The couple made a living in the 1950s.

Wedding banquets at this time are rarely lavish.

Most of the time, relatives and neighbors get together to set up a few tables so that everyone can share in the joy.

The food at wedding banquets is usually white flour steamed buns and flower rolls.

Add some shredded meat to the cabbage, vermicelli and kelp, and cook it into a big stew.

At this time, these foods are already easy to chew.

Wang Laidie’s wedding banquet was held in the fourth courtyard of the main courtyard.

When Lin Hanyu and Bai Ye came over, Zhang Mei and the others were already sitting there.

Zhang Mei and her husband brought their youngest son Fang Jun, Liu Meijia and her husband brought Ruyang, and together with Lin Manyu and Bai Ye, they made just enough room for a table.

Lin Hanyu sat down and talked in a low voice with Zhang Mei and Liu Meijia.

"Why did you come so early today?"

Liu Meijia touched her bulging belly out of habit.

"I don't have much to do at home right now, so I thought I'd come over early to share in the good fortune."

Lin Hanyu smiled and nodded, and couldn't help but reach out to follow Liu Meijia to gently touch her pregnant belly.

"I remember this child is due in November?"

"Well, the weather is cold during the confinement period."

"A few years ago, I was just thinking about giving Ruyang another brother or sister, but then a natural disaster happened."

"I'm just giving birth to my second child. After this one is born, I don't plan to have another one."

When Zhang Mei heard this, her beautiful eyes turned and she looked at Lin Hanyu and Liu Meijia mysteriously.

The two of them understood what she meant and moved closer to Zhang Mei.

"Some time ago, Wang You's family thought the 200 yuan dowry from Wang Guoqiang's family was too little and refused to let their daughter get married."

"The reason why Wang Lai Di can get married so happily is because her brother's girlfriend came to her house two days ago and said she was pregnant."

"The girl's family said they had to give a 500 yuan gift before they could marry Wang Baozu."

"Otherwise, they will go to the police station and sue him for being a hooligan."

"The 200 yuan betrothal gift money that Lai Di received from the Wang family was originally supposed to be given to her brother to marry a wife."

"It was Li Lanying who was making trouble with Wang You's family every day at home a few days ago."

"Only then did Wang You's family give in and give Lai Di 66 yuan and a bed as a dowry."

Zhang Mei inadvertently looked up and met Liu Meijia's puzzled eyes, and couldn't help laughing.

"Don't look at me like that. I'm very busy at work every day, okay?"

"The reason I know what's going on in this courtyard before you is because my Fang Xu and Ming Yu get along well."

"Aunt Jiang and I have many opportunities to talk."

"This news was just the day before yesterday. Mingyu's hat fell into our house."

"Aunt Jiang told me when she came to our house to get the hat."

Lin Hanyu and the other two were talking when they saw the newcomer standing in front of everyone.

They immediately turned their attention to Wang Guoqiang and Wang Laidie.

Today's wedding ceremonies are simple. After the newlyweds read a collection of quotations and say some words of thanks, the banquet officially begins.

When Lin Hanyu and Bai Ye returned home, it was not yet 12 o'clock.

Today, the children are all in school busy with their final exams and haven't come back yet.

The two of them are now free.

In the bedroom on the second floor, Bai Ye helped his wife take down the family's cash box from the top shelf of the cabinet, and then sat back on the sofa.

Lin Manyu held the money box and sat down happily next to Bai Ye.

After participating in the construction of the Great Hall, Aye started receiving the salary of a level 1960 engineer from January 1, which was 9 yuan per month.

Her monthly salary is 56 yuan.

Her and Aye’s combined salary is 1896 yuan per year.

Now she and Aye receive 30 kilograms of food every month at home, and their three children are still in college and each of them receives 34 kilograms of food.

The whole family needs 162 kilograms of food every month, which costs 21.06 yuan.

The household spends 3.52 yuan and 0.8 yuan per month on meat and vegetables respectively. A foot of cloth is 0.4 yuan, and water is 1.5 yuan per month.

Even if the prices of grain and meat fluctuate occasionally, they are still between 0.13-0.16 and 0.64-0.7 per catty.

In addition to the money from daily social interactions, like the 1 yuan they gave as a gift to the Wang family today.

Every month, their family's fixed expenses are around 30 yuan.

The two of them never accepted the subsidy money given by the school to their three children, and the children managed it themselves.

Adding the money they had saved before, there was already 8125 yuan in the money box at home.

Bai Ye looked at his wife in front of him, who was holding a money box and looked like a little money-grubber, with a smile in his eyes.

Hanhan never wants to put the money in this money box back into the space.

In her words, if a thief really broke into our house, he wouldn't be able to steal even 8,000 yuan.

Doesn't that mean we are suspicious of hiding the money somewhere else?

At this time, at the gate of Beijing Municipal School of Politics and Law.

Erbao was leaning against the wall waiting for Li Fanglei to come out.

From afar he saw the girl who was as fair and sweet as his sister but always liked to cry.

It was moving towards him at a turtle's pace.

He suppressed the emotions in his eyes and stood there quietly without moving.

"Brother Qingxiang, did you receive the scarf I knitted for you?"

Erbao looked at the girl in front of him who had grown to be almost as tall as his shoulders, and a smile flashed across his eyes.

"I just received the scarf and wanted to see how you decided to knit me a scarf in such hot weather."

In the cafeteria, Li Fanglei and Erbao were sitting together in the corner eating lunch.

She glanced at Erbao, who had been eating without talking since he sat down, and a look of grievance flashed in her eyes.

She pouted her little mouth, and when she looked up again, she met Erbao's smiling eyes.

"After we graduate, let my dad go to your house and talk to Uncle Ze about us."

"When I turn 20, we'll get married."

"Auntie Yu, do they know about us?"

Erbao took a look at the girl who was staring at him with big eyes, then lowered his head and raised the corners of his mouth.

"We don't know yet. If you want to tell them now, that's fine."

Li Fanglei looked at Erbao who lowered his head to continue eating and sighed secretly in her heart.

She liked Qingxiang since she was very young, because he was the most handsome.

The kids around her all like to watch Brother Qingxiang, and she likes to watch him too.

Gradually, as she grew into an adult, she became less and less willing to look at him as blatantly as she did when she was a child.

She just watched it secretly.

Later, she didn't know how they had developed to the point of discussing marriage so quickly.

She had participated in every step forward in their relationship, but now she still felt like she was in a dream.

I can't react a bit.

Erbao looked at the girl who put down her chopsticks and sat there in a daze, his eyes full of doting.

He raised his hand and put all the braised pork on the plate into Li Fanglei's bowl.

It took him two whole months to save up these meat coupons.