Chapter 175: Banquet Arrangement
The villagers came and went, walked and came, and one after another, batch after batch, until the sun went down and the stars filled the dark night sky, no one came over.
Wang Yong and his mother were busy cooking dinner together, and more than a dozen people in the family discussed the banquet the day after tomorrow, plus the people brought by the old lady, there were more than 20 people together, and it took a lot of time to cook.
Wang Yong was busy making the old lady's mutton steamed bun that she wanted to eat, which was not his specialty.
But he wasn't worried at all, for this reception banquet where his grandmother settled in Wangjiazhuang, not only the old man Wang Laifu, who was the chef in Wang's private cuisine, came to help, but Wang Yong's other two chefs also rushed over to help.
The three top chefs each brought an assistant, plus Wang Yong, a non-famous little chef, so that Tian Xiuhua, who was originally very good at cooking, could only be reduced to a spectator.
After nearly two hours, three sumptuous tables were served. Now, with the status of three master chefs, the banquet made by the joint efforts is naturally not said.
"Alright, it's time to eat!" Wang Yong walked in with a small bowl of mutton steamed buns, and at the same time glared angrily at Liu Bin, who had already sat on the chair and was waiting for the meal.
"Are you embarrassed? Why don't you come over to help serve the food, just waiting to eat? ”
Liu Bin, this guy is crazy, the more people he has, the more excited he is, and the more he can say. Didn't you look at it, just after a while, she coaxed Mrs. Ye to take his hand and let him sit next to him?
"I'm a guest, okay? Are you embarrassed to let the guests serve the food? I really don't know any politeness, I really feel sad to have you as a friend! You say how did you play from a small group to a big one, why didn't you learn a little bit of my advantages? ”
Seeing Liu Bin's disappointed look, Wang Yong didn't fight as soon as he was angry, and was about to put down the bowl, Wendou, let's not do it. Let's change the martial arts, but I'm afraid of you!
"Oh, eldest grandson, Liu Bin is not wrong about one thing. When people come to our house, they are guests, how can they let the guests serve food? Wait, grandma will help you serve the food! ”
With that, the old lady stood up and tried to help. Everyone in the next room glared at Wang Yong viciously. Then hurriedly persuaded the old lady.
Grandpa Liu Bin didn't feel sorry for his eldest grandson this time, and slapped him on the back of the head. This little rabbit cub really dares to say anything! Also guests, your time here is not shorter than at home, three days and two ends of the running family to eat, is there a guest like you?
Under the threat of his grandfather's fierce eyes, Liu Bin reluctantly followed his best friend Wang Yong to get up and go to the hall to serve the dishes.
The table full of delicacies and the scene of so many people eating together made the old lady have an appetite. While constantly beckoning a few old sisters at the table to eat, they tried a variety of special or home-cooked dishes.
"Ding-dong-"
The sound of gongs, drums and musical instruments clearly came into the house, and Mrs. Ye was stunned for a moment, and immediately remembered the colorful nightlife in the village that her eldest grandson had told him.
"What is this for, twisting Yangge?"
In the face of Mrs. Ye's inquiry, Liu Bin, a sweet-mouthed guy with a good eye, who came back, immediately stopped competing with Wang Yong for mutton. He quickly replied:
"Grandma Ye, this is the village's drama team rehearsing!"
"Commenting on the drama? It's good to review the drama! At the beginning, I watched "Flowers as the Matchmaker" sung by Xin Fengxia and Xiao Zhao several times. That emphasis, that performance, oops! That's great! ”
"Grandma, grandma, singing is not good-looking at all. Eat quickly, I'll take you to listen to the commentary when you're done. I love listening to book reviews the most! ”
Wang Liang, who was unwilling to ignore it, chewed a piece of ribs in his mouth, and spoke vaguely, and Mrs. Ye, who was watching, happily sandwiched another piece of ribs for him, and promised in her mouth: "Okay, good." In a while, you take grandma to listen to the commentary! ”
Wang Yong, my mother glared at Wang Liang together, this winter night, the weather is freezing, the old lady is so old, what kind of commentary are you going to listen to?
What should I do if I catch a cold?
Later, Mrs. Ye still followed her little grandson Wang Liang to the outside of the villager activity center to listen to a commentary, and when she returned home under the escort who was worried and scared, the old lady was even more excited to describe what she had seen and heard to Wang Yong's family, and it was more than eleven o'clock at night, and she didn't feel sleepy at all.
"Grandma, it's time for you to rest this night! You see my Uncle Wu is about to cry! ”
Wang Yong smiled and interrupted the old lady to tell everyone about her experience with great interest, and pointed to the helpless health care doctor Dr. Wu.
"Huh? Oops, it's almost eleven o'clock, why are we so late? Yes, it's time to rest! Walk, by the way, where do I live today? ”
"Don't worry, I've already cleaned it up for you. Let's go, I'll accompany you. With that, Tian Xiuhua got up and put on her shoes, preparing to accompany the old lady to the next room.
In order to take care of the old lady conveniently, when the house next door was built, the courtyard wall between the two houses was demolished, and a closed corridor was built in front of the two houses to shelter from the wind and snow and make it easy to walk back and forth.
That night, Tian Xiuhua stayed over there to accompany the old lady and take care of the old lady nearby. Grandpa Wang Yong and several old people in the village who had been accompanying Mrs. Ye were also arranged to live in a separate guest room over there.
The room over there is big and numerous, and even the kang with a bed is no problem to sleep with more than 30 people. If you count the concierge room and the west wing, then you can still add more than a dozen people!
Early the next morning, when Wang Yong and the others were still eating, the villagers rushed over one after another and began to help prepare for the housewarming banquet.
Even if there is no reason for not having Mrs. Ye, with the prestige and popularity of Wang Hai and Wang Yong's father and son in the village, the people in the village will inevitably congratulate and help Gu Lai.
The village of Wangjiazhuang is not big, there are not many households, and even now, the real villagers of Wangjiazhuang are only less than 1,000 people, and there are more than 600 people.
How many years has Wangjiazhuang been built in the village, no one can count. But perhaps it is precisely because of the small size of the village that the relationship between people in the village is more harmonious.
As long as there is not too much contradiction, generally speaking, the whole village is mobilized and the whole village participates in whatever happens. This is rare even in the nearby Ten Miles and Eight Villages.
Such a harmonious relationship between the villagers. But when Wangjiazhuang did not develop in the past, Secretary Zhao was the only thing that Secretary Zhao could be proud of.
Many foreign businessmen who came to Wangjiazhuang or individual owners who had business in the village suddenly found that there were not many people in the village, and only after inquiring did they know that Boss Wang was going to hold a housewarming banquet tomorrow, so what else was there to say.
Especially after a careful inquiry, it turned out that the legendary Boss Wang's daughter-in-law recognized the big man godmother in the capital to settle in Wangjiazhuang, and Boss Wang specially bought the neighbor's old house after the cover. I couldn't suppress the excitement in my heart.
At the beginning, Wang Yong's phone call alarmed Ouchi, but it was too widely spread in Hong Kong City. The main characters in the story are now going to settle in Wangjiazhuang, and they are going to hold a housewarming banquet, this kind of good opportunity, how can these shrewd businessmen miss it!
Not only did they start racking their brains about what gifts to give and what excuses to find to attend tomorrow's banquet, but the main leaders of local government departments at all levels also began to use their brains to find an excuse. Tomorrow can be above board, and the past will be a good one, and you will be familiar with your face.
Mrs. Ye's son, daughter-in-law, grandson, and granddaughter will all come over from their respective places of work today to see the environment of the old lady here, and at the same time, the old lady personally called one by one to ask for it.
"Tomorrow's housewarming feast. How can you, as masters, not be present? Don't be busy, and I'm not asking you to come early to help. You don't need to be busy, you just need to come over tomorrow and show your face and thank you for your support! ”
In the face of the old lady's disgruntled words, who would dare to say that he didn't have time? immediately agreed happily that he must go over early to help organize this housewarming banquet. This made the old lady turn her anger into joy, and asked Tian Xiuhua to hurry up and prepare a place for her sons.
More and more people came, the scene became bigger and bigger, and the originally prepared thirty tables could not accommodate so many guests, so that they had to be increased again and again.
Thirty tables. Forty tables, fifty tables, and finally Wang Hai glared, and simply asked people to prepare according to one hundred tables. Be a little more prepared, there will be more people in the province and there will be no place to sit.
"Let's have a hundred tables first, and if there are more people in our village, we will continue to eat, and then we will talk about it when it is not enough!"
As a local tyrant, Wang Hai certainly doesn't care about the cost of dozens of more tables, for the cost of no more than 100 yuan per table of banquets, this amount of money is nothing at all.
The point is that the old lady is unwilling, after all, it is an old revolution, and she resolutely resists extravagance and waste. I heard that I would hold a banquet to celebrate the housewarming, and I would need such an exaggerated number of 100 tables, and the old lady was embarrassed.
"No, you can't do that! Too extravagant! ”
In person, Wang Hai promised well.
"Okay, then listen to you, we only entertain the people in the village, and the others have refused and won't let them come."
But looking back, before Secretary Zhao, who was anxiously looking for him to discuss the news, spoke, Wang Hai said to him bluntly:
"What should we do and what should we do, I know what you have to say, there are so many people that we can't refuse. Let's do what I said before, prepare according to a hundred tables first, and then hide a little from the old lady. ”
"Well, okay, that's it, I'll tell you to keep your mouth shut later. In fact, you don't accept gifts this time, just invite everyone to have a meal and have fun. ”
"The old lady is an old revolutionary, she has suffered from hunger and suffering, and she is most opposed to extravagance and waste. But according to me, we spend all the money we earn reasonably and legally, and we are not greedy for the public's cheapness, how can we talk so much? Liu Yaowu interjected and expressed his opinion.
As one of the guests at this banquet, he still wants to take this opportunity to meet more people, and let more people know his future leader in Wangjiazhuang!
This kind of large-scale gathering, if it weren't for the opportunity to follow Wang Hai's errands, I'm afraid he wouldn't have encountered it a few times in his life. Especially those government leaders, the old secretary said that they were all handed over to themselves to greet them! (To be continued......)