Li Liang handled Xuanming's matter well, and the kindergarten was almost closed.

Originally, the Star of Hope Kindergarten should have been closed before the start of the winter vacation, along with the students of other primary and secondary schools in Hekang County. But the nature of the star of hope is not the same, because the kindergarten is more expensive, the enrollment is basically the children of some administrative organs, enterprises and institutions. Therefore, at the strong request of the parents of the children, the Star of Hope Kindergarten extended the time to continue to operate during the winter vacation!

Before giving the teachers a holiday, Li Liang gathered the kindergarten teachers, the canteen administrator, who is his eldest uncle, Xuan Ming and Guan Wenwen, and the doorman Chen Zili together for a New Year's dinner.

This meal was enjoyed by the guests and the hosts. Li Liang thanked all the teachers and staff for their dedication to the kindergarten, and the teachers and other staff thanked Li Liang for the platform and development space.

In the Star of Hope Kindergarten, Han Shufen and other retired teachers from public schools have found a stage to play the second spring of their lives, not only to give full play to their spare heat, but also to bring a better life to their families; Tang Kerong and other young teachers, Li Liang's uncle and other staff have found a new direction in the kindergarten, which can not only earn money, but also take better care of their families.

Of course, the biggest reason is that Li Liang has not tried to make a profit from the kindergarten project so far. Investing in this Star of Hope Kindergarten, Li Liang's cost is huge. Although the land was obtained free of charge from the county education bureau, the investment in building houses, infrastructure and school buses is huge!

After Li Liang and the teachers had this reunion dinner together, the wedding date of her sister Li Meng and Zhang Meng is coming!

During this time, my sister Li Meng has completely handed over the work in the photo studio to the staff in the store, and she herself goes to each branch once a week to check the accounts, check the amount deposited in the bank account, and see if there are any discrepancies!

Li Liang was worried that the person in charge of the branches in various places might cheat, but Li Meng has not found out about it for the time being. Approaching the day of marriage, she is more prepared to marry at home with her mother Wang Xiulan.

I have a supermarket at home, so it's easier to prepare the dowry and the fruits to be eaten at the banquet. According to the wedding customs of Hekang County, the family of the person who marries the daughter should prepare a banquet for two days, the first day is called 'waiting for the guest wine', as the name suggests, this day is to wait for the guests to come to eat, and the second day is called the 'positive day', which is the day when the daughter is officially married. For the banquet on these two days, the woman's family should invite a chef and a miscellaneous assistant chef in advance, and start preparing the breakfast on the day of 'waiting for wine'. Not only the number of days is particular, but also the meals are also particular. In the morning, this meal can be simpler, with eight dishes, at noon, it is called 'tea', and you need to prepare eight dishes and a large pot of shredded pork noodles, and in the evening, it is a main meal, you need to prepare nine dishes and one soup, and there must be a few hard dishes in it. The so-called hard dishes refer to braised pork, button meat, stir-fried beef, tamales, braised fish, etc., anyway, they must be meat dishes to be called hard dishes.

The above is for the woman to prepare, and if the man is married, it will be one more day. On the man's side, in addition to the day of 'waiting for wine' and 'positive day', there is also one more day, that is, the third day's 'huiqin'. This 'Hui Qin' means that after the woman marries into the man's family, the man should invite all the relatives of the man and the woman to his home, so that the relatives of both sides can sit together for a day of feast and get to know each other, so as not to walk on the street in the future and not know that the two parties are relatives.

In later generations, many families have simplified such customs, and often both men and women will gather together and do it in the same hotel for one day, no longer cumbersome for two or three days.

But in Hekang in the early 80s, such a wedding custom must be strictly observed!

Li Meng and Zhang Meng's wedding date is set for the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month.

In the southern year, on the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, the busyness of Li Liang's family was coming to an end. Parents Li Shuangzhu and Wang Xiulan invited their grandfather Li Chengxi to come to the city to sit in person, and the old man Li Chengxi was well-informed, and when he was in the countryside, he was often invited by the villagers to his home to be the director of the marriage!

When his eldest granddaughter got married, Mr. Li Chengxi was naturally even more responsible!

The chef Li Meng married this time was a master invited by Mr. Li Chengxi from his hometown village: Li Chenghua, who is Li Chengxi's cousin by generation, is almost 60 years old this year! Originally, Li Liang wanted to invite Chen Junhua and Kang Xinghua, who came to Wangke, but later Zhang Meng's family said that their family was going to hold a three-day office at Wangkelai's main store, so the two chefs from Wangke could not be invited!

In addition to this chef, two sous chefs and six or seven miscellaneous personnel who are responsible for washing rice, cooking, washing vegetables, and cutting vegetables are needed. These people were all Li Shuangzhu and his wife Wang Xiulan who went out in person, and invited some old neighbors who knew each other and old colleagues in the factory to come over to help.

For example, Chen Zili was kicked out of the house by his father, that is, Li Shuangzhu's master, Master Chen. Chen Zili is also a hard life, since the opening of the Star of Hope Kindergarten, he has been working day and night in the kindergarten's duty room. finally had a winter vacation, and was driven from home by his father to Li Liang's house to help.

Li Liang's supermarket, because the family is going to hold a wedding banquet, has closed in advance, Master Zhao, Gao Jianyong, Zhong Xiaohui and others packed all the unsold goods on the shelves into boxes and piled them into the warehouse in the backyard. Then all the shelves of the supermarket were also cleared to the warehouse in the backyard. Now the supermarket has become empty. There will be tables, chairs and benches borrowed by Li Liang's family from the surrounding neighbors.

The weather at the end of the month is dripping into ice!

Although the climate of Hekang County is not so exaggerated, the unique wet and cold climate in the south is fully reflected in Hekang County. Li Liang's body was tightly wrapped, and he still felt cold.

He sometimes can't help but think that global warming in later generations is still beneficial, at least in later generations, there will be almost no snow in the winter in Hekang County, and in the winter, it will not be as cold as it is now.

The people who come over to help at home are busy before and after, tables, chairs and benches, people who need help are borrowed from other people's homes, and this cannot be borrowed in advance, so it is the 24th day of the lunar month, the small year in the south to borrow it! After all, other people's families also have to eat, if they borrow a few more days, the neighbors will not be able to stand it!

On the twenty-fifth day, Li Liang's house came one after another.

There are relatively few guests who come in the morning, after all, many guests of the Li family, such as grandfather's family and grandmother's family, all live in the countryside, and they all come over for lunch after breakfast!

The morning guests are mainly people who help at home, neighbors and friends!

For the sake of his daughter's marriage, Li Shuangzhu specially invited two folk artist masters who played suona. Hekang's old rule, red and white ceremonies must invite a suona master to blow suona, the difference is that red ceremonies blow a festive tune, and white ceremonies blow a sad tune.

The suona blew up, and the number of people who came to drink gradually increased, and everyone gathered in the supermarket on the first floor of the Li family, sitting in front of more than a dozen tables, chairs and benches, playing cards and chatting.

The Li family has become rich in the past two years, and the food prepared for the banquet is very rich, melon seeds, peanuts, red dates, oranges, and candies are like no money, and they are full without waiting for the guests to finish eating.

The people who came to visit quietly discussed, this old Li family seems to have really made money, no wonder they can open such a large-scale supermarket in the city and build such a building!

On this day, Li Liang was also very busy.

My sister couldn't come down upstairs, so he had to help the family downstairs to greet the guests who came to eat and drink. Many guests have been blurred in Li Liang's original memory, and even in his mind, people who have been dead for a long time suddenly appear alive in front of him, this kind of scene is not something that everyone can adapt to.

"Uncle, sit down!"

"Uncle Cousin, you drink tea!"

"Auntie, go upstairs and sit!"

Li Liang divided the relatives from near and far, and if they were close, he would take the initiative to invite them to sit upstairs at home, and if they were ordinary guests, he would invite them to the supermarket on the first floor to take a seat.

Li Liang's grandfather Li Chengxi was also very busy, and before the meal was opened at noon, he was busy arranging seats on the first floor.

According to the old rules of Hekang, red and white ceremonies, especially red ceremonies, 'Anxi' is very important. Whether the seat arrangement is good or not, whether it is not in place, is directly related to whether this happy event can go on normally!

When Li Liang was a child, he once saw a living example.

He once participated in a red wedding event at a relative's house, and the director invited by the family at that time arranged the second uncle of the newcomer as the chief and ignored the eldest uncle. As a result, the newcomer's uncle was furious on the spot, furious, and overturned the table and walked away!

In this way, the parents of the newcomer can't lose their uncle's temper, and they have to invite the rampaging uncle back in a good voice, because the director who invited him did not arrange the seat well!

The old man Li Chengxi was highly respected, and he first arranged the men's seats! This kind of seat arrangement was very particular, and it was necessary to arrange the most important guests in the chief according to the dignity and the lowliness, and then arrange the other guests who were less important in order. Moreover, this dignity and humility are not selected according to the family conditions of the guests, but must be measured according to the proximity and distance of etiquette!

In short, after a banquet, the busiest and most tired person is always this director.

Fortunately, the old man Li Chengxi is highly respected, and today is his own eldest granddaughter getting married, under his proper arrangement, after some tossing, the men's and women's seats were finally arranged before lunch!

In the series of firecrackers, the waiting wine on the 25th day finally dispersed. On this day, for guests who are farther away, Li Liang's family will also arrange for guests to rest at home. Fortunately, after last year's engagement banquet, Li Liang's parents had gained experience, and they made some floor bunks in the empty rooms on the second and third floors in advance.

The guests are not picky, in this era, everyone does good things like this, it is good to keep guests, it is good to have a place to live, it is impossible to be as convenient as at home.

That night, when the guests and the miscellaneous cooks dispersed, Li Liang's family gathered on the second floor of their house to plan the next day's events.

Li Liang's second uncle Li Shuangqi and aunt Meng Qingxiu were busy during the day, and they sat in the living room at night, both a little sleepy. Uncle Li Shuangyuan was very positive, he said with a smile: "Mengmeng, you got married earlier than Uncle I!"

Li Liang's grandmother, Qian Sanmei, scolded with a smile: "You're embarrassed to be an uncle, don't hurry up and find one!"

Li Shuangyun pretended to be aggrieved and said: "Then I have to wait until I graduate, now in our university, students are not allowed to fall in love!"

Mr. Li Chengxi simply gathered a large group of people, summed up the things to be done the next day, and saw that the second son and his family were a little sleepy, so he ended the meeting and asked everyone to rest early in the evening, so that they could be busy for tomorrow's things!

The bride-to-be Li Meng, Wang Xiulan will live with her daughter in person tonight! Her daughter is getting married, and she needs to explain many things. After marrying in the future, you must not only learn to teach your husband and children, but also learn to be filial to your in-laws!

Li Liang slept in the same bed with his father Li Shuangzhu and his cousin Li Hao; as for the eldest uncle's family and the younger uncle's family, the family really couldn't live there, so Li Liang let the eldest uncle take the Hope Star Kindergarten to live.

On the winter night of Layue, it was cold outside, but in Li Liang's house, everyone didn't feel the cold. Li Meng's marriage evoked the memories of Li Liang's family!

Meng Qingxiu was sleepy during the meeting, but after washing, she and her husband Li Shuangqi lay on the bed, but they didn't feel sleepy for a while. She couldn't help but recall the scene when she first got married and saw her niece Li Meng for the first time.

She still remembers that when she first got married, her niece Li Meng was only three years old! When she was a child, Li Meng was as her name suggested, pink and tender, in the words of later generations, she was simply cute!

The day she first entered the door, Li Meng held the trouser leg of her wedding dress and refused to let go, and the little man said in a milky voice: "Auntie, I want to eat red eggs!"

The man's relatives, especially the children, will ask the bride for red eggs, and whoever can get it means that it will bring good luck!

"Erzhu, the days are really fast!" Meng Qingxiu said with emotion.

Li Shuangzhi also felt the same way: "Yes, when we first got married, Mengmeng and Liangzi hadn't returned to the city to go to school, and they circled around the two of us at home every day!

Li Liang also couldn't sleep. He has long been accustomed to sleeping alone, and today he is sleeping in the same bed with his father and Li Hao, and he still feels a little unaccustomed!

Cousin Li Hao is more active, he keeps moving left and right in bed, and asks a question from time to time!

"Brother Liang, tomorrow we will go to see off our relatives, how can we embarrass Zhang Meng's brother-in-law and ask for a few more red envelopes?" Li Hao asked.

Li Liang smiled: "Haohao, I'll give you an idea." When Zhang Meng's brother-in-law comes to pick up his sister, you will stay at the door of your sister and don't open the door! You must remember that if you don't give red envelopes, you won't open the door, and if you don't give enough red envelopes, you won't open the door!"

Li Hao listened and nodded violently!

Li Shuangzhu heard the conversation between the two children and couldn't help but say, "You two are not allowed to mess around!"

Li Liang said: "Dad, we're not messing around! You see that it's not easy for my sister to grow up in the family so much, we can't let Zhang Meng marry my sister so easily!"