Chapter 12 Chapter 12 Marriage (1)
The two of them exchanged some jokes with each other, and Liu Chunhua blushed at Wang Nian's embarrassment. She punched her friend a few times to vent her anger.
They were so busy until the afternoon, and after several trips Xiao He and his team finally finished moving all the things.
On the last trip, Wang Heping and Wu Ying were also involved in the car fight.
"Why don't you change into some decent clothes? Are you going to meet people like this tonight?"
Wang Nian was wearing old clothes and her cloth shoes had a patch on the big toe. She didn't look like a bride getting married today.
"Then I'll go change my clothes."
"Hurry up, we have to go to Director Huang's house to deliver the matchmaker gift later."
According to Vinci's customs, there is one most important thing to do on the wedding day, which is to give the matchmaker a gift first, after which the matchmaker will lead the wedding procession to pick up the bride.
However, since the slogan of destroying the four olds was launched, the wedding process has been simplified, and those with poor conditions can just give two feet of cloth as a token of their appreciation.
Since Shi Xiangming would not be back from the county town until the afternoon, he had to skip picking up the bride and just set up six tables in the factory hotel in the evening for a lively party.
As Wang Nian walked into the bedroom, Wu Ying and Wang Heping looked around this pretty decent little home.
"My second sister knows how to manage her life and she has made the house look pretty good."
Wang Heping was a person who couldn't let go of his cigarette stick. Before leaving, he thought that he didn't want the baby's new home to be filled with the smell of cigarettes, so he just left the cigarette stick at home.
Wu Ying smiled and patted Wang Heping's hand, which was unconsciously touching his lower back: "Look at those cloth covers on the cabinets, they are so beautiful."
The house is just a little deserted, it will be fine once we get some daily life going.
"It's just that this yard is a little small, and I can't grow anything."
The only thing that made Wang Heping dissatisfied was the yard. There were two long and narrow strips that could be searched at a glance, and a wall surrounding it so that one could not see outside at all.
It doesn't feel like a village at all. Standing at the door of your house you can see endless rice fields.
Wu Ying continued, "Even if you have land, you can't just plant it. My second sister has a yard, so she can at least plant some onions and garlic in the future. But the people upstairs have to spend money to buy them if they want to eat them."
"Auntie, you are absolutely right!" Liu Chunhua agreed, nodding her head like crazy: "Now Wang Nian is half a city dweller, who would still farm when he has public grain to eat?"
If farming is so good, why are so many people trying so hard to move to the city?
"You are right." Wang Heping shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Not having land to farm is a good thing. I have really become stupid from farming."
After a few words of emotion, the bedroom door opened and Wang Nian walked out.
A red shirt, black pants, and the same buckled leather shoes.
With her hair casually tied up and her face still bare, she handed the red plastic hairband in her hand to Liu Chunhua: "Help me put it on."
Wu Ying was a little dissatisfied. She walked over and tugged at Wang Nian's clothes: "I remember Comrade Shi bought a red dress. Why didn't she wear that one?"
The skirt was a new style that Shi Xiangming had specially asked someone to bring back from the provincial capital. It was the first one to be displayed in Wenxi Township.
"I'll change after dinner." Wang Nian smiled, and after pinning her hair up, she started to straighten her clothes: "Comrade Shi and I have to go to the auditorium later. If I dress too much, I'm afraid people will gossip about me."
When factory workers get married, they will first hold a party in the factory's employee auditorium. Melon seeds and candies will be brought out from the factory, which makes everyone happy.
The more crowded the moment, the more low-key Wang Nian has to be.
"Second sister is right." Wang Heping nodded with satisfaction: "We have to be down-to-earth in our lives and be friendly to our neighbors..."
After listening to my husband's philosophy of life for most of my life, I can recite the next sentence by heart, no matter what Wu Ying is.
He just ignored Wang Heping's nagging and glanced at the clock on the table with some worry.
"Why hasn't Comrade Shi come back yet?"
Shi Xiangming had actually been standing in the corridor separated by a wall for quite a while. He had already walked to the door since Wang Nian called him "Comrade Shi".
I am excited about entering a new life, but also a little nervous.
It was not until Wu Ying mentioned him again that he took a deep breath and stepped in.
"The groom is here." Liu Chunhua immediately shouted and joked as soon as she saw him: "Let's welcome the groom into their new home." Then she led the group to clap.
"Almost everyone in the auditorium has arrived..."
Facing so many people, Shi Xiangming was still a little embarrassed. After just a few steps to Wang Nian, blushing had spread from his neck to his cheeks.
"Then you guys go quickly. We are going back to the team too. You guys should go back early on the day of the visit." Wu Ying smiled and waved her hand.
Shi Xiangming, a second-time bride, seemed even more shy than the unmarried Wang Nian. He could hardly raise his head to say a few funny sentences.
Wang Nian, who should have been shy, saw that Shi Xiangming's clothes were neat except for something missing on his chest, so she hurried back to the bedroom to get the big red flower.
The red flower is an essential part of a wedding.
Each of them wore a flower on their chest, and Shi Xiangming took Wang Nian on a bicycle to the small auditorium in Area 1.
The auditorium in the factory is divided into a large auditorium and a small auditorium in each factory area.
The small auditorium in Area 1 is inside the factory, and it takes more than ten minutes to get there by bicycle.
It was the blooming season for nymphs, and both sides of the road were covered with blue-pink nymphs, so dense that they looked like a flower lake.
"Thank you for your hard work. I won't be traveling on business as often in the second half of the year."
Shi Xiangming's voice floated into Wang Nian's ears on the wind, echoing along with the sound of his labored breathing as he walked up the hill.
Wang Nian shook his head out of his sight: "It's not hard at all. I'm very happy!"
"As long as you are happy. If your family needs anything, tell me. If it is not available in the county town, I will ask someone to get it from the provincial capital."
"The cabin is still short of two beds. Let's ask a carpenter to make a bunk bed."
Wang Nian was already very satisfied with being able to live in an upper-floor apartment and having a refrigerator at home, which was a rare commodity in the provincial capital.
In my previous life, the first job I had was only paid half as much as others because I didn’t have an ID card, and I had to fight for room to take a shower in the dormitory.
Compared to the house that was converted from a warehouse, the starting price now is already high.
"Okay." Shi Xiangming raised his lips in the wind, eased his footsteps, and slowed down his bicycle: "Don't call me Comrade Shi anymore."
Blah--
A gust of wind blew by, and the vines of the morning glory were rustling, which happened to cover up the second half of Shi Xiangming's sentence.
Wang Nian didn't hear clearly, so he asked again loudly: "What did you say?"
"I-said-from now on you should call me-Xiang-Ming-"
The wind died down at that moment, and the words seemed particularly deafening.
Wang Nian laughed heartily, swaying his legs slightly, and deliberately imitated loudly: "Xiang--Ming--"
The sound echoed in the valley, and the red that was nestled together gradually faded away in the deep and shallow green.
***
Factory 431 Hotel.
"This is our factory director Luo Yongde... this is deputy factory director Zhu..."
They were said to be friends and relatives, but two of the six tables were actually important leaders in the factory and their families.
People came and went with smiles on their faces. Even though Wang Nian only spent a few minutes grabbing a handful of peanuts and saying a few words, he had already memorized everyone of them.
The original body has a very good memory and can always say the name of someone he has met once.
After welcoming all the leaders into the restaurant, Shi Xiangming's few friends in the factory came next.
In a lively and cheerful atmosphere.
The groom Shi Xiangming was of course the target of everyone's persuasion to drink, while the bride was arranged to sit at the table to eat early.
As introducers, Huang Qiuhong and Zhang Liang had to sit at the main table. When they saw Wang Nian from a distance, they waved to her.
"There's still room for people to sit here. Come over here."
"Auntie Wang Nian, come and sit next to me." Zhang Meili also waved.
Except for Huang Qiuhong's family at the main table, the other two families only had time to greet each other hurriedly.
But Wang Nian still remembered the general name.
The husband on the left side of the table is Zhang Guiqiang, a quality inspector at a factory, and is in the same team as Shi Xiangming.
Gao Jianhua on the right is a senior technician in a factory area and strictly speaking is Shi Xiangming's subordinate.
As soon as Wang Nian sat down, Zhang Meili could not wait to lean over and said coquettishly with a smile: "Auntie, you will live in the factory and not go back to your parents' home from now on, right?"
"Come to my house often in the future." Wang Nian touched Zhang Meili's braid and straightened it with a smile: "It's not far from your home anyway."
"She has to go no matter how far it is." Huang Qiuhong shook her head and laughed. She glanced at her daughter's face, feeling a little bitter in her heart: "Since I ate your fried pork liver once, I don't know how many times you have complained about it."
Since they started primary school, the two children in my family have never acted so coquettishly in front of me. I used to think that they had grown up!
"Auntie, your new dress is so beautiful..." Zhang Meili continued to act coquettishly.
"There will be plenty of opportunities in the future. I can cook many more dishes." Wang Nian smiled and glanced at the little girl who had been looking at her curiously from the left.
Huang Qiuhong noticed it, waved her hand to dispel her thoughts, and introduced other people with a smile.
"This is Comrade Gao Jianhua and Luo Xiuying, and those are their two daughters. You will still be neighbors in the future..."
Gao Jianhua was wearing a pair of black-framed glasses and must have been quite introverted. After hearing the introduction, he just raised his head and smiled at Wang Nian without saying a word.
Luo Xiuying, on the other hand, was very talkative. She leaned slightly back in her chair, revealing her bulging belly.
"Our Jianhua has a good relationship with Chief Engineer Shi. Let's visit each other more often in the future."
Luo Xiuying's eldest daughter Gao Hong's appearance fits her name very well. She has two rosy cheeks and appears to be a very simple person.
The second daughter, Zhang Lili, is seven years old. The curious look just now came from this little girl.
Both girls look like Gao Jianhua, tall but thin.
Among the family of four, only Luo Xiuying has a plump figure. I don’t know if it’s because of her pregnancy or if she is naturally plump.
"You will have plenty of opportunities to move around in the future." Huang Qiuhong interrupted and continued with a smile: "Are the senior technicians also assigned to the No. 43 family building?"
"Sister Huang is well-informed."
Luo Xiuying stroked her belly, her eyes full of pride: "I just received a notice this morning, asking me to go and choose a house in a few days..."
"Is Inspector Zhang's family also on the list?"
When Huang Qiuhong saw that Luo Xiuying was about to show off, she immediately changed the subject and looked at the man who was silently eating melon seeds on the other side.
Wang Nian turned around and looked.
This means that these two families will not only be Shi Xiangming's colleagues in the future, but also...neighbors.