Chapter 43 Pre-wedding preparations
Jiang Hongyu put his hand on the insole of his shoe and said in a vague voice, "A carp leaping over the dragon gate?"
Ye Mingzhu didn't expect him to react so strongly: "This is just a good sign. As long as there is hope in your heart, there will be a direction for the future."
Jiang Hongyu suddenly smiled, like a firework flashing in the dark night, lighting up the entire sky for a moment: "You embroider very well, and you speak very well too."
He put down the shoe in his hand and held Ye Mingzhu's hand, but his expression suddenly changed: "Your hand, is this injured from making shoes?"
The scars on Ye Mingzhu's hands were too obvious to be ignored.
"This is my first time learning how to make shoes. I'll be good at it later." Ye Mingzhu is not the kind of person who hides her achievements and fame. Since she has done it, of course she wants others to know.
"Making shoes is too hard on my hands. I've been wearing purchased shoes for years, and they're pretty good."
"Well, I'll make it when I have time, and buy it if I don't." Ye Mingzhu didn't make too many promises.
Jiang Hongyu touched the scar on Ye Mingzhu's hand again: "Didn't you apply medicine? I'll go home and get you some ointment. My mother made it, and it works very well."
Ye Mingzhu couldn't help but smile when she saw that he didn't forget to take his shoes away when he left.
When Jiang Hongyu came back, he was holding a bottle of ointment: "This ointment is very effective in healing wounds. It can form scabs quickly."
Ye Mingzhu nodded. Aunt Jiang’s medical skills were well-known in the village.
"Leave all the wedding matters to me. If you have any ideas, have Yun An tell me. The house next door is almost finished and will probably be finished the day after tomorrow. The furniture I ordered is almost ready, so I'll have them delivered the day after tomorrow."
Jiang Hongyu explained his plans one by one: "When we get married, I plan to take a tour around the village. Is that okay with you?"
Ye Mingzhu smiled as she listened to him talk about his plan to get married, until someone came to find Jiang Hongyu and asked about Shang Daliang, and Jiang Hongyu hurried away.
In the following days, Ye Mingzhu went to the space from time to time to check the pearl oysters in the pool, picked out some round ones and gave them to Uncle Ye, asking him to send them together with the collected pearls to Linglong Pavilion in the town.
In a good mood, she drew a lot of jewelry pictures and picked out a few to ask Uncle Ye to send to the town.
Jiang Hongyu has been very busy these days. Although the house has been built, it still needs to be cleaned thoroughly. He also went to the town and the next village to check the finished furniture, and made an appointment with them to have it delivered.
On the day the house was completed, Jiang Hongyu informed everyone that a wedding banquet would be held in the new yard three days later, and invited familiar relatives and friends.
Everyone was excited. The Jiang family built such a nice house, so the banquet must be great.
A day later, when the furniture was delivered, almost half of the villagers came to check it out. Some new brides surrounded the new furniture, and some of the bolder ones even touched it.
"Isn't this furniture made by a carpenter from the next village? This cabinet even has carvings on it?"
"I know this is the craftsmanship of Carpenter Qian in this town. In this area, only Carpenter Qian has the skill to carve patterns."
"I didn't expect the Jiang family to be so rich. How much would it cost to build such a big house and buy so much furniture?"
"If I had known this, I would have married my daughter to him."
"As for your daughter, is there anyone who is as pretty as Mingzhu?"
"So what? At least my daughter's parents are here."
Cough cough cough, the people who were talking turned around and looked at the sky awkwardly. The weather was nice today.
Uncle Ye looked at these people with a dark face. Fang pulled his clothes hard and said, "This is the Jiang family's new courtyard. Don't make a noise here. It won't look good."
Jiang Hongyu came out from inside the house, his face full of intimacy: "Uncle San, there's some freshly brewed tea in the room. Come in and sit down."
After Uncle Ye entered the house, Jiang Hongyu glanced at the crowd and said with a smile, "Aunts and sisters, please make way. The village chief will be here soon."
The crowd then slowly dispersed.
Uncle Ye and the village chief came today not only to look at the furniture, but also to reconfirm the specific time and procedures for the wedding day.
On the way here, Village Chief Ye heard many people in the village talking about the Jiang family's new furniture.
As soon as he entered the door, Jiang Hongyu served him a cup of hot tea and a plate of snacks.
Village Chief Ye was a little thirsty, so he picked up the teacup and took a sip. When he put it down, he couldn't help but praise it, "Good tea."
Jiang Hongyu smiled and said, "I bought this at a tea shop in town a few days ago. The owner said it was wild tea, but the quantity was small. I'll pack some for you when the village chief leaves."
Village Chief Ye quickly declined.
After discussing things, Jiang Hongyu packed a bag of tea for each of them.
Village Chief Ye and Uncle Third Ye were on the same road. Village Chief Ye shook the tea bag in his hand and said, "Third brother, the second brother's son-in-law is not bad."
Although Uncle Ye didn't like drinking tea, since this was given to him by his nephew-in-law, he nodded immediately: "Yes, our Mingzhu is still blessed."
Village Chief Ye reminded him: "The second brother is gone, you should help Mingzhu and her brother, they will definitely respect you in the future."
Uncle Ye's face was full of seriousness: "From now on, Mingzhu and Yun'an will be my own children."
Village chief Ye was a little surprised, because Uncle Ye San had never said this to the second wife before.
It seems that Uncle Ye's family must have benefited from the Jiang family. When he was about to go home, he told his wife to visit the second branch of the Ye family first and then go to the banquet.
On the first day of the wedding, the Jiang family was very busy. In addition to those who had a good relationship with Aunt Jiang, many female relatives of the Ye family were also here to help.
The ground of the new yard needs to be leveled, tables, chairs and benches need to be placed in advance, and someone will deliver the dishes and chopsticks.
The two families jointly held a banquet, which required at least a dozen tables. With so many seats, no family had so many tables, chairs, bowls and chopsticks, so they had to borrow them in advance from familiar people in the village.
Because it was a newly built house, there was nothing in the yard. Combined with Ye Mingzhu's yard, the space outside the two yards was almost enough to arrange the things.
In the afternoon, Jiang Hongyu came back driving a car with a lot of things.
When everyone helped move things, some were stunned.
Pork that had been slaughtered and cut up, three buckets of fish, a bucket of shrimp, a large bag of flour, and two jars of white wine...
Everyone was shocked. The Jiang family prepared such a good feast. How would they live in the future?
However, the food was so delicious that everyone's mouths were watering.
Someone even came up to Ye Mingzhu and said something sarcastic: "Mingzhu, did you know Jiang Hongyu's family was so rich? Even the village chief's family didn't dare to buy so many things when they got married."
"The Jiang family bought these things to show how much they value our Mingzhu. What? Are you envious? Jealous? Hold it back." Fang retorted directly.
Ye Mingzhu was a little overwhelmed for a moment. Third Aunt, why are you suddenly so majestic?
"Ye Sanjia, how can you talk like that?"
"That's what I'm saying. From now on, Mingzhu is my own daughter. If anyone dares to bully her, I'll definitely beat them up."
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