Chapter 64: A Second Marriage Should Be Made a Big Deal
The next morning, just after the Jiang family had finished breakfast, someone delivered something to their home.
The things were delivered by a tricycle, including two slaughtered pigs, chickens, ducks, and fish.
The large tricycle was loaded to the brim.
Gu Dongqing opened the gate of the yard and temporarily removed the threshold to make it easier for the tricycle to enter the yard.
"Thank you for your hard work, Master."
After the tricycle driver stopped the vehicle, Gu Dongqing took out two packs of Daqianmen from his pocket and handed one to each of them.
The tricycle driver made money by delivering goods, and now he got an extra pack of cigarettes. He was so happy.
They accepted the cigarettes and quickly unloaded everything from the car and piled them into a dustpan in the yard.
Two large winnowing baskets filled with meat.
It is no exaggeration to say that, except during the Chinese New Year, Jiang Mingyue had never seen so much meat.
“Did you buy all these?”
After the tricycle driver left, Jiang Mingyue went up to ask Gu Dongqing.
Gu Dongqing turned around and smiled, "Wife, have you forgotten what day tomorrow is?"
"We got married, how could I forget?"
She was just surprised that so much pork was needed for a wedding.
She remembered that in her previous life, when she married Dong Chengcai, the Dong family brought ten kilograms of pork.
Duan Ping was given ten pounds of pork, but she still looked unhappy, as if she had received some great favor.
Jiang Mingyue didn't understand at that time. Her cautious character made her dare not say anything against Duan Ping's behavior, let alone show any dissatisfaction, even though she didn't like it.
If she were given another chance, she would definitely throw the ten pounds of pork that Duan Ping brought on her face and make her get out of here as quickly as possible.
"Wife, there are quite a few people in our village, and I have some friends from the town coming over, so it's a buffet, and two pigs are not too much."
Gu Dongqing's voice brought Jiang Mingyue back to her senses.
She blinked, "A buffet?"
"Yes, a buffet." Gu Dongqing smiled and held her hand. "I finally married you, so of course I want to celebrate properly."
If his strength did not allow it, he would even want to celebrate with the whole country.
Jiang Mingyue...
Somewhat funny and helpless.
"Do you think you are such a big shot? Why are you celebrating with the whole country?"
"It has nothing to do with whether you are a big shot or not, it has to do with who you marry."
Gu Dongqing is worthy of being a businessman. No matter what Jiang Mingyue says, he can respond to it.
"I picked the bright moon from the sky, and I want to share my joy and happiness with everyone."
Jiang Mingyue couldn't argue with him.
With blushing cheeks, he could only shift his gaze to the pork in the winnowing basket, thinking about how to cook it.
"The masters who are helping will come and take care of it soon."
Gu Dongqing saw what she was thinking and explained with a smile on his face.
After explaining, I told her to just go back to her room and sit down. "Daughter-in-law is the boss these days. Just rest and don't do anything."
"Okay, then I'll just watch you busy?"
After being together for such a long time, Jiang Manyue gradually got to know Gu Dongqing, a man who knew that what he said was what he really thought in his heart.
She rested peacefully.
Before long, people from the village came to help one after another.
They didn't come empty-handed. Some of them brought a handful of vegetables, a few eggs, and the more generous ones brought a bag of sweet potatoes, or a few kilograms of soybeans, a few kilograms of rice...
There is a wide variety of things to see and do.
The floor of Jiang Mingyue's room was covered with them.
Although we are going to have a buffet tomorrow, we are also inviting people to dinner today. It's just that the banquet will be a little simpler than tomorrow's.
The helper in the kitchen cut about ten pounds of meat to prepare for dinner.
Gu Dongqing, who had just finished his work, saw this and his eyes fell on the half of pork that had not been cut in the dustpan. Without saying a word, he picked up the half of pork weighing about 100 pounds with one hand and threw it on the chopping board used for cutting meat.
“Let’s make this for dinner.”
"This half of pork?"
Jiang Mingyue, who helps in the kitchen, calls him uncle, and his name is Wu Yong. Although his last name is not Jiang, he has a good relationship with the Jiang family.
He has two apprentices, and whenever there are weddings or funerals in the surrounding villages, they always ask him to help.
After the work is done, I would give them a few dozen dollars, a pig's head, or some pork meat, and that would be considered a reward.
Wu Yong has hosted banquets for at least a few dozen, if not a hundred.
But he had never seen anyone as generous as Gu Dongqing, who had half a pig cooked the day before the wedding.
Wu Yong was a little surprised and didn't react for a while.
Gu Dongqing smiled and said, "Master Wu, don't worry. If there is not enough meat tomorrow, I will have someone kill a pig and send it to you."
"No, no, no, there's enough meat for tomorrow. That's enough."
Wu Yong waved his hands quickly.
The reason why he refused to cook this half of the pork was not because there would not be enough meat for tomorrow, but because he had originally wanted to keep this half of the pork so that the Jiang family could eat it slowly after the wedding.
No one cooks all the meat at once at a wedding banquet, right?
This is what Wu Yong originally thought.
But now it seems that he is thinking too much.
Gu Dongqing also understood what Wu Yong meant.
Knowing that he was thinking about the Jiang family, he smiled a lot more.
"Master Wu, don't worry. Since I dared you to cook all this meat, it means I have other plans for the future. My wife is pregnant, and I can't let her eat coarse food with me."
Simply put, there is no need to worry, his family's quality of life will definitely not be reduced because of this half piece of meat.
Wu Yong thought about it and smiled, "Okay, then I'll obey your command!"
"Everyone is in for a treat today!"
Meeting such a generous host, the people who come to help must be in for a treat, right?
Wu Yong cut off half of the pork leg, braised it, stir-fried the ribs with a sweet and sour flavor, and cut part of the pork belly into pieces, while the rest was used to stir-fry the pork.
The spicy aroma wafted from the makeshift kitchen and spread far away.
Jiang Mingyue, who was in the house, was also attracted by the spicy smell.
I looked up and outside.
In the new room, which had been newly decorated, had a wardrobe and a new bed, there were several girls of about the same age talking to her.
Jiang Mingyue sat on the bed covered with a bright red wedding quilt, while the other three girls sat on stools.
One of them was the daughter of the village chief Liu Yongzheng. Her name was Liu Fujuan, and she was Jiang Mingyue's elementary school classmate.
Liu Fujuan brought her cousin over to play.
Several people were chatting in the room, and low laughter could be heard from time to time.
Not long after, someone called for dinner.
The girls in the room went out to help, and Jiang Mingyue also left the room with a smile.
There were five tables in the yard, and the food was already placed on them.
A table was also set up in the main hall, where Grandpa Jiang, several elders who had come over, and the village chief sat.
The uncle who was in charge of helping to take care of the guests gave a call, and everyone sat down one after another, filling up the tables.
Gu Dongqing sat next to Jiang Mingyue. When everyone sat down, he stood up with his glass of wine and clinked glasses with the people in the yard from a distance.
"Everyone, enjoy your meal. Come over for dinner tomorrow!"
A hearty male voice echoed in the yard.
The people in the yard smiled and agreed, chatting and laughing in a very lively manner.
The person who was secretly looking in from outside was so angry at the scene in the yard that he was like a Buddha emerging from a body and two Buddhas ascending to heaven.