Chapter 144 Group Wedding... Exciting.
Although group weddings are cheaper, many older people with conservative views do not accept them because weddings are a major life event and should not be simple; they should be grand and extravagant, as this is a matter of "face" for a person's entire life.
If the wedding isn't lavish and the cigarettes and alcohol aren't high-end, people will laugh at you for the rest of your life.
"This is a group wedding requested by Factory Director Qin!"
"If more than twenty couples hold their weddings together, who will laugh at whom later?"
The elders in the family were shocked: "More than twenty couples?"
"And we used good cigarettes and alcohol for our wedding! There were more than 20 couples, and we just chipped in a little money to cover the cost of the cigarettes and alcohol! They were all high-end cigarettes and alcohol!"
If a newlywed couple wants to have a decent wedding, it will probably cost a lot of money, but it's very simple for twenty newlywed couples to have a decent wedding together.
The cigarettes, alcohol, candy, and cakes were all high-end products, including fruit candies, hard candies, and soft candies... The wedding candy coupons from twenty newlywed couples were put together, and if you did the math, it would be very impressive to hold a group wedding like this.
"As long as we don't tell people at home that we're having a group wedding, all this cigarettes and alcohol will look very respectable!"
"We can say to the outside world that we treated all the factory workers to a banquet!"
"Director Qin said he'll hire someone to take photos of every newlywed couple! They'll all be individual photos, so you won't be able to tell there are other newlyweds at the wedding banquet. The photos will definitely show them looking very happy!"
In this way, the elders in the family who were initially hesitant were gradually persuaded. They said that no matter how you put it, having a wedding is all about saving face and having a good time. As long as you handle these two things well, everything will be fine.
"Was it really a solo photoshoot?"
"It must be a separate photoshoot! A special camera! Only the newlyweds and the table will be photographed!"
"That's great."
"Isn't that right? Not only do we save money, but we also gain prestige and prestige!"
...
It is under such a call that more and more people are willing to participate in group weddings. Some people who were originally hesitant to get married, upon hearing that the next group wedding would not be until next year, thought that they might as well just get married as soon as possible.
"Whether you stick your neck out or not, you'll still get stabbed. Let's just go through with this marriage!"
"Getting married earlier means getting a house earlier. I heard from Assistant He that the factory is going to build two apartment buildings for employees this year. Only married employees are eligible for housing. Those who get married first will get in line."
"We have to get in line first! Otherwise, what will we do when our kids are running around and we still haven't been allocated a house?"
Driven by these conditions, nearly thirty couples eagerly signed up for the group wedding within a few days, which startled Representative Xie. Now he really needed to find someone to do ideological work with the factory workers.
"We shouldn't rush into marriage. Let's think it over carefully. Getting married next year isn't too late."
"Don't worry, every couple will be allocated their own housing; it's just a matter of time."
...
After persuading several couples to break up, Representative Xie felt a cold sweat break out and ran up to Qin Xiangxiang, saying, "Director Qin, I think you are a matchmaker incarnate."
"Now that you've said that, every employee in the factory wants to get married! If you say a few more words, the marriage rate in the factory will increase by thirty percent!"
Qin Xiangxiang chuckled coldly twice: "Representative Jie, don't flatter me. I really didn't believe your nonsense."
"If I were really a matchmaker, I'd glare at you and make you get married. Where would you find someone to marry now?"
Representative Jie said, "No matter how skilled a matchmaker is, she can't overcome my fate of being a lonely young man."
As more and more people signed up for the group wedding, Qin Xiangxiang began to realize how terrible her idea was! She wanted to save time on the wedding, but ended up saving a huge number of newlyweds – who could she complain to?
"Li Jianzhi, I've shot myself in the foot!" Thinking of the wedding frenzy sweeping through the factory, which he felt was like a typhoon to be avoided at all costs, he exclaimed, "I came up with a terrible idea, and this typhoon is getting stronger and stronger!"
Li Jianzhi was cooking in the kitchen: "A butterfly gently flaps its wings, causing a storm on the coast."
"Who knew that the number of people wanting to get married would snowball and keep growing?"
Li Jianzhi chuckled: "Did your little sister tell you today? She might be too embarrassed to tell you, but she's very grateful to you, her sister-in-law, for suggesting the group wedding. Li Jinling said she wants to participate too!"
"She said she wanted to support her sister-in-law and set a good example!"
Qin Xiangxiang was shocked: "Who? Her and Xue Haiyang?"
"right."
Qin Xiangxiang was silent for a while, then whispered, "Do you think I should suggest that she have her 'chalk tip' checked before marriage? Blind marriages are no good."
In my dream, my sister-in-law married a piece of chalk. I can't let this happen again.
Xue Haiyang is a nice person, just a little shorter than Li Jinling, but the two of them look quite well-matched. In the north, there are many couples where the woman is taller than the man.
"If it's not right for you, as the older brother, to remind me, should I, as the sister-in-law, take responsibility? Should I tell my sister-in-law about this?"
Li Jianzhi was silent for a few seconds, then shamelessly said, "Didn't you say it doesn't matter whether this thing exists or not?"
"Now you realize how important my brother is?"
Qin Xiangxiang slapped his little brother twice without any expression.
"Gently—"
Out of a sense of duty as a sister-in-law, Qin Xiangxiang brought up the matter with her sister-in-law, Li Jinling. Li Jinling casually told her, "Don't worry, sister-in-law, it's bigger than my ex-husband's. I've even touched it."
Qin Xiangxiang: "???!!!"
"Sister-in-law, you've only met my brother? I've never met my brother."
Qin Xiangxiang shook her head frantically: "I've only ever met your brother."
“I’ve seen many. In the past, in the countryside, men didn’t care about hygiene and would just urinate on the roadside. But I noticed that although Xue Haiyang was short, he was quite big.”
Qin Xiangxiang was going crazy. Why did she start talking about this with her sister-in-law?
Li Jinling whispered, "Xue Haiyang said that Zhou Liangdong's breasts aren't even as big as his, yet he still has the nerve to like him."
Qin Xiangxiang: "Huh!?"
It was as if a fly was frantically wriggling its arms and legs in her head, as if saying: Go away, all of you go away! She could picture it!
Qin Xiangxiang could only mimic Li Jianzhi's expressionless face to conceal the turmoil within her: "I really didn't realize Xue Haiyang was so capable."
Li Jinling nodded and said, "You can't judge a book by its cover."
"The older generation in our village says that no matter how tall and strong some men look, their bodies are just for show, all show and no substance."
Qin Xiangxiang had nothing left to say to her sister-in-law; all she could think about now was gossip.
When Li Jianzhi returned, her mind was still filled with flies buzzing around like crazy, which she couldn't get rid of no matter what she tried.
"Li Jianzhi! Li Jianzhi! I'm dying to know!" Qin Xiangxiang was really curious. Her mind was full of comparing sizes, but she didn't have any concrete reference points.
Qin Xiangxiang sighed, "I only now realize how 'insightful' I am."
Li Jianzhi asked curiously, "Did you tell Li Jinling?"
"Bigger than mine?"
Qin Xiangxiang: "???"
Li Jianzhi said confidently, "That's impossible! I used to compete with people when I was in military school, and I stood out from the crowd."
Qin Xiangxiang said, "Let's not talk about that for now. According to Xue Haiyang, Zhou Liangdong's penis isn't as big as his, but Lu Baizhou likes Zhou Liangdong. What if... what if..."
Li Jianzhi: "I know, they're scattered everywhere, with no one to rely on."
Qin Xiangxiang: "...What are you saying? Why can't I understand?"
"What I mean is that Lu Baizhou and Zhou Liangdong both wanted to find husbands, but they were dumbfounded when they finally got together."
Qin Xiangxiang: "...Exciting."
The factory's group wedding was scheduled for the last few days of the twelfth lunar month. The factory's head chef cooked the feast, and the entire canteen, both floors, was used up and filled with a huge crowd of people, including all the factory's employees and the relatives of the employees getting married.
"After having the newlyweds' wedding banquet at noon, everyone will continue to eat in the evening, and afterwards we'll all watch an open-air movie together in the open space!"
"The movie runs from 6 PM to midnight tonight. Everyone, please don't go and cause trouble in the bridal chamber, or the bride and groom will be angry!"
"The factory director must speak... Today is the wedding day of our employees, and our factory director must give a speech."
...
Li Yaowei and his wife also attended Li Jinling's group wedding. He couldn't help but say to Li Jianzhi, "I really admire your wife's brain. She's really good at it. No wonder she's a girl from the big city. She can even come up with this idea."
“When Xiaoyun and I got married, it wasn’t this grand. We even had an open-air movie screening all night.”
Li Jianzhi chuckled: "This idea alone has led to the birth of more than twenty couples."
Who would have thought that all of this was because some lazy bum wanted to slack off?
Li Yaowei whistled: "The men in the textile factory are so lucky, they can find partners so easily!"
Li Jianzhi took a sip of wine and said calmly, "Life is full of disappointments."
Lai Yiu-wai choked on his drink and spat it out behind him.
"Li Jianzhi, are you still pretending with me? You keep saying that life is mostly unsatisfactory, but what's unsatisfactory about you? Stop pretending here."
Li Jianzhi glanced at him and said, "If you don't understand, I'll give you a poem."
Li Jianzhi wrote a poem on a piece of white paper and gave it to Li Yaowei. Li Yaowei opened it and read it: "The hidden plum blossoms are faintly fragrant, the branches lie low with sorrow and resentment, the sound from afar seems to... easily penetrate the green of spring?"
Liu Xiaoyun, who was standing next to her, was laughing so hard she was dumbfounded. This was an old joke that had been around since the 1950s or 60s, and her husband had actually fallen for it.
Liu Xiaoyun commented, "You should read more books when you have nothing else to do!"
After the lively group wedding, it was immediately New Year's Eve. The textile factory was also bustling during the New Year. Nowadays, it's not common to take a holiday during the New Year. Even on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the factory still operates. However, the shifts that work on New Year's Eve and the first and second days of the Lunar New Year receive a certain New Year's subsidy, which is probably a box of cakes and candies.
The year was 1973.
Before the Lantern Festival was over, Qin Xiangxiang learned some bad news for the factory: their factory had a problem with its quota this year, and the cotton allocated to them was all medium-length high-quality cotton. These raw cottons were good, but expensive!
Ordinary cotton blends don't need to be this good; it's completely unnecessary. Besides the cotton blending issue, most of the substandard dyes in the province were taken by Hongxing Textile Factory in advance. Furthermore, the provincial textile industry bureau wanted to support Hongxing Textile Factory in garment export simply because Hongxing Textile Factory had more skilled sewing workers.
At the end of the year, Zheng Jianguo, the factory director of Hongxing Textile Factory, was constantly making moves, saying that his factory had better technical conditions and was more suitable to be a leader in textile foreign trade. He also said that if some rudimentary small factories were allowed to stir up trouble, it would only end up in a mess.
"A moment of cleverness and quick wit cannot build a lasting career!"
"Some textile factory managers only know how to exploit loopholes! They're all about taking chances!"
"To become a factory manager, you must first become a model worker!"
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