Chapter 762: Rejoicing (please vote for me!)
Mr. Cheng felt the enthusiasm of Xiaoan Village.
As soon as we crossed the big stone bridge, we met a kind villager who led the way.
Once you enter the village, there will be more people.
The matchmaker invited by the Cheng family sat in the front of the oxcart, smiling at everyone she met and laughing all the way.
Cheng Lezhou smiled like a fool.
He did whatever the matchmaker asked him to do, even forgetting about his old father behind him.
Mr. Cheng's expression became more and more serious, and he soon realized that today was a good day for his silly son to get engaged. He tried his best to laugh, and was embraced by the crowd into the Yan's courtyard. There seemed to be countless people talking to him around him, making a fuss. Yes, I calmed down after I sat down in the main room and drank the tea poured by my relatives.
In addition to the matchmaker and the father and son, several classmates from Cheng Lezhou's academy came, as well as several scholars from the same period as him and Yan Lao Er, Yan Xiangheng, his uncle and nephew.
Mr. Cheng even saves money on hiring people. With the help of these people, the Cheng family's team delivering the wedding gift will be decent.
The Cheng family prepared six gifts according to the rules in Guanzhou.
Snacks, cloth, tea, wine, etc.
Four silver ingots, five taels and one ingot, twenty taels of silver.
Mediocre.
Cheng Lezhou was thoughtful and used the money he saved to buy a white jade hairpin with a lotus head and a pair of dragon and phoenix silver bracelets added to it.
The Yan family are quite satisfied.
They all know the situation of the Cheng family and Mr. Cheng’s temperament.
The most important thing in forming this family relationship is Cheng Lezhou.
He puts people aside in his heart, which is better than anything else.
Yan Xiangheng came back yesterday evening and went to bed early just to recharge himself for today.
Several scholars and students were entertained by him.
In fact, Yan Laoer is also suitable, but who asked him, as an uncle, to take charge of the spoon today.
The eldest son of the Cheng family was out of town and had no time to come back. The Cheng family did not come with any female relatives and only invited a matchmaker with the best reputation in the city.
Matchmaker Qi spoke crisply and loudly. She had a lot of nice words and congratulations. She made the ladies who accompanied Li Xuemei in her house jump and jump. When she opened her mouth, her words never fell to the floor.
Mrs. Cui had frequent contacts with her, and the two of them had a lively chat and were evenly matched.
Today's engagement is actually just a formality. The Cheng family asked privately, and the Yan family nodded. Both families were willing, and they didn't pick and choose whether the man gave more or less gifts, so everything went smoothly.
The tables in the Yan family’s front yard and back yard are filled to the brim.
Yan Huaiwen and Mr. Cheng sat at the main table, accompanied by several village elders.
Yan Laoer is busy in the kitchen.
Mrs. Cui is like the commander-in-chief. She is in charge of all the men's and women's tables.
It is clear to play with.
“The male guests sit in the front yard, while the female guests go to the back yard.”
“Li Datou, why are you wandering around? Sit at that table, there’s room there.”
“Kids at home, be careful and don’t run around and bump into each other again.”
"Hey, if you don't help pass the food to the fourth iron, why are you running? Are you looking for the fifth iron? Who saw the fifth iron? Just say something!"
“The guests are all here! Let’s take the food! Let’s take the food!”
Li Xuemei stayed in the house to accompany the child. There were many people in the yard, and the little Ya'er was still too young to take out. It happened that Qianchu was not convenient to see guests, so he set up a small table in the house.
There are no outsiders, just Mrs. Tian, the wife of the Qi family, two daughters of the Qi family, and the cousin of the Feng family who is engaged to Qi Si.
Li Xuemei smiled with eyes widened: "It's not impossible to be a matchmaker occasionally in the future. I think her aunt is qualified for the job, and she doesn't need to go outside. She just calls her a matchmaker in our village."
She looked at cousin Feng who was sitting next to the Qi family's wife with deep meaning.
Madam Qi exclaimed: "That's not good. If someone wants to do that, they need someone to talk and run errands. Madam Cui is not suitable. We are happy for her to earn this kind of money. This is called fat water not flowing out." Wai Murata!”
Just like her fourth brother and her cousin from the Feng family.
The more Mrs. Qi thought about it, the more she felt that Mrs. Cui was a suitable matchmaker.
“I’ll go out and take a look.” Li Xuemei said.
"Go, go, we are here. If Xiaoya doesn't do it, I will call you again." Mrs. Qi said.
Mrs. Tian also said: "You go and show your face, and when Huai'an is done with his work, you can come back for dinner."
Li Xuemei walked out quickly.
Ms. Cui looked in all directions and rushed to meet her as soon as she saw her.
“I have made arrangements for Matchmaker Qi. She will sit at the same table with me and sit next to me. Don’t worry, I will keep it safe for her. I also hope that she will help the boys and girls in our village arrange more good marriages in the future!”
Mrs. Cui said happily: "When the dishes are ready, I will have a good chat with her, and she will talk to all the children of the right age in our village. This matchmaker is not an ordinary person. Four generations of her family have been doing this. It has been passed down from her great-grandmother." It was passed down to her grandma, then to her mother-in-law, and then to her. It’s amazing that there is such a famous person in Fucheng.”
Four words flashed in Li Xuemei’s mind: family origins!
"Thanks to you today, I've been thinking about you since you've been busy for a long time. Come to the house with me to have a rest. Let's stop and have a meal. The meal will be finished later, and I'll have to help you when seeing off the guests."
Mrs. Cui smiled heartily and said: "Hey, we are a family, why are you talking about foreign things? I am happy to be busy as long as our eldest niece has a good life. You don't know how many people in the village envy me for taking on this job. I am like this People just can’t take any time off, and they keep getting busier and more energetic!”
"Brother and sister, please help me go to the door to check when you have time. I watched from a distance. Father Gouzi was writing and writing, and he kept writing. He asked him to write down the gift account. Why didn't he finish writing it down? Everyone was already seated. If he doesn’t move anywhere, what on earth is he writing?”
Li Xuemei agreed and walked towards the door.
Having only reached the halfway point, her eyesight, which was beyond the level of ordinary people, allowed her to clearly see what was written on the booklet in front of Cui Langzhong.
She calmly came closer.
Mr. Cui was so busy that he didn’t even raise his head.
Ms. Cui, a young man from the Yan family, invited Mr. Cui to come with her.
If you don't have enough strength to do things that require the use of your mouth, you can just do it with your hands if you don't need your mouth.
Every family in the village has a clear record of what happened to them.
They are all from familiar families, and there are several items that were co-authored by several families, so they are easy to remember.
Even those who came with the Cheng family, no one was empty-handed, and they all sent congratulatory gifts.
Just those few people, at most including those who did not come due to various reasons and let them help.
Mrs. Cui was wondering about this. She counted these people on her fingers. Why can't she finish writing these gifts?
Li Xuemei looked at the names on the booklet and looked down at the gift money.
There are also people who come over one after another to write accounts.
I really don’t know what to do.
Yan Laoer is in charge of the new soldiers in Xiao'an camp. There is a happy event in Shangguan's family. It is understandable that they know about it and express it.
The big soldiers who have just joined the army can have as much pay and silver as they like, and those who have ten or eight pennies can take it as much as they want.
But the group of prisoners who were exiled to the quarry followed and joined in the fun.
They also came with a gift, as if they had agreed upon it. Each family had a small amount of a penny and a large amount of two taels. Seeing that every family was in good condition, the basket at Cui Langzhong's feet was half full.
Yesterday, a couple of my friends came over in the afternoon to discuss their children’s application for the college entrance examination~
I checked, read, and discussed from the afternoon until 10 o'clock in the evening, but the discussion came up with a result. I thought it was over, but I didn't expect that they came again this morning and continued to struggle and discuss. Uh, my brain is going crazy. It’s packed with majors from various universities~~~
After the couple left, Zhai Zhai suddenly became anxious. Do you understand that I was worried about my great son? I feel that the children have had a hard time, they have studied seriously for several years, and they have worked really hard to take the exam. As a parent, I thought the exam was very good, but as soon as I registered for school, I suddenly found that I didn’t have enough points for what I wanted to get, and I didn’t want to go if I didn’t. Those who are sure of it feel at a loss, but they don’t dare to rush, ah ah ah, it’s really difficult!
Just stay at home and take a day off yesterday. I won’t make up for the update~ I love you all~(*▽*)~