Chapter 68: The Wedding Reception
Gu Zhao opened his eyes before dawn, and Ye Tan was still sleeping soundly.
He put on a vest, grabbed a towel, and went out for a morning run. On the way, he ran into several neighbors and acquaintances. Seeing Gu Zhao, they were all surprised and asked him why he had come back so suddenly. Was there something going on at home?
Gu Zhao didn't say much, just said that he came back to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. After chatting for a few words, Gu Zhao continued to run around the river, ran to the third bridge, and then ran back around.
At home, Ye Tan was yawning and washing his face with water. When he saw Gu Zhao coming back, he poured out the water in the basin and filled it with a new one for him to wash his face.
The weather was not very cold now, so Gu Zhao simply washed his hair and face at the same time.
Ye Tan quickly went to get him some hot water, saying, "Don't just wash with cold water just because you're young. You might get a headache later."
Gu Zhao smiled and asked her, "Why didn't you tell me about my cold shower?"
Ye Tan slapped him on the back and said coquettishly, "It's different now."
Gu Zhao could only say that his wife was right. The old teacher rinsed her head with hot water, wiped it a few times with a towel, and when the morning breeze blew, her hair was half dry.
Lin Qiuyun had also prepared breakfast in the kitchen and called the two of them to eat.
Sitting at the table, Gu Zhao reached out and took a steamed bun, and asked Lin Qiuyun: "Mom, will you come back for lunch?"
Lin Qiuyun picked up a pickle and looked at him: "What's wrong?"
Gu Zhao: "If you come back, I'll cook more." Lin Qiuyun thought about her son's cooking skills. She was tired of eating in the cafeteria lately, so she nodded and said, "Then come back and eat."
Gu Zhao added a dish that Lin Qiuyun liked to his mind.
Lin Qiuyun had breakfast and went to work. Ye Tan cleaned up the dishes and Gu Zhao went to wash them.
After everything was cleaned up, there was a knock on the door. Someone heard that Gu Zhao had returned and came to take a look.
Ye Tan didn't leave when she saw that it was a gay man, and Gu Zhao didn't call her, so it seemed that their relationship was probably just average.
Sure enough, Gu Zhao sent the person out after talking to him for a while.
Ye Tan then came out and asked him, "Who is coming?"
Gu Zhao didn't care. "He's just a friend, but we don't interact often."
Their relationship is really average. "So he came here just to see if you've lost weight?"
Gu Zhao laughed and said, "What nonsense! He came to me for help for no reason."
Ye Tan was curious: "Help? What help?"
Gu Zhao curled his lips lightly, "It's not a good thing. I can't help him. I have already refused."
A few thoughts flashed through Ye Tan's mind. If Gu Zhao could help but didn't, it would be a matter of principle.
The relationship with this friend seemed to have come to an end, so I stopped talking about it and turned to other things.
Gu Zhao went out in the morning and bought some pork ribs and pork tripe, planning to show off his cooking skills at noon, and Ye Tan was there to help him.
As soon as Lin Qiuyun entered the house at noon, she smelled a strong fragrance. She was already hungry before she saw the food.
She pushed her bicycle in and asked loudly towards the kitchen, "What's this delicious food? It smells so good."
Ye Tan came out of the kitchen and said with a smile: "Braised spareribs, belly-wrapped chicken, Mom, today's lunch will be all big dishes."
Lin Qiuyun smiled and said, "Then I'm in for a treat." Then she walked into the kitchen and saw Gu Zhao putting a plate of vegetables into a plate. There were already several dishes on the table.
Ye Tan picked up the leftover rice, and the family of three sat down at the dinner table. Ye Tan first picked up a piece of braised pork ribs for Lin Qiuyun. Lin Qiuyun's eyes lit up as she ate it, and she praised Gu Zhao: "Not bad, your cooking skills have improved a lot." Last year, Gu Zhao couldn't cook such delicious pork ribs.
Ye Tan was happy that her husband's cooking skills were recognized, and she picked up a piece of belly-stuffed chicken for Lin Qiuyun to try.
Seeing that she was busy picking up food for her and hadn't eaten a single bite herself, Lin Qiuyun urged her, "Don't just focus on me, eat too. These dishes are best eaten hot. The taste changes when they're cold."
"Okay, Mom." As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Zhao picked up a chicken wing from the bowl for her, and Ye Tan picked it up and ate it naturally.
With her son and daughter-in-law by her side, Lin Qiuyun enjoyed the meal very much and went back to work contentedly. Before leaving, she asked Ye Tan to go back to her parents' home if he had time. There were a lot of things to prepare for the wedding, and more people would mean more help.
Ye Yanlin's wedding date is on the eighth day of August, and today is the second day of August, which means there are only five or six days left until the wedding date.
But the whole family are workers and have to go to work every day. They can only leave work early in the afternoon to prepare for the wedding, so they really don’t have enough time.
When Ye Tan and Gu Zhao arrived and learned that they were too busy to handle everything, the two people who had nothing to do took over most of the things.
Gu Zhao went shopping for things like candy and pastries, while Ye Tan was responsible for cleaning and decorating the new house.
In this era, marriage between men and women was not as complicated as in later generations. There was not much to prepare, and two people were fully capable of doing it.
With the help of the two, the wedding was prepared step by step, and by the sixth day of August most things were ready.
Ye Tan took Ye Yanlin to try on the clothes they were going to wear on their wedding day, while Gu Zhao went to the steel plant to drive.
Originally, Ye Yanlin didn't have the connections to borrow the factory leader's car at his job, so Gu Zhao was supposed to go and borrow it from Deputy Director Feng. However, the steel plant leaders and the sugar factory were old enemies. They knew that the Ye family had used the sugar factory's car to marry off their daughter, and when they learned that they would be using the sugar factory's car this time, they were unhappy.
Last time she was marrying someone from the sugar factory, but this time she was a worker from the steel factory getting married, so how could she use the sugar factory’s car? She had to use the steel factory’s own car.
Just to compete, Ye Yanlin didn't even say a word, but his leader took the initiative to lend him the car.
It's a pleasure to say the least.
Just like when Ye Tan got married, on the eighth day of the eighth lunar month, everyone in the Ye family got up early in the morning before dawn. Ye Tan and Gu Zhao did not go home yesterday and stayed here for the night. Xu Huiling went to cook a pot of rice porridge for breakfast.
After a simple meal, everyone started to get busy. Gu Zhao and Ye Yanlin stood on a stool to fix the lace ribbons to the ceiling of Ye Yanlin's room. Ye Tan and Xu Huiling overturned Ye Yanlin's bed. Everything was replaced with a brand new bright red one and pasted with wedding characters.
After this tidying up, the whole room looked brand new. Looking at the big red wedding character on the window, Ye Yanlin finally began to feel like he was going to get married. He walked back and forth in front of the window with his hands clenched, and suddenly became nervous when the time came.
He also asked Gu Zhao: "Were you nervous before you married Xiao Tan?"
Gu Zhao stood aside with his arms folded and shook his head at him, "I'm not nervous, I'm just very happy."
Ye Yanlin: "I'm happy too, but I just can't help but feel nervous."
Ye Tan held him back and told him to stop turning, and gestured to him: "Come, follow me, inhale, exhale, inhale...exhale...Are you still nervous now?"
Ye Yanlin felt it for a while, then said with a smile, "You know what, it's quite useful. I'm really not that nervous anymore."
Ye Tan took the ironed clothes and handed them to him, "Then change your clothes quickly, because you have to go pick up the bride soon."
Gu Zhao looked at his watch and said, "9:10."
Ye Tan quickened his pace upon hearing this: "Brother, hurry up, isn't the auspicious time to go out and pick up the bride at 9:30?"
Ye Yanlin didn't care about being nervous anymore. He quickly changed into new clothes, looked at himself in the mirror, and found that there was nothing wrong. Then he went to the main room to let Ye Tan take a look.
Ye Tan looked him over, pointed at Gu Zhao and said, "Go tuck his shirt into his trouser waistband."
"Brother, next time you wear a shirt, make sure you tuck the bottom of your shirt into your pants. It will look better that way."
Ye Yanlin looked down at himself. He usually wore work clothes or T-shirts, and rarely wore shirts. For a moment, he really didn't notice this.
"I was saying it looked neat but a little weird just now. It turns out I forgot about this."
Gu Zhao walked up to him and really looked like he was going to help him put on his clothes, but he quickly raised his hand to stop him, "I can do it myself."
A man's waistband can only be touched by his woman.
Ye Yanlin quickly rearranged his clothes. Ye Tan was satisfied with the look and took the big red flower and pinned it on his chest. He now looked like a truly happy groom.
Ye Tan smiled and said, "That's it, very good, let's go."
Ye Yanlin walked out with a smile on his face. All the relatives and neighbors who came to help in the yard turned around to look at him. It was the first time for many of them to see Ye Yanlin looking so energetic and handsome, and they all praised him. Xu Huiling and Ye Jianguo also smiled as they looked at their son.
Ye Jianguo stepped forward and patted Ye Yanlin on the shoulder, then said, "When you are ready, let's go pick up the bride."
Ye Yanlin couldn't stop laughing as he was surrounded by his friends and walked out. Gu Zhao and Ye Tan exchanged a glance. Ye Tan tilted his head and said, "You go ahead. Keep an eye on it when you get over there. Help if you can. Don't let my brother get into any trouble."
Gu Zhao said he knew, "Don't worry, they all want to get married sincerely, no one would deliberately make things difficult for the groom."
Ye Tan: "It's better to be prepared than not to be afraid of a thousand."
Ye Tan took out a stack of small red envelopes from his pocket, each containing a few cents of money, and gave it to Gu Zhao to take with him. He could give it out to pave the way at a critical moment.
This is what Ye Tan learned from getting married in later generations. It requires little cost and has high benefits.
Gu Zhao followed with the small red envelope given by Ye Tan. He had no choice, he was the one driving, so he had to go.
The wedding procession went all the way to the bride's house. When the other family saw that they were coming in a car, they all smiled. This was really a pleasant surprise. They had thought that it would be great to just push a bicycle to pick up the bride, but they didn't expect to see a car instead.
The bride's eldest brother was afraid he might have made a mistake, so he ran to the car door and took a peek inside. He found that the person sitting inside was indeed his future brother-in-law. He couldn't hide his joy on his face, "Good boy, where did you get this car?"
Ye Yanlin got out of the car and greeted his brother-in-law. After Gu Zhao got out, the other party looked at Gu Zhao a few more times. At first glance, he felt that this man had an extraordinary aura and a stern gaze, making people dare not look at him easily. He asked Ye Yanlin: "Is this your brother-in-law, the one who is the regiment commander in the army?"
Ye Yanlin almost rolled his eyes at him, but he held it back when he thought about getting married today. "What? That? I only have one biological sister."
"Oh, that's right. I was just too happy and forgot for a moment. Don't mind it, don't mind it." The last sentence was said to Gu Zhao.
Gu Zhao chuckled and said it was okay.
Seeing that they were chatting right at the gate, Ye Yanlin's friends pushed him back and said, "Brother Ye, the auspicious time is almost over. Are you going to pick up the bride or not?"
Ye Yanlin remembered it as soon as he heard it, and said to his brother-in-law in front of him: "Brother, let's talk later. I'll go in and pick them up now."
As Ye Yanlin was about to step over him and walk into the gate, he was pulled back at the last moment. His brother-in-law, who had been so friendly just now, changed his expression and rolled up his sleeves to block the door.
Gu Zhao laughed. It turned out that all the brothers-in-law in the world were difficult to deal with. Now it was time to let Ye Yanlin experience it.
"Brother-in-law, what are you thinking? You can't enter this door if you don't pass my level."
Ye Yanlin sighed and looked at the gloating Gu Zhao, and realized that he had made things difficult for Gu Zhao in the past, but he didn't expect that the situation would change and it would be his turn today.
Ye Yanlin was in charge of the five passes and six generals. In the Ye family courtyard, Ye Tan looked at Li Congjun who came uninvited and felt very uncomfortable.
It's such a nice day, why does such a nasty guy come?
Xu Huiling also frowned. She didn't want to pay attention to Li Congjun and had nothing to say to Erfeng, so she could only find Ye Jianhui, who was relatively sensible.
"Cousin, I'm not being nosy. You know all about the troubles our family has had with Li Congjun. Now that Yanlin is getting married, he's coming over like this. Isn't this just adding to our troubles?"
Ye Jianhui was also surprised by Li Congjun's arrival. Yanlin was getting married today, and he had told Erfeng in advance that they didn't need to come to his house. Erfeng nodded in agreement at the time, so why did he come directly after that?
He thought of the last time when the two of them said they came back to see their elders, but Erfeng brought Li Congjun to Jianguo's door and said some annoying words.
Erfeng is his own daughter. Ye Jianhui didn't think she was that bad. He just thought that everything was Lin Congjun's little trick and he came to his house just to disgust him.
Ye Jianhui now doesn't know why he was so impulsive and let Erfeng marry such a bad man. If he had known that he was so rotten, he would have let Erfeng never marry again rather than find such a son-in-law.
Ye Jianhui stood up after thinking about it and said to Xu Huiling with a serious face: "Don't worry, sister-in-law, I'll take him out right away."
Ye Jianhui had a good plan. He took the man back to his home and locked the gate to prevent him from coming out and getting in the way. However, Li Congjun seemed to have guessed his plan. He was as slippery as a loach. Ye Jianhui tried to talk to him several times, but he avoided him with a few words and then slipped away somehow.
There was no other way, so Ye Jianhui could only look for Erfeng. Erfeng, holding her belly, sat on the chair and said nonchalantly, "Why look for him?"
"What else? Didn't you see what happened between Li Congjun and your cousin? Don't you know they have a bad relationship? Why did you let him stay here? Is it disgusting? And he must have been drinking before coming here. He reeks of alcohol. If he has been drinking, why not let him sleep at home? What is he trying to do by coming here?"
Er Feng pursed her lips, not very happy about her father saying that about her man, "How could he have drunk alcohol? The smell on him was given to him by someone else. He never drinks."
Ye Jianhui, "Did he tell you that? How can you be so stupid? How can the smell of alcohol on your skin be the same as the smell of alcohol you drink? You can't even smell it."
Er Feng: "What's wrong with drinking a little? He's not drunk, why would he come here to cause trouble? Besides, Dad, those things you said are all in the past. Brother Li doesn't care about them anymore. Besides, we are all relatives now. It's only right for him to come to my cousin's wedding as her husband."
Erfeng touched her bulging belly and said unhappily, "Or is it that Xiaotan is jealous of my pregnancy and feels uncomfortable, so she wants to kick us out so we won't be an eyesore?"
Ye Jianhui was completely bewildered by his daughter's unpredictable train of thought. It took him a while to come to his senses. He looked puzzled, "What did you say? Xiao Tan is jealous of you? What is there about you that she's jealous of? What are you thinking about all the time?"
Er Feng muttered, looking serious: "I'm not imagining things. She got married earlier than me and still hasn't gotten pregnant. Seeing that I got pregnant before her and with twins, how could she not be jealous of me?"
As for the twins, since the news came out, every woman who knew about it would envy and be jealous of her. Ye Tan is also a married woman, so she was spared.
Ye Jianhui simply didn't know what to say to her. He was talking about Li Congjun, and she was talking about pregnancy. It was like talking to a deaf person, and it made no sense.
Ye Jianhui's face darkened. "I don't care about jealousy of pregnancy. Go find someone."
Ye Jianhui's tone was stern. No one had been so harsh to Erfeng since she got pregnant with twins. She had developed a temper and now she got angry and said with her neck stiff, "I'm not going!"
Ye Jianhui sneered: "Okay, okay, okay, I can't order you around anymore." Ye Jianhui was so angry that his breathing became rapid. He turned around and wanted to find something to hit her. When he saw her bulging belly, his anger sank again. He still did nothing and turned around and left angrily.
Li Congjun did drink, and drank quite a lot, but his face did not turn red, nor did he feel dizzy, and his mind was very clear. Of course, this was what he thought. In fact, Li Congjun's mind was impulsive after drinking, and the thoughts that had been surging in his heart before came out at this time, urging him to carry them out, so Li Congjun came to find Ye Tan.
He avoided Ye Jianhui and soon reached the door of Ye Tan's room. There was no one in the living room at that moment, so Li Congjun knocked on Ye Tan's door unscrupulously.
Just now he saw Ye Tan standing in the yard talking to someone, and as soon as he arrived, he turned around and went into the house.
Li Congjun smiled. Are you afraid to see him?
She was sharp-tongued to him before, but now she runs away when she sees him. Is she feeling guilty, or... feels sorry for him?
Ye Tan felt sorry for him. They had been together for so long, but he had never dared to touch her. Whenever he thought of this, he felt very tormented.
Ye Tan heard the noise in the room and asked, "Who is it?"
Li Congjun stood at the door without saying a word, but continued to knock on the door.
Ye Tan thought it was some kid knocking on the door for fun, so he went out to get him to leave. But just as he reached the door, he heard his uncle's voice: "Li Congjun, what are you doing lying at the door?"
Ye Tan was startled. Was it Li Congjun outside? She patted her chest. Fortunately, she did not open the door rashly. Otherwise, if she really opened the door and Li Congjun broke in, who knows what would happen.
Ye Jianhui pulled Li Congjun away, his face flushed with anger, and pointed a trembling finger at his face. "You, what are you doing here? What are you doing blocking the door?"
Li Congjun staggered a few steps, turned his head to look at Ye Jianhui's face, and suddenly laughed: "I was just about to ask you what you want to do? I came to the wedding, and you chased me."
Ye Jianhui took a breath. Seeing how casual he was, he used to be so gentle and serious in front of others, but now he couldn't even pretend after drinking some cat urine. He was too lazy to talk to him anymore and turned around to grab the man and drag him out.
A cousin's husband was blocking his cousin's door, and he would laugh his teeth off if someone saw him. Ye Jianhui couldn't afford to lose face like that.
Li Congjun shook off Ye Jianhui's hand unhappily: "Don't pull me, I can walk by myself." As he spoke, his eyes looked at Ye Tan's door, with a strange smile on his lips. He didn't know what he was thinking as he lowered his head and smiled.
Ye Jianhui frowned deeply as he watched Li Congjun acting a little crazy. He didn't dare to delay any longer, fearing that if anyone stayed, it would really mess up his nephew's marriage, so he urged everyone to leave quickly.
Erfeng couldn't see Li Congjun's men around at this moment, so she couldn't help but stand up and look for him everywhere.
Although Li Congjun was usually quiet and never mentioned Ye Tan, and after she became pregnant with twins, all the Li family members were very attentive to him. Li Congjun also promised her that he really didn't miss Ye Tan anymore and would live a good life with her in the future.
Erfeng believed it in her heart, but she still felt uneasy occasionally. For example, when she couldn't see Li Congjun, she couldn't help but wonder if he had gone to see his lover. Now that she was at Ye Tan's house, she suspected that he had gone to see Ye Tan.
Erfeng pursed her lips, looked around, and was about to go to the main hall to check, when she saw her father coming out with Li Congjun.
She hurried forward and questioned Li Congjun: "Didn't you say you were going to the bathroom? What were you doing in the room?" She looked inside to see if Ye Tan was there.
Ye Jianhui asked her to stop and go outside to talk. Once outside, Li Congjun leaned against the wall, burped, glanced at Erfeng who followed her, looked away with disgust, took out a pack of cigarettes and lit it up.
Erfeng was so angry when she saw him like this, she touched her stomach and groaned, "Don't smoke, the smell makes me feel uncomfortable."
Li Congjun looked at her stomach and narrowed his eyes. "If you feel uncomfortable, go away and give me a break."
Erfeng was unwilling, "I have to watch you, otherwise you might end up in some dirty place again."
Erfeng has not forgotten Li Congjun's past record, and she doesn't want to see him hooking up with another widow again.
Li Congjun cursed with a smile, "Fuck you, can you please let me take a break? I'm so fed up with seeing you every day. What sins did I commit in my past life that I'm entangled with you in this life? It's not enough that you disgust me at home every day, and you even come out and hang around in front of me, leaving me no time to relax. Can you please just leave? Get out of my sight."
Er Feng was speechless, her eyes slowly turning red. "You, you said last night that I was good and that you liked me, that I was pregnant with two sons for you and that I was a great contributor to your Li family. You lied to me?"
Li Congjun laughed incoherently, "I'm not lying to you. I... have always been like this. You're stupid. Don't you know how ugly you are? Even Cui Guafu is more likable than you."
Ye Jianhui was speechless after hearing Li Congjun's vicious words.
It is said that people speak the truth when they are drunk. These were the true words that Li Congjun had been holding in his heart. Erfeng was so angry that she forgot to react for a moment.
Ye Jianhui's action was very direct. He held his breath, took off his shoes, and slapped Li Congjun in the face. Erfeng was a virgin after all, and she followed him. How could he compare her with a widow and abuse her?
Li Congjun was feeling dizzy at the time and was not quite clear about what he said. He was also slow to react. Ye Jianhui hit him right in the face with his shoe, and half of Li Congjun's face was swollen.
He didn't quite understand what was going on and just cried out in pain.
Seeing the man in such a bad state, Ye Jianhui decided to go all out and spanked him a few times, directly sucking out all the recent depression.
He was relieved after smoking so much that he looked at the dizzy Li Congjun and was about to take a breath. He turned around and saw Erfeng, her face pale, groaning, holding her stomach and crying out in pain: "My stomach hurts, Dad, my stomach hurts."
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Author's words: Pre-collection of "My Savior Let Me Marry Him" [Rose]
~Lu Yan transmigrated into a period drama she had watched and became a beautiful cannon fodder from the same village as the heroine.
Cannon fodder has been unloved and unloved since childhood, and is bullied because of his unique and beautiful appearance.
In the end, she got pregnant before marriage and ended up in a miserable situation.
Lu Yan was in such a dangerous situation when she came here, but fortunately she was rescued by a passing sinking pool.
Chen Chi was tall and straight, with a face that Lu Yan particularly loved, especially his subwoofer, which was extremely charming, but she didn't want to rely on him for saving her life.
But Chen Chi thought about it.
*
The train was delayed in the sinking pond and a little girl was saved.
The little girl was timid, afraid of the dark and had a delicate temper. At first, Chen Chi just wanted to get rid of this ancestor as soon as possible.
But the result was hugging and building.
Chen Chi's ears turned red: "I will be responsible for marrying you."
Lu Yan refused: Who would want to get married at such a young age?
This forced Chen Chi to utter a harsh word: "I will repay you for saving my life with my own body."
Lu Yan: “…”
Shame on you!
After marriage——
Lu Yan clutched her pillow and cried, "You said you wouldn't bully me."
The man behind her kissed her sweaty ears, his voice hoarse: "So, I love you now."
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