Siheyuan: Five mouths waiting for food at the beginning

January 1986, , New Year's Day,

Today is the wedding day of Xu Damao's son Xu Sheng and Extra Jia girl.

The wedding banquet was held in an ordinary hotel affiliated with Sihai Hotel, a hotel that specializes in banquets. It was because Xu Damao had met many business people in the past two years. In addition to relatives and friends, relatives of the bride, and employees of Huanyu Construction, a high-end hotel like Sihai Hotel could not accommodate them all.

Even if we can seat ourselves at the Sihai Restaurant, it is a high-end restaurant with expensive ingredients, and it is simply not worth it for so many people to come here.

So we could only go to a place that specially contracts banquets, and there were more than twenty tables for relatives, friends, and company subordinates.

Zhao Shanhe did not put on airs. He went to Xu Damao's house early to see if there was any help he could provide. His son An Tong was getting married, and Xu Damao brought his family to visit for several days and helped a lot.

Now it was time to repay the favor, but Zhao Shanhe arrived early and was of no help. He just sat on the sofa and chatted with the old man of the Xu family all morning.

After picking up the bride, the group went to the hotel, and Zhao Shanhe was arranged to sit at the main table by Xu Damao.

Sitting at the main table were the old man and his wife of the Xu family, and the three Zhao Shanhe brothers. A few seats were reserved. I don’t know who they were reserved for. They should be the leaders in the construction industry who dealt with Xu Damao.

Sha Zhu also came. He was one of the guests that Xu Damao had to invite. His son was getting married soon, so he had to show off in front of Sha Zhu. The Jia family also had a great guest. The third uncle, Yi Zhonghai, and the Liu brothers were all invited.

Xu Damao gave gifts to Jia Jiabanggeng's wedding, the third uncle's son's wedding, and the Liu brothers' weddings. Now it's time for them to pay back.

The group of people from the old courtyard were arranged to sit at a table, not with Zhao Shanhe and the others, but when they saw Zhao Shanhe, they all came over to say hello.

The three Zhao Shanhe brothers arrived early and had nothing to do, so they started chatting with Xu's father. Seeing that Zhao Shanhe's side was empty, Sha Zhu greeted him and didn't leave, but chatted with a few people.

"Xu Damao's grandson looks down on people. He arranged me to a remote place." It has to be said that Sha Zhu is stubborn. He said it directly in front of Xu's father.

Father Xu also smiled but said nothing. Today was his grandson's wedding day. In the same courtyard, everyone knew the grudge between Xu Damao and Sha Zhu.

Sha Zhu continued, "But Xu Damao's show is quite grand. I see there are more than 20 tables. He must have invited quite a few people."

Zhao Shanhe continued the topic, "It's normal. He is in charge of a company, so he must have a lot of partners and personal connections. In addition to his company's subordinates, his own relatives and friends, and the woman's relatives and friends, there must be a lot of people."

"Yes, indeed. This grandson has been in the limelight in recent years. Relatives, have you met Xu Damao's daughter-in-law? How is she?"

Zhao Shanhe was still not able to react when Sha Zhu called them in-laws, but since his son was engaged to the girl, they were indeed in-laws, and it was not wrong for Sha Zhu to call them that.

Zhao Shanhe asked, "Didn't he bring his daughter-in-law to your house?"

"What the hell, he just came to the courtyard to inform everyone and then left."

Zhao Shanhe felt that this was still Xu Damao. He didn't even bring such an excellent daughter-in-law to show off in front of Sha Zhu at the first time.

Zhao Shanhe said, "I have met her. She is a good girl and a college student."

Sha Zhu curled his lips and said, "It's really like a flower stuck in cow dung."

"Okay, you should be more careful with your words. You and Xu Damao have reconciled, right? Besides, you are the elder in front of Xu Sheng. It's not appropriate for an elder like you to comment on him like this."

Sha Zhu squeezed his wrinkled face and said, "It's my fault, it's my fault. I can't control my stinky mouth. I really shouldn't have said that."

While they were chatting, Xu Damao came with another person. It turned out to be Xu Sheng's uncle. It was indeed his nephew's wedding, so it would be inappropriate for the uncle not to sit at the main table.

After introducing Xu Sheng's uncle to everyone, Xu Damao said to Sha Zhu, "Sha Zhu, why are you here? My son is getting married today, please don't make trouble."

After hearing what Xu Damao said, Sha Zhu was unhappy. He was just going to chat and go back to his table later. Now that Xu Damao asked him this, he didn't leave. "Why, this table is made of gold, so I can't come. I'll sit at the same table with my in-laws today. What do you say?"

"Your son doesn't even have a girlfriend, so where can you get your in-laws from? Come on, go back to your table." Xu Damao had completely forgotten about the engagement between Zhao Shanhe's son and Sha Zhu's daughter.

"Hey, grandson, aren't they my in-laws?" Sha Zhu pointed at Zhao Shanhe. "My son doesn't have a partner, but my daughter is engaged to Shanhe's son. How come they are not in-laws?"

Zhou Yuanyuan ran over and said, "Da Mao, why are you still here? Come over and greet everyone. I don't know any of your friends. Which table should I take them to?"

"Shazhu, it's my son's wedding day, don't make trouble for me today. We can talk about it later if there is anything." After saying this, Xu Damao followed his wife to greet the guests.

Xu Sheng's uncle had never met Zhao Shanhe, but he knew Zhao Shanhai. Zhao Shanhai often hung out with Xu Damao. With the help of Xu Damao, he became a small boss in Huanyu Company. Of course, he knew Zhao Shanhai, the leader.

Zhao Shanhai also introduced them, "This is my eldest brother, Zhao Shanhe, and my second brother, Zhao Shanhu."

"Hello, leaders"

It was not long before the wedding started, and the guests arrived one after another. Apart from Xu Damao, the other busy one was Zhao Shanhai. The people from Huanyu Group all came to greet him first.

Zhao Shanhai pointed to the main table on the other side and said, "Brother, you guys sit down first. I'll go over and say hello. The table over there is mostly full of leaders."

Zhao Shanhe then discovered that Xu Damao had set up two main tables. Seeing that most people had arrived, Sha Zhu took the initiative to return to his own table. It was someone else's wedding day, so there was no need to make trouble.

Soon Zhao Shanhe's main table was also full, including the bride's grandparents, parents, their three brothers, Xu's parents, and Uncle Xu Sheng, exactly ten people.

Xu Damao came over and talked to Zhao Shanhe, and then the couple sat at another main table and accompanied the leaders.

When the time came, the wedding began quickly. After the newlyweds entered, the grandparents of both sides came on stage first and gave the newlyweds red envelopes, and then the parents came on stage to give them money for changing their names.

Then Zhao Shanhe went up and said a few words, which were to bless the newlyweds. Except for those old neighbors, many people didn't know Zhao Shanhe. However, those who could go on stage and serve as witnesses were either highly respected or had high status.

After the ceremony, Xu Damao and his wife, the bride's parents and the newlyweds began to toast. After three rounds of wine and five dishes, the wedding was successfully completed.

Zhao Shanhe gave a gift of 500 yuan because An Tong was getting married, and Xu Damao, the show-off, gave 500 yuan as a return gift.