Siheyuan: Struggle Begins in the 1950s

After buying things, Wang Decai took Wang Jianjun to visit his relatives one by one.

Wang Jianjun didn't know most of these relatives.

Fortunately, with Wang Decai around, he didn't feel embarrassed.

Wang Jianjun also made a special trip to the old village chief's house.

When I came to purchase for the first time, the old village chief helped me a lot.

This respected elder must not be missed.

After visiting the relatives, Wang Jianjun counted the number of people and said to Wang Decai:

"Uncle, you can set up a table for six. Ask the relatives to bring their families over."

"Why waste that money? Nowadays, every family sends one person to a banquet."

"Just listen to me, uncle. I want to have a nice wedding, too."

Wang Jianjun actually did this to save face for Wang Decai.

My uncle will stay in the countryside for a long time in the future.

It doesn't cost much to set up a few more tables, but it will make the villagers respect their uncle because of you.

Wang Decai felt that his nephew's wedding was such a big event that he should want to do it well, so he asked:

"Do you have enough money? If not, I'll give you some more."

"Uncle, don't worry. I have the money here, so you don't have to worry about me."

After hearing what Wang Jianjun said, Wang Decai didn't say anything.

Anyway, he has the money ready, and if it is not enough, he will pay for it first.

In early March, the Yan family held a wedding.

Yan Jiecheng is getting married, so he naturally can't live in the same room with his younger siblings anymore.

Yan Bugui specially cleaned up a back room for the two to use as their wedding room.

The furniture was relatively new and was collected from several other rooms.

Uncle Sanda, who is an expert at saving money, started going to Shichahai to fish a week ago.

Finally, they caught enough fish for Yan Jie Che's wedding before he got married.

The fish were kept in a fireproof water tank in the front yard and were not fed. After a few days, they became thinner due to hunger.

But at least it's a live fish.

The fish was just so tiny.

Yan Jie told Yan Bugui more than once about the banquet.

It only happens once in a lifetime, so naturally he wanted to give Yu Li a better banquet.

But no matter how he talked to Yan Bugui, Old Yan only had one sentence to say.

If you want to eat good food, pay for it yourself.

Yan Jiecheng was dumbfounded.

He had just started working and had to pay back part of his salary to Yan Bugui every month, so how could he have any money left?

Yan Jiecheng remembered that he was jumping up and down.

Sha Zhu originally had some complaints about the Third Uncle not inviting him to the banquet.

But after knowing the materials prepared by the Yan family, he no longer had any ideas.

Even if he was a fool, he couldn't do anything special with that stuff.

On the wedding day, Wang Jianjun delivered the things that Yan Bugui wanted.

Yan Jiecheng gave up struggling when he looked at the two and a half kilograms of pork and three chickens.

Now he could only think about how to explain to Yu Li in the evening.

After putting on his newest piece of clothing, Yan Jiecheng pushed the bicycle borrowed from Wang Jianjun to pick up the bride.

After Wang Jianjun gave Yan Bugui a one-dollar gift, he went to Hong Kong to find Shen Maiqiu.

He was also impressed by Old Yan, who didn't ask anyone for help on his wedding day and went to register the gift money himself.

Yan Bugui didn't care about these things. He had to pay someone for a pack of cigarettes when he hired them to do work, so why not just earn the money for himself?

And the most important thing is that he has to deduct the money for the banquet from the gift money he received today before giving it to Yan Jiecheng.

Considering that there won’t be anything good to eat at the Yan family’s banquet in the evening.

Wang Jianjun simply ate half full before coming back to the banquet.

When he came back, people in the courtyard were just starting to sit down at the table.

The Yan family and Yu Li's family each had a table in the front yard, and the rest of the people were arranged in the middle yard.

Wang Jianjun took a special look at the table of people from Yu Li's parents' home.

There was a pretty little girl who was about the same age as He Yushui.

This little girl should be He Yushui’s classmate Yu Haitang.

The future steel rolling mill factory flowers.

The little girl is quite pretty.

But he seems a little arrogant at such a young age.

I don’t know if I was spoiled by my family.

Wang Jianjun just took a glance and looked away after satisfying his curiosity.

I arrived at the central courtyard and found an empty seat to sit down. It happened to be the same table with Xu Damao.

"Jianjun, I heard that you are going to get married soon. Let me congratulate you first. When you get married, all of us in this generation will no longer be single."

Xu Damao spoke loudly on purpose.

Actually, it was just to piss off the idiot at the next table.

It was clear to Shazhu that Xu Damao was trying to trick him.

But it was difficult for him to take action with so many people around.

He could only glare at Xu Damao.

Wang Jianjun responded perfunctorily, but he was speechless in his heart.

This married person is still so eccentric.

After a while, the third aunt called the two relatives who came to help to serve the dishes.

She quickly went back to the house, changed her clothes and went to the table.

Today is really difficult for the three aunts.

When my son got married, the mother-in-law actually had to act as the cook.

Most of the people at the banquet had been hungry all day and were waiting for something delicious.

But when the dishes were served, everyone was dumbfounded.

Fried potatoes, fried cabbage, fried eggplant, fried beans...

You may say that these dishes are vegetarian, but there are a few slices of meat in each dish.

But if you say it is meat, then the number of slices of meat that can be counted on one hand does not seem to be considered a meat dish.

And I clearly added a few slices of pork belly into the stir-fry.

There wasn't even a speck of oil in the soup.

Even Shazhu would be impressed by such cooking skills.

Even if the monks in the temple eat it, it won't be considered a cure.

The only meat dishes on the table were probably the chicken and the bighead carp caught by Yan Bugui.

The chicken was okay, just a little bland and not fully plucked.

That fish is a bit hard to describe.

The three aunts’ main concern when cooking is to make sure the food is edible.

At most I'll give you some salt.

So much so that the fishy smell could not be covered up at all.

Wang Jianjun still grabbed a few pieces of chicken and put them into his bowl before anyone else. When he was about to pick up his chopsticks, there was only some chicken soup left in the bowl.

It's hard to describe the meal that everyone ate.

Everyone gave gifts, but your uncle just gave this to everyone to eat.

Old Yan, you wouldn't be trying to make a fortune from your son's marriage, would you?

In the end, it was Jia Zhang who couldn't bear it anymore.

These dishes didn’t even fill half of her large bowl, and they were all vegetarian.

Jia Zhang had been hungry all day and was looking forward to eating meat in the evening, but you cooked a table of vegetarian dishes for her.

She slammed the table and cursed:

"You are such a stingy guy, Old Yan. Who can eat this little meat? Return the gift money to me right now!"

Yi Zhonghai, who was sitting at the same table, quickly stood up and stopped Jia Zhang.

Jia Zhang refused to give in and was ready to cause trouble.

Seeing that he could not persuade her, Yi Zhonghai had no choice but to offer to take the portion in his bowl back to her. Only then did Jia Zhang calm down.

Although it was only Jia Zhang who caused the trouble, everyone in the hospital was dissatisfied with Yan Bugui.