433: Work problem solved
After Xu Ying found out Cuihua's menstrual period date, she started working overtime, hoping to get the couple married before her period.
Yu Xiaoye knew his mother's good intentions and helped at home.
She borrowed a sewing machine from the company's director Ma's home, and used the machine to sew all the sheets and cut pieces of cloth on very efficiently.
In a few days, Yu Erye and Cuihua's new cotton-padded jackets and new bedding were ready.
Yu Xiaoye asked his father to bring back some big red paper from the sales point at the site, cut out a lot of double happiness patterns and window decorations, made some paste, and pasted them in his second brother's room, making the room look festive.
Everything at home is almost ready, and the next step is to prepare two tables for the banquet.
I bought some cigarettes, alcohol, sugar and tea at the sales outlet.
The canteen at the farm knew that their family was going to have a wedding, so they sold them a few pounds of pork fat and a whole pig's head.
At home, Xu Ying boiled the pig fat into oil, scraped the hair off the pig's head, cut it into pieces, and braised it in a big pot. She used the pig's head meat to stir-fry green peppers and garlic sprouts, and cut the pig's ears into a cold dish.
Yu Xiaoye got some fish balls and shrimp balls from his space to make a vegetable meatball soup.
He cut some more fish fillets and went to Sai Jinhua's house to borrow some sauerkraut, and stewed the fish fillets with the sauerkraut.
Yu Erye had caught a few wild rabbits at home before, and they had laid several litters. They have all grown quite big. When the time comes, I will kill a wild rabbit and stew a pot of braised rabbit meat.
There is also the indispensable dish of chicken stewed with mushrooms, which is made by stewing a big rooster sent by Widow Wang's family with previously dried hazel mushrooms.
In this way, we have gathered a few main dishes and it’s basically done.
Extravagance and waste were not popular these days, and banquets did not need to fill up the table like in later generations. As long as the food tasted good and the portion was large, no one cared about the number of plates.
Two tables of banquets are also ready.
The day before the wedding, Yu Jiahui took Yu Erye, Cuihua and Yu Xiaoye to the field office, got the marriage certificate for the two of them, registered Cuihua's residence, and also took the couple to the field office's bathhouse to take a bath.
There is another very important thing that has finally been settled in the past few days, which is the work that Yu Erye has been thinking about.
According to Yu Jiahui's original plan, Yu Erye was assigned to be a blacksmith.
However, unlike the previous plan, Yu Jiahui planned to return to the company and set up a blacksmith furnace in the company.
Now, Yu Jiahui has become the section chief and can no longer return to the company. Yu Jiahui simply sent his son to the field repair shop and let him work as a blacksmith in the blacksmith shop.
Blacksmithing is a strenuous job that doesn't require much education, and is perfect for someone with a simple mind and strong limbs like Yu Erye.
As for whether he will continue to be a blacksmith in the future, it depends on his own luck and opportunities. At least for now, he has a foothold on the farm, a stable salary to support his family, and build his own small family.
Coincidentally, Yu Erye was able to enter the repair shop so effortlessly and smoothly, and he had to thank someone.
He is the old blacksmith in the repair shop.
This period of time every year is the busiest time for the repair shop, because the autumn harvest is approaching, and both agricultural machinery and manual sickles and other agricultural tools are undergoing comprehensive maintenance, so the repair shop is extremely busy.
The old blacksmith happened to sprain his waist at this time.
He was already old, nearly sixty years old, and it was not easy for him to lift a hammer. Suddenly, he sprained his waist, and it was difficult for him to walk, let alone lift the hammer.
As soon as the old blacksmith gave up his job, no one was doing the work in the blacksmith shop, and a pile of farm tools that needed repair was almost piling up like a mountain.
Although Yu Jiahui would usually take time to help out in the blacksmith shop, he was now the head of the militia section after all, and it was impossible for him to be busy in the blacksmith shop all day, so the blacksmith shop was in urgent need of a blacksmith.
Yu Jiahui took this opportunity to take Yu Erye to the blacksmith shop.
Because he had intended to train his son to be a blacksmith, he would usually let his son go to the blacksmith shop to familiarize himself with the atmosphere. Therefore, Yu Erye was not unfamiliar with the blacksmith shop and the old blacksmith.
As soon as Yu Erye entered the blacksmith shop, he felt that this job was perfect for him!
I wouldn’t say I felt like a fish in water, but at least I didn’t feel any discomfort.
Once you put on the apron, you will be more skilled than a blacksmith!
His entry into the blacksmith's shop at this critical juncture was like a screw falling into a hole, combining the right time, the right place, and the right people.
After Yu Jiahui brought his son into the blacksmith shop, he personally taught his son some basic knowledge and techniques, telling him how to use fire and how to quench.
Then he asked him to make some of the simplest iron hooks, iron sheets, pickaxe head nails. After teaching him for a while, he was allowed to practice on his own while Yu Jiahui did other things.
When he came to the blacksmith shop again, he saw the old blacksmith standing aside with his hand on his waist, directing Yu Erye to do this and that.
Yu Jiahui took a look and thought, damn, these two guys, one is clumsy with his hands, the other is lazy with his mouth, but they work together so harmoniously!
The old blacksmith used to have a strange temper and ignored everyone.
The farm had sent people to be apprentices to the old blacksmith before, but the old blacksmith either remained silent for a long time, or started to get angry when he was annoyed by the questions. No one could stand him, and all of them gave up and left halfway.
Even when Yu Jiahui came to learn blacksmithing, the old blacksmith never taught him seriously. Yu Jiahui relied entirely on careful observation and personal understanding to gradually grasp the trick.
In other words, Yu Jiahui was self-taught and hardly needed any instruction from the old blacksmith.
Now, a stupid apprentice was assigned to the old blacksmith. The master didn't mind the apprentice being stupid, and the apprentice didn't mind the master being weird. The two of them actually got along quite well.
It's also magical.
Now that his work problems have been solved and he is getting married, Yu Erye looks radiant!
It's like being reborn.
Including Cuihua, after coming here for a few days, she put on a brand new cotton-padded jacket, dressed up neatly, and looked like a bride.
The next day after getting the marriage certificate, the family started preparing for the wedding in the company.
Because the fields had already started a small-scale busy farming season, in order not to delay work, two tables of banquets were specially set up in the evening.
They borrowed two large tables and invited several cadres from the team, as well as people who were close to their family.
There were twenty or thirty people, young and old, women and men, filling two tables.
There was no place to sit, so everyone squeezed onto the kang.
Those who came to drink did not come empty-handed. Everyone contributed money, and some even brought gifts.
Someone gave a mirror, and a few people gave a thermos together.
Sai Jinhua gave the bride a piece of fabric.
Widow Wang felt that as a widow, she was afraid that people would mind if she gave them gifts, so she just gave money.
Because there are rarely happy events in the farm company, sometimes there may not be one for several years, so everyone is very generous.
The wedding was very simple, without any special rituals. The bride and groom simply lit cigarettes and poured wine for the guests, handed candies to the children, and ate and chatted with the guests.
The guests who could speak said a few words of congratulations on the wedding, and those who couldn't just ate big chunks of meat, drank big gulps of wine, talked and laughed, making it quite lively.
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