Chapter 30: Exclaiming, it’s so luxurious!
The eighth day of the sixth lunar month, Saturday.
Today is the day that Deng Changmei goes to Zhang Kangmei's house to look after the family.
After breakfast, around nine o'clock, a group of people including the matchmaker Deng Shirong set out for the Zhang family in Changtian.
Everyone went there on foot. In those days, there were very few bicycles in the countryside. There were nine people in total, including the matchmaker, who went to visit the house. Even if three people could sit on a bicycle, three bicycles would be needed to accommodate them.
The entire production team couldn't even find three bicycles, so in order for everyone to arrive at the same time, they had to walk.
It was indeed a long way from Naye Village to Changtian Village, and it took the group almost an hour and a half to get there.
When they arrived at Zhang's house in Changtian Village, the group was warmly received by the Zhang family.
At this time, many relatives and friends also came to the Zhang family. After all, visiting the house is equivalent to engagement, which is a very important thing. Basically, the direct relatives of the man’s parents will not be absent. If you add in good friends, the number of people is naturally indispensable.
After sitting down and drinking tea for more than ten minutes, Deng Shirong stood up and said to the Zhang family who had been chatting with him, "Cousin, please show us around!"
This is an essential part of house-visiting, and the Zhang family naturally understood it, so they readily agreed, and then took the woman and her group to visit their own house.
The female group would not go into the rooms of other members of the Zhang family. Naturally, everyone's focus was on the room of the male protagonist Zhang Kangmei.
When they walked into Zhang Kangmei's room, everyone including the heroine Deng Changmei couldn't help but exclaimed. They saw that in this large room, in addition to the bunk bed in the middle, there was also a large wardrobe. Directly in front of the bed was a table, and next to the table was a wooden box.
There were wardrobes, tables, and wooden boxes in the room. In this age when one can "trick" three daughters-in-law into marrying with just one box, this was truly high-end equipment. Its luxury was no less than spending tens of thousands of dollars to decorate a room in later generations. It was no wonder that it caused exclamations from the women and their group.
Deng Shirong smiled and praised: "As expected, three generations of grandparents and grandchildren are all carpenters. The furniture in the house is really complete!"
Zhang's mother said with a smile on her face: "It's not difficult for our family to make furniture out of wood. It just takes some time."
Deng Changmei's sister-in-law said with envy: "It's good to have a carpenter at home. He can make any furniture you want. Unlike our family, there is no wardrobe in the room. Even the box is a dowry I brought from my parents' home!"
Mother Zhang took a look at Deng Changmei, the future daughter-in-law, and then said with a smile: "After we become relatives, if sister-in-law wants any furniture, let my Kangmei help make it in her spare time!"
Mrs. Deng's eyes lit up when she heard this, she had been thinking about this originally, and now that the man's mother took the initiative to bring it up, it was equivalent to a promise. If she really wanted to make some furniture then, it could be discussed.
Not only Mrs. Deng, but also the other relatives who came with her were tempted. Who can resist the temptation of furniture in this day and age?
After visiting Zhang Kangmei's room, the woman and her group were very satisfied.
Next, we went out for some tea, and then we had dinner!
The meal prepared by the Zhang family was also extremely rich. Not only were there hard dishes like boiled chicken, braised pork with brown sauce, and stir-fried pork, but there were also dishes like meatballs and egg rolls that are usually only seen at weddings. Paired with bamboo shoots and other dishes, it was truly super rich.
The relatives from both sides were extremely satisfied with the meal.
After the meal, they drank tea and chatted for more than ten minutes before the woman and her group prepared to go back.
The man's side was naturally well prepared. He took out nine red envelopes with nine kinds of spices and gave them to the matchmaker and the woman's party one by one.
I have to say that people with rich family background are different. There is nothing much to say about the five-flavor fish. Basically, one fish weighs about two kilograms. The money is mainly given in red envelopes. The seven people who came with Deng Changmei all got red envelopes of five yuan. The matchmaker Deng Shirong got a red envelope of ten yuan, and the heroine Deng Changmei got a red envelope of eighteen yuan. The total is sixty-three yuan, which is definitely a big deal.
After Deng Shirong received the red envelope, he was delighted to see the ten extra cards of Great Unity and Ten Five Flavors in the system space.
Before, Deng Changfu and Guan Yongying gave the five flavors to the family as guards. Except for two given to the third sister, the other nine five flavors were also finished during this period of time. Now this five flavor came at a very timely moment and made a lot of money back.
Another thing is that he spent a full hundred dollars on buying a car, which reduced his wealth from more than one hundred and sixty dollars at its peak to just over sixty dollars.
Today, his wealth has skyrocketed again, reaching more than one hundred and seventy, which is really great.
On the way back, all the relatives who came with Deng Changmei to visit the Zhang family spoke well of the family. With the matchmaker Deng Shirong also praising them, Deng Changmei had a constant smile on her face.
A woman’s greatest wish is to marry a man who satisfies her and her family and relatives as well, and Zhang Kangmei is obviously such a man.
When I got home, it was almost three o'clock in the afternoon.
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Seeing their father coming back with another piece of pork belly, Deng Shirong's children have become accustomed to it.
The food in their family during this period was truly the best in the whole village. Whenever Deng Yunsong, Deng Yunhua and Deng Yunheng talked about it with their friends, their friends would drool and envy them to the core.
After these friends’ publicity, now almost everyone in the village knows that Deng Shirong’s family has the best food in the village.
Although everyone envied Deng Shirong's life, basically no one felt jealous. The main reason was that most of the food Deng Shirong's family ate were things that few people in the village ate, such as carp, crucian carp, eel, frog, snail, bee pupae and so on.
In fact, many people in the village know that as long as you are willing to use more oil to cook fish, even if your cooking skills are average, the fish will taste better than many other dishes. But the key problem is that every household now does not have enough oil, and people usually try to save as much as possible. So who would be willing to use so much oil to cook fish?
As for things like snails which have little meat, that's even more ridiculous. It's not worth using so much oil to make this dish no matter how good it tastes.
Seeing his eldest daughter learning to ride a bicycle on the flat ground at the door, Deng Shirong handed the pork belly to his youngest daughter and said, "Azhu, take this meat back and hang it up. I'll make fried pork for you later."
Deng Yunzhu took the pork and said with a smile, "I know, Dad!" Although the food at home has been good recently, it is not so good that they are sick of eating meat. Naturally, she is happy to see that there is meat to eat again today.
Thanks to the tip from fock, the popular boss. I am taking my wife and kids back to my hometown for the holidays today. I will be using my phone to write for the next few days, so the updates may be unstable. I would like to say hello to the bosses in advance.
(End of this chapter)