Spring Festival of 87, Nam Giang Province, Shimen County, Lijiaao.

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the entire Li family is very lively, especially Li Huayong's house, which is full of friends today. Early in the morning, Li Huayong deliberately changed into new clothes and came out to greet the guests with joy.

That's right, the Li family is indeed doing a happy event today, but this is not Li Huayong's happy event, but a happy day for his cousin Li Huazhu and Miss Qianqian.

Li Huazhu graduated from the "Huaxia Construction General" technical school last year, and is currently assigned to the second company of Huajian Ninth Bureau, that is, the branch where Gao Qigong is the manager. Well, because he has just graduated, Li Huazhu can only be regarded as an apprentice at present, the lowest level among all regular workers.

Despite this, his father, Uncle Gen, was already very happy, because it meant that his son had eaten the "imperial grain", which was one of the ultimate dreams of many farmers like Uncle Gen in this era.

Now that this wish has been realized, and considering that Li Huazhu and Miss Qianqian have been engaged for several years, Uncle Gen began to talk about it very early, hoping to let them get married on a good day during the Spring Festival this year. Uncle Gen's proposal naturally did not meet with any opposition, in fact, when he mentioned this to the Yang family, the attitude of the Yang Masons was even more positive than his.

Around 12 noon, with the sound of firecrackers coming from afar, many children began to rush and cheer:

"It's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming......"

When everyone went to the village to pick up the bride, Li Huayong also happily followed the past to watch the excitement and appreciate the traditional folk Chinese wedding that was rare in later generations.

"Tsk, this sedan chair is so beautiful......."

"Yes, it's been a long time since I've seen such a beautiful sedan chair carried into our village.......

"One cage, two cages... Ten cages... Twenty cages... It seems that the Yang family is still quite solid, and marrying a daughter can make such a big show and give so many dowries......

"Of course, the Yang family is not honest, who is honest? You outsiders don't know, since the stone processing factory, the current Yang family village doesn't know how rich. ”

"Hey, no matter how rich Yangjiazhai is, can it compare to them Li Jiaao, let me tell you, the stone factory in Yangjiazhai is the ...... built by Li Jiaao's piers."

Li Huayong listened to the discussion of the villagers, and at the same time looked at the sedan chair Zhile.

In the Yang family's send-off procession, it is indeed the beautiful sedan chair that is the most conspicuous, in fact, due to the inconvenience of Li Jiaao's traffic and the road is not passable, there is a section that even the "big board car" can not pass, so it retains the custom of carrying the sedan chair to the bride.

According to local customs, this was not in accordance with the rules, but there was no way, who let his "father-in-law" Yang stonemason insist on letting the local carpenter "the first master" do it himself? Therefore, Uncle Gen had no choice but to build a sedan chair with his own hands to carry his daughter-in-law into the house.

"Uncle, why do you only make a four-lift sedan chair? If you want to talk about pomp, shouldn't you have eight sedan chairs?"

"Silly boy, this is not in accordance with the rules...... it was Li Huazhu's grandmother who answered, that is, Li Huayong's current "grandmother".

In the crowd of relatives, my grandmother took Li Huayong's hand: "Like a pillar, how can you be qualified to use an eight-lift sedan chair, if you use it rashly, it will be laughed at by others Our family doesn't know how thick the sky is, but Yong'er You, I hope that when you get married, you can justifiably use an eight-lift sedan chair." ”

What is the "right word"? Li Huayong is naturally not clear about the rules, and more importantly, Li Huayong is actually very afraid of communicating with this "grandmother," because every time she talks to Li Huayong, she often looks at Li Huayong in a daze, and sometimes secretly wipes her tears, and mutters "Alas, my poor Yue'e....."

Li Huayong knew that this "Yue'e" should be the real mother of this body, and it was for this reason that Li Huayong did not dare to say too much to his "grandmother".

In order to resolve the embarrassment, Li Huayong turned to ridicule the groom: "Did you hear the pillar, but my mother-in-law has spoken, the sedan chair that will be built for me in the future should be your business, right? ”

The groom smirked: "It must be, don't worry, I promise that I will not waste my craft." ”

The delicate and dazzling sedan chair with ten miles of red makeup was not the most eye-catching thing about the wedding that day, what really attracted attention was the many heavyweight guests who came to Lijiaao today.

First of all, Lao Lu and Scar Xiang and other Xiangjiang people, due to the tight construction period, most of the Xiangjiang people who came to work here almost did not go back for the New Year, dozens of Xiangjiang people appeared at the same time in such a rural wedding in the interior, which itself has been very eye-catching.

In addition, the "commune secretary" of Linbian Township came, Secretary Ouyang came with the management committee and the headquarters staff who were still on the construction site during the Spring Festival, and many functional departments in the county came.

The director of the office of the county party committee not only represented the county, but he even represented many people in the city and province to give gifts to Li Huazhu.

This kind of congratulation obviously made Uncle Gen a little dumbfounded, and at the same time made him very proud, and his face was red all day.

These were all expected by Li Huayong, but what really surprised him was a few guests from afar.

Around the evening, Li Mingda, another "capable person" in Li Jiaao, led a few guests to arrive:

"Hahada, you're finally back.... Mr. Xia, and Yan Gong, why are you here?"

That's right, but the people who came were Xia Minghuan and Yan Dumin of Huajian Ninth Bureau, seeing the two of them, Li Huayong of course knew why they came, Li Huayong was a little surprised, it is only the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, and it is still very early from the end of April when the ceramic factory opened the bid, Li Huayong feels that they came a little early.

However, Li Huayong was very happy to see the two, this is not only the joy of seeing his friends, but more importantly, he saw that Huajian Ninth Bureau attaches great importance to this project---- anyone who does anything actually hopes that others can pay attention to it, and Huajian Ninth Bureau can send people over so early, which reflects their importance to this project and Li Huayong, so Li Huayong is of course sincerely happy.

"Originally, Lao Zhang was going to come over in person, but he was on a temporary business trip, so he couldn't come, so he asked me to say sorry to you to Dunzi. ”

"Where is it, Mr. Zhang has a heart, by the way, where is Mr. Zhang on a business trip?"

Li Huayong knew that as Zhang Yongping, he was going on a business trip at this time, and most of them were bidding, so he asked casually.

Xia Minghuan replied: "Hehe, Lao Zhang went on a business trip to Hunan Province. ”

"Yo, your ninth bureau is still terrible, put your hand on the territory of the fifth bureau of others, how about it, this time Lao Zhang is sure to go, right?"

"Hehe, since the bureau sent Lao Zhang over, then I think there should be a certain certainty. ”

"Haha, Mr. Xia, you said this well, if your bureau sent you Mr. Xia here, wouldn't that mean that you are more sure of this project. ”

The headquarters of Huajian Fifth Bureau is in Hunan Gaoguansha, so Li Huayong made a joke, but Li Huayong also said this, his words have no practical significance, in fact, units like Huajian Ninth Bureau go out to bid, of course they do not have any geographical restrictions.

We didn't talk too much about Zhang Yongping going to Hunan Province to bid for the project, and we didn't even say too much about the ceramic factory project, after all, things like bidding, you know, I know, they know it, and it's useless to say more at this time.

Besides, they came this time, nominally to congratulate Li Huazhu's wedding, so after a few words of greeting, Li Huayong arranged for them to sit at the table.

If the arrival of Xia Minghuan and others was slightly unexpected by Li Huayong, it was still reasonable after all. Then a little later, another group of people arrived, that was what Li Huayong didn't expect at all, this is a real uninvited guest.

The person who came was Jiang Dajun and his entourage from the Nanjiang Rare Earth Research Institute.

If Jiang Dajun's arrival is not very unexpected, Li Huayong has dealt with them before after all, and now he can be regarded as a "business-related unit". So a gift money that Jiang Dajun brought to others, that was what Li Huayong didn't expect at all.

Li Huayong took a red envelope handed over by Lao Jiang, and the words on it made Li Huayong stunned.

This line of words is clear: China's XX Metallurgical Construction Company.