Mai Sui and Shen Xingchen came out of the machinery factory’s staff quarters and rode their bicycles slowly back.

When passing a photo studio, Shen Xingchen suddenly braked, turned around and said to Mai Sui, "Sui Sui, let's take a picture, okay?"

"OK."

Mai Sui would not refuse such a small thing.

When Shen Xingchen saw the prop flowers in the photo studio, he suddenly had an idea and pinned a big red flower on his and Mai Sui's chest.

Although most of the current photos are in black and white, both of them are wearing flowers on their chests, and you can tell at a glance that they are a newlywed couple.

When the time comes, let Mai Sui take it to the army and let her comrades, especially Qi Chuanqing, take a good look at it.

Mr. Huang, who was taking the photo, understood immediately and said with a smile, "You two just got married, right?"

Shen Xingchen nodded shyly, even though they didn't get their marriage certificate today.

"Then let's change our poses and take more pictures. Come on, smile."

Finally, Shen Xingchen gave an extra five dollars and asked Master Huang to help wash it out quickly.

He and Mai Sui sat on the bench in the photo studio and waited.

Master Huang didn't want to agree at first, but Shen Xingchen allowed him to use their photos as samples and put them in front of the entrance of the photo studio, and only then did Master Huang agree.

He has been taking photos for so many years, and it is rare to find people as good-looking and photogenic as Shen Xingchen and Mai Sui.

The photo studio's business has been very bad recently. If it continues like this, it will probably close down soon.

In order to keep his job, he wanted to take the opportunity to promote it and improve his performance.

Shen Xingchen and his family live in the countryside, and it is not easy for them to go into the city. It takes several hours to go back and forth.

Besides, today is Saturday, and I may not have time to decorate the new house tomorrow. I will have the wedding banquet the day after tomorrow, so I don’t have time to go into the city to get the photos.

But Shen Xingchen wanted to take out the photos and show them to the whole village on the wedding day to prove his "status".

So, this photo must be taken back today!

Shen Xingchen also bought an extra-large transparent glass photo frame, about 50cmx40cm.

He put the developed photos into the frame one by one. In the middle was a five-inch photo of two people, and next to it were smaller photos of one person or two people, filling the entire frame.

The man is handsome and the woman is pretty, they look very pleasing to the eye.

Not only Shen Xingchen couldn't put it down, even Master Huang wanted to get one after seeing it.

Finally, Shen Xingchen wrapped the photo frame with red silk, tied it in front of the bicycle, and went home.

When they were almost at Lotus Village, Shen Xingchen untied the red silk again, and held it under his armpit with one hand, with the side with the photo facing outwards.

Mai Sui was puzzled: "What are you doing?"

Shen Xingchen said shyly: "Aren't photos taken to be seen by others? I took them out in advance so that no one can see them."

Wheat ear: ...

Sure enough, as soon as Shen Xingchen entered the village, starting from the village entrance, a group of chattering little kids followed him.

Shen Xingchen gave each of them a candy, and Maoqiu took the lead in shouting, "Shen Zhiqing and Sister Mai Sui are getting married."

Everyone followed: "It's a wedding! It's a wedding! The bride and groom are here~"

The villagers heard the sound and looked over curiously.

Wow, the bicycle was full of bags and bags, and Shen Zhiqing was holding a large photo frame in his hand.

People like to watch the fun, so everyone gathered around at once.

Shen Xingchen readily showed them the photos.

Although he was extremely happy, he pretended to be nothing serious.

When everyone saw the photo, they all asked, "Shen Zhiqing, are you getting married?"

"Yes, the wedding will be held next Monday, in the square in front of the village committee. Come over early to have a drink."

"Congratulations, your photo is so beautiful, it's like a fairy from heaven. When I get married, I want to take one too."

"Zhang San, I'm afraid you can't take a photo like this. Don't you have any idea of ​​what you look like and what Shen Zhiqing looks like?"

The surrounding villagers heard this and burst into laughter.

Zhang San was not angry. He smiled foolishly and looked at Shen Xingchen's photo frame again and again, with a visibly curious look on his face.

The villagers standing at the back also wanted to see it, and they all rushed to pass it around.

On the one hand, Shen Xingchen was afraid that they couldn't see it, and on the other hand, he was afraid that they would drop it, after all, there was a layer of fragile glass on it.

So he kept shouting, "Be careful, don't grab them, come one by one, everyone can see it!"

Luckily, the frame turned out fine.

A large group of people sent Shen Xingchen and Mai Sui, as well as their photo frames, bicycles, etc. back home.

Mai Hongcai was frying melon seeds at home to entertain the guests on the wedding day.

Mai Laosan was not at home. He said he went to the commune with Mai Xiangdong to buy some wine.

How can we have a wedding without wine?

However, alcohol is not easy to get. Without Mai Xiangdong's connections, Mai Laosan probably wouldn't be able to get it.

Of course, there are also cigarettes.

Didn’t Shen Xingchen give a pack of cigarettes to each of Mai Laosan and the others last time?

They were reluctant to smoke it, so now it's a perfect time to take it out for the wedding.

With cigarettes and alcohol, the level of the wedding was immediately raised.

There is absolutely no other family in the entire Lotus Village that can have such a grand ceremony.

Mai Xiangnan was also busy, he was chopping wood in the mountains.

We need a lot of firewood to prepare the banquet on the wedding day, otherwise how can we cook?

In short, when Mai Sui got married, the entire Mai family (except Mai Xiangbei who lived in the city) took action.

Mai Sui was infected by everyone and wanted to do something, so he immediately said that he would go to the mountains to hunt a wild boar.

Mai Hongcai immediately stopped her: "Sister, don't go yet. Dad specifically told you to go at night before he left, so as not to be seen by others."

Because the wild boars in the mountains are public property, how can you take them back home in broad daylight?

Mai Laosan had made up his mind. Today he would go to the commune to buy some wine and then pretend to buy a pig.

When Mai Sui went to the mountains to catch pigs at night, they would process the pigs overnight and cut them into pieces so that no one would know.

To prevent some petty-minded people from gossiping everywhere.

As for whether wheat ears can catch pigs, that’s nonsense, of course they can!

Mai Laosan and Mai Hongcai now have blind confidence in Mai Sui. Asking her to get 100 points in the exam may be a little difficult, but asking her to catch a pig in the mountains is 100% certain to succeed!

When Shen Xingchen heard that Mai Sui was going to the mountains to hunt at night, he immediately stepped forward to stop him:

"No! It's too dangerous to go into the mountains at night!

At worst, I can think of a way tomorrow to see if I can buy more meat. If I can’t buy pork, I can just buy a few more chickens.

I don’t believe that anyone else in the village can buy a pig when they get married.”

This kind of thing is rare, not to mention in rural areas, even in cities.

Shen Xingchen felt that no matter what, Mai Sui’s safety was the most important, and everything else was secondary.

No matter how powerful the wheat ears were, he was still worried.