When she returned home in the afternoon, Wang Lei didn't ask Cheng Sisi about it, which made Hu Youmin breathe a sigh of relief. He went out to purchase some gifts, and was going to pay New Year's greetings to some leading friends, the supplier arranged for Li Tao to go, and the main customer arranged for Tian Xiaoyu to go.

It was not until the afternoon of the 19th that the visit was completed, and Hu Youmin and Wang Lei returned to the countryside of Yuyang. Younger brother and sister came back early, Song Sijie was pregnant, she was showing her belly, she wanted to help with some housework, Liu Yuexiang hurriedly stopped her and asked her to go to the fire.

Wang Lei wanted to help light the fire in front of the stove, and also asked Liu Yuexiang to rush to the fire. Hu Youfen smiled and said, "Mom, why don't you go to the fire? I'm your daughter." Liu Yuexiang said: "When you get married, you will be considered a guest, and your mother doesn't want you to do housework." ”

Hu Youfen was not convinced: "That sister-in-law is not a guest." Liu Yuexiang said with a smile: "They are from the city, and they are not used to doing drip work in the countryside." Hu Youfen pouted and said, "Mom is eccentric." ”

Hu Youmin asked his younger brother about his work, and he said sullenly: "The situation in the unit is not very good, and a third of the people may be laid off after the New Year." It is estimated that I am also in this batch of lists, although Sijie has not heard rumors, but after giving birth, it is also a question mark whether she can go back to work. ”

Seeing their gloomy appearances, Hu Youmin asked them what they thought? The army said helplessly: "What can I do? I can't get into a good unit, and I am not a business material, so I have to go out to work." ”

Song Sijie said to Hu Youmin: "Brother, only you can pull us, let Youjun go to you to do things, and my brother can rest assured." ”

Youjun continued: "Brother, don't worry, I will do my best to help you do things, and I will do whatever you arrange for me to do, and I will never be picky." ”

Seeing that Hu Youmin was silent, Wang Lei took his hand and said, "You just let Youjun go, it's better than using outsiders." He shook his head and said: "I don't mean that, private enterprises are not as good as state-owned enterprises, I am worried that he can't stand that constraint and can't endure that hardship." ”

Hu Youjun hurriedly said: "Brother, I won't be special, and I will never embarrass you." At this point, he had no choice but to nod and say, "Then you can come and try it." ”

At dinner, Hu Jianhua said, "You Yanzi, your aunt's cub has come back from the army, can I go to you to do something?" He said to his father: "Jianmin is back? I haven't seen him for several years, so I'll take time to talk to him." ”

When he went to his grandmother's house on the first day of junior high school, Hu Youmin met his cousin Hong Jianming. He was four years younger than Hu Youmin and went to join the army after graduating from high school. Hu Youmin said with a smile: "It's still the army training people, and it's getting stronger." What kind of class?"

Hong Jianming saluted him: "Armed police force, automobile soldiers." Brother You, do you have something to do there?" Hu Youmin took the cigarette and asked, "Have you learned to smoke?" What will you do?" He said curtly: "I don't smoke, I can only drive, and nothing else." ”

Hu Youmin asked him: "Then do you like to drive?" He nodded and said, "I like it, just because I was assigned to the car class." ”

He was very happy in his heart, and was about to find a reliable driver, and someone sent him to the door, and he asked Hong Jianming to change his driver's license to a local license, and then go to drive for him.

The next day, Hu Youmin hastily finished his relatives and went to his father-in-law's house on the third day of junior high school. Wang Lei's grandfather, grandmother, and aunt all came, and after greeting for a while, my uncle proposed to play mahjong and called Wang Yizhi, and Wang Pengfei happened to be at the table.

Hu Youmin rarely plays mahjong, in response to the saying, novices are easy to make money. His luck is surprisingly good, what he lacks comes from something, and he has been fighting for more than an hour, and it has always been a one-kill three-game situation.

My uncle is a section chief of the Hongyang City Education Bureau, and he doesn't care if he wins or loses. He was a little unconvinced and said: "Is it really rich to go to the family? I haven't opened a beard yet, I really don't believe that I can't do a single nonsense." ”

He sat on Hu Youmin's hand, and in order to make him happy, he deliberately fed him a few cards. Wang Yizhi played a two-of-a-kind, and he happily pushed the card: "Two, five, hu, haha, I'll just say, feng shui takes turns." ”

Wang Lei, who was snuggled up next to Hu Youmin, watched him dismantle and feed the cards, but just smiled and didn't make a sound. Wang Pengfei chatted with Hu Youmin while playing cards: "Brother-in-law, after Director Zheng came back from Baisha, his attitude towards me was much better, and he said that he would go to Baisha to find you for a drink." He typed out a pie: "Okay, call me in advance, I have a lot of things to do now, and I am often not in the company." ”

When it was time to eat lunch, it was still one kill three, and Hu Youmin won more than a thousand. Uncle and Wang Pengfei lost the most, and the uncle said that he would continue after eating, and he would pull the book.

In the afternoon, Hu Youmin asked Wang Lei to accompany them to fight, and after watching it on the side for a while, he went to the study to find a book to look at. Tired of reading, put down the book, called Tian Xiaoyu, and asked her if she had time to attend Luo Juan's wedding?

Luo Juan's wedding was originally scheduled for the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, but due to a bit of a tight time, it was changed to the sixth day of the first lunar month. Tian Xiaoyu said to go, she will be there tomorrow afternoon, and Hu Youmin asked her to try as early as possible and wait for her to drive over together.

As soon as he hung up the phone, Liu Zhigang's phone called. I heard that he was in Hongyang, and asked him how he could meet? Hu Youmin thought for a while and made an appointment with him to meet in Baisha on the eighth day of the new year.

Seeing him come out of the study, Wang Lei shouted to him: "Youmin, come on, I lost miserably, I lost three people alone, you come and help me fight a few times." He walked over and asked, "How much did you lose?" Wang Lei got up and asked him to fight: "I lost more than 2,000 yuan, I will fire a cannon no matter what I fight, I'm angry." ”

As soon as Hu Youmin came to the table, the style of cards immediately changed, and he even took a few handfuls of Hu. Wang Pengfei smiled and said, "Brother-in-law, you can't be a good man, right? Why is your luck so good?" Wang Lei glanced at him: "Is Youmin that kind of person? This is called technology, understand?"

Wang Pengfei played a 60,000 yuan: "Come on, brother-in-law doesn't play cards very much, how can he have any skills?" As soon as his voice fell, Hu Youmin pushed the card: "Clip 60,000, Hu." ”

He hurriedly took back the 60,000 yuan: "I made a mistake, three loaves." Wang Lei did not follow: "You are a lai." He giggled and said, "Whoever told you to talk to me is mistaken for me." ”

Hu Youmin took the three cakes, drew a card from the back, and played 70,000. When it was Wang Pengfei's turn, he played a 30,000 card, and when he saw that Hu Youmin was about to push the card again, he said in disbelief: "I don't believe that you are so godly, I just caught 40,000, and I have 3 or 40,000 in my hand, you can't scare me." Hu Youmin took 30,000 yuan and put the card down: "Look at it yourself." ”

Wang Pengfei took a look, and sure enough, it was Hu San and 60,000. Embarrassed to lie again, Wang Lei smiled and said, "How about it? You should fire the cannon, you can't rely on it." Wang Pengfei glanced at her: "Don't say cool words, you have the ability to do it yourself." ”

When it was time for dinner, Hu Youmin pulled back a little bit and only lost more than 200 yuan to offset what he had won in the morning. After dinner, my uncle's family went back, and Wang Yizhi pulled Hu Youmin to play a few games of chess, but Hu Youmin no longer released water and won two games in a row.

In the third set, Wang Lei saw her father thinking hard, so she quietly pushed Hu Youmin. He held her little hand, squeezed it gently, and walked a few idle moves without a trace, allowing Wang Yizhi to seize the opportunity and win.

Tian Xiaoyu arrived at noon the next day and bought some gifts for Wang Yizhi, saying that it was for him to pay New Year's greetings. After having lunch together, the three of them drove to Anshun County, Guinan, and when they left, Yang Shifang gave Tian Xiaoyu a red envelope, saying that it was a New Year's money and must be accepted.

Anshun County and Xiangnan are at the junction of more than 500 kilometers away from Baisha, and it takes ten hours to drive fast. The two took turns to drive, and they arrived at more than twelve o'clock in the evening, Luo Juan booked a room for them in advance, went to the front desk and got the room card, he washed his face casually and fell asleep on the bed.

There were no buckets, washbasins or anything like that in the meal, so Wang Lei had to make a hot towel to wipe his feet. I didn't get up until eight o'clock in the morning, called Ueda Xiaoyu to have breakfast, and then went to Luo Juan's house.

The reason why she rushed over yesterday was that Luo Juan wanted Hu Youmin to be the best man. He had to come early to familiarize himself with the customs and wedding procedures here, this was the Dong Autonomous Region, and Luo Juan was also a Dong ethnic group.

Seeing Dong women wearing various silver ornaments walking by on the street from time to time, all three of them were visiting ethnic minority areas for the first time, and felt very novel, Wang Lei took out her camera and kept taking pictures.

They are in the bun, inserted all kinds of silver hairpins, silver hairpins, hairpins are decorated with colorful flowers, like silver butterflies dancing, white phoenixes spread their wings, walking, colorful flowers tremble, hanging bells swaying, ears attached to shake. Wear a silver chest plate around the neck, and wear four or five silver necklaces from small to large on the board, as well as silver chains with hanging chest pockets and aprons.

When they walked into Luo Juan's room, she cried at them, and the people who accompanied her in the room also cried with them. This cry is not a simple cry, but a kind of elongated voice, which sounds like singing.

This scene began to startle Hu Youmin and several people, and after listening to it for a while, he understood the content of the cry, mainly telling about the kindness of his relatives who have raised him over the years, and the reluctance to part with his relatives.

At this time, her relatives also comforted her with crying. Looking at Luo Juan's pear blossoms with rain, sitting there crying heartbrokenly, he felt that she was not only crying and marrying, but also a kind of grievance and helplessness, seeing her look at him with tears in her eyes from time to time, he felt very uncomfortable.

After singing the crying wedding song, Luo Juan introduced them to their parents, relatives and friends, and then called Zhou Lechi to arrange a rehearsal in the afternoon. The wedding here is mainly based on the customs of the Dong people, but a modern wedding ceremony is added, and the host of the wedding company is also dressed as a Dong person.

Early the next morning, Hu Youmin followed the man's family to greet his relatives. At the entrance of the community, there was the first song card, and a Dong girl dressed in costume sang: "Where do you come from, which way, which way, Changling? Who planted the trees in Changling? Who built the bridge by the river, who beat the horse and stepped on the bridge, and who came to ?......."

The singer on Zhou Lechi's side replied: "I came from Xiaodou by the river, on the road to the west of Changling, the tree of Changling Meng Liang attacked, the bridge on the river Lubanjia, and Liulang stepped on the bridge to ......."

Downstairs is the second song card, after a duet, come to the door of the upstairs room, this is the last level, but also the most difficult level. Because the bride's house was full of singers and improvised interrogations. sang for more than half an hour, and it wasn't until Zhou Lechi won the singing that Luo Juan announced his marriage.

Surrounded by "official relatives" and "royal guests", the bride sat on the sedan chair and went on the road. Blowing and blowing along the way, the greeting team is very impressive. The distance is not far, more than 20 minutes.

The wedding venue is set up in the auditorium of the school, and the wedding company presides over the wedding ceremony, the two exchange rings, and after drinking a glass of wine, the wedding team will take the bride and the guests who accompanied the bride to the downstairs of Zhou Lechi's house.

The mother-in-law warmly stepped forward to greet her, while singing the "Welcome Song", the maiden guests sang the "Thank You Song", and in the singing, the mother-in-law welcomed the guests into the home on the second floor.

When the room is noisy at night, the first group of young people to come, they deliberately wear tattered clothes, some also painted flower faces, pretending to be weird, some holding wine jugs, some rolling after entering the door, some whistling.

Some danced and squeezed to Luo Juan's side to ask for wine and meat, she said that only when she won the song did she have to eat, the girls sang first, and the young men replied, and the singing came and went, which was particularly lively.