The whole month of April is actually the busiest month for Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan. Ad-free site. It's no exaggeration to say that they're almost hitting the back of the head.

This is because in addition to collecting stamps, they also had a plan to take care of the preparations for the wedding of the two teachers. Now, naturally, it's time to deliver on that promise.

Of course, there is also a bit of a reason for them to ask for their own hardships. Because originally according to Chang Xianzhang and Gu Lingye's intentions, it was enough to get a marriage certificate, and the rest was a simple wedding.

What is a simple wedding?

In fact, it was the most common form of wedding at that time, which could not be more simple.

In such a wedding, the process and ritual are just inviting relatives and friends to eat some candy, smoke a cigarette, and have a cup of tea at home. There are almost no things to buy, and it belongs to putting two sets of bedding together to get by. A special kind of consumption, at most, is just a group photo of the two of them.

Some people may have said that this is not right. At that time, didn't you pay attention to "thirty-six legs" and "three turns and one ring"? You can also set up a flowing water seat at home?

Yes, but you also have to make it clear that families with such conditions are an absolute minority.

The state of society at the end of the seventies is not at all comparable to what it is now. At that time, the "Engel coefficient" was very high, and in addition to eating, you had to save for several years to buy something decent.

People's wages have indeed risen a little, but the average is only about 10 yuan, and there is no qualitative change. Most newcomers have been working for a short time and must not have much money in hand.

In addition, in families with many children, parents are not like today, where four old people help two young people. At that time, ordinary people did not have much money to support their children, and most families had more than one child, and they were more worried that they would favor one over the other and cause family conflicts.

In fact, the truest portrayal is that almost all young people simply entertain relatives and friends when they get married, and then slowly buy their belongings. And it was by no means like this now, the wedding day was full of cars and flowers. You have to buy all the things you need to get on the road before you can register your marriage.

If we talk about the bleak situation at that time, there are even cases where some people can't even find a piece of clothing without patches, and they have to borrow clothes when they get married.

Of course, Chang Xianzhang and Gu Lingye had a thousand yuan from Hong Yanwu in their hands, and they didn't seem to have to worry about this kind of problem. But the acute problem is that they are all strict self-disciplined people in their bones, and "don't take it for yourself" is their consistent ethics. Now I feel that I owe Hong Yanwu a favor, and I really don't want to spend this money anymore.

What's more, at that time, the material supply was tight, and it was difficult to move an inch without a ticket. If you want to have a wedding, I don't know how many colorful shopping tickets you have to find.

So their idea was to return the thousand yuan to Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan, and they couldn't trouble them anymore. As long as you can form a family, there is nothing wrong with living a hard life. This shows that the relationship between them is above all else.

But this is precisely what Hong Yanwu can never agree to.

In his opinion, Chang Xianzhang and Gu Lingye's affairs have been delayed too late by the times, and it is purely because of his mistakes back then, the two people who should have been together a long time ago have had these eight years of displacement.

Then not only does the times owe them, he also owes them. Of course, he has to make a big special event, otherwise he will be sorry for the two teachers, and he will not be happy in his own heart.

So in order to make Chang Xianzhang and Gu Lingye change their minds, Hong Yanwu tried every means to persuade him.

not only claimed that himself, Chen Liquan and Lao Chang had already reached this point, but he looked down on them if he didn't spend their money. also said that the parents of Chang and Gu must also be willing to see the two of them have a wedding in a beautiful way.

If it's just to save a few bucks, you can't do it. Not to mention that it will spoil everyone's interest, and I'm afraid they will regret it themselves after many years.

In this way, sincerity and reasonableness can be regarded as making sense to Chang Xianzhang and Gu Lingye, forcing them to obey the arrangement and listen to the command.

Because he has already planned a marriage for the "general" in an all-round way. Hong Yanwu is really a bit familiar with this kind of thing again.

He analyzed the current situation, considering that the deputy director and his wife were about to return home in the middle of the month. Therefore, the imminent thing is to clean up the Chang family's house first.

So the first thing he did was to work with Chen Liquan to help Chang Xianzhang and Gu Lingye clean up those bits and pieces, and then pushed all the furniture to the center of the room and covered it with waste newspapers to facilitate painting the walls.

After that, he went to the housing management office and took the path of the deputy director, and invited seven or eight workers to start work on the Chang family.

In short, a week later, when Chang Xianzhang and Gu Lingye came back, not only were all the walls of the three-bedroom house whitewashed, but all the doors, windows, and heating were newly painted. The toilets and kitchen have also been renovated, and the walls of the kitchen and bathroom are covered with white tiles. The faucets, sinks, and toilets were also replaced with new ones.

The best thing is the ceiling. Hong Yanwu deliberately went to Wangfujing to find a few ceiling lamps to install. People today would never think that this kind of lamp, which now seems the simplest and cheapest, could present a luxurious style back then.

As a result, not only the construction workers all had proud expressions. Chang Xianzhang and Gu Lingye were overjoyed, and even Chang Xianzhang's parents were shocked when they returned to Beijing and entered the house.

They couldn't believe that this was the home they had been away from for so many years. It is very exaggerated to claim that the family is almost catching up with the "Beijing Hotel".

In fact, this effect is not much different from the effect of today's TV station broadcast when it enters the last link. In this era when there was no awareness of home improvement, Hong Yanwulu's little hand, although it was not worth mentioning in his own opinion, and even had many defects, it had indeed achieved the effect of leading the trend.

After solving the problem of the house, the next more important thing is to take photos of the groom and bride and their newlyweds. This is because it takes a lot of time to do both of these things.

If you want to say that it is better to take a group photo, just take the money and go to "Huaxia" or "Dabei" to pay the money directly, there are still 20 days before the "May Day", and the time is enough.

The point is that the problem of the line is more difficult. Because the types of ready-to-wear that could be bought at that time were so ordinary, there were good fabrics, but good tailors were hard to find.

Like the most famous garment store in Beijing, the number one is of course the "Red Capital".

It is not only the only remaining garment store among the 21 clothing stores that moved from Shanghai to Beijing after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Since 1957, he has been making clothes for the country's leaders.

However, the threshold of the "red capital" is too high, and the limited human resources are only for leading cadres and foreign guests, and ordinary people are not allowed to receive them.

Second, even if you can find a way, because people are busy with business, the waiting time is too long. It's going to be at least two months before the clothes are made, so I'm really not in a hurry.

But it doesn't matter, don't forget that there is also a Su Shenzhen from the East Courtyard of the Guanyin Academy.

If you really talk about craftsmanship, compared to this "Su tailor" who made a dress enough to eat for a month, the tailor of "Hongdu" also has to kowtow to call the master, and of course he can make such two new clothes.

So Hong Yanwu took Chang Xianzhang and Gu Lingye to pick out the fabric first, and then they went directly to the house of the "Su Tailor".

Lao Su didn't shirk it, and after measuring the size on the spot, he directly asked him to pick up the clothes for a week. As for the price, Lao Suhaha laughed and made a joke.

He said that he owed him a share of Chong Xianzhang's discipline of Hong Yanwu back then, and let the whole hospital have a peaceful birthday for two years, and now he is thanking him, so naturally he can't ask for money. What's more, he hasn't made serious clothes for a long time, and it's really a bit itchy.

Yes, as soon as these words were said, Chang Xianzhang and Gu Lingye both laughed on the spot, but Hong Yanwu's face was full of embarrassment.

Now that the rush is taken care of, the rest of the buying tasks are much easier.

In this matter, Hong Yanwu summed it up with Chang Xianzhang and Gu Lingye.

The first is the furniture of the house, because the Chang family does not lack anything. When two people apply for a marriage certificate, the special marriage ticket they get back is enough.

This was a perk of the 70s, and you could buy a large wardrobe, a round table, a double bed, two folding chairs, and a stainless steel pan.

At that time, the popular furniture color was floor yellow, and the furniture styles were similar, so there was no need to bother to pick anything. But it costs more than 200 yuan to buy all of them, and not everyone dares to ask about them.

The most troublesome thing is that there is no one to deliver the goods, you have to find a car to move it by yourself, and you have to assemble the bed yourself when you go home.

But Hong Yanwu is the most lacking in manpower, he didn't go out himself, Chen Liquan took a few "eye managers" under his hands to get things done.

Of course, the means of transportation rely on three wheels, and the "sunspot" of Furuli inherited his father's glorious tradition and also became the "ban'er master". Through this kid, he greeted a total of four tricycles in the "Lifting Club", and one person privately gave five yuan and a box of cigarettes, and everything was pulled back in one trip.

And because of the lot of money, these "board masters" also took the initiative to help carry things, don't look at Chang's house on the third floor, everyone worked together without stopping at all, and they got all the furniture on one trip.

There are many old neighbors in the building, and they are quite surprised to see these dozen young men throwing their arms in full swing. In private, he even mistakenly thought that Deputy Director Chang had been reinstated. When I saw Chang Xianzhang again, I didn't feel much more polite, and I took the initiative to say hello.

Because if this were not the case, where would so many people listen to the call of the Chang family?