Siheyuan: Five mouths waiting for food at the beginning

When I got home, I told my family the news.

Aunt Chen planned to go with Zhao Shanhe to show her courtesy. How could one propose marriage to oneself? Zhao Shanhe also felt that what she said was right. This was not the free love of later generations.

Aunt Chen asked for leave on Monday

Zhao Shanhe went to the factory to ask for three days of leave. At that time, there was a three-day marriage leave, and then he got a letter of introduction.

When Director Li heard that Zhao Shanhe was going to get married, he slapped his thigh and thought that he was too late. He had originally planned to introduce his niece to Zhao Shanhe to make the relationship closer.

Zhao Shanhe will definitely not be happy. I treat you as a brother, but you want to be my uncle.

Zhao Shanhe bought two bottles of wine and two packs of cigarettes. Aunt Chen also brought some cakes when she asked for leave.

Zhao Shanhe has a system but doesn't help, which is equivalent to not having a system. Unlike other time travelers who have dozens of kilograms of meat and hundreds of kilograms of white flour and rice, he doesn't have these conditions.

But he also has a special skill, work quota, his younger brothers and sisters are too young to use it, if he doesn't give it to his wife's family, will he give it to someone else?

I arrived at Qinjia Village around 10 o'clock and saw Qin Jingru waiting at the entrance of the village. Her little face was red from the cold, so I knew she had been waiting for a long time.

"Brother, you are here," Qin Jingru said

"Jingru, this is my Aunt Chen, and she's also my elder, so you can just call her Aunt Chen," Zhao Shanhe introduced.

"Hello, Aunt Chen," Qin Jingru called out

"My daughter is really nice and pretty," Aunt Chen praised

"Liu Ni'er, this is your partner, right? I heard you are going to marry in the city," the villagers of Qinjia Village asked. (Many netizens said that Qin Jingru was the sixth among the women, so we will count her as the sixth.)

"Uncles and aunties, I am Qin Jingru's boyfriend. My name is Zhao Shanhe, and I am here today to propose marriage," Zhao Shanhe said.

Then he didn't stop smoking and quickly passed the cigarettes around to the old men.

"This is a cadre cigarette, it's really good, it looks like Liu Ni is going to enjoy a good life," said the people of Qinjia Village.

Aunt Chen also gave each of the children a candy. Women are so considerate.

Then I followed Qin Jingru to her home.

Wow, when he entered Qin Jingru's house, there were a lot of people in the room, including aunts and uncles, and uncles. Zhao Shanhe was overwhelmed by recognizing them.

It turns out that Qin Jingru's uncle is Qin Huairu's father, so Qin Jingru is her niece.

The Qin family has three brothers. Qin Huairu's father is the eldest, and Qin's father is the third. They are definitely relatives.

Qin's father was a straightforward man. He called out, "Mother-in-law, son-in-law, hurry up and get on the kang to warm up." He also knew that his daughter had married into the Zhao family and had climbed up the social ladder, so he did not make things difficult for Zhao Shanhe. It was not like in the future where you had to have a car and a house, and the betrothal gift was hundreds of thousands, and there were also all kinds of fees for changing your name.

"Uncle, it's not too cold for us to ride bicycles, so let's just sit down and talk," Zhao Shanhe said

I quickly brought water to Aunt Chen and Zhao Shanhe. At that time, tea leaves were not available to ordinary people.

After chatting about family matters for a while, they started talking about marriage.

Father Qin said, "I also know about your family's situation. Jingru is blessed to be married to him. Huairu gave five yuan as a betrothal gift, so you just need to give five yuan too."

Then he asked when he was going to marry Jingru.

"Dad, this is what I thought. Do you think it's okay? The banquet will be held in our Qinjia Village. It's not convenient for you to come and go. I will take Jingru away tomorrow. What do you think?" Zhao Shanhe said

"Okay, let's do it this way," Qin's father said happily.

"Dad, please call all the relatives," Zhao Shanhe said

"All our relatives are here, so we won't invite anyone from the village," said Qin's father.

Zhao Shanhe thought for a moment and said, knowing that Qin's father wanted to save money for him, but who wouldn't want his daughter to have a grand wedding? "Dad, please invite everyone in the village. They all have the surname Qin, and you only have this one daughter."

Then he said to Qin's father, "Do you want to sell the New Year pig in our village? I'll buy one and treat everyone to a meal." The purchase price at that time was estimated to be 4-5 cents. Pigs were divided into six grades, with grade one being the highest and grade six being the lowest. The purchase price in rural areas was generally 8 cents, and the butcher shop was around cents. A pig was just over yuan, about yuan.

"I'll go and notify them via the radio. If you don't notify them, it will be dark by the time the meal is ready," said Uncle Qin. It turns out that Uncle Qin is the village party secretary.

"Attention, all villagers, attention, all villagers, Liu Ni is getting married today and holding a wedding banquet. Her son-in-law bought a pig. Everyone, please gather at the village brigade," she shouted several times in a row.

Soon everyone came with their own pots and pans. Almost everyone in Qinjia Village had the surname Qin, so everyone was quite united.

Zhao Shanhe had eaten pork but had never seen a pig being slaughtered, so he watched anyway. After all, he had to pay for it. It was 48 kilograms, and the lowest price in the village was cents per kilogram. He spent yuan and gave the money to the accountant.

Zhao Shanhe was originally planning to buy some wine, but Qin's father didn't let him. He used his own home-brewed wine. It was just a token of his appreciation. Usually, they didn't set out a banquet, but just treated everyone to a meal.

I have lived two lifetimes, but this is the first time I have seen a pig being slaughtered.

Strength lies in numbers, and it was done in no time. Every household contributed some cabbage, and the whole village came, more than 400 people, big and small. Each person could eat two taels of meat, which was pretty good.

Qin's father was grinning from ear to ear. Whose daughter is getting married and invites everyone to eat like this? The son-in-law gave him too much face. It was so glorious. Who in Qin's village would not give him face in the future?

As for my eldest brother's family, when Qin Huairu got married, she went to the Jia family for dinner. Jia Zhang was so stingy that she didn't even see a few pieces of meat. My eldest sister-in-law brags about her daughter all day long. Look at my son-in-law, Qin Laosan, he is much more prestigious than him.

In the past few years, when Jia Dongxu was here, Qin Huairu would bring some things home, but in recent years, she has been taking things home.

After dinner, it was about three o'clock, so Zhao Shanhe asked Aunt Chen to go home first. Aunt Chen asked for a day off, as she had to go to work tomorrow and he had some things to do. The Qin family sent someone to drive a donkey cart to take her to the city gate, after all, the road was not safe.

I haven't talked about the work yet. There are too many people here. It's not a good idea to bring it up. If they ask me for help, I won't be able to help them. I plan to talk to the Qin family in the evening. I can't have the relatives stay here in the evening.

Then the main relatives started drinking again, and everyone dispersed when it was dark. In fact, it was dark at around 5 o'clock.

Now only the Qin family members were left at home. My mother-in-law and sister-in-law cooked another meal. After the meal, it was almost time to go to bed. I was planning to talk about something, but Qin's father was drunk. So I decided to talk about it tomorrow morning.

Zhao Shanhe was arranged to stay in his brother-in-law's room. How could they share a room in the mother-in-law's house?

Before Zhao Shanhe got on the kang, Qin Jingru brought the water for washing feet and prepared to wash Zhao Shanhe's feet.

Zhao Shanhe is not used to this. Zhao Shanhe won't allow it, and Qin Jingru won't allow it either.

After Qin Jingru washed her feet, she got into bed. The big kang was really comfortable. Then she chatted with her brother-in-law.

Qin Xiaojun, the 17-year-old brother-in-law, has stopped studying and is working as a member of the team. However, after a few words, Zhao Shanhe, who was drunk, fell asleep.