Chapter 22: Ye Shuting's proposal
"Husband, are you going to farm?"
Liu Jingqing looked at his man strangely and asked, if you want to know that this man is a lazy man, will he go to farm?
"Yes, if I don't farm, our family drinks the northwest wind, what do I rely on to support you, a flower-like wife. Ye Rongrong said with a smile.
"Husband, if you are willing to do things, I will support you. ”
Liu Jingqing said happily. Liu Jingjing also wants her man to do something serious, instead of being idle at home all day long. After all, living at home also requires money, and you can't earn money yourself, and you can't go out to earn money, so you can only rely on your own man to earn money.
"Well, I'm hungry, let's eat. Ye Rongrong touched his stomach and said.
"Hmm. ”
As he spoke, Liu Jingqing happily took Ye Rongrong's hand and walked towards the kitchen.
"Husband, there is something I will discuss with you. After breakfast, Liu Jingqing came to Ye Rongrong's side and said.
"What's the matter?" Ye Rongrong asked suspiciously.
"Shu Ting's family will hold wine in a few days, how many gifts do you think we should give?"
Liu Jingqing asked, it has been more than a year since she married into the Ye family, and Liu Jingqing also knows who in the village holds a banquet, as long as there is an invitation to your own family, she must wrap a red envelope and go to drink the wedding wine.
And you have to write down how many gifts you give, and the next time you hold a banquet at home, you will invite them to take back the gifts you have given, which is the "gift exchange" in the countryside.
"What kind of happy event does her family have, you want us to give gifts?" Ye Rongrong asked suspiciously, and he didn't hear any happy events in their family, why did he hold a wedding banquet.
"Have you forgotten, didn't Shu Ting be admitted to college? ”
Liu Jingqing glanced at his man and said. This man is really too lazy, he doesn't care about anything, and he can't even remember Shu Ting going to college.
It turns out that in the countryside, whose children are admitted to university is a very remarkable thing, and it is a big thing to honor the ancestors. There is usually a big feast at home, inviting relatives and friends to drink, and of course, the child's teacher and some good classmates and friends are indispensable.
And Liu Jingqing and Ye Shuting are best friends, and Ye Shuting invited her the first one today. Liu Jingqing has to go, since he goes, he has to give gifts, and as for how many gifts to give, he naturally has to discuss with his man.
"Then it's a red envelope of two hundred and twenty yuan. ”
Ye Rongrong thought about it and said, after all, he is not a close relative, and there is no need to pack so much money, he must know that his family has no income now, and he relies on the old man left by his parents to live.
"Isn't it a little less?"
Liu Jingjing said with some embarrassment, he and Ye Shuting are good girlfriends, so he gave more than 200 yuan in gifts, and Liu Jingqing's face was a little dull.
"How much do you want to send?" Ye Rongrong asked with a smile.
"Isn't this a discussion with you?"
Liu Jingqing said. After all, the family's money is only so little, and Liu Jingqing feels that he has to discuss with his man about such a large amount of money of more than a few hundred dollars.
If you let Liu Jingqing's family or someone she knew before know that the eldest lady of the Liu family actually had to discuss with someone for a few hundred yuan, she would definitely feel that she was dreaming.
"That's three hundred and two. ”
Ye Rongrong said. You must know that giving a gift of 320 yuan in the countryside is not a small amount, after all, it is not a gift between close relatives.
"Then three hundred and two, hehe, husband thank you. ”
Liu Jingqing said happily, Liu Jingqing also knew that in Taoyuan Village, a gift of 320 yuan for a happy event like this was really not less.
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Ye Shuting's house, the old secretary Ye Xianghai answered the phone, the phone was picked up, Ye Xianghai hadn't said a word, and his voice suddenly rose: "What are you talking about? Eight thousand? Are you a national special chef? Slaughtering people is not like this, we don't need you, we can't find another one?"
As he spoke, he angrily threw down the phone. After sitting back in his seat, he didn't speak, just took the wine glass in front of him and drank it down. Obviously, this old and spicy old man is now having fire in his belly!
"Grandpa, what's wrong with you, who made you so angry?" Ye Shuting, who was eating, asked with a frown.
Speaking of which, Ye Shuting is a poor child, when she was ten years old, her father died in a car accident while working outside, and her mother remarried to another county in the second year of her father's death, and she grew up with her grandfather and grandmother since she was a child.
Ye Xianghai nodded angrily, and said in a rough voice: "It's that fat cook, that fat man is stupid when we rural people are stupid, isn't it?
"Dad, this fat man is indeed a little too lacking in morality. But if you really don't need him, is it too late to find someone else? Don't delay Tingting's big event, then our family will lose face! After all, our Shu Ting is the first college student in our village to be admitted to a key university!" Ye Shuting's eldest uncle, Ye Fugui, was also very angry after hearing what his father said, but he was still a little worried in the end.
After a sentence, Ye Xianghai was also a little sad, the wrinkles between his brows were twisted into a Sichuan shape, panting roughly, he took his bamboo cigarette from the side and lit it and smoked, and he didn't speak.
"Grandpa, it's a big deal that we won't hold this wedding banquet!" Ye Shuting saw her grandfather's embarrassed appearance, so she said.
"What do you know about this baby, you were admitted to a key university, that is to add glory to our family's face, it is a matter of glory to our ancestors, how can you do it if you don't hold a wedding banquet, don't think about this matter, this matter, I will get it done with your uncle, and it will cost 8,000 yuan to invite this dead fat man." Ye Xianghai thought for a while and said.
After all, in Ye Xianghai's view, there is nothing more important than holding this wedding banquet for his granddaughter now, you must know that it is a very big thing to have a college student in the countryside, especially college students from key universities, if they don't hold a banquet to invite relatives and friends, the villagers will come to drink the wedding wine, and the ancestors in the heavenly spirit will not agree.
However, Ye Xianghai also had a headache, he had contacted the master of a restaurant in the town ten days ago to come to the village to operate, and at that time it was said that it was three thousand days.
But eight days have passed, and seeing that the day is coming, the master suddenly changed his hexagram, and he must change it to eight thousand days, otherwise people will not come.
You must know that 8,000 yuan is not a small amount for Ye Xianghai's family, and this is only the price of one day. Naturally, he refused to back down, but seeing that the wedding banquet was only a few days away, he suddenly made such a show, if the price was recognized like this, he was really aggrieved, and he was distressed, after all, his baby granddaughter also needed a lot of money to go to college.
"Dad, why don't I give you 5,000 yuan here first. ”
Ye Fugui opened his mouth and said, Ye Fugui also knew that his father didn't have much money in his hands, so he thought about taking out 5,000 yuan from his own house and putting it on first.
"Come on, if your daughter-in-law agrees?" Ye Xianghai asked with a frown.
"This ......"
Ye Fugui also didn't dare to guarantee that he would get the money from his daughter-in-law, after all, five thousand yuan is not a small amount in the countryside.
"Uncle, grandpa, why do we have to invite the cook in the town, we can invite our own village, it must be much cheaper." Ye Shuting said.
"You said that your fifth grandfather, he is not in good health, it is okay to cook a few side dishes, and he can't bear to burn a few tables of banquets. Ye Xianghai said.
This "fifth grandfather" in Ye Xianghaikou is his second brother Ye Xiangde, who used to be a cook in the town, and his cooking skills are okay.
However, since he had a serious illness, his health has deteriorated day by day, and he can no longer do heavy work, so it is basically impossible to ask him to be a chef.
"I'm not talking about the fifth grandfather. Ye Shuting shook her head and said.
"Not your fifth grandfather?"
Ye Xianghai asked with some surprise. You must know that this Taoyuan Village is so big, the situation of each family, who does what work, and whose conduct is what, Ye Xianghai is very clear, except for Ye Xiangde, the cook, no one in this village has ever been a cook.
"Tingting, what cook do you know?" Ye Fugui asked curiously as he looked at his niece.
"We can ask Ye Rongrong to be the chef. ”
Ye Shuting proposed that since she had eaten the dishes made by Ye Rongrong, Ye Shuting was obsessed with the dishes made by Ye Rongrong, and Ye Shuting had been going to Ye Rongrong's house to eat these days.
Of course, it is not very easy to ask Ye Rongrong, a lazy man, to cook, every time Ye Shuting and Liu Jingqing beg for everything, and in the end, it was Liu Jingqing who promised a lot of "unequal treaties", so he was reluctant to cook for the two of them.
As for those "unequal treaties", Ye Shuting blushed when she heard it, and she didn't know why Liu Jingqing agreed. If her future boyfriend also proposed such an "unequal treaty", would she agree to it, Ye Shuting slowly thought a little far.
"Tingting, who did you just say?" Ye Xianghai felt that he must have heard it wrong, so he opened his mouth and asked again.