Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

Nowadays, wedding banquets in rural areas are still very lively and full of atmosphere.

Basically all the dishes that are going to be prepared have to be prepared one day in advance, such as dried vegetables have to be soaked, the meat has to be processed in advance, the tofu has to be made one day in advance, and the tables, chairs, benches, bowls and chopsticks have to be borrowed from each household in the village.

Of course, hosting a wedding banquet is too complicated and tedious, so naturally many villagers will come to help out. It would be impossible to handle it entirely on our own.

Some relatives who live far away will basically arrive one day in advance, such as my second aunt who lives in Dingjia Village, Lin Xue from Xianfeng Village, and my great aunt who married in the next town.

The Lin family was very busy the day before the countdown to the banquet, and this bustle was naturally due to entertaining guests and various trivial matters of the banquet.

It can be said that the Lin family was so busy that they had no time to rest. Even Lin Shu was busy chatting with the guests. At the end of the day, not to mention the Lin family who were busy with various things, even Lin Shu was too tired to speak before going to bed at night.

It took too much of her energy to accompany guests like this.

Fortunately, the Lin family knew to let her sleep a little longer the next day and did not wake her up before dawn.

Gu Jiu got up early and had breakfast, and the Lin family sent him back to his room to change clothes and prepare to help receive the guests later.

After Lin Shu got up, had breakfast and put on the wedding dress specially made for today, the upper body was a short windbreaker style, and the lower body was an A-line skirt of the same fabric. The style would not be outstanding in later generations and could be considered a classic style, but in this era it is fashionable and very eye-catching.

She tied her hair up, pinned a few red velvet flowers in her hair, and put on some light makeup, and she immediately looked bright and beautiful.

"Wow, Lin Shu, you look so beautiful today." Lin Haiyan praised. Lin Shu's makeup today was eye-catching and so beautiful.

Everyone in the Lin family had their own things to do, so the job of accompanying the bride in the boudoir was given to the unmarried Lin Haiyan.

Lin Shu pursed her lips and smiled: "You look beautiful today too. If you are envious, I will help you put on the same makeup next time you get married."

When it comes to her boyfriend, Lin Haiyan blushed as expected. She held her hot face and said coquettishly, "Oh, today is your big day, why are you mentioning him? He hasn't passed my test yet, so I won't rush to get married to him. Let's not talk about him anymore. I'll go out and help you check if your Gu Jiu is dressed up."

Lin Shu looked at the girl running out of the door, smiled, and turned back to look at herself in the mirror seriously. Putting aside her appearance, her skin seemed to have improved after she became pregnant.

Lin Haiyan left Lin Shu's room, patted her hot cheeks, took a breath, and walked out after calming down a little.

After a while, many guests arrived, including Xu Ming, Tang Jianjun and Li Yuanchao. With them came Xie Hui, who worked in the public security department. With Xie Hui came a group of cousins ​​from the Gu family, all of them young men.

This time, Li Yuanchao and his companions did not drive here, but rode bicycles.

When they went back the day before yesterday, they drove back in the car borrowed by Xie Hui. The car they borrowed is still in the Xiaohe Production Team.

The reason why everyone came here by bicycle today is because Lin Shu is prone to motion sickness and they are going to use bicycles to pick up the bride.

Gu Jiu came up to give them wedding candies and fortune cigarettes, and everyone was welcomed in while saying congratulations.

In the kitchen, the two sisters-in-law were boiling water and the others were busy cooking. When He Caiyun saw that the bridegroom's party had arrived, she asked Lu Yinhua to quickly make tea and bring it out.

The liveliness of the Lin family today is naturally incomparable to the last time Mei Zi hosted a banquet.

Lin Dashan didn't want to have a big wedding, so he only prepared a dozen tables. But even these dozen tables were more grand than the four tables in the second room.

When Lin Mei followed Aunt Lin Li Xiu, they saw a lot of gifts placed at the entrance, and a village accountant sitting at the door counting the gift money.

She snorted jealously, "Such a show-off!"

She thinks she has married well and is showing off here, as if she wants the whole world to know that she has married well. It's really disgusting.

Li Xiu heard this and said sarcastically, "That's right. Do you think you can show off just because you have a few bucks? You may not know since you just arrived today, but we used half a head of pork in today's banquet. When the dishes are served, remember to put more meat in your bowl."

Lin Mei exclaimed, "Half a pig? How much does that cost?"

Half a pig weighs 150 kilograms, and at 78 cents per kilogram, half a pig costs 117 yuan, not including other meat dishes, cigarettes, alcohol, candy and other supplies.

How much do the Gu family in this city regard money as worthless to have done this?

After calculating the approximate price in her mind, Lin Mei was so angry that she almost ground her back teeth into pieces.

"Mom, I suddenly regret coming here to drink. I'm just asking for someone to slap me in the face."

She dared to bet that everyone who came to the banquet today would compare her with Lin Shu.

Li Xiu pulled Lin Mei inside without saying anything, "Why are you regretting this? You would regret it if you didn't come. How could you eat meat if you didn't come?"

You know, the big room prepared 150 kilograms of pork today, so each table must be filled with enough meat dishes, no matter what they cook.

Thinking of the 150 kilograms of meat, Lin Mei shamelessly took a step forward and followed Li Xiu's footsteps.

When they were almost at the gift-giving table, Li Xiu grabbed Lin Mei and asked in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "How much gift money are you going to give?"

Lin Mei glanced at the guest who was paying the gift money, threw away her sleeves, and said as a matter of course: "We don't get along with Lin Shu, so of course I'll only give two yuan."

"Two dollars? That's too little. She gave you five dollars last time you hosted a wedding. As a sister, you can't give less than her, right?"

The reason why Li Xiu was dissatisfied was that she wanted to save face, and there were certain requirements for etiquette in rural areas.

For example, when Lin Mei got married, Lin Shu gave her a gift of five yuan. Then when Lin Shu got married, Lin Mei could not give less than this amount. Otherwise, if outsiders found out, she would be criticized behind her back and criticized.

"Two dollars is not a small amount, Mom. How much do you think you should give me?" Lin Mei asked back.

Li Xiu: "Last time you got married, your uncle gave six dollars. Today Lin Shu is getting married, and I have to give at least six dollars on behalf of the second wife."

When returning a favor like this, you can only give more, not less.

"Then the six dollars you gave me, we just got married and are working hard for our careers. We are not well off right now, so two dollars is good enough for her. If she thinks it's too little, I won't give her a penny."

Lin Mei thought that Lin Shu was rich and the remaining three dollars was to help her.

In the end, she ignored Li Xiu's nagging and went straight over to hand the gift money to the village accountant.

The village accountant also received the gift money, looked at them for confirmation, and finally said nothing and directly registered the gift money in the book.

Li Xiu was so angry that she almost died. "Just keep stinging. Who will help you when you need help in the future?"

Which normal person would want to date such a stingy person?

This damn girl didn't learn any cleverness from her, she only learned those things which are not presentable.