Chapter 37 A Rich Banquet
According to local customs, the bride is not allowed to leave the room, but in the mountains, the people only care about making sure she has enough food to eat and don't care about anything else. So as the bride, Yi Ke also ate with everyone and got to know all the aunts and their children.
The oldest child present is the eldest son of Uncle Bamboo Pole Li Youcai. His name is Li Dashan. He is 24 years old this year. He is tall and strong, and very energetic. The youngest son is called Li Xiaoshan. He is as thin as his father and is twenty-three years old this year.
Li Youcai's daughter is thin and yellow, with dry hair that has no luster. She looks timid. She is fifteen years old this year and her name is Li Xiaoying.
From the drunk Uncle Li, I heard that they were planning to exchange marriages with Uncle Chen's family. Exchange marriage means marrying one's daughter to another as a daughter-in-law and marrying the other party's daughter back as a daughter-in-law, just like exchanging goods.
It is really not easy to live in this world. Yike is once again glad that she made the right decision to marry Ziyi. Look at Ziyi, then look at the other boys, they are all ugly, but Ziyi is still the most handsome, especially today, haha! Yi Ke smiled foolishly.
Uncle Chen Shengli with big eyes is probably in his fifties. He also had two sons and a daughter. The eldest son is named Chen Dawang, which means he will be rich. He is 20 years old this year. Except for his nose and mouth, which still look like the big-eyed uncle, he inherited all other genes from his mother. Narrow shoulders, thin waist, long legs, standard beauty features. If she had curly wavy hair, she would definitely be a charming girl who would captivate everyone. Perhaps because she has a feminine appearance, Chen Dawang is taciturn. On the contrary, his sister Chen Yue'er, who is one year younger than him, is lively and innocent, chattering all the time, and does not look like a 19-year-old girl at all.
"Wow! This braised pork is delicious. Black fungus can be cooked like this, it's delicious!" Chen Yue'er exclaimed after taking a bite of the braised pork with black fungus.
"This, this pig intestine is also delicious, without any weird taste." Chen Yue'er ate the pig intestine, shouting that it was delicious, and then looked at the plate of pig ears opposite, but unfortunately her hands were too short to pick them up, "Pig ears, I want to eat pig ears, mom, can you give them to me?"
Her mother, Tao Xiu'e, picked up a piece of pig's ear and stuffed it into her mouth, scolding her with a smile: "Even eating can't stop your mouth! You're dying of greed."
Chen Yue'er bit the pork in her mouth hard, her cheeks bulging, her eyes wide open, making everyone laugh.
Li Youcai's eldest son Li Dashan also looked at Chen Yue'er frequently. Chen Yue'er finally felt shy and her face flushed, which was very beautiful.
Li Dashan was stunned for a moment, and forgot to move his eyes. Chen Yue'er became angry and swallowed the pig ear. She gave Li Dashan a fierce look, then buried her head in the struggle with the meat and vegetables, turning her words into appetite. Li Dashan's face turned red instantly, and he lowered his head in embarrassment and ate his food in silence.
Tao Xiu'e finally breathed a sigh of relief. She was such a chatterbox and she wasn't afraid of being laughed at by others.
Chen Shengli's youngest son is called Chen Fugui, who is 12 years old this year, just at the age when he is naughty and hated by everyone.
Look at that pair of eyes, as big as his father's, rolling around: scanning all the dishes in the plates, clay pots, basins, etc. like a radar. Wherever the eyes are scanned, the chopsticks will reach out. Since he is small and has short hands, he will circle around the dishes.
I saw him eating the braised pork on the east side and then going around to the west side to eat pig intestines. After going around in a circle, he had tasted almost all the dishes on the table, and he was humming in his mouth, saying, "Delicious, delicious." Finally, he was pulled by his father Chen Shengli and forced to sit next to him, and the party finally quieted down.
Uncle Hu Haohan, who has a beard, has a son and two daughters. The eldest son is named Hu Xiangdong. He is 18 years old this year, over 1.7 meters tall, and is the second most handsome guy here. The most handsome one is of course Ziyi, he is genuine and not exaggerated at all, haha!
Hu Haohan’s eldest daughter is Hu Lili, 13 years old, and his youngest daughter is Hu Fangfang, 11 years old. The two sisters are both fair-skinned, with shiny black hair, double eyelids, eyes wide open, long eyelashes blinking, red lips eating small bites of food, you can tell at a glance that they live a good life, the two sisters have inherited their mother's appearance, two words, "beautiful!"
The burly uncle Du Qingcang has only one child, named Du Jiankang, who is 19 years old and tall and thin. From the name, we can tell how much her parents hoped that he would live a long and healthy life, but unfortunately, things did not go as they wished. Because Wang Cuihua had a difficult life when she was pregnant with Du Kangjian, her mother-in-law only let Wang Cuihua work but did not give her enough food. As a result, Wang Cuihua, who was already weak, almost lost two lives. At the last moment, her husband Du Qingcang came back and saved both lives.
Du Qingcang, who represented the entire family's labor force to build the reservoir, came back and flew into a rage when he saw his wife, who was skin and bones after starving for three days and was only breathing her last. He had a big fight with his parents, and finally he asked for a separate life. But his parents were not willing to let go of such a hardworking old ox, so the matter ended up in nothing. The couple continued to work hard for the family, half-hungry. Du Qingcang saw that he could not divide the family, so he finally packed his hunting tools and some necessities of life, and secretly went into the mountains with his wife, where he gave birth to a premature baby, Du Jiankang, in a cave.
Although Wang Cuihua is petite and weak, she is not weak at all. She is a woman with strong opinions. At that time, Du Qingcang dared to hide in the mountains and become a mountain villager because of the instigation of his wife Wang Cuihua. In Wang Cuihua's words, if they went into the mountains and became mountain villagers, there was still a glimmer of hope, but living outside was a dead end. The couple took the lives of their family of three, took a gamble, and finally won! God always favors the brave.
When they entered the mountain, they encountered wild beasts just like Yi Ke - a pack of wolves. When Du Qingcang's family was desperate and waiting to die, Li Haoran and Ziyi happened to be passing by on their way home from outside the mountain. They saw the scene of Du Qingcang and his companions being surrounded by a pack of wolves, and they rushed into the wolf pack like gods and started fighting with the wolves without saying a word. When Du Qingcang saw someone coming to rescue him, he immediately joined the fight. After several wolves died, they finally escaped. So Du Qingcang and his whole family followed Li Haoran to settle in Longshan.
"Come on, let's raise our glasses together and wish our bride and groom a happy wedding, a long-lasting marriage, and a son soon." Li Haoran asked Ziyi to fill each man's glass with sorghum wine, and the women and children's glasses with wine.
"Happy wedding!"
"Happy wedding!"
"Happy wedding!"
"Happy wedding!"
"Happily ever after!
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That night, everyone present ate to their heart's content, drank freely, talked and were in high spirits, and the party did not end until late at night.
At night, by the fire in the cave, drunkards lay on their leather beds in a mess, snoring like thunder. The snoring came one after another as if they were in a competition, one louder than the other, like the waves in the sea, one higher than the other.
The boys next to the men fell asleep quietly amid the snoring, as if they were wearing earplugs and were not disturbed at all. Some of the boys even responded with a few snorts.
The aunts and girls in the bamboo house were not sleepy at all. They gathered together talking and laughing, and sometimes some suppressed laughter leaked out from the crack in the door.
What is the bride doing? Our nympho is admiring the handsome man coming out of the bath. Ziyi in front of her completely captured her attention, with his straight nose, thick lips, and dazzling smile.
Ziyi wiped his dripping hair with a towel in one hand while walking towards Yike. Yike stared at him with burning eyes, thinking how handsome such a handsome man would be if he had eight pack abdominal muscles.
Yike reached out and pulled open Ziyi's clothes that only half covered him, revealing Ziyi's bulging and strong chest muscles. Yike couldn't help but touch them, mumbling to himself, "12345678, Yeah! There are really eight of them."
"Don't, don't touch me."
Ziyi grabbed Yike's hand that was touching him randomly, and his honest and magnetic voice lingered in Yike's ears, making her soul tremble.
Ziyi looked at the pretty little face in front of him and the misty eyes. His heart was itchy and he couldn't help but feel excited.
"Yike! Yike!" Ziyi couldn't help but hug the petite Yike to prevent the fiery hand from touching her body.
Yi was instantly sobered up by this hug, "Ahhh! What did I do? I actually counted my abdominal muscles!" She was so ashamed that she wished there was a crack in the ground for her to crawl into.
Ziyi couldn't help laughing when he saw Yike's shy look. He reluctantly let go of the sweet and soft person in his arms and said meaningfully, "Are you still touching me? If you do, I'll make you take responsibility!"
If the original owner was fourteen years old, she might not understand what responsibility meant, but the current Yi Ke really understood it. She screamed "Ah" like a cat whose tail was stepped on, and ran away, picked up her clothes and rushed into the bathroom.
Ziyi watched Yike go into the bathroom in shame and anger, and his cheeks couldn't help but feel hot. Tonight was their wedding night. Thinking that I could only look at it but not eat it, I felt a little disappointed, and my restless heart calmed down.
On Ziyi and Yike's first night of marriage, apart from a little bit of ambiguity at the beginning, they slept peacefully under their own quilts.
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