I really just want to make money

Chapter 258 Banquet
When the temperature is too low, the loach eel that was turned up with the soil will also react slower, and it is easily caught by Zhang Hua and put into the basket.

Another big rice field eel weighing about half a catty was turned upside down. Zhang Hua bent down casually, grabbed the big rice field eel and put it into the basket.

In this day and age, some people are already using batteries to hunt loach and eels, and there is no harvest at all in ordinary fields, but Zhang Hua's Chaomen field is next to his own dam, and there are some fish in it. Naturally, it is impossible for others to use batteries. call taxi.

So now when plowing the fields, Zhang Hua has caught a lot of loaches, eels, and occasionally an unlucky big crucian carp. After a long time, he even caught two or three catties together. It would not be a problem to cook a pot with some sour radish .

After the sun comes out, it doesn't feel so cold, but it makes people feel very comfortable.

Father Zhang brought some bundled sugarcane green shoots back with a cart, and shouted to Zhang Hua, "It's almost time to eat!"

"Come when the plowing is over!"

After Zhang Huali arrived at the corner of the field beside the dam, he untied the burden on the cow's neck, led the cow to the dam, threw two sugarcane green shoots for it to eat, and then washed his hands and face casually.

Chen Jun brought a bucket of hot water and came out with a pair of woolen slippers. Looking at Zhang Hua's muddy spots, he said with a smile, "Wash the hot water. I saw the words "men farm and women weave" in books before, and it feels good. , it doesn't look like that's the case now."

"Hehe, fairy tales are full of lies, let alone plowing fields and weaving cloth, just making a pair of insoles, and you don't know how many needle holes you will be poked in your hands," Zhang Hua laughed.

After lunch, I continued to work. In the evening, I harvested a large pot of boiled fish, which contained a lot of loaches and eels, and some side dishes, which were barely enough for a table.

In addition to plowing the fields, Zhang Hua usually helps his parents cut sweet potato vines, dig sweet potatoes, and help with some farm work.

The banquet was scheduled for the third day of junior high school. On the first day of junior high school, Zhang Hua began to invite people from door to door in the production team. As for the relatives, the parents were responsible for notifying them. After all, Zhang Hua did not know some relatives well.

For example, the aunts, uncles, aunts, and cousins ​​of the parents are actually very close people, but Zhang Hua doesn't even know all of them.

Especially the older generation has so many children, maybe some of them have never even seen each other.

If the first generation kisses the second generation, the third generation and the fourth generation will not recognize each other!

In the second day of junior high school, I slaughtered pigs in the morning. Because there were many tables, I killed two pigs directly. After all, the local pigs are only one to two hundred catties, and one pig is definitely not enough.

In the afternoon, helpers came one after another. In this era, there is no such thing as one-stop service. Whoever holds a banquet has to go door-to-door to borrow tables and benches.

As for small things such as bowls, chopsticks and steamers, there are special people who can buy them, and they can rent them for some money according to the rules.

Kang Rushan also came to help early, Zhang's father handed over the favor to him, asked him to help keep the accounts, and was also responsible for arranging the people who came to help.

Those who are in charge of tidying up are responsible for borrowing tables and benches, and those in charge of the kitchen are responsible for borrowing dishes, chopsticks, steamers, etc., and arrange who will cook the rice, who will pack whole chickens and ducks, and fold vegetables.

There are two records of favors, one is the account book for giving gifts, and the other is for helping people. These favors will need to be returned to others in the future.

How much the gift giver gives, you have to reciprocate according to the market price. When someone comes to help you, you also need to help when someone else has something to do. When the helper comes, first give each person a pack of cigarettes, and then remember name and then get to work.

Some relatives who are far away will also come in the afternoon of the second day of junior high school.

After all, transportation is inconvenient in this era, and many of them have to walk for more than ten kilometers. It is impossible for people to be exhausted from walking tomorrow morning, come to have lunch and hurry back, right?

So I will come here this afternoon, and I will go back after breakfast the day after tomorrow, so I have to arrange accommodation for them, usually staying at the neighbor's house with a good relationship for two nights.

There are also some people who will just play cards all night, and then catch up on sleep the next day.

Kang Youming also rushed back in the afternoon, "Brother Huazi, happy wedding, congratulations."

Kang Youming was followed by a long line of people, including film projectors, video recorders, guns, gongs and drums, and a troupe of lampstands.

"Why are you doing so many tricks?" Zhang Hua said with a smile.

Kang Youming explained: "I didn't invite it alone. The fourth cousin contacted me. They didn't have time to come back, so they entrusted me to do it. One person paid a little money. I thought your place is big enough. Just make a whole set, and everyone can watch whatever they like, just for fun."

Speaking of what kind of happy event is there in this era, I really like to invite people to have fun. The highest grade is naturally the Lantern Opera, which is actually a type of Sichuan Opera, not the song and dance troupe in the future.

Although they are just folk artists, they can be said to be proficient in learning and singing, and they perform all kinds of operas. Hesitating that they are live performances, and they also need the cooperation of erhu, gongs, drums, and suona, so the cost is naturally relatively high. It also needs more than 1000 yuan.

It is already equivalent to two or three months' wages of ordinary people. Of course, it is worth the money. Basically, Zhang Hua and the others like to watch it here.

And it's so expensive that it doesn't mean everyone can afford it.

If it's a little bit worse, someone will be invited to play a movie, and if it's a little bit worse, a video tape will be played.

If it doesn't work, you can also ask someone to shoot the gun.

A bamboo pole full of copper coins is tapped on the ground or on the hands and feet to make rhythmic sounds, and then some funny songs are sung. Atmospheric.

Zhang Hua thought for a while, and said: "Let the shooter and the lamp stand performer be together, and let them figure out how to perform. If they have a lot of money, they will do it.

The film show was arranged to be shown in the village primary school, and the video recorder was arranged to be shown in the village canteen, telling them that they had a lot of money.

In order not to mix together and influence each other, people don't know what to watch. "

Kang Youming thought for a while, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll tell them later."

The dinner will be at noon tomorrow, and this evening is just entertaining helpers and relatives who are far away, so I simply made seven or eight dishes.

After dinner, the stage for opera singing was set up. In this era, opera singing in rural areas did not have any sound, and it all depended on the loud voice of the singers, so the stage was built very small, and the audience was surrounded closely.

(End of this chapter)