in-law and waved with a sly smile on his face.
Many villagers and children in Qinglong Village had seen a jeep enter the village before, so they curiously surrounded the jeep to watch the excitement.
Zhai Ximo's eyes widened in surprise. Where did his brother-in-law borrow the jeep from?
The brat must have deliberately brought a jeep to slap Zhang Kang in the face.
He paused, strode to the jeep, and glanced at the other person sitting in the back seat. It was Wang's new daughter-in-law, Chen Pingping.
"Zonghao, what are you doing here?"
After all, he is Wang Zonghao's brother-in-law, and his appearance gave his brother-in-law an invisible sense of oppression and fear.
Wang Zonghao showed no sign of being in a hurry to go back to reunite with his wife. He smiled lazily and said, "Let's go out and have a look when the weather clears up. Brother-in-law, how about we go back to Longwang Village together?"
Just when Zhai Ximo wanted to teach his brother-in-law a lesson, the bride sitting next to Wang Zonghao nervously grabbed the seat with her fingers, and suddenly touched a net bag. There were two worn military lunch boxes in the net bag.
Chen Pingping curiously took out a lunch box and opened the lid, "Zonghao! There are candies in this lunch box."
"Candy?" Wang Zonghao was stunned for a few seconds, then turned around and saw the tattered lunch box that Chen Pingping handed over. "That's perfect! Let's treat the children of Qinglong Village to some wedding candy."
The driver in the front seat was observing the place where he was going to turn around.
I accidentally forgot to remind them not to touch the things on the train, as that was the return gift that Section Chief Han had specially prepared for Wang Ziru.
Wang Zonghao took the lunch box and scattered candies out of the car window like flowers from heaven.
"Come on, come on, adults and children, have some wedding candy. My Wang Zonghao's wedding candy is especially sweet, even sweeter than Zhang's fruit candy..."
Not only did the children desperately squeeze over to grab the candies, but several village women also rushed over to grab the White Rabbit candies.
"Zong Hao, the lunch box in your hand... looks like it's mine." Zhai Ximo originally wanted his brother-in-law to go back to the Wang family immediately to get married.
Unexpectedly, I saw my brother-in-law holding the food he used every day for meals in the army, and I immediately realized that this was the Han family's car.
"I was wondering why there was such a broken lunch box in Han Dixing's car. It turns out it's yours." Wang Zonghao didn't react at all. His actions had been seen through by his brother-in-law.
Zhai Ximo put his hands on his waist, "Zong Hao! Go back immediately."
Zhang Kang, who was slapped in the face by his love rival, walked up to Zhai Ximo and sneered coldly, "Wang Zonghao, are you here to slap your brother-in-law in the face today?"
"You don't need to get excited. It's enough to slap your Zhang family in the face."
"Zonghao, is there another box of mung bean cakes here?"
Chen Pingping took out another lunch box and opened the lid, revealing a box of beautiful and delicious mung bean cakes.
"There are also wedding cakes. Han Dixing is really good at making friends. He is really helpful when there is something to do. Bring them here and treat all the people in Qinglong Village to them." Wang Zonghao distributed all the mung bean cakes in a generous breath.
The children and young wives of Qinglong Village all crowded around the car and scrambled for food. They just managed to grab some White Rabbit milk candies from "Shili Yangchang".
It was a rare opportunity to eat such a milky candy, and they even managed to snatch the mung bean cake. They all smiled and gave Wang Zonghao a thumbs up.
"It turns out he's the groom from the Wang family of Longwang Village!"
"The Wang family boy is so generous!"
"Look, the Wang family has a jeep to pick up the bride."
This made Wang Zonghao proud. After the food in the car was distributed, Wang Zonghao waved with a smile and instructed the driver to drive the car back to Wang's home in Longwang Village.
After watching the jeep retreat several meters and then turn around and leave, Zhang Kang turned around to look at Zhu Yan who was standing next to the bicycle.
Zhu Yan lowered her head slightly, making it impossible to see the expression on her face.
The fact that Chen Pingping had a new groom did not have much of a impact on Zhang Kang.
But Zhu Yan was different. After all, she had been engaged to that bastard Wang Zonghao for nearly two years, and there was some affection between them.
"Bastard! If it weren't for the fact that he is your brother-in-law, I would definitely beat him to a pulp today." Zhang Kang growled with gritted teeth.
"Hurry up and get married. I had nothing when I got married, but my bride still married me and gave birth to such a lovely baby... After getting married, if the two of us can live a good life together, that's more important than anything else." Zhai Ximo pretended to be relaxed and encouraged his old comrade, but he was actually very nervous inside.
He probably guessed that the third son of the Han family came to the Wang family to attend the wedding.
It was just a coincidence that he was helping Zhang Kang get married and this time he missed the Han family's son. So what if he missed him? If they met, he didn't know what to talk about with him.
I think the milk candy and mung bean cakes that my brother-in-law just generously distributed must have been a return gift from the third son of the Han family after he had the spicy chicken nuggets.
"You little brat! He gave his nephew's snacks to these outsiders for nothing."
This is Longwang Village.
Wang Zongming stood outside the courtyard gate and saw the jeep coming back from a distance. He quickly opened the matchbox in his hand, took out a match and lit it. In the blink of an eye, the sound of firecrackers warmly welcomed the arrival of the bride.
In a joyous atmosphere, Wang Ziru went to the car in person and saw her younger brother pick up the bride.
Amid the laughter of the whole village, he walked into the Wang family's yard with his bride and walked straight into the stone house with his sister-in-law.
The villagers who were previously outside the yard watching the bride get off the car now all rushed into the yard to watch Wang Zonghao and the bride worship heaven and earth.
"Bow to the parents!"
After the wedding ceremony, the bride was sent to the bridal chamber.
Suddenly many children rushed into the new house to ask for wedding candy.
Chen Pingping also knew the customs of marriage in the village, and quickly filled a porcelain plate with popcorn, rice candy, melon seeds and peanuts, and asked everyone to take it out to eat.
At this time, a cousin who brought Chen Pingping to the groom's house came in and asked them if they had seen the Zhang family's bride in Qinglong Village.
Chen Pingping took them to Qinglong Village and told her cousin's wife.
When the cousin's wife heard this, she said, "Isn't Zonghao too arrogant? That must be a gift from the Han family. Hurry up, let's pack a bag of wedding candy for them to take back to the county, so that we can ask the Han family to help you find a job in the future."
Chen Pingping's pretty face flushed, and she quickly got busy with her sister-in-law.
Outside the yard.
The driver backed the car to a wide roadside and stopped, then quickly got out to tell Section Chief Han, "I think it was all my fault that I forgot to stop them. The groom went to the next village and gave the candies and mung bean cakes that Section Chief Han brought as wedding candy to adults and children."
Han Dixing's bright eyes were slightly startled, and his handsome face suddenly tensed up.
He ate a little snack and then ate it, but he didn't have time to go back to the county town to get two more boxes of snacks.
Later, I had to return the two empty lunch boxes to Wang Ziru.
He turned around and looked at the densely packed villagers in the stone house. Another string of firecrackers rang out in the stone house, and the chief steward was inviting the guests to take their seats.
Wang Ziru felt a little cold, so she went back to her room to change into her flowered cotton jacket. When she passed the accounting office in the fire room, she heard several relatives in the room praising the distinguished guest.
"The Han family is really a wealthy family. If my niece had married into the Han family, her life would have been many times more prosperous than it is now."
"That's right, this Han kid took a special leave to come to the wedding and even asked for 20 yuan as a favor."
"In the future, Zong Hao will also be in the county. It's really a good deal for this brat."
"It won't be long before the Han family can find a job for Pingping..."
Wang Ziru then realized that after Han Dixing watched the jeep drive to Qinglong Village, he came in to ask for a favor and actually asked for 20 yuan.
In this era, if villagers in the village could give one or two yuan or send 6 kilograms of noodles or 2 kilograms of sugar, it would be considered a great favor.
There were also many people in the village who did not have money to pay favors, but instead weighed out ten kilograms of rice from their homes and gave it as favors.
A generous guest like Han Dixing truly made the Wang family elders extremely jealous.
During the banquet, Wang Ziru specially called Han Dixing to the wedding table and asked him to sit at the seat of honor.
"Don't be polite, boy Han. This is the best banquet we have in the countryside." The sister-in-law of the Chen family who was sitting at the same table with the bride smiled warmly, wishing she could send all the delicious dishes on the table to Han Dixing.
Han Di smiled politely and ate the bowl of straw raincoat rice with gusto.
"Sister Ziru, I have to go back to work after dinner. Here, I brought you a lunch box. Come with me to the car to get it."
"You're sending two broken lunch boxes back to me?" Wang Ziru couldn't help laughing.
Han Dixing said in a low voice: "Your target needs to eat when he returns to the army. If he doesn't come back, what will he eat?"
When the other people at the table saw this, especially the sisters-in-law of the Chen family, they frowned and wanted to go over and separate them.
Nowadays, wedding banquets are simple and the newlyweds don’t have to come out to toast.
After dinner, Han Dixing said hello to Wang Zonghao and Wang Dongsheng, and then led Wang Ziru to the jeep parked at the entrance of the village.
Wang Zonghao suddenly remembered the lunch box.
He slapped his head and said, "Tsk! I'm sure my sister will scold me. Never mind. When I get my salary, I'll buy Han Dixing a box of candy as compensation."
Wang Ziru followed Han Dixing, talking and laughing all the way to the jeep.
The driver had already gotten out of the car, carrying a net bag, and was standing beside the car waiting for Section Chief Han.
"Sister Ziru, I'm so sorry. This time I brought you two empty lunch boxes." Han Dixing took the lunch box and returned it to Wang Ziru with somewhat embarrassed hands.
"You're still saying that. I made you spend so much money last time, and you spent a lot more today..."
The two were saying goodbye beside the jeep when Chen Pingping, dressed in a wedding dress, ran out of the Wang family yard holding a large bag of wedding candy and shouted, "Sister Ziru! Please ask the guests to wait a moment."