So Du Ming and his wife only brought more than 20 people to Li's house, and even Du Feng and his friends did not go.
Under the auspices of Uncle Xu, Li Xu and Du Hong completed the wedding ceremony, and then everyone came to the yard and sat down.
Li's relatives quickly placed food, drinks, bowls, chopsticks and cups on each table. When everything was done, they all sat on the stools.
Li Jiakang's thank-you speech consisted of only two sentences. One was to thank all relatives and friends for their support, and the other was to wish everyone a good meal and drink.
After saying that, he picked up the wine glass and took a sip, which was the signal to start eating.
Everyone ate some food to fill their stomachs first, and then drank and chatted slowly.
Since there were only twelve tables of people today and there was no need for a second round of banquets, Li Jiakang and the others were not in a hurry at all. They even had time to take Li Xu to each table to toast.
It was not until they saw someone walking towards the courtyard gate that the Li family hurried to the gate to see the guest off.
After seeing all the guests off, Li's relatives helped clean and tidy up the yard.
It was just after nine o'clock when all this was done.
After the relatives left and the gate was closed, it was the Li family's turn to take care of themselves.
Everyone came to the main hall. Li Ping first asked Li Chen to make tea for everyone, then took out a notebook and a small cloth bag and handed them to Sun Xiu, "Mom, this is the account book and the gift money, please take a look."
Sun Xiu casually put the cloth bag on the table beside him, then opened the account book and started looking through it.
After flipping through it, she handed the account book to Li Jiakang and asked him to look at it.
After reading it, Li Jiakang pondered and said, "This time the gift money is more than 600 yuan, of which..."
Before he could finish, Li Xu interrupted him and said, "Dad, are you drunk and mistook sixty for six hundred?"
In this day and age, a wedding can receive a gift of more than 600 yuan. This is a joke.
You have to know that for city people, the normal gift money they receive is around ten yuan. Even the Fu family, who held a lavish wedding for Fu Qing, only received more than thirty yuan.
So Li Xu felt that it was already very good to receive more than 60 yuan. As for 600 yuan, that was a number he could not even think about.
Seeing that he didn't believe it, Li Jiakang handed the account book over and said unhappily, "Take a look for yourself."
Li Xu opened the account book, and Du Hong beside him also leaned over to look with him.
Seeing the first three names were Fu Pengzhan, Fu Lin, and Fu Qing, and then seeing the amounts they gave, Li Xu's eyes almost popped out, and he asked in disbelief, "Brother, Fu Pengzhan is Fu Qing and Fu Lin's father. The three of them are family. How could you accept all their gifts, and such a large amount?"
Li Ping glanced at him and said calmly, "Ten yuan is too much? Look behind you."
Li Xu was startled and quickly lowered his head to continue looking through the pages. He saw rows of ten-yuan and twenty-yuan notes with names like Li Qiang, Li Hui, Li Jiafu, Sun Yizhu, Liu Gang, Wu You, Liu Wen...
Turning to the last page, it actually said 'Li Mei, thirty', 'Li Ping, one hundred', and 'Du Lin, fifty'.
Seeing this, Li Xu really didn't know what to say.
After a moment's silence, he asked, "Brother, why are you all paying so much? And the whole family is paying separately. Are you trying to give me money? And why did you accept the money from outsiders who paid ten or twenty yuan?"
"I have no choice but to accept it. I really can't get away from them. Let's talk about Xiao Fu, for example. He told me directly that his job was saved by you. If I don't accept it, he will throw a tantrum and pester me every day at work. Do you think it's okay to not accept it?
He has accepted all his, so how could he not accept his elder brother and his father’s?
Besides, this is with my parents' permission. They said they don't know how many favors you've given out to others, and now that you're married, those who owe you favors will definitely want to take this opportunity to repay you. If I don't let them repay, they probably won't feel comfortable either. So, I'll just accept whatever they give me. I'll take whatever they give me."
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