"However," Zhou Ping changed the subject, and the smile on her face became a little awkward.
"Xixi, our Qian Xin's situation is a bit special. He's not very good at dealing with large crowds like weddings.
Also, as you know, the old man and old lady in our family have suffered a lot in their early years and cannot stand extravagance and waste. Holding a wedding banquet in such a high-end restaurant, I am afraid they will have something against our family.
If Qian Xin gets a job transfer in the future, he'll inevitably have to ask the old man for help. So your father and I suggest that we try to take the old man's preferences into consideration and hold the wedding at home instead of outside.
Just invite close friends and family to dinner. What do you think?
What?
Lu Qian's smug smile suddenly froze on her face. Did she hear it wrong?
Just one table for a wedding?
Then how can she show off in front of the Lu family?
"Mom, we're only setting up one table. Can friends and family sit down?"
Zhou Ping had obviously made up his mind about this matter, and his answer was very convincing.
"Of course we can sit down. Our house is spacious and there's a small courtyard outside. We can easily set up two or three tables. We won't invite anyone from our workplace, but only our close friends."
"We're all family, so we don't care about grandeur or ceremony. We just need to sit together and have a happy meal. And among our friends, I've never heard of anyone getting married at the Capital Hotel."
Lu Qian obviously didn't expect the Qian family to have such a plan, and she felt very upset.
Why couldn't her wedding be more grand?
He wanted to say something else, but saw Qian Xin frowning in dissatisfaction. "The Qian family motto is to be low-key and down-to-earth. Grandpa hates people who are ostentatious.
He was a man of high rank and was frugal. How can we youngsters be so extravagant? "
Lu Qian looked at Qian Xin with some surprise, as if she had just met her dull husband for the first time today.
This was the longest sentence the other person had said to her in all these days.
It turns out that it wasn’t that I couldn’t speak before, but that I didn’t want to speak.
However, Lu Qian still didn't want to give up the opportunity to be the center of attention at her own wedding. She patiently explained:
"A wedding only happens once in a lifetime, so it's okay to be a little high-profile. Grandpa should understand."
After the words fell, Qian Dehua, who had been silent the whole time, raised his eyelids and glanced at Lu Qian, then reached out to take the teacup on the table and brushed the lid of the teacup:
"The Qian family is not like the Lu family. Your adoptive mother's Zhang family has been wealthy for three generations. After they passed away, all the family wealth was left to her alone. That's why she has the money to spoil you to the sky and give you whatever you want.
But our Qian family is different. Our family fortune was accumulated through the hard work of several generations."
What this means is that our family doesn't have enough money to build one for you, and we are reluctant to build one for you.
Having said that, it would be a bit ungrateful for Lu Qian to suggest holding the wedding banquet at the Capital Hotel again.
She had no choice but to bite her lip and hold back the words in her heart.
But we can't have a grand wedding, so we'll need to prepare a few wedding dresses, right?
When my cousin who studied abroad came back to get married, she wore a Western-style wedding dress, a white puffy skirt, and a white veil, looking like a fairy.
Lucy also wanted to look as beautiful as her at her wedding.
She looked at Zhang Yue expectantly: "Mom, we can have the wedding banquet at home. But we can't make do with the wedding dress, right?"
"Of course," Zhang Yue said. Speaking of clothes, she already had a plan. "Aunt Qian Xin happens to know a great tailor. I can pick out some red fabric and make a perfect outfit for her!"
What?
Lu Qian felt like she was listening to some fairy tale. The tailor shop was good at making ordinary clothes, but it was not professional at all in making wedding dresses!
And who wants to wear red clothes? It's so tacky. What she wants is a white puffy skirt!
Restraining her anger, Lu Qian explained softly:
"Mom, it's not fashionable to wear red anymore. It's fashionable to wear white wedding dresses, like the foreigners do! And when you get married, you have to have at least two sets of wedding attire: a formal dress and a toast dress. I happen to know a shop in the capital that specializes in making wedding dresses..."
Before he could finish his words, Qian Dehua's teacup was placed heavily on the coffee table with a "clang".
Then he sighed deeply: "Hey, why are Chinese people doing Western things? We can't lose our ancestral traditions. We should still wear red to celebrate.
Besides, there are only two or three tables in a tiny place, and there are so many people coming and going, so why is it not okay to wear one set of clothes?"
"Yes, Xixi," Zhou Ping continued, "if you don't like what the tailor makes, then go to the Friendship Store and buy a fashionable red dress. You're so pretty, anything will look good on you!"
After saying that, Zhou Ping turned to ask her son for his opinion: "Do you think it's a son?"
Qian Xin nodded in agreement.
Finally, Zhou Ping turned back to Lu Qian and said with a pleasant expression:
"Look, we've almost decided on the banquet and wedding attire. Sissi, if you have any other ideas, just bring them up and we can discuss it as a family."
The family of three said they were discussing it, but in fact they had already made up their minds.
It doesn't matter what Lu Qian thinks.
Only at this moment did Lu Qian begin to realize that the Qian family seemed not what she had thought.
But now that I have one foot in, I have no choice but to endure it for now.
Lu Qian secretly clenched her palms, trying her best to control her expression, and forced a smile at Zhou Ping: "That's good, let's do it."
Everyone in the family compound who should know about Lu Qian and Qian Xin’s marriage certificate knows about it.
The Lu family, who lived not far away, naturally heard about it as well.
The wedding was prepared at home with a chef and only two or three tables of people were invited, so it was prepared very quickly.
Zhou Ping quickly finished writing the invitations and set the date for a month later.
She also personally delivered one to the Lu family.
"After all, it's the daughter I've raised for twenty years getting married, and our two families have always had a good relationship. Even if you don't want to attend Lu Qian's wedding, you should come to Qian Xin's wedding."
Lu Zhengqing and his wife looked at the invitation and were completely disappointed with their adopted daughter.
She got married to Qian Xin in less than a month, and it was obvious what her plan was.
Lu Zhengqing said, "At least send her to Capital University. After graduation, assign her a job and find a suitable partner. It would be great if she could live a smooth life. Why did she have to get involved in the Qian family? Does she think the Qian family will spoil her like the Lu family?"
Zhang Yue had the same idea. "You're after her family background, but she's after you don't have a family background, so she's easy to manipulate. After all these years of supporting her, I didn't expect her horizons to still be so narrow."
Zhang Yue had not agreed to Zhou Ping's proposal to strengthen the relationship before, firstly because she considered Qian Xin's gloomy personality made him unsuitable as a husband.
The second is that the Qian family has many rules, and Mr. and Mrs. Qian are arbitrary and domineering, especially towards the daughters-in-law who marry into the family.
Zhou Ping had complained to her about this more than once.
It was only after Zhou Ping gave birth to a son that the old lady became a little more relaxed towards her.
Unexpectedly, Lu Qian finally got married after many twists and turns.
However, the Lu family had no choice but to attend this wedding.
Mr. Qian and Mr. Lu are friends and have visited each other for weddings and funerals.
You have to go to this wedding even if you don't want to.
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