By the sixteenth, before dawn, everyone on Shuiqing's side had gotten up.
Just as I finished washing up, Li Dani and the others arrived.
Butcher Hu led Hu Wenhua outside to slaughter and clean sheep.
Feng Da and Feng Er were responsible for the dirty, rough, and miscellaneous work such as killing fish and moving tables and chairs.
Li Dani and Erni were in charge of washing the vegetables, Zhou Yu and the other two were in charge of chopping and preparing the vegetables, Hu's mother and Yan Qiu cooked the vegetables, and Qin Yilin and Ding Jiajia helped with the fire.
Shui Qing and Fan Jin are the hosts today, which involves not doing any physical work but maintaining a smile at all times to ensure that no guest feels neglected.
Fan He and Fan Hu carried bamboo baskets and were responsible for distributing wedding cakes. This was a job that required a good memory – they had to remember who gave cakes and who didn't, otherwise they would give too many and not enough, and those who were left out would feel wronged.
Hong Mancang, who was about to become the groom, walked around excitedly with his eleven men. Every now and then, one of them would come over and ask if he needed any help, only to be told not to get his bright red wedding clothes dirty. A few moments later, they would come over again and ask the same question.
Annoyed by the questions, Shuiqing simply told them to wait at the village entrance! That way, they would be the first to know when the bride and her entourage arrived.
The eleven men thought it made a lot of sense and actually ran to the village entrance to wait.
Fan Xiaoliu and Wu Gousheng, who were close to them, were riding their donkeys along the dirt road to pick up the bride and her entourage when the men suddenly realized that the groom was supposed to be picking up the bride!
However, since the journey was too far and they were servants, they wanted to avoid trouble and simplified the process by having the bride's family accompany them. Now, if the master of the house doesn't object, they could go to pick her up themselves!
They immediately returned to ask Shui Qing and Fan Jin for their opinions, and both of them had no objections.
The eleven men beamed with joy. They rushed to the livestock pen, mounted their donkeys, and headed towards Nanning. The men from the village who were on good terms with them also rode their own donkeys to follow, making for a grand and impressive wedding procession!
Fan Dazhu, standing at the village entrance, felt a pang of unease as he watched the bustling crowd.
They were just a group of servants who had sold themselves into slavery. Yet they had a wedding banquet, groom's clothes, and rode a donkey with a large entourage to fetch the bride. Who were they trying to impress? Was it really necessary to be so ostentatious?
Then he realized that he had no new clothes that day, no one came to the wedding banquet, and no one cheered or fawned over him... Indeed, the poor are not even as good as the servants of the rich!
Everyone in the village is a snob.
When Zhang Chunhua went outside, she saw Zhang Xiaogou eating a pancake on the lookout tower. She swallowed hard and looked up to ask, "Xiaogou, what kind of pancake are you eating?"
When did my family start making pancakes?
Zhang Xiaogou lowered his head and replied, "Sister, it was Brother Mancang who brought it over this morning. He said we should work hard and start banging the gong as soon as we see the bride."
Even if I hadn't sent them any cakes, they would have definitely knocked for them if they saw them, but this batch of cakes made all the difference. Today, he was even more excited than when his sister got married!
Seeing the crowds and the grand wedding procession, he wanted his own wedding to be like that, not as quiet and deserted as his sister and brother-in-law's.
Zhang Chunhua said "oh" and after a while, she couldn't help but ask, "Is it delicious?"
Before Zhang Xiaogou could answer, another boy next to him blurted out, "It's made of white flour, and it's so delicious! Everyone who goes gets one."
Zhang Chunhua asked blankly, "Everyone who goes gets one?"
Her husband's family and Fan Jin were relatives after all, and to avoid sending congratulatory gifts, they refrained from going today. Unexpectedly, everyone who went received only a pancake!
It's still a pancake made with white flour.
She quickly followed up with, "Should we send a congratulatory gift?"
She definitely won't go to deliver the congratulatory gift; we can't just give up the gift for a piece of cake!
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