As soon as Jiang Shushu and Yang Xiaobei finished speaking, thunderous applause rang out: "Pa pa pa..."
Everyone said in unison: "Well said, happy marriage! Happy wedding!"
Jiang He stood up and said, "Everyone, please take a seat. The food is served."
As soon as they heard the food was served, everyone immediately became very lively and their excitement reached its peak.
I’ve been smelling this rich aroma of meat since this morning, and now I can finally taste it, haha.
Then everyone ran quickly to where their own bowls and chopsticks were placed, picked up their eating utensils, and moved quickly and neatly. In less than two minutes, all 15 tables were full (with 5 reserved for the workers and the host family). Those who were seated moved in unison and twisted their necks to look at where the food was being served, just to see which table was the luckiest and would be the first to be served.
Jinhua and Aunt Jiang Liu each held a bucket filled with sweet potato rice. They split into two directions, put the rice in place, and shouted loudly: "It's time to serve the rice. Take as much as you can eat. Don't waste it. Don't pack it away." Then they stood beside the wooden barrel and watched, in case some children were ignorant and couldn't eat so much, and still kept asking for rice.
Then everyone was divided into four groups to line up for food. These rules were usually taught by the elders in the family, so there were no problems and everyone got as much as they could eat.
After everyone had finished their meal, Aunt Jiang Liu and Jinhua went to get their own bowls to get their meals and sat down to wait for their meal.
The 10 waiters only started to take action after seeing that everyone seated had finished their meals.
Each table has nine dishes and one soup: boiled chicken (1/3 chicken), boiled duck (1/3 duck), braised pork with preserved vegetables, stir-fried pork with melon rind, pork with pickled mustard greens and vermicelli, eggplant with minced meat, steamed egg with radish, peanuts, stir-fried cauliflower, and egg soup with minced meat, radish meatballs, and minced meat.
The 10 waiters were divided into five groups, with two people responsible for one table. Each person carried five pots of food on a large tray, and then served the dishes to the tables one by one.
"Come, come, the food is served. Please make way, please make way. The food is served but don't move your chopsticks. The food is served but don't move your chopsticks." The waiter placed the dishes on the table one by one.
At each table where food was being served, everyone stared at the table, some even drooling at the sight of so much meat and vegetables. However, no one picked up their chopsticks until the waiter left (according to the tradition of banquets in the Hualing Brigade, no one was allowed to pick up their chopsticks until the waiter left, lest the food be spilled, which would not only waste food but could also cause burns).
Although no one started eating, everyone held the bowl in the left hand and the chopsticks in the right hand, and their eyes were fixed on the meat they had already selected. As soon as the waiter left, they would immediately pick up the meat and put it into their bowl quickly and accurately.
Some naughty waiters will even say, "Eat!" when they take away the tray.
Then, more than a dozen pairs of chopsticks were used at the same time. What a speed, what a bustling scene! At this critical moment, how much can you eat? It all depends on your strength.
In less than two minutes, half of the food on the table was gone, and then everyone's bowl was full. Seeing that their bowls could no longer hold any more, they lowered their heads and began to eat furiously, picking up a little more food as they finished a little. In short, before the food on the table was gone, everyone's bowl was full. This perfectly demonstrates that not rushing to eat is a sign of mental problems.
The tables whose food was served more slowly could only swallow their saliva and watch those who had already been served eat and drink heartily. The envy in their eyes was naked, and they all silently prayed in their hearts that they would be the lucky ones at the next table.
Everyone was extremely satisfied with the sumptuous banquet because it was even better than what they had at home during the Chinese New Year. To sum it up in one word, it was "delicious"; in two words, it was "too delicious".
Yang Xiaobei and Jiang Shushu served tea to the elders in the family. After each elder finished drinking the tea, they would give them a small red envelope. After drinking the tea, they received more than a dozen small red envelopes.
After serving tea, the two returned to the room with red envelopes, teacups and tea sets.
Jiang Shushu reached out and rubbed his face: "I'm so tired from laughing."
"Haha, it only happens once in a lifetime, so it's only right that you work hard. Put your things away, and we'll go out for dinner. You've been busy for so long, you must be hungry."
"A little bit, luckily we were smart and had a secret meal this morning, otherwise we would have starved."
"My wife is very perceptive, otherwise we would have gone hungry. Let's go and eat."
Jiang Shushu and Yang Xiaobei came to the main table and sat in the two empty seats. There were two bowls of rice on the table, obviously prepared for them.
The two of them each picked up a bowl of rice and ate, drank, and chatted with everyone else. Sitting at the table were Jiang Shushu's family, Jiang Mingwen's family, and Huang Erniu's grandfather, so there was no fighting over the food. Everyone ate and chatted at the same time, and the meal took an hour and a half.
After the banquet, both the rice bucket and the dishes on the table were clean.
After the wedding, Jiang Shushu and Yang Xiaobei followed Huang Erniu and others back to the city. Huang Erniu and his two companions returned home, while Jiang Shushu and his two companions went to the new house.
There was laughter and joy on Jiang Shushu's side, but the mood at the Yang family had been low since early morning. Yang Zhiguo and Zhao Cuihua were angry all day.
Zhao Cuihua: "He is worse than a beast. Not only did he not invite us to his wedding, he didn't even notify us, making us wait for a whole day in vain. We already asked someone to notify that beast. As long as he invited us, we would definitely give him face and try our best to cooperate with him to make his wedding beautiful. I didn't expect that he really didn't invite us? He even ran to the bride's house to hold the wedding. This beast really doesn't care about his own face! He is so eager to be humble? Isn't he afraid of being criticized by others and made to think that he is a door-to-door ghost?" A debt collector is a debt collector. It looks annoying when you are a child, and it is even more annoying when you grow up.
Yang Zhiguo, who had specially asked for leave today, looked very unhappy. "Enough, stop talking and go cook." If the neighbors knew about it, he would definitely be laughed at again. If he had listened to the old woman, he would have starved him to death. He had lost all his face in this life because of this beast.
Jiang Shushu plopped down on the sofa. "Ah, it's finally over. Getting married is so hard. It's so tiring!"
Yang Xiaobei also sat on the sofa, put Jiang Shushu's legs on his thighs, and used both hands to massage Jiang Shushu's calves. "You have been standing for so long today, your legs must be tired. Let me massage them for you." Tonight is the wedding night that I have been looking forward to, and I can't let my wife get tired before it even starts.
"Nice technique, really comfortable."
Yang Xiaobei: "That's a must."
After Yang Xiaobei had been kneading for ten minutes, Jiang Shushu finally retracted his legs: "Okay, okay, I'm not tired anymore."
Jiang Shushu took the bag he was carrying and poured out the red envelopes and account books inside. The red envelopes piled up like a small mountain.
"Let's count the red envelopes. This pile is yours, and this pile is mine." Jiang Shushu gave half of the red envelopes to Yang Xiaobei.
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