Chu Yu called her back, "Mom, let's eat first, otherwise the food will get cold."
Shu Hui smiled and said, "There are guests here. Mom will go and make some soup. It's cold at home, so drinking some soup will warm you up."
"Who would offer someone a hot bowl of soup? This is the first time Sister Shulan's boyfriend has come to visit. Men love to drink, so please don't bother him." Chu Yu said she would go get the wine, but Zhao Gan wasn't too happy about it. The liquor that people in the countryside drink is all made with alcohol, and a bottle only costs a few cents. Zhao Gan has been fed and pampered since he was a child, but he has never drunk this kind of liquor before.
Zhao Gan was puzzled. When he looked up, he saw Chu Yu take out a bottle of Moutai. Zhao Gan stared at the red ribbon on the Moutai with wide eyes.
The Moutai available on the market is all sauce-flavored liquor, but this Feitian yellow sauce with red ribbons is of a higher grade than the Five-Star Yellow Sauce.
This is a special-supply wine, reserved for a select few, used at state banquets to entertain distinguished guests, and given as gifts to heads of state to take back home.
His net worth is exceptionally high.
Not to mention Zhao Gan, even Zhao Gan's father had never drunk it.
Just because you haven't tasted it doesn't mean you haven't heard the legend of Flying Yellow Soybean Paste.
Men are generally knowledgeable about alcohol. When Zhao Gan went out drinking with his father, he heard someone boast that if he could drink a sip of Feitian soybean paste in his lifetime, it would be worth dying for.
Zhao Gan's father's colleague, who had been a leader his whole life, never got to drink, but Zhao Gan actually got to drink at the Shu family's house, which he looked down on. He held up his glass, muttering to himself, and even took a sip to taste it.
Shu Hui is a country girl whose family is so poor their house is about to collapse. How could she possibly afford to drink Feitian soybean paste? Is this a fake bar?
No way, there's no such thing as fake Moutai on the market. Trying to imitate this kind of liquor is a capital offense.
Even if someone collects this kind of wine bottle, it's probably in the home of a high-ranking leader. Shu Aiguo couldn't find this bottle even if he were to scavenge for trash! Zhao Gan only felt that the wine tasted more mellow, but he had never tasted Feitian yellow sauce before, and he didn't drink much alcohol, so how would he know if the wine was real or fake?
Deng Fangping pulled Shu Hui to sit down. She thought to herself, why bother entertaining a son-in-law who looks down on her family?
It's good enough that there's food at all. Her family has nearly 20 dishes on the table. What can't they offer him?
Shulan went to Zhao Gan's house for dinner, but Zhao Gan's mother deliberately didn't cook and made Shulan eat the leftovers from the previous day. Deng Fangping couldn't swallow this insult.
She had done everything she could for Zhao Ganren.
Shulan was taken aback when she saw the Moutai; she felt something was off about the house.
She figured that neither Deng Fangping nor Shu Hui were cut out to be self-employed, and their families would definitely be struggling to make ends meet, so she brought the money back specifically to support her mother and aunt.
To everyone's surprise, the whole family was wearing brand new down jackets.
The people of Shanguan Village don't know good stuff, but Shulan is in the clothing business, how could she not know good stuff? This outfit is something special.
In previous years, the New Year's Eve dinner only had four or five dishes, mostly vegetable balls and pickled vegetable stalks. This year, however, there were 20 dishes, all of which were meat dishes. When did her family become so well-off?
Shulan felt something was off about the fact that her father was drinking Moutai. She wondered if there was another New Year's Eve dinner of the same scale in the entire Rongtai, let alone Zhao Gan's family.
"Dad, where did we get our Moutai?" Shulan asked.
Shu Aiguo didn't open his mouth, but Deng Fangping seemed to be deliberately speaking for others to hear:
"It was a gift from Chu Yu's friend, Comrade Xiao Dai. He's from Beijing, and he's very generous. For the New Year, he gave me a case of Moutai, a whole Inner Mongolian lamb, a net bag of Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, and some industrial coupons and sugar coupons."
Shu Aiguo and Shu Hui both knew that Dai Donglin was close to the Shu family, not Chu Yu, and assumed that Deng Fangping was deliberately telling Zhao Gan, without considering the possibility that Chu Yu and Dai Donglin were dating.
No wonder Deng Fangping was angry. Zhao Gan was really outrageous. On his first formal visit, he arrived empty-handed and didn't even bring a bag of apples.
Shu Aiguo and Deng Fangping weren't petty; if Zhao Gan's family were poor, they wouldn't mind even if he brought two flatbreads and a net bag of rotten apples. But what was Zhao Gan's family's financial situation? The groom's family knew he was coming, yet they didn't prepare anything?
The groom's parents are quite old; they can't possibly be ignorant of such basic etiquette.
I just didn't like their family!
Trying to slap them in the face empty-handed!
Zhao Gan was indeed not happy. He was waiting for Shu Aiguo to speak up and smooth things over, to give him a way out. He hoped Shu Aiguo would scold Deng Fangping and tell her to watch her words. Otherwise, he, the future son-in-law who had been wronged, would turn his back and leave!
Zhao Gan felt that his presence at the Shu family's home was already a great honor for them, and that Deng Fangping's words showed a lack of understanding.
Shu Aiguo ignored him, and Zhao Gan, feeling humiliated, looked at Shu Lan with a hint of reproach in his eyes.
Shulan knew that Zhao Gan was being unreasonable. The two had already had a fight in the county town. When Zhao Gan came to her door empty-handed, Shulan felt ashamed and her face darkened for a long time. But Zhao Gan said that his mother had taken all his money and he had nothing left, and he would make up for it later.
Shulan had no choice but to come, and Deng Fangping's words were like a knife stabbing into her heart.
Chu Yu's boyfriend is from Beijing, a true city dweller. Even so, he didn't look down on Chu Yu and gave her so many gifts, each one unique and hard to find elsewhere.
What kind of city dweller is Zhao Gan? He's just from a small county town, yet he puts on such airs.
Shulan felt uneasy and guilty towards her parents.
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