Chapter 38 Marriage
After entering Shen Jiale's house, Lu Mingfeng took out a cloth bag from his clothes and handed it to her.
"This is the money I left for my wedding. Tomorrow I will ask the villagers to help build a house together. The two rooms will be built soon."
Shen Jiale opened it and found another 500 yuan.
I didn't expect Lu Mingfeng to make money so quickly. He made 1,000 yuan in more than a month.
"What kind of house are you planning to build?"
"Just like your house, build two rooms."
Shen Jiale shook his head and said, "Then don't build it yet. My house was just built not long ago and it's also a new house. Let's build a brick and tile house next time."
Lu Mingfeng said, "But I don't have enough money now, but don't worry, I will make money and let you live in a big tile house."
Shen Jiale wondered, "Why is it not enough? The 500 yuan in my hand, and these 500 yuan, are a thousand yuan in total, more than enough to build four brick and tile houses."
Lu Mingfeng waved his hands, "The 500 is your betrothal money, how can you touch it? This 500 is for us to buy wedding supplies and hold wedding banquets, and it can't be touched either."
"We are a family from now on,
so there is no need to be so formal." "That won't work. How can you spend the betrothal money right after giving it? It's better not to give it. I will find a way."
Seeing that Lu Mingfeng was determined, Shen Jiale stopped worrying. The two of them went to the village chief to write a certificate and went to the town to get a marriage certificate.
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Lu Yongfu walked to the gate of the commune and hesitated for a long time. In the end, he walked in for the reputation of the Lu family.
When the commune staff heard that they were going to report their son, they were all surprised.
According to Lu Yongfu's description, Lu Mingfeng got a lot of money in a very short period of time, which must not have come from legitimate sources.
The staff asked Lu Yongfu if he had any evidence.
Lu Yongfu said, "Isn't that much money evidence?"
There was no evidence, so the staff took Lu Yongfu to the Public Security Bureau and asked him to explain the situation in detail.
As soon as Lu Yongfu explained the situation, the public security comrade said to him, "Don't worry and go back. We understand your determination to sacrifice your own family for the sake of justice, but your son Lu Mingfeng's money is not illegally obtained."
The staff asked, "We haven't even investigated, so how can you say there is no problem?"
The public security comrade smiled and said, "A few days ago, Lu Mingfeng returned a rich man's bag in Hai City. There was a large amount of cash in it, as well as a token of the family's search for relatives. In order to thank him, the man gave him 500 yuan as a thank you and also gave him... A banner, didn’t you see it at home?”
Lu Yongfu shook his head: “He didn’t tell me when he came back, I don’t know these.”
The public security comrade shook Lu Yongfu’s hand and said: “I know you are a person who hates evil, but this is something worthy of praise, you must praise your son when you go back.”
Lu Yongfu smiled awkwardly: “It is the right thing to do to return the money, he shouldn’t take other people’s money.”
The public security comrade said: “He didn’t want it, the owner of the bag insisted on giving it to him, he couldn’t refuse, so he accepted it, we were all there at the time.”
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Lu Yongfu returned home and asked Liang Qiaoli to call Lu Mingfeng back.
Liang Qiaoli said angrily: "Why are you yelling? It's better to leave this house so that you don't have to make trouble every day. In the future, you should live less with the young couple."
Lu Yongfu felt guilty: "I will not care about his affairs in the future. Ask him to come back and get married with Mingqi to save some money for the banquet."
Liang Qiaoli said: "Mingfeng's wedding is their own. You don't need to worry about it. Just don't make trouble."
Seeing her husband's 850-degree change, Liang Qiaoli suspected that his brain was stimulated by something.
He just drove people out, and he called them back in such a short time. Could it be that Lu Yongsheng gave him some bad ideas again?
She had already invited relatives to the banquet today. If anyone dared to ruin Mingfeng's wedding today, she would never let him go.
As he was mumbling in his mind, Lu Yongsheng came.
"Third brother, I see that the Youth Institute has started to prepare for the banquet. They said they went to get the marriage certificate and bought a lot of things. If the Public Security Bureau comes, it will be bad if they spend all the money."
Lu Yongfu was still thinking that Mingfeng's wedding was held too hastily and there was no way to save money. His eldest brother came to talk about these nonsense. Suddenly, he felt that his eldest brother was too troublesome.
If he hadn't misled him, he wouldn't have driven Mingfeng out of the house. Now the wedding is not held at home.
"Brother, you go back. Mingfeng won't ruin the reputation of the Lu family."
Lu Yongsheng wanted to say something, but Lu Yongfu walked out of the house impatiently.
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Although it was a flash marriage, the wedding still had to be there.
Shen Jiale wore the blouse that Lu Mingfeng gave her, and Lu Mingfeng wore the black pants and white shirt that Shen Jiale made.
After getting the certificate, they went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy new sheets, thin quilts, pillowcases, washbasins, spittoons, and hot water kettles.
Shen Jiale said that she already had all of these, but Lu Mingfeng still insisted on buying new ones, and the subsequent furniture would also be added.
Before going to the town, Lu Mingfeng asked the village chief's wife to help organize the banquet, and someone would deliver the food at noon. He also asked Liang Qiaoli to notify relatives to come to the banquet.
As for the Lu family, since they were afraid of being implicated by him, they didn't invite them.
Before the two of them returned from the town, Xu Jin brought a lot of things with his younger brothers.
20 jin of pork, 20 jin of vermicelli, 50 jin of tofu, 10 cabbages, 5 herrings, 5 jin of peanuts, 20 jin of cucumbers, 50 salted duck eggs, 5 jin of kelp.
In addition, there were cigarettes, alcohol, candies, firecrackers, and even bowls, chopsticks, and wine glasses.
Big red wedding characters were posted on the doors and windows of the house.
Gou Wa and his brothers and sisters were responsible for borrowing tables and chairs from the villagers.
The village chief's wife and Gou Wa's mother cut the fat and boiled the oil, and then began to prepare the meal.
Half of the pork was fried into meatballs, and the other half was made into pork stewed with vermicelli, braised herring, and cabbage stewed with tofu.
Fried peanuts, cold kelp shreds, smashed cucumbers, and cut duck eggs.
Four hot dishes, four cold dishes, eight dishes, all of which were very generous. There had never been such a sumptuous wedding banquet in the village.
It was almost noon when the two came back. Liang Qiaoli and Lu Bailing were already waiting for them at the entrance of the village.
"Second brother, second sister-in-law." Seeing the two people jogging over excitedly, Lu Bailing took the things from their hands.
"We're back." Liang Qiaoli smiled.
"Mom, we're back." Lu Mingfeng and Shen Jiale answered together.
Now that the newlyweds are back, the banquet can begin. There are four tables in total, and the guests are the village head and his wife, Gou Wa's family, Captain Zhou, Grandma Zhou, Lu Mingfeng's family and relatives.
All the educated youth who brought gifts were arranged to sit at the table, except Jiang Haoran and Wang Yanhong.
Jiang Haoran brought gifts, but the newlyweds confiscated them, and Wang Yanhong wanted to sit at the table without bringing any gifts.
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Lu Yongfu, who was alone at home, sighed for the Nth time while smoking a tobacco pot.
What kind of thing is this? My son got married, but he was not invited to the banquet. I have no right to complain.
The more he thought about it, the angrier he got. He didn't know if he was angry at himself or at Lu Mingfeng.
Firecrackers were heard from the Youth Institute. Lu Yongfu took a deep breath, stood up, and walked out.
Everyone stopped laughing at Lu Yongfu's arrival.
Everyone was thinking, this father who kicked his son out of the house, wouldn't come to cause trouble today?
The village chief was also worried that the big day would be unhappy, so he said to Lu Mingfeng, "Hurry up and ask your father to come to the table for dinner."
Lu Mingfeng looked at Lu Yongfu and said nothing.
At this time, Lu Yongfu said, "Why don't you hang out the banners? On a big day, take them out to add more joy."