Chapter 450 Sitting in the Singing Hall 7
"Brother Ziyi, you didn't bring this flower back, did you?" Yi Ke asked doubtfully.
"Of course not. I was out getting lanterns and I couldn't be in two places at once." Ziyi said.
"Oh, that's not you, then who is it? Where did you find so many flowers?" Yi Ke couldn't find the answer, so he went straight into the room to find the person to answer his question.
Du Jiankang saw Yi Ke and Xu Chaoqun coming in and said with a smile, "I was just about to call you to eat, and you came back on your own."
"Brother Jiankang, who picked those flowers? Where did you pick them?" Yike asked.
"As for me, in the area with wild chrysanthemums, wasn't your Zhang Dachui, who is in charge of the medicine garden, going to clear all the shrubs and weeds in that area? Then, far away from us, he found these flowers. He knew you liked flowers, so he kept them temporarily, preparing for you to come back and see if they were useful, so he reported it to daddy. I was also worried about not having flowers to make the arch, and this just solved my urgent problem." Du Jiankang laughed proudly after he finished speaking.
"Then you must thank him very much."
"Of course I gave him a bottle of good wine."
"It's time to eat. You two siblings, stop standing and talking. Go and call Uncle Li, Uncle Hu, and Uncle Chen's families to come over for dinner. Yike, go call your grandfather and Uncle Ran." Du Zhicang ordered.
"I'll go call grandpa and Uncle Ran, and Yi Ke will help godmother to serve the dishes." Ziyi said.
"Okay, go ahead." Du Qingcang waved his hand. Yike went into the kitchen to take out the dishes and chopsticks. There were two tables in the main room. I counted and found that there were six people in Li Youcai's family, five people in Hu Haohan's family, and only three people in Chen Shengli's family. Together with the five people in my own family and Mr. Su, there were a total of twenty-one people. Wu Feifei couldn't go out for dinner because she hadn't finished her confinement yet, and Xiao Chaoqun didn't count. Haha, the two tables were a bit crowded, so we had to make do with what we had.
"Yike, come and help me carry it. The soup is so hot. I don't know how the people in the cafeteria carried it here? They filled it so full, aren't they afraid that it will spill and burn someone?" Zhang Yuling chattered.
"Let me lift it. I don't have that much strength." Wang Cuihua went over and helped Zhang Yuling lift it.
Yike looked at her hands and wanted to ask if I was ever weaker. But forget it, in their eyes, I will always be that fragile little girl.
"Actually, wouldn't it be better to eat in the cafeteria? It's so troublesome to move around, and our home is not as spacious as the cafeteria." Yi Ke muttered.
Zhang Yuling happened to hear this, "What do you know? If you don't eat at home, there will be no festive atmosphere at home. It doesn't matter at ordinary times, but there must be festive atmosphere at home during happy events. Only when there is festive atmosphere and popularity can there be joy, do you understand?"
"I know." Yi Ke thought to himself, "I just want to have some fun."
After several families arrived, everyone ate while arranging what time to start sending wine gifts, who would go, and so on.
Seeing that the table was really full, he took the food and Xiao Chaoqun to Wu Feifei's room to eat. Wu Feifei was eating the food cooked by Wang Cuihua. The food was low in salt and flavor. Although it was nutritious, it had no taste. She smelled the aroma of the food in Yike and Xiao Chaoqun's bowls and said, "You two siblings must have done this on purpose. You knew I had been eating tasteless food for a month, yet you still served it to me."
"Haha, haha." Yike laughed awkwardly.
"Mom, this meat is for you." Xu Chaoqun didn't know that his mother couldn't eat it, so he kindly picked up a piece of braised pork for her.
"Be good, mom doesn't like it, so you eat it, be good." Wu Feifei pushed it back to Xu Chaoqun.
Yike's eyeballs were about to roll up to the sky, and Wu Feifei poked Yike's forehead with her hand in amusement.
After lunch, everyone started preparing to send the wine gift (bride price) to the girl. Although everyone was in the same village and the distance was not far, it still had to be sent over early because the meat products had to be cooked and eaten in the evening.
Yike ran to find Xiangxiang again. She was still worried about whether the singing party in the evening could go smoothly.
Xiangxiang really lived up to expectations. When she asked in the cafeteria at noon, she actually found a woman who was familiar with the procedures of sitting in the singing hall.
This woman was not an outsider, but Dong Guoqing's aunt. When she was still a girl, she participated in several singing ceremonies for married women.
I am very happy that I have finally found the right person. Besides, this aunt has five daughters here too. I can go and make up the number. If I can sing, I can even sing.
Dong Guoqing's aunt didn't know her last name, so she just called her Aunt Dong. Aunt Dong has been in the mountains for a few months and is now much healthier than when she first came. She also told Yike that her family will not go home for the New Year. Since the whole family has come here, they will not go back.
Han Guihua called many teenage girls, but they didn't seem very familiar with each other. Sisters Li Xiaoying and Hu Lili also came. Everyone listened to Dong's sister-in-law telling them what to do in the singing hall. It mainly depends on what song is best to sing.
When I’m busy, it feels like time passes in the blink of an eye and the afternoon is over.
At 6:30 in the evening, in the main hall of Dani's house, a square table was placed at the top, with many long benches placed below it. In the middle of the table, a small box was placed horizontally on the table. This was to cover the bride sitting at the top, because brides in this era did not wear veils, but could not show them in front of others, so they asked for this method of covering themselves.
But only then did I realize that many people had come to help Dani with her makeup since the afternoon, some of whom I didn’t even know. Han Guihua secretly told her that these people came because of her.
Yi Ke asked curiously, "It's not me who wants to get married, why are you considering my face?"
"Because you value her. After Dani married into your family, you arranged for her to perform in the singing hall. After the news spread, all the men with daughters said they would come to participate tonight. Those who didn't have daughters sent their women to join in the fun. This is not for your sake, but for whose face." Han Guihua analyzed to Yi Ke.
"Oh, I have such a great reputation, how come I don't know it?" Yi Ke really didn't realize how important he was in everyone's hearts.
"You don't know this. Everyone knows that everything here was built by you and everyone. You came up with all the technologies and plans, and everyone just did the work. And they also know that it was you who proposed to bring people like them in from outside, regardless of gender, age, disability, illness, etc. You brought them all in. How could they not be grateful? Do you think you have a lot of face?" Han Guihua told Yike everything she knew.
It was a bit embarrassing for the first time. Han Guihua just said it as if she had actually done it. I didn't expect that she would actually have a little face. Why was she a little flattered?
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