Chapter 465 Wedding
Fan Dazhu was so regretful that he almost stamped his feet.
He calculated: "A sedan chair costs twelve taels. Now everyone in our village has money to spend. Half of it has been recovered on the first day. It is only a matter of time before the investment is recovered;
After the investment is recovered, one more person sitting behind will be two hundred wen. If two or three people come every month, there will be at least six taels of silver a year. There is six silver in the account without worrying about anything. How could such a good thing fall on Hu Wenhua's head!"
Hu Wenhua and Ding Jiajia did not think about how much money they could make from the sedan chair. Today, half of the investment was recovered, but basically all the men and women of marriageable age were included. Who knows when they can get married in the future? The sedan chair cannot be rented to other villages, and the people in this village can only earn a limited amount.
However, according to the current trend, the sedan chair can not only recover the investment, but also make a little money. These are not what they expected, which is not bad.
After all, no one thinks that money is too much. It is better to earn money and use it than to leave it somewhere to gather dust.
Zhang Chunhua's face was dark, and she and her husband were the only ones who felt uncomfortable in the cheerful atmosphere.
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Because it was a new house for marriage, the furniture, pots, pans, and other items in the original Niutou Town home had been washed and soaked by manure for several days due to the flood. After not going back for such a long time, they had no choice but to buy all the things in the new house.
After the house was built, the stove was built and a bed was made. Mother and father Hu moved in and slowly bought other things while living there.
Then they dug a well in the yard. There was a public well in the village, but it was a long way to go back and forth and it took a long time to queue up. It was always inconvenient to use water.
The old village chief said that he would use the village's deposit to dig a public well for their land, but in order to take care of all the families on this land, the public well had to be located in the middle. In the end, they decided to dig a well in their own yard, which cost one or two taels of silver, but it was really convenient!
When the Hu family invited people to dig a well, the old village chief also dug a well for his family. Several families including Mr. Fan Qi, Mrs. Li, and Mr. Wu lined up to make reservations.
The carpenter was invited to live in the house and build while living. Cabinets, tables, chairs, beds, buckets, wooden barrels, basins... Fortunately, they were all built before August.
Pots, pans, oils, salt, sauces, vinegars, needles, threads, etc. were bought when they went to the capital to collect raw materials.
Every time at this time, Hu the butcher always sighed about the benefits of having a car and money, which was really convenient!
The weather in August was already very hot, and meat could not be kept for a long time, so it was impossible to prepare dishes too long in advance. It was foreseeable that the whole village would attend the wedding of Hu Wenhua and Ding Jiajia, so Shuiqing gave the toothbrush shop a day and a half off.
On the afternoon of the 25th, Da Ni and Er Ni took eleven new wives to help. Other women in the toothbrush shop either had good relations with Hu's mother or had a good relationship with Qin Yilin and Ding Jiajia, and they all took the initiative to help.
Since they were from the same village and the Ding family had a small population, they did not plan to hold a wedding banquet, so no matter which family they had a good relationship with, they all went to the Hu family to help.
On the 25th, vegetables were picked from the vegetable field, washed and drained;
The bowls and chopsticks used were from the public library, which was very convenient. They were moved here in the afternoon and washed;
In the evening, pigs and sheep were slaughtered. Because of the hot weather, they could not be stored. The pigs' offal, pig heads, pig trotters, etc. were all stewed. After stewing, they were soaked in the stew to make them tasty. The next day, they were cut into plates directly. The rest of the fresh pork was boiled in well water;
The mutton and mutton offal were also stewed in a large iron pot. After boiling over high heat, they were slowly simmered over charcoal fire;
Fried foods were cooked in the evening of the same day After the first dish is shaped, fry it again before serving on the second day;
After dinner, the person who asked to borrow the table and chairs in advance delivered the table and chairs in advance and placed them in the house and yard;
All the ingredients that can be prepared in advance are prepared in advance, and those that cannot be prepared in advance are all prepared in advance. At dawn on the 26th, all the women who help came. There were fifty or sixty women, some killing geese and rabbits, some arranging bowls and chopsticks, some preparing cold dishes, and some frying, cooking and stir-frying...
The Ding family also got up at dawn.
They don't need to prepare a formal banquet today, but there will be girls who have a good relationship with Ding Jiajia coming in the morning, so they have to prepare tea, cakes, wedding candies and the like.
Aunt Wu made noodles for Ding Jiajia. Yan Qiuxing should have stayed at the Hu family when she returned to late summer, but they liked Ding Jiajia more, so they stayed in the boudoir with her.
After a while, Zhang Xiaocao, Li Tiantian, Fan Xiang and other young girls all came, and the originally spacious boudoir immediately became crowded. After a while, all the women who did not help the Hu family came to share the joy.
For a while, the Ding family was crowded inside and outside the house. Qin Yilin was busy running around, busy all over the place;
Ding Heli was no less busy, making tea, boiling water, moving chairs... The original reluctance to get up early was all thrown away, wishing he had eight hands now!
It was still a loss of inexperience. Originally, I thought they didn't need to invite people because they didn't hold a formal banquet, but I didn't expect that they would be so busy in the morning!
Then I thought that their family already had so many people. The Hu family had to hold a wedding banquet and find men to carry the sedan chair and welcome the bride. How busy would it be?
The Hu family was indeed busy. Most of the female family members went to the Ding family, but almost all the men came to the Hu family.
Especially the children, because Hu Wenhua was getting married, Fan Jin, his brother-in-law, could not be absent, so he gave the children a holiday. There was a happy event in the village, especially when the whole village was participating. The children were circling around the Hu family's house like it was New Year's Day, and they couldn't wait to follow the sedan chair to see the bride!
Fortunately, Shanshui Village is now divided into three parts. Shuiqing is a small world of its own. Shanshui Village has a large population and crowded places. Now a group of people have been assigned to the new village. There are only two or three families who have moved to the new village. The place is spacious and there are few people, so they can do their best.
The sun gradually rises, and some people in the village have come to give gifts and wait for the wedding ceremony.
The old people are not in good condition and can't join the wedding procession. They gave gifts and sat down. Zhang Chunhua, Fan Dazhu, Ersanzhu and others did the same, but they were afraid that there would be no seats when they came later.
Unlike the generous gifts given by others, this family only gave ten eggs and occupied the best seat in the house.
The old village chief Fan Qiye and Xu Po Po frowned deeply. In the end, Fan Qiye, who was also from the same family, couldn't help but stand up and reminded them that it was the table made by the parents and the newlyweds. The four of them got up reluctantly and quickly occupied the main seat of the table next to them.
Fan Qiye shook his head and returned to his own table.
That was the end of this family.
When the time came, Hu Wenhua, wearing a bright red wedding dress, walked in front, surrounded by many brothers who had changed into new clothes, and was about to marry the woman he would spend the rest of his life with.